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AICN Games: Monki's Weekly Wrap-Up! Halo 3, John Woo and Doves!!

FIRST! by lost.rules	May 21st, 2007 04:33:10 AM
there. you happy?
First Posters Suck! by lost.rules	May 21st, 2007 04:33:58 AM
Myself included.
HALO 3...... by connor187	May 21st, 2007 04:43:07 AM
FUCKING BRING IT ON!!!!
Billy the kid by jack scagnetti	May 21st, 2007 04:46:47 AM
Fucking hilarious-and he fucking nails it, fuck Activision.
The thing about putting a film on the BD disc... by photoboy	May 21st, 2007 05:51:18 AM
... is that it invalidates Sony's claim that next gen games need all that disc space for content. If there's enough room on the disc for a full HD movie then clearly most games won't need all that space and Sony were talking rubbish. At the rate things are going digital distribution of HD movies will replace Blu-Ray/HD-DVD before they can get anywhere near the mass-market.
new Hard Boiled DVD? by Sit and Watch	May 21st, 2007 06:18:19 AM
Have the criterion... wonder if the Dragon Dynasty will be worth double dipping.
Billy the Kid by OneintenMan	May 21st, 2007 07:13:58 AM
needs to watch his language. Does his mum know he talks like that?
See nothing but Blu-rays? by theageofknights.com	May 21st, 2007 07:42:48 AM
That's because all the HD-DVDs are sold out. Loving my Matrix box set, blu-boy!
Thuyen Nguyen's video by HeWhoCannotBeNamed	May 21st, 2007 07:47:38 AM
Remarkable indeed. A love letter to video games which I enjoyed. Especially the Dreamfall bits. Dreamfall has the best voice acting I have every experienced in a video game. Seriously. That game owned us for a short while. It was so good I forgave some of the poorly implemented mechanics. Bring on the third chapter!
Hard Boiled DVD by pubcrawler13	May 21st, 2007 08:46:34 AM
I'm lucky enough have the Criterion release of HB as well, along with The Killer. Guard that well, Sit and Watch... last time I checked, HB was going for about $200 and TK was right around $350. I wish I could say it was shrewd foresight on my part, when it fact it was really just blind luck, but I also picked up a ton of now-valuable and out-of-print Criterion releases when they first came out, like Silence of the Lambs, Spinal Tap, Sid & Nancy and others. Anyway, I have the Xbox HD player and have stood by it, but I have to admit that all signs are really starting to point to BR doing pretty well. Every time I go to the store, the BR section is about 10 times the size of the HD section.
Mixing Games and Movies by LittleBunnyFufu	May 21st, 2007 08:59:48 AM
I don't know, I could be way off, but that doesn't sound too appealing to me. It doesn't sound like mixing peanut butter and chocolate ala reese's for a delicious snack. It sounds more like mixing peanut butter and grape jelly ala goober grape. I'm just not that sold on the idea. I like having functions seperated, but then, I'm not one of these phone/mp3 player/planner/backscratcher/t ranslator combo guys either so, I'm probably not the best authority on any of this.
Blu-Ray vs. HDDVD by Ted Brautigan	May 21st, 2007 09:36:12 AM
I haven't been to a big box store lately, but yesterdays Best Buy and Circuit City circulars both had HD players for $300 and BD for $1000, $800, and $600(PS3). With PS3's rate of sale I just can't see how they end up winning. Although I have the XBOX 360+HDDVD, I would almost rather see the superior tech(BD) win out, I just don't see it. Especially if WallyWorld has $200 players the entire Holiday season. This coming from someone who wants a PS3 in part because of BD. Sorry if that doesn't make any sense. Peace
HD-DVD Instant Rebate for the next month.. by tmifune78	May 21st, 2007 09:41:56 AM
Well Blu-Ray is getting the majority of the market share thanks to the PS3 base (disappointing by next-gen hardware selling standards but a nice hit to the market regarding the HD world) but HD-DVD seems to be making some major steps rectifying this with some major promotion in the next few months touting the major edge HD-DVD has over Blu-Ray...price. Toshiba has a $100 instanst rebate for all their models at all major stores which will make the A2 $299...with a selection of five free HD-DVDs through Toshiba. Not only that, but at Best Buy this week, buy the Matrix Collection on HD-DVD and get 2 more free HD-DVDs. So for basically $370, you get a player, the complete matrix collection and 7 free HD-DVDs...a nice way to start a collection and just in time for my dad's combo birtday/fathers day...it'll sting a bit but the big guy's worth it...and for the people that think this "war" will be cleared up soon...no way, man..if you want something tangible in the HD world, these two formats will both be around for a while..and neither will become what DVD has become before HD Downloads become de facto...
Damn straight re: online fragging. by raw_bean	May 21st, 2007 10:21:45 AM
That's why my PC game playing mates have our own little clan where we run our own dedicated (and password-protected) game server, rent our own (password protected) voice chat server, and maintain our own (password protected) website. The only things publicly available are the (semi-) amusing little video clips I make of in-game footage and host on YouTube.
Oh, and StarCraft II! Yay! :^D by raw_bean	May 21st, 2007 10:23:40 AM
Awesome, just awesome.
What alot of people forget by TheAllSeeingEye	May 21st, 2007 10:42:31 AM
Is that out of all the people who bought PS3, only a handful of those bought it with the intention of watching HD movies and have the equipment needed to watch them. The general public are a fickle lot and usually stick to the cheaper options; HD-DVD wins on every count in terms of price and when you compare the two playing movies, the difference is impossible to see.
What a lot of people don't realise... by raw_bean	May 21st, 2007 11:20:31 AM
Or what a lot of people haven't considered, or what many people seem to forget, or what seems to be being overlooked, is that every time someone starts a sentence with a variation of the above in this interminable 'debate', is that they're reiterating a point that's been made literally hundreds of times before, ad nauseum. Leaving aside the pointlessness of everyone who states flat out that the battle is going to go this or that way when there's no certain way of knowing yet, is anyone else completely bored of arguing over it and happy to just sit back and see how it turns out?
Starcraft 2 = YES by DanDelion	May 21st, 2007 12:27:57 PM
Fuck Halo 3, this is the most anticipated game of all time.
PS3 sold 83,000 last month in NA. Wii? 360,000!!! by Some Dude	May 21st, 2007 12:39:36 PM
Oh, boy.
As I recall... by Aphex Twin	May 21st, 2007 01:13:36 PM
The original Playstation didn't have much to offer before Final Fantasy VII. Give the PS3 time to get running and get its killer apps out. Saying PS3 and Blu-Ray is a failure is a little premature. Once Metal Gear Solid 4 and FFXIII pop out I'm sure we'll see a few jaws hitting the floor and a few consoles going through the checkout lines. The only thing that remotely interests me about the 360 is Ace Combat 6. And since I have already played Tiger Woods on Wii, my curiosity for that console has come to an end. I shall eagerly await Metroid and SMB but other than that, the games I love and the system I play daily is the PS3. Have a little faith, Sony has been delivering for over 10 years now.
Hey Monki how about some mentions of a little event by Johnno	May 21st, 2007 01:57:40 PM
called 'Gamer's Day'? Aside from the Hard Boiled movie on Blu-Ray along with Stranglehold, which is pretty cool, though agreeably not the best selling point for games requiring Blu-Ray, how about Naughty Dog's claim that a level in Uncharted itself already surpasses the capacity of a typical dual-layered DVD? And also the other cool shit like Heavenly Sword, or the beautiful looking Folklore that is making good use of the SIXAXIS? Video on Demand coming to PS3? Some little summaries of that? Would've been nice to mention those thing huh? Not that I can't find those stories on other sites, but I can find plenty of Halo stuff too... so y'know... It's interesting stuff worth a mention! I mean, you can't just mention in passing a huge event like Gamer's Day... But I suppose Stranglehold and Halo do tie in more with movies on this site...
If that's all the PS3 can do that the 360 can't... by Angelus_420	May 21st, 2007 02:21:37 PM
...Then Sony has already lost the console war. Please who the hell cares that a movie in Blue-Ray is attached to a game?? What a weak selling feature. Hey I'll tell you something that the 360 can do that the PS3 can't. HALO 3. nuff said.
A Mac owner writing a gaming article?? by DigitalDong	May 21st, 2007 04:30:21 PM
Whats wrong with that picture...everything.
Not really blown away by Star Craft 2 by warp11	May 21st, 2007 06:00:15 PM
Err, it looks pretty much the same as the last one. Which isn't bad, Star Craft when it came out was amazing! But, who really plays these sorts of games anymore, where you collect resources and set up bases? The future is in MMO.
Blu-Ray on the cheap? by makaze	May 22nd, 2007 06:48:10 AM
I heard there's going to be a Blu-Ray DVD-r drive on sale during the summer, if not already. Price tag @ $300. So there.
Legends of the Red Dragon by Fount of Useless Info	May 22nd, 2007 02:31:29 PM
Oh, I love hearing someone else bring up that game. I loved playing LoRD and it drove me nuts to have to wait until the next day for more turns. Especially when I felt I was getting close to bagging the waitress at the tavern. That was an awesome game. Kids now would never get into it, but when I was 17-18, I thought it was the greatest thing ever.
Oh, and Hard Boiled/Stranglehold by Fount of Useless Info	May 22nd, 2007 02:32:27 PM
That's one thing that almost makes me want to go get a PS3, even if Hard Boiled can never measure up to The Killer.
On Blu-Ray by FuzzyWhisper	May 23rd, 2007 12:16:12 AM
Trumpeting the ability to place a game and a movie on a single disk strikes me as a profoundly contrived way to illustrate the supposed superiority of the Blu-Ray format. Sony's going to have to do a hell of a lot more than this to convince me that greatly increased storage space is truly the key to realizing revolutionary games. From what I've seen so far, The 360 is well on its way to stomping the PS3 into the floor, regardless of the 41-gig disparity between their respective disk formats. On a less controversial note, Halo 3 and Starcraft 2 = fuck yes. I mean, seriously.

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