I know others liked it, but playing Mario Kart Wii felt like it tried way too hard to give people who weren't in first a "fighting chance". The balance was fine in Mario Kart 64. Double Dash pushed things but a good player team could still be counted on to win most of the time. Mario Kart DS is about the same. Mario Kart Wii? I have to say it feels broken. That is, you can be awesome going against terrible players, and you have a 50/50 chance of winnning, and it'll just about always be by a hair's width at the finish line. I tried to like it, I liked the new vehicle type, but that combined with the art looking like a bunch of lifeless "phoned it in" toys made me just plain give up on this one.
This game seems to recognize that allowing people in last place a chance to play catch up shouldn't be so completely overpowered as to remove the effect of playing WELL from the equation. Read it, the mechanics of how to use powerups seem very well thought out. Someone in last can still catch up, but they'll need to play really well to do so instead of bullet billing into the lead instantly.
So, apparently my Gamecube memory card, the really big one I got, is corrupt now. I have no idea what happened. I was playing Ocarina of Time on it, had been for the past week. I actually had beaten the entire game, and had basically dusted it off completely. I reloaded the game file to take a look after "The End" to make sure I had everything, and suddenly the game starts glitchingly saying the data is corrupted.
Weird.
Now I think the whole thing is corrupt. The weird thing is HOW it's corrupt. My Zelda 1 and 2 saves seem to work, but OOT and MM don't at all. Neither does the Master Quest data. Wind Waker can LOAD it's saved games but can't save to them, it says the card is damaged. I don't recall any glitches, I didn't turn the power to my Wii off during a save or anything. It had worked fine all week while I played it. I can SEE all the saved files when I look through the memory card browser. The Wii (and the Gamecube I just tested it on) say it works fine. When I copy the saves to another memory card, they still show up as corrupted, except the Zelda 1 and 2 saves.
I'm at a loss here. I may need to format the whole thing, but I have no idea how.
I've got a lot of games to start from scratch if it's all gone... I had no idea that Nintendo's memory cards COULD get corrupted like this. It's first party. It's the large 1019 block size one. All I have other than this are two of the 251 sized ones and two of the smallest original sized ones. Those are older. I worry they could get corrupted too, since I have no idea how this happened.
If it's a problem with Gamecube memory cards failing with age, that worries me. It also means I really hope Nintendo eventually adds some Wii firmware support for "virtual" Gamecube cards in the internal memory. I don't even know if Nintendo still sells new Gamecube cards, and if they can fail like this, then buying them used is a shot in the dark I'd rather not take. It's nut, I mean my saved data on my original Zelda 1 cartridge is fully functional to this day. Heck, my PS1 memory cards still seem to work just fine. I used them to play Silent Hill 1 glitch-free a while ago.
This is one of the biggest and most conservative of my stances. Every year our culture is watered down by this unchecked exodus from Mexico and South America. I like my country the way it has been. I want immigrants to respect our laws, learn our language, and adapt to our customs. The government bending over backwards to extend to these CRIMINALS all manner of welfare assistance, and lending them interpreters at their invariable court dates... makes me see red.
/Stands by for the inevitable leftist diatribe from ASM.
Yay! Apparently they want to have a story this time around. Nice, though in all likelyhood it'll be a storyline like Smash Bros. Brawl, where you basically just meet everyone one by one. That's fine though. I LOVE Brawl. Megaman better be in there.
Dante vs Mephisto is going to be awesome. At least HE won't sell his marriage to the devil.
I love that two people have promised that they want the music to actually FIT the game. MVC2 is fun and all, but that music is just stupid.
To anyone that uses Chrome: is it working? One day, I noticed that Chrome stopped working for me. So much so, that the main page doesn't even load. Whenever I boot the browser up, it just says "loading..." on the tab bar. Anyone else having the same problem?
The films advertising was completely misleading and that's why its under performing, This was not a "fun for the hole" family kind of film like the trailer and advertisements gave you the impression of. Its rated "R" and its as violent and vulgar as a Quentin Tarantino Flick, Its sort of like a cross between Watchmen and Superbad.
Ebert called it "reprehensible"
I didnt expect to see a 11 year old girl doing wholesale slaughter like the bride in kill Bill..
