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At long last! This time, we're discussing morality systems in games and how to get past some of the roadblocks they've been hitting. As always, 95% of all brilliant insight comes from professional game designer James Portnow. Special thanks to Star Salzman for unwittingly providing end credits music and, as always, to CarboHydroM for my title theme. Enjoy!

I'm cAtf00d if you want to add me as well. It's been a pretty darn fun game thus far.

Lumines is definitely worth buying. I hear you get more for your money with the PSP version, but I've loved the 360 version.

Now I finally have an excuse to shell out a few bucks for Age of Booty!

There it is. The greatest remix title of all time. And I was here to see it. Pack up, people, we're done here.

You can turn sound effects down in the options menu. That helps a bit.

Been waiting for this to hit the Wii Store for nearly a year now. Already purchased and loving it.

Probably, yeah.

Excellent.

I'll be spending most of the time begging for a job, but it'd be cool to say hi if anyone else is there.

It's live!

Obligatory (yet celebratory!) PixieMix. Enjoy your first married birthday!

Even as a remixer, I'm always thinking of remix ideas that I would love to do, but could never pull off with my equipment/skills. Epic Hans Zimmer pieces. Cirque du Soliel world music/circus-style pieces. And especially rock tracks. If I had the gear and talent for it, I would have SO many rock remixes on this site already. Basically, I want to have Sixto at my beck and call.

Good old Gray. OCR's rare white elk.

Definitely. And games are also seeming easier to us veterans because we have been playing games for decades. We are very good at them now. Developers cannot afford to cater exclusively to our whims. It would create a huge barrier to entry for new gamers and possibly stagnate the industry.

If you've never tried a Monster Hunter game, I highly suggest Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. It's only like $15 now and you can get literally hundreds of hours out of it.

Ok, I'll put a tentative claim on Place of Memory.

I love FFIX's soundtrack so much that I'm going to actually blow the dust off the old gear and see if something happens. I really don't have time for this these days, but I adore this game too much to let the chance pass.

Myf! Where the HELL have you been? .... ... oh. That makes sense, I guess. Good to see you back here, though!

For those of you not in the know, Brian now lives in a Nashville airport and flies a plane to work. And he gets all the tiny bags of peanuts and pretzels he can eat.

Perhaps, but this time it's a bit more true. I can play Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Heavenly Sword, Kingdom Hearts and many others without feeling God of War deja vu. There are enough unique qualities to each of them that set them apart. Dante's Inferno offers a new setting, but so much of the rest feels almost directly pulled from God of War that it's hard for me to ignore. So they have very similar combat? No biggie. And they're both set in some type of mythology? I can live with that. It makes for some epic set pieces. Both feature a big, tough protagonist with a shameful past bent on challenging the gods and demons in their own domains? Well ... ok, but that could describe quite a few video game protagonists. Fixation on brutality and nudity? Check. New weapons are taken from conquered bosses? Check. New magical abilities are bestowed periodically by characters from the mythological setting? Check. Larger enemies that you beat into submission, mount and then use against their allies? Check. Quicktime events for epic finishing moves? Check. Chests (or "fountains" in this case) that contain health and mana which you must button mash to open? Check-ity check check. I'm not even saying that this makes it a bad game. Their inspiration source may be obvious, but God of War is a game well worth copying. And Dante's Inferno could throw in some very original gameplay ideas further in for all I know. If the reviews are positive, I'll definitely be giving it a rental. Obviously. And if I felt Dante's Inferno were ripping off any of those previous games, I would say so. But Dante's Inferno feels so very, very similar to God of War specifically that there's no point to bringing up any of the others. Man, you're missing out! Excellent games.

Wow, it's borrowing a lot more from God of War than I expected it to. A lot more. I'll wait and see what the reviews say.

In Japan, yeah. March release for the rest of us. Applying now!

Found albums 1 - 3! A Very 8-bit Christmas Another Very 8-bit Christmas A Very 8-bit Christmas 3

Wow, you weren't kidding. The ones I've been posting are pretty straightforward 8-bit covers, but this guy's rearrangements could be an actual game soundtrack. Easily worth $3.