Thoth

I have a code for one month of Xbox Live that I got from a copy of Universe at War for the PC I paid 5 bucks for. Personally, I don't need it, my subscription doesn't expire for 14 months or so. So, I want to give it away. Who has suggestions on how I should give this away? In the end, I will be the one to decide how it should be done.

Braid is fucking bullshit, by the way. This is the dumbest fucking metaphor ever. And to get the real ending is the biggest load of bullshit in the history of gaming. I'm serious. You all remember all the bullshit about stuff like, "You can bring Aeris back to life if you do some ridiculous shit?" Well, imagine if that shit was TRUE. You have to wait 2 and a half hours in one level for a cloud to move. And then Another 30 minutes to rewind it back. Fuck me. And that's how you get ONE of the stars.

Madden 09 is, in fact, on the original Xbox. Huzzah.

I was expecting an angrier reaction, like "THE FUCK IS THIS"

Does the background turn black? If so, your version of Windows Vista is considered invalid. IE is the only thing that runs so that you can validate your copy of Vista.

If you shoot in the direction you are moving, you can usually get through tight spaces. There's not many enemies faster than your ship.

IGN hasn't had credibility vis-a-vis fighting games since around 2004 or so. They did a review of Tekken 4, and one of the editors went to Tekken Zaibatsu and ran his mouth... and got smacked down hard. I mean, read their Soul Calibur 4 reivew: "Yoda is broken." First of all, you can't declare any character "broken" before the game has been played for at least a week, too premature otherwise. Second, Yoda sucks it long, and sucks it hard.

You basically need to play and practice the game until you can play it in an "Alpha Wave" state of mind. Practice on Geo Wars 1, if you have it.

Don't think, feel. I'm serious.

You know what's funny? RE my Geometry Wars 2 scores? I'm not even trying. Fazzle only had scores higher than me because I only played certain gametypes long enough to unlock others. Bray, dogs. Bray.

I think we just all want to know how he's going to react. Inside I am going "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH MY GOD I CAN'T WAIT".

Share your gamertag so I can beat whatever scores you might have into misery.

You have been smacked down.

Sorry to hear that; I love Gamefly. When a game ships, I get it the next day. Been a member for over a year, so I save 10% on used games. I got Soul Calibur IV for $40.

Downloaded Facebreaker Demo. Played for thirty seconds. Promptly deleted. I agree that all fighting games boil down to a guessing game. However, Facebreaker limits my options down to two: the right one, or the wrong one. BS.

Apparently you're all dead. No one on my friends' list has a leaderboard score in any of the game types.

A just frame is a concept taken from Tekken. Entering the input of a move during a specific frame during another move will result in new attacks or attacks with modified properties. Paul in Tekken has a Just Frame on one of his power punch combos. Steve, last I checked, had a metric shitton. In SC4: Misturugi's Neutral A+B has a just frame on the second hit by pressing B. Pretty sure Sophitia's QCF Dash has a just frame or two in there as well. Just Frames reward execution and punish button-mashing, as well as provide additional execution options without the need to add additional move commands.

How different is it? I remember it being a fairly fun fighting game with swords and some pretty cool combos. Pace is slower. Fewer juggle opportunities than I recall. JUST FRAMES. Throws actually able to interrupt hit frames (Maybe this isn't new, but man, I haven't played a 3D fighting game that allows this in a while) Fewer moves per character, and more emphasis on the 8-way run.

Dammit. I picked this up. This is WAYYYYY different from what I remember. This game isn't aping Tekken, methinks.

Yup.

I just got tickets to the Dragon Gate event in LA in early September. Anyone else going?

Which one? The one where he turns into a werewolf with stretchy arms, or the one where he fights with a broadsword? I know you probably mean the just announced one, just illustrating a point. Whatever happened to the Sonic game where you run really fast?

I got to play this yesterday at Street Fight Club in the shithole area of LA. Talk about underground. Wow. Animation is fantastic, and it does in fact play like a Street Fighter game like you'd expect. I played as Honda and Vega. Honda's buttslam has higher range. Vega's EX Wall Dive hits on the way up. Other things I noticed: Abel was super popular. Viper was pretty good too. People started playing as Rufus near the end of the event. Overall, I can't fucking wait.

I think it's Champions Online.

Since when is Lance Hoyt Lance Rock? Lame.