Jonwah

Sometimes I wonder why I should even bother getting out of bed in the morning, knowing that Brawl won't be out any time soon. Haha. I'm quite happy that G&W is in brawl, him and young link are my main's in Melee. I've been playing a LOT of Melee lately. Apparently he's not as light as before now too.

I was a little bit annoyed you couldn't actually get all the stars before facing bowser. I have a thing about collecting everything possible before finishing a game. I didn't attempt the last bowser in mario64 before getting 119 stars (since one of the stars was a red coin one in the last confrontation), and that took me 2 years to complete!

4 days for 120 stars. I'm gonna have to play mario64 again to see if I've just gotten better at games, or if they've made it too easy. I hope I'm just better. It was an awesome game though, and I'm still playing through it with 'bonus guy'. Damn cosmic races! Purple coins were so hugely annoying, the toy and ghost ones in particular, and the trash-blowing-up stars. I wanted to kill someone. But I felt great afterwards and it was good to have something in there I couldn't do. Maybe not a perfect game, but it was pretty good. I've not played many new games this year so I can't say if it's game of the year...

I can't think of any other games that meet your critera but I'm quite happy that someone else in the world remembers Toonstruck. One of my favourite games ever!

First time I played Metal Gear Solid I had an 18 hour session at it! I'm not even sure why it took me that long to finish it, I got really stuck. Ah I miss my gap year.

But damn did I hate the well sequence in MM! (With the gibdos and all that).

Yeah I'm gonna bag me a bit of Thousand Year Door now, I'm absolutely loving paper mario! I wanted it back on the n64 but could never find it in shops (and ebay etc was selling it for an absolute bomb), wonderful game, this.

Calm down kids. I wouldn't worry about wearing it down, that takes years of extreme play, and if you find out you do have an old controller... just head off to ebay and replace it when it's worn out. The N64 controller was one of my favourites, I don't know why people hate it so much.

and be set in space.

Yeah I really had no idea what counted as a "pull" on the line for ages first time through. You catch one and it's hella easy. So how many of you have caught the hylian loach? (Not the baby loach of course) It's a lot easier than the loach in OoT.

I think SSBM has hours into the thousands, though it's played by the whole family almost constantly. I've put at least a few hundred hours into OoT and Perfect Dark too. What're we doing with our free time??

I thought MM was great because of it's hardness. Not that it was too hard, but if you play a 3D zelda you simply don't expect any kind of challange really. I enjoyed that MM cost me a fair bit of health the first play through. I started playing through MM again with 3 hearts and as few masks as possible. And it's only taken a couple of hours to get to the last temple. I think that's a bit of a shame, we all know the main quest is darn short, but I was shocked at how quick you can actually zip through it. That's where OoT is better, the overall length. There are still 20 hearts and tons of collectables, but speed-running the game takes a lot longer.

Well I just checked the video again on youtube. He does actually say "us three light spirits" and you still only see 3 spirits. Sorry but it looks like a mistake to me! Also I'm interested too to see what people's opinions are, having played Twilight Princess before OoT (or any other zelda).

How could you hate bongo bongo? Shocking. I forgot about the sand boss from WW I should add that to my list. You could never target the tentacle thing properly. Frustrating AS

Well when watching e3 I was excited as they built up to their main feature. They skimmed past mariokart and smash brothers and metroid and the zapper and pretty everything else untill they got to wii fitness. (Okay I didn't mean a surprise, I meant their big event-based feature.) It was a surprise to me that their main feature at a convention for gamers and people already involved in gaming, was something aimed at non-gamers. Maybe I'm not wearing the right tinted glasses but it came as a dissapointment that they were so eager to get through all their other titles to reach this one.

Most games since the start of the n64 era have been dreadfully easy. 3D has made everything too easy! I'd say that all 3d zeldas are far too easy, I've never died in a 3d zelda (apart from during 3-heart challenges).

I'd say OoT but only because of nostalgia. MM was just as good I think. I loved the dark atmosphere of it and the whole 'gorundhog day' thing going on was cool. Added a whole new way of planning your events. Also you could redo dungeons and bosses which was a major bonus. In OoT once you've got to Ganondorf that's it, you can't really do anything else. But in MM you can experience your favourite parts again at will. I think MM is very underrated and I'd definately put it as OoT's equal. And they are both definately the most perfect games ever created. I put my tick next to OoT, just because it was there first and was the first really epic game I played. I wish I could vote for them both. Also OoT has the absolute best collection of music I've heard in a game. But MM had the song of healing which was my favourite zelda song ever.

I still have to watch dvds on my ps2. But I'm not buying another wii to watch dvds. Nintendo should've stuck it on the original instead of screwing over the big fans who bought a wii straight off the bat. That's business though I guess, my brother bought a DS when it came out and then resented nintendo for releasing the DS Lite afterwards.

Best: That big bird boss from WW, that was awesome, I used to play to that point in the game and then just stop playing for a while out of satisfaction. Worst: Every boss in lttp I found strangely difficult. Also those ice guys with spears in TP, I hated them.

- No hd, I can sorta understand nintendo's reason for leaving it out, kind of. but still. - I can't afford to spend money on shallow "party games". I'm having to wait and wait for good games to come out. - WiiFit being nintendo's big surprise. Please. - Power. While the 360 and ps3 can swap ports of their best games (if they want), the Wii will miss out and be (mostly) limited to ps2 ports and nintendo exclusives. - All my friends have an xbox or a playstation. "Wii is hilarious but there's nothing that's impressive" is what I get told. - DVD. Everyone wants dvd secretly. Other than that it's not a bad machine. Still prefer my n64 though.

Did anybody else notice a mistake in this game? During the cutscene where the spirit lanayru tells you about the triforce and such, he refers to "all 3 light spirits" and you see said 3 light spirits in the scene. But there are clearly 4 light spirits in the game (faron ordin eldin & lanayru). It's nice to know nintendo make mistakes too :P

I took the straps off my wiimotes for a long time. But recently a friend of mine was playing wii tennis and somehow managed to throw my remote out of my second floor bedroom window onto a stone patio in the rain. The remote now has a nasty scuff on the side and I've put the strap back on, but it still works.

I still often think of myself as a casual gamer because although I love games, I don't get to play them that often. But that's not what it means anymore is it? I'm nowhere near what a 'casual gamer' has turned into now. A casual gamer is someone who knows absolutely nothing about games except "swing the controller... and weigh yourself"

We have 2 Mario64's and 2 Mariokart64's for some reason. I guess mario64 on the ds counts kinda, but it's really quite different. So that's 3 mario64's. We also have two "the new tetris"'s on the N64 too. And of course, OoT64 and the MasterQuest disc. Oh and Simpsons Hit&Run on the playstation and gamecube, I'm not sure why my mum bought it again :P And I bought lylat wars on the vc because some kid broke my original cart (after finally getting all the medals!)

Are we soley arguing wii + gamers now? Or wii + gamers + non-gamers? I don't want to sound harsh, but it doesn't matter what we think. Whether or not we like the balance board or the wii's graphical capabilities. We're not non-gamers so we aren't Nintendo's current main target audience. They're a business and it's their job to make money. Fair enough, they often do it in a fun and innovative way, but still, it doesn't matter what we want if they're aiming their products at somebody else. We should just get used to it. And enjoy what we're getting. And I guess... enjoy their current financial success. Because it's gonna keep going on like this as long as there are more non-gamers than gamers.