Amen to this.

I was involved in a fairly serious motor-vehicle accident last October. On the freeway, at freeway speeds, with airbag deployment involved.

I and the driver of the other vehicle were taken to the hospital in an ambulance ('just to be sure' because of airbag deployment, despite strong evidence that my only injury was to my ankle -- nothing wrong with taking care in these cases).

I arrived at the ER, was looked at for perhaps 90 seconds by a doctor (no, not much of an exaggeration if any here) and they declared I had a sprain and that was that. I was stuck in a corner, eventually an orderly brought me an ACE bandage, and I limped out (not even given crutches, yay!) and met my roommate who was picking me up.

I don't know what the charge for the ambulance ride was, but I do know that the bill for the hospital was $2,400.

Not one X-ray, no lab work at all, just 90 seconds of a doctor declaring I simply had a sprain.

(For the record, I had more than a sprain; there was in fact a bone chip which is still causing me difficulty and hopefully will be removed surgically soon.)

So, yeah. Health care billing is about sixteen different kinds of jacked up.

I must agree here: Eternal Darkness was (until Skies of Arcadia got ported over, and then Tales of Symphonia showed up) the main reason I even kept a GameCube around.

Yes, Eternal Darkness showed plainly it's roots as a Nintendo 64 game that shifted platforms, but the underlying gameplay conceits and design held up. The story was interesting, the gameplay worked (for me, at least), and above all: it remained fun.

That said, I played the Too Human demo last night, and all I can say is that even if it isn't the most amazing game I've ever seen, I'm still considering purchasing it.

The limited taste of gameplay was enjoyable. The game's overall pay is not unfairly compared to Diablo (kill hordes of enemies, gain XP and pseudo-random loot), with an 'innovative' (or just 'different', if you prefer) interface.

I think where Too Human falls short in reviews is that over the (lengthy!) development cycle, it's been made out to the public like this is going to be ushering in a new era of epic gameplay and story. Gameplay is some old elements and some new ones, but what I saw of the story was a cut above a lot of the crap I've seen out there, but certainly it didn't seem to come across as well as the story (and the storytelling) in Call of Duty 4 or Mass Effect.