So hey. Taking advantage of the new categories here (thanks admins! It's cool!)

Been playing the new upgrade pack for Borderlands 2. The Raid on Digistruct Peak is like the core Borderlands experience distilled to its essence. I really enjoy it. If anyone out there wants to play sometime, I'd still really like to do it (don't feel shy because of a low level character - power leveling is fun :P ).

Company of Heroes was introduced to me last weekend. Playing tons of skirmishes so far. Man, I see so much of what Halo Wars did in this game. Sadly for HW, CoH is far superior.

Coolest moment so far was baiting a Panther tank around a building with one of my Wolverines, and then having the second Wolverine sneak up behind it and shoot it in the arse. If you haven't played Company of Heroes, where you actually shoot things matters. They are not just hit point sponges. Calliopes are also boss.

I keep dipping my toes into the first Borderlands, but I just can't seem to get into it (and I've convinced myself I need to finish that game before playing BL2. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I need a tour guide.)

Finally playing RDR Undead Nightmare, which I've avoided because I'm not really a zombie kind of guy, but I'm liking it, mainly because you get to spend more time with the great characters. It's always a relief to me though when the sun comes out.

(Here's a question I can't figure out: why do I love the voice acting in RDR but kind of hate it in Borderlands? I don't know.)

I am buying GTA V. I'm not sure why. Maybe because some of what they've said reminds me of what we've heard of Destiny.

Recently bought Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on PS3. Emmy and I have are constantly taken aback at how poorly it sold. The game is freaking beautiful and has like 10,000 years of lore:

In addition, we've been playing WoW and a bit of Borderlands 2.

Skyrim when I get a chance. Specifically the Dragonborn expansion pack at the moment. As someone who fell in love with Morrowind, it has been a great treat to return to Solstheim. Hearing the old music tracks, knowing the layout of the land seeing how the places I knew have changed in 200 years. The faithfulness to the art direction, ambience, and lore continues to make me think Bethesda Studios (not the publisher) is my second favorite game studio. You know who is first. :)

I continue to play some Red Dead with my brother when we can. I've also started Blue Dragon, Ghostbusters, and Alan Wake but have not had the time or temperament to dive my full attention in to any of those yet. I'm a slow gamer and usually only focus on one game till I've exhausted it. Skyrim just provides me with too much relaxing content for my own good. The good thing about being slow - it's very affordable! I'm buying these big games new for $5 to 15 dollars.

GTA looks fun as always, but I won't be able to afford it for some time. What is approaching my budget is Dishonored and Tomb Raider to name a few familiar titles. But I've also got Crackdown and other free games to play sometime. The backlog can be stressful!

I'm just bouncing from thing to thing. Can't really buy anything new right now. I hear that Halo series is good. I may keep playing through that.

Company of Heroes was introduced to me last weekend. Playing tons of skirmishes so far. Man, I see so much of what Halo Wars did in this game. Sadly for HW, CoH is far superior.

Welcome to the club!

Coolest moment so far was baiting a Panther tank around a building with one of my Wolverines, and then having the second Wolverine sneak up behind it and shoot it in the arse. If you haven't played Company of Heroes, where you actually shoot things matters. They are not just hit point sponges. Calliopes are also boss.

Take it from me, there are few things more satisfying than destroying a bridge full of M10 tank destroyers and infantry.

Heh. Have a ton of fond memories of that game. One time, when I had first picked up the game, I was playing as the Americans and spied this little tracked thing called a 'Goliath' making a beeline for one of my bunkers.
"Oh, that's cute. Is it a scou-?"
*Goliath reaches the bunker and explodes, destroying the bunker, nearby sandbags, and two nearby squads*
"... I think I'm in love..."

In hindsight, Company of Heroes was my favorite RTS ever, but it was annoyingly easy for two sides to reach a stalemate in multiplayer. Seriously, you know how Hunters absolutely dominate enemy vehicles in Halo Wars? AT guns are even worse.

Right now, as in literally, as in 'not virtually', I'm playing Far Cry 3 (360). Still very early on, but already surpassed every single expectation of mine.

As JD mentioned, I sometimes hop into Borderlands 2 (PC) with him. I'm also still to wrap up Dishonored (PC), but I'm quite sure I'm near the end, since the boatman gave me a quite ominous goodbye while I raid some sort of superfortress.

And as always, EvE Online is taking the huge chunk of my life it claims.

Also, while no one asked me, I feel obliged to say that I'm reading 'The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke'. My just-bought Kindle informs me I'm currently 13% in, but it already paid itself and the Kindle's price in wonder and enjoyment.

If anybody wants to play with, send me a friend request GT: TDSpiral. I'd love to do some more Gold runs.

Since March of 2002, we've been an entirely Microsoft console household. That original Xbox was welcomed into our house alongside a copy of Halo 1. In September 2007, I purchased a Halo 3 SE Xbox 360 alongside, you guessed it, Halo 3.

Anyway, as of ~3 weeks ago,

Well, now I have a PS3 on a wine glass box (you wouldn't believe how perfectly-sized that box is for carrying an Xbox 360 and a few games).

So, what do I think?

Well, I've been acclimating to the controller somewhat easier than I expected. And although I think I prefer the overall ergonomic design of the 360 controller, the DS3 seems to have some advantages. It's more feature-rich, and has astronomically superior build quality.

Anyway, my initial weird impulse buy library:

I got a Gran Turismo 5 bundle because I felt obligated to try a racing sim at some point. After trying GT5... well, let's just say I've had to cleanse my pallete by firing up the oXbox and playing some Rallisport Challenge. Why anyone wants to play this lethargic realism is beyond me. It's not that there's nothing to playing it, or that it's too easy, because that's totally not the case. It's just... it just doesn't feel good at all.

Infamous 2? Also came with the console, haven't tried it yet.

In the ICO/SOTV collection, all I've done is a brief splash of SOTC. First impression is that the controls are awful, although I was fine with the horse controls that apparantly infuriate some people. I'm going to keep my mind open here and give it some more chances, because I feel like I'm just not "getting it" yet.

Ah, the Journey Collector's Edition. I haven't played Flow yet, but Journey was a beautiful and weirdly uplifting spot of interestingness. And THE ADVENTURES OF ANGRY PETAL SNAKE is... well, I'm not going to call it the best thing ever, but it's substantially more fun than it has any right to be.

The Last of Us. Ah, it didn't feel right buying a PS3 without buying this. I'm not terribly far into it, and my first impressions are... it's okay. Production values are through the roof, but the gameplay simply isn't doing a very good job of drawing me in yet, even if it's clearly very carefully-designed. It feels like it might go in good directions, but it certainly hasn't opened its wings yet.

Final Fantasy: Fanbase Firestorm Edition. My first FF game, and something I bought in an odd decision-making process. I'd watched a Let's Play of it on Youtube, and been intrigued by all the NeoGAF rage. It was a curiosity buy where I didn't expect to actually like playing the game all that much.
But... against my expectations, I'm having quite a good time, and it's engaged me the most out of my new games. It's got issues, including weirdnesses with how/when gameplay mechanics are introduced, and some systems could use streamlining (or elimination; I'm looking at you, "item upgrading"). But the combat system can be diverse and upbeat if you try engage with it, the storytelling is a lot more interesting than people give it credit for (even if it feels like it's been struck by some weirdness and development hell), and it's easily among the most gorgeous games I've ever played.
Thought I'd dislike it, am currently quite liking it despite some rough edges.

Outside of that, Halo 4 Ricochet and also a few visits to the VMGS to check out the Oculus Rift as well as attend the "Learn how to DOTA" event.

Not sure I'm going to get into DOTA but I definitely appreciate being able to watch it and to know what's going on now.

The rift was amazing. Super excited that Sony is looking into VR for PS4.

Still fumbling my way through Red Dead Redemption - I am REALLY bad at this game. I rode into a river and both my horse and I exploded into death. It was unfortunate.

I recently played Shelter which I LOVED. Such a gorgeous game. It's very relaxing, up until the eagle. And the Thing In The Dark stole two of my cubs in my current playthrough so I have a bit of a vendetta against the second level. I'm tempted to buy the full Papers Please game too since the demo was so much fun.

Still enjoying Minecraft with the xbox and chasing after the railroad achievement.

And still stuck somewhere in Monkey Island.

Started play Persona 4 Arena today.
Have had it for a while, but couldn't find my arcade stick, so I held off really playing it.

Fun stuff, for a Persona fan anyway.

Sunset Riders Arcade. Finally got my 1CC.

Lots of Forza 4. Only a couple of months until Forza 5, so I'm trying to tune up and use a bunch of the cars that I've owned for a while but never drove much (mostly because I didn't have them tuned, or had tuned them poorly). I kind of feel bad because there are some cars I got when the game first came out, and I've just never used them at all. I'm also trying to get the "bucket list" achievement for winning every event in the career mode. I am nearly done tuning all my cars now, so I should be making progress on the bucket list soon!

I'm also getting back into ME3 multiplayer a bit. Lotsa bugs and some irritating control issues, but when it works the core combat in that game is among the most satisfying things I've ever played.

Just Cause 2. My roommate has owned this game on PS3 for some time, and I've played it a bunch there, but recently decided I wanted to have the achievements on my XBL profile to advertise my enthusiasm for the game. And I also wanted to buy it, to pay the developers for all the fun I've had with their game. So, I bought it from GoD. I have to say, if you've never tried it, give it a shot. Gameplay-wise, naturally some will like it and some won't, though I personally find it very enjoyable. But I think everyone should see it at least once, just to appreciate the technical achievement. The sheer scale of the place is beyond anything else I've played (well, except Eve online, but that's mostly just empty space).

I wish I was still playing BL2. It's just that I worked so hard to get all the right items so my characters would play just the way I wanted them, and now I'm being asked to pay money so that I can have to do that all over again with 6 characters, just to get them back where they were at before. Argh. I do wish that I could play the new raid without that requirement, because it sounds fun. And I wouldn't mind the extra skill points.

I finally finished Assassin's Creed 3 and Far Cry 3 (both fantastic), and picked up the new Splinter Cell. It's much, much better than I expected. Granted, I loved Conviction where most people didn't. I really do pine for a return to the gameplay of Chaos Theory (still one of my favorite games of all time), and I miss Michael Ironside as Sam, but I guess the franchise has really moved on from that. While it's possible to Ghost every level (I'm only a few missions in, so I guess I don't know that), I feel like it's still missing something that Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory got so right.

But I also picked up Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, and holy crap, it's amazing. The art design is absolutely gorgeous. I am completely enthralled. The gameplay is just fantastic and pretty refreshing. If you're an RPG fan and own a PS3, you're doing yourself a disservice by not owning this game. It's just great in pretty much every way.

Other than that, I'm debating picking up GTA V tomorrow, but I think I'm going to pass for a while. I'm getting ready to drop $1500 for a new gaming PC, I've got an Xbox One pre-ordered, and with Splinter Cell and Ni No Kuni, I just don't foresee having much time to play it. Eventually I'll get it, fingers crossed for a PC version at some point, I guess.

it feels right.