Whoops that was Tom Howard in the picture. Guess people shouldn't assume. :oops:

I wonder why the previewer was playing the game in 4:3 mode on a widescreen monitor. I thought this game was going to have native widescreen support on the PC and yet the guy had black bars on the sides.  If the PC doesn't come out with WS support as promised, I'll be very disappointed.

Look again, it is widescreen. The bars were the speakers/edge of the screen.

And the guy is Punisher.

It is a fun game, but as with all action games, I suck. Haven't tried multi-player yet, but single is fun.

Agreed, pretty bleh. I would really like to see some old style side scrollers come out, such as R-Type.

I am on it right now (downloading a demo), and have been for the last 3 hours.

I am going to go ahead and predict it: The ads show the only funny parts of the movie.

I want it to be good, I just don't expect it to be.

Sooo, does it work??

$400 and $300 every where I have seen. Only place I have seen over pricing is Fingerhut, $600 just for the system, not including shipping.

Ralph, how did you find that link? If I bookmark it, it stops working after a few tries. I don't see any way on the Best Buy site to actually check availability. I would like to check it from work, but I don't think I can come to GT from my work computer (how I currently get to the link).

Then he got back his old console a few days later. Free console!

And neither works correctly right?

why am I not surprised they can't get their shit together?

The loss of your wit has been hard on everyone over there.

My neighbor got one for Christmas.  She said she'd give me her old ipod mini when she finds it.  Hurray for me.

She wants you.

Thanks MHS, hope you guys are having a good Xmas down there.

HINT:  The PC version will run like ass well into 2008, ala Morrowind.

Werd.

gellar

That's utter BS...it ran find on my machine when it came out. Sure I didn't have draw distance maxed, but it most definitely did not run like ass.

Playing fetch with some dog or looking for a fish pole doesnot make a good game.  I see its the stylus that makes the DS a better systems.

We get your point already, just because you don't like those kind of games, doesn't mean they are bad. AC on the GC was a nice relaxing game. You don't like it, great, we know.

Congrats man, glad it worked out.

When are you going to post the dinner photos?

:lol:

Doubt we will see OO up anytime soon what with Xmas right around the corner too.

I recently sold off my PSP, neat system, but I just never played it, the games weren't grabbing me.

This thread helped me decide to give the DS a try. Just went out and got the Mario Cart red DS. Got Animal Crossing, the dog game (it just got too good of reviews, so I will give it a try) and Metroid Pinball. Looks good so far.

I should probably get screen protectors huh?

Thanks for all the info in this thread.

You should sue your arithmetic teacher, Ken. They done you wrong.

And apparently, reading comprehension.  YOU DID THE MATH FOR HIM.

He did? Where?

I just bought a PS2 for Guitar Hero and now I've been looking at other games and this is one of them.  Does it have random encounters?  I like to have control over what I have to fight.

Last console RPG that I played you couldn't walk 5 feet without having to fight something.  I just wanted to get on with the story.

From watching a friend play it, it seemed like every 5 feet. This is starting to annoy me in DQVIII too.

We're sorry, but we've SOLD OUT of our initial launch quantity of Xbox 360 hardware. However, the Xbox 360 will be AVAILABLE IN WAL-MART STORES AT 12:00 AM on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22.!

I guess I meant X, that was the last single player one right?

I watched a friend complete FFXI a couple of years ago, and while it looked fun there were a couple of action mini games (running on the bird) that seemd to be annoying and frustrating. For someone like me who likes his RPGs straight turn based, is FFXI even worth it for me?

Psych ups seem pointless. After psyching up once, and attacking on the next turn my attacks always seem to do double damage. As in the same total damage as if you attack normally each turn.

Looking at the FFXII demo manual, it mentions being able to play in old turn based mode, no?

Qbe-

Reagrding that crystal ball quest:



***mild spoilers***



Did you have to run around and level up to beat that boss? When my two party members attempt to take the crstal ball, that boss wipes out my party in three to four hits. One member gets paralyzed, one gets stomped, and then when the other member can finally fight he can't do enough damage to the boss.

My characters were level 5. Is that too low to attampt this mission?

More slight spoilers.

I beat him pretty easily at level 6. With my Hero healing, and whathisname hitting hard, it wasn't even close. Have you been upgrading your equipment? Also make sure you have lots of herbs or mps.

I hope its in stores today!!

I don't think there is any chance of that since it ships today. The local EB here is still saying next week.

And what is strange about it?

iTunes should play them if they are there. Re authorize the computer to play music from your account, then burn them.

I was just doing that, and it was giving me individual songs to download. Nothing has changed for me.

Check out the official forum. I hear there are some complaints of display issues with Nvidia cards.

As someone said on OO, the waterfall things is part of the tutorial where they are trying to teach you to throw things, that is why you can't simply move them. It makes me wonder if the rest of the complaints are from the tutorial or the real game.

Edit: LE you are a little quick on assuming the game is bad. One review hated it, but rated it good, and the others seem to like it. But it is still early to be drawing such drastic conclusions.

Big fan of Bourdain, but I couldn't watch it. The previews looked to be nothing like the book. Not that the book would translate to a comedy well anyway. It was more of a biography that is all over the place, how can you turn that into a sitcom?

It also didn't help that it was on Fox.

And, if it helps, the 30-and-up gauge needles slide in like butter.

Ok Mytocles description was bad enough (I freak at the blood sample I give once a year), but the above comment is making my arms itch. :oops:

Yikes. Leaving your kit behind is kind of scary. And the thought of someone shooting themself with a needle is making me cringe. It isn't that big of a deal for just a night though right?

And why would you let someone like that get you mad? That's what he goes for.

Well, it looks like OO's got a hockey league going.  

http://www.octopusoverlords.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15691

Must I jump to the dark side to take part?  Will there be a CG league to save me?

I would come over to the dark side here to do another league. I am not really a regular though, wouldn't want to take a spot away from someone who is.

I was watching a thing on cheetahs recently and the mother was burying a fresh kill for later. So I would guess, wet food, which cats love, is something your cat doesn't want to lose, unlike the dry food, which is the equivalent to grass for her.

One ticket is different than many tickets. I would think that a judge is going to see that someone is a repeat offended/non-payer and wouldn't give him a break at all. I don't believe it's legal to ignore tickets and then suddenly want to fight them all at once.

Seattle of course.

And I stopped by CG just to read your impressions Starshifter. Where are they?!