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Sales-wise, the third Harry Potter might not have been as successful, but I thought overall that it was the best of the three.

Which number 2? The TV one? Or the movie one? I heard that the TV one was't all that great, but hell, I found it on a bittorrent site. I bought the two theater versions (plus Dark Water, which I hear is very good).

I've heard that too...it locks people's Live accounts or something. It's happening but I don't think people know how they're detecting it. Some people think it is HDD related but that doesn't seem to be the case (I've got a friend with a 120 GB HDD and he hasn't been banned). I chose to get an extra Xbox specifically for modding to avoid crap like this. I just went and got a modded PS2 instead. Everyone talks about how great the Xbox is for emulation, but I've burned myself plenty of PS2 emulators. Besides, there's more good games worth importing for the PS2. PS2 baaaah-looooowwz. i was staring at the skinny PSN last night at my local gamestore, i even had $150 in my bank account. but after pondering for a few minutes i couldn't think of one damn game i'd buy for it. theres nothing i can't live without or get a huge boner for. MGS3? *snooooore* Killzone? i heard its a mess. i got Halo 2.. FF? uh.. no thanks, I got a little game called Fable where you actually swing a sword. and GTA? most of my buddies have gotten rid of theirs cause they don't have the time or patience for it. graphics blow anyways. The Armored Core series does look very tempting and so do the Gundam games which i've played before. i love battling in space. those would be what i'd play on PS2. but unless ones given to me for free i'm gonna pass. I like Katamari too. and what controller is better than the S-controller? none my friends. and whats more fun than XBOX Live? nothing. PS2 is fine. The Ace Combat series rocks, the Onimusha series is excellent, and as a Megaman fan, the PS2 happens to be where those are at. Federation vs. Zeon was great, and since I have a modded PS2, I might was well add that AEUG vs. Titans was even better. The ZOE games are also very good, if a little (okay, a lot) short. And again, having a modded console also means I can enjoy the Macross PS2 game, as well as the classic PSone Macross VF-X2 (which I still say is the best Macross game). And while I enjoy the Xbox controller for a lot of games, I still prefer the PS2 controller for racing games and flight games. All three consoles have their strengths, and all three have their weaknesses. When you hate, you're the only one who looses.

Yeah, it is a bit on the heavy side, but AWD makes for good performance, and a stock VR4 is close to 300hp... properly tuned, and it's ever bit as fast as a Nissan Skyline (which is the truly the most overrated Japanese sports car). Solscud007, the RX7 is nice (a lot nicer than the newer RX8), but Mazda is too closely related to Ford now, and while Ford seems to make nice trucks, you couldn't pay me to drive their cards. Before anyone asks, yeah, not even the Mustang. For the price of a base-model Mustang, you can get an Eclipse GS or base Toyota Celica. For a better Mustang, you can get an Eclipse GTS or a top-of-the-line Celica. And to boot, the new 2005 Mustangs are just ugly as sin.

All VFs ever had a stealth system. In Macross TV there is a stealth system called EMC: it was used by SDF-1 and Gnerl fighters, but there was no reason Valkyrie didn't use it. FV EMC, or ECM? ECM is Electronic Counter Measures.

Out of curiousity, has anyone played Energy Air Force? It only made it out in Japan, but I heard it was reviewed fairly well there. If anyone's played it, how's it compare to Ace Combat? Is it worth importing?

Hmm... I did give Terminator 3 a chance... and it was probably the worst movie I've ever had the misfortune of seeing in the theater. I WISH I could make that claim... T3 was one more in a long list of mediocre films for me. It barely scratched the surface of worst films. T3 was a light enjoyable flick, and while it did not live up to it's two predecessors I had a good time with it. The end sucked. It wasn't just that the ending sucked... it went against the message in the first two, "No future but what we make it." That, and I find it hard to believe that the man who becomes the leader of the human resistance is such a gimp.

I've heard that too...it locks people's Live accounts or something. It's happening but I don't think people know how they're detecting it. Some people think it is HDD related but that doesn't seem to be the case (I've got a friend with a 120 GB HDD and he hasn't been banned). I chose to get an extra Xbox specifically for modding to avoid crap like this. I just went and got a modded PS2 instead. Everyone talks about how great the Xbox is for emulation, but I've burned myself plenty of PS2 emulators. Besides, there's more good games worth importing for the PS2.

Which one, the Grudge, or one of the four Juon films? See, when I saw the Grudge, I liked it. But now that I've seen the original Juon, the Grudge seems kind of lame. I finally got the rest of the Juon movies. Really looking forward to watching them all.

Hmm... I did give Terminator 3 a chance... and it was probably the worst movie I've ever had the misfortune of seeing in the theater. Still, I'm going to wait until I at least see some trailers before I pass judgement on Toy Story 3, or any other movie, for that matter.

Whoa, hold the phone there! Yeah, the Mitsubishi is most definately going to be an Evo. The Evo just happens to be Mitsubishi's most popular car, along the same line's as Subaru's WRX. But the Evo isn't Mitsubishi's only worthwhile car! To this day, IMHO, the 3000GT is still the most kick-ass car to come out of Japan, and I also happen to be rather fond of the Eclipse GTS. As for the Acura, it's going to be an RSX. That's Acura's poster-child car. Even though Acura and Honda are the same company, the S2000 still carries the Honda name.

I just saw the original Juon. Not the Juon movie that released on R1 DVD a few weeks ago, but the original TV version. Simply brilliant! Character and story development are kept down to just the minimum so that you know who the people are and what's going on, and most of the screen time is reserved for one creepy thing after another. I can definately see scenes in it that inspired scenes in the Grudge, but overall, they're two different stories.

Well-said, Agent. Great cop out. Why bother debate point by factual point when you can just pat the doorknob lover on the back for tactless reply........ Oh, I'm not saying it's well-said because it was a well-articulated point that happens to back what I said earlier. I thought it was well said because it amuses the hell out of me when AgentOne says stuff like that.

Sorry if I'm covering something that's been said already, but anyone see that Citroen commercial? If the Autobots and Decepticons look that good in the upcoming Transformers movie, live action might not be so bad after all...

Well-said, Agent.

I think it's fair to be skeptical at this point. Every Pixar production I've ever seen has been a damn fine piece of work. Disney can't match that track record. Skeptical, sure. Approach with caution, sure. It's too early to dismiss it entirely, though.

It's really hard to explain to someone who's never played it. Basically, it's a good console FPS with an amazingly addictive and fun multiplayer side. If you don't like FPS (or at least console FPS), there's nothing about Halo 2 that'll change your mind. But if you do like FPS on consoles, Halo 2 is just the cream of the crop.

Nintendo has sold more Gamecubes than MS has sold X-Boxes. Last Xmas put them up on top. Hehe, kinda funny that I own the 2 consoles that are least popular. Oh, and in response to my earlier comment, you guys are right. Sony is the only guilty party really. I think most of that annoyance stems from PC part manufacturers... Voodoo, GeForce, Radeon, TNT. But I suppose 3rd parties come up with some good names. I remember my GeForce DDR; Creative 3D ANNIHILATOR PRO. Heh, stemmed a funny discussion where we came up with different names for vid cards ("3D RAPIST PRO; F*cks your games in the @$$ after they said no!") Of course, that's off the top of my head, we came up with some better ones. Dammit... sorry for being OT guys. Nintendo sold more Gamecubes during the last holiday season, and Gamecube is safely #2 in Japan, but Microsoft has still sold more consoles worldwide since launch than Nintendo. Microsoft is also likely to sell the most consoles this holiday season. There's another shortage of PS2s (maybe Sony doesn't like money?), and you wouldn't believe the number of people who have bought Xboxes over the past month just for Halo 2. Meanwhile, even with a Metroid bundle and a Mario Kart bundle, the Gamecubes are just sitting in our stockroom collecting dust...

Hey, it's you guys acting like Disney is a bunch of Nazi facists just because they're trying to make money, not me. And I'm sorry, it still seems ridiculous to me that you guys have such loathing for a movie that you know nothing about, save that it's a sequel to Toy Story and that Pixar is not working on it. For all you know, the studio that is working on Toy Story 3 could be huge fans of the first two, and end up turning out a really good movie. I mean, seriously, can't you guys at least wait for a preview before you being your rant?

I never said that Pixar didn't deserve a bigger slice of the pie, although I do think they're a little overrated. I mean, I loved Monsters Inc, but I hated a Bug's Life, thought Finding Nemo was a little boring, and enjoyed the Toy Story movies, but less than a lot of other movies Disney's made. My point, though, is that we're not Disney's target audience for the direct-to-video sequels, and that maybe we should at least wait to see a preview before we put Toy Story 3 in the "sucks" column.

I play a couple of clan matches last night. While some of the people I played were cool, I was discouraged by how many people shoot you, then call you a happy person for no reason. The level of immaturity is appalling.

Hey, can anyone tell me, do you need to play the first one to follow the second? I'm certainly going to get Half-Life 2 for the Xbox when it comes out, but as previously mentioned, I'm not mouse-and-keyboard inclined for action-oriented games, and I'd hate to play through a wretched PS2 port of the original.

He means the console versions, and yeah, X-Men Legends is a lot like Baldur's Gate. I thought X-Men Legends was fun, true to to the comic books, yet accessible to people who only know X-Men through the movies. Graphics aren't all that great, though... the cel-shading has them looking like colorful blobs rather than people. My biggest gripe with it, though, is that for all the characters, a lot of them are clones. Like Magma... she uses lava instead of ice, but otherwise she plays just like Iceman. You can pretty much divide them up into melee characters and ranged characters. Chances are, you have your ideas about which characters you'll want to mostly play as, and for the most part, you'll stick with them throughout the whole game. Replay value is pretty low, since even if you play again with different X-Men, it'll play pretty much the same way. Oh, and don't listen to the PC crowd. They're knocking the Dark Alliance games just because they have the Baldur's Gate title, but are nothing like the PC Baldur's Gate games in terms of story or gameplay. Both the Dark Alliance games, as well as Champions of Norrath, are very fun dungeon crawlers.

Yes, I did see Aladdin and the King of Thieves. I've seen all three, and liked all three. I also liked Lion King II and Lion King 1 and 1/2 is my favorite of the Lion King movies. Stitch: the Movie was highly entertaining, but suffered a bit from being more the pilot to a Saturday morning cartoon than from being an actual stand alone movie. And Buzz Lightyear of the Star Command was better than either of the Toy Story movies. I couldn't stop laughing when I saw it the first time, and the giant laser didn't work because the batteries were in it upside down. In any case, I hated both Beauty and the Beast movies, and both Little Mermaid movies. Didn't see either Pocahontes movies. Now the funny thing about Disney... or Pixar, or just about anyone out there making movies today... are you ready for this? They're all in it to make money. I know, it's shocking, but it's the goal of a business, be it a movie studio, a grocery store, an automobile maker, etc, to make enough money to turn a profit. Disney, nor any other movie studio, has never made a movie because "there is a good story to be told." They make a movie because they believe there's a story that people are willing to pay to see. And they learn what we want to see by trial and error... either people go to see their movies or not. Usually, it's a fairly logical assumption that sequels work, and as I've already said, yes, I have liked some of their sequels. With a little more budget for production, yeah, I would have loved to see them in the theater. Which actually makes me think of something. Those direct to video releases? They're not intended to be on par with the theatrical releases. They're intended for kids who always watch a particular movie (for my niece, it was Shrek) so their poor parents don't have to watch the same movie over and over and over. If Toy Story 3 is going to be a theatrical release, it's hardly fair to compare it to Disney's direct to video releases. Especially when you haven't even seen a preview or anything. That's jumping the gun. You can't argue that "it's not about being pessmistic, it's about recognizing talent," when you have no idea if the people working on Toy Story 3 are talented or not. It's absolutely pessimistic, because you're saying that Toy Story 3 is going to suck when the only thing you know about it is that Pixar isn't working on it. And of course, the only reason Pixar isn't working on it is because they split with Disney. Why? They wanted a bigger slice of the pie. It all comes back to money.

I didn't see Shark Tale. Sorry. But yes, I did see Antz. And it kicked the hell out of A Bug's Life.