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Because they want to make sure there isn't a shortage of stock and people go apeshit like they do over finding the Wii itself?

LoL; I've played Super Smash Bros. since it came out, although I'm far from competitive. My favorite characters range from Link, Marth, Roy, and Kirby.

To be honest, though, my preference runs to Horror, RPG, and FPS genres. I fell in love with Final Fantasy 7 and Tactics, and I enjoyed 8; the others after that were small potatoes with the exception of their graphics. In all honesty, I'm sort of looking for an RPG that doesn't suck; the only one I've found thus far is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. =B Maybe I should just go with the old-school PSX/PS2 RPGs..

And nothing's really as scary as a game that freaks me out. The Resident Evil and Silent Hill series are the big ones- particularly the fourth of the former and the first and second of the latter- but they aren't the only ones. Maybe I'm weird for liking the stuff that might make me afraid of the dark when I'm done playing it...But hey, what do you know? ;p

I enjoy FPS, but I find that I lack the affinity that others have for it; I tend to make clumsy mistakes that newer players make, and it's hard to familiarize myself with the maps. I like Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, but I -lurve- Gears of War.

I like a lot of other games...But it's late, and I'm tired. =( So you'll have to wait for 'em.

What can you expect from non-gamers who want to report on games? All they did was whine about how hard parenting is without content tempting their children.

Got Super Smash Bros. Brawl saturday night... By tuesday, finished Subspace Emissary... Unlocked all characters... and by wendsday continued unlocking other hidden things...

... Still going strong. The force is with me. =P

All depends, what are you into?

WoW might be up your alley then, since it's story is ever evolving. Beware though, like all MMOs, it will suck away all your time and money if you let it.

Mm, maybe Ragnarok then? Or perhaps that space faring one Tabula Rasa?

MUMMORPGUGERs?! NOOOOOOO!!!!!1!1!!11! dramallama

I hate MMORPGs with a ******** passion. Aside from the fact that I'm morally and economically opposed to paying twice just to play a game (thank you Blizzard for Diablo II, and more specifically Battlenet), MMORPGs tend to feel much more like work to me that a game, the point of a game being to have fun, and not feel like you have to spend ten hours a day on your computer hacking away at monsters, dialog, and cutscenes or else you won't be up to speed with everyone else. Also, most MMORPGs do not have very good writers, and use the sandbox style of game play as a crutch to fall back on by not having a rigidly defined story to mask the fact that it usually isn't a good one at that. I could list more of my problems with MMORPGs...so I will.

Aside from having to pay every month for subscriptions to play, I also find it very annoying that if you want to get all you can out of a MMORPG, you do have to buy the game when it first comes out, and pay the wonderfully inflated price of either $49.99 or more recently even as much as $59.99, leading to a money gobbling system about as effective as chucking half of my expendable income every two weeks off of the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and into the Pacific Ocean...or maybe the mouth of a hungry sea lion. Additionally, MMORPGs have more grind than the entire Tony Hawk franchise, leading to large clock-ins of game play of the SAME ******** THING, namely point curser at monster A, click left button on monster A until it or your character dies, rinse and repeat a hundred bajillion times.

There's more I could go into, but I'm sure that none of you want to hear my rants on what makes specific genres of gaming so breathtakingly suck-tastic, and I'm sure I've already pissed off a few people who do like MMORPG's, and if you like the game, then by all means play on.

On a side note, I just beat Assassin's Creed, and aside from the "out of nowhere" ending that practically plugs itself for a sequel, I enjoyed it very much. The story was well written, the characters were interesting, compelling, and complex, and it brought to mind a lot of reasons why I hate religions, and more specifically religious zealots. For those who have not played the game of read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia, you play a modeled-after-Hashashin assassin set about in the Third Crusade holy land stuck in between ultra-Christen Crusaders and ultra-Muslim Saracens. Spending a lot of time in each city (Acre, Jerusalem, and Damascus), one ends up hearing A LOT of soap-boxers spouting ignorant, hyper-religious bullshit about God and the holy land. I find it very refreshing, a popular game developer (Ubisoft) going out of the way to depict religious faith and extremism in a very negative light. I understand that not all religious people are zealots, but then again, as Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw once said, atheists aren't as likely to burn your house down.