Confusatron

There once was a Sony fanboi from Nantuckett...

@josh

What's wrong with Ninja Spirit? I'm being serious, not flaming. It's been a LONG time since I last played it on the TG16 and I remember it being a lot of fun. Has it just not aged well?

For the record, I'll be grabbing Ninja Gaiden as soon as I get home from work. God, that game was so tough, but so much fun. I know my gamer reflexes haven't kept up over the years, I'm sure I'll get owned at it. Oh well.

I'm still playing Pokemon Pearl on my DS. My father-in-law is in town, he's a big golfer, so we've been rocking Wii Sports Golf this week. Hmm, maybe I should go pick up Tiger Woods...

Honestly, as soon as I saw the channel I just assumed it was free market research for Nintendo. Sure, some of the questions are silly. But still, duh!

Just got my first badge! So far, I've got:

Lvl 16 Prinplup
Lvl 13 Shinx
Lvl 13 Machop
Lvl 12 Abra (my weak link, working my way to Kadabra)

I already own a 360 and my Wii is preordered. Honestly, I would like to have a PS3 as well, just because I am sure there will be some exclusives there that I want (not Metal Gear or Final Fantasy, but maybe games like Dragon Quest). But for $500 to $600, I can't justify picking up a PS3 just for a few exclusives.

When I picked up my 360, it was because I knew the 360 and PS3 libraries would be almost identical. I made my choice based on the exclusives each system would have. Fable, Halo, and Mass Effect beat out Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest in my book.

I think his buddy Kurt isn't very good at Baloon Pop.

Started off in UO. Man, those were the days (before they completely screwed up PvP). I still remember getting ganked one day, my corpse completely looted. I ran into town and started shouting out about it. We formed up a posse and hunted down those bastards. I got all my stuff back. :)

After that was a brief stint in EQ. I never really liked that game a whole lot. Just didn't click with me.

Next was DAoC. Next to WoW, this was the best mmorpg I have played. I had so much fun with my guild, levelling to 50. Then the realm vs realm where there would literally be hundreds of players on the battlefield. I joined a battle once early on a Friday night. Left an hour later to go out drinking with friends. When I got home that night, the fight was still going!

After DAoC, I was in limbo for a while. Tried SWG, only to see Sony completely screw it all up by allowing everyone to be a Jedi. Tried EQ2, just more of EQ1. Played City of Heroes a bit. Fun, but like the author said, shallow.

And then there was WoW...

@2

Exactly! If the DS did not exist, I would probably be very worried about the Wii right now. Even as a long time Nintendo gamer, before the DS and PSP were released, I was certain the PSP would end Nintendo's handheld dominance.

Having seen how quickly people picked up on the DS, however, I have no doubt the Wii will be just fine. There will probably be another slow period after the holidays, just as there was with the DS. But a year from now, I'll bet you the Wii is in a pretty good position.

Got my preorder in at Gamestop this morning. Got there just after 7, was 4th in line. Line didn't grow much more until 8. By opening at 10, there were about 50 people in line.

The manager never announced how many preorders he was taking, but did hand out flyers to people for every system he could preorder. Looked like he nearly made it to the end of the line, but I didn't see anyone leave afterwards. The flyer just explained that systems are not gauranteed at launch due to potential manufacturing problems or shipping problems.

I'm now the proud owner of receipts entitling me to:
Wii
extra Wiimote
extra Nunchuck
2 Classic Controllers
Red Steel
Zelda