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I wasn't as amazed by Pacific Rim as a lot of other people, so I can see where your friend was coming from. I had fun, though.

I friggin' loved the new Muppet movie, it was one of the first dates I went on at the start of last year, watching that in my college's discount movie theater. No need to be embarassed about that one, in my opinion. 

I also thought MoS was just ok. I couldn't imagine craning my neck for it, though. I think with that plus all the camera movement, I'd have gotten a headache. That's why I try to avoid times when I know theaters or movies will be busy, unless I've been planning to see one for a while with a group. 

I don't know how much I could get into co-op, but the comparison to working with a friend on Zelda does make it sound more appealing, as well as the whole competing for high scores thing. Sounds interesting. 

Yup. It's mostly a  mental game. At least, that's largely what I've found. Glad to hear it!

Yeah, LEGO has been more likely to have commercial licensed characters and objects in its products in general since I was a kid, which I'm not sure how I feel about, but it does give them a lot of referential humor to play around with in movies and games. 

I didn't know LocoCycle was already being reviewed, but that's awesome you got to play it at PAX, and I don't mind a lack of political correctness either. 

I don't know if I like Final Fantasy games that much, but I do like music-action and I think I've liked Uematsu's compositions, so if I get an opportunity, I'll get a TheaterRythm game. 

Yeah, I knew about BlazBlue and GG having the same developer, that's why I mentioned I like GG, so I'd probably like BlazBlue. I honestly am not sure what the difference is supposed to be aside from the characters and story. It looks like both series have the same gameplay and art style to me, which is all I really care about. 

I didn't know Chibi Robo was on GCN. I may check it out if I see it on Amazon.Too bad it's not on Steam. 

I imagine I will be surprised by your DK games. lol You have some pretty unique tastes, which is a good thing, I think. 

That's all I know about the Yoshi game as well. I don't know much about Monolith Soft, but I hear you. 

I don't know why, but hearing about Blue Dragon is nostalgic for me, even though I never played it. Maybe that's because it was being talked about when EGM was still around?

I rented one of the first LEGO Star Wars games for Gamecube. I need to marathon the sextet of movies, but I don't own any of them. 

I saw Just Cause and Just Cause 2 on sale on Steam, but ultimately there were games I just wanted more, or were cheaper. Same with Mass Effect, although I played the ME2 demo and enjoyed it, but I wasn't going to buy it without controller support. I know people swear by it for shooters, but I don't like the keyboard/mouse set up. I much prefer moving and adjusting the camera with dual analog sticks, it feels far more natural to me. 

I hope you can defeat the Pajama Mountain. I love Mario RPGs, they're some of the few I can really enjoy. Great humor and more accessible gameplay for me than most in that genre. 

I played the first Okami on Wii at a friend's for a bit, but I would love to play a full game. The art style is just beautiful. Ni No Kuni also looks great, but I don't know if I'd like its RPG gameplay or not. It's good that it's similar to Pokemon, which is another of the few RPGs I can really enjoy, but that action timer thing sounds a bit intimidating for someone like me who doesn't play many RPGs. 

I am still not sure I would like Elder Scrolls games. I'm not that into fantasy settings, and I tend to get lost easily as well, and prefer mission-based games to "do whatever random crap you want" sandbox style games, usually. 

Etrian Odyssey had a lot of buzz around it at the start of the year, and seems to be appearing on lots of year end lists, too. Of course, I think that was IV, not the game you mentioned, but EO has been getting lots of love, either way. 

I don't know much about Enchanted Arms. Look forward to your 10 hour games blog.

Nice illustrations. Is that roughly your same hair and clothing style in real life? Just curious. 

Hope you can beat the cold. Enjoy the cider! I do indulge in alcohol, but only socially if it's regular beer or wine, liquor and mixed drinks are the only alcohol I tend to drink for taste, so I know where you're coming from. 

Your mother had you when you were 16? That sounds painful.  Sorry, couldn't resist. 

That does sound like a rough environment to grow up in, though, and I can see why you have such antipathy towards religiosity. To be honest, unfortunately I'm not surprised any of this is the case for you, since you've hinted at this in the past, but I am glad you seem to have been able to pursue your future and get away from that abusive father of yours for a time. I'd definitely say to get authorities involved if he physically assaults you. I don't know what your relationship is like now, though. It's incredible to me how he can suffer from alcoholism and not realize depression is also an illness deserving of other people's help, not ostracization.

It took me a lot less to start questioning God's existence in high school. To be honest, I had my doubts about the Bible very early on. Of course, I went to Catholic school, where much of the Bible is taught as allegory, and not meant to be taken literally the way it is by other denominations of Christian churches. Jehova's Witness is considered fairly extreme by most people, I think. 

That brings me to your last line, about religion seeming the same pretty much everywhere. The hypocrite part, I have experienced for sure, but I was lucky to grow up with people who focused on the more loving aspects of their religions well enough for me to consider them good or even great people. That's not an argument for the truth of religion or the existence of God, I'm just saying you and I may have had different experiences in that I have in fact meant religious people who were nowhere even close to as bad as some you've had to experience. Heck, one of my teachers in Catholic school honestly seemed a lot more interested in Eastern philosophy. I tend to enjoy bits and pieces of Eastern and Western religions and incorporate them into my own way of thinking, myself. To me, it' all man-made, so there's bad and good in all of this stuff, and as we evolve, we become better at mixing and matching to find the best solutions for ourselves and others. 

Like you, I liked what my religion taught. One thing I still believe is that a person is more than their worst sin. For some reason, that's one thing from Catholic school that really stuck with me.

Of course, you and I share a lot of the same views on religious hypocrisy and evil as well. If you need to vent and rant in a PM some time, you've got an agnostic buddy here. 

She's in American Hustle as well. I hear she's great in it. I actually didn't like her that much in MoS, but she is sexy and a great actress overall. You liked Man of Steel though, didn't you? I can definitely see why people like it, it has a lot going for it.

Hobbit movies to me are SFX spectacles, which I generally try and catch in theaters, but yeah, maybe being able to pause and go to the restroom can help  it be more enjoyable. lol 

I don't know if I liked Iron Man 2 or 3 better. The first one is definitely my favorite, though. I still need to see the new FF movies, they sound like fun. Maybe 5 or 6 are at Red Box. 

And yeah, certain elements of WoWS are a lot like Goodfellas to me, which makes sense given Scorsese directed both, but it's definitely different, too. Go in expecting less gritty, serious violence and more over-the-top comedic office debauchery and I think you'll enjoy it. Also, go to the bathroom before hand, it's a long sit. It would have been my favorite of 2013 had I caught it in time, though, so I think it's worth it.