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Probably thinking of Salazar the midget from RE4.

A list that in many spots, I can agree with.

Majora's Mask is not my favorite Zelda - I preferred the Gamecube era over the N64 era when it comes to that series - but on the other hand, the amount of detail that went into planning schedules for every NPC was staggering, and necessitated the three-day time limit.

FFIX is a fine game with a lot of polish and definitely one of the high points of the series. FFIX and Majora's Mask were my 2000 GOTYs.

RE Code: Veronica, while I still prefer RE4 and missed this game during its original Dreamcast release, was still a very solid game.

I've always enjoyed the Sim games, or at least I did until Will Wright left Maxis and left the Sims in the hands of EA executives that don't seem to know their asses from their heads with regards to the games. The original SimCity with its EGA graphics and PC Speaker sound (which sounded like two cats screwing in a blender set on "puree") kept my 13-year-old self glued to my computer for hours on end, the original Sims likewise, and my most recent Maxis game was SimCity 4. Love all the intricacies and humor of the Sim games.

Sorry, Green, your post just reminded me of that joke.

Smash Bros for Wii U, Fantasy Life, The Evil Within.

Ir's also out on PS4.

Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate does have crossover characters from Soulcalibur in it, along with crossovers from other Koei Tecmo franchises like Atelier, Ninja Gaiden, and Dead or Alive.

I hope the Dragon Quest Heroes game makes it out. I really enjoyed Hyrule Warriors myself and I like Dragon Quest.

I have a couple of ideas for Musou games: Springfield Warriors (featuring The Simpsons) and Futurama Warriors. I think a Metroid-themed Musou game could be good too.

I was interested in Destiny originally, but the more I've read about it the less interested I was. I'm probably going to skip it altogether. Looks too much like a FPS MMORPG for my taste, and if I want a MMO, I'll stick with FFXIV.

Freakin' sweet. Ready for some RPGs for my PS4. :)

Happy to be of service to you. As cynical as I may seem sometimes, I didn't care for that crowd dog-piling on you on Twitter and on 1UP, especially as I consider you to be a friend. I've also read some of the shit you've put up with on the RPG Maker forums. There's legit criticism... and then there's being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.  I saw precious little of the former and an awful lot of the latter.

I've stayed out of the Gamergate thing. I have a view of Twitter as the Internet's toilet anyway, where anyone and everyone can take a big public diarrhea shit. The only problem is, once you take a shit on Twitter, you can't flush it away. My Twitter account has lain dormant for three years and I'm probably going to go on Twitter one last time to close it down.

First, I really don't think Gamergate is going to accomplish much as far as "journalistic integrity." If you want to discount the folks tapping away at Candy Crush Saga or Kim Kardashian's Hollywood on their phones while sitting on the can as not being "true gamers", as a lot of the hardcore gaming community seems to do, gaming is a small, niche hobby. Gaming "journalism" outlets are enthusiast sites, not the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, and nothing more. As such, they're never going to attract budding Edward R. Murrows from journalism schools. As such, they're always going to be beholden to the content creators to a degree, in part because they're never going to attract steady outside ad revenue from big non-gaming firms like Procter and Gamble. Their primary source of revenue will always be gaming and gaming-related companies, so that makes for an obligatory relationship between the game publishers and the professional game writers. That's why we'll never see any true hard-hitting articles about, say, Electronic Arts' less-than-stellar business practices, which, IMO, are a hell of a lot more important than allegations that the developer of a little indie game may have slept with the writers of some game website that ranks 100,000 or below on Alexa. You're better off, in that case, sticking with PewDiePie or some other gaming enthusiasts that might share your personal tastes in games. This post here is pretty much one of three posts I've ever made about Gamergate, and I have no plans to get involved in Gamergate in any other way, shape or form. :)

The only gaming-related publication I ever thought was worth subscribing to was Nintendo Power - a publication published by Nintendo of America, that shamelessly picked winners and losers in Nintendo's ecosystem by promoting them in its magazines and reviewing them. As a subscriber, I was basically paying Nintendo to advertise to me. I mean, in Nintendo's defense, they didn't pretend Nintendo Power was supposed to be hard-hitting journalism, and every issue clearly had the words "Published by Nintendo of America" in it, at least until Nintendo turned the mag over to Future Publishing, so there wasn't any misrepresentation there. But man, was it fun. I never cared about game reviews, honestly, and NP had tips on how to play games that, for the most part, I really liked. I couldn't give less of a damn about all these gaming sites like Kotaku, Polygon, or Rock Paper Shotgun that cropped up after all the big gaming mags, including NP, bit the dust.

What Bob Mackey did to you was bullshit. Full stop. I am proud to say that I was one of probably more than a few 1UP compatriots that e-mailed Jeremy telling him (politely but firmly, since the problem was Mackey, not Jeremy) that I thought he needed to sit Bob down in the office and talk with him about basic customer service and human decency.