Old Republic is bullshit. "Here's a bunch of things that are Star Wars but aren't from the movie timeline but there's an Empire and Destroyer Droids and a Mandalorian and a bunch of other stuff."

Why fucking bother at this point? How is it at all Star Wars? The proper nouns?

Also no gameplay footage still? lol

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Given that half the films are bollocks, I would have thought that a departure from that particular timeline would be welcome. The KOTOR games are awesome, easily two of my favourite Xbox games and the depth of the universe is a lot of what makes them great. That and lightsabers of course. If the original Star Wars film had featured fights with normal swords it would have died on it's arse.

The biggest dissapointment about Old Republic is that it's a MMORPG. Watching those trailers made me mourn even more the lack of a proper KOTOR 3 or even a remake of the first two with a proper ending for 2. I might even break my long running no MMORPG's rule for this it looks that good, although I'd want to know if you can have fun with it without having to interact with other people before I committed.

Just watched some of the info on Wii U. I'm actually pretty impressed. I'll be wary of the first batch of games, but i'm hoping that once developers are more comfortable with the tablet controller and don't feel like they have to use every single feature, we'll start seeing some really cool ideas come to life. Backwards compatibility is something i wholeheartedly support, so i'm excited to see that Nintendo is continuing to embrace that.

Also, Smash Bros. for both 3DS and Wii U? With some sort of linking a possiblity? yes, please.

I like how Nintendo's basically saying "sorry for making nothing but party games for five years"

Wii U: When Grandma doesn't want to play Mario Kart at 1 in the morning

Also, we all know Luigi's Mansion 2 is the best announcement of today. Why lie.

I love how one of the features of the Wii U is that you can play games on the controller "In case someone else wants to use the tv". How many households in the target market for another version of the Wii genuinely only have one tv? We have two sat right next to each other in the front room specifically so we can play games and watch tv at the same time. Also, I see one of the launch titles is called Ghost Recon Online. Does this mean they're doing away with the retarded friend code system?

I could see that coming in handy during the holidays. I have all my newer systems hooked up to one TV, so when my brother is here only one of us can play at a time. It's only really inconvenient around Christmas when we both have a lot of new games, but I can see a point to what Nintendo is saying.

As for friend codes, some Wii games have already done away with them. Monster Hunter Tri uses lobbies like a normal online game would instead of friend codes, and there may be others.

I think the idea was to bring people together. I know that in my house, all of the console gaming is relegated to the basement so that the TV can be the TV. This option makes it more feasible for the Wii U to be set up in the main living room of the house, which is most likely what Nintendo is after. Maybe i can't convince my mom to set up my game system in the living room, but throw in the fact that the game can come off the TV at any time and i can play in the same room as her? I think for a lot of families this will feel like an excellent compromise.

I'm not to worried about online play just yet, since my school blocks all online games anyway. In a couple of years, though, who knows. All i know is that if the Canadian ISPs get away with usage-based billing, it will hurt a lot of companies. Online gaming, Netflix, cloud computing, all of it. I'm really confused as to why these companies aren't fighting harder against it, but. [/rant]

You misunderstand. It's so you can take a shit and don't have to stop playing.

Innovation of the forever.

Back to the arab world!!!!

Fuck. Yeah.

You all need to see this to believe it...a board game collaboration by Square Enix and Nintendo featuring characters from the Mario Universe and the Dragon Quest Universe. They call it Fortune Street.

Fortune Street Video Game, E3 2011: Debut Trailer HD | Video Clip | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

So did they just finally give up on Mario Party?

Well damn. Seems interesting. Now I want a Nintendo/Square RPG crossover.

Enix has been doing a series called Itadaki Street for a long time. Several, if not most of the games in the series are Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy crossover board games, so branching out into DQ and Mario isn't that weird. I'm just surprised they're finally bringing one of them over to the US.

Wii U console

the NOU I mean Wii U console hands on.

Also I heard it is only 1 of those Wii Upads per system and no option to buy a second while the rest of the controls have to be with the Wiimotes?

There seems to be a lack of Gamecube controller ports.

Nope. Mario Party 9 was announced at e3 too.

Were you upset when the PS3 didn't allow the original PlayStation controller to be used?

Forza 4 looks amazing, shitting all over the genre. Can't wait for it, it looks beautiful and they seem to have fixed lots of issues including the constant loading.
lol polyphony lost so hard.

Since the Wii had backwards compatibility with Gamecube games, I liked the option to use my Wavebirds over the Wii's Classic Controller.

Yeah, this makes me wonder about the multiplayer options we will be presented with. With only one Upad, I have to hope that the software is well designed enough that it doesn't grant an advantage to the player with the special controller.

Potentially good for some 3 on 1 style Mario Party mini games though.

Yes. Very.