As a person who was born on September 16 and moved from subtropical climate to moderate and then up to the Baltic, I must say that

Wow, that’s probably why in Russia we have Feb 23 and March 8 as ‘gender holidays’ for men and women respectively. Never crossed my mind it was to fight that ‘New Years-to-Easter Highway of Darkness’ feel. We have a holiday-dry season from June to October though. But summer is great even without the holidays.

Where’s Yakuza 5? Didn’t you play it?

Why would they release it now is beyond me. Between Trails in the sky SC and Yakuza 5, I’m not open for more JRPG until late January at the very least. Just because of time concerns. Now all the holiday shopping motivates me not to buy it day one if I don’t need it right now, too.

The problem I have with dungeon crawling in Persona is that it is too stale. Unlike FF that reinvents the whole system every time, Persona is too afraid to break its (very good btw) core mechanic and only introduces slight changes. So if you played P3 or P4 you more or less know how are you going to go about getting…

I wonder what was paid to which party to secure the game for PS+. That was probably THE reason for it to become popular so they may have actually paid Sony for promotion instead of getting paid! On the other hand, $50m is like couple millions of sales outside of PSPlus, did they sell that much?

I dunno, I like the long title better. It sounds like Regular Show characters had a contest thinking up badass death metal band names and this one was the winner.

She can be sued but if she doesn’t have shit that won’t do much good would it?

Sorry but after falling for ‘Man, Black Flag is really good don’t let awful III ruin your Assassin’s Creed love’ I’m not touching another Assassin’s Creed unless it’s on Playstation Plus(then, maybe, I’ll think about it).

What the hell is Fallout 3 doing in the list of games ‘considered sacred by the hardcore gaming community’.

Religious people would usually bake ‘kulich’ (basically Russian name for panettone, I can’t tell of any significant the difference in look, shape or taste) themselves and then bring it to the church to get a blessing. Non-religious people just won’t care about the stuff. Although stores do carry quite a selection of…

In Russia you also wouldn’t get Panettone for Christmas. It’s Easter food!

This makes me think that all the hate fruitcake gets in the US is because of exposure to awful varieties. I never even tried supermarket-bought fruitcake and I absolutely love the stuff, be it homemade or from an artisan bakery. Although here in Russia it is not made with candied fruit but with dried ones so maybe…

This thing in your picture makes me want to vomit, if only just a little.

You can buy oreo pie crusts!

That’s last resort measure. I did it a couple of times in the past for jap games that took too long to come to Europe(or never did) and each time I encountered new obstacles. First psn would not allow my non-US card so I buy codes from Amazon, then Amazon won’t sell me US codes with my non-US billing address so I have…

Wait, Yakuza 5 w/English subtitlesis out? US only, I presume?

Seconded.

Good for them, but MS’d have to do way more than that to sway me over. I had all the consoles last generation and that was really a waste. Now with their so-so launch I got myself a PS4 last holiday season(which I don’t even play all that much because quality JRPGs that eat most of my gaming time are still mostly on…

I don’t understand this thing with Americans whining they don’t have enough disposable income. How much can you save? 10% is very responsible. 20% is a bit over the top imo. Now even if you save a quarter of your overall money, you still have 75% left. Unless you live in abject poverty(which is not the case we’re…