@PigletLUV: About two and a half hours or so, connected by a huge highway. And as I said, I used to consistently get them in one day... I don't know what's suddenly changed, but I don't enjoy it.

@dead_alewives: Agreed. I had to scroll down to make sure someone had mentioned it.

Oh, poor Heroes. Such great promise, such god-awful execution.

@Felipe058: I don't agree. Especially toward the tail end of the last generation, when the Xbox hardware itself was available used for $100 or less, a whole bunch of people I know sought out copies of Steel Battalion (both the first game with the controller and the second, LIVE-enabled Line of Contact sequel) and…

@Teira: I like when everything on the queue is not available, and it just waits days to send you something. Happened to me last month when I had twenty-two games on there (and none were new releases). Took them four days to send something. I've been using Gamefly on and off for about four years. I get fed up with the…

@Fossa: I actually do agree with him that evolving systems to match player tendencies is the wave of the future... the thing is, we are not the future. For better or for worse, gaming's had the big close up, and the market is going to become increasingly casual-friendly. Stands to reason that evolving systems will be…

I agree with Mark Skaggs' predictions— although they seem like things you could've easily noticed four years ago nearer the beginning of this console generation— but I can't really see how knowing these things has much informed his games. Yes, the social networking aspect is obviously a part of Farmville and such…

Gamefly gets slower all the time. I'm a bit perplexed by it... things that used to take two days to return now routinely take four or five, and now things I used to receive (Austin to Houston) in a day now uniformly take two. Has anyone else noticed this? Did Gamefly cut out expedited shipping entirely? The Gamefly…

@Felipe058: I don't know if I'd agree. I bought an Xbox for Splinter Cell, and later justified it with KOTOR, Steel Battalion, Otogi, MechAssault, and Phantom Dust... as well as the multiplatform stuff. There were plenty of reasons to buy an Xbox outside of Halo.

@slider78: Sony had a lot of successful series on the PS2—this is why those things seem intensely marketable as remastered box sets— but you're discounting a lot of things people would pay ridiculous amounts of money for that were on the Xbox, like Otogi, Fable, Phantom Dust, Knights of the Old Republic, and Armed &…

@PunkyChipsAhoy: Share your thoughts on TFU2 when you start playing it... I'm kind of interested in hearing how the game holds up. I really enjoyed the first, but the demo for the new one kind of left me with a weird feeling...

@Avinant: I think it releases today, but Gamefly said they were shipping it yesterday... I assume so I'd receive it on launch day? Either way, I'll probably write out my impressions in TAY tomorrow or the next day. I'm excited about it, I like the series a lot. Cheers!

@PunkyChipsAhoy: Fable III should arrive around noon from Gamefly. I'm keen to see if they improved the framerate. Can't be much worse, in that regard, than Fable II.

Unless their prices are going to be hugely better than Target's (which I doubt, although Target takes in a depressingly small list of mostly current-ish iPods) I'll stick to Target for device trade-ins. Wider variety of stuff (even non-game-stuff) to use the credit for, and it's more common that I'd be trading in an…

Yes.

I'll go out on a limb and say that, had Lucas done this before instead of the prequels, Star Wars might be in better shape than it is today. One of the worst things about the prequels was George's insistence on tying together every last thread in the most contrived fashion possible. Moving to a new, distant timeline…

@Ant06: Can't imagine how. They're not selling anything, and at worst you'd just file a C&D to start. No need for overkill yet, right?

This is hugely impressive. I actually didn't find any glaring faults with S4E1, but this is pretty incredible. I hope these guys are getting jobs offers as we speak.

@godot: Sure. Urquhart is in charge, yes, but pretty much all of Obsidian's games are just wrapping for Avellone's storytelling— after all, whenever the conversation swings around to holy crap Obsidian are a steaming horde of buggy shit sandwiches (which is the conversation pretty much every time we see a new Obsidian…

@tees: They did the play for humor, not for accuracy, although the implied meaning is pretty obvious. The hashtag is, in this case, a bit unneeded.