- Manhunt 2 gets an E rating after replacing all weapons with teddy bears, and all characters with Teletubbies. Take 2 representative says "Game is art man, our gameplay will stand on its own!" Manhunt as a franchise now rivals Pokémon, and gore-horny teenagers everywhere cry.

- Crysis is delayed indefinetely

-Atari releases a new console, the Jaguar360. It has superior graphics to all other consoles, but uses Betamax tapes as storage.

The people that buys the Wii cause its cheap are usually the more casual types, and the Wii appeals a lot more to them than the 360, so I doubt this'll have much of an influence. Plus the more hardcore people are usually turned off by the Core systems lack of harddrive.

Its not the lack of disc space that makes a game smaller, its the development costs. Its next gen, everything needs to be a lot more detailed than last gen. New gen doesnt mean that there's twice as much content, often the contrary. They probably spend more time modelling a car now than they did modelling 10 cars in San Andreas.

And its possible GTA5 will be PS3 exclusive, but then Sony would have to shell out a looooooooooooot of cash.

Sony brought a huge amount of marketing power to gaming, and that's where the innovation lie. They made gaming "cool" with the Playstation. It had a catchy name, they made some great commercials, released games like Tony Hawk and GTA3. It might not be an innovation in terms of technology and gaming, but in some way, Playstation introduced hardcore gaming to the console market, where Nintendo had usually been considered bit of a kids machine.

Sony's ability to brand themself, with release of great titles and awesome game series like Tekken (was a minor revolution back then), was probably the biggest innovation to arrive on the console market for years, and that ability to brand and know exactly where to strike was probably what made them win that generation of consoles and manifest themselves on the market.

To me, it depends on how it took place. Let me tell my story:

I was in between studies at college, having dropped out of my first cause I didnt like it. So I had a few months to kill. Bought WoW to kill some time (killed time for 2 years with that :P ). Anyway, the first person I partied with was a (presumably) girl from Holland (I'm Danish). Of course, you hear the horror stories, so I just took it as a helping hand and it was fun to group. We chatted a bit, you know, the usual random stuff you do while killing youe 205th boar. We played together two days in a row, then I rolled a different character, so did she, and we didnt get the names of our new chars, and lost contact.

A month later, she logs on her old one, I write her, and we get the old group together again. Since we both didnt really have anything else to do than play, we started playing a lot, always together. When you play a MMORPG together that much, you get to know each other very well. The kicker was, that she was engaged, so there was no romantic intentions at all at any point. In any case, after 6 months I popped by Holland to visit her, we were really close friends by then. We fell in love (AFTER spending 2 weeks together), she broke off her engagement, after doing long-distance for a year, she moved here. We've lived together for a year now, I can honestly say she's my best friend, and few know me as well as her. We're planning on marriage next year.

None of us play WoW anymore.

If you do play a MMORPG to find a date, then I think you got the wrong mindset to begin with, and you've got a lot bigger chance to get burned. But I do think very strong friendships can be built, since you already share a very time-consuming hobby. And if a very close friendship turns into a relationship, I see nothing wrong there.

Sorry for the long post.

[QUOTE="HrolfTheStrange"]they are not comparable, the 2d and 3d zeldas are too different are each fun in different ways. the way they are meant to be fun is uncomparable to each type of zeldaBoG_

I agree to this statement, they're different games almost entirely.

Of course, the answer, though, is WIND WAKER!

WW was a great game, but in the end it was just too much sailing for me. The end dragged too much, finding those pieces. Other than that, it had some great dungeons and I thought the graphics were amazing.