PixlBit

I think that the hard "good/evil" dichotomy is a product of the three Abrahamic religions.

KFC is actually considered to be fine dining in Japan and China. In Africa, eating at KFC is considered to be a status symbol.

I started in '07. Right before I finally found a Wii.

I haven't played Yakuza 1 (wasn't aware of Yakuza until long after it came out), Yakuza 5 (digital only on PS3, and mine is dead), or Dead Souls.

Yeah. They were supposed to get a bonus if NV got over an 85 Metacritic score. It got an 84 Metacritic score, and they lost the bonus. They said losing the bonus nearly killed Obsidian. It's a shame, too. NV was far and away the best of the Bethesda Fallout games, made by people who worked on Fallout 2.

I enjoyed both of th S&P games. I have a physical copy of Star Successor.

I imagine that Japanese see Judeo-Christian symbols the way we see Greco-Roman or Norse mythology, and to a degree, Japanese mythology. So many Japanese games have Judeo-Christian symbolism in them. Final Fantasy, Xenogears, Bayonetta, some Tales games (Symphonia had a lot of not-too-subtle and not-too-flattering references to Catholicism in it), some Pokemon, and even Zelda. Originally, according to Miyamoto, Christianity was the main religion of Hyrule, with Link having a Latin cross on his shield in the NES games. It wasn't until A Link to the Past that Zelda started really developing its own mythology and pantheon. Since Japan isn't Christian (and in fact, their rejection of Christianity is said to have kept Japan from falling under European colonial rule the way China, Africa, and the Americas did), it doesn't mean much to them. They do celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday with their own spin on it (for single adults, Christmas involves dinner at KFC followed by a night at a love hotel), and they are aware to a degree of how religious the United States is. They almost didn't release Xenogears or Final Fantasy Tactics in the US due to concerns about backlash from religious groups.

We could call it "dickety." Or we could call the whole century "dickety", as in "dickety-eighteen" or in two years, "dickety-dickety."

My big games of this year were Fallout: New Vegas and Yakuza 3. F:NV was the best of the Bethesda Fallout games and combined the Bethesda graphics and gameplay engine with a lot of the best elements of the PC Fallout games.

Is this a recreation of the Scooby-Doo movie where Scooby-Doo Meets Batman and Robin?

I had a game like this on my Atari 130XE computer when I was a kid. It was called Trivia Quest, and was a board game where you and up to three other players answered questions and moved around a game board with a medieval theme. Some of the squares were dragons that you had to fight with bows and arrows. You had to complete three circuits around the board to your castle as a page, knight, and prince. These classes of characters also differed in their ability to fight dragons. The Page was weak, while the Knight was actually better than the Prince, even though the Prince was supposed to be higher-ranked. It was made in 1985, so its questions were even more dated. There were questions in it about the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.