New games this week: Boom Blox edition

My god. Your avatar looks just like a stuffed puppet I had as a kid.

It so is. Good choice...but I think he needs himself one of them fancy-schmancy Mario hats.

holy $#!+, I remember that. The chains handcuff chains break, right? I loved that thing, but sold it at a yardsale for superNES game money. Nostalgia.

You will return No More Heroes? A kitten dies everytime someone does that :(

I actually haven't had any issues with Kart online at all. Got a bunch of people's codes together on the Kart FC thread and haven't had any issues yet. Even playing randoms has been a much better experience than Smash. But again that is just my experience.

Between Kart and GTA I can't imagine when I'll be able to pick up a new game again...

It's weird -- I was able to accept MKW requests from some users and with others, I had to repeatedly either reinvite or reaccept them. Not sure what happened there; but I agree that MKW is better played via multiplayer. In fact, as soon as the Mii Driver was unlocked, I didn't bother with single player mode on my console(however, I helped a local friend with getting their console's savefile nearly done).

I think we can all agree that the friend code system is a bag of poop and bananas.

Outside of wiifit, maybe some wiiware games and maybe GH:aerosmith I dont think there's anything worth buying until the force unleashed. Which is fine with me, honestly.

I haven't gotten into many friended matches (those invitations, at least, are a great step forward from individualized codes, it's like a semi-integrated friend list), but i've been compulsively playing random online matches, where I already have the gold wheel, despite the fact that my win/loss record is about even (if you count a win as top 50% in a match, as for getting absolute first, i've only done that once or twice)

It has one key advantage over Brawl online: It works, consistently and smoothly, it only ever locked up on me once

Dude what? Do you even know how much content is going to be in this game? Not only will there be hundreds of unique levels for the game, but you'll also be able to make your own levels for both single player and multiplayer. It's even being called the little big planet of the Wii.

For what's going to be in the game, $39.99 isn't a bad price at all.

$39.99? Everywhere else I've looked listed it for $49.99. Yes, $10 is a deal breaker for me, the stingy fuck that I am.

"It's even being called the little big planet of the Wii. "

You guys are still doing that? Boom Blox and LittleBigPlanet clearly have nothing in common, yet you're forcing comparisons between bullet point features and acting as if they're equivalent or even comparable.

Smash Bros. Brawl was called the Halo 3 killer for months since it was going to have a campaign mode (which ended up being boring), a replay system (which was limited to three minutes), a level editor (which was tile-based and incredibly shallow), and online multiplayer (which is basically like playing the CPU but with aggravating lag).

Just because a Wii game has similar features to an AAA title on another system (like online multiplayer, a level editor, a replay system, etc.) does NOT mean it will be even remotely close to the quality or depth of those games. Remind me how the tile-based editor in Boom Blox is anything like the incredibly robust editor in LittleBigPlanet? Or how aiming a reticle on the screen is anything like playing a cooperative physics-based platformer?

Look, I'm sorry you're not getting the actual LittleBigPlanet, but there's no need to delude yourself into thinking you're getting something just as good. The two games have nothing in common.

Puzzle games usually are:

Wrecking Crew, Pac-Attack: LOVE
Dr. Mario, Puyo Pop: HATE

How the hell can you hate Puyo Pop and like Pac-Attack? Are you from Bizarro World or something?!

Though, well, I guess my reaction kinda proves your point, doesn't it. Hrm.