I really enjoyed the DS version, even though I understand it's kind of considered a bastardization.

Not exactly what you're asking, but there's a face on the moon landmark at the end of Final Fantasy IV that I fucked with endlessly, because it was so distinct, I figured it had to do something. No one just puts something in a video game just for the sake of having it there. But it really was just decoration. Later…

I'm doing a face, which is a little tough since I'm not used to having a main protagonist who has to sit out most fights.

Does it? I get irritable with insane difficulty spikes. But the music, tho…

I bought HK specifically on the recommendation of a friend who sampled them all like a wine flight and found it to be the best one. I'm glad you think so, too.

Now that I've completed the meat of Deus Ex, I'm going back to poke around at all the quests in the margins I missed out in my haste to attend to the central mission.
My favorite is when you have a conversation with some rando about how, just maybe, naturals and augs aren't so different after all, and then you leave…

I think part of why it holds up relatively well is the really outlandish character designs. Not just with Unicron -an actual batwinged, bearded devil robot- but the Junkions, Galvatron's fleet, and especially The Quintessons. Bizarre five-aspect-faced sociopath bureaucrats? It's just too strange. The movie gets…

For the sake of humanity, I hope you're right.

When you have the leisure of being in city limits where options live, I completely agree. But when you're coming up on Tomah, WI and it's been nothing but arid, Midwestern flatlands for hours, a Subway sub starts looking pretty dang okay.

Nobody chooses Subway to be popular.

Yeah, exactly.

Hey, I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for your opinions and insights. Even, and sometimes especially, when they don't match up with mine. I have honestly yet to find another games section with a readership as dedicated to engaging topics in a serious and insightful way. It's a not-insignificant part of what…

He chose the right time to retire. I'm a pretty big apologist for the show, and I had a pretty tough time with the last couple of seasons. My wife would reflexively shut it off if I left it on the radio and wandered off. But at it's best, I kind of thought of it like the Muppet Show: a loving and self-aware tribute to…

I'd say a solid 15% of my youth was spent falling asleep in the backseat of the car as we drove across the expanse of South Dakota nothingness while listening to Prairie Home Companion.

Keillor is underrated as an essayist. Even as Prairie Home Companion has eroded away into mushy nothingness the last few years, he's continued to write a lot of very sharp pieces. The not-unearned reputation of the show as being a soothing AARP bromide disguises the fact that he's a smart, insightful thinker. I'm…

The series has always had fantastic names. The aforementioned Toadie and Toe-Cutter, Bubba Zanetti, The Night Rider, Johnny the Boy, Ironbar, Dr. Dealgood, Pig Killer, Mr. Skyfish, Anna GoAnna. So on and so forth…

Everything in 40k is so oversized and baroque, it's hilarious. The characters, the designs and the writing is just brimming with operatic ornamentation.

For real. It's pretty tough to pick a favorite Mad Max name. I'd roll around on a bed strewn with them like flower petals if I could.

I was too late to submit to this one, but without question, Imperator Furiosa. It's the perfect culmination of George Miller's rhythmic gonzo-apocalypse naming conventions. Authority undercut by a perfect note of absurdity.

You bring up a lot of very good points. I wonder how different it would be if, while walking through the streets of Prague, cops or others would go out of their way to shoulder you. Maybe even take a bit of health off. Because even though you have to occasionally show your papers, or go through the segregated aug…