Also...

...I bought Bayonetta 2 the day it was released and nearly a week later, a boxed Dreamcast broadband adapter... And if I'm not playing Legend of Grimrock II at home, I'm playing Bravely Default on the go.

Can't Stop

Seriously, I can't stop playing Legend of Grimrock II. Everything else is on hold when I'm at home. It's a really, really good game.

Savings!

So I bought a brand-new, $560 MSRP, factory-overclocked (1006/1059MHz, up from 863/900MHz) GeForce GTX 780 for $340, and it included $150 of free games - Three Splinter Cell games (Double Agent, Conviction, and Blacklist) and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. I literally just saved $370, or ~52%, off retail.

Spendin' Money

I want to buy Bayonetta 2 and Hyrule Warriors, mostly because I want to support the Wii U... The thing is, they're both selling at a premium price ($65 here in Canada) and I don't actually enjoy those styles of action game. For example, while I haven't finished any of them, I've played every Devil May Cry game, and they're just so silly, thumb-cramp-inducing, and drawn-out in their combat. DmC was probably my favourite, and I quickly sold my copies of the first three... That's probably blasphemy... Also, Otogi was cool... Ninja Gaiden kinda blows... God of War is more my pace when it comes to that genre ;) Same goes for the whole Dynasty Warriors/N3/whatever style; I always got too bored before too long to bother sticking around.

D'ah well.

Have I ever mentioned that I loved S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, bugs 'n all? Did I mention that Clear Sky almost turned me off the whole genre completely and I'm afraid to touch Call of Pripyat? Or how I initially thought Metro 2033 was much more similar to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. than it actually is? No? Huh. Well... Yeah. Finally got around to Metro (not Redux), and it's kinda exactly what I've been itching for. Despite being really rough around the edges, it's still just a fun, atmospheric, story-driven FPS that's neither too easy nor too unforgiving. I'm kinda upset that I waited so long to play it, but also really looking forward to Last Light all of a sudden :)

Ooh! Also! GeForce 780s've been slashed to, like, $300! Video card upgrade time! I'm looking at the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 780 AMP! Edition 'cause it's regularly, like, $560. I'm still really happy with my Radeon HD 5850, but I've got a good home for that one, too.

No, I don't gotta...

I played the first Pokémon game when it was released, and I found it to be simplistic, but solid. I didn't really play another title in the series until X/Y... Which are kinda awful. I was expecting them to be slick, streamlined, and kinda perfect by now; instead I found a confused mess of a game designed to literally waste time. I get it; you gotta keep those kids occupied, so make the messages, menus, and prompts as slow and convoluted as possible; but man, when there's like 750 monsters to catch and a number of incredibly deep subsystems to manage, it all just feels to brutally inefficient.

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is pretty cool though, I guess.