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Ah, so many good times with all these series (well, I suppose I haven't played much Street Fighter). I think my favorite Bomberman game for multiplayer is Bomberman Land Touch! 2 for the DS. The single player was a ho-hum minigame collection (so popular at the time) but the multiplayer was classic Bomberman and allowed up to eight players to go at it from just one game card. And you could fill in any empty slots with computer players, though they were awfully good.

I played so much of that first Mario Party game! I remember we'd use our palms for those minigames that had you rotate the control stick and we'd get blisters from it! Ouch, but good times lol.

You're the second person to tell me not to sweat losing souls, so it sounds like I was approaching the game wrong in the first place. Yeah, I'm gonna wait to start back up again. Give me a chance to get through some other shorter games in the mean time

You spent 80 hours on a Dynasty Warriors game? Wow, you must have done everything and gotten all the trophies. I had no idea those games could have such long legs, though I'm guessing it gets repetitive after a while.

I'll definitely look at that HG101 page. I find that site kind of overwhelming just because there is so much information and I want to read it all lol. My wife actually got me their book on classic adventure games for Christmas last year (I think I mentioned that on 1UP) but I haven't gotten past the Introduction yet. Ugh, time. Anyway, I'm surprised how much I enjoy iOS gaming, though I don't see how anyone could use it to replace traditional gaming with it, console or handheld. I like physical buttons too much lol. But the App Store is the one place where that magical sense of discovery still exists for me. It's full of surprises (and a lot of crap but hey, ya gotta take the bad with the good).

And no worries about your timing. After all, it took me nearly two days to answer your first comment. Hope you're feeling better soon. My wife had a sinus infection over the weekend, so I definitely understand how that can keep you down.

I've always been intrigued by the Renaissance Fair but never been to one. Looks like fun 

That's some good advice. I have a pretty massive backlog...something less than 300 games  Some of those are itch-type games and so maybe they shouldn't be in there but right now it's just everything we have that I haven't played. The main reason it got so big was that my wife and I got a 360, PS3, and PSP over the course of about a year and a half (after having just a Wii) and we just kind of went nuts buying games because there were...are...so many good ones that are really cheap now. It's been probably about a year since we reigned ourselves in but the damage was done lol. But I started using Backloggery.com in January and have made some really good progress on that massive pile of games this year. Check out my Backloggery page here if you wanna see it.

That sounds like a great idea. By pulling the best games from its history and adding online multiplayer, Nintendo could basically have as many killer apps as they want. I share your pessimism, though. They're doing some additional stuff with VC releases on Wii U (and charging more for them) but I'm not sure what it all entails and doubt online play will be one of those things

That sucks. I hate having things spoiled for me. For instance, my wife and I recently watched This Is 40, which is a fairly funny movie, but the daughter is watching through Lost and when she finishes it she blurts out the ending. To the entire series. As someone who hasn't gotten around to watching Lost yet but was looking forward to watching it at some point, that made me really mad. And if someone is just letting spoilers fly out of spite, then the hammer needs to come down on them for sure.

Looking forward to having some motivation to finally play this game 

Suikoden 2 sure sounds good 

I played and finished Hotel Dusk but ultimately didn't like it too much, I think because it's kind of depressing overall. But it's pretty cool as a game. Love those pencil sketch character portraits.

Cool beans, man! I've been hoping they go a different direction with the next Call of Duty. Hope this pans out.

Dang, I really want to play this since I loved Dishonored but my 360 hard drive is small and full. Gotta make some room on it. Well, and then I need some money to buy this DLC with...