I feel like I need to go back and replay FFX.  I played through the whole game years ago, but I don't really remember anything notable about the battle system.  I don't remember it being very difficult either.  I feel like I just breezed through the whole game with the same standard FF tactics I've been using for decades.  In fact I don't think I even died once...

So when people talk about all these things you had to do I'm just like, huh...sometimes I wonder if I played the same game...

Well they are getting HD remakes really soon.  I suspect that will be a good place to start.

I'm actually in the same boat as you.  I keep hearing people talk about how great the Kingdom Hearts games are, and I've even tried them out on occasions.  But I think my dislike of Disney stuff overshadows any enjoyment I might get out of them.

I thought I sucked at these games at first myself.  Then I played them a bunch and got better.

OK, that probably doesn't sound terribly insightful.  But I do that that even more than any other genre out there, doing well in rhythm games is just all about repetition.  Repetition, repetition, repetition.  There's no trick to it.  But if you play the same song a bunch you will learn it by heart.

Even though I hadn't touched the game in months, when I tried out the English demo I only made two mistakes on World's End Dancehall (the hardest song in the demo) my first time through.  Of course then I naturally felt compelled to go back and do it again until I perfected it...but that's another story.  It's easy to become OCD about getting perfects in these games...but anyway, I assure you that I sucked royally the first time I played a Project Diva game.  Couldn't even pass some songs without dropping the difficulty to easy.  Now I won't even touch easy.  It's too boring.

Shuhei Yoshida loves the Oculus Rift.


Hmm...

Well, there's always Starbucks...

You know, I'm not sure they've even said.  I guess being download-only is quite possible.

Well, it was only announced fairly recently.  Like a week or so ago.

I just had to make a thread for this game :)

I'm still in disbelief that Sega is actually bringing this over.  I've already played the heck out of lowercase-f (the Vita version) from importing it, but I never did get F.  I kind of prefer these games on a portable and the couple extra songs in F weren't quite enough to sell it to me (well, I did almost buy it just for Tell Your World...).  But I guess I should show my support since they're actually localizing it.  Not that there was much to localize...

The demo is out on PSN already and I tried it out today.  It's just like the Japanese demo.  I was kind of surprised that they didn't even translate the song lyrics, just romanized them.  But then, it's not like you have time to read song lyrics while playing the game.  Otherwise this was obviously a super-easy game to localize.  It's really just menus.  I'm quite curious how it's going to sell.  I think a lot of the hardcore fans already imported it, especially since the games don't really require any knowledge of Japanese.  But I guess the really hardcore fans will buy it again.

My biggest concern is that it's supposed to be hitting in August.  We've already got Dragon's Crown and Tales of Xillia in August...what a busy month.  I'm also a bit concerned that despite the fact that it's supposed to be out in just a couple months they still don't have a firm date (just 'August') and it's not even listed on Amazon...

Lighten up, I'm just joshing you.  I have to try to get some joy out of the Last Guardian's situation.

Yeah, sure, if you're going to be boring about it..

Jack Tretton said something to that effect and then Shuhei Yoshida was all like, "nah-uh, bitch!"

Or at least that's how I imagine it...

I love a good turn-based game, but very often they're not that good.  Either they're too easy and present no real challenge (as much as I love FFVI it falls into this category...), or the 'challenge' consists entirely of grinding because the decisions you can make just aren't as important as your stats.  It's important to present the player with multiple viable options and force him/her to make tough decisions.

Honestly, one of my favorite modern turn-based systems is what Falcom uses in the Kiseki series.  I love the fact that all your abilities are actually useful and as the game goes on you get more viable options rather than just replacing weak attacks with stronger versions, etc.  I love the importance of positioning (without going full SRPG), the use of tank skills, the options for turn manipulating, etc.  It's a really deep system.  Battles can be challenging without feeling cheap.  Make more games like that.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/06/12-1/atlus-parent-company-index-corporation-under-fraud-investigation

Not sure what to say about all this...

They did a really good job of recreating what it looks like when an obviously asian person dyes their hair an extremely fake blond color.

The question is why...

Got a mail from Amazon saying the release date had been pushed back to November.  Not sure how official that is...