AndrewTS

Conan O'Brien: "In Los Angeles, celebrities only get special treatment in cases of murder."

Thumbs up for Black Jack.

You know, that Microsoft...is a lot like Hitler.... You might like this one:

I was discussing with Anya about the rather poor state of arcades, at least around me. There's one arcade that's kind of decent round where I live. However, they usually don't have much to speak off, their Tekken 5 / DR seemingly was there and gone pretty quickly. I checked it today, and nearly everything is a gun game: Silent Scope EX, Ghost Squad, House of the Dead 1, Virtua Cop 1, Deer Hunter, and Time Crisis 2 were present. Not a single fighting game. It had Daytona 2, skeeball and air hockey, though. However, despite being open like a half hour, half the machines weren't even turned on. How are they around you? Do you ever make use of them? Are they sometimes-good then get rid of the good/new stuff all the time as well?

Anya has. She said it isn't really any good, though.

Cause she's got the boobs for milking? I meant that rhetorically. It's expected they would milk, because Eidos sucks so hard now. They're publishing the US Escape from Bug Island, they published Dino Master, Nacho Libre, and Touch the Dead on DS, 300 the PSP game, and they're publishing that awful Age of Conan and the Free Running game that is *never coming out* for PSP. Tomb Raider is pretty much the only non-sucky thing they have...unless Kane & Lynch ends up being good (*cough*moneyhattedPOS*cough*). Anyway, now that I've had more playtime with it, I'd say that the overall feel of the original game shines through, for good or bad. The sparse enemy encounters, while frantic, fun, and somewhat challenging, really seem out of place. You will be spending a lot of time just running around, exploring, making leaps over huge pits and avoiding obstacles instead. Straying off the beaten path tends to bring you to secrets, but seeing them and getting them are often a bit tricky. Definitely feels like the old game in that regard. The game is a little buggy, though. It seems like Lara doesn't know how to act with big wooden platforms. If you try to walk off to try to auto-grab, she'll teeter on the edge and refuse to go off. There was a rotating wooden platform that I'd activated with a gear, but when I did a running jump from it, trying to grab what I thought was a handhold...I was running in mid-air, not falling. I eventually walked over the pool of water in front of the waterfall and landed in there safely, though. You'll notice plenty of other odd-looking collision problems with wooden areas like the bridges. Also, after a fight with the wolves (in front of said waterfall), after killing them the camera didn't properly reset, and was "locked" to a wide-angle view that didn't let me see and properly climb a ladder. Trying to ignore it failed, because I was only able to jump off or side jump. Saving and reloading the save fixed it, but it's a bit disappointing to see. Nothing game breaking, though.

12 years + old is pretty old school to me. You're talking, like, ancient. It's a little hard to get behind choices that have been on a bunch of compilations discs over and over again. But like you said, you don't care really about making money.

So...so wrong. http://kotaku.com/gaming/touch-this/doki-d...site-267011.php Uh, okay. Really, Japan? Really?

Lots of reviews in--nearly all very positive: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/...ideranniversary

So stupid fake celeb commits some crime, violates patrol, goes to fake court, gets sentenced to fake jail, has a fake breakdown, but now is going to go back to fake court so they can decide whether to give her "time out" or send her to bed without supper?

POLICE TRAINER--I see that game all the time. It seems so dull and generic. Bubble Bobble rules. I actually picked up both Taito Legends collections, incidentally. The 2nd one has Darius Gaiden, G-Darius, Elevator Action 2, and VIOLENCE FIGHT, among others.

I just killed the T. Rex. Fun fight, excellent set up to it as well.

GT isn't going to be exactly "sold" anytime soon.

Killzone 2

Coming up with a good list was hard--but here's what I got: *Old School* NBA Jam T.E. -- No explanation needed--one of the most flat-out incredibly fun sports or arcade games in existence. Sunset Riders ; 4 player version -- Up to 4 gun-wielding vigilantes bust caps into various old West baddies and racial stereotypes. Killer Instinct -- The originator of the insane, double-digit combo strings. Features empty promises of the amazing Ultra 64 in its attract screens. Michael Jackson's Moonwalker -- The King of Pop fights to save children, occasionally turns into a robot that destroys all in his path. TMNT Turtles in Time -- The final and best arcade fighter featuring the Turtles, has lots of terrific settings, tough bosses, and cool voice samples. Almost as good as the SNES home version. *New School* Tekken 6 -- It's going to be testing like, this month. So it's as good as released, practically. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core -- The latest, greatest version of Guilty Gear until I presume it goes to XXX, and we get the expected crossover with Melty Blood. Time Crisis 4 -- Top-notch gun shooter Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 2 -- good racer, *great* soundtrack courtesy of Yuzo Koshiro. Mo-Cap Boxing -- What Wii Sports Boxing could be like if it didn't suck.

I will meditate and then write my own list that will destroy yours.

Arcades today are desperately missing hand-to-hand violence. I can't believe my arcade doesn't have *one* game where you can punch somebody in the face. That's like, criminal.

Which is my point. It was like an apology for DD NES and DD2 arcade.

Double Dragon II?

1up's review for MK Armageddon on Wii is in: http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3160128 6.5/10. Milky reviewed it. I told you so, Anya.

Before I post this--I just want to say I don't mean this to deride Sony, troll PS3 owners, or anything of the sort. That being said.... HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Motion controls sucked back then too, you know. And unless you just see big fat slobs on it all the time, I don't see why you'd object. Typically when those machines are in use it seems to be mainly young girls using it. This is the theory I mainly subscribe to. I know it fairly true for me, mainly because I am horrible at playing fighters with joysticks. It seemed like beginning of the end was Playstation. When a game takes about a year to come to console and the graphics and sound are severely compromised? Sure, I'll pick the arcade game. If it's coming out on console in two months and has extra features? Well, I'll play it if it's there, but if it's busy or there's another game I want to play, ah well. Besides, my Pocket Change (where I mainly got to play fighters) had a bad habit of yanking fighting games shortly after putting in a new machine. I swear the Street Fighter Alpha machine was there like a week.

It seems the game is coming to 360 after all--but maybe not in disc form: http://kotaku.com/gaming/raidin.-ur-live/t...-360-266578.php What the hell--split up by levels? Eidos needs to spill details, like, a month ago. WTFITS? There has to be a physical disc coming. There's no way its going to fit on even a 512 MB card. EDIT: the 360 "version" is going to be DLC for Tomb Raider Legend-- http://www.eat-sleep-game.com/news/2007/06...o-the-xbox-360/ But not for a few months, apparently. And Legend will apparently be re-released with the "bonus" content as a special edition. *sigh*, Eidos, why you milk Lara so?

What's this "age limit" thing for Dave & Buster's? I've never been to one and it sounds crazy.

Picked it up, and so far it's wonderful. The old music seems to be here in remixed form, the old sound cue has returned, and the battle music when you encounter enemies is better than ever. Hearing that howl before being attacked by a pack of wolves, ahhh...great job CD. It uses the original game as a blueprint but doesn't appear to slave to it. *finishes first level* HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!! A BEAR!!! IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR ME!!!!