TheMightyEthan

No, I haven't. Maybe I will.

Just because it's not factually incorrect doesn't mean it's not misleading. If something says it has X amount of storage it's reasonable to expect that most of that will be available to the user.

My teammates in objective based games always make me want to gouge my brain out with a rusty spoon. I had a mini rant on Twitter about CTF the other night. In general though objective based modes are my favorite.

For the record, I think only getting 7.1 GB out of an 8GB iPod should be considered false advertising too, but there you can actually make an argument that because that's how it's always listed people expect it so when they buy it they know they'll only be getting 90% of the advertised space or whatever. The Wii U is a more egregious example of false advertising because even if you take common industry practices they're STILL not giving you nearly as much space as their advertising would lead you to believe. Imagine the common practice was to sell a "dozen" eggs that really only contained 11. Everyone's familiar with this, so even though it's not technically accurate when I buy a dozen eggs I know I'm really only going to get 11. Now someone else starts selling a "dozen" eggs, but they only have 5 eggs in there. Just because I know that I'm not really going to get 12 eggs doesn't make only giving me 5 an okay thing to do, when the obvious expectation is that I will get 11.

Yeah, the "PS3 supports replacement HDDs" argument doesn't really work considering the Wii U supports external HDDs. Six one way half a dozen the other. I will say though that there are two major differences between the 4GB 360 and the 8GB Wii U: 1) You don't lose more than 60% of the 360's space just by turning it on. I really cannot stress this point enough. Sure the end result may be comparable space, but one tells you that up front and the other lies through its teeth at you. 2) The 360 is at the end of its lifecycle, not the beginning. It doesn't have to worry about supporting the evolution of gaming over the next 6-10 years. The Wii U does.

I like Regicide too. And the King bounty caps out at 35 points, but you're right, I won a match because the King was like 5 points from winning and I was like 25, but then I killed him and that put me over the top.

I've realized what Nintendo needs to do to sell me a Wii U, simply release the following three games: Super Smash Bros 3D Mario Mario Kart A Zelda or a full-fledged Pokemon game would do it alone, but because of Skyward Sword I'm sure there's not going to be a new Zelda for a while, and as I've said before I'm well aware that a home console Pokemon is never going to happen.

Oh yeah, if you can skip cutscenes then whatever, it's fine, just don't make me watch it a million times.

Could just be more familiarity with the hardware or whatever. Halo: Reach looks a fuckton better than Halo 3, which came out just a few months before GTA4, and Halo 4 looks better still.

I know it's been said before, but I feel it must be said again: checkpoints before a cutscene. This is just completely inexcusable. No matter how good the cutscene is the first time it's irritating the second and rage-inducing the third. Checkpoint AFTER the cutscene so I can play the goddamn game instead of watching your stupid movie over and over again. Same goes for gameplay that doesn't really involve play, like walking down a long hallway or whatever.

Do you mean the Incinerator Cannon? It doesn't spread and then converge, but it makes a wobbly-looking energy jack thing that explodes on impact.

I suck therefor the game is designed badly. So all games before this generation were badly designed because they had fewer checkpoints and didn't load you save whenever you wanted? Yes, that is exactly what he said.

I agree. It works well with the more cartoony characters that make up most of Nintendo's lineup, not as much with the more serious ones Sony has.

It has Theater Mode in War Games, but not in Campaign or Spartan Ops. Super lame, because there were some events in the Campaign that I really wanted to record, like the time the Knight threw a grenade at me, but then I got his shields down so he teleport-charged me right on top of his own grenade, which ended up killing him.

Doubt it, seems like a couch-multi game, and I don't have anyone to do that with.

Kat is about enough to make me want that game.

I went ahead and added them. Thread is labelled, but that's still about as spoilery as it gets.

This trailer was definitely my ticket to the hype train. The only reason I haven't already preordered the PS3 version is because I'm waiting on confirmation of PC or lack thereof.

Tedious != challenge. Disclaimer: I have not played this game, just talking about the idea in general.

Here's what I think (this hasn't been verified, just based on my experience): Human weapons: very effective against flesh, not very effective against shields Plasma weapons: very effective against shields, not very effective against flesh Forerunner weapons: somewhat effective against both flesh and shields, but not super effective against either, though the light rifle is still a one hit kill if you get a headshot on an unshielded opponent. *Edit* - Also, I'm not sure about Big Team Battle but in regular team slayer and I think Regicide you can hit X at any time while the kill cam is playing and you will respawn instantly, there's no spawn timer at all. But I agree, before I figured that out it seemed like a really long wait to spawn.

I don't remember who, but someone said LBPK looks like the kind of thing that will be free on PS+ in six months, and I can't help but agree.

I honestly think it should be considered false advertising to say it's 8GB when only 3 is useable.

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