Two things stand out when I think back to Harsh Realm:

Please tell me the chrome exports have not been affected.

Terrific review, it was nice to reflect a little about the company and the people behind this game. Back in 2011 I had an issue with LA Noire freezing on Xbox 360 and posted a video on YouTube to see if anyone else was having similar issues. Rockstar contacted me and asked if they could see my 360 to try to see what…

From a purely visual standpoint, I feel like at least part of Tsukiji’s charm was the curving architecture and dark grittiness. The straight, clean lines of Toyosu aren’t as visually interesting and like the tweet above said, like a Costco. Tsukiji of course is like a weathered antique compared to something right of…

There’s a similar section of highway in Crackdown where the AI drive like total maniacs. Apologies for the quality, it was a long time ago.

“Get to the next floor” is a cool idea. Picture it possibly in a “silo” from the Silo series of books:

Hey Sweden!

PROM? No, DOM!

I wholeheartedly agree. My first car was a 1979 FJ40 Land Cruiser and I drove it from 16 years old to 21 without a speeding ticket in it. It had no tachometer but it was quite obvious that 65 was about all it wanted to do. If it did get above 70, you could almost watch the fuel gauge move to the left if you could take…

I don’t know how popular this arcade/game center is (in Kawasaki, modeled after Kowloon Walled City), but they really went the extra mile with the design.

Exactly how I felt about DR1. In fact, my first playthrough I failed a lot and while I made it to the end, I felt like I basically made it by the skin of my teeth and felt a little disappointed. Then I picked it up a few months later with the goal of getting the Zombie Genocider achievement and suddenly I had that…

You nailed it, gawking at the “bazaar of the bizarre” (and participating in it any way you see fit). This brought back memories of GTAIV Online for me, and it was just one night of mayhem for me. A bunch of loosely-knit Xbox friends were all playing it one night, so we started a session with nothing in mind (I don’t…

Also Chester from Sifl and Olly... although he kept cereal in his pockets for the ladies.

Andy Kaufman has gone a long, long way for this one. The reveal will be fantastic.

This may have also played into why he was found relatively unscathed: he found his way onto an SDF facility and was able to find shelter in a building because it was unlocked. Maybe neither of those were an oversight on the part of the SDF. Not your property? Stay off. Not your building? Stay out. No need for fences…

“You’ve Got Male”?

Nice! While visiting my sister in Tokyo we were stopped one day on a shinkansen at a station and we saw a bunch of people with cameras running by on the platform. A minute later a yellow blur flew by and it started an obsession with finding the Doctor again. I caught a quick video from a bridge after we stalked it on…

Planetfall (specifically what happens to your robot companion, Floyd, late in the game) was the first videogame to make me cry. Well, not counting any tears of frustration anyway. It was at college in the early 90s and I remember sitting there thinking, “wow, I just got teary over a videogame. That is awesome!”

Here’s the luggage staging area at Nine Hours:

Agreed! Coincidentally, here’s another shot from the same trip my grandfather took of a From Russia With Love billboard in Hong Kong.