What I would do is download all that stuff again, just to be safe. It can't be more terrible than moving your account to a different system and having to d/l your Rock Band content again.. That was at least 8 levels of hell.

Yeah, xbox.com always defaults to the US version if you're in Canada. There's an international link near the upper left corner, click that and then choose your country. It should let you register then, it did me.

It should use the organic brains of recently-dead scientists.

To hear the stories that are in the games as well as to experience something that would be otherwise out of my realm of enjoyment. Anymore, I play no more than two hours a day, just because I've been depressed and don't motivate myself enough to play.muthsera666

@muthsera666

When I get depressed I usually play co-operative stuff with a consistant person, it cheers me up because it's team-work. Would you like to go through Gears? I've been meaning to pick that one up for a while.

I will only trade in games that I've had for a long time and only really played once or twice. Yep, I have a stack of those waiting to get traded in for xmas presents.

Recently I've been buying off of Steam a lot, they have great deals on great games almost every weekend. The last game I bought was the Overlord pack and I'm very happy with it, sooooo cheeeeeap. I usually buy non-pc games used from a franchise called GameShack, which has the best prices for used games in Toronto. I'll never, ever buy used hardware again, though. Best Buy for controllers and systems.

Virtual reality is probably going to become a closer and closer reality as you can easily glean from the Wii and Project Natal. I don't know if it'll ever realistically be a stand-up-and-walk-around open VR like the holodeck, at least as a home console, but I'd be very comfortable with a retinal scan, full enclosure view where you sit with a controller in hand or attached to you somehow and you're sitting on your comfy couch. That would make games like GTA and FPS very cool, I think. But that's to say nothing of the actual content of games that will be coming out..

There will forever be slick looking, violent action games. Right now they are generally FPS, they used to be 3d Action-Adventure, before that they were 2d side-scrolling platformers. I can't predict the next incarnation of them but FPS makes a lot of people motion sick, so that's probably going to have a limited if extended run.

The thing that I see in the near future is accessibility. Making games accessible to most demographics. That's what Nintendo is successfully working on right now and by the next gen I think it will be realistically implemented, but probably only by Nintendo. Sony got a little strange with PS3 so it's harder for me to make predictions about the company's future since they have already gone in a direction I though was completely unexpected. Microsoft is hitting all the right buttons, so to speak. They found the Contra Code of gaming industry. Microsoft is the future of gaming in a realistic and short-term way, maybe even long term if they work on their family accessibility and Project Natal works out well.

The future is good, but the old days were golden. Let us destroy this civilized mainframe and jump from platform to platform again. My feet are my only weapon.

Mega Man 2 and X are my favourites, equally. I dunno how do judge them so one comes out on top.

I likesd MM1 and 3, X2 as well, but the rest of the series' came up short IMO.

@Heirren

OMG, I totally forgot about my Tiger handhelds. I had Double Dragon, Simon's Quest, and Space Harrier.

Geez, I've had a lot of systems. I'll start at the beginning, I suppose.

Atari 2600: I loved Pacman (yeah it was a really bad incarnation of the game but I loved it anyway,) California Games, and Ghostbusters

PC: Yep, I've had PCs for a very long time, and I still can't get them to work. My favourite PC game to date remains Doom.

NES: My favourite game when I was young was Wizards and Warriors, hands down. I also really liked Micro Machines and SMB1 and 3. When I got older I discovered Lolo, Lifeforce, and FF1 and was lost for months.

Gameboy: With classic green on slightly lighter shade of green screen! Tetris was by far the best game ever released for the gameboy, though I did like Daedalien Opus as well.

Genesis: I played a lot of Sonic those days, because the other games I had were MK3 and an rts game called Tyrants, neither of which I liked a great deal.

PS1: I fell in love with gaming again with this system, discovered RPGs for really the first time and was a fresh-faced teenager. I had basically all of the games I wanted at one point due to working at a VG reselling place. It was the time of my life, really. The games I loved were FF7 and 9, 8 was a little hard for me to get into. Street Fighter Alpha 3, that 3d arena fighter square released, I forget it's name, Tomb Raider I (IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM,) Bust A Move 4, Discworld, and way more. PS1 forever.

GBA: There were a lot of good games for this but nothing I could really call my favourite. I played Metal Slug the most.

SNES: Yep, late on the bandwagon with this one, but Crono Trigger and Super Mario World were my favourite games.

PS2: Dragon Quest 8 and Dark Cloud 1 were my favourites on this platform, though there were lots I liked a lot as well. Dark Cloud 2 seemed like there was too much to do and that I'd never finish it, so I never did lol. I also didn't like the protagonist's gait. He looked like he had wooden legs or something.

Gamecube: Ikaruga again, also I was always current on Mario Party in those days. Skies of Arcadia was really neat as well.

Dreamcast: Again, late. Ikaruga and Sexy Parodius were my favourites.

That's it for the old gens, keep gaming!