Anya

Wow, I just watched Fredless a few hours ago at work. Her parents do rule, especially the dad. The whole thing with the head is funny.

Second level or so. Like with the assault rifle, you will shoot guys and it's like the game goes into slow mo.

I liked EA's other Bond games, but this one is nothing like them. I don't see how you couldn't notice how slow it is. The game is is EXTREMELY slow and I like slow paced FPS.

It especially sucks when you're fighting scrubs and newbies. I don't want to be stuck playing as Kazuya against them, that's when it's fun to bring out Kuma and Marduk. One cool thing about the Ghost AI is that your ghost can actually earn you money. Julia's without elbows is pretty sad though. I'm sure my Kazuya will do crap like 10 strings, u/f+4 and b+14 all day. I'm going to pimp my Kazuya out in some devil gear. He'll have the third eye, the wings and the tail with his purple suit. It will rule. Oh, and his new throw looks cool. I hate the motion though. All those throws that start off with D and then go to d/f are obnoxious. Chains of Misery, Rock Bottom....they're all cool, but need a better motion. At least D is back to ducking. I hated how in T4 with crappy sticks(and what sticks are not crappy after like a day of use by little kids?) it was impossible to block low or duck. I had the machine to myself for about a hour before close. I fought Jinpachi like 10 times. He isn't really that hard, not like a SNK boss or anything, but he's probably the best boss Namco has had in a 3D fighter. His two handed strike with the huge guardstun is pretty crazy, especially if he does the fireball after it. I actually saw him do two fireballs in a row one time. I was fighting some masher and he started marking out when I parried one of the kicks in a Hwoarang canned string. He was freaking out like it was a new feature, saying it was a guard impact from SC. Was pretty depressing.

It's Gunn. When Gunn jumps in the car later he says he got a phone message that sounded like the captain of the Titanic going down with the ship.

Namco needs to install some kind of electric shock security system that would zap any moron who put gum into the slots or pulled on the sticks way too hard.

It was a sign from the Powers That Be that she was meant to live on. She basically says that herself.

All I can say is GE sucks and I liked EA's previous Bond FPS too. It's NOTHING like them though.

Finally got to play today. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Throws are good again! Thank god the throw escape is gone and 1 escape throws are back. I like how you can hold forward to do a lunging throw and the new escapes are very cool looking. I played a ton of Kazuya. I love how they reanimated moves like 112 and Twin Pistons. The new CD+4,1 is cool. I wish they couldn't escape from the WS+2 stun though. I am in love with Feng. He really is like a chinese Paul. I am not too into the cards. I like to switch up characters every match. Not to pick counter characters, but just because I play like 8 different characters and it's fun to switch up. Also, there doesn't seem much that you can actually DO with them. Basically just buy 3 or 4 pieces of clothing for each part of their body. The ghost thing sounds cool, but I doubt the AI will actually work right.

Yeah, that is dumb. In T5 it's only 2 months after T4, so like everybody has learned all these new moves in such a short time. At least most still look the same and haven't gone through any drastic changes in appearance, unlike MKD.... Baek, Roger Jr. and Anna's stories were in Famitsu this week. I was right...Baek really WAS in a coma all this time. That's funny. Roger is AWESOME in T5. You actually control the original's wife, Roger Jr. is in her pouch. I can't wait to play as him.

Maybe he was in a coma for 20 plus years. I really want to see how they explain Baek being alive. Oh, and Wang too. Is he going to be like 100 or what? One thing I hate about the Tekken story is that after the 20 year gap between 2 and 3 a bunch of the characters are too old. Paul, Lei, Lee, ect. are like 50! It's silly how half the cast is middle aged, yet they look and act like they're in their 20s or 30s. They really need to start replacing the older guys, like how they did with Michelle to Julia. It'd be a good way of making characters like Paul more fresh. Replace him with a student, who uses the same style but a bit differently.

I'm sure you can. Maybe not with Mokujin, but surely with the others.

I like the random characters. They're good fun to use when I can't decide who to play as. I especially like how Mokujin changes styles every round. Besides, there's no random select in T5 so Mokujin is needed.

The latest famitsu says PS2 only for now. Jin was by far the biggest tournament winner in T4. I like Kuma a lot. He's bad compared to the others, but it's really funny to use him. I've been playing him "seriously" since T3. Rock N Roll Circus! OMG....reports from Korea are saying 3 time release characters were unlocked at once today. Baek, Roger Jr. and Anna! ROGER IS BACK~! Speaking of funny characters, Roger is so awesome. Love his animal noises. So far all of TekkenZaibatu's "predictions" have been right....so that probably means Bruce, Ganryu, Wang, Devil Jin, Heihachi and Mokujin are left. I can't say I'm too interested in Ganryu or Wang, but I'm hyped for the others. Cool to see Bruce again. Hopefully the knees still own. Also, Eddy was released last week as an alternate outfit for Christie.

No, he didn't. Marduk's juggling ability was pretty weak in T4. The air throw stuff is all new. Everyone from T4 is back except Combot and Heihachi, who might be hidden. Plus there's new characters Raven, Asuka, Feng Wei and Jack-5. There's also the time release characters, who haven't been revealed yet. Nina and Paul were toned down for TTT. Their T4 incarnations were improvements(compared to TTT). Even though they're not as good as they were in T3 both are some of the best characters in T4. Steve IS top tier in T4. There is basically a universal censensus among the best players in the world for that. Some even say he's better than Jin. FLK stance is like the best alternate stance in the game.

Yeah, how the casuals and press take to it just depends on what they add to the PS2 port. I'm guessing they'll load it up with gimmick modes and novelty characters. If that's the plan it's pretty smart. Build the core gameplay to suit the high level scene and then add in all the stuff the press rave about later. Have you seen Devil Jin and Jinpachi yet? I saw the movie of the Korean guys fighting them. They both look cool. It'll be interesting to see how Jinpachi works. He surely won't be playable in his boss form. Maybe only on PS2. And I don't know if you're being sarcastic or what, but Steve was top tier in T4....

I think the consensus right now is that Steve is tops, but it's too early for any serious talk of tiers. The TRCs are not even out. I haven't been able to play it yet. The arcade keeps saying they'll get it in "any day now". I really want to try out Feng.

I've wondered about that for a while now, after seeing Super Symetry. There is no real explination in the ep. It's all very vague. He says nothing about planting the book in the library or anything. It's like they just forgot the original explination. Spike went there to get his soul. Not only does he say it many times in S7, Joss himself has confirmed it. The wording is so vague in the last eps of S6 so that it would be a plot twist. I watched the Wish last night. It's funny to see Anya making fun of Xander, calling him a loser and what not. One thing though. When she is Anyanka in that, her voice is distorted and all demony. How come when she becomes a demon again in S6 it's just normal? Hero, Champion, however you want to put it, she rules.

As far as we know, yes, Kennedy is. Rona too. Blame Willow. What's so hard to see about Anya? She has helped save the world countless times. Maybe not in the way Buffy or Angel do, but she doesn't have their strength. Instead she provides support and information, but is still an estential part of the group. If you don't think she is a champion then whatever, but she is clearly at least a hero and that's something. To go from being a demon to a key member in preventing the apocalypse(4 different apocalypses at that!) is a great acomplishment. Xander should be so proud of her. In memory of a great champion.... 862-2003

YES! I've been over this before.

No, it just makes D'Hoffryn a jerk. Hallie didn't even know what was going on, and she was evil then.

Yeah, she is. Xander should be proud. I wonder what kind of memorial service they had for those who died in the final battle. Also, I was thinking, since Sunnydale was buried and they hadn't packed things, nobody has anything to remember the fallen scoobies. No pictures or things of Joyce, Tara or Jenny. That's so sad.

Yeah, I've noticed. It changes throughout the entire series. In The Wish she sounds like a normal person, then in Dopplegang Land and the rest of S3 and all of S4 she sounds robotic and blunt. Then in S5 and 6 she is all cheerful and overly hyper(which is my favorite). Finally in S7 she always sounds really bitter and sarcastic, but almost normal. She could pass for a human in S7. Except for a few excetions where they make her say something goofy just for comedy. Xander is a good teacher on how to become human. He never gets credit for having help taken a vengeance demon and turning her into a champion. I don't like her attitude in S7. She pisses me off a few times. That goes for most of the group though. Buffy, Willow and Giles are also obnoxious. I hate how the family aspect was ruined in that year. They barely seem to get along.

Halo 2 is GOTY. It needs to stay.

The Plyea arc came about because Julie Benz couldn't work the end of the season. So they blew that off in Reprise and Ephihany. The original idea Tim Minear had for writing Darla off in S2 was for Angel to stake her while having sex and go "Was it good for you?".