Seriously, there must be another dozen Weezer songs to use, and they already got access to the new stuff!

I'd definately be in for some more Weezer.  There's a few more from the Red Album that'd be great or plenty to use from the older discs.

No Goofy, no buy.

 

That is so awesome. I wish I could pop Shawn's tacos.

Dude...she's 16!

Damn technicality. Only two short years before her tacos are appropriately aged.

Okay, I need to stop now.

You used the plural again.  I am starting to wonder if you know what a taco is.

Yeah, that's bush league.  Go talk to all of the pitchers who pitched 9 perfect, but didn't get credit because they got pulled for the 10th.

Well, there's only two:

Harvey Haddix in 1959
Pedro Martinez in 1995

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Perfect_game#Lost_in_Extra_Innings

However, if you go with no-hitters instead of a perfect game, there are 11 other ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_no-hitters#Nine-inning_no-hitters_broken_up_in_extra_innings


Regardless, I think the Brewers should shut up.  Let's be pros here.  They should be happy with the win and how well they're playing, not crying over lost personal accomplishments.

I'll be renting Viva Pinata 2 for the 360 and the Spore game for the DS.  I suspect we'll end up buying Viva eventually.

I believe there are pills you can take for this type of dysfunction.

Yeah, but if you have a solid written test plan, it takes care of people glossing over on things.  That should be on the test matrix for vocals and if it isn't, someone in QA needs to be fired.

Wow, relax.  Someone needs to get fired because a minor mistake was made?  It's not even a big deal- some downloadable content got delayed for a few weeks.  I think you'll live.   

I was extremely excited about this, but the IGN review dampened my spirits.  It sounds too similar to the Gamecube version(aside from the motion controls).  Even so, I have it on the way from Gamefly and am hoping to see it tomorrow to try it out for myself.

I really like the idea of this.  I do enjoy RB and GH but I also like a lot of Christian Rock as well.
Guardian was an awesome band after they broke up the lead singer would have been the new lead singer for Van Halen but his personal convictions wouldn't let him accept it. 
Also if you never heard of Whitecross they are awesome as well Rex Carol is one of the best guitarists on the planet.

Yeah I like the idea of it too.  I won't be picking this one up, but I would really enjoy some kind of GH or RB expansion with Christian music.  There's some very talented Christian rock musicians out there and the music isn't as "preachy" as some of you imagine it is. 

I really enjoyed the "no death penalty" in Bioshock.  The Big Daddy battles were much less frustrating than they would have been otherwise.  If this continues to be a trend, that'll be fine with me.

I haven't played either.  It appeals to me, but we're still trying to spend more time playing other games I have sitting here like Agricola and Hamburgum.  I'll definitely have the TtR Card game on my Christmas list, so I suppose I can give you my impressions in about 4 more months.

Congrats!  Cultural victories appeal to me the most, as I'd prefer to never fight and just quietly build wonders and manage my cities.  But I don't think I've had more than 1 or 2 in all the time I've played, it seems like it always is easier to go for the space race victory.

Now in CivRev, cultural victories are far easier and it takes more work to get the tech victory.

Should we also have a holiday for the thieves who steal someone elses bandwith like that?   Show them for what they really are?

Do you do this 'I'm gonna be a contrarian Ogre' act for a schtick or is this how you really are?

No this is how I really feel about people who steal the bandwith others are paying their hard earned money for.   Its not a act or anything like that, just making a comment, my appologies if doing so offended you in some way that you will never recover from.

Why are you here?  You are not awesome today.

Why am I here?   One reason is I know how much it bothers you and others like you that I dare to post here and am allowed to do so.   Anything that bothers the trolls is a good thing.

BrettMCD, I forgot all about you!!!  I'm relatively new at GT and this is the first time I've seen you about. 

I guess you haven't changed much, this is the kind of thing I remember you doing before.  I guess you must a kick out of being "controversial".  If it helps you get some satisfaction, then good for you I guess.

The microsoft point system is DESIGNED so that you WASTE money. The micro-transactions want you to have leftover points, so you feel this need to buy more points, and repeat the cycle. I think in the year I've been buying rock band DLC, I've had exactly 0 points left once. By the time all is said and done, I figure 90% of xbox live users will be abandoning 50c to $1.00 worth of points by the wayside. If not more.

If I abandon a few $$$ at the end of the my XBox360 days...I think I'll manage to survive.

And honestly, what you are saying doesn't make sense.  If I have leftover points, like say 100, I realize I can't spend them on anything.  And that makes me want to buy more...but so would having 0 points.  The only effect at all is at the end of the line, and honestly losing a dollar or two doesn't seem like such a big deal.

well fuck MS's stupid ass moon point system. i have 820 points(thanks to braid and their shitty system) and the price is 10.99 instead of 10. wtf balls, that's 860 points. wtf is this shit?

yeah, now i gotta wait a week for pay day and by that time i'll have IU and probably won't be touching rb until 2. a resounding stick up their ass at this stupid pricing scheme.

/bitter

Can anyone translate this?  What is he so upset about?

Eel Snave, I also had a Wii and DS at one point as well and kept telling myself there was no reason for me to get a 360.  In Feb, I caved in and I only wish I had done it sooner!!  It's been fun to try out games I had never gotten to play, and Rock Band has been awesome as well!  I don't play M-rated stuff much either(although Bioshock was a worthwhile exception!), but there's lots of other neat games.  Heck, the LIVE arcade content almost justifies the console on its own.

As for a monthly fee for LIVE, we're talking about $3.50 a month, that should be the least of anyone's worries.

*cough*http://www.gamingtrend.com/News/news.php?NewsID=12300*cough*

You should get that cough checked out.

Great news, I almost certainly will grab Wings of War when it eventually releases.

I wish I could understand football.  Football seems like the sport which is best suited to a console translation but I just have no friggen idea what is going on!  I can't understand what the plays mean so I just choose one and then I have no idea what happens to the football after the snap-sometimes I think my runner has it when the quarterback actually faked and sometimes I think the quarterback has it when  he actually passed it off to the runner.  How can you beat any game where you keep faking yourself out?

 

I am having a hard time comprehending, your post is akin to someone telling me they don't understand why 1+1=2.  I can understand not understanding all the options and what the different defenses mean. But to be clueless about football just doesn't seem possible!!!

Here in the thumb of Michigan its been a perfect summer weather wise.  Every day pretty much has been 75-80 and it rains every couple of days, so my lawn is looking amazingly awesome.  I think we've run the air maybe three times all year and that's only because it was sort of humid.  It's been amazingly great.

Pretty much every day I keep telling everyone what great summer weather this has been.  I can't help myself.

woah boys, slow down. don't stale the genre up now. PQ sold well because it was something new and addictive. keep giving us the same thing and it'll turn into madden and the other crappy sport games.

I think they're safe doing a few similar type games if they feel they can improve upon PQ.  Calling out Madden comparisons already doesn't really make sense.  When we're on Puzzle Quest 10, then that might hold some water.

Heh.  I was wondering when someone would mention shooters; I thought of it moments after starting the thread and I've only recently got into them as well.  I think it won't be long before I get Bioshock.

Absolutely get Bioshock.  I'm not even a huge fan of shooters, but Bioshock is one of my favorite games of all time.

Yup, and it does not include the 1910 Mega Game.  600pts for the Europe map.

Man, that's a little steep I think.  400 points for the expansions would be fair.  That said, I suppose I won't let a 200 point difference stop me from buying the Europe map, BUT I'M NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. 

My very first game of Pacifism I got 53,000,000 points.  Since then I've played about a hundred games and haven't gotten more than 6 million. 

I have no idea how I wracked up such a score on my first try. Beginner's luck I guess.

Anyway, GW:E2 is well done and I love the various modes- Pacifism and King are a sweet alternative to the traditional "evolved" play.

If it is, I'm out.  I enjoy XBLA, but $10 has been my limit so far. I even waited for Puzzle Quest to drop before buying it.  (Although in hind sight, it would have been worth $15.)

[Gratch]

+1 to Gratch for NWN:Diamond and Majesty

This post reads like total bullshit to me, but on the off-chance it isn't, here's some advice: grow a pair. Jesus, your post reads like a 15 year old wrote it. Instead of looking for an out to be able to do this (do you really believe that your wife would be fine with this?), man up and ask yourself what you really want. Do you love your wife enough to withstand the enticements of an obvious slut? You want to sleep with her? So what, that just means your equipment all works. Good for you, now you can either dump your wife for the hoochy or try to make it work.

+1

There are some older PC games I'd like to acquire:

Neverwinter Nights
Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Majesty
Diablo 2 expansion

I have older stuff of my own to swap:

Dawn of War
Railroad Tycoon 3
Age of Mythology Gold
Homeworld
Heroes V: Tales of the East
Age of Empires 3: Warchiefs
Undying

Wish I had $45

Thanks for letting us know!!!

And they completely fumbled the AC ball.   This was the title many of the hard core Nintendo fans like myself was most looking forward to.    Now it's just an empty shell of a repeat.    Pathetic.

Ugh, what a lousy way to start my day.  I was looking forward to it too, but I can't say I'm very thrilled to buy the same game again.

PM sent.

But you get to the crux of the problem - deadlines for reviews. While they make sense for print mags - this is the internet. While a game is compelling enough for me to see through to the end is easy to recommend, it's difficult to recommend a lot of games because of the late game problems they run into.

Really, I think the crux of the problem is the pay.  Whether someone is doing reviews for a living or for side income, they still probably want to make as much money as they can.  Based on what CSL said above, it sounds like a reviewer might be paid something like $100 for a review.  Suppose that's conservative and we say the average paid reviewer gets $200 per game, then can we really expect them to play 60 hours(or more) and make a whopping $3.33 an hour? And heaven help the poor bastards who had to review Baldur's Gate II.

I can't blame reviewers for not finishing games, and if its standard practice anyway then they should come out and say so.  Reviews should be more like "extended impressions".  The problem there is that some reviewers would be honest and admit they only played about half way through and others would still act like they finished the game.

I think the pictures are pretty cool, but they are sort of misleading probably due to the viewing angle.  Mars has a diameter of 6800km compared to Earth's 12800, so Mars should be a little more than half as tall(and wide) as the Earth. 

Blame your own eyes, in the picture mars height is about 55% of the earth's height, which is about right. Yeah, I counted pixels.

I wasn't saying that it was wrong, it just doesn't "look" 55% as tall.  At least not to me. 

I think the pictures are pretty cool, but they are sort of misleading probably due to the viewing angle.  Mars has a diameter of 6800km compared to Earth's 12800, so Mars should be a little more than half as tall(and wide) as the Earth.  Now it does look right width wise, but height wise it makes Mars seem tinier than it is.

Anyway, its still a real neat way to put the S.S. in perspective.

I'm on my third game right now on the 360 and I think they did a really great job with it.  Sure,  its fast paced, but I like it as a reasonably quick alternative to Civ IV. It is a little weird at times because they've brought back some concepts from Civ II(Leonardo's Workshop, for one), but I like it. I imagine I'll play the heck out of it this summer and then probably return to Civ IV at some point. 

I guess the limitation is to keep the leaderboards fair, but at the very least they should let you save the GOTW with a "this will disqualify your leaderboard score" disclaimer.

I'm sure you're right.  If you could save, then you undo every bad move/combat and really optimize your score.   This way, you can learn from  your mistakes, but its going to require to start the game over entirely. I don't  think this is a bad idea for a leaderboard type thing.

This morning she wanted to take a shower with me. I'm getting to the point where I think she's almost too old to be taking showers with Dad, so I told her that I thought she should take one by herself.

 

almost too old?  Wow, I thought my girls were too old by the time they were 3.  Dang.  Everyone's different I guess.

Anyway, hang in there.  Our youngest, also 6, is pretty explosive as well.  Very similar to what you are describing.  It seems like I've developed a feel for when are the right times to be strict(grounding her, isolating to her room, etc.) and when are the right times to be more lenient and try to talk her through whatever is setting her off.  Anyway, it seems to be working as her behavior is improving.

I've been playing BTS off and on for the last few months, I was shocked to see that I using 3.03!! So, I grabbed this to catch up a bit. 

I also noticed the announcement for Civ 4: Colonization.  That might be old news, but it was new to me and I don't think I could be more excited!  I know Colonization never was the hit that Civ was, but I adored that game. 

You've never heard of Shenmue or The Getaway?  I'm guessing you don't play console games at all or follow the industry in-depth.

Yes what kind of a rock have you been living under if you don't know of Shenmue? 

I play console games and I don't live under a rock and I haven't heard of either.  Just because you're familar with something doesn't mean its common knowledge to the rest of the world. 

Picked up the full game after seeing the movie this weekend (great film) and seeing good reviews (including GT).  A lot of fun so far, though I've only played the demo level.

One question:  Am I missing something or is there no way to replay levels other than to start the game over?

On the level load screen you can push left and right to switch between levels.  However, this might only become available after defeating the game.  I had the same question as you and only noticed the arrows that indicate to push left or right after finishing the game.  Maybe they were there all along.

Anyway, its a fun little game, but it only takes about 3-4 hours to finish.  I was going to replay it again on the hardest difficulty, but I couldn't get fired up about it.  So I sent it back to Gamefly.

Well I hope things turn out for the best, whatever that might be.