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Nice, pretty cool all around. Shame we'll never get the story of Danger Zone though.

RCPM - Americano!

Hmm, have to shout out Black Lagoon even if BB does carry it. Really really good series. Um, I'm also hearing good things about Bakkano, but I haven't seen it yet, and was told to check it out without reading about it. I think Funimation has the first couple of episodes on their website. Also, by your tastes I'd recommend Azumanga Daioh, it is comedy awesomeness distilled into half hour episodes. And cheap as hell to boot. Oh, and Planetes. Don't follow fansubs much anymore, if I have them it's usually stuff that will likely never come here (Macross) or so incredibly out of print it don't matter.

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Here's a cool first timer's guide that I found. Probably the easiest breaking down of the process I have seen. Makes it seem more doable than earlier. Now I have to decide on parts. I think I may go HAPP (american style) probably because the looseness of Japanese sticks often has me overshooting my motions for special moves. Here's the link: http://cutelittlegames.blogspot.com/2009/0...fstick-v10.html

Nick you were talking about working with Los to make an arcade stick. I've been looking into making a stick, but am seriously intimidated by the process of actually building the case. The wiring doesn't look all that bad. I suck at carpentry however, and it could be kinda fun to do these in a group, or some shit like that. Hey we can make a custom Hondo's stick.

I can upgrade you in a couple of minutes. The newer firmware runs great, and should support remote play.

My biggest problem with the show is that the characters are getting dumber. Claire and Peter in particular are just flaming idiots half of the time. The only once who have been consistently intelligent have been Noah and Sylar. Which is way too little of a giant cast. I don't buy Nathan's motives, Hiro has in no way advanced as a character since season 1, and Suresh, Parkman, and Nikki 3.0 are just boring as sin. I hope it picks up soon, the end of volume 3 was pretty good, but the series has gone nowhere since season 1.

Only trophy I'm missing is MBM unless there are hidden ones that it isn't showing. As for Decap attack I think that's the rosy sheen on nostalgia talking. Ristar is a much better platformer, the little of it I have played. Others just stood up better, even ones I hadn't played before like ESWAT, Ristar, Headdy, and even Kid Chameleon. The worst games in the collection are: Decap Attack, Golden Axe 2 and 3, and Gain Ground. Flicky at least has old arcade style charm (though I can't believe it's a Genesis game). I'm still amazed by the Golden Axes though each had at least a 2 year developmnt cycle yet they play and look far worse than the original. Seriously, what the hell? Edit: And I got my first Plat!!!

Decap Attack is awful, pure and simple, the controls suck, the animation is horrible and the level design is even worse. Seriously bottom of the barrel, even for that time. Got all the trophies except the MBM one, tomorrow Robotnik falls.

Fuck Dr. Robotnik's mean bean machine. That is all. Christ that trophy is a bitch.

And that is the crux of the problem, there are places assigned for blatantly NSFW material, and those threads are pretty much never touched. The shout box, being where it is does pose a bit of a concern. It would kinda be like running down the street holding a TV that is playing hard core porn. If there were a way to enable and disable images on shout box individually, this wouldn't be a problem. At the end of the day though, what Nick says goes, he could change to logo to a bear fellating a goat, and that would be his business, though I imagine there might be sharp drop off in visitations. Followed by a sharp increase.

From CBR Nice. I personally can't wait. The whole idea of context pages could be cool, though I think the series has worked well, even without them. God knows a lot of the politics just seems to transfer perfectly.

Well, they got SH5 late and can't buy MMOs, so I guess it's fair. Ok, it so isn't. fuck them.

And here comes that time in the day when I ignore Newtype's obvious fanboy rantings and move on.

Not to mention MOST times you can actually get around the guys pretty quickly with a minimum of fuss. If it's the area I'm thinking of you can make a bee line to the door you need to go through and not worry about fighting the dudes. I can really only think of one or two places where you HAVE to fight. Now I will agree that the enemy AI is way too fucking accurate at hitting a fast target, at range with a machine gun at times, especially on hard it can be frustrating to be trying to escape, and getting hit by a burst of fire from across a room and dying.

You have 2 options that I know of, the speed one where you run along the wall by the glass, swing to the catwalks ad run like a motherfucker. The timing is pretty fucking tough, but it CAN be done, it just took me 3-4 tries. The easier way is to go back down and take out the cops before you do your leaps, though that means you have a bit of combat ahead of you.

Mind blown.

I dunno, outside of a couple of places where it took me a little bit of time to figure out where to go, I never saw that as much of a problem. the first time through, a lot of the fun in figureing out how to get from point a to point b, then the real cool shit is replaying the levels when you know what you are doing. Having a level that took you a half hour or more get turned into a level that takes 5-9 minutes is a great feeling, especially because you are just constantly doing all the cool shit you know you can do. Mainly, if you liked the demo, you'll like the game. If you found yourself replaying the demo over and over to get the best time you could, you'll LOVE the game.

Don't fight, run. Alot, and die, alot. I will say that ME is rather old school in the you are dying a metric fuckton way. Most of the combat sections in the game are kinda puzzles that you have to figure out, and 90% of the time your best bet is running the fuck away, Faith may be able to pull off Ninja jumps and shit, but she is still weak to the all powerful shotgun to the face. Still, once combat clicked for me, it wasn't too bad, it's all about singling an eenmy out and using momentum against them.

About 6-8 hours, I think. There is a lot of ground that you cover, it's just that you're moving so fast, the huge levels can be done kinda quick. Currently I'm having a blast doing the speed runs, ranked 93 on Chapter 1. Kinda funny, that a level that took me the better portion of an hour to beat I can clear in under 6 minutes when I know what I'm doing.

Anyone else grab this one? it's short, well mainly because of how fast you go through the levels, most of the real badass stuff seems to be in trying to get a speed run going on. When you are on a roll though the game is awesome! Few slight problems, one the combat is kinda crap, ESPECIALLY the gunplay. Of course I played through the game without shooting anyone, but when I tried guns on my second playhtough, they really did blow. I think the controls are impressive as fuck, but I think the game needs just a touch more assist on the grabs. There are times that it looks like I should have caught a pipe or ledge and it missed. Still I am amazed that the platforming works as well as it did in first person.

Added a bunch of you today, keep thy eyes open for the request and say hi.

Finally got 100% expert vocals on a song in Rock Band!!!!!!!!!! ROCK!!!!! The Offspring are now my bitch. Come out and Play indeed.

Almost done with Fallout 3, first play through anyway. I just love how alive the world feels. I'm hoping to finally when I get the chance just for fun, and sweet sweet revenge. Also, god bless Tesla armor.