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It does take a while but PSN is finding ranked matches for me (UK/EU) in roughly 30 seconds to a minute.
..Which is far better than the KOF servers!

I main as Redacted. I find her Feral Stance works brilliantly for defensive & counter attack play. Especially strong against Dr Shoals.

Luckily all the Baz players I seem to come across apply this bizarre strategy of picking the Yolo gem & immediately spamming the kick button. Why they think this is going to work I have no idea!

I've followed Phil Fish on twitter for sometime now and he's always replied to tweets I've sent his way with the up-most courtesy, respect & professionalism when he owes me NOTHING as just a fan of his work. If anyone is a 'toss pot' in all this it's Marcus Beer who for some bizarre reason thinks he represents gamers at large with his vitriolic, poisonous attitude. Then again, I'm sure it's far easier to appeal & rile up angsty 12 year olds on the internet than to actually debate anything sensibly!

As with everyone else both here & in the gaming community, absolutely heartbroken. Though I'm sure he'd want Giant Bomb to continue, I really don't see how the site or the podcast, can ever have that same dynamic again without him. RIP Ryan & thank-you for all the enjoyment & laughter you've bought me over the last 10 years.

A snatcher/policenauts sequel? Awesome, now get on with it..

This probably justifies Rich Gallups old view of refraining from overtly offensive language on broadcasts so that as such regrettable actions don't come back to bite you in the ass. I'm pleased as a gay member of the site and also a fan of your content for nearly a decade (gamespot, arrow pointing down etc.) that you've taken the initiative to put your hands up to classify this an error Ryan.

As for your personal viewpoint, having witnessed your tongue in cheek joviality with Matt Rorie and previous working relationships with staff members such as Kevin VanOrd, that if you were deep down some closet queer bashing homophobe that San Fran would probably be the equivalent of subjecting yourself to hell and promptly relocate yourself to Uganda or Jamaica.

I hope if anything this helps cement that Giant Bomb can be an entertaining gaming website and community for a more mature audience without resorting to crude language to draw attention like many of its contemporaries.

What else are Ubisoft going to release if not this? Now that the Wii casual market is dead and they can't rely on shovel-ware income, apart from Assassins Creed (which they've got dangerously close to milking to death already) what franchises do they have left that gets anybody excited anymore?

Jeff's enthusiasm towards the new Ghost Recon is a microcosm of a larger picture that would suggest that Ubisoft need to stop falling back on the same 3-4 games and come up with some new I.P's.

Americans probably won't understand this argument as the majority from what I've seen have their mailboxes located outside their houses.

Ordering online here in the UK means you have to be physically indoors to sign for receipt of your purchase, if you're not then they'll send the mail back to the postal depot with an added 2-3 days before you can collect it from some middle of nowhere warehouse. Presumably so they can steal all the money out of birthday cards and reseal the envelopes.

If you work a full time job this inevitably means you miss out on new games on the day of launch (unless you're lucky enough to get a non dipshit mailman who doesn't put 'can't fit through letterbox' on anything larger than a postcard so he can get off work at 1pm and spend the rest of his time buying scratch-cards or in Coral/Ladbrokes).

This is where brick and mortar stores are INVALUABLE.

The only real place left for us (considering HMV are also rapidly going down the shitter and will probably close before the end of the year too) are supermarkets. If you want anything other than the top 10 in there, you're shit out of luck son!

While GAME staff generally aren't very helpful (how helpful would you be on minimum wage with targets to meet?). I'm willing to pay the extra £5 excess over Amazon or Play just so I can get a game there and then rather than wait up-to a week and then have to pay travel expenses to pick the damn thing up from a postal depot anyway.

For this reason I sincerely hope that the remaining stores still open can find a buyer.

That or Sony stores start selling a wider range of games and Microsoft start to open similar stores to Sony and Apple therefore circumventing the need for a third party chain altogether.

You've missed out Makoto from Enchanted Arms.  

Who I found incredibly poorly written considering it's a JRPG with plenty of opportunity for exploring depth of character.  All the same it was still an interesting choice that they had a male be the one with the 'wacky crush' on the main protagonist rather 
than a genre convention young ditzy female. Then again Enchanted arms had far worse problems then just it's character development, so perhaps that's a moot point?