what I would like to know is if it's more a heavily tactical shooter or more arcadey

If it happens I just want them to use an intelligent character level progression, not like the FFX spherier or FFXIII crystarium, these let you spend points but it's just following a path with limited choices and if high level you'll buy everything anyway. The FF7 or FF9 system was great.

Diablo 3 is 25 march, Thief is 28 february

I explored just about any island I could find, 55 hours and I'd say under 30% ship

why would I buy again a digital version when I own the physical disc, then proving I trusted Sony and the PS1, now not being rewarded for my faith in the product when they needed it more? the thing would be to identify the disc, allow for a download and not allow the disc to be used again

great and long turn based RPG : FF7 and 9, Suikoden, Breath of fire, Legend of Dragoon, the fighting games with about 15 special moves for each character and no ultraspecial ultimate move : SF2, Toshinden, Star gladiator, Psychic force (a remake on PS4 would be earth shattering), Tomb raider, Psychic detective (yes it wasn't that good, but an interactive movie with alternate endings was great then)

spent over 80 hours on it, maybe my fav PS3 game

most trreasure locations are not shown even caguely on the drawings, you have to try to situate you in the bst way and walg around until "dig" shows up

my experience with AC is not extensive (a few hours of AC1 and AC2, and finished AC3), I'd give about 8 as the main story is not very interesting, the gameplay is fluid but not very rich (either stealth kill or counter and try to chain kill), but allows a lot of exploration at your pace ; to extend the gameplay I use the special quests of ACinitiates but it gets boring fast

what's the point? just buy a cheap PC and use it ... you won't be able to use any PSN functions and risk being brought to law, if you want to use your tech skills there are other ways