Thursday Next

I don't mean to be rude, but how could you know good games are on the way if you don't even know what games are coming out? Just based on Nintendo's track record. Some of the best Gamecube games were released at the end of its cycle. Fandumb. Just because you're a self confessed fanboy doesn't mean Nintendo are gonna give you want you want. There's nothing in the Wii back catalogue that I miss, and there is nothing in the announced release schedule that I'm desperate for. I bought the Wii because I loved the N64 and missed out on the Gamecube, but it soon lost its lustre, hence its being transmogrified into a 157 Palmer Carbon Circle.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam. PS3. Commence burnination.

Indeed EA were. It's still one of the best loved games within the company (certainly within DICE, they put their heart and soul into it).

It's sort of in limbo. Someone in DICE is always working on something to do with it, but it's not officially green lit.

Approximately 2 million sales for Mirror's Edge. Not amazing, but not terrible. I think it suffered from being too different from other FPS's without the marketing clearly branding it as such. That left reviewers playing what they thought was an FPS with parkour elements, finding the FPS elements lacking and being a bit down on the product. In retrospect, reviewers who have revisited their opinion have looked at it in a different light and feel that it was a fantastic free running game let down with some less than brilliant combat and worthy of higher praise for being different and bold and executing what it did differently really well. I honestly believe that Mirror's Edge could go on to be an amazingly successful franchise, especially now that it has some more games to be compared with. Assassin's Creed, Brink, Infamous, all embrace a new way of moving.

Batteries or wireless power transfer. If we can get wireless power transfer perfected we can just cover the whole freaking planet in the stuff and not have to worry about charging things.

I'm a coop gamer too. It's why I like BC2 for its squad play. Also a big fan of some of the PSN titles like Pixel Junk Shooter and Shank for the same reason. Local coop is awesome I really appreciate when a game has split screen / local mp these days, it's troublingly rare, especially on titles like Hot Pursuit where you could easily have two racers against the AI cops or vice versa. I find it odd that when I had a 14" CRT games had 4x split screen play and now that I have a 37" TV (enough that each quadrant would be an 18" screen) no games allow split screen.

Not into shmups, or rts or mmorpgs, but I'll give the first two a try, the only thing I don't really play is mmorpgs. I just don't have the time to invest that is needed to enjoy the experience.

I'm not about the KD at all. I'm all about the objective. Probably why I'm a much bigger BF fan than CoD.

I never quit. Even if I'm getting totally hosed. I'll always fight to the last. It's mostly because I'm an eternal optimist. I genuinely believe that until the screen says game over, there's a chance to turn it around, or at least salvage some dignity. There is no defeat so utterly complete as the person you have just thoroughly trounced quitting in a fit of despair. Why, there have been games in BFBC2 where the team-balancing has put me and my three friends attacking a full team of 12, we've been worn down to almost nothing, the first base still stands, Alpha long since destroyed in a sneak attack, Bravo still standing strong against our hopeless advance, the battlefield a smouldering ruin with not a single building standing, when, from no where another 5 or 6 people drop into our server, on our team, our numbers bolstered we overrun the team of lackadaisical defenders who have all long since switched to recon in order to increase their KD. We sweep through their defences, a tide of fury, of frustration now unleashed. Crate after crate falls under our advance, the defenders, battered, bloodied, sensing that where victory was assured, defeat now awaits them, dwindle in number. As the last crate detonates the teams are evenly balanced and I rejoice. If I quit every time I was getting pasted I'd only play half as much as I do, you can't win 'em all.

Yante, software prices won't drop. Ninty never drops their software price.

Donnie Darko

Got an email from Game.co.uk trade in a DS lite and a 3DS will cost you £190. Trade in a DSi and it'll only be £160. That's much more palatable and I can totally live with trading in my DS lite.

OMG! Teh emo's! Where's Nihil?

+1 For Hathaway love. She's stunning. Also +1 for Bane is an awesome villain. They damn well better not make him some roid-tard, I have faith in Nolan though. Can't wait for this film!

If $250 is too much then £230 is definitely too much. NOTE: £230 is too much. £200 tops.

There's still Fal Cie about no? Or they could have "residual magic powers" or some such..?

Are all types of gas filtered? Butane? Methane?

The Big Lebowski (1998): The Dude goes bowling, he is not "Jeff Lebowski", there's a beverage involved man.

Because it is an anagram of Ape Porn?

Yup, same with FFX, after doing all the monster hunts and dark aeons, the final boss was a total breeze. It would also be nice to bask in the glory of having just saved the town / world / universe / existence (depending on your FF).

VictorAnalogy Please let me know that you're from TAY or I won't add you. Oh, and don't ask me to game share either.

I agree with what someone else said about an "Epilogue" I'd love an epilogue mode in rpg's so you can see the results of your climactic struggle. It would have been great to have travelled round Gran Pulse settlements the excuses for sidequests there would be numerous "we've moved into an area and need to get rid of all of X creature.", "I'm building a thing and need you to get some stuff.", and it could all go towards getting uber items to take on some great big creature looming over Gran Pulse. It would also lend itself to DLC, you could sell an entire town with some quests a la Fallout.

Haha... whateva. It's one of those things that you're allowed to spoil. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PopculturalOsmosis

@Slithy: Yup agreed on the weapon system. Not "hard" in the "difficult to achieve" sense (though farming traps was a ball-ache), more utterly impenetrable in a "how do I even start?" sense. Oh another annoying thing about 13. Every time you get an item in your inventory that you had previously used up it labels it as "new". I hate "new" tags on menus. They vex me. I have to eliminate them. That they pop up again because I sold, refined or whatever my last potion and then stumbled upon one is irritating.