Or you can just stalk me at your leisure. Creep.

@breaka666: You are right to a degree about complaining, but this isn’t a dog that doesn’t know better, it’s a large corporation that should. When sales of a franchise or in a genre dip year after year (I’m thinking of Tony Hawk and the music genre specifically here, but this is not limited to those), the proper action is not to make a game that requires yet another new peripheral (and inflated prices to match) or flood the market with crap rehashes hoping something sticks, you have to re-evaluate what you’re doing on your end to make it better. You also should not casually talk about dumping core titles because they lack “annualization” nor make jokes about increasing the prices, because that is not what consumers – recession or no – need to hear.

Sorry if that comes off as argumentative. It wasn’t my intention. I love you.

@darthgibblet: That is a method worth considering, though my problem comes down to over stuffing my plate and realizing that maybe I wasn’t as hungry as I thought… gamingly speaking, of course.

- As far as the biases, my feeling have been that there’s nothing wrong with liking one system (or game or franchise or whatever) more than another, but it becomes a problem when you expect everybody else to share in your opinion. I think that’s the difference between a fan and a fanboy/fangirl.

- That being said, there are a few franchises I’d describe myself as a fanboy of (although not in compliance with the above definition :F. I don’t care if people agree with me), mostly JRPGs of one form or another, but I also really enjoy a wide variety of genres (I consider myself pretty decent at FPSs, although I prefer Sci-Fi to WW2). Anything I can play with my friends get an instant boost, especially if it’s something that has split-screen features (unfortunately, this seems to be a dying game mode as people try to get more and more rendering power out of consoles).

- @Ginia/Erik J: I was really bad at finishing games up until recently. About 1/2 way through last year, I started keeping track of what games I was playing (purchase dates, last played dates, current progression through the story, etc) in a database and that’s helped me stay much more focused on the games I’m currently playing. Maybe some similar system would help you guys? My view’s always been, though, that the fastest way to not like a game is to force yourself to finish it. Games are supposed to be fun. If they’re not, then you’re doing it wrong :D.

yes I know about his horrible track record, yes I know hes been quoted saying “yeah, I’m aware that the games I’ve made have never been, you know…good.” but I love Romancing SaGa” Minstrel Song, Final Fantasy II, Romancing SaGa III, and SaGa II. those are the only games of his that I’ve played so he has a good history as far as my history is concerned.

I don’t really hate any group or person. I always figured getting mad at people or organizations for doing shitty things was sorta like getting mad at a dog for licking his testicles: no point in getting mad at something that’ll never change.

welcome Eric J! lieutenant of the Lusipurrian army! -salutes a soldier of higher rank-