But you're still hungry…

Short answer: positively.

damnit! I'm already regretting not joining this league. Can we start a gameological fantasy fantasy football league? With my first pick I take @snazzlenuts.

Well convenience generally. I pre-order from Amazon and it shows up at my door on release day. I have had games I didn't pre-order be unavailable at the local Gamestop when I go to buy day of or even first week. If I want a game I'm usually willing to pay full retail and get it when it releases, the fact that I may…

Ha! I had actually had typed out "welcome to Obama's America" at the end of my original comment then decided against it. Trump '16, '20, and '24!

Pretty much, the societal impulse to pass the buck and avoid blame.

Eh, I own property and am married (don't make enough money though) still doesn't guarantee shelter from the blaahs.

I don't get all the pre-order hate out there. Usually if I'm pre-ordering something it's a known IP or from a developer with a history of quality games. I think Ubisoft and EA are 95% responsible for the pre-order hate between things like Watch Dogs, AC Unity, and EA's myriad of connectivity disasters. But I gladly…

I was threaded cane through and through on my playthrough, darting in quickly with the cane where I could and using the range of the whip to keep groups at bay where necessary.

Peace Walker's the direct prequel to 5! If any are skippable I'd argue it's 2, (not because it isn't a great game, which it is) but because I think it'll provide less of a prologue for 5. PW is where the foundation is laid for the destruction at the start of 5.1.

I started playing around the same time (also primarily as a mage). I've run into trouble with my spell heavy deck though in not having enough mid-late game power to finish off my foes. I'm usually good at keeping his board clear and can get out some ok low level cards, but I really need to shuffle in some more heavy…

Agh! Phantom Pain looks so good! But I'm still in Novigrad in Witcher III (although that's largely due to my obsessive nature). Between MGS5 and The Taken King I just need more time damnit.

It seems almost like a throwback to the earlier era of "B" games, where not everything had to be a AAA touting some sort of six figure budget. The kind your aunt would pick up from Wal-Mart for your birthday, or you grab on a whim for rent from blockbuster.

There was always Inquest magazines, and some proto-internet sites.

I remember when we got a new computer with Windows '95, it was also our first computer with a CD-ROM. One of the few CDs we had was Encarta, it included some weird castle/dungeon crawling game where you had to go room to room answering trivia (really just looking up encyclopedia entries), I messed around with that a…

Yeah, I was thinking about how to put that one in there, it goes hand-in-hand with Peace Walker, but is less played since it didn't get a PS3 port (at least I don't think it did).

Damn! I forgot about XCOM 2 and Legacy of the Void, I'm just going to have to hope someone invents some sort of time machine in the next few months so I can get all these games in.

I'm somewhat worried about the glut of games and instant backlog I may be hit with. While I've had it on the side since I started Witcher III;Destiny: Taken King is out next month and I'm pretty excited to see (and no doubt be disappointed by) the new changes. (Side Note: Xur has Gjallarhorn this week! Finally!). …

I'd recommend MGSIII. It steps back on the crazy and tells a more contained spy story (although there's still a touch of the crazy espionage on the side).

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