Steve

Cool but you didn't mention which holiday. Will it be out by Mothers' Day or Memorial Day?

I guess we can all stop worrying! It looks like the engineers behind the Pontiac Aztek have finally found a new job. Good lord, the Ram's styling was getting better and better with each design change. The '06 Ram is one of best looking trucks and one of the best looking vehicles on the road. Then in '09 the styling took a serious hit for the worse, and now Chrysler seems to be going out of its way to turn the truck into an eyesore. Isn't it bad enough they already ruined the Dakota?

Look at it. This Ram...

* continues the downturn in styling begun in '09.
* is plastered with globs and globs of black plastic.
* has that ugly bed that looks like the ribcage of an anorexic teen girl
* has a bed that looks thinner than the smallest of pickups for no other reason than to maintain that awful anorexic look.

Is it any wonder Chrysler is in the trouble that it's in?

If it wasn't for the ()#&% blue shell, the Mario Kart system wouldn't be that bad. All the other damaging items are either avoidable to a certain degree or affect everyone header of the shooter. The blue shell, on the other hand, is unavoidable and does nothing but screw the top player. It rarely ever helps the shooter because the victim has usually recovered by the time the shooter gets close. The purpose of a racing game is to be in the lead and the presence of the blue shell ruins the core purpose of a racing game! You know that within 10 seconds of hitting first place that you're going to get slammed.

I'm really disappointed in Nintendo for introducing this flaw into the franchise and keeping it for 3 games running.

>> "Why is video game music so compelling to these
>> people?" he wonders aloud, the disdain deliciously
>> audible.

An unexpected reaction from one of those National GOVERNMENT-SUBSIDIZED Radio elitists. The feeling behind that reaction is the same used by Roger Ebert when he says that video games are not art. Video games do not have any real celebrities. You can't be invited to a party to eat escargot with Princess Peach. You can't go to a club and score some illegal drugs from Mario. You can't hang with Solid Snake as he walks down a red carpet. i.e. Video game stars don't get the worshipping that human stars get from the most superficial among us.

Even the actual people behind the scenes would be lucky to see the hairs in these pretentious snobs' upturned noses. You have people who are mostly computer geeks who don't wear the proper designer labels and a lot of them are not in the trendiest of locations.

The games themselves rarely touch upon the things required by things that the artistic community requires. Games rarely push leftwing agendas or insult religious groups (Nintendo really frowns upon that) and many openly acknowledge the obvious-->i.e. that sometimes violence actually is the answer.

Until video games creates its own flesh-and-blood celebrities and conforms to the rigid belief system that traditional forms of art are locked into, the shallow elitist snobs like those at taxpayer-supported National Government Radio will fail to recognize its merit.

The Wii has a 1 year plus warranty so if Nintendo's going to release shoddy hardware then let them be responsible for the consequences.

I'm sorry, but I can't take any article seriously that contains the phrase "MTV News". If Nintendo's trying to get away from their "kiddie" image then the first thing they need to do is avoid MTV like the plague.

Gametrailers did an excellent job with its Zelda series so I'm going to enjoy this assuming I don't have to hear the way the narrator pronounces "Mario" again.

Metroid 2 was an extremely important game in the franchise because it introduced so many concepts used in the later games. When released it was the first Gameboy game that I had bought in years and I don't think I bought another until Metroid Fusion came out, but it was a victim of the Gameboy. With the green and yellow color palette and the lack of a map it's difficult to tell where you are. The game annoyingly didn't cache anything that was no longer on the screen. Enemies would respawn far too easily. The implementation of the spider ball meant I felt obligated to crawl along every single surface in the game.

BTW, the movie mentions that Zelda 2 was released in 1987. Unless that's a Japanese date it's wrong. The game kept getting delayed and I was in high school before it was released. The earliest it could have been released was 1988 but I think it was 1989.

Don't get me wrong, I love this and strongly believe that O.J. should be constantly reminded that his supporters really are the dumbest among us. That said, how can 2K Sports legally put O.J. into this game? Wouldn't they need permission from all the athletes? I highly doubt O.J. would grant them permission to do this, but I also doubt that O.J. has the balls to return to the public spotlight with a lawsuit. He recently received a massive b*tchslap from the public when he tried to publish that book. It's funny; American society has forgotten about the danger terrorists pose to our way of life, hell most even side with them over our own military anymore, but we still remember O.J.! What is it about O.J. that he can even interest someone like me who is above celebrity related worship and gossip?

Now 2K Sports needs to make a golf game where you can play as O.J. as he plays the golf courses of America in search of the real killers!

I find it tiresome when people try to convince others, and themselves, that an old and obsolete form of technology is better than a new form of technology. There are actually people in the world who profess to believe that the vinyl record is a superior audio format to the CD.

10 years ago I found an anti-CD guy on the web who hated the quality of digital music. He claimed it was math and not music. Apparently there's some sort of advanced record player that uses a laser instead of a needle to play music, so to prove his point is provided two downloads: one from a CD and the other from this laser record player. So in order to prove the superiority of analog music to digital music he provided two digital pieces of music. I don't think he even had a clue about that or the fact that the laser record player was itself a computer.

The DS-Lite is just a better piece of hardware. The only argument on this list that has any validity is the one about spending the money to buy another system that plays the same games in the same way as the system you already have.

>> I don't the 360 will ever have a price drop. MSFT is
>> just to greedy of a company.

Wow. When you wrote "I don't the 360..." you weren't kidding. You're against thinking so much that you can't even bring yourself to write the word "think" in your posts! BTW, who taught you economics, Nancy Pelosi?