I was thinking about those - maybe I'll give em a shot. Thanks!

Oh yeah. I think about it when I'm at work. :) It's really good, and big.

I suspect I'll finish Torment in the next couple of days, and I'm trying to decide what to play next. I was going to run the Mass Effect series in anticipation of the new game, but I think I might be RPG'd out for awhile.

The Daedric questlines were my favorite. When I encountered my first one - the haunted house where the Paladin guy is stumbling around blind, terrified and defenseless, and the Daedra-God offers you the artifact if you murder him - well, I decided to go power-hungry psychopath at that moment. It was awesome.

I finished Dark Souls 3 without any help. It was cool that I managed that, I guess, but I've got to say that I think the games are really designed for players to work together on discovering the world. I was able to finish it, yeah - I'd played enough Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Demon's Souls and Bloodborne at that…

This weekend I will continue with Torment: Tides of Numera. I'm really loving it.

The way Ryan comes screaming up out of the background is a great shot.

I couldn't decide whether to do Renegade or the other one this playthrough (I've done both). I went with the other one mostly because I'm trying to get through it quickly, and "good" is kind of the path of least resistance. I don't remember what, if any, the practical effects of choosing one over the other are. Are…

I feel like we all wanted so badly for it to be great that there was a collective grading on a curve. I picked it up eagerly - Bioshock was such a great game, and I liked the second one too, screw what everybody says - and played away. It had so much goodwill built into it that I made it halfway through before I…

I'm reminded of that one Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin is waiting for something to come by mail, and when the mailman leaves without dropping it off, he gets bummed knowing he's got to wait at least another day. Hobbes tells him he should run out and check the mail again - maybe the mailmen made a second trip…

The sidekick is worse than that fucking avatar of irritation in Ocarina of Time??? Now I can never play Skyward Sword.

I'm not going to look that up and see if it's a real movie. I'm going to spend the rest of my life happily dreaming that someone, somewhere, made a movie with that title.

Ah, the halcyon days of being able to call in sick to work to play video games. Plus being in school! Nostalgia rush.

I think that's it - thanks! Amazon Firestick or whatever, here I come!

Thanks Mike! Loved your column. And you ended on an inspired movie. I'm going to rewatch it this weekend.

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I put the game on a shelf, probably permanently. The system doesn't make a lot of sense, and you can definitely gimp a character.

Ha! I did the same three things last week.

I'm really enjoying Torment so far, though I see some of the issues and share some of the concerns people are expressing above.

Nah - you can jump right in. It's a great game, though I'll be interested to see how somebody who didn't play PS:T enjoys it. They're very different experiences from your normal RPG.

At its best, Infinite has a terrific introduction sequence. At its worst, it has the rest of the game.