I pre-ordered that GI Joe game just for the comic basically because I knew the game itself wasn't going to be good but I got it anyways.

I'm still frustratingly attempting to play it. They really screwed the pooch on the camera work.

I need to get Fat Princess soon. I've been hearing so many good things about it.

What is everyone's thoughts on the new 360 update? I really like some of the stuff, like now you can browse and add movies too your instant queue on nextflix and even watch movies with friends, in a MST3K way. The new stuff for the avatars is great, but making us pay real money for digital clothing is ridiculous.

I stopped playing my 360 when mostly all of the games that I gave 2 shits about could only be played fully after paying for download content. Games are expensive enough as it is. I used to play Halo 2 a lot online, and as soon as a new map pack came out, it used to divide the online community completely.

I agree with you. I'm about 4 map packs away from being able to play halo 3. Sure they become free over time, but you feel like youre missing out when you don't have everything. And it does become a pain in the ass when youre playing with a friend and you don't have something they have or vice versa, so it cuts down on what you can do. But DLC can also be good, it expends on the game experience and some of them are really good. Sometimes DLC is worth the money and sometimes it's just bullshit.

I agree that sometimes it can be good, I think it just majorly depends on if it affects your overall experience of the game or if it's just a nice little add-on that you wouldn't mind buying. For instance, I can understand that hardcore beat-em up fans who love to collect all the costumes for their favourite character in their favourite franchise wouldn't mind paying for particularly fancy downloadable costumes - but I think it would be wrong to have extra characters available for download, because this would affect the whole mechanics of the game.

I used to enjoy playing online, I wasn't a nut for it or anything but a lot of my friends also had Xbox live so it was cool to be able to just unwind on a weeknight with Halo 3. But eventually you felt like you were so far behind with the extra map packs that it ruined the experience for me, so I sold Halo 3, my 360 was pushed to the side and I bought a Nintendo Wii, which doesn't suffer from any of these failings because it has the worst online capabilities I have ever seen.

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Sure it's a shameless GTA clone, but it's still a bunch of good fun. The graphics are more cartoony than realistic and the humor in the game (especially in the radio stations) aren't very funny and the music selections are pretty dull but the gameplay is good fun. Where GTA4 was more about realism Saints Row is about things most people want from open world games. Cars that handle well and don't get smashed up every time you bump into a traffic cone and fun character customization, and being able to go around fucking peoples shit up I can see why Yahtzee prefers it to GTA4.

Astro Boy for the GBA, awesome little game from Treasure and Sega, part platformer, part beat em up and part shoot em up, and in typical Treasure fashion, a LOT of boss battles.

Like a lot of Treasure games there's a lot of variety as well as some really chalenging gameplay and colorful graphics.

Great stuff.

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I don't mind map packs and stuff at all, I wish more of the games I have would have downloadable content.

Class, pure class. :thumb: