AndrewTS

Nobody needs an adapter to play VPW2. You can either use... a) a saw or knife to saw off the ends of the cart, if you don't mind the holes it will leave behind. b) a gamebit screwdriver and a backing for US cartridge. You could probably get a spare Warzone for like 50 cents and slap the back on VPW2.

Rented Aeon Flux, the game, for PS2. It doesn't suck...it's actually quite fun, with shades of PoP, Metroid Prime (the roller sections are similar to Morph Ball stuff...except you can roll over enemies and hurt them in this game), and the overall feel is like a more diverse Bloodrayne (natch). However, it costs as much as Two Thrones and isn't nearly as good, so it's worth a rent at least, but likely not a purchase. Of course, I'm early in the game still.

Wasn't that flannel shirt/jean skirt?

Night of the Boston Crabs.

"Put this on his head, he'll think it's night!" Blanket party for Cena would rock. ...they can't be serious...

Because when I think of teachers, I immediately think ultra-right wingers.

I thought his name was spelled "Stryker?"

Dean Striker?

"...and then he broke my nose."

...nope, still ridiculous.

...nope, still ridiculous.

Oh well, so much for Visc in the Elim Chamber.

Visc--UnMasterLockable!

Visc looks like he has the most comfortable ring gear of all time.

"Maria was on the TBS reality show Outback Jack." ...that sounds familiar.

So he turns heel because he's a moron who screws up an easy pin?

At least they didn't call this one Dragon Warrior V

I'll probably do 10x better in the US than VII because it actually is getting...you know...advertised. DWVII's graphics looked like ****, too. That didn't help.

1up has a feature up contrasting the US "meh" opinion with Japan's rabid devotion. It's funny how they talk about the FFXII demo maybe making it a bit more high-profile, and in the same breath talk about Brave Fencer Musashi and Tobal having demos...when virtually nobody bought those games for the games themselves. I love Brave Fencer Musashi, but I'm not about to kid myself about where most of its sales came from. The first US ads for DQVIII were terrible. You had those cgi vines shooting out of pipes making you think it's some sort of drain cleaner commercial. Then the main pitch of the commercial is "Japan loves it, so should you!" The more recent ads are a bit better, though. I want to give it a shot, though, because the tone of the game and the gameplay itself is quite appealing.

You haven't played many bad fighters, I guess. It's like SSF2 compared to Shaq Fu.

Done. A few of these I don't remember ever even seeing, like Mad Love, Beware the Creeper (both of which have been in CB's sigs), Judgment, and Chemistry. Legends of the Dark Knight was...well...bleh on repeat viewing. Okay, well the older versions of Batman and the vignettes themselves were quite good, but the rest of the episode, and the ending sequence lay there and die. Even the commentary track was pretty dull. The Sprang-like section was hilarious, and the Miller version was so weird seeing animated...like the Maxx. Then DCAU Batman has a relatively dull fight with 4th-string villain Firefly. Meh. Plenty of great eps, even if I haven't quite enjoyed many of them as much as 1-3. Mad Love, Over the Edge, Sins of the Father--all great eps. Growing Pains is a bit overrated and loses the effect once you're in the know, but it's good too. The Demon Within is waaaaay out there, and hard for me to take seriously compared to the rest of the series. I may have watched maybe 2 episodes of Batman Beyond, depending on if you count Return of the Joker or not. I had classes whenever it was on, and didn't seem like it would appeal to me.

Have fun. http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=...rticleid=258951 Yay! A few whacky enthusiasts bought the 360 in Japan! Yeah. Go to hell, Peter.

The new Game Informer is actually a pretty decent issue, featuring a very cool year in review section, some previews that are kind of interesting, and for giggles a Starcraft: Ghost preview. And from the YiR section, Game Informer's ten worst of 2005: 10. Death by Degrees 9. Dead to Rights 2 (Anya cheers--had rented/bought this and agrees it as terrible as people say). 8. Lunar Dragon Song 7. Narc (another critical whipping boy--but it *did* really suck.) 6. Shadow the Hedgehog 5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (guess sometimes you can judge a game by the cover) 4. Iron Phoenix (a bad fighter--seems like Anya's territory to comment on). 3. Red Ninja End of Honor (could have used a few more...well...7 months or so in development to fix everything wrong with it). 2. Predator: Concrete Jungle (should have been a competent Metroid Prime clone, too bad). 1. Chicago Enforcer (never heard of it)

Game Informer seems to be making me try to like them. (While I'm on the Bloodrayne tangent, the BR movie has a release date...Jan 6!) Two Thrones is their current Game of the Month, they did a retro-review on Super Turrican, and they actually have some interesting previews. However, the Two Thrones review itself is terrible. It's like a preview of the game with a concluding opinion tacked on. It contains absolutely no useful insight into the game at all that you couldn't gleam from the previews/gameplay footage. Scores: 9.25 for the main, 2nd opinion was 9.0. A Gamestop clerk hooked me up with the PoP neo-trilogy sampler soundtrack--very cool. As long as the series is in competent hands, I hope it lives on. Battles of Prince of Persia looks dreadfully uninteresting, though. I wish I had a gaming-quality cell phone to play the mobile TT.

Well, it's an old joke, so I chose to flesh it out a bit with the insomniatic rant. MM GB : heard it was bad MM2 GB : extremely fun but VERY easily. Perhaps the easiest MM game ever. MM3 GB : decent MM4 GB : Overrated because of the rarity. MM5 GB : Haven't played it. I saw a used one today for 20 bucks, but passed on it. MMXC has ads in and on the backs of magazines, which is at least very promising. There's been no alleged emulation problems arising with it, which supposedly was the problem with the GB MMs (lost the source code, IIRC).