Kav

If it's a slightly mancunian accent it's me.

If it doesn't have voice chat I'd hardly play it, except on the league days. Mario Kart isn't one of my most played Nintendo games.

Even if it's not important to someone I'm meeting, I'd make the effort for the simple reason that I'm interested in them and so I want to make the effort for them... because it's simply nice of me to do so. If they can't even do that on the first date then they're not worth dating in my eyes.

If a girl turned up to a first date looking really casual I'd simply walk out on her. This is the simple reason... if you're not going to make the effort on the first date, when the hell are you going to ever make an effort?!

I'd just not want to miss out on races if I don't have the particular parts required. I think that's the only downside to doing that.

Sorry but I can't help but view this as utter tripe. I don't mean to offend personally but to me that's absolute nonsense. Just because it's Mario, it doesn't mean that it isn't creative. The level design has such a wide breadth of creativity in it. Some truly fantastic levels! This is the creativity in Mario games. The levels themselves! You're thinking about it so obtusely that you're not actually seeing just how creative it's being!

A holiday. 2 weeks in Fuerteventura so I can just chill out and have some time to just relax and not think about the troubles of the world! I go on Saturday and cannot wait!

The Bronies will get you @Zechs Merquise

Why not show effort through both?

Everyone has something that could turn out to be a "date killer", I agree with Zechs that you shouldn't be bringing out the "date killer" too soon.

Mokong I just LOVE these stories man!

That's what Dazzy and I are getting at, a lot of the new IPs last gen didn't feel new, just re-skinned. Yeah Nintendo's games are long standing franchises but they contain elements that make them feel fresh and new. That's what it seems you're not getting about our point.

This is the thing @Sheikah it's going to be opinions that effect each side of the argument most. In the games you listed, none wow me. Albeit I'm yet to play the Last of Us and Demon Souls... although Demon Souls just doesn't seem to interest me and I only want to play The Last of Us for the story as I hear it's great storytelling. And then there's the thing for me, storytelling is one thing, but I don't need a narrative in a game. For me it's not nearly the most important thing in a game, it's about how the game actually plays, hence my love for the Mario games! Hence why I think the Uncharted games are MASSIVELY overrated. Infamous, that may well have been a new IP but it didn't feel new, it felt like a typical sandbox game I'd played before albeit with a new skin. Skyword Sword felt much more fresh than those games just due to the motion control alone... which again, I thought was amazing!

I know, let's take the first games of their kind in 3D and then compare how other games won't be as groundbreaking. Of course the majority of games aren't going to be as groundbreaking as the lot you'd been listing! Yet given the few you'd mentioned, most games in their respective genres that you could argue have been groundbreaking have been Nintendo games! Zelda - Skyward Sword was groundbreaking in it's use of motion control which was amazing (for those that didn't like it, I simply think you're nuts). Mario - Galaxy, this was the most groundbreaking platformer since Mario 64 and one of the best games of all time... faultless! Sure they're not this new generation but nobody else last gen brought something as groundbreaking to the table as them. We'll see how Smash and Mario Kart fare with this generation but I don't see them being groundbreaking, although I'd say I haven't seen a single other game in the same genres that I'd call groundbreaking too. Then I look across all other games and platforms and try to think of the last game I though was groundbreaking and I'm not sure of what I feel has been groundbreaking. Maybe Little Big Planet, kind of, but the game is in the building of the levels for me, not really the playing of them as I feel the characters/controls don't feel as precise as they should be... the feel a little unwieldy. Anyhoo, I'm going to agree with @dazzybee that just because Nintendo's games are long-running franchises, it doesn't mean they never feel fresh or new. Nintendo are still breaking ground in that respect.

I watched the first 5 episodes of this tonight and have enjoyed it. I'll keep watching this for sure!

This is funny because it's true!

This. If voice chat isn't included I will be posting numerate tirades on Miiverse and Twitter to Nintendo to vent my frustration and do Nintendo's head in!

Just went to see this with @Blade, what an amazing film! Loved every bit of it, hardly stopped laughing throughout!

I'm in the same boat, the Gamepad only works if in the same room as the console. I swear, Superman couldn't see through my sodding walls.

Just finished FMA Brotherhood. Really enjoyed it, the last few episodes were particularly good... almost brought me to tears in a couple places!

I do hope this is good online. I played loads of Melee with friends back in the day but Brawl never got a look in as a lot of my mates don't live close anymore and the online was so awful I just didn't bother. This game best bloody have voice chat!!!

Wow, can't believe @canand's persistence is paying off! Canand, now tweet the hell out of them to fix the game and make it how it used to be like in the MW/MW2 & Black Ops days!

So, the latest chapters...

Ok, that trailer got me excited!