How so? You could put your entire skill tree on shortcut keys in Diablo 2 while you can never have more than 6 skills set in Diablo 3 (one of which is your basic attack).

I don't really see Pikmin as a niche game. It might be hard to classify in terms of genre (strategy puzzle?), but it's highly accessible and it has near to universal appeal.

We talking Zombi-U? I mean, I guess by some standards a map and inventory management qualify as 'utilizing the gamepad well', but I don't really think that's the kind of huge game changer people were hoping for.

MGS4 was a factor for me too, though I have to say it was a huge letdown coming from MGS3: Subsistence. MGS4 was a little too chaotic for my tastes.

To be fair the PS2 version of Resi 4 was kind of rubbish.

Heh, we wanted the game for an emotional experience and they certainly delivered on that front.

Ouch, the sarcasm, it burns.

I purchased a PS3 for Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

The Wii U is in a bit of a frustrating situation right now. Nothing the console has added (a touch screen controller mostly) is enough to get devs thinking about emergent gameplay, and without that there is no reason for a 3rd party to make an exclusive Wii U game. Even Nintendo has largely failed on that front with…

Whether or not that's the case, it doesn't change the situation for them with regards to whether making Nintendo ports of these games is financially worthwhile. If the Nintendo gamers are going to buy the games even if it's not on a Nintendo platform, there isn't anything gained for that.

Yeah, but it's not like all liquid is immediately sent to the bladder during digestion.

Well, you aren't exactly telling me anything I don't know. It's like I said, they are a mixed bag. I wasn't really implying that any other group of people are any different.

Ehhhh, gamers are a mixed bag. Some are nice and some are complete assholes. Some shift in and out depending on their mood. All you need to do is play 5 games of DOTA or LOL to figure that out.

And then there's this... man, I'm shaking my head...

You clearly missed the decapitation spam that took place the other day.

Um, I didn't bring it up. (see '> Monochrome') And your strange hostility towards me seems unwarranted. Perhaps you need to calm the fuck down sir.

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I can agree with that. At the same time though, that's why so many Playstation era games used prerendered backgrounds instead of going for full 3D. It's fairly easy to go back and play something like Final Fantasy 8/9 or Chrono Cross. Xenogears on the other hand took... the opposite approach, and it can be rather…

I very much appreciate the amount of work that goes into animating sprites. Believe me, I know its a hell of a lot of work. But we aren't looking at animated sprites here, we are looking at stills and it's a whole lot easier to get a still image to look good than it is to make a model that will look good from any…