"Western/eastern"? Really? You mean to say that it is a wholly acceptable cultural difference that fictional female characters in Japan are stuck in miniskirts and hot pants 99% of the time? That they display either one of two personalities, that of a petulant brat or a meek, domesticated, spineless, sexualized…

WHAAAT??? No eight directional grooves etched in the controller itself that completely defeat the purpose of having 360 degree analog control? What is Nintendo THINKING using LOGIC like that???????

The Chozo had it in that Metroid comic, so it's still kind of a mystery to me.

I was exaggerating, you caught me. In reality Retro treated Samus with only 100x more respect than Sakamoto did in Other M. My face has so much egg on it.

Big question I have had for a while: With the space pirates throughout the series and even the bounty hunters in Metroid Prime: Hunters, why is virtually every alien species in Metroid naked? It's like the developers couldn't make a commitment on whether they were simply monsters that can scheme or actual people who…

I find it funny that an American studio like Retro handled a Japanese-created female character with 1000x more respect and dignity than one of her original creators did. Samus went from having strength and knowing exactly when, where, what and how much to shoot in Prime to having Battered Wife Syndrome in Other M.

The one between MaleShep and Kaidan was actually pretty good. Great facial animation and not forgetting to animate the blanket helped.

BINGO. It's boring, and that's the worst thing a game can be. Being slow-paced is one thing and works well with some titles and genres, but P1 is seriously pushing it. They had to literally add a fast-forward button to the PSP port to make the game tolerable, that's how slow and muddled the minute-to-minute gameplay…

I'm of the impression that few Japanese people outside of the LGBTQ community sincerely care about the lack of equal rights Japanese LGBTQ have in their own country. Japan has a sexist, patriarchal streak a mile wide, so homophobia isn't too far away. Yaoi isn't proof of acceptance, it's proof of fetishization.

Always irks me when you have some people claim the typical content on sites like Sankaku Complex is somehow art. Virtual 12-year old girls flashing you their panties aren't going to give you a deeper insight into the human condition, it's just jack-off material for the creepiest of creeps.

Heck no, they ditched that first person perspective as soon as they could in the Persona series. Persona 2 onward is 100% third-person. Look up some gameplay videos on Youtube to get a better idea.

I'm still of the opinion that a sequel to Arkham Asylum should have taken place in the entirety of Gotham with more "empty spaces" to spread out the important locales, and maybe have the game take place over a series of nights rather than just one.

Maybe he was in a rush to meet with the mayor of Boston? Those two are pals, you know.

"i was selling the boot leg pokemon games,but i was not aware of that because i bought them off a seller on ebay who is still selling them,but once i was informed about this i stopped selling them,the reason i started giving them away,is because i had about 200 of these that i paid good money for,i figured instead of…

I played and beat Phantasia. It plain sucks. Battle pace only gets slower the further you go when every single spell cast freezes the action just to play out. Story is bland and has no real end-goal with an 11th hour "no really, I'm not the bad guy here" in a vain attempt to make the story seem any less shallow than…

They basically take the same cast of archetypes, change the faces a bit, and stick them in the same generic high-fantasy JRPG world they've been using since 1996 in each and every installment.

I always liked Eternal Punishment better than Innocent Sin. It seemed less ridiculous than Innocent Sin's alien/Nazi nonsense, the story could work even better if you never played the first (there are plot reasons for everyone forgetting the events of IS) and the average party member in EP is around 23 years old (or…

For what little it counts, P2 is downright playable compared to the abysmal P1. You just fight instead of dicking around with positioning and separate weapons and guns, and the characters are no longer painfully bland or completely ridiculous-looking. And on top of all that? The average party member in Eternal…

I had an experience like that in the last day or so, at least in the fuckwad category.

That's creepy. Don't brag about how much you actively enjoy wishing people death.