@notquitedeadyet: 4chan is why.

Anyone heard anything further about interoperability? Or did that concept get swept under the hype rug?

@Donutta: That's not really how it works. You charge people for renaming their characters, making a more than a certain limit of simultaneous chracters, buying cosmetic stuff (reskin their gear, characters, etc. but keep stats), moving to different servers, etc. It's mostly background stuff that has very little to do…

@Random434: Once you know, you Newegg!

@paradox-mtl: Probably.

@mfwahwah: Um, life is kind of the end-all-be-all. If you are no longer alive, then you cease to be.

@Andronix: I don't pity Avary at all. While I understand your sentiments, I cannot feel pity for him. What the shit was he doing whipping around at speeds over 100 mph? Especially on dark, windy roads. He was recklessly driving like an asshole and, on top of that folly, he was drunk (BAC was 0.11). It's not like it…

@QuennaFlint: I do love Obsidian, and I think they have tons of potential, but after NWN2... well, I'm keeping my expectations a little more in check. I'm looking forward to Alpha Protocol, and I'm sure I'll pick it up. But NWN2 had so many problems, so many bugs, and so many issue (still to this day my HD4850 won't…

@mistajeff44: As memory serves me; LA didn't move up the deadline, they just refused to extend it. So, OE could either rush to tie things up (since they were not going to be allowed to push the release date back) or they could default on their contractual obligations (which would have been really bad).

@Drakulakun: Yeah, at first I was like, "did Team Gizka change their name or something?"

Argh! I need to get on it and get a switch and run cat6 cable throughout my house. Wifi just doesn't cut it...

@KingSnorky: That would be how I would interpret it. GGears is goofy.

@OmegaDez: Considering that without John Carmack is the godfather of the FPS genre, yes, you should care.

@Eternalbl: @NeoChaos: I don't think you understand what I'm saying at all. I'm not talking about faking the SSF4 stuff. I'm talking about the arrows pointing at the hints. Those are done using a thing called Layer Styles. They are a simple and easy way to add style elements to graphics.

@-MasterDex-: Not to mention that many people will just buy used SF4s from those that upped to SSF4. DLC is tricky right now, which is a shame. It's a much better format than I think many developers are willing to give it credit for being. However, developers do have to be wary of the old 360 Arcades with their…

Someone likes using Photoshop's Layer Styles, eh? ;)

@gifurocks: I don't play sports games. Well, other than Pro Evo Soccer. Maybe the slow down is the problem then? Maybe they're expecting the player to do more now, whereas (since it was faster before) the influence of the player was more streamlined.

@teknomuffin: Dude, I'm telling you, if you're gonna do something like that again, wear ear protection! Trust me. Years and years of going to shows and being in the front and playing loud practices can take a serious toll on your eardrums. That ringing? It's from irreplaceable damage done to your eardrums.

@Ice-nine froze my baby: Well, I dropped out of the console arena for a while. My friend lent me his 360 for an extended time while he's gone in Mexico, so I'm getting back into console games. Honestly, I don't feel like I've missed much. Many of the great games I've already played on the PC and the only 360 game I'm…

So, I was talking to a good friend of mine last night. He's a pretty casual video game player. He basically plays sports games and that's it.