KakTheInfected

I actually got bored of Lunar Knights pretty quickly, and thought the space stages sucked too.

Dark Aether sucked. Other than that, Echoes was pretty good.

Diddy Kong Racing kind of sucks...it's not bad, but there are some really stupid touch features that are tacked on. Trying to get a turbo-start is nearly impossible if you're right handed. Online looks promising though, especially since there is no snaking.

Aside from Hunters, that might be my favorite DS game of last year. No online multiplayer really blows though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_titles_%28North_America%29

Perfect Dark. I rest my case. Actually, I do see your point, but I just played with high-res off most of the time. Hell, Majora's Mask framerate was terrible, but that doesn't change the fact that it was a good game and, imo, much better than Ocarina.

Nobody should be bashing Perfect Dark. For it's time, it was amazing and leaps and bounds above Goldeneye, especially in the multiplayer area.

Figured I'd check if the news channel was up before I went to sleep and voila, there it is. The interface is pretty cool. The hint cat from the Photo Channel is there as well. On a rather interesting note, under the Technology section it has an article about the PS3 European launch date. Odd as it may be, it's nice to see the AP isn't forced to censor what goes on the channel.

Just finished Hotel Dusk...and I really wish it hadn't ended. What a great friggin story.

My copy hasn't frozen once. You should take it back.

Hotel Dusk is pretty sweet. The dialogue doesn't puss out like it does in a lot of Nintendo-published games.

They really do need to get some sort of headset or at least a screen that surrounds the player. I don't buy into the whole "immersion" thing people like to tout when I'm staring at a flat screen. Always found it weird I can hear an arrow whiz past my head or a grenade explode behind me but I can turn around and see my cat staring at me all confused.

After you get used to it, Elebits shouldn't give you any motion sickness. I *always* get it when I haven't played a console game in first-person perspective for a long time and then come back to it, but it goes away pretty quickly.

I heard that most stores won't even get copies of the game. It's baffling why it isn't getting advertised more.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3156593 If you believe this rumor, Mario has been pushed back to the end of this year, but Prime 3 will be out this spring with online play. I can't wait to spam "I told you so" to everyone who said Metroid wouldn't be online...we'll know in a few months.

There is no sense in arguing with someone who won't even admit what they said.

Well first, I didn't take what you said out of context. You said games have always been about utilizing the latest in visual technology. That's a hell of a way to say "Well graphics aren't really the biggest selling point per se..." Regardless...is it a selling point? Absolutely. Is the number of people who buy games based on the graphics (or at least, who take graphics into consideration) large enough to matter these days? Simply put, no. Look at the PS3. Sales are slow, developers are looking elsewhere and the high price is scaring away potential buyers. Had Sony followed their previous tactic and released an affordable, somewhat powerful system, the 360 and Wii would have probably already been crushed under the Playstation brand name alone. But they pushed graphics too hard, raised the price and it seems like nobody really cares, even if games like MGS4 and FF13 can't be had anywhere else. So let's not pretend that graphics matter as a selling point, because overall, they really don't. Ask Brain Age or any GTA game.

Since when was that true? 1992? Graphics haven't given any system the upper hand over the competition since the mid 90s. If graphics drove sales, consoles would be dead and PC gaming would rule the world.

Many have said this before but goddamn is Excite Truck fun. It's a shame it's so limited, online play would really be great on this game.

Or use Japanese voice acting. At least if those voice actors suck, I have no clue.

I honestly don't think it will be a mistake. If anything, the dominance of the Playstation, Playstation 2 and DS have shown that system power simply does not translate into sales. Personally, I wish the Wii was a little more powerful so games like Elebits wouldn't piss all over the framerate, but that's more of a CPU/bad programming issue I guess.

Uh...Wii Sports has radically different "core gameplay" than any sports or even any video game I've ever played. As does Wario Ware. With those two games specifically, I really don't feel like I'm just playing a game anymore but doing something new. If you play games like DBZ or Zelda on the Wii (which imo really improves them), then yes, your point makes sense, but if you're trying to say that the Wiimote doesn't change some games that it has tried, then you're just being silly.

IGN has a new hands-on and videos of Sonic and the Secret Rings. Personally, I don't care much about Sonic but I love the 3D games. The impressions from IGN seem pretty positive.

And two of the three were terrible. That was a real dissapointment.

Years ago when I was playing a lot of AoE/AoK (like 98 or 99), I kept accidently *almost* saying "elohel" instead of chuckling when something was humorous but not really enough to laugh. Now I do it just to annoy people.