I've got a gaming laptop from 2009 I'm trying to run it on. It is right at the minimum requirements, with the graphics card being higher than the minimum. Runs very smoothly at the lowest settings, but every few minutes it slows to a snails pace for 30-45 seconds. If I could figure out how to fix this, it would be…

But JOE-tune sounds so much cooler :)

I've avoided replaying FFVIII for years and years because of this. What I'd also really love is some kind of way to turn off random encounters, because they get terribly annoying.

I got to the end of the game (as far as I know!), the very last level, and I remember wandering around in my mech or whatever confused and not knowing where to go. And I never went back! Sad. I don't know if there was no Gamefaqs in 1998 or what, or maybe there was nothing on there to help me. The incessant random…

Yeah, that demo was the only reason I bought Tobal No. 1.

Forgot I ever even played this demo until now. I never bought Parasite Eve until the PSN version, though, so I wonder how the heck I ever managed to play this.

When Sony locked me out of my PSN account and wouldn't give it back, the BBB helped me. I'll always be grateful for that.

I agree with you, but comparing them to murderers seems a little over the top.

All I know is that when Sony wouldn't let me have my PSN account back (after they blamed me for getting hacked—it was actually Gawker that was at fault, ironically!), I complained to the BBB, and the BBB got them to give me my account back. So personally, I care what the BBB thinks. I love Steam, but if I got…

I just can't imagine Nintendo going for that kind of depth. Usually the best we get (which is pretty good!) is a 4th-wall-breaking comment from a Toad directed at game reviewers or something. I haven't played the game though, so I don't know! I love X-COM too, though, so I hope we like Steam! I feel like I can…

You didn't like FFX?? That's the one that got me to go back and play VIII and IX after they sort of lost me at VII.

(I guess I liked 12, too, but it wasn't really a Final Fantasy. Lost Odyssey was way more of an FF than FF12. Those buggers.)

I just always get stuck starting over. I don't know. Maybe I just have a problem. I was playing Baldur's Gate like crazy, but I stopped a month ago. I can't believe it's a month. I'm sure hoping I can get back into it, because there's no way I'm going to restart!

I have enough crap in my life already. It gets to be a little ridiculous carting things around, and my poor mother still has a boatload of my old stuff at her house.

It just looks a little weird is all. The ship, and maybe even Link, look cel-shaded and polygonal. With a Super FX chip, we could probably have done the polygons, but I think the fake retro thing just looks "modern" because it sort of replicates a cel-shaded look.

How do you play a game, stop, and then continue playing it a year later? I wish I could figure it out. I've started so many games, then wasted time re-starting them.

I wish it would get a re-release. I want to get rid of my Xbox 360.

Dragon Quest VI’s encounters failed the moment they started interrupting my every move. These disruptions discouraged exploration because they felt like an endless loop: 10 seconds of movement launched into 50 seconds of battles. The stop-and-go nearly drove me mad, and I decided to give DQVI a year-long break.

It's not, which is why when it happened to me, I filed with the BBB, and Sony were pretty quickly kissing my butt.

Mine got hacked in 2009. Sony wouldn't believe me, treated me like a criminal on the phone, and were generally just douchy to me. I filed with the Better Business Bureau, and all of a sudden they were calling me and doing all they could to help me.

Hehe... I admit they're compact and stuff. Actually, I have used laptops for years now (used to buy and upgrade and fiddle with desktop PCs), so maybe I'm just as guilty. I do miss the days of having a nice, upgradeable PC, which you don't really get with laptops or apparently "all-in-ones". (Glad to know what it…