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I got seven different street pass hits yesterday! Woo! That's the most i've ever had! Edit: And now i guess i'm playing Megaman ZX again.

So i am very much not a Final Fantasy person, it's a large part of why i swore off JRPG's for the better part of a decade, and all the stories around this game paint its development as having been a harmfully bloated money-pit, catastrophically delayed and restarted, again and again for close to eight years. That said, those E3 trailers looked super fucking cool. I actually do want to play this. (Hit up the HD so it's not a blurry mess.)

I just hope Half-Life 3 includes Gabe Newell writing himself into the fiction as a knife-wielding adventurer.

I had never played through Alien Swarm, so i recently played through it with a group of friends on hard. That's a well made one of those, it's a great take on that genre. Valve should do more weird one-off projects like that. (Or Half-Life 3, one or the other.) to Alien Swarm.

I could list a whole lot of games i've played consistently over the course of a few years, so i'll try and focus on things that have gone on for longer than that... Which brings me to this fancy new computer i built, and how the first thing i did on it was install Total Annihilation. I've also played through Deus Ex and System Shock 2 both probably about a dozen times each over the years. Definitely played through the Half-Life games an unreasonable number of times as well. Every time i get a fresh install of Steam up and running, i see HL and HL2 sitting there in my library and I just feel like "Well i guess i'm playing through those again."

Ack, that's too bad. As for that old-school feel, the ZX games are more or less prettier GBA games, not a whole lot changed between the Zero and ZX series, except for the surrounding systems being swapped out. Visually, the ZX games have a few additional special effects and more debris off of explosions, but that's pretty much it. (ZX Advent also has a fully voiced script! It is painful to behold.) Compare MMZ4 with . (The games actually only being released a year apart is another factor to consider. The Zero games concluded late in the GBA's life, while the ZX games were early DS games.)

Well the ZX games haven't been collected in any compilations, and who knows how long it'll be before Nintendo starts folding DS games into the Virtual Console library. However, as DS games, they'll play just fine on the 3DS. Track down some used copies!

Even as a huge Megaman fan, I could never get into the MM Zero games. Just the way the elf system worked, and the way scoring poorly against arbitrary guidelines would restrict your upgrades, it all really bugged me. Made me crazy that i found all that peripheral stuff so off-putting, because the core gameplay rocks. As such, the successor to the Zero series, the ZX games, i thought those were pretty awesome. (Advent less so, which i think is just too bloated.) Speakin` o tha Megamans!: Keiji Inafune's silly top-down "Tanks VS Bugs" is on the eShop. I have really heard much about it yet though.

That may be true, but if you can as i believe it makes sense that you must really insist that isn't acceptable about Mario Kart: Double Dash.

There's a question of how the matchmaking handles a lot of different possible scenarios, and I haven't played enough to have a full handle on it. With people leaving and joining, or groups getting split up depending on who leaves for a tour, maybe they bought the swimsuit in another instance of the island that existed at some point for them during that online session. (The matchmaking island is separate from your personal island, and i'm not sure it has any lasting permanence.) Otherwise, it's one of the possibilities you suggest, or else hacking/glitching, which i'm sure must being happening in some capacity. Edit: Another crazy theory: People may not even see the same sets of items for sale in the matchmaking shop.

Honey on the cat hair makes a moustache.

I'm not fond of broadly throwing X-box Live under the bus. I've probably spent more time on Live than just about anybody else here, and it's really such an issue of specific crowds on specific games, and i think it's the same everywhere. It's not just a matter endemic to that one service. That, of course, doesn't ease the sting if the game you want to play has a shitty community, and that's why Live has party chat. Play with people you like. (I've played entirely too much Halo, and enough public games to believe that its community is pretty okay for the most part, but i still prefer setting up a private party chat for a group of my own friends when doing matchmaking.) I do hate, hate, hate how much Microsoft encourages the dudebro culture in its advertising, though i think Activision is the most guilty of it, concerning any of the major publishers.

I bought my DS games, i hold the moral high ground! Bahaha! *Glares disapprovingly, shaking a pointed finger.* I own seriously way too many GBA and DS games, i've always been a huge sucker for Nintendo handhelds.

These words do not work this way.

So i got the event for the Club, got the signatures, but it's been a few days now and it hasn't opened.

I always wanted Andy from Advance Wars to be in Smash. Somewhat less realistically, i also think Shulk from Xenoblade should totally be in Smash.

Well that is just a load off of my figurative shoulders. Phew.

I honestly can't tell if anything in this thread is even real. Am i real? Also, i feel very strongly that Nintendo should make another Chibi-Robo game.

Huh?

The original SNES game is built on a pretty cludgy and inelegent foundation, but it has some great core ideas, it's ambitious as hell, and it spends its duration taking you through some really inventive, stylish environments and boss battles. It also has just absolutely one of the best, most memorable soundtracks in a Nintendo game. Period. Also, no voice acting, that's a huge plus. I also appreciate that it focuses entirely on rail-shooting, i feel that the later games' inability to commit to a specific genre has contributed to many of their weaknesses. Now i'm pretty certain we're talking to a bot.

I definitely had this thought. It's just kind of this corpse that continues to exist through inertia, the first two games were really well liked and everything else has been kind of trash. (Hell, and i don't even like 64, but that's apparently just me.) If you need your Nintendo-borne rail-shooting fix, check out Sin & Punishment. Please, somebody play and appreciate Sin & Punishment 2, it was so incredibly good.

I'm pretty sure you can place signs as a public works project.

Yeah, you should feel bad.

It just occurred to me that if Animal Crossing: New Leaf was released, in 2013, literally through any other publisher than Nintendo, it would probably be rife with sudden, obtrusive prompts asking you to exchange real money for bells, or constantly be begging you to sign up for an Animal Crossing account to get exclusive furniture.

Plant more trees! I make most of my cash doing fruit-gathering runs in my town. Perfect fruit sells for five times its normal value in a town where it is non-native. (3k per fruit!) I make more bells in less time than i would doing beetle/shark runs on the island.