Nolan

Co-operatively holding out against waves of enemies. If you still have it, pop in ODST which has Fire Fight. Horde belongs to Gears 2. The game modes are an absolute blast, although I'd attribute much of that to good level design and variation of enemies. Not the strongest points of Killzone, of course more than half the maps in Horde mode are terrible.

Yea, 100K per engine would be rather terrible. We've got a 91 Civic SI with 296K sitting in the backyard. Original engine and all, but about 7 years ago the head gasket needed to be replaces. My dad pulled the head off got a new gasket....and has let it sit in the yard for years. Put it back together though and do some other maintenance (tires, seats, oil etc.) and we could squeeze another 4K out of it easily and roll to 300k.

Not even just American made cars though, it's very common to see an old Honda or Toyota still on the road with very high mileage.

My first truck was above 200K (actually started below when I got it), and my current truck has 160K. I think most Americans (well those who aren't going into continual debt buying the newest of everything) go well over 100K with vehicles. I've only ever seen really New/Collectible cars be below.

Gigantic I don't even....What? Number/Larger Number

Mature Games? Really? Xbox Live as of the Xbox era, meh. XBL as of the 360, yes I'd call that a milestone....if I also choose to ignore Steam. Citing Online Gameplay as being a shift of the last decade is pretty misleading as well. People were playing Doom online Deathmatch and co-op back when it released, and it was replaced by the Quake series (which still has players today). It wasn't particularly archaic or unfathomable at the time either, it was just on PCs and GT is so very biased against PCs (ala number 1, which I actually agree with) they play off online as being barely possible until consoles began to do it more PC like (since they did have some pretty wacky multiplayer attempts on the SNES/Megadrive).

While what you say is true, some of my friends did the same thing. Bought DQVIII for the FFXII demo, and while they did at least play DQVIII I don't think they finished it and said they didn't really like it. It's reasonable to assume that there are other groups of people that did the same, although to assume that they never played or never enjoyed the game isn't reasonable but still possible.

Well I picked it up about 7 hours ago today...still haven"t had a chance to play yet though. I shall start shortly.

Most engies are absolute morons. Sure 3 SGs right next to each other can shoot a lot of bullets, but one demo who isn't a moron will blow all 3 up with ease. Depending on the level of the SG and RL/DH a soldier can do the same easily and even a heavy or pyro with lvl 1's (or a good heavy medic combo).

Voice work can take up massive amounts of space though. I'm sure the game is already rather large in the file size department. Additionally isn't there downloadable quests/items and the such? They'd have to keep extra space in mind for storing new information onto the cart.

Cover mechanics...interesting.

I want to kick you. Hard. In the Shins.

Rather rude and uncalled for.

I know literally nothing about the game beyond it's out in 4 days is on the DS and has multiplayer. Can't wait to dig into it next week.

Grandia 3 is a shadow of the awesome that Grandia 1&2 were. Avoid unless really desperate. It does have a decent battle system though...although if you didn't like the battle system of Chrono Trigger you probably won't like any of the Grandia games battle systems.

Alice in Wonderland. A rather mixed bag, I think Tim Burton needs to stay away from CGI and 3D or approach CGI differently, as some of the scenes were just bleh to watch and added nothing all while not being interesting to look at. He also managed to make Anne Hathaway look fugly as the White Queen. Otherwise I found it to be an enjoyable take on the story, although the Hatter wasn't as Mad as I expected.

Hell if I know, I didn't work yesterday and we don't usually empty the register (don't know why). The owner usually deposits the cash into the bank at some point, but banks were closed yesterday so I don't think that happened. Since it's a dog broading/grooming facility, there are dogs there so I have to go stay the night tonight since the door is just boarded up and locked.

Dragon Quest VIII, and DQXI is coming out on the DS soon.

Thanks all. My B-day has been going a bit wonky...got woken up at 5:13 with a call from a cop asking about the business I work at since they were broken into. Had to drive out there and for a while just blah. It appears the perpetrator rammed their car into the glass door and then proceeded to steal the entire frickin register. Finding and hitting one single button and grabbing cash was far to hard it seems. Hopefully it'll start looking up now though. Imma party tomorrow though. Happy Birthday Goafer.

I have to watch it now. Absolutely love that moment of the film and the music is just so perfect.

This is a good point....but it brings up another point, why don't we have pictionary? Or do we and I've just skipped over the thread?

Well, I do reconsider. On the same note, sleeping completely nude with just a single sheet covering you is also nice. Every little bit of naked ness helps keep the heat down.

I open my window too....it's about 90 degrees Fahrenheit here though, including most nights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdWnNgTLbKw&feature=player_embedded Rather humorous. He could be the new spokesman of the PCGA though.