aspro said:

I had the same opinion of Chains of Olympus.  Ready at Dawn are the most under-rated studio of all time. In Chains of Olympus I not ONCE bemoaned the lack of a second stick, they just made it work -- plus it was a better game than the original GoW even, in terms of story and pacing.

I'm not sure what you mean by Ready at Dawn being the most underrated studio of all time.

Daxter, Chains of Olympus, Okami (wii) and Ghost of Sparta all scored 9s or higher across the board.  They are extremely highly rated. ... and deservedly so.

gamingeek said:

I am snowed in!

I spent ages getting the snow and ice off the windscreen and windows then the car can't even move away from the kerb. 3 ft out and the wheels start spinning.

i thought everything had come to a grinding halt.  were you or anyone expected to go to work today?

Sounds like a good day for staying in warm with a controller in your hand

gamingeek said:

Here is a video of the snow in my area.

Mp4 format

i wish i was there now

bugsonglass said:

i wish i was there now

So do I, so I could hand you the shovel and you could get digging me out of this mess.

We had to clear a path in the snow so the cat could go outside and take a dump.

Eurogamer said:

Cartridges for Nintendo's ambitious new 3DS handheld may be able to hold a whopping 8GB of data - that's more than an Xbox 360 DVD (6.8GB).

This is the second time I have heard this. Why do 360 discs hold only 6.8gb and  waste the rest of the space on a dual layer dvd, in an unwritable partition?

That is excellent news indeed.  The fact that it'll be out so soon is even better.  With all the "maybe it'll come, maybe it wont'" talk I was expecting it wouldn't be here until next summer. Now just give us a damned announcement about DQX and I'll be set.

i was expecting march and nintendo must be publishing it in n/a like with 9 if on their press page they talk about its release

robio said:

That would make sense, though it surprises me a little bit.  I haven't seen any recent sales numbers but I didn't think DQ9 sold especially well. If VGChartz is to be given any credence they only reported a little over 300K, which is only half of what DQ8 did.  Then again I suppose that's still a lot better than DQ5.  Whatever the reason I'm happy to get it.

DQ games have never been good sellers in america and that was part of the reason why enix closed down their north american branch and in the early to mid 90ies and why we lost out on dq 5 and 6  and a lot of other good enix games

but i don't care now because we are getting it and now its just a matter of time that eu gets it

eggmiester said:

DQ games have never been good sellers in america and that was part of the reason why enix closed down their north american branch and in the early to mid 90ies and why we lost out on dq 5 and 6  and a lot of other good enix games

but i don't care now because we are getting it and now its just a matter of time that eu gets it

You know I wonder what would have happened had Enix stuck it out in the 90's like Square did.  The Final Fantasy series wasn't really a big deal until FF7, but it was their 16 bit RPGs that set them up for RPG domination in the late 90's. Had Enix stuck around on the SNES, maybe they would have benefited a little more in this country with the DQ series.