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This will give Gigli a run for its money.

I never got all the hate for the N64 controller. I dug it. May have something to do with Nintendo designing games to fit the controller.

Reminds me of Duke Ellington.

Read Warren Spector, thought Phil Spector.

I was all like, what the hey?

I'd love to try Cuphead, but I know it'd kick my @ss.

I've been stalling on buying a Switch, but a pro model may push me over the edge.

@BradC40 Their off having a party.

Yeah, but what about Condom Combat? When's that going to be (cough) released?

If there are no third party titles, I'll likely pass, though I hope it's a good system. If NHL '94 was the only game on the system, I'd probably buy it.

@sandman89 France.

@Illusion I'm playing OoT 3D and WWHD concurrently myself. Near the end of both. Might be my two fave games.

@ReaderRagfihs Ah, Internet. Don't ever change.

@Daloblast I wish I found it in your attic, too.

Hm. A lot of Internet being thrown around here. Too bad.

Doubt I'll get it again, though it is a super-nifty game. It's pretty tempting.

@Elvie I was going to reply to your comment, but thought it would create some associative-bad-luck, so I decided not...

Oh, crap.

Still on the fence. I have a preposterous backlog across three generations, and adding a new console isn't going to help. And the most enticing games I already have on the Wii U. But high quality mobile play is a serious tease, and I have a Visa gift card collecting dust...

Oh, the humanity.

@leo13 That's going to be a great memory for your kids for the rest of their lives. Nicely done.

We have the best recycling games. No one in history has recycling games like our recycling games. More people play our recycling games than any other recycling games. And the music! We have the best recycling game music.

MARA!

Only in England.

You'd never see that in America. Here you see consoles for everyone.
And opportunity.
And stagnating income for the majority.
And stark class delineation.
And a President who...uh...who...

Hooray for the Queen!

Still on the fence about buying a Switch, and we have every Nintendo console since the SNES (some multiple times). The way they're handling online and basically turning retro games into a rental service, I'm starting to lean toward a pass on this generation. I'm under no illusion that a company is in business other than to make money, but to so willfully and cynically milk their extremely loyal fans time after time is becoming pretty off-putting.

"...a continuous stream of revenue."

Keep buying single-player, story driven games and the industry will have to de-emphasize the cash cow of games-as-service. I personally loathe the concept. And single-player games have been repeatedly declared dead by game companies in an attempt to steer consumers to a higher revenue stream, lower effort product.

Thank god for God of War.

How exactly is this "bossing up"?

@MasterGraveheart I'm still vacillating on buying a Switch. That would likely put me over the edge. And I already own the damn games multiple times each.

While they're at it, WW HD and TP HD. A fourfer.

@siavm Good thought, dawg.

Until tney announce Angela Merkel, I'm not interested.

Gotta love how the only options for some are hyper-sexualized and just-this side-of porn adolescent fantasies vs. "fat feminists, skinny hipsters and soccer moms in baggy unisex jeans".

Grow up.

"...a loot-driven grind-a-thon with more explosions of viscera than you can comfortably discuss with your mother..."

I was just talking about this with my uncle.

I know nothing about this game - is that bear a Breaking Bad reference? Probably coincidence.

inFAMOUS Second Son. Plus some high stress as Ohio State heads into the whiteout at Penn State.

Wii U all the way, baby. Just beat Calamity Ganon again, about 20 minutes ago as a matter of fact. With all the great games for the Wii U, I'm not feeling left out without a Switch just yet.

Do Japanese developers have a hat full of words they draw from to come up with game titles?

@Terrible_Majesty Comrade Lenin's Wacky Platform Adventure.

I'm starting to think Nintendo's given up on the Wii U.

Got some more games recently, like Rogue Galaxy, Witcher 3, and .hack//G.U. Last Recode (I'll never understand Japan). So what am I playing? Breath of the Wild again.

I got a 96.51% approval rating once. But that was when I just polled myself. So to speak.

I'm starting to think they've kinda given up on the Wii U.

@wazlon You'll enjoy it. It's super nifty.

Hm. Looks like one of the few havens for friendly gaming comments is turning into IGN.

"Your Boulder Breaker broke."

Bogus.

I could stand to have my stamina quadrupled.

...sigh...

Hm. An awful lot of frantic water-carrying for Nintendo in these comments. absent any patent information itself. I don't know the sequence of filing or the validity of the case more than anyone else here, but it certainly isn't unprecedented for a large company to pirate ideas from smaller ones, then crush them with their sheer weight. Just because you love them, doesn't make them innocent.

That said, I doubt more will come of this than a settlement to make it all go away.

Vampires?

@mjharper Only if you do it in a Scottish accent.

Darksiders Warmastered. I love how all-in the developers are in this series.

@GC-161 "My geode must be acknowledged."

@bezerker99 Two points. 1) That's rather a stretch. And b) Kindly take that crap somewhere else.

@Alucard83 Nonsense.

@GravyThief Oh, man, do you have a ton of great games ahead of you, and on the cheap. Coolio.

Sounds good to me.

And Bayonetta should probably see a chiropractor.

Thanks for the great writing, Tom. We enjoyed your work and approachable demeanor. Tear it up at Circle.

@BlueOcean Thank you, Blue. 186:07.

The Switch is doing well and I'm all for that, but I'm not in a hurry either. My backlog is yuge, and I keep going back to Zelda games.