Wanzerfan

Okay, I'm now in the London base where you talk to your sqadmates. I've so far found James Vega, Garrus Vakarian, and Kaiden Alenko. I can understand why I can't find EDI, Liara, and Javik, since they're most likely with Admiral Anderson, but Tali'Zorah? I've scoured every meter of that area and couldn't find her anywhere. I would like to find her before I contact my former squad members via hologram, because once you do that, most of the people you talked to disappear (namely Kaiden and Vega). I just need a little help here.

Tiger would.

Tiger would do, as it was proved, just about anything wearing a skirt.

I have yet to see the Kit and Kat episode all the way through. I might just do that today when I access it On Demand.

Jesus, the new generals are actually more vicious than Mumm-Ra hinted at. Any crime that Mumm-Ra would find deplorable must be really bad. Atticus is a sadistic, bloodthisty brute who fights just because there's a confict there, oh, and he likes to eat his opponents. The Jackalman General is a pure psychopath who who's in it just for the thrill of the kill. I say sic Lobo on thier asses, since he's probably the only one who can get the job done (Lobo may be a psychopath, but he's my kind of psychopath (a true party animal); I mean, which soul can actually raise Hell in heaven, and is too much for even Lucifer to handle?).

I do kinda like the designs for the Wiley twins, the tails were a nice touch. We do see the hoverboards, I wonder how long it will take for the capsules to make an appearance?

_{I don't know wether to laugh or cry.}

_{On the one hand The Four Horsemen have retuned, but on the other hand they're in McMahon's clutches.}

_{Oh, how I pray for the day that Ted Turner returns to returns to the ranks of wrestling. Jesus, do I miss TNT Nitro.}

_{By the way, the Kane and Paul Bearer question I posted was retorical, guys.}

We also already have games that are lost FOREVER because the servers have been shut down and they either used always-online copy-protection or are online-only games.

The publishers do not have our best interests at heart. Once bound to internet-connectivity, a game has a finite, and possibly extremely short, lifespan.

I can still play Combat, Mine Storm, or Parsec TODAY.

One of these games was published by a company that simply no longer exists.

One was from a company that changed hands roughly umpteen-bajillion times, most notably once to an owner that killed all video-game-related projects.

One was from a company that simply hasn't been in the video game market as more than a parts supplier in almost thirty years.

On the other end of the spectrum, Tabula Rasa was only playable by ANYONE for a little over a year.

And this is ignoring that the game you love may not be the game you will own after the next patch rolls through.

This used to be optional(on the console side, it wasn't even an OPTION), but if the game MUST be connected to a central server, it becomes mandatory. And at the same time, patches have become more and more likely to actually change your gameplay experience.

If you're new to the game, you literally CAN'T see what the game was like before you started it.

If you aren't new, well... I hope your memory is good, because we're counting on you to tell future generations what version 1.0 of World of Warcraft was like. Good or bad, it's become one of the most influential games of the last decade. Please don't let it become another Super Mario Brothers. We don't even know WHEN that came out, but it at least has the excuse of being released at a time when people were convinced video games were dead forever.

This is the future. As someone with a strong interest in the history of video games, It is not something I'm happy about.

A friend of mine got royally pissed off at EA for shutting down the servers for their older games, and now he can't get the rest of the Achievements for his Army of Two series and ohter EA games. I heard his conversation with the EA telephone operator (he had his mic on so his conversation was heard clearly by the XBL party), and let's just say more than a few f(oxtrot) you's were hurled her way. It gets even better, he got a call back from a manager at EA and he ripped into that person as well.

On that note---playing old games. If the new systems require online access etc, how long do you expect them to keep things running? If this requirement had happened long ago, do you think the Xenogears, Super Metroid, and Jet Set Radio Future servers would still be going, and could you still play an old, but much-loved game?

MS etc always argue "when Madden 2012 comes out, nobody wants to play Madden 2011".

True. But lots of games never get sequels, and aren't part of a mega-franchise like Call of Duty etc. And sometimes the new version sucks. ::cough, Ace Combat, cough:: A lot of people do want to keep playing the old games because they're still fun/the best version out there.

Hell, yeah I like playing the classics! I too like to pop in Xenogears in from time to time, and I do agree that the game is the best in the Xenosaga series.

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Ron Burgandy is one of the many reasons why I can't stand Will Farrell. The SNL Cheerleader skits really turned me off on him. And don't get me started on Elf.

At least his old man (Mike Farrell) had talent.

Okay, I found my new crack.

The Record of Agarest War series. I have both the first game (DVD) and Zero (digital downloaded to my hard drive), both games are for the 360.

I swear, the damned thing if Final Fantasy Tactics on steriods. The skill system is top notch. I love the way you can combo your foes into fine pate. The item creation and enhancement system is second to none. Inventory system isn't too cumbersome. The stroy is actually pretty good. The series definately blows the Disgaea series out of the water. The voice work, though in Japanese, is well done; thank goodness the text boxes were done in English.

I just have one complaint about the series...

The Record of Agarest War 2 is a f*cking PS3 EXCLUSIVE!!! _-|-- Compile Heart and Red!!!

I hope that some company similar to Working Designs has the balls to pay the licensing fee to make an XBox 360 build of the thing.

^{He was good. I read one of his works in a Heavy Metal magazine called "The Horny Goof". That story is difinately not for children.}

^{He will be missed.}

I'd still like to see a decent adaptation of the original graphic novel that wasn't aimed at kids. Think R-rating, psychopathic Raphael, etc.

Try psychopathic beer swilling Raphael.

If you want to get aquainted (sp.?; my spellcheck program is giving me sh*t) with the original Eastman and Laird turtles, and you don't want to pay an arm and a leg, Palladium's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness isn't a bad place to start; that's if you can stomach Siembieda's gaming system. It has in it a lot of artwork from I think Long; Eastman, and Laird, as well as a mini comic from the original duo.

Bay is definately not a Francis Ford Coppola. That man actually had book reading sessions with the cast and crew when he made "Bram Stoker's Dracula".

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Of Verhoeven or Bay, which is the shittier director.

You decide.

For me, it's a toss-up.

Okay, so I have a nasty habit of calling Japanese surnames clan names (maybe because of the clan system in feudal Japan). That doesn't mean that you guys have to rip new one verbally because of it. So let's try this again, and please keep it civil and on topic this time, so the thread doesn't get locked.

Thank the lord for the Crackle XBox live service, because I don't want to have the hassle of watching it stretched on a 22" widescreen computer moniter.

I got through to the Lynn Minmay's birthday episode, and I'm glad to say the series so far is uncut, and pretty good for a show that was released in '82. Hearing that pixie haired brunette say the word "sh*t" when Hayase Misa sent a civillian up in a Valkyrie trainer suprsed the hell out of me. And the rant Roy gave in the first episode when Hikaru pulled his stunt was, well, let's just say that the one Fokker gave in Robotech was a Catholic sermon compared to Focker's. I'm also actually gald that Gloval's "2,000 feet" altitude above the island line is no where in the script (the ship looked like it was about two klicks above the island when the drive was activated, anyway).

I'll give a full review when I get further into the series.

Now I have a question regarding the fold drive system: did it actually vanish into thin air like in Robotech, or did it just sink into the Pacific Ocean after sending The Macross, the island. et. al. to Pluto's orbit?

Thank the lord for Crackle, because they have the entire ADV dub. (I just got an XBox 360 a few weeks ago and recently downloaded the app)

I just watched the first episode a few days ago, and I have to say that the dubbing was decent so far. I also like the fact that they're showing the thing uncut so far.

My only complaints about Crackle is that they show advertisements at the most annoying moments, don't use the correct placement of the Japanese names (they use given name first, clan name last, basicly Westernizing it), and they used the Robotech titles for the episodes,.

I'll give a full review later on, when I finish the series.

Wasn't the original Kane just the Undertaker in a very lame mask? And is it just me or is Paul Bearer and Percy Pringle one and the same actor?

what's that about video games fostering increased hostility? nah, that's all rubbish, I'm sure...

TROLLOLOL!!!

that first gamer was the fun-niest. now that's how you cuss somebody out: "...f'ing play the game properly you little sh*t!"

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Now that is an example of a total douche-bag. I could understand doing that to the tank, if it was an enemy, but the jets and choppers? In those cases you should wait until they've flown for at least 15 seconds after take off to drop the hammer.

If those were all team kills, I'd hate to be that poor son of a bitch.

Well, guys, Yhatzee is at it again.

This time he reviewed both The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Saints Row: The Third. Need I say veiw at your own risk? Especially in the case of Saits Row the The Third.

Man, I use to love that show. Saw it recently again, and, well, it wasn't like Macross. Macross I think I enjoy MORE as an adult than as a kid. I don't think I can bring myself as an adult to watch more than one or two episodes of MASK. That's the beauty of anime. It's aimed for more mature, older audiences. Whereas the MAJORITY (But NOT all) of US produced cartoons are the opposite, and lack that enduring appeal. (South Park, Simpsons and even the new Thundercats are exempt).

Now, with that said, that is why I feel Nolan's take on Batman is a blueprint that other movies should follow, especially in the comic book sense. It's aimed for more mature audiences. After I saw TDK, I could NOT bring myself to watch more than a few seconds of Schumachers or Burton's Batman movies without getting annoyed at all the...cheese. For lack of a better word. The writing that caters to the lowest common denominator. I will watch TDK ten years from now, and enjoy the hell out of myself.

You can also exempt Batman the Animated Series, Exo-Squad, and, to a lesser extent, Spiral Zone as well.

Well, at least we don't have to worry about Groon for a while.

Jesus, I hope that the Ro-Bear Berbils will be able to fit Panthro with bionic replacements (I've spent way too much time playing Rifts).

For all you Modern Warfare fans, Yhatzee finally has his review for the third game.

Go here and prepare to laugh your ass off.

I'm just saying that it's hard to make a satire done right.

The only ones that I've seen that have been done right in my opinion are both the Saint's Row and Grand Theft Auto series of games. Although the Airplane series of movies does come close to doing it right without falling too far in the stupid column.

So far I really only have 2 complaints about Skyrim:

1. The "quick favorites" (left and right on d-pad) seem to be backwards/unintuitive. They don't swap between 2 sets like many RPG's. It simply replaces whatever you have with the pre-selected item. So when you're done with that item and want to go back to what you had---have to do it the long, slow way. (hitting the button again will often leave you totally unequipped, which is worse than having the wrong weapon)

2. You'll get "rock joint" every other fight with wolves. And you WILL want to have it cured immediately, unless you're a pure mage or something.

Whenever you have something in your favorites, just hit up on your D-pad and it will list all of your favorites (I don't know if this will pause the game, though), you then can re-equip from that list.

Okay, it seems that the figures in the link are going to be a mixture of the classic show and the reboot.

About the Lino-O figure in the link, he either looks pissed off enough to shove the Sword of Omens up Mumm-Ra's ass or he has constipation from hell.

^{I'll catch the latest episode soon...}

^{As soon as Comcast's On Demand stops throwing a hissy fit, that is.}

Masamune Shirow called. He wants his ORC armor design back!

Now that damed thing looks almost like one of Siembieda's Coalition States of America's grunt armor. (Next to Wayne Breaux, Kevin Long is the best artist Palladium Games has).

It seems that Siembieda's more desperate than I thought. The bastard renewed his HG Robotech license.

But yeah, anything coming down the pike would be better than Verhoeven's trilogy of drek.

Jesus, that f*cker is as about as big as Cybertron Line Starscream.

But I doubt that thing would resist Starscream's EM emitting Null Ray Cannon, though.

I'm sorry, guys, but the only good thing about Adventure Time With Finn and Jake is that Jake is voiced by the same guy who does Bender on Futurama.

"Oh, no, I'm boned."