I’m surprised by these numbers and they look suspiciously low, almost like there was a mistake somewhere. But let’s assume they are accurate: to say the FF brand is dead is ridiculous. Type-0 sold well as a PSP title, XIII sold well even if it did get itself a bad reputation. XIII-2 is more likely [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_public_education

Not 100% sure on whether Creationism actually made it into any US classrooms in the end, but it definitely (and very recently) got as far as a few school boards. There’s a big movement pushing for it.

Everyone’s atheist in regards to thousands of deities.. “Atheists” just go one god further :)

I’m an atheist, and as a rule I keep my mouth shut unless actually provoked. As long as religion stays out of government and education it’s reasonable enough as most individuals don’t take their holy book’s teaching ‘too’ radically. But when you have religious rule you get witch burnings, stonings, and girls being forced to [...]

“The device is currently available from the usual otaku retail outlets”

I read “retail” as “rental”. Was surprised it was such a popular business!

You know… even after seeing it’s a guy. When I look at the top picture I just think: “Aw hell. I’d still hit it!”

No. But that’s kind of the point of it: action RPG in a contemporary environment.

Do you really want that? A company whose track record over the past couple of years has been pretty abysmal, remaking a classic game? I want them to prove they can make properly good RPGs again before they set to work on remakes!

Oi! Get rid of that “graphically” in parentheses! Versus XIII looks utterly brilliant! Combat is exactly what we were expecting: Sleek, streamlined Kingdom Hearts, set in a more contemporary environment. Very excited about this. And cautiously optimistic about XIII-2 as well. There’s just something about Lightning’s armour design that gives the impression they’re going to [...]

Yeeah happy birthday Mio! I would totally go Otaku for her ;)

Or they could learn from Final Fantasys 1 through 12. Square Enix have had a bad year on home consoles and PC(though Birth By Sleep was excellent on the PSP), but the history of the franchise in one steeped in quality. And they don’t need to learn anything that they don’t already know, deep down. [...]

Very true, 2nd anonymous! I’d go so far as to say that X-2 had the best battle system in the franchise, and the dresspheres was an important part of that.

Even if it was a bit if a stupid way to implement a job system!

I actually believe this is a good idea. The story left itself very open for a sequel, and XIII’s got so much flack that a sequel is as good a title as any to try and restore some respect. I have a certain amount of trust that a XIII-2 would, in gameplay terms at least, [...]

In fact to further that, this is an open world survival game, not a linear platformer like Uncharted and previous Tomb Raider games. So this has less in common with Uncharted than the series used to!

I bet if this was published by anyone other than Square Enix, you wouldn’t have the slightest issue with her reinvention. Lara is more believable now, obvious thought has gone into her redesign. And if you think she is now ‘macho’ then your perception of women has been warped by too much anime and internet [...]

Wish I hadn’t already pre-bought some Crysta! It’s kind of pointless while the game is F2P!

Hope not, they already said it’s going to be ‘open world’!

I was presuming Niker was talking about the object in her left hand, which at first glance kind of looks like a katana… mebbe I’m wrong but yeah, the thing on her back is a bow, the thing in her hand is a climbing axe.

Oh yeah, it’s not a Katana btw it’s a climbing axe to help you get up cliffs and things. Handy as this is going to be an open world game (think “Far Cry” if it was Tomb Raider. If that makes sense lol).

“Macho she-man”. In other words “She doesn’t have massive tits”. She looks better than ever, and CD want to focus on the “survival” element this time around, hence the mud and blood. I know it’s fashionable to hate on Square Enix at the moment thanks to FF13 and 14, but in regards to the western [...]