Honestly, I think RPGs in general are kind of fading away, not just JRPGs. Single player party based tactical gameplay has pretty much disappeared from Western games. Diablo II killed it. Dragon Age was the last hold out and they're slowly moving towards a rhythm based combat system too. Read more
@Manly McBeeferton: Tactical gameplay is disappearing in WRPGs too. It's not like the Witcher, for example, required mind breaking decisions. Read more
@Steezy McFresh: Battle for Wesnoth is free (and supposedly much better) on PC if you want to try it. Read more
@TheRealDoshu: There were two at the thrift store near me but I already have two copies. Read more
@rainofwalrus: I don't think so. Mass Effect was never great as an RPG, so its shift toward being more of a shooter made it a better game in my book. I started using the cover system about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way in ME2 rather than never using it like in ME, because the combat was better and harder. Read more
@ValeriaHeart: It didn't do too well, but then again it doesn't have to light the charts on fire. Porting costs are much, much smaller than development costs. Read more
@ValeriaHeart: I would be surprised if it never came. Rockstar loves money, and Digital Distribution provides infinite retail space. Combine that with a strengthening PC market and the fact that they've released GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas for the PC three separate times, and I'd be shocked if they didn't… Read more
@Slagathorian: Save the trees and kill the children.: Never played Heavy Rain, but I definitely voted for Galaxy 2. Read more
@Robotic-Richard-Simmons: The writing for Shepard sucked, again. Shepard is by far the weakest and lamest character in the entire game. Which means that all your responses to dialog are put through a lame filter and come out sounding lame. Read more
@VincentGrey: The people coming weren't necessarily readers even. Read more
I'd kind of like to see how many votes some of the more successful write-in's got. I think it speaks a little to dissatisfaction at the choices that the percentage of write-ins was so large when three of the four games' companies were tweeting and sending people here to vote. Either that or it was just a really good… Read more
@Kotaku Reject: I'm not a huge fan. I'm not crazy about the style, definitely not crazy about the way it fetishizes the young and women, and when I get the jokes I think they're kind of dumb. Read more
@peteer02: hates geofencing: If it's just games that came out this year I don't even have 10. I spent most of the year filling up backlog. Read more