I'm excited for Black Panther. The action looks awesome, the actors are doing a great job, Wakanda looks really freaking cool, and Boseman seems like another one of those actors that was born to play this superhero. Plus he already did awesome in Civil War.

Well I love technology, but a week without it hanging out with good people isn't a big deal. I could handle it.

The quality of the bonus varies depending on the game. But, if it's a game you wanted to pick up around release anyways, why not? You get a little extra and your ensured a copy.

@james47:

No nukes, but there are nuclear storms that will inflict radiation damage to your character with every lightning strike, until you seek shelter indoors. Also looks pretty rad.

Aside from getting a standard screen TV, you could adjust your settings on your HDTV. Adjusting sharpness and feathering can really help reduce the amount of blur. It's what I do for my PS2. The pixels will obviously be a lot more visible, due to the low resolution, but if you sit back far enough from the TV its perfectly fine.

I love both of these franchises, but it's obviously Mario. He's Nintendo's mascot, had numerous amazing games from multiple genres, is often thought of as one of the saviors from the game crash of 1983, and has set the bar in terms of quality in video games time and time again.

And not only is he the mascot of Nintendo, but TO THIS DAY many people still refer to him as the face of video games.

@backyardpirate: Or how they're intentionally blacklisting ex employees and taking some of them to court for using their work at Konami on their resumes, all for the sole purpose of ruining their lives.

EA and Activision may be greedy, but at this point Konami is just... evil. Evil and filled with spite.

@backyardpirate: Yeah, true enough. That's a forum all on its own.

@backyardpirate: Don't forget Konami, they stopped caring about us a LONG time ago.

Agreed. :D

@backyardpirate: You have a very solid point on trying to sell new TVs and console updates, though that is usually how technology nowadays goes. It's the same reason people get so frantic to buy the new iPad or iPhone: they want to pretty up and market that new step. It's very similar to how Microsoft marketed the One X, even though 90% of what they said about it was "4K 4K 4K!". As a result, a lot of games nowadays do try to pretty themselves up in order to get early sells and mask the unfinished quality. I can't think of a better example then Mass Effect Andromeda, which very clearly just wanted to sell as much Day 1 pre-orders as possible. That's why a few weeks before release, they redoubled their attempts to get preorders, released multiple trailers and then a week ahead offered that early access program. And ironically, within like half a year, you could get it for twenty bucks or free as part of that EA subscription service.

There are unfortunately a lot of games and game companies that have done this and have no intention of stopping. I'm just glad there are also a large number of games and companies that, while obviously caring about profit, are also legitimate about bringing players a fun and complete experience.