Matter of taste, I suppose. I don't think it was the character models I disliked so much but the 3D world, which confused my brain and just all seemed abstract to me. I always wanted a 3D remake of FFIV, but even on a PS2 or PSP...

I had at least one, probably both, of these awful things.

Yeah, I made a decision ages ago to stop playing games that piss me off. I kind of broke my own promise when I played GTA V (those games always make me irrationally angry, even with the new "skip" feature). I will renew my promise now, and when a game makes me angry, I will just let it go, and if I can't, I won't…

Seriously? They looked awful on DS.

3DS port? You mean DS port?

I don't get why they don't sharpen this up or something instead of continuing to release the DS version over and over. The DS version was hideous to begin with on a system that was not capable of attractive 3D, and now it's been re-released on many far more capable systems yet still looks pretty much just as bad,…

I still think that's pretty darn impressive! Not telepathy, I don't suppose, but you did make a darn good inference, either through logic or just intuition. You might make a fine editor.

This has made me kind of interested in playing this. Is it any good? I know Mike doesn't like it, but I really have no experience with the genre. (I do like the idea of it and enjoy turn-based strategy games, and I don't mind waiting a day between turns or whatever...)

Nice catch, which apparently involved telepathy. I'm impressed.

Yuck, look at that d-pad! My stereotype of Japanese people being exceedingly clean has just been shattered. Guess none of the used Japanese electronics I've purchased have ever come from this guy. He nasty. (Yes, has to be a he. More stereotypes. No Japanese lady is that nasty.)

I remember when game manuals were almost always at least 100 pages. Maxis had the best manuals of all. The SimAnt and SimEarth manuals were absolutely awesome. Manuals then shrank down to the size of post-it notes. At least with digital games, we can now have giant manuals again since they don't have to spend…

Oh, okay. Thanks. *annoyance subsides*

Well that's lame. The status just reset this summer. I'm already gold (!), but I'm definitely not platinum yet, although I was last year.

Hmm. The real question: what kind of PC does it take to run it decently at 720p? (i.e. will I be able to make it look as good or better than the janky PS3 version I've already played—at least the load times on my PC would be a billion times better!)

It actually looks quite beautiful and at home up there! Like something out of Star Wars, where we frequently saw very old "high-tech" sort of low-tech stuff, beaten up and in a natural environment.

Your opinion is wrong in this case. :)

Bahamut Lagoon and Terranigma are both available in English, too, thanks to a fan patch for Lagoon. Great games. A real shame they never got official NA releases. Pretty much a travesty, actually.

Yes.

what? His live vocals sound great. You try rocking out when you're 70. I'll wait. I'd rather watch hear Paul (or you at 70) than some obnoxious 20-something deluded twat.

That'd mean a whole new generation of gamers could play through the Xenosaga trilogy, which was released for PS2 earlier this decade as a spiritual successor to the classic RPG Xenogears. Though director Tetsuya Takahashi hoped to develop six Xenosaga games, financial realities forced him to stick to three, which saw…