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[Reply #240 on:]

 

Originally posted by FishyJoe:
So has anyone else pre-ordered the DS? I was talking to the guy at Gamestop, and he said they are no longer taking pre-orders. Nintendo is only shipping 1 million to the united states, and they are afraid of selling out.

The Gamespot I work at sold out of pre-orders also. Our store is only getting 5 DS's for the first shipment.

Yes, I wanted to pre-order it, but I'll just wait until the next shipment comes before I get it.

Edit: Top of the Page Boogie

[Reply #241 on:]

Hellooo? SWG Gameclip ready for hosting?

[Reply #242 on:]

 

Originally posted by FishyJoe:
So has anyone else pre-ordered the DS?

I preordered mine in September. Does anybody know when those who have reservations will get it?

Oh and PS: I just got a job at ToysRUs in the Videogame Dept. Bitchin.

[Reply #243 on:]

 

Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
 I preordered mine in September. Does anybody know when those who have reservations will get it?

It's supposed to come out around the 22nd of this month...

Good luck with your job.

[Reply #244 on:]

Someone host my file dammit!

[Reply #245 on:]

I'm holding off  on DS until January when Mario Kart is supposed to come out. There's such a flood of good games this time of the year. In the last month alone I bought Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Smackdown vs. Raw, and Paper Mario 2. Then a new Zelda comes out for GBA in November.

[Reply #246 on:]

This time of year is the best time to be a gamer.

I mean when you have GTA: SA, Halo2, Metroid Prime2, Mario Tennis, Goldeneye Rouge Agent, Paper Mario, THUG2, SDvsRAW, AND the new Nintendo DS all being released within weeks of each other, it's a good time had by all.

[Reply #247 on:]

Phew. Completed all the storyline missions in San Andreas.
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OK, so I might have overplayed it juuuuuust a tad. 

Excellent game. Definitely longer than Vice City or GTA3. Aside from the early gang missions, which I found annoying for the most part, I loved it.

I still want the PC version though. 

[Reply #248 on:]

I'm stuck on the mission "Wrong Side of the tracks", are you suppose to go up that mountain ramp after avoiding the on coming train?

When do you unlock a new city?
And what do you have to do?

Does anyone know if the original 3 Mario games are out for Gamecube, or at least coming out soon.

And if you have Smackdown vs Raw, how is it?  I should get mine on Monday.

[Reply #249 on:]

People, I spent a fair bit of time putting that nice little clip together for you and nobody is willing to host it's measly 2 Megabytes?

[Reply #250 on:]

Nurdy, I just noticed my Geocities account has some room, I could host it for you if you'd like.

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I'll compress it and send it you, thanks M0le.

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Originally posted by spawn_2008:
I'm stuck on the mission "Wrong Side of the tracks", are you suppose to go up that mountain ramp after avoiding the on coming train?

If that's the one I'm thinking of, where you have to follow a train while Smoke shoots at it; I never had to. I think you just have to keep a fair distance to the side of the train so his shot angle isn't too steep (he's a sucky shot, I know  ).

 

When do you unlock a new city?
And what do you have to do?

When you play the Storyline Missions.

San Fierro and the Badlands are unlocked after you play the mission

Green Sabre

[Reply #253 on:]

Here's a quick screenie of this cute little Star Wars fan game I've been unable to win for a while:

[Reply #254 on:]

Can anyone tell me what's the big deal with Halo 2?
All  hear is that it's the most anticipated game, but I don't know why.

[Reply #255 on:]

I'm going to make a list of everyone who's preordered the DS.

With Wireless Router:
futuramafreak
Zeep
FishyJoe (if he decides so)

Without:
Nasty Pasty

[Reply #256 on:]

I haven't been following the online capabilities of the DS.

...when do they plan on having online play? Will you have to pay a monthly fee for it, or is there going to be a Warp Pipe type of deal?

Right now I don't have one, but I figure wireless routers are cheap enough. I'd get one if I was sure the DS provided a decent online gaming experience.

[Reply #257 on:]

No one knows.  We just have to wait.  But look at my post almost at the bottom of the page before this.  I'll put you under having one.

[Reply #258 on:]

I just bought Midway Arcade Treasures Volume 2 mainly because it has arcade perfect conversions of Mortal Kombat 2 and 3....

Ahh old school....
So give me the lowdown, is GTA:SA worth buying or is it the same as the last 2 GTA games just more guns and stuff....?

[Reply #259 on:]

Actually, they're mostly the same old guns.  New stuff includes:

• Silenced pistol, non-sniper rifle, um...purple double-ended dildo?
• New motorcycles including a police bike and pedal-powered bikes.
• "Pumpable" stats like 'stamina', 'muscle', 'driving skill'.
• Playable fixed-wing aircraft, parachutes, and a vastly raised game ceiling.
• Non-storyline home invasions that are executable at night as well as a general increase in the importance of stealth.
• Ability to alter the main character's appearance with customized outfits, haircuts, and tattoos.

The gang warfare thing is pretty annoying.  The worst part isn't even fighting the battles, it's getting them started where you want them.  I've already wiped the Ballas off the map and have launched a few unintended campaigns against the Vagos...some more successful than others.

Spawny, "Wrong side" is pretty easy once you know the terrain.  You have to keep up with the car in question and let Big Smoke take care of the gangsters on top.  I tried a bunch of cheap tricks like jumping the bike onto the train itself (my bike skill was already pretty high thanks to all my practice in Vice City), but the only thing to do is keep up and keep upright.  I don't know which ramp you are referring to.  If it's the one immediately after the first tunnel, I've always taken it and was eventually successful.

Also, if you didn't like "Wrong Side", you're going to love "Just Business".

[Reply #260 on:]

There's a helluva lot of guns if you use cheats.  I'm partial to the shotgun, but I'll be know to use the flamethrower.  Oh and the chainsaw I use a lot too.

[Reply #261 on:]

I'm looking forward to getting dual sawn-off shotguns a bit later in the game. I passed 'Wrong Side Of The Tracks' on about my third try, and I'm semi-stuck on Just Business (I've only been through it once or maybe twice, so I haven't given it a go really).

I love the pedal bikes, and the open country space, even if I am confined to LS still. The clothes changing pisses me off, because it's damn slow, but that doesn't really matter. My guy is an absolute unit, 100% muscle and about 50% fat, so he just walks around topless anyway.

I'd say it's definatly worth getting though.

[Reply #262 on:]

I played San Andreas today, I am definatly going to get that game now!

[Reply #263 on:]

Your guy is 50% fat?  Lardo.  My guy is no fat and about 80% muscle.  I owe the lean physique to eating nothing but salads, but it's just so hard to find time to go to the gym when you're constantly battling the Ballas.

I'd suggest posting pictures of our respective Carls, but I don't quite know how to move something from the PS2 to my computer.  I only have my guy run around topless when I'm on a non-storyline rampage.

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Unfortunately the only (cheap) way I know of doing it is using a TV capture card and recording the video. Ala:



No prizes for guessing the inspiration here....

[Reply #265 on:]

 

Originally posted by Lrrr_2004:
Can anyone tell me what's the big deal with Halo 2?
All  hear is that it's the most anticipated game, but I don't know why.

It's a poor mans Doom III...

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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
 It's a poor mans Doom III...

No, it isn't. It's a different game. I am one of the people who wasn't so impressed with Doom III. Doom III is way more repetetive than Halo - after a while Doom III becomes "pick up ammo, hear sound, get attacked by demon, kill demon, repeat". It's really very predictable - I was often thinking "when I pick up this I bet I'll get attacked", and that's just what happened. The maps in Doom III are really very nice, until you discover that they're all pretty much the same "generic military installation".

One map in Halo is very repetetive though, but apart from that, it has more variation - like vehicles.

And just for the record - Halo 2, being an xbox game (for now) will be more expensive than the PC version of Doom III, so poor people can better afford Doom III.

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M0le, have you hosted yet?

[Reply #268 on:]

 

Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
 It's a poor mans Doom III...

Just wait until you hear the news on Tuesday about a truckload of Halo2 shipments being hijacked by a lone crazed Nintendo fanboy and threatening to drive it into the side of Microsoft HQ.

Just wait....

*instantly gets jumped by 100 angry Xbox fans*

[Reply #269 on:]

Whoa! Has anyone seen the puppy game for the DS? I'm totally getting that. It's so freaking cute. I can rub their bellies with a stick and they wag their tails. Adorable!

[Reply #270 on:]

Those difficult levels in San Andreas, are they as frustrating as the one in Vice City where you've to race that fat nervous guy in the Sabre Turbo?

[Reply #271 on:]

 

Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
 Just wait until you hear the news on Tuesday about a truckload of Halo2 shipments being hijacked by a lone crazed Nintendo fanboy and threatening to drive it into the side of Microsoft HQ.

Just wait....

*instantly gets jumped by 100 angry Xbox fans*

Ah, I'd salute you for that Nasty, if only to piss off all those annoying Halo fanboys.

And I never understood what was so tricky about that mission where you had to race Hilary. One attempt told me I couldn't beat him in a fair race, so on the second attempt I got out of the car straight away and popped two of his wheels with my M4. After that I went as fast as I could although I did look behind a few times to see him crashing into lamp posts and buildings 

[Reply #272 on:]

 

Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
Those difficult levels in San Andreas, are they as frustrating as the one in Vice City where you've to race that fat nervous guy in the Sabre Turbo?

Oh yes. Just a tad. There are two missions for a guy called Zero, which are optional, but are incredibly frustrating.

The first is annoying because (as I said above) it relies on the crappiness of the PS2 control scheme (i.e. rate of change targeting, as opposed to coordinate based) to make it annoying. And the second isn't too hard (aside from the fact you have nowhere near enough fuel), it's just mind-numbingly dull, because you have to fly half-way across San Fierro and back in a tiny little RC plane which travels at approximately 0.00001 miles per hour.

 

Originally posted by Bushmeister:
 And I never understood what was so tricky about that mission where you had to race Hilary. One attempt told me I couldn't beat him in a fair race, so on the second attempt I got out of the car straight away and popped two of his wheels with my M4. After that I went as fast as I could although I did look behind a few times to see him crashing into lamp posts and buildings   

I really didn't like that you had to use the Sentinel. Plus he had a bulletproof Sabre Turbo so you couldn't blow him up. 

In fact, a lot of the missions in San Andreas are too like that - you must do the mission this way or else you fail. You must drive this car. You must be steathly, despite the fact you're a badass one-man army and the cops couldn't hit something even with the aid of some kind of automated hitting machine. 

I kinda miss the freeform of GTA3 and Vice City in that respect; where you could find yourself a nice car and do the mission however you chose, as long as you won.

Of course there are missions where stuff has to be used, or things must not happen, but I think it's the number of them that aggravates me this time wrong. Having said that, none of these things are bad per se, they're just annoying.

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Originally posted by Joysauce:
Whoa! Has anyone seen the puppy game for the DS? I'm totally getting that. It's so freaking cute. I can rub their bellies with a stick and they wag their tails. Adorable!

Wow! I know. I can't wait for that game to come out. It's going to be so awesome.

[Reply #274 on:]

Fishy, you're taking split personalities to a new level, even your alter-sister-ego has issues...

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Originally posted by termos:
 And just for the record - Halo 2, being an xbox game (for now) will be more expensive than the PC version of Doom III, so poor people can better afford Doom III.

My "poor" was in response to taste, not money. But then again, you would interpret it as money, seeing as you're sticking up for a game exclusively on a Microsoft console...

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Originally posted by Lrrr_2004:
Can anyone tell me what's the big deal with Halo 2?
All  hear is that it's the most anticipated game, but I don't know why.

Halo 2 is only going to be the best Xbox game ever.  Not like Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow, where you have to be careful, but you can go and kick some serious Covenant ass guns blazing.  There's nothing like going up to a Hunter that's turned around and sticking 3 plasma grenades to him.  Or when I was playing with 3 people, my teammate was turned around and standing so I went running at him and slammed his head with my assault rifle and yelled "BAM!".  Yeah, he died.  It has a deep storyline, it's really sci-fi-ey, and the new Warthogs have things besides machine guns *chough*rocket launchers.  You can play as the Covenant (aliens) including a big dude with a huge plasma gun and a long flat metal arm good for bashing skulls in and a bigger dude with a huge energy sword.  And even when you're Master Chief, you can still pick up said sword and look at someone for about 3 seconds, then lunge at them for a 1-hit kill.  You can now knock people out of their vehicles and hijack them.  And Xbox Live.  Oh, Xbox Live.  *drools*

[edit] Any instances where I said I did something were in H1.

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Don't get me wrong, I think Halo is great... but I don't think any game should be getting as much attention as it's getting. C'mon it's just a game, you don't have to count the days until it comes out like a person waiting to be released from prison.

[Reply #278 on:]

Pfft. Yeah.

10 days to Half-Life 2, 10 days to Half-Life 2.... 

[Reply #279 on:]

I'm so excited I wish I could wet my pants!!

... Oh wait.


Eww.

Thank Bob it's coming out now and not when I'll be doing 4th year, otherwise I probably would have wasted college fees and failed the year!

What's that you say? Aren't I concerned about it affecting my job?