Anya

The lack of new Buffy is KILLING me.

The data comes from NPD. The same group that provides data for magazines and others in the press. And yes to all your questions.

Those numbers are US only. Yes, the PS2 is that dominant. The worldwide numbers are even worse for the others. Xbox in Japan is a joke.

PS2 is back to outselling both. Console sales in Jan: PS2: 488,000 Xbox: 241,000 Gamecube: 114,000 GC production was stopped a long time ago.

Psi Ops isn't that long. Only about 9 hours or so. Good though. Metal Gear Solid 2 is a really good action/stealth game with a heavy emphasis on story. There's always Kingdom Hearts. I really liked X-2. It's funny and cute and Paine is cool.

Well, it's a Tekken beat em up, but it's not really like Tekken Force. TF just put the regular Tekken gameplay into a beat em up setting. DW is a completely seperate game. The controls are nothing like regular Tekken. They're simplified, with a punch, kick and block button, and you can lock onto baddies and jump, double jump and climb onto ledges. There's some adventure elements. You have to find some items and there's even some puzzles. Oh, and it sucks. The arcade games are really cool. I sort of wish I hadn't bought the real things now.

No, nothing. You get Devil Jin and the boss stages the first time through but you can get those just by playing 200 games in the normal modes. The second time through you can pick up these red Devil icons that give you a free custom item, but they're nothing you can't normally buy in the store.

Whooo I'm playing T5 now! This is so good.

The game was nearly finished and a working pcb does exist. It was up for sale on ebay a few years ago. Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter is another canceled game that would have been cool.

I bought it and completed it. It's ok. It is just like Max Payne without the bullet time. You can still dive and roll though. The big difference is that if you walk up to a baddie you can do a quick kill, which are kind of like Tenchu's stealth kills but without the, you know, stealth. These look really cool. punisher will like stab them in the face, or shove a grenade down their mouth. There's tons of them. The other big gimmick is interogating people. You can grab baddies and then decide how to interogate them, like pointing your gun to their head, choking them or slaming their head into the ground. It sort of goes into a mini game where you have this little bar and you have to apply just the right amount of pressure. Too little pressure and they won't talk, too much and they'll die. They will tell you stuff like where items are or warn you of an upcoming ambush. There's also special interogations, which appear as a flashing icon on the floor. If you grab a baddie and walk him over to them they activate. They are all environmental interogations, like putting them in a saw, smashing their face through a window or hanging them over a railing. The game is pretty fun, but it's unpolished and you're doing the same 30 seconds of gameplay over and over for 10 hours. The interogations are a lot of fun, but the censoring sucks. They're all in black and white and you never really see anything. And the EA threads suck. We need more fighting game threads.

The way the MKDA intro is set up doesn't show the full fight between Kahn and the Deadly Alliance. It was actually really epic and Kahn almost won. They talk about it more in Konquest.

Well, how do they explain that each Bond looks slightly different? They don't. So how would they explain that Bond is just the name for Agent 007? They don't. As a franchise, they've been willing to add and drop things as necessary, so why not the idea that James Bond has always been the one person? Because it makes no sense in the context of the Bond universe and isn't necessary. The audience accepts that he looks different and never ages. So why bother coming up with an explination for him looking different again? Why change 40 years of history if you don't have to? I mean, ok, you COULD, but WHY? Also, if you say it's a different guy people wouldn't see him as the true Bond. I know I wouldn't. It would just put even more emphasis on the fact that he's black. The best way to make a black Bond accepted is NOT to make a big deal out of it.

M and Q are just titles and positions. It makes sense that the old ones would retire and new ones would take over. To try to say that Bond is just a title would be a lot different. How would you explain it? That each actor has been a different Bond? That doesn't work. There's more than just "in jokes", like In For Your Eyes Only you have Moore visiting the grave of the wife who married the Lazenby Bond. I wouldn't have a problem with a black actor playing Bond if it was done seriously and not as a joke or gimmick but the best thing to do would just be to not "explain" it at all. You don't need to. It's established and accepted by the fans that Bond changes actors every 4 or so movies and that he is timeless. He started out in the cold war and now it's modern day and he still hasn't aged. That's just Bond. There is no need to make up some explination. Trying to say it's been different guys would go against the past movies and make him harder to accept.

The IGN review From the vids and pics it looks lame. Genesis level graphics, messed up sound, gameplay that's way too fast and a bunch of minor details they got wrong(like the font and lifebars). Why bother making this if it isn't going to be arcade perfect? There's plenty of ports of this game for every system. Supposedly the controller is based on the arcade cabinet, but I'm not really seeing that at all. I will still buy this though.

In two seperate rooms. 8 in one, 4 in the other.

I must own all MK games.

That would make no sense. If you watch the movies closely it is obvious it's the same guy. Just the last movie had a bunch of references to his past missions...

Gavok made the same mistake. Yeah, I am the one who e-mailed him about it. I've contributed a lot to that FAQ. He wasn't in the first MK3. Yes, he appeared in UMK3, but then you run into the same contradiction in MKT. Yeah, but UMK3's story overrides MK3. Regular MK3 doesn't exist in the storyline. CSZ was added in the same game as Reptile so it's not like the story was outdated either. That would mean he couldn't be anyone who was ever playable or fightable in any MK game up until that point. MKT has everybody, and on PS1 even has the bosses. Yeah, exactly. I've never claimed to know who it is. In fact I actually don't think it was ever anyone at all. I think John Tobias wrote the ending just trying to be all vague and mysterious just for the sake of it. All the UMK3 endings suck, especially for the hidden characters.

I pointed out to you that you were wrong; the *actual* text says nothing of the sort. It was vague enough that it implied that, but never really said anything concrete other than "this person isn't a new character, and will be in MK4" Look at the first sentence.... Having been killed in the first tournament, Sub-Zero somehow seems to have emerged to win the third tournament. However, upon removing his mask both the Outworld and the Earth-born warriors are shocked to discover the true identity of this warrior. A warrior who has long been missing from a previous Mortal Kombat, and one who will return in the fourth tournament. How can it be any more clear? It says he is thought to be the dead Sub come back to life, however when he takes off the mask everyone is shocked to see who it is. The wording makes no sense if it really IS the older Sub. That'd be saying "Having died in MK1, Sub-Zero somehow seems to have come back to life to win MK3. However when he removes his mask everyone is shocked to discover it's actually the old Sub having come back to life.". WTF? Yeah, nobody knows what original Subbie's face looked like. Are you implying--*gasp* the MK developers leave plotholes everywhere? I thought it fit pretty well? What is it now, "it fits pretty well....ok except for that massive plot hole..."? ...he could arguably make as much sense as Classic Sub-Zero as anyone, maybe more. Remember "a warrior who has long been missing from a previous Mortal Kombat, and one who will return in the fourth tournament" doesn't rule out people already included in UMK3/Trilogy. How would Reptile fit the description of being "long missing from a previous Mortal Kombat"? Noob's Kanoriffic appearance actually conflicts with "long been missing" if you buy it as canon, though. Why wouldn't it be canon? And forget Wavenet UMK3, Noob is fightable in every version of MK3. He even has a story and ending in SNES and Genesis. I don't see how anyone can say it "fits the known facts REALLY well". You have to ignore that the ending says it's someone else. You have to ignore the fact that almost nobody on Earth and Outworld know what old Sub looks like. You have to ignore that Noob is already in the game. You have to ignore that there's no reason for him to dress up like Sub and start randomly fighting other than to explain an old dropped story. I guess you can ignore or explain away those things, but then all you're really left with is "well it kinda sorta fits....it MIGHT be him....it's possible!" but I mean really, you could also say that about Kintaro too.....

All of the bios in MKD are like that. Like Sub-Zero is still listed as an enemy of Scorpion despite the fact that they haven't been feuding in years. It's weird and dumb. I guess those stats are supposed to be kind of like based on the entire series.

Ok, so, apparently they actually do have stories and are back from the dead. How lame... Official bios: Shao Kahn Place of origin: Outworld Alignment: Evil Foes: Kitana, Raiden, Liu Kang My defeat at the hands of the Earthrealm warriors had left me weakened, and my dominance in Outworld was waning. Kitana's forces were closing in. It was only a matter of time before they would overrun my stronghold. Using a powerful magical item retrieved long ago by my minions, I created a clone of myself to draw my enemies' attention while I escaped into the wild. When I have regained my strength, I will destroy all who have opposed my rule. Goro Place of origin: Outworld Alignment: Evil Allies: Shao Kahn Foes: Baraka, Kitana Kitana's army allied with my Shokan warriors in an attempt to destroy my old master, Shao Kahn. It was rumored that he has weakening and that our victory was inevitable. During the last battle against Kano's milita, however, I was attacked from behind by a shadow warrior, Noob Saibot. I do not know for how long I lay dying on the battlefield, but when I regained consciousness, I was greeted by the last person I expected to see... Ok, so Kahn had a stand-in. I can see that. But he didn't bother to tell any of his cronies like Kano or Reptile? Um, ok. And Goro's makes no sense. Kitana was at his side when he died. His body was dunked in lava as his burial. The only explination Ican see is that the mystery man who he sees is Kahn who makes a clone Goro but that would just be dumb. I hope these stories end up being non-canon....

They need a better lineup before I'll buy it. The only thing I'm really all that into is Darkstalkers, and it's just a new version of a REALLY old game. I own the PSX and arcade versions of Savior, why should I be hyped for this? OMG you can be the Hunter version of Victor!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll pass. I didn't care when it was on DC and I don't care when it's on PSP.

Just cool to have as a collactable.

MMX collection is good. Capcom collection needs classic arcade games. The thing that sucks about all the great beat em ups is that their based on licences. A compilation of AVP, Punisher, D&D and Cadilacks and Dinos would be great.

I've never seen that. Sounds like it'd be really hard to manage. Did everyone hear about the $100 special edition T5 for PS2? I'm gonna get it, even though I won't use the stick.