They exist for a special purpose. Maybe they'll do a third album after the Aldouin expansion is out ...?

Ya I know. Sounds dumb. I get that.

But if you're down with some sort of weird derivation of Zelda *and games inspired by Zelda* (3D Dot Game Heroes, Sword&Sworcery), you're gonna dig this.

http://www.skrillexquest.com/

A small island in the bay next to Fukuoka (southern Japan).

http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-amazing-photos-from-cat-heaven-island-in-japan

I will go here. When I go to Japan I will spend a full day here, if not more.

WHO'S COMIN WITH ME?!

Games don't cause depression. but depressed people can play the crap out of a videogame. (Living proof right here!)

Also, "responsible" for addressing depression? No. but it's probably a really good idea. Some games have tried at different levels. And I appreciate that.

I have more to say but I can't word it properly this early in the morning. I'll try again later.

Good to see ya on here Deg.

You and about 10,000 other people, amirite? Can't keep going through that game without loading prior save and waiting through that whole camping cut scene so you get another shot at it.

WOW that's a pretty beastly list of stuff.

I've thrown a pretty sizeable bid on Actraiser OST but I doubt I'll be able to hold it. Good luck all. That'd be a great thing for Yuzo Koshiro to sign when he's in the US (MAGFest, WashD.C.) in January.

One question: what's the deal with that Secret of Evermore "promo" CD? Was that officially sent out by Jeremy Soule, or is that just some bootleg rip-off?

If you jump on the Phoenix Wright train, also get Ghost Trick. Fantastic game IMO.

But yeah, 999 is my fav DS game ever.

a friend of mine gave me a 3DS. FOR FREE.

So I was about to buy VLR, but then I heard the 3DS ver has some save file corruption issue ...? Anyone have any more info on this? Any reason I should hold out for Vita to play this?

I cleared two of the stories (Jedi Knight, Sith Sorcerer) and then unsubbed. Now that it's F2P I plan on doing Imperial Agent next (apparently a VERY good story).

Really great content in this game, absolutely worth taking the time to play through.

Hannibal Burress is so awesome. I listen to him at least once a week, often before bedtime (I laugh myself to sleep ... it's better than crying oneself to sleep!)

I already own the IGTM soundtrack and I love it (because I love all things Jim Guthrie). Other than that ... "Shoot Many Robots" is from Rich Vreeland, aka Disasterpeace, who did FEZ. Very interesting acoustic / folk soundtrack. But the best of those soundtracks for my money is Dear Esther. That said, I ain't listened to Spelunky OST yet. RCR is cool but ... intentionally a play off of classic OSTs, so it's cool but sort of a novelty.

Among Tier 2 (almost all Joypad releases), Kanto Symphony is of interest to me. I'm also interested in listening to Jottobots just 'cuz it's Josh Whelchel.

I'll probably do some sort of special coverage on OSV for this bundle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiz95K1ngiI&feature=b-cat-film

I'm actually ... kinda excited about this one. Is there something wrong with me?

I mean, it won't be great. But it could be fun. I like Rolfe in general ... not the most knowledgeable guy on games, but he's got great delivery.

I'm still working my way through this album, but I agree that "Near the Water" is amazing.

For me, the best piano collections are VIII and X, and I'm also very warm to X-2. But this might join VIII and X in a tie.

I want Uematsu to start into an organ solo and the Narita knocks him out of the way and says "hey Uematsu, I'm-a let you finish, but..."

The Earthbound Papas now function not just as a band, but a group of composers (akin to Basiscape).

I personally hope Narita-san is on for most of EXXIV like he was for REXX. He was frigging amazing. And when we spoke to him at MAGFest, he was so shy and uncertain of his own abilities ... it's just silly. Dude is amazing.