AndrewTS

That's been a common complaint of the series from Contra 3 onward, too, though. Less "twitch" game play and more pattern memorization. Not that Contra 3 isn't rad. Although it does appear to be to the extreme in Shattered.

Shattered or Neo? Neo was pretty easy but Shattered was the really hard side scroller.

They wouldn't care, because DVD players are open platforms. You could just as easily play it on a Coby DVD player. However, Sony eventually relented on their UMD anti-porn stance: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2005/06/67759 Of course, that's Japan for you. And the distribution is apparently about the same as other formats of pr0n.

Screenshots and new gameplay info popped up on NeoGIFs. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php...5119&page=5 The screens themselves are from Nintendo Power. An IGN poster got the mag and posted these tidbits.

Fixed. Take Two publishes their games. Yeah, but there weren't titties in it, now was there?

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Home/D3Q7G8S2?page=1 Only?

At least there's more subtlety and *stretching* the truth, instead of the outright lies Apple often manufactures in their marketing.

Speaking of anime, ADV is going to release the Xenosaga anime in the US. So instead of just watching Xenosaga...and occasionally pressing a button on a controller, now you can just watch Xenosaga, occasionally pressing a button a DVD remote.

Correction--the cat in the microwave and neckhole violation and the other stuff posted above is something somebody made up on NeoGAF and it got spread around. Apologies on the misinformation, got it 2ndhand from someone else. So it's back to wondering what got the A-O.

Safari has a purpose on a Mac--getting you to opera.com, mozilla.com, or caminobrowser.org. After that, ah well. On a PC? Not really. Plus this Safari for Windows is buggy as all hell (it's a public beta) and has a hideous look to it (well, it's ugly on Macs too). It's closed-source nature, lack of useful plugins, sluggishness and lack of a useful History feature make Safari a no-go for me. I've heard this "Safari is the fastest!" talk but pretty much exclusively from Apple fanboys. In my own experience--no, it isn't.

Why?

Oh yeah. Contra Force sucked, but it was still the 3rd Contra. However, our Contra 3 was *only* Contra 3 in NA; it was titled Super Probotector in Europe and Contra Spirits in Japan.

ESRB also rates PC games, which have gotten nearly every single A-O game. However, on console--yeah the rating essentially doesn't exist in any practical use. If a game gets an A-O it's a game no major retailer will sell that S/N/MS won't let get released anyway. It's industry censoring itself--how the system is supposed to work, and as long as the industry feels this way this will continue to happen. But if you never play Rockstar games you'd never notice or care. Nintendo/MS/Sony are not actively lobbying the retailers to change their stance because it isn't worth it. 99.999999% of games released can fall between the E to M guidelines. When this is over the matter will slip from the communities' minds until the next R* game comes out, or unless SNK Playmore is insane enough to try to get Doki Doki Majin Shinpan released here. At the very least Sony/Nintendo can/will file an injunction if that's done. Take-Two would never do that, though. The hardware makers have final say on anything released on their systems. They could probably sue Rockstar too. What recourse does Rockstar have except to make the fringe games like this exclusive to PC?

Hard Corp was a totally different game than C3, although the GBA game meshed together content from both games. It would be more Contras than that, when you consider that after Contra HC, there was also Legacy of War, C: The Contra Adventure, Contra: Shattered Soldier and Neo Contra.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/person...appropriate.htm Moot in this case because there's no xbox or 360 version, but it's the same as Nintendo's policy. Oh, and Sony says the same thing: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6172830.html So there you have it. Either the game gets edited for content, or it doesn't come out on consoles. Not because OMG NINTENDO TEH KIDDY!!!, but because each and every major console manufacturer will not allow it. Maybe that's what you were told, although I wouldn't put it past any company to lie in their marketing materials, since a lot of it is little more than propaganda. If a provision like that was altered it probably wouldn't have been forgotten about and would have gotten more coverage. Passing laws that make ESRB mandatory for all games sold *and* doling out heavy fines from the state for violations are exactly what many senators and watchdog groups are proposing/lobbying for/voting on all the time. Yet the bills either don't pass or are overturned. I've never heard it mentioned that they were used before when these matters have been covered.

http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2007/6/20-35 While I don't feel guaranteed quality is there, what with Wayforward's other platformers being nothing like Contra, I'm eager to see what they can do with the series and glad to see more output from them.

As opposed to the Xboxes and PS2/PS3, where A-O games romp and play with glee everywhere you look. Or not... Has Sony ever made it clear what their stance is on AO games? Or MS towards AO Xbox games? And GTA: SA doesn't count.

Source? I know it certainly isn't that way now: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/faq.jsp And for comparison, here's a snippet from wikipedia on A-O games. Until ESRB says otherwise, I'll continue to believe it was sexual content that got the A-O. Or maybe, *just maybe* the testicle chopping. Industry analysts are saying whatever Take Two does, it's probably going to cost them a hell of a lot of money. They can either have the game edited and resubmit, ship as-is (not an option for the Wii version), or try to appeal the rating and bitch to the board. What's amazing is that this apparently wasn't blatantly obvious to them that the game's content would be a problem. Manhunt makes Grand Theft Auto look like Kingdom Hearts. Ultimately, what these companies did to themselves is going to cost them more than anything Jack Thompson could do himself, which is hilarious.

AO is 18. That clerk was just jerking you around. However, the store can sell it to you no matter what age you are. The ESRB ratings are, just like film ratings, voluntary and industry-enforced. Wal-Mart doesn't carry A-O games or sell M games to minors because it's store policy. Gamestop only recently started to crack down on employees who didn't check IDs, but it was still store policy not to sell M games to anyone under 17. The A-O rating is pretty much pointless because of the stance of major retailers. The big stores will not sell games that don't have an ESRB rating, because they choose not to. If you don't submit for an ESRB rating, major retailers won't carry it. If you submit and get an A-O...well, they still won't carry it. An A-O game may as well be an unrated porn game. So an A-O rating does nobody any good. Chances are if you're getting that rating, it's on a hentai game that a publisher will likely slap their own content label on and sell through porn shops or secluded sections of anime/manga stores. So those don't need ESRB ratings anyway, because again, they're voluntary. If it's not one of those games...well, those are about the only places that are willing to carry it, anyway.

They'll edit it and resubmit. Get an M. I expect testicle-chopping to stay and bare breasts/sexual content to be removed. Nintendo may have that policy, but it doesn't matter. There's no way the AO rating will hold because Take-Two knows an A-O game is DOA on retail. Money will rule the day. Not that Manhunt is, was, or ever will be little more than ultraviolent trash.

My slim has held up very well, and I got it just after it was introduced. Although, I'm still wary of playing it for any long periods because of the lack of a build in fan, and it's annoying how it gets rather noisy when playing most PS1 games over a half hour. Anyone else notice that? However, Sony seems to have gotten their act together with their HW reliability. Aside from PSP dead pixels the system seems to be doing fine, and PS3 doesn't appear to be having any major reliability issues--well, save for spotty sixaxis connections.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/06/a...0_failures.html

Shadowrun doesn't even have 1P, does it? I tried the Vampire's Rain demo. Seems kind of eh. If it's any indication of the final game, it's all about stealth and sneaking around while trying to avoid vampires that are like spring-loaded tiger people on crack. Surely the full game gives you *some chance* against them? I thought I could shot at one in the head from a safe distance only to have it no-sell, spring up like 30 feet and kill me in 2 seconds. It seems like a 2nd rate splinter cell with vamps.

I personally found it to be an utter POS. Or maybe it was just WinXP. Hard to tell. A wireless router costs about the same or less, get one.