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Can you play "couch vs. couch" online? In other words, two people locally playing online against two other people? This is one of those rare games that my wife might actually want to play, and it would be fun to get two other players through Live.

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Mine shipped from Amazon yesterday sometime with a EDD of tomorrow. However since we're getting somewhere between 5 and 10 inches of snow in the next 24 hours, I doubt I'll see it until Friday at the earliest :(

I actually haven't received any mail or deliveries since last Monday (January).

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Looks like the DLC is up for 400 points. Not sure if it's all 4 packs or not yet.

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DLC on launch date is a pet peeve of mine.

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Well, the game is only $30 and the DLC is $5 so it's not too bad.

Update: The DLC is 208MB and will not download yet. It took my points and then gives and error while trying to download.

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Coincidentally, I earned 400 MS points via Bing Rewards this morning. Sweet. (Though I do agree that DLC available on release date is suck.)

Good to hear that the Scene It controllers work since I don't have a second normal controller and none of my out-of-area Xbox-owning friends seem interested in the game.

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It did that earlier when I was having issues with Live - this reconnection was silky smooth.

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I think you can, as long as you both have a Live account?

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I wonder if it's in your review?

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I don't have local friends to play with in order to see. Or a couch. :sad:

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No idea what this site is or how they got into the Metacritic rankings, but here's their 9/10 review: http://www.totallygn.com/2011/02/08/...w-jack-review/

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Well I got annoyed that it hadn't shipped from Amazon.com so I canceled that order and bought it from Best Buy using some old GCs. $29 there too.

The humor is hit or miss, as it always has been, but is more hit. The questions this time are quite excellent. Considering the first question in the first round is about it felt like nothing had changed since the last time I played. :up: to that. To note, not all 73 episodes are unlocked on startup, I think you start off with 10 or so.

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I was playing with that dude last night.

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Phrasing!

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The manual actually says they'd prefer you to play them in the order in which they've listed them, for whatever reason. Not sure why you'd want to jump around anyway...

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Sadly this classically profane moment probably isn't in the new version.

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Just as fun as it should be. I can't wait to school that grandpa Chuck again.

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rotfl

I wanted to know the answer!

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<s>Who's afraid of the big bad wolf.</s>Fuck You.

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Are the gibberish questions even in the new version?

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Nope. Keyboards are not standard on a console.

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I can type on a virtual keyboard using Kinect!

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This game is awesome!

Unfortunately, I can confirm that there is no couch-to-couch online support. Either everyone in your game is local, or everyone in your game is remote. No mixing possible. :sad:

On the plus side, everything else is fantastic. It brought me back to this halcyon days of college, with friends crowding around the keyboard to play. The writers are still hilarious.

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That achievement for getting -$1,000,000 in Jack Attack is a killer! I pounded the A button and I only managed about 3/4 of it. Of course, it doesn't help if the answers come up fast. I may need to break out my turbo controller for that one.

Though, be warned, it will hose up your average as, apparently, different "Contestants" still count on your single profile. Not sure what the point is of them if they're just different names. Oh well, at least it made it easy to get the achievement for earning $30,000 more than my average since my first game was around $25,000.

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Yeah, I decided to save that one for later (last?).

Did you get this one by accident, or is there a strategy?
Seems like that might be the most difficult one to get, since anyone who's played the game for any length of time will be rated higher than Dullard.

Or does rating go up and down based on performance, so that someone could conceivably sink back to that level?

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Dunno. I came in second on one game and got it. I was kinda worried about it for those same reasons. Just play more, I guess.

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...aaand I just got it on the next game I played after that post.

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I am loving this game, it is bringing back great memories of playing this with friends around a keyboard. This is a great game and far worth the 30 i spent for it.

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Our Dis or Dat was stupid. They can't just throw the "Both" option in there like that.

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Agreed completely. The game was so much fun when I played it last night.

I only have two complaints. The intro to each question is the same every game. While not an issue if you play one game in a sitting, but I played three last night and it got old seeing/hearing the same stuff for each question intro.

Second, I have no idea what the "wrong answer of the day" thing is about. I understand that you have to select that answer, but none of the questions had any answer that looked even remotely like what they said the topic of the "wrong answer of the day" was.

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The WAotD is hinted at with the company that's sponsoring that episode. If you pick that wrong answer you get +$4000 (+$8000 in Round 2) instead of losing points as normal. Plus you get the prize for your collection. All 73 prizes nets you a cool achievement/trophy.

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I finally figured out how to get these when you landed that one in our game. Now I'm not only looking for the right answer each time, but also the "wrong" one the game inserted on purpose.

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Keep playing, you'll start to notice subtle differences in some of the number intros. For example, sometimes the Robot 6 says something, sometimes not.

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I had no idea they existed until that game :lol: I wasn't going for it or anything. I've since learned.

I did see a tricky one online. I'm not sure which episode it was, but it was sponsored by some greeting card company.

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Seriously..that #6 changeup on the 3rd or 4th episode fucking killed me. rotfl

Loving the game. Could easily have been a terrible end result but what we got is so true to form it's crazy to think it hasn't been coming out regularly for the past 8 years.

LOVE looking for the wrong answer of the game. That's maybe my favorite part thus far. :lol:

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When I first noticed that, I thought I just missed it all the other times. Until I saw again that it didn't happen.

I really, really love the "10" intro. It's so scandalous! Especially when the 1 turns into an ! for a split second :lol:

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Once I realized the 0 was pooping out a baby at the end of that intro I laughed for 5 straight minutes.

The commercials are still hilarious too. I woke my wife up last night, laughing at some "real conversations between tweens" thing.

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And IMO those are the areas that they really could have dropped the ball, but instead it is a true rebirth of the game and they've done all the important parts to make it a familiar but completely updated experience.

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I do wish there was a way to get slightly longer rounds, 10 questions just goes by so damn quick.

Love the questions and love the Wrong Answers ().

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I could see wanting a local game to be longer, but online I think it's just the right length. Any longer and I'd think people would start dropping out when they get behind.

I had one Jack Attack round last night that I didn't get a credit for a single buzz-in. I know that it's probably a very precise science for them to coordinate that across four players, but it does just feel like lag. I imagine that hosting the game will give you a slight advantage, though I haven't tested that theory at all.