Probably my most treasured JRPG ever. I loved it to the point of writing stories in the game's universe. Don't think I used any of the characters, but who cares. The atmosphere was so thick. It was an actual living world, not something like your typical JRPG with towns consisting of 3 houses with 5 dwellers. It had…

They still do - at locations where Starbucks coffee is decent. However, many American Starbucks locations in busier city areas are, in fact, notoriously bad about coffee. I checked numerous locations in Midtown Manhattan, and not only the drink is so-so, but the staff isn't as fast and friendly as I'm used to. And…

Remember that 25-something years old poster that surfaced on Kotaku not long ago? "There's no such thing as Nintendo because Nintendo is not a noun, but an adjective".

The word "LEGO" conveniently sounds like a genderless Russian noun. Genderless nouns sometimes exist in a plural form only. Naturally, being a native Russian, I would say something equivalent to "my Lego" or "my bricks". Funnily enough, that's also kinda against the guidelines, but in a different way.

The opening credits because of the best video game music ever. Also, Phantom Train and Opera house.

This is not limited to Neptunia. I remember some JRPG where armor would go up and down on males, too. Was it Agarest Zero, or something.

I don't even know what "the crew" is and don't really like the cars on top, but I dig this worn-out look on the front panel.

If his cupcakes are plastic props, too - he totally deserved an arrest!

You can't actually have a US PSN account if you don't enter a valid address. Or are they enforcing this more diligently for this settlement?

For some reasons these screens remind me of Daggerfall a lot.

But why is this a bad thing? Well, maybe for those succeptible to gambling addiction it is a threat, they can starve after spending all of their money ingame or something. But for 'normal' players gambling for cosmetic items is rather comfortable compared to 'energy' systems or 'pay-to-win' ones. And it must be rather…

You'd better avoid this, then. It's a trilogy with 3rd entry highly unlikely to be translated ever.

I first played Chrono Trigger when it was re-released for PS One in one of the Final Fantasy antologies along with FF IV. I liked it but wasn't exactly swayed by it. The reason was quite clear and definite, too: primitive leveling. For me, no kind of story can justify lack of extensive party customization in a JRPG.…

Yeah, this stuff is even more crazy than trophy hunting metagame. At least that one has formal rules.

US widely adopted cards long before most other countries. So when they invented new security measures they still had backwards compatibility. Countries who got into this later managed to phase less secure methods out. Something like that I guess

There's MasterCard PayPass. Visa also has something like that. They are pretty widespread. So far I could not understand the alledged convenience of touching a terminal in a coffee shop with my card compared to just sliding it. But they run promotions for PayPass users all the time and it does not add anything to the…

8 and 10(being more or less the same) are THE reasons why I haven't built a gaming PC since 2007. All my previous PCs were made from cheap and/or used parts, and even the used ones were last year's mid-range. I played Morrowind only looking under my feet in cities - otherwise framerate was too low. Stuff like that. It…

I have never played a game in which combat is so thunderous. It doesn't matter if you're ten minutes or ten hours into the game, whenever one of your characters throws a dude's face into the wall, or hits it with a baseball bat, or smashes a noodle joint sign over his head, you will wince. There's a combination of…

>because the PS4 library is already better than the Vita's

When I went under 10% myself, I liked my abs a lot, but my mom and co-workers started asking me if I was sick. Grandpa went so far as to suspect I got aids from my 'disgraceful' lifestyle(not sure what's so disgraceful about it, but he's used to be a colonel, so his standards are...different). One needs to have a…