I highly recommend Blacklight Retribution. Plays great, has some unique features. It also seems to be the only MMMOFPS with a rental system that lets you buy permanent weapons without having to pay real money.

I'm a noob to Skyrim, but since you said you fought zombie skeletons, I'm guessing you went into that one temple near Riverwood? I don't know if those booby-trap arrows in that temple were poisoned or something, but if you got shot by them, then maybe that's why?

Dear god, updated drivers made a world of difference for me. I'm running with a 4870x2, but my drivers were like 10.2 or something and BF3 ran abysmally. Just updated to 11.9 or whatever the most recent one is, and the performance is now fantastic. 4870x2 can handle medium-high, so I'm pretty satisfied.

I like Kung Lao, but I haven't really decided on a favorite.

You can if you host a server using CraftBukkit and get a multi-world plugin.

I totally would buy it on PC. Especially if people could mod/hack it for different characters and stages. But yeah, it wouldn't do well considering a joypad would be a must-have.

Yep. The splitscreen thing has a lot of appeal, and there's still plenty of games online.

Played Spore for about 4 hours straight through the space stage, and was about to finish a war with another empire. I was just bombing their last few colonies when BAM the game crashes. Nothing saved and I uninstalled that game forever.

You should check out Dead Frontier. It doesn't have everything you said, but it's the closest thing for now.

Yes just make sure you have an external hard drive to back the files up on. You definitely won't regret upgrading! I upgraded my 80GB to 500GB, never need to worry about space again.