Jared

Fatal Fury. That's a good one. Not a "great" one, but a good one.

The "Scions of Shannara" series by Terry Brooks

I, too, offer my warmest wishes for an easy delivery and blessings upon the spawn of Karabinus. I hope it is happy and healthy, be it boy or girl, and that you enjoy every moment of the miracle of creation.

Yeah, this annoys me. How cheap. It makes me glad that I let my subscription lapse. Jerks.

Why not just tell me you're going to give me a million dollars and then give me a million dollars worth of coupon savings on items I never buy. I'm sure ToS will be a great game, but what they announced was not a "secret RPG." A secret RPG would've been Mother 1, 2 or 3 coming to the VC. A secret RPG would've been a previously unknown project. Yeah, I'm done with them. I don't smoke, but I certainly feel like I need a cigarette now.

I got the original Super Mario Kart a month or so after it was released all the way back in the early 90's. I was fortunate enough to have a birthday in close proximity. I miss the original. I wish they had come out with a sequel of that quality for the SNES. Not that Mario Kart 64 was bad. It was great too. You just can't beat that first taste, though. Super Mario Kart is the best. Makes me wish my SNES was still operational.

I played DD and didn't like it. I thought some of the tracks seemed short and chincy. The mechanics felt different, too. There were other impressions I had that are now lost in the abyss of my memory, but I just couldn't enjoy it. I hope that Mario Kart Wii is different. Is it going to be a true spiritual successor to the original? Or will it be like DD? I hope it won't betray it's roots. If Mario Kart DS is any indication, it could be much closer. This old gamer can only hope.

I can appreciate that. And I'm sure this is a great game. My point isn't at this game but the whole port/remake issue we've seen with the Wii/DS. I'll probably even check out this game out. I'm just eager to see something totally new. I probably should've shoe-horned this in on a report of a crappy port/remake, but the psychological final-straw hit me today as I read this post.

The extensive discussion around remakes is beginning to bother me. I think that this is beginning to squelch out development and/or promotion of original properties. There is more talent at Square and other developers than to keep putting a new dress on the same old pig. I'm not going to knock the quality of their remakes, but I'd like to see some new properties come out. It's not that some of them haven't been great, but they are just beginning to seem stale to me.

Call me twisted, but I liked the WarioWare Touched music. I think the short tunes and melodies played could have been well developed into longer songs (I know, you could listen to them on the record player area of the game; however, they were still too short). I really liked the creepy vibe to Ashley's song, and the one for Mona was cute. Symphonic they are not. However, I don't think being capable of being translated into symphonic pieces needs to be the criteria for "good."

Does anyone remember the great music from Trace Memory? I thought it was beautiful and cinematic. I could really dig having that in my mp3 player. And it would translate well into symphonic pieces.

I will be buying it, if it offers downloadable content. I really don't want to pay a bunch of money for something that will not age well. The same songs forever don't age well (I never play Taiko Drum Master on my PS2 anymore). It may even give me an excuse to pick up GH3 (sans guitar).

Or maybe, just maybe, they're actually planning a wireless mic for Rock Band. Call me "Glass half-full dude," but it is a thought.

There's always hope until cruel, cruel reality crushes your dreams into little shards that cut you into tiny pieces.