finally got my wireless setup going. 
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sunnovvabittch.  seriously, this is the end cap to a f-ed week at work.  i guess i can direct some of the pre-order funds over to bioshock now, which would have probably fell off the buy now chart.  so, this really sucks for rockstar and my desire to kill ho's in a virtual world, but it's a big benefit to killing little girls and running from their big brother.   

pc version was $40, not 60.  now, if you could gametap to a 360, that would be kickass.

Maybe they'll do an episodic release 

great, so we all get to play "amoeba" for 18 months after release.  wonderful.  if they follow valve's model, in game evolution will take as long as actual evolution.

i'll have to give that a try.  i flew through the first two sets last night, and am glad i got this.  i need to get set up with wireless access or get one of those adapters.  so far, it hasn't been able to connect to the AP at work.  not sure what's going on.

+1 to gratch for fast payment
+1 to warning for fast payment

doesn't that bit describe all dual core and up processors too?  what about the 3 cored 360?  again, the patent sounds absurd.  who gets it in their head to patent an idea and then let it age on the books?  corporate tools.

it's a game of lotto nostradamus.  whomever successfully guesses which technologies will be invented in 20 years and patents it wins.  you don't even have to have tried to make it a reality. 

hell, when i was in high school, i successfully "predicted" that ea would make jungle strike and urban strike after desert strike came out.  that doesn't mean i'm somehow entitled to some of the profits. 

HF is a great flick.  it's too bad they've gone and ruined what was a completely shocking scene by showing it in the dvd previews though.  i think i heard a collective wince in the theater.

will do.  for now, i'll get ready with the puzzles on the link.  nice mix of difficulties there.  currently working on 10. 

i'm also a picross newb, but am having fun with this too.

no, i don't have any impressions, not yet anyways.  i am going to check the stores at lunch time though.  hopefully there isn't a shortage of copies or some odd katamari damacy like rush on it.  looks like a great play any time game. 

in the meantime, here's a bit to whet your appetite.  wii picross

played it and it definitely has that dw feel going on.  this will get lost in the shuffle though, so i doubt i'll get a chance to play it.

  i think i'll load up one of the discs when i get home.  great news. 

sorry, that's what i meant by make me an offer.  i'll edit the post.

i'll get to the tba list soon. 

i've pretty much finished with Saints Row. 

i didn't want to come off as a vulture in el-producto's thread, so i decided to put up my own list and stay out of his thread.  i need to do this anyways and have put it off long enough.  shipped priority, paypal preferred, open to trades on recent 360 games.  multiple orders save on shipping, prices negotiable.

360
Saints Row - $22

PC, no box
BG1 (with map, large cd holder, book, extras) $10 (pending)
BG2 (with spiral bound manual and all extras) $10 (pending)
BG2:ToB  $10 (pending)
Planescape: Torment (jewel case) - 5 (Sold)
Evil Islands $5
Sea Dogs $20 w/manual

PC (w/ box, manual)
Star Wars:EAW + exp - $20
Divine Divinity - $7 with an extra surprise 
Swat 4 - $15
Guild 2 - $10
MGS2: Substance - Sealed - $7
Brothers in Arms: R2H30 - $10
Scarface - $10
NWN 2 CD - $20
The Suffering - $13
Rush for Berlin - $17
LoTR: BfME 1 - $7
TrackMania Sunrise - $7
X Men Legends 2 -$7


GBA
Tactics Ogre - manual, no box.  $20
Golden Sun - manual, no box.  $10

DS
Castlevania: PoR $20 (Sold)
Freedom Wings $7

PSP (all in great condition w/ box, manual)
Burnout Legends $15
Locoroco $10
Exit $10
Monster Hunter $20 (pending)
Pursuit Force $20 (pending)
Virtual Tennis - $10

freebies pay for shipping or free with other purchase.
Urban Chaos
Soldier of Fortune 2
America, manual
Zax: Alien Hunter (Sold)
MoH:AA (pending)
NFS:Underground, manual
Original War
European Air War, manual (Sold)
Diablo
Wheel of Time, manual (pending)
SC3K
R6: Rogue Spear
Motocross Madness
Midtown Madness
Combat Flight Sim 2, manual, strategy guide.   (Sold)
Soulbringer
Soul Reaver
Loco-Commotion
Settlers 4, manual
Warrior Kings, manual
Patrician 3, box, manual
Joint Ops + Escalation
Seven Kingdoms 2, Sealed jewel case
Prince of Qin, manual

Sony PS2 memory card, sealed in box - $15
Sony Dual Shock, sealed in box - $15

and the monster:
PS2 - make me an offer.  each item is available separately.
Ace Combat 4
Aqua Aqua (pending)
Armored Core 3
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 (Sold)
Bully (pending)
Burnout 3 Takedown
City Crisis
Crimson Seas 2
Dark Cloud
Devil May Cry
Doa 2
Drakengard
Dropship: United Peace Force
Dynasty Warriors 3 Xtreme Legends
Dynasty Warriors 5 (pending)
FFX
Frequency
Genesis Collection
GTA 3
GTA: LCS
GTA: SA
GTA: VC
Gungriffon Blaze
Headhunter
Herdy Gerdy
Jak & Daxter
Jak & Daxter 2
Jak & Daxter 3
Killer 7
Manhunt
Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX
Metal Arms
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Miniority Report
NHL 2K3
Psi Ops
Ratchet & Clank 2 (pending)
Ratchet & Clank 3 (pending)
Samurai Warriors
Second Sight
Silpheed: Lost Planet
Sly Cooper
Soul Calibur 2
Spyhunter
SSX
State of Emergency
Sub Rebellion
Syphon Filter Omega Strain
Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
The Getaway
The Getaway 2
The Mummy
The Warriors
True Crime: LA
Turok
Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution
Way of the Samurai
Xenosaga
X-Men Legends
Zone of the Enders

Hot damn that's some good stuff.
But $40 is too steep for me because I only want Close Combat, Lock On, and Swat 4.

i've finally decided to sell some crap off, so if you are interested, let me know.

ron, you kick ass.  and you also have way too much time on your hands, may i suggest a hobby?

360 gamefly rental.  not sure how much i'll play a game whose stated length is 10-12 hours.  "but those will be 10-12 awesome hours of awesome fun", you say.  sure, but i haven't won the lottery or had a rich relative kick off, so i'll save my $ for the big ones coming out in the fall. 

nothing except picross.  especially at $20

it will be cool to see how they tie you in to the main story.  a character import option would kick so much ass btw.  at least let me use the same model aged a bit. 

so i guess that means you won't want my copy of the 2nd one then

grabbed a used copy for anyone who wants it.  in decent shape with case and manual.  it was 40 + tax.  shipped priority for 45 via paypal.  trades for recent 360 games, make offer if interested.  it's not really my thing, so if noone wants it, it will go back and end up as a down payment for mass effect. 

sweet news.  should be a good summer game next year. 

none of the movie ones read very well.  they keep turning me into a noun.  the peen innuendo is a common side effect though if you read it aloud.   

er, ??
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to Caine.

didn't some enterprising young types make it possible to use the hd-dvd addon with pc's?  i remember that being done and then nothing, no more news.  if that's the case, then it makes a little more sense to have one since you aren't using the russian r(rod)oulette.

fwiw, playing the pc version with kb/mouse sucked and my initial impressions were very poor because the graphics looked fugly.  i was set to sell it off quick until i picked up a 360 controller and tweaked the graphics up.  i think i played it solid until i beat it.  not a great game, but i had a lot of fun.  the late game mechanics for making money start to drag on though, and i never bothered with buying up all of the extras.

i really liked the little things they did to stand out from the genre.  having money on hand counted as dirty until you could launder it was a nice change even though many didn't care for it.  i really liked having cars you could buy and have delivered, plus the henchmen who would work for you, plus those who offered side games.  the sense of progression and of building an empire was better than in the gta games too.  i hope rockstar takes a few cues from this and the other games and adds them to gta IV

Promise her anything, but give her Caine. 

i like.

 

nice!  i like that.  it looks like a giant swath has been cut through downtown. 

I'd pay reasonable cash or could trade my third son.

what's his spec's?

i don't have any of the games, but i'll keep my eyes open in the used racks for you

oh, and in on topic news, i did fire this up this morning, and i highly doubt i'll be picking this up.  comes across too shallow, which isn't so  much a knock against wc:a, as one against subspace.  unless there is a deeper game hidden behind the melee and asteroid hunt modes, i don't see enough to warrant the purchase. 

No Privateer or Armada?  Cheapskates!

Edit: *or* Prophecy! (no the GBA version doesn't count)

prophecy is on the right, behind privateer. 

time to check your eyes old man.

armada does appear to be missing though, as does privateer 2

as long as this doesn't pull the fantasy cocktease and show us all fantasy scenes when more than half of the movie takes place in the "real world".  i'm looking at you, pan's labyrinth and bridge to terrible-ithia 

ftr, i did like pan's labyrinth, even though it was a bit rough.  unless this gets high praise from the forum crew, it will be a rental.

bummer about the ethan haas angle not panning out.  the thought that this was a cthulu movie kicked ass.  i do like the post-mortem of a found camcorder telling the story idea though. 

i guess gamefly doesn't like me as much then because the game i'm getting next was number 4, behind this one, sylpheed, and  dead rising: lost planet.  hope atb's dislike of this game isn't an omen.  i think i pissed them off with having them send me a second copy of crackdown after it took 10 days to get to me. 

after i picked up overlord, darkness went to the top of the list.  i really want to play this.

going to get through as much of overlord as i can, and a restart in forza.  if lost planet makes it's way here via gamefly, i'll start that one up too.

now i can sell off my copy.  got half way and then the game save got borked and i couldn't advance the missions.  i was so annoyed i didn't want to restart.  i would restart for a 360 version though. 

uwe boll earns the top honors and sits in the seat in front of first class.  everything he touches turns to shit.  he's like the anti-hero to king midas.

nick nolte.  your past good movies do not make up for being a complete asshat now, so either put the bottle down or ride the shuttle to sun town.

paris hilton.  her and her whore friends tara and nickie can sit on uwe's lap, just so they get the first look. stop being a whore, paris!

hugh grant gets a seat just so aren't forced to see his ugly mug being paired up with the mildly attractive intelligent actress-of-the-week for the sole purpose to sell tickets to women and their whipped SO's

larry the cable guy.  you have no comedic talent and are one-trick-pony at that.  get on the shuttle, dumbass.

toby keith.  see above and substitute comedic with musical.  send the ford exec who's idea it was to use you for the commercials. 

james belushi.  it's amazing what one man can do with a brother's fame and early death.  if jon was around, you'd be the forgotten one, like 7/8ths of the baldwin brothers.

tom cruise.  anybody wacked out enough to fall for a hack sci-fi writer's schtick so thoroughly deserves a seat.  travolta gets a buy-one, get-one free ticket.

this list could end up quite large.  best to bring more than one shuttle

wow, you weren't kidding.  both of these are sitting on shelf, near mint.  i think i played the first 10 minutes or so and took a long glance at the book before deciding that i had way too much on my backlog to crack this one open. 

i have the big box versions of both bg2 and ToB, sans big box.  aka, all the good old school manuals, inserts, etc.  there's a small chance that the box is around here somewhere, flattened down and stored, but i can't confirm that.  lmk if you're interested.

i need to find this game.  of course picross is coming out soon, so i should be able to get my puzzle game fix on either way.

love the manual.  it's amazing to think someone at ea actually has a mind to put that much effort into a live game.  definitely try the demo, maybe even get the full game if it's fun for what it is, not what i hoped it would be.  i do wish it were more wc1-2 era rather than post-prophecy though.

anyone catch the self-deprecating nod at privateer 2?