Given the discussions at hand, I assume that not everyone is up to date with every series. In fact, outside of Europe not nearly enough people are reading OP for how good it is.
But it was just one example, a particularly good one since it's the most serious and emotional moment of the series that still has some…

@NewSpecies I seem to remember that when a certain important person died in front of Luffy, he pulled a ludicrous 90%-of-my-face-is-my-mouth expression for like 3 solid panels.

One Piece and Dragon Ball always know (or knew) when to mix humour into a situation to keep it from getting overly angsty, and also knew when…

Can't say I know anything about convicted pedophiles writing it, but the series itself is serviceable enough, and like with other shounen action titles it takes a while to move from the purely comedic to the mix of comedy and action that such series are known for.
It's not up there with One Piece or Naruto or Fairy…

The whole series' art style is very much from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure + Fist of the North Star school of super-muscled dudes. It's a fun enough action series, but it's more like One Piece and Dragonball in that it barely takes itself seriously for the first two thirds or so of what is out now.

The fast food comparison is probably better. Last time I had that craving I picked up Vesperia and it was pretty swell, but there hasn't been a groundbreaking entry since Phantasia. Which is fine - there hasn't really been a bad one, either.

Can we get him to wear the Marcus Fenix do-rag too?

Baccano! is definitely the one I was looking for. It's an immense pity that we haven't got any more than the 16 or so anime episodes, since the story's so vast now.
I'd definitely pick them up if they released them in English

None of the things he mentions are continuous activities you'd need to do for solid hours. Besides, electricity going out is far, far rarer than the internet being spotty. And you can't just fastforward a lot of games to get back to the exact moment you were at, if the internet does go down.

The guy is using false…

To be fair there's also just more gamers in general these days. So I'd imagine both understandings of that phrase are growing.

I take it back. I, too want KH3 here and here (also now and now)

Yeah, kinda. Even when I reckon the journos at IGN are all above-board, adding that conflict of interest or potential for it just muddies the waters to the degree that I'd rather they avoid it.

Birth By Sleep was basically KH0, and I suspect will be as essential to the plot as CoM was. Not all spinoffs are filler! But yeah, I could do with less ReCodeds and Days entries and more news on an actual followup (Dream Drop Distance had the TWEWY world going for it but besides that has yet to tempt me).

Hear, hear*

Only ever played the Heroes games, but over the last few years I've ended up enjoying a fair few first person RPGs, so perhaps I should give this a whirl.

That frickin' Bioshock advert meant I couldn't see about a quarter of the video. Must be bugged on Safari, as it appears in the top left corner instead of under the Date+Latest Stories dropdown.

It's not an HD Remake, it's an HD Remaster/HD Rerelease. Like we've already seen with Metal Gear Solid, Zone of the Enders, Devil May Cry, God of War, Sly Raccoon, Jak & Daxter, etc etc etc.

While there were a few minor spinoffs, the most important part is that the flashback sequences in the novels have been missed out entirely. We didn't get anything from Ned during his stay in the dungeons, and in the House of the Undying we missed out on the detailed prophecies and visions of the past.

Still waiting on so many portable JRPGs that haven't made it over here that I'm loathe to get too interested in promo material for another that might not make it over... but I do like that art. Somewhere between Devil Survivor, Persona 3+4, and Hitman Reborn.

I'm not disagreeing with you there, it's just that I'm not brainy enough to tackle Civ4. It's just too much. Anything more complicated than Master of Orion 1 and I crawl into a corner. Civ5 went back to being accessible after the success of CivRev is my guess, but for people like me who loved Civ2 but were intimidated…

Civ5 brought a lot of things back to Civ2 levels of complexity, after the intense complications of Civ4. Civ5 is basically a logical step forward for those who've only played Civ2 or CivRev, ignoring most of the clutter (for better and worse) that Civ3 and Civ4 brought to the table.