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I think it devalues games in general. I like buying a game. It makes it feel substantial and valuable. With a service that offers up tons of games for a monthly fee, what's any one of them worth? Not much. They're throw away games.

I mean, I like getting a deal on a game as much as the next person, but when it gets to a kind of Netflix type service where you have everything for one low monthly fee, I like it at first, but then I lose interest, because I can watch anything anytime for almost nothing. The value of those things becomes almost nil and I go find something more rare to care about. Sounds kind of weird doesn't it, but my music listening and movie watching has kind of suffered from all-you-can-eat type buffet services. I just don't care anymore if I can have everything all the time. Nothing is special anymore.

I own Skyrim, just need to find the time. 

I really like the mods that effect the mood of the game through adjustments to lighting and the environment. That video highlighted character mods and funny stuff you can do there, but I like the ones you spotlighted in the previous Elder Scrolls Forge articles better.

About the closest I got to such games was playing a lot of PopCap games in the early 2000s. Insane Aquarium was a particular favorite.

I got a Xbox 360 for Oblivion when that came out, but I found that I tend to get lost in open world games. As much as I enjoyed Oblivion, I always had trouble completing the main quest lines 'cause I'd wander off and do my own thing. In a way, I didn't care because I always like to create my own story in these games. So, my experience of Oblivion led me to want to play Skyrim, but I had some reservations, so I still haven't played it; however, I feel like I've played it because I had daily conversations with a coworker about it. Skyrim was a phenomenon when it came out. I met so many people who were playing it. Now it's $5 on Xbox Live. It's truely the end of a generation.

So what about Elder Scrolls Forge? More content please. Here, I'll add some myself.

You can't go wrong with Arkham Asylum. What a great game! I got to 50% completion before a particular stealth segment sent me into a paralysis of frustration. I have pretty low patience for such things, but I'm working on that. I HAVE to go back and finish that game. The brawling is so well done and Paul Dini, writer on the Batman Animated TV series, wrote the game's story. It's fantastic!

The web spiders are the worst. They shoot out threads and grab you and pull you in no matter where you are, doing damage to you all the way to the web. Then they wrap you up. You can't stop it except by killing them.

Even though Wolfenstein's cut scenes, especially the Asylum one, got annoying to me after a while, I still sometimes let them play because they are really good even after the fifth or sixth viewing.

That being said, I would love it if I could nonstop run-and-gun through the whole game, despensing with said cutscenes and safehouse sequences.

I'll probably be reading the first Game of Thrones book soon just to see what all the fuss is about. Several of his books in that series are always in the NY Times best seller list every darn week.

I'm really thinking seriously about picking up a Wii-U. I want to play DKC Tropical Freeze soon.

My first choice is Disgaea Hour of Darkness because I have that game and want to play it myself, but I've played Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, and if you're a fan of shooters, you should play that because it's excellent.

That's what I'm trying to do. I'm going to stick to it until it stops being fun or next month's preorder arrives, which will be Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition on Aug. 19. I got three more weekends.

I was wondering about Xbox Live points cards. Are they done? Because if I get finished with the main game, I'll want to get the DLC for myself and my friend, who's not working right now. There's no way to gift stuff on Xbox Live, so I'd have to get him a points card. I'm going to look for one at Wegmans tonight.