Caleb Newcastle

Halo with vehicles you can drive properly?

Generico.

I lie not. See here for a review of the script. I think the reviewers reaction is a pretty good indicator of what they've done to it... Jesus wept...

I never read Marshall Law, 11, what's it like? I always assumed he was just some kind of Judge Dredd cypher... What annoys me slightly is wheras the animated series came close a few times, the movies never really portrayed Batman as the obssessed control freak genius he is in the comics. There's never been any of those "ohhhhh shit, Batman's had them from the start" revelations where Bats has been playing everyone like suckers. I mean we're talking about the guy who has contingency plans to take out Superman and the entire Justice League yet he's always piecing the easiest of puzzles together in the last ten minutes. And as Lasers pointed out, it's usually with the aid of some nifty bat gadgets. There's been too much focus on the "wonderful toys" rather than the man which hopefully Begins will address. Though I don't know what audiences will react when it turns out he's a ninja master from a mystical clan of hidden warriors... And while we're on the subject of insane geniuses; I know it's not fair and all but I definitely DON'T want to see the Wachowski's version of V for Vendetta. I'd rather it stayed in production hell for ever than be handled by those two.

Bloody Gitaroo Man and it's bloody christing impossible drum and bass bloody shark. Just. Can't. Do it. Fingers. Not. Fast. Enough. No. Rhythm. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh! I also suck at FPSs. But that doesn't bother me too much...

But on the other hand it was just tacked on as an afterthought. Supposedly the original ending has (and I quote from vague memories) "a game of chicken with rocket launchers." Dropped because they didn't want John McClane to seem like the kind of guy who'd hold a grudge.

Alternative movie endings: "...And England is better than Scotland..."

Star Wars Episode 3: Chelsea nil

Die Hard Boiled: Bruce Willis and Chow Yun Fat together at last...

I think you missed the winky smiley.

Would CDR work with DC-X as a boot disk? If so; yes please. As for the decimals: statistics are a weird and wonderful science. Like alchemy. Or Golf.

Which is where the decimals come from. Don't you people know anything about statistics?

We asked a random group of 100 gamers whether Jet Set Radio was better than Jet Set Radio Future. Here are the results: Close. But JSRF wins. There's no real "evidence" for it but it's scientific fact. I'll skip the £50 for a DC copy of Garou: Mark of the Wolves please. Either version.

Yes it bloody is. Don't make me go make a poll...

Sorry Vemsie, have to disagree with you on that. As many people hate Shenmue as love it. In my opinion it's like watching a particularly badly acted movie. With added pointless hoops to jump through. SPOILER I always found it incredibly annoying to complete a series of tasks only for the plot to render my efforts pointless. Like searching for sailors being a narrative dead end yet the plot is handily advanced by the Housekeeper suddenly "deciding" to give Ryo the letter. Or the Travel agency stealing Ryo's money. Or...

Well the US NES has a hell of a lot more games than the UK one. I was surprised Castlevania 3 Draculas's Curse actually had a pal release when I found it on ebay...

You're wrong. JSRF>JSR And Skies of Arcadia was the best game on the Dreamcast. And to piss some more people off... The PS2 is the Dreamcast's spiritual successor... Flipnic, ICO, Fantavision, Gitaroo Man, Psyvariar, Guilty Gear X2, SOS The Final Escape, all the light-gun games currently worth playing, Frequency...

More challenging perhaps but then JSRF doesn't have you being beaten like Rodney King in the middle of a fourteen-swoosh-long analogue grafittii session while a time hangs above your head like the sword of damocles. It's learn by rote repetitiveness with added frustration. JSRF scrapped all that in favour of a free-form sprawling approach with wee mini-game tasks making it vastly more fun. And more colourful? Do your retinas work properly? Dinosaurian Park? Hello?

Yes. If only for the fact they got rid of the stupid time limit and the rapid escalation of bad guy attacks making the game less teeth-grindingly annoying.

That's a bit unfair. Not getting 100% in a game is more like watching a film on DVD and not listening to all the directors commentaries, not watching the outtakes or arsing around with the "re-cut this unfinished blue-screen footage". It's there if you really want to do it but the vast majority of time it's just pointless busy work like "collect all 30,000 Lums" to give the illusion of there being more game. In my opinion anyway...

Flipnic. It's pinball. But not.

Jet Set Radio Future.

LP,LP,F,LK,HP C'mon. You can't blame that on the pad. You just suck. Anyway. It's the pulling off dragon punches that suck. And most of the SNK supers. Guilty Gear X's overdrives are an absolute bitch to do too. And as for "the buy joysticks" thing... I play pad. £60 just to learn how to play all over again? I'm just getting good as is...

You've got one fantastic Final Fantasy beating title there, one above average RPG which is about on a par with, ooh, let's say Wild Arms, Evolution which I can't comment on because I didn't play it and the Shenmue games. Which divide more people than marmite flavoured organised religion. Be honest; Shenmue bored as many people as it entertained. The Dreamcast is fantastic in hindsight. Primarily because you can sort the wheat from the bollocks. Blue Stinger? Maken X? POD? Super Runabout? Chef's Love Shack? Outrigger? We can go on...

The Dreamcast had the greatest range of 2d beat-em ups this side of, well anything, many (thank you capcom) that got proper 60hz optimised Pal releases. On the other hand it had the worst possible pad to play them. A contradicton that's kind of symptomatic of all the machine's problems...