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Funny you mentioning the soundtrack as one of my hype pluses for Burnout 2 was the idea of Burnout with a pre-EA soundtrack. I've read almost nothing about the game and the whole open world racing idea is slightly odd to me, though the only Burnout I've properly played is 3 and that did have layers and layers of stuff that could've been tied together in a more involving way than just progressively unlocking menus so sure. In contrast I didn't think Arkham Asylum was that great but could see it translating better than most to the 'let's make it open world!' developer pitch.

Hey I'm actually playing something at the same time as someone else here! My reactions so far are kind of the opposite to yours. Kind of fell apart when I decided it was worth devoting some time to it (scoring system makes it hard to play directly for points and achievements are achievements) but I still remember the thrill when I first started it up and everything instantly felt great. I usually can make a good guess at whereabouts I'll be ranking a game after a short time and after my first 'make sure the game works' run I thought it was going to be one of the best. Ultimately that hope was squandered but it was nice to see an indie offering with such good foundations and I'm keeping an eye on Vlambeer because that's the hard bit done. I agree with the majority of this review.

Falcon. PAWNCH!

I still haven't played enough Gen7 to feel guilty about not submitting my ballot, but thanks to those that did. I'll attempt some commentary to try and get some more discussion out of this thread/project (without hyper-critiquing individual lists): After completing DVDVR's GOTG I scored it 5/10, which is a great deal better than the typical gaming website's 5/10 but still ultimately a not-good one, so that will be my courageous dissenting opinion of the day. I have Paradise in my backlog and am Interested to see it do so well as after playing Takedown I picked up a GC copy of Burnout 2 predicting it to be the pinnacle of the series. City better than Asylum confirmed? Might pick it up on Wii U for the same reason I did Human Revolution - so that I can get enough of a taste of touchscreen inventory management to ruin all games from now until the end of time that won't have it. Alpha Protocol is a name that keeps popping up but I'm still unconvinced for some reason.

It's my favourite moment of the year so far and every time I see that sig it makes me happy / want to make engine noises.

I can think of no greater tribute to Anzawa than this board belittling his decision to quit pro wrestling for at least the next few decades.

Little titbit from JR's blog - his meetup with Tanahashi/Nakamura/Okada etc was at a function held at the NOAH dojo. That's quite the working relationship.

only two responses hey they're both quality keepingthespiritalive looks like the missing link for me personally.

WK9 bringing puro some new sets of eyes and Stu recently ending coverage for ye olde favourite puroresufan.com prompts me to ask - what are people's go-to sites for puroresu coverage? Seems too big now for everyone to be relying on assorted blogs and auto-translated purolove.com like I've been. Results / translations / gossip / anything. (if you're the author of the world's fourth most popular Shiozaki tumblr or suchlike, feel free to throw those in too)

I was still semi-regularly dropping by the site even recently when it wasn't likely to have anything more than a late set of results posted. To echo what others are saying, he was single-handedly responsible for getting me into New Japan back in 2003. I will add that I was glad to see him continue through New Japan's revival after seeing him having to play the role of NJ apologist during the company's dark ages. When a big show goes down it was still nice to go over to his site and see him summarising something that was actually good.

I could've told you the PS3 interface sucked day one. Was in disbelief when I realised there were three steps after booting up just to highlight the option of playing the game in the disk drive. Was reminded how absurd this was when recently setting up PS Move and finding that instead of just pointing at what you wanted you had to traverse the same menu but with individual directional waggles instead of d-pad presses.

I bought World Heroes Anthology for PS2 recently as I've got a big soft spot for SNK fighters, but this the first time I've heard any entries in the series be described as anything better than pigshit. Thanks for the hype seeing as I've already paid for it. If we're including shoddy arcade fighting game ports then I may as well give a shout out to Street Fighter Alpha 2. Have it on my shelf and can confirm that despite being a SNES cart it did indeed have loading times. Toady that'd be awarded extra marks for 'ambition'.

GFW promo vid for WK9: I know people have scoffed at the idea of ordering WK7 on PPV when the only thing it was over NJPW World is JR on commentary, but honestly for me JR shilling NJ on his blog, in videos like this, trying to pronounce a bunch of TAKA Michinokos and making possibly his last appearance doing his thing is the most interesting part of this event.

Now that I have some disposable income I weigh up the pros and cons of smarting up my phone every so often and Ridiculous Fishing is always the biggest pro I can think of.

I think that way about all subscription models (I still use PAYG on my phone) but I think the appeal here is mainly is the ability the directly support NJPW for a reasonable price and the ability to have a fridge full of Ishii or whatever waiting for you whenever you feel the urge to binge.

I agree with you and I don't know what the full context was behind this story (hence me being unsure yesterday). I just wanted to insinuate that Gies is a BIG IMMATURE BABYMAN.

I don't know whether the 'polygon are working for Microsoft' narrative is old hat or not, but they seem to have the same policies about which countries do and don't exist when evaluating which system is selling the best.

Best game I'm playing at the moment is dsiware's Bird & Beans on the 3DS. Less than two dollars, people. Any idea if the DS game is any good?

Started Brawl for the first time at the weekend as a way of channelling my Smash hype. Highlights so far: fanservicey cutscenes (Lucas, Ness and Wario, together at last!), this remix of the Mario underground theme.

Lightning responses, thanks guys. Three it is. I can see myself picking up nine too if it shows up on sale one day (which it surely will.)

I'm fairly sure the reason Nintendo haven't been throwing Majora's Mask fans any bones over the years was because they're painfully aware of what's wrong with it, but hey at least a portablised port means we get some always-welcome usability tweaks.

Bought into the Rayman Origins hype. Got burned. TLOU is a much better HL2 than HL2 ever was. Finished Mega Man 2 and have hunger for the same but better. 3? 6? 7? 9?

Nintendo FLIRTING WITH THE DARKSIDE with those buy both bonuses, but god damnity that was probably the best game hype video I've seen in my life.

Let's get some things clear. Genesis Sonics: Fucking awesome stuff. Sonic Adventure 2: Anal goop dripping onto your shoes. Mario 64: Fucking awesome stuff. Year of release not needed for consideration.