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@crusader8463 said:

@Marz: Sorry, I forget that some people enjoy being the douche bag that spoil stories for others. Carry on.

In his defense, he's referring to games that are SNES era old -_-;; The best thing I got from yous guys conversation was the spoiler tag within a spoiler tag. That was fun =D

@Little_Socrates: Do you know which Endurance Run vid this takes place in? I'd love to see the GB crew reaction but I haven't played thru the game or watched the P4 endurance run in its entirety so I have no idea where to find this scene -_-;;

All I know is I just updated my credit card information, and something glorious happened.

Don't play Dead Island before the proper release build is up on steam. Your dubug build saves are incompatible. . .

@TheHBK said:

I just want to know why Nintendo has to do anything to appease the early buyers when A) they knew a revision was coming anyway, B) there weren't any good games for it and there weren't any coming aside from Zelda and Star Fox, remakes.

They don't really need to do anything. Zilch. Anything they do is to generate good will towards the company and for good publicity. If they do anything, it's to help themselves. It's the same with any large corporation or company. Any type of donations, charity or just community service stuff they do is for tax write offs and to look good so more people buy their products.

The saddest gaming related event I've ever seen was a gaming releated real life incident.

Back when FFVII was still a thing, there was a kid in one of my HS classes that wore a FFVII shirt every few days all semester. One day, someone in my class went up to him and said something along the lines of "Wasn't it awful when Sephiroth killed Aeries!?" and the look on the kids face was just sheer, verge of tears, you just totally spoiled the game for me type of anguish. Apparently, while he had the game for months, he only got to play a few minutes a day because he had to share the TV with the rest of the family and hadn't gotten to that point in the game yet.

It was truly sad cuz the kid really seemed heartbroken about it. You know, cuz we were back in HS, and this kid was sorta a proto geek and prolly way into Aeries. Can't blame the spoiler guy tho cuz seriously, he wore that shirt all the freaking time.

@cinemandrew said:

@nickb64: More importantly, does he sound like Brad?

This is Brad's most important feature by far.

Looks wise, I'm with the majority here in that he looks sort of like a Brad Cosplayer.

@viiral: I think it's mostly from the people who were early adopters and might be missing out on built in functionality later on. On one hand, it's the price you pay for being an early adopter and getting things earlier, but on the other hand, if it's built into the next iteration, it's not just a sleeker looking system that does what the previous version did better. It's actually got more buttons and sticks -_-;;

I still agree with you on your second point, except I'd like to expand that from "gamers" to "everyone on the internet, myself included".

DudeBros may have had a bad image for some time, but these days everyone's a douche or bros.

Even a really hot and stylish guy may be into dudebroing – we’ll introduce a few douche moves that should close the distance with a bro you’ve got your dude on:

LVL 1. A must for all! “Jersey Shore”

Even girls know Jersey Shore… if the conversation turns to JS, be sure to immediately comment on how cute the snookies are!

LVL 2. A locale with a high proportion of hot dudebros! “Sporting Events”

Be sure to take note of this one – Sporting Events are lately going dude and bro! Be sure to mention how cute your duckface is!

LVL 3. Everyone loves it! “Tanning”

All dudebros love tanning. Make sure you know it. Try to make sure you know the difference between "Zinc Sulphate", "Bronze Camouflage" and "body blush", and if you say "You should whiten your teeth while tanning with Twilight Teeth!” you’ll surely sound like a pro.

LVL 4. Lots of hardcore dudeBros do it! “Popped Collars”

Ensure you can say “Unpopped collars are so brody” Also, he’ll surely think you’re cute if you say something like “listen bro. listen. bro. BRO! listen.”

LVL 5. The music is great too! “Uhn tss uhn tss uhn tss”

Unh tss uhn tss uhn tss DOO do DO DOOO DO! DOO do DO DOOO DO!

@cikame: Strange, I actually feel like Nintendo has always been ahead of the curve in controller design. The NES controller invented the Dpad, which at the time was pretty awesome even though the controller itself was a sharp edged box. The SNES introduced shoulder buttons. The N64 was the first console controller to have an analog stick and the rumble pack was new to the game when Starfox came out. Gamecube was a bit hit and miss with the giant A button, but I did really like the shoulder buttons that had the extra click when fully depressed. The Wii. . . well, it's somewhat uncomfortable to hold and while the system and majority of it's games may not have lived up to expectations, the accelerometers coupled with the pointing functionality was pretty innovative as well.

Sony on the other hand, came in with the PlayStation, which had a comfortable grip but was pretty much cribbing off Nintendo's playbook while adding a second shoulder button. They added dual analog after N64's analog stick. They also added rumble to the dual shock after the N64's rumble pack. They added sixaxis after the wiimote until they went full on copy paste with the move. I think the only legitimately new thing they did control wise was the playstation eye, which seemed underused.

Microsoft's first controller was the behemoth Duke controller. They should have consulted someone that didn't have giant man hands -_-;; I used the shit out of it up until the more reasonably sized S controllers came out. Since then, I don't think they've really added much to their controllers. The guide button was nice and the kinect is at least innovative.

*EDIT* I just wanted to throw in that the 360 controllers are my current favorite controllers. I'll take the D-Pad mushiness over the strangely shaped and easily misspressed L2 and R2 buttons on the PS3 Sixaxis. Also, what the hell were they thinking making it without rumble initially.

As far as controllers go, it seems like they're consulting with Capcom just to get their one super Japan franchise on the system. In both cases it was for that crazy hunter game. Nintendo may have fucked up a grip and itterated like mad, but they've always been slightly ahead of the curve in terms of input devices. Oh, and there was the DS which everyone thought was crazy =P