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I like this thread better when we're making fun of Serebii. Helping. When we're helping Serebii.

It's one of four smaller games that were released together as one retail package in Japan. Releasing the games separately on the eShop definitely seems like the way to go.

I wouldn't say I have been following it per se - in fact, I know refreshingly little about it - but I am looking forward to it. If this and the new Hitman turn out to be good, it'll be a good fall/winter for stealth games!

I can't take Arrow seriously simply because I burst into uncontrollable laughter whenever someone says they hope it'll be as good as Smallville. Which probably isn't fair to the show, but The CW does seem to hope that this show will be the new Smallville!

The overarching story is pretty bad and you'll spend 99% of the game as a brand-new main character, so yeah, you'll be fine. If you think you'll have time to play some of the previous games, know that Revelations is nothing but filler and Brotherhood is filler except for the ending (the latter has great gameplay, though!). Actually, you could probably skip most of the first game too, so just play Assassin's Creed 2. That and Brotherhood are the best games in the series so far, anyway.

Even my mom didn't like the musical episode, and she loves The Bold and the Beautiful. :p TV shows where musical episodes don't work: 1) Serious late-night soaps about hospitals and life-or-death scenarios. It could at least have been fun if they'd written their own songs, but Shonda Rhimes wanted to use music from past episodes. Which just seems masturbatory, because what normal person is actually going to recognize where the music is from when the show's been on the air for seven years? Oh, hey! It's that one song from that one episode from four years ago! There's another equally ridiculous episode in season 8 (something to look forward to!), but at least that one doesn't have any singing.

Desmond is an assassin and the evil Templars kidnap him and force him to dive into his ancestors' memories to locate the Apples of Eden that are ~~magic~~ and can do stuff and the Templars think they're pretty rad but so do the assassins and everyone wants them and then Desmond escapes but he has to keep diving into his ancestors' memories because otherwise there would be no Assassin's Creed games and they keep searching for Apples of Eden and then Desmond gets to talk to the people from the future who tell him that only he can prevent the end of the world and stop the Templars and he has to go to North America because that's where the next game is set and everyone's secretly a Templar so Desmond had better watch his back and also Desmond used to be a bartender. There, now you're all caught up.

"OH MY GOD SUDDENLY THE LAST SIX YEARS MAKE SO MUCH SENSE." There, that would have saved us an entire episode.

And I'm thinking that 4 might be the awesome-looking Adam's Venture. Oh, and I just remembered a game about cleaning. Dustforce for number 2.

I'm thinking 3 might be Edge.

That was pretty much my reaction too. PUT YOUR SEAT BELT BACK ON DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT SHOW YOU'RE ON. This also leads into one of the worst ever episodes of Grey's Anatomy, so enjoy.

No worries, I'll just impo... Oh, right. Well, the first game didn't have any voices at all and the game was pretty niche to begin with so the kind of people who won't buy the game if it doesn't have English voices probably weren't going to buy the game anyway, but it's still frustrating to know we're missing out. Nintendo, you've done it again!

~~Nintendo~~? On the topic of DLC, I'm pretty much over it in general, but bite-sized DLC like the songs for Theatrhythm is really off-putting and ends up being way more expensive than bigger DLC packs if you want all/most of it.

I can't believe they've still only released a teaser for it.

1 is Syberia.

If you're asking if you'd get a lot more enjoyment out of playing it in co-op than on your own, then yes, definitely.

Sweet. I just played Bulletstorm last week. It's a good game to give away, though, since a lot of people seemed to skip it when it was released.

Why would they release a new edition of a game and not include the patches on the disc?

My condolences for ending up on 9GAG, Dan.

Well, at least he didn't pull it out!

Oh, is that what that's about? Someone I know posted "3.5 inches, 2 minutes" and I just assumed she was talking about sex.

This is from the PlayStation blog:

Happy birthday, gramps. Seriously, you're ooold. Old enough to be my older brother. My older, more handsome brother.

Did you put them in the trunk?