I'd really like to see more retro demakes than these HD "remakes" which amount to little more than being able to play with the same low poly models and lo-res textures at 1080p with an Xbox 360 controller.

From what I've seen and read, Sims 4 just seems to me more and more like a remake of the original game, but with some features removed with the excuse due to programmers and designers not being able to do what they did 15 years ago. I already own The Sims and all the expansions, and I enjoy playing Sims 2 more than I…

isn't this precisely why all televisions have picture settings? I always turn the colour/saturation down and the contrast and brightness up a bit to give things a bit more of a realistic, washed out look.

To be honest if you don't suck at Mega Man your first few plays through then you're doing it wrong, it is one impressively difficult game.

I didn't say you said that, I'm saying that it's important for adults - all adults - to teach children that games must come second, and to encourage them to use their imaginations more.

The nvidia one is just insulting; as somebody with an AMD graphics card I feel it's telling me I've made the wrong decision. And the AMD one is just misleading, as I have a 5750 games pretty much still look like they did in 2006 so not much evolving has gone on.

Oh I agree, it's much more fun to sit on your backside all day and play games so much so that's what I'd rather do than help my wife look after our 7 month old baby.
But the kid would learn a lot more useful skills playing outside. It saddens me to think about how in the future most kids will fulfil outdoor pursuits…

Better thing for a father to do than to use his some for some stupid video game experiment with the purpose to make him appreciate games for absolutely no good reason at all would be to go outside and play with him and ignore games completely.

Unreal Tournament is always the first game I install on any new PC, although I don't play it that often I like to have it there and I like to fire up UnrealEd every now and then.

It's not a game because it's boring, you cannot fail at it (other than by turning it off, and that might actually be a win), and it is ultimately pointless. You can't improve at the game. There's no skill involved other than staying awake.

I agree, shouting "behind you!" to our team mates while spectating because we got killed is one of my funniest gaming moments :D

I went absolutely mad on this when it was available here in the UK, so much so I got constipation from all the caffeine.

I really wish all games looked like they were made of LEGO - not just games made from now, but ALL games.

I loved The Longest Journey, but I just couldn't get on with Dreamfall - I didn't like sneaking about trying to not get caught by that big troll dude in the caves. I also didn't care much for the new protagonist, she was the virtual equivelant of a wooden actor, there was no range of emotion other than confused in her…

This. My absolute favourite memories of my PlayStation were playing Abe's Oddysee, then buying Exoddus the day it came out and sitting down and playing it for 8 hours straight.

Where are all the comments about getting Mop Fighter 6 turned in to a real game? And is it just me or is it strange that a series called Mop Fighter didn't let you use the mop as a weapon until the sixth game? Hmmm.....

No. Just, no.

Granted, but I see very few people NOT installing Windows on it after a few days and just getting Steam to start up in Big Picture Mode.
Also as I understand it isn't the Steam controller more of a bastard lovechild of gamepad, keyboard and mouse rather than straight up controller?

Most new PC games made in the last 3 or 4 years have support right off the bat for 360 controllers, and I'm guessing any game released with Steambox in mind will be optimised for the pad and have 360 support anyway. And I don't think the last 3 generations of consoles combined have a larger games library than the PC…

It reminds me of the situation with the Mega Drive/Genesis, it was better than the NES which rather stupidly in my opinion SEGA kept comparing it to with all that "SEGA does what Nintendon't" stuff, but then when the SNES came out it just outclassed it BUT it had been out for long enough that it had a big enough user…