AndrewTS

Circuit City has a nasty habit of putting out juicy coupons for $x off of purchases over 100 bucks...then they specifically exclude game consoles like douches. Although their markdowns tend to be pretty awesome. I've often gotten tons of great deals on games there, especially portable titles.

Well said.

I assume no one here has a solution for this? A friend obtained such a version of CS2...which he can't use because of the authorization thing. Anybody find a workaround?

I disagree on Game Informer. I think their reviews are utter trash, and the magazine's only worth are the coupons, and the fact that they get exclusive previews (which are usually because GI's incestual relationship with Gamestop makes them an indirect avenue for game publishers to hock their games well in advance). Game Informer often amuses me too because you never know what crap/questionable upcoming game will be picked as a golden child that you TOTALLY MUST RESERVE, D00D! You will get tons of bullshots and a lot of fluff on what the game will allegedly play like one day when they've finished building the engine for the game. See: Conan, Red Steel, Kane and Lynch. Kane and Lynch might actually be good, but it's apparently the next big thing that nobody knows about or cares about at this point. I think you play as a pair of cops, and you shoot people. The previews for Superman Returns The Game and Batman Begins are especially hilarious, compared to the final products. But they got massive cover features because EA probably ponied up some fat dough for the coverage. GI's exclusives are typically Ubisoft and EA, regardless of whether the game they are covering is worth a damn.

I'd only recently heard of this title...looks great: Penny Arcade was the first I'd heard of it... Gameplay looks pretty good... http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/odinsphere/index.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynxGDuId74...ted&search= Impressions look positive... http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3157062\ http://ps2.ign.com/articles/783/783630p1.html Plus, it kind of helps that I've been playing Super Paper Mario, which is terrific, and seems to bear a lot of gameplay similarities to this game. Also, I sense a Valkyrie Profile influence in the gameplay and theme as well. Anyone here able to comment on it's long lost ancestor, Princess Crown?

Go figure. The rule of thumb is to expect next to nothing and always check to see what the going secondary market price is for the games. However, for an offer like that, it's complete and utter bull to do that. They also put some of the better trade in values on their site, too.

There are a lot of folks in the TSM community who don't actually watch WWE (anymore). I gave up on it quite a while ago. Plus, this is a smark board anyway. I'm pissed that this is playing at my local theater--my local *A* theater FGS, but nowhere near me is playing Hot Fuzz.

LOL So what does the ad for the offer say?

Because all WWE has are writers who got rejected/fired/whathaveyou from stations like The WB and UPN, ass-kissing yes-men, and the boss' daughter? Because Vince's drinking water is laced with many, many things, among them pure Stallonium? Because most of the people who watch WWE week-in, week-out are probably dumb louts whose minds couldn't really comprehend much more than boom-boom action flicks and crap slasher junk? Because these movies are done on shoe-string budgets and most of the "stars" can't act beyond standing in a ring, yelling about how they will to beat somebody up and spouting gay jokes? I'll take all of the above, Alex. Yeah, but man, Pulp Fiction was good. Man, Pulp Fiction kicked ass. Man, Pulp Fiction was so long ago. ....and I liked Jackie Brown....

That's mentioned in the link I posted. Acclaim always strived to suck in new and innovative ways. Not content to just pay for licenses to make crap games off of, they actually bought a 4th rate comic publishing company so they could make crappy games off of them.

That's doable under 40. I was thinking more along the lines of Panzer Dragoon Saga, Suikoden 2, and PSX Valkyrie Profile.

It doesn't really matter if it's fake or not, this will come back to bite Sony in the BUTT big time. Like, PETA burns down their headquarters big time. Also, it's just plain wrong and sick, even to just joke about. It's like something Acclaim would do in their dying days. Ah, yes.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/28/uk-paper...-god-of-war-ii/ Elaborate farce? Brilliant marketing?

Well, since 20 GB is dead that's gotta be equivalent to 200 bucks trade in for 10 games. I'm assuming that's current-gen non-sports titles, but even so that's not too bad. On the typical PS2 game trade in EB/GS usually give you a dollar and a wad of belly button lint.

Unless it's out of print and difficult / not currently possible to emulate...

I'm not really committed to defending or praising Battle Royale, but... Incidentally, what is the prevailing opinion about Fight Club? QT's body of work? Etc.? As much as I respected Trish as a performer when I watched WWE, there would be only two reasons I'd watch a movie with her in it, and they would best be displayed prominently, often, and doused in water and/or oil. I wouldn't put it past WWE to experience with a Diva in a romantic comedy. But their version of a romantic comedy will have no fewer than 3 big explosions in it.

Somewhat. What was lame about that and what's lame about this is that by the time the budget versions come out, retailers have already gone below the original MSRP and gotten close to or met that $30 budget release price. Granted, Gears probably is going to stay up there forever (Best Buy has it for 50 bucks which is the lowest I've seen out of major retailer), but most other games have seen a steady decrease in price. I could buy Dead Rising for 40 bucks now, or wait Lord knows how long for the Plat version, which by then the game will be $30 most places anyway. Or, I could go to the secondary market and get both Gears and Dead Rising for about 30ish each right now. I was loving it when top-tier console releases were coming out at 40 bucks. However, if this type of thing continues companies will suffer and it'll be Gamestop raking in all the profits. Bah. I guess what I'm getting at is that gaming is an expensive hobby and is getting even more expensive. So I probably deserve run over with the Obviousmobile. I'd wait until Wii gets Player's Choice releases before declaring that.

Anyone been able to score a copy? Nobody in my area seems to have it, and still waiting on my Amazon shipment. Nice little write-up on the game, with gameplay footage: http://www.destructoid.com/super-bargain-b...tar-31239.phtml So if you see it, buy it. Buy 2, they're cheap!

Saint's Row has gone Platinum. $30 for "budget" releases is sucky, though. The downside of next gen.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Steel in it, but his origin/backstory has already been done in Superman: TAS. Yet he's an established DCAU character that was in the original story too.

Apparently they are going to smash Death of/World Without a /Return of all in one movie. That's going to be a huge cluster of something...

It is probably just to ensure Disaster stays exclusive. Plus I'm sure somebody likes Baiten Kaitos. 3D Pokemon RPG with 10 minute cutscenes, though? Please look forward to it.

He's better as an adviser. Kutaragi's an engineer, but as a PR guy he sucks. He's just too boring. He'll still have a job, though, so I shed no tears for him. There will be lots more ****canning to come at Sony, though.

I've been trying Opera too. So far it's working out very well.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/crackdown/new-cra...soon-255329.php Kind of late coming, but looks pretty cool. Plus the "Reset Gangs" option should be in as well.