At the start of last year and every other year since 2009 I've had this plan that I was going to play through all of Telltale's games, I bought the bundle on Steam in 2009 and I keep buying their games when they go on sale for no particular reason, I always get one episode or less done then I can't stand it anymore and the dream dies.

Now after finishing the Walking Dead, my resolve to complete this foolish quest is stronger, I finished episode 2 of Strongbad last night, and I'll be goddamned if it wasn't the worst game I've ever played. I've never seen the source material and surely much of my hate for this game stems from that, but that is not all of it, all throughout the Bone series and the first 2 Strongbad's, the puzzles defy logic, everything seems more based on trial and error than any sort of reason or problem solving skill. How is that any fun? it's like playing a shooter and not knowing where to fire, just shoot at everything until you win, terrible story and terrible game design, what else do you have? control, ya, that's Telltales strong suit...

Why am I writing this? HOW THE HELL did this game get mostly positive reviews? Ryan gave it a 3/5 and every single user review here was 3/5 - 4/5, when you compare that to the standards that we all have now, 4 years later, it's completely insane, how did standards change so much? It's not like in 2008 games were bad and It's not the case that games coming out now are so much better, so what are we left with? Change in what we expect, there are seriously people that gave The Walking Dead, Assassin's Creed III, and Mass Effect 3 1/5, I know it's stupid to compare and argue about review scores but if you have people that are so out of touch you may just as well do away with scores all together because they clearly aren't serving any useful purpose.

Please tell me these Telltale Games games get better soon...

It seems the older I get the more passwords I have to remember; between work and personal I'm at about 45 that I use on at least a monthly basis.

Now for the rant; it really pisses me off that every single place you go now seems to be developing different and more complex password standards; and on top of that the most idiotic places often have the most requirements; my gas card online statement requires capitals, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and it has to be changed every 90 days, you know what someone could do if they figured out my password? look at my fucking gas purchases, that's it, who cares. Something Awful accounts are just as bad, 12 digits, letters, numbers, blah blah blah. Most of the people I know have started writing down their passwords and leaving them at their desks, SECURITY HELL YEAH! I can't wait for that day I can go to Bestbuy and get Iris scanner 3000 for all my security needs.

I've had my same bank pin for 25 years, maybe I should change that...

I've seen everything that Steam Greenlight has to offer, here are they are

The Best: Routine; survival horror based on 80's sci-fi, easily the best graphics and trailer out of everything up so far, day one buy for me.

Incredipede; Grow as many legs as you need! Looks a bit like World of Goo, but that's not a bad thing.

Other games that look promising:

Submerge underwater 16 player RTS

Pitiri 1977 RPG/platformer set in the 70s

Neocolonialism Destroy the earth in the most boring way possible, count me in; seriously.

Mcpixel everyone here should know this game, get it on Steam!

Octodad ...

There were a few games that I'm hopeful for, but they could easily go either way:

Kenshi An open ended, open world, sandbox RPG; sounds alot like a single player Star Wars: Galaxies - An Empire Divided which could be great or really bad.

Saturday Morning RPG hands down the best concept in the whole greenlight catalog, best concept I've heard in awhile in general, but the art is god awful in the game as it is, the whole game looks really rough, hope they don't rush this, it could be great.

Pro Wrestling X: Uprising again, this game looks really rough and I'm not really a wrestling fan, but the guy says he's trying to make it like the classic N64 wresting games and those were just good games period.

In Verbus Virtus completely voice controlled game, probably going to suck, but it's definitely something new on PC anyway. Graphics look to be pretty good quality and stylewise.

Project Zomboid Zombie sandbox, overhead perspective, looks interesting, pure survival. I think this is the highest rated game in greenlight now at 5%.

Now for the worst:

La guerre des galaxie MS paint / cut and paste your way to a game.

I bought about 75 games on steam through the xmas sale and other must haves like Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age. 
 
Between all those and WoW wrapping up (finally) I'll be busy for most of 2010; at least until SWToR comes out...