Gaming pleasant surprises/disappointments in 06

[Dyne]

+ Nintendo being a positive in the public eye for something other than the Gameboy. i knew last year they would be the darkhorse for E3 and the new gen. so far they're proving that.

+ Okami is a game im actually sitting down with a few hours each day to finish. i haven't done this for a long time. sure the whole second half seems tacked on and out of place but it's been pretty damned enjoyable. 25 hours in and i'm finally at Oni island.

+/- Final Fantasy 12. i know the game is good, but the KotOR/MMO type of gameplay takes a lot of getting used to for me. i'm not terribly fond of everything being autopilot......yet.

- Yakuza "so far". only got to the funeral but its seems so damned mundane like GTA. the cionstant loading is atrocious and until i see a reason to not jam on the button during fights i fail to see hoe people say the fighting is "deep". Amma summed up my exact feelings.

I'm willing to accept others felt otherwise, but for Yakuza I used the same attack pattern for pretty much every enemy in the game, aside for the latter bosses, where I just owned them with weapons. When I tried to change it up, there wasn't many options and it ended up worse anyway. The plot was 100% predictable for me, so boring. Plus one thing I absolutely can't stand is people doing retarded, out of character things to service said plot. There wasn't much else to do besides simple 'go there do that' side quests and the hoestess bar, neither were particularly fun for me. I beat the game so I didn't hate it, but the whole experience was forgettable.

- SONY. again lol. we all know they will eventually take the world by storm, but how long will it take and how much market share will they give up? it's selling like hotcakes in Japan.

[Geen]

+ Xbox Live Arcade :: I've had more damn enjoyment out of downloading games and playing for 10 or 15 minutes at a time. Hopefully once more original content comes underway this enjoyment will continue.

+DS :: Always in my pocket, always ready to suck time. New Super Mario Bros, Tetris DS, and a shit ton of others I'm forgetting all came by for a good amount of play time.

-Bomberman Land Touch! :: Online Bomberman was one of the events I was looking forward to most this year, and this was one of the biggest disappointments. The game was impossible to find, the lag online made it unplayable, the battle mode was as basic as a Bomberman battle mode could be, and always having to play with at least four computer players is dumb as shit.

+/- Wii :: Although it wasn't the "OMG Orgasm!" that I was hoping for last year, I'm amazed how much fun I'm having with my family playing Wii Sports. I can't wait to see their reaction to Wario Ware.

- Zelda Twilight Princess :: I hated the controls in the Wii version, and although the GCN version does correct this by a million times, I don't have the "I need to play this now! I can't wait!" urge that I get from games I really enjoy and love. I hope I enjoy it more as I go futher into it, when I have the desire to go further into it.

- Metal Slug Anthology :: No D-Pad Support on GCN Pad! No D-pad support on GCN pad! WTF SNK, OMG WTGDF?!@!?!