But be warned: Samurai Champloo has filler, too. Although it has the single most entertaining filler episode I have ever viewed: The protagonists deciding history with a baseball game against Commodore Perry's crew. The episode even features actual Americans speaking in accented Japanese!

Equating Nomura with zippers is an overblown stereotype, but I see where you are coming from.

As if Amano's are any more realistic. How compelling are tights, polka-dot shirts, boot tassels, and ornamental hairpieces to you?

The policy isn't making the world friendlier for consumers. Microsoft doesn't care if developers release on only XBone, or XBone first and PS4 second.

I agree. The first one is incredible. You could tell me it's official promo art and I would be none the wiser.

Shingeki no Kyojin is very much shounen. It has many shounen tropes, such as: (1) long, drawn-out action scenes, (2) a young, naive, hot-blooded, undependable male protagonist who matures over the course of the story, (3) the protagonist unwittingly inspiring other characters to be more like him, (4) the protagonist,…

Your cat didn't like it either, huh?

The only thing breaking in this game is the physics engine.

I always thought the rails are supposed to guide you along the track. Like a roller coaster.

How Chrono Cross treats Chrono Trigger's story is irrelevant. There's nothing sacred about Trigger. But this is beside the point, as the man himself, Kato Masato, said that Cross is not a sequel to Trigger to begin with. Accordingly, Cross should not be judged on how well it follows Trigger's story.

God mode!

Yes. It could be serious.

I think Kim-Jong Il had a few of those at his private residence. You should try looking there. You might get arrested, though.

What do you think it means?

I'm looking forward to Plasma Snake and Bose-Einstein Condensate Snake, myself. Maybe he's saving them for the sci-fi sequel.

There's at least one more appropriate hero: a gay black gypsy Polish Jew.

Valve released Half Life 2. 3 comes after 2. Half Life 3 confirmed.

Children using rotary phones are the elementary-school versions of hipsters.

I must agree. Thinking back on Final Fantasy's antagonists, I can't think of a single one that stands out. I want to say that Vayne of FFXII is a good one, but he gets very little face time, so I can't.

Hey man, that Mass Effect ending sucked!