Jamba

Nintendoland and ZombiU for launch... going to have to get some cash together but really hoping that I'll get some vouchers for xmas. If I do, then it's COD and AC3 all the way. And by launch, you guys mean launch right? Not launch window...

https://leapmotion.com/ More convenient and probably cheaper? Any hoo, I think the gaming landscape could look very different in a few years. I'm genuinely worried for Sony's continued existence as a company and I'm not sure how that's going to pick up any time soon.

Oh god, they're awful!

Just thought about something a bit weird. Do you think that people in the US don't understand that there a lot of guns kicking around in the UK. Certainly not as much as in the land of "Guns don't kill people"...

Droooool... I think I see ideas for my tattoo

Yeah it is good news... not sure I want to spend a load on a big headset. If I can use something that's kicking around then awesome.

You sure man? iPhone headphones have a mic....

Cmon dude, this is Ubisoft we're talking about. The original is always the test run for the sequel next year

I've been reading some of the comments on IGN and some of the readers are actually calling Greggy out on the fact that the previews were super hyped and everything. His reply is basically that they only get small snippets and short clips for previews blah blah blah. Such bullshit especially considering how they've been hyping it previously. I want to pick this up so I'm going to but some of the comments in the reviews are just ridiculous.

You do realise that game like Professor Layton is just a minigame compilation too but in a linear fashion.

Indeed but Gametrailers decided to put that in as a main comparison screen between the two versions. Fantastic journalism.

My statements were about it being a unique and original game that you can't find anywhere else. But thanks for ignoring the bit where I explained that there's more to this than meets the eye initially. And everything else that you have posted is just purely speculation based on your own assumptions of what Nintendo might do or making judgements from watching videos on review sights. Why don't you actually get some first hand experience with an open mind attached before making such snap judgements? That or you have 2 choices: - Build a time machine and go back to 1996. - Don't buy it. No one is forcing you to.

Apparently each of the games has a surprising amount of depth to offer and all of the games couldn't be done on another system.

I was talking about Asylum really. You could play through it in the two weeks whilst waiting for Armoured Edition!

Dude buy it!

Get Asylum, however your can. Even if it's through OnLive because it's a fantastic game. For me personally I preferred it to City but City is still an outstanding game with a ridiculous amount of substance. There's a Gametrailers graphics comparison out. It's not a very worthy comparison really and they have actually changes some of the art in it too which makes the comparison a bit weird. No a fan of catwoman's new outfit... less boob. EDIT: FFS... can someone help me stop being a spazz at linking GT vids?

I don't know. To be honest, this is a difficult game to review as the caveat of "should you bother picking this up if you've played it already" still seems to answer NO. Whether that should effect the review score is an interesting debate. I'm interested to see if Gametrailers will give it a worse score as they seem pretty pissed about Reggie's attitude that tons of people are yet to play this.

The IGN review seems pretty scathing and by the way they talk about it, the 7.5 seems a little generous. It was weird reading the Wii U specific section too where they were listing stuff like "it takes a little time to get used to playing on the Gamepad cos of the layout". What the fuck does that mean? It's only the same layout that you've been using to play the game all the way through with so far! And why does their inability to use the controls need to even be in the review anyway?

Havent they broken the embargo on it? I thought that Gametrailers said they weren't allowed to say ANYTHING until Sunday midday or something? Fuckem I say. Ubisoft probably didn't pay Gamespot enough money to get a good review score.

Reggie pointed out something today when talking to people in the queue for Wii U in the New York. It's Metroid Prime's 10th birthday. Now the conspiracy theorist in me wants to see this as significant and I am very interested in what Retro have been working on. So what could happen? Has the 1st person Metroid genre grown stale or is there plenty of blood left in that stone? For me, Retro are very capable from a technical and visual point of view. If there is anyone outside of the core Nintendo studios who are going to show off what all of these fancy shaders can do, it's them. That and I have a sneaky suspicion that Nintendo are holding back the big guns for holiday 2013 makes me think we will see Metroid from Retro November next year.

Agreed. It's a real shame as the content really just doesn't seem to be there. I know it's not a directly related game like Castle of Illusion but one of my favourite games on the SNES was Magical Quest. Loved the different outfit ideas and generally, it was a very solid platformer. There were a stellar last couple of levels and Pete was such an evil bastard. He stole Pluto, who DOES THAT!?

How do you think that review reflects on the game? What do you think a 7 means from Edge? They're usually pretty harsh markers aren't they?

Hey, why don't you just rent it? As others have said, singular reviews can be amazingly biased due to reviewers preference but at the end of the day, it's going to be about what you enjoy right?