I have had a ps3 for a year and I'd rather have an Xbox 360. I'd rather play the xbox 360 exclusives in their arcade over the ps3 exclusive games.

I concur. DotA is the only name i knew for the game at first and is usually reffered to instead of "Defense of the Ancients". Just like American Telephone & Telegraph is more memorable/recognizable as AT&T.

I totally agree. My main issue with the Final Fantasy series is a disconnection I felt throughout the sequels.

Final Fantasy was the first RPG I ever played as well. I've been a big fan of all the 8bit and 16bit sequels up to VII on the PS1.

FFVIII was the first one that I quit after playing for only 6 or so hours. The repetitve summoning cutscenes and the grinding necessary to advance spells was a total bore fest. The story and environment were boring as well. I didn't care about any of the characters nor did I care for the futuristic feel (gun-swords?!... c'mon!). I tried to give it a shot but couldn't muster more than 6 hours.

I did enjoy IX thoroughly. The traditional art style worked for me as I felt the ultra-realistic look of VIII was a complete turn-off. But after that, my interest in the series was waaning like a bad relationship.

I tried Final Fantasy X and couldn't get past roughly six hours again. The focus on ultra-realistic graphics and drawn out summoning scenes just sucked the fun out of the fantasy for me. And I haven't even bothered with any sequel since.

I guess there is something to Nintendo's style of the "quiet protagonist" that holds a certain charm. When you over-develop a character you risk alienating the player and I feel the recent sequels suffer from this. I really think that is another reason besides the other points I mentioned above that caused me to feel disconnected to the games. I really didn't care and no changes to the core system could help that.

They should've went with a better name than the "CharNoble".

Snopes has confirmed this....

Your argument goes out the window. You can just buy the toys from McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, etc. without getting the food..... I have for my kids. So problem and lawsuit solved.

"Gamecube was hurt itself in the US by making itself look like a kid's toy and using proprietary DVD discs that had less storage capability (making multi-platform releases harder on it). SEGA was hurt by focusing on 2D over 3D graphics, although they did have a superior online system for the time."

I reckon the Gamecube lost because of the complete lack of third party support that was carried over from the N64 days. The disc size issue, although contributuing, was a moot point by then.

SEGA was still in an uphill climb to regain customer support from its add-on debacle during the Genesis days. I used to be an avid supporter of Sega until I got burned by them releasing continous expensive add-ons and then discontinuing game development to concentrate on the next "hot" add-on.

Super Nintendo - inferior to the Genesis' 32-bit capability The SNES wasn't inferior to the Genesis itself. Remember the 32 bit was an add-on and not the base system. Besides the Genesis had horrible MIDI music too.

The parent didn't say Bush was voted out of office. But you can plainly see that Bush's unpopularity hurt his political party's efforts for replacements. Bush's popularity was ridiculously low by the end of his Presidency.

In the not-so-distant-future: "Dude. Let me borrow the new GTA from you. I'll trade you the new MGS game. Oops. Can't do that anymore. You'll have to buy a copy from the online store. And so will I. Gee, remember back in the day when this wasn't a problem. When we used to be able to trade in games too"?

Aww c'mon. you're no fun, Mr. Antisocial.

They're gonna have to piss of the Prez's daddy first. Then it will work. Then it will be ...personal.

"Economic concerns and worries about compatibility -- the bugbear that doomed Vista in the corporate market -- will keep Windows 7 on the shelf for all but a handful of enterprises until at least 12 months"

IANADM, but I thought Bugbears were easy prey (only a few hit dice)?

And that he did. I used to love Bloom County as a kid. Outland just seemed like a fragemnt of an idea stretched out into a series. I never read Opus. The recurring theme in a lot of these posts is he should've just stopped for a while. Stripping out all the characters except Opus was a bad idea as well. Just imagine if Mr. Breathed had stopped and then started up in 2004 when dubbleya got (hic) relected into office. That shit just writes itself.