A lot of bardyness going on.

Gameplay-wise, it was pretty decent. But yeah, don't waste your hopes on this when Fire Emblem DS is also coming out.

I don't know what that means!

Even if 97% of the games on this service end up being nostalgia wank-fests, why not buy the 3% that hold up against their age? If you can buy the games individually (which you apparently can) then I think this is a great idea.

If they plan on playing the same game as me. But yeah, not to much avail.

Which aren't too shabby as far as distractions go.

@Troubadour: And yet you do too? I don't get it. Shit, fine, I loooooove Tim Buckley! I want to marry him! Oh, he's just the dreamiest! I can't believe all you bad men called him a pedophile! Wah wah wah. My original post was to tell a kid to stop calling people fags and provide proof when calling someone a pedophile. It would apply to anyone else.

My main disagreement with Corrin was saying "no talent fags," but calling someone a pedophile is a pretty hefty label. Like, as bad as it gets.

And I love how you moved from "no talent fags" to "utter waste." Oh, belch forth the utter waste! Looky here, Ma, this kid is trying to sound like Shakespeare!

Just because you are anonymous behind the avatar, doesn't mean you get to be a dick. Calm the fuck down.

It's just uncomfortable, and I don't know if I can fully articulate it. I guess it's kinda like when you are on a double date with a married couple, and they just start fighting, out of the blue. There you were, having a good time in a nice restaurant, and out of left field they start yelling at each other. It just makes me want to aim my eyes downward and slink out of there.

I enjoy CAD, Penny Arcade, VG catz, and plenty more... I've been a "netizen" since '95 or '96, and I've seen all these comics grow up to where they are. Yeah, it might not be as good as the old days or whatever, but I guess it's a small sense of loyalty. I enjoy ZP also, I think he's hilarious, but he's drawing a line in the sand where there never needed to be one. It just feels too personal, like Tim Buckley was a dick to him or something, and this is the vengeance.

1. Infinity Ward no longer wants another developer messing with their franchise, so they are cool with Treyarch making spin-offs, but not "true" COD games.

2. Activision doesn't want World at War cannibalizing sales of COD4, which could potentially happen if they call this COD5. Your average Joe Blow gamer tends to think that the higher the number, the better the game. This easily could have happened when COD3 was released, and Activision could have had their "reputation" tarnished because of staggering disappoinment.

Theory 1 says the real developer of COD cannot trust Treyarch to make a good game. Theory 2 says the publisher of COD cannot trust Treyarch to make a good game.

Agent Boners
Aged Boners
Age of Boners
Age of Bone-an
Age of Conan

Also, Chromehounds = Danger Dogs

"$400 consoles" - What? The SNES and NES were 200 bucks when released, the Wii is only 250. If you wanted to splurge and get a 3DO? 700 bucks. And that is not inflation corrected. Correcting for inflation, they were closer to 350 or so. I remember plenty of games selling new for 50 bucks, once again, adjusted for inflation, it's not too far off from what we pay now.

"multiple skus" - NES was released in 2 different SKUs. the one with ROB, and the one without.

"tons of bland games with pretty graphics" - Better than tons of bland games without pretty graphics, no? I remember renting a game revolving around the Spot from 7up cans. And McDonalds games. And a Noid game. A majority of the games released back then also sucked.

"tons of FPS's" - or tons of side scrollers?

"friend codes" - better than no online at all

"defective hardware" - I had to start blowing my NES so much I started charging it 10 bucks.

I think your glasses are a bit rosy. Don't get me wrong, I often pine for the old days myself, but videogames have been pretty iterative, in a positive way. It's only getting better!

I heard somewhere that everyone who owns the original will get the extra content free. Except the physical stuff, I guess.

You are a living representation of all the immaturity, overreactionary, fanboy bullshit that sometimes make me want to abandon gaming forever, just so I'm never confused for somebody like that.

"They can die a horrible death"

Are you kidding me?

I really find the notion of "print game journalism will die!" hilarious. Have any of you been to a large bookstore? Looked at the magazine section? These are mags made for single PC applications. You can subscribe to a magazine that is all about Dreamweaver, an app that helps you make web pages. That reader base just may also be online. There are mags for people who love cats, or dogs, or I even saw a mag for people who like old gangsters. 20 or so different mags about lowriders, sometimes segmented into specific styles of lowriders.

People LOVE magazines, and a percentage of those people also game. I do believe some magazines will fail, but at least a couple will survive, and they will probably win the talent and reader base. Personally, I can't stand reading anything on a computer screen for more than a couple pages, but I'll sit down with a mag and read a 6 page preview no problem. And, I don't think I'm the only one.

Ever noticed how online games journalism looks? A couple paragraphs, and a handful of screenshots. Yes, there are some exceptions blah blah blah, but for the most part, I'll continue to read extended coverage on good ol' dead trees, and grab my gaming tidbits from sites such as this one.

But I will struggle on!

@people who just own a PS3: the online interface for the 360 is fucking amazing, and I'm sorry you are missing it. Turning on my PS3 to play online games is quite often an exercise in frustration after I got used to all the little things XBL got right.