@Outkastprince: If 2000 counts (which I'm guessing it does) then I'd actually pen it down as being Deus Ex to be honest. As good as Fallout 3 was, Deus Ex was the first "smart shooter" and made Warren Spector the well-respected designer that he is today.

@AndrosZ: @SPni: You know guys, if you really hate Tim Rogers that much, there's always the option to, y'know, NOT click on his articles when you see his name? I mean, surely that should have been enough for you to say "I'll skip that"?

@hot_heart: I'm a bit mixed up here, how will this effect me?

@hbluft: Not necessarily. Once I figured out how to time my runs, I haven't been taking any hits from the dragon at all in the run-ins.

@Bialia: Hey, at least Europeans don't refer to you as America's Hat (at least not that I know of anyway).

Damn, if I knew there was a chance I'd be screencapped on Kotaku I'd have Twittered about it too.

@Bialia: I've got my own bridge strategy nailed and how to time the run-ins (I started as Hunter, iirc) but it's always the 2 Blue-Eyes at the end of the run-in that always get me.

@WhiteMåge is in fact a boy, damnit: ..or that the weekend TAY now happens on a Saturday so us Kotakuites can talk in Off-Topic on Sunday because we'll have tales of what happened when we were out drinking the night before?

@(Starman) #number258:

@Bialia: That's the best one I've read all day. Bookmarked for further linkage.

@Bialia: IWBTG <3

@NeVeRMoRe666: That's the joke. The whole idea of telling Sega to "stop with the new characters, the old ones are way better".

@hot_heart: Seems to me like this thread's at a junction and can't seem to figure out if it's pun-related or not.

@kickingtotalass: Lack of checkpoints and generally being pretty damn hard gave Demon's Souls the Game of the Year award at GameSpot, so I fail to see your logic.

@Showmeyomoves!: Clearly the Australian non-version then?

@ToiletNinjas: Here here, it's my poison too at the best of times, though I'm more of a Pinball Wizard sort-of person :P

@Aaronosuke: C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!

@Amazing_Spiderham: They're a staple of the genre, shooters just wouldn't seem right without them.

@indyit: Well for me to make any money off it, it'd also mean a pretty big payday for Harmonix/Activision/RedOctane because it's basically their game, only reskinned, and probably in Flash. And seeing as I'm almost an absolute rookie with maybe only 20 hours of Flash use to his name, making a dime off it would be next…

I'm only after changing to high definition, and now I'm going to need another new TV and/or glasses to keep up with the Joneses? HA! I think not.