@ManjiKengo:
Your whole basis on people's understanding of language and culture is still based on if the person is in that country or not... guess you totally missed what y2kenjination was trying to say.

I wish you could understand Japanese, then you can listen to the radio interview link, then you'll (probably) get it.

This is not some Japanese Culture Knowledge showdown. Kojima's whole point of the interview was to point out and gave examples of how sites and translators from many different countries, will take an original article or interview, and interpret/translate that with their own "flairs" and views added, and some other sites will take that and AGAIN add their own twist to it so the article would get more reads, which in result totally changes what the original speaker was trying to convey (like how some Kotaku posts that pulls articles from other sites and add their own flamebait spin for the article).
Kojima just simply wants people to quit fucking around with his words and change it into something else.

But here you have Bash again leaving out and not translate many statements Kojima made to support his claim, twisted some translation so Kojima sounds like he's bashing Americans by saying Americans "brag", so Bash can add a title like "Hideo Kojima: Americans Brag" so people would get pissed and click on the article; basically doing what Kojima is saying in this radio interview that he doesn't want people to do.

よう言わん is Kansai slang for "I just can't say that", not "brag". Quoting "brag" is Bashcraft's interpretation of what Kojima said, but Kojima just didn't say "Americans Brag". Even if that's the interpretation, Kojima said it once, Bash chooses to leave it in the article and use it as the title of this post, as opposed to many statements Kojima said which supports Kojima's point of how people twist the meanings of what he said, which are simply left out or got sloppy translations. (I understand it's a 12 min interview, and some stuff can be left out, but common, this is being TOO selective.)

This is even worse if this is done intentionally. This happened in that 360 Ikaruga blog post a while back, I dunno Bash or Muu translated (or the lack of) that though...
The fact that he is in Japan means that there will be people like you who worship him, and anybody who says otherwise will just be "some kid who watches anime and studied japanese culture for 2 years". Heh, the thing is that random anime kid can possibly know more because he's actually trying to embrace the culture... Or he could just read articles from Kotaku and believe everything he reads, which anime kid are you?

I dunno if he does it on purpose or not, stuff like misleading titles and one sided cultural information or simply leaving stuff out of his article, usually generate many comments because people get angry that "somebody's wrong".

I just came to the conclusion maybe Bash is trying to get more hits in his posts? And number of hits and comments = $$$ as a Kotaku editor? I dunno. Well he's got a wife and kid to feed, and maybe journalism integrity is not needed since this is a blog site as I came to understand; Either way, from following Bash for a while trying to get Japanese gaming info, reading what he has to say Bash's views are totally "American". There's nothing wrong with it, but he's not some Japanese guru either, even when he has a Japanese wife and kids.

You can live in another country all you want, but you can also choose not to adapt to the way they think or act. Even if you choose to adapt to how other people think and act, it's pretty hard when your own culture has formed your own personality and hardwired into your body. I think even acknowledging there's another culture and other ways to do things is hard enough for most people.

The Japanese store's got shit loads of PS1 games...
I don't get why Sony don't make PSN a point system like 360 so you can buy games from stores from different country. Or simply unlock that "Country" selectability when entering your credit card billing info...
PSN point card being country locked is the stupidest thing btw...

There are classic fighting games, shooting games or music games that there has no language barrier.
It's good that atleast SOMETHINGS are coming out, but the US PSN lineup for PS1 totally sux.

@J.A.:
You can in part 2 =)
There's a blind character and you sight-jack a dog while controlling your character. All the people that suck at video games were probably gonna bitch about that more so they never released part 2 in states?

This is why I wish they come out with a patch where we can save these levels. Next time I'm gonna jot down their ID and just mail them to ask for the levels, if I run into a good one.

Oh well hopefully the Thrash Pack goes on sale, at least it'll be fun to play those songs I think.

PS3 = GTA lock up
360 = GTA lock up + RROD

How the hell is this even a poll where you disregard one problem completely because of another bigger overall problem.

Charge $100 a game, I'd still pay for it.

Echocrome today was the first one with tax added to the price... bought Rockband songs just to see, tax added also....

I was waiting for echochrome to come out and wanted to buy it along with some Rockband songs... I thought the songs are expensive already since they add up, now I gotta pay more!!

When did they start charging tax? Was it with the new store update? Was I hallucinating all these time thinking you don't need to pay tax?

Tried to tip Kotaku about it but I guess it's not significant enough to even worth a mention =P

Official word from Rockstar:

"- Rockstar Games reported that both Xbox 360 and PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV may crash. For PS3 crashes primarily on the early 60GB model; for Xbox 360 crashes occur on all the models."

It's like Assasin's Creed all over again...

The movie was only good if you like Jackie Chan and Jet Lee, and just watch the fights.

Script was stupid and one stupid line pretty much destroys the whole "video game homage" when the American kid mentioned there was a "The touch of death" move in Virtua Fighter...

But it's a horror, I hope they would keep more characters very weak, so you can feel the helplessness.

They have only 1 little girl in it this time, she doesn't seem that cute for me to want to save her either...

Wish they would bring back the magic of part 1 more...
But it's a BUY for me either way... Siren Fan for LIFE!!

@Sir_Crocidile:
Yes it's multiplatform and yes it's a arcade fighter that plays like 3rd strike, with added story mode for the home release.

If only I had a real life Otacon to get me pass the damn server security...

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I don't like game that only requires me to group attack 1 enemy, kill, move on to the next. Pretty much takes little to no thinking at all to win, which is extremely boring to me. =/

I guess it's really difficult to say what is the standard for a "hard" game...
I'll get the game either way, just hope that the fights are somewhat on the hard side like what the JPN reviewers said, even for a RPG.

Not that I hated those games, just those game had something else besides the battle that made up for it. However this time with Valkyria seems like finally I can enjoy every part of the game cuz the battles actually seems fun and requires me to actually think.