Forearm, sailor.

Chrono Cross would be on equal ground with Chrono Trigger if not for its unfortunate character design, which is offensive and bordering on amateurish (excluding Kid, Fargo, Starky, Glenn, Harley, and Lynx (and maybe a few others I'm forgetting)). If you can get past that, it's an absolute blast.

BS - unless you were playing someone else's New Game +.

Maybe not with that exact wording, but the following article by Totilo compares Nintendo to Sega when it gave up on making hardware and started "zipping through home console iterations really quickly," and suggests that Nintendo "abandons making hardware and makes games for other companies' hardware." There isn't…

Kotaku's general sentiment toward the Wii U has been cautiously negative, which, given the sales data, is perhaps a natural conclusion. While they may not have published your quoted statements outright, they have made unsolicited projections on Nintendo's future, and (aside from the 3DS) have generally treated…

That art style might fly if it was another sitcom, such as Friends, and the removal of all comedic timing wouldn't make that franchise any better or worse - but this deserves a cease and desist (and a shame on you, as well as a "why?") directly from Seinfeld et al. Also, it's "fourth," not "forth," Wario64.

Just a blank DVD in a branded box.

Coming soon, in Super Mario Bros. Crossover 4.0

It's not news:
http://www.slate.com/articles/healt…

And there's the cigars again. At any rate, effective debaters do their research/know what they're talking about. Check out the Windows video game sales share on the second graph (spoiler: it's the highest, and has been since 1995):

I don't know how to ride a horse, high or otherwise, but it sure seems you do. It's not my mentality, but that of Chinese businessmen (whose mentalities are therefore decidedly Eastern) - I'm merely sharing their opinions which I found interesting. I see you're being told the same thing in another thread - maybe…

Somewhere in each book I've read about Chinese industry, a Chinese business owner will be quoted as such: "Chinese aren't creative, we steal blueprints from factories and make cheaper versions of existing products." Cheap products that don't offer any innovations cannot dominate.

You do realize that by sharing the work of Disney mashup "artists" you're encouraging the production of more Disney mashup "art."

My thoughts exactly on reading the headline. Social media, specifically twitter, has empowered individuals and expanded their reach, and crowdfunding has instilled a false sense of authority over content - as a result, fans and amateur critics are conflating the ability to recognize a story or franchise as something…

742 Evergreen Terrace?

One additional note - The Fabula Nova Crystallis collection, which you touched on, is an excuse for Squenix to make 6 games (13, 13-2, 13 Returns, Agito, Type-0, and XV) without having to come up with 6 different core ideas and mythologies - it looks to me like a failed attempt at hiding lazy conceptualization.

That's like saying sports games are dead because EA is the only developer making them. For as long as there have been JRPGs there have only been 1 or 2 developers of quality JRPGs at any given time.

Lost Odyssey was incredible - stimulating, difficult, and well written - Mistwalker's followup, The Last Story (which I just completed), was sadly mediocre - it felt like there was a good game in there, but that budget and time constraints had stifled the project. Did you play Xenoblade? JRPGs aren't dead as long as…

Wow, all of those plot lines a simple mobile rythym game can't hope to realize, and all of those cutscenes that it can't render really make this game seem like a tacky cash grab when you slap them together in a mediocre commercial.

2) This whole damn premise is faulty in the first place, because JRPGs have never actually needed a comeback, as evidenced by the fact that pundits look around and asked questions like "are JRPGs making a comeback?" every single year.