@dipset I don't think anything "changing," the audience is growing. Gaming is not a niche thing, and while the same niche group want a certain quality and fidelity, the new audience just wants to be entertained. And that's OK.

The more of them there are, the closer we get to the higher quality experience being in reach of more people, and the far reaches of the niche market will just grow.

It's been this way in entertainment for years, and the availability of high quality content has never been better.

Project Stream performed amazingly well. But, I worry about bandwidth limits on my current connection, how well it will work on popular competitive titles and the fact I've spend thousands of dollars on a Steam library that as of now, I wouldn't have access to with a service like this.

This is definitely a service for "someone else." We've been going this way since the announcement and dissolution of the Phantom, the beginning of OnLive and the current state of PS Now and Utomik (haven't heard of that, have ya? ;) ), as well as other services like Jump (subscription based gaming). We'll see if the US's management of infrastructure and regulation of internet providers helps make it a sustainable type of service.

If anyone is interested in playing co-op, feel free to add me on the Epic launcher or Steam. You can find me by my user name, Sazime!

I'll post some thoughts after playing for a bit. :)

Wow! 3 out of the 4 finalists are sequels!

If Oblivion was going to lose to anything, I'm glad it was to Portal 2!

I still don't understand the love of OoT.

Not the first time this has happened.

How do these 7s keep squeaking through against 8s and 9s?

Such an upset.

I enjoyed BioShock Inifinite well enough (I still have my Songbird statue!), but I think it suffered the same fate as Rage: post release hate because of poorly planned pre-release marketing. Both games promised these amazing concepts being put into place, but the actual release, good or not, didn't live up to the hype.