HeyMouseSayCheese

To be fair KH3

Simply by virtue of being around since the 80s and undergoing constant retconning, I'd say Metal Gear. Doesn't help that MGS games especially tend to be really slow burns so it's easy to lose track of the story. KH games tend to be too, but they're a lot easier to blast through.

Very few of them are actually PS4 exclusive, though. Almost none of the Western releases are, and games like Star Ocean or Dragon Quest Builders are also PS3 (and some of them Vita, but ha ha, who cares).

Agreed. You had just specified PS4.

Most of which you can play on other systems on release, but yes, you will be able to play more SE games on PS4 soon-ish.

Understandable, given that most of their Western releases are multi-plat (and Rise of the Tomb Raider is going to be 2016). Or a bunch of mobile and handheld games that are totally irrelevant. Hardly even worth mentioning when you're talking about how great the PS4 line-up is, really.

Yeah, an entire year for most games to at some point be released, barring delays. Crazy line-up, that. Also, "expected" don't mean shit. I can expect KH3 to come out this December, don't mean it's happening.

Better hint of the day: being cool doesn't matter, so maybe just be good unto others because that's a good thing to do?

I like how only four of those games have very vague release windows.

If we're digging into alternate reality versions of KH games, can't we just have none of them on PSP? I'd rather have never needed to care about that thing.

If a game's bad, it deserves to be called bad. Just because Nomura has made a lot of better games doesn't make All The Bravest less shitty. Two of which were pretty good.

I thought it was kinda neat in that it was really impressive graphically (ofc) and I'm a sucker for dad stories, but yeah, it wasn't really anything special. I'm also not invested at all, so that probably helped.

Jetstream Sam (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance; I've been waiting specifically to bring him up. Dat grin.)

ED-E (Fallout: New Vegas)

Zer0 (the Borderlands one, not the Mega Man one) YOU JUST SET OFF MY TRAP CARD

X-Nauts (Paper Mario TTYD, technically a group of enemies but only like two of them have names)

Two things people almost universally hate put together. Good sign.

Volgin (MGS3) kuwabara kuwabara

Decoy Octopus (Metal Gear Solid, even though he's barely in MGS and he's pretty much a different character the whole time)

Absolutely not. The water at water parks is disgusting- it's the same water that's being recycled all year, which means it's got tons of human waste from kids (and adults, really) being too lazy or stupid to find a bathroom, not to mention the germs that water washing over hundreds of humans a day is naturally going to accumulate. There's no way to make that sanitary unless it's practically all chlorine.

B.J. Blazkowicz (any given Wolfenstien)

Stanley (The Stanley Parable)

That's not what I meant; I probably could have worded that better. It's not that kid's story's can't be meaningful, it's that KH is addressing very mature themes that are very difficult put into a story designed for younger audiences. If it were just about friendship and never giving up, things like that, then it'd be fine, but when they bring in elements of death and grief, existential crises, how our memories can define us, they can't address them with the attention those themes deserve. You rarely see any kid's content do that well (ironically, Disney is about the only one to do it right), and pretty much no video game has ever done it justice either.

Haytham Kenway (Assassin's Creed 3)

Simply bringing up themes doesn't make something deep, the story has to go somewhere with it. KH plays with these themes of existentialism and how our memories shape us, but it never goes deep with them: we never see Roxas get any kind of peace or closure with his issues, he just fuses with Sora. Neither does Xion for that matter, which to be fair, she's supposed to be a tragic figure, but Roxas and Axel (or anyone else) never get to learn or accept anything from her death because everyone has to forget about her because otherwise the story doesn't make sense. The way KH has been written and the fact that it's specifically aimed at children so it's not allowed to tackle these mature themes in any real way keeps it from ever actually reaching a meaningful place in any literary sense. And I'm glad that you find KH fascinating to to think about, but that doesn't mean the story is deep; personal taste is irrelevant. Plenty of peopl think things like Sonic the Hedgehog have really deep stories too, and I really doubt I have to explain how that's not true.