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Some PC games are just optimized horribly, especially if they're multiplat. I found the Fault in our Stars a bit overrated. There was a bit of a craze around it in my school around when the movie came out, but I read the book and found it to be shallow, in that there's not much to read into. I guess that's what most YA books are like anyways. It's good for what it is, and it's a fun read.

I really loved the Hunger Games series, but I'm on Ch. 5 of Fault In Our Stars and this fake video game makes it seem like John Green hasn't paid attention to gaming since Duke Nukem became irrelevant. The way people talk in this book also seems off. It's too ... "written." Also, I'm almost a third of the way through and feel like a lot more has happened with the fictional books in this book than the book itself. But like the Augustus character, I'll reserve judgment until I finish. No spoilers, please. 

Honestly, I'm feeling a bit let down by this, since I loved the dark humor of chapter 1, which got me to buy the book. But maybe the fact I found Divergent's first chapter so generic will turn out to mean the rest of that book is great? We'll see, but I think I am done with YA for a while once I finish this one.

If it wasn't for some of the puzzles, Limbo would have easily entered in my favorites, but it's still an excellent game, especialy on the atmosphere and art.

I liked the ending honestly. From what i've seen, it's one of those endings that you have to give your own interpretation (marked spoilers coming). The most everyone seems to believe is that the boy and his sister (the girl at the end, which isn't a spoiler since the info for the game calls her the sister) died on a car crash (the window) and the boy is going exactly through Limbo and eventually gets to his sister, who I think just passed before. Another theory is that they had a treehouse accident, hence the derelict treehouse at the menu and credits.

Personally, I found it to be a simple all is a dream situation, maybe just showing he really loves her sister.

I really want to get Shovel Knight, but the current price doesn't convince me. I'm sure next year there'll be a reduction.

Yeah, I was wanting to get Shovel Knight for under $5, but given how long I've wanted to play it and the fact it came out this year, $10.04 seemed fair to me. I'll play it after Korra, or before if Korra decides not to work.

As for the spoilery bits in your comments, I kinda figured it was something like that, but I never read the game info and ... well, if I had known who certain characters were, MAYBE it would have more of an impact on me? But in the end, I love the art style and most of the game, but the story is kinda like "oh, neat." I like making my own interpretations, but here I don't have much to go on to make an interpretation. Oh well.

I saw Shovel KNight on sale tonight, but I'm sticking to my guns and not buying anything until next year.  Also, I'm thinking of titling my next year, "The Year of the Backlog", where I finally dent my steam games.  Hopefully.  

Well hey, you can always go wild on January 1 and 2, when the Winter Sale ends.

I bought Limbo on sale a while back.  I still need to play that game.  

It's good, just be ready for some precise timing in the puzzles.

I never could get into Limbo for some reason.

If you enjoy Shovel Knight, you should also look into getting Shantae and the Pirates' Curse.  It's available for 3DS and Wii U.  Not sure if it's on Steam, but at the rate these kinds of games go, it will be if it isn't already.  Anyway, it's a really cool SNES style 2-D platformer with cute characters.  I'm really into it right now.

Shantae's been on sale a while, but isn't it a GBA game? Might want to get it there. I don't own a 3DS or Wii U and I'm trying to cut down on Winter Sale spending. But it's there until Jan. 2, so we'll see. 

The first Shantae game was on Game Boy Color.  The sequel, Shantae: Risky's Revenge, was a DSiWare game but I think it was also ported to PC and tablets later.  The newest one, Shantae and the Pirates' Curse, is on 3DS and Wii U.

Yeah, it's Risky's Revenge that's on sale. I wouldn't be able to buy Pirates' Curse.

Well, they're all good.  I wouldn't be surprised if Pirates' Curse gets ported to the PC eventually.  And later there's a new Shantae game coming out called Half Genie Hero, too!  Yay!

The Legend of Korra was a fun game, I'm kind of hoping Nickelodeon lets Platinum make a game where it takes place during Books 3 and 4.

I wasn't feeling Limbo either, it has nice art style but I guess that I don't really have the patience for its puzzles.

Actually, Korra frustrated the living shit out of me, especially those timed counterattacks.

Limbo I liked overall.

I actually like the counter system, it was very Metal Gear Rising lite; where you only had press forward on the thumb stick and the counter button. In MGR, you had push the thumb stick in the direction of the incoming attacks.

I felt it really didn't give you a solid idea of when to time the attacks, and it seemed up in the air whether it would work most of the time.

I've still yet to beat Limbo. I just hope the ending isn't like the lame ending I got after I beat Journey AFTER PLAYING IT FOR TWO HOURS?!?!?!?!?!?!

Ummm ... I didn't think the ending was lame per se, but I wouldn't go in expecting a whole lot ...

Since I started up my PS+ membership I should finish Limbo, considering I'm on a mini roll with taking down games from Mount Backlog. Love the IGN Walkthroughs especially for some of the things I was stuck on in the Lego games.

I should check out Fault In Our Stars especially since I like Shailene Woodley. 

Fault in Our Stars was just ok as a book in my opinion. Might be a better movie. 

And Limbo is a good game, but Shovel Knigt is pure greatness, especially if you had any interest in NES action/platformer games.