It has become a lot more expensive to create games in this generation than before because of the demands of the tech, at least that's my understanding of it. So Nintendo managed to keep up until this generation, but that's as far as it goes. The cost of making games will just go up, and Nintendo can't afford to follow…

I read Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (catchy title!). It's the best book I've read about Iraq (or Afghanistan, for that matter) and it might be the best book I've read all year.

Yeah, that's my understanding of it. That's why a program like Deadliest Catch is considered reality TV.

Wasn't bomb making in Brotherhood? Been a while since I played that game.

I found it easier to just lose the tower defense stuff on purpose and then retake it by killing the leader and putting a torch to the tower. The tower defense game is a pain in my fucking balls. Looking forward to getting enough Master assassins.

And the whole Brotherhood mechanic very fun.

Yes, that might be even better.

The thing is, Nintendo is just a game company. Sony and Microsoft is a lot more than that, so they can afford to pump money into expensive hardware and the more expensive development of games to that hardware. Nintendo just can't. That's much of the reason why Nintendo will never catch up to the other two in terms of…

Yeah, it's just Nintendo underestimating its audience yet again. You need to show us how to swing the sword at 15 different objects, seriously?

Again, at the time I never thought the games for N64 looked bad. And I've never heard anyone say that, really. They might look like shit now, and I much prefer to look at SNES games to N64, but I don't think that's the point. For its time, OOT looked amazing.

Yeah, the dude reviewing the game for Giant Bomb gave it a 4/5, but said that the combat was amazing and how a motion game really should play.

Holy shit, did there exist people that didn't think OOT (and Mario 64, for that matter) was the best looking game ever at the time? I remember it getting 10's for graphics everywhere and it's the first time I was stunned by how good a game looked.

Does anyone really hate Wind Waker? I thought it was mostly just people being shocked at the first screenshots, but came around when they actually played it. It's still the best looking Zelda game imo, and the second best game after OOT. Not too much of a fan of the boat parts of the game, but that's not a big deal.

Well, it's 7(?) races which you can do small changes to. But there's a lot of loot, that hat is found in the first dungeon of the game and you'll probably wear it for about 30 minutes.

On a PC, Skyrim looks WAY better than Fallout. A different world. So it's a bit unfair to just call it a change of skin. It's not the best looking game on consoles, I agree, but TES games were always meant to be played on a PC.

Really liked parts of the game, but thought it tried a bit too much at times. I get it, you're making an insane game, but stuff like that big naked Russian dude didn't really do anything for me (ahem). The game looks OK, controls like shit and the dialogue is at times very funny. That Autotune Pimp is video game…

That mission actually made me stop playing the game for about a year when it came out. I just gave up, and started playing something else.

Yeah, I'm not really feeling the controls in this series the way ZMF is. It's alright, but not better than the GTA series. The cars drive like shit, but I'm not too bothered by that: I come to sandbox games with a pretty low expectation of how it will control.

Yeah, the first SR was a GTA knockoff. No doubt about it. I found that game to be nearly unplayable because of how fucking broken it was. SR2 was alright, but I HATED how it forced you to do all this meaningless sidestuff. SR3 is much better about that, just introducing you to that stuff and then making it up to you…

@avclub-a8cf86b7e95be74b1204e22a9aab9cd0:disqus Last I read, Nintendo is working on making it possible to play with two of those controllers. An extra controller is gonna be crazy expensive though, $130+ I would guess.