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http://squeedgemonster.deviantart.com/gallery/ That's the same person, right? Sure seems like it. I remember seeing some of their stuff when I made the furry thread in PPR a while back. Definitely a wild and at times voodoo-centric/morbid take on things, but some of her work is really rather good.

I gave the demo a whirl a while back. Not bad. It looks like a mix between Trouble Shooter and Insector-X (with shark girls), but plays like a horizontal manic shmup at times. Nice to see someone trying something different in the shmup world that doesn't involve lolis. Jesus jumped up Christ am I sick of seeing new shmups get announced and the "ships" turn out to be what look like 8 year old girls. Lolis are a trend in the shmup world that needs to die... soon. Anyway, so yeah. A shmup with shark girls in tight outfits and C-cups (at least). A bit strange, but I've seen a lot stranger in shmups. And hey, it's a hori instead of a vert to boot.

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

Is the person who started this even around anymore? He hasn't posted since the beginning of this year, and that was only for a handful of posts after a previous six month vanishing. Not to mention the website's gone.

Not a fuckin' problem. Glad to help.

Fixed .

So can not having someone proof read your script.

"If you just uh, continue to press the the same button like a X, X, X, and Y, Y, Y, and X, X, and Y, Y, Y again, you'll be sucked." I have to get this game.

So... S'up in Mario 64 land?

Dude, didn't you see the remake of "The Time Machine"? Blowing up the moon will fubar everything. Sure it'll be one hell of a final ride, watching all that mankind has made and achieved crumble beneath a burning sky filled with fireballs streaming into the earth, but... I'm not done with Chrono Trigger yet and I just got it

Nah-Tahl ?

Alpha Protocol

Well good morning to you too, sunshine There's a simple rule I go by with game systems... if you put the capability in, don't decide later to take it out. PS3's backward compatibility, the Genesis' headphone jack and volume control, the DS' ability to play GBA games... they were all there, working fine and quite appreciated by people. These were nice features that weren't really in the way of anything to warrant removal. That may seem unimportant to some, but I figure if you include a capability in a given system, leave it in for that system's duration and official redesigns. Bleck- I'm not talking about comparing one company's product to a different company's similar product. Samsung isn't making their own version of Wii to compete with Nintendo's. I'm talking about one single system being redone multiple times by its parent company during its rather finite 5-8 year life span. A system competing with itself basically. To use the DS again, there are four models, all with different additions and subtractions. Some minor, some quite major, but it's all the same basic system with different features added. Why make one version for launch, then another version with improvements, then add more to it again, and finally add more once more? Why not make the system once, leave it with it's feature set and let it ride? Making it more compact or drain the battery less is fine and understandable. But repeatedly adding more traits and adjusting others? I should never have to say, "this year's 360 has more features than last year's," but it's almost at that point. In my mind, a video game system shouldn't get the same yearly/bi-yearly updates and upgrades that a car, microwave or stereo line would. It might be the way the manufacturing world works, but that doesn't make it sit any better with me because it's already a part of so many things. Does it have to be a part of gaming too? Give the game system a feature set and save any additional things for either an add-on, or the next generation system. To do otherwise just feels like you're pissing on the feet of those who jumped on board at the start, while handing something better to those who came after them. Anyway, those are my thoughts on it. Agree or disagree, hopefully I made them clearly enough.

Having watched it all, I wasn't wowed or disappointed really... + Halo Reach (I like the Halo games, but I still haven't gotten to play part 3 yet) ?? Gears of War 3 (They look like fun, but I've got no 360 yet, so I'll reserve judgment there) - Kinect (Not a fan of this whole motion controller, Wii-mote thing) ?? Fable 3 (I still haven't played the series, but I've been curious about it all for a while) ?? XBox 360 Slim (I'm happy in one sense, but until I see reliability reports, I'll hold off on an opinion) + Metal Gear Solid Rising (don't know if it's exclusive or not, but it looked fun) So, some ups and downs. Nothing that made me piss myself in overjoyed incontinence. But I will add this about Kinectimals... as much as I wanted to say, "JUST GIVE THE POOR KID A REAL PET!", I was impressed with the interactive behavior of the young tiger. It was cute, well animated and such, which made me wonder... how's the AI and such? How often do the same animations get repeated? Just how "deep" do the behavior algorithms go? Virtual pets have been pretty limited for the most part, so I'm curious to know how far they took Kinectimals.

And yet still no Darkstalkers 4

DSi dropped GBA compatibility (bad Nintendo! BAD!) and added a slightly bigger set of screens, while DSi XL added even bigger screens (and longer battery life over DSi). DSi also added a faster CPU and more RAM, two digital cameras, voice recording... all sorts of nifty little things. If someone had just bought a DS Lite four months earlier, I'd understand their being tweaked. Sure, the DS Lite wasn't an enormous jump over DS (though it had some advantages beyond cosmetic), but DSi moved things forward a good bit. DSi XL looks to be the best of the bunch (nice big-ish screens), but who knows if there's one more yet to come. There's a nice little comparison on Wikipedia if you want to check it out. Not to me or you, but I know a good number of people were pretty upset when it got dropped (usually because they sold or packed away their PS2). I remember people trying like hell to find those 60GB PS3s so they could have the compatibility. Wouldn't call that bolded part minor What's sad is that it didn't do all that much after all the hype about how much better the Jasper chip was. I don't know. Dropping the UMD format altogether was a pretty big step. Makes me wonder why they kept "PSP" in the title of the thing given it can't play the original PSP UMDs anymore. That's like calling the DSi the GBA-DS or something. Oh I wasn't trying to compare the compatibility aspect of PCs and handhelds, just the constant updating trait. 3 GBAs, 4 PSPs, 4 DSs, 9 (technically speaking) variants of the PS3 and 360... really? Was all that needed? I mean no offense, but that's you. Other people see those updates differently. WiFi, bigger screens, longer battery life... those are big selling points for some. I know I'd like a 4.2" screen over a 3" one, or a camera to play around with (I still don't have a digital camera... stop laughing). Keep in mind, I'm not bashing you or anything, so don't take all this in that way. Those aren't big deals to you, and to be honest, a lot of it's not a big deal to me. WiFi, longer battery life... not big sellers IMHO (my systems stay home). But bigger screens, bigger hard drives, more light settings, more reliable hardware... those are important to me, which is why I do my best to wait. I guess we don't see eye to eye on some of the things with this. That kind of thing irks me to no end. I've gotten things off of Steam, Amazon, Gamestop and them, only to see it discounted a week or two later (Torchlight went on sale not even TWO DAYS after I bought it... that hurt).

That may have been the biggest change, but I wouldn't down play the rest of the changes. Some were to make them lighter or have longer battery life, some improved the screens or the chips inside for (hopefully) better reliability, some dropped notable features or boosted others... it's at times come off as a haphazard march of not really knowing just what to add or do. And it's still a kick in the shins when you buy a system, and six months later there's a new version with more features, improvements and so forth. Sure, you can still play all (or at least most of) the games for that system, but you still feel a little on the "SHIT! I knew I should have waited!"-side.

That would be nice. I know the tray going in and out looks fancier, but a pop top doesn't trap your disc in the system when it dies (my old Sega CD tried to keep my copy of Stellar Fire that way ).

True, no one's forcing you to buy them. But this generation's theme is, "Hey, let's put out an updated version of our system every nine to twelve months!" The PS3, the 360, the DS... it's reaching rather ridiculous levels. The old saying used to be "it's obsolete as soon as you open the box" when talking about computers. It was a joke about how quickly the PC hardware gets updated and/or moves forward (and still does). Now consoles and hand helds are just about caught up with that, thanks to revision after revision. You almost don't want to buy something until its market is nearly dead, just so you know there won't be a newer and better version waiting just around the corner.

Don't you mean a redesigning of the redesign? There'll be at least three versions

Can't say I was any more or less impressed than I was with the MS show. Felt about the same. - Zelda didn't thrill me. - The 23rd iteration of the DS just made me roll my eyes (c'mon Nintendo... how many damn versions are you going to pump out?). + The Donkey Kong game piqued my interest. ?? The Kirby game I want more info on before I decide how I feel. Looks creative visually and they seem to be branching out the gameplay. But while I like the franchise, "branching out" doesn't always equal fun or good. ?? I don't own a Gamecube and thus have yet to get to play the 3D Metroids to know if I like them. ?? Another Paper Mario game (I played the first one and liked it, but I haven't played the sequels yet). + Dragon Quest IX got my attention. Hope they did at least as good a job with it as they did with XIII. - Never got the "OMG WOWZORS!" for Goldeneye on the N64, so an upgrade doesn't do a lot for me. I also have to say the DS got a lot more attention this time. Seems like it's getting more big franchise names than the Wii right now (beyond the expected Nintendo franchises). I know they have yet another "upgrade" to it so it was sure to get more time in the spotlight, but it seemed to be more the focus for third parties.

If Billy Mayes were still around, he could pitch the new 360 as a combination game player/engraver/wood planer.

Pardon? Looks like someone hasn't been doing their homework. Detention. Three days, for one hour each day. You'll be cleaning out the OCR "rejection letter-worthy" remixes bin while you're there.

Here's hoping MS finally gets this RRoD thing beaten with their new system. All the talk about the Jasper chip and the systems are still dropping at an unsettling rate. I want one, but I'm not picking one up until they finally get a handle on the problem. I'd like to at least feel reasonably confident that my new system will last longer than it's warranty. Oh, and... What? Whoever wrote that in your e-mail had to have been forced to do so. That's like calling the Razzies the biggest night for the movie industry