Do You Want To Go Into Gamestop?

I can't tell if he's my son or not. He farts like me, but he doesn't want to go into Gamestop.

Gears of War Event

I went to one of my local Gamestops last night for the Gears after hours event. I actually went to two Gamestops, but the first one wasn't holding the tournament because nobody had signed up. So, I ran to another one that was right down the road and got in.

First, we watched the video hosted by Cliffy B. It was maybe two minutes long. There was some cool looking gameplay shown, but not a lot obviously. Cliffy said that you would be fighting on the highest peak of Sera to the lowest...area. Something like that. It was over so quick I barely remember.

The GS manager told us later that the video was "defective" and that it should have been an hour and a half long. I don't really know if I believe that. The video we watched during the first event wasn't that long. Not sure they would produce an hour and a half of video for this little event, but whatever.

So, then they got our names and started up the "tournament". It was basically one round, 1 vs 1, on Gridlock. They removed all the power weapons so nobody could "get lucky with the boomshot". I was knocked out the first round, which wasn't a huge surprise to me. It was a close match, though. It ended up with us at very close range using shotguns on each other. Both of our screens were bloody. He just happened to get a lucky shot.

By the way, we had to play on the Xbox 360 kiosk machine and the little LCD display on split screen. And we watched Cliffy's video on what I think was a 13" CRT. Very nice!

I did get a t-shirt out of the deal, so I'm happy.

Stranglehold Faceplate

I reserved Stranglehold at my local Gamestop yesterday. I got a faceplate skin for reserving it, not to mention a CD of "Players Traks". It features Lil John & the East Side Boyz, Ying Yang Twins, and Pitbull among others. Anyway, I took some pictures of the skin so people can see what they're getting if they reserve the game. It's like a skin you get from decalgirl.com. Decent quality, although kind of a pain to put on straight.

How The Wii Made Me Go Back To GameStop

The other day I decided I wanted find some good GameCube games for my Wii. I've been without my Xbox 360 for almost 2 weeks, so I need something to shoot. I've got Wario Ware Smooth Moves from Gamefly, which is cool, but it's not Gears or Shadowrun. I need to do some killin'.

So, I decided to head to GameStop and check out the used GCN games. I've been boycotting GameStop since the 360 launch, but I needed a fix, so I went back. I hope they learned their lesson!

This brings me to the reason for this post. I bought Battalion Wars for $10. A game I wanted to play on the GCN, but never did. I asked the genius at GS if it would be playable with the Wii Classic Controller. His response was "I don't know". Shocking!

The Classic Controller has enough buttons to work as a GameCube controller. But, when I get the game home and pop it in, I get nothing. Wonderful. So, back to GameStop I go to get a controller. I get home and start to play the game and it says I cannot save since I don't have a memory card inserted. Argh!

So, I went from moderately irritated about the controller issue to kinda pissed. Number one, why can't I use the Classic Controller on my GCN games and number two, why can't I save stuff to the 1GB SD card that's inserted in my Wii!?

I don't want to have to go hunting down a memory card when there's a perfectly good SD card in the console, but that's what I'm going to have to do.

And this is how the Wii ended my boycott of GameStop.

Nintendo and GameStop - Selling you stuff that wasn't popular last generation for this generation.