I’m surprised Japanese people still buy landlines. For those who don’t know, landlines in Japan are much more expensive than they are in the US.

Still so glad I didn’t back this. I was seriously considering it at the time. I mean, Final Fantasy Tactics is one of my all-time favorite games. I can’t remember the exact reason I decided to not back it anymore.

Not surprised. You don’t need intelligence to invest. You only need money.

I once owned a $15 one that all you could do was turn it on and it would turn itself off when (the presumed white rice) was done cooking.

I can’t read in a car and certain games cause me motion sickness too (Portal’s flinging and Mirror’s Edge in general). This clip wasn’t long enough for me to feel anything, so I watched it again. By the end of the second viewing I was starting to feel slightly nauseous. Yeah, definitely not playing this game either.

My prediction for Japan:

I’d try one or two (individual pieces), but seeing as it looks like they come in a french fry sort of box - ugh, that seems like it’d be too gross to eat them all. I’d have to find a few guinea pigs to help me eat them all if I tried it.

I love this game too. It was far from my first game, since I got into gaming in the late ‘80s. While the main campaign does have a weak story, what made it fun is I played this local coop over my home LAN. We roleplayed the entire time over the text chat box in-game, even though we sat in the same room. We ended up…

Uh... She doesn’t look like a girl nerd or a girl techie to me. She looks like a hipster. She needs to go sit in a coffee shop and be judging people on listening to mainstream music.

How many people go to E3 now? I went to Tokyo Game Show (open to the public) a few years ago. TGS has ~270,000 people attending it nowadays. But there was more room to walk around at TGS than I see in that headline picture. That’s horrifying.

Now that’s terrifying.

They don’t. The Japanese do shake hands, because they learned that from Westerners. But that’s pretty much it. You won’t even see couples hug or kiss in public. Public displays of affection aren’t bad in the sense that it’s not illegal and you won’t get in trouble with it. Most likely no one will say anything either.…

I don’t know if Richard will get to your question or not (hopefully!), but I lived in Japan for 3 years (just left in September of last year). Even though I’m American and grew up in America, I feel like in some ways I’m still experiencing reverse culture shock after that 3 years. Here’s my perspective:

:(

You know, this story really isn’t any different from the story that came out yesterday about the high school girl who was put in a pray away the gay camp by her parents. Sure, the Christian Texans didn’t murder their daughter, but that’s just because that’s not acceptable in American society. Instead they show that…

I don’t have a problem with spiders myself.

The combination of not much of a substantial story (originally Famicom-era FF problem) plus that horrible gameplay makes this game easily the worst. The gameplay may have been more fun at the time, but it has aged really poorly.

Spin-off, yes. But not a real FF? It’s always been called Final Fantasy. Even in Japan it was.

I was surprised for the Xbox 360 at first. As a fellow Japanese 360 owner, I thought it was seen as mostly an Idolm@ster and Cave shooter machine. But then I remember how niche SHMUPs are seen so... yeah, I suppose western games being mentioned but not a single Cave game brought up makes sense.

Uh... shouldn’t the method of payment be an indicator if nothing else? The government doesn’t accept wires or iTunes gift cards for payment. Checks payable to US Treasury is more of what the government would ACTUALLY ask for.