Since I use Gamefly, I probably only spend a couple hundred bucks a year at Gamestop. Just the big big games I know I want to own (Bioshock Infinite) and extremely cheap and awesome bargain bin games (recently bought Bayonetta for $7, great deal and great game).

I definitely enjoyed Fate of Atlantis (didn't ever play the Last Crusade adaptation) but I was specifically think of IPs that die with LucasArts unless the rights are bought out. It's pretty unlikely Disney is going to relinquish them and they will probably rot in the dungeon, a concept which makes me fucking furious.

Yes, and I'm a moron for forgetting it considering I've played it start to finish at least five times. Whoops!

Bwahahaha. That's hilarious.

Shit! I knew I forgot one. I loved the hell out of LOOM.

Is this the eulogy thread now? Alright then.

Jesus, the top of my head is apparently a terrible place to look for non-linear shooters. Thanks for reminding me of a series I love that apparently fell out of my head.

A fair point! I actually drastically prefer "found" narrative, in which you are not fed plot details but must seek them out from background information. It's a more interactive form of storytelling that doesn't spoon-feed you and allows the player to feel smart when they discover carefully-hidden details. This game…

God fucking dammit. I know they've been a shadow of their former selves for years now, but they were literally my single favorite developer in the 90s. A moment of silence to remember the dearly departed:

I disagree, but I felt this way a little tiny bit while the credits were rolling. "What the hell? That's it? What about all those plot holes?" Well, in retrospect I don't think there actually were any, but the narrative didn't hold your hand through the revelatory process like most mass consumption media does these…

Seriously, you felt like it pulled punches? Remember the hall of heroes' depiction of the Boxer Rebellion and Wounded Knee, and the horrifying depictions of the Chinese and American Indians? Remember all the banks with Jewish racial slurs written on them? I was legitimately shocked by some of the racist imagery in the…

Fucking awesome little dissertation there, thanks for reposting.

I'll give you Deus Ex, that slipped my brain when I was thinking of FPS; probably because with exception of the shit-ass boss fights, I didn't "shoot" in it at all. Dishonored isn't a shooter despite being first-person, and many of the other games you mentioned are third-person and largely just very different…

I think what you mean is "inarticulate." It's pretty hard to tell if she has a high IQ without sitting her down for some pattern recognition, or whether she's book-smart without giving her a quiz on science, history, and math. But if someone sounds dumb, it's usually just because they don't have a strong vocabulary or…

"We are no longer doing corridor shooters, we are now in the generation of Bioshock Infinite and other similarly complex, emotional and compelling stories, characters and game worlds."

Okay, having now watched the special (and laughed my ass off even more at the second half than the first) I'm even more baffled by anyone taking this seriously as a meltdown. The "awkward audience shots" were all done in post, and even the end part where her MC is clapping and singing the horse song was cleverly…

Okay, having now watched the special (and laughed my ass off even more at the second half than the first) I'm even more baffled by anyone taking this seriously as a meltdown. The "awkward audience shots" were all done in post, and even the end part where her MC is clapping and singing the horse song was cleverly…

Read it with ironicalness in your heart.

Meant to say former! Fixed.

Hoo boy, this kind of shit is always insanely subjective. I haven't seen the special (it's waiting at home on my DVR), but I'm positive based on what I know about her that it's schtick; her last special featured a super-awkward ten-plus-minute onstage "breakup" that smashed the funny/awkward line to pieces. You love…