It does get better, for instance if you don't explore the familiars system and get some beefy pokemon on your side you'll be in for some tough fights.

Mists of Pandaria is an improvement in many ways over the previous expansions, and only moves backwards or stands still in a few areas. Leveling is enjoyable (not as much the 2nd or 3rd or 4th time through but then it never is, and they've made tweaks to help this as it was really bad on release) . Dungeons have…

"I think senators are a bigger problem than guns, because senators affect people."

To help with this you can set the tactics for the AI to "do nothing". Esther will summon a familiar to absorb hits (if any come her way) and you can do whatever with Oliver and his familiar.

Yeah these damn banana bastards. I think I took on about 100 before one finally submitted. For any wondering, what little research I could do indicates there's literally nothing you can do during combat to help increase the chance that a familiar will submit to being serenaded and tamed. There is a stamp reward…

Picked up Dead Space 3 with the $20 credit. The credit isn't given until the game ships, which will be Feb 5, but with any luck there will still be credits for some of the games that release later so I can use the $20 from Dead Space to get SimCity and then get _another_ $20 credit.

I was borderline excited the first time I had two different types of heart piece to give as I wanted to give the wrong type and watch some kind of horrible outcome. Saved the game first and everything. Alas it just says "that is not what this person is lacking" or somesuch when you try to choose the wrong type. …

Cancelling attacks can be used to fish for glims too, as initiating an attack right when an enemy attacks you (the "Attack" circle flashes blue very briefly) does a counterattack and gives a "Nice!", often spawning a glim. Even if a glim doesn't spawn you get a good stretch of time to whack the enemy after your…

It's winter where I am now and quite cold, often below freezing, but there's this spider hanging out on my porch in it's web like nothing is wrong. So I'm like "Da fuq? Shouldn't this thing be stone cold dead?" Apparently not- turns out these little bastards have a way of synthesizing a kind of antifreeze into…

I was surprised to see Disgaea as while the gameplay is very engaging the stories tend to be more on the juvenile side. While that doesn't bother me one bit (I'll play just about anything) it was encouraging to see an elderly woman not put off by it. The combat of Disgaea would be perfect for a more aged gamer…

"Japanese mobile studio Blockbuster" - that's an unfortunate name...

Surprise twist ending - the drinks have meat in them @_@

I really hope they do a good job of putting in goals that are both challenging and entertaining to accomplish into the game. I can only speak for myself but the ingenuity and enjoyment of the "build your city (or build your X), watch it grow!" style of game more or less ended for me back with SimCity 2000. Without a…

But really there's no choice. Top hat all the way of course.

The alien free movement thing is actually in your favor. When spotted they can move, but they won't attack. Move about cautiously and when you get an idea of where the aliens are located (from the directional sound waves and your soldiers saying "Hey do you hear that?" or whatever) move people into position in cover…

This was on my get list for the recent Steam winter sale and oddly enough I ended up not buying it from the Steam store - Amazon is selling Steam activation codes for $25 - cheaper than Steam ever had it during the winter sale iirc - and still has it at that price now... color me confused but whatever.

I'm onboard for #10 - played it back in the late 90s and it still resonates as one of the best. I'll have to remember to get those discs from the basement the next time I'm back home.

Just make the menus more detailed. The first two games (first more than the 2nd but 2nd still did some) had menus filled with "psuedo" information, ie you'd get an item and the menu would tell you it has 10 of stat X 8 of stat Y and 13 of stat Z, but not indicate what X Y and Z mean or do. Having to consult an FAQ…

FWIW custom firmware on the PSP let me run my games (all of which I purchased legitimately) from the memory stick instead of Sony's god-forsaken and wretchedly slow UMD disks. Later games such as Dissidia would basically load the whole game to the stick anyway, further proving how crappy UMD was - when even the game…