PixlBit

There are so many crossovers to get you to buy other series. It's crazy. 

You can do melee. I tried to get sneak attacks but they usually hear me approach. There's one combo you can do that gives you a take down. I got the timing down well enough to get some trophies for those.

I had those way back in like 1989.

I keep hearing so much about Shovel Knight. I may have to try it even though platformers aren't my thing.

I am so jealous of anyone playing Wolfenstein Old Order this week. I don't have a new system yet. If I didn't have to also get a new TV to use the new systems (HDMI ports), I might have one by now.

I owned Pandora's Tower and then traded it. I saw it in Gamestop the other day and was so tempted to buy it again. I think it was $25. I wasn't comfortable with the controls in the game, but I loved the world, graphics and everything else.

It looks almost exactly like this except it's a little bit grey.

I have a photo on facebook but it won't let me link it here for some reason.

I have to pick up SMG2 this week. I have some reward points I'll use for that. It's still $30. Also, I decided to use the bigger bag for my PS3 super slim.

That mission where you are on the wing of the plane and can't do that gun trick is what made me quit for the time being. The game has been haunting me this week, so I think I'll probably go back to it.

I don't have a smart phone yet, so couldn't use that. Is it the same as that social thing you send you in-game photos to? I wanted to save my photos but I have to sign in to that. Maybe I'll do that but I don't really want to sign in to anything more.

Cool. I hope I have time for them.

Great points. I haven't fiddled with the menu system that much yet. I guess what I meant was that there wasn't any screen clutter from menu options as you played.

I see what you mean about it taking some control away from you for the sake of presentation at the beginning. Morrowind just drops you off from a boat and Oblivion dumped you in a prison. I didn't really have total control in Skyrim until I got to that first town.

I was just mentally going over all the events I experienced in the first ten hours of GTA V the other night. It amazes me how vividly real they seem to me: little things like the way a guard reacts to seeing a downed comrade in the sniper mission with Trevor; the father-son interaction between Michael and Jimmy; and on and on. Every relationship and event in the game is handled with great detail and realism. GTA V is really knocking me out.

The first time I played it was with my friend Mark in '06. We switched on and off, if I remember right, and pretty quickly we turned it to "easy". On that setting it was just fine and we ran through the game pretty quickly. This time, in a way, I like the difficulty because I have to go slower and try and use stealth, which doesn't work very well in this game btw. The slower pace makes me take in the environments a little more and really pay attention to level design and cover spots.

"Movie-like" quality indeed. I remember this game was heralded as the begining of the cross-over between games and film. After playing GTA V, the cut scenes in Uncharted seem a little jarring as they switch from gameplay, but they are still in the same graphical style and so blend well. GTA V does it just a touch better as many times you aren't even sure you've transitioned to a noninteractive moment it's so seemless.