Likewise, I find what you said very interesting but my experience with Bioshock is very fragmented and far far from complete so I can't relate to what you say (and even then I don't have the same experiences as you growing up so wouldn't necessarily make all the associations and deeper meanings).  Whatever experiences I've had with games trying to deal with mature issues I came away feeling that either because the gaming industry is still very young, or because the medium is still limited by technology or by its interactive nature, or perhaps most probably ... because all the best and most competent writers are already working in the film industry or writing books so gaming mostly has to make do with second tier writers...

Anyway, whatever the reason, in my limited experience adult issues in games seem hamfisted and forced and come across ultimately shallow.  For this reason (and probably even more importantly because I largely use gaming for escapism and relaxation) I prefer to eat magic mushrooms, rescue princeses, explore distant planets and weird new alien life forms, fight robots, fight spaceships, fight dragons, fight demons ... be robots, be spaceships, be dragons, be demons ... rather than worry too much about right or wrong or the meaning of it all with controller in hand.

Still one thing I do take, is that I must put proper time and pay proper attention into the Bioshock series.

Finished Kirby's Dreamcourse today. Teenage Robio would be proud right now. I had a rather difficult time with this game back then, though I think I attribute that more to not really understanding the controls more than anything else. Anyway, another game from the days of yore that I couldn't complete now has a checkmark next to it. It also made me think that between the tilt and touch screen features, this game would a prime candidate for a remake or sequel on either/both the 3DS and Wii U.

I am playing Uncharted 3 right now too, and, at least for me, it's pretty apparent Naughty Dog just threw together the game pretty quickly. It's very much by the numbers. It actually has many of the features they have been touting as "New" for The Last of Us. Drake's reaction to the environment -- How he puts his hand out when he gets close to a wall or when he rounds a corner... it's contextual movement, JUST like in TLoU. How he fights ALSO evolved into TLoU's battle system. Countering and punching enemies near objects will USE those objects against foes...

It's clear TLoU uses an advanced Uncharted engine. The game has been in development for years though... They needed SOMETHING as a stop-gap AND to fund TLoU's development... They probably made Uncharted 2, started to make TLoU, refining the engine in the process, realized it was going to take longer than they thought, made U3 out of the newly developed assets and then continued to plug away at TLoU.

Even a "bad" Uncharted game is better than most, but I --CANNOT-- wait to see what Naughty Dog --REALLY-- has in store for us come June 14th!

edgecrusher said:

Edge's Finished Games of 2013:

Updated with Evil...

Finished Luigi's Mansion 2.  I really enjoyed it for the most part.  Great Nintendo games have that certain hard to define quality which you don't find elsewhere.  I think this is one such game.  I loved the original on the gamecube and this is just a more fleshed out game along the same basic premise.  It has nice clever puzzles, a good variety of levels and a handful of bosses most of which are fun to fight and very different from each other.  The game is quite hefty, especially compared to the original LM on GC.  The mission structure is nice as it makes the game a bit more focussed but it's slightly annoying not to have the option to save during a mission is a little annoying as some of the missions can feel slightly long and you can't play the game in short bursts.  There's a bunch of hidden things to find which offer some incentive towards replaying certain missions, like some hidden gems, or a Boo in each level.  And when you find all the Boos in any of the "mansions" you open an additional level.  You also get a rating on how well you perform on a level but that's probably the worst of all the reasons for replaying.

I haven't tried the multiplayer.  I've read that it's a lot of fun but I'm not a very multi-player minded gamer.  And probably not too many people are playing this online now as it's been a couple of months or something since it was released.

phantom_leo said:

Updated with State of Decay!

I want a review.

phantom_leo said:

Maybe. If I can find the time!

This is what my girlfriend says when I want a blow job.

Updated my list with Game & Wario. Technically you can't really beat it (though they do kind of give you an ending after you unlock all the games), but I've unlocked every game and all the game variants so I'll go ahead and put it down. Overall a decent mini-game collection. Not an all-time classic by any means, but for the discounted price it's worth it and a few games really show off the Wii U pad's potential. Now if some skilled development team would just pay attention and notice it. Anyway solid 7.

Ravenprose said:

Updated. I just finished Catherine. Awesome game!

I thought that game was impossible to play.  You dug it though?

Two weeks 'till Saint's Row, had better pick my next game wisely (just beat Bastion).

edgecrusher said:

Edge's Finished Games of 2013:

Updated with Pikmin 3.