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I make no excuses for me list, they're really great books. -Night Watch (Terry Pratchett) -The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss) -Snow Crash (Neil Stephenson) -Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman) -Animal Farm (George Orwell)

A strip that needs no explanation.

Muramasa was the shit, stop hatin', yo. Saying "well, it's no Odin Sphere" is like saying Chrono Cross was bad because "well, it's no FFVI". One of the best games on the Wii. Rayman: Raving Rabbis 2 is, alarmly, actually an incredibly fun game. I know, another mini game collection. Hear me out. Let me describe my favorite minigame. You're in a movie theater, as are the other players. The movie is playing, and the theater's usher is patrolling around. Your goal is to talk on your cell phone as much as possible during the movie, without getting caught. If the usher catches you, you're fucked. Also, the controls for this minigame require no buttons- you simply hold the wiimote up to your ear like a cell phone to talk, and lower it to put it away. And the whole time the wiimote is up to your ear, the Rabbid on the other line is droning through the wiimote's speaker, "Daah dah, dah dah dah, dahhh, dah dah...." It is amazing.

No love for the best game on the DS? TWEWY, as the fans call it- not actually that much less clunky than the full name, but oh well- is a fantastic action JRPG for the DS that does EVERYTHING right. DS-unique controls that kick ass, a Pokemon-esque catch-em-all attitude to your magic spells (They evolve! You can find them, you can buy them, you can quest for them!), great characters, a bitchin' fuckin' soundtrack, a unique setting and plot, and great art. And so much more. So what are you waiting for? Get posting, you factoring hectopascals, or I'll add you to the heap! CRUNCH!

I generally do a lot of spins and contortions while moving, spinning on heel as opposed to turning gradually. I often chew toothpicks, especially at work, where they are plentiful. I also have some very strange gestures that mean "thank you" and "after you" and that sort of thing (not THAT strange, just not... what most people are used to, I guess)- my coworkers have them downpat, but whenever someone new gets hired, it takes them a week or two to figure out what the fuck I'm doing.

Persona 3 The World Ends With You Zone of the Enders 2: The Second Runner Okay, I gotta stop myself. I could do this all day, but this post is probably already too long. (EDIT: So long, in fact, that I had to split it into two, because I hit the media file limit.) Okay, one more. Trollface.jpg

I apologize for any fans, I'm picking one per game. Trust me, it's hard as fuckin' hell with these games, they've got goddamn amazing soundtracks. I put the videos in spoiler tags to save space- expand, click, and give em a listen. Final Fantasy X (someone had to do it) God Hand Jet Set Radio Future Mercenaries (I know, I know, but seriously, give it a listen) Metroid Prime

Oblivion. O-fucking-blivion. And Morrowind too, actually. It's like Bethesda has this incredible talent for making amazing games, and then finding one crucial aspect to fuck up so incredibly badly that the rest of the otherwise wonderful game is ruined. Until recently, I would have said GT as well, but I picked up 5 on a whim, and I freaking love it.

I actually played on a server the other day that had a server mod that turned the cigarette flick into a taunt kill- like, if the spy hit you with the cigarette, you died. So there were a ton of spies standing on the battlements, raining cigarettes down on the enemy team... and a bunch of pyros running up behind them and getting the achieve.

There are two problems with it- one, it wasn't lazy, because the game actually clearly had a lot of work put into it, and two, it was way more fun than the actual card game, sooo.... Hell, I've still got it. Despite all logic, it's a great game.

I played on the PS3, but... Horrible combos = jump, then hold square. It even homes, Dean.

Never said it wasn't repetitive- of course it was. It was just fundamentally more FUN. Given the choice to shoot lightning at yet another hobo who takes some thirty shots to kill, or ripping a guy in half, stealing his identity, and then accusing his best friend of being YOU so that he gets gunned down by his fellow soldiers is just pure, concentrated entertainment. Plus,

Like Hot Heart, I think it was a good first try, but repetitive as hell, and story that failed to deliver on its promise. I'm interested in the sequel, but honestly, I'm looking forward to Prototype 2 more. Why? Because inFamous was a very polished game that wasn't all that fun, and Prototype was a completely unpolished game that was tons of fun. Ergo, in my mind, Prototype 2 has more potential.

I feel like I did so and wasn't impressed, but... I can't remember anything about it, so maybe I meant to and never got around to it.

His wikipedia page credits him for voice acting in Killzone 3, so I think it's confirmed =)

I just had a That Voice moment- the CEO guy in that trailer is John Henry Eden from Fallout 3.

My god, yes. It was one of the best games of last year- top 5, I would say. Amazing game.

ANYTHING to do with FFXII is a bitch. I tried so hard to like that game, and it bored the SHIT out of me. Though I suppose that's a whole 'nother discussion.

Wow, I got hotlinking owned... wish I could edit, but oh well. It was the European cover for Viewtiful Joe PS2.

It really says something for how terrible their writers are that the bad guys are glowing red eyed, gas masked, vicious, inhuman Nazi expies and we STILL like them better than the protagonists. That said, that trailer showed more story than the last two games put together. I had been planning to wait until KZ3 was a Greatest Hit to bother with it... but now I think I'll actually buy it around release. Well done, Guerrilla. You learned what writers are for.

Super Street Fighter IV- From C to Shining C. Get to C Rank with all characters. I have played for 140 hours, nearly all of that online, ranked matches only, and as soon as I get a character to C, I move on to the next. I do not linger, and I do not play characters that I am already C with. I have only C Ranked 19 out of 35 characters.

And actually, they said there will be one more piece of new content before they close shop. Personally, used game things really don't bother me, since I only buy used when new isn't really an option- either because it doesn't really exist anymore, or because the price differential is completely immense (example- I bought Capcom vs. SNK 2 for PS2 used, because new would have cost me another hundred dollars, and that's nuts). DRM, I only find annoying when it's the Ubisoft sort- I do sometimes not have the internet, and if you make it so that I can't play my games while I'm offline, I will burn your goddamn house down. That said, I'm primarily a console gamer, so it doesn't affect me that much.

"Who, me?" "I'm Joe! Viewtiful Joe!"

Because America is anti-intellectual. Because if a game tries to openly be artistic and clever, the general public thinks that it's being superior and aloof, and refuse to have anything to do with it. Because, sadly, our country kinda sucks, Yan.