"Namco Bandai's Soul Caliber[...]"

I didn't even bother clicking the link. Four words. He didn't even get the first four words of the review right. Not only that, it's the game's name, FFS. View

I played it already and can say that it's pretty good. Maybe not the best Metal Slug, but not the worst in the series in my book either. The second screen however is completely redundant. It's basically just a map of the level showing the hostages that you freed.
Here is hope they release an arcade version as well, but alas, I think a DS game will be far more lucrative, especially today. View

I go out on a limb here and say: People who like Pokemon. If you take away all that merchandise stuff and the likes and judge the games as just games and not part of a huge cultural phenomenon, they are pretty solid.
My only gripes with the franchise is that Nintendo/Game Freak is running out of ideas/names for new Pokemon and still keeps pushing the number. IMHO, they should have stopped after 251 or just add like 10 or so new ones. But that's just me. View

Ahh, I recognize that. Feels good, man. Bubble for you. View

Well, I have my very own, very special reasons, but apart from that and to add something constructive - I miss the integration with this site.

When you hit the mainpage, you can click that little thing there and see the two latest submission and that's pretty much it.
When you browse the site, you sometimes stumble across an ad for BJ, but that one doesn't look appealing to me. There is nothing that makes me say "F'ck yeah, I wanna see that and laugh my ass off!". Don't know how others see that, though.
Talking about integration: I like to think of N4G as something like a hub, an overworld. You hit the mainpage with the hotter topics, then you have that bar up there to browse the news for every console, industry, development, tech, all that stuff. Then there is the pending section, the tips, both located a little more to the south. We (yeah, I like this place enough to consider myself a member) even have the blogs, meta and user reviews and the forums mentioned up there
That's all cool with me, I wouldn't change a thing.

But what I don't see there, is Bad Joystick.
I have pretty much all the URLs I frequent regularily memorized. I couldn't tell you the adress of BJ from the top of my head, even if my life was at stake.
Maybe it's because of the resolution of my laptop (1280x800), but between the "More |>" and the "Blogs" tab is a space. Why not squeeze both bars a little together and make a "BJ" tab there? You could also just link to it under "More |>", but with it's own tab, it would get more hits, I'd say. Or just generally shrink all the tabs a little to make place for a BJ tab. You could just cut the "Xbox 360" tab down to "360", IMHO - everybody still knows what console is meant and there would be enough free room for a BJ tab. Besides, all the other platforms are abbreviated as well.

The other thing is that most of the stuff I saw at Bad Joystick the last time I was there (some... months ago, I guess) was mostly old stuff. People submit there with large time gaps in between. Whereas here at N4G, you see several news coming in seconds after another. But I think that problem would solve itself once enough people frequent the site.
Hope that might be helpful somehow. View

Dude, better edit that comment before any of the mods see it. You know that the game was canceled at 99% completion, JUST BECAUSE it was THAT violent. We all have seen the bootlegs and the illegal beta footage, but just mentioning it is against the ToS of most sites. View

Why complain about them selling us stuff that we already bought, hence why it's on the disc? Because we already paid for it, sans the stupid keys to unlock that stuff.
If I sold you a car and then, after you bought it, told you that in order to unlock the full power of the engine, you have to pay me again, wouldn't you be pissed? It's just like this right now with some developers, just on a smaller (in terms of pricing) scale. View

Thank you for your feedback. The Police of Thailand has just dispatched several squads to your current location, in order to protect the national security and health of the people.

Just kidding, but I wouldn't be too shocked if we saw a report of messages like that popping up the next time somebody over there plays one of those "dangerous games". View

Say hello to the next witch hunt. View

LOL
I can see the new ad campaign now:

"Crysis - makes even a BlueGene cry like a little b'tch" View

First I want a Survival Mode and a Story Mode ala SoulCalbur (the first one), THEN we can talk about Bamco getting any money for that game from me again. View

If they ever make a SNES one with Super Mario World and maybe one of the Mega Man X games in it, I'll buy one for sure. But I doubt it. View

If I ever read somebody spell it with an E again...
You are on a gaming site and aren't even able to spell the game's title.
That's pathetic.

The text has N O T H I N G to do with the page you link to. If you are angry because it wasn't released on PS2, well, tough luck. Write a blog, organize a demo, go camp outside Bandai Namco's HQ, but stop writing crap like this. View

Holy F'ing Sh't!!

On a second thought, what kind of a PC do you need to push playable speeds at that resolution? Anyway, awesome. View

"Regardless of any measure of conflict, the nations of our world have always managed to get together[...]"

I stopped reading right after that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

I rest my case. View

Final Fantasy XIII Agito is a PSP game. I don't see how that would help PS3 sales in Japan. View

Well, talk about completely different receptions.
I remember playing one of the Colin McRae games ages ago on the PSX and I really didn't like it. Maybe it was because I never used the brake in a racing game, so I won't blame it on the game. I also never took the time to get into the handling. So I just say that my first impression wasn't good.
Then I downloaded the DIRT demo. It was fast, I slided a lot (played the trucks first) and found myself enjoing it. Maybe it was that little boy inside screaming in joy because I could pretty much just full throttle all the time without a real penalty and I made the first place.
Then, the GRID demo came along. The first time I played I almost smashed the gamepad into my TV because all I did was 360s all over the place after the first corner. Then I took some of that more adult patience, figured out the brakes, practiced the corners and eureka, I lost to that eBay ghost by just 0:00:03 difference. Since I pretty much suck at racing games of all kinds (you wouldn't want to see me play GTHD), I felt satisfied.
I agree with what you wrote about all the bloom and fancy light effects. GRID and DIRT are probably the most eyecandy-oriented racing games I ever saw in terms of flashyness. At times, it's over the top, IMHO, but it doesn't cross the line for me that makes me vomit rainbows.
I think what they did with their latest racing games is dumbing it down to make it more mainstream friendly. Every time I go to a store I see little kids playing the GRID at the demo booths and they don't do too bad. I'd also like to say that I neither own GRID no DIRT - I liked the demos, but I didn't 50-Euros-worth like them.
The series took a sharp turn from the original games that you loved back then to the games I like today. Maybe they can make a game that we both can enjoy in the future. View

I agree. I love the arcade-y feel they give me. But their names are starting to get lame. Better that way than vice versa, though. View

Dear Codemasters,
since you have an amazingly creative way of finding new, fresh names for your racing games, I would like to participate and make some suggestions.

Tire
Wheel
Engine
Clutch
Asphalt
Rubber
Headlights

As you can see, these names will provide for quality titles for at least the current and the next generation of consoles.

Yours truly,
A gamer who thinks your marketing guys lack imagination View

I can't believe so many bought that crapfest Iron Man.
Sucks for Valkyria Chronicles, but I'm a little more optimistic about it's sales in the US and Europe. Call it a hunch, I might be wrong with that. View