TheMightyEthan

Gametrailers would probably be my most influential about which games to actually buy, but for more background info Joystiq is my go-to place.

So I'm definitely being shifted toward the "excited" side, away from the "worried" side.

I agree with the sentiment, but lol @ "in 5 years". The polycounts and textures were laughable at launch. Nintendo made a conscious decision in developing the Wii not to focus on graphic prowess and it definitely shows in its games (though I make no value judgments about whether that was a good or bad decision).

Yeah, but not everyone has an iPhone. Of the people I interact with on at least a semi-frequent basis 0 have iPhones, 1 has an iPad, and 0 have Apple TVs, so... *Edit* - and the one who has an iPad is my grandma, and something tells me she wouldn't be especially interested in something like this.

Master Chief is practically a mute character. He says like 3 words across the whole series.

lol, isn't that like a $2500 console right there? Granted it's a cool $2500 console, but still...

Yeah, the coop is more along the lines of the first Portal.

I watched a video about the towers, and from that it sounded more like the gang territories in GTA San Andreas. I'm not exactly thrilled to hear there's a tower-defense mode involved.

Yeah, I read that as there's nothing in the SP that you can only get by playing coop, the coop just makes certain things in the SP more likely/easier to achieve. He says in ME3 you can get the optimal ending without doing coop. In ME2 you cannot get the optimal ending without doing the loyalty missions.

Steve Jobs hated gaming?

Frosted Mini-Wheats, you know there's a quote function right?

lol, well the tagline was "Before the beginning, you know the end."

lol, that makes sense. I just thought it was a puzzle that didn't really have a rational reason for existing, beyond the fact that it's a video game. I'm too willing to just accept things in games without explanation.

Via this deal TheRevanchist posted.

Well, I wasn't going to preorder, but for 33% off sure, I'll bite...

I thought it was only Eagle Vision that was the magical Assassin power, and that the reason Desmond could climb and jump so well was because of the bleeding effect and him spending so much time doing it as Altair and Ezio.

I got it on 360 back when it was exclusive, and the save-file importing has me locked to that system. Oh well.

I didn't mind the real-world ending, though I agree that the last 10 minutes or so of animus time was lame as hell. It's like they went "I know! Let's take all the fun out of the game for the last bit! People will enjoy that, I'm sure!"

Yeah, TP does look different from OoT/MM, but I think it's mostly a hardware thing. TP is what OoT would have looked like if the 64 had been capable of it.

They released a patch yesterday, maybe that patch fucked up your game.

The coop does sound very extremely cool, though I'm still a little worried it's hurt the singleplayer. I mean, I know they say it hasn't, but of course they're going to say that, it's not like they'd be like "Oh yeah, we totally diverted resources to developing this that otherwise would have been used to improve the SP campaign." So I'm taking their reassurances with a grain of salt. That said, I'm also not assuming that it's hurt the SP, just aware of and slightly troubled by the possibility.

I agree that executing the shield attacks with the nunchuck is hit and miss. Honestly, I think the Gamecube version is better than the Wii version, mostly because of the controls (and the fact that Hyrule isn't mirror-imaged). Too bad there's no GC version of Skyward Sword. Huh, I thought AC:B was significantly better than 2, didn't think it suffered at all.

This. I'm actually torn between being worried and excited, because I am ridiculously in love with coop just in general. Really my only source of worry is what I said above, that I fear (regardless of what they've been saying, which does make me feel a *little* better) that the development of the coop mode(s) diverted resources from the SP, and that the SP suffered as a result. About whether or not it's tacked on, I think something's tacked on if it didn't need to be there, and was added more or less as a bullet-point on the box. How much work they put into it doesn't really factor into whether it's tacked-on or not, IMHO.

So I got into a discussion on Twitter about the various appearances of entries in the Legend of Zelda series, and wondered what people on here think about them. So here's a poll to find out. And yes, Skyward Sword hasn't released yet, but there are plenty of videos if you want to see what it looks like in gameplay. I wish the forum would let me set it up so you can rank them, but it won't, so if you want to rank all three in the comments that would give us even more info to discuss. Votes are public, just FYI, not that anyone should care for this topic. For me personally it goes: 1. WW/PH/ST then well below 2. Skyward Sword 3. OoT/MM/TP I like that the WW style is just more fun. SS has a little bit of that in the more colorful environments and the more cartoony shapes of enemies, overall I'd say it's closer to the "grittier" (if you can use that term to describe Zelda) OoT style. Really my preference for SS over OoT is minimal, the real standout is the WW style.

I'm not sure how they're going to make it work though, ME is such a character driven game. I may be reading too much into the hints we're getting, but it sounds like it's an entirely separate mode, divorced from the single-player campaign. If that's the case why tack it on here like Strangelove said, why not wait and release it as a standalone game or expansion. They've already established that ME3 is the end of the Shepard trilogy, so why not make it a separate game released after ME3? I'm definitely in the "worried it will take focus away from the SP campaign" group, but not enough to say categorically that I'm not getting it.