Love Star Trek. Loved the puns! Also love Voyager! I denyyy nothing!

Latinum is in TNG and Voyager as well I thought...

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Sounds familiar... come home, eat dinner, watch TV, then most of my gaming occurs between 11-12 when my wife falls asleep on the couch and I have a window before I have to wake her up, give her medicine, and we go to bed (midnight is bedtime). If I’m awake enough I sometimes then get back up and play from…

Bah nevermind - didn’t read closely and honestly thought you guys were talking about Stalchild ... yes, Redeads were terrifying!

I think those are actually Stalchild’s:

I actually remember enjoying the collecting since each character’s stuff to collect required the unique capabilities of that character. Probably helped that I played it when I had unlimited time and limited games, so I wasn’t as concerned with the game respecting my time as I am now. Looooved the DK rap in the opening…

Looks like the Tetris Wiki keeps a curated list of non-official tetris games: http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_g…, http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Fan_game and as I figured, googling “open source tetris” yields plenty of results... even numerous tutorials on coding up your own version in javascript, python, etc.…

yeah, I see the general sense of sport as any kind of competition, and a professional sport is a competition that the competitors play primarily to earn money (it’s no longer about being better, or having fun, it’s about earning money). The type of activity isn’t that important. You could say it needs to be something…

With so much text having already been translated between the two games, it makes me wonder if an automated machine-learning based translation would make a decent starting point for the 3rd. For reference, where some translation algorithms are based on language-to-language dictionaries, others are based on…

Mario Sports Mix ...

Yeah, I always kinda wondered if Jason Schreier would’ve liked Xenoblade Chronicles better if he’d spent more time with it... game took a long time fully experience and I think a lot of the complexity of the combat, armor, leveling, party management, etc came in the later portions. Most of his criticisms were spot on…

some kind of crazy squid racing where you paint your course as you go?

yeah, looking back, it's like the entire journey up the bionis is the 20-40 hour intro...

Unfortunately some of the great character moments were the entirely optional relationship moments scattered around the map that you had to unlock and activate, or some of the character quests that add 4th and 5th skill trees. That and since Xenoblade was underwhelming for Jason (which really disappointed me since…

Yeah playing Last Story right after Xenoblade really hit home how a fantastic story and combat can be packaged much more efficiently. I think a 60 hour game is my sweet spot for RPGs... Last Story was <30 where Xenoblade was easily 100+ hours. Yeah there were tons of fetch quests, but I'd argue that even without them…

I was so blown away by the sheer quantity of breath taking moments like that... just make you want to explore it... And then you can!

Yeah, while xenoblade on the wii had lots of really interesting locations, they didn't often influence the combat all that much since most fighting was done in close quarters. There is a stealth aspect where terrain possibly affects how easy it is to get around a monster undetected. Also some areas are easy to fall…

I was truly shocked at the draw distances in Xenoblade on the wii - like an order of magnitude more than any other wii game I can think of. It looks like they want to continue bringing on the amazing environments, which will be even better in HD.

Is everyone convinced enough that we all want JRPGs to stir the pot with another round of "JRPGs are dead" articles? Gotta love how the market oscillates wildly while human nature and what we find fun mostly doesn't change - it just expresses itself in fads in response to our changing culture. Anyone think folks will…