> trailer for persona3 caught my eye (pity it doesn't stand a chance in hell for
> localization), so i decided take p2 for another spin.
>

I've been meaning to give Persona 2 another go for a long time now. Don't think it's going to happen before I play Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2 :(

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>
> > In light of a resurgance of X-Com love on Something Awful
>
> where?

click me

>
> speaking of xcom, it was just a couple days ago that i learned that terror from
> the deep (the only one i ever played) was almost exactly the same game as the
> original, with the difficulty level locked into the "batshit insane" setting.
>

I never really cared for the second game. Like you mentioned, the difficulty level was cranked way too fucking high and I hated reresearching shit that I should have already known from the first game. That game was such a sloppy cash in :( Apocalypse was at least an attempt to do something new, even if it wasn't all that successful.