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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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what would you do without me, dess
also i want to play sometime, too
when i get my new creditcard. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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the new mutant empire game is indeed pretty swish, i was dissapointed when it turned out level progression is LINEAR unlike smash tv, but hey, apart from that it seems quite swell from my brief time with the demo. some of my problems from the original game looks like they might still be around, though.
dess you are the resident pinball queen, what do you think of PINBALL FX. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Mutant Storm Empire is fantastic. I noted that one of the acheivments was to complete the whole game without dieing on Black Belt so I tried to play the first level on black belt an... holy hell. I can't see myself getting that for a while and anyone who does I commend you. Pretty great XBLA game. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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Lestrade Bug Fister
Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1760 Location: Toronto
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Well, Mario himself has confirmed that Super Mario Bros. 3 is coming out for the Wii VC tomorrow. I figured it would either be tomorrow or next Monday, but I'm grateful to be excited for something that isn't supposed to be played on my currently dead Xbox.
Gonna trade in some stuff and buy me a Wii Points card tomorrah! It's a-me! The greatest game of all time-io!
Oh, and to get you stoked: that frickin' pants-wettingly awesome Mario 3 commercial from back in the day. That thing gave me goosebumps for months. |
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ryan .
Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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AARRGHHH! Come back to me, Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! All of my trade-in credit is going towards Mario stuff now - 3 and Galaxy. I really want Super Mario RPG though - get on that, Nintendo people. _________________ Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart. |
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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:32 am Post subject: |
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That writeup is kind of... ill-informed and boring. Mario 3 is great and all, and probably worth a download, but we've all played it to death by now, and all owned it at some point. The real news is Alien Soldier -- and I don't even like the game much! Still, another legendary Treasure game that was never released in North America. That is news. Yet another retread of one of the best-selling games in history isn't, particularly.
"OH MY FUCKING GOD! THEY JUST ISSUED A NEW PRINTING OF CATCHER IN THE RYE!!!"
I don't know anything about Power Golf, so I can't comment there. Maybe it's amazing somehow. Maybe it's just a golf game. _________________
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ryan .
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:47 am Post subject: |
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I take my Mario with a yellow cape however I can get it, sir. Despite enjoying the game a bunch, I don't own it in any form, so a VC release is perfect for me. _________________ Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart. |
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aderack .
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:03 am Post subject: |
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Only tanooki tails here.
I still think Nintendo missed a trick by not having Mario really glide the Tanuki way.
Anyway, my point stands. Super Mario 3 is more or less obligatory for anyone with even a passing interest in Nintendo games. Its availability in yet another form is hardly news; it's an inevitability. Yeah, they finally bothered to put it up. Great, might as well download it. Not much to really say here. Alien Soldier, though -- that's worth actually talking about.
I don't mean to dismiss anyone's personal interest in the game (hey, it's one of my favorites too); I'm just criticizing Joystiq's journalistic intuition. It... kind of says a lot, really, about a lot of things. _________________
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ryan .
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:37 am Post subject: |
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Ah, I didn't even follow the link up there. I put Joystiq next to Destructoid on my list of websites to never visit less I want to roll my eyes and sigh heavily. _________________ Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:17 am Post subject: |
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I agree with Aderack, but I didn't want to go bustin' anyones bubble!
Also; Alien Soldier never came to the US? _________________
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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Wow, Alien Soldier, Power Golf, and Mario 3 all in one week? Amazing!
Actually I sort of agree with Aderack on this one as well. Mario 3 isn't huge news except that people who haven't played it will now get the chance. Personally, after playing the GBA version I can never go back. I love the fact that you can get the cape and there are actually brand new levels! Nothing pisses me off more about Nintendo than watching them silently cancel almost all of the Mario 3 e-reader cards. If they released a decked out version of GBA Mario 3 on VC than I could forgive them, but for now I'm going to protest by not buying any VC games this week!
(Is Power Golf an Neo Geo golf game? Because that might change my mind...)
-Wes _________________
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Lestrade Bug Fister
Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1760 Location: Toronto
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Okay, well, I'm just less jaded, I suppose, and will be the only one having fun today; I can live with that. Let me know when you guys plan a party so I can come over and just shit all over everything! We'll be best pals. |
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:17 am Post subject: |
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Lestrade wrote: | Okay, well, I'm just less jaded, I suppose, and will be the only one having fun today; I can live with that. Let me know when you guys plan a party so I can come over and just shit all over everything! We'll be best pals. |
How much room do you have left on your Wii? I think I'm pretty much out of space now...
I don't want a hard drive, but if they would write software that would automatically archive the stuff you haven't been using to your SD card, but leave it on the screen and pull it back out when you want to play it that would be amazing.
-Wes _________________
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ryan .
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:54 am Post subject: |
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I have a handful of games that won't copy over to my SD card. Is there any way around that? I believe it's Military Madness and the Lost Levels that refuse to; a few others brought up error messages when copying but still copied over. _________________ Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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alien soldier! someone tell me how it plays with the classic controller. _________________
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Lestrade Bug Fister
Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 1760 Location: Toronto
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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SuperWes wrote: | Lestrade wrote: | Okay, well, I'm just less jaded, I suppose, and will be the only one having fun today; I can live with that. Let me know when you guys plan a party so I can come over and just shit all over everything! We'll be best pals. |
How much room do you have left on your Wii? I think I'm pretty much out of space now...
I don't want a hard drive, but if they would write software that would automatically archive the stuff you haven't been using to your SD card, but leave it on the screen and pull it back out when you want to play it that would be amazing.
-Wes |
Sorry, huh? I'm not getting the connection here. |
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JasonMoses .
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | alien soldier! someone tell me how it plays with the classic controller. |
Not as well as on a PS2 with a saturn controller! Or a stick!
But still pretty good.
And yeah, Power Golf is just another golf game, haha. |
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Ethoscapade .
Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Lestrade wrote: | Sorry, huh? I'm not getting the connection here. |
as in, you leave an SD card in the wii at all times, it automatically archives anything you haven't played in ~2 weeks to said SD card, yet leaves the channel on the menu, and streams it back to your console when you select it, making the whole business as seamless as possible. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: |
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screwjumper on live arcade: i have no idea what i was just playing. is this some digipen student project? _________________
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Cossix .
Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:25 am Post subject: |
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I don't know, but it's not very interesting. |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Cossix wrote: | I don't know, but it's not very interesting. |
What it lacks in varied gameplay it makes up for in intriguing backstory.
No wait, it doesn't. (What was it, something like miners are angry about losing their job to automation, so they use their BASE jumping skills to exact revenge on their previous employers? I think I would have preferred a pretty, outdoor, Pilotwings like setting and been informed that "in the future, people have gotten really bored, and this is one of the dumb X-treme sports they came up with.")
I didn't even make it down far enough to throw dynamite, or whatever the hell I was supposed to do. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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Cossix .
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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I finished the first level to see if maybe the second level was interesting.
It wasn't.
Jesus. |
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aderack .
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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I just had a dream that Atari Jaguar games were added to the Virtual Console, except the first lineup consisted entirely of ports of really bad Star Trek games originally made for the Amiga. _________________
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 7:00 am Post subject: |
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aderack wrote: | I just had a dream that Atari Jaguar games were added to the Virtual Console, except the first lineup consisted entirely of ports of really bad Star Trek games originally made for the Amiga. |
You hold on to that dream, lil'aderack. You just hold on and never let go. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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So I downloaded Undertow which at first I thought was going to be a neat 3D underwater adventuer but it turns out it's a rubbish multiplayer arcade game? _________________
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JasonMoses .
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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Everything I read about the game described it as a multiplayer arcade game. What did you read that made you think otherwise, and why is it bad? |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't read anything about it, i looked at the title screen and the opening cutscene!
also the game just isnt interesting in any way? _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:12 am Post subject: |
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i saw the sunken ship on the title screen and got excited. then i started playing and it had the same control scheme as half the games on live arcade. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:14 am Post subject: |
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yeah, i mean, I love robotron as much as the next guy (OR GIRL), but the control scheme doesn't have to be used in every damn game. _________________
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aderack .
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:15 am Post subject: |
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I had another dream the other day that my thoughts became sentient and began to attack me.
Oh, wait. What's going on in this thread? _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | yeah, i mean, I love robotron as much as the next guy (OR GIRL), but the control scheme doesn't have to be used in every damn game. |
I remember when the Xbox was launched I watched a report which featured J. Allard (?) skateboarding through the corridors at his workplace and making sure he was filmed playing an original Robotron machine to show that it's 'all about the gameplay'. Obviously he meant that more literally than I thought! |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | yeah, i mean, I love robotron as much as the next guy (OR GIRL), but the control scheme doesn't have to be used in every damn game. |
Yeah, was that "Geometry Wars" that reintroduced the scheme? There was Robotron, then Smash TV, then a few Robotron remakes, and now this batch.
I guess part of the thing is... it's damn easy to write. And/Or designers are like "woohoo! 2 control sticks!" _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: |
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I'm just posting so I can make it a straight run of TEN most recent posts with my name on it, baby |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:48 am Post subject: |
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stop spamming. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:50 am Post subject: |
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mods plz axe. _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Word from the other side of the Atlantic is that Sensible Soccer is back in testing on the MS side and there are rumors of a Wednesday release for either this week or next. |
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Lestrade Bug Fister
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Am I the only one who thinks Asteroids Deluxe looks awesome? I love Asteroids. |
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aderack .
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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that does look good. Don't see why they didn't just expand the play area to fill the screen, though. Wouldn't have changed that much. _________________
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helicopterp .
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Without seeing it on video, it looks like the screen will get terribly cluttered. _________________ Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one. |
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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Scratchmonkey wrote: | Word from the other side of the Atlantic is that Sensible Soccer is back in testing on the MS side and there are rumors of a Wednesday release for either this week or next. |
Release date set, Dec. 19th. |
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JasonMoses .
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Color me ridiculously psyched!
Also, Omega Five looks really good and was apparently developed by the same people responsible for Wild Guns. I wonder when that's coming out. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:09 am Post subject: |
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here's a decent preview of omega five. apparently it's scheduled to be playable in winter, but who knows? _________________
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Cossix .
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:32 am Post subject: |
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That's actually way better than the video they released on XBLM. Way way better. The first video I saw of Omega Five made it look kind of dumb but now it looks pretty rad! |
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RadarScope1 .
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Asteroids Deluxe is awesome. There's a retro arcade in my neighborhood that has both Asteroids and Deluxe. AD is worlds better if for no other reason than you get a shield rather than hyperspace - which is a total crapshoot.
I downloaded the demo and it's way too short. One level? I guess everyone knows what Asteroids is, though. The evolved mode seemed pretty crappy to me. Overall it seems OK. I'd probably go for it if I had 400 points just sitting around and nothing else jumped out at me. |
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JasonMoses .
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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So SWOS went up for a couple of hours today. Then it got taken down because its net code is apparently totally fucked up. I guess I'm wondering why this is the case after all those months of delays and Microsoft's rigorous cert process for xbla games, at this point. |
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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They're claiming that it's because the wrong version of SWoS got uploaded.
Emphasis on "claiming". |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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How's the version of Tempest?
I'm pretty stoked about that honestly. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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completely unnecessary? given that tempest already has an amazing console update and xbox live arcade already has an incredible tube shooter. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have the console update, and SG is not Tempest. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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