Llyranor

Yes, you are a god... GOD OF EUNUCHS EVERYWHERE! HAHAHAHAHA! I thought you were atheist.

http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/soutahouse/diary First Treasure, now Cave. And those Raiden devs. The 360 won the Shmup war.

Are you serious?! I have got to try that eventually. That sounds ridiculously hard. I bought the mission (granted, it's 350 pts for ONE mission, so it could be considered pricey). I've only played it a little so far. The sense of scope is nice, given that there are a lot more enemies now. I died a few times even after only taking out the first few targets. Mind you, I wasn't really playing seriously. I still need to finish Expert mode and tackle Ace mode before I really get into this one. But it's very nice how they completely revamped the mission (which they probably would not have if Ace of Aces mode was simply included with the game - though that doesn't make it any less pricey). __________ And I'm all ears re: Army of Two impressions, especially co-op.

Thanks for killing PC gaming!

That's a question only you can answer.

My CoD4 disk is a tad cracked at the center, so it's unreadable. In any case, I've been playing way too much of it, and I've been getting bored of it already. Nick and Krook seem to at least share part of the sentiment. If it weren't for my brother, I'm not even sure if I'd invest into getting a new copy - but he's still much into the game. Had a nice Halo3 session with Nick earlier (and a half-match with that moron K). I missed that game. Running over idiots never gets old. The new patch with improved melee is quite appreciated. Vegas2 and Army of Two are coming out pretty soon. Hmm.

Yes, but would you bet your life on it?

I pick the 360 (by default) for the multiplayer and co-op gaming (especially XBLA arcade games - freaking release more retro titles, idiots IKARUUGAAAAAAA). That, and it's the only system pixies has, so it's the only way to shoot him in the face. I'm not sure I'd pick it over the DS otherwise, though. The unique games it has and its portability are pretty awesome. I don't have the other systems, so the point is moot. Though the Wii is tempting for Brawl and Galaxy. The wiimote itself does very little for me at this point. The only game in which it genuinely interests me is for Trauma Center: New Blood (the DS version was awesome + coooo-ooooop). Otherwise, I've found that I actually just prefer getting unique peripherals for individual games rather than an universal device to mimic such controls. That being said, price is the main issue here. All worth it, mind you. I have, let's see.... (360) the flightstick for Ace Combat 6 - which makes the game infinitely better and easily my favorite 360 game; two guitars for Guitar Hero co-op - simply awesome and great for party gaming; a wheel for Forza2 - which makes me actually enjoy it despite having never been a fan of racing games aside from Mario Kart; and an arcade stick - great for fighters like Virtua Fighter 5 and XBLA arcade titles. I mean, I've spent more on those than the Wii cost. And, of course, they don't have the same flexibility as the wiimote has, but I don't think there's any comparison in terms of what they actually do do. And the virtual console is awesome. It's just too bad about the lack of online support. Nintendo's entry into online gaming is pretty pathetic.

Impressions from the new Ace of Aces map (which is mission 1 - same story, but seemingly vastly changed gameplay) for Ace Combat 6 Re: new co-op map

Well, first of all, I'd need to get a PC, so shrug.

.... Well, thanks. Thanks for that.

The right angle being a fairly narrow viewpoint. But it can be fun. We need the next game to redeem 4p co-op. In any case, Left 4 Dead will be awesome. I'm still unsure whether I'll get the 360 version or PC. It'll depends on whether the 360 version will allow guesting online. Otherwise, I might just get 2 copies on Steam instead.

The demo boss was pretty cool. How's the rest of the game compared to the demo? (easy diff aside)

Yeah, we did pretty good overall. Nice session. Try out the Ace Combat 6 and Rainbow Six Vegas demos.

Gears 2 better have freaking party matchmaking.

Ballroom dancer.

DID YOU JUST SAY 4-PLAYER CO-OP? OBSIDIAN, YOUR ALIENS GAME BETTER HAVE CO-OP TOO YOUR CEO COMMANDS IT

It is kind of sucky, to be honest. But not enough to ruin the game for me. I can live with the backtracking if it involves fun combat along the way. What about the platforming? Does it even dwell within the realm of frustration? Some of NG's platforming was just horrid, especially given the 3D camera.

Gears of War 2. 360 exclusive. November.

Memento mori.

Memento mori.

This isn't some joke. For your disrespect, I will reinterete. If somebody has something intellegent to say instead of stupid idiotic trash, come back, other wise shove your dissin head in Russia's nuclear sludge moron. Israel belongeds to Jews. The jews were enslaved and sent to egypt. With the prophet Moses they returned to their holy land which had been filled with pagans and sinners and retook it. Since then the Jews defended themselves in a non-stop holy war. I'm not a Jew but Israel hasn't existed just since 1948 and I'll be damned to hear otherwise. I'm sure Xard or Darth Hades would be happy to oblige. bat.gif I admit I won't think its funny when the second cold war comes on quite strong with a new soviet order and an allied china. COLD WAR II We need to reject China and Russia. Russia has always been a harsh nation from the Czars to Stalin and even today with their "democracy". Though not officially confirmed, Russia has been beleived to be breaking international pacts and treaties with tests and developments of weapons of mass destruction. (The U.S. is known to still mantain its stockpile and is even upgrading its nuclear arsenal.) NEW NUKES The U.S. needs to reafirm its postition as global leader by stabalizing the U.N. and calling for the Europeans to action, who are enjoying paradise with their EU and no major wars since WWII. Iran, Cuba, Iraq, Afganistan? The threat is Russia. The second major power is China. Who is weak? The U.S. Who lets the innocents die with not even condemnation? The U.S. Who no longer calls for inaction? The U.S. Who not only lets its country decay and fall behind "3rd world nations" on health care and other domestic issues? The U.S. Who has an incompetent leader? The U.S. Who allows China and Russia to go unchecked, funding, supporting terrorists, becoming economic tyrants? The USA. Who is letting their economy fall to deficit, inflation, outsoursing, over importing unsafe goods, and commiting suicide internationaly? The U.S. Today we are. Hopefully 2009 brings better fortune. Russia and/or China will challenge U.S. authority. UN authroity. The right to freedom and capitalism (with all its faults) will be challenged. A new age is beginning. The Second Cold War has begun. Likely you, your children, or your grandchildren will fight against China/Russia. Economically, Militarily, Politicaly, or by other means. The war has begun. Who will stand? The only strong nation in the world is Israel. And look at them. Caught in a massive holy war since biblical times, poor guys. They fight for right and anyone who says otherwise has a terrorist complex bat.gif and needs to see a shrink. The reasons why Europe lost the first series of real world wars (Crusades) is because the damn muslims are too well trained. The christians did not commit barbaric atrocity. The muslims murdered innocent jews, chrisitans, pagans and more so we responded in the MIddle Ages with Crusades to reclaim the holy land for peace. After our defeat, they stepped up with Jihad attacks. They think Allah is true and think they shall get virgins for murder. It is not war. It is killing innocents. They are cowards. Any muslims, russians, or chinese extremists who think they have power by murder and games (cold war) are true cowards. They're promises are false. Their people must open their eyes and begin the revolution! Under democracy, they could florurish! We could all live in peace. When we got tired of living together someone can blast off to another planet (By 2100 this may be very possible). I admire bush for his attemts, but Iraq is pointless now, similar to Vietnam (PS Reagan was the worst "good" president ever, terrible ****) REAGANS AN **** The world's militaryization is haywire fear and umbrellas (if u know what I mean). We must stop inaction, on the US and European part, as well as our other good allies out there

I admit I won't think its funny when the second cold war comes on quite strong with a new soviet order and an allied china. COLD WAR II We need to reject China and Russia. Russia has always been a harsh nation from the Czars to Stalin and even today with their "democracy". Though not officially confirmed, Russia has been beleived to be breaking international pacts and treaties with tests and developments of weapons of mass destruction. (The U.S. is known to still mantain its stockpile and is even upgrading its nuclear arsenal.) NEW NUKES The U.S. needs to reafirm its postition as global leader by stabalizing the U.N. and calling for the Europeans to action, who are enjoying paradise with their EU and no major wars since WWII. Iran, Cuba, Iraq, Afganistan? The threat is Russia. The second major power is China. Who is weak? The U.S. Who lets the innocents die with not even condemnation? The U.S. Who no longer calls for inaction? The U.S. Who not only lets its country decay and fall behind "3rd world nations" on health care and other domestic issues? The U.S. Who has an incompetent leader? The U.S. Who allows China and Russia to go unchecked, funding, supporting terrorists, becoming economic tyrants? The USA. Who is letting their economy fall to deficit, inflation, outsoursing, over importing unsafe goods, and commiting suicide internationaly? The U.S. Today we are. Hopefully 2009 brings better fortune. Russia and/or China will challenge U.S. authority. UN authroity. The right to freedom and capitalism (with all its faults) will be challenged. A new age is beginning. The Second Cold War has begun. Likely you, your children, or your grandchildren will fight against China/Russia. Economically, Militarily, Politicaly, or by other means. The war has begun. Who will stand? The only strong nation in the world is Israel. And look at them. Caught in a massive holy war since biblical times, poor guys. They fight for right and anyone who says otherwise has a terrorist complex bat.gif and needs to see a shrink. The reasons why Europe lost the first series of real world wars (Crusades) is because the damn muslims are too well trained. The christians did not commit barbaric atrocity. The muslims murdered innocent jews, chrisitans, pagans and more so we responded in the MIddle Ages with Crusades to reclaim the holy land for peace. After our defeat, they stepped up with Jihad attacks. They think Allah is true and think they shall get virgins for murder. It is not war. It is killing innocents. They are cowards. Any muslims, russians, or chinese extremists who think they have power by murder and games (cold war) are true cowards. They're promises are false. Their people must open their eyes and begin the revolution! Under democracy, they could florurish! We could all live in peace. When we got tired of living together someone can blast off to another planet (By 2100 this may be very possible). I admire bush for his attemts, but Iraq is pointless now, similar to Vietnam (PS Reagan was the worst "good" president ever, terrible ****) REAGANS AN **** The world's militaryization is haywire fear and umbrellas (if u know what I mean). We must stop inaction, on the US and European part, as well as our other good allies out there.

I agree with your posts (the later ones, excluding those regarding Tibet/Taiwan) in this thread. So long as nobody is claiming that we should face these challenges by means of pacifism. Everybody has the right to protect themselves, and often the threat of counter-attack is the only thing which keeps war and bullies at bay. I agree with the idea that the US is a potential time-bomb if any sort of Hitler-like lunatic figure were to rise with the support of the people. The thing is, so is China (and a few other places). And from my point of view, China is more likely to breed such a figure or mindset than America is (here is where democracy/communism come in - a democracy has more checks and balances in place to prevent such a thing). That's basically the general crux of why I think we should arm ourselves in preparation of a Chinese offensive. It probably (or hopefully) won't happen, but that's not a certainty. People always bring these arguments back to who has more missiles, but it's a lot more than that; allies, location, will, desperation, need, etc. Especially since you can only have so many missiles before the rest are gravy. I also agree with, I think it was Xard, who said that the more we integrate China into the world economy and politics, the less room they have to pursue offensive solutions. But by the same token, that could backfire by making China an economic superpower without making it a developed superpower (freedom, human rights, contentment, multiculturalism, etc) - a dire combination, IMHO.

Some do. Others don't. Taiwan just recently ousted Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence party in favor of the pro-unification KMT. As for Tibet, information is scarce but I'm sure that many ethnic Tibetans would like to be independent... Just as many ethnic <insert whatever> here would like to be independent of the nations under which they're listed. Does that change anything? The US didn't give independence to any of the people we absorbed and it's, once again, unreasonable to assume that other nations would do anything of the sort. In either case, forcing China on the issue is unlikely to make a difference, because Beijing would see through the hypocrisy and, based on the fact that we're trying to fragment their nation, cast us as a permanent threat with which there can be no compromise. Is that going to help the Tibetans and the Taiwanese, Sand? I doubt it. In the mean time, you might want to look at the example of Hong Kong as a case when people thought that returning to the Chinese polity would've meant massive oppression and the end of the world. Today, Hong Kong is doing just fine with its own system, and many of those who fled the island in fear of the Communists are now returning. If Taiwan were to return to China under the supervision of the UN, I don't think things would be very different. In fact, it'd likely resolve much of the tension in East Asia, which would be better for all involved.