robio said:

For those of you who have interest in Afrika I just want to let you know to be very wary of it and wait for a lot of reviews.  I just played Natsume's dumbed down version for the Wii - Wild Kingdom.  What a piece of crap.  Pushing aside the graphics, this game plays like crap.  It's not a real fluid experience. Every time you want to take a picture you find "activity", stop the jeep, go to a new screen where the animals are.  Then you have to creep around a designated area taking pictures of animals or going after an assigned pose (get a pic of a giraffe eating).  And then you leave to go back to the jeep and do it again. It's all remarkably boring.

Now Afrika will likely be more seemless, and obviously have much better graphics.  But if it's just taking pics.... well it'll need another hook like Endless Ocean has.  But at the end of the day it better be night and day different than Wild Kingdom, or it'll just be another pretty game that gets old after 15 minutes.  

I have the Korean version (Hakuna Matata) for the PS3. It's a solid experience, very zen. I would not pay more than $20 for it though. It's more of a PSN experience than a full-game.

gamingeek said:

Updating now, holy hell, Shenmue fans click this:

http://www.gfdata.de/archiv09-2009-gamefront/4532.html

 Posted the trailer earlier this morning dude.

bugsonglass said:

Lost Winds 2 out tomorrow, in Europe!!! yay

what is Final Fight 2?  i don't think i ever saw it at the arcades?

also, what's with the ambush release for Lost Winds 2?  i like it, personally but i hope it doesn't hurt its sales prospects

FF2 on SNES, it was okay. Not great.

I think that Lost winds 2 being downloadable and chea is going to break my gaming paralysis duck.

darthhomer said:

gamingeek said:

Updating now, holy hell, Shenmue fans click this:

http://www.gfdata.de/archiv09-2009-gamefront/4532.html

Posted the trailer earlier this morning dude.

Nice.

EU is getting Lost Winds?  You don't deserve that. I deserve that.  That was my freaking icon for almost the entire year so far.  Is this some twisted punishment for changing over to Harvest Moon??

Actually this reminds me I need to figure out how to acess the WiiShop without updating my firmware.  I'm not going near that new update if there's even a risk of it bricking my system.  I'm sure the Homebrew channel was a way around it though.

robio said:

EU is getting Lost Winds?  You don't deserve that. I deserve that.  That was my freaking icon for almost the entire year so far.  Is this some twisted punishment for changing over to Harvest Moon??

Actually this reminds me I need to figure out how to acess the WiiShop without updating my firmware.  I'm not going near that new update if there's even a risk of it bricking my system.  I'm sure the Homebrew channel was a way around it though.

Oh crap.

I just remembered. I cant access the shop channel without risking the update.

This sucks!

Iga_Bobovic said:

robio said:

EU is getting Lost Winds?  You don't deserve that. I deserve that.  That was my freaking icon for almost the entire year so far.  Is this some twisted punishment for changing over to Harvest Moon??

Actually this reminds me I need to figure out how to acess the WiiShop without updating my firmware.  I'm not going near that new update if there's even a risk of it bricking my system.  I'm sure the Homebrew channel was a way around it though.

See the hacker's thread how to access Wii shop without firmware update!

Ahhhh this is perfect. Much easier process than the ones I'd found on my own.

http://www.gfdata.de/archiv09-2009-gamefront/segaracing-02.jpg

SteelAttack said:

Any news on that fucked update yet? Fucking Nintendo, fix that shit.

It's fixed. If yourWii gets bricked call Nintendo and they may or may not fix it. Or buy another one. Iwata will probably come into the forums later to go over why this is superior to a revised update.