Well, I’m still not going to play through it again, but I like Persona 3. PERHAPS if there was a convenient way of playing the portable version to try the female MC loop, that’d be interesting, especially since as I understand it, a lot of the quality-of-life updates they made in Persona 4 and onward got backported to…

Okay. So I love the Persona games, (at least 3 and onward) but at the time I started playing them, 3 felt like a bit of a slog. So finally one day I sat myself down determined to finish it. During the course of an evening I rushed, made my way through the final months of the game and to the top of Tartarus, to…

I like seeing this stuff, because I appreciate the technical mastery required to make it go; plus it’s nice to know that archival efforts for WiiU software are in a good place. But dang, I sure wish the games I bought and paid for and are able to play easily, looked like that.

Good for them both. Would that we all could be in a position to do that sorta thing for people.

I understand wanting to be reflected in the media we consume. I’m of a mixed heritage and don’t really look like anything specific, I used to get a lot more of “what ARE you” questions, though that’s died down as I get older.

That’s interesting, I didn’t know the MCC had such a feature. I suspect you’re right, in that it’s a celebration package for people to go back and say “oh hey I remember this part,” more than anything, but the feature exists nonetheless.

No worries, I’ve been away as well. Hope your vacation was excellent!

Well, the first argument I made was that I -agree- that games like Smash should have the characters unlocked from the start. If people are having fun with the unlocking process that’s great, but considering the core gameplay loop is (s)mashing characters against each other, making people spend hours to break out of…

I get that, surely. I do have a hard time imagining people honestly picking up a book and saying “eh, I’m not going to read this chapter, it’s too hard,” but okay. I understand making the case for passive entertainment.

MOST of the time I’d say it’s stupid to sacrifice gameplay to placate the people who don’t want to actually play the game. To me that’s like saying people who read a Cliff’s Notes means they actually read the book, or reading a plot summary on IMDB means they watched the movie. They didn’t! Being able to skip levels…

Third-person narration can be great. Source: Arrested Development

I have a dishwasher and I use it, but most of my dishes are a little crusty from sauces/etc, so I wind up scrubbing them a bit before they go in the dishwasher, because it never comes off completely.

“an aging relative”

Absolutely I do. It’s not like it used to be; back in the cartridge days a new game had such a heady smell to them. The cartridge smelled like, yes, new plastic (living in cold regions like I do, they’d be a little chilly and a little extra smooth somehow and this just enhanced the sensory input for me) and maybe…

I remember those days, way back when. There was a point when Squaresoft was looking at appropriating the website as their official website once upon a time, but it never went through. Those were heady days for the Unofficial Squaresoft Home Page crew.

“Somehow both Souxie AND the Banshee” - amazing.

Hey, that’s only half an hour from my house!

He wasn’t as hooked on the new version like the original.

I never think about this article.

Probably a little like Linwood Kaine.