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I'm mostly concerned about it being a good game, it seems more like a heartless sequel than anything else, I'll reserve judgment though till I hear about more. If it is good and on the DS then awesome, cause I don't own a ps3 nor will I ever be able to afford one, so I'm happy with this.

That sounds like something you'd have to send it in for maintenance for. It'd probably be cheaper to just get another new camera, and hope no one steals it this time.

Can't they get in a lot of trouble for bsing quotes that are completely untrue? I hope you're calling them on this!

Yeah but with the trainer house you can get xp from it, you can't do that in the trainer tower.

C. Handheld I use my computer for a lot of things, but games don't tend to be it. I spend arguably the most time playing handheld games. Must be the portability I can play them anywhere I want to and also while doing other things.

And that last interview they did of the pokemon people pretty much said they're trying to cater to everyone not just kids. I don't really care what the rating is or isn't, the target audience is not only children. My guy has gone from relatively non-plused and uninterested in pokemon, to obsessed with it. I gave him my old gold cart about 6 months ago. He's decided he's going to catch and train every single pokemon available to him in the game. And he's started calculating their IVs even though he doesn't really need to. I have a feeling he's going to stomp me into the ground when we get the remakes, cause he's probably going to IV/EV pokemon from the start or something insane like that, because he seems to derive a lot of amusement from calculating IV's and stuff by hand. He's also pretty excited about it cause it means he'll be able to get more pokemon including the ones that can only be gotten through trade or event. Maybe some of us should do that, not play for 3 generations, then come back later and have fun with all the minuscule improvements and new additions.

This makes me want to play Tetris. It also reminds me of playing Petruska in marching band...and how disorienting it is to learn the set changes to such wonky music...then the honor band went and did the firebird suit during the concert season. Man I want to play tetris! Also the rest of the series is pretty neat and fun to listen to, I love chiptunes.

They might be "targeted" at kids, but they aren't targeted at only kids.

I saw the first movie, it was pretty good, basically the same as the first angels up to just before Asuka shows up. I think it does a much better job than the original anime did in terms of expanding the characters and making some of the angels a bit more interesting while not diverging too far from it. I've heard the next few movies are going to more wildly move away from the original content, I look forward to seeing it if it's as good as the first one was anyway. That said Ponyo doesn't look interesting to me at all, but my cousin is likely going to drag me out to see it. I like Miyazaki movies, I agree some of them were kind of meh, but all of them I've been able to at least enjoy the ride. I don't personally find them difficult to follow and understand most of the time, and even if the endings are often sudden, they fit with what's been going on fine enough for me. I don't really care if other people don't like them though, that's their opinion after all it doesn't make someones taste better or worse, just different. That said Ponyo doesn't look interesting to me at all, but my cousin will undoubtedly drag me to see it eventually.

Great now I want to buy another plushy to add to my collection...

It looks pretty neat to me.

I think I'll stick to having limited control on when I have an encounter thank you very much.

Yay! Now I don't have to foam at the mouth whenever I think about futurama...

Well that interview pointed out something else pretty nice. So maybe something really interesting and different is in the future, because they make it seem like D/P/P was setting up for the next gen game that come out. I'm not very satisfied with the "trading" response, it's mostly just addressing the "why not on a home console pokemon game" bit, they can make a more "proper" rpg or even an MMO and keep it portable.

Ahh that's a good point. I still wish they'd find some better way to deal with HM's than they have right now, I wouldn't mind except most HM's are also pretty undesirable too.

I really wish they would just do away with HM's entirely, or allow a second set of moves for overworld use only. (Or even have any pokemon that can use x tm be able to use it once the appropriate badge is gotten without having to take up a battle slot). Or at the very least make it so you can forget them at will rather than finding a move deleter. They're just such a massive pain, I don't want to use an HM slave, but I also hate having to switch pokemon in and out of boxes to deal with certain obstacles, and they keep adding more and more that you can't passively get away with not having as easily as in the first game.

I hated Code Geass, something about it in it's entirety was very unlikeable to me, but for some reason I still wanted to watch it and see what happened by then end. But, I think it's killing off and/or vilification of just about every character was the whole point of that anime, a giant morally ambiguous mash up of characters that aren't for the most part likable, and aren't really supposed to be. That said I am so glad I am done watching that horror of an anime, I guess it must have had a compelling enough of a story (or maybe it was just such a magnificent train wreck) it succeeded at what it set out to do I suspect so it still gets my kudos even if I hate it.

Yeah that's what I've been thinking of doing lately, I wish I had thought of this sooner, but it took me a while to sink in that the third game in a given generation is superior to the original releases and I should just wait.

They sped some things up in platinum if that makes you feel any better. (I know they sped up surfing anyway, and possibly stuff underground I haven't tried comparing recently as I don't tend to notice a lot of the time...except surfing bleg).

I remember Sonic 2's nasty habit of hanging up on the hilltop zone. >(

While I would say older games are hard, I wouldn't say they're that hard in retrospect. Going back to play some of them, they're very very easy, or even if they have a high death rate, I can still beat them in just 2-3 days of casual game play. I'm not really that good at games, so I'd assume most of you can also go back and do the same thing, even with "nintendo hard" games you've never played before. After growing up with such unforgiving games, any game today would seem a lot easier than it should be because we have a huge repository of video game conventions. So we can make some really weird leaps in logic to play that people that don't have the experience would never make. That's what I've observed anyway probably means very little. I do agree that games now are a bit in the "too easy" side of things, it just seems more then too easy cause we started with very hard.

You're welcome, glad you're enjoying it

So in other words. "I don't like this sort of game for whatever reason, so I think it's inherently bad or not as good and resources shouldn't be devoted to it" Unfortunately the world doesn't cater to a single persons tastes, and that's isn't a bad thing.

Yeah because all games aimed at "casual gamers" must suck right? Really as far as games go either it's not really a game, it's a bad game, it's a game, or it's a game that can be fairly deep and challenging. Whether the game is aimed at your "casual" gamer or not it can fall into any of those groups.

Although it was years ago now, last time I heard about the warcraft movie they said it was going to focus on the humans/alliance or something a long those lines. Although there stands to be a really good chance that that is no longer valid either way.