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Originally posted by speechjew:
Lawsuit filed against EA for monopoly on Madden and NCAA football games:

http://www.easportslitigation.com/index.html

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I had hoped to play GoW's multiplayer with friends, as I usually find shooters generally, and 3rd person shooters specifically, boring in multi without a friend. Despite constantly claiming how superior GoW1 is to GoW2, a couple friends would not play it with me. So, I didn't touch it. I did, however, bring Eric (Rayragnarok) over to play some co-op campaign as we did with GoW2. We got so bored of it that we quit after the underground spider boss that falls into the radioactive goo. I feel I was correct in not playing this. If a game cannot stand on its single player its multi player doesn't deserve the light of day.

Twilight Princess marks the first time I can admit to being annoyed over not taking Malroth's advice. Twilight Princess utilizes the wiimote in an awkward way. This is the first game in which I've had to use the control stick on the nunchuck, and I admit, I hate it. Having to use the wiimote to swing the sword but the nunchuck to do the spinning slash is awkward and counter-intuitive. And, as Malroth predicted, 1st person aiming with the Wiimote is the worst thing I've had to do since shooting 5 feet away from enemies in Call of Duty: Black Ops to make my hits register. I'm used to the Zelda model of "Go into town, clear path to temple, clear temple", but I'm not used to having to do the same thing in every area. Besides the fact that the twilight bugs break the game's own rules regarding twilight beings interacting with light beings, having to hunt them all down in each area is tedious and repetitive. I quit playing before I even finished hunting them all down in Kakarako.

I have a new internet connection, upgrading from 3 Mb/s DSL to 18 Mb/s cable modem, so I'm eager to play some multiplayer games. Conveniently, I just bought Homefront. I...am really confused about how I feel about this game. On one hand, so many games simply break down to "which team can camp hardest, get a tank, then camp the enemy spawn?" It also takes an incredibly long time playing to level up and get the goodies you need to play decently (you don't even get the ACR, the first "real" gun, until about an hour into playing...). The matchmaking, despite three patches, is still broken as well. On the other hand, there can be some genuinely fun strategic battles in the game. I feel like the battle of team of snipers vs team of rushers is fair when one team brings out a Parrot (a UAV which marks people similar to hitting select when you see someone in BC2) and marks every sniper on a hill. There are other similar battles- a tank against a team of players with EMP grenades and RPGs; helicopters against players with EMP launchers; the Parrot pilot vs the sniper who wants to keep the Parrot out of the sky so he can stay comfy in his camping spot; the Vector rushers using flashbangs vs the ACR assault soldiers wielding 4 frags. The strategy is on a different level from BC2, and I almost consider comparisons unfair. It's a game that has a steep learning curve, and even when you get to the top of it, you may not like what you find looking over the edge.

My Gamefly "trying out games I originally dismissed but decided to come back to" queue is almost at an end. There are two games left on it, one of which is being shipped. Bioshock is a game I grew irritated with when the lack of slots for plasmids left me unable to enter a door in the first level (i took Telekinesis, dropping Fireball, then came across a door with ice all over it....) and abandoned it; I hope to give it a fair shot this time.

The other game being shipped, which should arrive tomorrow, is Dead Rising 2. Yahtzee's only real complaint against this game is that the text is too small; I think it will be manageable. I did not play the first one, but know enough about the story to enjoy it. I look forward to finding out how these two games play!

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Originally posted by Tranderas:

Also, Big Daddies :angry face:

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Are you playing BioShock 1? If so, later on Big Daddies just become repetitive. "Spam Explosive weapons, Armor piercing rounds, they die." Rinse, repeat.

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Originally posted by shaselai:
started playing 3rd birthday... it is kinda weird sharing some similarities with mind jack and Sourcecode - basically Aya goes back in time in a machine and she can take over anyone on the fly in that world hoping to change the future...

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1 Wii (broken cover on gamecube port, just the plastic is missing, everything functions perfectly fine)
2 Wii motes
2 nunchuks
2 black classic controllers
9 games, including Wii sports.

links crossbow training
no more hero's 2
tatsunoko vs CAPCOM
resident evil umbrella chronicles
trauma center second opinion
SSB Brawl
Punchout
tales of symphonia 2

the classic controllers new like 20$ so 2 used 20$

wii comes with a set of mote and nunchuk used maybe 100$ - a little more if it isnt too old.

For the games the only really worth anything is SSB Brawl
but if you have to get them all maybe 100 is pushing it especially if you don't want to play them all...

Bo currently is still suprrior than mw2 on pc. Mw2 would have been good if iw actually paid attention to the game. They gave me and my friends the impression that they arent doing anything to solve the problems. When bo had some issues with the servers for a day, i went back to try out mw2 again. In the few games i had, i only died from oma tubers, commando knifers, umps and hackers. Amazing gameplay experience.

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Originally posted by stu55:
No more PSN for a day or so....time to finish FFXIII

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50 hours in you finish the tutorial yo.

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
Anyone else really, reallllly hate the scaling level system for EVERYTHING in Oblivion?

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Yes. I consider Oblivion a vastly inferior game to Morrowind, although it's still better than most other RPGs out there.