FiendishDude

This is making me sad and nostalgic, but it's good news for Vinny and the site as a whole, right? Best of luck to you, Vinny. This new future is exciting and terrifying, but we'll all adjust. I'm thinking the Bombcasts are gonna have to start implementing a Skype/Google Hangouts solution though. It's not as good as having everyone together in a room, but we all need to continue getting updates on Small Business Man. And getting Patrick and Alex on more often would be most welcome. Wishful thinking? :/ I hope not.

A good point. Though I'm starting to warm to the idea of this game, that is a pretty daunting obstacle for them to overcome. Normally shooters get around their dumb AI by just making them invincible. If they're going to put an emphasis on permadeath in a 3rd person shooter, their AI needs to be really reliable. Only time will tell, but the continual delays don't do much for my optimism.

Agreed. I'm still very skeptical of the next Xbox, and not just because of the rumors. The direction Microsoft has been headed for the last 2-3 years has not made me really excited to buy new hardware from them. And I'm certainly gonna wait to make sure the hardware isn't a mess out of the box like the 360 was. I'd rather not go through 5 Durangos...

I feel like the main staff just don't always express their opinions super well because they tend to agree so often. They all seem to be on the same page a lot of the time, so they don't always have reason to articulate all of their points in fine detail. I'm talking about on the podcast though. In their writing I don't really find that to be an issue.

There's something to be said for that, I think. Personally though, I'm ready to be done with it. I've long since given up on playing Nintendo games because of platform exclusivity. It just gets too costly to justify owning every platform. I'd prefer to do 90% of my gaming on my PC from here on out, if I can.

And yeah, of course I said "impracticably" in my question. That is something I would do...