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I got to get into Skylanders sometime. Skylander and Disney Infinity toys take up a whole section in several retail stores I go to now.

Yes! I want to photoshop something up with those three things and a chess board.

Playing Etrian Odyssey Untold all the time right now. I preordered Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus and just bought Red Faction: Guerrilla. 

That Zelda game looks interesting, but I really really want to play Wind Waker HD right now.

OMG! Green Hill Zone music. Just add my cursing over top it and you get what it was like when I played Sonic for the first time.

That Sky Sanctuary music is fun to listen to.

Thought about this topic all day today. It all just comes down to two things I haven't jived with from 343's take on Halo.

     1. Dr. Halsey as a villain. Yes, she headed the program to abduct children for the Spartan II program, but she's not alone in the blame. She had a superior who had to write off on this project who had his superiors who also had to ok it all. The whole UNSC brass are really in collusion here and to have members of the military not support its own programs is unbelievable to me. Yes, the public would have something to say about this program, but the military, even a fictional one, would protect it's own. It's just what they do. Also, in light of the fact that the program created Master Chief who was the single most important force that led humanity to victory over the Covenant. I think that has to be taken into account. 

    2. Master Chief's "romance" with Cortana. This appeared at key moment in Halo 4 and I nearly laughed myself silly and then got angry at what was happening to Halo. I get it that they have to try and make Halo more appealing to the mainstream and so they need a romance, but with MC and Cortana? Cortana is an AI construct and occupies no physical space other than electricity and the circuits that transmit her program. It's absurd! MC had a romance going in Nylund's Fall of Reach book with a female Spartan. Now that makes sense. I even thought it made a strange kind of sense for MC to have a gay relationship with The Arbiter. They're two of a kind but from different alien races. But to Cortana? I guess 343 had no choice because they are such major characters, but I think it's the dumbest, most rediculous thing I've seen in gaming lately.

It's all in the books and comics this is happening recently. The games still center on the men. Laskey in the miniseries and Master Chief in Halo 4. I definitely like the female Spartans, but it does seem like they're keying in to the 'tropes vs. women' thing and trying to bring more women in the Halo experience.

Somehow I think the new interpretation of Dr. Halsey is fueled by the outrage over abduction of children to create the Spartan II's like Master Chief; to try and sanitize the story by showing moral outrage.

From the beginning it was mixed. The first team Master Chief worked with in Nylund's book Fall of Reach was three men and two women I think (need a fact check here, but I don't have the time at the moment). The dynamic worked really well.

I liked the female Spartan in the Traviss books, but after a while I noticed almost all the major players were women. Not to say there's anything wrong with that. It's just a different perspective to this Halo Universe. The other part of it though is that I don't like the way Dr. Halsey is being handled in the books and in Halo 4. She's been characterized as a cold calculating villain and I never saw here like that from the days of the first 3 Halo games.

A good list for me might be collection of: Asura's Wrath, 1942: Joint Strike, DuckTales Remastered, Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara, and Super PUZZLE Figher II Turbo HD Remix.

I'll watch Dark Souls 2 stuff for sure. I usually don't watch anything for more than 5 or 10 minutes though on the interwebs. Trailer length stuff is my personal sweet spot.

FMV games. Wow.