AndrewTS

I think it sounds like a much better concept than Blitz: The League. Good luck, 2K.

I havent played Panzer Dragoon Orta on the Xbox, but if its as good as the first two on the Saturn then im all for it. While were on the subject of Panzer Dragoon, i just picked up Panzer Dragoon Saga for my Saturn. Cost me a freakin' fortune! It's way better than the original and it's about on par or better than Zwei IMO. Here are some other folks' opinions: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=551660

My sucky local theaters aren't showing it. I'll have to travel about 50 miles to get to a theater that does. EVERY place around here is playing In the Land of Women though. Meh.

That laptop reminds me how much I really need to get a widescreen HD LCD for this thing.

I don't mean "why don't they do fatalities right away?", I mean "why does Smoke *only* use those bombs then?" The answer if course is that they already set Cyrax's stuff and everything Smoke does uses existing animations (teleport uppercut, his chest hatch opening for the spear, etc.). Although there are games where you can basically finish the match at any time with instant kill moves (Guilty Gear for instance, Killer Instince Gold is a bit lenient with its dead moves, and others). OMG Sonya is a witch! Mushrooms? Steroids? Oh, I have it--the cyber-enhancements!

I like how Cyber Smoke apparently still has his soul but the others did not. Lin Kuei apparently didn't perfect their soul-removal technology and it slipped in to cyber-Smoke. Was it, like, hiding behind his kidney? Plus they can apparently shoot whatever the hell they want out of their chest but chose not to always use it. Smoke has a bajillion bombs in there for his fatality but doesn't use it during battle while Cyrax does. And Smoke shot missiles out his chest in MK Annihilation, but he never does in the game.

Wait, Tobias? Are we talking past tense here? I thought Tobias was long gone from Midway?

Yeah, the Wireless Networking Adapter for 100 U.S. bucks. Music, yes. You can rip CDs. You can also connect an iPod up with USB and play music from it. You can stream music and videos from a PC as well, but as far as storing it on there, I don't know of a way of doing it. Since you can obviously buy and download video through the Marketplace, there's probably a workaround for it to add your own video content. Paging Ripper...

Like, if Deception and Armageddon hadn't been done, dragging the creaky Deadly Alliance engine back? And if instead of them a truely new game was made that was *at least* on par with DoA2's fighting engine? Shaolin Monks was a good time, I think--nonsensical plotholes and all.

The Pack is goofy as all hell, I think. The best part of it IMO is that is referenced when Xander shares his experience with Larry in a later episode, trying to get him to CONFESS to being the werewolf.

Stolen from: Kotaku who stole it from someone else. http://kotaku.com/gaming/ed-boon/mortal-ko...ious-254181.php Interview link: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=162372

It's good news. Don't be an immature jerk about it. I yanked it out of the cabinet and finally played it again, having not had a chance to since I got rid of the old xbox. Runs great, still tremendous fun, and the 360 controller feels so much better. There's still a few obscure games (that most pople won't care about) I'm hoping to see (Voodoo Vince, Spikeout, and perhaps Stranger's Wrath), but Orta, Jet Set, more good fighters (including SF 3rd Strike which is on Anniversary Collection) are great updates.

MEGA MEGA HUGE BC UPDATE FOR 360!!!! http://kotaku.com/gaming/backward-compatib...-omg-253729.php Panzer and Jet Set are finally playable. FANTASTIC!! Oh, and I might check out Oddworld, Neowave, and Breakdown, too.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/sony-reconsi...-ps3-253539.php Sony thinks PS3...just might be a bit too expensive. Gaming community: "Hello and welcome to last year!"

http://kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/ps3-170-firmw...port-253531.php Good news! PS1 game downloads can now be played on PS3 instead of just on PSP! And with v i b r a t i o n ! ?

/me has this: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005AV8O.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg However, the Home button's function as a pause button of sorts must be very handy.

Well, Oblivion is an RPG with a first-person view and real-time combat, but yeah--the ridiculous stats may be daunting for me to actually have fun with it. BTW, I had enough of the 360's sucky dpad and did this mod: http://www.ufighterx.com/guides/videogame/.../360dpadfix.htm I have 2 wireless controllers and did it on them (fortunately I had a torx screwdriver that fit already, but I didn't find the final screw under the bar code label in the battery bay at first). It works very well. Previously it was a hell of a struggle to consistenly do Alucard's spells in SotN or even simple tap motions in umk3--now I do both with ease. This mod was published well over a year ago, since I knew about it but forgot about it since I didn't have a 360. You'd *think* MS would fix it by now. With that done, the 360 pad is almost a perfect standard controller.

Agreed that Char basically sucks. Dawn of Sorrow is 10x better than PoR, BTW. And in the bonus mode, Yoko is a fantastic fighter.

Actually I'm working through the series on DVD myself, and I'm on that season. But the overall arc is rather lacking, and at this point they seemed to have no idea what the hell to do with Giles. Anya (TSM poster that is) and I were simul-playing it and exchanging IMs about it. Her seeing it about a billion times and me for the first time. So far (just seen Pangs) it seems rather disappointing compared to 3.

I have several tri-wings as part of my gamebit set, but even so it's still too large. And DS Lite screws, save for the battery compartment, aren't easily accessed because the screwholes are drawn into the unit a bit. So a melted pen cap is probably out. I'm sure a Nintendo-authorized service center would have them, but I'm not sure how to find out where one near you would be, so perhaps calling Nintendo is worth a shot. Oh, when mole notices this thread.... http://www.rz.uni-hohenheim.de/hardware/ba...assimilated.gif

Big shock--merged thread, no response to that topic. Anyway, I rented Gears of War and Oblivion. Gears is...good, but naturally it isn't going to be one of my faves because of the genre. Terrific production values, graphics, sound, tight controls, your squad AI is actually good, and if squad-based shooters were a genre I enjoyed I'd probably be in gaming nirvana right about now. So, nice game, probably will buy it if I don't finish before I return it. Oblivion, on the other hand, is boring (so far). Granted, I just got out of the dungeon and I know that's not fair to judge it on. However, what the hell do I do now? Just go on with the main quest? Other ideas? Feel free to let me know.

Ok, seems way more fun. I'll consider it when I get more wiipoints.

BTW, at least in Japan, SNK is putting out compilations of Art of Fighting 1-3 and "the first 3" Fatal Fury games on PS2.

Oh. Well, other then taking it apart and wiping apart any excess, you're probably out of luck.

Let it dry out for a while and try it again.