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Thank God! I thought I just sucked when I found it hard but everyone was saying it was easy. I think it has just the right amount of challenge actually, because it pisses me off until I'm determined to get past a part, and when I finally do, I get an actual sense of satisfaction. FWIW, I found the first boss harder to beat too.

and then.. The Sonic Rush boss battles play like Klonoa, for the most part. It works fine (and Klonoa 2 is a great game, find it if you can)

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Yeah, that's exactly my point. I bet the 8+ score games see sales from the round-up, because if most people are like me, they want to spend their hard-earned cash on something worthwhile, but it's burning a hole in their pocket and they have to act fast and don't have time to read

Niiice. I guess your comments have stirred up the Game Tunnel guys a bit. While I think GT does a great job in making people aware of indie games, I think their reviews can sometimes be damaging for a game if the particular group of reviewers doesn't like it, and I think the Gibbage review is one of those cases, Seth's comments aside. I don't think you got an unfair deal, and the guys who didn't like it seem very apologetic about it, but that big 6.5 lumps your "this-would-be-great-if-I-liked-it" game with the big pile of mediocre releases that come out every day. I just think that when you're dealing with an industry where a couple of lost sales means the difference between making a profit or not you should be able to say "This game is great even if I don't like it". Sorry I'm rambling. 2 hours sleep twice in a row.

I believe they said some of the engine elements are in fact going to be in GTA4. I'd find a source but I'm working. And also I don't want to.

My feelings exactly. Of course, it's also a little patronizing of us to automatically assume the guys don't realise they're being made fun of, maybe they just don't care. We're projecting our own feelings onto them, and while I know I'd be angry to find out I was the butt of a joke that also benefited a couple of "cool kids" either financially or helps launch some 5 minute TV career, that's just me. The fact that they read this forum and plenty of others shows that they obviously know a lot of people are making fun of them, and they're still doing it. For the record guys, I can't watch a whole one of your shows, because it makes me cringe. However, it does make me cringe less than watching anything on G4. But that's a whole 'nother subject bring back Starcade and good Icons, fuckers. Oh, and that stupid show with the two guys, one of them from that Animal Planet show.

You mean you didn't do it in Out of this World too?

Editor beta is out now, for those interested.

Valid point, and I have to acknowledge my own skewed viewpoint seeing as I rarely buy games in-store anymore, but still. The difference in price would be a big factor for me, plus the wait time on some titles (though this appears to be shrinking). I have to wonder how region-free the "region-free PS3" will turn out to be, though. I have a personal interest in the subject as I'm planning to move back to England this year, before the new consoles are released, and I'm trying to decide what to do.

I've forgotten the name of it too, but that doesn't matter, because the only "game comes to life and kills people" movie that matters is Nightmares, with the Emilio Estevez segment. Bishop of Battle, motherfuckers.

This is as good a place as any to ask this.. Why would any serious gamer buy the UK release of a console these days? The prices of both hardware and software are jacked up and now there are several avenues for importing with reasonable prices, it's not too hard to get a TV that handles NTSC, so why would you pay the premium to buy a UK machine?

The thing that really killed it for me (other than a showstopping bug that left me with a savegame in the girlfriend's apartment with the clock running down but nobody ever comes to the door so I can't continue) is that the Simon/DDR games forced me to concentrate on the colors, completely missing what was going on in the background.

I almost cry at the end of The Wizard every single time. I also get a chill down my spine when the World 1 Map music hits.

It's fun as hell to play with though. The Indy stuff is basically a runtime player for endorphin, the procedural animation package that has already been used a lot for non-dynamic stuff. Best part is you can grab the learning edition for free and have a grand old time playing with digital stuntpeople. Remember the Porrasturvat (Stair Dismount) game? It's like that, turned to 11. http://www.naturalmotion.com/pages/le.htm

Yeah, emulation is always a lot more exciting before the realization that you have the console sitting 2 feet away sinks in.

Holy crap. This I did not know: Re: the Japanese artwork, no, actually it looked like a super-deformed / mech version of the NES release. (Couldn't find the original box, but the GBA release has the same artwork, right?)

The funny thing about Bomberman == badass is that if you and look at the cover art for the NES game (which was crap. Really. It was.) it does seem pretty close to what Act Zero Guy Man looks like.

Yeah. There's a better thread on those forums that is just full of screenshots from testers, but I didn't post that because I'm stupid. Anyway, for those out there with pretty hefty PCs, the ability to play PS2 titles at all sorts of fancy resolutions could be just around the corner.

It's by a friend of a shacker. He says the editor should be out by the end of the week.

If I remember correctly, David Lynch was going to do a computer game in the midst of the late 90s "interactive multimedia" trend. It never got completed because it would have been too boring a game, apparently.

It cuts me. It cuts me deep. Re: Monkey Ball, I hope the remote speaker gives out a squeak for that Whac-a-Mole game.

well..

I'm sad that I never got to really play Twin Snakes before I sold the Gamecube (yeah yeah, I know.. still, I bet the Wii's backward compatibility is better than the 360..), but what I saw of it while my son was playing disappointed me in some ways. Mainly it was the change in the voice acting, I think - the loss of accents bothered me. I don't have much of a stack to catch up on right now because I've been curtailing my game purchases, but I plan on running through some 8- and 16-bit titles before selling our old consoles off (moving). In particular, I never actually finished Super Mario Bros

My avatar should probably clue you in to my suggestion: Classic Bomberman would rule. With the TG-16 Virtual Console stuff, I'd assume Nintendo and Hudson would be fairly close and could make this happen. He's in Hudson's Smash Bros. knock-off Dream Mix TV World Fighters - as is Snake, funnily enough. It'd be a nice counterpart to the abortion that is Bomberman: Act Zero.