I'm just... why? Why would they think that this looks good? I've seen Nintendo 64 games with better looking water effects, and I don't mean that as hyperbole.

I would pay good money for a game like this set in ancient China. Somebody do it.

"Hey, here's a silly, tongue-in-cheek mod that does something clever!"

I like Brutal Doom, but it's been sitting unplayed ever since I picked up the DoomRL Arsenal & Bestiary mods. It randomizes weapon, enemy, and powerup spawns, includes craftable and rare weapons, and features some very amazing and challenging new enemy types.

While definitely one of my favorite series (regardless of what form it appears in, whether VN, manga, anime, or video game), the anime adaptation of Higurashi is particularly infamous for this sort of thing, at least in the first series.

The problem is, your exact language was "If you like Zelda but ... have never played Dynasty Warriors, you may want to avoid this game."

I sincerely doubt that GMC isn't paying them copious amounts of money for this.

Hurray for shameless commercialism! God bless America, brought to you by Dr. Pepper.

I actually had the opposite reaction. While Basara has somewhat deeper combat, the stages across multiple characters' storylines are always exact cookie cutter stages with the same dialogue and the same events regardless of whom you play as. For instance, in Sengoku Basara 3, regardless of if you're playing as…

Meanwhile, Dynasty Warriors 8 has been out for months in Japan and is coming out this month in North America and Europe on both Xbox 360 and PS3 and hasn't been mentioned once.

Oh! Sorry, I misunderstood. It would be nice, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

You've got a very good point. But at the same time, I don't think this is the end of riskier games, and there's no way that the big publishers were going to lower prices on their AAA titles. Thinks like Blood Dragon and Minecraft can still be published digitally; they're not taking that option away. In fact, I…

All you have to do is buy a voltage transformer. They're not terribly expensive; I'm not sure where you'd buy one that ships to Hong Kong, but I imagine any major electronics retailer would have one.

I never could get into the Nobunaga's Ambition games - probably because I'm not that familiar with Sengoku Japan - but boy, did Romance of the Three Kingdoms beat the pants out of the Civ games for me as far as strategy games go. I hope they release a compilation of those games for PC... though I'd prefer it in…

A really well-written article as always. (Yeah, I'm sucking up to the author. Sue me.)