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The rest of the parts are under "Related Videos."

At 5/16/08 05:52 PM, Jawdyn wrote: Treasure Trove - Obtain all Treasure Box items in the field. The items you missed may be available at auction houses.

Can't be as hard as getting 100% of the treasures in Super Mario RPG. There's one early on that's only obtainable if you hitch a ride on a certain mushroom guy's head and as he's walking jump, using him as a platform, at the right moment. You only get one chance to pull it off so if you don't restart you've lost it forever.

Even so, I found it oddly endearing to hear a high pitched child call me a "faggot" as we started a Guitar Hero match and then quitting five seconds in when he was already losing.

At 5/15/08 05:16 PM, DirtySyko wrote: I am trying to beat Through the Fire and Flames on expert. Ever since I got GH III I've pretty much avoided TTFAF. The intro to the song was just so damn intimidating I never wanted to practice, but the other day I finally sat down and started practicing, learning how to finger tap and all that jazz. It actually only took me a few hours and I can get past the intro now... But I still fail around 74% :\

That's almost the exact opposite of my troubles with the song. No matter what I do I never get any better at tapping the intro. Once I get it down I pass the song easily and it's almost always a definite four-star, it's just getting to that point that infuriates me so I never get any decent practice to start working on the five-star.

What kind of tapping do you use? I've tried pretty much everything and the only method I can wrap my head around it putting my strumming hand's index finger on the green button and using my fretting hand to tap the remaining four. Oddly enough my pinky isn't the problem, usually I fuck up alternating the my middle and ring fingers.

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At 5/15/08 11:13 AM, CyprusX wrote:

At 5/15/08 10:30 AM, MeatMachine wrote: Nobody knows what I'm talking about, but it is certainly as fun as Doom II, which is the best game ever

Lode runner?

Jetpack, same idea, but with a (unsurprisingly) jetpack. It's been a while since I played it, but what I most remember is that your character's death animation was one of the best ever. He basically exploded into a fine, red mist. It never ceased to be amusing.

I was never very enthusiastic about Guitar Hero inevitably getting more instruments (admit it, we all knew it was coming). I can't sing for shit and drum charts tend to be very repetative. Plus as Rock Band showed us, catering to four different instruments drags down the challenge of them all. Still, the potential to take all those components and make entire songs and charts as well as "jamming" to a song and then turning that into a playable chart is very enticing. Plus, my fears of a boring setlist might dissapear if "the most tracks ever in a rhythm game" means I won't have six tiers of shit with only eight or nine challenging songs then I'll be very pleased. They still might fuck it up, but it could potentially be a must-buy for me.

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Are you sure it's supposed to be completely orange? I remember my old Guncons from the Playstation era only had a small orange circle around the barrel. Of course, those had two gigantic sets of wires protruding from them to take away from the realism. In any case I still sat that anyone stupid enough to take a video game controller outside and wave it around in front of a cop you deseves to get shot.

Who cares? It's not like it's a poor adaptation of a venerable TV series. It's a terrible kid's game, based on a terrible kid's show, that's only going to be marketed to kids. Besides, I just checked, it's not even coming out in your country. Unless, of course, that's what you're angry about.

At 5/10/08 08:08 PM, MeatMachine wrote: Also known as the "Nintendo formula".

Don't forget the secret to defeating bosses in Nintendo games. All you have to do is use your most recently acquired weapon to either attack or reveal its gigantic, obvious weakspot, lather, rinse, repeat twice. Don't tell anyone though, I don't want this sort of critical information getting passed among too many people.

No shape has infuriated me more than the magnets. Every time I get into a serious groove and I feel unstoppable one of those little bastards flys out of nowhere to humble me.

Thanks for the tip, but there's no need to make a whole thread about it when no one's asking for help. If you have to please keep it in the GTAIV Lounge.

Can we cool it down just a little on threads analysing every minute aspect of Brawl. Just keep it in the main threads please.

Why god, why.

The best this film can hope to be is a decent dose of fanservice. The kind of atmosphere that drives Bioshock just doesn't translate into film. Videogame to film translations are a Catch 22. The only way to make one good on any level is to take a complete 180 away from what the game is which alienates the fanbase that wouldn't have liked the film if it were true to the original in the first place.

I hope this shrivels up and dies like the Halo film.

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If you're just going to post your opinion on a game it has to be a little more fleshed out than this.

At 5/6/08 09:59 PM, Reaper2r wrote:

Getting 750,000 points on a song in Guitar Hero III is the hardest achievement. The only song you can get that many points is Through the Fire and Flames on expert. You need to be a god to get that.

My friend Cheese (we call him that cause he's fat and he stinks) owns at Fire and Flames on Expert, and he got the 750,000 point achievement on Number of the Beast. I don't think that he has gotten 750,000 on Through the Fire and the Flames...

You must be confused or he's a liar. It's not possible to get 750k on Number of the Beast. The only other song besides Through the Fire and Flames that can net you enough points is Ernten Was Wir Saen. Unfortunately it may be just as hard as to do. You have to make it through a blistering solo and execute a near-perfect star path.

I'd definetly put that one at the top of the achievements that take pure skill. Maybe fifty people have legitimately gotten it. There are still tons of brutally hard achievements that anyone can get, but you need to grind for months. Final Fantasy XI has an achievement for maxing out every class in the game, Gears of War has one for killing an ungodly amount of people online (which used to be a lot more unforgiving before they added a gametype with respawns), Assassins Creed has flags hidden everywhere (although using a guide significantly cuts the impossible out of that one).

At 5/6/08 06:41 AM, Jerkapotamus wrote: Have you played Perfect Dark Zero? If so, do you really think it deserved ratings above an 8? Reviewers got overhyped for it and gave it better scores than it should have gotten because it was a launch 360 title. It was supposed to be a next-gen experience. Reviewers bought into it and scored it accordingly. It's nor a very good game though.

Yes I have and my impression was that it was a well above average game which brings a few good ideas to the table while having its share of issues. Yes, it was ultimately a forgettable precursor to more capable games in this generation, but that's the impression I got from pretty much every review I read on. Maybe eight is a little high, but not wildly so. Review scores for games in general have become inflated and how PDZ was rated doesn't strike me as out of line.

The only game I've maxed out on gamerscore for is Pacman CS. Of course, any decent player could probably do the same in about two hours so that's honestly nothing to write home about. I'd really need to be deeply in love with a game to have the desire to nab all the achievements. I do like Guitar Hero 3 enough where I'd want to give it a shot, but a lot of them are unbelievably hard to get and another handful require an in-person co-op player who's good enough to five-star expert. The impossibility of it all has stripped me of my desire to get even the easier achievements that I've left uncollected.

Goddammit, and right before the big match.

Based on a true story involving bees.

At 5/3/08 02:01 AM, EvilerBowser1001 wrote: Guh, going back to it...
LEVELS! TOO FUCKING HUGE!
TOO MUCH SHIT TO COLLECT!

You see that yellow blueprint laying accessibly on the ground? You really want to get that, right? I bet it will help you get something really cool. You'd think you could just walk right over it, right? Well, TOO FUCKING BAD! You're Diddy Kong, you can only collect red blueprints. Come back with someone else if you want it to be anything more than an ethereal, floating waste of your time.

At 5/5/08 05:16 PM, Jerkapotamus wrote:

At 5/5/08 04:57 PM, Jercurpac wrote: I'm sure it'll be on par with the original and its brother. I don't trust Rare to come up with original concepts anymore, but I'm sure they can copy a basic formula and come up with something decent.

Yeah, because Rare did such a good job doing that with Perfect Dark Zero. Maybe they can pull something good off, but I'm skeptical until I see something encouraging.

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/5 16508.asp

Granted, that's not going to be indicative of every gamer's personal opinion, but as a general metric I'd hardly call that a failure on the level of Grabbed by the Ghoulies.

At 5/5/08 05:36 PM, AshfordPride wrote: ITS STILL TOO SMALL THOUGH!

I'm confused. What kind of giant USB devices are you in possesion of?

At 5/5/08 05:02 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: I hope it'll be as awesome as the original jem on the n64.

Well, I have to admit it was outrageous; truly, truly outrageous.

At 5/5/08 03:45 PM, MeatMachine wrote: It can't possibly be as good as the first two.
It simply can't.
If it is, my jaw would hit the floor.

I'm sure it'll be on par with the original and its brother. I don't trust Rare to come up with original concepts anymore, but I'm sure they can copy a basic formula and come up with something decent. Personally, I don't think the Banjo-Kazooie games, or most collect-a-thons from around that time for that matter, hold up very well so it won't take anything mind-blowing to make me feel like 3 is a quality follow-up to its predecessors.

Excuse me, that dress looks very becoming on you. Of course, if I were on you I'd bee comming too.

or

You mind if I shoot some bee jizz down your gullet?

I hope someone enjoys this. I really do.