So I am sitting atop a pile of 1090 coins on Club Nintendo and the one thing I have any interest in buying has been sold out for the past two months.

It's Gamestop.

No apology necessary, but thank you for your politeness.

Because while it is various levels of awesome, it feels somewhat inappropriate when this song is playing in my head and I am at a funeral for my friends relative.

I cannot for the life of me get this song to stop playing in my head.

I thought Penny Arcade did it well.

Not in Qatar!

You could say that two things are certain in life. The first being death and the second is a new Call of Duty game in the fall.

On a related note, does anyone want to trade friend codes for the 3DS? Maybe play some Kid Icarus or Mario Kart sometime? Mine is 4596-9703-4514.

I can guarantee that there are more side quests. It seems that every time I go back to colony 9 there are several more side quests for me to do, mainly because some npc's wander around during there active times, so I'm constantly stumbling into quests that have my lvl 32 party go after a lvl 10 baby cow. Tedious, but…

Good point, though how much do you think a company should add on to the cost? One of the biggest complaints about the 3DS seemed to be that there was too big a gap between the cost of production and what it was being sold at. Add too little on and you don't make anything, add too much and people hate you for it, it…

Haha, I completely forgot about all those types of extra cost, thanks for reminding me. In that case, I would say that a $300 price tag sounds about right.

I doubt it, especially after the 3DS launch I do not think Nintendo would try to take that big a piece of the pie. That would be adding $120 on for the price alone, it would be a pretty big money grab in my opinion.

Yeah, I don't think I'll ever get to a point where I need to grind, because all the side quests really do give out some nice xp.

So in Xenoblade I have this problem, I must finish all the side quests as soon as I get them. I have spent hours on Bionis leg looking for monsters, items and new areas, and you know what? I wouldn't have it any other way.

There's an example of the combat. It is similar to FF12, but I think it leans a little bit more towards KotOR, but it executes it much better. It feels much less restricted and choppy and overall it flows much better from one fight to the next.

I finished it, but died a couple of times in the process. I thought seeing those level 30-40's in a cave was scary, then I came across a whole flock of level 70-80 birds who proceeded to kill me so fast I couldn't even draw my sword.

It certainly is, the fights are much smoother and overall more rewarding than in KotOR. You auto attack whenever you're close enough and in true KotOR form you can choose special attacks, or "artes" that each have different effects and cool down times. Overall it's a very nice blend.

Well I've been playing Xenoblade since yesterday because I live in Canada and everything is closed today, and I'm just blown away. The combat works a smidge like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, but without the slowdown, random freezing and other assorted nonsense.

I actually just started playing this game and wow, what a refreshing experience. From the music to the art direction to gameplay, everything in this game comes across as new and interesting. I love the variety of battle music and I'm sad when one part of a chain battle ends and the song changes.