I have a confession. I never beat Sonic 3 all the wasy through. I have beaten Sonic and Knuckles and just about every other Sonic game ever released, but in Sonic 3 there is this one part in Carnival Night Zone: Act 2...



When you get to the barrel thing in the picture, you are suppost to push up and down rythmically. It only took me 13 YEARS TO FIGURE IT OUT!!!! Instead of making it look like an elevator or putting an up and down sign on it, it looks like a drum and (like everything else in the game) you should just jump or spin dash it.

Well yesterday I finally decided to play Sonic 3 all the way through. When I got to Carnival Night Zone I made it pass the stupid barrel BUT then I got stuck in the wall. I thought maybe it was a glitch from the NOT emulator so I reset and stzarted again. The same thing happened in a diffrent spot. Twice in a row I got stuck in a wall and after 13 years I still havent played Icecap Zone. I thought maybe the fault was on my end. Maybe I was going the wrong way or something so I looked online for a scan of the manual.

I found out that the GLITCH is actually a FEATURE:



look at that last little part. Instead of actually fixing the glitch they just warned you that it might happen.

Im never playing Sonic 3 again.

As much as many of you hate EA, they are without a doubt a dominant force in the videogame industry and the quality of their products seems to be on the upswing. Their yearly franchises like Need For Speed, Madden, Live, Tiger Woods, and now probably Skate, consistently sell millions of copies and their casual gaming service Pogo was unrivaled until the Wii started moving into their market space.

We all know about the attempts to buyout Ubisoft and Take-Two. Ubisoft seems to be safe with how well Assains Creed did and the success of every Tom Clancy game, but Take-Two seems to only be worried about bolstering their worth and squeezing as much money out of Ea as possible. Eventually Im sure that EA will own Take-Two and with that they will have a great foundation to build a console for the future generation of likely to hit shortly after 2010.

In 2007 Ea was only second to Nintendo in number of units sold. Although this was across just about every platform, that is a huge number of titles when you realize that Nintendo used its big three (Mario, Metroid, and Zelda) along with all of the casual gamers sucked up by the Wii and DS. After Gta IV is released and Take-Two joins EA, They will indeed be the biggest developer and maybe one of the most talented.

EA as a software company turning into a hardware company could make development for a new console cost effective through their own proprietary middleware and could possibly drop the cost of development for big time titles. The ps3 complicated hardware and Microsoft’s strict policies for online and development of hardware like rock band accessories could both be avoided by having a little bit of input from their code devs. EA’s console could potentially be more dev friendly than Wii without giving up cutting edge technology.

If you add up the sales from EA and Take-Two and assume that They keep the NFL and NBA license to themselves (with the only baseball competition being a PS3 exclusive) You could assume that EA would have at least a built in install base over 10 million customers after the 1st year (and that would be giving them a generous attach rate of 4 games to 1 console, If you change the attach rate to 2-1 that would 20 million) that could rival the sales of the PS2 over its lifespan.

If you look at Microsoft and their first party offerings you can’t really explain how they survived without saying Halo over and over again, and how different would the ps2’s story be if you took out the GTA titles? 4 of the ps2’s top seven titles are from EA/Take-Two, 2 maddens NFSU 2 and gta San Andreas. The poor Dreamcast didn’t receive any EA support and that was the biggest nail in its coffin.

As much as I hate to say it the only reason I brought the Wii was for Nintendo titles and other than a couple third party games I think everything else is trash. When the time comes to choose a new console in 20-10-2011 I would probably go Ea strictly for the 1st party. That will essentially be the only deciding bullet point next gen when you consider that just about every third party is giving up on exclusives.

EA maybe a slimy corporation that pumps out yearly rehashes but I will admit that most times I enjoy those rehashes, and when you throw in 2K basketball, GTA, Bioshock, potentially Bethesda games, and a Madden every couple of years I along with just about everyone I talk to would be a sucker for an ea console.

At the bottom left you can see where me and my brothers have kiked a hole in the wall after dying from low framerate and lag

I posted this in our barren wasteland known as a forum a few hours ago but no one seems to check it so here it is...

Whats better?

2 GeForce 8600GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2

OR

1 GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3

I have 2 pci-e 16 slots on the mobo soooo?

Im sure most of you have played Defend Your Castle while sitting at work or school but at your wii?

This games mechanics are great for the Wii because its mostly point and click but the feeling of throwing the little invaders in the air using the wiimote should be pretty awsome

Plus its got some of the craziest art work ever









As long as they don't charge too much ($5 to $8 would be good) I will defenitley be buying this over SimFinalFantasy.

These two videos show the return of my two favorite characters.


1st (Tiger Tiger Tiger Tiger Tiger Tiger)




2nd (I Hate Zangief)





These two characters are great but the thing I noticed about these videos is that Zangief is pretty much invincible. I hope they tune down his speed before release or he could end up being this generations cheap character.

At this demonstration Sagat was the final boss. After you beat him it said thanks for playing. I'm sure this will change by the time of release but I hope we get some one new and not Akuma or Bison. They should be in the game but we deserve a new boss character(that doesnt where a thong!!!)

Also it looks like Balrog has been nerfed since his Super Turbo days. You can't really tell because any body that jumps around like that guy in the video with Balrog is a noob (also he was going against the Red Cyclone himself, so that could have had something to do with it).