It has been confirmed that they are 'simplifying' the dialog system:


That does not sound like an improvement to me.  One of Dragon Age's greatest strengths, in my opinion, is the complexity of the choices you had to make.  Things were not always black or white.  That's a good thing.  Now they want it to just be a matter of being mean or nice?  Ugh.  Do not want.

Don't turn this into some kind of backlog pissing contest.  I feel your pain, Ivalice.  I think we've all been there.

If I lived in the Zelda universe and I had a daughter, I would not name her Zelda.  That just seems like a bad omen.

I never played the first game (and given what I've heard about this I probably won't), but do the gameplay changes introduced here improve the experience in the first game?  I've heard some pretty mixed opinions about it.

I must have missed this lesson in my Ridiculous Marketing Semantics class, but what the heck is the difference?

Why does everyone seem to hate Estelle?  She's a pretty stereotypical character, to be sure, but she's not that bad.  At least within the confines of her archetype I thought she was just fine.

It's official, now.  Not that it was much of a surprise at this point.

Spring 2011, putting it right in line with NISA's usualy ~15 month localization time for Gust games.  *sigh*.

Interesting...what's the source of those quotes?

Monkeys!

DAO on consoles doesn't feel anything like ME either.  You can still control your party and move the camera (though they did remove the isometric view for some reason).  I'm not really sure what Masamune is talking about.

It doesn sound like DA2 is going to be a lot more ME-like, though.  I can't say that makes me happy...I liked DAO because it wasn't ME.

That's the one.  And in a fine example of cognitive dissonance he continues to be snide and dismissive of Nier even after hundreds of people have pointed out the fact that he was fishing in the wrong spot (and that the right spot had a big red X on your map telling you where it was...).  It's hard to admit it when you screwed up so publically.

I don't mean to say he isn't allowed to dislike the game or anything, but he clearly hasn't given it a fair shot.

Not really the normal topic of discussion here but I couldn't find anything from a quick googling and I know there are a lot of PSP users around here so maybe somebody else has experienced something similar.  Recently I tried using my PSP's video output and discovered that the colors were very off.  Upon further experimentation I tried fiddling with the component video connection to the TV and realized that unplugging the blue cable had zero affect on the image quality, so it seems like the blue just isn't getting any signal.

Now I suppose it's possible that my video out cable is bad, but that seems unlikely to me.  I haven't been doing anything with the cable and it used to work.  When I'm not using it I tend to just leave it plugged in to my AV system with the PSP connecter out in the open so I can just plug the PSP in without fiddling with cables.  The PSP, on the other hand, gets carried places, stuffed in luggage, and banged around.  It just seems more likely to me that if something is going to break it would be on the PSP end.  (On the other hand, I haven't had any other problems with the PSP and this is a very specific problem)

Still, I can't completely eliminate the possibility of a bad cable.  I only have one cable and one PSP to test it with, though.  Cables aren't that expensive but I don't want to have to buy another one only to find out that it was the PSP after all.  Any suggestions as to how I should go about testing these things?  Anyone else had similar problems?

Nier clearly sucks.  Joystiq gave it a zero.  That 'review' still cracks me up.

Actually,  I'm planning on getting it myself sometime but I'm still working on pretty large backlog of games I want to play.  And Deathspank is coming out today...

Finding good ramen outside of Japan is a challenge.  I can recommend a couple of places in New York City, but after living in Seattle for years the best place I have been able to find is called "Samurai Noodle" and is about what you might expect from that name...

For best results you'll need to go to Japan.

I, too, loved this game from the start (PS3 import version).  But if you don't then I'm not really sure it will ever 'pick up' in your eyes.

It's actually better than that, in a sense, because if he gets the first couple of picks wrong nobody is going to care about the story enough to talk about it.  It's only after some success has been acheived that anyone starts paying attention.  That's what we call 'selection bias'.