I like both Carnage and Grammaton. I'm probably alone in this, though.

Iga I LOVE the newspaper idea.  I love the commentary we can add, all that stuff, just great all around and I would be in all the way.

Carnage and Grammaton, it scares me that recently I have agreed with them almost all the time now.  Its like they cooled off or something or they are playing some crazy mind games with me cause I am almost always on their side of the arguments now. It pains me everytime I post that I agree with Grammaton, or when I *gasp* defend him from other crazies. Carnage, he is just really really set in his views, he views Nintendo one way and nothing in the world can change that. Just ignore that aspect of him and he has not been bad either.  Maybe its cause there have not been enough Nintendo news around, I don't know.

“Let me preface this answer with a statement to set expectations that we’ve not announced another Z&W and I’m not so sure there will be one on any reasonable timeline.” - Christian Svensson, Vice-President of Strategic Planning & Business Development of Capcom

These are not crocodile tears, they aer the tears of devestation and despair.

In other news Sony has a free PS3 when you buy a Bravia offer. Bravia any good for gaming?

Newspaper:

I'm liking that idea a lot. In fact it's a damn fine idea.

I'm especially fond of the opinion piece ideas (and other such articles) as long as we continue to have the same blogging facilities etc. heck, you could be able to submit your own pieces (that you post on the blog area) and the GG or whoever chooses which ones per week or whatever.

Apart from that, with the sudden influx of posts, I really think a forum would be quite useful!

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Our Arguement - Holy Moly! I still remember that. Damn over a year ago too. Hmm...I definately would reword my post for todays time. And ehh you were fine, believe me I've ran into far more boiling headed posters (you should've seen the stuff Carnage said to me, and don't even get me started with the System Wars and SRK stuff).

You Complaining About Fanservice And Unwillingess to Change - I agree with this completely. I am sick and fucking tired with franchises not evolving due to the fanbase having a stick up their ass. Now I didn't like Final Fantasy XII because it felt like a single player MMO, but I do appaul Square-Enix for doing something new in the series. As for Twilight Princess, that was that games ONE flaw it didn't differtiate itself from the others enough. Gannon's "surprise" show up was a real game-killer. I mean here I am just been introduced to this now cast of goodies and baddies when I find out the one behind it all is the same fucking guy from the rest of the games (X out MM).

I remember going on the Atlus forum and arguing with users how Persona 3 wasn't the "bastard child' of the series. See while "Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne" is known to be "innovative" in reality it was anything but. I just followed the stem of what was laid down since the NES games (Yes, Nintendo Entertainment System games). The only thing it did different from the SNES's Shin Megami Tensei II is that the game wasn't a piece of fucking crap and they changed it from first person to third person. The rest of the games were all the exact same despite their titles. They were: First Person Dungeon Crawlers, Involved Demons, had the whole Occult Theme. Devil Summoner PS2 tried some things new but it was so low in production and in quality it's more so the "World of Mana" of the series. Persona 3 however totally turned things around. It introduced new design, core mechanics, and a new style.

Despite it being a SPIN-OFF title fans bitched unbelivably. "Where's the Occult!?" "Why isn't everything a dungeon?", "No negotiatiing!?". It then got marked down a similar road of "Rainbox Six Vegas" as casualized for RPG n00bs. I personally just laughed at this I mean it was a very well made game and in no way for casuals being as hard as it is. I told them that obviously it won't be good as Nocturne that game was built off of an almost 15 year old formula. How could Persona 3 compete for doing something TOTALLY NEW for the FIRST time? But nope they said "I didn't know what I was talking about" and that "the game was dumbed down".

This is the same shit with Resident Evil 4. "It isn't as good as a SURVIVAL HORROR GAME as the previous Resident Evils". NO FUCKING SHIT IT ISN'T. How many Resident Evil games that followed that formula were around before 4? Nearly 10? Not to mention that the series copy and pasted "Alone in the Darks" formula. And from what I've heard the series truly thrive until the 2nd game. So that's what the THIRD try? And Resident Evil 4 was pretty much the first game to do that third person over the shoulder view. At least the first Resident Evil had Alone in the Dark and Adventure games to put its head over. I'm sure Capcom was concentrating more so on "let's see if we can make this perspective work" then "lets make a game that defines survival horror".

I could easily list more examples but I think you all know where I am going with this. See this is how you get genres like the Fighting genre or the Adventure genre or the Strategy genre. Basically when a new game does something new it gets ignored and when a popular series does something new it gets bitched about and ignored by the fanbase.

Sonic Chronicles (DS)

I just don't understand why anyone would want to turn Sonic the Hedgehog into an RPG. Bioware may be great at this RPG stuff, but I just can't imagine playing a 20+ hour RPG where Sonic has to go around talking with all those lame characters all the time.

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Huh?

The Mighty Xenogears, circa 1998:

36 updates today damnit.

EGM SCORES

We Love Golf! (Wii, Capcom): B
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon (Wii, Square Enix): B+
Battlefield Bad Company (PS3/Xbox360, EA): B
Civilization Revolution (PS3/Xbox 360, 2K Games): B+, A-, A-
Top Spin 3 (Wii/PS3/Xbox 360, 2K Sports): C+
SingStar (PS3, Sony): B+
Haze (PS3, Ubisoft): D+
Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3, Konami): A-, A-, A
Supreme Commander (Xbox 360, THQ): C
Spectral Force 3 (Xbox 360, Atlus): B-
Don King Presents PrizeFighter (Xbox 360, 2K Sports): D+
Ninja Gaiden II (Xbox 360, Tecmo): B-, B, B+
Final Fantasy IV (NDS, Square Enix): B
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 (PSP, Sony): B-
Penny Arcade Adv. Eps.1 (Xbox 360 XLA, Hothead Games): B
Lost Winds (Wii Wiiware, Frontier): B
Roogoo (Xbox XBA, SouthPeak Interactive): A-
Echochrome (PS3 PSN, Sony): B

FAMITSU SCORES

Nanashi no Game (NDS, Square Enix): 8 / 8 / 7 / 7 - (30/40)
Panpaka Panya-San (NDS, Starfish): 6 / 5 / 5 / 5 - (21/40)
Riku to Johan: Kaeta Nimai no E (NDS, Fonfun): 6 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (27/40)
Akko de Pon! Ikasama Hourouki (Wii, Success): 4 / 5 / 4 / 3 - (16/40)
Jawa: Mammoth to Himitsu no Ishi (Wii, Spike): 7 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (28/40)
Initial D: Extreme Stage (PS3, Sega): 6 / 7 / 7 / 6 - (26/40)

Capcom has licenced UE3 for a western developed game.

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