loonyboi

When I got my new Xbox, I moved my Live account and like one or two save games. Stuff like KOTOR was just way too big.

And so it was that one of the few women who frequent this site stopped showing up entirely.

More reviews of recent games in five words or less: LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth: Bare bones, but badass. KOTOR II: It ain't no KOTOR 1. Doom 3 Xbox: Live Co-op kicks ass. Chessmaster 9000 (Mac): Painfully slow on a G3.

You deserve more? Dude, I hate to burst your bubble but it IS his property, and he CAN do anything he wants with it. Yeesh. I don't deny that episodes 1 and 2 had dialogue and character issues (particularly episode 1), but they're still fun, well-made movies. That's all I asked for, and that's what I got. Fanboys like to whine and bitch about this stuff, but Lucas doesn't owe you anything. So quit complaining and enjoy what Lucas has done, or give up star wars and move on with your life. I'm the world's biggest Superman fanboi, and if the new Superman movie that comes out sucks, i'll say, "wow, that was a crappy movie." I won't say, "OMG they totally OWED me a better movie because of how much I love Superman." That's just rediculous. Warner Bros. and DC Comics can make whatever they want with Superman in it without my permission or express consent.

Boycott episode 3? Are you insane, man? I've waited my entire life to see this movie! I'm a big Lucas defender. Episode 1 and 2 were entertaining movies. Were they the greatest thing ever? No. But I had fun. This ain't Shakespeare people, it's Star Wars. The original three movies had terrible acting and dialogue too. Get over yourselves.

This is great news...hopefully they'll figure out how to get unsigned code to run on later versions of the firmware (as of right now, it requires the original firmware from the first japanese release). Everyone should love this development. It's one step closer to ScummVM on PSP!

Try google. I was able to track down episodes of Bionic Six a while back, and that's even more obscure. Plus I'm proud to have episodes of Turbo Teen and Rubik the Amazing Cube in my collection. Yes, I'm very, very, very strange.

When the book first started, it was GREAT. I mean really, really GREAT reading. The first collection should reflect this. The second one was good, but then it started taking itself waaaaaaay too seriously, and the characters got all annoying and convoluted and the whole thing started getting this weird Melrose Place vibe. I stopped reading it then. I can't beleve it's still going like 7 years later.

I'm very late to this thread. I watched the original (non-director's cut) of Donnie Darko. It sucked. It had lousy, unlikeable actors, was pretentious as all get-out, and had plot holes that drove me nuts. I saw nothing that would make me want to see the director's cut. ...but I did like the music. For the record, I did like the rediculously pretentious Magnolia, but hated the less-pretentious-but-still-liked-by-pretentious-people Bottle Rocket.

When did you play it? Because at the time, it was the first time anyone had successfully done a first person shooter on a console system. Ever. Plus it had stealth elements, great multiplayer...it was a great game. It hasn't aged terribly well, but it was a great game at the time.

Okay, I missed like a billion posts, so I'm way behind here...I'll just respond to random comments. - X-Men Legends isn't the greatest game ever made, but it was fun. That's why I play games. To have fun. I like comics, I liked Diablo and BG: DA, I had fun with X-Men Legends. 'nuff said. - A creator most certainly does not have to be involved to make a licensed product good. Oftentimes it can be worse. Goldeneye (64) is generally regarded as the best licensed game ever made...and do you know how much involvement anyone who worked on the film had? Nothing. Then look at the later bond games, where actual movie talent (both in terms of production and acting) were involved, and tell me which is better. - No, I'm not sick of superheroes. I doubt I ever will be. I still buy every Superman comic that's published every week (yeah, I'm that guy). Watchmen is brilliant. V for Vendetta is better. TLoEG is quite good, as is Promethea, Miracleman, Rising Stars (oft underrated at that), Transmetropolitan and so on. Some of us still like silly stories about men in tights. - I freely admit that licensed games don't have to suck, but most do. Riddick was a great game, license or no (it's better than the license it's based on).

I buy a lot of games (read: a LOT), and I almost never buy games with cash, I just sell back old games to buy more. I always buy used if I can (assuming it's not a $4 difference, like GameStop does with new releases), and I try and sell back games as quickly as possible, as they drop from being worth $18 to $5 rediculously fast. That's reality. Games ain't cheap to make, they sure as heck aren't cheap to market, and they cost a fortune for consumers. Which is why I really get pissed if I do go and buy the game outright and it turns out to suck (like Fable did).

Prices are going up, not down. Accept it and move on with your lives. It's inevitable, especially as we move on to next-gen game development. Games cost more to make. Much, much, much more. So publishers crank up the price. Although there is one interesting thing to note...as anyone else noticed that (at least in the US), PC prices have gone down, not up? For cross platform games, it seems like immediately on release, the Xbox/PS2/GameCube versions will be $40 - $50, where the PC version is a scant $30 - $40. It happened with Brothers in Arms, it happened with Psychonauts. Of course with each of those games I'd rather have the Xbox version anyway.

Except that isn't true. The latest Shrek game might suck as much as the first one, but why would the sequel to X-Men Legends be bad, when the original was a solid game? If anything, the second-generation version will be better. After the excellent Riddick, I'd love to see the inevitable sequel.

Everyone hates sequels until the one they want is made. Yeah, Tony Hawk 11 isn't going to be very exciting, but I'm geniunely looking forward to Quake 4 and X-Men Legends II.

If we're talking classic packaging, nobody did it better than Infocom: http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/suspended_mask/suspended-mask.html Both in terms of box art and cool stuff inside.

Yeah, the friends list is total crap, but otherwise it works great. ...provided I don't leave it running in the background. I had some bad things happen to other games when I did that.

Except you're ignoring the fact that there's nothing wrong with the sideways panel layout, and it's ideal for a daily strip, regardless of page space in print. Yes, online cartoonists can do whatever they want, but if it's daily, it's smart to stick to short burtsts that can work into an existing template. If any of these daily guys (Sinfest, PvP) started doing five, six or ten panels a day, they'd get burned out in six months. But what the hell do I know. I've never drawn a comic strip, although I was a character in PvP and was made fun of in PA.

Bill Watterson didn't stop doing Calvin & Hobbes because of the crappy conditions, he stopped because he got burned out on daily deadlines. You can't blame the syndicates for that (he was doing a daily strip! what did he expect?). That's not to say that syndicates don't do horrible things to cartoonists, but I look at guys like Gary Trudeau and Charles Schultz and to a lesser extent Bill Griffith, and I see artists with a real work ethic and undestanding of their audience. Frank Cho's a great cartoonist, and I love Liberty Meadows, but he is clearly someone who just wasn't able to think in short bursts like daily cartoonists need to do. He did *tons* of strips where it was one panel, or no joke, or just plain filler material. He's much better off in comic book form. Having said all of that, I think online people like Scott Kurtz and Tatsuya Ishida have that same mentality as guys like Trudeau. In the case of Ishida, I doubt he'll ever get a syndication deal, but that's just because the subject matter of his strip is so...mature. As a bonus, I find the futility meter on Sinfest.net to be hilarious in and of itself.

Yeah, but what a song! Plus Herb Alpert's version is a total classic.

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Ding! Right on. Other good ones: - 2001 - Manhattan (Although most of what's in 2001 isn't original, and none of Manhattan's is) Also good: - The Shawshank Redemption - Superman - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Lawrence of Arabia - The Godfather And of course... - Indiana Jones *.* - Star Wars *.*

Yeah, the little I played of it did nothing for me. It seemed well-made, but it didn't play like the kind of thing I'd want to really commit myself to and considering its legendary difficulty, I opted to pass.

Oh, and if you like adventure games, I recommend Broken Sword 3. It worked surprisingly well on Xbox.