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You should see the ocean depths in the Dreamcast Ecco game. Those waters were just frightening and not simply because of the typically insanely-difficult Ecco difficulty. There's the ocean shelf and it suddenly drops off into nothingness and all you get are swift ocean currents near it. I love water personally, but the bottom of the ocean sea giving away into the abyss was pretty scary to watch.

I don't know.. I can be the most evil thing you can meet even in real life. My family has a habit of snapping.. Almost to the point of something criminal happening. I just can't suffer fools if I'm pushed. Online, I don't think I can really convey it that well. Ironic really.

Meh. It's better off being on the PSN or XBLA IMO, for like $10. I'm not sure what Sony and MS are thinking by trying to limit these shooters. They sell well and it's a great service instead of wasting a whole DVD disc for it.

Wrong. Choice of maps seems to be the thing nowadays, because CO's lost their powers and uniqueness for the most part. I'm pretty sure this issue can't possibly rise out of the game itself. I mean come on.

Duke Nukem 3D is literally holding MM9 back which is both awesome and bad at the same time... strange. I still wish MS decided to release three or four XBLA games at once instead of sticking to status quo at two games per XBLA day.

That took interactive Youtube sites to a whole new place. heh But for the game, it's nothing they couldn't do even on the old GBA. I'm honestly a bit disappointed. A Wii game basically playing a GBA game... I guess it's good for a day's rental, finishing it, then returning.

I agree. I was trying to reference some of the Battle Network games' difficulty levels. As for MM3-6, I personally loved them. MM4 I could argue is possibly the best conventional Megaman game they could possibly make with the charge beam and slide working so well, even if Rush is downgraded. MM6 was fantastic IMO because of the crazy suit powers.

A lot of people got started on the NES, but my first solid generation of gaming in like my first 4 years of life was on the Atari. I never knew how inferior the Atari version of Pacman was too. It at least had the gist of the ancient titles like Frogger and Pitfall. Even if they're too horribly simple for today's standards. And I seriously truly discovered Metroid 20 years later. Zelda, I beat all its versions in emulation 10 years ago. And there's that weird slate of PC gaming which were very arcade-y for some reason. And Duke Nukem too, and not in its whore-y state.

With EVERYBODY having healing powers, it is getting pretty annoying. Like action anime or a comic series where people die but aren't dead. I can't believe Heroes is in on that game too. Mohinder just irritates me personally. Too flip-floppy, he totally desecrates upon his father's work when he says he wants to honor him, keeps siding with Sylar and other villains like a total idiot and now he's turning into a beetle or something.

I find it pretty ironic that both the classic controller for the Wii and SNES controllers have the same problem. NO GRIP. I'd gladly play Nintendo games on a 360 controller + the PS3 direction pad. Just bastardize the company names for the sake of not hurting to play a game. I'd probably buy a grip-addon eventually. How is Atari a joke? Sure, by today's standards it was, but it was basically the only way to go for gaming newborns back then. I guess Commodore was there, but that system died quick.

N64, Genesis, NES, SNES and Dreamcast are still there. Atari is a bit too old and it's stored away probably forever. I'm a bit torn when I see a game put up online because it is convenient, but I'd rather actually buy something that is rare to get a hold of or are re-made or have new features like Dr Mario, Bionic Commando:Rearmed, MM9, etc. I might still buy SMRPG because the SNES controller, unexpectedly totally destroys my hand when using it. The lack of a grip physically hurts.

Yeah, you would think with a loft with such a horrific criminal history behind it, it'd probably be closed off forever. But noooooo. Logic has no place in Heroes.

Legends 2 and Zero games were good IMO, and ZX was pretty good. X8 was decent as a rental I guess. I even liked some Network games even though they were arguably the toughest Megaman games ever created... Network is like pure torture even for Megaman fans.

I think the difference is that the oldschool ones were revolutionary for its time. I think a lot of the newer ones including X and the GBA/DS ones stood on their own legs. Except they were not regarded as revolutionary as the NES ones were. I agree that the NES ones are more iconic and in general just more tightly made. I think there's that difference between great and good Megaman games. I wouldn't exactly say that the new ones were bad other than maybe being unremarkable for their genre.

Lots of nice twists and it's back to Heroes season 1 level of fluff instead of the totally ridiculous and extremely hurried 'season 2'. Also none of that wannabe-Japanese (wapanese) crap this time around. Also Ando turning evil/good/whatever and all the level 5's going loose? I think that's the best cliffhanger in the series. Screw future-Peter. The whole Sylar-mom thing is okay, but they're really wringing that plot dry and it's like every woman out there is Sylar's mom by now. And they have a Magneto!

Game reviewer metascores: 8.5 Game player metascores: 9.999999999 I mean, even with the classic Megaman 1-6 or so, I think some people are putting way too much a stock in them. They're great but so are all the dozens of Megaman games after it. It's not like we were missing out on the action all this time. I can't remember a single year I didn't play a new Megaman game since the 80's.

I've seen stacks of The World Ends With You around stores. Also, if all fails, online is the way to go. Also, as for the difficulty, of course it's a bit easy-ish. Typical of Square games and actually most JRPGs nowadays. But you can still scale the difficulty so that you can die with a few hits. From all indications it's going to be the second coming of SMRPG and I wonder if that kind of insane hype will be good. But the developers are amazing, so I'm waiting for a game review (preferably GameTrailers or IGN) and if it gets a slate of 9.0's I'm getting it. Also I LOVE how they're adding in multiple response trees like with most Bioware RPGs and I hope it even has multiple endings. I love how they say you can act like a total asshole with Sonic. It's about time.

Metal Gear Solid in 1:25 in hard difficulty. Trying it again, it seems impossible to even finish without dying a lot.

I'd say it died right around after Outlaw Star ended. Then they slowly stopped giving that segment free rein.

You just did not say Aria is a guilty pleasure... The music is also very unique as well. Very... Okinawan + Italian. Strange mix but it works so well. And to top it off, they sing in Esperanto (!).

Yeah, but the lure of making everything into kid-friendly, family-friendly, casual-friendly and idiot-friendly is the order of the day for Nintendo games especially when they weren't made to be MA rated like No More Heroes. Unless a game gratuitously advertises comical luridness, they are bound to try to censor. I can see why they would though.

J-pop tends to be actual POP with a lot of positive flair and more of a focus on variety and smooth sounding lyrics and musical themes. While American pop is mostly about having an attitude, girls looking like whores and guys looking like gangster wannabes and not giving a damn about the musical part for the most part. Also, western pop tends to have way too much faux attitude. You could just taste the typical American pretentiousness of most American pop nowadays. I don't blame anyone for preferring J-pop more simply out of philosophy.

I swear DVD players were actually freakishly expensive (at least $150 for a good one) a year ago. Now with Bluray drives starting to take over, nobody gives a damn about DVD players on PCs. I love it.

I don't care how they make a Zelda game as long as there's any chance of dying due to difficulty of enemies and their tactics. It feels like YEARS since I actually died because a Zelda game was hard. Usually it seems I die only when I flub myself and not because the game themselves were difficult. The last time that seemed to happen was with Zelda Oracles games.

The FF13 for Xbox360 was the kind of thing that could probably only happen at E3 though. Some of the games simply didn't make it as well. Other than that, I thought E3 was fine. Also, the next 'big' game will probably be Kirby. I'll yawn while I wait for the DS Kirby game.