In March, Nintendo again defined industry momentum in both home and portable video games sales, according to the independent NPD Group, which monitors retail activity in the video game industry. More than 720,000 Wii systems sold in March, representing the highest monthly sales total outside of holiday months (November or December) to date, while Nintendo DS also sold through nearly 700,000 systems.
Nintendo also finished with the top-selling U.S. game of March. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which launched March 9, came in at No. 1 with 2.7 million units sold.
Fighting games and music have a long and storied history together. Here are five of the best fighting game stage themes throughout video game history.
Tekken Tag Tournament 1 Arcade OST - Nina Williams
Street Fighter 2 - Ken stage, Ryu Stage, Vega (Claw), and Guile
Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Karin theme
Tekken 3 Arcade OST - Hidden Characters Theme
Super Street Fighter 2 - Fei Long CPS1 version (found on Hyper SF2 A.E.)
Tekken 2 Arcade OST - Kazuya and Devil theme
Marvel vs Capcom 1 - Strider Theme, Ryu, and Roll
Should be some tunes from the first Mortal Kombat in any list tbh.
I really like the use of Mozart’s Dies Irae in Wolfgang Krausers stage in Fatal Fury 2.
Developers should always strive to make their products as balanced and fair as possible. Sometimes, video games feature a incredibly overpowered characters that just break the game.
You may have head of The 7 Deadly Sins in Christianity, but what about The 7 Deadly Sins of Game Design? Jason Capp is here to break it down.
Ya, find three items, kill three mini bosses, go to three dungeons. Things of three is a tired video game sweet spot number.
For me, it's collect-a-thons. They weren't fun in Donkey Kong or Banjo and Kazooie and they still aren't fun now. Why create these wonderfully oversized, detailed worlds if you are going to just supplement gameplay with ambiguous item fetch-quests.
There are exceptions, of course, But by and large, it just shows laziness on the part of the developer.
Good article, by the way!
Yeah. It is funny some of the design decisions made by developers. Another one that irks me is unskippable cutscenes, especially after you die after the cutscene and are forced to rewatch the unskippable cutscene AGAIN. I mean, who thinks that a great idea?! haha
how about not allowing cutscene skipping
that's flat out inexcusable in any game in the last 10 years
this comments are demanding a "The 4 Horsemen of The Apocalypse of Game Design Flaws" sequel
they were FINAL SMASHED.
the wii killed everything
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Yeah big numbers for the Wii and DS. The one two combo ^^
Now they wait for Mario Kart, while 10,000 crap 3rd party games get released for the cash grab.
I don't care what anyone says the Wii is poison to the core gamer. God, how I hope MS and Sony don't ever venture down that mediocre path to appeal to grandmas and pre-teens at least on the major scale Nintendo has.
I'm looking at you Newton and Waggle.
super smashed...you know when halo 3, came out and the x360 sold nearly half a million consoles, it was the wii that really surprised me, in what was the biggest 'entertainment launch ever' wii still sold more consoles then the competition...now I'm no wii fan, but its the wii's hay day now so credit where it's due...
edit: and also in hindsight, it were not the x360's year last year, it was the wii, not only did it sell record amounts its already took over the lead...damn that was impressive..and also this year, I know how everyone's saying it's the year of the ps3, and things have looked good, but in reality it's really been the Wii's year so far...it's as if sony and Microsoft are so far behind they don't even look for first place no more...it might change next year, but if I'm honest, last year, and this year thusfar it's been NINTENDO, all the way...Infact when hasn't it been Nintendo's way?