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We're getting ready to have an epic lightning storm in my neck of the woods.

Ni no Kuni is my second favorite game of the generation, after Valkyria Chronicles, and I haven't enjoyed a "traditional" (non-strategy) RPG this much since Final Fantasy XII.

I'm enjoying Bioshock Infinite, but I didn't like the first two Bioshock games all that much.

The only other game coming out this year that I'm definitely getting is Tales of Xillia. I sprung for the Collectors' Edition of that game.

I think that mostly what I hate from modern gaming is the DRM, DLC, and other superfluous crap, although I do admit that I use my PS3 and Wii U to watch Netflix when I don't want to game. I also wish a few of my favorite developers of the past were more active.

On the other hand, I've gotten to play awesome games like Valkyria Chronicles and Ni no Kuni on my PS3. I've also enjoyed playing fighting games online.

Dissidia is a good game. I just wish they'd do a HD remaster of it for PS3. But then, the PSP does have quite a few nice games on it. My favorite PSP game is Valkyria Chronicles 2. It's not as awesome as the PS3 original, but it's still a fine game and worth checking out if you want a taste of the PS3's best game.

Oh, man. I remember Tai-Pan. I played it on our old TRS-80 computer, and I wrote a version of it for the Atari 130XE in BASIC. I play the browser-based version every once in awhile. The game still hold up, for what it is. It'd be interesting for someone to do a modern graphical update of the game and release it via Steam/PSN/XBLA/Nintendo eShop (the Wii U gamepad would work well with it.)

This CE looks good enough that I'm okay with the $100 asking price. My only qualm is that it will get mishandled the way the Ni no Kuni Wizards' Edition did, although I did score the hardcover guide for free from that. However, since it's available at retail rather than through Digital River, hopefully the $25 I put down at Gamestop will keep mine safe from Canadian scalpers.

Unlike a lot of old-media companies like Warner Bros Interactive, Fox Interactive, or Disney Interactive, which were just there to cash in on their IPs in the video game realm, LucasArts was a genuinely good game-maker once upon a time. I remember their games from the 1980s, when they were known as Lucasfilm Games. Koronis Rift, The Eidolon, BallBlazer, and Rescue on Fractalus were some of the most technologically advanced games of the time, That was also the time they started their adventure games. My favorite LucasArts game is Zombies Ate My Neighbors. But by the end of the 90s they were little more than a Star Wars licensing vehicle.

Maverick Hunter would have ended up like Bomberman: Act Zero on 360. It looked like a shameless attempt to pander to the American "dudebro" audience that would probably have ignored it and gone back to Halo 4.

I'm on the fence about Injustice. I'm not really nuts about comic book heroes myself, and the only reason I'm interested in it is because it was made by Ed Boon, the Mortal Kombat guy.

My question: Is it true that you are, in fact, the legendary Bigfoot?

What's going on with Capcom isn't really much different from what's going on anywhere else in the industry. These days, development costs are so inflated that companies want proven hits and low risk. That's why Activision is pretty much the Call of Duty factory these days, and why Capcom focuses on Street Fighter and Resident Evil. And it looks like they've milked the former pretty dry at this point. I'd like to see them do a new Breath of Fire, but that's probably out of the question in this climate. Heck, Camelot even offered to do Breath of Fire for them.