Avatar MMORPG?

[Human No More]

That's a separate program though, not part of the game. I'm not sure how it works exactly but it probably looks for interactions with the game's executable or data files.

Originally Posted by Raiden

Huh...

Nintendo is supposedly making a much more powerful new machine, but it remains to be seen what that really means.

The Wii was a disappointment for me. I was practically raised on Mario, Metroid, Mega Man, and Zelda, and in many ways the avenues they could have gone down to make interesting or unique new games/ideas for the older series were not pursued.

At the same time, they basically dumped the core gamer audience in favor of the casual gaming explosion, which turned out to be a bit of a fad, and, whadda ya know, casual gamers tend to fall into fads easily. I bet very few casual gamers who would play things like farmville or some of the shovelware littering the Wii would become core gamers, at least partially because it wasn't "cool" to be into that stuff.

So what I was left with was a console that, while somewhat inexpensive, required a dozen controller addons and didn't really appeal to the right audience. It did the retro gaming thing very well, better than the 360, but that's about all I can say. The core games it *did* have were largely pretty good, but there weren't many, and some of them felt "dumbed-down" (I don't like using that word, but it works here) and made to be easier to play.

Yeah, it's a shame, I like old Nintendo stuff. I don't see their new console being any different though, it will probably have the same gimmicks and casual games style because that's where they make their money - the wii can't compete with even the PS3 or xbox 360 for hardcore games, let alone the PC. I would see the new one as just being a graphics/processing upgrade, maybe adding bluray capability.