You're ruining all my dreaaaaaams

Holy crap. The only thing better than Type-0 on Vita would be Type-0 on PS3. Do it, Squeenix! Don't let this game go unreleased here in the West when it's the single most exciting title you've released since TWEWY!

The PS1 version was a huge part of my childhood. Music I normally wouldn't listen to but totally fit the game; that awesome feeling of progression as you stashed away some cash to save for a newer, better bike and watched the cutscene that showed it off to you; the mostly-pointless schmoozing with rival bikers in the…

Kinda disagree! The settings for the levels that don't really matter tend to be Disney ones, but then any of the important story locations tend to be this new Nobody/Org13/MultipleAnsem stuff. Most of which is pretty dire. It's like the Disney levels are just forced on them, and that's the story they want to (badly)…

Frankly it doesn't bloody mess enough! The first game had a good balance between FF cameos (which aren't nearly so embarrassing or gratuitous as Dissidia's), Disney tributes and original content. The later games just set fanfiction that was barely related to the first game in a few Disney levels, had one or two…

No. But Book 4 dealt with half the cast, and Book 5 dealt with the other half, during the same time period (though 5 goes a bit beyond the end of 4 also). They've already said they'll probably combine the contemporaneous parts of Book 4+5 into as many seasons as it takes, and won't copy the character-split style over…

Thanks! I suspected it was all-too-convenient an etymology

That word 霸王 keeps turning up in videogame-related terms, I find. Street Fighter is 街头霸王, after all. Is it just a word that sounds cool and so is slapped on a lot of games, or is it because of the association with the 小霸王 that they like to reuse the word?

Dark Wings, Dark Words is the phrase they said in Season 1! Basically, that messenger ravens tend to bring pretty awful news. It's been true, thus far!

SMT Strange Journey played very similarly to the EO games, but it automapped. Half the charm was gone! Definitely not as fun.

This is one of the games I've been clamouring for. Don't let this be the 3DS's 7th Dragon, Squeenix!

As you mention in the article, this stuff is on Chinese TV. In fact, it's been so long before IPL and continues to be popular. I used to find the idea weird until I found myself sitting down to watch some quality DotA1 after class every other day or so. I didn't even play MOBAs back then and I got an idea of it all.

I think Voice Acting is a big part of it too. Namely, the relatively low quality of voice actors in the vast majority of JRPGs combined with scripts that would simply sound better read than said aloud. Playing a JRPG used to be as Richard said - like reading a book with accompanying visuals and levelling up. The…

I'm sad to say I'm the same. There aren't many Eurogames that hold my interest for very long. The themes are usually dull afterthoughts, the competition is similarly abstracted, and it's really about coming up with one surefire way to win beforehand and then hoping it doesn't get interfered with too much by the…

Err, I'm not deciding that at all. Read what I'm saying. I said that I was suggesting gaming should be realistically represented, not that you didn't also think so. I also took fault with your suggestion that because 78% of the population isn't black, it's natural or acceptable that 0.1% (made up number for effect, of…

I don't think we're in a world where white people refuse to play as black people - are you suggesting The Walking Dead was exclusively played by black gamers?

Amen to that.

Approximately 0.1% of videogame protagonists are black. Seems legit.

They weren't really assumptions aimed at guessing your own motives - more just me countering the points I've heard levelled against them in other comments over the years, as to why big JRPG fans deliberately miss out on the best JRPGs of the past decade.

Firstly, because creating console JRPGs is insanely expensive, and haven't proven that fruitful over the past generation. Better to cut costs massively by creating a game with the same length, same story and same battle system + mechanics - but less pretty - for a fraction of the cost and actually have a chance to…