Unfortunately, they sank.

#RIPJeniferBiggs :(

ps – Can I have her stuff?

In complete contradiction to Bup, I think War for Cybertron’s actually my favorite game so far this year. I think a large chunk of that was, again, expectations. I’m a huge Transformers fanboy, but I fully expected it to come out and be another crappy licensed game. Much to my delight, it was actually worth playing, and has some of the most fun multiplayer in a shooter I’ve seen in a while (nothing horribly innovative, but what’s there is done well). Again, take my extreme bias towards the property into account, though. Honorable mention to the Blazblue series, which is loads of fun, even if you such as bad as I do at fighters.

I think FFXIII was my most disappointing as well, but I did enjoy it for what it was. I guess it’s more the fact that I haven’t really been disappointed by any games I’ve played this year.

My “I need to get around to it” game is definitely Heavy Rain. Love it or hate it, I want to play it just so that I have a definite opinion.

Worst game this year: Mimana Iyar Chronicles. I would rather play 100 hours of FF13’s hallway simulator than spend another 10 minutes on that crapfest. The localization on it was the ONLY good thing about that game.

I am definitely excited for the 3DS. I still have the original DS without backlight and whatnot. I think the 3DS is a worthwhile upgrade.

Nate, should everyone buy an XBOX 360 for Fable II?

I absolutely prefer using the Wiimote to aim a Crosshair over using the left or right analog stick with my thumbs and am fortunate enough not to have the issues you both mentioned. SN, in my experience the controls simply weren’t taken proper advantage of in most of the Wii’s library. It is very inaccurate and cumbersome in a lot of games, but IMO because the developers rushed whatever game out the door without taking advantage of the tech. A lot of games in the library were simply rushed out the door to help boost sales at the end of whatever company’s quarter.

RE and MP games were the only ones I really enjoyed the controllers for, I did not like games that forced you to swing around like a buffoon. Twilight Princess was my absolute limit for wrist/body movements for any Wii game. I will not be playing the new Zelda game unless they offer a much toned down version which I doubt they will since directional cutting is its main selling feature.

If it starts causing cramps yeah fuck that shit.

I love Metroid Prime, but after playing it with wagglemote controls for 15 minutes I was getting cramps in my wrists and arms. If I may quote Master Nathaniel Liles, Esq.: Fuck that shit.

Sure FF’s are linear, but this game was made me feel very claustrophobic. You’re walking down a tunnel one-meter in length for the majority of the game. I also did not care for the battle system at all. I understood the paradigm system enough to get me to chapter 11, but a certain boss at the end of chapter 10 took me a half dozen tries and each fight lasted about 30 minutes. Everyone was max upgraded to that point of the game, so I was probably doing something wrong; out of most likely 50 RPG’s I’ve played in my life I have never felt like I was doing something wrong in any battle system. Even Baten Kaitos Origins battle system was an absolute breeze, and extremely enjoyable, for me.

I believe Kinect will not succeed, but that Microsoft will spend a lot of time spinning the Kinect like it did succeed. One of Microsoft Europe Exec’s recently said that the Kinect will completely sell out this Christmas. I find that difficult to believe unless they copy another thing Nintendo was alleged of doing, greatly limiting to supply to increase demand. Selling out something to create positive buzz is easy if all you do is release very few of something to sell to the early adopter fanboi’s.

The Move, I’m on the fence. I really like the idea of playing certain games with Waggle, like Resident Evil 5. ResEvil4 Wii edition is vastly superior, IMO, to the GC and PS2 editions which were already unbelievable games. Though it’s just to pricy, like Kinect, for addon’s to products halfway (or more) through their life cycles. Maybe the panel is right and the waggle fad is ending. Despite that, I think waggle can be amazing if implemented correctly like it was in RE4 and Metroid Prime 3 (and 1&2). Still can’t wrap my head around why Lusipurr didn’t like the controls for MP Trilogy. The freedom of movement and accuracy is so much improved over the standard controller…

-I wouldn’t expect another major FF game to be released this generation after VS XIII.

-OMG, that ending sounds fucking retarded!

-Motomu Toriyama and Kitase were in charge of XIII.

-Nomura and Hashimoto are in charge of VS XIII. (you won’t have control of your entire party in VS XIII)

-LADY GAGA!!!

-Given that the Wii was profitable at launch and still outsells the other two consoles, I think Nintendo will be happy supporting the Wii until the sales drop off bellow their competitors.

-I think both the Kinect and Move will fail.

-LOL, Nintendo loose their demography to 3D lolcats!

-OMG: NATE just picked my favourite moment in gaming! MGS3 was wonderful.

-Dirge of Cerberous was AWFUL. Good thing Biggs enjoys it,because 3rd Birthday is the sequel.