Redguard was really good. Very underrated game, for its time.
 Also - given Bethesda's tendencies towards blandness with Oblivion and Fallout 3, I didn't expect to say this… but this is their best game yet.

Hmm, I'd remember lyrics like that. Oh, wait - is that what Warm Wet Circles was really about?

Damn. Can't say this ever looked particularly good, but I was kind of hoping Snowblind would make it work. They made Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, after all…

I love Skyclad! I kind of understand why they weren't better known, but still - they deserved better. Folkemon's  great, but I'd recommend Oui-Oui Avant Garde (a lot folkier) or The Answer Machine? (a lot better), personally.

OK, I've gone over most of these gems, and I've got to ask - Where's that guy who went ballistic over the Deadspace 2 review gone? Someone needs to tell him, Metacritic's omniscience is being challenged again!

The Blackwell games are really, really good.

Wow. This is… holy shit, this is awesome.

Goddamit, why do I always forget The Changeling? When you find out what was making those banging sounds… What a great movie.

In Takashi Miike's Gozu, they spend some time in the movie building up rumors of a ghost haunting the hostel the main character is in.
 Later on, the ghost is surprised while he's taking a shit. He seems at least as scared as the people who catch him with his pants down.

Aha, it makes a lot more sense now - everyone knows every british noble is secretly a repton.

All the big series died commercially, didn't they? I mean, I liked Ultima 9 after it was patched, and Wizardry 8 was stellar (M&M9, not so much), but getting a distributor to pony up enough money must be hard.
 As for the developers, at least Garriot and DW Bradley, I wouldn't be surprised if they're just not…

Has anyone played the Kings Bounty games?
 Might be worth trying if you like this sort of thing. They feel a bit more like RPGs than the HoMM games, with a huge world to explore and no active enemy heroes on the map working against you.
 Gathering troops is a huge pain (something this game seems to have fixed), but…

I completely prefer the RPG series. That being said, the last couple of installments were fairly mediocre (says someone who completed them both…)
 M&M 3 and World of Xeen (4 & 5) were truly great games, and if you're into that sort of thing, are perfectly playable today. They're not as good as the Wizardry games, but…

It does put me a bit off, but then again, as the OP notes, so does everything about catwoman as written in the game. What a terrible character.
 Loving the game, otherwise. Goddamn Dark Souls and its unholy monopoly on my gaming time…

You probably know about this already, but just in case:
http://wondermark.com/566/

Ha! Just finished reading that yesterday. I'll echo the recommendation, it's very good.
 Haven't read much horror lately… what about The Drive-In books, by Joe Landsdale? They're very nasty and pretty gloriously weird.

I can confirm this - I'm in the UK, and they've knocked on my door a few times over the last few years.
 I just tell them I'm a gnostic, and ask them if they've heard the good news about the pleroma.

I used to follow Paul Tatara a few years back, but lost sight of him for a while. This thread got me wanting to check back on him.

Is this seriously going for realism? The Ace Combat games always resided firmly on the silly/arcadey side on both their plotting (6's "war is hell" idiocy notwithstanding) and their sim elements, and this one is explicitly trying to be an airborne CoD; I'd have thought this would be the most over-the-top one yet.

Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning. Never fails to  give me shivers.
 Though many, many of his songs would qualify for this list.
 Moviewise, I'm with Tasha - Brazil. What a lovely, sublimely dark ending.