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Post by Martin St. Louis on Apr 29, 2007 18:54:28 GMT -5
I bought Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on the Xbox just because the controller is similar to the Dreamcast controller, and I was used to playing the original with the Dreamcast controller.
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Post by madagascar on Apr 29, 2007 18:57:02 GMT -5
Imagine MvCIII with:
Viewtiful Joe E. Honda Blanka AND Charlie Dimitri (Darkstalkers) Donovan (Darkstalkers) Vega Balrog Leon (Resident Evil) Sandman Electro Bishop Carnage Jean Grey Daredevil Blade Thing
Again, fuck you Marvel.
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Post by J.J. on May 13, 2007 23:53:30 GMT -5
I'm now part of the 360 nation. I've got a Gamertag and everything, like a big boy.
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Post by Martin St. Louis on May 14, 2007 0:45:00 GMT -5
Go join Team Xbox, you fucking fag. I'm still holding out for a price drop.
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Post by J.J. on May 14, 2007 0:46:57 GMT -5
Target is giving away a free copy of Viva Pinata if you buy the Pro this week
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Post by J.J. on May 16, 2007 18:10:17 GMT -5
ALFOL! At the Crackdown Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta fuck up.
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Post by J.J. on May 17, 2007 22:30:24 GMT -5
Hot damn. Xbox Live Marketplace is something I've DRASTICALLY underestimated. PAC MAN THE TV SERIES! UNO! JETPACK!
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Post by Martin St. Louis on May 17, 2007 22:33:37 GMT -5
Pac-Man needs a DVD release. My Xbox Live account expired last October and I really regretted blowing $50 on it. Then again, I only had the original Xbox, and none of my friends even had an Xbox or broadband at the time. Do you have to have the gold account to buy crap in the marketplace?
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Post by Martin St. Louis on May 17, 2007 22:57:14 GMT -5
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Post by J.J. on May 17, 2007 23:07:33 GMT -5
Pac-Man needs a DVD release. My Xbox Live account expired last October and I really regretted blowing $50 on it. Then again, I only had the original Xbox, and none of my friends even had an Xbox or broadband at the time. Do you have to have the gold account to buy crap in the marketplace? I don't think. But this is my first time experiencing live, so I could be wrong, I don't really know the ins an outs. All I know is too many creepy people play Uno with the camera on...
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Post by Martin St. Louis on May 17, 2007 23:11:29 GMT -5
Why in the hell did they release that camera anyway? So you can watch your friend Doug pick his ass?
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Post by J.J. on May 17, 2007 23:34:46 GMT -5
Everyone plays in poorly lit rooms online anyways it seems. In the matter of three games, I saw a guy have the camera pointed right at his crotch with a cat in his lap. A guy who's camera could have been no farther than 28 feet away from his person, and a camera pointed at the corner of a picture hanging behind a couch.
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Post by Martin St. Louis on May 17, 2007 23:40:04 GMT -5
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Post by J.J. on May 17, 2007 23:47:01 GMT -5
And it seems no matter what, the first words I hear whenever I boot up anything with online and people are involved, I hear the words gay, fag, ass, fuck, and/or bitch.
I booted up Halo 3 and the first thing I hear is "This bitch better not fucking suck"
...I now fully understand why Nintendo is fully behind online.
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Post by J.J. on May 27, 2007 19:36:16 GMT -5
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit excited about Bioshock. It's the first non-Nintendo game I've reserved since....I wanna say Burnout 3...
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Post by Martin St. Louis on Jun 1, 2007 13:32:34 GMT -5
And it seems no matter what, the first words I hear whenever I boot up anything with online and people are involved, I hear the words gay, fag, ass, fuck, and/or bitch. I booted up Halo 3 and the first thing I hear is "This bitch better not fucking suck" ...I now fully understand why Nintendo is fully behind online. Honestly, I don't mind the friend codes thing. From what little time I've spent on Xbox Live, I don't think I even want to play a game with voice chat ever again, except with people I know. I was playing Call of Duty on Live a while back, and I had to take orders from a fucking 9 year old. It's not that I'm too macho to be bossed around by a 4th grader, god knows I'll have kids someday anyway, but Jesus Christ what in the hell is a kid that young doing playing a WWII game anyway? When I was that age, I was playing Big Bird's Hide and Speak.
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Post by Martin St. Louis on Jun 25, 2007 17:20:02 GMT -5
Purely out of contractual obligation, no, we're not working on KI3, no, we don't have a secret team in the basement finishing off JFG2, no, we're not brainstorming an exciting sequel to It's Mr. Pants and traditionally we're not big players in the RPG market either. Until we're ready to unveil some of the games beyond the new Banjo that we are working on, why not go back and sample some prime Rare goodness from the archives such as NES classics Time Lord or Super Glove Ball?kotaku.com/gaming/c_c_c_contrite-tag/rare-not-working-on-killer-instinct-3-272027.phpGeez, what a bunch of assholes. And that had better be a hint at a goddamn Super Glove Ball sequel.
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Post by J.J. on Jun 25, 2007 20:49:06 GMT -5
Listen Rare, you can only be cute and adorable and talk in snide, tongue in cheek manners when you've done something of commercial importance since Conker's Bad Fur Day.
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Post by J.J. on Jul 11, 2007 1:02:24 GMT -5
Okay, I'm wondering something, because it bothers me. I was looking at my Gamer Card on XBL, and was thinking....why is it a 5 star scale for your gamer ranking? I mean, you start with 3. Can you lose gamer ranking? Why not start us at zero and make us work for it.
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Post by J.J. on Jul 13, 2007 13:02:32 GMT -5
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Post by Martin St. Louis on Jul 13, 2007 13:04:51 GMT -5
Goddammit Microsoft drop the price of your faulty piece of crap console already.
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Post by J.J. on Jul 17, 2007 17:41:51 GMT -5
Wow, Peter Moore left Microsoft to head up EA Sports. Nice.
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Post by Martin St. Louis on Jul 17, 2007 17:57:54 GMT -5
Didn't he bail on Sega? Not a good sign.
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Post by Martin St. Louis on Jul 18, 2007 11:50:24 GMT -5
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Post by J.J. on Jul 18, 2007 13:21:40 GMT -5
You just wanna see XBox fail hard, don't you? XBox hasn't been hurt at all. And that "Every Console Is Defective" deal is probably nonsense. I've only seen it reported on the one Australian site, and you're reading too deep into Peter Moore leaving. the Xbox is going to a-okay. Christmas for them this year is going to be disgusting. Madden, Halo, and GTAIV? Jesus fuck....Even with a new Super Mario Game, you can't compete with that kind of triple threat. Smash and Metroid only appeal to a specific crowd. Those three are disgustingly main stream.
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Post by Martin St. Louis on Jul 18, 2007 13:37:34 GMT -5
I know I usually come across as an anti-Xbox Nintendo fanboy, but I'm not. I don't want to see the Xbox fail, I don't want to see any system fail, but I don't want them to reach the levels of Nintendo and Sony in their prime. I mean Jesus, imagine if the Xbox starts selling like the NES or PS2, their hardware is just not reilable (though neither is Sony's, not by a long shot), and microtransactions will be even harder to avoid. Microsoft needs to be kept on their toes, because I do NOT want to see them having a monopoly over the gaming industry. I do think they've done a good job of keeping quality control over their games... just not their hardware.
But anyway, I'm sure the Xbox 360 will be fine, hell, I predicted a couple years ago that they would overtake Sony, and they just about have. But shit can happen overnight in this industry. This console war could very well go to anyone, and I wouldn't be surprisied at all to see at least one company pull a Sega.
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Post by Haydn on Jul 18, 2007 13:38:30 GMT -5
Anything but the blue screen of death.
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Post by Martin St. Louis on Jul 18, 2007 13:58:36 GMT -5
You know what, I think a part of me, deep inside, just hates Microsoft for sorta taking Sega's place. The Xbox is kinda like that new stepmom you just can't accept. She's nice and everything, and treats your dad with respect, but you just can't help but hate her.
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Post by Haydn on Jul 19, 2007 14:23:56 GMT -5
I miss sega.
I think i was the only person to own a dreamcast ... >_>
Fur fighters I think it was, was fucking awesome.
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Post by Martin St. Louis on Jul 19, 2007 14:34:21 GMT -5
I bought a Dreamcast on launch day. All of my friends thought I was batshit for buying one, but guess who had the last laugh? ;D Oh... right.
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