This was most likely someone buying the game taking out the disc, re-shrinkwrapping it, and returning it. I used to work the service desk at a Target. They always told us to check for signs that the game had been re-sealed.

Weird? It’s a stereotype! It’s not that uncommon for Japan to fawn over foreign celebrities they happen to get in touch with.

Wow, nothing makes you sound quite so pretentious as using the words “rife” and “retrograde” in the same sentence. I guess Nintendo having one of the first original female gaming protagonists, numerous games where Peach DOESN’T have to be rescued (total it up, I bet she is partying, karting, golfing, and adventuring…

I’m the reverse engineer who did the fan translation in 1997 with two friends of mine. I know you think that Butz is a silly name, and I agree, but that’s what it is. His name in Japanese is バッツ (battsu), not バーツ (ba-tsu) as it would be if Bartz were intended. Various Japanese documents also showed his name in Latin…

in all honesty its kinda subjective. personally of the 2D ones THIS one was always the best in my mind. sure 6 had better story and characters. but I always enjoyed 5 a lot more.

The notion that III is better than X or even XII is rank madness.

You see people talk about VI& VII in revered, hushed tones, that they are games that captured people’s hearts.

I love that it’s an ensemble cast and Butz isn’t necessarily The Protagonist. He’s important to the plot, but no more so than any of the others.

I love Final Fantasy V. Played the PS1 version, and whilst it may not be the best version of it, at the time of release I did not care less. To be fair, I think I loved it most for the job system. Taking a Monk, training them up, and then taking their barehanded fighting skill over to a White Mage who could heal and…

Presumably you’re saying JRPGs aren’t real RPGs (not that I disagree with you), but isn’t that a pointless statement when you expected them to not speak about JRPGs in a post entitled “The Year in JRPGS, 2016"?

I sometimes suspect this myself, but then I wonder which executive is kicking back in his office going, “Yeah we’re missing out on $50 million in revenue, but that product is hot as fuck this year ain’t it?”

It’s really alienated some of the old American fans too.

Really? People care that much about something like that?

I think people had low expectations based on what happened with RAGE. It was an okay game that was rushed and incomplete.

They did that with the Gamecube and look what happened.

Step 1. Upgrade Scouts to 20.

Really? I A ranked every mission for the main story (for some reason, Sega decided A is the highest rank you can get in the localized version oppose to S).

Vita memory card prices may be a joke, but the truth is that with how Nintendo keeps games priced you’ll be spending more buying the same amount of games digitally on a 3DS than you ever would on a Vita.

Sounds interesting. Would guess it grabbed your username from your Windows account if it couldn’t do it from your steam account?

Uhhhh what? The manga’s currently 2 seasons or more ahead of the show in plot, so if anything, it’ll end up like FMA Brotherhood because due to the show being outpaced by the manga, the manga will be done by the time the show can catch up.

Very strange question but hopefully sincere enough that my answer helps you…