Late Night Consoling

I don't know who is to blame for this PSO debacle, but that is patently absurd! Way to kill your userbase on Xbox Live! I hope fees on top of fees don't become commonplace on Live...

I bet Galaxies will do it. Everyone wants a piece of that pie!

I guess Cube is the way to go if you want any PSO loving...or Dreamcast I guess(if you can stand the cheaters). Plus, you can download NiGHTS to your GBA if you have PSO on GC. OMG LOL

Way to fucking things up, MS/Sega! Congrats on your cunning business strategy.

Splinter Cell PS2 Trailer..

http://www.gamershell.com/download_1189.shtml

Someone had lots of fun making this...

Anyone have a copy of PSO for GC that they wish to part with? :)

Late night consoling is great and Jason does a fabulous job of summarising the news from various sites. The one thing I don’t like about LNC is Jason’s arrogant and self important attitude. I hate the way we get his opinions on matters when I, and I’m sure many others, really don’t care. It’s just comments like “how I connect all of my many, many console systems” that really make me dislike him. He’s so desperate to make the point that he’s the all knowing master of console gaming who has been playing games since the dawn of time. He’s like an 8 year old - “I’ve got billions and billions of consoles and I’ve played every game that’s ever been made and I completed them all and they were really easy for me because I’m the best.”

Then there’s stuff like:

“Gamers.com has posted some more details on that Metroid movie which is currently in development. I can't say I really care one way or another with this one...let's just hope it fares better than Nintendo's other game adaptation, the reprehensible Super Mario Bros.”

The first 15 words of that are very interesting, but then Jason has to through in his opinion. Do we really care what Jason thinks of the news that a Metroid movie is being made? It’s completely uninformative, un-entertaining and irrelevant. His supreme majesty seems to think we can’t form an opinion of our own and must listen to him so we know what to think.

He’s always telling us what games he’s getting as if it’s interesting or useful information. Do we care that Steel Battalion is too expensive for him? Do we care that he won’t be importing a GBA SP? Do we care that he’ll wait until the GBA SP is released before he’ll play some games he bought after Christmas? Do we care that he moved is left arm 20 degrees at 5:12pm EST while playing his latest game?


Then there’s “Console game of the evening” where Jason can give us a quick opinion on one of the trillions of games he’s played in the past. DO WE FUCKING CARE!?!?

If the machine from The Cell existed and you could look into Jason’s mind, he’d probably see himself with the LNC reader’s bowing at his feet as he sat surrounded by consoles completing game after game effortlessly. He’s having to use his ESP powers, which he developed through gaming, to restrain the hordes of LNC readers as they shout comments like “What’s your console game of the evening. I need to know or I’ll kill myself,” and “Jason, you’re my life. We need you!”

My hatred towards him has slowing been building up and his “many, many consoles” remark pushed me over. Like I say he does a great job summarising the news, and it’s nothing personal. I just hate people who are full of themselves, and if he was any more full of himself he’d explode with enough force to destroy the planet.


Hmmm now, anon or not? Er, think I’ll go anon so if I decide to kill him it’ll be harder to trace me :)

Just to be clear, I am joking.

Ya know.. Xbox live has been pretty good, but the damn updates are starting to get annoying...

When playing games i get these crashes going to a blue screen (not the blue screen of death, im on WinXP) and it says something about irq_not_equal_or_less. Then some timer starts its really weird, i usually end up just restarting my computer with the restart button. I checked all my irq settings, they're all on a different numbers so thats all good i guess. but i noticed that it said my video card was a pci when its really an agp and it said it was on Location 6 pci bus 1 when i have 5 slots (is that what that means? shouldnt it be on an agp bus?). Also before i installed service pack 1, it said that my hard drive was scsi a drive when it really was an IDE, sounds like a bad chipset driver. and if i dont get that irq_not_equal_or_less (not too sure if thats the exact message i'll be sure to post back giving the exact statement) i would get some sort of memory message. really weird. its been doing it quite often too especially with resource intensive games like Morrowind. I guess im kinda clueless and i should learn more about operating systems and what not but i'd appreciate any help. I'm running WinXP pro w/ sp1, 256mb DDR RAM, alimagik 1 chipset for athlon/ddr/sdr, gf2 mx.

so are the Final Fantasy games ports of the Wonderswan versions + cg or what?

Kinda odd that they'd only do the first two (which oddly enough are the only two that were made for WSC) and omit the super shitty, totally worthless, and let's-pretend-it-was-never-made third one (which was announced for WSC but never released...).

Ahh well, i'll buy FFO for the CG.

I like games

but not late at night

I want DW4 to come out for GameCube so bad :(

I love my GameCube... I just wish some of the PS2 games came out for it... and if I had bought a PS2, I still would want to play the GameCube games :(

Don't really have enough money for both... oh well. :(

This day just keeps getting better. I had SUSI for lunch, then went back to the office to play CS and watch Office Space. Now I just got back from having SUSI and a Movie for dinner. I just checked my e-mail and someone in philosophy class just sent the answers to the first exam to the class listserv. How sweet is that?

PSO
omfg 60 days "free"
all this shit was free not too long ago, now you have to pay for everything.
kinda bs if you think about it.
everything wants a subscription these days. its the only way these bastards can keep a source of income coming in.
it will be a cold day in hell before i pay for that crap.
The more monkeys that continue to pay for this crap will ruin it for others, because all these companies will see people paying to play. then we'll have to pay for each and every game we wish to play online (individually) on top of the bullshit subscription fees.
maybe we should just start handing our checks over now.

hope they port the xfiles game to pc =(

Keith Courage? yea, good game, but it can't hold a candle to JJ and Jeff :D

I still love XBL...It took me 3 years to have decent lag free racing experience and it wasnt even on PC

BTW for those who dont know you can play PSO offline like Diablo II, however the only sucky thing is you have to rely on sega servers to play with other people, or use the shitty splitscreen mode. I would love to have my own server software or to LAN the fucker so my friends and I can play on our own server...well add our own content and maintain it ourselves ;-)

ooh ooh look at sony research in action ;-)

Before you begin, here are some of the things we learned from the previous Gamer Advisory Panel Survey:

The majority of panel members thought Action and RPG were the best game genres.
Most of the panelists played games to
Relieve stress
To get away from it all
Do things I can't do in real life.
When asked which PlayStation®2 games would make the best movies, the panelists chose Metal Gear Solid and GTA: Vice City.
And, the clear winners of "Who would you want to go into battle with to fight the most feared entity in the universe" were … Grand Winner — Solid Snake and Runner-Up — Dante.

hey jason, you should have mentond the neo geo pocket colour

killed right in the prime of it's life =|

it still gets played more than my GBA

Couldn't they release just FFI and not FFIIj, because that game was total crap. It was good in a way, that they got that crap out of their system and came up with a decent leveling system, but still.

I mean, the best way to level was to have your characters near death at the end of the fight and doing that stupid select->cancel routine? Yikes.

Whachoo talkin' about Jason? Keith Courage was a great game.

Jason, you didn't mention that Xbox Live has to be purchased to play PSO offline.

I've been laughing all day.

omg, moto gp2 looks sick!
i can't wait!
although jason will probably give it a shit review like the first 1....

Anyone know when the PS2 is going to drop in price?

Not gonna pay for live and PSO. I'll wait for Starwars Galaxies. At least it's gonna be massively multiplayer. I don't doubt that PSO is a good game but I could play Diablo 2 for free on Bnet.

How about a segment on the most underrated games of all time?

#30, hell yeah. Capcom vs. SNK: Card Fighter, and Capcom vs. SNK (the fighting game) were fucking *amazing* games, even when compared to stuff on non-handheld console systems. Great stuff, the system had huge potential. Too bad SNK couldn't scrounge up enough cash to actually MARKET the damn thing, or else it coulda given the GBA a run for its money. *sigh*

Man, I cannot fucking wait for Golden Sun 2. GS was easily one of my favorite RPGs ever. I think I'll beat it again a third time before GS2 comes out. ;) Seriously, if you own a GBA and never played Golden Sun, do yourself a favor and get it ASAP. You still have plenty of time to beat it and level up your party before the sequel comes out. (You can transfer your party into GS2 and pick up where you left off.)

Sadly, the thing that finally drives me to get a PlayStation is a remake of a couple games that are over a decade old...

Those metroid commercials are great, especially the Metroid II one.

I hope the FF: Origins doesnt have any of the shitty loading times the other PS ports had...

I've been having a blast with PSO lately on the GC. I still think Sonic Team has to put way more online quests though. The Famitsu cup is awesome with the time limit. It just gets hectic and fun.

I'm still glad I bought it on GC than Xbox. I'd hate to pay for playing offline...

Chris Sorrell... I knew I knew that name from somewhere... worked for Millenium on the fantastic James Pond 2: Robocod on the Amiga (and 3 as well).

Got it for Christmas, haven't touched it. HURRY TEH FECK UP, CAPCOM!

Keith Courage rocked. I have two copies, I'll sell one for $1500.00.

I always hate it when you can't play as super sonic in the normal levels, and that one in Sonic Advance 2 looks EXACTLY like the final hyper sonic level from sonic and knuckles.