@subnet6: See, for me it was the scope of the game, the challenges, the storyline, and the fact that they had a vision, an appreciation for story, for the characters they set forth with, for the multitude of challenges. I feel that in many respects, they made AC1, played Ocarina, and then went down a checklist on how…

This will (when it comes out in 2011) be a wait and see for me. After playing Assassin's Creed II, I've begun to realize what ambition can mean for crafting a new world, and how far some games have come this generation. I got a sense playing ACII that the gaming world was changing, and Nintendo's latest iterations…

@EmeraldDragon: One could argue that first "fiscal year" (the only one that matters to Nintendo) that the Wii was out was Wii $ports and Twilight Princess. 2007, it was Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3. 2008 was Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. Last year it was Punch Out and SMB Wii.

I cannot believe it.

I hear they're trying to market this to young, impressionable males.

a happy ending to a Zelda game.

@Nside: Amen. Altho given the quality of some (not all) Wal Mart workers, I wouldn't be surprised if this was directed by some employees.

@anduin1: To your friends' credit, he is sharp, healthy, and on the ball (pun alert). Not all are so fortunate to have the health of body and mind, and it is to them and to their affection that we must teach, and admonish the true villains.

@-Thunder-: Until last Friday, one of my grandmothers had no idea what a DVD was. In the great breadth of knowledge she has about children, horseback riding, hiking, and the history of America, I'll fault some soulless asshole looking for a quick buck than a woman trying to do good. There's nothing fair there.

I always feel bad when I see this stuff, because it means the best intentions of some grandmother or grandfather was veered off course by a skeezy DVD company executive, and as they watch their grandchild's eyes, it's quite clear that what they aren't seeing is the real thing known as gratification. I know that look…

@DrakeDatsun: and I agree but I think the whole of it is fairly ambiguous. Of course Westerners can cosplay, but the premise itself leads in with some pointed arguements against it, and refutes it in a fairly passing way.

Also, fact. In the west, fat people cosplay. A lot. That's not a bad thing (unless they're in a loincloth) but I am not going to generalize and say that every Japanese person weighs 90 lbs and is note perfect to the character, but I will say I haven't seen any cosplay evidence to the contrary.

@DrakeDatsun: derr, the article states that Westerners CANNOT cosplay... by this logic's standards, the best Link cosplayer shouldn't be American.

@Foggen: Yes. This.

Everything we think we know about how other cultures is stupid and wrong and generalized. The Japanese are no less arrogant or wrong than we are.

cuz nothing says casual like Duke Nukem...

No games this Christmas. Or usable gift cards. I'm not sure I've been bad, but I sure don't feel good.

@thegriefer: no, she was Colleen, in Beast with a Billion Backs. But still.

:(