If you go to the bar with this on, be prepared to be surrounded by women tweaking your nipples and poking your love-handles. I want to buy one NOW

They could have just advanced with a shield and circled for backstab or worried at their heels. Or, you know, parry face-to-face, but who does that?

Because bobs aren't fireproof.

Not a lot of room for adlibs from a script and limited mouth time. Though, I seem to recall some games being re-timed. With how some of the sequences flow I wouldn't be surprised...

Then again, a lot of older JRPG engines are really limited in how they frame/sync character animations and speech.

I think it's a farther stretch to think that one person represents the Island. Yet, his accent is definitely — hmm, this wiki describes it as 'austronesian' (good ol confirmation bias). The way I REALLY see it is that Wakka is polynesian 'bout it, but so is Lulu; she would have the accent, but her track is one of…

I can grasp that. Believe it or not, I even considered that — it would make more sense if you could assume that a medium like video games and cultural perceptions themselves are severely atavistic.

Is it easier for me to believe that Final Fantasy is being original with character designs or more likely to rely on…

See, you asserted that a mod for minecraft proves your point. That means the onus of the argument is yours and you haven't bothered/can't produce numbers for the mod in question. If this was just rhetoric, it would be different, but you mentioned something very specific and exacting.

You almost convinced me, except the books weren't written in the 23rd century and you seem to confuse their projected purpose with their archetypal role among an 'enlightened' race of space-faring humanity. Really, this topic isn't about 'intended' purpose, but the ideological containers we use and how they are…

It doesn't even have to be a 'prominent' person as some sort of contrast. It just makes Wakka all the stranger for being an outlier (not a particularly bad thing). I just like to point out Wakka specifically because it gets me closer to Sazh, which gets me closer to being depressed about limited 'pure' cosplay…

I prefer that reading of his character, but that doesn't mean other people perceive it that way.

If that is the case, then why is Wakka — being a bit more tan than others, the only one who speaks this way? Even if other people from Besaid don't speak that way, they don't LOOK that way, either. I get it, but the archetype that Wakka was hewn from is pretty obvious with a little bit of awareness. Otherwise, it…

Non-earths are informed by THIS earth, lazy tropes and stereotypes are included. That's like saying that Ferengi in Star Trek aren't space jews. At least TRY to think about this.

Yes, but how popular is 'popular' when you consider the size of the audience who plays minecraft and it's multi-platform nature? Do people on Xbox 360 use that pack? PS3? Mobile?

Please.

Go ahead and google sales by platform.

But...it's not done? I don't really get it. The great thing about the time we live in is that if you don't like this game, wait. Eventually someone will use the innovations here or, hopefully, mod it into something that you will like the look of better. It's not so far-fetched.

There are plenty of games that look great…

I only ever did speedruns for Super Metroid and I am glitch-less man. Other than that, my friends would just watch me play games. Folks at college would watch me beat games in the common area all the time, too.

Horror games like Fatal Frame (all) and Silent Hill 2 and 3 were typical requests. I remember I was playing…

What could be better than a game that performs predictably. They can change the character models only slighty and leave most of the rest untextured — I would still play.

I wish photorealism would die a horrible, painful death. It is responsible for some of the most inconsistent artistic cohesion in the industry because BUDGET. At least Minecraft has a wide appeal. Most people don't actually care about super high res textures and other crap.

Gameplay first forever. Also, did you not…

Seth McFarlane produces Cosmos.

Shh, don't bother. I doubt he has a reading level high enough.

People are still donating for more — that's technically paying to keep humping the niche.