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I don't know why, but that game sticks in my memory. The rain, the atmosphere, the desperate struggle to find what happened to your fellow ODSTs. Everything has gone FUBAR and you're in an enemy occupied city. It has a more realistic, intimate feel to it. The first Halo Graphic Novel had some stories along this line taking the perspective of the citizens experiencing the alien invasion. I think it's a missed opportunity in the Halo universe. Bungie could've done a spin-off series of smaller games from the perspective of the average soldier or citizens. I'd love to see some of that and get away from the super soldier stuff from time to time. 

     I know people, mostly older people who grew up on that new thing television, that watch it all the time. They even go to sleep in front of the TV. No one thinks that's abnormal or calls them TOOBERS or something; although, maybe they did in the fifties or sixites when TV was still pretty new. Gaming has only hit the mainstream in a big way this last generation. It was a fad in the eighties, then a thing kids did in the nineties, then a thing you did after school with your high school/college buddies, and now it's something you live with. It's everwhere, in everything. Pretty soon, no one will even notice that you game, it will be assumed and the term GAMER will become a thing of memory.

   This reminds me of something I heard once about technology, how it starts as a novelty, then something a niche audience uses, then it becomes unbiquitous and no one notices it anymore. It's taken for granted and assumed in every situation. I think this might be happening with video gaming; although, I still feel a little bit the outsider for being into it so much.

That last photo is how I feel right now. Also, I think Rangergirl here at Pixlbit was thinking of getting a 2DS too. I'd like to hear a review of it.

Yea, it has a second disc with all the multiplayer maps for Halo 3. BONUS! ODST is dark like it's supposed to be all film noir and such, but it's not really scary unless Unggoy or Kig-Yar scare you. But I guess anything is scary when it pops out of the dark and tries to kill you. I'm kinda on the fence about it being Halloween worthy.

Just put it on my Netflix cue. Adam Scott is in it too! I just saw him in Party Down. Loved that show.

I didn't know there was a 4 disc game for the PS1 and full of FMV too.

The sound on the 3DS is what struck me first. Especially on headphones.

Ah, I love Amy Poehler. But I've never seen this show.

Ha. I love horror trailers. Thanks for that.

TCGR: Shadow Wars is a turn-based strategy game directed by Juian Gallop. He did the first and third X-COM games back in the ninties and it shows. Everything is done to perfection. It's $10 right now at Gamestop. Totally worth it.