@pook99: People are negative on the forums because they don't feel like their opinion is heard (or that people care) in the real world. It's a call for attention. If people need attention to validate or empower themselves in the real world - I say let then have at it. It makes them less miserable to deal with in the analog world. From my perspective I just recognize it for what it is and move on.

@ojmstr: I've been a console gamer pretty well exclusively since the PS1. I bit the bullet and went for a PC late last year when my kids convinced me that buying a good PC for not much more than the price of the 2 consoles at launch was a better call. Look - aside from the fact that the performance is better and there's a whole freaking world of mods out there that are awesome - I buy games at launch for 25% off through places like GMG. Don't know how they do it - but I'm not complaining. The Alienware X51 that we bought is also smaller and quieter than the XBone - though I gotta admit the PS4 looks slick. Bloodborne - let's arrange for some co-op in February ;)

@ojmstr: sounds like you haven't played on a PC in a while. No controller issues for any console style game - Xbox 360 works fine and so does the PS3, PS4 and Xbox One controller. Personally I prefer the 360 controller and a wireless receiver. You can even connect up to four controllers to it and play couch co-op games like Castle Crashers and the like. I have the PC connected to a tv in the living room and frankly I think you get the best of both worlds plus 1080p 60 on nearly every game. Sure there's some occasional tweaking that propeller heads might do but I just let Nvidia optimize my games and settings for me. I see no reason to buy either console right now - but come Bloodborne time in February I think I'm going to cave in and pick up a PS4 - and late next year around the time of Halo 5 I'll probably pick up one of those too.

@speedfreak48t5p:

Played Destiny for god knows how many hours before I gave up in frustration and boredom at level 25 or so. I'm done there for now - love the gameplay but will wait for DLC or for something new to drop. Can't believe they didn't add match making to the weekly strikes and raids. Not much else though DS2 has me for now. Would love a good story based FPS but don't see on the horizon right now...

It was good to go back on this old thread though Lulu. Since then I rediscovered Dark Souls 2 and it's taken over my life... but in a good way ;) I finished the game (finally!) and given that I bought both DeS and DS at launch and failed at both - I was pretty proud of myself. I'm now through an NG+ play through, I'm PvPing on the bridge, I'm working through the DLC, I'm watching lore videos on YouTube and The Dark Souls 2 podcasts - WHAT HAVE I DONE? A simply amazing game - easily my game of the year so far. Next up is DA3. Fingers crossed on that one.

@mastermetal777: Terrific - you can join via Bungie.Net - click on Clans and search for The Fallen Chiefs.

It more might be the genre, I wasn't a fan of Okami either. It's essentially a puzzle solving platformer with action elements - which sounds awesome - but I find the puzzles unintuitive (maybe I'm not smart enough or I've lost too many brain cells over the years), the platform parts frustrating and the action parts repetitive. To be honest, I think that if I could stick with it for 10+ hours to level up and to get some great loot that I'd get into it, but I can't make it that far without forcing myself to... and who wants to be forced to do something that's supposed to be entertaining? I love the 3DS in general though, probably my favorite platform at the moment.