PixlBit

Honestly, I think the days of gaming revolutions are pretty much done. You might get an occasional surprise, as I did with Valkyria Chroncles, but the industry has matured. Even the much-vaunted indie scene is largely retreads of 1980s game design.  You can only repackage game design concepts so many ways.

I think the last new system I was excited for out of the gate was the PS2, and before that, the N64. The PS2 lived up to the hype, the N64 not so much before I jumped ship to the PS1, a system that had nothing I cared about until two years after its release and which went on to become my single favorite platform of all time.

I think that as more developers get their sea legs on the PS4 or Wii U we'll see better games. Very few consoles have great launch titles, and even the better launch titles end up being deemed as overrated several years later once better games start coming out.

My sister bought a huge white rat (he was over a foot long from nose to the tip of his tail) in Boston and gave him to me. I really liked the big guy. Even my cat tolerated him. I was really sad when he died.

I blame 1UP's closure on Commie Nazis and on the complete sexual immorality being taught in our public schools!

Bring back spanking!

A lot of that is because Microsoft got a lot of traditionally PC-only developers to really start supporting the Xbox and 360, although the games they've made on consoles were very consolized compared to the games they made back when they were PC-only developers. There were PC games on PS1 and PS2, but they mostly went ignored in favor of console mainstays.

Gotta love the Internet's power to let anyone act like as much of an a$$wipe as they want with impunity, whether it's your whacked-out political views and prejudices or telling some anonymous female stranger exactly what you want to do with her! I'm with Macho. I don't use the headset unless I'm talking to people I know and like. I used to use headsets in public matches but got tired of all the nastiness coming from 20-something morons. And when you consider that most games only let you communicate with people on your team, that just reinforces the old saying, "With friends like this, who needs enemies?"

Yars' Revenge was my favorite 2600 game

I have the Atari and Activision collections on PS2, so I can actually play both of these games on PS3 (since mine is a 60-gigger). Still, it's not quite the same as playing them on a 2600, as you said to GH.

I kinda agree with this. At the end of the day, I prefer my PS3 to my PC as a gaming machine. A lot of it is because of all the games the PS3 has that I love that aren't on the PC, but I'd really rather just fire up my console and play even for those games that are on both platforms.

I was a PC gamer back in the early 90's but that was because I didn't have an NES or SNES. After the Ultima series died, though, I switched to the SNES from the PC, and haven't really had a burning desire to go back to the PC. And even when I do fire up Steam, I'm mostly playing console-like games like Ys instead of stuff like ArmA or The Witcher.

I know what I'd like: a game with an indie spirit and an AAA budget. :)

That said, most indie games are as derivative of other works as the AAA games, while not all big-budget games are bad. Ni no Kuni, a big-budget RPG, has been quite wonderful.

I will never spend a dime on microtransactions myself. I guess if the company wants to include them, they can, but I think liberally sprinkling your games with cash shops even if the content is not required to win would make even an AAA megabudget game like GTA look like tacky low-budget trash.

The PS3 Youtube app is pretty good. I have never had problems with it.