The episodic experiment began in mid-2006 with Half-Life 2: Episode One and SiN: Episodes - Emergence. Grand stories were told about how episodic gaming would mark a major shift in the way games are developed and delivered. All fine and dandy, but a year and a half since all the grand posing, where exactly do we stand?

WARNING (and Disclaimer): Personal opinions, long sentences and an abrupt ending to follow!

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I don’t know how many of you are still following LOST nowadays . Given the fact how Season 3 started out (godawful) , it wasn’t a shocker to realise that many fans had migrated to other series such as Prison Break and Heroes ;  for they provided answers that progressed the storyline rather than trying to explain already overcomplicated ordeals . Anyways, being a true (and hopeful) LOST fan, I kept hanging around praying that the show would recover itself from a declining slant steeper than the stock market value quadrant of Enron on D-Day.

And yes, it has recovered somewhat thanks to even more complicated explainations thrown into the already swelling bag of LOST tricks. Then again, who cares as long as it’s good TV; I mean, given the dearth of good shows nowadays (I am definitely not talking about Indian TV … Good TV is a myth out here) I anxiously wait every Thursday to download the latest LOST episode and get my weekly fix. With the third season coming to its nailbiting end, each episode is getting better than the last. More and more of our questions are getting answered (How did Locke get his disability? Why does Desmond keep calling everyone else brother? to name a few). The cliffhanger at the end of the latest episode, D.O.C. literally blew my head away (For those lazy enough to find out what the fuss is all about, follow this link for Spoilers). After I collected my jaw from the floor and several minutes of OMG and WTF later I realised that it’s finally back and that too with a bang. It’s back to its original charm that lured us in like a herd of LOST sheep in the first place.

So what are you waiting for ? Get back in line and become a mindless drone trained for only one purpose ; To make the producers of LOST , super-duper rich and famous …. again!