They do! That’s how I read the original run. They just had 10 volumes or whatever that turned the whole thing into anthologies. This prequel thing is brand new though, so I reckon the collected paperback probably doesn’t exist yet? How long dies it take normally for that to come out after a comic series ends?

What is the affordable way to read/own all these comics? I don’t live in a city large enough to have a comic shop, but these I must have.

Don’t forget that they released the DS Chibi 3D model versions of FF III and IV on Steam too. I’m 100% behind this move to get as many Final Fantasy games on Steam as possible, but it’s like Square Enix is unwilling to spend any amount of time on the ports at ALL. They’re just taking whatever version of the game will…

The gameplay kinda betrays that idea. Spartans, as played in Halo games, are pretty much super heroes. Soldiers are the marines who get thrown into a few missions in every game. They aren’t even on the same playing field as a Spartan. Not in terms of how the games work. This movie pretty much showed Halo single player…

Monster Strike is already out in the United States. It has been since October 2014. I know this because that’s what the graph in the story you link to says. And also because I play it a lot.

I think that it’s worth listing some of the totally fantastic soundtracks to JRPGs that weren’t necessarily top tier in other aspects of production. Did Xenosaga III have its head up its butt and was it mostly indulgent nonsense? Yes. It’s also a remarkable achievement in JRPG soundtracking. It’s just incredibly…

I followed the normal Pokemon interest curve. I thought the first two generations were super rad when I was a child, then fell off and didn’t like it anymore. Fast forward to college and a friend of mine just INSISTS that I need to get back into Pokemon and lends me his White version. I fall head over heels in love…

Oooold Kotaku joke: http://kotaku.com/5500368/nine-p…

Finally finish Dark Cloud 3?

Come on now Jason, there's no point in picking up a pen name. Complaining about Xenoblade, praising Suikoden and Persona 3/4? We can tell it's you, you're not all that sneaky.

Pokemon games operate inside the "Nintendo bubble". Guaranteed safe place to play, always going to be accessible to all age groups, never going to reflect the real world meaningfully. There are obviously pros and cons to this, but for the people who still play and love Pokemon these hacks represent the ugliness that…

Now see, you've done more to pitch the game to me than anyone who was actually trying to pitch the game to me. All I need to hear is that yes, the game IS messed up in certain ways but that's okay, it's also transcendent in other ways that make soldiering through the rough patches worth it. Any pitch that just talks…

Well if you're already into Suikoden then I imagine you should get into this no matter what. I mean, aren't those games all pretty well connected to each other? I'm more thinking of a complete outsiders perspective - someone who not only isn't up on his Suikoden but also isn't necessarily into old JRPG design.

I actually like the style of the graphics a lot, I'm kind of a sucker for older anime art from before otaku pandering took over the industry.

No, seriously. Everyone knows you like the game a lot and you probably know it backwards and forwards. If Kotaku is gonna cover the game, is your perspective really the most relevant to the average PSN user? Like, I write for Siliconera and I have the Ace Attorney Trilogy job right now. Writing that playtest is…

Actually I would be more interested in reading your angle on the game than Jason's, Kirk. It's one of Jason's favorite games ever and it fits nicely into the old style of JRPG design he likes. But nothing I know about it (negligible combat difficulty, kinda dicey localization, graphics that didn't age all that well)…

So I feel like the real question is... who IS the most reliable member of the Toad Brigade?

Pick up Child of Light! It's a new IP from Ubisoft that released within the last 12 months and I really really like it. Also it's on PC so there may be a deal in the Steam Winter sale. Keep your eyes peeled.

From a sales perspective though, is releasing incomplete/broken/buggy games really hurting publishers? I'm not convinced that releasing nothing but incredibly polished and bug free software is necessarily rewarded by the market. Case in point: Nintendo. Is anyone REALLY more likely to buy their games because they…

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