Yaoi is targeted more towards a female audience, while gay men have their own thing. It's called "bara", and usually features big guys with lots of muscles. Sadly, while yaoi is still pretty under-appreciated here in the west, bara is even more scarce, which is probably why you don't hear people raving about it as…

Good to hear that it's still in the works. I was honestly worried for a while there. I really enjoyed Street Fighter X Tekken, but honestly, I was looking forward to Tekken X Street Fighter a lot more. It'll be great to see classic Street Fighter characters rendered in Tekken's realistic style and fighting in…

Oh man, there's way too many to choose from. I love battle themes and boss music. A good song can turn even the simplest encounter into a dramatic life-or-death struggle. "Master of Shadow" is a really good one.

You're kind of right, kind of wrong. A lot of crime boils down to a simple of matter of "I don't have that, and I want it." People do horrible things because they have no other way of acquiring what they want, or the proper channels require far too much time and effort for too little payoff.

I'm only 30, and I've already noticed similar tendencies in myself. Many new technologies seem absolutely pointless at best, and downright harmful at worst, while the kids who use them every day would consider me stodgy and old-fashioned. The older you get, the more chances you have of being screwed over, and this…

Personally, it depends on the game. I've bought guides for fighting games in the past, just to have the movelists readily at hand, but with all the patching and updating going on in the genre nowadays, printed guides quickly become obsolete.

I'm all over the place as well. As an trophy hunter, I'll skim through a guide before playing, just to see if there are any missable trophies that would require a huge time investment to acquire if I don't nab them the first time, but by and large, I like to play through the game once without any sort of help. There…

One thing both have in common is that they cater to a lowest common denominator. I suppose when you cater to that sort of audience, you have to expect a whole lot of unreasonableness.

I've seen you posting the same thing all across the comments, and... your heart is in the right place, it really is! I'd love to see a wider range of respectable female characters and sexualized men in games, but you're coming into the argument with some really insulting misconceptions that hinder rational discourse…

I'm tired of focus groups and the endless parade of Call of Duty clones too, but those sentiments can be expressed without being a total asshole. The guy makes a retro platformer with a gimmick, and suddenly that gives him the right to casually insult millions of people, including the people giving him money.

That's not really a good thing in the long run. Yeah, these kids are horrible people and need to be punished for their behavior, or partitioned off from the rest of the community, but I'd rather not do away with internet anonymity just so a bunch of people won't get their feelings hurt.

Well, Fish is being Fish again. A huge drama queen and an asshat.

It's a shame that visual novels, especially erotic ones, are so quickly written off over here in the West. Sure, some of them trot out the flimsiest of excuses to show some skin. Some of them blatantly cater to extremely specific fetishes. But a lot (and I mean A LOT) of them accomplish something that people in the…

Honestly, there isn't that much sex in the show. Sure, it's there, and important to the plot in many instances, but it's not 60 straight minutes of porn. Entire episodes go by without any nudity.

Not a big fan of religion myself. Not to the point of being a militant atheist or anything, but guys like this protestor here... he's the reason why so many people get their panties in a twist and start fights.

I'm enjoying this. Sure, some of these series run for many years, but at least they come to a satisfying end, with closure. Compare that to most mainstream western comics, that keep going and going, until they run out of ideas and reset the universe.

What exactly is wrong with the art style? Star Ocean has always been pretty anime.

If you've been following this game at all, sex does seem to play a role in the story. The heroine herself is accompanied by four male followers, whom she sleeps with.

No, you're... actually quite wrong. In a scary way. I agree, the kid is a dumbass and needs to be punished for it, but we can't allow our justice system to imprison people for what they "might have done", when absolutely none of the context and none of the evidence suggests that they had the means or desire to carry…

I'unno. Some people like to own their games?