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3 months 16 days ago on QOTW: What band do you now love because of music games?
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets are pretty awesome. Kinda like a nerdy punk/grunge band. Never would've heard of them if not for the PAX pack.

And also, Priestess had that awesome song in GHIII and their album's pretty solid.

I also checked out a bit more Cream, The Doors, Blue Oyster Cult, Aerosmith, Smashing Pumpkins, Heart, Jane's Addiction and Thin Lizzy.
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3 months 29 days ago on QOTW: What once-beloved game do you now hate?
The Sims. When I was young, carefree and had the time for it, it was pretty fun and absorbing. Even if for a bit you just got into a routine of eat, sleep, work.

Now I'm old, jaded and have less time, I pretty much live the eat, sleep, work routine and it's not fun, just absorbing
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4 months 10 days ago on The Top 7… 2008 games we can't stop playing
I think a few people are still playing 2007 games:
- Halo 3
- CoD4
- Mass Effect (although I think a lot I'm hearing about were sparked by ME2 hype)

The first two are a bit obvious though.
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4 months 27 days ago on Classic mistakes rookies always make
I'm pretty sure I've only done shoryukens instead of hadoukens on SFIV. Stupid controls.
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4 months 28 days ago on QOTW: What is your all-time favorite console?
Playstation 2. My console for a long time and through my uni days. Many happy memories. But...

I remember when it first came out and I couldn't afford it. And I didn't have a job then either. Then much later when I heard about them being cheap at a local supermarket I bugged my parents about getting one, perhaps ready for Christmas (which I think was a couple of months away: I was a sneaky bastard). They did end up getting one and when I found out I was asking to use it early (so ashamed...).

Of course, when I finally got it at Christmas they hadn't got me any games so I was borrowing an old WWF/WWE one and GT3. And I didn't have a memory card either. Oh happy days...
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5 months 6 days ago on What are the favourite 'types' of people used on video game box-art?
@GoldenMe Grammar, please! =p
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5 months 6 days ago on QOTW: What dead company or franchise do you miss the most?
Carmageddon all the way. Such classic games. Certainly in need of a current gen update or remake; there's just nothing else quite like them.
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5 months 6 days ago on What are the favourite 'types' of people used on video game box-art?
I don't think this was done properly!

In the 7 out of 100 featuring NON-WHITE people you missed Tiger Woods (from the image above it) and included Vin Diesel in Pitch Black but not Wheelman (an image on page 1).

And on the 8 out of 100 featuring a mix of WHITE and NON-WHITE PEOPLE you've missed Ready 2 Rumble and Punch Out (from the image below)

I call shenanigans! This must be an exact science, damnit!
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5 months 6 days ago on Our 10 favourite songs in Rock Band Unplugged
@CreeplyTuna

There are actually 8 Jimi Hendrix songs available in Guitar Hero: World Tour. Purple Haze (Live) and The Wind Cries Mary are on the disc itself while in track packs you can purchase
- Freedom
- Angel
- Foxy Lady (Live)
and
- If 6 Was 9
- Little Wing
- Fire (Live)

I do, however, wish all of these were in Rock Band instead.
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5 months 12 days ago on QOTW: What overused gameplay element are you terribly sick of?
I know everyone is saying quicktime events so I'm gonna go with something different.

'Karma' systems. That choice between good and evil. It's always implemented so poorly and really harms the story since your character can think 'well, whatever'; there's no consistency. Being good you can always see the outcome and being bad is just for the sake of being an asshole. And then only the extremes have their advantages (inFamous being the most recent example). There's never a decent middle ground or reason to sometimes do good but sometimes be selfish too.
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5 months 12 days ago on Our 10 favourite songs in Rock Band Unplugged
I hate Ace of Spades in RB2. Such goddamn fussy strumming was not meant for plastic guitars. The rest are all great tracks.

I think I read somewhere that Kansas is actually Will Ferrell's favourite band (he 'sang' Dust In The Wind in Old School too). So all is good.
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5 months 14 days ago on The Top 7... best games of 2009 (so far)
SFIV was a disappointment

Mine so far are:
- Prototype
- inFamous
- Rock Band 2 (came out on PS3 in the UK this year so I'm counting it!)
- The House of the Dead: Overkill
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5 months 26 days ago on QOTW: What's the angriest you've been at a game?
Hands down, Seth on Street Fighter IV. Oh so cheap. Worse than the boss guy on Tekken 5 or Tekken Force mode in 3.

Before that it was probably this mission on Assassin's Creed where your target is out near water and the first time I think I broke the game by getting ahead of the target and he wouldn't move, and then suddenly he was gone. Then when I retried whenever I kept chasing him sometimes Altair would just jump into the water or when I was right behind the guy he would keep hitting things or trying to run up walls. And he always managed to get to the base and I had to fight at least twenty guys, but that's not hard. Not that frustrating but pretty annoying.

Before that: the very last bit of the last story mission on GTA IV. So annoying until I figured how to 'cheat' it.
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5 months 27 days ago on Dating according to videogames
Haha. Fantastic. Funniest thing I've read in a long time
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6 months 29 days ago on QOTW: What's your biggest hobby aside from gaming?
My bands! Shameless plug www.myspace.com/suckstobeyouband
www.myspace.com/muckfeband

I play bass guitar in both, sing in one. But I also play guitar and love writing music/songs.

I also like to write scripts and have a Masters in that but getting a decent job doing it in this country is very slim
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7 months 17 days ago on Long lost movie games
Ha. The American History X one was fantastic.
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7 months 25 days ago on Secrets of the Assassin's Creed 2 teaser trailer revealed
withinthesuffering, I think 'the leak' would actually mean Lucy was giving away inside information. She is a 'mole' and there is an 'information leak'. I don't know where you got your theory from.
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7 months 25 days ago on Paul vs 8-bit
Ha. Nice. Is the fan from Chip 'n' Dale? That's the only game I can remember it from. Loved that game.

Also, I remember the exploding bridge from Probotector, which was a sort of reskinned remake of Contra or something, I think.
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8 months 1 hour ago on Secrets of the Assassin's Creed 2 teaser trailer revealed
Aaaggh! Four-armed man with two blades!
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8 months 26 days ago on Gaming's greatest blood sports
Man, Carmageddon is one of my all-time favourite games. I spent so much time playing that and the splat pack. Carmageddon II was also pretty good (besides those annoying timed missions) but TDR2000 just felt like it was missing something (or my expectations had changed by then). I would love to see a new incarnation but with that old-school feel.

There was something about the first game that was so great. So uncomplicated. Great car and track designs, the engine noises and other sounds effects, that car weighting, the little touches.

Smash TV is a classic and I used to play a lot of Unreal Tournament back in my uni days.
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MacGyver1138
2 months 16 days ago on Gaming's would-be innovators
I really like Fable. That may partially be because I hadn't really heard much of Molyneux's hype about it, and just liked it for what it was, rather than what it was supposed to be.
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2 months 16 days ago on Which villains will appear in Batman: Arkham Asylum 2?
The idea of an isolated area similar to the first game is probably necessary, but I really want to see Rocksteady's take on Gotham City, so I would love to see at least part of the game there. Even if it is only an intro fight or final boss fight, it would be nice to see the Dark Knight in his element.

As far as villains, they really do have lots of choices that they set up in the first game. Personally, I could see Two-Face, The Penguin, or Scarecrow being the main villain, with lots of minor villains similar to the first game. Scarecrow would actually give the developers an excuse to have a portion of Gotham "quarantined" which would be the isolated area they need to have the feeling of the first game, but with a new setting. Also, seeing as how Batman uses fear so much, he makes an interesting villain to play off of.

An entirely new villain created for the game would be interesting as well, though I don't know how well that would tie in with all of the existing villains sure to show up.
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MacGyver1138
4 months 12 days ago on The Citizen Kanes of videogames
I would add one to the list: Goldeneye for the N64. Like many on your list, it wasn't the first of its kind, but it did revolutionize FPS games on the consoles and proved they could be done well, which paved the way for Halo, Resistance, COD, a million other console shooters, etc.
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Synster
4 months 15 days ago on Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising – hands-on
Haha. Oh man, That sucks a lot for them. They end up leveling an /entire/ Town just by choosing the wrong type of Howitzer fire they wanted, although still getting a somewhat desired effect.

Not to mention, Everything you do in this game is permanent so that Town is gonna' stay like that.
Man, I'm lovin' this Game.
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Synster
4 months 15 days ago on How to Survive a Zombie Invasion
Ha. "MOST Zombies can't run".

Anyways. By chance, was this article inspired by The Zombie Survival Guide? That book is pure Genius.
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MacGyver1138
4 months 28 days ago on What if GamesRadar designed Downloadable Content?
I'm a big fan of at least one of these. How can I get in touch with Bethesda?
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Synster
4 months 28 days ago on Classic mistakes rookies always make
Haha.
I remember when I first had my PSP and I was like "WTF" because it was on Hold.

That, and funny that, I've also had the same problem with the original Metal Gear Solid. It took me a while to figure out O is select and X is back.
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Synster
4 months 28 days ago on Nintendo's most-failingest peripherals
Haha. I still have the Gameboy Printer. That was pretty bad, but at the age I had it and used it, It was brilliant.

Didn't you guys forget the Camera thing? It just slipped into the Game section of the Gameboy Color and you could take pictures of things and put them into these little Arcade games and what not?
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MacGyver1138
4 months 28 days ago on Why 3D is the new HD
NinjaKillr, any 1080p TV will not work. It has to have a 120Hz refresh rate in order to properly display. Many TVs are only 60Hz.
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MacGyver1138
5 months 5 days ago on What are the favourite 'types' of people used on video game box-art?
@StrayGator: I was wondering the same thing. I would think a lot of manga/anime characters would be considered Asian or Oriental, which would make them non-white. (Though I have never really understood that, as many Asian people have skin tone that is almost identical to the "typical" white person.)
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