Critical Hit

I've been wondering about this myself for a while now, and haven't been able to find out at all. Anyone know??

I always forget about sales tax... is Alaska the only state without it?

Weeeelll it turns out Japan isn't even an option on my (or anyone else's, I'm sure) "select a country" list, so oh well.

I can only assume that you would be downloading that region's copy of the game..... NTSC and PAL versions tend to be different, IIRC...? oh, and more importantly, does this mean we have access to JPN only VC releases??? *goes to try it*

Welcome to 20+ pages ago. But in all seriousness, I'm definitely psyched about this update. I was just playing through Starfox SNES a couple of days ago and was blown away by (my rediscovery of) that theme, and why it hasn't gotten more attention..until now, that is. As for the "real orchestra" comments that have been rife throughout the thread since the daily updates began, I have to say that I personally am caring less and less. It's video game music people. When I feel like just listening something for pure enjoyment and entertainment, it's my video game soundtracks that I reach for, and not very many of them have real orchestras backing them up. It always surprises me when friends comment on the sound quality, because I don't even notice. It all adds to it, I think. As long as those themes that I've spent so much time listening to and being a part of are there, it really doesn't matter to me whether it's general midi or the Boston Pops that are playing them. Sure, in this day and age it probably isn't that much to ask for to have a live orchestra playing the soundtrack, especially considering the game (and the cast of composers on the job) we're talking about is smash brothers for god's sake. Splurge a little bit, Nintendo!! Really at the end of the day though, we're all gonna go about and buy the game, it'll be a huuuuge hit, and more fun than peeing in the shower to boot. As long as these classic themes are there to remind me of where all these great characters are from, and what made them great, I'll be ecstatic.

This man speaks the truth!!

RE:UC sounded really fun to me, too. It's too bad Phthisis is saying it's not. D: I'll definitely still rent it myself, at least. As for the different versions of games, I think it's pretty damn cool, but also a little disappointing at the same time. After playing through RE4, I'd love to give RE5 a shot (assuming it's done in the same style), but from the looks of it there're no plans to port it to wii...especially seeing as how they'd have to dumb down the visuals considerably, if what I've seen is accurate. As long as the "spin-offs" we get remain high quality, I guess I can't complain too much. After all, if I REALLY wanted to play the other games, I could always just break down and get a 360...or ps3, when they start getting their super-high quality games cranking... ...eventually... ...? Edit: Exciting!! *crosses fingers for monday*

Heh, I just got to chapter 3 on that last night, I guess I'll finish it up now to do that, sounds fun .

Couldn't have said it better myself. As much as I love fighting for the competitive play, the game remains to me at its core as an incredibly fun giant Nintendo-themed pillow fight, letting players duke it out as their fav chars... of course as much as I'd love [exceptional] online play, I won't crucify myself or Nintendo if it doesn't. Hell I'm just thrilled they decided to do another iteration of Smash Bros altogether.

I never even considered the Omega Metroid a boss, I just regarded it as a plot device...

RE4 SPOILERS: Right before you fight Saddler he TRIES to do the "cringe in pain/control" thing, but because Leon had his plaga removed, Saddler could no longer do that. Still, at the very least they could have had you fight him in his "human" form first, before going all anti-clamatic. Hell, even Mendez got to have two forms. I like your idea for ashley/leon being the final boss, that would've been awesome. Either way, you're right, the game wasn't really huge on plot throughout (Salazar...wtf. enough said), so I wasn't really expecting anything too grand at the end. Awesome gameplay and extra modes and missions are what made RE4 great.

I just finished up RE4 Wii Edition on professional mode the other day, and I've gotta say Saddler was pretty disappointing, especially in comparison to other chapter 5 bosses. Just bust his kneecaps and stab him...rinse and repeat, maybe toss in a grenade here and there. Sort of a let down after such a consistently awesome game. Oh well.

Let us know if it's worth picking up, plz

This is what I meant by my earlier post (sorry I wasn't clear). I can't find any indication of Nintendo (or even anyone at all besides starmen.net) saying that this is the case. Do they have some Nsider (lolol) within Nintendo that's giving them this info or something?

RELEAAASE DAAAAAAATTE....plz

I'll definitely grab it when it comes out on VC, no question, but where/when did you hear that it's finally going to come out?

Agreed. I thought it fit the game very well, and was exciting. I played the original back in the day on the SNES, but didn't get a 64 until its dying days, so a lot of its great games were hard to find...So when it came out on the Gamecube I jumped at it, and it soon became one of my favorite games. I'm definitely excited to play FZeroX now after all of this time.

:-Pppbbthbbth

I like it quite a bit, actually......kinda sexy..............................*cough* Anyway, in regards to the "sheik in SSBB???" talk, ever since the vids with ZS Samus in action have been out, I've come to think that maybe she's the new sheik-type character, meaning they'll simply remove sheik, and replace her with ZS Samus. *shrug*

Took the words right out of my mouth.

This would make Samus very much more appealing to me as a character (along with her sleek new look, of course). That's what it sounds like to me, but I don't dare get my hopes up for it quite yet..sounds too good to be true.

Forget about "zero suit" samus, that power suit is looking pretty damn sexy....

Am I the only one that doesn't like how similar (graphics-wise) this looks to Warcraft 3? I didn't really like that graphical style then, and I'm definitely not digging it for Starcraft.

*Shakes CE's hand* I'm thinking it might end up being another "how to play" instalment myself.

Thanks for the link, I completely forgot about that site...haven't been there in years. Good stuff.