AndrewTS

Well, there was Wind Waker, which was awesome except for all the FUCKING SAILING. A bit of an oversimplification. WW had a daring, beautiful art style, a polished up gameplay engine, great music (mix of classic and original), but it is well-known to have been rushed. Supposedly there was criticism about the supposedly high difficulty of OOT's dungeons (crazy since LttP's get much more difficult overall), and so WW's are more straightforward. However, TP's is supposed to be harder based on feedback from game mags. Interesting article with Miyamoto/Aonuma: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=4416 "Interviewer: What were the main elements of Zelda that you didn't have the time to put in. What were they this time around? EA First of all in terms of time for completion we had to delete two stages, which included some dungeons. Yet, of course, the volume is big enough, but we had to delete some elements we were originally going to incorporate in the game. But I think this time, other than that, most of the ideas we were originally thinking about were incorporated into the final game." Too bad about the Wind Waker that never was. I don't recall an official statement about whether a better idea was in mind for recovering the Courage Triforce, but imagine if that element was excised, we had about 2 more main dungeons, and we had a battle with Big G more like OOT's. Ganondorf looked good in WW...but went down like nothing. Ballad of Gales mostly clears up the sailing complaints, but as 1up's feature on the series noting, too many sidequest-style fetching was essential for completion of the game.

Bruce Timm commenting on JLU ending: http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=...58&postcount=19 And a bit less complimentary piece from John Semper Jr. regarding the Spidey AS: http://marvel.toonzone.net/spideytas/interviews/semper10/

"Foley will be writing a 3rd installment of his autobiography, and Tietem Brown is being green lit as a movie." What the hell is there more to tell? Foley's secret life as a drag queen? Does he die at the end of this one?

Hayes was so pissed he had this bottled up for 4 months. Guess he needed time to cool off before he said something he really regretted.

It's a moot point AFAIC because I'm going to pick up a Rev at launch anyway. But yeah, TP is GC, a Rev-exclusive Zelda is all but guaranteed, but you can use some Rev functions with TP.

Plus growing up in the crappiest area on the planet while Hyrule was flowing with milk and honey didn't help either.

This is weird... http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/hyspace Some good ones: http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/hyspace/poe.html http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/hy.../ganondorf.html

Are you kiddding? City Hunter is tons of fun! I love that movie, and not even in a God-this-is-campy way. I just rewatched it, as a matter of fact. It's Jackie at his slapstick best. The American DVD sucks(I think it's dubtitled) but the story is simple enough to get along. Most of the movie is just great physical comedy. The Street Fighter scene is definately the best part, though. Mine was dubbed. The first 15 minutes were just too embarrassing to watch and I never got past that part. The US SF movie was great...in awful ways.

Kind of stating the obvious there, Scrob... On a related note, excellent write up here on LTTP: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6145817/i...utoplay=6145842 If you liked LTTP, I highly suggest giving Four Swords Adventures a try. It's a fun title even in 1P mode (I thought I'd blast through it quickly--not so), and these days it isn't *that* difficult to get together folks with GBAs for multiplayer. Hardly anyone owns the GC to GBA link, but you can get one for under 10 bucks. Since just about everyone has sprung for an extra controller for the sake of a friend/friends who don't own the same console, that's not bad at all really.

Thanks for the feedback on that GeneMean. MS employees comment on the PS3 delay: "This announcement certainly doesn't change any of our plans. We've blasted out of the gate with the greatest launch in the history of video games and we're keeping our eyes squarely fixed on today and on the Xbox 360 road ahead, including continuous new content and programming through our premier Xbox Live online gaming service, the delivery of 80 high definition games and shipping between 4.5 and 5.5 million consoles by June." Did they quietly fire Moore and replace him with Tony Schiavone?

Now a trailer is available. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaEaVxTeJGw It will have both Alpha 2 and Alpha 2 Gold. Alpha has the Ryu/Ken team up still, but shows them teaming up against Adon. Interesting... Not sure which version of Alpha 3 is there, though. Depending on when Alpha 3 MAX comes out, who knows if it will have the bonus characters from GBA/PSP.

May be old, but here's the Jackie Chan Street Fighter fight scene from City Hunter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wuvB4EPaFE Note: the movie itself is terribly painful, so this is easily the best part.

Well, different race. A 7 foot chinese guy? Will Farrell? That was a great In Living Color skit (I think there were more of them than one actually). Too bad it would be a PC'ed up the ass.

I ran across this rant on assemblygames.com (scroll down to XBOX 360 opinions), and it's making me rethink my interest in the 360. Are these true/as bad as they seem? Because I'm not too intrigued by it. Of course, it's a rant, not a "fair and balanced" article from a respected "game journalist," so I want to hear some other opinions on it.

Source: 1up.com So it looks like the PS3 will likely come out even after Revolution...

When Zelda fans get bored/go slightly nutty waiting for a game:

Well, that seemed obvious from the moment Ken claimed it's "not a console," and plenty of the early boasts/hype. I paid $700 for my current PC, so if you look at it simply by what's being offered, it's a good deal. However, I have a PC already, I have a PS2, the Blu-Ray player features won't matter unless Blu-Ray becomes a significant industry standard (HD-DVD seems to be losing steam, but PS3 isn't right around the corner to push the format like the PS2 did with DVDs). Linux pre-installed is really old news, but it'll be interesting how that pans out. Plenty of competent people are idiots using Linux.

"- Triple H: $2,013,000 (Allowed the personal use of company jet (10) times per year. First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)" Triple H *is* the one making all the money. Damn. "Undertaker: $1,811,000 (First class flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and ground transportation paid for every week)" Wrestles....how many times per year?

Yeah, this is kind of silly. I had meant as it stood now. Okay, maybe half-wrong there. As criticized as Wind Waker was, it appears that about 1 in 5 of Gamecube owners picked it up at some point, so it's not the damaged-goods of a franchise that constant internet skepticism makes it out to be. I stand corrected. I honestly don't see too many cases Johnny GTA with his PS2 going to buy a system over it, though. And Reggie probably played dumb because he didn't know concrete details...but it plays with the Rev controller. To elaborate on Essa's comments--yeah, that's what they're saying now (from 1up): Hm. Doesn't sound like they're prepared to meet demand. However, there's no price mentioned yet. No launch titles announced. Final Dev kits go out May. They're trying to clone Live... "GameSpy is providing tools and middleware" -- Well, that's probably going to suck.

Which means absolutely nothing.

You could look at it that way, but I see it more as a bonus incentive rather than a major selling point. Not *that* many of the Nintendo faithful are Zelda players, and casual gamers probably don't give two hoots about TP. I seems a number of folks who pre-ordered TP cancelled it with word of the delay (that's just anecdotal, though, and if some new info/screens/trailers are released that may change). However, don't expect to play it with the Rev controller. Yeah, Reggie doesn't know all, but it doesn't make sense to delay it for a bonus feature like that. It's still a traditional-playing title.

Iwata has stated the Revolution will be released in North America prior to Thanksgiving. There's no concrete details on exactly when the Japanese release will be (presumably earlier than that, though). He also said we'd be seeing playable Revolution titles at E3 (that's May). LoZ: TP is simply "Fall" right now according to Reggie. What that means for Japan is unclear.

Pretty good rant, there, Z. "Oh and Nov 2006 is the JAPAN release date, you won't see it in NA this Christmas." The article seemed to make that rather clear. The GoW2 announcement seemed to be a rather heavy indicator this was going to happen, though, especially after Sony tried to cover up the original leak. I didn't know the other Sony divisions were losing money, though. Music, movies, their home entertainment products--they've got their hands in everything. The Blu-Ray thing seems nuttier and nuttier. Supposedly standalone Blu-Ray players are going to be around $500, and PS3 is going to have more features. Plus, by the time it rolls around in the US, Microsoft will be in a better position to deal them a hefty blow in price.

Carlito impersonator > Raw.

I was about to make a post very similar to yours. On the plus side, at least two Natural Born Thrillers are making money. Is Sanders still working as a stand up comedian?