This seems like a good as place as any.

And buy the games for a lot, lot more.

Superman vs The Elite (and What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, & the American Way? which it's based on) provide a good rebuttal to this.

Ah, well in that case we're in agreement.

You and me both.

Don't stop halfway through Season 2, though. It'll get bad, as mentioned, but TRUST ME, you want to see the finale for this show. It is fucking incredible, and thinking about it airing on network TV in the early 90's will melt your brain.

Nothing hurts more than seeing the beautiful graphics mods people have done for GTAIV and knowing RDR will never get the same treatment.

Yeah, I have that problem, too. Kotaku even wrote about it before. I really hate it, and actively try to avoid doing it (but still do). Sometimes I feel like I'm playing the minimap—a little 2d, top down game—while shit is just happening on a screen around it. It's a weird predicament.

Yeah, but franchises are basically encoded into the way video games work as a medium. They're so iterative (and now so costly) that franchises come out more from wanting to do more with what the designers learned and made the first time around. I think if franchises are kept in check, not yearly, etc etc. Almost all…

Ah, well, in that case, as jin_struggler mentions, I'd give Total War a shot.

What ideas about it interest you besides the politics? Those seem like a fundamental draw to the game.

Yeah, I'm just being stubborn and reluctant since we're so close to the end of the generation, and I manage to have one of the ol' BC ones.

I'm just glad—as I sort of mentioned in the other article—that it looks like there's been a real nice UI update too.

I have a summer video game drought in the summer in that I play a lot less both because A) it's beautiful outside and B) my PS3 fan sounds like an airliner jet taking off these days (need to pull it apart and put some new thermal paste/dust it) so playing it when it's so hot just seems like a really, really bad idea—I…

Yeah, I wasn't sure what that was either. Have they mentioned if mechanics like hunger or whatever are coming back?

Yeah, I'm sure it's the same auto-lock on that was in IV, RDR, etc and I immediately turned off.

That square minimap looks so much cleaner.

Sometimes I feel like I'm one of the only people who really liked what they tried to do in GTAIV. I don't think they always pulled it off, but it made a lot of sense that they would try to expand their scope narratively and try to tackle some more complex things. They came up against the edges of the open-world format…

Ah, damn. Was it that good? Might finally be time to play Okami.

RYAN DAVIS IS STILL A THREAT.