Mudkip3DS

I seriously wish I could put up Bubsy in this thread, but that's not even a platformer mascot, it's more of a failed "third-party" mascot. It's still a failed mascot, regardless, though.

I cannot believe how slow this thread has progressed since December 26. I will totally go all fanboy mode now and post up… the Monkey Island 2 Main Theme! Both the Sound Blaster 16 and Roland MT-32 versions, of course.

One more thing I forgot to mention is that I would like to add sports games, but I don't think they really count, on account of: Roster changes in the real life sports every year. Pretty much guaranteeing a fresh lineup every year. Technical changes to the gameplay which add to the value of the newer games over the older one. (aka AI and such. For example, NBA 2K11.) In spite of that, when sports games DO eventually reach that pinnacle of utopia, I'd like to see them transition to DLC updates every year instead of forcing us to buy a completely new game every year. Doubt that'd happen, though. Man, I was going to mention CoD in my OP, but I didn't want any backlash against me for saying that. At least someone knows how I feel with Treyarch and Activision. Seems like it's going to get worse now that Infinity Ward's kinda gone dissolute. Oh christ, how could I forget Megaman X. The way they milked that franchise after X4… dear god, it seems like Capcom are masters at milking stuff past expiration date. And see, I've always thought that developers would just move onto newer wars (Korean and Vietnam) after WWII, but that's before CoD4 came onto the horizon. Agreed on Activision, though. I don't think they even make Tony Hawk games anymore, do they?

Know of any video game series that were once fresh but have now run their course for just being too repetitive or turned into a game-of-the-year money making machine? Doesn't have to be current, you can even post series from the past. For example, the main Mega Man series in the past up to 8. I mean, 4 was pretty good, but it just felt like Capcom were starting to run out of gimmicks to add to Mega Man. The New Mega Buster, for instance, just felt like cheating to me when I used it compared to the slide from MM3. I think the stagnation came to a head, though, when Mega Man 5 came out. That was honestly my least favorite game in the series. It just felt stale at that point, and I don't even remember having any favorite tracks from that game at all. The quality started picking up after that, but it just didn't feel the same as it did when playing 1, 2, or 3. Plus, the hilariously bad dub in 8 was just… bad. P.S. A free e-Cookie for anyone that gets the description reference. B)

I'm getting an error in the chat room… Every time I try to join, it just says "You have been kicked from the chat room". Any way to fix that? Also, could we get an option to log ourselves off from every computer at once, in case we accidentally forget to log off on a friend's computer?

Tap Tap Revenge?

Mew. A Prinny!

Algae biofuel >>> Sugarcane ethanol >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Corn ethanol We are only using corn ethanol because there is so much corn here. And guess why we have so much corn? That's right! Our good ol' friend, the corn subsidy! Putting sugarcane farmers out of business since 1977.

Nuclear energy. All the way. But it would be wise to put more research into thorium-based sources of energy, to reduce the chance of any darned terrorists jacking our weapon-grade uranium and using it on us. Plus, it would play well into the START agreement signed into law recently. Also, this might be a crazy thing to say, but I think we need to find cleaner ways to use coal, instead of getting rid of it altogether. I mean, from an economic viewpoint, we have so much coal available that it's crazy not to use it. Then again, look at how much the coal companies rape the mountains of Appalachia with their strip mining and all...

THAT'S A GODDAMN LIE AND YOU'LL TAKE IT BACK!!

I am absolutely, positively shocked at the number of people who do not know of Sony's mascot in Japan: Toro. Freaking 井上トロ! Lack of knowledge of トロくん makes me want to cry. CRY. (Yeah, I know that there's probably a reason why he's a Japan-only, probably because he's too CUTE for the MANLY PlayStation/Xbox audience over here!! But really, I think it's because he probably wouldn't fit into American tastes; he looks a lot like a "mascot for the kiddies" to me.) I concur with Toshi here. I think a perfect compromise for a mascot here would be Sackboy, as he stars in a well-known game, making him more well-known in effect, in contrast to Toro-kun, who only made his living via weird advertisements and 2 weird Japan-only games.