I understand this sentiment, but I wonder if it just speaks to how successfully they created the worlds (or even just the ideas) of Rapture and Columbia, that people became more entranced by them than the more mundane ideas of shooting bad guys, etc. I loved the games, but would love to be able to explore those…

I feel like theses could be written about MM's and NIN's appropriation of Bowie influences over the years.

Yeah, the games I've enjoyed recently (the Bioshock series in particular) have worked for me partly because I could put them down and come back to them. (I also found them compelling enough to WANT to come back to them, which the ones I mentioned simply weren't—or at least not enough, after awhile.)

Fair enough, but I spent literally hours in level 1, dying and restarting from scratch. It's quite possible I'm simply not as skilled a gamer as I'd like to think, and that's fine. I'm looking for gaming to be fun; not an arduous slog. If that means choosing easier games, I'm fine with that.

Thanks for the tip. There definitely seems to be a gap between us casual gamers and the folks that live and breathe the stuff. Come to think of it, the same guy (or at least the same store) recommended both that and Dark Souls to me. (Perhaps he had a good laugh after I left with my purchases!) I just finally…

Ah, that might be the issue, then. At any rate, between that and picking up Dark Souls, which was WAY harder than I'm willing to deal with, recent RPG-type games (or my choices of them, at least) have not been kind. Granted, I'm probably older and more casual a gamer than much of their audience.

My last attempt to get into an RPG was when I picked up Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on PS3. Skyrim was already out at that time, but much more expensive, and the guy in the store seemed to like Oblivion. I slogged through it awhile, but finally gave up—it didn't seem anything I did had much effect in advancing my…

Welp, I'm convinced.

Being an alum of Ohio University, I can't upvote that comment enough.

You said it better than I could. This show has amazed me with how it has developed characters we initially got to know (and laugh at) for wearing superhero pajamas.

I know it's not the case, but the flying jet they showed for a second looked a lot like the X-Men's Blackbird. Again, I know it's NOT the case….but I couldn't help but with that's what it was.

I might even say they were the ones that started the whole ball rolling (so to speak). Certainly, blues artists were known to sing some racy lyrics, but the Stones were probably the first ones to popularize them with the rock crowd, and set the precedent for the glam and metal artists that followed.

I found it a little funny that KISS are viewed in this article as somehow nobler with their innuendo. I wonder how "Lick It Up" fits in with that perspective.

To be fair, if Gilmour was that concerned about Wright's legacy, then I wish he had worked on Broken China. At least he played one of the pieces on the live DVD he put out several years ago….and had the good sense to include Wright on his last tour. That was maybe the closest we ever got to a real Floyd tour since…

Clearly, this is the best "Best of 2015" list of the year!

I actually saw it, in the theater. I mean, sci-fi, + humor, + Cosby….how could it NOT be good? I believe we may have been the only people in the theater, or close to it. It's as mind-bogglingly terrible as you can imagine, and one of the few times I think I was at least tempted to leave the movie. Although,…

I'd put solid money that an Adam Ant (or Adam and the Ants) song makes a prominent appearance in the soundtrack.

It is pretty amazing that Marvel can make an Ant-Man movie look like something to anticipate. They've been proving that ridiculous super-powers don't even matter. I think they could turn just about any of their properties into a hit movie at this point: just write it well, get some good actors, and make sure it's…

I couldn't say. But I picked up their greatest hits album many years back through Columbia House or something, for all of the hits (duh)—and I was rather bemused at the number of "hits" they included on there. 16 tracks seemed a just a tad generous—and I can't say I ever sought out the later tracks once I listened…

Oy!