http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/anpj/index.html This Napoleon game looks interesting, and it seems to be rather deep... *Darunia suddenly walks to Japan, through the oceans, and demands that Nintendo release this game, the Japanese, being 3 inches high, try to ride Darunia like a horsey*
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/cero.html So THIS is Japan's new rating system... Alright then... in other news it seems that Zero Mission was JUST released yesterday in Japan. Yay them!
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/software/bhtj/index.html Japan, this is a formal apology from these United States... This attack of karp games from our homeland to yours was unwarrented and unjust. May our packages of Blizzard games (via Capcom) help in the rebuilding...
I like that new show that's all detectivy! Yes, it's rather cliche and it's not exactly deep or anything, but it brings me back to my childhood when I read things like Encyclopedia Brown and Sherlock Holmes short stories. I LOVED solving mysteries like that! So, it's fun to see a series where it's all just finding clues and puzzle solving, even if it's just a simple little thing. Ah the naustalgia... oh no... it's swarming over me aaaaaahhh!
I think we should all get together in some summer cottage and do the thing where someone dies and we all have to find out who did it before that person kills... you know again...
Since I started the original, now infamous Goron Front thread to explain my absence, I'll start the sequel (hopefully less violent and ominous) to explain my newer absence: internet explorer keeps crashing when I open it recently. AIM and e-mail work fine, but not IE. Thusly, once more, my presence here is strained. Don't cry for me; for I'll be back again someday.
Okay, NOW begin with all the crazy fighting!!! :shiggy2:
Doctorow turns a graduation commencement into an anti-Bush spiel. And quite a few students were unhappy about it. So they booed him into silence. Now he's whining about being unable to speak freely.
Why is it that liberals feel it is okay to criticize anything and everything they feel like, but when someone counters them with criticism, it's "supressing free speech"?
I suppose 'free speech' is now a label that applies only to liberal viewpoints.
Or, more accurately, will liberals ever realize that free speech is only protection from government retaliation, and that when you say something stupid, as Doctorow spent twenty minutes doing, there are bound to be negative consequences?
Quote:Best of Show
- Half-Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Nintendo DS (Mobile Gaming System - Nintendo Co. Ltd)
- Sony PSP (Mobile Gaming System - Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Splinter Cell 3 (UbiSoft Montreal/UbiSoft for PC)
Best Original Game
- Destroy All Humans! (Pandemic/THQ for PlayStation 2, Xbox)
- Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Nintendo for GameCube)
- God of War (SCEA Santa Monica/SCEA for PlayStation 2)
- Jade Empire (Bioware/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Yoot Saito's Odama (Vivarium/Nintendo for GameCube)
Best PC Game
- Half-Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth (EALA/Electronic Arts for PC)
- Rome: Total War (Creative Assembly/Activision for PC)
- Sims 2 (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC)
- Splinter Cell 3 (UbiSoft Montreal/UbiSoft for PC)
Best Console Game
- God of War (SCEA Santa Monica/SCEA for PlayStation 2)
- Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Jade Empire (Bioware/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Retro Studios/Nintendo for GameCube)
- Resident Evil 4 (Capcom for GameCube)
Best Peripheral / Hardware
- Alienware Video Array Technology (Alienware for PC)
- Donkey Konga Bongo Drums (Nintendo for GameCube)
- Nintendo DS (Mobile Gaming System - Nintendo Co. Ltd)
- Phantom Gaming Service (Infinium Labs, Inc.)
- Sony PSP (Mobile Gaming System - Sony Computer Entertainment)
Best Action Game
- Doom 3 (Vicarious Visions/id/Activision for Xbox)
- F.E.A.R. (Monolith Productions/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Half-Life 2 (Valve/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
- Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Retro Studios/Nintendo for GameCube)
Best Action/Adventure Game
- God of War (SCEA Santa Monica/SCEA for PlayStation 2)
- Prince of Persia 2 (UbiSoft Montreal/UbiSoft for All Systems)
- Resident Evil 4 (Capcom for GameCube)
- Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Insomniac Games/SCEA for PlayStation 2)
- Splinter Cell 3 (UbiSoft Montreal/UbiSoft for PC)
Best Fighting Game
- Def Jam: Fight for New York (EA Canada/EA for All Console Systems)
- Guilty Gear Isuka (Arc System Works/Sammy Studios for PlayStation 2)
- Mortal Kombat: Deception (Midway Games for PlayStation 2/Xbox)
- Rumble Roses (KCET/Konami for PlayStation 2)
- Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Capcom for PlayStation 2/Xbox)
Best Role Playing Game
- Fable (Big Blue Box/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Final Fantasy XII (Square-Enix for PlayStation 2)
- Jade Empire (Bioware/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
(Obsidian/LucasArts for PC/Xbox)
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Troika Games/Activision for PC)
Best Racing Game
- Burnout 3 (Criterion Games/Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2/Xbox)
- Enthusia Professional Racing (Konami for PlayStation 2)
- Forza Motorsport (Microsoft for Xbox)
- Gran Turismo 4 (Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2)
- Street Racing Syndicate (Eutechnyx/Namco for All Console Systems)
Best Simulation Game
- Full Spectrum Warrior (Pandemic/THQ for PC/Xbox)
- Pacific Fighters (1C/UbiSoft for PC)
- Sims 2 (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC)
- The Movies (Lionhead Studios/Activision for All Platforms)
- The Urbz: Sims in the City (Maxis/Electronic Arts for All Console Systems)
Best Sports Game
- ESPN NFL 2005 (Visual Concepts/ESPN Videogames for PS2/Xbox)
- FIFA Soccer 2005 (EA Sports/Electronic Arts for All Platforms)
- Madden NFL 2005 (EA Sports/Electronic Arts for All Platforms)
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (EA Sports/Electronic Arts for All Platforms)
- Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (Neversoft/Activision for All Platforms)
Best Strategy Game
- Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth (EALA/Electronic Arts for PC)
- Pikmin 2 (Nintendo for GameCube)
- Rome: Total War (Creative Assembly/Activision for PC)
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Relic/THQ for PC)
Best Puzzle/Trivia/Parlor Game
- Donkey Konga (Nintendo for GameCube)
- Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Nintendo for GameCube)
- EyeToy: AntiGrav (Harmonix Music Systems/SCEA for PlayStation 2)
- Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 (Harmonix Music Systems/Konami for PlayStation 2)
- WarioWare, Inc. DS (Nintendo for Nintendo DS)
Best Online Multiplayer Game
- Battlefield 2 (Digital Illusions/EA Games for PC)
- EverQuest II (Sony Online Entertainment for PC)
- Halo 2 (Bungie/Microsoft for Xbox)
- Star Wars Battlefront (Pandemic Studios/LucasArts for PC, PS2, Xbox)
- World of Warcraft (Blizzard/Vivendi Universal Games for PC)
Yoot Saito is making Odama? I think that's the first time I've heard that.
Pretty good for Nintendo, but it looks like Halo 2 is going to be the big winner. What's up with Baten Kaitos, Paper Mario 2, and Tales of Symphonia getting snubbed in the RPG category? I'd think that at least one of those would have made the cut.