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Good stuff."
I bought the first Star Ocean on the PSP a few years back (have the second for the PSOne), but still haven't gotten around to playing it. My backlog is gigantic."
I love Ratchet and Clank and Jax and a lot of those same games. I like the shooters still too. I do wish that shooters weren't quite so dominant though. Sometimes you need a break from shooting stuff in the face for sure."
Plus, that doesn't change the fact that she's too stupid to actually insert them properly. It's a lazy piece of narrative crafting. "
Of course, I kinda reconsidered later for the same points you mention. It's probably easy to find someone who can use a gun, but I also thought that since Carley's a reporter that means we could eventually end up at the station -- where there's a news helicopter. That's pretty useful. I'm probably totally wrong, but you never know. Plus no one might be capable of actually flying it...but yeah.
That's probably the coolest thing about the game to me -- I really put a ton of silly extraneous thought into the choices, in much the same way I did in Witcher 2. I like that games are making me weigh the options of my choices instead of just selecting obvious answers to move a morality bar. It's certainly a step in the right direction. You can make a case for saving either Doug or Carley -- and I'm sure both will be useful moving forward, as long as there are no more radios that need batteries."
I dunno -- maybe I'd play a high fantasy massively multiplayer online version of Planet of the Apes. :p"
As someone who loves the medium (and is a collector who owns over a thousand games), this makes me sad. We've already lost access to so many great titles, and it seems likely to get worse before it gets better.
Great post. "