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Sony's Minidisc format (the "old" one, I don't know about the PSP disks obviously) rocks my shorts. It's too bad they never popularized them as a data format, they would have been a worthy successor to the floppy disk (much better than clunky and expensive zip disks). I guess USB drives have taken the throne there now.

This is friggin' awesome! And I'm running a GeForce 4 Ti now, but I've still got my old Diamond Monster 3D tucked away somewhere.

/me starts checking his connections for potential E3 tickets.

I didn't see heidern in any of those.. He still might make it. And if they gave him a decent treatment, he'd make a good boss. Doubtful, but it'd be interesting.

I wish him the best as well. An old roomate of mine had something similar happen. He was in a car crash involving a windy road, a steep cliff, and a large falling tree, and of the three people involved, he got the worst of it by far. Somehow, he managed to beat the doctors' predictions of not surviving, and then not walking normally again, and now he's just about as good as new. He attributes it to God. Whatever did it for him, I hope the same for Chris.

You never need to thank the local for giving up their land! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> they are the native....unless they were to eat thanking vikings or something <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Vikings have very little to do with us, but whatever. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> woops, nm, I keep forgetting which scandanavian nation you're from from. ANyway, yeah, the Finns are pretty much the natives of their land <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That is why they dun need Thanksgiving! America need to ask forgiveness from the Native American by thanking them with turkey <{POST_SNAPBACK}> and then killing em afterwards? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You forgot the part where we get them all addicted to whisky, destroy their culture with capitalism, buy off much of their land for ridiculous prices, and put the rest on what amounts to house arrest. The killing comes largely after that. MmmmHmmm Turkey and Football.

The.cue is kind of like a description of how the bins should be recorded, used by the recorder. Most of the time you can do without them though. More importantly, if you like this game, buy it (or put it on your christmas list, or whatever!), dagnabbit! You gotta reward developers when they make good stuff, otherwise they don't get to make more good stuff for you to enjoy.

As usual, the media skews this one out of context. It's not being marketed as a "video game" in the entertainment sense. It's almost more like an experiment, especially with the player's goal being to scientifically re-create the historical events rather than just "kill the former president." On the one hand, it's a tragic event and so the initial reaction is shock - who in their right mind would want to be in those shoes? Once one gets past the stigma though, it opens the door to a lot of more mature educational possibilties in interactive media, and even to interesting research techniques - having thousands of different users from across the world fill the ambiguous "skill" role in a historical or forensic simulation and watching the results. I'm not entirely sure they picked the right historical event to start this kind of thing with, but we'll see how bad the media treats them. *gives his all to repress the necessary but distasteful Codename 47 comment*

Entirely OT: http://evilurl.com/ Get a neogeo.zip bios file, put it in the directory with the NeoRageX executable. If that doesn't work, unzip it into that directory. If that doesn't work, put it in the roms directory, make sure you have your rom directory set up properly in NRx and Import.

LOL I hold Burnout with as much esteem as the GT series. The racing there is fun, but there's nothing quite like crash mode.

Depends on the GeForce 4. On a Ti it should run smooth as silk on really high settings with a pentium 4 or equivalent. On an MX it should run fine as long as you turn the graphics settings down enough (you might also kill EAX in the audio settings).

I can see where you're coming from. The limiting of weapons does change the way the game plays (a little less gung-ho, a little more immersion), but I can understand that it's not for everyone. Sometimes you just want to frag stuff and that's cool. And the save states would annoy me if they hadn't implemented it so well. While the "levels" are huge, the time between save states is usually really short, most of the time they are only one or two "encounters" apart. They felt like scenes in a movie to me - one might be a run down a windy trail in a buggy, the next might be a gunfight in a building, the next might be sneaking through a camp, etc. Having to make it through an entire "scene" was more engaging to me than only having to clear the visible enemies, saving, then moving into the next room to repeat. Put together, the scenes make up the level, which would be too much to do in one run without saving. I'm curious if you'd consider the opposite of your statement to be true: "I wouldn't have minded the save system if they'd had a reasonable difficulty?" To me, that would water down the feel of the game less than the ability to save every 2 feet.

Out of curiosity, what didn't you like about it?

That's exactly what I was wondering. Like, if having HL2 registered on your account "unlocks" the option to buy these or something. The answer is probably no for now, but no-one seems to know for sure.

If you don't already have them: - Far Cry - An awesome single-player FPS experience. I had more fun with this than with Doom 3. Might be too beefy for your vid card, check the reqs. - Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - An RTS from the makers of Homeworld, set in the amazingly detailed Warhammer 40K universe. I've only been playing it for a few days, but it's one of the largest, best-balanced, and most fun RTS games I've played in years. The graphics don't hurt either, but the voice acting is cheezy for some units. I haven't played much story mode, but the skirmish mode is awesome (and so presumably the multiplayer) - Tropico - A little older title, and likely to be cheap. An oft overlooked and very fun Sim City-style game in which you rule over a tropical island. As in Sim City, you have to balance your city's income with the happiness of your people, but the tongue-in-cheek island setting makes for more interesting options, such as burlesque houses to entertain and assassinations to get rid of dissenters. There are missions in which you shoot for a certain goal, and of course a sandbox mode where you do whatever you like.

What the heck is prince of tennis? I've heard the name a few times and saw it on scarywater, but it sounded too stupid to watch. Tell me it's not about tennis? And as for the sub/dub debate. I'm all about a good dub (like Cowboy Bebop) or even a good translation (like Princess Mononoke, which was given a full and faithful re-write treatment in English, by my favorite author no less). That said, good dubs are few and far between, and I much prefer subs to bad dubs. I'll also occasionally watch a well-dubbed show subbed, just for the heck of it, to spot differences, to excercise my japanese, etc..

What kind of games are you into?..Seems like an applicable question.. My friend just got me Fallout 1 and 2 for $5 bucks, best purchase ever.

Ah, gryph's right, they do have CS.. But what about the others? Half Life and Day of Defeat Source? And yes, Silver is, hands down, the best deal. I get it, but I still want to know what the options are for Bronze or Retail purchasers.

Ok, this is for those of you who bought the regular (not collectors) edition at retail or the bronze version through steam (neither of which come with Counter Strike: Source).. Do Counter Strike: Source or the other Source ports show up for you as purchase-able addons through steam? I'm just wondering if they have a way for people who didn't buy everything to get what they're missing. I'm sure they will eventually, but is it there yet? Thanks!

I was going to reply, but you pretty much hit the nail on the head. They get paid far more than anyone who really contributes to society, to do something millions of people do for fun, and they've got the self control of a street thug. Not all of them are that bad, I'm sure, but the situation is ridiculous.

As far as racing games go, I'm the opposite of most previous posters. I get a kick out of wacky racing games, like Burnout or F-Zero, but I never really fell in love with a racer until Gran Turismo 3. I thought it was going to be boring because it was just even more normal cars, like what Kanti said. Once I made myself sit down and play it though, I realized the appeal is slightly different than most racers. Most racers are just a series of powerslides, one turn after another, as Kanti said. If the cars and tracks are boring and "normal" in a situation like that, there's very little appeal. The difference in GT3 is that cars handle like real cars - IE, each turn has to be handled differently, and the power/weight/drive mechanism of each car makes a big difference. This makes you think about the actual handling a lot more than say Burnout, where corners are just a matter of how hard you should drift. Learning the nuances of each track, and then re-learning them with a new car or a new type of vehicle (rear wheel as opposed to front, mid-engine as opposed to rear, etc) became a lovable kind of science. I'm not some car nut, I never have been, but I found myself tweaking camber and gear ratios to pull the most performance out of my cars, and configuring them for certain types of tracks. It was the thinking man's racer for me, and for that I love it.

I've heard good things about samurai champloo (even though the name is dumb). Is it torrent-able somewhere? I couldn't find it...

Good point, I didn't really think about this.. The download time, however, wasn't an issue. The entire pre-load only took around an hour on my cable connection. Getting HL1 installed off steam took almost no time at all, as in, less than a minute. They must have some scary compression going or something, I dunno.

Do these contain nicotine? I can't quite tell from the site... If they didn't, it would make these things interesting. Not that I think they would sell well, particularly.. But if it doesn't produce smoke, doesn't contain actual tobbacco, and doesn't contain nicotine, yet somehow feels like smoking a ciggarette, they might have some kind of miracle on their hands. The difficult part would be convincing people to switch.

Wow, that was an entirely unprovoked, and raging, flame.