Ab56 v2 aka Ash

I'm a flash card user but I don't even know how to hack saves, and I'm glad for it since I wouldn't find the games even 1/3 as fun if I did.

For seriously, Pokemon games are great. I played at least one from every pair of games (except I haven't finished Fire Red).

You know what they say about people who assume.

The story of pokemon is always pretty much the same. You start out as a noob with no pokemon, do something at the beginning to obtain your starter pokemon, get a pokedex and go collect your first badge. Soon you'll meet the evil guys (Team Rocket in Red, Blue, Gold and Silver; Team Aqua and Magma in Ruby and Sapphire; and Team Galaxy in Diamond and Pearl). You'll encounter them frequently as you go on collecting badges until you have a showdown with them because their plans involve doing something Dr. Evil-like Evil with legendary pokemon. KILL THEM. Get your last badge and fight the elite 4 to become THE POKEMON MASTERZ ZOMG!

Oh come on. Most people probably ARE gonna get them all eventually, but which one are you gonna train first? I usually go with fire, but I'm not so sure this time... The water starter actually seems cool and the fire starter looks ugly and is the same types as the last starter. The grass starter also learns earthquake eventually too. I can't decide.

And here I thought you were talking about Keith Olbermann

Great episode this week. The Garrison twist and the parody were major win. THIS IS LESBOS!!

Any idea which starter yall are gonna pick?

Newer versions. You can do much more stuff with them. Also, Fire Red has crappy music.

I already read and saw that part but way to spoil, jerkface. The show goes downhill from here.

O rly? http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/02/0341233.shtml

Preview for Tonight's Episode: Sounds like this'll be good.

Overrated: -Evangelion -Trigun Great: -Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex -Wolf's Rain -Death Note (however, it hits a decline after the first half)

Just so I'm not mistaken for a troll, I'm going to explain why I didn't like Golden Sun that much, since I'm never too busy to point out why this game isn't so great. The story wasn't that great. Frankly, I remember almost the entire game being a series of sidequests that coincidentally gave you abilities you needed to deal with the lighthouses. Only when one reached the lighthouses did the main story advance. Now, a lot of games are full of a lot of sidequests, and it's perfectly acceptable if done properly. While these games set the bar pretty high for RPGs, Chrono Trigger and FF6 have great sidequests, and the reason why many of them are excellent is because they do some character development. Golden Sun has very little character development and there's almost nothing engaging about the characters. In fact, I don't think anyone could discern who's speaking in the dialogue except for Garet once in a while, since all he does is ask Isaac to affirm something. Speaking of dialogue--there's way too much. Considering there's not all that much going on in the story, it's pretty amazing how dialogues often become 15 minute sequences. What gives? There are a few extremely annoying flaws with the gameplay. First of all, I found it annoying that if Characters A and B are set to attack Enemy 1, and A kills Enemy 1, B will simply defend. I don't think they've done that since the old FF games. Next up, random battles. This might just be a personal nitpick, but I hate random battles except in games with a fun battle system, like FF6 and 7. Golden Sun's battle system is like a weaker version of FF6's espers. I expected interesting things with Djinn, but there wasn't all that much to note in these battles. You just attack, use djinn magic, or summon. Not much going there. Better games with this type of battle system have thrown in more strategic elements to keep battles refreshing. GS does have its positive points though. The art, excepting the overworld, is gorgeous. The sound, albeit repetitive in some areas, was pretty ok too. A few tracks were especially good, like the Sol Sanctum theme. Unfortunately, these quirks weren't enough to pull the entire game up. If I could pick one thing to make the game better, it would absolutely have to be character development. In some games, there's not all that much going on, but the characters keep things interesting. Golden Sun's characters are too static for the story to matter. It really drags things down. On the plus side, it could've been worse. I'm looking at you, Star Ocean 1.

Guys, nobody add Suzu until he gets a haircut. I rejected Ty for that reason and everyone else should too.

What are you kids babbling about? Sell the piece of junk. Golden Sun is nothing special.

I AM THE TERROR THAT FLAPS IN THE NIGHT!!fuck off anti-allcaps

You misunderstood me. I'm not saying violence fell 77% because of video games, since that would be a pretty stupid argument. It would be more appropriate to do a study about video-game related violence if the author wants to draw and reasonable conclusions.

I support video game producers making pretty much whatever the hell they want, but this article doesn't make that great of an argument. Simply because the two figures seem inversely related, this doesn't prove that one factor is unrelated to the other.

This earns a mighty 'heh'.

Wait I casually skimmed through the list and went straight to point out Metroid: Zero Mission, yet I just realized you haven't yet played SUPER METROID!? Get outta town!

You should at least give Metroid: Zero Mission a play through. It's a good remake.

Say it ain't so!!

I played Wii for the first time today. Rayman was pretty fun. The sensitivity felt just right.