It was experimenting, and in some places it was received really well and others not to much. Square had a similar battle style in Last Remnant, a game that had a log of lag and technical problems (though not as bad as people make it out to be) and had one of the best battle systems this gen I think. You controlled…

That is very true. X-2 was a lot happier. It was a good epilogue to the story and world of X, and I think that is what they were going for. The story focused on recovery, healing, and moving on from the devastation of X.

What hurt XIII was the fact that you won't just change one character's job, but had to change the entire party. However, the system did fit in with the developers intention to make combat more focused on the unit as a whole rather than individual characters.

Well, because it is the job and battle system that allows you to actually role play in the game. So why people play it for the battle and job system seems pretty obvious.

Why do your protagonists need a more concrete connection beyond that? There are enough real world geo-political trouble that stem from "that's where they're from" that such a basis seems adequate for setting a story.

I think pacing was an issue, but I see why they made the decisions they did. Like I know a lot of people mentioned the lack of towns, which I missed too, but we were told that on Pulse Fang and Vanille were the last survivors and on Cocoon they were all being hunted down by the police.

Cocoon, save for Fang and Vanille, is the home of all of characters. We know that from the very opening movie. Did we really need more of an explicit connection to see why they would want to save it and the people on it and not just let Barthandelus (Orphan technically) to destroy it. It's their home, it's where their…

It's never explained because that wasn't the point of the story. Lightening back story as to how or why she became a soldier is irrelevant. The same for all of the other characters. Remember Hope and his mother only ended up as part of the Purge because they were literally at the wrong place at the wrong time.

What more did you need to know or have develop about the characters from XIII? Hope was a teenage boy bent on revenge, because he blamed Snow for his mother's death. Lightning was a dedicated military trained soldier, that broke the rules to rescue her sister. Snow was a immature bro who felt as if he had to be the…

I don't think Infinite was mocking religion, so much as the game was criticizing what happens when people take it to the extreme, like requiring a baptism to enter state. Mocking implies some form downplaying the significance of the subject, whereas I think Infinite was trying to say that religion taken too far can be…

I played Drakengard 3, but the gameplay never really caught one with me. It felt choppy and really simple, like just slashes with a finish combo. It lacked fluidity. And the world was not really fun to explore. The towns were barren. You just had huge open fields with pretty much nothing in them.

I think it's a great idea. If they do, I hope they release the international one that gave you a bit more freedom with controlling AI.

Well this is a fun recent development. Glad to see the X-2 coming to the Vita as well. I really loved that game. Glad to see my Vita catalog expanding a bit. I don't know what the development challenges are, but in addition to bringing out new games for the system I've always thought bringing back old PS2 games to the…

This isn't actually one of my favorite Storm games for a couple of reasons. The biggest is that I think the game series is at turning point, where instead of being principally a fighting game, the game series wants to be a action adventure game with an optional fighting game on the side. In the past the game has…

Why always this false choice, why can't we do both? Why can't you set a action game in the Middle-East where one of the characters has to go in and save their same-sex partner from an authoritative regime?

I don't understand what's the problem with a little diversity of characters and reflected backgrounds. The classic model of your standard Caucasian heterosexual male protagonist seems out of place in a world that is sociologically as diverse as ours. So, yes, the mediums that people consume should reflect the people…

Why? Bart, Lisa, Stewie, Brian, Fry, etc from the plethora of ageless animated characters have not aged since they came on air. Bonnie just had a baby after like a decade long pregnancy.

These we actually my first Zelda games. I got Seasons while my brother got Ages. Like seasons better, but maybe I chose a different partner. They were great game though. Will probably pick them up again.

Then you could have two Normal types, or possibly a Dragon type as the alternative with scales.

You might be on to something here. Another thing to point out is that when new Eevee's are introduced they come in pairs and one is based on a type that is super effectiveness against the other. Espeon was weak to Umbreon, and Leafeon was weak to Glaceon. If Sylveon is Normal it stands to reasonably guess the other…