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I got two Dead Island: Riptide cards. Also, i noticed there's an Introversion pack on sale for five bucks, that seems like a ridiculously good deal to me.

^ I strongly suspect this, yes.

According to this, Nintendo wasn't just trying to stop the stream, but completely halt the Smash tournament.

Also, Crimson Shroud continues to be a thing that is both amazing and inexpensive.

It's very light on strategy/tactics, that's pretty much the crux of what i was saying. There's a ton of systems in there, it plays around like it's giving you a lot of options, but it's ultimately a game where healing is a free action and the eventual answer to every problem is to brute force through it with awesome combos. It's fun, but it's not a strategy game. If you want an excellent, thoughtful strategy RPG on the 3DS, you absolutely need to be playing Fire Emblem: Awakening. (Edit: Which you already said you were, so ignore me.)

If anybody's Re-tail ever offers bounties on apples, that is actually noteworthy to me. I could probably make a million or so off of that. Perfect fruit is serious business!

Does the system being region-locked create any problems with accessing and buying from the different digital storefronts as you apparently are? Those are certainly some great games to go with. I've had the completely wedged into my brain for a few weeks now.If you're going digital, you might want to register a european club nintendo account that you'll be able to tie your 3DS into, and then also write down your system's serial number for safe keeping. Admittedly, i don't know how it varies by region, but Nintendo does seem to have some regrettably convoluted and unfriendly processes in place to help people recover or replace their purchases if their system is stolen. On the digital front again, keep in mind that the retail games tend to be fairly massive relative to the eShop-exclusive games, you'll probably want at least a 16GB SDcard. Also, it's worth checking the store for sales semi-frequently. The button for that section is usually kind of hidden way off screen to the right somewhere, but they have new things on sale just about every week. AS FOR MYSELF. I have been playing Project X Zone, which is a super, super dumb game. It would be a little too obvious and easy to shit on it for looking like a strategy RPG while having only the thinest pretensions of any squad tactics, so i don't think i will. The story is also incredibly terrible. I'm having fun with it though, it's by no means a bad game, just one that's going to have a very specific appeal. Such as, having at least a passing familiarity with everything represented in it, i'm enjoying all the silly injokes and knowing nods, and the battle system at the game's core is really very fun. You're mixing different available moves, supports, and assists to juggle targets, trying to hit them with different attacks while they're at different heights in the juggle. The game more or less breaks down to simply being about trying to maximize your damage each turn, ideally ending battles before any enemies are able to deal serious damage to your party. The game kind of makes everything seem way more complicated than it is, layering systems upon systems, but it's ultimately a pretty simple, fun, stupid game.

Also, it's in reference to turkey giblets, it's comparing the pieces of meat left over from exploding a person to turkey giblets. So there's the etymology for that. (Also, it's a soft G. Only horrible people believe otherwise.) There really aren't even a lot of shooters that have gibs anymore, when fidelity started ramping up real high, it just got a little too grim. The first Gears of War had entrails spilling out of guys after you sawed them in half. Apparently Cliff Bleszinski realized it was getting kind of fucked up and decided to reel it back in for the sequels. (If you compare the games, the gibs in the sequels are much less defined, a little more abstract, and therefore somewhat less grisly.) Actually, i always heard it said that woot was, as an expression upon finding a nice drop, meant to be a portmanteau of "wonderful loot".

Yeah, it's just linguistic corruption, there's no interesting etymology behind it. More reason you should hate people who think it's appropriate to slip "pwn" into a conversation.

Alright, another nostalgia post. I'm going back as far as my memory can reliably take me.

Oh hey! Another one of these threads. I love these threads.

I like "Jungling" as a bit of lingo. I don't play any LORDS MANAGEMENT games, so i don't even know what it means, but it always, always makes me laugh.

As bad as things are for the Wii U right now, the 3DS is actually doing incredibly well. There might need to be a future where Nintendo is a one-system company, bring all of their development power to bear on a single platform. It would become an absolutely irresistable purchase. None of the other big console players are splitting their focus like Nintendo is. (Unless you want to pretend that Sony cares about the Vita.)

It actually took them about about half a day to a day from the time the story went up on shoryuken.com. If it's really another outgrowth of the let's play thing, it makes even less sense here and i think Nintendo is pretty indefensible in the matter. (Mini-rant: I think the let's play thing was pretty indefensible to begin with. They weren't going after people who were trying to fraudulently profit off of Nintendo IP, they were going after people doing a job that publicizes and evangelizes the products Nintendo makes. Nintendo may as well go after the big news and review sites as well.) If it's, more understandably, just Nintendo wanting to keep its distance from the boys club ethos of the FGC, all they had to do was literally nothing and they were fine. They still enjoy a huge swell of good feelings for Smash Bros in a time when they're trying to promote two new Smash Bros games.

This latest podcast is something really beautiful, these guys all knew Ryan Davis for a long, long time, they have an awful lot of fun stories about him and the impact he had on their lives. They struggle at a few points, but it never turns morose, they approach it the right way.

Did any of you guys hear about the Evo thing? Nintendo informed the organizers of the Evolution Championship that they would not be allowed to stream footage of their planned Super Smash Bros Melee tournament. (With nearly 700 people competing in the Smash tourney alone, and Evo streams typically drawing viewership numbers of over a hundred thousand people. It's one of the very, very biggest competitive Video game tournaments in the world.) To worsen the hurt, the slot of the tournament Super Smash Brothers Melee was taking up was decided through a fundraiser for breast cancer research, with Smash fans donating the most, at nearly a hundred thousand dollars, to get their game back in Evo for the first time in six years. It was starting to look like a real big mess, but then either something was sorted out behind the scenes, or Nintendo acquiesced as a result of the outrage, because it was later announced that Evo will actually be going ahead as initially planned starting this friday. It only took about a day for Nintendo to reverse its decision, but the news spread quickly. They turned an incredible swell of excitement for Smash from their biggest fans into a negative story.

Nintendo's response to people requesting a messaging system on the 3DS was Swapnote, something wildly impractical for the reasons people were requesting a messaging system. That's how Nintendo rolls. As for visits, if you just want to see somebody's town, the Dream Suite is the easiest way about it. (Hey! Hey! My town's Dream Suite address is 5200 - 2247 - 7018. I just uploaded an updated version!) For actual in-person fun & games, i'm also on pacific time and run similar hours, we should try to get together a group for some mini-games on the island or something.

Those guys all had a genuinely great old-friends dynamic on the podcast and there's been just loads of hilarity and thoughtful discussion over the years, it definitely isn't the kind of podcast that just tiredly runs through the news. really stand out as some particular highlights, for example. Their game of the year discussions are always really great too.I've been curious to go back at check out some of the earliest podcasts again too, when they just had a placeholder blog and none of the things that would come to define Giant Bomb had really even been decided upon.

GB community people have been posting videos of their favorite Ryan Davis moments in here. It seems like GB is just getting hammered by traffic right now though, it's been up and down very intermittently.

Had it been released just a few years later, it feels like a game that would have easily found an audience on Steam. It's such a great game, but as it is, it's also just a mostly-forgotten oddity.

The developers have been saying that they're trying to get more back to the feel of Melee, rather than Brawl.

The way those guys are always so candid and open on Giant Bomb, i feel like i've lost a friend, even though i've never met the man. My heart goes out to the GB crew.

Brilliant! Brilliant! An indie game jam based around ideas from the quite clever and generally affectionate Peter Molyneux parody twitter feed. It's mostly just poking fun at Peter Molyneux's famously aspirational game design ideals, but some of the ideas on this parody twitter are kind of really great even on their own, they'd be perfect fodder for a bunch of really silly indie games. I can't wait to see what comes of this.

This trailer is amazing, everything about it is so awkward and try-hard.