AndrewTS

Now: crack my neck, pop in an easier game and come back to the other game later. Then: spiked a few controllers and cursed a few times.

Sony isn't against porting old games, they're just usually against old games (or games that look old) being sold full price standing alone. Full price or less for a compilation they usually have no problem with. See, for example, Final Fantasy Chronicles/Anthology.

The Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Collection came out brand new as a Greatest Hit on PS2, even though it is a significantly different game from all of the previous Namco Museums. It seems like there are loose restrictions on defining a GH these days (see also VF4 Evolution).

I agree that is a bit disconcerting. I'm probably in the minority here, but personally, I'm hoping we see less of Green Arrow this season. I know he's got lots of fanboys, but there was a little too much of him last time around. I'd dig seeing more of the JSA though. Isn't there supposed to be a Captain Marvel episode coming up? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> She's an okay character, but she's all of a sudden *the* female lead, with a token other female character appearing now and then with only bit parts. Although I have few complaints about the ending multiparter last season, with some increased time for Huntress. However, when she looked utterly perplexed that there were whole webrings devoted to hating her, she seemed like quite the idiot. Gee...no reason that almost EVERYONE ON THE PLANET might hold a bit of a grudge against her, right?

Hopefully it means we'll get some good gun games for it. Duck Hunt Revolution doesn't sound that thrilling to me.

Thanks a lot, Konami. They should make like Atlus and do some reprints.

I'll take the Jimmy Hartish instrumental ripoff over any Kid Rock song, or, even worse, Stacy's WWE originals song. However, it's annoying how the lazy, thrown-together non-licensed themes never match up with the entrances. From Ric's 92 theme, to Edge's "You Think You Know Me" and so on, there's no synching up whatsoever with the videos or entrance.

So, completing Smoke's missions let you play MKII...but in it you can't even fight Smoke in his first appearance. I liked the first TMNT game for the new series, but Battle Nexus was pretty bleh, IMO. Although I'm not surprised that so many review mags/sites don't "get" the revival attempts. Beat 'Em Ups have largely been so played out that it is hard to get excited about any new ones. Dynamite Cop I really enjoy, and I played a bit of Spike Out, which is pretty cool--but I'm not going to really be able to enjoy it until I can get some friends together (I own the game, but no X-Box). My resignation about playing Urban Reign is rooted in the low-quality Tekken side games. Zitaragi and the gaming press had quite the good time knocking on Death by Degrees, so I haven't tried it. While they're hardly the most trustworthy sources, I had given them the benefit of the doubt on that. Is it really bad?

Can you fight Smoke in that MKII? Nice job omitting one of the secrets in the MAT2 version, Midway.

Spyro and Crash became lame because Insomniac and Naughty Dog farmed them out to Vivendi Universal. That's not necessarily a reason, just a side effect. When the creators have decided that there's nowhere else to go with a series, despite the fact that they could cash in every year, then you know it's played out.

It seems like it's getting to be more and more the Shayera Show. You barely even see WW anymore.

The weird thing is, there are reviews which vary wildly, so I'm going to try to rent it first.

Yeah, sounds plausible. Boon will probably fire up an arcade machine for one of the original 3, geek out over a set of characters, and be dead set that they'll be included in the next game. "Hey Vogel, Sheeva's going to be in the Deception sequel. Whip me up a retcon. Oh, and I think that Annihilation thing when Kahn and Raiden are brothers sounds cool, we're gonna use it for this one." Naw, like they're going to acknowledge/explain what the heck happened with Shinnok in the games.

Well, that's kind of the obvious extention of these controllers. The games themselves are going to be radically different. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nintendo does innovate their games, however. Although many case they try to minimize risk by associating it with an established brand. See: Donkey Konga, all those non-platformer Mario games, etc. Squeenix does the same thing--take a look at all of the games that they've attached the FF name or, more blatantly, the FFVII characters too. There are plenty of occasions when they try to start a completely new franchise/brand, as well. Animal Crossing, Nintendogs, Pikmin. However, the number of quality original projects in the GC generation is somewhat dwarfed by what they did on N64. Hell, plenty of the best GC games (including Animal Crossing) are cancelled N64 games or sequels to N64 games. Ideally, they'll keep the old brands strong with new high-quality entries, will use brands to boost interest in other projects, and on the side can try to creately new, if totally "out there" new games. They'll been doing it ever since they started to pump out "Super" versions of older games on the SNES. So, it's a given we'll get Smash Bros. Revolution, Mario 128, Mario Kart Revolution (perhaps a port of the new arcade game?), a possible Luigi's Mansion 2, Metroid Prime 3, a new Zelda, Mario Party 7, more Wario Ware, some Nintendogs spinoffs, Pilotwings, etc. If 3rd party support is along for the ride, nobody will mind or complain about it, either.

Well, Grodd appeared in JL already. But yeah, he got that drooling problem licked, finally.

So...um...how'd his wings just appear out of nowhere?

I want some giant mummy guards here.

Congratulations, Fire, You Got Magnet Shot! The HALL OF DOOM!!! ...Spear of Longinus? Hitler? Okay...that's some stuff I didn't expect to hear.

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Hopefully the music and songs are on par with Nightmare.

I notice it has "The Late Mr. Kent", perhaps my favorite episode of the series. Definitely a must buy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Excellent choice. I didn't see too many reruns of it, sadly, so it'll be great to finally have it on DVD. And World's Finest being included in there, which I have yet to own on DVD separately. Reminder--tonight at 10 the new season starts, not 9. New Naruto at 9 instead.

Great post, WP, thanks for putting it up.

On my way home I stopped at my EB and saw Urban Reign was in. Was hesitant to pick it up yet, but reviews seem to be extremely positive. Still, 40 bucks is a bit much for a blind buy.

Well, that is how he "dies" in MK2, even if none of the regular endings are canon. But SM should have given the be-all, end-all canon results of MKII... Of course, people die and come back in MK all the time. Considering that they decided to use aspects of MK Annihilation in the games afterwards, I guess it's not shocking.

If it does indeed turn out looking like a Wavebird, I won't mind at all. It's a great controller. It seems that 3rd parties won't have to design a totally new controller, just one that works like a shell, and the motion sensor stuff will be already built into the Revmote. So 3P will save money, and Nintendo will still get a chunk of the action without even requiring 3P licensing fees. Savvy move. Plus, with the patents in place, probably if Sony/MS wants to copy it, they'll have to fork over cash to Nintendo. As it is, Nintendo already makes money on X-Box Live because of patents of theirs'. So, Nintendo is learning. Seems you did a complete 180 on that...you took one look and said Nintendo was doomed, initially.