Yeah, it's a shame because coordinating with a squad is when Battlefield really fires on all cylinders. I actually don't suck near as bad when I have three buddies mic'd up watching my back and PTFO'n. I usually get my ass handed to me repeatedly when I'm playing lone wolf.

I'd probably say Battlefield as well, since I've been playing since the first Bad Company game and recently got Hardline. I used to have a regular Battlefield gang too, but mid-30s adult life has made getting together a chore.

For a second I thought you were talking about the old Turbografx-CD Sherlock Holmes game with the same name, a FMV adventure which was amazing in its day.

Games I now have in progress. bouncing between them aimlessly:

But this was a turd laid by master auteur Paul Thomas Anderson!

Blast! If there was one thing that has kept me going, it was the promise of watching the blu-ray of Simpsons season 25 on my death bed at age 108, given the speed in which they've been releasing the season sets.

With the alarming rate that great new games have been released over the past year, I have an embarrassing number of unfinished games. The one that's probably sat on my shelf the longest is Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

Don wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, and it's not a dream… he banged 'er!

Just slaughtered Darkbeast Paarl and escaped the Unseen Village in Bloodborne. Will be playing more this weekend, with a little MLB 15: The Show to lighten things up as needed. My backlog grows ever larger… too many awesome games.

The Doors' "Ship of Fools" would definitely fit the themes of the show/end of the '60s

I'd love to see a traditional, turn-based sword 'n' sorcery RPG but with all the art done in the Frazetta style rather than the usual anime style. Is there such a thing already?

Does going to Lollapalooza '94 just to see Ministry and The Jesus and Mary Chain at the top of their games count? I stuck around for Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, but skipped out after a song from the Chili Peppers.

Everyone has that certain malapropism that gets under their skin, and flare/flair is mine. I used to design ads for restaurants and I can't count how many times I had to explain that it's "Mexican with a Southern flair," and that the -re version is for bellbottoms, fire and chronic diseases/hemorrhoids.

Nary a mention of the raid mode, the true reason to buy this? Seriously, it's pretty damn awesome.

I worked in newspaper production back then (2001-2003). To create a single pdf of a 11x14 tabloid page in InDesign took about 5-10 minutes using Acrobat Distiller on a decent Mac. So yeah, printing 2000 pages would've been a helluva lot faster than making pdfs.

For me at least, after the glorious return to the cartoony fantasy roots of the series with IX, it was a disappointment that they went back to the sci-fi realism/anime style with X and X-2.

For those that dig pinball, it should be noted that the muhfuggin' The Addams Family table arrived this week for the Pinball Arcade on PS4. It's the best-selling pinball table of all time and widely considered to be the best pinball table of all time (for good reason). It might possibly be the best $5 you'll ever…

I was an avowed Final Fantasy addict from the very first NES game, but it was probably around X that my interest waned (not to mention adult life ate up a lot of that free time necessary to grind through a FF game). Maybe XV will renew my fandom. It looks promising. Still not buying Type-O just for the demo though.

They just thought it was a snappier title than Skate or Be Rendered a Quadriplegic.

George Romero gave it the ol' college try, but it wasn't really his fault that The Dark Half is one of those King stories that works on the page but is kind of silly in movie form (see also: Dreamcatcher, Secret Window, The Tommyknockers, etc.)