No, Corporatism breeds this sort of thing, not Capitalism.

Other than feminist rants that are of specious connection to games, that is, yeah, that's accurate.

But their incidences of melees and stabbings are much, much higher.

At their usual insane markup, no doubt.

You forgot Ragnarok Odyssey, Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention, Touch My Katamari, Legend of Dragoon, and the plethora of amazing PSP games that are straight port compatible.

If our economy was re-industrialized, instead of remaining primarily service-based, we would solve many problems - consumerism among them.

Yeah, I'm not holding my breath, Tsurumi-san.

Cue the Collectivists calling in the Social Worker Brigade to steal this child away from a light-hearted and obviously loving father in 3.....2....

Someone please kill Lightning. Please. No more yandere bitches in mah gaemz pls.

Yes, because I'd rather that SE gets the slap in the face they have been needing since XII, than they go ahead and morph one of the last remaining Core JRPG franchises into another Americanized Action-RPG clone.

[*cough*XIII-3*cough*XII*cough*XV*cough*]

Won't happen. Nintendo owns them lock, stock, and barrel for a few years now.

Don't do it, Wiseman. For the sake of JRPGs, XV must not succeed, or it'll teach the execs to do nothing but make action-RPGs instead of Core RPGs.

Here's the thing: If XV succeeds, then the mutant freakshow with no turn-based combat at-all will be what they think they need to make. That'll be the final nail in the coffin of the pure JRPG, rather than the J-Action-RPG.

They can make it as ritzy and neat as they like, but I'm damn well not putting an always-connected, easily-remote-enabled nudie cam and microphone in my living room when it's produced by a company who were more than a willing lapdog in the PRISM program, among others.

Nobody thought of Charizard?

Santa brought me that one, but I got Dig Dug instead of Super Mario Bros. 2 on account of me being 6 at the time and mis-informing Santa and Mrs. Claus as to which one it was at Toys*R Us.

Grim Dawn is looking freaking fantastic.

That's so Meta....

Unfortunately, many people prefer faux choice over actual choice, and even prefer faux choice over linearity with a better story.