That 1-up editorial was just a simple way to stir people up and get impressions for the site. I kick myself for even reading it. One less than steller installment of a series does not mean its dead. God knows Laura Croft would have been dead years ago if that was the case. And as far as reshaping Samus' personality as a weak woman...well whatever. I think they pushed that a little too hard. Ultimately no one gave a crap about her personalty before so I'm pretty sure that's never been a key selling point of the series.

As far as the actual gameplay went, it was okay. Action games just aren't my thing though. I got about halfway through and that's about as far as I wanted to go. I've never been a Metroid fan - the last game in the series  I beat was Metroid 2 for the GB. I was just more curious in any case. Team Ninja did some pretty cool things with the controls, and if it could have been tightened up a little bit with Motion Plus it would been worth copying by other developers.

US gamers who want to send a message about wanting Xenoblade have begun pre-ordering Monado (the original name for xenoblade) on amazon.com, it's had an 18'000 % increase in sales.

Also Nintendo's facebook has had an overnight surge of 800 messages asking for the games.

Websites are picking up on it: http://kotaku.com/5815447/how-badly-do-you-want-the-last-story-pandoras-tower-and-xenoblade-for-wii

Hmm. That save restriction for RE Mercenaries won't affect me seeing as how I don't buy used games nor do I trade in my games as well as being typically to only one playing them. I doubt they won't allow someone to replay the game.

Just opened the Go Vacation thread. Can you guess why?

Just started Mafia 2, a few hours in. Man what a beautiful game, the next GTA needs to have detailed graphics like this. Really loving the atmosphere so far. I probably should have went back to Fable 3 after finishing Witcher 2, but fuck it.

bugsonglass said:

That was a very well-written and thought out letter Edge.  Hope they don't prove to be as stubborn and pig-headed as they were under Yamaouchi

bugsonglass said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

bugsonglass said:

That was a very well-written and thought out letter Edge.  Hope they don't prove to be as stubborn and pig-headed as they were under Yamaouchi

Don't encourage him, he will never learn that way. Edge that was a horrible letter. Where are the insults to Reggie? Where is the threat of rapping him with a spiky dildo? Where are the threats to hurt his family and children? Where are the pictures of Edgy nailing Reggie's wife and his mother? Son, I am dissapoint.

that is always another way of doing things

Wow this Xenoblade campaign is taking off. Its selling like crazy on Amazon and Nintendo is getting hammered on facebook. IGN is going to run a major story on it. Nintendo has to take action now.

bugsonglass said:

That was a very well-written and thought out letter Edge.  Hope they don't prove to be as stubborn and pig-headed as they were under Yamaouchi

Thanks bugs....I'm just so disgusted that I felt I had to.

Iga_Bobovic said:

bugsonglass said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

bugsonglass said:

That was a very well-written and thought out letter Edge.  Hope they don't prove to be as stubborn and pig-headed as they were under Yamaouchi

Don't encourage him, he will never learn that way. Edge that was a horrible letter. Where are the insults to Reggie? Where is the threat of rapping him with a spiky dildo? Where are the threats to hurt his family and children? Where are the pictures of Edgy nailing Reggie's wife and his mother? Son, I am dissapoint.

that is always another way of doing things

Let's see Reggie ignoring Xenoblade while there is a video on the net of Edgy skullfucking his mom!

Yeah, I was bummed thinking they were going to do it by saves, but since it is by cheevos they'll pull it from my gamertag.   I also love it when sequels do this, I'm always a bit disappointed when devs don't do it these days.

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A few weeks ago, when Nintendo said they were going to come up with online profiles similar to PSN/XBL I was thinking how great would be be if they set up the system before the U launches so you could set up your profile on the Wii and have the Wii sweep your calendar and generate cheevos based on your times spent playing each game.  They could also unify your accounts over their handhelds as well.  It would give them a chance to test the system before launch of the U and give current Wii owners a reason to look at their back catalog as well as make it easier to transfer user rights for existing DL games (if they are even going to do that).

But, you know, chances of something like that occuring to them... zilch.