Yeah that would be great! I've been brushing up on my film history lately and really want to do the same thing with games, and the JRPG genre is one I'm really lacking in. Though, what I've been meaning to do for awhile is some sort of hybrid of the AV Club's Better Late than Never & Popless and just spend a year (or…

Uh oh! Looks like Best Buy just leaked Assassin's Creed IV's Day One DLC!

This seems like a good as place as any.

It's actually doing pretty well on RT & MC! Way better than you think "giant fighting robots" would do. Grown Ups 2, on the other hand, is getting hilariously slammed.

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 had no idea this was happening. A few people walked over and read the little cards on the floor, myself included but that was all I saw, and noone seemed to know if it was real or not. The cards have some square on it that I can't discern what it's for either. Googled about the card and couldn't find anything.…

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…

What immediately comes to mind.

I saw cards on the floor of the subway today and thought I had stumbled upon some sort of Trystero/Pynchonian plot. Good to know it's legit, at least?