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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
SSC wrote:
RSGZ wrote:
jtg987 wrote:
GOW 2 best game this year imo

I don’t think it has anything over games like GTA IV, Fallout 3, MGS4, Fable 2 & Prince of Persia. It doesn’t bring anything new to the table of gaming.

What the fuck?! I don’t check T-Nation for a day and all of a sudden we have a new Geek S**T 4-pages deep? Nice…

Yeah, agreed with RSGZ. I don’t think GoW2 will actually be mentioned with most Game of the Year conversations… probably rightfully so.

Anyway, I was going to pick up Chrono Trigger for the DS, but for some reason we didn’t have it in, so I pickd up Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass. I’m definitely surprised by how well it’s playing… And yes, I know the game is old as shit.

I say PoP for Game of the Year. New look, great story line, great controls (apparently). Plus, it is Ubisoft. Those guys are wizards. And ninjas.[/quote]

I’ve played the demo, but had to cancel my pre-order for it - it’s a waste of money for now considering I have about 5 new games to really get into before I buy any more.

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[quote]jtg987 wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
I love the Terminator franchise but am not really a die hard fan of too many things.

I saw T3 a long time ago and thought it was a decent action flick.

same, however it seems that the general consensus was that t3 was a horrible movie, I also purchased the dark knight, batman begins and cod 5 today. Most likely throw the dark knight in on Saturday night. Played a bit of COD 5, I prefer modern shooters(not guns with crappy aim and shit rate of fire lol).

GOW 2 best game this year imo [/quote]

I have no doubt that T3 will go down in history as the worst piece of crap of the entire franchise. It had no deeper message at all. It was strictly eye candy and explosions, both of which are great when there is actually interesting stuff going on around it.

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[quote]Dabba wrote:
power_bulker wrote:
Has anyone here played Fallout 3? It’s been out since November, but due to finals I’m unable to take a crack at it. Let me know if it as crazy as they say it is.

It’s so good… You’ve probably heard this before, but it’s basically Oblivion with guns. The combat is a lot more interesting with the V.A.T.S. or whatever system. I’m not too far into it yet, but it’s a very good and addictive game. I already made the mistake of popping it in before finals, heh. [/quote]

Good to hear, I saw that the people making it also made Oblivion, and wondered if it played like that game.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
jtg987 wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
I love the Terminator franchise but am not really a die hard fan of too many things.

I saw T3 a long time ago and thought it was a decent action flick.

same, however it seems that the general consensus was that t3 was a horrible movie, I also purchased the dark knight, batman begins and cod 5 today. Most likely throw the dark knight in on Saturday night. Played a bit of COD 5, I prefer modern shooters(not guns with crappy aim and shit rate of fire lol).

GOW 2 best game this year imo

I have no doubt that T3 will go down in history as the worst piece of crap of the entire franchise. It had no deeper message at all. It was strictly eye candy and explosions, both of which are great when there is actually interesting stuff going on around it.[/quote]

I think this is the reason why T3 isn’t considered part of the story in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. They basically said when the series started to pretend T3 never happened. I’m wondering if Terminator: Salvation is operating under the same premise.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Professor X wrote:
jtg987 wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
I love the Terminator franchise but am not really a die hard fan of too many things.

I saw T3 a long time ago and thought it was a decent action flick.

same, however it seems that the general consensus was that t3 was a horrible movie, I also purchased the dark knight, batman begins and cod 5 today. Most likely throw the dark knight in on Saturday night. Played a bit of COD 5, I prefer modern shooters(not guns with crappy aim and shit rate of fire lol).

GOW 2 best game this year imo

I have no doubt that T3 will go down in history as the worst piece of crap of the entire franchise. It had no deeper message at all. It was strictly eye candy and explosions, both of which are great when there is actually interesting stuff going on around it.

I think this is the reason why T3 isn’t considered part of the story in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. They basically said when the series started to pretend T3 never happened. I’m wondering if Terminator: Salvation is operating under the same premise.[/quote]

T3 was an evolutionary offshoot on the family tree of the terminator franchise that went extinct.Thank God.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:

I think this is the reason why T3 isn’t considered part of the story in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. They basically said when the series started to pretend T3 never happened. I’m wondering if Terminator: Salvation is operating under the same premise.[/quote]

Which is also an awesome show. I just wish it had less angsty brooding and more meaning.

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Down with DRM!!!

Spore Becomes Most Pirated Game in History

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13648

Spore is the most pirated game in history according to TorrentFreak. Post release, Spore generated significant negative publicity due to Electronic Arts? decision to implement the unpopular Securom DRM. Although the record breaking piracy of Spore cannot be attributed solely to consumers rejecting the DRM implemented within it, it most likely helped as the statistics now show.

Spore produced piracy levels normally seen only for newly released movies according to TorrentFreak. Ten days after the game?s launch half a million copies of the game had been downloaded. Since that time over one million copies have been downloaded using BitTorrent. According to TorrentFreak statistics Spore was downloaded 1.7 million times since early September, which is a record breaking number for a game.

According to the TorrentFreak article, Electronic Arts attempted to downplay the initial piracy statistics of half a million downloads. EA?s Mariam Sughayer stated that every BitTorrent download was not a successful copy, and that several downloads did not work due to bugs and viruses. TorrentFreak defended their statistics pointing out poorly moderated torrent sites and malicious torrents do exist but constitute less than 1% of available torrents, and are not included in their statistics.

In the article, TorrentFreak also provides a list of the 10 most downloaded PC games on BitTorrent in 2008, with an estimated download count for each. Spore leads the way with 1.7 million copies; the second most pirated game was The Sims 2 at 1.15 million copies, also from Spore creator Will Wright. Assassins Creed completes the top 3 with just over a million downloads.

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[quote]machiajelly wrote:
AngryVader wrote:

I think this is the reason why T3 isn’t considered part of the story in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. They basically said when the series started to pretend T3 never happened. I’m wondering if Terminator: Salvation is operating under the same premise.

Which is also an awesome show. I just wish it had less angsty brooding and more meaning.[/quote]

Agreed. There is a little too much brooding, but I still think the show has a lot of great moments. I thought this week’s episode was very interesting.

Overall, I love the show and I’m trying to get more people to watch it. I’ve heard the ratings for it aren’t that great and there’s a good chance it might get canceled after this season.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
machiajelly wrote:
AngryVader wrote:

I think this is the reason why T3 isn’t considered part of the story in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. They basically said when the series started to pretend T3 never happened. I’m wondering if Terminator: Salvation is operating under the same premise.

Which is also an awesome show. I just wish it had less angsty brooding and more meaning.

Agreed. There is a little too much brooding, but I still think the show has a lot of great moments. I thought this week’s episode was very interesting.

Overall, I love the show and I’m trying to get more people to watch it. I’ve heard the ratings for it aren’t that great and there’s a good chance it might get canceled after this season.[/quote]

The question is,will it end before or after John bones the pretty young terminator?

Does he end up having a relationship with her?What say you all?

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[quote]Neuromancer wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
machiajelly wrote:
AngryVader wrote:

I think this is the reason why T3 isn’t considered part of the story in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. They basically said when the series started to pretend T3 never happened. I’m wondering if Terminator: Salvation is operating under the same premise.

Which is also an awesome show. I just wish it had less angsty brooding and more meaning.

Agreed. There is a little too much brooding, but I still think the show has a lot of great moments. I thought this week’s episode was very interesting.

Overall, I love the show and I’m trying to get more people to watch it. I’ve heard the ratings for it aren’t that great and there’s a good chance it might get canceled after this season.

The question is,will it end before or after John bones the pretty young terminator?

Does he end up having a relationship with her?What say you all?[/quote]

Haha…I think that’s the question on every TSCC watcher’s mind. They’ve been hinting at sexual tension between those two since day one. Hell, if I were him and in that situation, I’d hook up with her all the time just for practice.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Professor X wrote:
jtg987 wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
I love the Terminator franchise but am not really a die hard fan of too many things.

I saw T3 a long time ago and thought it was a decent action flick.

same, however it seems that the general consensus was that t3 was a horrible movie, I also purchased the dark knight, batman begins and cod 5 today. Most likely throw the dark knight in on Saturday night. Played a bit of COD 5, I prefer modern shooters(not guns with crappy aim and shit rate of fire lol).

GOW 2 best game this year imo

I have no doubt that T3 will go down in history as the worst piece of crap of the entire franchise. It had no deeper message at all. It was strictly eye candy and explosions, both of which are great when there is actually interesting stuff going on around it.

I think this is the reason why T3 isn’t considered part of the story in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. They basically said when the series started to pretend T3 never happened. I’m wondering if Terminator: Salvation is operating under the same premise.[/quote]

Cool. I’ve been pretending that it never happened since I saw it.

Getting an even bigger truck to outdo the 18 wheeler in T2 was the defining image of what that movie was about…out CGI’ing T2.

Too bad they forgot about getting a well written script that deepened the plot.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Neuromancer wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
machiajelly wrote:
AngryVader wrote:

I think this is the reason why T3 isn’t considered part of the story in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. They basically said when the series started to pretend T3 never happened. I’m wondering if Terminator: Salvation is operating under the same premise.

Which is also an awesome show. I just wish it had less angsty brooding and more meaning.

Agreed. There is a little too much brooding, but I still think the show has a lot of great moments. I thought this week’s episode was very interesting.

Overall, I love the show and I’m trying to get more people to watch it. I’ve heard the ratings for it aren’t that great and there’s a good chance it might get canceled after this season.

The question is,will it end before or after John bones the pretty young terminator?

Does he end up having a relationship with her?What say you all?

Haha…I think that’s the question on every TSCC watcher’s mind. They’ve been hinting at sexual tension between those two since day one. Hell, if I were him and in that situation, I’d hook up with her all the time just for practice.
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Every single night would be for testing the “hardware”.

“John, what are you doing in there?!”

“Uh, seeing if wetware stays wet!”

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Isn’t that the chick from the movie Serenity?

That was a good sci-fi film.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Isn’t that the chick from the movie Serenity?

That was a good sci-fi film.[/quote]

Yes she is and yes it was.She looks much hotter now,imo.Looks to have picked up a little weight,and looks much better for it.

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[quote]Neuromancer wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
Isn’t that the chick from the movie Serenity?

That was a good sci-fi film.

Yes she is and yes it was.She looks much hotter now,imo.Looks to have picked up a little weight,and looks much better for it.[/quote]

I always liked the teaser picture of her for the show. This is actually my XBOX 360 background image.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Neuromancer wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
Isn’t that the chick from the movie Serenity?

That was a good sci-fi film.

Yes she is and yes it was.She looks much hotter now,imo.Looks to have picked up a little weight,and looks much better for it.

I always liked the teaser picture of her for the show. This is actually my XBOX 360 background image.[/quote]

And I believe she was on the verge of giving up acting before she landed the role.

Read that somewhere…what a loss that would have been!

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
machiajelly wrote:
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I thought this one was interesting. The T-X and Cameron.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Down with DRM!!!

Spore Becomes Most Pirated Game in History

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13648

Spore is the most pirated game in history according to TorrentFreak. Post release, Spore generated significant negative publicity due to Electronic Arts? decision to implement the unpopular Securom DRM. Although the record breaking piracy of Spore cannot be attributed solely to consumers rejecting the DRM implemented within it, it most likely helped as the statistics now show.

Spore produced piracy levels normally seen only for newly released movies according to TorrentFreak. Ten days after the game?s launch half a million copies of the game had been downloaded. Since that time over one million copies have been downloaded using BitTorrent. According to TorrentFreak statistics Spore was downloaded 1.7 million times since early September, which is a record breaking number for a game.

According to the TorrentFreak article, Electronic Arts attempted to downplay the initial piracy statistics of half a million downloads. EA?s Mariam Sughayer stated that every BitTorrent download was not a successful copy, and that several downloads did not work due to bugs and viruses. TorrentFreak defended their statistics pointing out poorly moderated torrent sites and malicious torrents do exist but constitute less than 1% of available torrents, and are not included in their statistics.

In the article, TorrentFreak also provides a list of the 10 most downloaded PC games on BitTorrent in 2008, with an estimated download count for each. Spore leads the way with 1.7 million copies; the second most pirated game was The Sims 2 at 1.15 million copies, also from Spore creator Will Wright. Assassins Creed completes the top 3 with just over a million downloads.
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Dude that’s just insane. Crap like this is why I’ve given up bootlegging games and started buying them. Just wish it wasn’t so damn expensive.

And for those of you that love Fallout 3 good news:

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/937/937202p1.html

Oh Sarah Connor Chronicles is the shit. The guy that plays Cromartie gives me the fuckin’ creeps.

“Hi Agent Ellis, my name is John Henry.”