I've watched this video at least a dozen times. It's from Maplestory.

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

That looks amazing!


Plants vs. Zombies is great btw. lots of fun

Sacred 2 is the best game I have played in YEARS

The 1st is very, very good. The units have a ton of personality and each side is great fun to play. It's easy to understand, and the things that aren't apparent immediately are fun rather than a burden to figure out. The game is extremely colorful and a universal compliment paid to both it and #2 is that they are "charming." It's true; there is some sort of an upbeat magic to it. The music, the color, whatever it is -- it's there.

The 2nd is notably better however, because it is as close as you can expect to get to a perfect game. The best random map generator I've ever seen, highly adjustable in every particular, makes it an infinite game playable forever. The charm holds up while everything else improves and reaches close enough to perfection to stop counting.

Since I know you're a Disciples 2 player, I'll point out some differences.

1. Disciples 2 has a horrible manual but is easier to figure out on your own. HOMM1 and 2 benefit greatly from the fold-out poster showing more complex build orders than D2 has. The GOG downloads have the manual but not the poster.

2. D2, though graphically a big improvement over HOMM2, has a much darker look. When I first started playing it, being unfamiliar with the units and landscape, D2 struck me as so dark it was hard too pick some things out. I was also unsure if D2 would be dreary. It's not, but there's something simply unstoppable about the charm of HOMM2 that can't be duplicated.

3. HOMM2 lets you keep more items from map to map, if I recall correctly. A plus for me, as D2 has great items but you earn them just to immediately give them up pretty early in the campaigns.

4. D2 has killer items like the soul crystal that totally change the nature of the game. HOMM2 doesn't get as easily turned upside down.

5. HOMM has multi-level maps, which is pretty interesting and brings up confounding but fun timing issues for your character's travels. You travel to underground chambers vented to the surface by tunnels. You can get trapped between enemies coming in at all angles if you're not careful, which is kind of a thrill actually. This is one of the many options you can lock out of randomly generated maps should you find it a bugger.

Hilarious Guitar Hero Freakout. Fun starts 20 seconds in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Ew_...3343804&kw=lol

The actual freakout parts don't do as much for me but I loved the mid-play antics and quotes.

Anyone try this?

Back up and play wii games from hard drive:

http://lifehacker.com/5263589/back-u...nal-hard-drive

Random question: I have my COD4 disc but not the case, and I uninstalled the program long ago. My friends in Cleveland are playing tonight at a LAN party and I'd really like to join. Can I borrow a CD key from someone for the night? I won't play it any other time but tonight. Thanks a lot.

If you still need this PM me.

Thanks for the link. I already have homebrew channel ready, but will need to empy out one of my external hard drives before I can test it. I didn't notice any mention of how it would handle save files though

playing PS2 God of War. It's demoralizing when you're playing on Normal and die a bunch and when asking you to restart it asks if you'd prefer to switch the difficulty to easy.

Such an awesome game though I wish I started on higher difficulty, because sometimes you don't even need a battle strategy as you know you can just hack and slash and there will be some life chests right after each battle.

LOL, I bought two DS games, GTA:Chinatown for me and Nintendogs for my daughter. Turns out that, despite its repetitiveness, I play Nintendogs a lot more than I play GTA. Got two dogs to the Master agility competition, but haven't managed to win it yet. They keep making a beeline for a gate that's not next. And no matter what I do, the dog ignore my command to go to the correct obstacle.

Only played two levels of GTA and am already bored. But I have to remember that GTA games always start slow and get better as it goes on.

Nintendogs? Do they make that for the wii?

My mom has a wii and she trains dogs for agility competitions IRL. She might like something like that mebbe.

(edit) Never mind, googled it myself. Mom's beyond the level of petting a dog for sparks.

You can train a dog for agility competitions in Nintendogs. But it consists of tapping on the screen to get the dog to jump or go through the tube, etc. It's not very deep and I doubt that someone who trains dogs for a living would find it interesting. But it's an oddly compelling game. The game gets pretty good reviews for what seems to be a very simple game. But it really is addictive.

Thanks for info.

Carrying a gaming system around that can fit in a pocket or a hand seems kind of cool. Gotta try it one day. I was actually thinking of whether something like that would be good for my Dad, too. He's retired now and goes to dog shows with my mom, but sometimes he gets a little bored and has to walk around and find something to do.

is there any site where you can watch replays / recordings of cod4/5 clan matches? Preferrably done on the xbox360? I'd like to see how these guys play.

So I finally set this up and just want to say, it is AWESOME

has anyone played the sims 3? i'm tempted to pick it up, but dunno if my laptop will run it =/

specs: 1.8ghz dual core intel...4gb ram...mobile intel 965 express chip family (integrated vid card ldo)

My fiancee got a free copy from work (worked on integrating the Toyota Prius into the game) and I haven't tried it out yet. My laptop is like 4 years old and I'm not sure if it can handle the specs (haven't PC gamed in a long, long time). I'll try it out sometime this weekend and let you know A) if it can handle it on whatever specs I have and B) if it's any good.

Okay, fired up Sims 3.

My laptop: XP, 1.6 GHz (short of the reco 2.0 GHz), 1.0 GB RAM, ATI Radeon X1300

It was suuuuuper laggy. And that was on the lowest graphical settings. Basically, it was unplayable unless I wanted to wait a second everytime I did anything.

Also, the game annoyed the hell out of me. I couldn't do much of anything between eating, sleeping, pissing, and working. I couldn't keep up with the dozen things I needed to do each day. Why the hell would I want a virtual life that's 100x more stressful than my real life?

damn, maybe i'll wait until i get a desktop pc. thx for the heads up, our specs are nearly the same

my xbox keeps crashing today playing cod4. Everytime about 5min into the game, it freezes, has a weird green pattern over the screen and makes a high pitched noise over the headphones. Am I heading for a RROD? I had an Error 74 (one red ring, bottom right, I think) today. I had that sometimes, but it always went away on 2nd try.

aaaaah. great. my xbox is officially fried. freezing screen constitutes a case of warranty. the retailer I bought it at says, it'll take 2-3 weeks to replace it. probably with a refurbished one Great thing is: Just yesterday I bought a sharkoon x-tatic surround sound headset. At least I can plug it into my dvd player also and enjoy some episodes of 24 with great sound then.

I completed the online order for the replacement. It says that I'm supposed to remove all things like discs from the drive AND THE HARDRIVE. I don't really get it. I have an xbox elite that came with a HD. Do I only send in the console itself without all the other stuff or how does it work? Can I keep the HD? Can anyone tell me?

Keep the HDD and Faceplate both. Send the rest.