This is the new games thread

[Batman The Horse]

I have a friend who pronounces NES as "Ness" and SNES as "Ess Ness".

It infuriates me.

That's not how you say it?

Then how do you extract Pun Value™ from NESticle (here's the joke it rhymes with testicle)?

[scamboogah]

TurboGrafx is the best game system ever.

Splatterhouse, Galaga '88 AND Bonk's Revenge? Case closed.

[nathansmart]

Don't under estimate nostalgia factor and cheapness. No one is buying a 2d Super Mario for $60.

Actually... [YOUTUBE]8mIjseFBqxo[/YOUTUBE]

But games aren't just fun anymore, they're experiences. Not that they aren't fun, but they're much more than that now. This is good for some people, bad for others. The Wii has been so successful because it's fluff. When there's no depth, anyone can jump in and enjoy. It takes some investment to have fun with game comparitivly more hardcore than "Mime Tennis a friend!".

I am all for the investment of complicated games but I think your discounting the experience you have with the Wii. It isn't just a "fluff." Besides games like Super Mario Galaxy and Zelda, etc., the wii-remote itself is an investment. Sure, you can jump in and just play Wii Music. But, there are so many things to tweak in that game that to truly have fun you have invest the time to have fun with it.

I know there are a lot of stupid get rich quick games on the Wii, but that system is far from fluff.

About the ps1/snes thing, ps1 had a wopping 1239 games. Most of them were shit, no doubt, but people seemed to forget that although Megaman and Zelda were awesome, most snes games were bad. Generally, if you can't remember it, it was probably bad.

I would also venture to say that, played today, a bad SNES is worse than a bad PS2/PS1 game.

Most SNES games were bad? I don't want to have to run through a list and point out how wrong you are, but that is such a wrong statement. And it is incorrect to say that if you can't remember it, it was bad. I can't tell you how many times I've gone through SNES ROM lists and downloaded the awesome games I've forgotten over the years and had so much fun with.

Also, are you counting Japanese games too? I've played so many amazing Japanese SNES games that never made it over here. And same with PS1.

[ASR]

SNES has the most astounding ratio of good to bad games. Meaning, maybe one or two bad games.

Even stuff like TV-show games (Animaniacs, Tiny Toons) were amazing back then.

Though... Nickelodeon GUTS! was one of the bad games.

[nathansmart]

some old games are fun because when you play them they are fun. I have played games that I did not play as a child and enjoyed them. New games are good too. Who gives a shit.

and no, it is NOT a building

I hate this game.

[Umlaut]

IS IT HYRULE???

[TimBuktu]

Hey. Sometime soon, no idea when, Battlefield 1943 is going to come out on Live for $15 bucks. You should get it and play it with me and Arch.

http://www.battlefield1943.com/

[Cameron]

Hey. Sometime soon, no idea when, Battlefield 1943 is going to come out on Live for $15 bucks. You should get it and play it with me and Arch.

http://www.battlefield1943.com/

I'll be getting it.

[Alex Mac]

Same. Though I get the feeling I won't be seeing most of you guys over on the PSN.

[Fentmore]

Definitely not me. My PS3 won't fire up anymore (as of last month). Does anyone know anything about swapping out the power supply? They go for $60 on ebay, I think it may be a common problem (I have an original 60GB).

My theater is a couple weeks from finishing and I don't have my blu-ray plus I will have to merely imagine what The Burnout Bigscreen Experience would be like, rather than seeing (feeling) it for my own self. Bummer*.

*sad smiley face (now that I think about it emoticons make no sense, why would a smiley do anything but?)

[ragu sauce]

i call them famicoms like in my native japanesuru

[matt in the east]

fight night round 4 ftw

(or so it seems. i still have to go get it.)

[Craig B]

Super Mario Galaxy 2 looks pretty good.
Just hope the Yoshi aspect isn't too much.

EDIT:
May have been mentioned already, but another Mario game is on the way.
"Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story".

[isoS]

Is the goal of that game to get Bowser to use his inside voice?

[Trial]

some people are just born with it

[nathansmart]

it's a Mario/Silent Library mashup

[Bobaganoosh]

Don't know if anyone here still cares about Fallout, but the newest expansion, Point Lookout, is by far the best. Lots of fun sidequests and places to explore.

[Alex Mac]

Love Fallout. PS3 is just getting the expansions now. Bout time. Sony really needs to court DLC the same way Microsoft does.

[TimBuktu]

Hey guys, this new Ghostbusters game is a pretty big disapointment. Ramis and Ackroyd may have written it... but they forgot to include anything funny. Murray is obviously just reading lines and brings nothing to the table. The gameplay is super-repetitive and boring... there's only one real puzzle type...

I kind of liked it for about an hour, but quickly realized not much was going on. It's one of my favorite movies of all time so I really wanted to like this...but even with the license and voices, it's hard to play through... and I beat it in about 6 hours..

[nathansmart]

I don't know - I'm having a lot of fun with it. And while I may not laugh my ass off while playing, it's at least fun to listen to. The soundtrack alone makes me feel good.

It seems like an enjoyable arcade game to me.