Still wondering whether I should wait for SOTN on the PSP...

as far as the new, bigger HDD... is there some official utility that will allow us to transfer our stuff from our older, smaller Hard drive to the new one? I think there are some third party ones, but you'd think Microsoft would have one as well...

just picked up Armored Core 4 and virtua tennis 3 :)



2-8 player co-op in AC4!!!

Downloaded SotN before I went to work this morning....now I gotta wait until 5pm before I can play it. :(

I found this mock-up pic of what would happen if MGS4 filled up an entire Blu-ray disc and was ported to the 360:

http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/8851/mgs4yb8.png

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Jealous Sony fan mock up is quite silly when real world logic is applied.

There hasn't been a full 50GB Blu-Ray release yet (last I checked), which leaves a 25GB disc. 360 can use a 9GB disc, therefore it would fit on 3 discs, and theoretically with proper compression could be squashed onto two.

Couple that with the fact that all the PS3 releases are 18-20GB of padding and you are looking at a single disc release.

It's funny what the Sony fanboys choose to mock, given all that's going on with Sony right now.

Yeah.. can somebody do the math on 180GB of audio? Fucking stupid.

Let alone the fact the extra space would just be used to lengthy already painful FMV cutscenes. :shudder:

Agreed, I haven't played MGS3 yet, but I fell asleep during a cutscene in MGS2.

I had never played a MGS game before until i ended up finding MGS: Substance for really cheap from a CC sale. I had heard about long cut scenes but oh my i was not prepared for what i got into. I sold the game to someone after spending like 30-40 minutes on some boat in the beginning of the game and only getting to play for maybe 5-7 minutes. It was insane. Never had any interest in the series after that.

Yeah I fell asleep during the ending of MGS2. The ending was seriously an hour long cutscene. I am not even joking about that. You watch a 20 minute cutscene leading up to the final battle, then you fight the final boss for about 5 minutes, then there is another 30 minute cutscene after that.

MGS3 has less cutscenes than MGS2, but it still has a butt-ton of them. I played and beat and somewhat enjoyed all three MGS games, but in my opinion, they are VERY overrated. The grossly overabundant cutscenes are way too much.

The only reason I even want to play MGS4 is because "Old" Snake intrigues me. I want to see what happens with him.

I wonder why they are even considering making a Metal Gear movie when each game is already much more of a movie than a game. All they need to do is rip out the cutscenes from MGS1, and they have enough for a 10 hour movie right there.

I tried the Tennis demo. It was a pain to play. :( Maybe i'll try again one day.

Looks like gears of war the movie is official

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/c...entryid=408779

Ewww - SotN has a border around the screen...

I know it's unreasonable, but I guess I was expecting it to be redone in widescreen somehow. Oh Well...

stretch it in options, it looks surprisingly... good.

Thanks - that's exactly what it needed.

I missed it, because the stretching option is not there when you go into the settings from the title menu, but it's there when you go to the menu during gameplay.

And yeah, it looks alright - it helps that you can also stretch it a little vertically, which keeps things from getting too distorted.

Virtua Tennis is awesome, but they've changed around the mechanics a good deal since I was a tennis master back in virtua 1 tennis days (dreamcast).

I played 3 ranked matches. Killed the first guy, got my butt handed to me the second game, was about to lose 3 games to love, down 3 match points, came back to tie it up. The match went to a tie break, in which i was down 2-5, and wind up losing 6-8 :(

Armored Core 4 is absolutely amazing, but its definitely not for people that don't have the patience for a game like this. Controls are top notch

Is it possible to download stuff on xbox live and play a game (not necessarily online) at the same time?

If so , how?

You should be able to exit the download screen after starting it and go do whatever else you want. Nothing fancy needed.

it will actually automatically stop the download if you go online on that game, but it should continue to download if you stay off-line in the game

Have you played Top Spin 2? If so how would you compare them. I played the demo for Virtua Tennis and it felt too "arcady" to me.

I know I've played one of the top spins, though i can't remember exactly which one it was.

Virtua Tennis always had that arcade feel to it, but the mechanics of this new one really made it more realistic.

Its the same premise of trying to anticipate where the ball is going to be, get there ASAP, and start your swing early.

I will say its far less arcadey than the original, which caused a lot of confusion for me. The diving is much more realistic, for example, as well as trying to put too much english on the ball, causing you to slam it into the net, or hit it out of bounds or something.

Top Spin has a better career mode. In VT you basically play the same 20 people OVER and OVER. (this is from reviewS)

the main appeal of VT is the ease at which anyone can pick up the game, as well as the addictive mini games

FYI, Cheapassgamer is reporting that Circuit City will include a free 1600 point marketplace card with the purchase of Guitar Hero II.