Temple is awesome. I've loved it ever since it scared the living beejeezus out of me when I was 8. And revisiting it, it's still pretty solid, though tonally inconsistent with the rest of the trilogy.

I'm shocked we aren't Steam exclusive up here.

The reason Blizzard's cutscenes work for me is that you have to EARN them. In Starcraft/Diablo, if you advance far enough in the campaign, you get rewarded with beautiful illustrations of the story on an epic scale. Then you get to go back to playing the game some more, which is fun but less narrative-driven.…

That gif alone makes me want to barf...I can't begin to imagine how nausea-inducing this control scheme would actually be to play.

I think the implication is that if there WERE a shooter at E3, he'd be more likely a CoD player than a Skylanders player. Not that playing shooter-type games causes people to be more violent...more the other way around, that violent people are attracted to violent games.

Reminds me of that great backwards Red Dwarf episode.

Definitely got a Dust vibe from it as well. Will be keeping an eye on the development from now on.

Yeah, not gonna lie...I choked up a bit, almost shed tears. Also...that fookin owl! That looks like a tremendous boss fight, possibly?

People were complaining like crazy when Civ V came out. Some of the complaints were about the hexes and one unit per tile (little bit of fear of change here), others were more legitimate complaints about the shoddy AI and performance issues. At any rate, pretty much everything that people hated has been patched out.…

And if your friends player neither (or you don't have any friends), the best advice is to avoid the genre altogether. Solo queue is a bitch :(

Jaraxxus was my first usable legendary (actual first one was gruul... blarg). I still hesitate to play him though because he can be such a gamble. If your opponent isn't able to burst you down, you are pretty much guaranteed to win. But he is pretty situational, unlike say Leeroy or Ragnaros.

Man, I forgot that MTG creatures heal at the end of the turn...such a weird mechanic, but makes sense in a paper card format. I've become more used to Hearthstone ways of doing things now. (Which I'm not sure if thats good or bad.)

I go both ways. Skyrim felt like it needed a male hero. Diablo III and Torchlight 2, wanted women. League of Legends...a lot of the more interesting characters in the roles I played were women.

So how did Charlie Day manage to go back in time to voice Michelangelo? Pretty impressive.

Sweet Glass prototype bro. Where can I pay $1500 for one?

I thought streaming was the future too, but with Comcast and the FCC royally fucking up our country's internet service, I'm worried that shortly (in the US at least) the pricing is going to be pretty outrageous to access the kind of content we now take for granted.

The thing about GFWL is that not every game was salvaged. I invested a shit ton of time and a decent amount of money into Age of Empires Online, and it is now being completely wiped from existence.

woo...seattle represent! I haven't played this, but it looks like they did a lot more justice to the city than say, Deadlight, which I have. That pretty much takes place in "generic american city where it rains a lot."

When I was a kid visiting the Pacific Place Mall in Seattle, I was so blown away by how great the architecture would be for a FPS game. So I actually made a level in Jedi Knight (the only FPS game I actually played, haha) as soon as I got home. It was such a blast to make. Still love that interior layout to this day.

When I was a kid visiting the Pacific Place Mall in Seattle, I was so blown away by how great the architecture would be for a FPS game. So I actually made a level in Jedi Knight (the only FPS game I actually played, haha) as soon as I got home. It was such a blast to make. Still love that interior layout to this day.