AndrewTS

PS2 wasn't getting murdered by competition *and* PS1 alike then. Well, there appears to be some method to Sony's madness. 80GB apparently will be discontinued in favor of...another model with a larger hard drive: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232955

Warning: don't attack #2 when she plays possum, until you hear swearing. Otherwise you're completely screwed. With that learned, I won easily. Number 1 here I come...but I need to earn money, because buying the last saber cleaned me out.

Hey, maybe BC is important to people after all? I think the next step is to completely cease PS2 production. What's really funny is that the PS2 refuses to die, and part of it is that the Wii is helping to keep PS2 releases (i.e. Wii + PS2) a viable option for publishers. Mostly all that's coming out is licensed games and budget releases, but I wouldn't be shocked to see a PS2 Madden '09.

And the first Neo Geo selection were just so darn good, weren't they? Master System games well worth checking out (besides the ones mentioned above): Golden Axe Warrior (good Zelda clone), Zillion (good Metroid clone), Master of Darkness (good Castlevania clone--hm, a trend here), the original Shinobi (not really my bag, I liked the later ones, but people seem to dig it), and Psycho Fox. There's also Ys, but that's more of a TG16 series. However, Ys 1 and 2 are coming to DS in a remake compilation anyway. Game Gear being included is a natural, since they're almost the exact same hardware. It has a few titles itself worth a look --Defenders of Oasis, the Shining Force games, the Sonic games that weren't Sonic 2 GG (I hate that game), and both Shinobis (which are each totally different than the SMS one). I don't think the licensing issues would be that hard. Ninja Gaiden on SMS is a good *original* game, that might make it out because NG NES did. Double Dragon was like a Technos/Sega thing, so it's probably far from impossible, just probably kind of pointless since NES was more popular a version. Summaries of some of the titles I mentioned along with yours http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/09/gam...ter-system.html

Master System games are coming to Virtual Console: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165615 Also, check out No More Heroes if you haven't already.

FWIW, the reason for discontinuing the 80GB isn't poor sales--NPD places the 80GB as a better seller than the 40GB. http://kotaku.com/349221/analyst-sony-drop...ales-npd-lol-no

He worked on two Super Famicom Fire Pros, yeah. However, he's a huge wrestling fan, too. You *probably* noticed many parts of the town have wrestling-inspired names. There's also a "GHM" (Grasshopper Manufacture) shirt you can buy that is patterned after the classic ECW shirt. The soundtrack for NMH was Masafumi Takada, (who also worked on Godhand and killer7) and it's out in an album now as well.

I GOT IT!!! Here's the thing--when you activate the death blow, once it's "triggered," if you repeat the motion again before you strike (i.e. while "winding up"), you'll get a powered up deathblow strike (with those white triangles and electricity and stuff). You may have been flailing repeatedly and activated it by accident. So for example, you get the "up" arrow. You move the wiimote "up." Then right as you're about to do the uppercut slice, motion "up" again before it goes out--there's your powered-up strike. BTW, if you drive the motorcycle into the river you warp back to the hotel.

I've been using the Tsubaki since it was first available and switched to the Tsubaki II, and it doesn't ring a bell. I'm currently ranked number 3, so I'm not too far from the end of the game. However, I've been doing some side missions although I have enough cash for the next fight, because a) I love hacking up these nameless thugs, and b) I am a consumer whore. I've bought like half the shirts available in Area 51. The 100 man massacre is just pure chaos and fun, and it's worth a heck of a lot of cash, too. Some of the more recent encounters were a lot different from the earlier ones. Except the game to throw a lot of weird surprises near the end at you. Sequel, plz.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/21/keighley...sexbox-sexpose/ I have no words... "What happened to Atari, and pinball!!?" Geoff Keighley is there to provide a level-headed, informed perspective that is repeatedly interrupted and completely ignored by "experts" babbling on about this pr0n game they dreamed up that doesn't exist.

Yeah, the art style and insane bosses are the bulk of the killer7 influence, while gameplay is entirely different. Plus it's pretty quick to earn the cash if you just want to do the missions and move on. I've been racking up cash and doing upgrading, because I had a tough time getting to #7. However, I am getting way better at crowd control, too. I did it, though, and am currently ranked 7. I took the Mild difficulty (sweet is Easy, Mild's normal, and I assume a hard mode is unlockable), FWIW, but even so it's never been nearly as tough as God Hand.

EBstop says Feb. 1 for Canada, probably because of dual-language requirements.

Well, this is Fox News, where the idea of "fair and balanced coverage" is putting on a guy like Alan Combes, a liberal (assuming he's not just a character) who seems to be so spineless his body must be held up by a system of weights and pulleys. I'm hoping that Jon Stewart has a take on this, but I guess it doesn't even require jokes. It makes its own gravy.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229565 If previous SNK collections are any indication, it'll probably retail $15-$20 (aka, Gamestop will charge that extra $5). Most of these games have superior sequels in better compilations (Metal Slug Anthology), but it's a solid mix of games in many genres.

I want Nintendo to release the most controversial Virtual Console games they can find so these idiots can freak out more. River City Ransom with Partial Nudity descriptor (The GBA upgrade did get a T rating, incidentally...)! Count on it!

Okay, agreed on that. I think tag team modes make up for it, mostly (and I'm glad heel and face versions of characters are available at all times once unlocked), but I don't know why they broke something that didn't need any changes. That would be sound reasoning if all those kids grew out of it. Thing is, a lot of them didn't, and you need only look to PC gaming and the HD systems to see that. Or look at the popularity of Youtube videos like the AVGN videos. Or look at the sales of Halo 3. Your average console gamer today is probably in their 20s. I know that was the general area for the demographics on the consoles last generation. My colleagues at work are virtually all 18-35, and nearly every guy there at least has some interest in gaming. Hell, I have a supervisor who plays ROMs on his custom firmware PSP on his lunch. I know there's figures pointing out that the average gamer age is much, much older, but that's usually skewed by counting people who play solitaire and bejeweled on their computers.

Nuh-uh. I'd say the control and collision are much tighter than the flippy-floppy Smackdown games, and I notice far fewer graphical glitches overall. Other than that, it's practically the same game as those, minus the completely broken stat system, cheap-ass AI, and fewer game modes. XX added way more gameplay modes, but the replacement for the story mode (that freaking tedious career mode) does indeed suck. The original Rumble Roses was thick with lesbian overtones in the story mode, but it was played for laughs anyway. Losing that was the biggest thing that lost it points for the folks who liked RR. Rumble Roses 3 with returning story mode, plz.

It's actually quite unusual for a game to come out this recent and then the freak outs beginning. Usually it's either so long after that it isn't even relevant, or way before the thing even comes out (see: Bully, 25 to Life, and whatever game that idiot lawyer ends up crusading over).

Some people swear by Turbo, but Super SF2 (released today) is the way to go, I'd say.... However, that's if we're just talking VC. Super Turbo is available in various forms for other systems.

I thought the internet collectively goes "the Lair guys? Oh, crap." I'm hoping it's a DS side scroller, though.

TOPIC SUBTITLE (cuz the board cut it off... : = Crackdown + Hulk: Ultimate Destruction + Assassin's Creed + Akira?) Sneak-peek before X-Play: http://kotaku.com/346304/prototype-trailer-is-raw-jumpy X-Play showing of the demo: http://on-pause.blogspot.com/2008/01/x-pla...otype-demo.html Some other game info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_(game) I'm pretty much sold...

Game is published by Eidos, and was supposed to come out ages ago, on PS2 and Xbox. And the developer (at least this current incarnation) is Widescreen Games, who developed such fine titles as Dead to Rights II and Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer. Maybe with Eidos' high publishing standards, they'll really crack the whip on--HAHA, just kidding. I'd say we can write this bitch off.

Maybe, but it's probably because the T-1000 didn't pull something random and insane out its ass. It stuck to the movie/character's own internal logic fairly well. T-X could do anything T3's shitty writing called for it to be able to do, except when you needed a reason for the movie to actually continue. The rule's been called into question ever since T2, with excuses for T-1000 supposedly arriving via something like a "skin bag" or somehow being so advanced it passed for "living." However, T2 never mentioned it one way or the other, I don't think. Did SCC ever address it directly?

This week's Virtual Console releases are Pac-Attack for SNES, and Riot Zone for TG16. Pac-Attack is a decent little puzzle game. Riot Zone appears to be a beat 'em up where some blond guy who wears a white shirt and jeans and/or a roid freak in a mohawk walks right and punches bad guys, because said bad guys kidnapped blond guy's girlfriend.

Dreamcast had a great launch, actually. It was the PS2 E3 hype and subsequent publisher abandonment that dug it an early grave.