Upcomming Gammes Toppic

[Mikero]

Not just that he's metal, but that he's SO metal.

I'm not so into him either.

[Edgecrusher]

There's only one talented musician in Tenacious D.

Hint: It isn't Jack Black.

[Johncarllos]

Dave Grohl!


Kyle Gass is where it's at.

[ASR]

Jack Black is fine - I enjoyed School of Rock, and I remember laughing with buddies at summer camp to the original Tenacious D album - but he definitely gets on my nerves sometimes. Not enough to make me dislike him or anything, but there's something there that irks me.

[Vinchenz Rock]

Anyone excited for Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver?

Because it's everything you expect and much more... in a very awesome way.

Like, there's an item in the game that will let you listen to the original GBC music instead of the DS remixes.

[ChaosVortex]

Even though I'm refusing to buy games to save money presently, I'm DEFINITELY going to grab this without hesitation.

[Mikero]

I do want it.

But I don't want the distraction. It's the reason I don't own Scribblenauts right now (but I might cave on that).

[Speed Racer]

Apparently Alpha Protocol got delayed until June 2010. This makes October helluva lot more affordable.

[NovaMan XP]

Anyone excited for Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver?

Because it's everything you expect and much more... in a very awesome way.

Like, there's an item in the game that will let you listen to the original GBC music instead of the DS remixes.

Yeah. It's very gooood. The GBC music is good, but I like the DS remixes better for the most part. The Battle theme remixes are amazing, mainly the Kanto Gym Leader theme.

[Speed Racer]

I put down money for the Prestige edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Night-vision goggles w00t w00t.

[Johncarllos]

I really want to play that game. I love the controls of COD:MW.
I hate loose/#####ty controls, I like tight controls for small movements and acceleration  for larger movements.

[MOX]

COD4 was fun but I don't like getting killed by three bullets in the leg and then instant re-spawn to repeat the same thing.  YES THIS IS A VALID COMPLAINT

[Fatso]

CoD4 was fun but too easy. G3 one-hit kills made the game a sniping contest online (unless you were cool like me and went shotty/deag and NEVER STOPPED MOVING)

[NovaMan XP]

I played online at a friend's house once. It may have been CoD4 but I think it was World at War. The second I respawned I was sniped. Multiple times. :[

Although I think it's fun, I am absolute garbage at the game. I'm just not good at FPS's in general.

[KPL]

I just got Beaterator. For just 25 euro's it should be a nice thing to play around with during long trips. Also, I'm looking VERY forward to uncharted 2 and lost planet 2.

[Mikero]

I'm not really into FPS games but I really liked the demo is of CoD: World At War.
Not that I've seen a lot of WWII games, but it was definitely the most immersive/realistic one I've seen. If only because the first time you play it you're just thrown in there and it's chaos all over the place. You know, like a war.

Unfortunately that's completely lost the second time you replay the level.

[ASR]

The second time you replay something is the third time you play it!

The more you know!

[Mikero]

Yeah that's right.

You don't totally know what's happening the second time play it either.

[Speed Racer]

I played online at a friend's house once. It may have been CoD4 but I think it was World at War. The second I respawned I was sniped. Multiple times. :[

That's why I don't play any of the COD games online. I've never seen a game with so many spawn campers in my life.

[Fatso]

Search and Destroy quickly became the only gametype I really played, except for those deathmatches where I went shotty-only

[Captain Sanoguchi]

I put down money for the Prestige edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Night-vision goggles w00t w00t.

Are you kidding?
You're actually going to get the night-vision goggles?

[ChaosVortex]

I saw that. It looks like a pretty sweet bundle.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Are you guys #####ing kidding me?

[ASR]

Night.

Vision.

Goggles.

[Edgecrusher]

I hope your expectations are set pretty low.

A real pair of night vision goggles cost anywhere from $500 to $5,000.
There's no way Activision loves you that much.

At best this will end up being a charge-coupled device with a couple infrared LEDs.

[Abominator]

How much is it?

A supermarket near me was selling nightvision for £99 last week.

[ChaosVortex]

Are you guys #####ing kidding me?

No. I'm not. No, I'm no-t.

It's better than that Halo helmet deal. You can actually WEAR this thing. Besides, I wish I had night vision.

[preventerWIND]

Pervert.

[ChaosVortex]

I only know about this thing because my friend's hyping about it on Facebook and it does look pretty good. You have three options (like Halo did). Regular game, the game in a collector's tin (with artwork), or you can get the collector's tin in this big box with artwork and such, plus the goggles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSS12iY1X0

The prestige edition over here seems to be $149.

EDIT: WIND, you're dumb.

[Majikn]

Are you guys #####ing kidding me?

No. I'm not. No, I'm no-t.

Enough from the clown!

[ChaosVortex]

Anyway, to back up what Edge was saying, I think I just read somewhere that these goggles are made from China.

But still. NIGHT VISION GOGGLES, MAN!

[Edgecrusher]

How do you make something from China?

[Lunchebox]

Well, the make plates and tea cups and stuff from China.

I imagine this makes the goggles very fragile.

[Abominator]

Sparkster returns!

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0910/game091005a.shtml

[Mikero]

I don't need to know what Sano plans to do with night vision goggles.

Anyway it would be hilarious if yes those goggles fit on that mock up of a human head, but that mock up of a human head is like 10cm tall.

I hope your expectations are set pretty low.

A real pair of night vision goggles cost anywhere from $500 to $5,000.
There's no way Activision loves you that much.

At best this will end up being a charge-coupled device with a couple infrared LEDs.

THANK you.

[ChaosVortex]

Well gee. Shatter my expectations for a game I'm not going to get. Thanks a lot.

Sparkster returns!

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0910/game091005a.shtml

Never heard of him in the first place.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

I don't need to know what Sano plans to do with night vision goggles.

Did I express that I wanted the night vision goggles?
No, I've expressed that I'm disturbed by the ridiculousness of them being bundled with a video game.

In other news; I pre-ordered Brutal Legend.

[Mikero]

It was a joke. I really could not care less if I tried.

[Johncarllos]

I want Brutal Legend.

[Edgecrusher]

I've got Brutal Legend and Uncharted 2 sitting in a locked room directly behind me.
I can hear them mocking me.

On a mildly related note, Sony changed their case design ever so slightly such that it better fits the slim model logo, as seen on Uncharted 2:


This seems like a small deal, but it's seriously going to ##### with the uniformity of my collections. I've gone to great length to keep my collection free of greatest hits, players choice, and other case-type anomalies, but now it's going to be completely unavoidable if I want any new games.

It's a small, stupid thing but it really, really bothers me.

[ChaosVortex]

If they decide to reprint games in the new cases, then there's your solution, as dumb as it is.

[Edgecrusher]

Sadly, they likely won't. The only old titles that will see the new logo will be greatest hits editions, and those have all sorts of other bastardly markings on them that make them even more unacceptable.

[Johncarllos]

Holy #####, someone else does that?

Every Gamecube game I ever owned had original casing.

[Edgecrusher]

It took me forever to replace the sleeve of my copy of Tales of Symphonia, and that's working at a damn game store.

I assume you can understand my plight then. The spine PS3 logo is now ~27% longer, a different typeface, and a different color. This is going to look terrible.

[ASR]

I'm the same way with my DVD's. I've always hated how the Futurama box sets are all COMPLETELY different, like the first one clearly has a "Volume One" written on the side in a way that was meant for every season to follow, and they just changed the entire thing every season. Of course, they just re-released all of them in a slimmer case for like $12 each and it just really annoys me.

With DVD's I kind of had to give up the fight because most shows boxes just don't look anything alike, but when it comes to specific shows, it bugs me when the boxes aren't uniform in style.

[Speed Racer]

It took me forever to replace the sleeve of my copy of Tales of Symphonia, and that's working at a damn game store.

I assume you can understand my plight then. The spine PS3 logo is now ~27% longer, a different typeface, and a different color. This is going to look terrible.

You work at a game store? If I'm having problems getting it on release day, any chance you could help a brother out with Dragon Age: Collector's Edition?

[Edgecrusher]

I won't get more special editions than I have pre-orders for, but if someone decides they don't want it once it comes, I'll see what we can do.

[Speed Racer]

Thanks dude.

[Mikero]

Holy #####, someone else does that?

Every Gamecube game I ever owned had original casing.

Most people here do that.

I do it as much as I can but I'll let in a hit that was the greatest when I have to.
Same with DVDs, where applicable.

[Majikn]

Here's a so far visually interesting upcoming Wii game:
http://kotaku.com/5374850/epic-mickey-revealed-warren-spector-speaks