If they go free to play, I may actually play this game...assuming my computer can handle it.

"The only bummer is that there's currently no way for American gamers to buy it."

Yay, a fellow Emeralda fan! She's also my favorite in the game and one of my all-time JRPG favorites (hence my icon). I too wish we had gotten to play out that dungeon in disc 2, if only because I just wanted more character development for her. Her overall role in the plot is interesting because of the things she…

34 minutes for ME2? What I keep hearing is that ME2 was rated with 60 minutes. To be fair, thought, the records on the BBFC's website are a little confusing, since there are three listings for ME2, some on the same date and all with different runtimes. Still, 82 minutes in ME3 is definitely longer than either ME1 or…

I think the Virmire Survivor only sends a post-Horizon makeup letter if you romanced them in Mass Effect 1.

"According to Yoimuiri Online..."

Working on a playthrough of Final Fantasy XII. Just had the sudden urge to play it again. This time I will stick with it long enough to fight all those optional bosses, I swear!

I can understand that Snow's dialogue didn't match the character you thought he would be from looking at his appearance. I too pictured him behaving differently from what we got in the end. Having said that, where exactly does the translation factor into this? Having played both the Japanese and English versions of…

As someone who always customizes her Shepard and is planning on customizing her Hawke, I think the point is that the ability to change the main character's appearance and/or gender just makes sense in a game where you're given the freedom to choose what he/she says and how he/she behaves. Both Mass Effect and Dragon…

This is actually my sentiment exactly. While I have no problem with Clint Mansell as a composer, it just feels wrong getting rid of Jack Wall for the final installment of the trilogy. To me, his music is as much a part of the Mass Effect universe as Shepard is, and though I may be in the minority, I thought he did an…

@Faux Bravo: I'm not sure if it's called something different on the non-PS2-BC units (I've got a 60GB unit, you see), but there should be a memory card utility under the Games heading in the XMB. This will allow you to create virtual PS1 memory cards on the PS3's hard drive and load them into virtual memory card slots…

@mh0046: Cougars are my arch-enemies in this game. Seriously, the real bad guys could learn a thing of two from these things. I think I've died more times from surprise cougar attacks than I have from people shooting at me!

@ShaughnTr0n: I'm thinking it was intentionally kept out of the game to prevent players from exploring into Nuevo Paraiso and Port Elizabeth before the story reaches those areas. After all, the rivers are the only things keeping you from going wherever you want when you first load up the game, so I guess it makes…

@Mayor Wilkins: They don't have to put the anime art style back in since they never took it out of the original Japanese release to begin with. It's only us Westerners who got screwed over by the last minute switch to CG character portraits. Since the PS3 version is a Japanese release—and let's face it, Japan/Asia is…

@Rakkoon: You're talking about Conrad, right? I don't know why you'd go out of your way to be nice to that annoying stalker (which is a difficult task in and of itself) just to make sure that he shows up in ME2 to be even more of an annoying stalker. Unless, of course, you want him to show up in ME2 so you can shoot…

@n00b_pwner:The basic vowels, a e i o u, are present in Japanese, but almost all kana (Japanese characters) are composed of a consonant-vowel pair (ex. か=ka, で=de, と=to). You can't remove the vowel sound without removing the entire character, so disemvoweling really isn't feasible. Keep in mind, too, that Japanese…

@Whiternoise: You mean ancestor. Desmond is a descendant of both Altair and Ezio (and probably as many other assassins as Ubisoft can think up in order to keep the franchise going).

@Ardaihm: As much as I love Cowboy Bebop, Spike is one of the last people I'd want operating on me. After all, this is a man whose strategy for fixing things is "kick it until it works".

Hooray for Okami and Xenogears making the top 5. More Okami, if done right, would be awesome and Xenogears, while not really in need of a sequel, could sure use a remake. It's also good to see Valkyria Chronicles and Skies of Arcadia on the list, though it baffles the mind how they could want sequels for Infinite…

@TheZen: AC: Complete is sort of like a director's cut in that there are extra scenes added into the movie. I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but the parts I skimmed through (opening sequence, fight with Bahamut, fight with you-know-who at the end) all had extra scenes that weren't in the original. If you're a…