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Looks like we have a pretty good cast. Eliza Dushku? Rock!

If you liked sands of time, you'll like Two Thrones. It goes back to being a fairy tale, and not so much a hard kore blootletting. Sands of Time was the best, followed closely by Two Thrones (save the gorram chariot chases) Warrior Within tried a little too tough to appeal to the urban youth. Decent enough game I suppose, but I never beat it.

Didn't lose his license exactly, just isn't allowed to practice law in one state, or more than one, whatever. He hasn't been disbarred in Florida, where he holds his license, sadly. So, he's still the go-to guy in the gaming smear campaign.

Speaking again on the backwards compatibility for the 360 Peter moore decided to clear things up:

Liked it a lot better than I thought I would, not a big Image fan. I'm loving it, though I have concerns for how long this thing can really go on for. Especially since in the afterword the creator says he wants the series to run forever. Top notch through the the HC though.

Well, the compatibility team says they are still working on stuff. I'm not happy about not having enough games on BC, still it is over 200 titles, which is about 25% of the xbox library.

So far I think it is only Genesis, Turbografx, NES, SNES, and N64 for download, it may expand as time goes on though. For Saturn and stuff you would need more space in the Rev, as it only has 512 MB.

Gah, the trailer was better than I expected, but I can't be the only one who doesn't give a tinker's piss about Ghost Rider, I'm almost over the whole comic book movie thing at this point anyway, As for Bond, I have hopes, anything has to be better than Die Another Day, I SLEPT THROUGH that film, literally. It was that bad.

Mother 3 did come out for GBA in Japan recently and there are mumblings of the game coming out here soon too. I think it would be great if they released it as a pack of Mother 1-3 since there was a Mother 1 and 2 release for GBA last year or something in Japan. Oh, and for those who don't know Mother was the name of the game in Japan. Earthbound Zero (Translated but never officially released here) was Mother 1, Earthbound (Mother 2) was the second in the series.

Looks like the Hondonians across the pond are getting buggered up the arse: From Joystiq:

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FF1 was great for its time. I think it was the first JRPG with a full party, and had some great graphics at the time. Lotsa fun, and hella tough at times. FF2 (NOT FF4) was the first FF game with an intricate plot. The first game with an evil empire, it was alright, had an interesting levelling system, but I never beat it. I played the PS1 version. FF3 (NOT FF6) was the first FF to use the Job class system later used in FFV, FFTactics, and FFX-2, it was from my understanding pretty sweet, and is considered a fan favorite. Never played it though. FF4 (US FF2) was an amazing game at the time, it had incredible graphics, one hell of a story and was a lot of fun. I can see more flaws in it now, but hey, the game is like 15 years old. FF5 (US FF5) I was pissed when this game got cancelled. I remember personally bitching at Ted Woosley on a compuserve forum when it got canceled. They just figured there wasn't a market. Still, the game was AWESOME, it used the job class system well, and while you didn't have the variation in characters that you did in 4 it was still sweet. Not to mention it has some of the best music in FF history, "My Home, Sweet Home" is amazing. FF6 (FF3): I remember the first time I played this game, when I saw the Magitek mechs walking across the snow I was in fucking awe. Great story, great gameplay, and a ton of characters make this arguably the best FF game ever. Kefka is one of the best villains ever, and the overall dark tone of the story was never copied as well as FF6. Great fucking game.

So dark the Contra of Man:

I found all four discs a bit ago, I could've sword I told ya. If you can find a saturn you can play it, or emulate the bugger, if you really need to I can probably try to yank my old system out of storage or some shit.

Problem is PC games have been doing high def gaming for YEARS and the size hasn't changed much. We're nowhere NEAR needing Blu-ray for game storage, with game development time going through the roof it wouldn't make sense to use all of that space, hell Oblivion is fucking gigantic and it doesn't come close to filling a DVD, and Morrowind which had hundreds of hours of gameplay was under a gig. GTA IV is coming to both 360 and PS3 on the same day and somehow I doubt that Rockstar is gnashing its teeth at the lack of Blu-ray on the 360. It's too early for Blu-ray, I have an HDTV and I think DVD is perfectly ok. Well, test drive unlimited mapped all of hawaii, and I'm sure GTA IV will be big. Look I'm not saying that it's not great to have space to work with, but I also know that in general formats have lasted two generations before being retired for the next one up. This is not the case with what Sony wants to do with DVDs. You say that if I want to play HD-DVDs that my 360 will cost more than a PS3, well, that's speculation and at least I have the choice. At the end of the day I am sure that PS3 will have some great games. That does not give Sony a pass on the absolute arrogance and idiocy of it's design and pricing. The only reason Sony is so dead set on having Blu-ray in the PS3 is in order to assure that it wins the next gen DVD format wars, which IMO are too soon in coming. I'm sure in the PS3s lifetime we will have 2 and 3 disc games, and I'm also sure that it will be as a result of having insane amound of High def, pre rendered video. Sony has great brand loyalty and recognition and that will pretty much guarantee that the PS3 will sell out of its initial shipments, the question is going to be, will it be priced to hit the casual gamer? Will next november when GTA 4 hits will johnny whitebread want to pick up a 360 for let's say $200 for a tard pack, or $400 for a PS3 tard pack, and that's assuming there is a price drop for the PS3 after its first year. In previous generations Nintendo made the mistake that gamers would buy their systems on name alone counting on big franchises to keep them going, but they were intelligent enough to make sure they made money on each system sold. Microsoft's GIANT fuck up last time was building a system that they couldn't effectively price reduce over time, making sure that they lost a fuckload of cash with each system sold. Sony is making both of those mistakes this time around, and they have added Sega's mistake of pricing too high. I think that while Sony will do well, this generation is now up for grabs as far as who will gain the most marketshare. Especially in the US.

Ok, not all of these are at my apartmet, some are still at my mother's as she is a saint who stores my shit even though I haven't lived there in like 5 years. Anyhow systems I own: NES, SNES, Genesis w 32x, Power Base Converter, and Sega CD, Turbografx w CD, Atari XE, Vectrex, Intellivision, Saturn, PS1, Xbox, Xbox 360, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance. I also have a PS2, N64, Dreamcast and Gamecube courtesy of gunsmith. Fun rare games I own: Every version of Lunar 1 and 2. Every Phantasy Star including the Japanese PS2 remakes of 1 and 2. Every Ultima for PC (1-6 are via collections XI is a collectors edition.) Beta Version of Ultima Online. Panzer Dragoon SAGA Every Official Ys game Dragon Force, Albert Oddyssey, Vay and Popful Mail Super Famicom version of FFV Policenauts Snatcher and a whole lot of other shit.

Got a fair bit of manga, but I'm esepcially proud of: My complete set of Maison Ikkoku (15 volumes), my nearly complete set of Tokyo University Story (Japanese only, fucking crazy series.) and my Urusei Yastsura collection.

IIRC the performance on the PS2 one is supposed to be ass. I played through 1 and 2 on the Xbox and they were choice, I know the PC version has mods, but otherwise the Xbox version is a close second. The game really is a fun as hell game to play through.

Word is, Red Steel is ass, but that Metroid is aweesome. With the new control scheme I may actually play this one, it seems cool. The old scheme made Baby Jesus cry. Super Mario Galaxy sounds cool, as does Zelda. Still the fact that Zelda won't support widescreen for it's gamecube version is horeshit.

Hands on with Wii controller: I've been hearing a lot of mixed reports like this, some people are raving, and others, not so much. I respect the hell out of Nintendo for being ballsy, now we just have to see if this thing will work in the long run. Or is the learning curve for devs and users going to be too great.

Sony, where originality is king

Well, FFXII is by the tactics guy so that has a lot of promise, early word is it kicks ass and got a perfect score in Famitsu, but that may not necessarily mean much as the reviewers for that mag are kinda wonky. Still, 12 at the very least should be a unigue FF because after it was made, a bunch of the team left Square for Mistwalker. I know everyone and their mother is supposedly salivating for an FFVII remake on PS3, but honestly, I kinda wouldn't care. I played through VII twice, and while it was great, I dunno if I would want to do it again some 10 years later, when the story isn't as fresh. That and after watching Advent Children and playing the Kingdom Hearts games, I know one thing. Tetsuya Nomura is a fucking hack. I'd hate to see what storyline changes he would put into the remake that would make it worse.