Holy Jesus, I'd love to have this kind of free time. Parenting and super-busy family life = ~12 hours of game time a week for me. I spend about twice as much time reading Kotaku (usually at work) as I actually get to game.

Boy, fry cooks these days.

Hallelujah.

I've got that set and couldn't agree more. No other comedy from the 60's or earlier holds up as well as Get Smart. It goes to show how much Mel Brooks' sense of humor influenced modern comedy that, a few tropes aside like 99's fawning nature, it doesn't feel "off," like jokes your parents would make, the way just…

Mary Sue is almost always used for author surrogates, but generally only in a wish fulfillment sense - Wesley Crusher is a total Mary Sue for creator Gene Roddenberry, but you wouldn't use that term for Brian the Dog in Family Guy, he'd be an author surrogate for Seth McFarlane.

This. I have 1 & 2 but still intend to snag this.

Yep, this for sure. I do most of my gaming through Gamefly, so if the most draconian possible lockout were implemented by both MS and Sony, I'll be sitting out this next console generation.

"very large lizards resembling dinosaurs (stop planting all of those fake bones, paleontologists)."

Grope culture up in here.

Yesssssssssssssssss

I don't presently have a gaming PC, but thanks for this warning. I'll just snag the xbox originals.

Yeesh, thanks for the warning on this. There is absolutely nothing that kills a game for me worse than stingy checkpoints. There are a lot of ways to penalize death; loss of points, currency, or time. Time is the thing I have the least of, with a slim dozen hours or so to game per week. As such, losing a great deal of…

Hmm, do not like. This seems like something done on a dare, and just doesn't work very well. The speed-scrub clipping is cringe-inducing given how many times I've listened to the CT soundtrack.

Actually to be honest I missed the Splinter Cell games. I tried the first and found it to just be too punishing - every time I was discovered it'd be a 15-second loading time and I'd lose something like fifteen minutes of play. Proper checkpointing is extremely important to me as nothing kills my fun more than losing…

A single playthrough is good for 15+ hours, but there's sooooo much more to the game. First is new game + mode, which changes the mechanics of the game in several ways. It's harder, as you take more damage and you don't get the visual indications of noise and character's field of vision, but most interestingly you can…

I'll paste this in the correct thread when link is fixed.

Far Cry 3 was enjoyable enough, it definitely didn't suck, but ultimately I felt like it was too samey to really grab me. By the time I got to the second island I had unlocked the full tatau, having done every single side mission and collected every artifact on the first island. Faced with doing all this again on…

Oh man, thanks for this. JP2 & 3 have some very fond memories for me. Back in those halcyon days before blogs like Kotaku kept me on the up-to-the-minute zeitgeist of gaming, I found out JP3 existed by seeing it on a store shelf, and promptly bought it and brought it home. Boy was I pleased to find that Arthur's death…

Oh man, David Lynch meets Oliver Stone.

I know what you mean. Apple's lock-step rigidly-closed architecture is the reason they lost the PC war back in the late 80's/early 90's, and I can't believe they're repeating the same mistakes. The fact that they close off any third-party controllers to only be usable by that publisher alone is utterly asinine.