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UnforgivingEdges

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  1. I'm going as media, mainly to see if I can snag some interviews. It will probably be a madhouse, though. After the efficiency of this year's E3, I don't know if I'm ready for that.
  2. Yes, but it's FREE. Anyway, Bigfoot, you can listen to the Gears of War or Halo 3 or BioShock suggestions if you want (and you should), but my favorite 360 game this year is Project Sylpheed. Fucking fantastic game, and it's only $40. I would also recommend Condemned: Criminal Origins. It was a launch title, and it was the BEST launch title. It's also scary as fuck. Another great, cheap gem: Earth Defense Force 2017: the best co-op game in next-gen. Just an absolute crazy fun off-the-wall arcade-type game. Finally, I just finished Dead Rising today, and while not for everyone, I had a great time with it. A very interesting unique Capcom title. And it's only $30 now.
  3. Yeah, we got two invites at GAF for media purposes. Most of the people playing it are like machines; it's all they do. It looks and plays great, but the class system has some balancing issues with gun strength and whatnot. If you ever want to play, just send me an invite (if you can pry me away from NHL 08 )
  4. Ninja Gaiden II screens Rez and Ikaruga to XBLA in 2008 Can I get an unadulterated "fuck yeah" from some you of you?
  5. I'm always up for some. My gamertag is Justegarde; add me.
  6. That guy is the best thing to happen to the gaming press in years. Everything he does is laugh out loud funny.
  7. Then your fiance is a sod. Go buy the damn game. If you need further justification, here's my review. The game is art.
  8. Unmod was just a forum. I'm still alive to make your life miserable.
  9. Good week for the XBLA: Puzzle Fighter (800 points/$10) and Streets of Rage 2 (400 points/$5) just went up on the marketplace. So good.
  10. Dude, would you stop fucking spoilering everything on all coerners of the internet? You're going to ruin a lot of the game for a lot of people who haven't beat it. How hard is it to just make the text white, seriously?
  11. The whole point of the game is that those ideas failed miserably. I get the analogy, but for it to be completed, this scenario has to end with you getting slapped with a lawsuit.
  12. Oh you. You're like some big lovable Bolshevik grandfather who is wise enough to save us from ourselves. *huggles*
  13. If you haven't been keeping tabs on the XBLA this week, Space Giraffe comes out on Wednesday. From another board:
  14. 2K Games has been a publishing label of Take Two for a while. Irrational became 2K Boston/Australia, which are developmennt houses. Big difference.
  15. That's what I think will ultimately end up working against both of those titles. Not to take away from their inevitable quality (I am anticipating both), but I think because expectations are so high, they will at least, on some small scale, disappoint some reviewers. On the other hand, BioShock came in as sort of this relatively unknown game that was supposed to be awesome, and because of the lack of expectation, ended up blowing away reviewers.
  16. We have a thread on it in OT, but for those who missed it: It's averaging a 99/100 PC Gamer (UK): 95% PC Zone: 96/100 Eurogamer: 10/10 Gamer TV: 5/5 Game Informer: 10/10 AP Magazine: 5/5 Computers and Video Games: 9.5/10 Gamepro 5/5 1UP: 10/10 Xbox World: 94/100 Gamespy: 5/5 Console and Gameworld: 99/100 IGN: 9.7/10 GameTap: 10/10 UGO: A Games Radar: 10/10 PLayboy: 4/4 Console Game World: 99/100 Team Xbox: 9.5/10 That, ladies and gentleman, is what you call a pedigree. As the reviews are coming in, it's becoming a dwindling possibility any other game takes Game of the Year.
  17. Personally, I'm finding 720p to be more than enough for my HD needs. And unless you plan on playing games or watching TV on it from another room, it should be satisfactory. If I could recommend you some brands: I love my Sharp, though they're on the upper end of the price scale. The Sony Bravia is nice, but Sony charges more than anyone else for their TVs against equivalent models. My mom has a 37 inch Olevia, and those are pretty nice, too. They're not as thin as say the Bravias, but they're much cheaper. You also might consider Samsung and Phillips, too. Theu both make above-average to good quality TVs. For gaming purposes, you'll want something with a high refresh rate (to eliminate ghosting in fast-moving games), at least 8 m/s, but 6 m/s would be ideal. You'll also want a good contrast ratio (so the picture doesn't look washed out, obvisouly). I wouldn't accept anything less than 2000:1 for a 32" screen size, but try and get something higher if you can (mine is 4000:1). Still, contrast ratio are LCDs' biggest weak area, and this is where plasmas have them handily beat. Oh, and if you buy from a brick and mortar store, never judge the picture quality based on the signal they have hooked up, because it's usually shit.
  18. Oh yeah, forgot about that thing. Ero, make sure you've switched the little button on the 360 AV cables where it plugs into the system from SD to HD, and then go into the system blade and make sure you're choosing the signal to be output in 720p or 1080p or whatever.
  19. You can get 1080p through a component cable. It might just look a little bit beter through HDMI since HDMI is a digital input and not an analog input, and thus has no latency. But yeah, 1080p is mainly for huge TVs of 40 inches and over. I used to have a picture somewhere that showed where 1080p begins to be important. Here's a good graphic to show how it works: So yeah, what Imagery said. For a 32" set, 720p is all you'll need.
  20. Like Imagery said, you have to be using Red/Green/Blue component or HDMI cables to get the HD signal. If you're simply using composite on your plasma, it will in fact look worse than your SDTV. Oooh, nice. Sharp makes some quality sets. Though you won't really be able to take advantage of the 1080p at that size (it's mostly noticeable on TVs bigger than 40 inches). How much did you get it for? I bought mine for $650, but since I got it at CostCo, they added an extra year of warranty for free.
  21. Maybe not in the minds of the masses, but in media circles, I think BioShock will win pretty much every award this year for its genre and system (maybe get an overall GotY, too). Its got 5 reviews so far floating around the internet from various sites, and it hasn't received a score lower than 95%. That's astonishing. Also, I posted this in OT, but for those that don't check that board: Free 67 page BioShock artbook thanks to 2K and Irrational Games. Download now.
  22. I also trolled this site for years. But that was after I registered.
  23. Nope, it's the LC-C3242U. 720p/1080i, 2 HDMI inputs, 2 component inputs, 2 composite inputs, VGA input, stereo audio out, digital audio out, RF/coaxial input.
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