Eh, I'm a sucker for a good story. Portal 2 has some seriously smart level design and a wildly brilliant, speculative subplot that implicates the protagonist as the daughter of one (or more) of the personalities. That's a smart game. And Journey / SotC are atmospheric and while saying next to nothing create a…

Boy howdy are you onto something.

I was hoping someone would mention Portal 2. As an aside, it seems pretty easy to make a game like Journey or Shadow of the Colossus and create virtually no backstory, so the player's imagination fills that void with their own assumptions about the world. It still feels infinitely more satisfying than the diegesis of…

I've never felt dirtier than when I finished Gears of War 2. I felt like I'd just been baptised in Tequiza.

Dead Space 2 was a clever, elegant, atmospheric game that riffed on the conventions of its forebear. Uncharted 3 was an immersive, introspective, filmic game that further explored both its protagonist the supernatural elements that were always the series' weakest link. Bioshock 2 was a game that while chided as an…

I'm crazy about the multiplayer - those packs are like gambling. My ME3 disc hasn't left my machine since I bought it. I just wish every match I found weren't Geth / Firebase White...

EA will probably formally announce Dead Space 3, which I'm pumped for, and Nintendo will have a barrage of Wii U announcements, because they'll have to. So it'll probably be more entertaining than last year's show.

Why can't anything be left 'til E3?

Oh I forgot - The Last of Us probably has a character or two that'd fit (that grizzled fella and Ellen Page). Plus the small boy from The Last Guardian.

I love your speculation - I used to write out lists after SSBM about who'd make great roster additions. Wander is necessary, Kuo and Nix may offer more aesthetic variety (and female inclusion) than Zeke with a revolver. Lose Kessler. Also Lazaravic might be more iconic than Raja, albeit less racially diverse. There…

You're hurting your argument a bit because everything you listed has been sequelized, but yes, there's no shortage of entertaining properties within the medium. My favorite franchises this-gen have been Uncharted, Bioshock, Dead Space, Mass Effect - I think they're narrative wonders.

Title Fight is a clever, compact name. PlayStation Title Fight is also great, if branding is necessary. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale rolls off the tongue about as nicely as Dissidia Duodedicim Scrabble-Dabble Theatrythm Expialadocious, or whatever Squeenix is calling their games nowadays.

Too many titles are jumping the E3 gun for their announcements. Dislike.

Forget the "games as art" debate, the Uncharted series is considerably better than most Hollywood product. "Games as film," it nails.

From your Nintendo passion, I'm assuming that you owned a Gamecube and a Wii, both of which are twin-stick consoles (WIi with Classic Controller).

3D Classics: Kid Icarus was supposed to be free when you registered some titles, back in January / February. I guess Nintendo changed its mind.

If it were a Sega Saturn, ->Dreamcast -> Defunct.

That HUD is not complicated enough. I think it needs a Hunger Meter, a Camo Indicator, and a Days Since Last Watched Deadwood Ticker.

Interestingly, the top 3 most-common passwords culled from the keylogger were furry4life, omgtailsiscute, and badassknucklesfanfic.

Your name is nearly as disgusting as your apathy.