ThunderPeel2001

If you don't get it after all I've explained, then fair enough. It's still a big deal.

This isn't a big deal at all. We have similar things here in the UK and it doesn't make any discernible difference. For a start, I believe it's only applicable to "proper" games, not indie games -- unless the indie game does something silly like feature extreme violence (and I don't mean Hotline Miami) or nudity. And we even go further and ban certain games here -- but I think the only game I can't buy in an uncut form is Manhunter 2 -- although if I REALLY wanted it, I'm sure I could get it. The main reason for it is so that parents can get an idea if a game is suitable for their youngun's. The average parents don't know their Call of Duties from their Band Camps, so it just makes it easier for them to make quick decisions. In all: This wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to you, and I don't see how it equates to censorship except in the most tangential sense.

Aye. Movies, sir. (Also, LA Noire would make use of the Blu-ray capacity... although it's not worth the effort of everyone involved.)

Yep, it's used sometimes on Blu-rays, which is good for MS but I understand it was pretty much the agreed upon standard for HD-DVDs.

Damn. HTML5!

Hmm. I'd take a flying car over a smart phone, I think (You know they predicted iPads in 2001: A Space Odyssey?) It's an interesting point about how interconnectiveness has changed our day-to-day lives, though. I'm still not hugely convinced it's a massive step forward, however technically impressive. I guess I have Luddite tendencies

Eh? If the PS1 was actually powerful enough to decode DVDs (and I suspect it wasn't) then it would still require a separate disc to turn into a DVD player. Secondly, DVDs were still pretty new when the PS2 came out, and players were still pretty expensive. Thirdly, it's only NOW that we've discovered Durango will have a BD player -- if MS knew they were finally going to give in and admit defeat to Sony, then why not do it sooner? One of the main selling points of the PS3 over the 360 is that it also doubles as a Bluray player (indeed, that's part of the reason why I ended up buying one myself). If MS are finally going to swallow their pride after trying to kill Blu-rays for so long, they may as well have just released a software update and started selling a Blu-ray add-on, so that people like me wouldn't buy a PS3! (They could probably sell one for $60 and still make a very tasty profit, too.) PS - You know there was HD-DVD drive add-on, right? The only reason there wasn't a Blu-ray one was because MS wanted Toshiba to win the format wars (because HD-DVDs used their codec, and as everything is going online, they wanted their codec to become industry standard).

? To make money. That's the usual reason for selling things!

Well I good go for a reboot if it offered all the great stuff of the original.

No, no, no. MI1 is the best, followed by MI3, followed by MI2, followed by Tales. (MI4 doesn't exist.) MI2, while amusing and brilliant, had some terrible puzzles and felt majorly unfinished towards the end. MI3 was a very satisfying game to play. MI1 was just the most charming and original of the lot -- but not the awful SE version. The End.

Bluray drive..? Really? Why don't they release a BD add-on for the 360 then?

Such as...?

Good man.

I didn't know he was a guest on Shooting Stars...!

Fun fact: Your Sinclair's David McCandless is the same David McCandless behind Information is Beautiful. (Mind blown!)

You never 100%ed Super Mario World? That game was amazing!

Skip Maniac Mansion, it's too frustrating to begin with. Monkey Island is very well designed and amusing. Start with that.

Oh man! Another retro remake -- sweet! I loved Flashback. I completed it so many times! I hope the animation is incredible.

Yep, the rest of the episode sort of made that clear. Yikes! That was a crazy cliff hanger. Can't wait to see where it leads. Another good episode!

Can someone explain something to me... I'm at the beginning of Episode 3. I decided to try and...

Can't forget the Daves I Know...

Ha! Makes me think of this one... Edit: Actually scratch that one. This one is better... There's so many sketches, they ran for five years, didn't they? That's a lot of Kids in the Hall!

I love Kids in the Hall -- so many sketches to choose from. This is pretty amusing, and in a similar vein to Mr Show: