AndrewTS

Huge Zelda preview ahead: http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3154917 Spoilers start page 3, with the first 2 giving you ridiculously in-depth looks at the gameplay. And the Wii controls, whether or not sword swipes match wiimote actions(they don't), sound excellent.

Lots of previews are going to be going up at 8 PM EST / 5 PM Pacific, because of press embargoes.

Yeah, I noticed that now, beat you by, like, minutes with my corrections.

Well, I assumed too much. The first one is the spoiler-laden trailer. The 2nd one is a reeeeeeeeeeally old, super-safe trailer. There were 2 new ones released, though: http://us.wii.com/viewer_zelda.jsp?vid=8 ^ First one is just the opening--Link on his horse charging across a bridge, and near the edge of a cliff in a huge Hyrule countryside...eventually they leave the screen, and there's a wolf that howls at the sky... We get the logo, and "Press A+B" to start the game. Second is spoiler-laden trailer--another vid in case the first link goes down: http://us.wii.com/viewer_zelda.jsp?vid=9 I watched only about 25 seconds of it, because I couldn't handle the awesome and didn't want to inadvertantly ruin any surprises for myself. Scattered 25 seconds that is....hey, a canoe...bomb arrows...that is one ginormous.... Ok, that's all for me...

Neat comparison vid of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! and Elite Beat Agents:

303. Borat chasing Conan around the stage with scissors, in an attempt to get his valuable "red pubice."

Please tell me I'm not the only one who got the less-than-subtle John/Yoko references.

Wind Waker had a lot of terrific moments in it that would have been ruined had I known ahead of time. There are certain games that I want to cut myself off from the modern conveniences of gaming for, i.e. cheat codes, plot spoilers, and walkthroughs. There are of course the good kind of spoilers, like vague teaser hints, and advice to do or not to do something (that has a major effect on the game's outcoming).

EDIT: 1st trailer is new, 2nd is old, 1st is spoilerish. Sorry for any confusion.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/wii/wii-getti...t-on-205050.php Yeah, an "ethernet kit." It's really, really stupid. If you have a DS dongle that'll work too. Phantasy Star, Wonder Boy 1-3, the Alex Kidds, Zaxxon, R-Type, Psycho Fox, Gunstar Heroes, R-Type, Shinobi, the Game Gear Sonics, and a superior version of Double Dragon are just as good as virtually anything the TG-16 had. There are links to new Twilight Princess movies floating about the internets, but I've only watched the opening movie, as I hear the 2nd movie is loaded with spoilers. The Pacific is "the pond?" Iga's stated many times that CV is more popular in the US than in Japan, but "is" I guess isn't necessarily "always was." Japan doesn't care about Metroid, for some reason.

I'm not sure how when the filler is supposed to end, but apparently Naruto just found out how to do the frog summon right. And yeah, concept art doesn't necessarily mean much, but darn isn't it nice to look at. Ubi has some fantastic graphic designers/artists. Some of the stuff I've seen in the Warrior Within / Two Thrones guides are ridiculously awesome.

If by "new games" you mean "that one on the display," yeah. This only becomes an issue if it is the last one available, which is rarely the case. Could we have a OAO Gamestop/EB sucks thread for these comments?

I think Renegade is the only geek here who is really big on the "Megadrive" name, but in this context yeah it's understood. Super Castlevania IV is an odd choice since CV is bigger here than in Japan. However, it's reassuring that VC probably won't have a problem with Mode 7.

No difference.

Oh, and yet another example of how Nintendo likes Japan more: Safe bet: the Streets of Rage games will be available, but only in Japan, because Sega hates us.

EB/Gamestop is still evil. http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?...t&p=2353158 At my local EB, I was there one time when some people traded in what literally must have been a couple hundred DVDs. Yeah, I'm so sure they owned them... Plus the entire chain has jacked prices on some titles in high demand that have already gone GH. $19.99 for a used Silent Hill 2 and Final Fantasy X? Zone of the Enders 2 has gone up to 40 bucks. Super Smash Bros Melee (which has gone Player's Choice, BTW) is above MSRP at $26.99, bumped up from the $24.99 they had before. NES Classics Super Mario Bros is $19.99, the same price for a cartridge by itself as it was brand new. Silent Hill 1 is/was $17.99 if you're lucky enough to find it. Ikaruga went up to $40. They bought a hella lot of Gamequest Direct games (reprints of rare titles) and put them into stores for inflated prices. I could go on and on. The prices on their websites for used titles are actually higher in many cases than the in-store prices, like 5-10 bucks higher. That's not even counting the shipping costs. Did I mention indoctrinating employees to pester customers to preorder? Or how they try to hock those PIECE OF SHIT Madcatz/Gamestop controllers because they actually get a higher profit margin off them, even if they'll crap out in 1/5 the time? "Hey, buy this--it's cheaper!"

Ubi Montreal is the same studio, yeah. However, we don't know who is directing, which staff members are going to be working on it, etc. It must be very early in development, though. PoP Wii is supposed to be out Spring 07, but this title is only expected to ship "2007" as of now. It's a North America release only, currently. It's only been announced for 360, but don't count a PS3 release out (it's Ubi, after all). The 3rd and 4th Naruto games are pretty much assured since it's free money. Clash of Ninja went Player's Choice already and Clash of Ninja 2 is selling well from what I understand. They could slap a "Wii or Gamecube" sticker on them to assure people know of backwards compatibility.

Have no such animal, and never really did (EB doesn't count). Although when I'm out of town I patronize such places, such as The Exchange and a local chain that carries old and new stuff called Cash-In Culture. When I couldn't get Scurge, I thought "I should have preordered." However, there was a lady also trying to get the game I met the other day who reserved at EB like 2 years ago for the game and they didn't get any in.

PS3 only accepts wireless controllers, right? Does that mean if you get a PS3 you can't play Guitar Hero 1/2? Score another for 360.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Okay, Wiis shouldn't be that hard to fine, really, but I could see folks doing this for PS3. I'm fairly sure Anya plunked down over $1000 for the honor to be reamed by Wal-Mart with their 360 bundle. Wal-Mart was literally the only place I could get Scurge: Hive, though.

Which is really weird because if she used her regular voice she'd have been okay, and I'd think the voice direction should have noticed how bad it was.

Isn't that about the same timeframe since they reviewed games, ever? Pretty good review, although a game with such average/barely average gameplay seems to have a relatively high final score. And "appeal factor?" WTF?

I'd say they're only a Dracula X Rondo of Blood away from doing that. I doubt the currently piddly amount of internal storage is going to come close to cutting it, though.

Translation: spread 'em, Chunners.

You can go to Walmart and buy it for the GBA and play it on your DS Lite....its only $20 for a real copy of the game. It ticked me off a bit that, because of the GBA version, they left LttP off of the Collector's Edition disc.