That's the best way to be, really. I'm very anti-360 myself, but that's all thanks to the way that Microsoft have treated their customers, rather than hating the console simply because it's the one I don't have. I can't stand the way that Microsoft launched the 360 as the ultimate hardcore games console, and bashed…

Except that, it's currently bombing because it has few games, and a high price tag, so by the time Soul Sacrifice is out and we have Tearaway and Killzone: Mercenary on the way as well as whatever else is in the pipeline, we'll likely have had a price cut on the Vita too, so it won't be bombing so hard anyway.

Hardly surprising at all, really. I'm surprised they even managed to put out a sequel. Sure, Epic Mickey sold pretty well, but that was largely due to it being one of very few releases for a console that often went months without a single noteworthy game. Nobody really seemed to care about the game, nobody ever seemed…

Well on the bright side, at least I haven't developed a hatred against Nintendo that's so strong that I feel compelled to spread the hate message far and wide. I still love and respect what they do, it's just not something that I, at this point in my life (both financial and game-wise) feel prepared to pour more time…

Well, we certainly agree that XIII is the worst, that's for damn sure.

Oh, the Wind Waker certainly isn't strictly the same, but on top of all the other similarities, it's just the cherry on top, really. It all just put me right off the game; why bother playing a game when you can guess its beginning, middle and end before ever even reading the back of the game's case? With Zelda, you…

Gameplay's definitely up there, but it's only one ingredient of a whole recipe, and Nintendo's games just lack the other ingredients entirely. They literally don't even bother trying to provide any form of narrative or story, or any form of character development, and that's often fine for their more simple 2D…

That last point is quite prominent for me, "character". That's something that Nintendo games and their heroes just so sorely lack. If I'm to spend £40 on a game, I want a compelling story with interesting characters to back up the gameplay. Nintendo's games nail the gameplay time and time again (the Galaxy games were…

Man, I always love seeing PC gamers come to articles like this and rant at length about how "My PC is two years old and already so much better than this!" That's great, but such people miss the point.

Absolutely. I could understand a few years back, the 360 had solid exclusives and better multiplayer, but now? Microsoft haven't given two shits about real games since they launched Kinect in 2010, it's all about media services and shallow Kinect games for kids, and yet so many people have failed to notice the…

I think they'll actually be in a great position for a launch lineup, much, much better than Nintendo and Microsoft were/will be. Sony have studios like Naughty Dog (Uncharted team), Sucker Punch and Guerilla, all of which last released a game in 2011, so by Jan 2014 they'd have had 2-3 years to get running on new…

See, that's the problem for me; as much as I enjoy Mario and Zelda games, I'd never, ever again buy a console for them because every single one leaves me thinking, "I played this already", so it's other games that have to serve as system sellers for me, and that's where the Wii just didn't cut it. Red Steel 1 and 2?…

Absolutely, I'm glad I'm not the only one!

I'd throw in Valkyria Chronicles as well; an RPG that's as much strategy and third-person shooter as it is RPG, and yet it's perhaps my favourite JRPG of the generation. There's definitely room for the genre to adapt and evolve, but whilst so many of them are trying new things that may either work greatly or terribly;…

Well duh! We all know that gaming causes us all to want to murder our friends, families and the general public, we're just trying to hide it until the time is right, or until the time we die from a stray grenade one too many times and we just lose our shit entirely. x_X

I can't see that happening, right now nothing's being ported to the Wii U, be it massive games or smaller games, so I can't see a niche JRPG ever making the transition.

15 year old kid, 18+ Rated games.

Man, Dragon Age 2, most disappointing sequel ever? I'd count FFXIII first and foremost, but it's not *technically* a sequel, so DA2 takes the cake there.

Given that nobody ever said such a thing would ever happen, you probably are one of the few that thought that. Honestly, with games like this in particular, we're lucky to get a Western release at all, let alone a release on a portable platform that A) may struggle to handle the game and B) has sold like shit thus far.

Honestly, at this point, the thing that makes it modern is the very fact that it is so traditional. Console JRPGs haven't really been like this for most of this generation; they've all tried so desperately to do new things that they've failed to do what made them so great in the first place. They've all become linear,…