TheMightyEthan

Took me about 45 minutes to download the patch. *Edit* - And yeah, 3 hours of battery for the tablet seems about right, and just as ridiculous as I thought when it was first announced.

Yeah, when I say "small selection" I mean like one or two aisles isn't food, the rest is. Like, 90% of the store is food. Unlike Walmart where even the Super Walmarts about 2/3 - 3/4 of the store is non-food.

Because I'm a tool with too little self control. Also, from Amazon because Walmart didn't have it: And finally

Okay, yeah, that's an English vs. English thing. Over here "supermarket" basically means "big grocery store". They sometimes carry a small selection of non-food items, but they're always primarily a food store.

I don't know what you consider a "super market" to be (to me that means grocery store, which don't tend to sell games here), but I buy close to 100% of my games from Amazon, which I wouldn't call a specialist retailer. Though a large part of that is probably that the nearest Gamestop is an hour away, and they don't offer free shipping or release date delivery for online orders like Amazon does, so they're just not nearly as convenient. When I lived in a town with a Gamestop I bought almost all my day-one games there because it was convenient to be able to go pick it up whenever I got done with class instead of waiting for the UPS guy, but I still bought pretty much all non-preorder games from Amazon.

I would describe my impression of Liberation to be comparable to Revelations, but trying to be objective I don't think it was actually as good. It was fun, but I wouldn't recommend someone buy the Vita for it. Gravity Rush, on the other hand, I think justifies a Vita by itself. Fantastic game.

I think what they should have done is not made the size an actual part of the console bundle name, just called it the Base and Premium packages, and then on the bullet points they could have said: 8 GB of internal storage, 3.2 GB available to the user or whatever. Then there wouldn't have been an issue. I will point out though that on Walmart's site at least in the description it says "8 GB internal memory for storage", which I feel even more heavily implies that the 8 GB is what's actually available to the user. Most of that memory isn't for storage as most people would think of it, it's for the system files.

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.