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• OH MY GOD YOU ARE A LEGEND : mossbean
• 3 cores, 512 megs confirmed in that video so far. : yoonix
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  ^ ^ ^ ^ THIS IS THE VIDEO TO WATCH! : surround
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    cool feature at 1:25 : surround
    • fuck that, the shot of the guy holding the console+10 different shots of the console with case mods=spoog... : mossbean
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  Water cooled like the first Dreamcasts. Neat. : cyb0rgninja
  • sounds like it is a heatpipe design : stgdz
• I've got a huge boner now : Degenerate
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  +inf right here, this rocks. I wonder if this is what they're showing tonight? : shredder133
  • no, this is not in the MTV showing. : cltcprd
  • Doubtful. "More truth where the music is watched." This seems to be a lot more technical that what the MT... : yoonix
• WOW! : Silent Wolf
• oh shit, they were playing halo split screen in that video! : cltcprd
• HOLY CRAP : byorn
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  aw does anyone have the actual video instead of a stream, or a different format? this won't play for me a... : jcutner
  • Media Player Classic worked for me. http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm : cyb0rgninja
• hah, Mei-Mei Bong worked on it. not the best name to have in North America :) : Postal
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  Shacknews.com is listed in the credits btw. : surround
  • missed. that. cool! : lacker
  • #bondage as well! : askedrelic
  • I think it is the ourcolony rankings... : ohhjebus
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  This thing sounds pretty damn sweet! I hope somebody rights a book like Den Takahashi's "Opening the Xbo... : snowwolf
  • *writes : snowwolf
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  wow it is Water cooled! : byorn
  • I could have saved myself 20 minutes by not watching the MTV crapfest and just watching this. : ariakaz
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  Is that link downloadable? It keeps trying to stream it here. : aethyr
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    It's streaming. : yoonix
    • it wont even begin to stream for me. i hate windows media player : jcutner
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  Lame, it wont show any video for me :( just sound : Morgin
  • Can anyone figure out what codec this is using? Totally not working here still... : Athlon7
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  Microsoft proves yet again they are masters of making hardcore gamers their bitches. : SpiderMonkey
  • Yeah. I thought it was a slick video to boot. : Tincan
• No need to waste my time watching MTV tonight. Thanks! : Zakko
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  DAMMIT. It's all black for me here. : ( : Athlon7
  • why you gotta be racist? : Degenerate
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  size = ? ? ? ? ? : abrasion
  • OMG XBOX SLIM : armaduck
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  i can get it to play fine if i use MPC Media Player Classic : jcutner
  • wait, half way through it turns into a fucking slideshow. : jcutner
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  less ghey posing losers, more ingame footage plz : JaredSyn
  • J Allard looks like Vic Mackey from The Shield. He's going to bust a cap. : yoonix
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  Skinnable? Who gives a shit? Is that really a selling point for people? Seriously, the idea of shell... : Thresher
  • If they sell faceplates, then people could buy them and paint them their selves. Just a thought. : capt tripps
  • If you have all black electronics in your entertainment system, then yes. : iamgoat
  • Dude, look at the "stock" paint colour for it - it _NEEDS_ to be skinnable - or hidden under something >:... : abrasion
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  Whoever designed the new XBOX needs to have his testes ripped off Sin City style. : rhekua
  • looks sharp to me : wtf242
  • I like the look of it, but I don't get the skinnable thing. : Thresher
  • absoloutely it's so fucking ugly and doesn't suit home theatre setups at all >:( : abrasion
  • haha, it looks incredible. You're a nut :) : burning eye
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  This ain't loading. Mirrors? : Debased
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    open the link in windoz media player : smellslikefish
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      I did, and this is the error I get: "Windows Media Player cannot connect to the server. The server nam... : Debased
      • Keep trying. It did that for me too. : surround
• Mei-Mei Bong is Dragon Lady : sikander
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  holy crap the credits mention the shacl : slax0r
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    the shack. i'm too excited to type. : slax0r
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      http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10062249 :) : surround
      • i'm too excited to even read the thread! : slax0r
  • I think they were just listing the colonies. : Tincan
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  Anyone else see Cliffy B - J Allard similarities in that? The sharp edge of camp vs. cool was being graze... : SpiderMonkey
  • thought it was funny his "gamertag" was taken from neal stephenson : judge
• Two things to note: 1. They don't say optional hard drive, and with all that downloadable content pimpin... : mojoald
• Ok, here's a fix for those of us who are having problems with getting the video to be visible. Download ... : Athlon7
• Ok that "xbox 360 dashboard" is _exactly_ what I was talking about when I bagged the current live setup -... : abrasion
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  I may be a tad presumptuous but I think Sony is going to have a bitch of a time this go around in the con... : Vic Viper
  • Microsoft is an OS and Productivity software company. Its what they do. The just threw down one hell of a... : mojoald
• "And then we goosed it and we tweaked it, and we spun it" Oh Microsoft's J Allard, you're so hip! : darweidu
• ok streaming video sucks. can we can a d/l mirror here? : pyide
• shacknews.com is in the credits! Also, catch the fruit-fucker t-shirt? : NexusOne
• Sigh. Looks like I may get one of these in addition to the PS3. : Magus
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  anyone post a mirror? this doesn't work for me :-\ : sludge vohaul
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    I'll post a mirror if it's cool with everyone here. A straight up link. : AtaR1
    • Yes please. I can't stream for shit on that server. : Debased
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      i'll take the heat for you. or shackmsg if you wanna be kind :D : pyide
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        http://www.notworksafe.com/XBOX360Vid.wmv : AtaR1
        • You rock! : surround
        • thank you very much! : pyide
        • thanks dude! : proclone1
        • Much thanks! : helvetica
        • The awesomeness is strong in this one. : omnova
        • thank you! : sludge vohaul
        • Thank you, good sir! : Vic Viper
        • Pulling the straight link in about 30 mins, you can still get it here however with little hassle. http... : AtaR1
        • Haha. "Your very own gamer score...Awwww yeah!!" : stump
        • Thanks so much! : Serpico74
• you guys rock. Thanks for this. : Cygnus X-1
• I am so hard for this shit. : filtersweep
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  That's it? That didn't show us SHIT. : Thresher
  • that isn't the mtv footage : lacker
• This video was ten times better than that MTV tripe. : [fry]
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  I love J Allard's gamertag: Hiro Protaganist. : prfectjon
  • Ive definately played against him in Halo 2 at least a couple times before, pretty decent player. Of cour... : Jackass1233
• that was great. Awesome man. : senseimoron
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  does the keyboard at 0:52 mean keyboards will be supported this time? : smax
  • Fingers crossed it's not required if it is. : abrasion
• Liked the Shacknews.com mention in the credits! : suqur
• Cup = FILLED : yosemiteclimber
• Cool, finally something worth getting excited over! That video plays funny for me, I'm getting all the ... : gakera
• that was pretty dang amazing. they manage to build hype in me and others without showing any gameplay fo... : jedi_27
• MS marketing, please stop trying to make allard cool : DeathBlossom

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• Let the gayness begin. : emcea
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  PIMP MY RIDE GUYS. WOOHOO! except not : mossbean
  • Pimp my dirtXBox. : aethyr
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  shall this be the official thread? : mankeroo
  • i won't be happy until all of page 1 is filled w/ xbox threads : cygnus
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  whoa.. the future of gaming is a hot blonde chick with a bag? I'M DOWN FUCKERS. : laidback
  • Hey baby, I'm old skool... : mojoald
• 95% of the chicks in that crowd have probobly never touched a video game controller in their life. : mossbean
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  lol shackers weren't kidding about mtv inducing seizures : Jonny Be Good
  • Wait, are you having a seizure? Should we call someone? : cornchak
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  Frodo's doing a decent job hosting, given his material. : shredder133
  • well he made it to Mordor, he can do a hosting special. Being the huge heavy metal fan that he is he did ... : mossbean
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  Wow, so far I think almost every prediction made earlier about how MTV would produce this has come true. ... : riptyde
  • lol http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10058246 : riptyde
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  What the hell is that music from that is playing during the Samsung commercial?! : KungFuKenobi
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    You're being sarcastic, right? : shredder133
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      No! What was it? I thought it was for Soul Calibur 3 for some reason. : KungFuKenobi
      • I believe it was from halo : shredder133
• Let the bloated crapfest begin. Your gonna get about a good two minutes of actual worthy information abou... : cockoftehwalk
• I was trying to remember the last time I've watched MTV. It's gotta be at least 3 years or so. : Thresher
• http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/docs/Xbox%20360%20Performance%20Sheet%20-%20Final%20System%20Specs.doc : judo680
• ooo but we'll see Perfect Dark footage. : mossbean
• I prefer E3 :( : wunderbred
• an ad for tampons during xbox 360 show. wtf : mossbean
• I just saw Quake 4 and PGR3 and I cried openly. ps. who the fuck are these "gamers" : Deathlove
• I fucking hate Sway. I want to beat the gay hat thing with a flaming penis! What lame channel. "Yo dog... : Athlon7
• whoaaa quake 4 footage! : mossbean
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  wow wtf.. How many polygons. : mossbean
  • 2 million teenagers just went "who is polly, and where did she go?" : riptyde
  • That was the low point of the show. I can't even begin to explain how silly the execution of this system... : wunderbred
• Way to fuck up the deathmatch footage : shredder133
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  Wow was that it? That was easily the lamest thing in the history of the universe. Total game footage t... : Dynotaku
  • you can bet your ass that Micrsoft had 99% control of the editing of this show. they wanna save the goo... : mossbean
  • And it's why I didn't watch it. I knew MTV would smear more of their feces over it than what Microsoft h... : Vic Viper
  • psh, you guys didn't watch the spiketv video game awards. the winner is... not roy jones jr. : Nighthavvk
• That was the worst thing I have ever seen. : [fry]
• fucking waste of time lol : Jonny Be Good
• I fucking hate hobbits :( lamest thing EVER : dilutedq

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  1] Doom This is here for obvious reasons. Imho id haven't really offered a single player experiance s... : disembodied potato
  • Thank you for mentioning Jedi Knight. It was the Half Life before Half Life. The difference between HL an... : SpaecKow
• the first three popular id fps games: wolf3d, doom, quake : wunderbred
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  CyberMage rocked, Deus Ex, Thief, System Shock, were all really revolutionary in my opinion. All ID titl... : judge
  • My first thought was Deus Ex. But then - was it really that revolutionary? I mean, damn, it was a great g... : crummynz
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  1) Marathon 2) System Shock 3) Wolfenstein 3d 4) Dark Forces/Jedi Knight 5) Half-Life 6) ... : Durandal07
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    ^^ ^^ Good selection. I would include Deux Ex : omontero
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      That's debatable :) Is it an RPG or an FPS first? Or Both? : johngloid
      • The real debate is whether "FPS" is a worthwhile genre classification at all. : SpiderMonkey
    • I disagree, its too new. : Durandal07
  • Without Doom, this list is flawed. : capt tripps
  • --Additions-- Rainbow six, it pretty much started the tactical fps genere. -and- Goldeneye, it ... : Durandal07
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  Doom, Doom2, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Unreal, Unrea... : spectr3
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    I don't think Doom2, Heretic, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Quake 2, or Quake 3 were very important at all. They... : roushimsx
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      Um, threadjack here, but does the hub system really suck? I remember hating it in Q2 (didn't play Hexen) ... : crummynz
      • riddick played with no hub, and i thought it worked perfectly : qwpeoriu
    • Yep, I'd agree with that. None of those games are in any way milestones of the genre. Aside from possibly... : SpiderMonkey
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  I agree with a lot of these, but I can't believe Halo hasn't been mentioned yet. Say what you will, that ... : qwpeoriu
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    how so? I thought halo sucked. I could not even finish it. too repetitive. Those indoor levels just ruine... : wtf242
    • not my favorite FPS either, but it's pretty much still the only FPS I enjoy playing on a console. More th : qwpeoriu
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      Proving that FPS's are playable on consoles too, maybe? Not sure. : crummynz
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        goldeneye. : clain
        • Ooooh... good point. : crummynz
    • It is definately over-hyped, this definately true, the only thing it did was bring FPS to the masses, but... : abrasion
  • It is undeniable that Halo brought the FPS genre to a huge new audience. Unfortunately, the only other F... : Enkidu
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    Great execution of vehicles. Interesting health mechanic. (Possibly done elsewhere? But it was here wher... : SpiderMonkey
    • First game where people would have LAN parties... for consoles. : DKo5
    • thanks this is the type of post i was looking for regarding halo, maybe i should give it another shot som... : wetard
  • Goldeneye came before Halo when it comes to great console FPS's. but Halo did take the torch and ran wit... : dilutedq
• Duke3D made games fun. : dognose
• Doom, Quake, Duke3d, HL : wtf242
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  Doom was prolly one of the first truly atmospheric games i played Hexen was the first game i played th... : wetard
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    i guess i forgot the whole tactical subgenre too.. that seems to be a pretty popular one what with all th... : wetard
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      Medal of Honor for first WW2 sim? Well.. first I played. Probably was more. : crummynz
      • yeah i was thinking that too, i just thought it seemed kinda lame to do "first ww2 sim" since the thrust ... : wetard
• The Top 3 Seminal FPSes: Wolfenstein 3D essentially created the genre. Doom popularized the genre. Qua... : Arcanum
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  One game that I think SHOULD have had more impact on FPS games is The Operative: No One Lives Forever. ... : Thresher
  • yeah nolf has always been one of my favorites, i didn't feel very comfortable including it though since i... : wetard
  • Trespasser should have had more impact too. If they hadn't fucked it up, there were lots of cool ideas in... : SpiderMonkey
• Rise of the Triads should be among those in the list. That game an impression on my just as the first Doo... : ghost hacker
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  Without a doubt the single most important FPS in history was Quake (and Quakeworld). Not only was it an ... : magila
  • and glquake changed things a lot too : lee majors
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  Descent, and pease don't go all o_O when I say this but, Platoon for the C64. Platoon for the C64 had wha... : Stoned Gargoyle
  • Decsent had 3d entities as well, and that was before Quake too IIRC. The flying around was great, I was o... : ghost hacker
• ultima underworld : blender81
• WIZARDRY! crickets chirping : Omaha
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  tribes. i loved the addition of the jetpack and the base defense. i wish i had played tribes 2 more. : lacker
  • First fps I can recall that actually made teamwork necessary and fun. : riptyde

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  didnt far cry have some long levels? or was it just the game was real long? : epit
  • No, it had some huge levels. If I remember correctly, "Boat" took forever for me to do. : Wyvern
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  the Library : Degenerate
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    Halo 1's Library was broken up into mini maps (a new level each time you went up, right?) Or does the who... : MatthewPhillips
    • I think there was loading but I was thinking of it as all one level : Degenerate
• I remember some of the Descent 3 levels being very long and convoluted. I loved D1&2, but for some reason... : mindmann
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  HL2 was really one giant level. : omnova
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    Except with all the loading..... : ashkie
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      Half Life 2 loads REALLY fast for me on my Athlon 64 and 2 gigabytes of RAM... heh. It's like.. it loa... : Maddog_Delphi97
      • Come over here so I can hit you and steal your computer. : omnova
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    Yeah just split up into a thousand different tiny levels to drive us nuts with all the loading. : ovrlrd
    • what fucking assholes. : wetard
  • Ummm, no. HL1 maybe, HL2 load times were a bit longish, especially for the first release version (some o... : grendel
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  all of dungeon siege if you don't count the elevator buffering : Nighthavvk
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    and by dungeon siege i meant the dungeon siege fps that was never released. : Nighthavvk
    • haha - Nelson : stump
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  The first Unreal had some long ones too, right? I can't recall the names of the levels, but the one w/ th... : MatthewPhillips
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    That castle was in the middle of that lava moat? Crossing a long ass rickety bridge? Fuck yeah that was ... : ghost hacker
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      Ahhh no, I think you are talking about the "Sunspire" level. That was was quite long and cool. I mean... : MatthewPhillips
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        Ah ok. Have you played through Unreal 2? I am wanting to try this. I really enjoyed the first one. : ghost hacker
        • Unreal 2 is really, really mediocre and has nothing of the charm of Unreal 1. : bargeld
        • I own Unreal 2 twice (PC, XBOX) and I have no urge to play through it. As boring as the PC version is, th... : MatthewPhillips
      • Bluff Eversmoking? : node
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  Attack on the Control Room? : CSParsons
  • *assault. yea it was pretty long, and really, really fucking rad \m/ : Nighthavvk
• I seem to remember Tron 2.0 having some pretty large/long levels. : sgtsanity
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  My vote goes to the original (and best) jedi knight game. The sense of scale in that game was totally ama... : disembodied potato
  • I was in a clan for the first JK. In fact, that was my first clan ever. Ahhh, the memories. : DKo5
  • Yeah, some of those levels were fucking immense, only recently beaten in fact. Not just end to end either... : node
• Enpro is one of my favorite levels. I usually load that up when I'm showing the game to someone the first... : Cygnus X-1
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  Metroid Prime maybe... : c_man_tmt
  • Especially when it freezes on the elevator amirite? : Omaha
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  Opflash. Not necessarily levels, but the 1 time save and checkpoints, the difficulty made it seem like f... : thejm4n
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    the only game that could make you crawl through bushes with two busted legs for 45 minutes (after a 1hr m... : 60days
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      if you get your legs knocked out, restart. some people enjoy realism. : Nighthavvk
      • lol I just hit the 8x time button or whatever and crawled really fast around all the patrols when I was h... : Hello Kitty
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  For time spent, the Splinter Cell games levels. Holy fuck, some parts just took ages, like hours of crawl... : eskimo spy
  • It was good that way. The stealth sneaky shit was basically a bunch of problems, like puzzles where you, ... : SpaecKow
• I remember some of the leves from the original Hitman were huge. Especially the jungle and the giant r... : Anti_dentite
• I need to get a new CPU or a brighter monitor so I can finish this game! :( I'm in the Delta Labs some... : Omaha
• 40 minutes? Pfft. I regularly spent 2 hours on levels in Thief 1/2. : SpiderMonkey
• The Thieves Guild in Thief Gold took 3 hours and 45 minutes. : x-eyd|mary
• that halo one where you basically backtrack the entire first half of the game. terrible. and the librar... : arizona bay

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  So the first 7 minutes have gone by and the have shown about .00495876 seconds of game footage so far. S... : xylothan
  • oooo i wanna peek at tiger woods. : jvox
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    and it's over. no details, no stats, nothing of substance that everyone doesn't already know. I want ... : xylothan
    • its MTV, anything on that network deserves zero expectations of highness : mossbean
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    Just finished watching this too. No mention of BC, no specs, no geek stuff basically. Quite a bit of in-g... : surround
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      BC was cancelled, dude. : grendel
      • Really? Where'd you see that? :( : surround
      • (oh.. not the lionhead game - I meant BackCompat) : surround
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    modding xbox's? WTF? : abrasion
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      as in case mods i'm assuming.. : pyide
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        hahaha, nice... : monohydrate
        • (I couldn't think of anything except modchip + hd) : monohydrate
        • he's being serious, the xbox 2 is "skinnable" : abrasion
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          No, really, one of the latest OurColony pics hints at "skins" for your Xbox. They did it with the current... : Debased
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            Maybe that's why the console is so ugly, then they can make lots of $$$ selling new covers to deuglify it... : aethyr
            • Sadly, I agree with this guy - fuck it's ugly. : abrasion
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              I'm not sure I share your view. I quite like the new design. : surround
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                I think you are the first person on the internet to say that, congratulations. You don't happen to liv... : abrasion
                • Yeah.. I'm the first one on the net to say that. Whoohoo. : surround
    • It's the same as modding your Scion. You have a Scion, right? ... Right? : johngloid
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  doesnt come on till another 90 minutes or so. WHAT HAX R U USING : mossbean
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    his first two posts.. fake? we'll see I guess : meh
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      (sorry if it's real and you are just hooking us up) : meh
      • no prob. I just lurk much. =) : xylothan
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  So is it really called Xbox 360? : slax0r
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    Yes. All the pictures are real. It's with with the green button (and with the wireless stuff). They... : xylothan
    • white damnit.. grrr. I lack typing skills. : xylothan
    • >:( Oh well, maybe I'll get used to it. : slax0r
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  I thought it was 9:30 EST? : CSParsons
  • hes using hacks : mossbean
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  Oh shit. it's tonight? I just told a patient that it was tomorrow.... I smell a lawsuit coming. : edgewise
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    from the sounds of it he is going to thank you for missing it : jedi_27
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      yeah, play forza or halo 2 instead. : cltcprd
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        i will be on soon. the wife is out getting her hair done so i have the two girls : jedi_27
        • Alll riiight...</Quagmire> : surround
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  isnt this on at like 9:30 est? : Patch-e
  • titor, hax, etc. : ermac
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    maybe if you looked in some people's profile at their location it might give you a hint :) : cltcprd
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      he doesnt have a location listed : Degenerate
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        haha, i meant look at mine smarty pants. : cltcprd
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          whatevers crackhead : Degenerate
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            awww young love : jedi_27
            • young? Degen is an old bastard..... : cltcprd
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        you can pick up a satellite feed of it, i cant think of any other place unless he lives in the middle of ... : mossbean
        • Atlantic Canada. And Newfoundland is a half hour earlier than that. But we don't get to see the show till... : Tincan
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          ok, i'll make it easier for all you smart people out there. Some people that might work at a company tha... : cltcprd
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            Sony? : Sexpansion Pack
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              Nintendo has offices near there don't they? : Tincan
              • yes, yes they do. Nintendo of America's corporate HQ is in Redmond. : cltcprd
    • US is the only one getting it tonight EST & PST are at 9:30 and CST at 8:00 : byorn
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  Wow sounds like lots of fluff and filler so far. And a band? What does that have to do with the Xbox 2? : Dynotaku
  • God, so much filler. So lame. So so very lame. : Dynotaku
• I dunno if J is trying to act like that or he actually acts like that, either way its funny! : snowwolf
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  perfect dark zero looks like crap in its current state : mankeroo
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    It looked pretty good to me. Especially for being able to have 50 players online. That will be fun. It lo... : m0nkz
    • Fifty? 50? Fuuuuuuuck : j33uk