@PATRICK SWAYZE 2.0: Agreed on the necessity of reading Blood Music, disagreed on the idea that Alastair Reynolds is a great science fiction writer, or even a good one. AR has some great ideas swimming around in there, but as for his writing, someone really needs to Juggle those Patterns if you know what I mean.

@dmcshinobi: Wow, I'm super psyched for this now, might even go for the midnight release. Might even pop in MW2 to brush up on my skills...

@Praetor: "There is no "good, noble" faction in NV (or at least I haven't found them yet). I feel like I'm alone and yet surrounded by incompetent or immoral or insane masses. Am I the only good, smart, resourseful, skilled person in this game?"

@Manly McBeeferton: Reach is not just for hardcore fans — it's the best of the series, and has basically a stand-alone storyline so you can jump in without feeling like you're missing out from not playing the earlier(later!) games.

@domhnall: It's just NO for *right now* because a new bundle is coming out soon.

@RtFusion: Wouldn't you only remember half of him then?

I'm convinced that the plot of this show basically boils down to:

I think the thing that brings people back to MW2 is the rank progression that actually matters. In Reach you can earn credits to buy visual stuff for your armor, but the costs for the really cool ones (birthday party, etc.) are super high and require a lot of time put into it before you even get close, and the rest…

@zenmaster24: They're quotes from the original BSG, as well as the Halo series.

I'm glad they're going back to the individualized main character plan, after playing Mass Effect, DA:O just seemed so unfulfilling (uninstalled it after I unlocked the world map, so boring).

@Steffilarue: Netflix costs money.

@ryoshi: No, it's more that I'm picky and stingy. There's basically three genres of games that I like: first person shooters, deep non-Japanese RPGs, and grand strategy games. What all three of those have in common is that they really don't translate well to handheld gaming.

@Diamond Sea: I'm not negative about handheld gaming, I just find them uninteresting (so far).

@gamegrump: You're right I'm not, which is funny because I was just commenting on a different site how that phrase has come to mean the exact opposite in that situation.

@TimeNeverRests (PS1): That's different than what gamegrump was saying.

@gamegrump: "Unlike most cultures, Americans are very aware of race in their everyday lives, and the art they create tends to take a depicted person's race into consideration. It's not that white is the default - Americans just have an eye for this sort of stuff, and people from other cultures are less cognizant."

@Groo8: 'common' cold is a deceptive description. There is no one common cold.

@Brangdon: That's not really a very strong argument, as there are plenty of time travel stories where the time travel happens just as you describe in your counterargument.

@PlaidNinja: You're kinda missing the point...

Didn't see it the first time, probably won't see it again. Nothing really appealed to me about it to begin with...