The Tidus problem is bigger than just the raw pronunciation, I think, because of Nomura's rather brazen tendency to name the leads of his Final Fantasy games after natural things linked to their personality. Cloud has a murky past, Squall is an emotional hurricane, and Tidus... well, he spends a lot of time in water,…

I think the reason for failure amounts more to the split audience. Gamers familiar with the source material tend to hate what they see because it's not an 'accurate' representation of a game, but games are actually harder, I would argue, than books to translate. They have stories—sometimes minimal—broken up by play…

For the record, everyone should go check his YouTube channel. He has several different characters that he goes through doing stuff like this, and a lot of them are, if not funny, very amusing.

I wouldn't say the 'limited internet access' is getting old simply because it's actually a relevant problem.

It's fairly significant considering the downturn occurred very quickly after the release of a new expansion. Cataclysm pushed them up over the 12 million mark, and then that swell completely reversed. Even the release of new raid content didn't stop the drop off.

Why do you assume that some of us care at all about the auction house? Or any of the online services for that matter? There's a reason to be online if you want the online services. All the 'whiners' don't really seem to care about the data, and don't see the required integration of the connectivity as necessary.

Blizzard places far too much importance on the supposed power of their online connectivity. Generally speaking, the services it provides are meaningless to play with perhaps the exception of match making/party finding, and even then the necessity for that sort of think in Diablo has never been terribly important.

Your examples are all ridiculously flawed because at their core, they're online games. It's impractical for a developer to assume that an MMORPG player will be able to party with people all the time in order to merely level up in this day and age. What you can't do by yourself in those games, however, is get the…

Posing an idea for discussion is significantly different than telling people to go out and do something. Realistically, there will always be insults. That hasn't changed in millenia of human behavior. We simply aren't lovey, cuddly creatures all the time. We get mad, and we say things, and at certain times in…

@RancidManMeat: Dude, I totally did.

In response to the people commenting on his use of the word faggot, I would pose a thought to you. It's a rather ugly thought at first, but it's something that warrants serious discussion. This young man's use of the word faggot in this context (and others like it) is potentially healthy for the evolution of the…

@wohdin: It's got nothing to to with validity. If anything, one is an offshoot of the other. No Shave November, as far as I know, was not originally tied to anything other than growing out your beard because it was November, you were in college, and seriously, fuck shaving.

@GunFlame: Get equipped with Metal Blades: Sony says: You have to package this digitally to distribute.

@yah5: The problem with your scenario is that, if they haven't already used the money to buy a guitar and an amp AND they have sufficient funds, then there is some other barrier to entry. The thing that I wish everyone who makes your argument would understand is that most people who agree with it have already gone…

@Chris Bautista: Thing is, it is a real guitar. It functions in Rock Band via a MIDI controller and can otherwise be plugged into an amp.

@DarkPGR: For the record, the Move was in development before the Wii was ever announced. Tech issues with lighting and the light sensitivity with the globes were what held it back.

I'm looking through these comments and seeing a lot of complaints about set lists, song reuse, calls of hypocrisy regarding Guitar Hero, and so forth. I feel like everyone needs to remember a few things.

@The Anti-Fanboy: While you raise a good point, I would bring up that there's a cost-benefit issue here, especially with as large a leap as this is for music games.

@Erwin: That's partly why I included the 'new technology' thing, cause it's not like MQ even had the promise of new shinies for people to look at that would make them gloss over any other inconsistencies out of awe. Whereas Star Wars was something that created expectation of continuity and broke away radically from…

@Erwin: That analogy makes no sense. With the exception of a couple of entries in the series whose 'sequels' were not counted in the series proper, no Final Fantasy game has ever chronologically fallen out of synch. They weren't trying to insert the beginning to a story they'd already begun in the middle with new…