General Discussion

Kind of want round out my Steam collection w Left 4 Dead and Left 5 Dead.

Heard Magicka was great.

Totally right on PC owning being great, I'd Skyrim is well priced I'll pick it up too. I have yet to crack Skyrim to this point and I've heard the Steam Workshop and mods are great.

When does the sale start? Unless I am totally missing it, I haven't seen it happen yet.

Cool. Well if its the 28th then its a double feature because its also my birthday. Double awesome.

My first experience I remember... The one that sticks with me when I think about my first flip into video games is Super Mario Brothers. I went to an old ladies house that went to our church and she said she had something that her Grandkids played when they were in town on an old black and white TV called a Nintendo. She only had Super Mario Brothers and I flipped it on.

Mind blown/epic joypuke/addicted to the idea of owning one for the next few years. It was MANY years later we actually bought one but I can remember the magic of going into World 1-2 for the first time, the place getting dark and being blow out of my socks.

I have kinds of those moments now, but like they say, you can never go back.

Awesome article. Valve really seems to "get" that making the game great for your users involves being expert at things like economics. Especially when digital currency is being integrated much more into our games.

Plus getting an email like that from Gabe is awesome too.

I think it's a new thing they are looking into? Seems like they want to merge their games and do new stuff.

Next generation graphics are awesome. I am glad companies are pushing things one step forward because it adds to the immersion and can effect re playability and the like.

That said, for me games are not one and lost on graphics. Diablo 3 is beautiful but its not a machine melter like Crysis, a game ive never actually played. In fact, D3 can run on a Macbook, which is pretty cool considering they are powerful but not top of the line spec wise.

Rage might have been the prettiest modern game ive played and it added to the immersion for certain but the graphics didn't bring me back to it.

Anyways, I don't mean to say graphics are not awesome, they are. I am actually pretty interested in what the next XBox and Playstation will included to power the next gen console games. PC's are really impressive and my new Desktop looks pretty good when I turn the video settings up. When Borderlands 2 and other newer games ship I imagine they will really push PC's power to add +50 to the game beauty. All told, not a bad thing I just hope the increased budget allocated to the art and graphics doesn't take away from the game play and story.