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I know the lines were awful for triple A titles (they had to shut down the Mass Effect 3 line on Saturday for a bit because it was over an 8 hour wait at 11 am) but still if you timed it right you could sneak into areas and hit things while everyone else was at the major panels. And there is no way you could see everything. There were tons of Sophie's choice for panels and concerts.

I don't know why everyone is busting on the Otter, I like him. He looks like he's pissed to be posing for this BS. "I swear to god you throw me at one more electric type I will cut you with my seashell and break your skull open on my belly and no one will care because it will be so cute."

Also sadly I think I've got names for the fire pig. Hotchop -> Boaraze -> Hogcano

But here is what I'm hoping for for final evolutions. A Dark Grass Naga Type for the snake, A super powered wild boar in either Fire Ground or Fire Electric, and a Otter Ninja Water FIghting type.

I don't know. I think I get it. I'm not a graphics programer so I don't see all the stuff they do. I don't grasp it. I just mostly go "Oh Pretty." It's like art classes people talk about the brush strokes and I only see the picture.

@ Beans

Now not to rain your your parade, but the X-play staff for the most part isn't doing the reviews. They have freelancers who do the reviews and the staff does the translation of it into a video segment. This ain't to say they don't do the reviews, or even that they farm out the big reviews to someone else.

It's just you know if it's a JRPG that gets a low score it isn't because Adam Sesslar hates it directly, even though his voice may be the one you are hearing on the screen.

I actually like their review system. Sure they may work too hard to put jokes in there at time but I can look at the score and easy translate to, Buy the console for this game, Buy if you have the console, Buy if your into the genre, Buy if you're really into the genre, and Buy if you are into masochism. And really I'm thinking this may get a four. It isn't advancing the series a huge bit and the gimped online play are going to count against it. If it had main wii code related online or nintendo added a patch where once you added someones wii code it would gather all their different friend codes for games and add them to all applicable games. it would be an easy 5/5.

I don't think the 5/5 is saying the game is a 100. The show generally explains their scale as, Crap, You may be able to have some fun, Rent, Buy if your into the genera , and recommend to everyone. A 5 out of 5 is still can have flaws but in general if you have the system it's worth picking up even if it ain't normally your bag.

May not agree with it but they do at least explain their system once a year.

The Tales series, at least as long as I've been playing has had these advantages:

1) The real time battle system so every single battles is more then just sitting around and pressing a button to pick an action for the turn. Actually plays out more like a fighting game during battles.
2) You can plug in other controls and let other people join in taking this JRPG from unintended multiplayer to full on multiplayer.
3) You can avoid just about all the battles so if you don't feel like grinding in the castle of infinite sorrow you don't have to and can just get right to the boss.
4) Full voice acting. Not always full quality voice acting but usually either acceptable to good or MST3K level bad.

But the stories are generic JRPG fare and the battle system is evolving, but very slowly.

While I really liked Tech TV and ZD TV before it, my god do you people just remember it through rose colored glasses while getting a hand job. They aired around 19 hours a day from about 10am to 5am. And in the hay day of tech tv at least 3 of those hours was The Screen savers (Repeat of yesterday, Today's episode first running, Todays Episode second running), there were 2 runnings of hour long call for help, X-play and Unscrewed took up another two hours together, Another 2 hours was tech live, Another 2 was anime unleashed. And let forget the 3 hours of Robot Wars daily. Plus the random assortment of Fresh Gear repeats that happened daily. So lets not get all "G4 repeats everything so much, something that Tech TV would never do."

Nah, I think they've got just about the proper amount of complaining because they were expecting this.

Wii Owner A has everything up and a few friends on his list for sending them mail and sharing Mii's and stuff on his wii. He picks of brawl and is just a bit tiffed that he can't have a gamertag or such and just use that, but thinks it won't be so bad. Maybe the game will just read the lists of friends he already has and then boom they are the friends list, or at worst he'll have to manually enter it himself. They then find out that they can't do that and need the game specific friend code.

Network separate or not the game is ignoring one form of identification that is one of a kind for creating its own. Thus the bitching.

A walmart in a small city in PA had a good stack of 5 360 and 3 PS3 bundles in where I lived. But then again Rock Band has lacked the advertising push that Guitar Hero 2 and 3 have had. Unless MTV has been pimping it like so many rides I've not seen a single TV ad for it.