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I'm not ashamed to admit that I eventually turned the difficulty down on DWG. Because if you think Amuro's levels are tough, wait until you do Kamille's. I had Amuro's done before lunch, and thought that with the rest of the day, I'd have plenty of time to play through Official with two more pilots and get the Achievement. It took five or six attempts to finish Kamille's third mission, and another seven or eight to finish his final one. The one good thing about failing in this game is that you keep any experience, both pilot and MS (but no parts) that you got before you were killed. So even when you lose, you can still get two or three pilot levels and the occasional MS level, and that is sometimes the extra power you need to win the next time.

Super Dimension Chinese Restaurant Nyan Nyan.

Especially Jade Empire.

The entire game has "Fields" that need to be captured (it's not quite as simple as regular Dynasty Warriors where you can just run around the map chasing the enemy generals). Sometimes it's as easy as killing a certain number of enemies, but just as often you'll have to kill a stronger guard, or even an enemy ace. Capturing fields gives strategic advantages like a bonus to units holding adjacent allied fields, but sometimes it's necessary to capture a particular field to get an enemy ace to start moving or something similar. The first space level I played was a little disorienting at first, but the thing to remember is that while your suit and the enemies are animated as if flying in space, it's all on a level plane, and plays like it's on the ground. The game's not getting very good reviews, but so far, I'm loving it. I'm doing Official mode with Amuro and the RX-78, and I've completed the first three missions. The Battle of Solomon was especially fun, what with Gato and Ridden showing up. For those unfamiliar with the game, there are two main modes, Official and Orignial. Official allows you to play through a Gundam story mostly as it happened in the anime, and only with suits from the correct series. For example, for Amuro, you pilot the RX-78, your allies are GMs and the occasional Guncannon, and your enemies are Zakus, Goufs, Doms, Z'Goks, Rick Doms, and Gelgoogs. The missions I've completed were Odessa, Jaburo, and Solomon, with A Baoa Qu being next (and probably last). Original Mode, on the other hand, is an all-new story where pilots and mobile suits from different Gundam shows all wind up on some mysterious planet. My only complaint about the game would be that there really aren't that many mobile suits in the game, something like 18 total playable suits (and of those, two of them are Gundam Mk IIs and three of them are Quebeleys). The selection is pretty solid, but it doesn't follow UC past ZZ Gundam (and even then, it would have been nice to have more of the ace suits like the Bawoo, Quin Mantha, or Palace Athene), so no suits or stories from Char's Counterattack (no Nu Gundam ), F91, or Victory. Similarly, there's only one or two suits each from Wing, G, and Turn A, and nothing from X, SEED, or SEED Destiny. It's understandable that they maybe didn't want to create too many stages for too many Official stories, but I don't see why they couldn't have crammed more in Original (especially when regular Dynasty Warriors has, what, like 40+ generals to play as). Well, there's always hope for a sequel. I have no idea how the game will do Stateside, but I understand it sold pretty well in Japan and even helped move some PS3s.

C'mon, Hurin. You know there's nothing we love better than battying at these boards. If we're going to have a D&D thread, it's got to be to complain about how much we hate the new edition a year before it's even out.

I'm not a Magic player, so I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that each new Magic set can be used in a deck with cards that go all the way back to the original? I think the thing that's getting D&D players all fired up is the fact that, at $30-40, most of us have hundreds of dollars tied up in 3rd and 3.5 edition books. I myself have invested about $575, and some of them I just bought, like Drow of the Underdark. And now Wizards is telling me to shelve them all and start over from scratch on a new system that, if it's like Sagas, I don't even like.

If you can find the number, great. If not, It's not a huge deal. I have a magazine that that's advertising the free Blu-ray deal with a copy of the order form at the bottom, and if you read the fine print, it says 8-10 weeks. I've got another month before I should really start worrying.

You know I picked up the first A.C.E, thought it was so-so, and then picked up the second A.C.E, but didn't get around to it until just this week (just finished the atmospheric re-entry mission where Altron's the boss). I'm really enjoying it. I'm hoping to get through it quickly since I've got the new Tiger Woods, Dynasty Warriors Gundam, and Metroid Prime 3 to be playing, but I'm definitely going to get A.C.E 3 when it hits.

Okay, not to interrupt all this Bioshock talk, but did anyone besides me pick up the new Tiger Woods? 'Cuz I'm up for a few holes if anyone's interested. And if you have the Xbox Live Vision camera, you can actually put your own face on your golfer instead of tweaking facial settings until you get something close enough.

You've never seen the anime(s)? I'm picking it up too, but I'm grabbing it for 360. Achievements, ho!

And a new episode this Wednesday night. Kids these days. They just don't get how an 8-bit character selling his pass to the premiere of E.T. (to M. Night Shymalan no less) to have money for strippers is funny.

Apparently, the forums over at Wizards have two threads, one for those excited for 4th, and one for people to complain about 4th. Guess which one has more replies? My friend over there told me that, as of this morning, there was maybe 20 in the pro, and over 100 in the negative.

I don't remember exactly when I bought my PS3; it was before I went on any interviews in Cleveland, though, and the first one I remember was July 25th. Also, it was definitely a Saturday, so I'm thinking either the 14th or 21st. But the point is, I'm still waiting on my Blu-rays.

Really? MGS is one of the few Japanese games where I've been totally satisfied with the voice acting. David Hayter is Solid Snake, as far as I'm concerned.

You played through the game, and got over half the game's achievements, and you think that's too generous? I think the opposite. I'm sick of games that want you to play hundreds of matches online with racist, sexist, prepubescent smacktards or replay a game long after it stops being fun (and like I have time to replay games anymore) to get achievements.

I think I'm in that whole "white is the new black" crowd. The last piece of electronics that I bought that was black when I had an option was my iPod (and even then, for some reason, I still prefer the black ones). White DS Lite, white MacBook, white Wii, and loving it.

All I found at my Wal-Mart was "Space Transformers," which was NOT Space Gandam V.

If it doesn't suck. Gundam doesn't have the most consistent track record. AEUG vs. Titans, Battle Royale, and Climax UC were all great games. Zeonic Front, Crossfire, and Journey To Jaburo, not so hot.

I'm a fan... but I'm a bigger Tiger Woods fan. And a bigger Gundam fan. So I have to get Dynasty Warriors Gundam and Tiger Woods 08 first. *sigh* Bored all summer, broke come winter...

If you like Halo that much, just get the Halo edition. You can upgrade the HDD seperately, and it'll cost about the same as the Elite. And you won't be losing anything, because the Halo edition ought to have the HDMI out. What's more, unless you download A LOT from the Marketplace (I've had mine for nearly two years, and I've filled maybe 4GB), you might find the bigger HDD unnecessary.

Yeah, I've always kind of thought of AD&D as being needlessly complicated. Of course, in a few years 4th edition players are going to be saying the same thing about 3rd...

Yeah, these are some of my favorite designs. The SW-XA1, IMHO, is much nicer than the VF-0, kinda like a refined VF-1. And the SW-XAII is like everything good about the VF-19 and none of the bad. My only gripe is the goofy canards.

Yeah, I think I found most of the magazine scans, but the plain gifs of the SW-XA1 in Battroid I didn't have.

I'm the same way. I have a Logitech one that I bought for Tie Fighter, and that's about it. I got the Ace Combat 5 bundle, but playing with a flight stick seemed weird after learning to play the games with a Dual Shock since Ace Combat 2.

Screw 4th edition. I like 3rds artwork, and I can't stand World of Warcraft's cartoony crap. And while I'm not necessarily fond of Greyhawk as a whole for a campaign setting, it has the simplest core cosmology and pantheons. Eberron has a few ideas I liked, like the action point system and the Warforged race, but the setting as a whole is my least favorite. I'm all for a streamlining of the rules, but if it's like Sagas, it goes too far. Not to mention, I've invested a fortune in 3rd and 3.5 books. I don't really feel like investing in a new, inferior system, especially when all the good stuff from the Complete series is likely to be left by the wayside. *sighs* I started playing with 3rd, and I always thought the people who clung to AD&D were like dinosaurs who couldn't get with the times. Now I know how they feel. And for all my complaining, since they're releasing one core book a month starting next May or June, I'll probably wind up picking them up even while I try to complete my collection of 3rd and 3.5 books.