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So fanboys are really just gamers who are too poor to own more than one system?  Nice!

They don't have a word for PC games over here, they don't even say PC over here.  They say PasuCon = personal computer.  Actually they do say PC sometimes, but it sounds more like Pee Shee.  And they never use Pee Shee and gemu in the same sentence.

Btw, do leppers play games?  Maybe with their elbows.

 I wish I could get Netflix on my PS3 or a smart TV.  Every time I try to access it from here in Japan it says - "This service is not currently available in your region."  I hope my building's "free internet" that was included in the monthly rent is not using a proxy IP form Saudi Arabia!

Just one day later and more games being revealed.  the Witcher 3 for PS4.  It's getting a little better.  There's tons of studios rumored to be working on games for PS4, but not a lot of details yet.  It's early.  E3 should be fun!

Enjoy isn't the word I would use, more like experience.  But an experience I don't regret and is worth talking about more than most traditional gaming experiences.  Gaming is evolving and maybe Quantic Dream and Tell Tale Games are splitting off and developing a new species.

That is a rather old and literal definition of a video game.  So, yeah, the Walking Dead Game does involve video, barely, and human interaction, but another commenter from another site before I cross-posted this blog asked if the Walking Dead Game was really a game.  A game is something you can practice and get better at, with the intention to win, whether it's just by acquiring better button pressing skills or by levelling up with a metaphorical meter of progress, otherwise known as experience points.  That doesn't apply to the Walking Dead Game.  It is all narrative and only narrative, there is no game.  You do get choices, but they only affect the overall morality of the protagonist, Lee Everett.  The Walking Dead Game doesn't have multiple endings.  You can never get better at killing zombies and making people like you better, that makes it even less interactive and more directed and linear that most 'interactivce narratives.'

Anyway, I don't want to get too literal with the definitions of video games.  So far in the dozens of comments across three sites, 1up.com, ign.com, and Pixlbit, it appears about 80% don't agree with my argument, and that's fine.  But it's just so different it can't really be compared with other GOTY candidates, especially the ones in the VGA nomination list.  Just trying to spark a little conversation.  It's nice to see video games evolving.

btw, I thought the Transformer movies were horrible.

no.  I have these conversations in my English lessons.  which are in English, of course.  Mr. Tsuchiya is high level.  Takaaki just stares at me sometimes.  He can only handle simple question and answers, so it's not really a conversation, just one word answers.

the past year has not been boring.

btw, how are you enjoying being a contributor for PixlBit?  You've dropped off the radar on the 1up site, but that was never a paying gig.  I gotta get myself into the action somehow as well, of course it might help if I actually write something new rather than crossposting from other sites.

car, yes.  house, no.

really?  too bad I changed it.