$24, but only $4 of that was real money, the rest was from Steam Trading Cards.

Welp, finally bought System Shock 2. Any tips for a newbie to the game who's a big fan of (2 of the 3) Bioshock games?

MOBAs are specifically based off of the Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients, DOTA. They control like an RTS, but the way the are actually played is significantly different (for one thing you pick one character at the beginning, and don't build any other units, or buildings).

Both games are excellent, although New Vegas is my pick between the two (I logged about 100 hours into 3, and 223 in New Vegas).

So far I've gotten Skyrim: Dragonborn (which is really, really great), Skyrim: Hearthfire (just to complete the set don't judge me), and Fez.

I really need to stop spending money though, I bought all three of those solely with my profits from Steam Trading Cards, since I'm totally broke.

• Song of Fire and Ice (4 vols.) [Paperback] ($21)

Right, and for now you'll just wait for traffic to clear so you can access the store again.

Why? You can still download anything you've bought, it's literally just the storefront that's down.

Mind you, I share your concerns, just not for this reason.

After the Steam sale, you may notice that you are completely out of money. Don't worry, this is normal, and just means the Steam sale is working. Within about 3 years, you should own ~80% of the Steam store, and your wallet will finally be safe.

Hate is a little bit strong, but I think Bastion is highly overrated. The narration thing is kind of cool, but at it's core it's just a kind-of-bad top down action RPG.

I also think Prototype is really bad, especially compared to InFamous.

YES!

...All those Dota 2 invites aren't clogging up my Steam inventory any more!

As someone who's never played a GTA game (GTA clones, sure, and other Rockstar games like RDR or LA Noir, but never GTA) I'm really excited for this game. It looks really fun!

That said, at least one of those protagonists is totally going to bite it by the end of that game, right?

Digimon World 3.

Loved that game as a kid, wish it were popular enough to get a rerelease now.

This is terrible. I've listened to Ryan in some capacity almost every day for the past 5 years, he will be dearly missed.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Giant Bomb team.

90% of gen V, while not terribly designed, were essentially rehashes of older Pokemon, or just plain lazy (and I mean, like, outside of the typical "oh look, there's a rattata clone this gen" stuff).



The only designs I was really fond of were... Let's see... the Scolipede evolutionary line, Blitzle (even though he's…

Eating the fungus that is very contagious and turns you into a zombie seems like a profoundly bad idea. But hey, that's just me.

As with almost every other new Pokemon design from the new generation (Helioptile is the worst, and even he's better than 90% of Gen 5 designs), I really really like this!

After Gen 5 was very disappointing to me, I have to say I plan on getting one of the Gen 6 games. I'm bummed that they've gotten rid of sprites, but…

They didn't even start designing the game until the project's Kickstarter was up, because he wanted to get the entire creative process in the documentary. The documentary's second episode is where he comes up with the idea for the game.

So they already had the Kickstarter money when he started designing the game, and…

Currently I listen to the Giant Bombcast (my favorite podcast, easily), This Is Only A Test (way behind on this one), Harmontown, and Casually Harcore (even further behind on this one).

They finished the game and sent a single copy back in time to 1954. We've got to look backward to find it, before they'll release the other copies!