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I wish Deadlocked were here, too, it's the only one I never played, till All 4 One, I guess. The games are all fairly similar, but they started out so good, and never declined in quality, so I think I may take another run through the originals, if they give me trophies.

I still feel like the old school RPGs deserve the name RPG more than current ones, even though current ones usually have you filling a role more than playing a character created by the developer for the story. Like the name shooter being taken over by FPSs, and having to make up shmup long after shooters had faded away.

I would happily give up climbing buildings to ride moose.

The demo sparked my interest, but not enough for $60. When it gets to $20 or so I'll have no problem picking it up.

I've never liked the minigames so much, and only play enough to get trophies usually. I am getting more interested in this game, though.

Western RPGs seem to focus more on playing a role, turning the player into a character rather than showing a character in the game doing things. JRPGs, the original role playing game on consoles, to my mind, put less emphasis on playing a role, and always had more story and defined characters than most games, till the last couple of generations.

Final Fantasy 6 is my favorite, because of the story and characters, not the combat. Skyrim was cool even though by the time I'd gotten a ways in it felt like I was just running around following an arrow to fulfill quests, and the story didn't seem to drive me so much. Just being in the world was cool enough to keep me going, because it felt more like I was in the world.

Hmm, this preview is actually making me think I might get the game after all. I've played the other four, might as well try this one.

I also like Akiyama. Kazuma's still cool, too. Do we get to play as Majima this time? His aim must be worse, with one missing eye.

I played Oblivion on PS3, so there were no trophies, and since I pretty much always play good, and figured that doing Dark Brotherhood or Thieves' Guild quests would naturally be viewed as bad in the gameworld, I never did them. But in Skyrim I had trophies to gain for these quests, and found that there wasn't any real value attached to the various factions. It's nice to be able to see everything in the game, but it feels so weird to be killing people and not have any repercussions.

I've played all four of the Yakuza games that have made it to the States, but I'm not so sure about this one. I did just start Shadows of the Damned, though, maybe if I like it and this is similar, and I still feel like I might want more, I'll check it out.

At first I thought that headline said something about Billy Joel being in Last of Us. I need to look straight at headlines from now on, instead of just glancing at them.