Case Boyle

Oh boy. The return of the stage that people who suck at Melee play.

Maybe I'm too into the tournament scene, but my first thoughts - this is definitely not going to be a tournament-legal stage for the same reasons it wasn't in Melee.

Add to that, Temple was never that fun to begin with. Too big, and people will just hide in the pit and continuously tech off of the wall that they'll inevitably hit down there. No one ever dies.

I just hope the stage builder is a lot more flexible than it looks. Everything in it so far looks far too blocky and nasty. Let's hope we can make some decent stages with it.

The guitar isn't even good.
It looks like a deformed goldfish cracker with a guitar neck shoved up it's ass, then apparently painted red.

And yeah, Peach looks pretty effed up too. Anyone else get a vibe that the hair is just a wig in this picture? ¬_¬

This would be news to anyone here who doesn't read every other blog that even remotely talks about games.

How come Nintendo Wii Fanboy is about 3 days late on news at times?

Ugh. Had I been there, I would have had my cube controller with me.

Maybe I'm a little too attached to it, but hey, it's gotten me a few tournaments. :]

The delay will be worth it. Have faith in the Big N, I suppose.

Alright, since I'm an avid PC gamer and console gamer, this is good news to me, regardless of if the game had already come out on the 360.

First, Epic has already established itself as a PC game maker long before this, they haven't been on any sort of 'downhill slide'. Unreal Tournament 3 is coming out in November, and most PC gamers are damn happy about it. I kind of found it inevitable that Gears would also come out for PC, since it wouldn't be hard to port it anyway.

Also, @13: No offense, but that had to be the most retarded reply to an article ever. The Game is supported in XP as well as Vista. Although Vista will probably have some fancy DirectX 10 features, you should probably remember that the 360 uses DirectX 9, so if it's from the 360, it'll most likely work on XP. Only DirectX 10 is Vista-only. Now Halo 2 PC, that was a Vista marketing ploy. Not that it can't run on XP, just takes some workaround.

I'm glad to see Gears coming to PC users, especially considering that some people who were interested in Gears didn't have a 360, but did have a PC. The extras just give them a little thank you for waiting so long.

Definitely agreeing with most on here, the US is getting effed in the ay. (if ya know what I mean). Japan and Europe might be getting everything special cause they got the Wii later? I dunno about everyone else, but the absence of a lot of these special events and awesome VC games is kind of ticking me off as a Wii owner, as well as most other Wii owners I know.

Also, yes, Smash not being at launch like it was claimed somewhat ticked me off, considering that it was a major factor that made me get the Wii.

I just hope it's not some pointless channel or website integration. Unless by website integration they mean "HAY NO MORE CHILD-SAFE LINES OF NUMBERS TO PROTECT CHILDRENS". I'd like to see some Xbox-Live type of service finally. I'm tired of asking people for numbers for EVERY game.

It really breaks my heart to see people getting all excited over the in-game tournament mode. As 13 said, this is indeed a copy-paste from Melee's tourney mode, just maybe a little easier to setup? Either way, still not the way anyone who's played in real tournies will want their tournament setup.

Personally, MLG tournament rules have always made for the most balanced outcome of players skill in Smash. I'll prolly get burned for taking the game so seriously, but I love the competitive scene for Smash Bros. Melee was definitely ups from N64, and hopefully Brawl still has all the technical play that Melee had, including WD'ing, L-cancels, etc.

Also, the girl with the purple headband - yes, that is Zelda. Especially considering that Zelda is an announced character, and that's the only icon on there that resembles her...

Anyway, the tourney mode - eh. Unless it has stuff like best 2/3 and stage limitations and whatnot, it's not gonna replicate the way a lot of people who actually play in tournaments will want it.

Uwe Boll won't be able to match a movie as epic as either of the 28 Later movies.

Wasn't BloodRayne and exactly what the world DIDN'T need? A bad movie, based on a bad game...

Oh dear lord yes.
I had the original Samba on Dreamcast back in the day.
Hopefully Gearbox does this right.

Also, CS on Wii - just doesn't seem like it would be right. Maybe I'm too far into PC shooters though...

Ughhh, please tell me I'm not the only one who really hates the fact that instead of the distinctly DDR-feel music that Konami usually made in-house (coughNAOKIcough) they're moving more towards just trying to put in new, popular songs. I loved the DDR series, a lot for hearing new, different music in each release. (Okay. Maybe not new, since MAX300 has been in every release since MAX just about.)

I dunno, playing DDR to more modern, contemporary music just doesn't feel right.

Also, @6: Sorry that people actually love playing these games, and trying to become better than they already are. I used to play DDR avidly as a "AAA crowd" member, as you might say. I also still participate in SSBM tournaments regularly. Don't complain just because you have no drive to actually practice and find the true depth and difficulty of these games.