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  Damn I never played the first. It would appear I would enjoy it by the sound of it. : royalally
  • It captures the essence of jrpg better than any game before or since. The game mechanics are a bit dated,... : geedeck
• I missed Chrono Trigger and I've always kinda regretted it. Looks like I'll get another chance on the DS,... : dirge23
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  Did you like Chono Cross? I loved the music. Many tracks were on par if not better than CT. The problem w... : avatar_58
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    What's Chrono Cross? I've never heard of it : geedeck
    • Semi-sequel that came out for the Playstation back in 2000. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and the 92% from Ga... : Helter Skelter
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      PS1 sequel....it was received as a fairly decent game : kainen1
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        I still have no clue about what you people are speaking of : geedeck
        • I think we all get the point. : ateam311
    • there is no chrono cross! except for the excellent soundtrack. : fsck
  • yeah they had waaaay too many playable characters and hardly any time to flesh them out individually. The... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Didn't they already made a sequel, Chrono Cross? Or do you mean porting Chrono Cross over to the DS? : helvetica
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    I have no idea what this Chrono Cross is that you people are speaking of. Sillyness! : geedeck
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      There's silliness in this thread alright... I never played Chrono Cross. Is it really that bad? : Horn
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        I have no idea because I've never heard of it >:| : geedeck
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          If there was a sequel called Chrono Cross and you had heard of it, do you think it would be any good? : Jonathan
          • No, I don't. I think it would be a terrible knock off that did a disservice to the name and neglected eve... : geedeck
      • I rented it once; the guy told me it was an okay game, but not a great one. : helvetica
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        It's okay, but it's fucking appalling compared to Trigger : Daggoth
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          I wouldn't go that far - it is not a direct sequel - it is sort of related to the events of CT, but not r... : flagg209
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            CC isn't a bad game at all but yeah, it's pretty much a completely unrelated story with the occasional re... : Zek
            • yah it was a good game... but hardly compared to the greatness that was Chrono Trigger. The music was ... : Shadowdane
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  best JRPG ever : Daggoth
  • dognose, I agree. : CrustaR
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  Are we talking about the PS1 game? : Slowtreme
  • SNES, dawg. : CrustaR
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    Well, the original was for the SNES, though it did get a PS1 port that introduced features like anime cut... : Orange Pylon
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      I might have to track this down for the Playstation instead. Unless, geedeck, do you recommend I just wai... : tomservo
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        I think the PS1 version had long load times. : CrustaR
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          I think it had extra cutscenes though. It's probably better to wait for the DS version. : razlebol
          • Hmm. If the port stays faithful (not that I'd know, lawl), I probably will just wait then. : tomservo
        • It did. Not cool, but the port did have some nice bonuses. : Orange Pylon
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        My opinion? Wait for the DS one. I imagine it'll have extra tweaks sure, but the PS1 versions adds menu l... : geedeck
        • Okay I'll wait. If I can ever pull myself away from Geometry Wars (IT IS SERIOUS), I will check those ... : tomservo
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  Did you play the Penny Arcade game at all? It swipes some combat stuff from CT. : Sexpansion Pack
  • Not more than the demo... I rainchecked a couple of 1600 pt cards at target for $15each and have to pick ... : geedeck
• I've never played it but I look forward to giving it a shot on the DS : tomservo
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  This, Xenogears, and Anachronox are the 3 greatest J-style RPGs ever. : senseimoron
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    Nobody has love for Suikoden 2 :( : Orange Pylon
    • I'll give you that the Suikoden games have certain charm and flair to them that sets them apart from the ... : senseimoron
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      And NOWHERE enough people have played Anachronox. Suikoden 2 gets more love than it does. Sad cuase it's ... : senseimoron
      • I love Anachronox too. Fantastic game. : Orange Pylon
      • I think it got swept under all the Daikatana hate and nobody gave it a fair shake (Anachronox). : Vorlonesque
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    ff6 :( : qwpeoriu
    • ^^ My favorite one. After that it's ff4 and secret of mana. : razlebol
• It's not even the best JRPG ever but ooooook : spiderfill
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  Geedeck i agree with you 10000000000000000000% Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time, any syste... : pukerat
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    Oh man, you walk out of your house and the birds go flying by? I can still remember exactly where I was t... : geedeck
    • yup I first played Chrono Trigger at my friends house. He was Japanese and had imported the Japanese ver... : Shadowdane
    • yes yes! First time i played this game, I was at a friends house and he had rented Chrono Trigger and he... : pukerat
    • Can I get in on this Chrono Trigger fanaticism? I made my own special case for that game, like the plast... : DinK
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  I'm sorry, you misspelled "Final Fantasy VI". : aethyr
  • There's room for both! I'm definitely going to play Chrono Trigger, since it's considered on par with my ... : Kazomir
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  Who else is hoping they don't dick the game up with 3d graphics a la FF4? CT's sprite art work still loo... : Horn
  • yah I'm hoping for either the original artwork or updated 2D artwork... I don't think the Nintendo DS ... : Shadowdane
  • I'm limited in my experience, but yeah, 3d graphics don't do it for me compared to sprite artwork in RPGs... : tomservo
  • Original sprites. FF4 in 3D looks horrible. : razlebol
  • It better be 2d. I don't even understand how they could make a game in 3d : geedeck
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    If they ever make a version of FFVI with terrible 3D graphics and shitty voice acting I'm going to cry. I... : Kazomir
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      I agree but I think that's pretty inevitable at this point. I loved FF4 but it's not sacred to me like 6... : Horn
      • I'm currently still playing FF6 Advance actually. The funny thing is, I've never actually finished FF6 (e... : Kazomir
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    I wouldn't mind. The fan inspired remake was looking very gorgeous. : ieGod
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      Yeah it was. =( But those were people who really cared, and who were working with the PC and not the ... : DinK
      • Very true :( : ieGod
  • I'd be okay with 3d, but they need to ditch the lame character designer they used for the FF remakes on t... : Orange Pylon
• I love you Geedeck. : breadsticks
• You know, I lost my cartridge (or had it stolen by a "friend") way back in the day, and I never quite fin... : Ovate
• it is the best game ever : Mr.SEX
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  CONFIRMED: http://kotaku.com/5021416/square-enix-confirms-chrono-trigger-ds We're getting a new dungeo... : Daggoth
  • And no mention of being in 3D. Sweet : Horn
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    I hope to god it's in 3d, otherwise I'm not interested :( : FushigiDenki
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      If it was, it would be mentioned. I think we're safe. : geedeck
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        Based on what do you say this? The original info on the FF3 remake did not include the fact that it was ... : FushigiDenki
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          This newly revamped edition maintains all of the game's original elements and spirit while introducing t : geedeck
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            I'm not sure that means it's not been graphically overhauled. : FushigiDenki
            • it will probably be graphically better, have no FMV like FF Anthology or whatever it was. As for multi ... : Iwannaacura
  • omg video game overload!!!! D3 last saturday and CTds. Nintendo probably just sold a million more ds's... : Iwannaacura
• geedeck i aint plain boyeeeeeee : arizona bay

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  Same. I didn't know wtf. I remember being blown away that the peasants actually made use of the trees all... : royalally
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    also YOUR SOUNDCARD WORKS PERFECTLY : royalally
    • haha, it all comes flooding back : DinK
    • If you clicked it five times, he'd say "Having Fun?" instead of "your soundcard works perfectly". And th... : BioMonk
  • I was fascinated with the trees as well! Funny that it's just really a texture, but I loved how they turn : tomservo
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  jobbbb dun! : kainen1
  • the town is under attack! : FrayLo
• I live to serve! : ejectorpod
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  The first thing I did in WC2 was to keep clicking on the units to see what funny things they would say. ... : mojorisen1117
  • Ditto Along with the awesome cutscenes : sreyes22
• Stop rocking the boat...you're making me sea-sick : Gingitsune
• stop touching me!!! : jonin
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  all the hilarious things all the units would say when you kept clicking on them. The Human Foot Soldier ... : pukerat
  • My favorite was generic Orc "Hee hee he! That tickles!" :D : tomservo
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    "In the retail version, I'm much funnier" : Daggoth
    • there was another one where he's talk really fast and end BUY IT NOW : RikiTiki2
  • ^ Yes : thejm4n
  • If you clicked on the sheep repeatedly, they'd explode. : yonderboy
• "Your sound card works perfectly!" I remember not really thinking it would be any good, but I was bored ... : bcyde
• Bloodlust. Man, bloodlust fucking owned : veras
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  i was just impressed that you no longer had to build roads like in Warcraft: orcs and humans. God that... : porp
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    That really was the deal killer for me when I went back and bought WC1. I don't think I played more than ... : tomservo
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      WC1 was awesome just because you could build walls of archers that would completely own anything they thr... : DinK
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        God. Rows of level 7 Rangers were instant death. The balancing was better in WC2... but they even could s... : tomservo
        • I remember in WC1, I think maybe the last level, you get some of those big uber sword-wielding demons sen... : DinK
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  In my excitement to hear all the different things that characters would say, I clicked on the sheep too m... : helvetica
  • murderer >:( : pukerat
  • I remember one of the first things I tried in StarCraft was to see if they repeated this. Oh boy was I... : Omaha
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  What was your favorite skirmish map? : tomservo
  • Death in the Middle fans in this subthread : tomservo
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    Garden of War: me and a buddy vs. 6 computer players, fun times :D : pukerat
    • Oh god yes, that one was fantastic. Sooooo many potentially cruel ballista strategies. >:D : tomservo
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  I didn't know what "Peon" meant until I played that game. : FushigiDenki
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    I didn't know what a Plebe was until I played Ceasar II. :D PLEBES ARE NEEDED! : tomservo
    • I still say that to this day randomly. I loved Ceasar II. : hawkeye
  • I called them "pawn" for the longest time. I was a lot younger then (how old is WC2 now anyways?) : valael
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  I still say "Work, work" all the time : tashtego
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    As do I. I even said it this morning in fact. : mtgDoofy
    • I do it with "Zug zug" :D : tomservo
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  I remember playing Warcraft for the first time. I had not played Dune so it was my first RTS. I was a... : EvilDolemite
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    Walls were so awesome. I loved them in War2... until I discovered that Farms made better walls. :D : tomservo
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      I loved War2 because you could have MASSIVE amounts of units battling out. Well, massive for the time. ... : EvilDolemite
      • That's why I was hugely disappointed in War 3. The battles were on a much smaller scale, and that aspect : tomservo
• My favorite RTS to this day. We played massive 8 player games on my high schools LAN. With tons of last m... : NexusOne
• The music. Still awesome. : chungathebunga
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  hearing "Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra!" outside my base "oh shit..." :( : reverend~heresy
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    That was 10x more terrifying than hearing the Commando's "Time to rock and roll!" outside your base in C&... : tomservo
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      Or the priests in classic AoE. "/{WANANAAAAAAAAA}/" : BingusLargus
      • fail :( : BingusLargus
      • God I hate priests. I've never lost because of them, but really... STOP CONVERTING MY SHIPS. : Danny5225
    • One time I was playing with a newbie in C&C, and he sent a commando at my obelisk "I've got a present : RikiTiki2
• Like other's said; the music and ridiculous voices : d fluke
• It was funny and had a super awesome resolution. Also I liked the human campaign a lot! But C&C had the s... : razorblade79
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  Wyverns. Also, there was one map where you had to run sort of a gauntlet with a set number of dudes (no b... : edgewise
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    One thing I love about old games is they are punishing. Any new game, where you'd use your one single Dwa... : tomservo
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      That actually doesn't sound fun. : marmite
      • It wasn't at the time, but looking back... I'm a better person for it :D The same sorts of things happ... : tomservo
    • they'd probably magick you another pair of them or something. : edgewise
• exploding sheep : dedgecko
• I never played Warcraft2 but I remember playing Command and Conquer for the first time at a friends house... : marmite
• I was awake --- watching you. : Grandmoff
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  One of my favorite old RTS memories is from C&C. A friend and I were playing multiplayer (via dial-up,... : hawkeye
  • ENGINEERING! <3 : tomservo
  • I have done this. So awesome. Also the first time either me or my friend has seen the stealth tanks was w... : marmite
  • Yeah, Warcraft was fun, but I was always a C&C man back then. : MaxPete82
  • I remember my buddy and I hooked up two PS1's together and played C&C. It ran great until you got a ... : kgargonmagrix79
• I remember building farms around my towers, and lots and lots of dragons. Also, the two chop treecutting... : SolveChrist
• zug zug : mobab
• i remember the cutscene involving opening the portal in some red/brown canyon. good times. : AMikaboshi
• Thanks you guys. First you make me re-play Diablo 2, now I gotta go back and re-play Warcraft 2&3 : chiisu81
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  I liked chopping down trees to the other person's base then using mage's to cast "blizzard" and just nuke... : RogerDandy
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    There's a skirmish map in the expansion, the name escapes me, but it was 96x96 and you had to chop trees ... : tomservo
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      Haha, that map was so awesome. Little four by four square I think, with a line of trees between each base... : Danny5225
      • That's a different one, but I know what one you're talking about! I can't find what the one I'm talking a... : tomservo
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        nowhere to run, nowhere to hide : FrayLo
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          Nope not it either http://war2.winnieinternet.com/images/map%20images/large/(4)nowhere2run.jpg It was... : tomservo
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            wtf isn't this exactly what you're talking about? : FrayLo
            • There's a skirmish map in the expansion not quite :( think LOTS OF TREES. Tons. Absolutely tons. Ma... : tomservo
    • I found it! :D the map is JIMLAND There's a blurb here: http://war2.warcraft.org/maps/aother.shtml... : tomservo
• snow levels! : .faxen
• Warcraft 2 was the first RTS I ever played. I played it at a friends house 1v1 via null modem connection.... : kodt
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  I was enthralled by this game when I was a kid. I remember the day I got it(at Costco, when I was like...... : Danny5225
  • I still drew a lot when I played Warcraft 2, and I can honestly say that Metzen's art really influenced m... : tomservo
• I remember the pain and frustration of trying to play Warcraft 2 online via KALI Don't know if I ev... : PizaZ
• I still pop in my War2 CD and skip the first track and play the Soundtrack on a CD player. : Sailor of Fortune
• WC2 is such an ingrained part of my gaming history that I don't even remember the first time I played it. : action wombmate
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  Things I distinctively remember from War2: The winter texture set was amazing The sound track 'Zug Z... : rickmus
  • "One person got so mad, that he beat his dash board of his car the whole way home and cracked it! " ho... : tomservo
• meee meee meee BOOM : strawfake
• Oh, I first played War2 at my High School friend's uncle's company near school and we played after their ... : Sailor of Fortune
• I was pretty young, maybe 13 when I got the game. I remember being so incredibly upset when the city I wo... : socksta
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  I remember some friends in college really getting into Warcraft (the first one) about a month before Warc... : Schnapple
  • or being able to right click to move units :D : pukerat
  • Oh god. I can't imagine playing an RTS without click+drag. I may as well not use a mouse. : tomservo
• i have peon rush nightmares : GloriousCow
• Dune 2 was my first RTS, I think the first one ever actually, and I loved it. That said, Warcraft and War... : Serpico74
• Water elementals. They looked fucking SWEEEET. : seven
• Lots of things. The funny quotes if you keep clicking on units, exploding critters, but this was my first : lightly inclined
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  I remember playing over dial-up with Rice-Rocketeer. I think it was one of the first, if not the first g... : IggyTheSnitch
  • Hahahaha. I spent a good hour amassing a huge army to attack a friend of mine. When I finally stormed ... : tomservo
• Death and decay... loved that :D I also remember watching my friend in amazement when he was able to t... : Demius
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  playing against a friend in high school and starting to lose, then sending a peon to a remote corner of t... : synapse19
  • hahahhaha : tomservo
• With all of the Diablo 2 talk, we need to get a WarCraft 2 shack game going. : valael
• I was in 4th grade when I first played that game. : mossman85
• raping sheep : Goblin au

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• man in the box?!?!? spoonman?! FUCK pumping more cum :O i foresee that oughta know will be hilarious w... : xsoulbrothax
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  bleh. linkin park, alanis morisette, the fucking go-gos? the last glimpse looked way more promising. ... : pyide
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    You need those go-go's songs because it's what the chicks like to play. : Prozium
    • fuck that generalization. chicks i know like good music too :( they should save that shit for DLC or t... : pyide
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    Sultans of Swing would be awesome, but why the hate for Alanis? Jagged Little Pill was one of the best al... : ColoradoCNC
    • no no no no no no no no no no. it was annoying then, it's even worse now. : pyide
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      yea, i dunno about that... im no fan of hers, but you cant deny that album was stupidly huge. also: Wh... : -=kodiak=-
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        popular does not equal good, i'm not denying it sold a lot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best... : pyide
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          some of her songs aint all that bad, i mean there are far worse songs in rock band 1 than alanis *coug... : -=kodiak=-
          • yeah, at least the put the one flea played bass for on there. i like i get by though. kind of remind... : pyide
    • Sultans of Swing would be horrible. I'd never play any other song ever again. : Draugluin
  • The entire point of Rock Band is to get everyone involved. Wide user base. Not 19-30yo males. : Deathlove
  • There are 80 songs in this game. We haven't even seen half of them yet. O_o : FormerHPB
• Spoonman? I am fucking there. : moogle
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  What!??! No "CRAWLING IN MY SKIINNNNN!! : Prozium
  • I'M ABOUT TO BREAK! : OmegaRed59
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  Linkin Park is the track worth a crap up there. : bRAINsick
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    wrong : Clay
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      but so right : bRAINsick
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        That's two wrongs in the same thread. Go sit in the corner and think about what you did! : theargent
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          They are the best band ever. Seriously. No one has topped Linkin Park. : bRAINsick
          • ...that's about the boldest statement I've ever heard in my life : zerog83
          • I had to lol this : hamachi
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    are you saying it's bad or good because that is the only truly bad track on there : JINKY
    • although i think it would be fun to ironically sing 'I'M ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE EDGE, AND I'M ABOUT TO BR... : JINKY
  • Well..the inverse is true at least : Audhuml4
  • I like Linkin Park quite a bit, but honestly, that is the worst song of theirs that they could have used ... : DonarUDL
• Peace Sells! \m/ Shame we will never get the game down here until 2025 :( : thecray
• That isn't encouraging. I only like 2 of those songs, maybe 3 if American Woman is the original and not t... : NastyJack
• awesome, Peace Sells sooooo playing bass on that one : -=kodiak=-
• Pretty much every one of those should be hella fun. : geedeck
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  Old guy here psyched for Billy Idol! \m/ : FormerHPB
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    Flesh for Fantasy! : whistletits
    • I had a midi file of the guitar solo in that song for my C64. It kicked so much ass. I couldn't believe... : FormerHPB
  • needs more rebel yell. : oatmela
• That an awesome eclectic mix.... Excited? You bet your sweet ass I am. Wondering to the intarwebz tho,... : grayscale
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  at least they chose the best Linkin Park, if they had to choose one at all : RikiTiki2
  • Points of Authority? :o : grayscale
• Sounds like fun. However, if American Woman is the Kravitz version, I'm gonna choke a bitch. : Arcanum
• ughhh no thx : feek
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  Why do no shackers work for Harmonix? I must get them the message that we want to be able to play RB1 so... : rosewood
  • PS - I want this game now. : rosewood
  • Two Harmonix employees post in the SA Rock Band thread. You could post that there, and be the nine thousa... : Deathlove

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• It took mine about one hour. : dmason
• 5 hours or so for me I think. : Galadriel07
• I haven't seen this question before. Awesome! : pun][sher
• 10 minutes. It works better when you do it late at night, I think. It seems to be a time zone thing. : jingletard
• About 2 hours, just got them. : nodebug
• 7 hours... sent right after i emailed them asking wtf : mwasher
• It took 5 hours and I got it like 2 minutes after asking them on Live Online chat when it would sent : clain
• 8-10 hours. : GrimmyD
• about 5-10 minutes : AlexXdude
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  I did my order at 4:36 and just emailed them at 4:52... let's see if they respond with my key. : coraldayton
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    i think the dude might send them out manually. in china right now is it the middle of the night? i got... : [fry]
    • ^^^ is the right answer! : massdev
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  Does anyone here honestly believe this site is legit? : sharkII
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    probably not, but nobody really cares when you can play d2 for $5. : arizona bay
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      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : AMikaboshi
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        ah, so it's ok to play a pirated game as long as you pay someone? I don't know one way or the other is... : Modulus
        • Gaming companies sell incredibly cheap copies of games in Asia to combat piracy, and that's most likely w... : jingletard
        • i was joking, jeez. : AMikaboshi
        • well last year if you bought the orange box from asia for a cheap price you were shit out of luck even if... : ghost in my shell
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          These aren't pirated copies. Research how much Blizzard sells Diablo 2 in China. : pancake humper
          • Does anyone here who purchased one, actually live in China? : sharkII
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            Well, its not China...but here in Taiwan they sell the Battle Chest thing for about NT$800 or so (thats h... : MacemanInTW
            • This was also for the English version, which is a bit more expensive than the Chinese version that most s... : MacemanInTW
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    They are a legit well known Diablo 2 site. Their CD-Keys are legit. There is no funny business going on a... : pancake humper
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      Mods plz nuke for personal attack. : sharkII
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        You smell funny : phate81
        • your right. he does smell funny. : AMikaboshi
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        wasn't a personal attack sharkII :( : pancake humper
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          Oy! More personal attacks!! Where will it all end?!?! : Githyanki
          • When your mom gives rosewood pancake humper a blowjob. : coraldayton
• 3 hours for me, it all depends on when one of their guys get online to process your order. : arizona bay
• 7 hours. : freshyk
• 16 minutes between payment receipt and getting the keys : mikecyb
• 15 mins for mine. Had no issues what so ever. : mesabo
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  Four hours or so. : Deathlove
  • Just checking.. you buy the key's online, enter the key info into the blizzard downloader store and you a... : AlbinoSquirrel
• Exactly 3 minutes. I was one of the first one to buy one though before the D2 craze. : razlebol
• ya got give them time so they can go to walmart* and open up a battlechest. : captain hampton
• make sure you didn't do the eCheck... that takes 3-5 business days... I bought a second set of keys and d... : prime8

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  Last night I was on a roll and was unstoppable with the Pyro. It was so awesome :D : virus
  • I so woulda played with you, but I couldnt stop playing CoD4 except when I left to go to church. : sesmaster
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    Unstoppable? I beg to differ. : A Sponge
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      You're the most annoying Pyro of them all. At first I thought it was just an obsession with the cute litt... : hardfl1p
      • Few things in TF2 are more satisfying than a well-earned flare gun kill. : A Sponge
      • Sponge did you stop playing demo? Man I haven't been regularly playing lately i guess. : kainen1
    • Thats strange, I was tops on my team for 2 straight maps. In one life I rattled off 14 kills in a row. ... : virus
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    Pyros can't uber themselves : hardfl1p
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      Yes - you guys were the best compliment of Medics that I have ever played with in TF2. For sure. : virus
      • Taking them up the rear on Dustbowl Stage 3 is a timeless tactic : hardfl1p
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    You can thank your medics for that run : paroxym
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      reeeeeeeeeeead the threaaaaaaaaaad http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17340993#itemanchor_17340993 : virus
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        soooooooooooooorry, I haaaaaaadn't refresssssssssshed : paroxym
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          thaaaaaaaats oooooook waannnnnnnnna touuuuuuuuuuch weeeeeeeinersssss????????????????? : virus
          • I thought you'd never ask. : paroxym
    • Yeah I can't believe we turned that match around on the last point. I was giving ubers like there was ... : MrLobo
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  They scaled back the damage falloff on the flamethrower. It now does closer to full damage at max range. : Finestaut
  • Ahh, that must be it. Thanks for the clarification. : Attica Blue
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    wait...it's STRONGER?? I thought they made it weaker! I haven't played with the current update, but I tho... : SolveChrist
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      I may have read the patch notes wrong, but as I understand it, they removed falloff entirely when they ma... : Finestaut
      • Yup, that's how I read it too. : Arcanum
      • I see what you're saying now. More damage than the original, but less than when the new weapons came out... : SolveChrist
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  last night i was dying in 1/2 a second as a soldier from pyro fire that wasn't crit or in the back...I as... : .frame
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    pyro point blank damage is around 200 dps : RikiTiki2
    • (which is less than a heavy, but obviously that's balanced with the pyro's mobility, etc) : Fayk
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    good. die soldier die! BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA : AMikaboshi
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      yes, yes, what would everyone do without the soldier to nerf, complain about, etc:) : .frame
      • i don't like them becouse 80% of the time i die its a solder shooting me point blank with a rocket or 2 a... : AMikaboshi
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  Pyro vs demo is not fun if you are the demo. :( : hirosushima
  • Yeah, pyros are actually dangerous at something other than point-blank range now. :D : Arcanum
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    tell that to Jackhammer Johnson, that jerkface. : laurgasms
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      jerkface that needs to play under his shackname : RikiTiki2
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        But I like my TF2 name :( : FlamingGimp
        • still a jerkface : RikiTiki2
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    Use stickies to bounce them around you, and improve your primary aim. : FlamingGimp
    • YOU ARE NEXT! : taronish
    • what the fuck do you know scrub : Jackass1233
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  I agree the Pryo seems way over powered since the patch and unlocked achievements. : cjcharv
  • No, the pyro's are now much more properly balanced for 1v1 vs the other classes... and are now really eff... : dedgecko
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  The Pyro's damage was buffed significantly in the Pyro patch because they no longer get horrible damage f... : Zek
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    Too bad the health boost is much more useful in most situations. Having 75+ health is insane to a good... : MrLobo
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      It's +50, but certainly the health boost is very tempting(as opposed to the back-crits which are mediocre... : Zek
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        Agreed - I love the airburst - the only time I find the backburner effective is vs other pyro's that aren... : dedgecko
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          the backburner has been fun on pub games in dustbowl, when you can come up the tunnel and basically kill ... : xsoulbrothax
          • hell, I'm impressed with the ability to take down lvl 2/lvl 3 turrets by circle strafing them without a m... : dedgecko
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        I'm trying to improve with the air burst. it's hard since it's firing rate is slower than the rocket laun... : RikiTiki2
        • what?! Are you sure about that? I usually get off two airbursts between a reload given that I'll spam a... : dedgecko
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          when i was playing with it I could easily reflect 4 rockets in a row... : .frame
          • It's really borderline. The times are either identical or a tiny edge to rockets if fired at the max rate... : Fayk
  • The damage falloff is a huge improvement. Pyros are now the kings of close combat, but get mostly destro... : Arcanum
  • ^^^this is the correct answer. : Arctic Fox
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    It seemed like structures took less damage from the pyro now ... did that change? : virus
    • That was the most noticeable thing in play after the post-pyro-pack nerf. Not sure if it was just the ret... : Fayk
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    I'm glad some people apparently like the airblast because from my own experience it feels like a pretty u... : Geoffrois
    • The pushing can amount to things, but when you're not on a bridge/pit/similar you often will want to use ... : Fayk
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      Pushing people is good to slow down enemy ubers. I've saved my teams sentries several times by launching... : Toxy
      • I've never done it on the shack, but on pubs, pushing enemies into friendly sentries = hilarity : Fayk
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    The air burst is great for keeping the other team off the cap point, especially gravel pit C. : Bang!Splat*
    • hell yea! whenever I get close to peeps I try and blast them into anything - just to throw off their aim... : dedgecko
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  I don't mind when there are one or two pyros on a team. But when there are 4 it really seems to ruin the... : twifosp
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    more like tournament burnout and the resurgence of Diablo II : RikiTiki2
    • I agree with the latter... I played D2 last night for about 3 hours, then logged off to play some TF2. I ... : zerog83
  • I was pleased to play on a pub last night where there were ZERO pyros on my team (unpossible!) so I felt ... : Fayk
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  I was bitching about the pyro/pyros on CoC's team last night, seems like they put out quite a bit of dama... : devi| dog
  • : } : project13
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  AIRBURST: you can't airburst your own team's rockets, correct? I just had this great strategic idea of b... : Majuju
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    Even if that worked, it would require you to be exposed, and Pyros are far squishier than Soldiers. : Arcanum
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      Perhaps, but it would be a great ambush/flank technique - sneak around beside someone/a group of someones... : Majuju
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        While this sounds like a great idea - this opens up a huge griefing issue of some fucktard running around... : dedgecko
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          yeah letting players fuck with their teammates' stuff in any way is pretty much asking for problems. the... : mikecyb
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            yea, but there's still a slight - teeny, tiny - hitch when you move through/pass a team mate... it's ever... : dedgecko
            • Some of the geometry there sucks and you can get 'stuck' on it briefly if you're not very careful to walk... : Fayk
  • I love airburst. I never really played with pyro until and now I can't stop using that. Too bad it takes ... : eldiablo01
  • How would that be, in any way, a good strategy? Now for each rocket fired, instead of having one soldier ... : SenorSpine