That's probably not far off. Dollars to donuts its something for the consoles.

As much as I'd love WC4, that's not very likely with SC2 coming. In fact, if you love Blizzard RTSs, I'd start loving Starcraft, if I were you. I don't think WC4 will ever happen.

I'm don't understand your point. Structure thoughts better. C.

He wrote "its fag's" which is incorrect. He should have said "it is fags", or "it's fags". There should be no possessive. He used two in a row, each incorrect.

Correction: "and it's fags like this..."

Two apostrophe errors: B-.

Also: don't say "fag". It's offensive.

Also: I agree.

I call bullshit.

My main complaint with the game is the camera. It alone is enough to completely ruin the game for me. (And it has on more than one occasion.) I just happen to hate all those other things too. And that certainly doesn't help.

I loved Ninja Gaiden. Alot. I played through the original, Black, and Sigma probably a dozen times all put together. This only makes NG2's mediocrity all the more painful. I still like it overall... its just not awesome.

And by the way, ALL the things I write are "just [my] opinions". What else would they be? I've never understood that retort.

Every other aspect is simply awful. Enough has been said about the camera being terrible. But the environments, art direction, story and just about everything else in the game are just as last-gen and broken as the camera.

Really overrated. It should be getting 6's and 7's not 8's and 9s. And it should only be that high becuase I must admit, even with the uninspired and barely-noticbale-incremental improvements on the combat system, its still the best out there. Personally there's too much garbage in the way of fully enjoying it tho.

"it's the topic of the article"

Wrong. It's not mentioned in the title, and is only one of the 6 paragraphs in the write-up. In fact, the mention of the paid firmware is the only mention of the iPod touch in the entire thing. It just happens to be what all of you petty, entitled idiots have latched onto. I don't get what there is to discuss. If you don't like it don't buy an iPod touch. What other point is there to make? Yet, on and on the discussion goes. Pathetic.

"You tried to justify it"

No. No, I didn't. I didn't even talk about it, other than saying how we shouldn't. Are you sure you responded to the right comment? Why would I justify it when I agree it sucks and Apple is wrong for doing it? I'm on your fucking side. I just think its a stupid, pointless thing to talk about.

"They halved the price of the iPhone? Big deal."

Yes, yes it is. It means a market penetration for the iPhone that could possibly be unprecedented, making the gaming aspects of the platform even more relevant, especially in the US, where cell-phone gaming has never really excelled. Also, halving the price of a high profile gadget like this is pretty unprecedented as well. So it is a big deal. (I'm sorry were you being sarcastic?)

Talk about whatever you want, I guess. I'm sure there are still plenty of important points to make about how much Apple sucks, and OMG M$ FTW, etc. Maybe there are even some other people here that agree with you aready that you can try and pick arguments with.

I'm not justifying it. It sucks. But's it also not news, and easily the least important thing that was announced today.

I love that you took my neutral comment that was trying to steer the conversation in more productive direction as an actually argument in the topic I was trying to avoid.

I'm afraid that pretty conclusively incriminates you as someone who's just looking to argue and not really have a discussion.

Talk about gaming on the iPhone.

What about all the cool games they showed today? Or, I dunno, maybe the fact that they halved the price of the iPhone?

$200 puts it the range of other handheld gaming devices. Plus: you get a really cool phone.

There is no chance "failure" here, at least not on Apple's part. The worst that could happen is some people charge too much for their software and it doesn't sell as well as they hoped.

I don't think it's going to take over the DS, but I'm also pretty sure that was never the intention. This is new territory to be sure, at least for America. These will be nicer than any cell phone games we've been accustomed to. Whether they'll rival DS/PSP quality is yet to be seen, though what I know of the architecture, its certainly possible. But again, to consider it in direct competition with dedicated gaming platforms is a little foolish. It's in competition with other phones. And to beat the gaming offerings on other phones in the US market will not be that difficult.

Big publishers might try this $20-30 dollar thing, but it's important to remember that ANYONE can make games for the iPhone. The SDK is free. I have it on this machine now in fact, and I don't even know Objective-C.

Point being, there will be PLENTY of games in the $5-10 range. There will be plenty of AWESOME games in the $5-10 range. The sheer number of developers (big-time or otherwise) that will be interested in trying their hand on this promising new platform with a built in distribution system will be so staggering that quality can be practically guaranteed at every price bracket.

I know why I hate Slash:

1) Guns-n-Roses sucked
2) Boss battles ruined Guitar Hero

This implies that in the ABSENCE of context, Microsoft automatically assumes the term "gay" is a pejorative. This is not only ridiculous, but could easily be construed as ILLEGAL.

Boooo Microsoft!

I still think i could do it... most of the levels aren't THAT hard.... unless there's some sort of ridiculous difficulty ramp up at the end.

Hardest game ever? No way. The fact that you have infinite tries instantly kills any argument. Limit it to 3 lives then we'll talk.

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I know its only my own fault and I don't mean anything against Mark, but this is exactly the type of thing that makes me not want to read Kotaku or any gaming blog.

What a nice pleasant surprise that would have been to discover that for myself, especially as a big Gervais fan.

Do we really need to know EVERYTHING about a game before it comes out?

Again, I know its my own fault, this is the kind of thing I have to expect to see on a gaming news site. Still frustrating tho. I don't want to just cut myself off from game news but I like to know as little as possible about media I've already decided I will consume.
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If all of you were respoding to some other idiot's comment that I didn't notice, then nevermind. But the real point I was trying to get at was why do gamers live in this perpetual state of informational gluttony? It's a much larger issue that drives the entire industry. Instead of a discussion about that, I get called a "ridiculous whining little bithc (sic)", even tho I never complained and never even used the word "spoiler".

To sum up, thank you Mark for the valuable information. Now if you could please post instructions on how one can disable the commenting system so I never have to read or be tempted to respond to the absolute mind-numbing nonsense some people consider discourse around here.

What a nice pleasant surprise that would have been to discover that for myself, especially as a big Gervais fan.

Do we really need to know EVERYTHING about a game before it comes out?

Again, I know its my own fault, this is the kind of thing I have to expect to see on a gaming news site. Still frustrating tho. I don't want to just cut myself off from game news but I like to know as little as possible about media I've already decided I will consume.

They could very easily have just made a linking system for your psn id and the konami stuff. like GH3 or many others.

Super weak. Boo konami.

"So how could you have a conversation with people who don't understand what you're talking about and think that you're sort of seeing race where nothing exists?"

Doesn't look like you can N'Gai. Sorry.

Here, here. It's sickening really. Fanatics will bash anything they see as a threat to their passion. They will mock even worthy objections, just because they feel it's part of their strange sense of duty.

LOL! "KKK"?! "Nazi"?!! "Here are Kotaku, we have civil discussions"? All in one post? Is your irony bone broken?

I don't even know how to respond... I get pissed off at a guy denying the seriousness of racism and I'm a KKK member? Walk me through that logic, would you please?

(Dammit, I told myself I wasn't going to come back to this thread...)

Reading the comments that got posted since since I started my last, it seems that lots of people are going to agree with the initial commenter. I hope it's just a case of the most ignorant being the ones to speak the loudest and quickest trying to convince themselves as much as anyone else, and that a more rational discusion develops later on.

I don't think I'm going to be able to stomach sicking around to find out tho. Have fun.

I know its not cool to directly bash other commenters, but fuck you and your retarded comment, Sweet Tooth. N'Gai makes a valid point and that's how you respond?

Fucking hayseed.

Sooo offensive. It'll be a huge success.

As I understand it, there's a smaller, ready-to-go copy of the movie sitting on the BD that can just be copied over. So not even all movies would support it. Only ones that had that feature built in. It's unlikely you'd just be able to rip any BluRay. That could prove problematically uncontrollable for Sony.

I don't think the kid will ever notice the game-related painting.