I love The Onion AV Club for their movie and music reviews, but their video game department shouldn't really be compared to other review outlets. While occasionally they are on point with their reviews, they overall tend to review things from the perspective of a casual player who happens to know a lot about the…

As long as it doesn't make me feel weird when I play it, like FFX-2 did, then I'm down.

A short message to tempest-lord, creator of #18: you sir, have won the internet for today.

@Courteous_Gentleman: It will be soon. The game does take its time opening up, but once it does it's very satisfying. Wait until you get the ability to play around with paradigms, the crystarium, and item upgrading. If you still aren't loving it, then by all means trade away. But once those things are available…

@M1911: Broncos fan here, and I couldn't agree more. I never liked Cutler. What's the point in being able to throw the ball 70 yards when it's just going to be an interception? Not that Orton was a big improvement, but I'll take the QB with brains any day.

I'll put in a larger review later, but here are flash impressions of someone about 20 hours in:

@Michael Dukakis: You've been reading my journal again!

@XAIO: So simple, so awesome.

@spannu: Well it's just as universal, I'll give you that.

@Nudgenudge: I love when you talk about Sudoku and someone always says they don't like it because they're "not into math." Dude. Math has nothing to do with it. You can replace the numbers with types of pizza and it would still be doable. I remember looking in an ESPN magazine a few years ago and they used…

@VincentGrey: I'm with you on almost all of those points. My opinions on games has been very story-centric lately (I guess ME spoiled me), and I've heard mixed things about FF's story. I remember when the first real meaty trailer came out, and my friend was watching it with me laughing screaming "what is going on?!"

Owen...under the Airhead Intelligence negative, you mention "Road to the Show," when I think you mean "My Player." Unless I'm not reading right and you're making an off-hand comparison to MLB The Show. Just an observation.

@Lezard: No, those are the signs of a writer not adhering to a particular style you deem as "normal." I'm not necessarily saying Tim compares the he following authors, but Hunter S. Thomson, Bret Easton Ellis, and Kurt Vonnegut are highly talented writers who have a tendency to ramble, repeat points ad nauseum, and…

@Lezard: Um, so don't read it? Unless you were in some bizarre Saw-like game where reading it was the only way to escape getting brutally killed, I fail to see why this has affected you enough to develop strong opinions as to why the article was a failure. There was nothing grammatically or journalistically (I do…

@超外人: Waaaaait hold up. Did you really just call Field of Dreams a horrible movie? I mean, I'm not defending Iowa and I'm certainly not defending Kevin Costner as he certainly has a lot of turdbombs in his portfolio. But...Field of Dreams horrible? One of the best and most respected baseball movies ever made is…

That soundtrack was pretty cool. And jetpacks are always fly (pun may or may not have been intended). But I dunno...am I the only one who's just not sold on this yet? I know it's early but come on Bungie...do something creative with your franchise for once. Not trolling here, I love the Halo franchise but I have…

@TechnoAtom: Wait wait wait...just to confirm: you can solo level now in FFXI? I used to play this game back in the day, but honestly didn't have the time to dedicate to constantly finding parties just to level. I've always thought about coming back because I really did like the game aside from that, but never did…

@pandafresh: Just to add to what bakagaijin said...this game is also a SERIOUS time commitment. You can't really casually play FFXI. While they've made it better over the years, the core dynamics remain the same. This isn't WoW where you can put in an hour or so and make modest level progression. FFXI demands much…

Sweet, something to play on my 3 hour round trip daily commute.

@Kanji08: You are the man and a complete gentleman for actually typing out that PL walkthrough. If I could star you, I would.