Recent content by RanceJustice

I know this will meet with some opposition, but I think Nintendo needs a completely new trajectory. Claiming that they need to "explain the console better" seems to portend that it will be something "hard to understand" again which makes me think its going to focus on some sort of gimmick. At...

Seems a few people beat me to some of the best examples - Ogre Battle / Tactics Ogre, JRPGs from the SNES/PS1 era that offered huge depth based upon what you did and who you friended/went against etc. I can't believe that another great JRPG has been missed - Chrono Trigger! Talk about...

While I don't object to HumbleBundle branching out to Nintendo's systems on a practical level (on a philosophical one, I see all consoles as unnecessarily proprietary and should be phased out in favor of more open platforms like PC and Android), I do find it disappointing that this bundle is...

I hope they bring this new version back to Android and perhaps more importantly, PC. Sadly, Square-Enix has done some lukewarm jobs of bringing some of their properties to Android and PC. Dragon Quest VIII itself on Android for instance, loses voice acting entirely and some other elements in...

There's a lot of blogspam and midding-level articles about this, but if you'd like one of the better researched ones that don't require an in-depth knowledge of info-sec technology, then check out Ars Technica's...

Overall, it seems that Hatred is little different than other ultra-violent games that have been published in the past. Perhaps the closest analog is the Postal series, especially Postal 2 - which gleefully allowed attacking non-hostiles and had massive amounts of intentionally offensive...

This is a really a fantastic title - if you've not played it before, it is an "action-strategy RPG" that is "Fire Emblem / Shining Force" style difficult (that is to say, very hard - characters can die permanently etc.). The anime visuals are excellent and each character, even the "throw away...

The irony here is bloody staggering. For years, PC gamers have been getting sub-par ports released months later than consoles, if they get the same titles at all. Now they have the gall to tell indie developers of all people "if you ever want your title to come out on Xbox One, you have to...

Eh, I still would have rather see Chrom added to the list (possibly as an alternate costume for Lucina? Or vice-versa. Seems strange to reject him yet to have Lucina in-game. If they wanted to pick a Fire Emblem leading lady, Lyn and ...that female Paladin from Radiant Dawn who's name I can't...

I'd love to see an expanded, upgraded collection, but only if A) it debuts on PC and B) it includes MGS4 and possibly Peace Walker C) all games are upgraded, "best, integral/substance/subsistence style" types. We've already have plenty of remakes of MGS, re releases of MGS2 and MGS3 etc...

I've always been less worried about the impatience of fans on GRRM than I have that exerted by publishers and, perhaps most of all, HBO. Fans, ranging from those with wild conspiracy theories to legitimate excitement to follow the story to its conclusion, are much more mundane than publishing...

As a big fan of Fire Emblem, I'm so very glad to see some new characters from the series joining Smash! I hope Chrom is a fleshed out character in his own right! The video was great, however that just like Awakening, I hope SSB4 will offer Japanese language audio as an option; especially for...

On the good side, the "Japanese CEO" referenced is played by Hiroyuki Sanada!

I generally prefer if film adaptions of novels take as much time as needed to tell their version of the story faithfully with minimal abridgement. Much like LOTR, the Hobbit, Harry Potter etc... I'd rather have them delve into the depths necessary than compress the entire thing to fit in...

Sadly, it doesn't surprise me that the Horde bike won. The Horde tends to have more of the "dedicated" playerbase, which ranges from "True Horde Pride" types that we all remember raising such a stink when the Blood Elves came to join, and the "Horde = Hardcore" trollish types who migrate...