http://www.siliconera.com/2013/06/19/heres-a-glimpse-of-mind%E2%89%920s-story-prologue-and-mind-battle-system/

An update on the not-Persona game Mind<=>0.

Yeah, I'll recommend the Original Gundam in movie form too. The original series isn't bad but good luck tracking it down.

That said, I'd also recommend Zeta Gundam, though not in movie format as a lot more that happens in that show pushes the plot along and is generally less episodic than OYW.

Actually most UC Gundam shows tend to be okay at least (well aside from the latter half of ZZ Gundam, pretty much any time a female shows up in Victory Gundam, F91 Gundam which should've been a show instead of a movie, and 0083 Stardust Memories because the leads kinda suck). Meanwhile the only AU Gundam series that don't suck are G Gundam and Turn A Gundam (poor Turn X had serious potential but got canned before it could get to the payout, Double O Gundam had a decent start followed by a shitty second season and a horrid movie, and somewhere in there Gundam Wing has at least some redeeming value, though don't ask me what that is aside from the fact that Noin is seriously probably one of the best female pilots in the entire franchise).


As for Eureka 7 (or Errecta Schlebein because if we're going to mispronounce names and words, we might as well go whole hog on the deal), it's a show that needs to be watched twice. Once to go through it blind and get utterly confused by all the terminology getting thrown around and brandied about, and again after you are aware of the big plot twist revealed near the end of the show. Basically, the majority of the show is telling you everything you need to know about what's going on and what important thing is happening next aside from the context in which any of it makes any goddamn sense. Your first watch is basically going to be about watching Renton's character development from snot nosed kid who accidentally fell into a Gundam Nirvash to level headed young adult with aspirations towards the future. Your second watch (provided you made it to the end of your first go or you got spoilered on the plot twist) is going to constitute on seeing just how much everything ties into the overall plot and the imminent crisis.

But yeah, even then the show is kinda slow until you hit the part where Renton runs away from the Gecko State, after which the show stops dicking around and starts speeling the beans.

To be fair though, Bing has always been a biased shill.

At least I can still Bing Google. :v



In what universe is that a tractor?

I specified the Collector's Edition for a reason. -_-;

But yes, FFXII has an absurd amount of content (even if most of it requires a guide and an absurd amount of grinding to even have a chance at getting at). I wasn't going at the amount of content per say to begin with so much as the fact that it took a massive price drop a week after release (and the MMO levels of horrible grinding, and the crappy ATB system disguised as a free roaming MMO style combat system, and the shoddy plot and characters).

According to GameFAQs/Gamespot these are the RPGs/SRPGs for the 360 released thus far (not counting XBLIG/XBLA/crap stuck in Japan).

Alpha Protocol
Arcania: Gothic 4
Blue Dragon*
Dark Souls
Divinity 2: Ego Draconis/The Dragon Knight Saga
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Age: Origins/Awakening
Dragon's Dogma/Dark Arisen
Dungeon Siege 3
Elder Scrolls 4*
Elder Scrolls 5
Enchanted Arms*
Eternal Sonata*
Fable 2
Fable 3
Fable Kinect
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Final Fantasy 11*
Final Fantasy 13
Final Fantasy 13-2
Game of Thrones
Infinite Undiscovery
Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
The Last Remnant
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 2
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Lost Odyssey
Magna Carta 2
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance*
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Mass Effect*
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Nier
Operation Darkness
Phantasy Star Universe*
Record of Agarest War
Record of Agarest War Zero
Resonance of Fate
Rise of the Argonauts
Risen
Risen 2: Dark Waters
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Sid Meier's: Civilization Revolution
Spectral Force 3
Star Ocean 4
Tales of Vesperia
Two Worlds*
Two Worlds 2
Venetica
The Witcher 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Zoids: Assault

For comparison sake here's the Wii's RPG/SRPG list (not counting GamecubeBC/Virtual Console/WiiWare):

Alien Syndrome*
Arc Rise Fantasia
Baroque
Battleship
Dokapon Kingdom
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn*
Final Fantasy Chronicles: Echos in Time
Final Fantasy Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon
The Last Story
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance*
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Monster Hunter Tri
Monster Lab
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
Opoona
Pandora's Tower
Phantom Brave: We Meet Again
Pokemon Battle Revolution*
Rune Factory Frontier
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love
Shiren the Wanderer
Spectrobes: Origins
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga
Xenoblade Chronicles

And the PS3's list (not counting PS2BC/PSOne Classics/PSN):

3D Dot Game Heroes
Alpha Protocol
Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel
Arcania: The Complete Tale
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk
Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland
Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland
Cross Edge
Dark Souls
DC Universe Online
Demon's Souls
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Age: Origins/Awakening
Dragon's Dogma/Dark Arisen
Dungeon Siege 3
Elder Scrolls 4*
Elder Scrolls 5
Enchanted Arms*
Eternal Sonata
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Final Fantasy 13
Final Fantasy 13-2
Game of Thrones
The Guided Fate Paradox
Hyperdimensional Neptuina
Hyperdimensional Neptuina mk2
Hyperdimensional Neptuina Victory
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Last Rebellion
The Lord of the Rings: The War in the North
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance*
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Mugen Souls
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Nier
Record of Agarest War
Record of Agarest War 2
Record of Agarest War Zero
Resonance of Fate
Rise of the Argonauts
Risen 2: Dark Waters
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
Sorcery
Star Ocean 4
Tales of Graces f
Tales of Xillia
Time and Eternity
Trinity Universe
Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll
Two Worlds 2
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom*
Valkyria Chronicles
Venetica
White Knight Chronicles
White Knight Chronicles 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown

The stuff that's underlined is what came from Japan.
The stuff that's in bold is what's apparently exclusive for that system.
The stuff with the '*' next to them came out within the first two years (roughly) of the console's life.

The tl;dr is that the 360 has almost twice as many RPG related titles compared to the Wii but less than the PS3 and most of its library consists of multiplatform titles (Vesperia counts as its PS3 version is stranded in Japan; Nier doesn't since the PS3 also got Gestalt in the west in lieu of Replicant). More importantly though is that very few titles on any system came out within the first two years of that console's life (multiplatform or otherwise), and generally speaking suck more often than not.

Right. As I said before, I'm not supporting squat until something official comes out (and I'm still not going to support squat if this turns out to be Squeenix nickle and dimeing us; seriously, FFXII vanilla wasn't worth the original $60 dollar price of admission when it first came out (as evident by the $20 dollar price drop the collector's edition had not more than a week after launch), let alone having to pay that again, plus the adjustments for PS3/Vita/whatever the hell they're porting this to releases at (because you know they're going to charge full price for this), plus the cost of having to buy the international version changes as DLC (and god damn them if its piecemeal); its Capcom levels of sleazy and I'm straight up not supporting that, let alone an HD remaster of an okay PS2 launch title and a piece of shit).

Well, I've finished my tour through the human enrichment center and I'm still alive. There's no time for cake even if its a lie as there's science to be done and achevios to be won while I'm still alive.

Also, made it through Lost Bloodlines 2 in FE Awakening (and yet another round of Golden Gaffe) and I now have Alm and a Dread Fighter scroll (to give to my eventual Dread Fighter Roberts Chrom). Even with this though I predict that chapter 19 is going to suck given how much of a clusterfuck that turns into. I should probably give Lost Bloodlines 3 a go to see if I can't get the Paragon skill (and Seliph).

As for SSBB, I still haven't deduced what that last unrevealed challenge pertains to (its the one next to the wall and the finish the 100 man Brawl with everybody). I've apparently already gotten the defeat 10 enemies in Cruel Brawl so all that remains as far as I can tell is the aforementioned 100 man Brawl bullshit, the survive the 15 minute Brawl, and collect all stickers (and the aforementioned '?').

And still not get the International version for the price of admission? No dice.

Huh, I thought there were four 3 point difficulty questions for game #1 and the grand total was 21 points?

I'll admit that I forgot that he's probably one of the best dual guarders in the main game with access to Dual Guard+ from Great Knight and a high Defense score to build his percent (Frederick and Kellam are better but only at first, or only if you take him down that route instead of going for Rally Defense/Pavise, respectfully). And yeah, Tharja's a goddamn tank despite her character design implying the complete opposite ("Clothing? Screw clothing, I have Defense!"), but that's a discussion for another day (and she gets Dual Guard+ too, goddamn is she a fucking tank, she just needs Sol and she'd be indestructible).

I'm sorry, but I'm laughing my ass off at the M+V/W combination since both work so well with each other (U is also acceptable).

Also, call me Reverend Hernia.

Nevermind the NGage. This is beginning to feel like they're trying to pull a Gizmondo on us. It almost seems like its just a matter of time before someone comes clean and tells us that the Xbone is an elaborate scam meant to milk the 360's fanbase for all its worth before departing from the gaming industry.

Hey Starmongoose! Whacha trien to do? I gots 19 of dem points on da leadah' board (18 for all but the tenth question correct on the first game, plus 1 for the first game).

I was mostly joking about SSB tiers/basing it upon personal experiences. Frankly, half the online games I've played on Brawl was with opponents that were outright cheating, and I've only ever played one competitive match and lost horribly (and I used to be so good with Melee Ganondorf too).

As for jumping being tied to items, I don't mind it. Link not being able to Do the Mario normally is no great loss to me since it kinda feels like giving Wolverine super strength, sure he feels like he can achieve greater heights then what it says on his character sheet, but he seriously can't without some kind of assistance. Besides, what else is Link going to use that extra inventory space for? A fourth type of bomb? A fourth ranged weapon that's still outright inferior to the boomerang/bow? A book to translate a tablet or three? A Step Ladder? Besides, they did make it adjunct to the gameplay in OoT and in every 3D Zelda since.

Translation: Skip it.

Even Wind Waker HD is sounding better than this.