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I'd agree with Matt, $80 seems like a fair starting point.

Forza Horizon was pretty good. It was open world, but had courses too. Not sure how the second one panned out.

This game is looking beautiful, totally stoked for its release. Will likely catch the flick too, assuming it's appropriate for kids.

One of these days I need to go run a proper 5k. I run a little more than that (3.5m) on a typical day, so I imagine I wouldn't struggle too badly with a legit one.Sounds like you did great though!

Also, don't beat yourself up too much about giving away the $10. Most importantly, your heart was in the right place. At the end of the day, it's impossible to know with anyone you give anything to if it went to the thing they said they needed it for. The gesture of giving it probably says more about you than you realize.

Kind of skimmed what you wrote, but as a huge Fatal Frame fan, I'm not buying this iteration of the game because it's digital-only (unless it price drops significantly). I refuse to plunk down near full retail price for a download version of a game (or any other digital good, generally speaking).

I know that it's likely the way things will be in the future, but it's not a future I'm particularly interested in if this is the pricing model we choose to follow. Also, the fact that NOE is releasing the game on disc with a bunch of extra goodies definitely makes matters worse. Why not just bring that here? Or, why not set up preorders and produce only as many as are ordered? There's definitely safe ways in today's market to guarantee sell-through, so why not go that route?

I think a lot of fans are aggravated with Nintendo of America because they consistently seem to sell us short, while NOE and NCL are consistently doing better by their respective fan bases. Everything from Amiibos to game releases are a constant clusterfuck in America and that's largely at the doorstep of NOA.

When you start to figure that sales in America are so much greater than in Japan and Europe, you start to question how and why NOA makes the decisions they do. Why be so much more conservative when the risk is so much higher in Europe and Japan? Something's horribly inconsistent and the die hard Nintendo fan base completely recognizes that.

Hope that somewhat clears up why Fatal Frame fans are balking at this release in America.

Got to 50... choked. Will try again tonight.

Hands down, Ocarina of Time. Jumping into 3D Zelda for the first time was simply magical. Exploring, conquering dungeons, looking for the rumored trifore, all of it was amazing. I got so immersed in that version of Hyrule, it was hard to pull myself away.

I'm up to the final boss! I keep losing at the end of (I think) level 49. There's a very fast and steady stream of pellets coming at me and one of another color swoops in behind them and I keep messing up the timing of switching right at the end of the stream to catch the other one. I'll report back once I've conquered the game!

Nice work, Travis. I think if you had done the whole procedural music thing when catching the pellets, people would see some strong parallels with the Bit.Trip series. I really dig the game and the concept. It's been fun!

I AM FROTHING WITH EXCITEMENT

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