AndrewTS

An FPS I might actually be interested in; awesome. I honestly forgot about the triggers under the revmote. The analog they refer to for movement is obviously the nunchuku add-on, which was how I expected it would be handled. I really hope (Project) Assassin does come out on Revolution as well.

Probably made changes to your registry when it sneaked in. If Spybot didn't work, try AdAware. If that isn't successful... I'd download HiJack This! and follow some of the info on the first Google result shown here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=winfixer+page+hijack Although, be careful--registry stuff is risky.

I hadn't touched a Mac until I had to use one for work. OS X seems almost idiotically easy to use once you adjust. The hardware itself is a bit pricey, but quick, quiet and efficient. It runs XP really well from what I've seen, too. However, who knows the nuts and bolts of this thing. Does it run the same way (with BIOS)?

I was at a Gamestop today, and they had a display box for a Gamecube Starcraft Ghost. Maybe they mistakenly left that up there for an extra week.

"A WWE tradition for 15 years, the King of the Ring tournament was put on the shelf after the 2002 edition. After four years of dormancy, SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long announced this past Friday night that he was bringing the tradition back. From 1985-1991, the tournament was held every year at a non-televised WWE event in the Northeast. The first King of the Ring tournament was held in July 1985, with Magnificent Muraco defeating The Iron Sheik in the finals to become the first winner. In following years, such Superstars as Randy Savage, Harley Race, Ted DiBiase and Tito Santana would go on to win the tournament." Shockingly they mentioned the non-televised years. I guess it would be more correct to say Billy Gunn Tito'ed his KotR win. I don't expect them to do the full tournament in one night, though.

Of course they don't. They make "improvements" then screw something else up in the process.

It's probably just touched up concept screens. Until it appears in a playable vid form, don't give it much thought. However, Rev and PS3 are both getting Rayman 4. In other Ubi news, Project Assassins from the Prince of Persia Sands of Time info is here: http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3148998&did=1 Freakin' aces. Here's a list of allegedly leaked Ubi 2007 releases (Gamepro claims). Tom Clancy's Firehawk (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 5 (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PC, PSP) Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 4 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Xbox, PS2) Assassin (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PC, PSP) Lumines 2 (PS2, PSP) Game 5 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) Alive (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) Naruto (Xbox 360) Rayman 4 (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PC, PS2, handheld) Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

There are already some decent KP games; also, since it's a modern setting it doesn't really fit into the various fantasy themes the games explore. The Ducktales/DW world/characters haven't really been used at all. Huey, Dewey and Louie appeared in KH1 and Scrooge has a cameo role in KH2, although they weren't using the DT world.

JS is rumored to be in everything.

That guy was awesome, yeah. I think this is one indication that if you thought DS had some weird games, you ain't seen nothing yet.

It's about time, too. There is no novelty value to the FFVII characters anymore.

"Or will Comedy Central puss out?"

As mentioned previously, the dress code is bullshit for a number of reasons. a) They aren't "employees" but independent contractors. They aren't legally bound to do a damn thing for Vince that isn't in their contract. b) It's something that they're expected to follow when they're not actually working. Actually going to the show? Silly. Autograph signings? That's directly job-related and they're getting paid for it, so sure why not? However, WWE treats their workers as employees when it benefits them, but doesn't treat them as employees for things that could inconvenience them. Probably new contracts have stuff like that in there, though, regardless of whether it's stupid as hell or not.

Amusing in its crapness. How many games honestly get Cheetara and/or Wonder Woman in them? Not many. How about kicking Aquaman's ass? Batman creaming Hippie Resurrected Supes is loads of fun too. They seriously need a good fighting game for DC characters. However, DC hasn't whored out many of their characters for games like they have with Batman and Supes, though. However, why the hell Aquaman has a game (and a terrible one) and Green Lantern doesn't I don't know.

This isn't just RPGs, it's pretty much any mainstream genre. Developers like to pimp out their games with cinemas as part of the presentation. However, RPGs have *really* suffered from it. A five minute expository cutscene in GTA, then back to the action? Forgivable. Cutscenes for mundane things, or excessively long cutscenes? That's when you lose me. That's fine. Old school presentation with innovation is the way I would totally dig it. It's more common these days to see the presentation updated, but the gameplay/story/damn near everything else is ancient. Respectfully disagree. Yes, Xenogears' gameplay was abysmal. It had a decent plot but the writing wasn't any good in my opinion. The pacing was horrible, and Disc 2 is best served as a frisbee or clay pigeon. Interesting parallel, if unintended. If you look at the *plots* of Shakespeare plays--they were cliche even when they came out. It's the writing that made them. However, you still need to switch up the plots in your games. The example I gave of a stock plot is such an example. Done to death, and even the best writing can't really block out the same-ness. And if the gameplay is mediocre or sucks--why bother? Well, the reason those had such longevity with me-- FFVI - plot wasn't done to death quite yet, had interesting sideplots (subquests), the writing was exceptional for the time, the gameplay was fairly fresh. CT - gameplay was aces, the plot was damn cool, and even though the writing was shallow it did so much you'd never seen in RPGs before. And it didn't hurt that they had some of the most memorable music in all of gaming.

Haha, nope. Sora isn't very intimidating in that form, but damn if he isn't adorable. http://sorasdomain.net/images/Char/Sora%20LK%20Char.jpg It's pretty obvious, though... Old school RPGs are overrated. Companies have been using the same crusty old concepts, characters, plotlines, gameplay conventions, battle systems, etc for 10-15 years. At least KH has different gameplay, which attracted me to the series in the first place. Everything still needs to be improved, though. Why do we need to, in the year 2006, still be muddling around with repetitive turn-based battles and 4th generation ripoffs of ancient RPG storylines? I'm sick of the mysterious hero whose family was killed by the empire and his village burned down looking for a mystically sealed away city, who along the way encounters a magic-using chick with amnesia, and they encounter x comrades and jet around the world on an airship. My favorite "old school" RPG--Chrono Trigger--is basically as different as most other "old school" console RPGs get from its peers. The first Suikodens did add lots of things to the the genre we hadn't seen before (or had rarely seen). I dig having my own pad and watching it gradually build up. However, I haven't touched the series since 2 and I haven't actually been able to own that one yet.

The Mission Hill spoof is infinitely funnier than Family Guy's "beat you over the head" approach; it pretty much starts out with that show on...you don't know why it's on...then when he does the "happy little tree" we here cheering and howling, because the crew was taking bets on how long it would be.

Seph-ir-oth. Can't he stay dead?

Tomko was, in my opinion, the worst wrestler on the roster since Nathan Jones. He's really got nowhere to go but up as far as workrate. He must have just been getting his downside.

I thought that was Amy, and he had dumped lotion in her bag. I don't have an extensive backlog of "Randy Orton acting like a douche" stories, so it's hard to keep track.

*KICK*/*POP*/*PEDIGREE* Well, that was garbage.

SIGnified.

No, he's going to try to make a difference and dance first, then after his ass balloons to 4x its current size, then he'll dance, shove his ass in people's faces, then get over.

A repackaged Jamal.

I thought SD was the show with the big Latino demo?