GlitchCog

Game Boy Micros are awesome. Tiny and bright. I have two.

My DS Lite was run over by a car. The top LCD is completely broken, but the rest of it works perfectly fine. I made it into a GBA since those games only use one screen.

That does look fantastic... except for that card in the middle. I don't want a card game. Those suck hard.

I don't think there's any other good game out for the Wii. I certainly haven't played one yet. I liked Zelda, but it was a GameCube game. I liked Super Paper Mario, but it wasn't anything near what I was hoping it'd be- certainly not as good as Thousand Year Door.

Until they make a Zelda specifically for the Wii or Galaxy comes out, Wii Sports is all the Wii has. Be thankful it's as good as it is, or people might actually be buying PS3s.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about this game. Being able to draw your own character and items is just a novelty, but it's a damn cool novelty. I'm hoping the gameplay is good too.

That pause is pretty common in Zelda games. You can see it in WindWaker and Twilight Princess. It's for dramatic effect and deliberate.

I didn't really like the art styles of OOT or Twilight Princess. Graphically, Wind Waker is exactly what I want to see in Zelda games. It's much much closer to what my mind imagined the world was like when I played Zelda on the NES than the realistic stuff. Games about magical fantasy lands with fairies and nature-altering musical instruments shouldn't try to look too real.

I support piracy. It's called sharing, and it's fundamentally a good thing. They teach you that in preschool. If you can create unlimited copies of information, the best thing for society is to get that information to as many people as possible. It seems trivial in terms of entertainment, but what about copyrighted drugs or new irrigation methods that third-world countries can’t afford? And if you consider that entertainment is only entertainment because of the current system- that it could be real art in a better system, it becomes less trivial to encourage its distribution. And importantly, the same communication technologies that make piracy easy also make forming non-corporate groups to create art and software easy. It’s just a little pinko/anti-American to talk this way because America doesn’t really create anything other than non-tangible information-goods anymore.

But do you really think we need billionaires in suits telling us what the next big hit song should be, rather than letting real artists create art for art's sake? The technology exists for anyone to create music and share it with the world. You don’t need a company to publish it anymore. And there'd be no more bad musicians at the tops of the charts if there weren't crack teams of marketers selling us the crap- all paid for by people adhering to old music distribution methods and not sharing.

Is Bill Gates better at writing quality software than the open source community, or is he just today's most ruthless businessman who resells the same terrible, buggy crap to an ignorant population that doesn't even know about the other options he's marginalized? Would your grandmother have any clue if she were using Firefox rather than Explorer or Ubuntu rather than Vista? She might notice it crashed less, but she wouldn’t know why. Don't give him more money to spread more lies and buy more influence.

There are other incentives to create besides money. I argue that those incentives- recognition, philanthropy, expression- produce better work too. You can see it in video games as well. The good games are created for the game. The crap is created for money, which you can see in any movie tie-ins or absurdly repetitive sequels. Money gets you the crap you see on television. The latter gets you true art from artists, true knowledge from scientists, true information from reporters, and a better society.

GameBoy Color Crystalis and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe because it contains the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2. Also, Pokemon.

Jack of No Trades,

Power does not a good game make. See my Doom 1 more fun than Halo comment.