Comments from Apreche

Apreche commented on What's The Most Reliable Game Hardware Ever?

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:16 MST

GameBoys and DSes are by far the most reliable machines out there. You've all seen the GameBoy that survived a war, right? The SNES or N64 were probably the most reliable home consoles. My Genesis doesn't work anymore, but I've never seen a broken SNES.

Also, back in '99ish I had an Intel 440BX6r2.0 motherboard with a Pentium 3 450mhz PCU and an Nvidia TNT2. It ran Windows 98SE, and never crashed. Most reliable computer ever.

Apreche commented on Weekly Nintendo Update: Yummy Yummy Mega Man 3

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:50:11 MST

GC Mega Man compilation is the way to go. It's so much cheaper than the VC. Same goes for Mega Man X and Sonic GC compilations. Really, the VC is the most expensive legal way to get an old game, and should only be used when there is no other option.

Apreche commented on Chrono Trigger DS Has New Ending

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:33:17 MST

Hooray for + mode. Otherwise...

Apreche commented on The Ballad of "Robert Jones": Arcade Tickets Were His Currency

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:52:28 MST

It's math time.

Let's be conservative and say the game costs 50 cents to play. D+B is fairly overpriced. He needs a million tickets, and he wins 100 every time. That means he has to play the game 10,000 times. I guess I can believe someone can do it in three days if they don't have to do anything else. The final price will be $5,000.00 for a brand new Harley Davidson, assuming they actually awarded the prize. Dependin on the bike, he's going to double his money at least. $5,000 in three days. If he did this every single day, he would make $608,333.33 in one year.

This is why casinos only have games of chance, and never have games of skill.

Apreche commented on Zombie BBQ Goes For the Crotch Shot

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:02:14 MDT

I also played this a bit at PAX. The controls are just horrible. The person at the booth seemed to realize this, and really wanted to teach me how to play to minimize my frustrations. The concept may be a bit interesting, but it's nothing to spend money on.

Apreche commented on What's The Scariest Game You've Ever Played?

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:58:38 MDT

As a kid, Zelda 1. The whole game isn't scary, but the northwest part of the overworld map is. The music in the final dungeon also scared me as a kid. The second quest was even more frightening because of its unfamiliarity. You get so used to the first quest that while the second quest is similar, but different, it gives you the heebie jeebies.

Apreche commented on PC Sales Charts

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:53:35 MDT

Multiwinia not doing so well. Great game with broken network code and no way to modify controls. Goes to show you what happens if you fail at the fundamentals.

Apreche commented on Run, Run, Avoid Mechanical Overlords, Run!

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:23:15 MDT

I played this game yesterday on kongregate. The game itself is not that bad, but the controls make it unplayable.

Apreche commented on Sierra Closing 21 Game Servers

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:43:09 MDT

It seems like there's a lot of love for Tribes 2 still out there. It is our opinion that is is the greatest fps of all time. We are trying to stage a revival. Who's up for it?

Apreche commented on Close Up With The DSi (Alright, Who's Buying?)

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:05:13 MDT

I have a cobalt blue DS Lite that is very new. I also still play GBA games on it. I also have an iPhone 3g. In order for me to shell out for this, they have to release some super amazing games that only work on the DSi.

Apreche commented on Even Halo Was Affected By The Used Games Market

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:14:13 MDT

Yes, you should stop receiving income from further sales. It's called "the right of first sale". Look it up. Re-selling things is a right that people have, at least in the US. Every business model ever has had to deal with it. If you can't handle it, tough.

Apreche commented on Proto Man Playable via DLC

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:07:59 MDT

I really want to play as ProtoMan, but unless it significantly changes the game, I'm not about to pay $2. For $2 I can get ice cream.

Apreche commented on Bionic Commando Rearmed Success "Hasn't Sunk In" For Capcom Japan

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:53:07 MDT

Because of these two games, SF IV, and Tatsunoko, and my late discovery of Mega Man ZX for the DS, I am falling in love with Capcom all over again.

Don't stop doing what you're doing.

Apreche commented on What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:07:37 MDT

I'm going to beat Symphony of the Night for the first time!

Also, Multiwinia.

Apreche commented on Win our Penny Arcade Expo Swag For Pennies A Day

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:25:16 MDT

I was at PAX, and I have pretty much all that swag, but I don't have the puppet.

The puppet is totally worth it.

Apreche commented on Peter Moore On Rare: "Skills Not Applicable Today"

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:24:01 MDT

He's right and wrong about Rare's skills no longer being relevant in today's market. If you set them loose on the DS, I think you would have some winners.

Apreche commented on Tatsunoko vs. Capcom vs. Arcade vs. Wii

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:38:43 MDT

This might be the first game I import.

Apreche commented on You Will So Hate Blizzard When They Announce The Next Diablo III Class

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:36:54 MDT

So much rage about a game where all you do is click repeatedly. Is it really that important to you what pictures you look at while clicking? Maybe you should ask Blizzard for an auto-clicking feature, so then you only have to point.

Apreche commented on Wario Invades Six Flags

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:12:40 MDT

I played Wario Land: Shake It! at PAX. I'm also a long-time fan of Wario platform games. Let me tell you, this game rocks. The only thing I want to know is why they haven't made a game like this for the DS.

Apreche commented on You Got Hurt While Gaming?

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:39:48 MDT

Mario Kart DS snaking, hand cramps.
Ice Hockey for the NES, hand cramps.

Apreche commented on Mad Catz - Give Us A Chance And We'll Change Your Mind

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:29:34 MDT

At least they know and they are trying. That's more than you can say for everyone else. I still wouldn't buy it, though.

Apreche commented on Mega Man 9 Gets A (Japanese) Release Date

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:02:19 MDT

If Capcom wants to be hotter in the west, they'd better start making some simultaneous releases. Or, god forbid, give us a game before you give it to the Japanese.

Or, *gasp*, make a game for us that the Japanese will have to import, because they will never get a translation.

Apreche commented on Capcom Want To Be Global Devs, Not Japanese Devs

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:18:20 MDT

Maybe if their games were more accessible here. Put Street Fighter 4 all over the place instead of limiting us to a few rare bootleg machines around the country. The first step to selling is making your product available.

That being said, I've actually been more and more a Capcom fan recently. Mega Man 9, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, SF4, Capcom vs. Tatsunoko, Phoenix Wright, they've really been hitting it out of the park lately compared to everyone else. Keep up the good work.

Apreche commented on Dear Namco Bandai (Re: Macross Ace Frontier)

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:29:57 MDT

As big a Macross fan as I am, the GameCube Macross game was not so great. This looks like almost the exact same thing. Really, stop making it a 3rd person shooter, and make it a first person freepsace shooter a-la TIE Fighter or maybe Ace Combat. Sure we all want to look at the awesome mechs, but we can look the the ones we are fighting, even if we can't see the one we're in. Show us a little cockpit and HUD, that would be cool.

These games do always do a great job of executing the Itano Circus.

Apreche commented on NCSoft Ditching "Lighter" Games To Focus on Triple A Titles

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:21:46 MDT

Moving away from Dungeon Runners? They were pushing it super hard at PAX.

Apreche commented on Jobs - iPhone Is The Best Portable Device For Games

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:42:46 MDT

Jobs doesn't play games, that's why he doesn't know. That's also why the Mac has no games. Really, where would Apple be without Blizzard? Either WoW would have way lower subscriber numbers, or a lot of WoW players would have Windows.

Apreche commented on What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:05:56 MDT

Probably X-Com.

Apreche commented on Announcing New Club Nintendo Goodies!

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:54:07 MDT

If NOA had club Nintendo, I'd have enough points to get all of these. Reggie, why so stingy?

Apreche commented on Mega Man 9 - Winging It

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:15:00 MDT

You don't like the SNES controller? I can't think of a better one... Maybe if you put a Nintendo quality D-Pad on the 360 controller.

Apreche commented on The Problem with PAX

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:14:08 MDT

Blizzcon, Quakecon...

Apreche commented on The Penny Arcade Expo Omega Update Post

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:51:20 MDT

I hope to see you guys there. It's going to be awesome.

Apreche commented on Pokemon? More Like Sucky-mon

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:11:01 MDT

I like Unown.

Apreche commented on Microsoft Unveils PAX Schedule

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:44:55 MDT

I'm not Microsoft, so my announcement power is restricted to comments instead of posts. I would just like to take this opportunity to invite you Kotaku peeps to come to my panel. At PAX on Saturday at 6PM in the Wolfman Theatre come see my co-host and I present "Beyond Dungeons and Dragons". You like all the cool indie video games, why not check out some indie tabletop RPGs? Much awesome will be had.

Even if you don't come to my panel, I hope to meet many awesome people at PAX this weekend. It will be my first trip West of the Mississippi, so I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Apreche commented on Bionic Commando: Rearmed First Week Download Numbers

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:43:08 MDT

I am becoming a Capcom fanboy lately. Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Mega Man 9. Mega Man ZX. Street Fighter. They are taking over my gaming world.

Apreche commented on Blizzard Is Tired Of You Asking When StarCraft II Will Be Done

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:34:08 MDT

If they're not going to release it until it's absolutely perfect, then I think it's fair to expect there never to be any patches or updates after release.

Apreche commented on Another Mario Sonic Collaboration in the Works?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:02:58 MDT

I was going to make an "unleashed" joke, but that would be too obvious.

My real guess is we'll see a puzzle game. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine vs. Dr. Mario.

Apreche commented on Sonic Unleashed: Half Classic, Half Stretchy Werewolf

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:26:32 MDT

Video games have been around for decades now. Companies still don't think to just maybe ask people if their game is a good idea before developing it past the point of no return?

Apreche commented on Old School Mega Man 9 Coming To WiiWare

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:00:42 MDT

It couldn't have been more perfect than this.

Apreche commented on New York Senate Passes Games Classification Bill

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:35:05 MDT

So technically I can't buy an unrated independent PC game online in NY?

The ESRB clearly states that all online content is unrated. Are online games not not allowed to be sold in NY? That even includes stuff like Dr. Mario Rx.

Apreche commented on The 10 Question Kotaku Aptitude Test

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:16:00 MDT

No Google? How will you be able to tell?