While nobody that matters (see: you, me) was looking, GameTrailers.com went and filled its britches with a pants-load of legitimately worthwhile content. Besides actual game trailers (for video games), the site apparently now pumps out original video content at an alarming clip. Ignoring the terrible, intelligence-reducing Screw Attack content, GameTrailers.com is now host to mostly awesome video reviews and ridiculously in depth series retrospectives. And by “now,” I mean “has been for the last couple years.”

The Metroid Retrospective just recently finished up. Clocking in at five roughly fifteen-minute segments, the retrospective hits every game in the Metroid series - Hunters and Pinball included - acting as a healthy dose of nostalgia for fans of the series and a crash course in Metroid history for the uninitiated. The six part Legend of Zelda Retrospective is equally awesome and is perhaps best known for its completely ridiculous and unnecessarily thorough series timeline in the final installment.

The crown jewel of original GameTrailers.com content, however, is the in-progress Final Fantasy Retrospective. Having just covered Final Fantasy X and X-2, and with six more videos to come, the series will conclude with plenty of coverage of side entries such as Tactics and Mystic Quest. Each entry provides detailed information and backstory on the Final Fantasy game(s) it covers, meaning you could follow any conversation on the topic without having to play the less stellar entries in Square Enix’s series. But for obsessive nerds like me, the retrospective serves as a nice stroll down nostalgia boulevard. And it erodes my limited resolve to not run out and purchase each and every game in the unending stream of Final Fantasy remakes and rereleases. Touché, secret Square Enix-funded GameTrailers.com agenda.

In fact, I’m going to go replay Final Fantasy IX right now to stave of any addictive consumer urges.