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GI JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEE!!!!! (I had to.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> *Backstage segment of Psychosis humping Stacy--she pulls the mask off, screams*

"Am I late for kicking Hassan in the nuts?"

I heard a crowd reaction. How drunk is this crowd?

"Have I had you job to me this year yet?"

Mr. Benjamin prefers Colt 45? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Or he drinks THE EDGE!! ...not that one.

I'm already sick of Austin.

King is one to be making fun of Jackson...

Foley? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That video package reminded me of that awful, embarassment of a segment he did with Hassan.

Fuck Foley.

Ditto.

Batgirl's playable in Rise of Sin Tzu. It's just a beat 'em up game, but it's not a bad one. You upgrade your moves as you progress and gain more cash. The moves are mostly combos and all of them are basically executed by button-tapping. You can play also play as Batman (duh), Nightwing, and Robin. Oh, and downloaded a ROM of the GBC Catwoman game. Starts off promising enough--Talia tries to get Catwoman to steal something for her father from a museum, but Catwoman wants it for herself. Game begins... *Bad* graphics. GBC can do much better. Passable for a very old GB game, but not something this recent. Sound--nasty. No sound effects, and an annoying little tune that loops really quickly. It's ambitious in some respects. Tons of moves are included--you have multiple melee attacks--kicks, scratches, upward slash. Regular jump and a backflip jump. You can hold up to "sidestep" to avoid any hits or enemies. You can swing with your whip (I haven't found a consistent way to do it), climb ledges, and wall-kick off the sides of platforms to reach higher areas. Your enemies are generic guard dog and generic guard. You go through about 20 huge and friggin' boring-looking sections of the museum with nothing interesting to see or do, then get bored and shut your emulator off. The control completely and utterly sucks. No surprise there. I have no idea how to do the whip-swing, but jumping forward and keeping the jump button pressed down seems to most consistently pull it off.

Few other random notes: Batman: Dark Tomorrow has a bad rep--anyone play it? It's been often mentioned that the cover is the best part of it. I'd seen the Kemco (publishers for DT) name on a Game Boy Color Catwoman game (not based on the movie). I'm guessing that one is crap, too.

I thought Genesis Returns was awful. Just-okay graphics, TERRIBLE animation, crap sound, bad controls (stiff, hard to avoid hits well, and the animation made enemies move around faster than they should). Very unsatisfying. Swinging around with the grapple shot was the best part, IMO, and nice selection of gadgets. The Genesis B&R I found is very polarizing. Either you love it or hate it. Plenty of things done right, but plenty of things done wrong at the same time. Askew: I didn't play much of this one (never owned it_, but seemed okay. The music was surprisingly good for a Genesis game (certainly better than the Returns music. I kind of liked the big screens/smaller sprites, but they could have done more with that. I just tried a ROM of it. Dang, it seems they maxi-sized his sprite to take more hits. Nice visuals though. What's the point of ducking if you don't actually duck under hits, though? And yeah, it's more of a run-n-gun game than it should be. Genesis' palette isn't so hot either, really. Notice how grainy and washed-out everything else is, even? Sure, the environments look pretty cool and are highly detailed, but likely at the expense of making Batman a nicely shaded black. Agreed on SNES Returns, Forever, both AoB&R games; most of the others I hadn't played.

Marry Hillary Duff?

Michael Jackson will return in "Jenkins family vs. Michael Jackson," coming summer 2007!

No. Rare's exclusive to Microsoft these days. But an N64 + Conker these days is less than buying L+R, but the framerate hurts on the 64 version.

I smelled BS from the beginning, but having HBK put him over like that? What kind of idiots does this guy take us for? He could have at least put in a part where HHH beats him. That I could believe.

The Game Boy Batman games were pretty hard, too, like the NES one. Return of the Joker on Game Boy--yow, I could barely make it to the 3rd level. JLTF is a fun crappy fighter. Sometimes I pull that when friends are over. I love whupping Superman's ass with Batman. But Cheetah's my fave. Cheap as hell and really quick. They apparently put more effort into her sprite than most of the rest of the game. Too bad Capcom never got a chance to do a DC fighter, let alone the fanboytastic possibility of Marvel vs. DC. On the first run of Revenge of Shinobi cartridges on Genesis, Batman's supposed to be one of the bosses. Those carts are supposed to be extremely rare though, but Tips n Tricks posted a screenshot.

As bad as the console Batman Forever was, The Arcade Game was even worse. An awful Final Fight clone with stiff animation, sloppy control, bad/cheap AI, the gameplay was pointless except for racking up big combos (which isn't as fun as it sounds), and was crap even with 2 players. I owned the Saturn version. 16-bit Batman Forever had potential. It looked great for sure, and a well done beat 'em up/platformer mesh could make for a great game. However, it was Batman Mythologies--a fighting game control scheme shoehorned into an action game, complete with the awkward use of the D-pad for jumping. Way too many cheap deaths, too. Ah yes, Genesis Returns. How well I remember that one. That was one of my first experiences of learning the hard way that "identical covers do no mean it is the same game." As I've mentioned before, my favorite Batman game is Adventures of Batman and Robin on SNES. There was also a Game Boy game, Batman the Animated Series, though, also from Konami. Surprisingly, you could play as Robin in that one, unlike AoB&R. It was quite fun, if limited in your abilities. I've alternately heard people say their favorites were also Batman for NES and Return of the Joker for NES. Adventures of Batman and Robin on Genesis had a lot of potential. With a Game Genie, it's a hell of a fun game. However, it's a hard game, and the attack system (for your main weapon, the batarang, to do anything, you have to charge it up. This is time-based, not by holding the button. And an uncharged batarang does practically nothing) crippled any chance of rapid-fire attacks. Shame, because it had two-player mode and *fantastic* visuals and special effects for a Genesis game. If you're a gaming god you might love it, though. I never played Batman and Robin (a PS1 game), but reviews were vicious, it had the Acclaim name, and the source material...meh. Vengeance-- disappointing but on the right track on the consoles. Awful on the GBA. The console version was fun but the controls were floaty, and it's unrealistic to expect players to hit gun-wielding baddies' hands from a long distance away with a batarang to disarm them. A little longer in development for polishing and it could have been a great game. Rise of Sin Tzu-- a decent beat 'em up, but nothing too memorable (consoles). I never played the GBA game. Both Vengeance and Sin Tzu had great cutscenes. Vengeance's especially were awesome because of Joker/Harley. Almost worth playing through the game. A preview for Begins, but it is kind of old. Post any newer ones that might be better if you like: http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3139429&did=2 FYI, the games are being bundled with a few movie pass for Begins. I've seen a 6/13 release date listed in some magazines, but EB's flyer said 17th for the games. Hmph.

*Nod* I'd assumed so but didn't want to pry. Take care. All I know about XII so far, aside from some...odd character designs...is supposedly that the turn-based battle system is gone. That could be a good thing, but I wonder what they'd replace it with. KH's system works well for what it is, but it's far from perfect. Symphonia's is fun, but without multiple players it's less interesting. A close friend of mine is still really hyped for Advent Children though. I'm sure that SE still has quite the devoted community ready to snap it up, but with seemingly the most talented Square people leaving, future Squeenix prospects seem relatively dim as far as quality. Maybe I'll be shocked and XII will r0xx0r5. As for Batman--what the heck, I'll make a thread for it now (replying to you in that one).

Yeah, but TAS did almost everything else fabulously, so it's a minor gripe. They even made the Clock King a fun bad guy, for cryin' out loud.

She was insanely popular in the UK, more so than even here. I guess she's considered bigger and separate from the Tomb Raider games, so even when they're the drizlits like AoD, the character still has potential to make $ (of course, 2nd Tomb Raider movie still bombed, but that coincided with the huge backlash of AoD). Oh, and I wouldn't rule out Crystal Dynamics sprinkling a few bucks G4's way to plug her name again, since they're going to try to revive the franchise. Legend honestly looks like it could be quite interesting, although it seems to have taken a more action-heavy focus, kind of like the last PoP game. And she looks less hideous and closer to an actual human female than ever before.

Why? No Square characters even made it. A few Namcos though. I'd think you'd be more insulted if anything. Unless you wanted to see just how bad it was.

Welcome back Anya; I hadn't seen you on in a while. In response, I'd throw in a "FFXII is gonna blow" comment for kicks, but you'd probably agree. The board's probably going to be dull for a while regardless, since few big game releases come out during the summer, esp. June. By the end of this week we'll probably have a topic on the Batman Begins game, though.

He wasn't *that* bad, but he felt like Poison Ivy, except his rack happened to be on his daughter, his motivations weren't as clear, and he didn't have as many memorable episodes. IMO, the most memorable episodes connected with Al Ghul barely had him in them, like Showdown (Jonah Hex's guest spot) and Off Balance (introduced Talia). Even back when I was a kid I noticed the inconsistency of Ubu stopping Batman from entering first.