I've had one bad experience with lag on MW3 since it's been out and the internet service in Hull is rubbish!

Do Karoo still have a monopoly?

As far as I'm aware yes.

I'd say on this generation of consoles there has been little innovation in terms of gameplay. There hasn't been many cult hits that we saw on the last generation of consoles, I suppose the costs of developing games now is just ridiculously high.

Everything just seems pretty stagnant.

Majority of mp matches I play have things like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxNGjELtTw

Majority of mp matches I play have things like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxNGjELtTw

If you want cult games, pick up Deadly Premonition. Game of the Year last year, a work of genius

This is an area in which games and movies are very similar. Rather than take a risk on a new IP, firms are taking the safer option and churning out sequels to popular titles ie games they know they can make a profit on.
This is nothing new, Nintendo have been doing it for several generations, but it is becoming more commonplace now that the recession has kicked in.
That being said, we do get some original ideas popping up every once in a while. The Spike Video Game Awards are taking place this Saturday, and over the past few years it has become a bit of a tradition to unveil some new titles during the ceremony. This year shouldn't be any different, Sony have at least one new exclusive to reveal and I think the Gears of War creator is going to be showing off his new project too.
If you want to watch them live, there will probably be a stream of them on the net somewhere.

Well, there it is, 100 hours up on Skyrim, in 24 days, crikey, i need help. *attempts to put the controller down*

They really weren't. Every single COD has numerous problems with hit detection. MW2 probably being one of the worst out of the four I've played (not played MW3, but heard bad things).

I can't understand the difference between the two types of server. I'll always use this as my example, but I played the game Killzone 2 when it first came out a few years back. The online on that game didn't have a single fault, there was no difference between offline or online play with that game, no lag, no waiting around to join a lobby (you could actually select the lobby you wanted to join, judged on region and so on), no host disconnecting and if you wanted to join a lobby just starting, you could, if you wanted to create one, you could, you weren't just randomly sent into a lobby where somebody has a AC130 and you don't get a chance. Even though Killzone 2 was never really a huge hit, the quality of online play set a bar that I haven't seen reached by COD or Fifa, which are probably the two biggest games out there right now.

Skyrim online would have been brilliant, but i can't say that too loudly because i spend most of my time bitching that there are hardly any games which are solely single player and don't rely on a crappy Multiplayer to boost playing hours

I'm not sure about hit detection problems, however. without knowing the specifics, the servers on COD games have been pretty ordinary at best, lag, drop-outs, host-switching. Always seems to happen when you're playing well!

Crap graphics, and average game play, but a totally class story and a game you can't turn off. Apprently it was meant to come out on the PS2. It would have been hailed a classic if it did.