You honesty has moved me in ways I can not put into words. You are my hero.

No I agree it is a mixed bag and you have the good with the bad. I guess I find it funny that so many critics of anime and JRPGs often cite the character archetypes and character tropes as being negative selling points when at the very least these character ACTUALLY HAVE personalities while so many western games and…

As a dude I'm sick of the bald space marine and the overly macho solder man. One of the major reasons I'm more of a fan of Japanese games is because the male characters have more variety. You have male characters who are unsure of themselves, who are coming of age, who are total dorks but not useless side characters,…

Wow, you're right they did! Are you just stating a random fact or trying to rebuttal something where you though I said there wasn't but I kinda remember the part of the story where I asked my uncle if he ever shot some one with his commemorative revolver.

Basically I do it on a per item basis, as I do with everything. This just does not feel right. Even back when one of the MoH games (a game that likes to tote itself around as being by military for military to give the an experience that's military and all that jive, they literally used that as a selling point 9 times…

In retrospect nostalgia might be clouding my vision. The steps I was going to suggest to get the most out of the draw system were basically telling you to grind and exploit area transitions. Focus on getting Front Mission, Final Fantasy Tactics, Disgaea and Record of Agarest War.

No more wrong or not wrong than it is for there to be official Dirty Harry Magnums. Most people who collect fire arms shoot them at ranges sparingly and have more utilitarian weapons for self defense.

What an honor!

Yeah 8 didn't have the best magic system. It also allowed you to trick your characters out to be not only impervious to magic but so that all elements HEALED you. Aside from that, though. when you did have magic stock it wasn't a terrible system. Heck you could actually deal bonus damage with a well timed pull of the…

I like you. You're an ass hole. You and I are gonna get along reeeeeeeeeal nice like around these parts.

People will insist you play FF7. It's not bad, but it's not the Citizen Cane of JRPGs many make it out to be. Personally I always like FF8's combat better. FFX's combat is by far better than 7, 8 and 9's combat but the latter are all worth a look into.

The issue is far more complex than you care to dig into and than I care to explain. However your willful ignorance and lack of higher level brain functions had been noted.

If you can stand the story and characters (some can't) Disgaea and Record of Argast are both turn based, strategy games. The combat in them is akin to Final Fantasy Tactics (another game you should look up if you don't know) in that you place units on a grit and move and attack and what not. Record of Argast even…

I have a belief that anyone who uses the term "but-hurt" in a serious tone lacks the higher level brain functions to grasp the notion of separation of fantasy and reality and other some of the other things things which you and several other people have attempted to describe in various posts in response to that vary…

Wow what a stacked question.

There is a huge difference between playing a game which is clearly fantasy and using clearly fake bullets to "kill" clearly virtual characters in an artificial world and having a video game promote real world tools which are meant to kill real world people. And that is what guns and bullets are made to do. Their…

No, this is America. Anime = bad for lots of people. There's no further train of thought beyond that, if it's anime they won't give it the time of day and the generalizations come into full swing.

I'd actually be interested in watching the Mass Effect anime if they did that.

Wow I am surprised that games like Hyperdimension Neptunia and other NIS made JRPGs for the PS3 had games that scored lower than them! I mean, don't get me wrong I love those kind of games, but I both know what others think of them and have no illusions to the contrary about how trashy they are!

This was a great game. Jason, while I expect your other colleagues will most likely suggest more more contemporary suggestions like the odd shooter or American made action RPG (and some that they suggest may even even deserve it) I REALLY want to watch everyone's reaction if this game were made into Kotaku's game of…