GameCube at $200!

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• Not a very good troll. :( Try harder next time! : pyrotek
• 328 = Molested child : CAPUT
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  you can go back to sucking the Xbox's dick now : Oblivion989
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    I'm not a troll, or a molested child, and the xbox doesn't have any balls. Why you guys feel you need to... : tension
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      no. We hate you because you're obviously a dickhead. : xvdl
      • YES! : scythide
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  No problem, dude! : Jack Mathews
  • rofl : str8upkiller
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  BILL GATES EXPOSED. : xvdl
  • well... that's not the most insulting thing ever thrown my way. In fact it might be more of a compliment... : tension

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• oops. CAPCOM rep. not nintendo rep. : dodob
• And he's not wrong... if only Sony had made a more user friendly SDK, developers will be more comfortabl... : Zoesch
• someone better make a real controller before i touch a fighting game...heh : ghost in my shell
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  fighting games have all been downhill since MK2 : raunchy
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    Street Fighter Alpha 3 was damn good in the arcade :) : timmie
    • everything after alpha 2 was all flash and ass. : gegtik

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  Maybe it's just me, but I imagine playing doom on a gameboy as being more pain than pleasure. : Djinn
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    mmh shoulder buttons = strafe a = shoot b = open door d-pad = look around i hope they put in a sens... : mad-d00d
    • And fast, accurate aiming with a d-pad? No thanks. : Djinn
  • Have you seen the Gameboy Advance? It should be able to do a pretty decent version of doom. : pyrotek
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  didnt i hear they were making a gba version of mario kart somewhere? : raunchy
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    Mario Cart for GBA is confirmed : -TKF-
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      ttp://pocket.ign.com/previews/15249.html there it is :P : crewmaac
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        And 50 GBA videos :-) : -TKF-
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          Whoa! http://pocket.ign.com/news/34682.html there is the link : -TKF-
          • Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival haha, that is too funny. eventually they are going to run out... : raunchy
          • oh my God! Castlevania looks awesome! If it's anything like Symphony of the Night gameplay-wise, I'll b... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      any word on multiplayer on it? i remember playing that with my buddies on snes, it was a blast. probabl... : raunchy
      • /me reads article. 4 player, wow : raunchy
      • The SNES version of Super Mario Kart is one of the best games ever! I still play it to this day, along ... : Selfist

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  362 Capcom developing MGS ? (original or #2?) u mean konami right? : disembodied potato
  • and konami said that they think the gamecube will only be for kiddies. : carpetedman

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  Heh, they've never NOT had a great launch. Even n64's botched games lineup sold out everywhere, for... : avixe
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    Yeah, but that was a BOTCHED launch because there were NO FUCKING GAMES for like 12 months after release... : jidar
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      I said that there were no games. The n64 never did have the tons of games that other systems did. B : avixe
      • I still play with my modded N64 love it love it love it... : jo-papa
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      The N64 just doesn't look good... The graphics are all Blurry and Lowres, thats why it had a hard time c... : -TKF-
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        It had that funny grid pattern with dark colors onscreen. Very noticeable in parts of Zelda and Star F... : avixe
        • Lowres textures blured to hell and back because they were compressed.. Had it not been for the limited s... : -TKF-
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    Virtual Boy? : Djinn
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      that console never existed.. move along now : mad-d00d
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        Yes, it did. : Djinn
        • it was pretty cool, actually. Too bad no one made any games for it =/ : timmie
  • With Nintendo's first coming, they had a great launch. The Nintendo Entertainment System sold so well i... : Selfist
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  Still haven't seen any GC games that make me have to buy one. : Fred Garvin
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    hello sir, did you not see the zelda movie back in spaceworld 2k? or the metroid one just recently rele... : mad-d00d
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      link me to the Zelda movie... pretty please : -TKF-
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        http://cubemovies.ign.com/media/previews/video/zelda/zeldademo.mpg : mad-d00d
        • its only a tech demo, but impressive nonetheless. too bad we have to wait until spaceworld to see any n... : carpetedman
        • thank you! downloading with zero bytes... ign is dead : -TKF-

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• it will be a PC shipping at 40% of current processor technology. : xvdl

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  I was going to, but I need the money more for other things, now. I'm definately still going to get one ... : pyrotek
  • I got the last Arctic one reserved at my local EB along with Mario and Tony Hawk 2. woo hoo! : ThomW

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  15-20 hours on two AA batteries. Or so they say. :) : dodob
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    whoa not bad.. not bad at all! Could fly somewhere and play gameboy the whole damn time if one were so ... : str8upkiller
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      that's FUCKING CRAZY ? ? ? ? man that's low power, you sure dude? : abrasion
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        I have one, and he is correct. : pyrotek
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          Actually it is my brother's, but still. : pyrotek
          • that's nice and impressive, i mean hot fucking damn! and it's powerful makes u wonder what we will... : abrasion
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    so basically the game boy advance is 1/4 the life of a Neo Geo Pocket Colour : -=kodiak=-
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      yeah, the Neo Geo Pocket Color only lasted 45 hours, then it just died. : dra.
      • too bad... i still play mine like every day.... it has badass games on it... if people wanna play them t... : -=kodiak=-
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  I'd buy a GBA for nothing but Super Dodgeball advance. That game ruled on the OG Nintendo. I still pla... : str8upkiller
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    Dude! That game was made by the same people who made Double Dragon, River City Ransom, World Cup Soccer... : Selfist
    • IT IS! it's being made by the same company who released the first one! And you can play head to head vi... : str8upkiller
• I'd buy a GBA for nothing but Super Dodgeball advance. That game ruled on the OG Nintendo. I still pla... : str8upkiller
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  I'd buy a GBA for nothing but Super Dodgeball advance. That game ruled on the OG Nintendo. I still pla... : str8upkiller
  • woah. : acheron
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    Tell me, is there any chance that you would rather buy a GBA for nothing but Super Dodgeball advance!!!! : abrasion
    • lol dayamn... I got pissed and hit the send button a tad too much : str8upkiller

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  speaking of which anyone here enjoy playing old NES ROMS? I've been playing Mike Tyson's Punchout and t... : str8upkiller
  • I occasionally play the old ROMS. I seem to have less patience for them now. Not so 15 years ago. : lbsn
  • but but, the xbox is so powerful.. that means the games are going to be good. : dra.
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    http://www.ratfest.org/NES me and my friends are rounding up on NES carts and trying to beat as m... : mirage
    • hehe looks fun : str8upkiller
• Agreed! : s3taanbomb
• Cartridges OwneD me! : s3taanbomb

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• that looks like a fucking toaster! : str8upkiller

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• hah watch EA back out and pull a whole new dreamcast fiasco on xbox : -=kodiak=-

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  that's more like the GBA ;d : Maarten Goldstein
  • whoa.. is that a dislexic tongue? : str8upkiller
• I knew they'd mark it up, but I figured it made sense from the screens I'd seen...looked like the hardwar... : FookZilla

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  i wouldnt doubt it, someone is gonna get fired =\ : raunchy
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    That would be maximum funny. Editor: Here, right this up. 2 hours later. Editor: Bill says it... : acheron
    • Bwahahah :) : Kiwi Man
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  I once read that the guy who helped Slick Billy demo Win98 (which ended up with a BSOD) still has his jo... : Djinn
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    they plugged in a scanner with pnp support didnt they? - the TECHNICIAN who setup the machine however... : abrasion
    • What the hell are you talking about? Bitter and drunk, apparently. : Djinn
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  Well, MSNBC is a media outlet. I think it is funny how much MSNBC rips on NBC and Microsoft. : s3taanbomb
  • some people in the media business have integrity. It's similar to CNN and AOL. : scrooge

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• Read that article: "Gamers may instead opt for the creative strengths of Nintendo, the handheld gaming... : mati

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• I got it on the DC. Best graphics i've seen in any fighter ! Gameplay is ok tough : Hamfucker

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  Me neither. Screw Microsoft. Now I'll get a 19-inch monitor and GameCube instead of a 21. : avixe
  • I'll still have access to an Xbox. But there's no way I'll be getting an Xbox in the fall if I can on... : acheron
  • Get the 21 incher, you'll still appreciate it in two years :) : mati

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  I'm sure we'll see a follow-up article within a couple of weeks :P : Steve Gibson
  • the writer will of course have a black eye and busted lip from bills henchmen.. : abrasion
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  msn decided to be honest for a change, but im sure the guy is going to go into work tomorrow and find ou... : raunchy
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    http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=1287206 This thread may illuminate things. :-D : acheron
    • *illuminate'd* : raunchy
    • of course, I spelled "write" as "right" in that thread cause I'm a tard. : acheron
• No,but I am! : brutal

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  Then do the same thing with console games. Its not like people only sell PC games on ebay. : Steve Gibson
  • Yeah but too many crazy peeps on egay that want ps2 games.... they are always more expensive.. : johndwango
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    For example.. check this egay posting 8 FACTORY SEALED PS2 Games FREE SHIPPING NR = Price 325.00 ... : johndwango
    • Second hand? : Ulkesh
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      tribes 2 used or new? : king_darius
      • no joke! I paid $29.99 for that buggy game! : jedi_27
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        Spanking New : johndwango
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          then you got a good deal :) you can get used console games for comparable prices, i think. : king_darius
          • Not really dude.. Most ps2 games go for much higher.. especially the ones that are in demand.. : johndwango
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      If you were to pay the average $50 a game for 8 games, that would be $400. You're saving $75. Which amou... : Drahkar
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        More reason to never buy a console :) : johndwango
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          Eh, I'm willing to buy the GameCube because I want Metroid. Anything purchased beyond that is not import... : Drahkar
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            Easy solution to that. 1. Con friend into buying GameCube. 2. Rent Metroid from Bollocks Buster 3. Bo... : johndwango
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              can you post one message without using a same-sounding faggoty name? Jesus, it's like slashdot with t... : batkiwi
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                Are you stupid or something.. Do I go around complaining about your name.. stupid Bogan! : johndwango
                • I think he's reffering to your "bollocks buster" comment..? Seems you like to think your a bit of a c : abrasion
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  there are shitloads of used ps2 games already i find it quite funny used games are going for 44$ whe... : -=kodiak=-
  • $49 was the highest ps2 game i saw at best buy yesterday. : Turd Ferguson

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• it's worth it.. get flashget.. i got it at 8 k with 5 threads!! : -TKF-
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  link me link me! : raunchy
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    http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=1287334 : Drahkar
    • Here's a faster link, http://cubemedia.ign.com/media/previews/video/zelda/zeldademo.mpg : fLiPSider

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• I look forward to seeing if he's right. IOn one hand I hope he is, but on another I kind of hope he isn'... : seemlar
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  this is where Bill Gates calls John Carmack and says... "I promise you Open Sourced Open GL support fo... : -TKF-
  • and John Carmack let's the answering machine get it. : acheron
  • Huh? I'm sure it would be heading to X-Box eventually anyway. Or did you mean to put the word "exclusi... : Stormrider
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  i'm sure gamecube will have lots of mega-hits, since its titles are primarily sequals to mega-hit jump-b : A-54
  • 243 Gamecube owns you : monohydrate

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  it looks like a cheap plastic briefcase. the kind of briefcase nerds cut open and house a PC in for lanp... : A-54
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    The X-box looked k-rad when it was that silver X. WHAT HAPPEN?! : firebone
    • neon is so 1980's. the 'X' motif has already been overused itself on tv & sci-fi junk products for the ... : A-54
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  Hehe.. that's a fake gamecube miniature that nintendo was handing out for people who dont know any bette... : Steve Gibson
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    "The Gamecube shown here is a tiny bit smaller than the actually Cube..." : jerkinisnice
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      tiny bit? what are they doing, giving away near full-scale plastic replicas? or is this somesort of dood... : A-54
      • it's two-thirds the actually size, so I read at the Gaming-Age forum.. : jerkinisnice
    • umm, if your implying that it's not an actually playable Gamecube, you're definitely correct.. but it is... : jerkinisnice
    • how much smaller? is it true that the XB "fits" four GCs? : dodob
  • Those little foam cubes were cool, they smelled bad though. I got two foam GBAs and won a GBA carrying... : Pointy
• holy shit... when will you americans learn that size is not everything? haha :) man that thing is fuc : dodob
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  Actually it's not so much that the X-Box is "FUCING GIGANTIC", it's that the GameCube is really small. : Stormrider
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    Well yeah, the gamecube is pretty tiny, but the XBox is still huge. I don't really care about the size ... : Andy Hanson
    • I actually wish it was bigger, i.e. component sized. : Stormrider
• Is that a full size table? ;) : firebone
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  I've seen pictures of full sized Xbox with fullsized Gamecube and PS2. That Gamecube is a lot smaller t... : astral
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    now how the hell are we going to take this to friends/get togethers and stuff heh oh well. i ain't ... : kaber
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      for sure. I wouldn't call Xbox portable (I wouldn't call a PS2 portable either, the length and width is... : astral
      • here's what ms said (more or less) about the size: "we designed xbox so that it looks and fits in with y... : TwiLyght

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  I can't wait. The original Wave Race was one of the best racing games of all time. They should put in ... : pyrotek
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    It HAD a trick mode. : avixe
    • I mean with levels specifically designed for it. : pyrotek

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• so... it seems that those japanese game developers were right after all. they have so much more e : emacs
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  jet set radio future is coming to xbox, thats the ONLY reason i need to buy it! : adnans
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    It will probably be released on other consoles, too. : pyrotek
    • until i hear sega say that themselves, i don't really give a fuck :) : adnans

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  Nobody makes money on the consoles. Software (Licensing $) is where the money is made. : acheron
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    You mean they invest tons of bucks in hardware reserach, and hope that there will be enough developers ... : cout
    • .. It's what everyone does. : avixe
    • Well, generally speaking the licensing deals are very lucrative for the hardware manufacturers. Witho... : acheron
    • of course it's risky. but it can pay off big time. : cpt_gloval
    • that's why Sega is out of the hardware biz. They didn't have the money to market the Dreamcast properly... : afty
• cheaper components, to begin with. Higher sales will do the trick nicely too. : xvdl
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  The gamecube, if you look at the design, does not cost nearly as much to make as the other consoles. : Andy Hanson
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    how'd it feel to see your name in "lights" at the end of the DNF video?? :) : eject
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      Unexpectedly good, and proud. : Andy Hanson
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        I can't wait to buy DNF. It looks like fun :) : firebone
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          fun?!?! FUN?!? it looks freakin' incredible! me and my friends are now drooling for it's release ... : eject
          • I'm generally not too dramatic in my statements, but thanks to that video you guys at 3dr have convinced... : firebone

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• LOL! :D copy paste link http://asia.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/asia/05/17/tokyo.sonynintendovsms/nintendo... : dodob

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  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ This is why they were all excited. They bought into MSFT's B... : xvdl
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    The gameplay movies did not run a 5 fps.. atleast not those i downloaded.. : -TKF-
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      I believe that the 5fps was mentioned by Greenmarine who said that XBox, and Halo in particular, were di... : xvdl
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        I downloaded some gameplay movies frome a demo, the game looked like any FPS but the framerate didn't lo... : -TKF-
        • Meaning the one they demoed at E3 : -TKF-
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          No games were shown on real X-Box hardware though. : Stormrider
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            True. But that fact is going to harm them badly. E3 is when you are supposed to expose what the system i... : Drahkar
            • True, but wouldn't showing nothing be even worse? Would showing their ping pong ball demo again except ... : Stormrider
        • Here is the movies... http://www.bungie.org/e32001/ This is video taped while some guys are playi... : -TKF-
    • The XBox, on the other hand, was wholely unimpressive. None of the games jumped out at me at all. Halo, : xvdl
    • Plus they didn't say the movies. They said the game itself when shown running on Xbox. : Drahkar
  • See this hat? It used to be made of MONEY! : acheron
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  just blows that many PC games are now console only games And impossible to Copy, i think thats one of t... : -TKF-
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    Console games impossible to copy? *chuckle* : seemlar
    • I'm not talking about DC PSX and PS2 (allthough that one isn't perfected yet and might never be). DVD's... : -TKF-
  • Not impossible. Just takes more of an effort. Still, it sucks. I, frankly, enjoy playing games on PCs... : Drahkar

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  All you have to do is boycott the Xbox then. DirectX-based bastidge, stealing my Halo, and my Deus Ex : acheron
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    but the XBOX has Halo . . . . its like a blue light I can not moving towards it . . . . : jedi_27
    • DON'T GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT, SPARKY! : acheron
    • Halo is more like the blue light moths get attracted to.... *bzzzzzt* : seemlar
    • part of me wishes MSFT does well with Xbox.. if it werent for my 50shares I bought at 80$... : johndwango
    • Halo is a pile of crap. Forget about it. : xvdl

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• not exposed? : acheron
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  "-xian" ? : Jack Mathews
  • scary to think, eh? : acheron
  • joke joke joke? : Kiwi Man
• Fucking expansion patch er, pack! : jake