I think it was through an article on FFXIII sales through google after I returned home from living & working in japan, and reading a related forum on the topic, it was actuallly a reasonable discussion without any horrible negativity (this is my only game forum membership & before that I had only seen comments on N4G articles, which were generally awfully hateful...) Plus it had the (I thought, though i'm lazy at adding most) cool feature to link games to your profile & rate them, so I joined on a whim. It was something far out of the norm for the rest of my life & allowed me a place to actually discuss the gaming hobby (none of my friends play), as 'variety is the spice of life' & all that. So far its been a lot more relaxed than I expected a game community to be, quite nice.
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Favourite Games of 2013 1.Tomb Raider(PS3) 2.Atelier Ayesha(PS3) 3.Virtues Last Reward (Vita)