AndrewTS

There's orb collecting + other skill maxing, time attack, bettering race times (both rooftop and vehicle), reset gangs/bosses, co-op mode, some of the best achievements in any 360 game, and Except for race times, Assassin's Creed doesn't really have any of that. Collecting flags in AC doesn't get you anything besides achievements, making them basically pointless except for AP whores.

MrRant is Michael Bay! I honestly don't care much, because I have no HD TV so I'm not going to see any improvement. The only thing I'd get from HD-DVD or Blu Ray is more expensive movies. It annoys me that some movies are going exclusive to one or the other formats, or DVD gets "bare bones" releases. Save that stuff for when one or the other format is highly dominant, or when hybrids are commonplace and cheap.

whuzzah? If you dig Assassin's Creed, I recommend Crackdown (if you have a 360). This year I'm looking most forward to Smash Bros Brawl, Prototype, Infamous (although I have no PS3 right now), Left 4 Dead, and Gears of War 2 (which is expected to be announced a CES for a fall-ish release).

Final Smash in Brawl, please.

In Japan, anyway.

Yeah, the d-pad blows. That's the main advantage of the Classic, but I *hate* having that dangling wiimote off it.

Stage 11 on Castlevania up to the boss, which is a fight with Frankenstein's monster and Igor. Actually, the tough part is Igor. You have to whip the slow, immobile Frankie while an invincible, fireball tossing, hopping little bastard darts around the screen, and that's after going through an area with fishmen hopping out of the water, an area that drops similar hopping little bastards, and then getting past Bone Dragons. I have gotten to the point where I can actually get to the boss narily unscathed. Then they still wreck my **** up. Can't legit get past that.

Isn't there, like 99 stages and a boss? It was an arcade port with finite continues on the home version. I don't think many people actually *beat* it.

For a game directed by Takashi Iizuka, it's not that bad. However, changing the way the game plays in such an odd fashion, and adding features that are only a detriment to the gameplay doesn't help.

93. OMG 8 PROCESSORS This promotional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99iiUtPR-fM I almost want to get rid of *my* Saturn now. Thank goodness nearly everything I own for it is an import. 94. And now for something completely different... Resurrecting one of the few Saturn titles regarded as a classic, then changing the game structure and bloating it up with lousy cutscenes and annoying ground-based filler missions. Yes, NiGHTs Journey of Dreams. There's also this (from IGN's review): 95. Speaking of pointless series revivals, I'm going to go out on a (very sturdy) limb and say this game will blow. 96. Virtua Fighter 5: The search for retail failure So, you've just released a popular arcade fighter (well, popular where it actually exists) on PS3. Then you realize, "oh wait, maybe we can release this on a system that the rest of the world actually owns." So, eight months later you finally release it on the Xbox 360, although with only play. You don't just release it 8 months later, you release it in the midst of extremely-popular, best-selling AAA software. It bombs. Hard. Nobody buys it. Nobody plays it. Nobody is surprised. Way to treat the one remaining game series that still has critical acclaim, Sega!

All NES and TG-16 games work with the Wiimote. Some Genesis games work with it. For SNES and N64 games, you'll need either a gamecube controller or classic controller. A wavebird is pretty much the best overall controller. It works with everything and you'll be able to still use it wirelessly on the Wii (same way on GC, plug the reciever into the gamecube port or ports).

Plus it's an SNK game, so yeah I get it. Since Neo Geo *non-fighters* are generally already obscure, it's often hard to get a reliable opinion on something that's even obscure by those standards.

Don't think so. Top Hunter, while it did come out before Metal Slug, is not related to 'Slug except that its producer worked on the home ports of Metal Slug X on PS1 and the Slug Anthology. The main programmers of Top Hunter were King of Fighters folks. The folks who made the awesome Metal Slug 1-3 games seems to all use aliases in the credits, but don't match up with Top Hunter directly. Since they're all SNK, I think little or no folks worked on both. Top Hunter's gimmick is the ability to jump into the background and back to the foreground, like some of the Fatal Fury games. I think I played one game of it in my life, in like a New York arcade, but it looks pretty.

I would say this is the wisest step to take. My 360 is on an entertainment center with nothing on the sides but a lot of empty space and a few game cases, and I've had it since April without any issues. My power brick is right beside it on the shelf, too.

"Does it play on the PS3" is kind of a non-specific question. There's the 40 GB (won't at all), 20/60 GB (should no problem), and 80 GB (maybe will, probably won't).

"Spring 2008" is all we know right now. Since Ninja Gaiden DS is already streeted for March, I suspect NG2 will be April/May, unless it's delayed.

And now for something completely different.

I've heard on some other boards that the Wii Perfect Shot (pictured gasp--it looks like a gun!) is the best bet for a Wii gun. Anyone get to try it out?

Thirded. Go Pro. The Arcade comes with a memory unit to let you save. You can still download XBLA to the memory unit, but DLC you'd need a hard drive for. The HDD also is necessary to play original xbox games on the compatibility list.

Found this on another board. So apparently Capcom mishmashed together some martial arts facts and lore, at least for the creation of SF1. http://crane.50megs.com/index6w.htm

So *that's* where they are. Do they allow torture there? Edit: probably old, but I found this on Google-- http://www.amazon.com/review/R2FEPWK81SL4QA

Heh, no problem. What made it a good choice, I thought, because its quality/obscurity, was that it wasn't on a compilation already except for the Japan-only Treasure Box. Thoth got me Waverace, and as I mentioned before ChrisMW got me Neutopia 2. I got Chris Actraiser.

So, ChrisM and I did a private VC gift exchange between us, and I got Neutopia 2. I heard the first game was a decent little Zelda knockoff, but that this one is better. It's like, wow, if there was a Zelda in the overhead style between Zelda 1 and LTTP, it would be like this. It's really, really blatant. However, it's still *really good*, so it works.

It could be worse. You could have meant to get Super Mario Bros. and gotten Mario Bros. Or...intended to get Eternal Champions, and...

A pretty decent run of Virtual Console games this week. Blades of Steel for the NES (500 points) Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble for the SNES (800 points) Rolling Thunder 2 for Genesis (800 points) DKC3 is, in my opinion, when Rare started to go batshit with their collection fetish, and it's the one I'd be least likely to play again.