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Cary is exactly right on this one. That deal has long since collapsed, and all the parties involved, including Parish, have wisely moved onto other things rather than tilting at windmills, not to mention spending beaucoup amounts of money, trying to wrest 1UP away from Z-D, for what is essentially the sake of nostalgia.

And even from the standpoint of the community, what would be the point now? For all intents and purposes, Pixlbit IS the 1UP community now, and they've done a fine job at building their community, and without the drama that often characterized 1UP that we often forget about in hindsight. 1UP may have been broken, but its community lives on here, at Pixlbit.

I always thought of this game as one of the Xbox's attempts to siphon off PS2 players with a game that looked superficially Japanese. The reviews for it were pretty awful. I didn't play it as I was not a Xbox owner, but I have toyed with the idea of buying it on Steam, just for kicks and to see if it was decent as a game.

+1 for the Bill Clinton reference.

I liked the sound and the small effects they added to the game that gave the weapons and monsters a bit more weight, and the lighting was good. I kind of missed Robert Prince's music, though.

Interesting thing I read recently: Jeremy Parish and some other folks were apparently trying to buy out 1UP.com so they could run it themselves as a separate company. They had even arranged financing through a venture capitalist. They actually started this deal while 1UP/IGN were still under the News Corp. umbrella. Unfortunately, Ziff-Davis swooped in and bought IGN and 1UP, and Ziff-Davis had no interest in spinning off 1UP, yet they don't seem interested in doing anything with the site themselves other than collecting whatever money they can from the clicks of the few hangers-on left. Here is Jeremy Parish's personal blog detailing that attempt.

I bought the CE of Bravely Default myself. I love that game. Best 3DS game I've played so far, and I agree: They should have just called it a Final Fantasy game, since it is literally a Final Fantasy game in everything but the name. But perhaps Square Enix wants to develop it as a new series so they aren't so dependent on the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest names.

Awesome, you got it too! I'm thinking of ordering the Valkyria Chronicles artbook myself.

Definitely looks pretty SNES-ish, but a lot of PS1 games did in the early days. Regardless, this game is definitely no Burning Rangers.

Wind Waker HD was incredible, and Super Mario All-Stars on SNES was also a great remake.

The aspect of Fallout 1 and 2 I always had the biggest trouble with was the interface. Yeah, I know, I'm a wimp, but I'm used to gaming with a controller, and even on PC I've always preferred a control pad or WASD/arrow keys over skating a mouse around just to walk. The mouse interface drove me nuts. The actual gameplay aspects were interesting, but the interface kind of got in the way the whole time. If Wasteland 2 makes the interface a bit less cumbersome and allows you to use a keyboard in tandem with a mouse, I'm definitely in. Obsidian did a great job on NV, and I'm sure they'll do a good job on Wasteland 2.

When's this coming out? I was interested in this one. I also hope the new crowdfunded Tex Murphy game that Atlus is publishing is awesome.