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Agreed on Persona 4. That's what introduced me to the site in the first place! Maybe Deadly Premonition too, since that LP is also excellent in my book.

Games that have been common on UPF or involved good multiplayer memories, like Windjammers, that one funny game with clay-looking dudes where'd they pushed each other around a wrestling area, train station, act., and the link. Hm... now I lost my train of thought...

Sacrifice Chloe. I think GBE are going to notice the patterns/themes that "set up" this ending more, and that might push them to sacrifice Chloe. Not gonna debate the obvious split in how the game ended and the illusion of choice and whatnot since there have been good points made already.

Pile of shame? With the size of my backlog, my entire existence is just... shame.

My family is from a country where, even with Christianity being one of many dominant religions, Santa is irrelevant and kids are perfectly content. We celebrate Christmas as a casual, non-religious thing. As I grew up, the process of "finding out" was always mild to nagging disappointment (re: Santa, Disney characters, etc.). I felt lied to (which I was), and my kid self asking "So hey... is this actually real? Can you tell me?" was met with condescending smiles and awkward silences.

Like you, I don't see the point in perpetuating this sort of thing. I felt pretty insulted and sort of jaded, mostly cause I was a naive, all-in sort of kid. Like, why tell me that in the first place when you saw how I 100% believed it? Haha. I would much rather celebrate Christmas (as a specific examples) as a time of fun, gift-giving, food, thoughtfulness (religious or otherwise), and good memories above all. Do I personally believe that Christmas can be just as, if not more, enjoyable without the Santa thing? Absolutely.

I get the "beauty" and "innocence" in telling kids these things, but it also kinda sucks. It gave me the belief that the real world is too dark, emo, etc. that I need to rely on (essentially) lies to get through it. But I also feel there's nothing wrong with using fairy tales, fables, and story times to instill things like good sense, curiosity, imagination, and a sense of play. Perhaps the commenters who are feel contrary feel this way about Santa specifically, but I think there better ways of giving a kid a "good childhood" in many of the discussed aspects. I definitely could have done without it, but that's just my 2 cents.

I am disturbed

or is it aroused?

I'm sad nobody played Persona 4: Dancing All Night cause the dumb "story" aside, I sure as heck loved it as a rhythm+fan service game :(

Jk, I don't expect to like what I do. it'd be nice to see Splatoon in there though. That and a mentioning of LiS. But I'm guessing it'll be mostly big releases, like most oh the time. Ultimately don't really care what they decide on since their lists won't change what I thought were good games.

Get a dog and play with that!

I want to see .hack (pronounced "dot hack") fully realized as a virtual MMORPG. It's that 8 part PS2 series/anime about a virtual MMO causing mysterious comas/deaths of players due to a boss virus (or whatever) in Real Life.

But if that's too real, then me with a bowl of ice cream would be ok too.

Also recommending FFXIV. As many have said it does not reinvent the wheel but it has strong points in all the right places: story is definitely nice enough, endgame and updating content, flexibility with one character only... The plus is that the visuals and music are really nice, especially the latter.

I'm familiar with MMOs but never joined one because 1. I was too young/financially dependent and 2. Nothing was appealing enough for me to overcome my dislike of the inevitable "grind"-style progression in MMOs. So this is my first MMO, if that helps. I find myself having a pretty good time and so far, there's been enough variety for me not get burnt out.

someone close this damn thread.