B-a-n-a-n-a-s.

When Nintendo announced the Wii Vitality Sensor, everyone thought it was dumb. When Gabe Newell talks about heart rate, everyone thinks it's cool.

@dowingba: To me, 3D means "headaches with occasional motion sickness", so I'll be playing with the slider at the "no 3D" setting. Thus depth-of-field tricks are certainly useful to me.

Wait until you become "Weak", then pray to your god and if your alignment is good and your prayer timeout is under 200, he'll fill your stomach.

In games whose story I don't really care about, I often give my characters names like "asshole", "bitch" or "slut" for unintentionally humorous dialog.

@Taggart6: The tiger chases it down and eats it.

Is it just me, or does the video that starts about :19 look like someone pointing a Wiimote at the screen while holding the nunchuk in the other hand?

#16 Heh, it's the Orange Box.

@Thut: Did you play Portal? Few people would call Portal less than a full game (most people saying something along the lines of "it's the right length for what it is"), but it's just an extended tutorial.

Call me cynical, but I think one of the reasons (if not the primary reason) the controls were changed is to make the game feel different from last year's.

So if I drink my own blood, I'll stay young forever?

@Clstirens: Except that when a player sells their copy and another player buys it, there's no net change in player count. If the $60 they charged the first player included the cost of supporting servers for that player, that money should also cover the cost of supporting the used player, as if the first player kept…

@ryanmurakami: Allegedly the 3DS will allow installing games to the device's internal memory for just this reason.

@SegFault: Mouse support is for more than RTS games. I have a very hard time with dual-stick control in FPSes; it just doesn't come naturally to me. Mouselook would be very helpful here. Your non-mouse hand could even use one of the control sticks to allow analog control of movement, which would be great for…

@diegojose: I've spent a lot of time playing the DS game Trioncube. It's like Tetris, except instead of clearing lines, you make 3x3 squares, and they don't disappear until you drop a piece without making a square (so you can make combos). It's an exceptionally easy game (you can easily build a combo that fills the…

@The Sentient Meat: Except that it was originally a DS feature and launched while the Wii was still called the Revolution.

I tend to prefer gameplay over graphics, but as far as graphics go, I consider art direction to be more important than technical achievements. I have a gaming PC powerful enough to run Crysis maxed out at 1600x1200 (as high as my LCD goes), and yet I think Super Mario Galaxy's graphics are more impressive.

@hazelnut1112: Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! *ding*