Game: Super Mario Galaxy

I have a terrible confession to make.

I'm starting to hate Smooth McGroove.

Rather, I'm starting to hate that I always seem to see his stuff whenever I come on. I enjoy listening to him, but it almost feels like anyone I talk to, or any gaming website I go to I hear about something new that Mr. McGroove has done. Call…

Yeah it's so weird that people enjoy structurally similar and beautifully executed action puzzle games with charming characters and a fun world on a biannual basis.

It's a little annoying when people post pictures of an art piece they don't quite understand and make fun of it and then proceed to insinuate that it isn't really art.

Streets of Rage 2... easily one of the greatest soundtracks of the 16-bit era.

Am I the only one that happens to think this is an actual photo? They stand in the diffuse shadow and are clearly lit by a flash - thus the shadowing away from the camera. The lighting on all characters and the background is consistent. The shadows of the people on the ground are visible only on the furthest…

Protip from someone who worked retail: we talk shit about you behind your back all the time. It's how we cope.

Nintendo, you make criticizing you far too easy... What a dismal offering. Was there even much point in hosting a direct for any of this?

Also of interest is a montage of indie Wii U titles shown during Europe's Ninty Dict.

I'm a gamer, and I've never played GTA.

Wait, Sonic CD isn't on Dreamcast!

I can pretty much guarantee that something like this has happened somewhere in the world.

Yeah but no one is looking forward to Chess 2 because it's not the same developer.

I went back and play Sonic 2006. Long story short, it was just a buggy, rushed mess of a game. I won't go through the laundry list, but the game is obviously only half-baked when it was released. That game made me want to rage-vomit when I fired it up again.

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Yeah, that's pretty silly. I think the only Nintendo game that's really making good use of the gamepad is Nintendo Land, and that was kind of a misfire because they made it all about the Mii characters dressing up.

Galaxy 2 was indeed great and are best Mario game next to Mario 3. However the sales for New Super Mario Bros on Wii easily outsold Galaxy 2 by ten fold.

Miyamoto makes a good point and one that I agree with. A franchise is nothing but a name. For better or worse, sequels can be radically different from their predecessors.

I've never agreed with this argument. People say their system isn't worth getting, yet they scramble to want the games on "their" console of choice. That is the whole reason you buy a system. You want their games so bad, you buy the console that they are designed for. Period. Look at Sega, it's a shell of their…

Greg's post is the perfect example of what Luke's talking about. The spurious logic in defending companies that are taking your control away is absurd. "Oh, it's not as bad as Steam." So it's not the worst it could possibly be? Sign me up, then!