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Yes, which also reminds me of the Wii "Sadness" game, which will likely never see the light of day http://www.gamespot.com/wii/adventure/sadness/index.html 1. Build Buzz 2. Build to spec 3. Hope for a western publisher to finance you 4. ???? 5. Profit

http://www.soldat.pl/ Soldat is a fun "Eastern European game", and while it might not be as polished as other titles, it certainly is plenty Polish.

Shit, Epic just released overpriced maps for Gears of War... one of which takes place on a subway. People use subways. This is an obvious terroristic threat. Somebody arrest Cliffy B. Please.

This is the highlight of my life!

I honestly can't tell you if it's worthwhile or not, but I've seen "Star Chamber" praised. I think you get some starter deck with it initially (for free), but getting extra packs obviously costs money. That was a while ago though. And searching for it online, it looks like now it's a Sony thing (?)... must have been purchased or something (was independent before) http://starchamber.station.sony.com/ (As a side note: not really free, but I can't wait for Culdcept Saga for the 360)

Army of Shadows. Holy hell. So good.

I got it for $99.99... which is RETARDED because I paid less than that for the first Guitar Hero at a time when the game wasn't available in Canada and had to buy it off a shop that imported it.

:fart: :ponycrap:

The media hasn't had a lot of good taste when it comes to the whole story. I mean, they jumped on the "HE IS A FOREIGNER" angle instantly when it was revealed that he was Korean... never mind the fact that he was in the US for most of his life, since emigrating as a child in 1992. I'm sure if he was white nothing would have been mentioned. And yes, hucksters jump on tragedy like moths to a flame. JT is one of them. Various NRA groups are others (I've seen many posts claiming that if everyone in the school had concealed arms, it wouldn't have happened ) And Freepers are running around trying to make this guy out to be a terrorist because of the loosest of connections (trying to claim that he is a muslim convert because of some tattoo that he has ) I think I'm going to play some Guitar Hero.

Is this the movie where they play the XBox in 1998? THEY TRAVEL INTO THE FUTURE TO GET ONE.

GameLife? More like... GameDead.

Sadly, I'm not even number one there

DAMN YOU indeed. However, this is one game that I am content to sit at #2 on my friends' list. I guess everyone has their game. You can have this one. I'll keep my Lumines time attack scores.

Yes, seriously. I cringe when I look at my writing from 2000. Granted, I cringe when I look at my writing from last week, but the improvement is noticeable.

sigh. I'm upgrading my PC too. Static electricity fried my mobo and since it's a couple years old, it's probably just worth hunkering down and getting a core 2 duo. Still, I'm tempted to get a MacBook...

Related and possibly interesting (with cliche stupid Gamespot story title) http://www.gamespot.com/news/6169102.html

Welcome to 2001!

I was mostly talking more about the "M" for "Mature" label, which is as big a misnomer as anything when you take into account the content of most M rated games. Obviously, with the film industry it isn't such an issue. You can have an R rated movie, with sex and drugs and violence, that tackles the issues in a very adult, mature way. In such a way that despite the sex and violence, it would really have no appeal to 14 year olds anyway (thinks of the scene where Bart and friends sneak into a screening of "Naked Lunch"). But the game industry doesn't really have any such M rated content at all. It's all gun fantasies and ridiculous cleavage and, in the end, it stays puerile and immature.

FRANKENSTEIN AND DRACULA HAVE NOTHING ON YOU

Just because a game is on CD doesn't mean that it's using all 640MB+ of it. Plus, compression technology is considerably better now than it was in the mid 90s. For example, Ikaruga -- a more modern game -- is about 145MB total.

I'd like to think that as soon as a customer turns 18 -- in other words, an adult -- they would want something more than constant torrent of shallow war games. Don't get me wrong, I like my 360 (arcade mostly), but the barrage of games targeted at those 14-18 year olds (let's face it, even though they're rated M, a lot of them are quite immature) -- constant gun battles and over the top fantasy and sci-fi -- is getting tiresome.

All the GTA3 games made allusions to a lot of pop culture related to its setting, but I'm having a hard time thinking of good Russian mafia-esque films. Granted, there's that whole "immigrant rises to the top of the criminal world" genre and, often, New York seems to be that setting, so I'm sure there'll be a lot to draw on. Just can't think of many eastern european immigrant crime films. Anyone? (Also, the dialogue loosely reminds me of season two of The Wire)

Yeah, Namco is going to run the Katamari name into the ground. I'm sure it'll be competent, but without Keita Takahashi it'll become less and less like the vision that won so many people over. Thankfully, Takahashi is apparently working on something new.

No. And the difference is simple. Pretty much anyone that has XBox Live Gold HAS a headset. There might be the odd rare person without one, but it's pretty much universal (and those likely to not have one are not likely to be on XBL, gaming, anyway). Hell, I have two (and this is not counting the original XBox headset). I don't even know how I got two. One came with the console, I'm sure, but no idea where I got the second one from. (Edit: and the reason I'm not a fan of Home is not because I'm anti-Sony, it's because I'm anti-social. As long as certain features and functionality are not tied in solely to Home, I won't care. Assuming I have a PS3 by then.)

Yeah. Why don't you dig a hole in your backyard and find gold while you're at it.