1654 Oliver Cromwell is beasting over in jolly old England.

1647 a year where not much happened...

 I love Conan. 

 I'm currently sitting 220 coins away from platinum status for the year and am planning on getting Lego City Undercover in the near future that would give me +50 coins, I could download Yoshi's Island for 30¢

 giving me another +10 coins, I'm on the fence about Luigi U which would be another +40 coins leaving me at 120 coins remaining.

 Has anyone heard any rumours of the rewards for gold/platinum this year?  If it were you would you make the push to platinum status?  I'd probably buy some Wii games if I was to go for it sadly it seems there's no way I'd be able to find a new Xenoblade with the #pin which would be the #1 game I'd want.

 Yeah, I'm getting the vibe I should just save my money. My OCD will give me a tough time for the next week but I think I'll make it. 

 I'm stoked to see the new list of items that will be available to purchase.  Hopefully they're worth it for you two BSC/Goku seems you both have a huge hoard of coins. 

 Looks like a lot of fun.  I played Elements a lot a couple years ago.  I wonder if Blizzard would be able to stop themselves from turning this into a strictly cash cow franchise though.  I feel like at some point they'd start charging for single cards etc. and then it would be pay to win and not fun anymore.

Blizzard has never implemented Play to win models before, have they? Sure, they've offered cosmetic items in WoW, but those are irrelevant.  

 I feel like they ruined Diablo 3 with their real money AH.  I didn't mind that it existed.  They just ruined all the fun parts of the game for players trying to milk it.  They could have went for a happy medium and in the long run made more money IMO.  Even though that video talks about getting back to their roots Blizzard is a colossus that is as evil as EA now.

Yes, innovating with a hair cut . LOL. 

 Hahahah.

You mean Platinum because that was in the first game. Actually I think in the first game her long hair actually merged into her outfit. Now it's short so it doesn't merge but it's still made out of her hair.

 I'd be kind of choked if I was a girl. Or maybe I'm just being oversensitive.  Whatevs.  Still going to try it out most likely.  It makes my head spin a bit, hoping that's just because the trailers are full of only the most action packed sequences.

 Um.  I haven't played the first one.  And just yesterday saw my first trailer for the game.  Does Bayonetta periodically lose her clothes when she does special moves?

In the first game yes, and I do believe that had made it over in some form to Bayo 2, but this time with short hair 

 Hahah what the. I guess Nintendo is always innovating.

I heard that her magic comes from her hair and her outfit is made out of it so when she uses her magic she attacks with her hair so her outfit comes apart...or something. I haven't played the first game either.

 lol'd for real. That's the most amazing explanation for gratuitous boobage in a game I've ever heard.  Thumbs up Nintendo.

  Can you post a link for me to the details of what we're missing? (anyone)

It loads initially on the plane which is like the hub, and then it loads the mission and then you are set until the mission is done.

So although loading is bad it's infrequent enough not to ruin the game.

 Thanks.

 For someone who is itching to play a shooter and doesn't want to get one on the PC.  Will this game scratch that itch or should I wait for CoD: Ghosts?

 edit:  Like if I played, I would want to be a sniper rather than the guy slitting throats, but I would slit throats when necessary.

 How often do you load in this game? Once per mission?

You can play it as a shooter, although its no COD. You can stay in the shadows taking people out though if that's your thing. That's the 'panther' style of play.

 Thanks bud.

 I rejoined Nintendo as well recently after a bit of a hiatus.  Welcome!

 I uninstalled them a while back and now when I search it tells me they aren't on the E-shop.  I can search through my downloaded software and I see them but again if I click download it brings up an error.

 Anyone know what is going on? Is doing a factory reset the only way to get them back??

 Reformatted it... and now I can't connect to eShop at all. Sadface. Error 107-3058 I think.