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To play devil's advocate here. Before for many years video games used to have one set price per console generation. $59.99, $49.99, etc. Now finding the price of a game on a digital platform after you own it is a couple steps removed. There's almost always 10% off promotion pre-release or on release day. So do report the current price or the the full retail price? Green Man Gaming is probably selling much cheaper. So do you then report the lowest price or ignore that because GMG is a bit shady. Amazon has a special sale do you report that price because that's the biggest of retail?

The long and short of it is that price is very fluid these days. It's hard to report it accurately at any given moment and even then it changes on a day by day basis so is not really that useful anyways.

That was when they moved if from Choose Our Own Adventure which is free to the GBEast Playdate which is premium. They felt playing through the entirety of Life is Strange on the Choose Our Own Adventure went against the spirit of what they wanted that feature to be. Which was one or two sessions of a random game voted by the audience. The Playdate is what they did their run of Contradiction on so it much more lines up with that feature.

@believer258: Yeah the depicted VR system in the .hack// series is Playstation VR. It was a fancy 3D display on your head with a Playstation controller in your hand. The level of movement and expression seen in the show and in cutscenes was artistic license.

Otherwise it was implied that those games played almost exactly like their PS2 counterparts but in first person VR. Basically slightly more actiony FFXI. I think it was implied that the system did interpret your intentions and emoted and expressed for you for more immersion.

You were never jacked-in to that system like SAO. You could take of the helmet whenever. Except for when weird cybermancy happened and your soul got tied to your character.

Edit: I totally forgot but SE did do a VR demo of FFXIV on Playstation VR. That dev team is crazy enough to maybe put that in the actual game. So the .hack// esque mmo experience might be coming to a PS4 near you soon.

Glad to see Bandai-Namco actually finally doing something with their franchises outside of Japan. Sadly it has not been in time for the games I wanted.

They left me hanging with .hack/Llink. Sure just stop at the finale to your entire like decade long multimedia franchise.

Also while its great that they are releasing Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth. How do you not put out Digmon World Redigitize: Decode? The original Digimon World is the standard by which all Digimon games (and to me all games period) are judged and so far they have all failed except Digitize which was modeled after it. The international audience have hounded them for years about it probably louder than Operation Rainfall. Then they do an updated release on the 3ds a system people actually own internationally. Still nothing. The fan did ask for Cyber Slueth but it was always an addendum Digimon World Redigitize.

The combat looks to be along the line of KHII which is good they seem to have reigned it back in a bit. The combat in 3D was them leaning real hard in the direction the KHII took the series from KH. I wish we could go back to the less mashy, more skilled dodging and timing of the first. But I understand you can't go back to that design without making the characters feel like they've lost all progression. KH made you feel weak and clumsy for most the game. While KH2 was all about feeling like a master of your weapon just mowing through your enemies.

Outside of that I'm still hyped as possible. Guys remember that twist at the end of Dream Drop Distance with the Org XIII thing. That was the best thing I have ever seen. The meandering and confusing plot lines the series has done was all made up for by that single moment.

You actually might want to check out the FFXIV expansion Heavensward. They have added a good bit of the FFXI experience in the HW. The HW areas are as big if not bigger than FFXI's areas and much more densely packed to boot. As you are progressing through the story the mobs in the areas are also super dangerous. You pull two mobs you better have your chocobo out and somewhat leveled to survive for most classes. Three or more mobs and you are dead. Sure you do get flying to circumvent all the travel but you usually have to fully explore the zone and be almost done with it before you get flying. So basically survival tomes in new FFXI.

The end game also added the Diadem which everyone calls the FFXI simulator for fairly good reason.

But yeah if you wanted some FFXI in your FFXIV. It might be worth checking out the expansion.

The results of this poll will not be that interesting or surprising. Most of the hardcore jrpgs fans who have played persona will say persona. Those that don't know person will choose FF mostly out of brand recognition. But clearly you would be splitting the base if you release them at the same time. People might buy both but the word of mouth and attention will be split initially.

The real thought this brings up to me is how did SE sleep at the controls and let Sega buy Atlus?! Sure they might not produce the mega hits SE is looking for but they have always been self profitable. Also the value sheer value of getting some cross-pollination of Atlus and SE would be glorious. You sit some of the top minds of Atlus down with the team behind Bravely Default and you have the Next Great JRPG franchise. In my perfect world, SE would give The World Ends With You to Atlus because that seems like the most perfect of marriages.

You must have really like WoW to play it for 8 years and if your major gripe is staleness then I definitely have highly suggest FFXIV. It's pretty much all of the best parts of WoW with the most aggressive content release schedule of any mmo. They didn't re-invent the wheel here. FFXIV is Tesla of the mmo market. Its not the super future looking concept car of what the mmo should be but rather applying practical modern thinking to make something that works now. It's just does so many things right that make you oh all mmos should be like this now and nothing here is so revolutionary that no one else could do it if they wanted.

So as another member of the target audience I will go over my experience with the prequels. Before the prequels I had seen much of the original trilogy's in bits and pieces over the years. I thought they were cool and all but I never really got into them.

So I saw Phantom when it came out. It pretty much left no impression on me. All I really recall from those days was that there was Phantom Menace Doritos, the pod racing arcade game was dope, and that Darth Maul fight being great. But outside of that pretty much forgettable and I was not really a Star Wars fan after watching it.

In the years the followed leading up to Attack of the Clones, I must have caught a bit more of the original trilogy and gotten some more through osmosis because by then I had a general working knowledge of what Star War was. I was like oh so that kid from that other movie grows up to be Darth Vader and he fights Obi Wan on a volcano and becomes a cyborg. This time I can some expectations coming in like oh were are going to learn the origin of the storm troops and maybe see Anakin become bad.

I watched the movie and like Phantom before it, it just didn't leave much of a mark. To me then it just felt like nothing but complete filler and that they were saving all the cool stuff for the third movie. The one thing I could say was the filler actually served some purpose and that was for the first time in the movies at least actually painted a picture of what the Star Wars universe is. We got to see how the Jedi council and Senate worked, the capital of the galaxy, and even the how the Sith operated to some extent. The original trilogy always took place on the fringe of the universe and this was the first time we were actually at the center of it. The Phantom Menace also did some of this itself to give it some credit but Attack really solidified the Star Wars universe to me.

Still was not particularly a Star Wars fan. I liked what I caught of the Clone Wars miniseries. One of my friends had gotten Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on PC and I really loved what I played of that. Eventually I got Kotor 2 on the xbox and that was really when I started to consider myself a star wars fan. I would eventually catch whole marathons of the Star Wars movies and track all them down myself to watch many times. I realized just how much better the original trilogy was. I was pretty much at my peak fandom. I had some high hopes for Sith.

So I saw Sith and I was satisfied with what I got. I wasn't blown away by any means but I was satisfied. Anakin's turn to Darth Vader was done just fine. It set up the transition from prequels to the originals really well. Everything with the Emperor was great he was the best part of Jedi and one of the highlights of the original trilogy and he is just the same here. When the Emperor tells the tragedy of Darth Plagues is easily the best scene in the entirety of prequels maybe even in the entire series it just adds so much to the series. First of all it is just a really great piece of lore. It is the apple that turns Jedi's greatest hope into there worst nightmare in a believable way. It sets up just how ambitious the Emperor is. He is not the kind of person who would be satisfied with ruling the universe but rather he wants to become an immortal all powerful god. You knew when he was offering both Anakin and Luke the position of being his apprentice he in why intended to actually share his power they would just be puppets to further his goals.

My in hindsight summary of the prequels is this. I pretty much have no intention really watch the first two ever again. I like Revenge well enough that if I as going to re watch the movies it certainly makes it on the list along with the original trilogy. Also I recognize that the other movies should get some credit for actually fleshing out the Star War universe making it a distinct place with room to grow. The highest complement I can give them is that the new movies will better off with the ground work the prequels laid than if they had never existed at all.

You need to get your chao garden on in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 as that is the definitive Dreamcast experience. There's also Virtua Fighter 3 tb. which added the much controversial fourth button, the dodge button. Also Crazy Taxi and the dreamcast belong together. You need a dc copy of Crazy Taxi.