My current name is - apparently - Ruadh. Someone's got to throw a bone to the Scots.

Exactly. It takes two seconds to look at current U.S. business practices and figure out that people aren't feeding the beast of capitalism the proper diet. Why we'd think the video games industry is any bit different (when history has proven otherwise) is beyond me.

"If no used games means more money in publishers' pockets, we'll reap the benefits."

Wait, wait, wait! You mean businesses should build consumer loyalty, actively work to increase their profits through innovative products, try new and reasonable strategies in content delivery, allow their content developers to work with resources (time in particular) needed to create high-quality products, and not…

The BF3 Beta had some really great fall-through-the-floor moments. I think my whole squad was actually below the floor at one point.

I really see this as the perfect trend that should be retroactively applied for all future editions of major literary works, making sure that I'm never over-sold a book's premise again.

I don't like to throw around the phrase "marketing genius" all to often... But you're a marketing genius.

"The Straight-to-DVD Yarn of..."

In all fairness, Zelda's music (OoT, in particular) makes for great ringtones. I wish I were kidding.

Nah - and I'm not meaning to say that the music's bad. I agree with you. The soundtracks are great - in the game.

It's the first point that still boggles my mind. The new Wii bundles come with SMB soundtracks. Are people really listening to this soundtrack on a regular basis? Similarly, The Binding of Isaac - at one point during a Steam sale - was bundled with its soundtrack. I can't really imagine listening to the soundtrack…

First off, we can all agree on melodic death metal. Play that shit all day.

Sorry, but, with the exception of Akira Yamaoka, the rest are mostly shades of contemporary classical. (Again, there are some exceptions to this rule, as there are to most things.) I'm no musicologist, and I might be butchering that term a little - however, it all sounds like variations on the basic concepts of…

To be completely honest, I really can only listen to the FFIV Celtic Moon album in terms of just sitting down to listen to music. (That's mostly because I really like the traditional Irish instrumentation.)

The Orbis, you say? Well, nothing really comes to mind...

I'm probably going to get some stones thrown at me for this, but does anyone else not "get" the popularity of video game soundtracks?

In all fairness, a lot of the greatest artistic work in the history of art was created when a patron/producer did little very little to influence the work itself, and just let the artist work. (Cosimo de Medici comes to mind. He got some of the most memorable art/architecture in the Renaissance out of Donatello and…

And the funny part about elitism is that there's always someone more elite. Bigger ponds, bigger fishes.

Hasn't it always been, though? I mean, we've all had "comic book guy" experiences in which the amateur connoisseurs of whatever-pointless-trivia school us and scoff at our petty diversity of skills. The difference between amateurs and professionals, in this regard, is that professionals don't worry about…

It's more annoying to hear claims of authenticity from a crowd of angry gaming-nerds than it is to put up with a string of coat-tail-riders.