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This is a really cool concept and execution, spoiled in the Internet age because the secret didn't last more than 5 minutes after it was discovered. I don't have a PS4 but the footage I've seen looks nice. I can't imagine the full game will use the same mechanics/perspective as P.T but it would help make it relevant again.

All true. I'm compelled to play it because I'm an idiot but it really is an odd game. Kickstarted for PC when it's an iOS f2p game and yet not configured especially well as a touchscreen f2p game at all. It takes ages for buildings/wheat to complete (as you'd expect) but then the Belief caps out at a low amount after a short while. It wants you to constantly be accessing the game but wait for the actual progression which results in you constantly asking "what is there to actually do?".

Of course yer man would say something like that.

Uh, also not to be a dick (ok, I'm being a dick) but, Sean, I love you man, but I don't think you should get to say "It's" if you keep thinking It's 2013.

In Japan, they're going to offer the first four chapters of Bravely Default as a free download with the second four as a payable addition. As someone who has finished Bravely Default, this is spectacular chutzpah.

Shocked and appalled that this is the first time HDS has been virtualised into a child's video game.

Who would have thought, after all these years, that Chris would actually make the most convincing baby?

Link to Wikipedia entry on Super Mario Bros. Super Show Sonic has always been rubbish. It's a shame that Sega see him as a mascot and put their hopes on him becoming a thing again when they have loads of neglected franchises. Although if Radman can become a decent thing, anything is possible.

SPECTRUM SUCKS! Has anyone played Pullblox World and formed an opinion on it? I'm coming up to the end of Pullblox on the 3DS and more of that sounds better than Fallblox but maybe also just more of the same would be kind of boring.

Finally, the Year of Big.

The greatest thing Steam has ever given me has been the joy of selling non-existent things to crazy nerds. Who ever thought you'd be in profit during a Steam sale?

The good thing about Sonic & Dreamcast Friends is that the single player mode is more like Diddy Kong Racing, eg. you don't just race through every track, there are checkpoint challenges, stunt trials and combat trials. The transforming levels thing is a bit of a whatever because the transformations are always the same and the Sega fanservice was lost on me because, honestly, who had a Mega Drive growing up? It didn't feel as good to me in the actual racing as Mario Kart but the campaign had enough to overcome that. Whilst with Mario Kart, the racing is it so racing through the cups again and again remains worthwhile. Also Monster Hunter with lock on would be a game for babies. Where you're hitting the monster is crucial!

I'm super glad that Jake has fully embraced the mantle of Nintendo chest beater. In recent years, I've found American gaming personalities to be apologetic if ever they enjoy something from Nintendo; a lot of damning with faint praise as though liking it is grounds for humiliation. All it needs is Nick to jerry rig a way out of his hole using the Wii Vitality Sensor into the light and, next thing you know, Chris will be looking forward to Codename S.T.E.A.M.

I always liked the downtime resource gathering between big hunts. That's mainly what I used the 3DS version for if I wasn't at home. Or seeing how long you can last in the Woods, surviving only on the land as random monsters appear. Every time I talk about MH, I feel compelled to go back but I basically had to stop myself playing because I wasn't getting any sleep.

Not sure the online in MH3U should be relegated to "apart from"! That was a key part of me playing 200 hours too. Both my brother and I tried to play it locally on 3DS but it just wasn't the same as the Wii U online.

Conversely, the lore stuff in Mass Effect and the Elder Scrolls games could not interest me less! As far as good RPG beginnings go, Final Fantasy VII really had a fantastic start. It throws acronyms and proper nouns at you with abandon but, because you're starting in the middle of an exciting situation, it feels very involving. You're not a wide-eyed boy who has a chance meeting one day, you're an ex-soldier planning to bomb an energy reactor.

Tales of Vesperia is one of maybe 3 games in recent memory that I just couldn't finish* because the story and characters just weren't interesting at all. I said about Bravely Default (which was going the same way) that voiced dialogue in RPGs is almost guaranteed to make me zone out but I paid attention to Final Fantasy XIII (and, oops, enjoyed it) and Persona 3 and 4 have loads of talking and are so anime-inspired but are also two of my favourite games of all time. *having already invested 65 hours

I motion for Danielle to be re-nicknamed "Good Stuff".

It's foreign and yet Canada contains the most France-like region outside of France. What's up with that? And what's the deal with airline peanuts?

If you're into Rayman, I'd like to introduce a cool dude who will blow your mind. Despite how downright offensive the character is, Rayman Origins and Legends are swell games.

Everyone will tell you it's a boring series but New Super Mario Bros. Wii/U are some of the few games I've started AND finished in co-op. The actual character control hasn't changed in 30 years and most people at this point have played a Mario Bros. game in their life so it doesn't take too much to get into it.

I got to the final boss of Kingdom Hearts 1 but the only KH game I finished was Birth By Sleep on the PSP. This is a lot like how I have only finished the two handheld Assassin's Creed games. Agreed with Roderick about KH though I'd extend it to the whole series. The story and characters are whatever (although seeing Disney characters doing stuff is fun) but the actual level traversal was always fun and you got to make gummi ships. Anyway, the demo of Kingdom Hearts DDD was really enjoyable but it was never less than £30 if it was for sale so I will never play it.

Hey, well done. The last Mystery House is really long but really fun. The last level is really frustrating but actually simple and also fun.

I was even going to call them star coins like the NSMB ones. Wrong all the time. Although maybe someone will read that, panic and try to collect every coin in every level. That would be worthwhile.

There's a demo of Heroes of Ruin. It was enjoyable enough for me to pick it up when I found it cheap but not good enough to convince me to actually play it at the expense of other games I already own. A 69 on Metacritic, if you will.