What? Of course Activision has some expectations of Blizzard. The two of them merged, and Blizzard can't just go off doing whatever the fuck it feels with absolutely no time frame.

You mean flamebait? How does troll bait even make sense? Trolls take the initiative to antagonize people, so you can't really bait them into something.

Probably only about 10% or less of matches will go 40 minutes. And I don't know if it was your meaning, but you certainly won't ever be camped out in one part of the map for the entirety of a game.

Yeah, very good point about a side storyline. "The Further Adventures of Lee Scoresby" or something. Or maybe you get to play as an armoured bear.

I won't disagree with Kirk or anything, but this is the kind of thing you notice constantly once you spend an afternoon on TV Tropes. If you didn't already notice this sort of thing, the archetypes certainly start becoming more apparent (especially if you're setting the bar as low as "shy [character] who starts out…

The biggest problem with the two books after The Golden Compass/Northern Lights is that those books barely ever revisit the dimension that Lyra is from that contains all of the stuff you mentioned.

Anything? To me, Ender's Game seems like the only novel he's written that contains something that is visually interesting for the player to do.

I'm surprised that trilogy (tetralogy?) didn't ever catch on to the extent that A Game of Thrones did, but I guess it did have slightly more magic and sort of had elves, and there wasn't quite enough sex and soap opera drama to really reel people in.

They're making an MMO out of Otherland.

You magnificent son of a bitch.

It does still have a really streamlined, arcadey pace to it (seriously, everything moves so quickly), but yes, it lost its single most identifying feature, and that is a huge bummer.

Not to be a dick, but the JRPG was shopped pretty badly, and the guy can barely put together a sentence.

The NFL basically ruined everything, because they wouldn't allow the devs to keep the NFL license unless they removed late hits.

OK, but he's right: you really can't make this crossover without tossing aside the tone of one of the series, unless you put two half-games on the same disc and never the twain shall meet.

Think of the memes!

I'm pretty sure Metroid sells way better internationally than in Japan, so none of Nintendo's dev teams actually have a good sense of what makes the series so appealing. Thus they've been shipping it off to other development studios starting with Metroid Prime.

I could not stop laughing at that one.

Ah, right. I'm not sure, but that may just be a child's keyboard or something of that sort.

Wind Waker is interesting because it's pretty much all over the place. I actually don't see the Carribbean theme you're talking about very much, but hey, maybe I'm forgetting something. Were the clothes island-y or something?

It's a melodica.