This campaign is easily the shortest and safest in the series. I wrote out some more thoughts over at #speakup, I'd rather not copy / paste them here.

"...AND just like New Super Mario Bros., we'll make the third and fourth characters palate-swapped, generic nobodies that no one will want to play as."

Yeah, but it's an Ubisoft game. Their games debut at $60 and within two months can be had for $20. Poor sales will probably hasten that price by a month.

Nintendo makes games?

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Drake's Deception, like Drake's fortune, probably refers not to Nathan but to Francis. Francis deceives Elizabeth by telling her he couldn't find the hallucinogens. Nathan Drake's deception is that he isn't actually Nathan Drake - he chose the name after his mother killed herself and his father made him a ward of the…

The pot is the contaminant with the concentrated hallucinogen.

Oh there're countless more. The short list for actors who don't make me want to puke is Guy Pearce, Brendan Gleeson, Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Phoebe Cates.

I liked her in Winter's Bone but she was awful in X-Men. She has a very "dull" look to her. Like she's trying to translate English from her native Eastern European tongue of Forehead-o-vakia.

My hit-it-at-any-age actress is Jennifer Jason Leigh. Or Cates. Basically anyone in Ridgemont.

I think you got lucky with Lazaravic. The first time I beat him I fell through the floor and into empty space - it took me another good hour to beat him again. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune's hardest area was the blue room on crushing. Uncharted 3's hardest area on crushing is the machine gunner on the cruise ship (and…

Jonah Hill makes me want to puke.

Platinumed 3 this morning. You think 3 is difficult? Killing Lazaravic on Crushing is an exercise in tedium.

I doubt Rockstar employs total morons who hashtag something and then write "wonder wut happenz if my boss findz out omg." Plus, why wait until it's in the realm of public thought already, two days after the trailer? If you really hate your boss, why not steal the company's thunder and leak the map when people were…

I know some people hate Nolan North and John DiMaggio, but Tom Kane is the most ubiquitous, terrible voiceover / voice actor in the business. All his voices are the exact same and he voices everything for everyone. (Cringes)

From what I understand, Microsoft made them delay a finished product by 6 months for the holiday season. I'm not sure if that entitles the consumer to any DLC completed in the interim, but there oughtta be some kind of olive branch extended to the playerbase. Maybe a dollar-patterned Lancer or something.

Kotick made that bid just to get a Kotaku story out of it.

I'm going to wait for the Game of the Year Edition, with all the DLC.

It is absolutely ridiculous that Skyrim is a Game of the Year nominee - reviewers have had their copy for less than a week. Do they even have their Zelda copies yet? And Assassin's Creed?

Reviewers (Fahey, anyway) have had Skyrim for like 5 days. I'm not sure they have Zelda or Assassin's Creed yet. It is weird that the contenders are largely unavailable to the press right now.