PixlBit

No. Most achievements/trophies are incredibly dull and require spamming the more boring parts of a game ad nauseam.

I never played Tower of Doom. A bar on the University of Oklahoma campus, however, had a Shadows Over Mystara machine, and I plugged quite a few quarters into it. I was kind of bummed that it never got a home release in the US on the PlayStation. I was thinking of buying the Saturn D&D Collection. However, although I am a game collector, the only games I will spend three figures on are RPGs, and even those have to be pretty top-end for me to blow that much cash.

Problem solved, thanks to Capcom. I haven't picked it up yet, but I think I will download the PSN version of it.

This all the way. My favorite games this generation, with few exceptions have come from neither the bloated excesses of EA, Activision, or Ubisoft, nor from low-budget indies, but from the middle class of games that seems to be narrowing as the industry polarizes towards the two extremes.

I'm definitely getting both Xillias. I've already gotten the three Op Rainfall Wii RPGs and Project X Zone. As long as we get great RPGs from Japan, I'll yssupport them. This has been the best time for Japanese RPGs since the PS1 days IMO.

The characters in Project X Zone are from Valkyria Chronicles 3, which sadly has never been released in the US. Makes me wish Sega had released it here. :(

My GOTY so far is Ni no Kuni, and I doubt that's going to change before the end of the year, unless Tales of Xillia or something else turns out to be absolutely amazing. I love Ni no Kuni. Other than Valkyria Chronicles, it's my favorite game of the entire generation. Screw the handful of haters. :)

Other than that, my favorite games so far have been Bioshock Infinite and Project X Zone. Sadly, I've never really liked Animal Crossing all that much, but I'm glad you're enjoying it.

Dragon's Crown, Killer is Dead, The Evil Within, and The Order: 1886 are the ones I'm interested in from your list. I'm also interested in Transistor, the latest from the people who made Bastion, which was a headline title at Sony's E3.

Get them both, but if you're only going to get one, I'd go with DQVIII. RG is a great game, but it's not in the same league as DQVIII.

I'm going to go ahead and get a PS4 for Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III, plus a couple of other things, and hope that other neat stuff shows up.

The thing is, I don't think Sony's stunt was quite so BS. To me, it was never implied that Sony would outright ban DRM, as I figured they would fear EA pulling its support, and I do think that Microsoft's DRM was bullshit and needed to be nipped in the bud. While I've no doubt they'll try to go full digital and always online in the next round, at least the kibosh has been put on it for now.

In the 1980s we went from shared computing on dumb clients connected to mainframes to having our own computing power, and it was a revolution. In 2013, they seem to be taking that freedom from us and chaining us back to shared mainframe computing, now known by the euphemism "cloud computing", using shitty thin terminals, which to me is like taking away private telephone lines and putting us back on party lines. Which is also true, in a sense, if Edward Snowden is to be believed. :)

At least in the 1970s your dumb terminal didn't have an always-on camera spying on you.

The development of the home computer was one of the great breakthroughs of modern computing, freeing users from the shackles of the mainframe computer and paid "computer time." I guess the overlords of the computing world decided that was too much responsibility for us peasants to handle, because we're being lockstepped towards "cloud computing", which is little different from the mainframes of old in that a corporation holds the keys to the content you paid for, accessed through dumb terminals (now euphemistically called "thin clients".)