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@isomeri: I can say that install times for my PS4 are typically faster than on my Xbox One. Dead Rising 3 took well over 2 hours to full install day after Christmas.

1. Monster
2. Grave of the Fireflies
3. Cowboy Bebop (some silliness)
4. Samurai Champloo (some silliness)
5. Ergo Proxy
6. Ghost in the Shell anything
7. Hellsing Ultimate OVA (avoid the original Hellsing anime imo)
8. Black Lagoon
9. Darker than Black
10. Berserk (maybe go for the newer films, but you lose some character development for side characters. Like the movies, watch the show)

There are a few others as well.

@demoskinos: After 29 years of gaming (OK, 25) I have yet to scratch or break a disc/cartridge/floppy/etyc. If someone scratches a Blu-Ray they deserve to not have that game anymore :D The only way I can see a BD getting scratched, outside of a person near-trying to scratch one, is a system scratching the disc.

@isomeri Digital versions of games on XBL and PSN are very rarely ever cheaper than in a brick and mortar store. Steam is an exception but, as I said in a previous comment, you can't really get PC games are readily in stores anymore so that is a moot point.

Could be cool. Hopefully its better than Elysium as I thought that movie wasn't worth the price of admission or a rental. Elysium got too muddy with its cliche "class warfare" rhetoric. This doesn't seem to be going that wrote, but hopefully the storytelling is better. So far I am interested.

@kittiah: Will do! Same here: Sammo21 on PSN

@isomeri: Not so much because retail shifted away from most physical media in the form of PC sales. My Best Buy has a few and I think my local Gamestop has a single 12 inch shelf for physical PC games. Me buying digital primarily was forced more than anything. I've adjusted my PC purchases accordingly. I purchased 1 physical PC game in the last 2 years and that was the Warlords of Draenor expansion special edition for my wife. Selling PC games prior to the more digital trend was still tricky in some cases because of needing to register serial keys. Sometimes it was an issue, sometimes it was not. With PC games predominantly being digital it has become a non-issue no matter what I would like to do.

@wolfgame: My God, I didn't know people had such apocalyptic visions for 2015. I'd pay extra money to see Dan's dad play with them...

This is an old debate/topic, but its still one worth having: Is an all digital future necessary and should be it expected? This came to mind recently with me getting an Xbox One. The system came with download codes for 2 titles: Assassins Creed: Unity and Assassins Creed: Black Flag. One of these games I played already on the PS4 and the other I had no real intention of playing ever.

Needless to say, my sweet wife thought she would be nice and install AC:U while I was work so I could play it when I got home. I didn't tell her that I had no intention of playing it and she was only trying to be nice, so whatever. However, if the system came with a disc copy of either game I could just take it to Gamestop and sell it, even if I did bother to play it for however many hours. I know this scenario isn't preferable to game developers and publishers, but considering I can sell/buy used most things in my life I don't think games should be any different.

Now, 99% of my PC games are digital purchases but I also tend to only buy super cheap games on the PC or ones that I am pretty well aware of keeping long term (like a WoW expansion), so the thought of reselling a PC game has never been that big a deal to me. That being said I still get annoyed at the thought of consoles going "all digital"...if I want to sell my game to Gamestop, or a friend, for a crappy price that's my prerogative.

Am I an old man at the ripe age of 29? I know some people take the stance of "I never get rid of games", but plenty of us do. I keep most games, but there are those that I have no interest in keeping. For example, I platinumed Infamous: Second Son and there is no reason to go back to that game, especially since the developer insists on creating stand alone "expansions". Just curious what the "temperature" of the community was on selling games in the context of an impending "all digital future".

Just read Hell House for the 5th time. I think that's the best "Haunted house" book I've ever read. The original film is also on Netflix, so I'm gonna watch that again. I hope they go for that one, but I'm sure they won't. I have a feeling they might do another Crichton book, maybe Jurassic Park with Jurassic World coming around the corner.

Richard Matheson is such an amazing author. Still ticked they bastardized I Am Legend with that crap Will Smith film...

@lunnington: Toxic might well have been 2014's most overused word on social media and in commentary. I hope we're not continuing the trend in 2015. Nothing in this discussion has been toxic. The closest would be wondering why they have two running Patreons for the same content and that's just good questioning.