With only a few exceptions, the JRPG system is on the overworld and the action RPG is in the dungeony explorey areas.

That smile. Clearly, he has no idea what's coming to him. No idea the sort of evils he'll face. He's innocent - for now.

How about a weapon wheel DLC. I'd buy that. I'd spend actual money to have the combat be what I consider to be enjoyable.

If Sam doesn't give a lengthy lecture about how he "can't use these things together" when he gets a bad hand, I'll be disappointed

Fez won the 2012 grand prize.

but not a massive egregious death beam!

That iron man bit should be a Morph Ball upgrade in a Metroid game. Morph Ball Death Beam.

Okay, I'm all for this. I love the idea of this. It's wonderful to see the video game medium used to recreate history like this.

Looking at it more, I also feel like the front page is a little too zoomed in. HUGE images and little text. Not sure I like that.

I'm slightly wary of "must be followed by Kotaku", but if it works, I suppose it works. I will say that I think the layout is - visually - far better than it was before. The blinding WHITEWHITEWHITE makes me miss those old hues of pink and green even more though.

Well that's news.

Yep, missing one sentence totally means I didn't read the article.

"Warcraft, TF2, Minecraft, Starcraft"

Not surprising - Diablo 1 was VERY good on the Playstation. Wonder if they'll add local co-op to the D3 port.

Ultima 7 basically pioneered open world activities. It was damned amazing at the time for the sheer amount of ways you can interact with the world. For that matter, each game in the series pretty much had radically different mechanics and game engine.

I was going to make a sarcastic post, but meh. No point.

I was wondering that myself, then realistic Slenderman ruined it.

They can only attack you if you go into the tall grass.

It's more like someone making a picture of the Mona Lisa with a moustache. In other words, like this.

People have re-recorded Beatles and Elvis songs with all sorts of different voices. I think the fancy word for that is cover.