AndrewTS

A call center subcontracted by Apple for tech support.

LOL We're lucky to even know when new Nintendo games come out. This one was actually announced by Nintendo, but most of the time it's based on rumors, new ESRB listings, and the like.

I honestly should know a little bit more, considering I'll be troubleshooting the damn OS. Sadly, I'll get trained on it about a week after it actually comes out.

Ocarina of Time will be available this coming Monday to North American Wii owners on Virtual Console, for the usual 1000 Wii Points. Pretty decent value, considering what the collector's versions run, but if you own the game 5 times over like I do, it's just a bit superfluous. Although lack of rumble sucks.

Crackdown is da bomb. **** a Halo 3 beta. I've yet to pull the trigger on a 360 purchase, but I think it's a very good reason to.

New RE movie trailer. http://www.destructoid.com/resident-evil-e...ler-29970.phtml I shall call it Mad Maxine: Beyond Chunderdome. Absolute shittiness confirmed.

Pretty much all of the info anyone outside of Nintendo knows on Super Paper Mario: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=789531...cUserId=1002415 I'm definitely going to buy it, but I was sold on it back when it was a GC game. EDIT: It was pulled, apparently. It is now a dead link.

As 3D beat 'em ups, go, they were at the top of the heap IMO. Which is still only decent. So, yes and no, depending on if you want to split hairs.

http://www.animelyrics.com/game/sonicadventure2 I sometimes hear the Pumpkin Hill theme in my nightmares.

This sooong is in the puuublic domain That's whyyy we used it twiiiice.

Anyone know how much trade in credit a GBA SP will net on its own, as in not with any sort of special offer?

I didn't mind the fetch quests in SA1. They took like a minute or two per level. In SA2, your emerald detector would only find them in a random, arbitrary order. You could have started the level 5 feet away from an emerald, but you'd never know it until it was that shard's "turn" to be detected. What a stupid design decision.

DK64: http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/191702.asp Take a look at the ratings there. It was indeed overrated when you consider that the game is actually quite terrible. I wonder what sort of drugs some of those reviewers were on. Game Fan could only give it a 75/100 average, and they loved the previous Rare/DKC games Isn't that what Dynamite Deka 1&2 aka Die Hard Arcade and Dynamite Cop were (save for the Sarah thing)?

The Wii has way more than 5 games. It just only has about 5 games that are good and are not Virtual Console downloads. However, I tend to use my Wii at some some bit every day, even if it isn't necessarily playing actual, bonafide Wii games. Crackdown and Assassin's Creed are the games that seem to be swaying me the most towards the 360. However, if anything is going to sell me on a PS3, it won't be the marquee titles, but rather some stranger sleeper hit I probably don't even know exists yet. The fact that I don't want or need a 360 *right now* just goes to show you how most of its library appeals to me. The 360 is slowly but surely shedding its image as the space marine machine.

Yeah, but EBA fell well below Nintendo's sales expectations. Still, it should have turned a tidy profit, right? The engine's already right there. Most of the budget I'd assume would have been for licensing/recording the music, though. I wonder if that'd be the dealbreaker.

Well, check the link above. Reviews are in. It's a good game, but what is your tolerance for lame "challenge missions" and cock rock? If it's high and you liked the DC games, it looks like a go.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/here-it-is-ni...2007-238388.php Kotaku posted the 1P Wii releases slated for 2007 (Japan): This "sometime 2007" crap is annoying, though. However, this is the first I've heard of Kirby for Wii. There was a Gamecube Kirby platformer in the works waaaaaaaaaaay back, but there was no info released for it forever. So, appears it's finally back on.

I think the Sonic Adventure gameplay seems a lot worse on Gamecube. The control feels too sensitive and it appears to have way more bugs (I'd fallen through solid areas a few times on GC). Those are the versions probably most people have/are playing, though. I've finished Sonic Adventure without encountering any bugs/glitches like that.

No it wasn't. If you're comparing it to a top tier fighting game series, it doesn't hold up so well, but it's far above other MK/SF clone ilk. Plus this overrated talk seems more like EGM were morons back in the day and gave out high scores like party favors. They're the ones who suck for inflating perceptions of just ok games. Toshinden totally deserves it, though. That was pretty much the game that sold people on the PS1 since every mag gushed over it and how it was prettier/more fun than VF.

Wii outsold the 360 and PS3 in January.

I wouldn't say critically panned. IGN is the absolute lowest score it's gotten: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/...onicwildfire?q=

Congratulations. I hope you enjoy it. So, it looks like there's lots of systems being snatched by Ebay sellers? *groan* Lame.

He wasn't so upset about the game itself, but what happened because of it. What happened was that when DKC was a huge hit, he was being pressured to have Yoshi's Island turned into a cgi game as well. He complained that Americans would put up with "mediocre gameplay" if the graphics were good. He later apologized and explained the pressure, though. The cgi DK model was actually designed with his input. Rare just put a tie on him. But still, the childish gaming press hates Rare anyway. EGM named 5 Rare games out of their top 10 most overrated games.

Like I said, I think it all stems from Shiggy. However, if so, that's utter bull, because Shiggy's own right hand man made Yoshi's Story. Since Shiggy didn't hit him with a stick until he fixed it, I think he's heavily to blame for it.

http://www.ebgames.com/gs/weeklyad/current/ There's no mention of that specific trade in "offer," but they're offering an additional $20 trade in credit on a DS/PSP.