I was looking forward to surprises, but I suppose I can chew on this until Microsoft decides to show off games at E3.

Do it for Barry.

I wanna give them the time they need to make it right. That’s all they need.

Imagine finding Alan Wake making random Observer-style cameos (like on Fringe) because he’s actively scouting out potential warriors to help him in his fight against the darkness.

Go back and give it another shot. If you feel that the game is too repetitive or easy, bump up the difficulty and spend the first three episodes running and dodging like hell. It amps up the tension and gets you through episodes fast.

Even telling you that there’s stuff worth spoiling is a spoiler. I can’t really explain it. Just keep playing. You’ll know when it happens.

And some of those titles had issues running on the 360, like Jet Set Radio Future with its massive framerate drops on the highway areas (99th Street, Highway Zero) and a couple of others.

Those games were software-emulated, and sometimes not very well, and were far more primitive in terms of coding than your modern Halo 4 or Assassin’s Creed 3. It will take exponentially more power (because of their relative sophistication) to emulate those games through PowerPc architecture than it did to emulate Xbox’s games on the 360.

You might need to switch up your difficulty settings. The first three episodes are a little samey, though, in that he spends much of his time out in the dark forests. How far did you get?

I adored Alan Wake, which I only bought because I had spare cash and the Collector’s Edition had A BOOK. I had no expectations, and the game blew me away to a degree that only Monday Night Combat and Xenoblade have managed to match this console generation.

So I looked at the average Humble Bundle purchase metric, which is currently sitting at $2.04, and decided to give at least twice that. I donated five dollars. I don’t even have a computer that can run Max Payne. I’ve played both on 360, and if I choose to play them again, it’ll probably be on the 360. I just want Remedy to have some extra scratch (not of the Mr. variety, mind you).

Everybody should watch the video on the Humble Bundle page.

Watching Sam Lake talk about his games is why I couldn’t stand the thought of Rockstar making a Max Payne game.

I didn’t, either. That’s not the point.

We, as a gaming commnunity, did not contest Sony’s decision. The few who thought Okami was better than anything on PS3, or who bought their PS2s for Katamari Danacy and Gitaroo Man and thought they could bring them along into the next generation, well, their protests were drowned out by the chorus of cheering for a PS3 at a lower price point to push units. Giant corporations will do what they will, but we, as a gaming community, did nothing to make them change their minds.

WE are the reason we can’t have nice things, most of the time.

We are to blame for this, in some respect. When Sony pulled PS2 BC from their roster of offerings, few people spoke up. The worse part is that the PS3 could’ve had access to arguably the greatest game library of all time in the PS2, but gamers let Sony get away with it on account of “I still have a PS2,” or “I already have my BC PS3 so there.”

This is the standard we agreed to, sadly.

Given the sheer amounts or omnigel created from breaking down all those useless weapons and subsequent applications, I’m pretty sure my SR-1 crew members all have space cancer.

I wish my Roku had a cooling fan. It runs hotter than a launch PS3’s backside.

Also, I use my PS3 over my Roku 100% of the time if the PS3 is plugged in. Roku’s Netflix app is so bad it hurts.

If the disc is only an install disc while the game is run fully off the hard drive, then Microsoft has my attention. This is the biggest feature I’ve wanted on consoles since last generation. Disc drives are flimsy and can wear out, as multiple dead PS2s and one malfunctioning 360 have shown me.

I was fantasizing a couple of years ago that we would go digital, with discs as a possible initial delivery method, which would make it so that I never have wait with baited breath to see if the console is going to confirm that, yes, there is a game disc in my drive.

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Haven’t turned the little bastard on for a month!

The payoff for getting to play a few Games on Demand isn’t worth turning it on and hearing the grinding sound of my disc drive’s worm gear…that grinding sound of disappointment.

Yes. allowing people to publish on XBLIG resulted in so much embarrassing crapware, which was sad, because there was great stuff there (Miner Dig Deep, Arkedo stuff, Zeboyd stuff, Apple Jack), but it was deeply buried within a landfill of terrible and embarrassing zombie and avatar timewasters.

As someone who has spent a very large amount of time on XBLIG, this news can’t be any worse than what XBLIG became. It does seem sad to cut off the little guy, but the little guy is already making games available on Steam, where it reaches millions of people, and Desura, where, um….you probably have trouble downloading it. Many of these same devs have fled XBLIG because it became a wasteland of so many uncategorized awful games, which discourages far too many indie devs from attempting to put their product there rather than Steam or Desura, and has discouraged people from even attempting to filter through the chaff to find the wheat.

You make an excellent point about simply calling it an “Xbox One” game, since Kinect functionality is now fully integrated into the new system. I suppose we need to stop thinking of Kinect as separate from Xbox from here on out, since that’s what we’ve all been doing (even if we don’t realize it).

It was very much off my radar when we all thought it was Kinect-only.

Now I’ll keep an eye out in case this decides to become something awesome.

Aw, really? Time to commission another study, then!