NBrid - Features

Super Smash Bros. Brawl! (Wii)

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:34:05 -0400

After a long wait, the sequel to one of the best multi-player games ever is finally here, Super Smash Bros. Brawl! If you've played Melee, you know what to expect. Which isn't a bad thing. And if you haven't played a Smash Bros. before, then maybe this look back at Smash Bros. related stories on NBrid will help...

The Top 23 Best FPSs of All-Time

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:28:55 -0400

So I used to complain that only people searching for a certain rapper visited this place. What kind of idiots came to a VIDEO GAME site to read up on him? Oh yeah, they are dumb enough to think he's still alive. So mad at my negative comments, trying to prove me wrong, people instead made a list of the top RPGs the #1 read article. AHHH! Sure it's about video games this time, but it wasn't written by me! So now I'm out to change that.

G-Rated Non-Gaming Fun with your Wii ...And PlayStation 3

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:00:57 -0500

First, all of you sick bastards playing with your "Wii" can leave. I'm sure others with gasp at the thought of using their brand new console for something other than games, but these systems do have other uses people. Maybe it's just my geek side who enjoys fooling around with this, but hey when it's not only fun but useful, why not. I think the last time I used a console for something other than games was web surfing on Dreamcast. That's changed with Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PS3.

Nintendo Wii WAS at the local Target, so Bone...

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:21:09 -0500

Had to wait in line like 10+ hours to get one. I had checked around early Saturday afternoon and BB/CC/Target all said don't worry we have plenty. I overheard an employee tell one mother with 2 excited kids that they were to hand out tickets at 7am and if she was there then she would be fine. There were a couple of diehards already camping at BB at around 1pm, but I said eh, and went to watch Michigan v. Ohio State. That was almost a mistake, despite it being a great game...

Phantasy Star Universe... Online!

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:16:16 -0500

So after a long wait (five and a half years...) the true sequel to Dreamcast's best time suck is upon us, and Phantasy Star Universe (PSU) makes PSO look like crap! Okay, maybe not. It's too early to tell. PSU has the same PSO feel we all love, but at the same time doesn't feel exactly the same. Really it's just another Diablo clone, that for some reason I always enjoyed playing.

Welcome to NBrid!

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:29:09 -0400

Life got you down? Feel the need to be part of something bigger? Feel like you're wasting your life at your mind-numbing 9-to-5 job that you actually work 8 to 7? Feel abused and under appreciated? Tell your boss you quit and come join us here at NBrid! A world of oppurtunity awaits once you've joined our family. We here at NBrid believe in a better quality of life for all of us, and we believe you can help us achieve that goal.

Margot & The Nuclear So and So's

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:15:43 -0400

So a month or so ago (I really don't recall, sometime in July) I went down to the Terrace (the UW one, not the upscale Monona version) and saw this band I had never heard of before, Margot & The Nuclear So and So's. Unfortuently, the opening band took so long to get on stage (rumor was they refused to play with their lead singer) that M&NSS was only able to play less than a half hour. I must say though, it was a great thirty minutes.

Then this past Friday they came back to Madison! This time at the Annex. While that meant I had to pay to see them this time, it also meant a longer show. Was their first show a fluke? No way.

Our visitors suck!

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:19:12 -0400

That's right. I'm looking at you. Plain and simple, you suck. And hard. I don't care if this costs us viewership (which at last count was up to 4.2!), this needs to be said. I just don't get it. What the hell is wrong with you people?!

There have been too many lovey-dovey Nintendo/DS/Wii posts of late, and I think people have started to think Nbrid is nothing but a happy-go-lucky Nintendo fanboy pandering internet destination. I need to remind people that really we are a group of bitter, jadded, emo punks. So when I look at what visitors think of us, I want to scream.

Hell hath frozen over: The Nintendo DS Lite Cometh

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:34:22 -0400

Sigh, what have I done. Am I going to wake up tomorrow with a nasty hangover of buyer's regret? Maybe, but probably not. What I do know though is I'm sure to hear about this from the many people I proclaimed DS's "lameness" to, and that is quite a long list.

It's actually even worse than that. Not only have I gone on a two year long DS bashing vendetta, I've held a life long anti-handheld philosophy. I've never owned a handheld before. The pathetic "graphics" and overly simplistic gameplay didn't interest me in the least. So have times changed or have I?

The year that was called 2005 by its closest friends...

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:46:11 -0500

So 2005 has come and gone. We are now living in 2006. Yeah, scary huh. It seems like just yesterday it was September 1999...

A lot happened in 2005. For example, 2005 saw the opening of... err. Did much really happen in 2005? It seems like such a blur. 2005 was to the aughts as Wednesday is to a week: the year you just have to survive to get to the good stuff. Because certainly not much of note happened around these parts. Oh well. That's what 2006 is for. A new hope! (Great, it's been a few years since we've been sued. It was nice while it lasted.)

2005's Sweet Freakin' Game of the Year (as told by bone)

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:49:24 -0500

Originally I was going to do a 'Best of this Generation' vote since thanks to the premature release of the 360, the 'current' generation has come to an end. However, thanks to Nintendo delaying Zelda (which was sure to be a high vote getter), I've decided not to. Yes, I agree. It will be hard for Zelda TP to beat out RE4 and Metroid Prime, but I was going to list the top 5 for each system (and overall). So we'll have to wait and see if Zelda can beat out Eternal Darkness some other time.

This fall has been one of the weaker falls in recent memory in terms of blockbuster games. All the really big games (RE4, God of War, Killer 7... cough/) came out in the spring or summer. No wonder 360 sold to people willing to cash in their 401K for another generic FPS. Even me, "Mr. Hardly Ever Buys Games Anymore", only got one game this fall (Fire Emblem... which you all should go out and buy right now!). So it seems pointless to do any kind of vote whatsoever (is that one word? or should it be hyphenated?).

E3 2005 Breakdown

Tue, 24 May 2005 23:09:33 -0400

This year's expo at the Los Angeles convention center was a little different than it has even been before. The most significant difference was that I WAS THERE! (Reprinted with implied oral permission from Con-Trast)

Phantasy Star Online turns 4! (PSO)

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:00:47 -0500

It was the winter of our discontent, early 2001. We had just heard the bad news, Sega was discontinuing the Dreamcast! But our sadness was short lived for just days later we were too busy playing Phantasy Star Online to care, much.

Reno 911! coming back with another season!

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:59:02 -0400

As season 2 winds down this show is as popular as ever, maybe even more. Now that everyone knows that this show is a comedic smash and not just a fluke, it's pretty widely understood that there will be a third season. But when?

**Also, a special look back at Season 2!**

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Bonus Disc (GC)

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:25:29 -0400

What's this, another free bonus from Nintendo? To help promote, or should I say celebrate, the upcoming release of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Nintendo is giving away a bonus disc of Metroid movies, and even a demo!