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I really need to go out and buy Kingdom of Amalur already. Damn you backlog!

I finished Van Helsing a few days ago, it's about 20+ hours long and well worth the price. I actually prefer it to Diablo and Torchlight if only because those games had cartoonish art design, wheareas Van Helsing had more realistic looking environments and architecture. I would stick to one class type and focus on it because the end is ridiculously unbalanced and difficult, so the placement of skills and abilities points is crucial. Multiplayer was problematic at times, but I went solo anyway. I look forward to updates and DLC for this game. Really cool game. I also look forward to new game releases from this game company in the future.

David > Matt. Matt's okay but he stepped into a large shadow.

What? PC offer you all your gaming needs? 

Now apply your theory to video games. After all these systems are designed with "gamers" in mind. 

Well I don't want the gaming Industry to implode, but it does irk me that they don't expect to support older games as they move forward with their master plans.

Yeah. It seems as though pirating might be the only form of preservation at the moment, old games of course.

That's the thing with those types of games, COD and even MMOs like World of Warcraft. I don't think people would be interested in playing those games as they are now like 10 to 20 years from now, but games like Super Mario, probably yes. But the COD and Halos rule gaming and dictate pricing models for the rest of us who don't care.

That's the thing though, in particular with Nintendo, as the only console supporting backwards compatibility with Wii games, but not Gamecube games--well actually I've read in a few forums that the WiiU is capable of playing physical gamecube games but was "blocked" from doing so because Nintendo wants you to rebuy those games through VC. Speculation though. Nintendo hasn't done such a great job with VC games either, except on 3DS. They kind of suck too.

Well, we know we can't rely on the game industry leaders to pick and choose what to preserve and what to throw away. I don't really agree with pirating but I'm starting to feel sympathetic, for old games I mean. If only we had a GOG.com for console games.