AndrewTS

Nintendo needs to quit ripping off the worst aspects of Apple. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AYIZL...glance&n=468642 http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebO...0.8.25.7.11.0.3 Yes, there are officially licensed Nintendo Game Boy Micro "Sox." I actually saw them in EBgames yesterday. At least Nintendo is offering a better price on them. BTW, Tekken 5 is now 20 bucks (saw it has gone GH at Walmart). SC3 can't be too far behind.

Marginally better than Squidbillies and 12 oz mouse. So it's pretty much only the 3rd worst animated show on AS. And that much cred is pretty much based on the art, which is at least cool looking even if it barely qualifies as animation.

They failed to post and I thought it was my browser, then I tried a final one in Firefox. It was a massive delay. Take a look--they're like 6-8 minutes apart except for the last one.

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Thanks, Anya. You had to wreck the list there, hm? He killed a giant snake and Aeris. Big whoop. He's a pale Zio ripoff. Lavos isn't really a villain, he's a monster. Queen Zeal is the closest thing to a genuine human villain in CT, being mad with power. Magus turned out to have somewhat honorable intentions, and Dalton is a joke, a comedy relief character that ended up doing more to help you than hurt you. As Anya once pointed out, it was never quite explained why the hell he became a brain in a jar. If nothing else, that would have been perhaps the coolest cutscene of all time--showing how it happened.

Been posted, it's stupid and unenforceable.

Cute, catchy song: http://data.coolnicks.co.uk/Code%20Monkey.mp3

Time? Massively successful album and Live8?

May 23rd, actually. EDIT: somebody beat me to it, however the reason I remember is that it is the day after my birthday.

Oh, and another really good Mario game--although in a different genre: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62232

Depends how big of a Mario fan you are. People bought SNESes for SMW. People bought NESes for SMB1 and 3. People bought N64s for Super Mario 64. NSMB isn't the platform-defining title those were, but it isn't intended to be. It's just a damn good game, one a few notches below those Mario titles, but IMO better than Super Mario Land 2 and the original Wario Land. The DS is definitely a worthy investment though, because you have your weird gimmicky games, but you also have a system that is a haven to classic 2D gameplay simultaneously. By itself, I'd say it isn't worth it. However, look at what DS has out right now, NSMB, and those titles being shown/promoted at e3... DS Lite....June 11th-ish...go ahead, make the jump. I think this title may even be edging ahead of Dawn of Sorrow, the game I bought my DS for.

Trying to mimic the irritating RR announcer. "riiiiiiiiiidge racer!" "I got it all on camera so you can watch it later, huh? You're the grrrreatest!" Kaz Hirai, a dork himself, imitating a dork is like dork squared. And sure, Reggie sound silly saying a lot of what he says (and Peter Moore is frequently a joke but already), but "the essense of the Playstation 3 DNA is real change, and the consumers are ready!"? Hardly as poetic as "lucid dreams." RR as a demo of PS1 emulation is really underwhelming. First off, the PSP has a better version, and 2ndly it isn't technically challenging. The entire game can be booted up in PS1's internal memory, save the music. A neat little trick about PS1 RR is that you can pop out the game disc, toss in a music cd, and it play the game to your own music. So really, the PS1 game still has a feature over that one. Maybe Kaz should have done Street Fighter Alpha 3. YOU CAN'T GIVE IT UP! TRIUMPH OR DIE!!! Most of the big hardware differences Sony is making a big whoop over is like, water splashes prettier, people excrete sweat in real time (along with changing weapons, of course), and when you break crap, it looks different each time because realistic physics are programmed into the stuff! Wow. Who gives a damn?

1up typically for game reviews, because they have a lot of great special features, and typically Jeremy Parish's opinions are very much in sync with my own. However, the site's news reporting is pretty horrid. They basically post whatever rumor is going around, with little or no fact checking. In that regard, they're basically like every other game site, though. Eurogamer is also fairly good for reviews, if not necessarily timely (which can be blamed on how they tend to get a lot of releases late). They're a bit harsher on games than most of the gaming press folks, but the reviews tend to be fairly witty and detailed. Plus, their site design is fairly clean and simple, making it easy to navigate (1up, gamespot--those are a nightmare trying to find something old you wanted to pull up).

Yup--at least there was that MGS4 trailer.

The most complete video yet:

Ah, those things in the ghost house. Gotcha. I'd say its more coincidence than anything else. The SNES' first gen SMW didn't really stress the system in order to display as much info as a late-gen Genesis title like Sonic 3 did. The wall kick sorta-kind-of was in a Sonic game. Knuckles' Chaotix on 32x had a Sonic lookalike (Mighty, an armadillo) who used it. The control is so awesome--the way even a subtle change in speed gives you a bit more of a boost, higher jump, etc is great. Plus, when you really pick up speed and end up doing the flipping jump (woohoo!)--love it. Mini Mario may be weak, but when you've gotten used to him, he's so damn fun to control. Gets insane air from a running jump, can walk on water, and can surprisingly punch out koopas on the other sides of the metal fences. Do the later worlds (5-8?) make better use of Mini Mario/Giant Mario? So far I haven't seen them get much use out of a handful of levels (and of course the previously mentioned unlocking). It would be a bit of a disappointment if they didn't, considering how well the size-changed levels/enemies turned out on Super Mario 64 and SMB3. Don't know much about 5-8, since I've been racking up coins I missed on the previous worlds lately.

There should be a thread for you to ask all these "dumb questions" you always have. You know, since they typically don't warrant a thread... Oh, wait!

It doesn't seem very Nintendo-like to be letting stuff like that slip out. But it does explain the lack of a firm release date and price. Zelda, this fall Nintendo, no later. GC at the very least.

I honestly don't remember enough about CT's political leanings to say, but eh. I don't recall him as wellspring of tolerance and diplomacy. A moron by any other name/ideology, etc.

Yeah, they do in the rest of the game. And the Goombas do a cute little hop, too.

Specifically how? The sprinting animation and giant springy mushrooms are all that come to mind. "Have the Koopas always danced to the music like I see them doing in W-4?" No, I thought that was a very cool addition to the game, even if it is pointless. Isn't it throughout the rest of the game too, though?

So does this mean we'll actually get the PS1 home features but with better loading? That'd be much better, at least. A top notch version of Alpha 3 would make it definitely worthwhile.

They're different? I thought both hated Bush and the GOP. The title of the post--lame IMO. This is hardly Hot Coffee or anything even close to it. After all, from time to time way more vile software has seen limited distribution online, i.e. Ethnic Cleansing. However, it isn't any respectable retailers' aisles, so big whoop. The content of the post? Forgivable, because plenty of gaming sites have dubbed this newsworthy. Hell, it's a slow time for gaming these days. Heading into summer, all we've had lately is New Super Mario Bros. and a handful of crappy licensed games. CronoT = InuYasha? There's no doubt in my mind they're the same. Same tastes, writing style, penchant for stupid topics with hyperbolic titles--but IY has attempted to be actively helpful here and there, so it's no biggie. Although when IY debuted I wasted no time flaming him for a particularly stupid comment. Hawk's an okay poster--I don't mind him being back at all. Neither one of them are as horrible as the return of Anglesault as Dam(o)nYankees, who could only be more blatant if he had Daria as his avatar. He couldn't have tried to abstain from the baseball stuff, even a little? At least CT picked a different overrated hack Japanese manga artist to base his persona over. We have the ignore feature now, though, folks. Feel free to use it, and avoid any topics by posters you don't like.