is that on the wii or the ds?

ds, oh my ds is dead i forgot, i need a new battery

Sometimes fun though.

My DS has the left shoulder button out and the hinge broke, so the top screen kind of just flip flops and doesn't lock in. Not sure if I want to buy a new one or wait for the DSi to come out here. I might see how much it'll cost to get repaired...not sure yet.

Quit hijacking and derailing my thread n00bs!!!
So Clagg... let's throwdown in IRC or are you a pussy?

Oh Jesus! Talk about self obsesed !

I think he's talking to you all; cause i know I'm not a n00b ;)
And does anyone know how much it takes to repair a DS?
:D

This is the best thread ever... I could read it over and over again just keep myself amused.

nintendo.com actually will repair ds's for ya, check it out.

You actually read all that shit? Sweet. And I thought I had no life for writing it. At least I didn't have to read it. Hahaha.

I went to the last page first (stupid forum) and read the angry responses at the end so I got curious how it built up to that... i did probably waste a good ten minutes of my life though.

A life is only wasted if one does not learn from one's mistakes
heh. There some philosophy for you on a friday morning ;)

Its called my computer can run 100% of these games, but not really any of the new ones. All this new mainstream gaming I just use my PS3.

My personal theory is that in the early days of computing, games were a labor of love crafted by a smallish group of guys because they wanted to make a game.
Nowadays, the role of the enthusiast developer "little man" has been minimized, game production clout has centralized into a handful of major companies that tend to view game creation as an assembly line, a manufacturing process. It's not. Good games cannot be manufactured, they can only be crafted. The same way great books, music and artwork are created. These things cannot be churned out on a assembly line. Same for great games.
It seems to me large companies try to produce hits by saying "Here, you, development house! Make us a new hit! A hit like that other game that came out a couple of months ago!" Then the advertising and hype juggernauts are started rolling, and the game is proclaimed a hit before it even hits the streets. Hollywood is currently guilty of this, too. And again, all it really comes down to is that real quality cannot be produced on an assembly line, it can only be sought after, funded, and encouraged. We need a gaming "New Wave", maybe we'll get one soon. Certain recent events have raised my hopes of this.
And as to the fact that all the games on GOG are getting absurdly high ratings, just because they're someones' favorites, that happens with new games just as often. Seems like every hyped game that comes down the pipe gets called "the best RPG/shooter/whatever game so far/ever" And then when something new comes out next year, it is now the "best whatever ever" No matter how bad a new game is somebody that doesn't understand how rating systems are supposed to work will give it a 9/10.
Whatever hype GOG may be guilty of, it pales in comparison to what happens in "mainstream" gaming.

The music industry does this too, and even more blatantly. I often see commercials for new CDs using the words: "including the coming hit" and then the title of a song I've never heard. The thing is, a "hit" is a song that is played on the radio a lot, and the record companies decide, for a large part, which songs the radio stations play.
The thing about the GOG rating system, is that you can only rate the games you've actually bought here. Since the service is rather new, and the games are rather old, most people have so far bought only games that they already know and love. Games that they already know they don't like, they don't buy. So the GOG ratings are fairly skewed.
Since most people know most of the games already, it would make more sense to show how many copies of a given game they'd sold, but that's probably not going to happen. Otherwise, they should open up the ratings to everyone, not just the ones who have purchased the game from them.
You can't go by "official" reviews. Review sites are dependent upon getting advance copies of games from publishers. Unfortunately, this requires that they stay on the publishers' good side. Hence, you'll almost never see games getting rock-bottom ratings on those sites. If you want to know how good a game really is, read four or five user reviews.