Funny, because I bought it on Amazon over Christmas break for $10. I even got a $5 off coupon for a downloadable PC game off Amazon with that deal, so it was effectively $5.

Don't be afraid. This stuff hurts my eyes, too. PC gaming really isn't that complex, and with Steam and such out there now, it's often as easy to "plug and play" games on PC as it is on 360 or PS3. And the price is never that high. Realize that the graphics card, which this guy got 3 of, can, BY ITSELF, run the most…

Nintendo knows where it's at.

How about we keep the buttons and have motion controls alongside them?

Would Star Wars have worked if they changed it to the style of Dragonball Z and made Darth Vader a sexy anime catgirl, and the Emperor was a buff guy in a skimpy orange suit?

My hopes are so down for this game. I've seen screens. They went full-on anime style. The visuals don't look any better than the Wii, either. Things pop a lot less.

I LOVE giant spiders and dungeon crawling.

I like the concept of the game but it was never good enough (based on reviews) to really get me to buy it.

Here's the problem with that price point: it doesn't make sense. That's too low to actually make a more powerful system off better tech and actually profit from selling it. $200 price range for THIS generation is fairly cheap. Why would the next generation come right out of the gate at the exact same price point? Has…

It still stands that the Wii is quite noticeably more powerful and feature-rich than any of last generation's systems. Compare the horsepower, the graphics, the TV settings, the internet options, the menu systems, the features in general. All significantly better on the Wii than the PS2, GCN, Xbox or Dreamcast.

To be fair, I don't see much Assassin's Creed bashing, or negativity surrounding Uncharted. I have just as many issues with those as I have with Zelda, currently. But so often Nintendo seems to be the easy one to target. To defend them is to label yourself fanboy, and to declare an opinion that goes against the…

Skeptical.

Well I, for one, welcome this change of pace. Under-dressed sexy women selling things is overdone. About time we got some under-dressed sexy men selling me stuff.

The way her wand flies back up so perfectly... the specific spot in her sentence where she's cut off...

Chalk-a-bows.

Was it? I never played any (aside from SSB Melee, and we all know that's a super serious core competitive fighting game) so I wouldn't know. In what way did it make fighting games bad?

The only thing that was a mess was the C-stick. That was just Nintendo pretending to be different with their second analog stick and making it all gimpy on purpose.

If you can, I'd say get a Wii instead of dropping the cash on a GCN. You get all the same functionality (just make sure it's not one of the new Wiis with no Gamecube support) and the Wii library itself (if you haven't dug into it yet) is more than worth what you pay for the console.

And Etrian Odyssey 4! :D

Etrian Odyssey and a handful of others have been delivering some really good old-school turn-based dungeon diving like this on the DS. The first EO itself is the most difficult RPG I've ever played, but also the only one I've beaten and done everything in, including the insanely hard post-game stuff. As generic as it…