I'm a bit stunned I haven't seen someone making a stupid crack about the Wii U having no games to boot faster into. Nice to see the reaction time on that one has dropped off a bit, if nothing else.

I've grown weary of the comment format from these "_____ As Told By Steam Reviews" segments already. It's worse when there's so many in one post. Surely more of the reviews had a humorous element to them without that tiresome comment template.

I wouldn't have thought of it, but now that you mention it, I have a feeling that the need/want/desire for preorders to come pouring in played a role in the announcement and now fairly quick pullback. I don't see why they couldn't have just announced it at E3 instead at one of the big conferences and made a bigger…

Yeah, I hit platinum mostly due to buying a 3DS, registering it, returning it, and getting a bundle with a free game for the same price and then registering that. My platinum statuses are rare, so I knew I needed to save all I could from this year for next year to at least be guaranteed a Gold, or I'd probably…

I sold my PSP for money to buy a 30 GB iPod in 2008 after enduring years of seeing great games on the DS and almost nothing that I was interested in come to the system, and inevitably only using it as an MP3 player anyway. What a bummer. I knew then to never trust a Sony handheld again and the bitterness in me awaited…

I'm waiting for July 1st to register so I'll get an instant Gold status for 2015 on Club Nintendo due to the surveys I have backed up, and that. Plus it'll spread out the new games I get a bit.

The Gamecube adapter for the Wii U seems like an indication that Nintendo has realized that they need to take their "hardcore" gamer segment a bit more seriously, and I could see releasing more niche titles to appeal to those holding out on the console being a real possibility. I was considering writing something for…

In fairness, Miyamoto was very publicly connected with Pikmin 3's release, and that didn't seem to do much for its fate or that of the Wii U. Sure, it was delayed a bunch, and many other elements were at play, but I recall Miyamoto being extremely closely connected to that title, and it not making much of a difference…

Entrants must have a valid passport.

A lot of the same here, weirdly enough, including a time a believed in mobile games (only to be completely and utterly disillusioned by them when the Free To Play turn made all of them "Free To Wait" nonsense), I've never much been a fan of multiplayer either (especially online... I think I'm just too old for it and…

The addition of input to these raises my expectations above random, but I have no clue why. Now I know to avoid them from here on. Haha.

Social Caterpie might be a bit closer. Haha.

Yeah, my only social ties are equally inept, so butterfly definitely doesn't sound right, but then, I know nothing about the social habits of butterflies, so who knows.

It's kind of a bummer going from being a kid and loving the games and nothing else, and then growing up in an age where games are finally starting to be taken seriously and need to care about business, ethics, and other things the version of me in elementary school that eagerly awaited Ocarina of Time wouldn't care…

I also got Mobile Game and stopped reading after the first line began "You are a social butterfly." Yeah, not even close. I assume part of the point of these quizzes is to be nonsensical in how they structure questions, and thus very unlikely to provide accurate results, but still. That couldn't be more wrong.

Agreed. I would even settle for more stable workplace conditions for developers, without the fear of being forced out after every game ships. That's downright tragic and untenable.

Not always for us as consumers, however. Once we decide a game deserves our money, we do deserve the game in working order, and a game worth what we spent (extremely variable scale based on the player and their cash flow, naturally).

The phrase "entitled" implies to me that these companies DESERVE our money, and they certainly don't, which is why I personally hate its use in this context.

It's interesting that you mention having shrink wrapped games, as for me, the only games I definitely play are the ones I buy hard copies of. The 200-ish games in my Steam account, however? Not so much. Haha.

It comes across a bit sad when a developer/publisher is like "No, totally, there's lots more secrets nobody's found! Like these! Eh? Maybe even more, who knows!" Since usually if people love, and love playing, a game, they're thrilled to try to uncover these things. If anything, I feel like it says something about the…