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Thanks CowboyPoet for putting a story about the video game "Red Dead Redemption" in it's own thread instead of just randomly dumping it in a Grand Theft Auto thread or something stupid like that and showing your high literacy and cognitive skills at telling western games and gangster games apart. Wow. Dean. Wow. That's cold. Everyone knows RDR is just GTA set 100 years in the past, just like GTA: Vice City is GTA set in the 1980s. YOU KNOW WHAT, I don't have to justify myself to you. GO EAT A SHOE!

Something tells me every day he's lucky that's the case.

Jorge, man, if I'm not the first person you add on PSN, I'mma fuckin' flip out: -

It just doesn't make any sense they haven't done that. It's so obvious!?!?!??!

Yeah. I wouldn't mind them going back in time more towards the 1800s... more of the wild west. But you know, no Will Smith please!!!! lololol

Hey, Nintendo, it's me, The Cowboy Poet. I know we've had a love/hate relationship ever since the N64. I know you're pissed at me for never buying a Game Cube. Hell, I'm still pissed at you for thinking it's acceptable to not release anything besides Zelda in the final 24 months of the Wii's life. But friend, you need help. Though, to be honest, somethings can't be fixed. You can't change the name of the Wii U now. And yeah, you horribly underpowered this machine. But hey here's what you do: 1) Price cut to 199 2) For the immediate future, get some more Virtual Console games on there for people to play. Make sure N64 and GCN games are there. Every week release one interesting game for each of NES/SNES/N64/GCN. 3) Get Retro working on the next Metroid game. Hardcore gamers like that franchise, they'll buy systems for that game. That means more money in your pockets. 4) Stop developing motion control games. 5) Call up Game Freak and tell them that the second they're done Pokemon X and Y they'll be doing a Pokemon RPG on Wii U, with a full 3D world. There's no reason to NOT do this. If done correctly this could be a system seller

We don't have a RDR topic? I'll post this here then. Not a big surprise they want this to be a franchise, in fact I'm surprised we haven't got a sequel or a follow up considering the success Redemption got 3 years ago.

Looks like the recently announced Arkham Origins multiplayer might not make it to Wii U. Not that anyone gives a fuck cause, at this point how the hell aren't we done with shoestringing multiplayer into games that don't need it? But I think it says a lot about A) the Wii U's online infrastructure B) developer's interest in developing for that platform.

Ethan, I don't know if we really have to worry about becoming Sega. By that I mean creating shitty games. Going third party is something they should be concerned about, especially since some of their investors were telling them to release games on iOS BEFORE the Wii U even launched, can't imagine what they'll do now. But I don't know if Sega was ever really that great of a software developer. Even in the 90s, those old Sonic games suck. Nintendo though, if the development teams could stop worrying about fitting gimmicks like motion controls or touch screens in their games, and just focus on making good games on powerful systems, I think they could do some great stuff. Can you imagine playing Mario Kart on a platform like PS4 with a real online system? Can you imagine trying to earn a platinum trophy in a Zelda game? Or your system dies but you can redownload your SNESClassic of Super Mario World? Can you imagine having actual online co-op in the next 3D Mario?! You'd be up in Freedom Town, USA and you'd be all like "Yo, TCP, hop on that goomba!"and I'd be up in Prince George, Canada and I'd be all "Sure, let me get this coin first".. FUCKING STRATEGY! Welcome to 2006!

What saved the 3DS? A price drop, Super Mario 3D Land, and Mario Kart 7 all within a few months of each other. I would hope they're smart enough to do a price drop, but it's Nintendo so who fucking knows. But Mario Kart 8 isn't out this year. Hell, even 3D World, which I'm still not sold on, isn't out till December, after Black Friday. If this is how the Wii U is doing now, with 7 and 8 year old competing consoles on the market, how on earth do they expect to compete this autumn and beyond? What's the game plan? Do they launch another console in 2 years? Will their investors let them do that? Will they just go completely handheld? I'd be lying if I said I didn't hope this blew up in their face. It would be a wonderful day to play a Zelda game that takes full use of the PS4. But that's just wishful thinking for now. Further to what GOH! was saying, how hard is it to make a fucking Zelda game? If Ubisoft can turn out decent Assassins Creed games every year, how come Nintendo can't get a fucking Zelda at launch? 8 dungeons, decent size overworld, it's not like it's Elder Scrolls or GTA or something. They knew they were going to launch the Wii U in late 2012 for years, you really can't get a team working on that? But it's super important to have your best developer making a side scrolling platformer? Right.... right.... As hardcore gamers, the people who buy consoles in the first year of release, how impressive do Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World, and Wind Waker HD, look to you guys? I'm sure they'll all be good games, but Pikmin doesn't look that different from the GCN games, Super Mario 3D World is the same experience that we can already get on 3DS, and Wind Waker is literally a HD port of a GCN game, which I'm planning on getting but honestly your big November release should be a NEW game, not a rerelease, Wind Waker HD would have been a great game to release in early 2013 to tide people over to the new Zelda game coming this winter. I'm not one to say Nintendo needs new IPs, but there's nothing exciting like Super Mario Galaxy was, Metroid Prime, or even the Wind Waker was when it launched the first time.

You are a better gamer than me.

Yeah I googled Jorge expecting not to find any famous Jorge's but then..! OH YES!!!!

Yes. BFF?

I don't think anyone thinks that's a possibility. We were just joking around, Jorge!

So that's what Tyrion Lannister looks like with a moustache.

WE HAVE TWO DEANS?!?!

Has everyone else watched Goosebumps on Netflix? So god damn entertaining. Plus Ryan Gosling is in one. Rad.

My name is Kevin it's pronounced Kevin.

Tried to watch it a few years ago, my opinion was about the same. Nothing to write home about. In fact I think I fell asleep at one point.

It's true, Ethan. Usually companies use "North America" but fairly often they'll just use "US" for when something that's being released in Canada too. Just today I looked up the release date for The Worlds End and it was listed as a "US" release date, but obviously, the same in Canada. It's like they assume we're part of the US. But we're not. We're slightly different, dammit!!!

I thought they had developed the PSP game, but they said in the PSBlog post that this is their first portable game. Fun fact: the best LittleBigPlanet game isn't even developed by MM, it's developed by Double Eleven. Though that's not to say LBP2 isn't absolutely amazing. Hey, the OP, did write in brackets +US for the November 22nd release date. Maybe he's sick of everything being "coming out ____ ____ in the US" and no mention that things also come out on the same date in Canada. MAYBE HE'S TRYING TO EVEN THINGS OUT A BIT!?!?!!

Sony's most charming, and, coincidentally, most British studio, Media Molecule, are releasing their first handheld game, Tearaway. Release Date: November 22nd in Canada (+US too). Platform: Playstation Vita Available retail and digital Discuss how charming it is here!!

The Wolverine. Lots of nods to different Wolverine storylines, even a few to Old Man Logan (which I read for the first time a few days ago, so good) and the opening was fairly similar to Wolverine #1. Basically it was a samurai movies inside an X-men movie. There was a post credits scene, which I missed, but caught on YouTube, that basically sets up the next Xmen film.