AndrewTS

1. The creative department sucks. 2. Batista would still be cheered anyway, because wrestling fans are usually male chauvinist morons.

It prompted me to comment how crappy those commercials are too (in the VG folder). What a stupid video package. "Wah-wah-waaaaaaaaah..." Next WWE will have nutshots punctuated with "Ding"s.

These PSP commercials are arguably the worst video game commercials I've seen since the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Cosplay Nerds Hotline commercials. (The one with the squirrels and the hairballs. The one where a PSP is being played for 5 seconds, then flung a mile where another person catches it, etc is bad too and defies belief, but....ugh.)

He's ready to feud with Glacier, playing Snow Miser? That would be awesome. But who would play Mother Nature?

A while way back a friend showed me a pic of a girl cosplayed as Pikachu...in a skin-tight outfight, yellow makeup on her face, the whole nine yards. Not a bad figure, either. The woman who does Ling Ling's voice should cosplay like that. It would be so wrong and creepy it'd be awesome.

Works for me. Thank you, Mark.

Figured. The PayPal/Half.com/Ebay accounts I use are in my mother's name, because they were created that way years ago. Removing them and changing them to mine is less trouble than leaving it as-is. At least purchasing Dragon Ball games now aren't deserving of a public flogging. Just derision from, oh, anime fans who still find Eva worthy of discussion and anime snobs in general.

I still pull out TM2 now and then. Just an insane amount of fun, and fighting throughout the streets of Paris or the NY rooftops is just a blast. I even like that suburban area when I'm in the mood for a more relaxed atmosphere. The carried-over TM1 levels don't hurt either.

The combat is basically a more polished Warrior Within. Only without as ridiculous an amount of it, and the stealth kills give you a chance to avoid it. However, you're basically forced to stealth kill around sand gates. If you don't, infinite enemies pour out of the gate until you die. Although if you can stealth kill all but one or two, you could off the last few in free-form and be safe as long as you're quick. Thankfully there's less combat on narrow platforms, where a wrong move could send you plummeting to your death (which, while rewindable, was a pain in the BUTT in WW).

What, not CoD? 1. Am not. 2. Which is why it would be funny, Cap'n.

Dark Prince has grown on me a lot...although I hate parts where you scan the terrain and see nothing...and die from lack of time because you didn't run up the wall and chain-swing in the right place. I saw the game up at Gamestop for $29.99 (curiously not at EB though, so I guess it's just GS, which also knocked down SVR2k5 to $39.99 for 3 days only), so come on and get it already if you haven't.

"Zero's animations were redone, and rainy turtloid had very few frames. Otherwise nothing too bad compared to X4 or 5" X5 had choppiness too, but it was very apparent in x6. And Zero having fewer frames wouldn't have mattered if he controlled better, but he didn't. "There were some duds, but I can say that about any X game. There were however some good ones. Commander Yammark, Blizzard Wolfang, Blaze Heatnix, High Max, Dynamo and Gate were fine. Sounded like crap? I'm not sure what a giant mecha turtle is supposed to sound like but I didn't see any problem with the voices." Every voice was like "dull Japanese guy reading script while apparently falling asleep." The Yammar option was useful during actual gameplay--but pretty much the other weapons were dull and useless. Dynamo was nothing new, High Max was a nice design, but the regular Mavericks were pretty lazy designs. Yammark was a total wuss. Scaravich was apparently some sort of joke that made it until the final game. Rainy Turtloid was...big. Yeah, big. Pretty much it. "Besides obvious intentional things like X's sabre and Zero's buster I didn't notice this. All the PSX games are pretty sluggish compared to the Snes ones." It just never seemed to control very well. Zero was massively toned down from even X5 (in which he was toned down from X4 even), to the point where he never seemed to do what you need to do. X's saber of course was slow as all hell, but I know that was intentional. There seemed to be lots of inconsistent lag in the controls. "There are other measures, such as quitting the level or killing yourself or moving offscreen. I'm not saying it's great but there are ways around it." I could have sworn that if the reploids are zombified, even if you die it's been done and you would have to re-load the entire game. If I'm wrong, my bad, but I seem to recall it being a pain in the BUTT regardless. The fact that MMX5 is my second favorite X game (behind the original) also heavily colored my opinion of X6.

Onimusha 3 is the best. It has Jacques.

She'll commit suicide and be eaten by Mark Henry.

Everybody hates DMC2, though. I have no comment since I haven't really played it, though. 1 and 3 are good, but hard. Onimusha 1 is really dated. 2 is good but 2nd half of the game is lame. Onimusha 3 is aces.

Can you imagine trying to talk to a salesperson if they ask why you took the game back?

GTAs are too obvious as far as answers. The sidequests and screwing around can provide plenty of gameplay without advancing the story, so you can play it a lot and not finish. I've got tons of games that are really good, that I love playing, but have not completed due to lack of time. Yet I have mediocre games I stuck with and beat. Odd. I routinely have IM convos with Renegade, who is blowing through several good games, and I have had little time to sit down and enjoy those same games because of work. Yech. We need another gaming industry crash so I can catch up.

Maybe you like completely linear games without any incentive to replay old levels, but it's not really an issue for me as long as it isn't tedious (like Warrior Within). X4 was *really* easy, though. However, X1 is still one of the best Mega Man games, period.

Leelee is a largely worthless poster, and never has anything remotely worthy of discussion to say. That said, she isn't as much of a blatant, mouth-shitting asshat as Mike. She's more like Besus.

I was going to mention ZotE2, but it's hard to find cheap. Of course, it is worth the usual $25 asking price, but I've gotten it for 10-12 bucks at pawn shops. It's one of the best mecha games I can recall on any system. However, I feel the Jak series is...not worthy of its massive sales, IMO. The first game is a generic 3D platformer where you collect lots of crap. Jak II lets you collect lots of crap, but you are thrown into a sandbox-style city with boring missions. And lots of racing. Tons of racing. Too damn much racing. The platforming is drastically reduced, disappointing me greatly. The weapons suck, too. Jak 3 is pretty much the same thing, too. the Ratchet games are better than all of the Jak games, IMO.

Good, cheap PS2 games? VF4 is an excellent way to go. Evo contains a few extra features, but it also is missing some features from regular VF4. I think Anya has both and could elaborate a bit more. Although she'll also say "Get Tekken 5, it's better" as well. BTW, check pawn shops. I scored God of War for 15 bucks from one. One of these days I'm going to play it again, but it's massively overated IMO. The entire Ratchet and Clank series is ace. You could get 1 for 8 bucks or less. Going Commando is even better. Up Your Arsenal is harder and more combat-based than the other two, though. War of the Monsters is a cool King of the Monsters style game...it's usually about 25 bucks in stores, but hit pawn shops, try Sears (got it for 10 bucks there recently), and half.com and you could get it for less. If you like shooters, Castle Shikagami 2 is a well-spent 10 dollar game. Plus the translation is hilarious, too. Get a Katamari game. Believe the hype. Xenosaga? It's your money I guess, but I wouldn't recommend it. Get Kingdom Hearts, or just wait for Kingdom Hearts 2. You want gimmicks, a unique battle system, a bizaare story, and maybe on top of that some top-notch voice acting? There ya go. KH2 will be even better. Phantom Brave is a good introduction to Nippon Ichi games, although if you like it, keep in mind their rarer/more expensive games are better. DQVIII is really good, but probably a bit too derivative and old-school for what you're shooting for. DDS and any other MegaTen game that made it Stateside is worth a go. If you like wrestling games, Rumble Roses can be picked up for about 15 bucks, and it plays better than most of the WWE games. Yukes went with an awful new stat system from HCTP on that continues to plague and unbalance the gameplay. And for every improvement they make, they screw up something else. Rumble Roses is very arcadey, and lacks play modes, but is still a quality title. Onimusha 3: Onimusha 1 and 2 were like Resident Evil with swords. This is an action title with prerendered backdrops, OTOH. Two characters, cool story and mood, great gameplay, and dirt cheap. It's like 10 bucks these days and is highly underrated. Klonoa 2: A great platformer even if it is very old-school. My first PS2 game. Ape Escape 2: Not as long perhaps as the original game, but still an excellent, hellafun title that actually makes use of the dual analogs. Hard to find, but when you do find it, you can nab it for under 20 easily.

The animation was extremely poor. Sprites for existing characters I could swear had animation hacked out. The bosses sucked. Looked like crap. Sounded like crap. Weapons were pretty crap too. Controls seemed more sluggish than the other games. The translation was either done on a weekend by a 1st semester class of Japanese students learning English, or it was written from scratch by the Mega Man Robot Naming Committee. Reploids can either be rescued the first time you find them...or if the Nightmares get to them, they become EVIL ROBOT ZOMBIES YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO KILL! You can miss some parts and then be unable to retrieve them on the same game. I'll take X3 over it anyday.

Battle and Chase being 'meh' is kind of expected. It's just the novelty of having it there. Mega Man Soccer isn't very good at all, but plenty of people want that. X6 is laziness all around and I don't plan on even touching it if I can help it. Likely they'll want you to play it to unlock something, though.

Pretty much everyone I know who played X-7 would disagree with you there--but I didn't play it, so no comment. X-8 I think is fun. Does it being easy make it a bad game? That's a poor argument. However, X6 started a huge downslide of quality. X5 had a few development shortcuts taken on it, and not all of the innovations worked well, but I really liked it and it was harder/more fun overall than X4, IMO. The best part about the collection is that x2 and x3 alone would each cost 2-3 times the amount of the entire MMXC.

Shelton's momma be comin' to Raw nek week!