The Bard

I had a similar experience with Sol, but then I unlocked the infinite Speed Lap dodads and spent a while getting my lines perfect and now I can play it on A+ without falling off at all. The only really hard part is the shortcut on the home stretch just before the finish line, which I'm tempted to take every time. All you need to do is anticipate it early and engage the left airbrake to keep your inertia from making your fly off the right hand side of the track. The inertia management is such a great aspect of the game, and is what slightly gives it the edge over the F-Zero series in mind. In terms of multiplayer, there's no way to play directly against people on your friends list as of yet, which kinda sucks. Hopefully they'll add an option to do that with future DLC.

Well, when you play a game against friends, to win, it becomes competitive. After a couple of hours on it you begin to brush up against the plateau of the game's skill requirements. Compared that to Melee, which we still play to this day and have fun trying to counter each others strategies and it just doesn't hold up. I'm also not someone who really gives a shit about the whole Nintendo history angle, so the soundtracks and superfluous clone characters didn't do much for me.

Well, they reduced its functionality as a game and made it Nintendo fan service with a rather unsophisticated fighter appended to it. Compared to Melee which had a true layer of depth as a fighter, Brawl didn't measure up because hitstun was basically non-existent meaning that you couldn't really initiate combos and the disparity between skilled and unskilled players was greatly narrowed. It changed from a game of precision and skill to a homogenous mess of Nintendo characters happy slapping each other.

Thanks guys, that's sweet . I think I'll see how it goes next time I meet up with her. I've never really asked a girl out so it should be a learning experience, and since I don't really know her that well, things won't be too awkward if she looks at me like I'm a total grunion :p.

Hope it's for Vita.

My friend's 18 (three years younger than her), and although probably more attractive than me, is also an unscrupulous whore, so it shouldn't take much convincing to get him to avert his gaze . @Goron_3, thanks man, but not as hot as that, clearly =p.

If I'm honest, yes. A lot .

Alrighty then

In Chair's defence, he hasn't seen what a grevious goon I look like in anything but a still shot . She was part of our extended group when we went out one night in London, and immediately me and my friend Richard both turned our head and said out loud "Fuuuuuuck..." We also have this kinda creepy rivalry, being absolute goons, where we turn flirting into a competition and both probably come off like complete dipshits by the end of it. Although! She added me on Facebook out of her own volition and we've had a few kinda flirty conversations, but fuck, she is just intimidatingly hot. What's the protocol with posting pictures of total strangers on this forum? Dick move? Might need you guys' opinions.

I especially like the rampantly camp twilight sparkle.

I'm slightly obsessing over this hot babe that I met in London over new years and who is probably totally out of my league. Planning how/ if I'm going to ask her out without coming off as a total creeplord. The best I can come up with is springing out of a trash can with a bouquet of roses. Help/ End Me. Edit: Magnus, you're either some sort of comic savant or have too much spare time. The kind of spare time that I would probably occupy with frequent masturbation.

Why the fuck is nobody playing Tribes: Ascend? It is godly.

Symphony is where the series really got good, and that Simon sprite looks like a fucking fur clad troglodyte with a huge candycane/ party whistle. Compare that to Alucard's badass cape and ass kicking boots. No competition brah. Also, can't believe I forgot Street Fighter.

His movements look really hefty and clumsy by comparison which is worrying since fighting game mentality and precision is what the previous games have been all about. Here by comparison it look like there's a lot of effort and inertia in his movements. It's cool from a visual standpoint; the animations look more "lifelike," but it obviously is going to mean that there's less flexibility in the combat mechanics.

Counter Strike Headshot, probably one of my favourite: Crono Sprite Gears Cog Alucard

I'm probably going to be the first to say it: Aside from the look of Dante himself, I really like the artistic direction the game is taking, especially the super saturated look of the colours. They've also updated Dante so that he doesn't look quite so brooding and emo, which I like.

I'm in a bad mood. I apologise for being a dick. 1. The utility of the circle pads has a pretty objective element in terms of the humongous dead zone and the additional fact that the small movement range means the stick acceleration required for shooters that require a lot of precision will have to be confined to a smaller range. They'll do fine for something like Timesplitters; not so much for main series Resident Evil. 2. It being a rumour doesn't change the fact that the computational range is going to be situated somewhere between either slightly below or slightly above the current range of consoles. The most that will largely amount to is a whole load of ports with the added benefit of whatever tablet based gimmick companies decide to duct tape to it. Once again, I'm not infallable, so there's the off chance that the whole thing will sweep me off my feet, but I'm betting on past experience and what I know so far, that it won't. 3. Also; Nintendo hasn't even done right by its own properties recently. Look what they did to Metroid in Other M, or to Smash Bros with Brawl. I'm one of those people that would get overtaken by irrationality and buy a console based on one good Metroid game (and so I did, for Corruption), but that just won't cut it for me anymore.

Happy birthday dawg.

I know that: 1. It doesn't have analogue sticks, but rather circle pads that are equivalent to the absolutely terrible 3DS circle pad. Forgivable on a handheld, not so on a home console. 2. It's processing power is rumoured to be inferior to a lineup of consoles that have been on the market for nearly 7 years, which means when the developmental shift towards the next generation occurs, third parties will no longer care to put a strong or serious focus on Wii U development. 3. The Wii U is built on the back of an interface gimmick. One that doesn't excite any enthusiasm in me. It will, in majority, amount to nothing more than an expensive controller that allows you to view menu screens seamlessly (which has it's enthusiasts, and really, is like being super excited by an interface update on Microsoft Excel), and the ability to play a low resolution version of the game on a shitty tablet. 4. I got burned (in varying degrees) by the Gamecube and the Wii and the 3DS because I bought them on launch and then had to wait years to build up anything amounting to a decent software library. I am a being that recognises patterns. Here, it doesn't bode towards anything but colossal disappointment. The sign of a true Nintendo fanboy is his unremitting need to tell everyone about the apparent superiority of the Nintendo equivalent to whatever is being discussed, even when it has not been invited, or is even relevant (you in PS Vita thread), and secondly, to resort to ad hominems/ cast aspersions on the intelligence and opinions of anyone who nay-says what amounts to really nothing more than an entertainment product to be released by a for-profit company. Good job, internaut. Feel free to join Choze in the immortal pantheon of people whose absurd allegiance to an electronics firm push past embarrassing and straight into autistic.

How do you expect a skillshot based shooter to work on those pathetically shitty looking analog nubs? The damn console doesn't even have proper sticks. It's going to be the first Nintendo console since the 64 that I don't buy on launch (read: ever).

I was going to go to that with a girl, but then I realised Parkway Drive are like a bad Killswitch.

No, it was a despicable game that was punitive in the extreme which did nothing to improve a set of mechanics that were quaint anachronisms appended to the graphical novelty of a new console, four years previously.

I love you man.

Everyone that posts pics in this thread will undoubtedly die by controller cord strangulation or the inevitable housefire started because of the amount of plug socket extensions plugged into each other. Make it quick though, so I can come steal all your consoles

Holy shit, I've been playing Tribes Ascend for an hour or so, and it's incredible. Get on that shit people, it's free to play.