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I think the main reason the Final Fantasy movie didn't work for westerners is because it was basically an episode of the Captain Planet cartoon with fancier animation.
Whoops. It looks like I hit submit before I finished my post. I was hoping nobody would notice. I was going to say that the Madden series has been downhill since 94.
I agree that Sunshine and Wind Waker added new mechanics, but that was what was "updated" about them. Sunshine was Mario 64 with a badly controlling water cannon. Wind Waker was OOT with a new look and a boat.
Resident Evil 5 is apparently going to be an Xbox exclusive.
And RE4 is going to be a GameCube exclusive. So is Viewtiful Joe. Also, Killer 7.
Oh wait.
Wasn't RE5 announced for the PS3 at the same time it was announced for the 360? Did that change in the last week? I wasn't paying attention.
Also, what the dreamcast has to do with the xbox, AND why anyone who bought a Dreamcast is a loser escapes me - there were lots of great games for that system.
I'd be happy if Rockstar would just release a game with controls that don't suck.
The GTA games are cool in so many ways, but every time I play I have flashbacks to the Army Men series. The controls are very similar: Slow, mushy, and inaccurate. My favorite is when you're getting killed and get overzealous on the turning stick and suddenly find yourself crouching helplessly in a hail of bullets.
Manhunt was even worse and didn't even have the benefit of being a fun game. Good lord, did Manhunt suck. "Hey, look at me! I'm standing out in the open in plain sight, but there's a tiny shadow covering my forearm, so I'm invisible!"
Why does Aaron Dunlap hate GameStop, and by proxy, America?
Summary:
- Don't ever get rid of your old consoles!
- If you do, get rid of them on eBay so you can score an extra 20 dollars. Throw in $20 worth of games for free if that's what it takes to keep GameStop from getting cooties on it.
- If you're going to sell to GameStop, just give the stupid thing away. Smash it, light it on fire, let sick people get their grubby hands all over it, eat it if you have to. Anything is better than to let GameStop see a RED* cent.
*text, emphasis, and associated implication added by me. The assesment, as with everything I post, is 100% accurate.
So it plays PS, PS2, and PS3 games, can play Blu-ray movies if they ever come into frutation, can display 2 HD outputs, used to serve as a router (functionality removed), supposedly it will run Linux out of the box, and other impressive features.
Sounds good to me. However, I have the feeling that you're about to start complaining.
Unfortunately, it doesn't take old PS and PS2 memory cards (I found it annoying that you could save PS data onto a PS2 card, but this just really sucks). Dance pads and other old PS2 periphels won't work on it
I knew it!
It's interesting to note that my old SMS light gun won't work with the Dreamcast and my SNES controllers won't work on the GameCube. Well maybe not interesting, just common sense. Why would you be upset that a peripheral you bought for an existing piece of hardware won't work with another piece of hardware that hasn't even come out yet?
(I guess I can laugh at my brother for buying a $300 DDR dance mat).
I fixed that sentence for you.
Is anyone else disappointed that the PS3 is becoming less and less of a game machine and turning more and more in to an all-in-wonder-box?
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Don't let it bother you.
I recall when Sony talked about how MS was basically releasing a PC with the Xbox, and now it seems the tables have turned. Some part of me honestly hopes that Nintendo and MS kick the crap out of Sony this round.
It's amazing to think that Sony would talk down their competitor's features that were not part of their own console. I'd post more but I need to take a break and let that sink in.
I guess there's no reason for any dissatisfaction.
I'm glad you finally see it my way!
Everybody knows, you only buy a console on the strength of the library they currently have at the time.
Unless you have some amazing ability to peer into the future (in which case can you tell me if I'll still be rich and handsome next year?) then, yes, that is indeed the case. This is so much easier when you just agree with me! I'm not sure why it took so many posts for you to come around...
All your sniping was just a roundabout way of agreeing with me.
Actually, you are agreeing with me. (see above.) If it makes you feel better to think of it that way, though, I'll let you have your dreams.
Do you have any point to your post at all besides trying to find a whiner to burn at the stake?
So you admit that you're a whiner and that I have, in fact, burned you at the stake? We're still in agreement!
I'm just not likely to go for whatever their new console is
It's the Revolution. I guess you really haven't been paying attention.
The first step is to fool yourself. Then you can fool the world, right?
No.
I'm glad we finally got back to disagreeing. I was worried that we were going to have to get married.
I get to vote to with my wallet, but beyond that I should get some amount of satisfaction from my purchases.
If you don't get satisfaction from those purchases, and in fact, "[get] the feeling they were just cheaping [you] into buying a lot of crap," and you keep buying it? That makes you a whiner. Sorry, but it's true. Voting with your wallet means that you STOP BUYING THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE. Otherwise, you are just complaining about your own sad actions.
Of course I have the right to complain.
And I have the right to laugh at you for complaining about something you're doing of your own volition. [ha ha]
Extrapolating my concerns as a consumer to my habits as an employee is pretty poor logic on your part.
Unfortunately, I wasn't extrapolating anything about your habits as an employee, just your habits as a whiner. You must irritate the crap out of everybody who comes into contact with you on a regular basis. That's all I was trying to say. I apologize from the deepest part of my heart if I was unclear in my taunting.
Let it suffice to say that in my job people complain to me and I get things fixed, not the other way around.
I bet they complain a lot...
Regardless, if you don't fix something for a customer, they go somewhere else. If they keep giving you money and not getting what they want, the problem is their own. (<-- clue here. Grab it, man! Grab it!)
I try to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt, but when 3rd party game companies start abandoning them by making multi-platform releases that DO NOT include the GameCube, it's a bad sign. Psychonauts not coming out for GameCube but coming out for X-Box, PC and PS2 is not at all the same thing as Pikmin being a Nintendo exclusive title.
How is it not the same? If you like the games that are on Nintendo, buy them. If you like the games that are on the PS2, buy them. Nintendo doesn't have a ton of third party support. If that's what you want, buy a PS2. Gloom and doom! Gloom and doom!
If you are going to argue in an intellectually dishonest manner, you're going to get called on it.
Your merciless wit and sheer brainpower has forced me into submission! I'll never post again!
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I think the main reason the Final Fantasy movie didn't work for westerners is because it was basically an episode of the Captain Planet cartoon with fancier animation.
Really???
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but Kid Icarus was one of the crappiest NES games released.
I hope you're trolling. If so, I salute you. It takes serious balls to admit liking Kid Icarus...even as an anonymous prank.
Is RE5 going to be on the PS3?
I think so. That's why I was asking if it had changed. I thought I saw someone else mention it as a 360 exclusive.
Here's a link.
Whoops. It looks like I hit submit before I finished my post. I was hoping nobody would notice. I was going to say that the Madden series has been downhill since 94.
I agree that Sunshine and Wind Waker added new mechanics, but that was what was "updated" about them. Sunshine was Mario 64 with a badly controlling water cannon. Wind Waker was OOT with a new look and a boat.
Pikmin 2 multiplayer was a work of genius.
$300 in two years? That's like $2.88/week. Are you sure you can afford it?
Resident Evil 5 is apparently going to be an Xbox exclusive.
And RE4 is going to be a GameCube exclusive. So is Viewtiful Joe. Also, Killer 7.
Oh wait.
Wasn't RE5 announced for the PS3 at the same time it was announced for the 360? Did that change in the last week? I wasn't paying attention.
Also, what the dreamcast has to do with the xbox, AND why anyone who bought a Dreamcast is a loser escapes me - there were lots of great games for that system.
And they were all free!
Right, because Super Mario Sunshine was just an updated version of Super Mario Bros.
No, it was an updated version of Mario 64.
Wind Waker was an updated version of Zelda 64.
That being said sometimes similar sequels out do the originals. Mario Kart 64 compared to the original Mario Kart. Pikmin 2 compared to Pikmin.
Other times it works in reverse. Any Madden compared to Madden
I don't get your post. Are you being sarcastic? I'm assuming you're not because you included non-violent games like Katamari and Paper Mario.
The rest of your list:
World of Warcraft -- chopping people with swords.
Golden Sun -- From looking at the screens, more sword chopping.
Fire Emblem -- Battle game. Battles are violent by their very nature.
Star Wars -- Hacking with swords. The "Wars" part should be a tip off.
Halo 2 -- First person shooter. You don't shoot people with fluffy bunnies, in the game. I guess maybe you haven't played it?
Super Smash Bros. -- Fighting game. Fighting generally is uh...violent.
The only thing I can figure is that you were aiming for sarcasm and count smashing citizens with your giant Katamari to be violent. Or not.
That's a real stretch of logic to use to justify wasting a lot of time to sell a stupid and old gaming console.
If you just trade your console in at GameStop, whoever buys it from them will be just as happy as the guy who would have bought it from you on ebay.
Someone needs to take your italics tag away from you.
I'd be happy if Rockstar would just release a game with controls that don't suck.
The GTA games are cool in so many ways, but every time I play I have flashbacks to the Army Men series. The controls are very similar: Slow, mushy, and inaccurate. My favorite is when you're getting killed and get overzealous on the turning stick and suddenly find yourself crouching helplessly in a hail of bullets.
Manhunt was even worse and didn't even have the benefit of being a fun game. Good lord, did Manhunt suck. "Hey, look at me! I'm standing out in the open in plain sight, but there's a tiny shadow covering my forearm, so I'm invisible!"
Why does Aaron Dunlap hate GameStop, and by proxy, America?
Summary:
- Don't ever get rid of your old consoles!
- If you do, get rid of them on eBay so you can score an extra 20 dollars. Throw in $20 worth of games for free if that's what it takes to keep GameStop from getting cooties on it.
- If you're going to sell to GameStop, just give the stupid thing away. Smash it, light it on fire, let sick people get their grubby hands all over it, eat it if you have to. Anything is better than to let GameStop see a RED* cent.
*text, emphasis, and associated implication added by me. The assesment, as with everything I post, is 100% accurate.
Have a go at Viewtiful Joe.
I enjoyed it a lot.
. . . Don't you know?
Sorry, it seemed unfinished the way you left it.
Probably because most of the posts about Nintendo are about how they're doing the wrong thing.
There must be balance.
Look at it this way. They can be cool now, or smart later.
Coolness is forever.
So FPS, sport, and racing games are not fun?
I think it's less that they aren't fun, and more that they are all exactly the same.
So it plays PS, PS2, and PS3 games, can play Blu-ray movies if they ever come into frutation, can display 2 HD outputs, used to serve as a router (functionality removed), supposedly it will run Linux out of the box, and other impressive features.
Sounds good to me. However, I have the feeling that you're about to start complaining.
Unfortunately, it doesn't take old PS and PS2 memory cards (I found it annoying that you could save PS data onto a PS2 card, but this just really sucks). Dance pads and other old PS2 periphels won't work on it
I knew it!
It's interesting to note that my old SMS light gun won't work with the Dreamcast and my SNES controllers won't work on the GameCube. Well maybe not interesting, just common sense. Why would you be upset that a peripheral you bought for an existing piece of hardware won't work with another piece of hardware that hasn't even come out yet?
(I guess I can laugh at my brother for buying a $300 DDR dance mat).
I fixed that sentence for you.
Is anyone else disappointed that the PS3 is becoming less and less of a game machine and turning more and more in to an all-in-wonder-box?
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Don't let it bother you.
I recall when Sony talked about how MS was basically releasing a PC with the Xbox, and now it seems the tables have turned. Some part of me honestly hopes that Nintendo and MS kick the crap out of Sony this round.
It's amazing to think that Sony would talk down their competitor's features that were not part of their own console. I'd post more but I need to take a break and let that sink in.
1.) Robotron
2.) Tetris Attack
3.) Robotron
4.) Arkanoid Doh It Again
5.) Robotron
6.) Also Robotron
There's no need for a seven. Every other game sucks.
IGN is more about making the line between website and advertisement disappear.
Maybe it's actually pointy.
Think before you post, please.
Stop it. You're going to ruin the surprise for everyone.
Your reading comprehension is amazing.
Thanks! I'm also wealthy and good looking.
I guess there's no reason for any dissatisfaction.
I'm glad you finally see it my way!
Everybody knows, you only buy a console on the strength of the library they currently have at the time.
Unless you have some amazing ability to peer into the future (in which case can you tell me if I'll still be rich and handsome next year?) then, yes, that is indeed the case. This is so much easier when you just agree with me! I'm not sure why it took so many posts for you to come around...
All your sniping was just a roundabout way of agreeing with me.
Actually, you are agreeing with me. (see above.) If it makes you feel better to think of it that way, though, I'll let you have your dreams.
Do you have any point to your post at all besides trying to find a whiner to burn at the stake?
So you admit that you're a whiner and that I have, in fact, burned you at the stake? We're still in agreement!
I'm just not likely to go for whatever their new console is
It's the Revolution. I guess you really haven't been paying attention.
The first step is to fool yourself. Then you can fool the world, right?
No.
I'm glad we finally got back to disagreeing. I was worried that we were going to have to get married.
Cool, thanks for the link.
Hopefully with the rise of portable online gaming there won't be a corresponding rise in "hey, this is fun. Oops, there's my bus. *quit*" syndrome.
Mario Kart and Animal Crossing are the only two games I've seen mentioned in connection with online play.
Are there any other games coming out before the end of the year that will have online multiplayer?
When I spend my money, I am the customer.
So far so good. If only it could last!
I get to vote to with my wallet, but beyond that I should get some amount of satisfaction from my purchases.
If you don't get satisfaction from those purchases, and in fact, "[get] the feeling they were just cheaping [you] into buying a lot of crap," and you keep buying it? That makes you a whiner. Sorry, but it's true. Voting with your wallet means that you STOP BUYING THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE. Otherwise, you are just complaining about your own sad actions.
Of course I have the right to complain.
And I have the right to laugh at you for complaining about something you're doing of your own volition. [ha ha]
Extrapolating my concerns as a consumer to my habits as an employee is pretty poor logic on your part.
Unfortunately, I wasn't extrapolating anything about your habits as an employee, just your habits as a whiner. You must irritate the crap out of everybody who comes into contact with you on a regular basis. That's all I was trying to say. I apologize from the deepest part of my heart if I was unclear in my taunting.
Let it suffice to say that in my job people complain to me and I get things fixed, not the other way around.
I bet they complain a lot...
Regardless, if you don't fix something for a customer, they go somewhere else. If they keep giving you money and not getting what they want, the problem is their own. (<-- clue here. Grab it, man! Grab it!)
I try to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt, but when 3rd party game companies start abandoning them by making multi-platform releases that DO NOT include the GameCube, it's a bad sign. Psychonauts not coming out for GameCube but coming out for X-Box, PC and PS2 is not at all the same thing as Pikmin being a Nintendo exclusive title.
How is it not the same? If you like the games that are on Nintendo, buy them. If you like the games that are on the PS2, buy them. Nintendo doesn't have a ton of third party support. If that's what you want, buy a PS2. Gloom and doom! Gloom and doom!
If you are going to argue in an intellectually dishonest manner, you're going to get called on it.
Your merciless wit and sheer brainpower has forced me into submission! I'll never post again!
Yaaaaargh!