AndrewTS

I fixed your post. Plenty of people feel Cena probably will work business-wise, but feel his wrestling is abysmal. JBL has gotten much, much more liked, but everyone knows there's no real evidence he's a draw. Batista's getting the Benoit treatment now. He'll be back in the midcard come Summerslam, likely. There's much to be said about the idea that Lesnar may very well *have* been pushed too fast, although perhaps different treatment may have produced the same result regardless.

The death scenes were kinda eh, I thought. Idiot Boyfriend didn't die right away, and it just showed us mainly the process...so I don't count that. Odious Comic Relief (septic tank cleaner) had the best "quick" death scene, IMO. Hilton's was okay. Token Black Guy's doesn't count. Offscreen?! Weak. The "snip" Cuthbert had was surprising and wince-worthy, but that punch--HOLY CRAP that was well done. When she got her revenge for it--beautiful. Which was part of the comparatively-awesome ending, of course. They didn't have enough material to fill the entire time, so they padded the hell out of the beginning. "There's no rednecks in New York"--yes there are, Paris, you stupid bitch.

Stars should come out of the midcard not straight out of wrestling school. *What I meant to say, but better and more concise. Thanks.*^^

Wish I could. But I never found any emulator other than MAME that worked on my poor ancient virus-ridden Mac. If you can run MAME, I would think there'd be no problem running an SNES emulator. http://www.zophar.net/mac/snes.html Try the 2nd one.

I've never met one Catholic in my age range that thought Protestants were going to hell for being non-Catholic. Plenty of Baptists I know find plenty of the Catholic rituals quaint/weird but don't hate them for it. There's also plenty of types of Baptist sects with slightly different beliefs. Methodists are exactly the same as Baptists except they believe you can lose your salvation.

I went into it without reading ahead, and hoped it actually followed more of the plot of the original. I liked the House of Haunted Hill remake Dark Castle made and hoped this would be as good. Not even close, though. On the bright side, I went to it mainly because a friend wanted to see it, so now he's going to go with me to see Hitchhiker's. I'm surprised you're not a little harsher on it lc231, considering how exceedingly lame all the lame "boo" scares and fake scares were. Then they were done over and over and over. If you're coming into it to see dumb kids getting killed, well, it has that but I suggest you come an hour late. Hilton's strip tease scene made her look slightly sexier than Olive Oyl.

Okay, I was wrong about that. But I saw it, and it sucked. Sucked hard. Nothing happens for about an hour except cheap "boo" crap and countless horror movie cliches that were stale when the original HoW came out. And Paris Hilton takes longer to get killed than any of the other cannon-fodder peripheral characters. Bullshit. But it had a cool ending.

Hasn't this same bullshit argument been made countless times already? It's a false dilemma. The problem is that WWE rarely pushes anybody any good. Come to think of it, this same thread had been made countless times already, and I doubt this one will break any new ground the others haven't.

H's looks and mannerisms never changed. He just sucked really hard as a heel. He sucks hard as a face too, but it's easier to love him because he's a dumb lummox trying to do good, instead of a dumb lummox hurting faces. H-Reich was never going to be a star and it's good WWE apparently realized it. It's hard to make a legit main eventer out of a guy who seems to have gone to the Sid School of Being A Badass by Looking and Acting Constipated. Both looked like tools, but at least Sid at least looked like a scary, unpredictable tool.

You don't need a job to play old RPGs. Just get an emulator and find ROMs. Play some Seiken Densetsu 3 and make up for the lameness of Evermore. And fuck Square USA in the ear for giving us Evermore instead of SD3. Incidentally, I was surprised to learn that in the union of Square and Enix, Square's the bitch. Apparently a lot of the ideas from the old Square people are getting nixed. Skies of Arcadia is pretty good.

Michelle was in the green top. And that ain't no dog...overgrown rat maybe.

I meant about the game being worth a damn or even being worth 9 bucks. That's about the average I pay for my games in general anyway.

I am needed. In fact, my vote should count twice. CT on the panel seems to be essentially the same thing. Will the discussion phase of this take place via IMs or the board, Flik? And the extension would be welcomed, but I was under the impression that we needed to finish everything before the 20th.

I like that one, even though the one I have/thinking of is an old PS2 game that's about 10 bucks now new. And nobody's ever online to play it...if they even have servers up for it still.

The panel is full, though. However, if you want to abdicate your position to let Mike take a spot, Flik'd probably be flexible about it, CT... doesn't think we needed CT *and* Anya...

Ditto

It has always been in my belief and many others that the "Iron Man" match is the most contrived and ill-logical gimmick of all gimmicks. The crowd is conditioned and told when the match means something, that being the final 10 minutes. You are telling the crowd and viewers WHEN to pay attention. I just cant get into a Iron-Man match be it 30 or 60 minutes And with 2/3 falls? Fans are conditioned to expect that the first two falls mean nothing, because it will end up 1-1. It will go to a third, then you find out the real winner. There's been, what, 1 2/3 falls match in WWE to go 2 straight falls? Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't you the guy who likes to point out that a big reason Diesel's reign tanked because the midcard and undercard programs absolutely sucked during that time period?

On a related note, apparently Buyrite is out of business. http://www.bbbenc.org/commonreport.html?bid=19394 Good to know. Damn, they sucked.

Roselli sounds like another Buff in the making.

Quote I found on RT--seems to ring very true: "When I first had my Genesis and SNES and the earlier systems, there weren't nearly as many good games coming out this quickly, so I got to savor the ones that were really the most exceptional. Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Sonic 2, Vectorman, I played them all more than I play any of the new games I got now, because now it's like, 'this is a fun game, but I also gotta make room for more games I wanna play.'" Probably a lot to do with why chaosrage loves his Cube so much. Yeah, misses a lot of the other systems' exclusives, but the must-haves are timed such that he can savor each one the best.

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Told Flik already, but finished making my list and I've got about 18 games commented on. Picking just 30 was hard. Plenty of games came to mind that I simply couldn't all fit in (sorry, Bionic Commando). Renegade and I both agree that with more time to write/play some games, we could easily have each done a top 50. Ranking for a lot of this is also pretty difficult. For some of us, probably surely, oh, number 8 on our list could be a number one to us depending on our mood

More or less, yeah. It isn't worth the money, but for me the discount card is.

*doesn't personally see much good in Japcclaim acquiring Namco*

Well, half of Assault is kinda "bleh." and SCIII is PS2 exclusive. Bleh to that. Maybe Bandai will have Namco reconsider the SCIII thing, at least for GC. They're tight with Nintendo in Japan, after all.