I miss some of the staff writers from 1Up bring in one place.  I think Jeremy Parish is one of the best games journalists of all time.  I agree on visiting my oldvfriold of ToV.  One of the best Tales games.

I am a fellow ToL weirdo.  Loved the characters in that one.  Chloe>Shirley.

I just waited until I found an okay CyberpowerPC game as a daily deal or she'll shocker on Newegg.  It was $500, had pretty good specs for that money, and I could upgrade various things over time with various other shell shocker deals.  It has worked out great, and was cheap.

A lot of us enjoy reading your blogs.  Some people may never play the games you write about, but they still read your blogs because they are interesting and well written.  There are also a lot of us (myself included) that are around your age.  The games you write about are nostalgic to us.  I know people enjoy your blogs because you get more comments than most.  As long as you write them, I will read them.  Man I'm glad I found my PB password.

Nice!  Oddly enough, my brother gave me a 3ds xl for my birthday a couple of days ago.  It is a regular blue one, but did come with Mariocart.  Best present I have gotten in years (due to the fact that if I want or need something, I just buy it).  I am going crazy on DS and 3ds games.

I smoked for 10 years, but quit 8 years ago using the patch.  I occasionally smoke ecigs when I go out.  I used Blue for awhile but the quality varies a lot.  I suggest an ego 650 with liquid juice.  I think I paid $10 for mine on newegg (mine is a Viking, but there a bunch of brands of the same device).  The juice is cheap and it works so much better and is consistant.  Good luck on quitting.  The ecigs have no tar so they are significantly better for you.

I hear it is pretty broken right now.  I will probably wait for a patch or 2.

Welcome back!

My favorite is Tales of Anything.  Haven't played one I didn't like.  I can't get in to any of the Neptunia games.  I played Arc, but didn't get very far.  Maybe I should give another try.  Love FFX, X-2 not so much.

I love old movies.  Hitchcock is the best.  Rebecca is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Some people on reddit have preordered it.  I will definitely preorder when announced and I don't even have a vita.  Hopefully we get that $100 vita home console too.  Love Tales games.

PS2 is my favorite jrpg system.  I have tons of them.  And PS2 games still hold up pretty well today.  Much better than PS1.

I pre order from Amazon all the time.  You get the game delivered to you on release day unless you are in a remote area.  I haven't gotten one later than release day.  I did get a game the day before though.

Happy birthday man!  

I would go for the collectors edition more often, but half the time you can't put the package on the shelf with the rest of your game.  Tales of Xillia was huge.  So I prefer the pre order versions.  They give you more stuff, in better packaging, don't cost a fortune, and actually fit in your collection.

I am a huge fan of jrpg's, so there are a lot I would love to get.  However, if they aren't in English, then I would pass.  My Japanese is non existent and it is a really tough language to pick up.  I did import Xenoblade from the UK thanks to Nintendo's dumbassedness.  If you still haven't played Xenoblade, that is the best route.  It is cheap in Europe and the Wii soft mod was so easy, I couldn't even screw it up.

I haven't played a Tales game yet that was not worth the money.  Graces was good.  If you like Tales games, you will like it.

Me too.  I may be the only one who like Symphonia: DNW.  Emil was annoying, but Tenebrae made up for it.

I played FFXI for years.  Loved the game and I still have friends I met in game.  SE handled hacking really poorly on FFXI.  I don't see them getting better.

This was such a great game.  I imported from UK to play it.  The Wii is very easy to soft mod, I was even able to do it.  It is much cheaper across the pond.  Of course, when it released here, I bought five copies.  I gave four away as gifts and kept the last one.  One of the best gifts I ever gave.

Booo, spam.

I like story and likable characters.  That is probably why the Tales franchise is my favorite.  Can't wait for Xillia 2.

Oddly enough, I own that game.  One of about 15 news  games I still have from childhood.

Tales is my favorite video game franchise.  I have loved every game.  I even liked Symphonia 2.  Tenebrae is one of my favorite characters of all time and game had me laughing my ass off many times.  Emil was a douche though.  Xillia 2 is coming stateside this year.  I already ordered it. 

I'll be honest.  This game could be the best game ever made and I will not experience it.  SE isn't getting anymore money from me on FFXIII.  I am still pissed off by the end of FFXIII-2.