Emory

Sometimes craigslist feels that way.

Space Siege made me cry. Feces.

He'll say they're going to do 'demand creation' and then they'll flail around a bit, and then the next game will sell like hotcakes because Guerrilla was awesome, and the marketers and usurers and managers will get bonuses for fapping nonsense buzzword viral rickroleplaying what have you, and then other companies will take notice and start releasing shovel ware and performing the same nonsensical tribal rituals and wonder why their games aren't selling... and they'll blame piracy and institute draconian DRM and punish the consumer which will reduce sales, so they'll start firing and consolidating and off shoring and dev blogging and and and twirling, twirling, twirling toward freedom.

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The preset number of weapons which show up as empty bits in the selection screen left me disappointed - the game seems to revolve around collecting a single type of item, 'parts', with the Z key and then using those parts to purchase weapon/armor upgrades (firing speed, defense, critical chance... boring/generic) and med kits. Definitely felt like they've dumbed it down for the consoles. Hopefully the robot companion and skills add a lot more complexity.

Wiil I wiin?

The concept art for the game looks really cool... I thought it might have been an RPG given the number of swords and whatnot they had sketches for, or that they were working on an asian-themed expansion for Rise of Legends. The various monsters and characters looked a bit like the beasts from Jade Empire, but darker.

This explains why Thursday morning we had an email in the store saying we were shipping all used memory sticks back to the warehouse...

Oh, and prices were changed to $999.99 which the email said was to "discourage sales"

LOL, they tell employees nothing, aren't companies great?

Some of you seem to be getting defensive about the Smash Brothers roster... which frankly I can't understand. The characters in Super Smash Brothers have always been from different games which appeared on different systems, I don't see what difference it makes whether a title was developed/published by Nintendo. I'd much rather see the Prince than, say, waterpack Mario... not to mention with the space of a full DVD available, I highly doubt the inclusion of a 3rd party character is resulting in the exclusion of a Nintendo favorite.

In my perfect scenerio each Wii game would download a new character to the harddrive / SD card such that the more Wii games you played the more fighters you unlocked... more fighters = variety = fun.

I have absolutely no confidence in Nintendo's abiliy to create and market a successful home console in the United States. In the previous two generations a new company has not only entered the market, but entered the market -and- beaten Nintendo in terms of third party support and installed systems.

Nintendo always shoots themselves in the foot, be it in regards to storage medium, online play, case design or commercial advertisements. Nintendo systems sell well DESPITE Nintendo's bad choices, simply because they make superior games.

No one should kid themselves, 'Wii' is a mistake. Nintendo makes glaring mistakes and they do it all the time.