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  text boxes that type out, but you can't make them go any faster and you have to just sit there and wait f... : haiku
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    why does this seem to be so common in japanese and handheld games and not in most US PC and console games... : derelict515
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      mostly has to do with racial inferiority, whites win : haiku
      • as I suspected : derelict515
  • ^^^this is what I was going to type. : Bean
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  unskippable cutscenes virtually guarantee no replayability to a game : strider_
  • False. : omnova
• crates, more crates, and electrified water that i must hop across to de-electrify *cough* hl2 *cough* : merpaholic
• jump puzzles that are too hard. fuck those. : snicker-snack 2
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  How about cut scenes that are skipped by ANY keypress. I didn't want to skip it, but I was right in the m... : Senor PoopyPants
  • <3 Advent Rising, you could pause in the middle of cutscenes. Hit ESC and you get a menu to skip it or co... : crummynz
• I always watch the cutscenes in games, even the bad ones. They don't bother me in the least. : Orange Pylon
• The French : SockMonkeh
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  Escorts. I fucking hate escorting AI characters. They always charge out into a hail of lead, or get stuck... : Noobler
  • I liked the escorts in Jedi Outcast because they were totally comptetent. : SockMonkeh
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    You must have really hated Ico. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/09/28 : Prozium
    • HL2 ep1, Ico, and RE4 are I think literally the only three games where I didn't completely and utterly ha... : Gauss
  • Not so much escorts, but escorts that are vulnerable to friendly fire. In narrow spaces with lots of badd... : algernoN8
  • RE4 did it right. : Magus
• Unskippable developer/publisher logo cutscenes when you start the game. Maps that have infinitely spaw... : sanchez
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  ads, gamespy logo, 'loading' please insert cd ranks, but not in same strata as those three : Gauss
  • Ooh, you reminded me: Starforce. : crummynz
• Poorly placed save points. Example would be before a boss fight where you will die 20 times and they p... : stump
• unbindable keys in PC games. : DOOManiac
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  Unskippables; minigames haphazardly shoehorned into games that don't really need them, especially when a ... : algernoN8
  • Yep. Blitzball is where I quit, never to return. : Ride-My-Rocket
• Halo last night. : red2lucas
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  any kind of automatically adjusting difficulty to the player's performance or level. worst fucking idea e... : JINKY
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    That is one of the few things I hate with a passion. : omnova
    • I agree.. It's like the devs are out to get me. I can just see that conversation. "But sir, what if ... : ]aratex[
  • I'm so jumping on this hate train. : lord cecil
• anything that won't let me skip ahead. That is, slow text (haiku's post) or cinematics (your post), havi : thief
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  Random unavoidable battles in RPGs. Jesus fuck that annoys me. Like in this new pokemon game... my monste... : Bean
  • ^^^ Paper Mario 2. every other yard was some stupid lil fight scene in the theater : proclone1
• respawning enemies : mankeroo
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  Games like Guild Wars where you can't jump : shavenewok
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    and then they block you with like 6" curbs and you feel like a retard... JUST LIFT YOUR KNEES MOTHERFUCKE... : Bean
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      Dirge of Cerberus elevated this shit to an art form. You could double jump, but not onto or over anythin... : Finestaut
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        Oh man, that is criminal. : crummynz
        • It's especially bad because the character you play, in many, many cutsenes, performs aerial acrobatics th... : Finestaut
  • I love that there is no jumping in some games (such as Gears of War and the Rainbow Six series). : SockMonkeh
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  Incorrect or misleading instructions. Like "press a" when it means "hold a". : FushigiDenki
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    Ooh! Tutorials that don't have dynamic button instructions based on your keybinds. How worthless! : SockMonkeh
    • Even worse! Bad console ports that still use the triangle, square, etc buttons for the PC tutorial... OR ... : crummynz
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  usually the physical appearances of the characters. Retarded. : Megara9
  • I knew you were shallow! : Hello Kitty
  • Name some of the most offensive characters to you, I'm just curious. : SockMonkeh
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  Rubberband AI in racing games. : mechanicalgrape
  • ooooo good one! : mankeroo
  • God I hate this with a passion, especially in Burnout. I do a perfect lap no crashes or anything and I'm... : classicfork
  • this is why I don't play any mario kart games : Draugluin
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  I am totally sick of teenage emo protagonists. Also, I hate when the devs get all nudge nudge wink win... : Borzoi
  • YOU BE DEAD! : SockMonkeh
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    I didn't notice any self-referencing stuff in GoW or GoW :( : crummynz
    • oh there was SOOO much in Gears...one thing that comes to mind was the mining cart sequence....it was wel... : Borzoi
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  Any kind of abnormal save system, I just want to be able to press f5 every 10 mins and be done with it. A... : strandgeck
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    Quick-save, the death of real gaming. : cause&effect
    • I like the way Titan Quest and Diablo do it. You can save all you want but you have to save on exit and y... : SockMonkeh
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      It's not like you have to use it. I prefer not having to worry about such things and play the game. : mrfunky3000
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        Heheh, I know. But that phrase has to be used at least once a month on the Shack. http://www.shacknews.co... : cause&effect
        • fuck that, I love quicksave. : mrfunky3000
  • I hear that. Dead Rising's save system ruined the game for me. : realityescapeartist
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  Too vague or inaccurate clues. The worst offenders are the directions people give you in Morrowind: " : Finestaut
  • You know, I liked how in Morrowind you could play the game and if you didn't talk to the right dudes you ... : SockMonkeh
• FPS + console controller. : LeapingFool
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  Ice levels in games. : TastyWheat
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    i love ice levels! : jessipoo
    • You probably like lava levels too, don't you? *tsk* : ColoradoCNC
  • Except Phendrana Drifts, right? : crummynz
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    avoid lost planet then : CoRDS
    • s'OK, cos I did. : TastyWheat
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  slow ... scrolling ... text ... that ... you ... ... can't ... ... speed ... ... ... ..... : rosewood
  • omfg Okami had that at random times. so fucking annoying : steve_o
• Lack of direction. Thats why I hate most RPGs (except pokemon which is stupidly easy in this manner, most... : crummynz
• DHL quests : slacko
• Sadistic level design. : GodZilly
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  Bad ports of good games (a'la Resident Evil 4 on the PC) : cause&effect
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    Did you try the patch, BTW? I hear it brings the lighting to GC levels. (Cutscenes are still ugly, though... : crummynz
    • In the end I just bought the PS2 version. I know someone made a hack to get mouse control working too (or : cause&effect
• Enemies that can do moves that you should reasonable able to do, like rolling out of the way of a car in ... : classicfork
• A badly made game. Such a waste of time and effort and then I was tricked into playing this piece of crap... : mista mista
• Endless logos when starting a game. *rage* : shyguy74
• Duno about total rage, but I know things that made me mad. Oldschool video games, ugh, difficulty sometim... : Sayj3000
• Enemies that don't die when they obviously should when they are in the same area of affect as you are. e. : saundz
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  Pretty much all the conventions of Japanese RPG's. The random fights, the emo stories, the detached comb... : action wombmate
  • Amen. I hate that shit too. They need to learn from American RPGs. While they usually have cool and un... : Magus
• stealth missions in run n gun games (FUCK YOU RTCW) etc : CoRDS
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  Not being able to mount a 4-foot high wall because your player can only jump 3.99 feet and apparently doe... : Jumperus
  • Also, enemies my size with no armor on that take half my ammo load to kill. What? Is their skin made of t... : Jumperus
• FPS games that are low on ammo. The ai is unloading his gun at me from behind a rock for 5 minutes, spend... : nodebug
• Jumping puzzles in anything but a platformer. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  EA HATE POST Dear Electronic arts racist game designers RE: CNC3 there is no ayres rock anymore y... : CoRDS
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    and dont get me started on how they fucking pronounced it in the game should be "airs rock" : CoRDS
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      Calm down, dude. Sometimes ignorance isn't always the fault of the ignorant. I'm a fairly well-educated... : action wombmate
      • if your making a game of a movie you have Fact checkers. : CoRDS
  • those motherfuckers, don't they know that objects can't have two names?! : DonkeyPopsicle
  • Oh really? I wouldn't mind the Uluru thing so much (though I call it that usually, being from Australia) ... : node
• The dialogue of Kingdom Hearts. : woddemandred
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  UI that doesn't scale at higher resolutions. : Matt Burris
  • YES. I fucking hate this. : jonas54
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  28 damn title screens i can't skip before i get into the game. : jonin
  • main menus that require 3d rendering or other flashy shit that takes forever to load. : DonkeyPopsicle
  • Especially ones that consist of pointing out who the various names and trademarks belong to. OH THANKS... : 60days
• Cheap ass CPU in a sports game. When you're in a sports game and winning, and the CPU makes an uber-comeb... : infallible
• Too many load screens before I can start playing, small text, inability to change the font of text, inabi... : knitemare
• in RTS campaign games - that the AI enemy is not bound by the same resource gathering rules as the player... : flagg209
• Unpauseable and unskippable parts of a game. Immature story, which about 90% of games fall prey to. Th... : Magus
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  No widescreen support. : PowerofA
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    This makes you rage? What's the percentage of users with widescreen? : Fred Garvin
    • We are obviously in the minority, but for some I can see it is a big deal. Playing a stretched version o... : skizl
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      I don't know what the percentage is, but I do know there are people out there with them, besides myself. ... : PowerofA
      • True, but hey they have to decide where to put the time and effort. : Fred Garvin
• First time unskippable is fine with me. After that it should be skippable. : Fred Garvin
• Instant pits of falling jumping puzzle lame death. : node
• Yes, I *KNOW* it plays better with an Nvidia card. Yes, I *KNOW* it plays better with a soundblaster. YOU... : Daggoth
• Stupid controls I can not reprogram. : baron calamity
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  16 studio/dev/publisher/vendor logo screens on game load : synack
  • You are 100% right. EA Sports -- FUCK YOU! : Ride-My-Rocket
• Not being able to jump over a simple obstacle, like a hedge. Or not being able to swim... yeah, that's p... : Ride-My-Rocket
• Anytime I'm set back too far in play. One time of getting set back 30 minutes or an hour could make me d... : Freon

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• Flukeman : yonderboy
• the one where they have to solve the mystery of the haunted amusement park : RikiTiki2
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  There's a few with that reputation, mostly from earlier seasons. I'm a fan of 'squeeze' myself. : grasshoppah
  • the first season had some really scary ones....haven't seen any of them in years, though. : Borzoi
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  The one in the woods with the green bugs that only live in the dark...eep... : invisible_kid
  • i think i agree, im going through all the seasons with my wife, we're almost done with 6 now and that one... : SolveChrist
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    ding ding ding : SockMonkeh
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      probably the only full episode of the show i have but everyone i know has seen it for some reason and eve... : SockMonkeh
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        it gave me nightmares : oldschoolbob-o
        • i slept with the light on : SockMonkeh
  • I really want to see this episode now. : wild falcon
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    Is that the one with the Spanish conquistadors that turned into these weird forest creatures? That one r... : timmie
    • no, its the one in the woods with the green bugs that only live in the dark : SockMonkeh
  • that one is so awesome. It made me want to take classes in entomology of social insects. : Megara9
  • That was called 'Darkness Falls' if you're looking by name : grasshoppah
  • YESSSSS ^^^^^^^^!!!! OMFG that one was good : flagg209
  • Yeah, this would have to be one of the scariest. It's one I missed during the original airing so when I ... : iamgoat
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  'Home' was creepy as fuck. : eskimo spy
  • This is the one that sticks out in my mind. : sgtsanity
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    yep. only episode to get banned from regular TV repeats. : smax
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      why? : Bean
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        references/suggestions of incest, according to wiki. : thief
        • And they bury a baby alive in the beginning. =/ : skitzo
    • also like the #1 fan favorite : brewsterdog
  • I've watched like 4 episodes total and that was one of them. WAAAY creepy. : Vantage
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    Is that the one where the family of freaks lives underneath the floor? : stump
    • no just the mother lives under the bed. when they rolled her out i nearly shit my pants. great stuf... : smax
  • Winner, that was so fucking creepy and when the freaks killed the police chief and his wife that was crin : classicfork
• neat--thanks. I just want to rent the dvds and watch a few episodes. : thief
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  Folie À Deux gets to me for some reason. they hide in the light : pyide
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    is that the one where mulder starts seeing that this guy is actually an insect that nobody else can see, : smax
    • yes. that one :( : pyide
• the one where scully's vagina grows teeth and legs and bites off mulders sack. : mindshot
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  the only one I've seen (probably about 2/3 of them) that genuinely scared me was the one with the stretch... : Bean
  • Because without a liver, you'd only be able to get drunk one more time. And then it'd be over forever. =( : Jumperus
  • Squeeze and Tooms (i think). yeah, those two are probably the best ones : Ariakus
• X-Cops : Prozium
• the one with the guy who dyes his victim's hair and such.. or did he just shampoo their hair? i don't rem... : strider_
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  the one with the guy who can shape shift himself by making his bones go all gumby-ish and the american in : PlanetPerfecto
  • i will agree, that werewolf one was pretty crazy : strider_
  • YES, IA! That first one is the same one I'm talking about above ^^^. : Bean
  • Tooms? : Mad Brahmin Disease
• I used to watch that show all the time up till about season 3, yet the only episode I can even vaguely re... : DOOManiac
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/episodes a list for those lazy but curious. thanks again, everyon... : thief
• any of the ones w/ crazy hillbillies. Crazy zealots are scarier than aliens, mutants, ghosts, time-warps,... : Megara9
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  that circus one with the little goblin-like creature that lives in the side of that guys belly. : hobosapien
  • aww.. it was his brother! : Megara9
• Chinga - the disturbing doll with some creepy 'do the hokey pokey'-song. eep. : xsii
• "Unruhe" - the one with the dentist's son that was performing icepick lobotomies on people to rid them of : eldersveld
• The fucking one with the trees and gren things that come out of them : oldschoolbob-o
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  FPS. End of thread. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    it's scary for the entirely wrong reason :( : Postal
    • J Blue Afterglow FTW : flagg209
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  Uh, "Home" without a doubt. Dude, the inbred family? Booby traps/disfigured people/babies = holy fuckin... : Wheatloaf
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    My girlfriend is from Home, PA where that episode supposedly takes place. When I visited her family th... : gnomish
    • As I recall they put a bit of a look on it... leaned to the cooler colours, crushed black, etc... It's h... : Wheatloaf
  • I will sign this. : downrightevil
• Argh, I cannot think of a single one and I used to watch the series religiously. I need to borrow the DVD... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  The one with the crazy giant hicks who rode around town chopping people up (like the sheriff or whoever, : saundz
  • I have to agree, that episode was probably the worst and best hour of television when it comes to disturb... : lightly inclined
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  Subthread Sexiest X-Files Episode? : scottythejock
  • the one where scully's vagina grows teeth and legs and bites off mulders sack. : TastyWheat
  • easy, the one when scully gets her tattoo :) : t0ad
  • The one with Maitreya. : GreatGooglyMoogly
• The one where the guy ate people's cancer : kgargonmagrix79

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• When I go back to Spain next year, this is where I'm going :D : jessipoo
• Warm period. When Iceland was colonized. OMG GLOBAL WARMING!! : zanzaban
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  Spain is the best country in the world. If only I could find a way to feasibly live there. : gnoleb
  • What do you do for a living? : Lightzout
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    If I decide (or have to) stay in Europe, I will move to Spain. Crappy job situation or not. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • you should decide to move to dallas. : kbnerd
• homesick now :( thanks a lot : Megara9
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  oooh i have been wanting to visit mallorca : Mansmells
  • great pics btw! : Mansmells
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  Crysis will look better. : furiouscrak
  • seriously, look at that distance fog in the first shot : Foxhawk
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  It's not in spain, it's officially a part of germany ;D : razorblade79
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    Only a little part of it. : Conan
    • Zat vill soon change, mein friend. : stump
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    Yeah, some of the beaches and the crappy dance clubs are German. :) : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      lol... do they do that freaky jumping dance? : Megara9
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        Numa numa? Yes, it's a big hit. : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • yay!! it's these little things that make life worth it : Megara9
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    Have German tourists won the battle for the beaches with drunken English chavs? : peanut-
    • They are still duking it out. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• I have been wanting to go there for a while. Two of my favorite tennis players are from there - Carlos Mo... : d3tached
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  I want to go rock climbing on those cliffs so bad. They look amazing. : Ecks
  • They were - the pictures really don't do it justice. Almost every cliff that faced the ocean was overhung... : Conan
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  Most stereotypical vacation goal ever! (for Swedes) : woddemandred
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    you forget the Canary Islands : Megara9
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      It's not like the Americans care about our quirky vacationing habits. Everyone should see Sällskap... : woddemandred
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        don't be crazy.. surely their intellectual thirst for trans-cultural understanding would lead them to dev : Megara9
        • I'd post a link to Youtube now, but it's just too horrible! :( : woddemandred
        • Grisefest pÃ¥ Mallorca! (maybe thats exclusivly a danish thing though :p) : imperator
  • Maybe, but I'm an American, and this is just the first of my trips this year. In a couple months, I'll be... : Conan
• Because the alternative was Greenland. : nomaad
• SKASEY?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Skase : stamps
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  Where were you exactly? Did you just stay at the airport and watch the lava fields around it? : gummijoh
  • we demand answers :) : gummijoh
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  how exactly did you see Iceland? : OrkO
  • really big telescope and tall ladder : Old_Fart
  • http://kbnerd.shackspace.com/mekaneck.JPG He's mekaneck! which should be obvious since you are Orko : kbnerd
• I loved visiting Palma : Slowtreme
• Iceland looks like it would be a totally sweet place to go... maybe not live, but at least visit. It is ... : skizl

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• Don't forget about Contra: Shattered Soldier. : CrustaR
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  fun is not your type of game? cause that is katamari. pure fun. probably better than half your list co... : pyide
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    yeah i suck, but i dont like the whole style :< : blindi0815
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      Have you played it, btw? : crummynz
      • yeah i tried, probably to unconventional for me :< : blindi0815
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  The lack of Rez and Amplitude on that list makes me sad. :( : locash
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    will be hard to get them here. REZ is only available used, with ridiculous prices: 50 Euros upwards : blindi0815
    • Rez is worth full price used- it never gets boring or old- it's such a classic. : Borzoi
    • does this place ship to there? http://www.gamequestdirect.com/010086630008.html : Zibro
• Manhunt is worth picking up, if you're into horror & violence. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  I always recommend Siren (by the creator of Silent Hill) as the most terrifying and mentally stimulating ... : Borzoi
  • Siren is awful. The game is stellar, but the VOICES?! OH MY GOD! How did they not let you have subtitles.... : marmite
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  Dump Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean, Ys, get Rez :P : Gauss
  • YOU SHUT UP NOW. RIGHT NOW. : omnova
• kingdom hearts 1 is horrible : snicker-snack 2
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  Rogur Galaxy instead of/in addition to Star Ocean. : algernoN8
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    You better watch it, buddy. : omnova
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      Unskippable cutscenes, unforgiving game mechanics, terrible voice acting, bland character design, outward... : algernoN8
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        I've found that I have a lot of patience for the flaws you mention (if only because they're so prevalent ... : omnova
        • <33 : Orange Pylon
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          the game is awful. there are other games with similar mechanics that are VASTLY superior shit, even th... : Gauss
          • Star Ocean 2 is so horribly broken. I love the game but it is flawed beyond belief. Star Ocean 3 is fla... : omnova
• Ain't no love for Suikoden? : Orange Pylon
• Oh and Odin Sphere if it ever comes out in Germany. : algernoN8
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  Oh, and Valkyrie Profile 2! Simply amazing game. : omnova
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    How's the combat work? Also is it very grindy? : algernoN8
    • it's pretty grindy, but the system is really intricate and fun. I'd say Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2, Valk Pr... : Borzoi
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      It's complicated... Basically you start off on a battlefield populated with enemies. They have a atta : omnova
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        Also, it can be played CO-OP!!! Your party can be split into multiple smaller units, which becomes import... : Borzoi
        • Never played the first one, but this does sound interesting. : algernoN8
• Yeah, Ace Combat 4/5 too! FFXII was so much goddaned fun. I LOVED that game : mankeroo
• Gradius V is very nice. : Serpico74
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  Ugh, skip Star Ocean, go with DQ8 instead. Star Ocean sucks. Trust me. : Magus
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    Dragon Quest 8 is too oldschool. :( I don't think we can be friends anymore. :( : omnova
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      hey omnova- how're you liking Silhouette Mirage? : Borzoi
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        I haven't played it since the first time but I think it's a great game. Glad I grabbed it before it beco... : omnova
        • stick with it! or play otogi 2... : Borzoi
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  Also, no Resident Evil 4? wtf. That and Beyond Good & Evil. Add Valkyrie Profile 2. Also if you want O... : Magus
  • RE4: played it on gamecube, wating for wii release. BGE: will get the xbox version :) : blindi0815
• do you need memory cards? I have 2 that arent of any use to me anymore... : Jayx77
• I know you said no Katamari Damacy, but I'm recommending it anyway. : aethyr
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  where teh fuck is ICO?!?!?!? : steve_o
  • fuck it's on my list, forgot to add it here :) : blindi0815
• Twisted Metal Black : mista mista
• man, i just wanted a small little list. seems i got to cut the costs on food.... getting too fat anyways ... : blindi0815