Yep....that'll do it..

This is exactly why I don't run Folding@Home on my PS3. I need this bitch to work until the end of the generation. I can't buy three PS3's like I did PS2's, I'd go broke (or I'd have to stop buying school books)

Is that covered under warranty? I hope that doesn't happen to my PS3.

Kid 1: Hey Billy, what kind of games do you have on your phone?
Kid 2 (AKA Billy): Not much, my mom locked me out of all the good ones
Kid 1: We can still browse porn sites over 3G though right?
Kid 2: Absolutely
Kid 1: Awesome

The moral of the story? I can't sleep. The more you know.

@The Dark Wayne - Yeah, one of my only gripes is how I had to go back to the villa every ten minutes or so to collect my florins. It definitely breaks up the flow of the game when you can't buy anything because you don't want to trek all the way to a fast travel station, and then all the way up to your villa (why it doesn't teleport you closer to the villa, I'll never know) and back. It definitely has that Grand Theft Auto 4 mechanic to it as well, where you start a mission on one side of the map sometimes, and have to go all the way to the other side to complete it, but I enjoyed the city so it wasn't that much of a chore for me.

The crypts were easily my favorite part of the game. Just when the game could have gotten a bit monotonous, I'd come across a building with the assassin symbol, and the crypt would keep my interest in the game. Then there are the glyphs, which I had a hell of a time trying to finish (the later ones anyway). At 20 hours, I'm all out of what I'd call important story content. The beat em ups and the assassin missions (non-story ones) are all pretty generic, but they are such an afterthought that it is hard for me to penalize the game for that. I do penalize it for the elements that are easy to overlook (I had beaten the game before I realized that the trainer in front of the villa could teach you more attacks in exchange for money), but at least I didn't have that moment where the game was over and I realized that there was a run button or something (which has happened to me, sadly)

I hope the next one is set somewhere that isn't the future. The sci-fi element of the story almost kills the game for me, and it seems like they are leading up to a game set in either the future or the present.

@The Dark Wayne

I meant to say "most main story content". Fallout 3 definitely had a lot more, and I'm sure Dragon Age lays on the content pretty thick as well (though I haven't played it yet). Oblivion might not have been the best example, since it's story mode was relatively short, but I wasn't sure what other game to mention. Fallout 3 has a metric ton of content, but it's so inaccessible that I doubt most people ever got around to all of it. Maybe I should have said "most content in any game that isn't an RPG". Either way, I'm at 20+ hours and I've still got the messenger missions and the beat-em up missions to do.

It sucks a bit that the gamestop exclusive isn't worth the money. Is there some nice architecture to look at in the DLC pack? I guess I won't have to worry about it, since they announced the first two DLC packs, and neither includes the gamestop exclusive. I just hope "The Battle of Forli" is worth it.

Assassin's Creed 2 has the most content of any game since Oblivion. Yeah, maybe this content could have been on the disc (obviously they set the story up, because she says that you should return to Forli and have sex with her essentially) but who cares. They also could have put the Auditore crypt on the disc instead of making you unlock it via Uplay (it's awesome by the way. Spend your Uplay points on it first), or that pre-order bonus from Gamestop on the disc (I forget the name of the building, but it looks sweet. I hope it becomes regular DLC), but I think they've done more than enough.

I agree though, content that is on the disc should never be pay-to-unlock (unless it is a pre-order bonus). Since we can't prove that this content was on the disc though, there is no reason to get out our pitchforks.

Did you guys see how thin the Modern Warfare 2 manual is? The same goes for the Assassin's Creed 2 manual. It's like they are saving paper by giving you as little information in the manual (not that I RTFM) as possible. Cheap bastards.

I don't even want to imagine what that guy is going to fill 9TB's with.

wanted* dag nabbit. The typo virus is really potent today.