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The good thing about Uncharted 2 is that it seems to be able to top itself over and over again :^_^: I thought the middle was a bit dead. All of the really amazing parts came at the beginning and end. Uncharted 2 impressed the hell out of me. It was one of the only reasons I bought a PS3 and was well worth the money. I hope Uncharted 3 has even more jaw dropping moments then 2.

I went to see it. I thought it was alright and had some pretty funny parts. I know the kids definitely enjoyed it.

The Gamecube is still an amazing console. Tales of Symphonia is for the win. And Resident Evil. And yeah, I hate the Wii and it's fanbase. You bring up any sort of argument about how few games it has and how all Nintendo does is remake every game they have ever made over and over and they eat it up like candy. One of my friends (used to be)was trying to steal my job on the school paper (Video game reviewer)on the premise that I am a biased idiot who is the only person in the world who hates Nintendo. He's a failure. Anyway, back on track, Zero Punctuation this week summed up my feelings on motion controls and everything about them: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1838-E3-2010

GameInformer makes me want to kill myself. An average score is a 7? It's because they are teamed up with Game Stop and a 7 looks better than a 5 which means more paying customers.... Personally, video game wise, you'd do good with EGM if you can find it. I can't even find this months issue because they are all sold out. I was lucky to get last months issue. It's because they stopped for a year and the magazine was supposedly done but someone bought it and brought it back. I also enjoy Archaeology magazine. Very good history in there. I get Time but rarely read anything in it other than the back page editorials. My problem with a lot of their stuff on the news is that they praise Obama and blame Bush. They blamed all the BP people for the oil spill, then Bush and Cheney, and Obama was at the end of the list. And somewhere in the middle it was our fault for the oil spill for driving cars. I was actually fairly pissed with that article. This weeks issue on Thomas Edison though was actually very enlightening. Sorry I just did that. I also get Entertainment Weekly and bought a two year subscription. Some stuff is good, some is not, some is funny, some is not. It's kind of hit and miss.

Try Wasabi peas. Now those are a hundred percent worse. Yuck.

Are you even aware of the MotionPlus that goes with the Wii? It uses a gyroscope sensor, which is much more accurate than the Move. It can sense what angle you're holding the remote and all that. It doesn't necessarily calculate depth from the sensor like the Move, but its rotational movement is going to be much greater than the Move's ever will. At least until the Move decides to stop using a camera. How gyroscopes work if you didn't know: http://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope3.htm (It's a long read but definitely worth it) The precision with this is ridiculous, and new games being developed with the gyroscope don't have to rely on the awkward sensor bar. So no, the Wii is not as far behind in regards to engineering innovations as you thought. Some of this is subjective, but I think that they're still ahead regarding console engineering. While some of the features of the Wii really really suck, such as graphics, the innovation behind some of the concepts make up for it in my opinion. Sorry about elaborating on the Wii in this thread :oops: I know there is Motion Plus but as a new peripheral, more developers will probably look at the Move for their games, especially because they can put games of superior graphics on it. It will be pretty much a Wii for the Playstation, but with superior graphics and some people (not all but some) will be more open to the idea of hardcore games using the peripheral. Personally, I find motion controls to be something developers should not worry about because I am more of a controller kind of person and moving off subject a bit, I've always felt that because of the motion controls and the very minimal amount of good games on the system, the Wii is a toy. I know everyone will disagree with me wholeheartedly on this statement, but that's how I feel. The Move may become a more mature version of the Wii if developers embrace it. It's a real longshot to everyone will, but it could happen. The Kinect on the other hand is a peripheral that I see no hope in. When I think of an Xbox person I think of online shooter kind of people. Pretty much shooter people. Not all Xboxers are like that, but quite a majority are (Even I was one before mine Red ringed and I bought a PS3, I played tons of Halo 3, still do with my friends at their places). And I can't see them buying a kinect unless they have a younger sibling or a kid and there is some sort of game for it that they find appealing. The Kinect might have hardcore games, I don't know, but to me it's an eyetoy or one of the cameras you got with "You're in the Movies" or whatever that game was called. And the eyetoy was kind of a dud. It really hasn't lasted. Now then, I think we should finish the discussion on motion peripherals until we actually get a chance to play them later in the year and hear more on what they are going to provide us. Then we can say yay or nay.

Good list minus Metallica. I've never been a huge fan of them, I'm a much bigger fan of Iron Maiden, which I personally think is the complete and utter rival to Metallica in the eighties metal scene. Americans got more into Metallica then Iron Maiden though. Iron Maiden doesn't play too many shows in America. Number of the Beast. Replace Master of Puppets with that, and good list. Coldplay I am kind of on the brink of.

Here's me back when I was making videos for my website at June's start. I was kind of half asleep at that time.

Sushi is fantastic! Me and a friend are actually going out for sushi Friday night as neither of us have had it in a long time and both love it :D I couldn't disagree more. :mellow: Oh man, I love sushi, though it is one of those things you either love or hate and I'm always the weird one at a table with sushi while everyone has fully cooked fish. Seaweed salad and sushi. MMM... Worst thing I've ever tasted had to be unprocessed, straight from the bag chocolate. The most bitter, disgusting, can't get the taste out of your mouth thing. I work at a candy seller and I was handed a couple pieces and told they were good. I ate them and instantly felt like burning my taste buds. It was horrible. Other terrible things, I was in the kitchen when my parents were not around and stole their margarita bottle. Tried it and was instantly revolted, disgusted, and the burn was pretty bad. It was terrible. My dad made chicken with chocolate over it. Not sweet chocolate, but rather bitter chocolate. It's mexican and it was pretty bad. And last but not least, the brownies from the farm. My grandparents friends own a farm and we go out there every once in a while. There are always brownies after a wiener roast in the cow pasture, and even when not there, they still taste like cow crap. It's not because I've eaten cow crap, it's because the smell of cow crap and the taste of those brownies are basically the same thing.

What? You mean you didn't even play it through with the infinite rocket launcher? Nope. I bought the game when I was around twelve. It scared the [cabbage] out of me, and it didn't help that the first thing I did when playing was hole up in one of the houses in the village and out of nowhere a chainsaw guy cut Leon's head off. Basically, it sat on the shelf unplayed for a looooong time. My mom told me to sell it or play it about a year ago and I went through it. I ended up selling it for Vice City. That was a good trade. On a side note, any Yakuza fans around? I feel like the only person in America who plays through and truly enjoys the series.

I love how now we are probably going to get into the whole motion control B.S that I see absolutely no one really worrying about. But just to fight. Kinect is an Eyetoy for the Xbox. Big whoop. Anybody remember the failure a couple months back when a black guy was testing it and he wouldn't show up on the screen? The Move on the other hand is taking what has been established for the Wii and making it much better. A camera tracks the movement of the ball at the end of the remote, meaning you are not pointing at a sensor and there are much more complex movements you can do with the Move as opposed to the Wii. The Wii is limited to jerks and slashes and throws and large scale motions. The Move, when playing tennis for instance, can detect how you are swinging the remote so you can do backhands and such instead of just dislocating your wrist jerking the wii remote to hit the tennis ball. The Move is improving the Wii's technology, while the Kinect really has nothing going for it. At the moment the only real Kinect related thing I've heard about is a new Sonic game. And that's how you sell something is with a Sonic game. Maybe twenty years ago... Personally, I'll end up getting a Move because then we can throw out the Wii that is gathering dust and has pretty much nothing that piques my interest on it. Move looks like it will have some fun stuff and 50 bucks is not at all a bad price. 100 if you are getting the sports pack with it.

I am amazed you would pick Bioshock 2 over the original. I found the whole game to be a complete waste of time. The story was very weak, the gameplay was repetitive as hell, and the ending was so unsatisfactory. I'm gonna change my list due to the fact I hadn't completed a certain game before I posted my original top five. 1. Saints Row 2 2. Unreal Tournament 3. Metal Gear Solid 4 4. Red Dead Redemption 5. Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. You may note I'm a huge fan of Resident Evil, but none of them are particularly my most favorite games. Resident Evil 4 would be in my Top 5 best games I've ever played, but replayability-wise, there wasn't much reason to and I only did one playthrough of it.

Cid was pretty hard... I didn't really like FFXIII for whatever reason. It might have been the fact I grew increasingly bored with all the characters and I did not enjoy the plot much. The combat was really good I must say, but I gave up on it around twenty something hours in because I got really, really bored. I was playing Dragon Age at the same time as FFXIII as well, so that might have been another problem to my enjoyment. I much preferred Dragon Age. I guess I will have to continue saying that X was my favorite. Is FFXIII Versus an RPG, or is it an actual fighting game?

I know nothing about the FunOrb to Runescape migrants because I don't use Funorb and am an old timer and was a Miniclips to Runescape migrant (remember kids, all Miniclipers to Runescapers are evil!). I quit. It was pretty easy. I was off for a couple months and went on again. Found nothing to do that excited me. And I left. I really haven't been playing Runescape the past year or so. Maybe an hour in the past year, but otherwise quitting was pretty easy when me and online console games met we kind of walked away from Runescape and didn't look back.

I hate how the bloody cougars knock you down, you get up, and they hit you again and kill you. No time to retaliate at all. It's kind of cheap. Didn't the co-op download come out? I think I need to quit playing Yakuza for a little while and try that out.

A couple weeks ago I quit using my freewebs account because I got a real website: http://www.critically-insane.com/index.html It's still getting worked on severely. It'll eventually have a forum and such.

How is that even possible considering there was only one console before the 360? It can run all Xbox games... I don't see that as limited... I couldn't play Prince of Persia The Two Thrones on my 360. It has very limited backward compatibility. It has some games, which is a plus from the PS3 since it doesn't even play PS2 games, but it does play PSX games. Then again, so does the PS2, but only if you have a PSX memory card.

*Crosses fingers* Saints Row 3 announcement...PLEASE!

I've had friends who have owned three different Xbox consoles and they have all crashed somehow. Whether it be a red ring or any other of a myriad hardware problems, they have failed multiple times. And of course we will hold it against Sony that there was one server crash when Modern Warfare 2 came out. Because in the long run it is a seriously bad problem compared to the fact that Xbox makes you pay for something that should be free. Ironically, all my friends with Xbox's whether new or old have multiple problems with the hardware while all my friends with PS3's have had absolutely no problems. And calling us "Sony kids" is like us calling you a "Microsoft kid" for bringing up the server crash that apparently is such a major problem now that it has been fixed. PSN is getting better treatment by most. Being able to play old PSX games is a plus, and even though we don't have as many downloadable games like Shadow Complex, it's still getting a steady trickle of that kind of stuff. And ultimately, to someone like me who rarely plays games you download off the store, it doesn't matter. And what does hooking up an IPOD have to do with the Xbox being great? I found myself listening to my boombox sitting next to my seat when I was playing GOW3 because I needed some heavy metal to get me in the violent mood. Backward compatibility does suck, I wish I could have thrown out my PS2 and been able to play all my games on the PS3. Then again, the 360 had very limited backward compatibility. And has anyone brought up Blu-Ray? Sure it's not all that big of a deal, but you get a Blu-Ray player with your game console, which is actually pretty cool, it's two in one. Sure you can play regular DVD's on both consoles, but Xbox had this one failure called HDDVD's.

I was scared for a second and crapped myself. Lol. Nicely done, though I kinda figured that the mods would've locked it if you were actually posting a link to someone's FB. I fail as hard as Rick O' Connel fighting a tornado with a sword.

I had an Xbox for about a year and a half. I played most of the first party titles (I.E Halo, Gears of War) and was never really impressed. Gears of War felt like something only a real manly man would want to play and Halo 3 was the same formula as the other two and had nothing really outstanding about it besides the amazing multiplayer experience that was only amazing because tons of people played it. Though not the best people. Last November, my Xbox broke and Microsoft demanded the low low price of one hundred U.S dollars to fix it. What the hell? So the fact that your console broke down is my fault? I need to pay to get your hunk of unreliable junk fixed? Everybody I know with an Xbox has had it die on them or break or something really stupid. I can't believe the fact that the masses of Xbox 360's most of my friends own have broken down. And it's such a universal problem you think Microsoft would do something more to fix the problem. So anyway, Christmas rolled around and I bought a PS3. I instantly fell in love with the console. First of all, the first party titles were tremendous. Uncharted 2 was amazing, Metal Gear Solid 4 was great. Online was free and lately playing Red Dead Redemption multiplayer I have really enjoyed being able to play for free as much as I want. Why pay 60 bucks for something that I get for free on the other console. Xbox users bring up it is more reliable, but I call bull. I've played them both to death and they are even. Oh my god, one day the Playstation Online servers crashed! Who cares? One day, and it really didn't affect the whole community as much as you apparently think. It wasn't all that big of a deal. Xbox interface is much nicer than the PS3 interface, but I really don't care about all the Netflix movies playing and crap. I bought a video game console to play video games, not update my Facebook or Twitter because I am too lazy to get up and walk to the computer sitting about ten feet away. Playstation is more reliable in the hardware department, has free online (not better or worse, just free), and it's first party titles appeal more to me because I was a major PS2 gamer and love those titles. Which console is superior? I think that the PS3 wins slightly. Xbox users like to say they have MW2, but PS3 owners also have it. ONLINE BETTER ON XBOX PLOX! No, both have the same capabilities, it's just the fact that on the PS3 it's free. I like my PS3 way better than I did my Xbox. Now let the mature conversation that usually results in these petty console debates commence once again!

1. Saints Row 2-The only game that makes me feel like I am playing a pointless game. 2. Metal Gear Solid 4-Used to be 3, but 4 was just so emotional and amazing. 3. Red Dead Redemption-I am rarely as amazed with a game as I was with this. 4. Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow-I love this game so much. 5. Dragon Age Origins-My favorite RPG of all time. Combine Drizzt books with KOTOR. FAVORITE SERIES: 1. Metal Gear Solid 2. Splinter Cell 3. Max Payne 4. Legend of Zelda 5. Resident Evil

http://www.freewebs.com/ratchet573/ Where I review games, movies, and comics and books. I'm a mean reviewer who does not bend to the general consensus. Still a relatively new site, but is getting new articles everyday.

This idiot at my school is trolling me everywhere because I told him I hate the WIi. He keeps telling me he's gonna steal my job at the school newspaper as video game writer because I am a failure as a critic and reviewer for being biased toward the Xbox and the PS3. Because apparently by critiquing the Wii I am not being a good critic. I hate fanboys of game consoles. Wii ones are annoying because they come up with no good arguments to defend their console. PS3 vs. Xbox360 ones always turn into the war of the cussers. I consider myself more a Sony fanboy, just because they have never let me down and I can depend on them. I do like the Xbox360 though, but they are just too undependable. Anyway, getting off that, I am level 25 in RDR multiplayer.

I remember those being my favorite books when I was in third and fourth grade, I remember being so happy when the last four dragon books came out, and I believe my brother still owns one of them. Great kids series, and I tried to read them again a year ago, but the vague, child friendly writing style just didn't work for me. Anyway, the anime looks like something cartoon network should get the rights to. I'd probably watch it if I could find a decent English dub. EDIT: Oh, Australian Cartoon Network has the dubbed version playing currently. Maybe American CN could quit playing crappy cartoons and reality shows and give this a shot?