Awesome! My grandma did the same thing, that's how I ended up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoopy%27s_Magic_Show .

Right, grown-up me realizes there's a reason they never go for the video games, or at most would grab just one. It's probably all in the hidden rules.

I miss K.B. Toys. Remember the K.B. Toy Run on Nickelodeon? I used to dream of getting on one of those as a kid. It always drove me crazy when girls would get it and fill their carts with $2 teddy bears and dolls; kid-me would scream at the TV "you're wasting it!" I totally would have scooped the entire contents of…

It's rare. My father, who's pushing 60, is brilliant and very tech-savvy, and buys virtually every gadget that comes out, but has never really had any interest in any but the most casual of games. Five years ago I got him a World of Warcraft gift box for Christmas and we spent about 20-30 hours over the free trial…

Fantastic. I wish any of my older family members were that cool.

Yeah, extra price and power consumption for a feature I will never use. Eww.

Hahaha I totally see it.

Pretty sure that's a Playstation Move sensor, so you can Wiimote it up while also playing a standard controller. If so, would be pretty wasteful considering the Move was a giant flop.

Agreed. PM2 is one of the best games ever made, and has the single greatest title screen music in the history of gaming. I had that as my ringtone for a couple years.

The problem with being an early adopter is that you almost inevitably end up getting burned.

This x100. The M&L series is one of the best in all of gaming.

Oh snap, right from this site too. Thanks for the link.

A fair point, but as a generic-looking white dude myself, I always gravitate against playing characters that look like me; I just find it more interesting. I also like testing the versatility of the character creation engine and making characters that look utterly dissimilar from mainstream American leading-man…

Say what you will, this archetype is extremely common in AAA games; CoD, Gears, Dead Space, Max Payne, Rage, Mass Effect (if you use generic maleshep, which based on the vast majority of ME Youtube videos, a disappointing number of gamers do). The exceptions you listed, a couple of which were from the last gaming…

Probably you!

Fair point. A real Alien game would basically be Amnesia: Dark Descent in space. Now that is unequivocally the scariest game I have ever played. It was so disturbing that I actually couldn't finish it.

Agreed about the takedown animations; it's true that they're action-movie stupid, but the most baffling element is that the non-lethal takedowns are noisy as hell, yet mechanically make no sound as far as the bad guys are concerned. So you can take down a guy literally two inches away from his buddy and he won't…

Ouch, 19 tries! That's brutal. Were you playing on Hard? I typically stick to Normal in most games unless reviews indicate Normal is exceptionally dull.