Famitsu reviews

Tales of the Abyss (3DS, Bandai Namco): 8 / 8 / 7 / 8 - (31/40)

Akogare Girls Collection: Ohanaya-San Monogatari (NDS, Columbia): 7 / 6 / 7 / 6 - (26/40)

To Heart 2: Dungeon Travelers (PSP, Aqua Plus): 8 / 7 / 8 / 7 - (30/40)

Shutsugeki! Otometachi no Senjou 2: Ikusabana no Kizuna (PSP, System Soft): 5 / 5 / 6 / 5 - (21/40)
GoldenEye 007 (Wii, Nintendo): 9 / 9 / 8 / 8 - (34/40)

Test Drive Unlimited 2 (PS3/Xbox 360, Atari): 8 / 8 / 8 / 9 - (33/40)

Power Smash 4 (PS3/Xbox 360, Sega): 7 / 8 / 7 / 9 - (31/40)

You see that? Goldeneye got two 9 out of 10 reviews and this is from the Japanese.

When I heard about tesselation and how the next gen of consoles would use it and it would be so much better, I did not imagine these "improvements"

Agnates said:

Improvements don't come for free, someone has to make them. Obviously Crytek wasn't going to remake the whole game to take advantage of it, just do it on easy things like tiled bricks and such. Tessellation is a seamless, extreme level of detail setting. You basically get a ton more polygons for things up close and in view than you'd normally have. How those polygons are used is still up to the developers.

I'm just joking about.

So this story is depressing. Some 5 year old kid broke his TV screen while playing Wii, probably smashed the remote into the screen or something. So his mom punches him so hard in the gut that he suffered internal injuries and died.

Ok, 3DS owners.  You've had time with your handheld, so give us the verdict on the battery.  How long does it actually work without recharging?

travo said:

Ok, 3DS owners.  You've had time with your handheld, so give us the verdict on the battery.  How long does it actually work without recharging?

And the eye strain factor please.  Seems since launch it's been a non-issue.

aspro said:

And the eye strain factor please.  Seems since launch it's been a non-issue.

None, unless you have experienced problems with 3D in the past. Then its your fault.

Battery is about 3 hours with everything on. 8-9 hours as a DS.

So it seems like Mortal Kombat packs screwed up the online part of the game. That is why I was having so many connection issues. Seems if you have DLC packs and the person you play with does not, you get desynced often. Or if you got a free DLC with the game and bought the full pack later, you get issues. Even the new patch today was taken down cause it had issues.

Dvader said:

If you are not playing Outland you suck.

Oh Yeah?  Well, you guys playing Outland swallow!

Quake was single handedly responsible for my GPA dropping from a 3.5 to a 2.8 in one semester in college. Parties, drinking, women, whatever... none of that messed with my classes. Quake.... yeah that fucked things up for me just a bit. Funny thing is to this day I've never actually played through the main game. I almost exclusively played Quake CTF with friends, and god knows we could play that for hours.

I think Quake is part of the reason that to this day I'm not really a fan of FPS. After the good times I had with that game, no other will ever come close so why bother?