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I've just tracked down a copy of Persona 4. I will let you know how it goes [http://www.well-rendered.com/]. Thank you so much for the reccommendation.

I've just tracked down a copy of Persona 4. I will let you know how it goes [http://www.well-rendered.com/]. Thank you so much for the reccommendation.

Thank you very much, I really appreciate you saying that.

The loading times are just as bad on the XBOX, I'm afraid (I always had a book to read during the load screens, I kid you not). And that's definitely a fair point. Given the choice, I'd rather wait a bit longer in order to be able to explore the cabin than not have it at all, but I do agree...

Quite. Just because games excel at "action", conflict and (as you say) "doing stuff", doesn't mean that the impact of those things can't be enhanced by having downtime. And thank you very much for your reccommendation of Persona 4. I'd heard of it but never got round to playing it, but now I...

I didn't take into account the possibility of using domestic spaces as a role-playing device, where you impact upon your own space in order to create character in a way which in unique to games (although of course you can do that in Mass Effect 2, somehow a space hamster doesn't offer quite the...

That's an extremely interesting comparison. Whlist game journalism is making an understandable move towards discussing narrative techniques in games and games alone, I think there's a lot to be gained through comparisons to other art forms, other media. Whilst there is much to be gained by...

Home, Sweet Home Giving players access to the dwellings of videogame characters can contribute more to the sense of a living, dynamic world than any number of cut scenes. Read Full Article

Whilst Lego was definitely my favourite toy, The_Dreamstone [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/] was my favourite TV show. I would have thought it's well balanced between boys and girls (lightning/guitars/Evil Nightmare Lord Zordrac vs. Forest creatures/clouds/Amberley the Noop), but that's only...

I think a good argument to someone who decides video games are "stupid" is to point at that at some point, many major art forms were considered beneath contempt. The novel was derided about 300 years ago because the people reading them were the nouveau riche, rather than the...

Jade from Beyond Good and Evil.

Everyone here has such good taste! I suppose a lot of people here know that The Road was a direct influence on Fallout 3. If you like epic sci-fi that actually has really good characters (I love sci-fi, but often I find that character takes second place to plot/invention), I can't...

Surely it had a strong presence in the Grand Theft Auto games and even more of one in Saints Row? Practically speaking, hip-hop doesn't lend itself to music sims or rhytham games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero as a) it doesn't have associated instruments in the same way and b) rapping is...

Plus, I can't believe no-ones said this yet: The Star Wars prequels were DREADFUL. The clever thing about the original trilogy was the fact that many things were alluded to but never explained: "Many Bothans died to bring us this information" etc. By trying to explain everything, the...

I don't want to be a dreadful pedant, but aren't Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica both set in the distant past? But I agree, Star Trek's optimism and idealism are inspiring :)