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Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn on Wii - It probably has the best story out of any game. Some games have predictable, dumb stories, but Fire Emblem will never insult your intelligence. Instead, it's inspiring and it's almost impossible to guess what will happen next. I have never wanted to kill certain characters so badly (and you do get to kill them, and it feels good). I'm telling you, it's like the best soap opera ever crossed with chess on steroids. I'm also playing Streets of Rage 3 on virtual console. It's one of the hardest street brawlers I've ever played, and the music is awesome. I get pumped up just by hearing the stage select music. I also enjoy playing rock band on my friend's Xbox. I like singing Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid'.

I'm 26, and I probably play the Wii more than 12 hours a week. I don't think I've worn out a console so much since the NES and SNES days. Oh yeah, Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn is super awesome.

It could be good. It looks like it will at least be fun. I think it will be.

I don't mind Goku being a white dude, because Goku's an alien (and who are we to say what aliens look like?), but isn't he a bit on the skinny side? Well, this movie is probably going to turn out bad, but I bet it will still be enjoyable either way. I love crappy movies.

Alright people, it's time for a Wii update. Let's look at the status of our little white console. There's some good games for it. There's some good games coming out. So let's take a look at those exclusives coming out. Exclusive Wii Games: Fatal Frame 4 - New sequel by Tecmo and Suda coming out later this year. Previous games are rated highly, and this one is looking really good. The series is often classified as the scariest series of games ever (often moreso than Silent Hill). http://wii.ign.com/articles/848/848721p1.html The Conduit - The developer of this first person shooter game is taking inspiration from Metroid Prime 3 and Medal of Honor Heroes 2. It looks awesome. Apparently the developer has the most powerful Wii engine as well. The dev is still looking for a publisher though. http://youtube.com/watch?v=C5EhfHNPA8g Madworld - It looks like Sega is bringing a cool, bloody game to the Wii. Just watch the video or whatever. It looks cool. I give props to ol' Sega, they are even cool enough to make a Wii version of the upcoming Sonic game. http://youtube.com/watch?v=hbg6-yLgy_Y Tecmo Bowl - A fucking Wii exclusive Tecmo bowl is coming out. Cool. http://play.tm/wire/cluster/1878114 Sadness - It if comes out, it will probably be really cool. They've been working on it for 2 years already. Disaster - Day of Crisis - A cool distaster-style game being developed by Nintendo. It has to come out soon, doesn't it? Monster Hunter 3 and Chocobo Mystery Dungeon - Everybody already knows about these I think. Also, we know Nintendo have to release some good games by Christmas. First party is a no-brainer. Nintendo's going to churn out all kinds of stuff by Christmas, so we will wait and see. Stuff that we're unjustly missing out on (and by "we're", I mean those who have to worry more about bills than shelling out for another console) Bionic Commando - Made famous by the classic NES version. Too fucking bad for you, because there are two different Bionic Commando games coming out on other consoles. Yeah, I suppose that the using a Wiimote to strike the shit out of enemies and swing around with that bionic arm is just too much to ask. Instead, you can use archaic analog controls to do the same thing, which simply won't be as fun. Street Fighter 4 - You won't see this one either. Although Capcom has mentioned that it is possible to port it to Wii, you won't be getting it. Save up $400 bucks now, because to be quite honest, any old school gamer must have this game on launch day. Soul Calibur 4 - Not getting it. Sorry. Apparently the Wii can't handle the new boob physics. Screw it, Namco is stupid anyway. Splatterhouse - A new game is being made for the bigger consoles. Okay, it was never famous on Nintendo consoles, but I'm drunk with anger and jealousy. A Final Fantasy game that doesn't suck - Don't worry, Nintendo fans will get the kiddy superdeformed versions and some other weird games that will be fun yet nowhere near the epic quality of those released on other consoles. Beyond Good and Evil 2 - I don't even want to talk about this right now. Stuff that Nintendo should already be working on, or either they're just stupid Kid Icarus - People have been waitin for this one forever. What's Retro Studios up to? How about the Zelda team, I heard they're back together working on something. Punch Out - Wii remote and nunchuk? Super-stylized, hardcore, more accurate, version of the boxing on Wii Sports. C'mon Nintendo. Do it and make it online, please. Startropics - Make a new one, now. Or at least a new DS sequel. No, don't do that, the DS already has enough fun games, so team up with another developer and make a 3D island quest of awesomeness (see Metroid Prime 3 but instead with a boy travelling across tropical islands and a 2nd person view like Resident Evil 4 - the submarine should be controllable as well). FZero Wii - This is bound to happen. Also, use Mario Kart Wii's online and take out the friend codes please. K thanx. Also, don't make it look like the Gamecube version with extra lighting effects (cough...Mario Kart Wii cough). Franchises to revive on Nintendo: Double Dragon Wii - Billy and Jimmy are back to kick ass on the 80's-inspired post apocalyptic streets. Two new selectable characters have joined, and the soundtrack is the same as it was before, except rearranged and sounding better. Strap Wiimotes to your legs, kick, and watch a foot come up and kick the shit out of the enemy in front of you as his nose explodes. The controls are tight, the game is only two hours long because it's about destroying enemies, and there are no save points because it's the 80s again and save points are for weaklings and RPG players (which is okay). 2 players preferred. Rated mature for bloody violence and whip-wielding lesbians. Also, this will never happen. In fact, a sequel will be announced - exclusively for Playstation 3 and Xbox 60. We will be getting Cooking Mama 2 instead. Don't worry, it will end up much like Final Fight Streetwise, which apparently sucked really hard. Blaster Master Wii - If this were to happen, I would fulfill my Mother's dreams of becoming a Christian. Mega Man - The Final Battle - Mega Man is back for the final battle which explains how he passed to make way for his successor, X. Finally, Mega Man fans can get the game that Mega Man has been deserving for over a fucking decade. The game plays similarly to Metroid Prime 3 (wiimote for aiming), but Mega Man is in third person (ala Mega Man legends) to better incorporate the jumping and running strategies that made the games so special in the first place. Battle 20 old robot masters, and 20 new ones. Upgrade your character, and take out Wily once and for all. Features music on par with the original trilogy. Graphics will be of Metroid Prime 3 quality, and Deathmatch will be provided on Capcom's servers, featuring no retarded friend codes and you can play as like all the other characters like on Mega Man Powered Up for PSP. This will never happen. Things Wii developers need to consider: 1. Shooters should play like Metroid Prime 3, except that they also have a deathmatch mode, which Metroid Prime 3 should have had. 2. Online should be like Mario Kart Wii, but with no friend codes. Just make online like the Xbox 360's. We'll pay a fee, we're cool with it. 3. We need a little 20-gig hard drive attachment for Wii, or at least better SD card compatibility. 4. Quit giving us PS2 graphics on a console that's about 3 times as powerful as a PS2. Have you seen Mario Galaxy? Metroid Prime 3? Any of High Voltage's new games? Make the graphics look like those. Okay? 5. Give us more games with blood and tits. Sega's doing this, and Suda already did it. 6. Noone needs more party games or games abuot petting puppies. Wario Ware and Wii Sports is all that anyone needs. 7. In reference to 6, Ubisoft can kiss my ass. We don't get Beyond Good and Evil 2. We get fucking "Baby Party". http://www.cubed3.com/news/10153 8. Advertise the games that don't suck. That way, they will sell, and we don't have to hear you bitching about how your games don't sell on Wii, when half of the Wii audience are old school gamers who love games that don't suck (the other half is made of trend whores who put the thing in the closet two months after purchase). I guess that's all guys. That took a long time. My hands are tired. Is there anything that I missed?

I was expecting a fat beat to come in around 30 seconds or so, but it just keeps on with the Enya feel, which isn't really a bad thing, but like I said, I was expecting some beats and some variation. Also, I was hoping that the notes would be more accurate to the source. It seems that the extra notes just take away - Sometimes less is better and it would be better to have some sort of pause or change in instrumentation to set the main line from the bridge. This is more like one drawn out singular theme, which is nice and pleasant, but you could do so much more.

Oh, it certainly was. It was more of an action movie than the last one and it was a bit more grown up as well. That fits the nature of the book, which is more straightforward and action oriented, so it doesn't have the variety that the first film had, but the movie is 60% battle and it rocked. There were a few subplots etched in to the script, or more accurately, they were exagerrated. I can't lie though, the movie wowed me and left me wanting even more. Back to Indy though.

It's just my policy that if you're going to do it, you should go all the way. Regardless, it could work as a single film, but that's also depending on which game the movie is based on. I still have to stand with the 3 movie format, because Lord Of The Rings has a huge story, and having three movies just let those movies breathe so well, and they were great. (Of course, you have to consider that Peter Jackson was at the helm.) Anyway, if there's money to be made, it will be done. I could imagine that if they based it off of Ocarina, they would probably skip a lot of dungeon parts, and having too many dungeons would definitely get redundant.

I don't think that anyone should make a movie about Zelda. Zelda is a very personal thing to me, and I take it very seriously, so I'd rather not see one my favorite franchises get raped on the big screen. On the other hand, it could work. IGN's April fools trailer was actually pretty cool, despite how Ganon looked, and I think a guy like the one they used would make a good Link. Not too pretty, not too ugly. Someone with an innocent and good-willed look who can turn into serious business with the blink of an eye. And, if it were to be done, then it should be split into a trilogy. There are too many dungeons and subplots going on for a single two hour movie. Also, to hell with idea of making Link japanese. Link is Link, and whichever actor, regardless of race, who portrays Link the best should be the one to play him. Link isn't Japanese, he's Hylian, and the assumption that he should be Japenese because his creators are is an asinine demonstration of bad logic. I'm not saying that the above poster is saying that, but I just wanted to get that across before it is assumed. So, yes, I would go watch it, and I would probably enjoy it because I usually try to lower my standards before I experience things.

I have yet to see the movie, and I eventually will, but I'm going to see Prince Caspian tonight. Don't get me wrong, I have fond memories of the Jones movies, but it's all about priorities. I think that critics tend to lash out harder at movies that involve nostalgic ties to past iterations. Those movies are always going to get judged because of the expectations that they are expected to live up to, and at the same time, even if they do manage to make the nostalgic people happy, then the critics will bash the movie for doing nothing new. What few people realize is that the movie may have been really good, but the critic themselves may be the ones to blame. For example, many of my friends and I have been fans of the rock band 311 since the early years in their career. This band tried doing new things over the shitload of albums they've released, yet they still kept that core there for every evolution they had as a band. Well, the latest album 'Don't Tread On Me' came out, and I loved it. It had a good feel too it, but my friend heard it and said "I just don't feel it man. It's like they've lost it." I thought "What? It's actually more like their old stuff than the last few albums". The problem is, in my opinion, that the listener himself was the one who changed. That person wasn't feeling those emotions that older albums invoked. In fact, he listened to the older stuff, and he just didn't feel it anymore. He changed, but most people tend to point the finger before they analyze themselves. Yet, some things do stand the test of time. I can watch Neverending Story every year, and every part of the movie just wows me to frikkin' tears. I can put the old Smashing Pumpkins CDs in the stereo, or their latest album, and just rock out like it's 95. But if you're riding on nostalgia alone, you're thinking wrong. You have to be willing to move forward while giving a smiling nod to your past, or else you're going to wind up disappointed, and it seems that a lot of these critics will continue to make that stupid mistake for a long time.

I have yet to see the movie, and I eventually will, but I'm going to see Prince Caspian tonight. Don't get me wrong, I have fond memories of the Jones movies, but it's all about priorities. I think that critics tend to lash out harder at movies that involve nostalgic ties to past iterations. Those movies are always going to get judged because of the expectations that they are expected to live up to, and at the same time, even if they do manage to make the nostalgic people happy, then the critics will bash the movie for doing nothing new. What few people realize is that the movie may have been really good, but the critic themselves may be the ones to blame. For example, many of my friends and I have been fans of the rock band 311 since the early years in their career. This band tried doing new things over the shitload of albums they've released, yet they still kept that core there for every evolution they had as a band. Well, the latest album 'Don't Tread On Me' came out, and I loved it. It had a good feel too it, but my friend heard it and said "I just don't feel it man. It's like they've lost it." I thought "What? It's actually more like their old stuff than the last few albums". The problem is, in my opinion, that the listener himself was the one who changed. That person wasn't feeling those emotions that older albums invoked. In fact, he listened to the older stuff, and he just didn't feel it anymore. He changed, but most people tend to point the finger before they analyze themselves. Yet,

Exactly. They make shitty games. (Actually, they're pretty decent, but a pale shadow of their former selves)

The only game that has pissed me off more than Mario Kart is Blaster Master. Spend two hours getting to the last level. Fall on the spikes. Die. Repeat. I literally broke a Gamecube controller on my forehead playing Mario Kart Double Dash. Anyway, I'm adding you as a friend Majin. Don't be afraid. I can't punch you through the screen.

I mean, this guy evaporated four red shells. I would've beaten him for first otherwise. It just ain't right. I'm thinking that some of the players on there know something that we don't or either its some error like you said. Also, I've had places change too. My GF got second last night, although she appeared to be in third.

Okay, so here I am, getting 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place and never going below 3rd. I get into the 7,000 bracket, and I'm going toe to toe with an 8,000+ guy. I'm right behind him the whole time. I chunk three frikkin' red shells at him and they all evaporate. He doesn't slow down a bit. He gets a banana and I get another red shell. I chunk it directly at him. It disappears, and doesn't even take his banana away. What the heck is going on? Is this guy cheating or is there some special maneuver for making red shells literally disappear?

Yes, it's my first, and my third strategy RPG. First was Warcraft 2, second was the legendary Shining Force, and now it's Fire Emblem. I'm digging it I tell you.

Stratovarius is/was a good band despite the greatness of the genre today. No, they aren't the most techincical proficient or unique band, but they have so many good, solid songs. Sure, bands like Dragonland and Nightwish are awesome and take metal in a new direction, but Stratovarius is one of the bands that helped define the genre and I still feel the need for their straighforward approach to power metal.

So, WiiWare is out now. I haven't messed with it because I still have disc games that I haven't finished - Endless Ocean, No More Heroes, and most loveledly, Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn. I'm liking how it looks though. (Mario Kart also gets some action, but I don't plan on taking you guys on until I get a certain special vehicle). Speaking of Radiant Dawn, it's an excellent game. In that game, when characters under your control die on the battlefield, it's a real pain in the ass, because you can't play as them anymore and some of them don't even show up in the story anymore. So, I left those old saves and continued my quest without sacrificing characters. So, I have to fight each battle several times because it's almost impossible to not have a character die unless you use characters with extremely high durability, which makes the whole battle slower and less dramatic. It's such an awesome game! And your characters change class after a certain level, and it's so awesome. They look different and they gain new abilities and tear the shit out of enemies. Also, the characters themselves have tons of depth and personality. I can't wait for a sequel with actual Wii pointer controls. So, how are the Wii Ware games? Fun?

Looks like they will be hunting high and low for a replacement. I bet they will find one faster than the speed of light. Also, Stratovarius was/is a rockin' band. I love uplifting power metal, and I've always liked their straightforward rhythm section and catchy choruses.

Seph, I was drunk last night. Sorry.

Looks like a lot of fun, but I'll wait until my friends purchase it. I'm sorry to get off the subject, but I'm really sick of this "lack of quality Wii titles" BS. It really is a load of Bs, there are tons of cool Wii titles. I don't have enough time to keep up with everything, and I don't need a game by Mr. Steven to justify my console purchase, but I will surely try. I will try it, but please refrain from the "lack of quality Wii titles" stuff, because anyone who truly respects the console can dismiss that as a big lie, like I did a month after purchasing the little white box. Also, we should quit using this "Hardcore/Casual" poo, because that was thrown up by the media machine. OK, thank you, I'll try this game based off of my interest in the game alone, not the hype that's been put behind it. It looks fun. I'm a big fan of throwing motions in Wii games, and this game apparently has a lot of those. The physics look great.

As long as you're alive I suppose.

So, your favorite deity comes down from the heavens, stands before you, and says "You are special. Since you've been so great, I am going to grant you the ability to throw a hadoken or execute a flaming dragon punch". Well, which one would it be, and why?

Yeah, I did. Sorry about that. They both sound the same. Anyway, it's pretty damn fun.

I just got Fire Emblem: Path Of Radiance. It's pretty much a Gamecube game, albeit a good one. If any of you guys are looking for a good strategy RPG, this one is top notch. Still, it would've been nice to have some pointer controls. Only a week left until Kart!