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No he's not. The point of discussion was whether cartoony graphics couldn't get much better in general, as if MKWii is maxing out cartoony graphics. Ratchet and Clank proves there's a lot to improve.

Warping thing?! I meant to say that defeating Thardus is a monotonous job that doesn't require much skill or intelligence, thus my use of 'lame'. He has great boss design, but he's really overrated. I don't see his appeal.

Thardus is really lame. All the snow is pretty cool, but it's just prize shooting his parts and frantically try to dodge his rolling attack with morph ball. Also, Flaahgra is nothing particularly exciting, and the Alpha Blogg and Amorbis aren't the most exciting bosses of MP2 either (think Boost and Spider Guardians with Quadraxis and the Emperor).

Thardus is hugely overrated, he just has convincing presentation. Dark Samus was rather lame in MP2. I agree Quadraxis owns though. MP2 has so many awesome bosses, the Emperor Ing is probably the best 'final' boss of the series.

I think you're really underappreciating the game. Ridley is awesome, sure, but there are some sheer brilliant fights later on.

Isn't the X-Fi 'Xtreme' series not just a filler sound card with no hardware sound processing (in other words, waste of cash)?

Don't know what's everybody's problem. It looks quite a bit better than Double Dash!! and I don't see how you could wish for GC controller support. Why have you bought a Wii if you want that?

Now my misinformation about the game's presentation has been resolved, I'm good old hyped again. Haven't touched this game on PS2, but it's supposedly a Zelda beater. This should be awesome.

Nah, they hacked it, and now they can use Wii mode as well.

That's only a matter of time, unfortunately. I applaud all the homebrew stuff though, although I could already pull this off on my Wii.

It does?! If then, pure win. They shouldn't be giving out these shaky builds as previews though!

Dude, I can't even count the number of times this has been clarified anymore.

It's not just the parchment (although that might just've saved me playing the game), but it's the general shaky porting of the game. How can they seriously consider (read the first interviews) delivering this game without progressive scan and widescreen and call it a Wii game?

If Harribo is really so much of an ass as he's being now, I don't think he has any right to know. I don't know what happened, and I don't really buy any of these "Harribo was innocent" stories, but in hindsight it was justified. You can't just come here and flame/spam the forum together because of your own vendetta with the admins. He's just being an adolescent loser.

Well, maybe he shouldn't have gotten himself banned in the first place? I'm really freaking tired about all those people saying "I miss Mike" and "I miss Shimmin" and the likes. They came, they were liked, but they broke the damn rules and got themselves banned! It's cliched, but it's a privilege to be on this forum and not a right, and they fucked up. Sucks to be them. This privilege thing is something a lot of people are ignoring, arrogant bastards. Like Jordan said, you have no idea what it's like running this place.

What a bunch of retardedness. I hope you think you're cool. What the fuck is people's problem with the admins? There are rules to be followed, and no lulz will give you the right to break them. Go grow some pubic hair and them come back with some intelligence and respect, for fuck's sake.

I'm actually with Bard on this, I really hate how they lame-assed the parchment and other things out of it (so far). I hate such a great game to be ruined for a cheap Wii port.

VC games are not supported on monitors, they are supported on HDTVs that support interlaced modes (all of them that is). Monitors don't support interlaced modes as they usually don't have to deal with them.

That's rather quick. With some luck it's out in the US this year, and who knows what might happen for Europe.

It couldn't really be any other way. Nintendo is in fact Nintendo of Japan - it's where the company started, it's where all the executives are. NoA and NoE were founded to make localisation and marketing easy to manage more locally. All company strategies about maximizing profit are still in Japan though; as you might've noticed all NoA job titles have something to do with localisation or PR - none are about actually making games or making strategy. I don't think NoJ can pinpoint exact dates for their subdivisions, as it would give too many local problems. They probably say "stock and strategy say it's best to release the game somewhere between this week and that week", and then NoA/NoE are given freedom to release the game there, whatever they can manage best.

Started listening to Rage Against the Machine as I'll be seeing them at a festival this summer. Their first album is so different to what I'm used to, but it's amazing stuff! They're incredibly talented.

Yeah we would, because it isn't the simple one two three you make it out to be - this is economical suicide. Suppose the language is the issue here, and the UK could magically get the games around the same time as the USA (which is impossible). Then, not only would we have you rubbing in the games way before us (basically removing the point of N-E being N-Europe), but mostly, you and us would be screwed over by a huge number of stores importing from the UK, fighting for early free trade PAL releases. This would cause extreme shortages in the UK, which are bad enough as they are, and then have 'them mainlanders' fighting over what was managed to be imported accros the canal. It would cause extreme dissappointment and consumer complaints in the UK, straining the games market, and it would cause confusion and even more market strain due to shortages on the mainland. No party involved is going to be any better off, but mostly you'll be screwing over mainland Europe. The only way to make it happen is to introduce the idea in the entire EU. But this isn't even possible. Also, I completely agree with Echo, the very idea is ridicilous.

NoE knows fuck all, NoJ decides when games come out where.

Those products are shipped off to the rest of Europe just as much. Straight importing stuff from the USA is not the same thing as putting the UK in an unfair special position. That's exactly what they're doing at the moment - the languages are a relatively minor delay in any serious game. I don't care about the other languages either (I wouldn't even bare to play a game in Dutch), but these translations are not the cause of the delay. These delays are because of strategical and legislative reasons, not the language.