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This may very well be the first FF I see myself spending time with. Together with MH3 the best looking game around?

You just had to notice that, didn't you That is so annoying. It's like the car's disconnected from the track, the wheels floating instead of getting feedback off of the tarmac... Oh boy. My enthusiasm just went down a couple of gears.

Wii doesn't have a standard, and that's the problem right there. Gamecube did, however, and this strikes me as being a Gamecube-game with motion controls. But by no means does it look like the N64 F1 games. Seriously. I know because I just checked. Compared to this, the N64 ones are like driving with giant pixels. And Michael Schumacher, of course.

As I said (or at least thought) before, you guys are expecting way too much. This isn't Forza 3. Hell, this isn't even GT3. Makes sense, because this is made by a way less talented team on a way tighter budget and schedule. Be happy, gloomy guses.

what? This looks miles and miles better than Dirt 2. Be thankful for what we're getting, apparently the controls are bliss.

Surely you don't mean they play any role whatsoever in the campaigns or such?!

Wow. Let my girlfriend fetch this for me along with Little King's Story and Anno and The World Ends With You. I'm unwillingly glued to the sofa for over a week anyway. Blasted surgeons. Never played any of the Primes, never thought I missed out on anything, but when I heard about this collector's edition, my nads started to tingle out of sheer excitement. A full wiimote-makeover. The moment you pop the disc in, you get struck by the game's awesome presentation. Menus look slick, animation intros for the trilogy and Echoes MP and such, extras... what more could you wish for? I've only just finished the Chozo Ruins, and boy am I loving it. At first I thought of it as something close to a first person Zelda with guns, but then I started appreciating how this game (or rather, these games, I should hope) improve on LoZ's set-in-stone mechanics (map => miniboss => weapon upgrade => boss). I assume I'm only at the beginning of the game, and already have I gotten to countless missile launcher and energy capacity upgrades. Sweet incentive for backtracking. The fact that you can actually jump and dodge, all the while still maintaining the upper hand of the gameplay, is an amazing feat for me. Haven't enjoyed a shooter (or FPA, before some of you send me hate mail) since Perfect Dark. And then there's the atmosphere and polish. The music's obviously synthesized, but it never does it become annoying. From the get go, the score is brooding with foreboding (can you say that? think some of my anaesthetic is still wearing off, can't articulate what I'm thinking the way I should like), and shapeshifts dynamically at set points in the level. And then there's how water and condensation and yadayadayada appear on your helmet. Needless to say that the attention to detail is to my liking. Think I've scanned just about everything I can scan, not only to find out the weak points for massive damage, but also (and maybe more so) for admiring the artwork. All of it is very reminiscent of Alien. Or maybe that's just because we've only recently watched the whole quadrilogy in a couple of days. Graphically, it's made me feel a bit depressed really. Mind you, not for the reasons you'd suspect. It's a slap to the face and on the wrist to many a developer that they've been really, really lazy over the past few years with the Wii. Praise whatever gods may be that some devs are starting to mend their ways. All in all, I think the above shows that I'm still mopping up the dribble on the floor while I'm playing. Question: Does playing the game on advanced difficulty settings also add deeper gameplay, or is it just harder baddies?

Would love for me and Pikachu to join in, but seeing as I'm practically immobilized (again), I fear you've got to count this Belgian out

TTTTTTTTTTTTEKNOMAN!

Feel these nipples: http://www.hardgame2.com/nwii/noticia-48275.html Edit for the linguistically daft: IT'S FREE.

Got some data to back that up? Hope they improve: -on-the-ball control: I want to feint and 360 and scissor when I want to. -more teams (same request as any year) - control over passing speed: right now I still get too many balls being "nudged" toward other players when I want a strong pass, and vice versa. - more precise wiimote aim shot mechanic during play (not just on free kicks) - more management (still haven't found how to select your thrower) - overhauled master league - Spanish commentary option in ALL Euro copies That is all.

Or include the TMNT in their petz form.

Every review of the game seems to mention this as the ultimate tennis game, but none care to compare it to Grand Slam Tennis. Bizarre. Edit: I demand that remark be stricken from the record your Honour! What I meant was, no clear comparisons.

Yeah... Like eight characters and five stages or something. Seriously, if they want us to buy this, they're going to have to up the ante (especially because comparisons with SSB aren't far away).

It sure does still hold up brilliantly in this day and age doesn't it? The customization options in multiplayer... Awesome... The awards system and user stats... Awesome... Still bummed over the fact that Rare took those rights with them (although PDZ was nowhere near as sweet as the original).

I'd go one farther than comparing this to GoldenEye: think Perfect Dark 64.

This isn't Codemasters. They sourced this one (as well as F1 2009) out to Sumo Digital. Big meh. But as long as the content's the same (and I'm thinking the Wii'll get two extra tracks or something, can't remember where I read that though) and it looks better in-game, I'm sold. Need decent racers.

Chances are it'll probably be just another one of those Dungeon or Ranger games, no? Or that WiiWare pokémon battle arena thingy...

I'm in the same boat as you are dude - although a little bit more down river methinks. Or up. Depends on how you look at it. "Up crap creek without a paddle" => I'm further down. Thing that keeps me up sometimes is the future obligation to provide for the household, and as such your career becoming a drag because you daren't change it anymore for reasons of financial insecurity. Don't know if such a system exists in England, but over here in Belgium it's becoming increasingly (definitely with the current crisis crudness and all that) popular to work half-time, i.e., 30 hours a week instead of 38. Have you considered such a job as an option? Most importantly dude, you gotta ask yourself (in a few weeks/months): "do I like this job/ does this job offer me a perspective on my career goals (if any)" If the answer's negative, then no, the payoff isn't worth the social and personal deprivation if you ask me. But then again, I'm still in uni so my view is a bit, say, naive perhaps. About the whole girlfriend thing: why don't you move in together? At the very least in that case, you'll get to see her every night. Yes, every night. For the rest of your life. How 'bout them apples? Good luck tomorrow

I wouldn't. They'd need to overhaul the pokémon encounter system so that you can actually see pokémon instead of just haplessly stumbling onto one. It'd need to have online in some sort. Doesn't mean per se that it has to be an mmo, just a lobby system or battle island would do (for the first genuine wii incarnation). Lack of sleep leads to disinterest for coherence. What in blimey are you doing here at this undogly (so punish me) hour jebus? Seven hours worth of exams today. Ay Dios mío...

Nah, rather as a "pars pro toto": Nintendo of Japan. There's no other way of looking at this than sales numbers, as far as Nintendo is concerned. So no, they can't lose the warz anymorez.

Even Rocky had a montaaaaaaaage! http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153324

Galaxy 2 had me downright hulk-smashing everything save my girlfriend (poor thing had to bear me watching the presentation). Rip-off deluxo if you ask me. Lack of a plethora of third-party titles for wii was even more aggravating (saving grace being Other M). New SMB left a lukewarm aftertaste, but I'm starting to warm up to it now. They needed a freckin' montage like at TGS '08! Even more painful was my realization that my hype level for some other consoles' titles far exceeded that of Nintendo's (Forza 3, GT5, that Bethesda shooter-rpg-thingy, Dragon Age, Alpha Protocol, Mass Effect 2, Perfect Dark on XBLA, ...). Then again, it was rather funny and amusing to see Sony and Microsclerosoft "suck up" to Nintendo. BAM there it is... So here we have little glowing spheres on our sticks...

Don't think Nintendo can even lose this anymore. Even if (gods forbid) every creative genius over at Tokyo HQ were to die of syfilis and the Mexican flu, and Cammie should take over precidency from Iwata, then still Nintendo will have "won" this gen's battle. Next gen is far away, with every console being said to have a 10 year lifespan or so. In other words, a prediction or even opinion about that future is as useful as a turnip for a computer screen. Hell, by then, Skynet will have taken over and T-800's will exterminate us all!

Nah, the edited statement just means that nothing has changed from pre-E3: they're looking into online. Period. No confirmation, no repudiation (do you actually use this word in this context?). No nothing. Still one happy camper though