Jay

What's wrong with the lot of you? In between on topic posts I read pretentious dribble from jerks pretending to be intelligent.

"The state of our youth"? American catchphrases? The boys are excited and you guys are judging them like if they were in church.

Thefunkyone, drop the holier than America game. We get it. Everyone outside the U.S. like to base stereotypes from what they watched on MTv and FOX NEWS.

Macross SDF-1, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. If not, then "retarded kids spreading their retard infection everywhere" sounds like your biography.

Everyone else, save for a good few, grow up.

Out of the few games I own, I have to say that Sonic Rush has the most replay value. Is it because there's tons of unlockables? No. It's because, like most Sonic games, the levels are so much fun that you can play them over and over again.

If you're like me and you've never owned an N64, I recommend Mario 64 DS. It'll take up a lot of your time. I have yet to beat it for I am stuck on my last 2 stars.

"Someone missed the talk about natural selection in school and thinks they can change it with xboxes. I'd let them all shoot each other. Less ignorant tards screaming at me on XBL."

Hopefully they won't skip you in the process.

There's a f'cking reason for most things. Gang activity is one of those things. Showing some kind of support for the community heals a little, although the change will be small.

And how come gamers always speak of natural selection as if that were all they tried to comprehend? A kid dies in a stupid way? Natural selection. Someone's sued? Natural selection. I pork someone's mom? Natural selection. Get original.

"Its funny because in this area they are doing this its probably easier to get a gun than it is to get an xbox."

Geez, you f'cking think so?

So he basically wants everything on a flashcart in the DS. That'd be cool. Nintendo will have a lot of fun playing the same game as SONY and the PSP.

Yargh! There be ROMS in these here waters.

"7) Let users toy more with the system menus. The DS has a stylus – let people draw and organize. Doodle avatars for Pictochat. Doodle wallpaper. Doodle borders for windows."

Awesome idea. I f'cking love it. I want to be able to REALLY personalize my DS. Not just by adding color bars and my name. No, I want wallpapers, avatars, and borders for my GBA games.

"8) Make real, native use of the Game Boy advance slot by offering a system update cartridge that incorporates all of the above features. And maybe also serves as a rumble pak, if there's room."

Wow. That'd be one hefty cartridge. Would you like fries with that? Maybe we should throw in the whole shebang and make the DS a pocket p'ssy.

"4. Hopefully developers see this and realize that they shouldn't use the touch screen in their game if it doesn't fit. A good game is a good game."

I hope for the same thing. I think the early devs felt the pressure to use the full potential of the DS by slapping crap wherever they could. Most likely, this scramble was fueled by review sites commenting on whether or not the touch-screen was used. I remember reading a review or two wagging their finger for not using the touch-screen.

I have to agree with Fox regarding Mario Kart DS. At first, the second screen feels like filler. That is, until you are actually gaming hard and have to glance at your map every 5 seconds. It really brings in the much needed tension in this cartoony racer.

I do think New Super Mario Bros.'s second screen was a joke. If anything, they should of had a screensaver or some kind of distracting animation on the bottom. Maybe a quick access to the mini-games for when you're stuck in the main game (ha!) and want to chill. Turning off the bottom screen would of looked bad.

When compared to the classic Sonic games, the bottomless pits aren't that surprising in Sonic Rush. The only parts that made me angry were the ones involving that stupid flying platform. Kind of how the ghosts and rising gates in Sonic & Knuckles or Sonic 3 & Knuckles made me want to toss my controller. All in all, Sonic Rush is one of the most underrated and best Sonic games in years. Everyone seems to forget it when ranting on how much Sonic sucks. It appears as if only 3D games count nowadays.

By the way, Sonic Heroes' team play was frustrating. I played it on the PS2 and the switching between characters needed to be assigned to the trigger buttons. Also, gameplay didn't evolve much since Sonic Adventure.

I approve of all these Futurama references. I f'cking cracked up with these:

"39. Nintendo's on their way back to the top, 80s style!"

And especially this one:

"40. But Sony is big and evil, and Nintendo is small, and neutral...

SWITZERLAND is SMALL AND NEUTRAL!!! Nintendo's more like Germany; ambitious and mis-understood!"

On topic, I've only played a wee-bit of Wii. I sense there is enough there for it to stick around but, as JSN clearly stated, most current games are gimmicky. And not the Trauma Center or Warioware kind of gimmicky, but the bad kind of gimmicky. The kind of gimmicky your momma warned you of.

But, like Myke said, the biggest winners are the guys who never had a Gamecube (me). In between days, I'll have a a sh'tload of games to play once I get my Wii. Kind of like those guys buying PS1 games, playing fl0w, and tooling with their PS2 collection as they wait to PLAY B3YOND.

"11. FYI: The PSP has supported this type of communication in game for awhile now."

Yeah but with the DS you will actually have someone to talk to.

I kid.

Anyways, this sounds cool although I find it pointless (and eerie) to hold and conversation while playing Pokemon with a stranger I traded friend codes with online. It's cool if you have friends with the same game though.

"Also if Ninty doesnt like copying...they should drop the optical drive (copied from PS1) and go back to their cartridges."

I'm not a technical dweeb but you might want to think back a little further.

"So games can only be fun if they are on advanced CPU's? I guess God of War 2 is a piece of shit, it's running on a eight year old processor for gods sake. What the hell were all those reviewers thinking, rating the game nine and up? The Emotion Engine can't run good AI! God of War 2 sucks!"

No, it's not ART apparently. It can be fun but then it can't be ART. Nintendo forgot their arts when creating their Wii.

I'm fine with the Wii's current image as a fun console. I have several game of depth on my PS2 that I have yet to complete because I find myself playing spontaneous rounds of Namco Museum games, Sonic Mega Collection, and *gasp* DS mini-games.

"13. This seemed like a good time to post my new revelation about the Wii and the people who prefer it:

The 360 & PS3 are for people who like to waste time playing games.

The Wii is for people who play games to waste time."

I apologize for not being the same deep thinker as you, but I have to express my ignorance. So, the 360 and PS3 are for those who like to acknowledge that they are wasting their lives in front of a box of light whilst pushing on plastic and the Wii is for those who like to play video games while blissfully disregarding reality for the time being, correct? Then, if I want to experience an escape from reality to dive into a fantastical world I'm better off with the Wii since I wont be aware that I am wasting my time.

Nice f'cking revelation.