How have I lived in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong and never had these?! I'm such a fool!

Yep! I honestly don't know how/why I got it. I think I always got a free subscription with each game or something.

It was called InterAction! Here's a link: http://www.sierragamers.com/aspx/m/629714

One of my all-time favorite characters, Erana from Quest for Glory. Her background story was really fantastic, and she was such a great character, even though she was absent for most of the series.

Oh man. I remember reading about that game in the monthly magazine from Sierra (that existed, right?). It was SO high tech!

Well, I've actually lived in Hong Kong, so I wouldn't say I'm overestimating. In fact, I mentioned how a good number of people in HK only speak Cantonese, but the younger generation is definitely more likely to speak some amount of English. They don't have to be fluent. Regardless, as I said before, this is a…

They definitely sound really interesting. I'll add them to my insane backlog.

For those of you getting upset that this woman would demand a Hongkonger speak English, please keep in mind a few things.

I switch back and forth between using it. Right now I'm playing Fire Emblem: Awakening, and I only have 3D turned up during cut scenes. Otherwise, it can really hurt my eyes and noggin if it's on all the time, and since you need to hold it just so to get the effect, I usually have it turned off.

Yeah, I'm sure playing the games would help, but I just can't hack it with first-person games. I think it's from playing Daggerfall as a kid and always getting killed in the very first dungeon by the skeleton waiting to ambush near the exit.

I haven't played either of those games, so I'm curious: how is he "so wrong"?

I randomly became a fan when I saw QFG3 at the local Electronics Boutique and thought it looked cool, so my cousin got it for me for my birthday. I was insanely hooked and even racked up quite a substantial phone bill from calling the rumor hotline and just listening to descriptions of the fourth game, which I had yet…

That's awesome you were able to parlay it into your career! And I hear you about the closeness. I also played a few MUDs and was an admin on a really small one where basically everyone else but me was from Sweden. I know MMORPGs have continued the tradition, but I just could never get into them. I feel like an…

Me too! I had a fansite dedicated to Quest for Glory, which I thought was SO awesome because I was able to use character portraits from the 4th game and no one else was doing it. My favorite part about it was all those crazy webrings or whatever. You would apply to join and when you were accepted, you could put some…

I'm not the biggest anime fan, and I happen to find a lot of anime really difficult to watch. I randomly came across Soul Eater and gave it a go. The first episode was a bit "meh", but I stuck with it, and I ended up really, really enjoying it. It begins as a really comical (almost to a fault) series, but develops a…

Looks pretty good. I'll probably wait a bit to get it since the battle system looks a bit off.

I believe it was Moral Decay. There are a few posts on the MUD's FB page that talk about Sean Smith and how they lost a family member. I of course could be wrong and this could very well be a MUD that they just played together on after meeting on a different MUD.

I think the games I'm more complaining about are the ones that are being converted from a "traditional" handheld to a mobile platform. If a game is made specifically for the mobile platform, then I have no doubts that it can be enjoyable. I actually don't play to many games on my phone, but the ones I do are all…

I was going to say the same. I tried playing one game on my iPhone that had the d-pad and buttons on the screen. It was a total mess. It just didn't feel right. I need me them buttons!

Oddly enough, the only people I've seen do this (or its very close relative of holding a bag over their shoulder in similar fashion) are Japanese. When I lived in Taiwan, I had a bunch of friends from school who were all Japanese (and really great at bowling...), and a few of them would carry their…