I'll look into picking it up once I've cleared a few more unfinished games from my plate. Still need to beat Etrian Odyssey II (as one example); the gameplay is such that I can pick it up and play it for four or five nights in a row, then set it down for two weeks and be able to jump right in where I left off. Not many RPGs can make that claim, especially if they're more story-heavy.
On games I recently purchased, I finally picked up Raiden IV once Gamestop dropped the price to $19.99. I'd been on the fence with it for a while, and that was the final convincing I needed. Having put some time into it, I feel sorta bad for not getting it at the original $40 price point--it's certainly challenging and well put together.
It blew my mind logging into Steam last night and seeing that somehow STALKER: Call of Pripyat had snuck quietly onto US shelves without my noticing. I grabbed a physical copy in town today and will get to playing it after I replace the IDE cable that's keeping my DVD drive on the fritz, and after finishing Psychonauts. Shadow of Chernobyl was probably the most amazing PC game I've played in years (caveat: haven't finished Bioshock), and while Fallout 3 was really impressive, I think I enjoyed SoC a lot more, warts and all. I didn't hate Clear Sky as much as most people, but it was definitely a net step backward from the first. Reviews have CoP as being a return to the style of the first while retaining a lot of the good mechanics of Clear Sky, so I'm not sure how it could get any better. Oh wait, if I had a DX11 or even DX10 card. Then it probably couldn't get any better. Maybe with a quad-core Phenom.
