Shadowrun Returns, Planetary Annihilation, War for the Overworld, Warmachine: Tactics, Satellite Reign, Ghost Song, Massive Chalice, Unrest, Dog Sled Saga, Chroma Squad... heck, even the Skullgirls DLC characters.
Crowdfunding hasn't lost its edge for me - it continues to put forward niche, interesting ideas from…

Had a group of friends that included a Rod, a Dick Wang, and a 'Boney' (he was a Pole). I think other people got the wrong impression when I'd bring them up...

There were some pretty cool DLC characters being bandied about, too... tragic that they won't see release.

Such a cool moment in FF7, just standing there as Midgar's first line of defense against Diamond Weapon, waiting for it to come to you.

Honestly I wonder if some Kickstarter projects wouldn't be better served by having a maximum limit, too.

I think reading into saying that modern Japanese games suck that, instead of because of the aforementioned reasons, it's because he thinks Japanese people are genetically inferior at making videogames despite not being so in the past is... a really strange leap of reasoning to make.

Uhhh, not really. You don't need to know Japanese to play a fighting game most of the time. There's like 3 or 4 moments in JUS where I had to look at an FAQ (for an optional side-objective) out of dozens of hours of playtime.

These youngins and their weird slang preferences, I don't know...

The game is made in Britain, so I guess that's why they used that word? But then the game itself appears to be set in the US, so... dunno.

Yeah, but he didn't say that the games from Japan sucked as a result of Japanese people being born bad at making games. He didn't give a reason, so given the context isn't it not far-fetched to assume that the reasons games from Japan suck right now are economic, management and corporate-related rather than race?

Of…

The older Deus Ex titles were on consoles too, dude. Keep up.

Agreed about RPGs not being just what Seriously Mike enjoys about WRPGs. However, considering the triumphs in the genre on portables over the past decade or so, it's really quite sad that so very few great (let alone groundbreaking or mindblowing) JRPGs have…

That's not what's happening here, though. If he'd said "Japanese people are just bad at making games", I'd see your point. What he in fact said was that the nation is sucking at making games right now. If I say Spain's economy is tanking, is that racist? It's an observation of the current practical consequences to the…

Japanese culture is not "taken from Confucius". There's some influence there, mostly from Tang dynasty China, but Legalism had a huge influence over that era of Chinese governmental theory and so could be said to be equally influential. Japan has a tradition all of its own beyond that.

But that's exactly what I'm…

Eh, FF7: Crisis Core had a character based of Gackt. That seems to be prevalent everywhere that celebrities exist.

I don't think lamenting the damage that the terrible corporate culture and structure in Japan has done on the videogames industry and developers there is racist, honestly.

I hated their anti-consumer policies re:game ownership. I do not hate pro-amateur policies like providing every user with a devkit. Right now, there's nothing to hate about this policy.

It wasn't ever Xbox or Microsoft I 'hated' (I own a 360 and have done since 2006!), it was one specific policy that was targeted at…

Same way Samurai 7 was a futuristic mecha adaptation of Seven Samurai? Or how Guillermo Del Toro wanted to make The Hobbit into a Steampunk adventure?

People like adapting stuff almost as much as they like plain old remakes. I kinda prefer the former, myself.

My Japanese religion professor was the historic advisor on this flick, told us about it 4 years ago or so. He basically said he was there to give advice, and then they chose which 9 bits out of the 10 he said they would drop in favour of some fantasy mumbo jumbo.

He's the author of this (among countless other such…

So it does! Thanks for catching that, I guess my reading comprehension isn't what it once was.

Got linked this earlier today. Very interesting - at first I thought it was a Kairosoft game, though. Seems like it'd be a perfect fit for iOS and Android! But I suppose they're wanting to go deeper with this than most of what Kairosoft games end up being.