gaggle64

Oh, Echoes definitely rewarded you but it needed a little perseverance. The way I see it playing Prime was like having straight sex. Echoes was Prime dressed up in leather bondage gear, handcuffing you to the bed and whipping your bare buttocks enthusiastically. Bad boy! BAD BOY!

I really liked Dark Aether. With a change of environment it changed the game plan, creating a monstrous and brutally hostile world, a step up from a simple change in scenery as seen in most other games that use the light/dark theme. It thus turned much of the game into a series of fiendish map and logic puzzles, as well as throwing increasingly hostile gribbilies that seem utterly alien even compared to what was already on Aether itself.

Captain Scarlet. Mysteron agent for life, bitches.

I must say I also fail utterly to see how anyone could so much difference between Prime and Echoes. I'd certainly say Prime is slightly better then Echoes, but in the same sort of fashion in which I prefer milk chocolate to dark. It's all good.

Man I better get back and finish Echoes actually. I can't even remember why I stopped? It was really starting to ratchet things up too.

Why invite the internet press to then? Choo choo!

I'm sure the NDA will only be for a couple of days. Why hold a press conference more then a full month before the press are allowed to report anything?

"Hey everyone, check out all this awesome game crap we got going on here! But don't tell anyone. Not a soul. Shhhhhhhhh."

So tomorrow then, ya? For a minute there I though you meant next week.

The game was looking mighty tasty in motion back at E3, so I don't think you could legitimately complain on that front.

Indeed. Just listened to it and it is quite something. Is that fully orchestrated?

I think most accurately sums up all our emotions at this moment.

At this point though, any news is big news.

I'm still trying to recall where attacking scarecrow-like creatures come into the original HG Wells novel.

Baaah I hope there's more info in a few hours at the press event. The music composer list is fantastic, but I'd like some more characters or something please!

Nintendo media summit starts at 5pm GMT, so probably new info then.

May as well. We'll most likely have some info in the morning at any rate.

After drinking the blood of any nearby virgins, yes.

Nah, he'll be filing the last of his papers and heading back to his crypt before daybreak.

Plus he's a bit of a pillock.

Nope. Check back at 4am. We'll have something over the next 24 hours.

I like the way some people seem to have the idea that games aren't the result of many months of teams of dedicate professionals working closely together in 14+ hour shifts, but instead that somewhere there is a giant robot crapping them out, 100% complete at twenty a minute, and the only reason we don't have them now is because Nintendo doesn't like us.

"Hi. I'm in charge of producing one of the most anticipate games for years. In fact, I've just finished a six hour production meeting, but never mind all that. Look at my dog! LOOK AT HIM!!"

He'll be revealing who?

Stab in the dark: Smash Bros. I would expect to make it out for Xmas, but I think we'll be looking at a spring 2008 release.