Now you’re just setting “storytelling” as the basis for what’s good and bad art? You say novels can be “bad art” when they fail at storytelling, where we must expect a bad novel to have X before it’s “achieved status of a true work of art.” What about painting? What are you setting as the X for a painting to have…

Video games aren’t (often) fine art, but they’re definitely week within the realm of commercial art. Just like TV, movies, graphic/advertisement design, mainstream comics, and the toy industry. Not all art has to hang in a gallery for it to be art.

Looks like Blastball in that new Metroid game.

See, I’m okay with waiting til I have a PS4 to play new DLC, but they better sell it standalone, because I refuse to buy the same game twice.

Ooh, I’ve been meaning to play the other 2. I wonder if they’re going to rerelease 999 into the eshop.

Best Buys open at 10, and I have to work at 9. Guess anyone with a job is SOL. How is that better for people who aren’t just unemployed scalpers?

Can we seriously change the term away from something Hitler used during WWII?

I like the former. It’s less Third Reich-y.

Yeah, the new owners recently fired every one of the original staff and replaced them with their own people. Then it all sort of melted down after that.

?? Jim in the Office is a white guy with brown hair.

Nooooo, seriously on Independence Day? What about those of us having to spend the day at barbeques and fireworks shows?

Art used for a different function doesn’t cease to be art, any more than an action figure ceases to be sculpture if played with by a child or put in a display case.

I didn’t say the cards AREN’T art in their original state. But they’re merely reprints of the actual piece. The artist who painted the card art still has the original painting/digital file (or at least Konami does). It could be reprinted an infinite number of times, limited only by the whim of a company. Altering one…

So, I guess you’re against modded toys/figures as well?

Honestly, Nintendo’s regular Directs throughout the year kind of caused their E3 show to be a lot of already-announced stuff. But when it comes down to it, I think announcing new stuff throughout the year might be a better tack than risk burying interesting stuff in a glut of game announcements.

Isn’t Yokai Watch an RPG? I mean, if you’re gonna count Zelda...

The Mario & Luigi series of games are RPGs. They’ve got a leveling system, inventory, turn-based combat, etc.

Considering they’re the last bastion of local multiplayer games, I’m pretty glad they’re not going to focus on VR, the technology that closes you off so much in your gaming bubble that others can’t hardly even watch you play.

I can’t tell from the video footage: is this a localization of the first Yokai Watch game, the 2nd, or the upcoming 3rd one set in the States?

Ohsnap, more Story of Seasons! But the big question is: if it’s a crossover game, will I still get to marry a bachelor or bachelorette? *_*