yodariquo said:

Sony has lost over $3 billion on the PS3

Ouch.  At least they're still well below the Xbox's 7 billion.

While the PS3 is climbing up its way in current sales market share it still has a ways to get cemented as the current 2nd place holder. Personally I'd imagine that there are two things worrying SONY right now. I mean yes this market share crisis happened to Nintendo once before but Nintendo had 2 things different with the N64 and Gamecube that SONY doesn't have with the PS3 and PSP. That is that Nintendo were selling machines at a profit and that Nintendo had a strong fanbase. I'm not too sure about the PSP but I do know that SONY was losing hefty dollars on the PS3. I'd actually imagine that they still are losing money on PS3 sales due to them being so hesitent to drop the price.

In terms with strong fanbase, okay lets cut the crap here, this isn't Gamespot or 1up so enough of this "OMGZ it must be equals" crap. Cutting out God of War, Gran Turismo (so underserving), Team Ico, what other current IP's does SONY have that can give off massive fan appeal or even strong cult appeal or what not of say Zelda, Metroid, Advanced Wars, The old Shining Force, Smilebit's works, and Super Smash? I mean really it's a no brainer that SONY didn't get where they did because of their solid 1st party line-up.

SONY got where they were with the PS2 due to them striking at others past fuck-ups and having great relations with third parties. Why did developers choose the PSX? Because it was the only console that wasn't a fucking disaster. Why did they enjoy working on the PSX and PS2? Because they had a big install base and the games sold. Why did they sell so much? Because they had appeal. But why did they live so long? Cause they had the games.

The PSX and PS2 didn't sell due to games like Warhawk and JumpingFlash. No they sold because of games like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Grand Theft Auto, Tony Hawk, Resident Evil, etc. The Playstation branch lived on due to third party games not SONY's games. Why do people think that the PSP went from having a slight edge over the DS to now some sites claiming it's "dead"? Because the games that people by the Playstation's for just weren't there. And to be honest most people didn't really care too much about games like "Daxter" or "Wipeout".

Nintendo stabbed themselves in the back by relying too much on their own development studios, SONY has stabbed theirselves in the back by relying too much on others.

yodariquo said:

Tripping only occurs when you go from barely moving to dash while on the ground.  The AI doesn't do this much, and neither do weaker players.

I play the Animal Crossing stage the most.  It's a little different but still simple and not flipping upside down while the environment attacks you.  The thing about the levels was the same as my point, they like to get the environment directly involved in the match, which I don't like.

Regarding tripping: That's what I suspected, and it really irritates me, since I like to sprint around most of the time. Sprinting was a real boon for me with Melee's Ganondorf, but now I'm penalized for trying to speed up a slow character.

My favorite Melee stages were Hyrule Castle (which I hear is/was actually one of the worst in the game for tournament play) and Final Destination... neither of which have any moving elements. Yeah, you got it: interference from the stage is what bugs me about Brawl's stages (the ones that aren't just nearly static platforms zooming around).

Something I always forget to mention, but something that bugs me nonetheless, is that many deaths that would clearly and reasonably be counted as Self-Destructs in Melee are now counted as Falls, making your opponent seem better than he is. I swear I've jumped off the stage, following him and trying to KO him, and when I die in the process, no hits from my opponent, it's counted as a Fall in Brawl. What the hell?

This is a disgrace:

I played some Brawl after griping about it here. Level 9 Ganondorf versus level 9 Kirby, Final Destination, no items, five stock. First stock: Kirby gets Ganondorf above 100% before Ganondorf even lands a hit on Kirby. Ganondorf dies at either 127% or 157% (can't remember which), while the only thing that happened to Kirby was that he was thrown and incurred 7% damage.

That little pink bastard almost four-stocked Ganondorf! Given the conditions of the fight, that should NOT have happened. And while I might have a clear bias here, I don't remember anything this ridiculous happening in Melee with the same conditions and characters.

If you guys are getting tired of the Brawl complaints, be sure to say something. Brawl and Zelda were perhaps the two games I bought a Wii for, both have disappointed me, and I want to validate my console purchase, dammit!

steelattack said:

edgecrusher said:

Are you playing Mass Effect on an HDTV? If you, and probably even if not, turn the damn motion blur and grain effects off in options.

Oh shit. I'm doing that IN TEN MINUTES. When I get home. I started ME all over again and threw away my previous John Shepard file in exchange for a sexy bitch. Can I get boned?

Why didn't I know that and you did? After all, my balls are bigger than yours.

Are you kidding? I have fucking MOOSE balls man. They swing and smell and stain and maim.

angry_beaver said:

gamingeek said:

iga_bobovic said:

Gamingeek do you have Brawl already?

Can't wait to Smash you!

Truth is I've lost interest because of the abnormally long wait. I got okami, mass effect, nights and boom blox so I'm in no rush to get it.

I'm actually very disappointed with Brawl.

I own both brawl games so far and I'm not a hardcore enough fan to even care about those things.

edgecrusher said:

angry_beaver said:

After being beckoned by Edgecrusher, I decided to come over. Wuzzup, guys?

Ahhhh, more meat.

What's up man? Unfortunately, I'm about to get ready for work so I can't chill long. But its good to see more people showing up here finally. Have a good time but, be wary......GG will try to get close to you. Sexually.

That comes with the territory, when you came here you signed away your sexual rights to me.

edgecrusher said:

Are you playing Mass Effect on an HDTV? If you, and probably even if not, turn the damn motion blur and grain effects off in options.

I have no idea why they put that ridiculous shit in there, but the game is 10 times better looking with them off. As for menu's.....just don't bother with them? The game isn't so deep that you really need to do much menu stuff, other than level up. Certainly don't need to read a fucking manual.

Yeah I am. That grain shit is a filter? What the hell? I thought it was just crappy picture quality. They put that crap in? Why would you make it grainy deliberately? Screw that crap. How do I change squad members? Apart from when they put it on screen for me, I cant seem to find the option to do it whenever I want.

yodariquo said:

lol @ 23 pages of comments.  That's 440+ comments, which is more than double our highest ever before.

Is there onscreen counter we can see? Todays weekends updates were 38 I thought it would be quiet. I'm close to 250 updates this week, that's crazy, in a month it'll be over a 1000 at this rate. That's insane.

punk rebel ecks said:

gamingeek said:

Arc Rise does look good-ish. I think the only western rpgs I've

played are oblivion and mass effect  

WTF!? No Fallout?

I don't game on PC. And I never heard of fallout before fallout 3 and the only reason I'm interested in that is because of oblivion. Sorry punk.

Technically I remembered that earlier news posting, but I didn't get around to reading and figured it was about cutting losses and not so much about how much they've mounted.  I would have actually made sure if I were going to post it in the news section, though.  I can't be counted on to post news, but I can at least read through and remove duplicates.

We do have a search news function, though.  You can always search previous stories to check for duplicates.

angry_beaver said:

Something I always forget to mention, but something that bugs me nonetheless, is that many deaths that would clearly and reasonably be counted as Self-Destructs in Melee are now counted as Falls, making your opponent seem better than he is. I swear I've jumped off the stage, following him and trying to KO him, and when I die in the process, no hits from my opponent, it's counted as a Fall in Brawl. What the hell?

I also noticed that, though I avoid suicides enough not to care so much.  I'm not sure how you even get a self-destruct in Brawl.  The good thing about Brawl though is that I wasn't so hyped for it since I knew generally what to expect.  I'm generally happy with it aside from the tripping, but I also expected less than most.

I think you've all put me off getting Brawl...

gamingeek said:

angry_beaver said:

gamingeek said:

iga_bobovic said:

Gamingeek do you have Brawl already?

Can't wait to Smash you!

Truth is I've lost interest because of the abnormally long wait. I got okami, mass effect, nights and boom blox so I'm in no rush to get it.

I'm actually very disappointed with Brawl.

I own both brawl games so far and I'm not a hardcore enough fan to even care about those things.

edgecrusher said:

angry_beaver said:

After being beckoned by Edgecrusher, I decided to come over. Wuzzup, guys?

Ahhhh, more meat.

What's up man? Unfortunately, I'm about to get ready for work so I can't chill long. But its good to see more people showing up here finally. Have a good time but, be wary......GG will try to get close to you. Sexually.

That comes with the territory, when you came here you signed away your sexual rights to me.

edgecrusher said:

Are you playing Mass Effect on an HDTV? If you, and probably even if not, turn the damn motion blur and grain effects off in options.

I have no idea why they put that ridiculous shit in there, but the game is 10 times better looking with them off. As for menu's.....just don't bother with them? The game isn't so deep that you really need to do much menu stuff, other than level up. Certainly don't need to read a fucking manual.

Yeah I am. That grain shit is a filter? What the hell? I thought it was just crappy picture quality. They put that crap in? Why would you make it grainy deliberately?

That's pretty much exactly what I thought to myself as I played the game.

Most of the people I invited here, have read my invite....but most didn't respond. Fuckers. This is no way to treat a friend...