Still pretty disappointed it's god ugly 2.5D, but eh.  The lighting was awful in the demo though, Beck was almost completely in shadow.  Hopefully they'll fix that.  Other than that it didn't look too bad, but I fear the constant "kill ##### to suck up it's soul" will get real old real fast.

We change here.  It's just no one ever talks about it.

Let's all make new memories together at Abe's new...

MIGHTY NO9 MATRIX!!!!!

HECK YEA!

The Lego Movie is grand.  I suggest you all go see it.

Playing Bravely Default.  It has some issues, to be sure, but it's still a good RPG, the best Final Fantasy since 6 and has a God Tier soundtrack.  Seriously, the music is probably the best RPG soundtrack since Chrono Cross.  It has melted my bitter, icy heart, if only a little.

Who let you out of the capsule?  It clearly wasn't showing green yet.

We stop to blink and breath about 4 times a year.

We will never have a good comic jam.  EVER.

Too bad that game is on a console I never want to buy own.

Fixed that for you!

I think he only refills the field with bosses if you kill so many of them, because when he got down to about 30% of his health, he did some move that did nothing.  I never had any bosses respawn that I could tell.  Of course the first time I killed him I had X and Zero finish it.  They're an unstoppable team.

So I heard there was fun going on here.  I'm here to put a stop to that.

There are no rules here.  Only Rulers.

That was pretty fly for a fungi, Jakey.

Ugh, social media killed the mboard, and Capcom killed Mega Man.

No politics allowed.

Backed it at the last minute for $99.00.

Added 26 for that tangible disc, son.

Absolutely worthless since it's Steam crippled.

I voted for Not Roll.  Though I did I did remind me of Iris a bit, so I hoped she would place higher.  I'm ok with all 3 finalists though.  Although I'll probably vote for F again.

The game forces you to change support characters so damn often it's hard to say.  I usually used a support that gave them the attack+15% or shield break.  I can't remember.

In respect to the fan service, I was deeply offended Iris didn't have any.  She should have had some bouncy attack with Mii or Kaguya.

If they use MHX as the X1 canon, yep.  They'll mess it up.  Actually, X has a lot more ##### in it.  I thought things went pretty well though X4, but then, after that, the plot/canon went to total #####.  They could do some freaking awesome stuff with X if they do it right, but I doubt they will.

I do not like green eggs and ham.

Strangely enough, this is precisely the place where I learned to be a prick on the internet.

NATURE VS NUTURE

I am unconvinced.

EDIT: I lie! iPhone compatibility miiiiight change my mind.

Die in a fire.

Got about 40 hours into it last week over vacation.  I'm really liking it.  Music is fantastic, sprite work looks great.  Game play is tight.  It's actually quite funny too.  I love the dialog in it.  And the fan service is so over the top it's just awesome.

I have only 2 complaints with the game.  The first is I'd really have preferred a dub for it.  I don't really mind subtitles, but generally I like things in my native language.  The game has SO much talking and you get subs for virtually none of it in battles so you lose a big part of those little touches. 

Second is the pacing and enemy numbers.  The game really teeters on going from fun to simply teadius FAR too often as you get farther into the game.  We really don't need 6 or 7 boss level units per map with about 40 or 50 15,000 HP scrubs along with them.  The sheer number with that many HP make it a chore not a pleasure.  The maps are so big and you move so slow it's almost impossible to move one group of units from one end of a map to the other.

I actually really like the game, but it could use some balancing and refinements to be sure.  Also, X and Zero are pretty damn ace in this game.  The glory days of the X series return with Dante level style here, though it makes the fact we'll never get another proper X game of that quality ever again bittersweet.

Gauntlet is one of those games that is fondly remembered but when you actually go back and play it it's not up to much.

It's a bit like going back and watching old He-Man or ThunderCats cartoons.

Those are WONDERFUL shows!

I got it last week, but have been too busy to pop it in.  I'll get a chance to play it over the break this week though.  I heard X and Zero don't get to show up chapter 20 or so, about halfway through the game.  That's too bad.

I had a really good funny but I just couldn't get the wording right

I frequent:

Heavenly Nostrils http://www.gocomics.com/heavenly-nostrils
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja http://drmcninja.com/
Dragon Ball Multiverse http://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/accueil.html
Maximumble http://maximumble.thebookofbiff.com/
Rich's Comic Blog (the 10 Doctor's guy) http://comics.shipsinker.com/
Axe Cop http://axecop.com/
Bearmageddon (by Axe Cop guy) http://bearmageddon.com/

That's most of em.

Growing up is hard, for sure.  Hope things start to get better though.  Slow as it is, we're always here.  Unless Abe doesn't pay the server bill.  THEN ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE!

I don't think he's all totally emotionless, there are some shots where he looks more human in expression (the one of him next to DK with that "oh god I'm next to HIM" look) but I love how they've rendered him in Smash.  Wouldn't mind seeing Roll and Light as well to round it out (and hopefully Wily will show up too).

NOT A DREAM!  NOT AN IMAGINARY TALE!

I won't lie, I teared up watching this.  I have no words.  So.  Good.

Can't hurt if SFxMM can do it...

Grenade Man.  I'm pretty sure I had all 3 at some point.  I just remember Professor Hazard was using Pharaoh Man so I switched to Grenade Man or Search Man before settling on one of the two.

Indeed.

I'm mostly ok with not getting to play AA5 now, though.  It's a never ending stream of bull##### from Capcom on why they're doing it like that.  But whatever.  I highly encourage everyone to NOT BUY that game.  If it kills the series in the West, so be it.  If Capcom can't differentiate between poor sales being because no one likes it and the enormous negative backlash on the digital only release, they have no business making or selling games.  Anyway, I posted all this much deeper detail over on the Capcom Unity forums.

Capcom is truely one of the WORST publishers in gaming right now, up there with EA and Activision.  It's a shame they have so many of my fav. IPs.  It's too bad if a game doesn't make CoD size profits they have no interest in messing with it.

Search man?

is that an exe character?

Bite your tounge.

It's better than people who post pictures when they go to the bathroom...

...my avatar used to be Pharaoh Man!  Or Search Man.  I forget.

I never backed up any of the forums, just some of the images we posted.  If anyone archived it that would be Delta or Abe.

Sea Breeze my friend!

That's pretty nice.  Could use some stubble on the side of the head though.

... boy, the mauling tent has plenty of room in it.

I can and I do!

Don't MESS up your first impression Sano...

I can dub it for you if you like.  My Scandinavian is pretty rusty but I think I can make it mostly make sense.

Stop trying to sound interesting and sound interesting.

YOU CAN HAVE MY TOMATOE STICK!

... if I see ONE MORE comic in moon runes I swear to GOD...

Why would you spend Euros on something like that?  That's something an Europee'n would do...

Mess, my man!  How's Kirby doing?  I heard he... returned to Dreamland!

But seriously, nice to see you again.  Things move slow here there days... just like us.  Because we're all old now.

Finished Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask.  Good game, but the end was the most predictable one of the series.  Still enjoyed it a lot though.

Now on to Secret Files 2 for the DS.  I had to import it since we never got it in NA.  The funny thing is, I thought all European versions were the same multi language version, but NOPE.  I got a pink triangle "French" version.  The case is in French, the manual is all French.  The game... is entirely in English.  Dubbing.  English.  Subtitles.  English.  Game text.  English.  So I guess I'll still need to track down a Green Triangle "Queen's English" version, but at least I can play the game!

Thematically?  Sure.  It has Samus and she shoots Metroids.  In every other sense?  God no.  It's no more "Metroid" than FPS X would have been "Mega Man X".  Metroid's game play didn't magically get preserved in the move to 1st person any more than X's would have.  But there are still quite a few people who will breathlessly argue Prime is Jesus come again in 3D and directly 1 to 1 perfect transition to 3D from 2D.  Those people are free to enjoy the game, but they're not free to pretend it's anything resembling the 2D games from game play or mechanics.

... you're fired.