Fair point, but if company's like Sony and Microsoft didn't make these kinds of exclusive deals that allowed them to have a monopoly of a product, at least for a while, then perhaps nobody would get to enjoy them.

Well, Sony did fork over the money to the studio to actually develop the game, so it is understandable why they would seek to limit it to their console. But their contract with Sony is up, and I don't think they plan on signing another exclusive one again so who knows. Maybe their next game will be available on other…

Hmm. I'll use a different set of features from other games to resolve this dilemma. Lets say you start off the new cycle aware that you lost the time, you skills that you acquired are powered down because you are lvl. 1 with stats to match, which serves as an artificial way to keep the game challenging while not…

I disagree with the critique of XIII. That game more than the other FF games that I have played had a sense of urgency—FFXII was awful, at one point I forgot there was a war going on.

What if failure to complete the game is part of the game? The developers make it seem as if you will be playing multiple playthroughs of the game to get the full sense of it. And we know already that the XIII plays around with time travel and repeating certain events under different conditions.

30 hours of gameplay isn't actually that bad. It certainly will create a different kind of gameplay, as exploration probably won't be that prominent, unless it is connected to a quest. It is fitting in with the style of XIII in which the party only had 13 days to save the world and therefore did not have the option to…

No, it's not, because the visuals is a vessel for carrying the story. If the demo showed what the future hardware would be capable in terms of gameplay, such as what the new WiiU remote will be able to offer players, that would be impressive and meaningful. However, just showing how graphically impressive the next…

People are not going to buy a Square Enix game just because it looks pretty. They will buy a game if the content is good, and thus showing us how breathtaking and impressive the game could look tells us nothing about the content. It's like a book publisher having a press release for the binding of a book, ignoring the…

The problem with fundamentalism is by definition it doesn't allow them to have that humbling experience. To be sure there are many denominations of Christianity and other religions, and in general practicing Christians and other religious folk where that isn't the case but fundamentalism doesn't have that option.…

Only female mules, on very rare occasions, can produce offspring. The kicker my understanding is that if two animals/living things can produce fertile offspring they are the same species, but may have developed different based on natural pressures, and might be on their way to become two separate species. If they can…

Yes, which meant that we weren't two different species yet, but rather two separate trains of the same group that was separated. Plus, I understanding was that Neanderthals weren't the only Homo- ages that our ancestors banged and killed.

This is my question too. If they can still breed with other lions, calling them an new species seems a bit much, and conversation status to product a breed seems a bunch unless the genetic pool of lions will somehow be damaged because this particular trait dies off.

Home's central area is the Hub and that's a good description of what Home actually is. It plays to different people's taste. You can buy modern looking apartments or fantasy dungeons, wear "designer" clothes or a turkey on your head, shoot people or go swiming. So you get a huge cross section of people, that develop…

Well, they aren't really evolving, and for as impressive as this is the biological animals are still way more complex. Given the hurdles nature had to overcome, and seeing as it had literary nothing to base any idea from, I would argue that nature still has this beat and will always be comparatively further ahead.

All great things, and I am all for funding NASA more. The problem is NASA and the people who advocate to continue and expand NASA's funding have not been making the practical pragmatic pitches. Instead, the most vocal has been people talking about all genuinely nice and great lofty things, but things out of scope of…

I can't agree with you more. Sure it looks fantastic, and a part of any good FF game is the visuals, but honestly I would probably get more excited if news broke this afternoon that Square had hired the story makers from Lost Odyssey than I would looking at the above image.

It's doesn't have to be AAA. I bought a PSP to play Dissidia, and later I bought a bunch of games to play, like Birth By Sleep, etc etc.

Maybe with the exception of AC III, and that isn't my cup of tea but I know for some people it is, all of these games here look like good games to buy once you already have a Vita, they don't seem to be games you go out and buy a Vita to play.

Is that the official line on how the ballots should be read. I know there was some issues with a lot of ballots have a blank on the first questions, but having the second questions filled out. So is it 62% of the 54% or is that people just skipped to what is their preference.