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I agree. Sending a tribute video with video game footage, while thoughtful, may not be quite as touching or meaningful to his family. Perhaps flowers or something more traditional with a note saying something like: "While few of us ever had the pleasure of speaking with him, we have all been touched by his beautiful music. You are all in our prayers." Actually, in addition to that, we should send a nice, high-quality CD of all his music that we can find. It's possible has family hasn't heard a lot of it. That could be infinitely more meaningful than flowers.

Awful news. He'll be missed around here. It's always so tragic to see such a talented person go so young.

Here's two tracks to start things off. I'd really love it if we could get a full christmas remix album going. Purity Carol of the Bells

You know what else makes this game great? Zero loading times. Not one load screen.

If anyone is having hardware problems, EA has a really great warranty replacement deal. Take advantage of it. http://support.ea.com/rockband

And now it's time we started making our DLC wishlists. Top of my list: Tenacious D's "Pick of Destiny" soundtrack/album. Followed by Portal's "Still Alive."

A couple I did for a short-lived Christmas remix project last year. The first is a remix of a tune from an old animated film called "The Snowman." Purity Carol of the Bells

The drums have felt a bit finicky to me at times. I don't think it's the calibration like I assumed at first. It just feels like every 20th hit or so, a hit won't register properly. Annoying, but no biggie if you can get a group together to play. You'll have too much fun to notice.

Sometimes I wonder if my calibration is off slightly. Every now and then it makes me miss a note when I know I hit the sucker. Guess I'll adjust.

CONFIRMATION: Rock Band is awesome.

I kinda wish that when guards were alerted out in the free-roam Kingdom, you could make the alert level drop just by running off. I galloped a mile away from the scene where my pursuers have no chance of finding me, but I have to dismount and dive into a nearby haybale to lose them? Otherwise, awesome game. Loving it.

Good to hear that before I considered buying. Rock Band will be hurting my wallet enough already.

Just 5-starred the expert campaign. For those who didn't already, go to Live Marketplace and check out the GH3 downloads. The Boss Battle songs have just been made available for download as freely playable songs. They cost nothing.

Sunshine!

You could beat Mario 64 quick too if you tried. But there are plenty more stars and such out there to keep you playing for a while. This game is the reason to own a Wii.

If it pleases and sparkles, I'd like to nominate yesterday's episode "hilarious."

Perhaps someday we'll go back and update the lists of consoles we covered before. If we do another of these threads, I expect it will cover the NES, SNES, Gameboy and Sega Genesis. Maybe the TurboGrafx-16 and GameGear as well, but I'm not sure. I know there are plenty of other early consoles that list would exclude, but I can't imagine we'd have more than one or two voters who had ever played one ever.

Obviously, the list isn't as "complete" as any of us would like, but that's how it is when only 6 or 7 people come in to vote regularly (and only one of them owns a Saturn). At least it's nostalgic fun.

Well it's been a fun month or so, but the time has come to wrap up this, the second OCR Must-Have Games thread. I hope you all enjoyed remembering and discussing these old classics. Perhaps someday, we will do this again, with a new lineup of consoles. Is our list perfect? No. We'd need a much bigger voter base to fine-tune such a list to anything near perfection. But hopefully this list will lead some of us to play games we'd never even considered. Thanks for all the people who took the time to vote regularly! And now, I present the complete Must-Have game list for OCR, parts 1 & 2! Nintendo 64 Banjo-Kazooie Conker’s Bad Fur Day Diddy Kong Racing GoldenEye 007 Killer Instinct Gold Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Mario Kart 64 Mario Tennis Ogre Battle 64 Paper Mario Perfect Dark Pilotwings 64 Star Fox 64 Star Wars: Rogue Squaron Super Mario 64 Super Smash Bros. Nintendo Gamecube Animal Crossing Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem F-Zero GX Ikaruga Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Mario Power Tennis Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Metroid Prime Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Pikmin 2 Resident Evil 4 Skies of Arcadia Legends Soul Calibur II Super Mario Sunshine Super Smash Bros. Melee Viewtiful Joe Wario Ware Inc.: Mega Party Game$ Nintendo Gameboy Advance Advance Wars Astro Boy: Omega Factor Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Castlevania: Circle of the Moon Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance Final Fantasy VI Advance Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Fire Emblem Golden Sun Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Mega Man & Bass Mega Man Zero Mega Man Zero 2 Mega Man Zero 3 Metroid Fusion Metroid: Zero Mission Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon Super Ghouls N’ Ghosts WarioWare: Mega Microgame$ Nintendo DS Advance Wars: Dual Strike Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime Elite Beat Agents Metroid Prime: Hunters NEW Super Mario Bros. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright 2: Justice for All Tetris DS Sony Playstation Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Chrono Cross Crash Bandicoot Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy Tactics Gradius Gaiden* Guilty Gear Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Mega Man X4 Metal Gear Solid R-Type Delta Resident Evil 2 Silent Hill Tekken 3 WipeOut Worms Armageddon Xenogears You Don’t Know Jack Sony Playstation 2 Ace Combat 5 Amplitude Beatmania IIDX 8th Style Beyond Good and Evil Breath of Fire 5: Dragon Quarter Burnout 3: Takedown Castlevania: Lament of Innocence Devil May Cry Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening Disgaea: Hour of Darkness Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves Final Fantasy XII God of War God of War II Grand Theft Auto III Guilty Gear X2 Guitar Hero Guitar Hero 2 ICO Jak II Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Katamari Damacy Kingdom Hearts MegaMan Anniversery Collection Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence Okami Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Rez Shadow of the Colossus Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne Silent Hill 2 Soul Calibur II Soul Calibur 3 Street Fighter Anniversary Collection Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria Viewtiful Joe We Love Katamari Sony PSP (serious vote shortage, sorry) Lumines Tekken: Dark Resurrection Sega Saturn (shortage here too. just ask Coop what games to play) Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter* NiGHTS Into Dreams Panzer Dragoon Panzer Dragoon Zwei II Sega Dreamcast Bangai-O Crazy Taxi Daytona USA Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of Earth Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves Grandia II Ikaruga Jet Grind Radio Last Blade 2 Marvel vs. Capcom Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Metropolis Street Racer Powerstone 2 Project Justice Skies of Arcadia Soul Calibur Street Fighter III: Double Impact Street Fighter III: Third Strike Street Fighter Alpha III Microsoft Xbox Beyond Good and Evil Burnout 3: Takedown Capcom Classics Collection 2 Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge Dead or Alive Ultimate Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Halo Halo 2 Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Ninja Gaiden Black Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath OutRun2 Panzer Dragoon Orta Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Project Gotham Racing 2 Psychonauts Shenmue II Soul Calibur II SSX 3 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic PC Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn Bioshock Call of Duty Call of Duty 2 Cave Story Command & Conquer Curse of Monkey Island Descent Diablo Diablo II Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Doom Doom II: Hell on Earth Duke Nukem 3D Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Fallout Fallout 2 Grand Theft Auto III Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Grim Fandango Half-Life Half-Life: Counter-Strike Half-Life 2 Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Lemmings The Orange Box Painkiller Portal Prince of Persia Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Psychonauts Quake Quake II Quake III Arena Rise of Nations Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Sim City 2000 Star Control 2 Starcraft Taito Legends Tyrian Unreal Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament 2004 Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Wing Commander World of Warcraft Worms Armageddon You Don’t Know Jack

You said it. That's been my favorite part of this game so far.

Sorry I don't have much time to comment, but I really like the variety you've got here. Each little section feels different but cohesive. Something about the violin stabs still don't feel like those found in "Pirates" but they get the point across. Hope you still plan to keep this one going.

Completing TTFATF and 5-starring Raining Blood are consuming me at the moment. I WILL achieve both. That intro is brutal, though.

Running out of days, folks. The end is nigh.

Congratulations to both of you! Do us proud.

Oops. Fixed.