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Fallout: New Vegas and Yakuza 4 were right along with Valkyria Chronicles and Lunar: SSH on my list of 2010 must-plays. I had a good time gaming overall.

P.S. Sega has decided to revisit Valkyria Chronicles in the form of a PS4 remaster of the first game and Valkyria: Azure Revolution, which looks to be a traditional turn-based RPG (not a SRPG) prequel to the first game. Knowing Sega and their track record for localizations, the new game is kind of iffy for a US release, but I hope they'll make use of Atlus USA for a localization. We may have a decent enough chance of seeing the remaster of the first game since it's already localized and Sega was apparently pleased with the sales numbers of the Steam re-release.

I like non-Tolkien/TSR fantasy worlds myself (never was a fan of LOTR or D&D myself), but I think Japan more than has that pretty well covered, and in ways I enjoy. One fantasy world I think would make a great RPG is The Stand, by Stephen King. He did say that The Stand was his version of LOTR set in contemporary America. The Dark Tower universe would make a good game in the right hands.

As far as space goes, I'd like to see more efforts in that area that have no ties to either Star Wars or Star Trek, and not a MMO like EVE Online or Star Citizen (which is looking more and more like it's going to set a record as the most colossal Kickstarter failure in history, anyway), either. Just an open-universe space-exploration RPG along the lines of an EA PC game I played when I was young called Starflight, only with modern technology, with some aliens and combat thrown in.

Real world settings: How about visiting an area of the United States that isn't New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago? What about Texas? Arizona? Tennessee?

I'd also like to see an RPG set in the prehistoric era, with Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons fighting cave lions, mammoths and each other.

Yeah, all the way to the end. Phenomenal game. I even liked the battle system, honestly.

Bayonetta 2 is fucking awesome. The end.

And Wind Waker is still one of the best games ever made.

Liking Zestiria for sure.

If you dig Samurai Warriors, I'd suggest Dragon Quest Heroes, which is made by the same company in conjunction with Square Enix and Armor Project. That's the best game Omega Force has ever made IMHO.

Ni no Kuni is the one game that instantly that comes to mind for me. It's by no means the only good game I've played, but it sticks out above all others. Also Fallout: New Vegas came out within the past 5 years, so there's that. And Bayonetta 2.

Honestly, Fatal Frame isn't a bad deal. It's $50 for the full game (full games these days cost $60) so it is slightly cheaper than most of Nintendo's offerings. The launch wasn't handled great (though we're lucky to get it at all), but I think it's good for what it is.

Fun fact: According to Nintendo Power, Demon's Crest (which they picked as one of their 100 best games ever made for a Nintendo system in 1997 for Nintendo Power's 100th issue) sold so poorly that in one week more people returned than bought it, causing it to register negative sales for that week, in spite of all the positive reviews. Wonder what happened there.

Nintendo of America has always been rather iffy on what we get. I'd hoped that with the Wii U struggling like the Gamecube it would result in Nintendo making some of the same kind of deals for Wii U games that they did with Nintendo games. Nintendo of America got Tales of Symphonia published over here, after all. I really wish we had the same people handling NoA these days that they do for NoE. Reggie tends too much towards telling people what they want rather than giving people what they want.

Along with Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest, Tales is one of my automatic buy series.