Crystalis on the NES (and GBA if you want to get technical).

Now that was a game ahead of its time.

Here's another classic:


(love the names on this one)

Tim, go again, your screenshot for the FF1 Ogre is busted. (http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/ff1/screens/ogre.jpg)

anyone? Need a hint?

Went and saw this Sunday morning and damn was it funny. Utterly hilarious spoof on the way we blatantly go about our dead-end jobs and do the same thing over and over and over again with no clear reward other than to sit on the couch and play games. It's great on so many levels because it does turn very, very serious later on, but along the way there is just so much side-splitting humor it's a great ride. The long tracking shots of Shaun going to the local grocer are great, but watching the second one of these I was just dying laughing. This is a great time, people, and I'd suggest everyone try and catch this in theaters as soon as you can. Big thumbs up from me.

Yup. Won tix from a shop I frequent, preview screening 2 weeks ago. Peed laughing. It's tagline says it all : a romantic comedy. With Zombies.

I just wanted to make those items clear before we move forward.  Don't worry...there won't be any McGriddle madness on the site, you have my word.

I think McGriddles killed Dr. Atkins.

Uh, I found out how to open any new link in a new tab in Firefox:

It's called the middle mouse button.

The only thing that won't work on are Java based links and a few rare instances in general. Other than that, the middle mouse button is your friend.

K you missed the point.
I wanted ALL new windows, regardless of user triggered or NON to come up in the same instance. This does it for you. All of your listed exceptions are included. *That*, my friend, was the point.

Here we go:

"God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!"
"Slugs."
"Slugs! HE created slugs! They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?"

Ah... post-Monty Python ... Time bandits, if I'm not mistaken? Dammit, my next quote was going to come from A Fish Called Wanda... too close to this though... how about :

"A number of times, the only thing that kept me out of a satin box was that I could size up the other guy maybe half a second quicker than he could me."

I've known about, and have been using, Firefox for about 3 months (I've shied away from previous mozilla versions for compatibility issues, etc...). Firefox is nice and all, but it's tabbed browsing was fundementally flawed....

See, If I'm going to have multiple tabs, I wanted ALL my new windows to open up in tabs, not new window iterations. The automatic new window calls would still create multiple firefox instances and drove me up the wall.

So I went back to IE (where it's a given) and Slimbrowser (and IE shell), which did tabbing right.

I've consistantly checked for tab browsing extension and hadn't found any that addressed my concern ... until now.

Tabbrowser Preferences check it out... best ever.

[ I didn't add to the original firefox post ... it's too bloated to revive. This is just a recommendation for a specific extension ]

Oh I completely agree to this, but if it's actually a decent update to the hardware then I'm wondering whether I should rent the set and update my box. While I'm not surprised that Microsoft would slip something like this out there, it does annoy me that they don't let everyone know. You'd think with all the lawsuits filed against them over the years, they'd learn the value of warning labels. Go figure.

This isn't the first game to do this; since they technically own the software on your xbox (it is a license agreement) it is well within their rights to maintain it.

It's not the answer you're looking for, but what can you do? <shrug> It *IS* their IP. (intellectual property)

Not quite. Greedo shoots first in the new edition as well, and Han just sort of... twitches. It looks stupid beyond reason, but can't be helped, since this was George Lucas' vision.

On the positive side, at least "Han stepping on Jabba's tail" scene looks pretty normal.

Vision, like the mind, deteriorates with time. He's had almost 30 years to change something he DELIBERATELY put into the movie. The man is a rogue; he smuggles and deals business with lead-pipe cruelty. Couldn't he just leave it alone?

Lucas, stop picking at it... it'll just get infected.

Just the important bits....
115 Miiillion dollas!  Good LORD that's a whole lotta money....

For a release set of 3 movies (boxed), 3 individual movies, all from the series that has grossed over a billion dollars in US ticket sales alone (over 250Million in 1977!!) I'm not really surprised at this number; when you consider the market footprint of 250million people (US) and how many people the franchise has touched, it's almost disappointing.

IF this number includes game sales AND DVD in the same total, it's kind of lame. Think about it... ~50US per game, and a PS2 /XBOX /PC gaming footprint of 50Million .... 115Mill adds up to ~5% of owners buying that game. I mean, Fable (a hit game for one of the smaller markets) has made over 18Million US in the last week.  They sold 350,000+ units in a market that sits at less than 20 million... that's more than 10%.

I wasn't one of those people who bought it; I'd like the version where Han wasn't robbed of his roguish nature. (Lemme guess, in the new one the bartender shoots first, Greedo gets a shot off, and then poor Han is just defending himself).  :roll:

"North by Northwest".

thanks. Now post a new quote.

Anyone up for some CG/GG action on Burnout 3 on Live tonight? Turnout last Wednesday was pretty good for a while...had 6-8 people the entire time.

Who's in, and what time?

I'll host if we get enough people.

Mike

I'll try to get in. What time?

Moved to Multiplayer Gaming as suggested.

now, about pulling all the other peoples posts into one..

IN!

[8.5]

Another review:

http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox/792/XMen-Legends/p1

8.5

It's IN! my rental column... I mean hey, Dynasty Warriors 4 got the same score, and it's addictive like heroin. Imma big fan of 4 player mayhem, sooo, there's a good chance this will end up in my collection.

In the IGN review they mentioned that all the characters are fleshed out very well, with exception to cyclops. There's a reason for that; he's a frickin' cardboard cutout. Even the *COMICS* couldn't make him interesting.

Unless John or Bob is in some way trademarked.
What about Bob?
Being John Malkovitch?
Guess those are out.  I like Zazen...my character.

Now, what I don't understand is this... how many effen names can people come up with? People tend not to be creative, and taking away their ability to select a name their comfortable with is really extreme.

I understand some of the points they make, but not everyone wants a Z, three H's and at least one goddamned apostrophe in their name.

I mean, FFXI got stupid with how many Sefearoth, Sepharoth, Dr4g0nzB4LL4U!!!11!oneone!!2, etc, but mandating that your name can't contain violence in a game who's premise is medevil violence is kind of stupid, don't ya think? Everyone ingame caries a cutting, stabbing, piercing or bludgeoning tool on them. But no names based on violence. Right.

I guess OgreCleaver or Brainbasher aren't what my first picks will be, however I have no interest in being in the following party either:

Zan'du
Zan'deedee
DuZan42
Zanduncan
Philip002112

"Hey Zan, how's it going?"
80% of the party replies "STFU, noobzzz"

You can offer guidelines, or you can drive people off. I understand they don't want their game to be tarnished by the unwashed masses, however they WANT the unwashed masses money.

They better have one hell of a name generator; I have no intention of selecting my own name to get kicked out. Seriously,  I was known as Stabbetty in FFXI on the Phoenix server; I'd like to be able to keep that name.

I guess I'll see all of you online in WoW. I'll be John102Zan334. See you then.
 :roll:  :twisted:

Yea, we should put a cap on that.  Lemme see if I can drum up some giveaways.

... empty chinese food containers do *NOT* constitute a giveaway prize ...
Could you swing a Half-Life 2 release?

Grosse Pointe Blank?

Yep. One of my favorite movies. I was going to post the Poodle-popper line, but that can be taken WAY outta context.

Slim, the previous part to that quote would have made it that much easier.

it was that, or

Hi. I'm, uh, I'm a pet psychiatrist. I sell couch insurance. Mm-hmm, and I - and I test-market positive thinking. I lead a weekend men's group, we specialize in ritual killings. Yeah, you look great! God, yeah! Hi, how are you? Hi, how are you? Hi, I'm Martin Blank, you remember me? I'm not married, I don't have any kids, and I'd blow your head off if someone paid me enough.

See ? I told you I didn't see it. Hell, I got the wrong movie title.. LOL

K. A quote, eh?

"And I came up over this dune, and I saw the ocean... and it was on fire. The whole thing on fire; andit was beautiful. So I just sat there and watched it, and that's when I realized there might be a meaning to life, you know, like an organic power that connects all living things, God, Jahwe, I dunno. "

Hey forum admins... how about shoring this up into one giagantic post, and moving it to multiplayer as a sticky thread?

Must be a seasonal movie if you expect us to watch it yearly. I doubt it's Christmas vacation or Scrooged (I'd remember a line like that). The only other two I can think of would be Miracle on 34th st or it's a wonderful life.

(I've only seen Miracle once, doubt it's in there, and never watched a wonderful life, but it's on a goddamned lot in december. I keep seeing advertising for them eating at a chinese resteraunt or something. )

I'm enjoying it sofar. It only came out today, and I want to run back downstairs and play more .... [Purge restrains himself] ... gotta get some sleep.

[sigh] Damned career.

I was online for 4 hours yesterday; hosting games. (RoadRage)

God I love EA. Way to take something that works and Eff it up.

14 dropped players, 3 frozen players, 8 game crashes (where everyone was kicked out of the game, and right outta live), 4 hard crashes trying to go online again; it crashed my Xbox to a lovely black screen. Not just my xbox, but at least one other user. This is *after* they applied a fix. :roll:  It seems to happen more in primetime... later in the night the problems reduced (although never really went away)


Maybe on the load screens, rather than asking if I've played "X" track or use boost, to instead ask :
"Have you rebooted yet? EA Online offers exciting powerbutton interaction with your hardware devices"


new advertising suggestion : EA - Crash Everything.  :twisted:

Hey man, more laws means less rights.  Besides its not like the dead person cares right?  

You're going to hell. I'll save you a seat on the bus, buddy.

I'm glad I could help.   :twisted:

 :roll: Trust me, you're not.  :?

lol ... we used to LAN on Quake...
"Meet me in the brown room, with the water!"

This game looks amazing though. The one problem with the article that I take issue with is that doom3 had a horror feell. I call bullshit. The first hour - 3 hours did, the last 7 were just repetitive "action".

Let's hope Q4 can stand taller than it's older brother.

It would seem I'm going to be spending MORE money, come February.

I've been too busy unlocking cars. No live aware, and I hate the "connecting to EA" thing, and then everyone was offline, even though on the dashboard *and* on the live notifications on my MSN Messenger said people were playing. <sigh>

Looks like I'm not the only one with EA network problems.

ingrin, time to start grinding up aspirin and selling it on the streets in little plastic baggies.

I'm not sure about this though... DOAUltimate, MK:Deception... tough call.

/raises hand :twisted:

You realize they're talking about 'real' dead people, not just a disinterested spouse, right?

Not to get lost in the quagmire of old posts.

POST your clipboard entry. Now. Don't look for something cool, just PASTE.
 

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RDM build of an IBM 335x server. Joy.  :?

Is it just me, or does the first pick kinda look like the guy on the left is doiing the chattanoogie boogie?

And the Skaarj shot looks like a commercial "by Mennen".

DarkEl you're up.

there *IS* a towel there.
Just pointing that out.

here's a few:

(said by the guy on the left)
"NO! I said I want 'a relief pitcher' ... not a relief, pitcher"
"Christ your hands are cold!"

(said by the guy on the right)
"So, um, I guess you're pitching, and *I'm* catching?"
"IN!" (couldn't resist)

1) Spiderman 2: Got a LOT of praise, and then suddenly a lot of criticism... How is it after the hype?

The game is well developed; it's just that the free-roaming missions only have several variants. 1) guy on ledge 2) person who needs to go to hospital. 3) kid's balloon (can't use webbing) 4) gang vs person 5) gang vs spidey (person is a decoy, they apologize) 6) bank robbery 7) save people from boat.  There's also a few swing through rings and beat-the-clock missions, and I might have missed one or two other generic battles. It's pretty easy to get tired of it (GTA was the same for me). for <20 used, it's a good purchase. Full price? Nuh-uh.

2) Burnout 3: I have PGR2, and I'm not much of a race fan. Crashing however, sounds like a lot of fun. Is it fun on split-screen?

Dunno yet; I get mine today. :evil:

3) Beyond Good and Evil: Still haven't bought this one, but it seems like a short game...

I'm underqualified to answer this one; I've not played it. BG&E is well loved in these forums and with reviewers. It can't hurt to try it; you might even be able to pick up a used copy.. I haven't seen too many of these in the used games places. I'm not much for platform games so I wouldn't be buying it.

4) Fable

Ask me next week; I'm buying it for better or for worse. I love Pete's sandbox games so I'm sure my creativity for mischief in the world of Albion will yield a truckload-o-laughs.

On another note: Would Doom3 run on a AMD 1.2 Ghz with a Geforce Ti4400 and 512 MB RAM?

I don't see why not( you may have to overclock to 1.5Ghz, I don't remember the exact base requirement), but you're going to have to turn down everything that made Doom3 impressive. The game itself is basically survival horror for the first 2-3 hours, and then it shifts down into a mindless "oo, ammo... I wonder which walls will slide open to reveal imps who have been waiting tirelessly for some idiot to come by and grab it?" Over, and over, and over and over again. Once you get to that point, only the hell levels will impress you with their design. The traps? Same old, same old. If you're patient enough, wait for the Xbox version to come out  (no hardware worries, coop, get the same toned down graphics, etc..)

And a final question: I have Hunter: the Reckoning. I bought it cheap for coop-play, but me and my buddy don't like it. Are the other RPG-lite games the same? D&D Heroes, BG... ?

Hunter is kinda lame, I would recommend Baldurs Gate 2 or Lord of the Rings : Return of the King before playing another hunter game. Once again, use trade-ins and used copies to keep your cost down.

My problem with Mr. M's games are typically that they are one-trick ponies.  You can train your creature....and now I'm taking it away from you.  Now you have it back, but you've probably gotten bored by now.  Have fun!

Well, Molyneaux had better games in the past that were more than "one trick ponies" (in my mind at least):

1. Populous
2. Syndicate
3. Dungeon Keeper

Obviously 1 and 3 also include the sequels.  I think Molyneaux's reputation has been tarnished by Black and White (I liked the game, although I understand people's qualms with it) and he needs it back with Fable and the upcoming Movies and B+W 2.[/

Isn't Peter also responsible for the awesome Magic Carpet series as well?  Hes got a great track record.  And you have to give him props on innovation on B&W.

He was also responsible for Theme Park & Theme Hospital. Oh, and BC is also coming out from the other satellite studio.

Actually, there is a Syndicate 2; it uses a 3d model system that allows moderate terrain damage, (ala satellite strike, etc) and is about as hard as the American Revolt addon for Syndicate. (3.5 out of 4 on the "kicked in the jimmies" scale)

I'm not sure how much involvement Peter had at the time;l think this was a release just months before he left the EA family to build Lionhead.

With Mortal Kombat coming (watch the video on the OXM disk) and all the other fighting games (capcom VS, street fighter special ed, DOA Ultimate, Guilty Gear XX) Def Jam looks to be coming up short.

I dunno, it didn't wow me.

1.  Ninja Gaiden
2.  Beyond Good and Evil
3.  Riddick
4.  Crimson Skies
5.  Full Spectrum Warrior

I'd be cruising for cheap used titles; this holiday is gonna rape your wallet.

I'd give up the FSW and just rent it first. Try both the arcade and hidden army versions, and decide if you want to spend the time in that game.

Giving up a game and getting Live isn't a bad idea either; that gets you mechassault free and gives BIG legs to crimson skies.

Check out a used Dynasty Warriors 4 if you like beat-em up combat against hundreds of enemies... the game has legs even though the graphics are a bit dated (40+ characters with their own stories). Otogi is definately good and falls in the same vein; it has significantly better graphics although it doesn't have the heroin addictiveness that is injected into most KOEI games (DW4 included).

A fun quirky party game would go to Kung Fu Chaos; a wildly underrated game that is funny and challenging. It's got a platformer feel to it; even if it's very rigid in terms of exploration. The multiplayer (up to 4 people) is a blast, especially if you've unlocked all the levels.

I highly recommend Ninja Gaiden. If you *need* a platform game Vexx is alright; it has it's moments. Plus it's dirt cheap. There's a Sonic game if Rings is what you need.

Burnout3 isn't a racing game; it's a vehicle combat game like Carmageddon. Try it, buy it, enjoy.

Riddick is good, Halo is better.I found Riddick to have some good times, but it's over SO quickly.If you have any friends with Xbox, borrow their halo. Oh, and play co-op mode; it's the best there is.

As far as spiderman2 is concerned; the PC version was horrid. The console version is excellent. Once again, borrow from a friend, until you get tired of saving stupid roofworkers from falling.

Developed on a parallel path with the Xbox version, the PC version of Full Spectrum Warrior includes a number of game enhancements and features specific to the PC version -- including 2 Bonus Levels, enhanced texture and graphic resolution and an intuitive keyboard/mouse control scheme that has been optimized for PC gamers.

So it's still the handicapped version that no one wants to play. Had they developed the army version more I could have seen enjoying it more. The arcade version was WEAK.  :evil:

Shields over head = untouchable       ? WTF is that? No dismantling tango weapons, one-stop all healed medivac stations... sheesh.. I sent Bravo squad down a green warp tube to get a jump on Osama Bin Bowser.   :?

I picked up Clerks X and Rounders SE.  I don't know why but I really dig Rounders....crazy.

Got to see that in theatre for free. It was a very good movie.