This is the new games thread

[Trial]

Super Mario A la Carte

[darrylduffy]

i just got my wii back! send me your friend codes! lets play mario a la carte!

[Kentock]

Now that I don't feel guilty about reading a million pages about it:

Finally got a DS. What are your game suggestions?

[Famous Police Dog]

Mario Kart DS

[Liezl]

Mario Kart DS
Warioware
Zelda.. whatever it's called.

Also, I'm now the proud owner of a WII and Wii Fit.
I bought $20 in credits to buy a game online...

what should I buy?

[isoS]

I'm way too into Dr. Mario Rx from WiiWare. It's just a simple Tetris ripoff, but I keep playin' it and playin' it.

[Michael Blacklist]

Mega Man 9 update: available not only on Wii, but on PSN and Xbox Live, too.

[J vs W]

Pokemon!

[nadsat droog]

I hate myself for reinstalling Diablo II. It's taken a lot of time away from Mass Effect.

I'm excited for The Who track pack on Rock Band next week.

[Berliner]

I got mass effect and for a while did only those boring boring parts where you are on desolate featureless planets finding satellites and stuff. That was a mistake. I got bored and stopped playing it. Now I want to finish it but I can't find it my disc. Don't make the same mistakes I did. Man using that future humvee was boring.

[dan telfer]

1) Mass Effect is one of the greatest games I've ever played, and is one of the best sci-fi stories ever. Love that goddamn thing.

2) Wii Fit is great, but I should have started it before I had the baby, not after. My back hurts. It is more difficult than you might think it is, but only the yoga and the strength training. The aerobics are kind of not that great at accurate movement tracking, and the balance games are very accurate, but not any kind of legitimate workout.

3) Mega Man 9 gives me pleasure to imagine.

4) Penny Arcade: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness is delightful, even if I'm not sure I'm using the combat controls right. I just wish it was as vastly developed as a full-price game would be. The concept has depth, the gameplay does not.

5) Now that I've beaten GTA 4, I am still enjoying the obligatory turning on of the game to get into a pointless armageddon with police. The multiplayer won't connect me to players still, even with a new router, which is obnoxious since no other game seems to have this problem. It was fun when I first played Multiplayer, but it's been completely inaccessible for a long time now.

6) My wife and I are going to invest in Pokemons Pearl and Diamond, because having our two DSes around seems to be the easiest way to play a video game with a baby around. And we were really into Pokeman back in the Red/Blue/Yellow days.

7) I want to play Okami for Wii. I was so jealous of people with non-broken PS2s when it came out, and it seems from what I've heard about the gameplay to be a very logical Wii title.

[TimBuktu]

Arch and I are playing a lot of Battlefield Bad Company. It's pretty cool. He's not very good, but he tries really hard.

[Famous Police Dog]

3) Mega Man 9 gives me pleasure to imagine.

Me too. Even though I'm a fan of all six of the classic series, I not stubborn to admit that they have only been truly good up to 2 or 3. Yet, I think 10 dollars is cheap enough to support a great concept that is Megaman 9. If it's successful, other companies might make classic new additions to their game series. Technology has come far enough to make it 100 times easier to develop and distribute titles like this, they can really make something great if it keeps up.

Also, I haven't found word of this anywhere, but will 9 have a NES-like soundtrack as well. One of the best things about Megaman was the music and it would be pretty jarring if it didn't.

[dan telfer]

Mega Man was pretty good, a solid take on the side-scrolling adventure game of the 8-bit world.

Mega Man 2 was awesome. Clearly the designers were inspired to create a cartoony universe full of weird, expressive robots for Mega Man to fight. They took awkward, nonthreatening villain names like Bubble Man and somehow made him sinister and challenging, his lair something unique and fun to break into.

Mega Man 3 was kinda cool with that dog, but let's face it, animal sidekicks aren't a good sign. I could tell you all the villains from 1 and 2 from memory but not a single one from 3 without looking it up. I remember thinking the game was fun, but I think I put it down without beating it.

I bought 4 but didn't particularly get addicted. I occaisonally bought into offshoots, purchasing "Adventures" and really enjoying it but not finishing it. I think I liked the first Mega Man X game, but stopped after that. Also, I got to late high school and college at that point, and was trying in vain to leave the house and talk to ladies.

I'm interested as well to see how the music and overall ambience pans out. I'm hoping it's an inspired homage to the series and a lot like Mega Man 2, not the overly complicated stuff that the series kept trying to bust out.

[Famous Police Dog]

I think 3-6 worked for me because I had only 1 and 2 for the longest time and then when a video store opened near me I was surprised to see that there was a Megaman 3,4, and 5 that I never even heard of (Nintendo Power would probably be the only way you would of) so I rented them all and played them like one seamless stream of megaman fun. I would of probably been more critical if I knew about the releases beforehand and were anticipating them only to find out that they are literally the same game over and over again.

I didn't like the X series because by then the basic gameplay began to become wary for me and though it had nice new graphics and sound it was the same game but with a complicated scavanger hunt to get upgrades which I hated! Also, I was a Genesis Kid so I had to actually have to buy RAM for my computer to play the PC port.

[isoS]

I think I only ever played the first Mega Man on NES. I remember enjoying it, but something about it made me never want to play it again, or go near a sequel. I think it was just a bit too much game for me at that age or something. (If I went back I'd probably realize it was really short.)

[aenemaTron]

It can be short, if you're good at it. I stink at most games, and Mega Man is notoriously unforgiving. I suppose my run-and-gun methods aren't necessarily the best strategy, or I didn't push it hard enough. But I still love the series, especially MM2. The music alone is great, which is why I love The Minibosses.

[J vs W]

6) My wife and I are going to invest in Pokemons Pearl and Diamond, because having our two DSes around seems to be the easiest way to play a video game with a baby around. And we were really into Pokeman back in the Red/Blue/Yellow days.

You're my hero Dan Telfer

[Joe McAdam]

I will certainly be getting mega man 9 whenever it comes out. I think it's been established that 2 was the best, but i really liked X and played that one the most probably. I know it's probably not the best but it came out right when I was at my peak of being video game obsessed. It's about time they start putting all the old mega man games on the virtual console.

[Trial]

Mega Mens 4-6 became a lot more of a brawl. In the first 3, you can avoid all the enemy attacks and counter and so on, conserve your life as you would in most games. 4 started the trend where you're GOING to get hit. Constantly! There's life and 1ups to be found everywhere, but you're basically playing the game and before every jump you have to calculate if the 12 enemies hitting you is going to knock you into the gap or if you'll barely make it over