AndrewTS

A 360 isn't the same thing as a PS3, and neither of them are the same thing as a Wii. Sure, at this point in time pretty much every PS3 game but Resistance is on 360, but people who honestly want a PS3 are thinking less about Resistance or Motorstorm than they are Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo and the other Sony staples. If the situation were reversed, do you think the 360-demanding buyers would want a PS3 when they really want to play Halo 3/Gears/Dead or Alive/Project Gotham/Perfect Dark (just kidding)? No. If I absolutely could not have found a Wii, do you expect me to buy a 360? Why? Kameo ain't got jack on Zelda. I don't believe traditional marketing logic applies to gamers. This holiday I expect PS2 will still outsell 360, PS3 and Wii will sell as many as the companies will make, and anyone buying any of those systems will do so because they wanted it to some degree. It won't be because they simply couldn't find a PS3/Wii. This only *maybe* applies to parents, who don't know what the hell the difference is anyway. But that's still a big assumption to make.

I don't follow that logic, sorry. Explain that. What does the fact that thousands of greedy people camped out and bought PS3s with the sole intention of reselling them on Ebay have to do with whether or not the PS3 is a "console meant for fun?" There's similar things going on with the Wii, although not to as ridiculous an extent. Is the Wii not meant for fun?

I got the Capcom Classics Collection 2. First game I played was Street Fighter 1. It's absolutely terrible but I played through it and beat Sagat, just because it was Street Fighter. It's pretty much impossible to do the special moves with any sort of regularity, but I did manage to do several fireballs and dragon punches, and some accidental Hurricane Kicks. Super Turbo is still a brutally hard bitch of a game, but there's no noticable loading, which is cool. Also the "Super" versions of the characters are in. Magic Sword and Knights of the Round are great fun. Tiger Road sucks hard. 3 Wonders was a nice surprise. I like Captain Commando. Most of the others are decent-to-crap, but I've yet to play them all. Tons of obscure titles are on there.

The DS can do N64 level 3D and perhaps better--see Ridge Racer DS (essentially it's Ridge Racer 64), Super Mario 64 DS, Mario Kart DS (which smokes MK64 visually), Metroid Prime Hunters, Final Fantasy III and so on.

Yeah, wiiseeker sucks. And no, there aren't enough Wiis. So what if there's 2x as many Wiis sold so far as PS3s. That's not very damn much, and both would sell a lot more if the stock was available. Both of them sold out within probably 20 minutes of going on sale at every store, if that.

Somebody had a custom-made Master Sword forged: http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/master-sword/...uded-217490.php Looks damn heavy/deadly. I'd love to swing it, though.

I *thought* that one was new... Don't look at me. I suck at shooters and only have 400 Wiipoints left after Mario 64 and Bonk.

Downloaded Bonk's Adventure. It's a fun little game mos def. Although during the course of headbonking the hell out of baddies, I found the Wiimote has a slight annoyance when used as a sideways controller: the B-button. If you don't hold it right, you may accidentally press B now and then. it's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a feature to rotate the d-pad functions. It would have been kind of cool to try to play it one-handed.

HHH would have killed everyone in one season, though. In Your House had really awful "super pin" finishing moves. Think fatalities 10x crappier than MK3 even. Like, HHH sucks you into an atomizer (one of those perfume spray bottles).

"The sliiiiiiiding choooookegrab can be very effective. Press down, toward, and punch! Then dooown and Poooower Kiick!"

I found it (wolf mode) a lot more enjoyable in Zora's domain. However, the inevitable comparison has got to be made with Okami there. And frankly, Ammy has it all over wolf Link. Fortunately, it doesn't seem that significant. Maybe 1/5 of my total playtime so far.

Wrong. That was an awesome game. WWE + MK + NBA Jam, how great is that? I know most of the combos by rote, the game was really, really ridiculously fun with a buddy. Biggest problem was that there weren't enough play modes and was limited to up to 2 players. In Your House had up to 4 players--may have been even 6, in fact--but that game was terrible. It screwed up just about everything Wrestlemania did right.

No. Nintendo Power guide tells all the heart piece locations, and none of them involve digging as the wolf. You're human Link for all of them. What?! After the great preorder bonus of Wind Waker, and considering how many people bought a Wii for TP, Nintendo should give those away. For shame, Nintendo.

I don't think anyone here has beat it yet, but I believe Jeremy Parish's 55 hour estimate. I've done relatively little exploring but have seen HUGE areas that I haven't even scratched yet. I'm over 10 hours in. As for being easy--when you're doing the same ol', same ol', it's not too difficult (general dungeon exploration), but there's lots of new things the game throws at you that you need time to get down. The horseback combat, jousting, and the sumo wrestling took me some time to nail down. However, so far seems much harder than OOT, partly because the game is very skimpy on heart pieces, unlike in OOT where they were *everywhere*.

My Wii number: 3722 9409 1586 3215

I picked up a Lexar SD card to back up my data, in case when I update it bricks my console (small chance that it is). Problem is, that my SD card isn't recognized. It's a Lexar 1 GB, but all standard SD cards should work. Help? EDIT: The nintendo site says you have to do a software update. Bah, catch 22. I'll go router hunting. EDIT: Found a cheap belkin wireless. It's like half the size of my old linksys wired. Attempting setup now...success! Updating the Wii, and will post my Wii number in a few minutes.

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3155445 Guess what? It sucks!

The sequence where you fly the twilight bird was really cool. Just one complaint... The game could be nice and TELL me that you're supposed to fly it WITH THE MOTION CONTROLS! I died twice trying to use the control stick until I figured it out.

okay, I could go that route, although I'd be using the default settings. I didn't realize that they had become that cheap.

Yeah, the finishing blow is automatic.

According to a PS3 ad in the new Game Informer... "Its already thinking of ways to kill you."

Like I said, I'd only be using it for gaming and only the Wii / DS immediately. Since the current router is only about 20 feet away on the same floor, with a single thin wall, I'm not too worried about that.

Okay, what brand and where'd you get it from? Last time I looked wireless routers were like 80. You don't have to keep an open network, right? The Wii can just look for the encrypted network with the network name and password, right? I'd have to probably use the defaults, as I have no wireless cards in my computers, and I'd just keep wired ethernet for everything else.

Sci-fi WOO has been done: http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/r...zardofmars.html

Actually, I tried going there (the General Store, later Malo Mart), but it was locked, and one of the girls said he was still setting up. Wha? Is it because I already entered the Goron mines? That doesn't make much sense. I got it now, but that's confusing. And holy crap, TP Link is a hoss. He's able to grab Gorons, then casually toss them away and dust off his hands. Yeah, with the Iron Boots, but I'd think he'd need Gauntlets for that.