I turn the music off in a lot of games. The more atmospheric the game the more the music pulls me out of the experience. I made it about 30 minutes before turning the music off in Red Dead Redemption. I turned it off in New Vegas as soon as I could (same for Fallout 3). The ambient audio in games like this is all I…

My laptop has 400 gig which gets most of what I need done but I have another 3.5 TB of external storage. I have a 1 TB used for photo and video projects, a 2 TB used for video storage and streaming, and a 500 gig used for transporting files.

Don't forget to convert photos in a proprietary RAW format into a non-proprietary format. I convert all of mine into DNG and JPEG. Plus archiving the software required to read the formats your pictures are in isn't a bad idea either.

@Luke Plunkett: If it had had a decent ending and a second act (it basically skipped the whole second act IMHO) this game would have been pretty decent. Then again I am one of those people who loved the first game.

@TundraWolf: I think people were initially disappointed with FF12 and then they gave it a chance and found that it was actually a very good game once you wrapped your head around it. Sadly even though I put like 60+ hours into it I never finished it.

Couldn't agree more about Crackdown 2. It was like they ran the original game through a photocopier and then copied that copy and then copied that copy and on and on about 20 more times and then released it.

I actually have fond memories of TMNT on NES. The game was a hard bitch but I liked it.

This comic is basically a slicker package of the shuttle scene from early in ME2. If you didn't import a ME1 game (which I was unable to do because ME2 wouldn't accept either my Paragon or Renegade saves from ME1 for some reason) Jacob and Miranda asked you questions which would fill in the blanks from ME1.

The only time delays stink is when the game still gets released broken, buggy, or just not any fun to play. Seeing as how there are more games being released these days than most people can afford or have time to play a delay really doesn't bother me.

I played this game via a free rental and it was exactly awful... wouldn't say it was good either. Left me wondering if I ran into a bug that allowed me to skip the middle third of the game though. I would have been seriously pissed if I had paid the full retail price for this game.

@R0CKFISH: Hey I love Bethesda's games as well but they often ship at least partially broken. In my first play through of New Vegas I only had like six quests I couldn't finish, twenty pounds of quest related items I was stuck with, two companions disappear forever (Boone and ED-E my two favorite), and a whole bunch…

Wow. It is amazing that they have remade this game so many time yet not a single time for a platform I own. It is time for them to release it on XBLA next.

@thepenguin55: I have seen other games based on the Gamebryo engine that weren't broken. I am willing to bet money that Skyrim ships buggy as hell. It wouldn't be a Bethesda game if it didn't.

Neat idea.

Walk without rhythm and you won't attract the worm.

There is really no contest for me. Mass Effect 2 is the best game I have played since Ocarina of Time for sure. Red Dead Redemption was great but not in the same league as ME2 in my book. I can't comment about the other two because I didn't play them.

I bet that even the homeless in Japan have faster broadband than almost everyone in the U.S.

@Aikage the Skilled Cleric: Huh?

Screw the art book, I would love to see Mega Man X get the Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix treatment.

I kind of miss Hotline, Kaleidoscope, and Audion.