Late Night Consoling

After playing through all 8 worlds of New Super Mario Bros, I dont feel like it deserved the ratings it got. Dont get me wrong, I liked the game. I just dont believe it earned a 9.5 or 9 or 5/5 (what most sites gave it). I think a lot of people gave it those scores based on nostalgia. The game itself is extremely easy. I was not expecting a huge challege, just more than what I got. Yeah, I'm going to call this the easiest Mario game made. I think maybe 3 levels total were challenging...2 of which were the last 2 stages. I'd give this game somewhere in the neighborhood of an 8/10.

I found myself avoiding new powerups like the shell and mini mario. I bit the bullet and used mini mario when required to access the 2 hidden stages. Shell mario was alright, but nowhere near as good as any of the powerups from Mario 3. The super sized mario was nice, but it was rarely utilized for a unique purpose. It just made you invincible like a glorified starman. Actually, being super sized got me killed on a few rare occasions.

SM3, SMW and M64 were much better, more challenging and had a lot more longevity than this new game. The game just didnt live up to my expectations. The hype had nothing to do with it, because there really wasnt a whole lot. It was a good game, it just wasnt great.

Oh one last thing, spending 20 coins to change the background of the bottom screen was such a waste. Let the flames begin.

LOST the game is definitely going to be a flop. A bunch of lousy AI + you on an island hunting the "others". Gee that sounds exciting.

i need help buying a laptop. id like to stay at my gfs house for extended periods of time and being away from my computer is dreadful!

im a graphic designer (use flash, photoshop, illustrtor, dreamweaver) and i need these to run nice and smoothly.

i do game, but im willing to cut down on it (i should do more work anyways) but id like it to atleast run starcraft-diablo2 and MAYBE HL2 and WoW...

I dont wanna spend more then 800 and i gotto get it at best buy ( ihave 250$ worth of best buy credit....so the max amount of cash would be 550...)

also, i dont care too much about batter, ill be near a socket almost always

i see two MAYBE 3 choices... they are

-{Toshiba Satellite Notebook with Intel® Celeron® M Processor 390 # with 400MHz frontside bus, 1MB L2 cache and 1.7GHz processor speed

# 256MB PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB 60GB SATA hard drive (5400 rpm)

ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M graphics supports up to 64MB dynamically allocated shared video memory; SRS TruSurround XT and SRS WOW sound enhancement}

and

-{Compaq Presario Notebook with Intel® Centrino® Mobile Technology # with interrelated Intel® Pentium® M processor 735A, Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG network connection (802.11b/g) and extended battery life capability

# 512MB PC2700 DDR DIMM for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB; 400MHz frontside bus, 2MB L2 cache and 1.7GHz processor speed 80GB hard drive (4200 rpm)

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900 supports up to 128MB shared video memory; S-video TV-out}

both at 699$ price tag

finally for 799$

-{Sony VAIO Notebook with Intel® Celeron® M Processor 390 - White # Intel® Celeron® M processor 390 with 400MHz frontside bus, 1MB L2 cache and 1.7GHz processor speed

# 512MB PC2-4200 DDR2 memory for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB 80GB Ultra ATA hard drive (4200 rpm)

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900 with 128MB dynamically shared video memory; VGA-out with Smart Display Sensor}

bah and for 780$ they have

-{Toshiba Satellite Notebook with Intel® Celeron® M Processor 390 # Intel® Celeron® M processor 390 with 400MHz frontside bus, 1MB L2 cache and 1.7GHz processor speed

# 512MB PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB
80GB SATA hard drive (5400 rpm)

ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M graphics with support for 64-128MB dynamically allocated shared video memory; SRS TruSurround XT and SRS WOW sound enhancement}

any help would be greatly appreciated!

AT LEAST 512MB of memory though... i don't do any design really but i know when i have done some those programs will kill the computer if you are low on RAM

factor in the cost of upgrading to at least 1GB probably?

Fuck yeah! The Red Star is finally coming out! I'd been keeping an eye on that game and was hoping for something like this...

The process of sculpting Halo 3's multiplayer development should be quicker now that they have Halo 2's stuff under their belts, right?

I wonder if they will stick with the clan and matchmaking services.

So now that they are improving the DS should I pick it up when it comes out? Are there enough great games to justify buying it?

Re: Game of the Evening - Wings 2: Aces High is an "unofficial sequel" to Cinemaware's Amiga game, Wings. Of all the cinematic games they released, I probably played Wings the most, it had a great presentation and story.

Wings actually got a GBA port a couple of years ago.

omg I love working here.

eat it, jedi

:)

Ugh People mad over replacing rumble with tilt? Whoever is mad about that deserves to die. Come on! Tilt is far far more interesting then rumble now. Hell my rumble in my PS2 has never worked, and in my 360 I don't notice it nearly as much as I do with something like tilt. I'd rather play small little games like Warioware Twisted (if it comes to that) than have rumble in all my games.

Oh, you've gotta love Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3

Look just above the contents list.

Hey Chris, in the Misc. Media/Previews section is it possible to not use all caps for the Wii? WII looks like roman numeral and just makes me laugh and think another World War II game is on the way until my brain sorts it out.

Please say that we'll get a surprise Black DS in north america on the 11th :(

My pet hawk would like to point out that there is an "i" missing from your "meater" Remo.

P.S. It would be awesome if Bungie decided to do a public multiplayer beta later on, further blurring the line between console and PC gaming.

god i wish gaming media would grow a pair.

why can't a first look just fucking bite the bullet and admit the game is bad? i mean, it's hardly that insulting as the game is obviously not done yet, just say it you pussies.

reading those Gamespy impressions of Saint's Row, the guy can hardly string together enough mediocre information to fill two pages (most of which are offset by ads that apperantly mean they generate money by publishing this drivel.) he actually boarders bringing up a few possible issues, mentioning there's no lock-on system for combat, but of course cannot man up enough to say how he felt about these things... making the entire exercise just a self-mastabatory way to generate a few fucking page hits instead of, oh i dunno, IMPRESSIONS?!


GUN

what the fuck? why does europe have a 2nd colour announced for ds lite and we're still stuck with only ipod white

It will be interesting to see how Halo 3 stacks up against some of the other franchises that will have been out for a while by the time it launches - Gears of War, for example. Tycho from Penny Arcade described Gears of War as being "at a 'Halo' level of platform definition." Unquestionably, the Xbox 360 has and will have some excellent, high-profile titles, but so far nothing that I would say defines it other than Halo, and non-exclusives like GTA can't really be definitive. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before this goal is accomplished, though.

that LOST game sounds awesome

Nice catch there for XS. The Red Star is great (at least the Xbox demo was), and Raiden III is a really good shooter that stands out in this age of bullet hell.

Ubisoft is lost.

Wow acclaim.com... I hadn't seen that before.