mikeszekely

I must be on the border. I was really too young for the Christopher Reeve Superman movies to leave a lasting impression, but Smallville is too "hip" for me. Superman to me is actually "Lois and Clark."

"Sekushii na biggu monsuta!" The nice thing about the Simple2000 series is that the games are cheap, and often feature girls in bikinis. The downside to the Simple2000 series is that the gameplay is usually crap. Well, you get what you pay for, right?

What about the F/A-22? I thought it was a single-seater. And I thought that the preference for two-seaters was a Navy thing.

my brotha! i stand united with you, our solidarity against sh!t movies while the rest say "i hate it, but i'll be in line when it hits theaters and buy the boxed set when it comes out" you and i will be standing strong in defiance of utter crap. I didn't see it either! Just like I didn't see Freddy vs. Jason. The only vs. I like in my life is Red vs. Blue. Same here Except for the Red VS. Blue thing... Dunno what it is btw... Haven'tseen Red vs. Blue either, but know what it is. Red and Blue Halo guys. Online vid. Well, red and blue Halo guys is one way to sum it up, but that's kinda like summing up the Ring as being "about a girl who fell in a well." Red vs. Blue is the ongoing web series about two armies in a box canyon, each with their own base, who suffer more misadventures than any actual combat. It's noteworthy for two reasons: First - Everything you see in RvB is filmed in game. They didn't use Halo's graphics engine to create a show... they actually set up a multiplayer Halo match on a couple of Xboxes, and film everything from there. Second - It's hysterically funny. You can check it out at redvsblue.com, but be advised... due to bandwidth issues, they don't have every episode in their archive, and with all the people downloading the new episode (first ep of season 3), their site gets kinda laggy. Oh, and Blaine, I totally forgot about Spy vs. Spy... but yeah, they totally rocked. I too was a fan of black spy... white spy just seemed like a cockbite.

No...that movie sucked cause not only did it have him, but the hit and run actress who praised herself on being one of the few black women to win a best actress award....get off it....being black is nothing special your just a person I hate that. When a person gets an award and they start talkin about their religion or their race be it Latino, Black, Asian, White, what ever, I get pissed and never watch a movie they take part in ever again....Hell I can't even watch Die Another Day cause it has Hallie Barry in it I wish they could honestly get Ridely Scott or James Cameron in this, my god that'd be fantastic and you KNOW they'd get the best in creature effects from Stan Winston...even though Terminator 3 wasn't needed, Stan Winston did fantastic yet again on the Terminator effects like the TX and the 1/1 scale T-800 Arnold lookalike. But, I haven't seen a film from Ridely Scott in ages, and Cameron I think is just sticking to Documentry or touchy feely films like Titanic........gah....here's a touchy feely get a hot heroine chick and the aliens with tenticles! YEAH! If I didn't see any movies that featured an actor or actress who I believed to have an inflated view of themselves and/or their head so far up their ass that they have no idea what life outside Hollywood is like, I wouldn't have any movies to see. Now, once you divorce the actually story in the movie from any personal distate for any of the actors/actresses playing any of the characters in said story (and trust me, I'm not usually a fan of Travolta myself), Swordfish is still on of my all-time favorite movies.

I don't know if I should let you tarnish the name of Conan by a Gladiator affiliation. Not that Gladiator was bad... It just wasn't Conan. Gladiator was by far a thousand times better than any Conan movie..... NOT! You almost made me choke on the fish I am eating. Fish...? Funny, I always thought of you more as a rare beef kinda guy. Y'know, something manly. Seafood... I dunno, seafood is kinda girly.

Exactly! Because it's all style over substance, like I said. It tries to tell a story, but the original TV series tells it so much better. For me, for now, in decending order: SDF Macross Macross Zero Macross 7 Macross Plus Macross Dynamite 7 DYRL Macross II Macross Plus movie, Macross 7 Movie, Macross 7 Encore, I consider to be part of their respective series.

Wow... finally a Lord of the Rings movie I liked!

It's not Antonio Banderas' long lost Asian cousin. That's the guy who played Samanosuke in Onimusha and Onimusha 3!

Is that a 12-3 theatrical release, or just a R1 DVD release? One of my wife's clients in China sent us a VCD... hope to get it soon.

and some Namco corporate BS. I wonder if this song will be in the Japanese version. Can't rag on a group I've never heard of. Mostly these days, I listen to Japanese music. And while M-Flo and Ryohei Yamamoto's new CDs kick ass, I don't really want them in an Ace Combat game. It might be worth complaining about, except that it's probably just intro or ending music. The in-game music will likely be along the same lines as AC4. I wouldn't mind a little Kenny Loggins in an Ace Combat game...

my brotha! i stand united with you, our solidarity against sh!t movies while the rest say "i hate it, but i'll be in line when it hits theaters and buy the boxed set when it comes out" you and i will be standing strong in defiance of utter crap. I didn't see it either! Just like I didn't see Freddy vs. Jason. The only vs. I like in my life is Red vs. Blue.

No way, dude, Swordfish ruled.

SDF Macross is the classic story, so I voted for it. Why not DYRL? DYRL is flash over substance. So what if the VF-1s look prettier, and the battles seem more epic? The story is a pale substitute for the original TV series. I'm actually kinda sick of Plus.

I find that ridiculous. The mentor character in Escaflowne was Balgus. To be honest, Allen Schezar was actually inspired from Roy Focker. Folken has the rank of Britai, and the character seems more inspired from Guld than anyone else. The ranks of the enemy are somewhat intuitive: there is the commander who never sees the battlefield, a sort of emperor (Bodolza), the commander who sees the battlefield but doesn't fight personally (Britai), and the commander who fights (Kamjin). This is the basic structure, you can increase the number of commanders but these ranks are the most representative of an army. This is not what makes an anime formulaic. FV Then Kamjin = Dilandau, by your formula. And considering that they were both nuts, yeah, that makes sense.

It SHIPS exactly one week from today. Unless you live in California, that generally means it won't be in stores until a week from tomorrow... that is, not until Tuesday 10-26. Most games aren't street dated the way movies are.

That's pretty cool, although it does some better than others. I do like how you can click to see the original image.

There are a lot of games I can play through more than once (given the time)... and at any given time, if my buds come over, we can play pretty much any given shooter or fighter, and my wife and I are always up for some Tiger Woods... But there is only ONE series that, no matter how many times I play it, it never gets old. Seriously. And that would be Megaman/Rockman (well, as Jemstone already pointed out, not EXE or Legends). I'm almost getting burn out on X, but the Zero series is still a blast... but where it's really at is the classic series. The Anniversary Collection was a dream come true for me, and even before that, I would play through at least 1-6 once or twice a year, just to stay in practice. And when the Anniversary Collection came out, I finished it in 8 days... because everday, I sat down and played entirely through one Megaman game. Ah, good times. Maybe I can sneak a little time with MMAC before Ace Combat 5, since I finished Zero 3...

Isn't that orange fella in Tetsuwan Atom?

I have a DMS3... on their site, they advertise that a modded PS2 with a DMS3 will play all PS2 games. In fact, they had "ALL" in caps, and defined all as "backups, originals, imports, silvers, and DVD9s." They go on to say that the DMS3 plays all regions of DVDs, with an asterick by all. Down further on the page, they explain by saying that a PAL PS2 with a DMS3 can play all DVDs, but a US or Japanese PS2 can only play NTSC DVDs, due to an issue with the frame buffer length. They make it sound like an issue with PAL DVD movies, not PAL displays, which shouldn't affect the games, so while they don't definitavely come out and say that a US PS2 with their modchip can play PAL games, they do seem to imply it. But again, if anyone knows something I don't, let me know. Man, all this trouble for the new Knight Rider game... damn me for being a kid in the 80's...

I know that, since both Japan and US use NTSC, that it's relatively easy to import games to the US from Japan... in my case, I have a modded PS2. But, can modded a modded NTSC-U/C console play European PAL games? I thought that the number of lines displayed on PAL TVs is different than the number of lines on an NTSC TV and thought that might be a factor. If anyone knows the answer, please tell me.

Well, Star Wars Battlefront is on my list of games to try before RT Invasion, but as I have so little time for console games (haven't played a game of any sort in 6 months....not kidding), it might be a while before I get around to giving Invasion a try. OT, but curse Battlefront for not having a 2-player split screen mode I don't think there is anyway to play it online here in HK. I was looking forward to having a friend come round to try it with me, but then I found out there is no 2-player mode . I wish game developers would realise that not everbody is into or has access to play online console games. Anyway, I'm old fashioned and still prefer playing when I have my friends in the same room with me together with plenty of beer and pizza. None of this anonymous online gaming for me thank you very much. So getting back on topic, how is the 2-player mode of RT Invasion? Graham Battlefront most certainly does have splitscreen two player. On the main menu, you should have four choices: Single Player (self explanitory), Multiplayer (online play or multiple consoles), Splitscreen (for two players on one console), and Options (self explanitory). Even though it's in the main menu, it can actually be easy to miss... whenever I go to play with buds at home, I ALWAYS hit Multiplayer first, as it's the second option, before I remember that Splitscreen isn't in Multiplayer.

I'm probably going to sell my copy of SVC Chaos. As much as I want to like it, everytime I put it in my Xbox, I can't get over how ugly the game looks. And then I try to play it...

It's not that were snooty... it's just that as the console market grows and more developers know there's money to be had, we have more and more games to choose from. And unlike our PC breathren, who seem to get a lot of games at $29.99 or less, console gamers usually have to pay $40-$50 for new games. We don't have time or money to play every game... so we only buy what we feel is the best. What the best is is different for everyone... there will be people who buy Invasion just because it is Robotech/Mospeada. But the majority are just going to see a poorly done shooter... and even if they're in the mood for a shooter where you can transform into a vehicle and drive around, for half of what Invasion costs, you could buy the Transformers game, which was actually pretty good.

From the way you're describing it, though, you make it sound like the Gamestop in your area really marks up the price of their games, which is the part I don't understand. When you go to Gamespot or IGN, they list the set retail price, which is usually $50 for a game. My Gamestop, all the Gamestops in my area, all the Targets, K-Marts, Wal-Marts, Circuit Cities, Best Buys, etc, all sell their games at that retail price, with variations of no more than a few cents. Sure, some areas have local stores that sell games for a few bucks less, and if I live near one (and didn't get a discount already), I'd probably buy from them... why pay more when you can pay less, right? But you can't really fault a retail chain for selling games at retail price... except that, from the way you describe it, your local Gamestop isn't. I'm not really defending Gamestop as a company, just saying that Gamestop as a company isn't like your store, which puzzles me. I know that Gamestop corporate are money-whores... but charging above retail, especially when that's not a chain-wide practice, almost seems like a scam. (I never understood why companies do stuff like that anyway... they think that if they charge more, they make more, which may be true per item sold, but is rarely true in terms of overall profits. Wal-Mart's the number one retail chain in America for a reason, and it's not because the stores look like dumps...) As you said, not shopping there shows your displeasure more than a letter. But I wonder if a letter wouldn't be like catching a kid with his hands in the cookie jar, you know?