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The thread pretty much says it all. Twilight Princess was good, Metroid Prime 2 was good, Super Smash Bros. Brawl was good, Excite Trucks was fun, and Super Mario Galaxy was great, but those all feel like that came out ages ago. If you asked me today what Nintendo game I've played since then, I don't think I've had an answer.
This years looks better with Metroid Other M, Sin and Punishment 2, and Super Mario Galaxy 2, but they need a really strong second half of 2010 if they want to reel me back in.
As it stands, I'm perfectly happy to play PC games and some 360-exclusives, while only thinking about Nintendo maybe once or twice a year [if that].
So who here has any interest in FFXIII? I was pretty hyped about it when it first announced, about a century ago, but what I've heard about it recently has done a good job of deflating that hype.
One of the major things I've heard about it that I don't like is that the whole game is basically one long tube that the game drags you through. Maybe six or seven years ago this wouldn't have bothered me as much, but I've been on a western RPG kick recently and I love the fact that they're much more open and have choices that you can make rather than having the game decide for you.
Having said that, I would still like to play it some, though probably not until I can find it cheap.
No, I have not bought this game, and won't be buying it, despite that the first Supreme Commander, from 2007, was the second best RTS of the last decade. (Warcraft III is of course number one.) The first Supreme Commander is a very deep and complex game that uses a truly massive scale far beyond that of almost any other RTS. The maps are huge, your armies are huge, and the best way to play is often fully zoomed out, looking at just the little symbols that represent units. It's the spiritual sequel to Total Annihilation and is an amazing, amazing game.
So, when people heard about the sequel, which was recently released, like a lot of people I was pretty excited...
And then the demo came out and the reality of the game was revealed. It is not Supreme Commander. It's simplistic and small in scale in comparison, and much less fun as well. Gas Powered Games seems to have been aiming more at the console (Xbox 360) audience for this one, or perhaps the console and C&C audiences, but with C&C4 coming soon, why would C&C fans care? As for console gamers, RTSes never sell well on consoles. Halo Wars did sell a million copies, but other than that... not so much. Why GPG did this is mystifying, but I can't think of any result other than that this game is going to be forgotten and not played very much in the future, while the first SupCom will still be one of the best RTSes ever and a popular game. It's sad...
It's a pretty good browser, thanks in part to a nice array of helpful extensions. On the other hand, there are a few things that urk me about it, but not enough to get me to change back to Firefox.