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sixboxes commented on: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3): Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
	So we have this. and GOW 3 around the corner. And a smaller, less expensive PS3. Guess there's no avoiding that purchase now.
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September 17, 2009

3:44 PM

sixboxes commented on: Fanboy wars throughout the ages - Settled at last!
	I love you guys.
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September 16, 2009

3:18 AM

sixboxes commented on: Need for Speed SHIFT (PC): Need for Speed SHIFT
	Hey - I happened to like Most Wanted. Granted, I can't say the same for any of the other NFS games of the past 7 years or so, but I still play the hell out of MW. Clearly my love of driving games sits squarely in the arcadey realm of things, and the more the game leans toward realism, the less it has my attention. I've always given the NFS series the benefit of the doubt, though, so I'm sure to give this one a shot.
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3:11 AM

sixboxes commented on: WET (Xbox 360): WET
	wait - through the whole review you're comparing it to Stranglehold, ODST and Wanted, which all made sense. Then right at the end you put it up against ODST (an FPS) and Batman AA (stealth/brawler mashup thing)? Why don't you throw in NFS:Shift for a completely batshit comparison?
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August 27, 2009

5:15 PM

sixboxes commented on: Bayonetta (Xbox 360): 5 reasons Bayonetta is going to be amazing
	I will buy this game. and for one reason: to find out why a woman so badass that she can handle 4 guns at once, turn her own hair into giant living instruments of creative death, and take down monsters the size of your average midwestern town HAS SUCH POOR EYESIGHT AS TO REQUIRE CORRECTIVE EYEWEAR. I mean seriously, glasses? Can't she just conjure up some 20/20 vision? Maybe it's protective eyewear. like goggles to keep all those monster guts from flying into her eyes.
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August 25, 2009

9:20 PM

sixboxes commented on: Technically, that's not correct...
	I think you got it all backwards. It isn't game developers hating on science, it's stupid science hating on all us fun-lovers.
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1:34 AM

sixboxes commented on: The Top 7... trendy game-design crutches
	This list had so much potential, but kind of petered out with the top 2. I mean, sequels have been around forever - how many Marios are we up to now? And talking? what the eff? Maybe it should've been a top five. I have to agree with the rest of it though.
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August 21, 2009

5:35 PM

sixboxes commented on: Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360): Batman: Arkham Asylum
	Also, hearing Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn saw the words "Mr. J." almost brought tears of fanjoy to my eyes. Yes I'm probably a bigger fan of the killer cartoon series than anything else bat related, but I think it just shows how this game touches every corner of the Batman universe. Well, every good corner, anyway. The batsuit doesn't have nipples, or Ahnuld as Dr. Freeze. Life is good.
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5:31 PM

sixboxes commented on: Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta - review
	Hey Jordo141, you need to check out their review of the latest Watchmen episodic game to see the shortest. This definitely has more words, and more pictures to stretch it out. The screens make it look like something completely different from fallout - did it start out as a different game that they knew sucked too much to sell on its own?
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5:07 PM

sixboxes commented on: Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360): Batman: Arkham Asylum
	I have a raging bat-boner for this game now. Though I'm more excited for Columbo Team Deathmatch. "One More Thing, Motherf*cker!" - that's GENIUS.
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12:27 AM

sixboxes commented on: Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2 (Xbox 360): Watchmen The End is Nigh: Part 2
	When I saw how low the score was, I was looking forward to a quality tongue-lashing (key-lashing?) at the hands of GR. This was a bit of a letdown. Then again, if it's as bad as you say it is, then nobody should derive any kind of amusement from this game in any form.
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August 19, 2009

9:13 PM

sixboxes commented on: 12 things you didn't know about the PS3 Slim
	Good thing they dropped the price, so we'll have some extra bucks for component/HDMI cables. I'm still a cheap bastard so I'll naturally hold out for a bundle.
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2:22 PM

sixboxes commented on: GC 09: Fable III trailer, mega-facts and... Natal?
	seems like an ambitious release date... maybe what they mean to say is "Fable III is scheduled for postponement at the end of 2010". heh.
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August 15, 2009

4:02 AM

sixboxes commented on: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (Xbox 360): Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction hands-on
	the original gameplay for Conviction wasn't so much "new" as it was "Assassin's Creed starring Sam Fisher as The Homeless Unshaven Dude Standing in for Altair". From the look of the videos they're accomplishing exactly what they're hyping - "active stealth"; taking that "hiding in shadows" mechanic beyond what they thought they could. It's got my attention big time. All they had to retain from the early Conviction work is Sam in civvies and I'd have been sold. They did and I am.
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August 12, 2009

7:37 PM

sixboxes commented on: Gaming's most incestuous soundtracks
	This doesn't surprise me. Especially in the 8-bit era, it seemed like everything was developed be the same 5 or 10 people. You could tell a sprite or a MIDI from Konami/Ultra, Capcom, Nintendo, or Sunsoft without even having to know the game. And "Vampire Killer" is the most epic 8-bit track ever - every game should have it as an easter egg. I had it as my ringtone, dammit!
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2:05 AM

sixboxes commented on: Red Baron Arcade (PS3): Red Baron Arcade
	I do so love that the description of this score is "wounded".
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August 04, 2009

9:58 PM

sixboxes commented on: Fake Ass Shark Games
	One of the best articles ever on GR. Way too funny. I MUST find a way to use the term "like finding balls on your prostitute" before the week is out. Recaptcha: Me brunch (fitting, since I'd be brunch TO A FUCKING SHARK)
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3:35 AM

sixboxes commented on: The Top 7... Deadliest shark attacks
	No sharks from Tomb Raider? BULLSHIT. I remember in TR 2 being dumped from the plane (in the one cutscene) and being forced to swim around blindly to find that teeny opening to get into the sunken ship. And how many times I drowned, or got one-bite killed, or both.
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August 01, 2009

4:46 AM

sixboxes commented on: What is Shark Week?
	this is going to be good! I love the fact that you can devote a whole feature to the fiasco that is Jaws Unleashed. honestly, if the controls were slightly better, I would've played through the thing just to see how completely ridiculous it would get.
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July 30, 2009

7:48 PM

sixboxes commented on: 8 games with disastrously botched rescue missions
	"500 pounds of unprocessed beef". my new favourite way to say cow.
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July 10, 2009

3:39 AM

sixboxes commented on: Let's Catch (Wii): Let's Catch
	heh heh... four player toss off...
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July 09, 2009

2:56 AM

sixboxes commented on: Nintendo's most-failingest peripherals
	No Power Glove? This list is a sham. Okay it's still an epic list. But unless I'm missing something, this list is made for the power glove. And I say this after certainly developing some kind of tendinitis playing embarrassingly significant amounts of super glove ball.
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July 05, 2009

5:44 PM

sixboxes commented on: Ghostbusters The Video Game (DS): Ghostbusters The Video Game
	I thought for sure that the "Ecto-1 handles like a dead Transformer" line would link to the Transformers review. That would've been good cross-promo right there. Instead of cheaply cashing in on the hype surrounding a movie, they tried to cheaply cash in on the hype surrounding a game, which is resurrecting a license that's been unused in over a decade, based on a 20 year-old movie. Not only is that cynical, but it's the kind of logical black hole that could collapse the gaming industry in on itself.
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July 01, 2009

5:33 PM

sixboxes commented on: What are the favourite 'types' of people used on video game box-art?
	@shadowless: I don't think Assassin's Creed and inFamous were in the sampling of box art. If they were though, inFamous shows the dude's face. @Jabba: good points! You could say the same thing about the games themselves as you've said about the box art. Which is one big step forward for gaming: box art nowadays is far more honest than boxart from older gaming generations.
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June 30, 2009

4:21 AM

sixboxes commented on: The 12 greatest arcade machines of all time
	No 4-player games, like TMNT, or X-Men, or (like someone else mentioned) the Simpsons. No shooters like Operation Wolf. No racing games. No Shinobi. No Bubble Bobble. No Tetris. this list is BULLSHIT. (ok, it's a good list. but it clearly doesn't pander to my bias well enough!)
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June 15, 2009

6:48 PM

sixboxes commented on: Before and after: the games that changed during development
	Prey seems out of place on this list. The changes were made mostly due to technology constraints, not style and design ideas. For the people calling attention to TF2 - I could be wrong, but I thought the concept from the very beginning was that stylized cartoon look. It's a departure from TF1, yes, but not what the column's about.
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June 08, 2009

8:34 PM

sixboxes commented on: E3 09: Top 10 things you need to know about today - Thursday edition
	The Tyler Nagata pic pretty much made my night. Does Activision have any legal standing with their suit of Brutal Legend? I hope they burn up stacks of cash in legal fees and get nowhere, proving the solution to a bad business decision is not a worse business decision. Recaptcha: six peed I did?
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May 26, 2009

2:21 AM

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May 22, 2009

2:52 AM

sixboxes commented on: The 50 most overlooked games of this generation
	If I could even FIND a copy of Retro Game Challenge around here, you're damn right I'd own it. I have to give you all the credit in the world for managing to do an entire "overlooked games" column without mentioning Okami. I didn't think you could pull it off.
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May 13, 2009

3:03 AM

sixboxes commented on: 33 iPhone games for REAL gamers
	I have a Blackberry Pearl for my phone calls (and text messages, and e-mails on the go, and whatever). I have my DS for portable games. I have a Creative Labs Zen V as my mobile media player. I think I'm a proper gadget geek for wanting different gadgets for these different tasks.
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May 12, 2009

2:14 PM

sixboxes commented on: Beyond Good & Evil 2 (PS3): Is this Beyond Good & Evil 2 footage?
	Just for the sake of playing devil's advocate, this being BG&E 2 footage is more plausible than it first seems. This reminds me of a couple of the chase scenes from the first game that were incredibly cinematic, but still totally playable. And perhaps the only example in gaming where you have the character running AT the screen in a chase sequence and IT WORKS. The first game was also an exercise in context-sensitive gameplay, where one button did 90% of the work, especially in action sequences. Essentially, when the pace picks up, the gameplay streamlines itself so as not to get in the way. Because of that, you can definitely have these intense action sequences and still be in control of them. The BG&E was capable of having interesting camera angles while making the game still controllable. I have faith that they could pull off a sequence like this in-game. After all this though, I think it's a target render too. Just one that's closer to the real deal than we all want to believe.
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2:14 PM

sixboxes commented on: Beyond Good & Evil 2 (PS3): Is this Beyond Good
	Just for the sake of playing devil's advocate, this being BG&E 2 footage is more plausible than it first seems. This reminds me of a couple of the chase scenes from the first game that were incredibly cinematic, but still totally playable. And perhaps the only example in gaming where you have the character running AT the screen in a chase sequence and IT WORKS. The first game was also an exercise in context-sensitive gameplay, where one button did 90% of the work, especially in action sequences. Essentially, when the pace picks up, the gameplay streamlines itself so as not to get in the way. Because of that, you can definitely have these intense action sequences and still be in control of them. The BG&E was capable of having interesting camera angles while making the game still controllable. I have faith that they could pull off a sequence like this in-game. After all this though, I think it's a target render too. Just one that's closer to the real deal than we all want to believe.
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May 10, 2009

2:33 PM

sixboxes commented on: Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360): Red Dead Redemption - first look trailer
	gunfights with a western game are cooler than pretty much anything, aren't they? Well, except for maybe a John Woo movie... nah, still got to give the nod to westerns. Why the hell aren't there more games like this? This game might just be the kick in the pants this genre needs.
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May 09, 2009

4:26 PM

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3:58 PM

arsenal4ever commented on: Rock Band 2 (PS2): Rock Band 2
	rock n roll love to play it.
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May 01, 2009

5:32 PM

sixboxes commented on: Video game villains who got away with it
	Whoa wait - you mention Mario AND Bowser, and NOT the OG villain, Donkey Kong? wtf GR? He was making Mario jump over shit to rescue damsels well before Bowser was even hatched. Come to think of it, maybe Mario was just administering justice to ol' DK before junior, his heir apparent to the Kong Krime Syndikate (yeah just thought that one up on the fly), tried to bust him out. And he gets to play tennis, go kart racing, and all that happy crappy.
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April 25, 2009

4:39 AM

sixboxes commented on: The Saboteur (Xbox 360): The Saboteur first look
	You guys never miss an opportunity to mention Okami, do you? And I say this with admiration, not scorn.
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April 19, 2009

1:57 AM

sixboxes commented on: The 15 stupidest game types Wii invented
	homie_cheese_slice: yes! I only wanted to comment on that very same Big Lebowski reference! That and the little picture of the kid skewered by a lawn dart had me howling. I'm going to hell.
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April 14, 2009

6:37 PM

sixboxes commented on: NPPL Championship Paintball 2009 (Xbox 360): NPPL Championship Paintball 2009
	Every time I see the acrynom NPPL, all I can think of is "nipple". And then I giggle like the 12-year-old I actually am.
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April 10, 2009

1:43 PM

sixboxes commented on: The Secret World (Xbox 360): The Secret World - first look
	wow... Funcom, you officially have my attention.
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April 09, 2009

5:31 PM

sixboxes commented on: The (un)funniest games of March
	Does game development not get a big enough budget to be 100% funny? It's as if some of these studios pick the funniest programmer to do the writing, rather than having an actual writer. I mean, I personally only know 2 or 3 good jokes - so I can imagine trying to stretch those out over 9 or 10 hours worth of one person's time... little tricky.
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April 07, 2009

3:55 AM

sixboxes commented on: 8 of the lamest game endings ever
	I could pick 8 more of the lamest endings out of any two of the silent hill games. I don't think I've seen a single ending that makes playing through those games worthwhile.
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3:48 AM

sixboxes commented on: The Top 7... Most embarrassing live-action game scenes
	I was really hoping for an honourable mention for the PC adaptation of Johnny Mnemonic - for one, the guy playing Johnny (who I believe was in Tremors 2) almost out-"acted" Keanu Reeves. For another, the game had NBA great Kurt Rambis and Isaac Hayes in it! Cringe-worthy moments were a dime a dozen in that game.
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April 03, 2009

6:26 PM

sixboxes commented on: Which version of Mario is the best version of Mario?
	I'm pleased! I pegged 2 of the best Marios - SMW and SMB3. I have to agree as well, though the colour palette from SMB3 always seemed a little off. His animation from these two games was the ultimate as well. I have to go with netlatnu on this too - the Allstars version of the SMB3 Mario was like the best of both worlds, even it's it a touch of cheating. Can someone explain, though, how becoming a doctor magically lightens Mario's hair? Is it _really_ him in the Dr. Mario games?
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April 02, 2009

2:38 AM

sixboxes commented on: Stormrise (PS3): Stormrise
	Bargain bin, FTW?
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2:34 AM

sixboxes commented on: Black College Football Xperience (Xbox 360): Black College Football
	That doesn't surprise me. I was on our university swimming & diving team, and we competed against Howard, which must've been an HBCU. Serious Serious pride in their college, which is equal parts cool and scary.
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April 01, 2009

8:48 PM

sixboxes commented on: RUSE (Xbox 360): Ubisoft's RUSE: Brilliant or broken?
	Bit of a catch-22 for this game... with its "cheating" gimmick you're thinking "omg it's weird and different and might not work!" but without, it's "yawn, just another RTS out of a billion to choose from". Sure you say you're giving it the benefit of the doubt, but if you sounded any more cynical, you could be a financial analyst. By the way, the random bolding of sentences reminds me of the original Austin Powers... "after the unfreezing process I'm having trouble controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE!" - I keep mentally reading those bolded passages at higher volume. (p.s. recaptcha = world flesh mmm tasty!)
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6:47 PM

sixboxes commented on: Wanted: Weapons of Fate (PS3): Wanted: Weapons of Fate
	Maxstats69: highlight a block of text and hit CTRL+C. Then open something like notepad and hit CTRL+V. I use those keystrrokes so much I loved how you worked it into this review. Considering you scored the game higher than I would've scored the movie it's sorta-based on, that actually makes it a bit promising. The movie gleefully beats a single gimmick to death (I honestly thought the bending bullet thing was bad ass until the 853rd time they used it in the flick at which point I was "*&$%# AGAIN???"), whereas it looks like the game beats 2 or 3 gimmicks to death. So I'm officially intrigued.
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March 31, 2009

11:13 PM

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11:11 PM

sixboxes commented on: Zero to 100: Videogames by the numbers
	a couple of those were a bit of a stretch, but that list was more awesome than I could've imagined.
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