Video Games? [View all]

Anybody like/play video games?

I know it's a topic that people who DON'T play video games like to opine an awful lot about, sort of like how the most outspoken "experts" on shows like Game Of Thrones or Mad Men often seem to be folks who also say "I Just can't bring myself to actually WATCH it... (but I know it's TERRIBLE! )"

I spent the past couple months on Mass Effect 3.. Yes, I know, the ending. The ending. Erg. But leaving aside the ending for a moment, the franchise itself points up many of the positive (and oft-overlooked by the self-appointed media critic crowd) and frankly innovative and really revolutionary technological, media, and cultural trends in videogaming. Groundbreaking, interactive, narrative storytelling. Things like multi-gender multi-orientation romance options (in Mass Effect, for instance, the player can be either male or female and, if so chooses, enter into M/M, M/F or F/F romantic involvements in the story, sort of poking a big blarting hole in the "Teh gamers are all homophobic 14 year old Beavis and Butthead types" balloon) .... it's a new art form, and an exciting one to boot.

So... thoughts? Comments? What are you guys playing, if anything? And on what?

I love the XBOX 360. Never fail to be astounded that a machine built in 2005 or whenever still manages to be relevant and cutting edge.