Ammunition > Heroics

Actually, the part about frustration is probably going to be comparatively short, but I thought I might try a one-word title for once.

So, I got to thinking, and, see, every night when I wash dishes I get incredibly frustrated by something, but I can't quite figure it out. I finally realize that it's the fact that the light above the sink is not on, so it's rather dark. I turn it on, and, wham, everything is happy.
It's odd.
It really takes a while for me to realize what's creating the problem, even though it happens every night. Weird.
Another thing that I recently realized frustrates me a lot is a lot of noise. It's not entirely volume -- though that's a big part of it -- but many noises conflicting with one another. I didn't realize this bothered me so much until we came to this small house where you can pretty much hear every sound going on in the entire house. I soon discovered that music seriously helps this by covering up everything else, so I may want to invest in some nicer headphones -- with the ones I have now on, not only can I still hear outside noises, but other people can also hear my music, which ends up bothering me more, because they're always asking, "What are you listening to?" and all that.


So, have you heard about this "Big Announcement" Nintendo is making? Apparently Reggie Fils-Aime hinted (or just flat-out said, really) that a really big game is going to be announced at this year's E3.
There are probably a ton of people thinking this is the new Zelda game or something, but I don't think it is at all. They probably hardly have any plans for any new Zelda game at all yet; they just released Phantom Hourglass, after all. I don't get how people aren't counting that, and keep saying "We want a real Zelda game." How is PH not a real Zelda game? Because it's on handheld? Because it's slightly unorthodox? Probably, it's the first one, since the handheld games tend to get ignored, for whatever reason. Ridiculously enough, some fansites I've seen don't even cover most of the handheld Zelda games.
Anyway, I'm betting it's not Zelda, or Mario, or anything like that.
The folks over at IGN think it's probably Kid Icarus 3 or Pikmin 3, both of which we "all know are coming." They're probably right, and that would be pretty neat, as I never got a chance to play either of those games (with Kid Icarus, you can't blame me so much, but I have no idea why I've never played the Pikmin games).
But one thing that would be really, really cool? Another game in the Mother series. Released over here. Now that would be really, really cool.
If you didn't know, Mother is one of Nintendo's oldest franchises (it's where the Smash Bros. characters Ness and Lucas come from), and they've still been making some games over in Japan (or at least they've done some fairly recently). All the US got was Mother 2, known as Earthbound over here. The really sad part is how we don't even have Earthbound on the Virtual Console. It's another game I've always wanted to play but still haven't.
Now, the chances of Nintendo's Big Announcement being a new Mother game are almost as low as those of it being a Zelda game. But still, one can hope, right?
All I really want it to be is something that we don't have to wait more than a year for. After Smash Bros., I don't know if I'll be able to stand something hyped so much and delayed so many times. It makes waiting for it rather annoying.

Anyway, speaking of Nintendo, I'm a bit excited about WiiWare, if only because it may entirely crush the constant flow of lame Wii games. Independent developers can now make their own Wii games and sell them for whatever price they want, and we've already gotten announcements about really cool things like Defend Your Castle (a funny little Flash game) being significantly upgraded and sold for only five dollars.
This is really cool, because hopefully nobody will be buying those lame full-priced games anymore, and developers will stop making them.
Hopefully.
If not, it's still like they're getting seriously made fun of; "Haha, look, we're an independent studio nobody's heard of, and we made a decent game and it only costs five dollars. You're a big commercial developer, yet you made a stupid game everyone knows is trash, and it costs ten times as much!"
If poor sales don't discourage them, maybe that effect will.
But, regardless, it means opportunities for independent developers. Very cool.
Hmm, I wonder if Aaron Bishop will pursue WiiWare?
...Yeah, it's never going to happen. He even said, after making Soulfu, that he was never ever making any games again.
...But he said that after Egoboo, too....

Well, I guess I'll wrap this up; I have nothing else to say right now. Maybe tomorrow's post will be longer.

"I can't think of any funny quotes, and I'm too lazy to find one."
--Me