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I was actually looking forward to the game... It looked fun, FPS-RPG? Neat. Then I tried it. The RPG elements were fine, but the gunplay just felt really low impact to me and I found myself getting bored rather quickly. Plus I wasn't able to find any variety in locations, not that I magically played through the entire world in a few days, but no matter where I went it felt like more of the same. I was disappointed, in short.

I want in! Been well over two years since I played Chess with any regularity (Used to play my co-workers at lunch a few jobs back, was a fun way to pass the time.) but I'm more than willing to join for kicks, maybe I'll learn a trick or two. AIM: Xbob45

Dash Galaxy. The worst NES game I could imagine. If you can get through more than 5 minutes of it, you're pretty hardcore. Not because it's particularly hard, but because once your eyes start bleeding and your brain reels in protest, you're pretty much dead.

Don't get us wrong. It's not this that makes us hate Eidos, they've always sucked. This just gives us an excuse to call them pigs. Even if it is false, they'll always be pigs to me!

Let us not forget. AND THE SEQUEL! OFF THA CROSS AND OFF THA HOOK! ...Man, I am totally getting smote for those.

Wind Waker's Ganon got owned in the best way though. Knife to the face! Plus Zelda helping in the last fight = awesome. Uh, spoiler warning?

I've never really liked Gamespot (Their site has always felt small, cluttered and has way too much black for my taste... feels dreary! I'm an IGN man myself, everyone rags on IGN, but I love the layout, the forums and I've known the crew (At least the Nintendo crew) since N64.com!) but I wouldn't have expected this. True, there's no proof either way as of yet, but 'official statements,' if and when they come, are more slanted than [popular reviewer here]'s review of [popular/unpopular game with outrageously low/high score here]. I guess we can all agree, at the very least, that the man was handsome and probably bags himself a few super models a week. But seriously, advertisers and editorial staff should never even know of each others' existence. This was briefly touched on in IGN's "Wii'k in review" podcast today. Matt has never been pushed to even cover a game with big ad dollars. That's how it should be. In any case, I hope we don't see people with 'big contributions' to OC Remix have below-par mixes slipping by the judges, mysteriously.

Your complete hatred of all Smash news shows what a dedicated an passionate fan of the series you are.

Initials perhaps?

THANK YOU. I'm still waiting for Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 3. (6 now but my cartridge says 3 so it will ALWAYS be 3 in my heart!) I'm willing to buy them again even though I own the cartridges AND ROMs. Why? Because I'm crazy like that. Just to show Nintendo we want some traditional RPG action going on here! Maybe some tasty Secret of Mana too, been a while since I had some good action RPG co-op.

My dear God and Lord in Heaven. I could kiss you this moment if suns weren't imploding in my cranium. You've lifted the veil of madness off of my eyes, and I can breath again. I can die happy now, thank you, sir!

Finding action figures of characters performing certain moves throughout the stages and thereby unlocking that move of that character for use on your Mii. Create a character with a crazy moveset! Select weight class! (Would limit moves you could or could not use for balance purposes.) Find pieces of clothing/accessories to spruce up your Mii with.

I disable Windows Defender/Firewall but left on the confirmation alerts whenever something starts up. It might just be a placebo effect or it might be legit, but I feel a sense of security when everything I open has to be manually confirmed. I know that might come off as seeming a bit sarcastic, but it's not. You can disable the feature quite easily if you like as well. I haven't run into one bit of adware or spyware so far, aside from what came with Daemon Tools, and that's a simple matter of uninstalling it. (Plus you have to confirm it's installation, I still hate the Daemon team for selling out to something so lame, but eh, at least it can be legitely uninstalled.) I'm actually quite satisfied, XP was becoming a playground for spyware and adware- at least on the machines in my house. It drove me mad. (I don't run any firewalls because in my opinion they're as bad as a virus in many ways. I'd swear Symantec releases their own spyware just to say they stopped it! Heh. So I guess it's partially my fault.)

Yeah, it's the difference between adding to the experience, or just replacing it with your own tunes. For some of us, something as small as that really does make a difference and it certainly will to reviewers. Whether or not we'll actually get that feature is anyone's guess, but it couldn't hurt. But don't think (not for one second!) I disagree about amazing gameplay, it's just I doubt they could fudge it up at this point and that it's already sweet.

I've run into very few problems with Vista, and none that I couldn't resolve with a few minutes of research. I enjoy it, it's got plenty of eye-candy and doesn't try to be too new like so many people want it to be. C'mon people, if they changed too much it'd be broken to the point of no return. This is Microsoft we're talking about. Let them stick to what (mostly) works and not try to stray too far from the path they set. Let Nintendo work on the revolutionary part.

Yes well, remember that everyone is not you and people might not want to open up Winamp/iTunes/etc to listen to their music when it can be played on the stage. I'm already assured the gameplay is awesome! Extras are what keep folks like me coming back for more!

I dunno, I wouldn't mind being able to play custom MP3s, imagine playing some OC ReMixes of the regular stage tunes.

Once more I'd like to iterate that our thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Kee and his family as well as his friends. Those lost with him as well, including their friends and family. Too sad an occasion.

Good music, but they should really hire an interior decorator for the website itself. It makes me want to cry.

A man, and an internet forum, destined for eachother... A song that never was... An answer that would never come... This Summer, in a theater near you... Bill Clinton IS... 'The Boy That Never Danced'

Yes, tons of games get delayed, look at the Sims 2. Some are for the good, and some, like Duke Nukem Forever, is because they're trying to figure out how to extract the "suck" from the Duke Nukem formula.

Okay, I'll make this as brief as possible as I have to go to work in an hour and a half. Go here: http://media.dreamcast.ign.com/media/012/012357/vids_1.html Click the video titled "Ecco plays Noseball." Hear that song? Okay, that's what I'm looking for. I haven't played through Defender of the Future in quite some time, but I don't believe I ever got to the Noseball area, I believe it was a 'secret' area? (No pun intended.) I've been wanting that song since I first heard it when the review was put up in 2000. Not so much because I even like the song anymore, but because of the madness it has caused me. I've tried every search known to man to find that song, interrogated men and midgets alike. I've beaten horses to fine powder and squeezed gold out of rocks, but never have I gotten an answer, so much as a confirmation that the damn song even exists and wasn't sung by Fran Mirabella himself! Even when I've obtained "full" Defender of the Future soundtracks simply to see if I can find that track, nothing! Which leads me to two conclusions: 1. The song was added in by IGN, who knows why. 2. Funky techno isn't epic enough for an OST? Somebody help me! Save me from drowning in my madness! What is that song and how can I find it? I'm foaming at the mouth! Seven and a half years of waiting has crippled my mind and tore my soul ASUNDER.

Didn't keep up with much of the thread, but I gotta say on the topic of Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, I heard it's actually a pretty solid game with very few actual weak points and a few really ingenious games. IGN, for example, seems to think that if they expanded on the, what were they again? Dream games or something? That they'd really be onto something special for a sequel, but it's solid and fun as it is. I'm still being mesmerized by Galaxy myself, though. Picking up Trauma Center: New Blood soon.

Customers demand a release date, "TBA" dismays them. A "Q1 200X" confuses them, but "Blank 21st, 200X" gives them something to look forward to. You've got to manage a realistic release date versus player hopes. I'm sure Nintendo didn't break into spontaneous song-and-dance when they had to delay it. Hey, they could pull a Too Human and release it 10 generations from now.

Most people who have tried Brawl in it's current state (I don't know just how many have gotten hands-on, but that's not the point) say they actually prefer just the Wii Remote as of now. Simple, direct and easy-to-use apparently. The shield being on B is still a gripe, but seemingly minor as "unusual" rather than "uncomfortable" and who knows, maybe they'll change it. Still, with so many of us coming from Melee, Gamecube controller will be our first bet simply for the comfort of knowing the layout! And stop making fun of Sakurai for time management! We all know what happens when people rush games. I hate half-assed games more than I hate just plain crappy games. Because amazing effort cut short by time constraints is just plain frustrating to play, you can feel the lack of polish, and it doesn't feel good.