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The Game of Year Edition for Borderlands 2 is out and it's $30. I will be pouncing on that soon.

XCOM is going for $30 at the brick and mortar stores right now. I didn't have that much on me today so I got Far Cry 3 for $20 instead. I'm thinking about reaquiring the games I traded in like Risen 2, and Dragon's Dogma. For the right price, I'll do it.

I wish I knew when they are going to catch up with PSN but I'm getting tired waiting.

OMG! I just looked at the wiki page. XBLA hasn't gotten a add-on since no. 4 and it's up to add-on 15 already. I guess they gave up on XBLA. Now I am going to have to get it on PSN.

Pikmin 3, Dragon's Crown, and Dream Team. Painkiller is a possibility too even though it's just an upgraded port of Hell Wars that I played on Original Xbox back in '06.

I think I expected live action and kept trying to treat it as such. When I finally gave it some thought. I realized it was turn-based and had an "aha" moment and everything just clicked.

It took me so long to get into KOTOR. I tried it twice before I stopped getting frustrated with the combat. Once I figured that out, I got so hooked (I had the same experience with Mass Effect).

I did the same thing because I couldn't get a handle on the combat at first and I wanted to experience the story.

Lately I've been starting games with the default settings, which is usually the middle difficulty or normal difficulty. Somehow I feel that the developers designed this setting as the best experience of the game. Easy usually takes away the tension of the game and Hard reduces the pace of the game to a crawl. I respect Hard mode in games, but I have to really love the mechanics to stay with it for very long.

I haven't played Dark Souls yet even though i bought it recently, but I did play Demon's Souls. That game frustrated me, yes, but I never got angry at it. It would be like getting angry at your Martial Arts Master, an unforgivable offence. No, the problem was all mine. I just needed to train harder. That's the respect I give to the Souls games.

Just got back from a very late 3D showing of Pacific Rim. I liked it for what it was, a modern Japanese monster movie with a Western slant. ILM did the special effects and so of course they were stunning. Most of the story was very predictable. I was guessing right what was about to happen every single time. But there were some interesting things like the "drift" idea where two or more pilots have to share minds and think as one to run the giant robots. It's kinda like being "in the zone" in sports. I liked that Charlie Kelly from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was in it. He was great. My friend who went with me thought it was all pretty silly, so I kept yelling like an excited eight year old Japanese kid "look at the giant Kaiju!" and "that robot is so big!" He got a kick out of it and I secretly wanted to be that eight year old Japanese kid. That's kind of what this movie turns you into when you watch it.

Oh yea, I played the demo for the game on XBLA earlier in the day. I'm not big on 1v1 fighters even if it is giant robots vs. giant monsters. So I didn't buy it.