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I got it when it came out and I don't have a muscle memory with either of the two previous games. That said, I think the aiming works fine, but at the same time, the hit detectors are very small, there's no give at all which the previous titles I believe had some of. With that coupled along with smarter AI where people duck and dodge even more intelligently than the prequel(#2) it does make it a learned and acquired taste to hit something well. I've gotten fairly used to it now that I'm into Chapter10 on it as of last night. Initially I was having the problems the whining crusaders and the liars of the AVClub with their C rating stated. It's not problematic, it's not broken, you just need to learn it. Not every game has to be a 100% hand holding assist fest with giant auto aiming help, or any other wimpy assists. So far I'm quite enjoying the game right up there with the last, so unless it is downhill from where I'm at it's on par or a bit nicer than the last one and should honorably be rated as such in reviews.

I say to those whacking it with a bad point ugly stick over aiming are crybabies and quitters who didn't bother to learn it. Uptight jaded reviewers who have tight deadlines to slam through one game after another like a meat factory and don't have time to get comfy so they'll just piss and whine like it's a fact when it is not. I'm speaking on the perspective of a game reviewer as I did it for 4 years via AMN/Kombo in the mid/later 2000s. I know you can get stuck in a rut or on a tunnel vision scope, you just have to rise above it and those who won't will whine like babies and try and get others to whine too by influence.

3DS isn't cracked, this is to try and plug up the DS side of things I think.

Nintendo unlike Sony has had a very credible and held standard for anti-piracy so far on two fronts. DSiware to start and they expanded it deeper with more stuff on 3DS. The 3DS cards also are using a heavier set of encryption rules and routines like the downloads have and have so far stopped people from getting a free ride.

I fully support it and I'm glad they're doing it, and as a former PSP owner it's good to put the patches on discs as it saves time and helps push some good standards on a game which is known will move millions of units. The PSP was fantastic for me but piracy up until the 3000 unit later revision and the Go was murder, ran off developers and canned a lot of projects, and is why I sold it because I ran out of stuff to do (not because it sucked, I loved it.) If Nintendo is going to get Sony scroogy with updates I'm happy, they need to stamp this crap out as much as possible.

I wonder why what I wrote yesterday never showed up.

Anyway, this is off my list. Capcom is again at it with making excuses. It's a handheld not a console, so what if it's a 'console experience' so was Zelda, upcoming Mario Land 3D, and various others. Sure they used a 4GB card, but all they're doing in honesty is not eating the extra couple bucks per larger card and passing it on with gravy to the consumer like that's acceptable. It's not. $50 is what Zelda and Kirby Wii cost, $40 is the high end of 3DS games, lower end is $30, sales can be less. They're trying to punk RE fans and I hope enough of them wait and teach them a lesson. It's just not right pulling that, it's also the same thing EA tried when DS appeared years ago with $40 games vs $30 for the rest, and they got burned for it, yet people always try and scam again each generation.

I don't hope the game fails, I just hope it fails at $50 and sells at $40.

Glad they're doing it. I mean yeah if you register for online mode it means you'll be getting $10 less than before, but considering how cheapo people are these days online when buying used I doubt it'll be that black and white. I don't blame Sony, I blame Gamestop for screwing the industry out of billions of revenue with their scammy practices for years.

My brother works in the ind still, I'm on the outside at this time, and these passes were directly tied to Gamestop and them alone due to the huge chunk of the resale market they represent and they refuse to profit share or anything else amicable to the game makers. Each action gets and equal and opposite reaction.

We'll see how this goes. NoA has been cagey for years, but Reggie has also been semi-proven to be incompetent when gauging the desires of the market of Wii owners beyond the people he was hired to cowtow to, the mass market non-gaming family group they wanted to add into the mix. He had and still has no idea how to respect the group that has been there going back into the 1980s at all. It's clear watching some repeatedly stupid comments and behavior year after year at E3 and other events and interviews, then doubletalking around it like things will happen and yet still they don't.

I'm not writing the mess off yet, but for me Last Story was my top one as I trust the makers work, Xenoblade was second and the other could just fade as I wouldn't pay for that. As it stands if they don't come I'm either going to do what has always been unthinkable for me to do, hack my console, and from there decide if importing a disc+home brew channel or just downloading it out of spite would be my best options. It will depend on likely their comments, behavior, but also timing up against the new system and IF I decide to run out there and get it.

Wii outside of the mass market thing they went for was a failure to old Nintendo gamers in part. Super Mario, Metroid, and Zelda(looks to) hold up well, but then they jacked up Kart and Brawl over the last releases, and other stuff came up poor too. Trust is broken on software with me, and hardware too, along with third party honesty with all the huge lies to manipulate people like me into wasting cash on b-team trash for a few years. If it still didn't seem unfathomable to me to do it due to child years loyalty I'd sell the damn Wii as I can even on fun games barely tolerate to turn it on more than once a month because of all the lost money and disappointments and that's new grounds entirely.

The only reason they're seeing a reduction in piracy of online clients is that thieves hack things, which includes their spybot crap in their game that tells them their game is being used. It's all corporate apologist bs trying to cover up the fact the only people they're hurting are paying customers.

They can rot. I quit buying their games over DRM as I had been wanting Assassin's Creed 2 after hearing all the fixes to the formula I hated in the original. I still don't and won't have it and now it's just another reason for the list. Ubisoft...nah, Ubiscat.

Why the hell am I not surprised? This is standard CRapcom treatment of NIntendo system and their users. They pulled the bait and switch on the N64 late in life. Then on the GC the '5' turned into 1 exclusive as RE4 they sabotaged 2weeks before launch with a 'full' ver on PS2. Each time telling people to buy their stuff, support the cause, we'll reward you, and again once more Capcom pulls their standard crap.

When will Nintendo users wake up and see this is standard fare bullcrap from the jerks and just stop buying their games on a Nintendo(if not entirely) system.

The video quality on this big app on the little screen is fantastic, the menu is much like the ps3/360 setup with general categories or you can tap out what you're looking for. The audio and video are as clear as on the tv over a console/netflix able box, and it never dropped a beat.

I ran on a full battery Full Metal Jacket which is about 2 1/2 hours long and it only ate a 1/4 of the battery up, and not once did I get poor or outright signal loss(buffering.) Seemed fitting with Nintendo's lame policies on language, violence, boose, sex and the rest. :D

@eilegz

You're being a baby dude. How are you directly hurt by this?

If you buy the game new, the code works and is tied to your legit PSN account, so no change.

If you buy the game used, well then if you buy from Gamestop like a moron then you suffer and pay $5 more than the new copy. Or, they lower their price and you pay the same $5 less used price in the end. And a third option is, you hate online gaming and you save $10.

Why the hell is that boycott worthy? In any way you look at it, they're doing you a favor and hurting their enemy which should be the enemy of any gamer...Gamestop.

@latin trident

Hell I hope they do, and with every damn system. It's not like if you buy the game new you have to pay $10 to use online features, it's entirely targeted at punishing Gamestop for hurting a lot of their sales and not giving one damn bit about it. GS will be forced at that rate to lower their used prices at least $10 to stay competitive. If you aren't caring about online you get a benefit out of it, and if you do well better buy new or find it cheaper used. It's about harming the trolls of gamestop and the like, not you.