FidoDido1980

"You can build the best, most advanced and most visually appealing hardware ever devised by man and you will still crash and burn if you do not follow through with great games. This is a mistake that cost Sega their hardware business."

But is that really true, Russ? It can't just have been me who thought the ratio of good-to-bad Dreamcast software was very high ...

A five-hour game? Jesus wept, with all respect, I can't believe people still think about L4D in this way.

It's clear to *anybody* who spent time with the game that those levels weren't meant to be played once and then forgotten about forever. In most FPSs, maybe that's the case: after all, enemies and items are in the same place every time.

Play a L4D level a thousand times over, and I can guarantee no playthrough will be exactly the same. The AI Director will throw different beasties - common and Special - in at different stages every single time. The result? Different situations and obstacles each time you play. Several hundred hours of gameplay later, L4D still produces hilarious stories and anecdotes of heroism and stupidity *all the time* for me.

It is not a "five-hour game," and if you feel it is, then I'm afraid you are missing the point quite spectacularly.

Ellie is a bit ace. Her Afrika review is definitely worth a skim.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/afrika-review

Quick question for those who know: I have the disc, and have downloaded the theme, but can't for the life of me locate the Gamerpics. Anybody have a clue?

Welcome aboard, Tracey!

I bought it. :(

And pretty much just me, apparently.

Actually I rather enjoyed being able to buy Wii Points -- sorry, *Nintendo* Points -- with my Stars.

The way that was supposed to come across was: it costs nothing to place a preorder and secure yourself a WiiSpeak. Sorry for the confusion. ;)

Liverpool, ewww. :P

(Man United fan here)

People, calm down. :)

They're not nuking the whole Stars system. As we wrote:

"... any Club Nintendo Stars that have been in your account for more than two years are getting atomized by Nintendo."

So it's just those Stars you collected before the end of June 2006! The rest of your Stars are safe.