robio said:

aspro said:

i was listening to my favorinte game under podcast today.

In it, I talk abuot a game I have NO MEMORY OF ACTUALLY PLAYING. In fact, if any one had bet me a thousand dollars on my testimony of having played this game I would have doubled down (and lost).

Have you guys ever had a failure of memory about a game (or anything) like this?

... keep in mind my story about waking up twice and not only knowing not what country or room I was in, but actually lacking an identity at all, which I attribute to my bi-nationality and house made up for two buildings.

Oh yeah. Primarily with sub-par RPGs. For instance there was a SNES game called Lagoon that sat on my shelf for years. I know I played it. I remember going out and buying it, and coming home and turning it on. I could not tell you a single detail about the game other than the main character had blonde hair (and now that I look at screenshots, it would appear I'm wrong about his hair so I officially remember nothing about the game). No idea about the story, gameplay, or even really the graphics now. You could put it in front of me with another name, and I'm confident I'd have no idea that I had played it.

yeah that tends to happen with me and paint-by-numbers JRPG's now you mention it.

Unrelated, I wish Blue Dragon had turned into a full franchise.

robio said:

And Nintendo should court Kojima to make a Metroid game....or Star Tropics.

Again with the Star Tropics.

travo said:

My concern is Konami will whore out Metal Gear like nobody's business.  Can't you see them in a board meeting figuring out how to do a MGS 6 without Kojima?  They'll just figure it'll be ok to just come up with the most outlandish shit and hope it sticks.  " Ok, Snake had a long lost sister, Goddess Snake, who he thought was his lover for many years. She actually had his twins, Cain and Abel, who at six years of age, are leaders of a radical group like ISIS. She's a spy trying to take over the world with Metal Gear Rico."

Isn't that actually the plot of MGS anyway?

Hyrule Warriors is so good, and a great example of at least one strategy that Nintendo got right on the Wii U.

Instead of having outside developers work on direct sequels to Nintendo IP, like in the Gamecube days, have them instead create spinoff franchises connecting both Nintendo's games AND the developers games. Brilliant. Hyrule Warriors is a perfect example of this done right. Its a win-win situation for all involved.

1. Its a win for Tecmo Koei, in that they just created basically a new enty in their franchise that is guaranteed to be a hit for them.
2. Its going to gain their franchise more fans than they had before.
3. Its a win for Nintendo because they've just created a hit spinoff for the Zelda series, and its one more high quality game for their system.

For me personally, I never had any interest in Dynasty Warriors before. But after playing this game, now I want to go back and check out ALL the Warriors titles.

aspro said:

robio said:

And Nintendo should court Kojima to make a Metroid game....or Star Tropics.

Again with the Star Tropics.

Star Tropics is godly.

Xbox For Sale - the rumours just won't quit :

Xbox One sells better month-on-month than the Wii U, but that's cold comfort indeed given that Nintendo's console is widely seen as an outright commercial failure, and Nintendo has all but confirmed that it will receive an early bath, with a replacement in the form of Nintendo NX set to be announced in 2016. Microsoft isn't anywhere near that level of crisis, but nor are its sales in 2015 thus far outside the realms of comparison with Wii U - and their installed bases are nigh-on identical

OMG! Breath of Fire 6!!!

Mobile?!

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........

edgecrusher said:

Hyrule Warriors is so good, and a great example of at least one strategy that Nintendo got right on the Wii U.

Instead of having outside developers work on direct sequels to Nintendo IP, like in the Gamecube days, have them instead create spinoff franchises connecting both Nintendo's games AND the developers games. Brilliant. Hyrule Warriors is a perfect example of this done right. Its a win-win situation for all involved.

1. Its a win for Tecmo Koei, in that they just created basically a new enty in their franchise that is guaranteed to be a hit for them.
2. Its going to gain their franchise more fans than they had before.
3. Its a win for Nintendo because they've just created a hit spinoff for the Zelda series, and its one more high quality game for their system.

For me personally, I never had any interest in Dynasty Warriors before. But after playing this game, now I want to go back and check out ALL the Warriors titles.