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CHRIS BENOIT KILLED HIS FAMILY WITH HIS WRESTLING FINISHER ALL HIS FRIENDS KNEW HE WAS A SOCIOPATH LONG AGO MELTZER IS LYING TO PROTECT HIS SOURCES I WANT TO SAVE BENOIT'S BBBBRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN

Maybe Loss can finally get Meltzer to post there. I haven't seen him ban anyone for joking yet.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I was going to pick that! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Why this version and not the arcade? Well, I didn't even play the arcade version until '95, by which point it had been out for like six years. It doesn't hold any special memories for me. But the NES version does, because my brother and I used to rent it all the time. And it has an extra level and awesome Pizza Hut ads which got it featured on the HBO special "Buy Me That Too."

Super Mario Bros. and Mega Man 2. It is on VC.

In order for Mr. Freeze to be taken seriously, he needs to be played by a crunk rapper with diamonds in his teeth.

I thought Warrior kicking his way out of the cage to get to Hogan was pretty cool. Other than that, it was horrible. The 3-way thing wasn't a horrible idea, but the "every man for himself" rule was terrible. Why did they need to add a "winner gets a shot at Goldberg" stipulation? Just have DDP win the match for his team, then the next night on Nitro say "DDP won WarGames for WCW, so he gets a title shot at Halloween Havoc." And why were there pinfalls? DDP couldn't win with anything other than a Diamond Cutter? And Stevie Ray? Man, what are the odds, you have 8 main eventers and a midcarder and the midcarder does the job. And doesn't DDP look like a star for beating Stevie Ray? You could have had him pin the Hitman. I'm sure he would have been willing to do the job. And I'm sure WCW would have been willing to job him! Holy crap, was that crowd dead when DDP won. You'd think as popular as he was, he would have received a pop for winning. But nobody cared. And why didn't Goldberg wrestle on the pay-per-view? The Giant didn't have a match on the show, you could have put that match on there. Of course, the match might not have been much of a draw since Goldberg pinned Giant at Road Wild in a BATTLE ROYAL, then I think he pinned him on Nitro a couple of weeks later. But if they had saved it for PPV, I think it would have drawn a nice buyrate. Same deal for World War 3 that year. Goldberg didn't wrestle, and there wasn't any other big match on the show to sell it. The 60-man battle royal never drew, Hall-Nash was advertised and then didn't happen, and the main event was a U.S. title match! OH WCW

I didn't get a PM!

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/07/24/...ing-at-wiiware/ http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/why-a-wii-fight.html Igarashi says he's considering a 2D Castlevania for Wii Ware, and that he's "watching (Mega Man 9) very closely." If they made a classic style Castlevania, with individual levels rather than the Metroid style, that would be pretty awesome. I wouldn't even care if it had NES graphics, since the franchise wasn't milked to death on that system and the last one was the best.

Man is this game fun. It's also pretty ugly, but how else are you going to get thirty cars on screen at 60 frames per second on an N64?

It's funny because it's about video games

I'll be ready, willing and able to debate at least half of all the reasons listed. Like the N64 cartridge thing. If I can defend that, I can defend anything!

That Dead Rising port has a new name: Ugh. I'll still get it.

I think I want in on this. BATB '00 was a show that sucked so hard, yet the ending filled me with so much hope. The next two weeks of Nitro and Thunder were pretty good too. Then it fell off a cliff worse than anyone could have imagined. Ever see New Blood Rising? STACY KEIBLER PREGNANCY ANGLE AND JACQUES ROUGEAU CHANGING STIPS ON THE FLY AND NASH AND STEINER "IMPROVISING." WORST SHIT EVER.

Also, this MotionPlus thing is just going to piss people off. Save the 1:1 stuff for Wii 2. Maybe Nintendo thought they had to get a leg up on some competitor's hypothetical 1:1 Wii Remote ripoff, but all this thing does it highlight that the current controller is NOT accurate.

U-Force was Broderbund and Power Glove was Mattel. Sorry Drewts, it's not you. It's EVERYONE who always says LOL NINTENDO MADE THE POWER GLOVE AND U-FORCE AND THE WIZARD when in fact they had nothing to do with those except collecting the money.

FOR GOD'S SAKE ANDREWTS NINTENDO DIDN'T MAKE THE POWER GLOVE OR THE U-FORCE YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT

http://e3.nintendo.com/ Dear God, what a lineup. The conscience of gaming, right there. I forgot about MillionHeir Mystery whatever in my post earlier. To be honest I think I'm more interested in that than any other game on the site.

Oh man, do I love this game. As much as some others don't like it, for me it's simply awesome. I would have picked this in the first or second round but I thought, "What's the point? Nobody else is going to choose Star Tropics." But it's mine now.

Several dudes on NeoGAF say that Famitsu confirmed Dead Rising for Wii. Well, current-gen ports are better than last-gen ports.

I think Sony just looked good by comparison because neither of the others were very good, although Microsoft's FF13 announcement and the debut of Gears 2 put them far ahead of Nintendo. Sony's conference was super-boring, but Resistance PSP was a surprise and the debut of GoW3 was a nice capper for the whole thing. God, remember how great '06 was? Nintendo came out blazing, Microsoft had some good stuff and Sony had a nice mixture of cool games and hilariously embarassing moments. Two years and this is how far we've come. E3 is dead. EDIT: Apparently this was not the debut of Gears 2. OK

It just doesn't make any sense to me. I understand the need to draw new casual fans into the fold, but they aren't the entire games market. The goal should be to get those casual fans AND hardcore gamers. Nintendo doesn't seem to realize that "core gamers" doesn't just extend to "people who were Nintendo fans before Wii came out." They think that their Gamecube sequels like Animal Crossing and Mario Strikers Charged are enough to satisfy the "core" crowd. And I'm sure if you were a big Gamecube fan, you like Wii because they're the same system they have a lot of the same franchises. But Nintendo needs to reach out to that other, very large portion of the gaming audience: those who chose a PS2 or Xbox over Gamecube because they thought the games on the 'Cube looks "kiddy" and "lame." Nintendo has done NOTHING to cater to them. The upcoming Fatal Frame IV, which they are publishing themselves at least in Japan, and probably here, fits in that category but it wasn't shown or talked about at the conference at all. They haven't even done the traditional "upcoming games" montage at their E3 conference for two years. And as Andrew said, casual buyers don't buy many games. Nintendo only really needs 2 or 3 big Wii games for them per year, and maybe 4 or 5 for DS. They know the potential to sell these types of products for years and years, so they should try to knock one out of the park for each one. As I can gleam from what's been announced so far, here's Nintendo's first-party release list for the rest of the year, some of which will surely get bumped to '09 and some of which haven't been given release dates yet so they probably aren't even scheduled for '08: Wii: Mario Super Sluggers Wario Land: Shake It Wii Sports Resort (the cutest game that you have ever seen!) Wii Music Animal Crossing: City Folk Fatal Frame IV DS: Rhythm Heaven (AKA Rhythm Tengoku) Cooking Navi Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia Kirby Superstar Ultra Fire Emblem, maybe? Impressive list...if you're impressed by FAILURE! AHAHAHAHA oh crap all i have are ds and wii

Are we assuming everything else is equal here? Does RVD get injured early in the year? Does Awesome leave in April?

I still can't believe how bad Nintendo's conference was. OK, I was dumb with all those sequels I predicted earlier. REAL dumb. It was just wishful thinking. Except for Nintencats. I really thought that was coming. It's been three years since the first Nintendogs. It's high time for a spinoff, as a prelude to the inevitable Wii Nintendogs. As soon as they started with Cool Mom talking about snowboarding, I knew we were in trouble. If the first game you show is the multiplatform Shaun White Snowboarding, methinks you don't have the strongest hand to play. But as I was watching, I thought "OK, it's just like last year's conference, but I'm sure there will be at least ONE cool game announced." Nope. I liked Wii Music, but they showed that two years ago. The Wii Sports sequel is smart and it might be fun, but it's not like I'll run out and buy it the first day. Maybe not even the first year. And then I saw Reggie on G4 after the conference, telling Morgan and co., "How could a core gamer be disappointed? We announced Animal Crossing AND a new GTA!" I don't expect/want Nintendo to jump on the me-too bandwagon and make a Halo/Gears clone like so many companies are doing, but they can't even make ONE game that appeals to the audience that likes those games? Does every title they release have to be an evergreen blue ocean paradigm shifting market disruptor for the expanded audience?

Well, you got rid of the celebrity angles (Lauper backing Richter and Mr. T wrestling) that made Wrestlemania successful. Congrats ryankeast, YOU JUST KILLED THE WWF HOW DO YA FEEL ABOUT THAT?? But other than that, good work.

No man, Wii Music looks awesome. It was the only thing at the Nintendo conference that I liked.