http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:03:13 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/11/130635.php#comment-703573 Dynamo, Have you played the Subspace mission yet? 703573@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:03:13 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/11/130635.php#comment-703554 "Back in the 80s the term "fanboy" had not been coined yet, but you could hear in the playground the argument between who was cooler, Mario or Sonic." Psst.... the original Sonic the Hedgehog didn't come out until 1991. 703554@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:16:04 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/11/130635.php#comment-703553 "You take SSBB over Mario Galaxy as the defining game for the Wii? Interesting." Well, Smash Bros. is arguably a more popular series than the straight-up Mario games at this point in time. Super Smash Bros. Melee was pretty much the overall top selling game for the Gamecube, with Mario Sunshine being a disapointment to many (I personally didn't hate the game, but it wasn't great, and even Nintendo themselves have called Mario Galaxy the first worthy successor to Mario 64). It was consistently on the shelves for pretty much the entire run of the system, even at stores that tend to have a pretty quick turn around time on removing older games from their shelves, and the game never did go under $29.99 as a standard price in retail stores (in fact, my local Best Buy still has a handful of Gamecube games remaining, including a few copies of Melee still at the $29.99 price). While Mario Galaxy is arguably a better game than Sunshine was and while it's been selling very well (which was expected), The excitement and hype around Smash Bros. is just HUGE. Pretty much EVERY Gamestop store (or close to all of them) opened at midnight for the launch of SSBB, and many other retail stores did the same. While it's certainly not the first time that stores opened their doors at midnight, having THAT MANY locations do so is a pretty big thing. Having said all of that, I have SSBB, and I am enjoying it, though it hasn't blown me away. I was pretty blown away when I first got Melee, but Brawl didn't change things up enough for me. I didn't want them to completely reinvent the wheel, but throwing in more new surprises would have been nice. They should have really mixed things up in the 'classic' mode a bit more. I mean, it's pretty much the same system of a mix of straight one-on-one fights, multi-character fights, battle against a giant somebody fight, and battle against a metal somebody fight, with some Target breaking thrown in here and there. I think they should have come up with another main villain other than 'Master Hand', or at least they should have given him some new moves. His moves are pretty much identical to what they were in Melee. I don't hate Brawl by any means, but IMO it did not live up to the hype. However, despite my opinion, the hugeness of this game and it's popularity cannot be ignored, and while Mario being in the game is clearly a major selling point for it, it seems that this series has taken over the regular Mario series as "THE" game series to have on the Nintendo systems. 703553@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:14:40 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/11/130635.php#comment-701328 You take SSBB over Mario Galaxy as the defining game for the Wii? Interesting. 701328@blogcritics.org Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:42:33 EDT