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SteelAttack said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

My turn to do blowjobs.

Sit back and relax.

OMG Iga. Perverted slut.

 I love it when you talk dirty

bugsonglass said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

bugsonglass said:

yes, you could say that.  he's not a bad kid and i don't suppose he wanted to gash my head but people need to think some more about what they're doing.

training tonight was great.  just a handful of grown up guys.  we worked on two eddy bravo techniques (apparently) called the pentagram and the electric chair, and on an awesome and very handy variation of the side arm-bar.  then i rolled with a belgian guy who has been training for years and recently spent a year and a half in a training camp in brasil.  he always fights from a butterfly guard and is pretty well invincible but he's very patient with me and gives me pointers so it's good.  good session

Seriously Eddy Bravo needs better names for his techniques. The Electric chair, pentagram, blerghh. Do you guys train with a Gi or are you nude?

About that guy, he is being immature. I seen it many times, guys walking around with a huge ego and hurting other people so that they can feel better for themselves. My advice, only roll with the mature guys, you will learn a lot more and not get hurt in the process. Tell your sensei or teacher or whatever you call him, that you do not want to train with these immature brats. I am sure he will understand.

we work both with the gi, and without, sometimes on different days, sometimes on the same day trying the same technique both ways.  i'm not a fussy person, i never complained to sensei about anything even though i picked up many injuries mostly from, as you say, imature guys.  not long before this recent head gash, i had to go to work with a black eye for over a week because someone cought me with his elbow whilst rolling.  thing is sensei tries to get people rolling with everybody (to become more versatile) and most guys that go to my sessions are around 15-18, and as you say, not mature enough.  but i might have to ask him for that if i get more stupid injuries

edit: steel, iga is misleading ... without the gi usually means shorts and t-shirt or a no-gi.  we don't train naked.  having said that i don't know about iga's school

Well, you might have to, because rolling with someone like him is not fun and you do not learn anything. Anytime you roll with him, you wil be thinking of not getting hurt and probably do not take any risks or try anything new. You will feel constrained, because in the back of your mind you will worry what he will do next.

Sparring is all about trust, if you do not have it, do not spar with the guy. 

P.S. yes we train in the nood, because we are not half-arsing it.

Punk Rebel Ecks said:

Muramasa screens - Damn Muramasa looks nice.

Eurogamer Blazblue Review - 8/10? That's it. Well I guess I should wait until I play it first but . Then again it IS a fighting game that isn't called "Street Fighter".

NPD - Where the fuck is it? Next week instead?

Madworld has high expectations - I don't know the game still seems to scream "NICHE" for me. Then again De Blob is nearly a million seller now...

 Took you long enough to read the Blazblue Review. 

robio said:

And did anyone watch that trailer for the Adventure Island WiiWare game?  Christ does that look bad.  I was never the biggest fan of the series, but the whole 3-D character models on a 2-D stage just isn't working for this.  

 What?! You do not expect me to read/watch the crap I am posting in the updates now, do you?

Yarcofin said:

Me in t-minus 6 days:

gamingeek said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

gamingeek said:

IGN-EA_Grand-salm-tennis-preview

In San Francisco, a Wii MotionPlus-ready build of Grand Slam Tennis was on display and fully playable. And play it I did. So what's the verdict? Well, frankly, it's incredible, which makes EA two for two now because Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 equipped with MotionPlus is spectacular, too.

I can't wait to play a lot more of the game, but even now two truths are rapidly becoming evident. First, EA Grand Slam Tennis is better than Wii Sports Tennis even without MotionPlus support. But with it, the game is in another league entirely.

Ownage, motion controls fully realised. No excuses anymore. Make the proper lightsable game a reality bitches.  

EA is on a roll, first they make all the other Golf games irrelevant, now they do it again with Tennis games. Seriously who would want to play golf with an analog stick now?

Wii Sports Tennis made other tennis games irrelevant to me as I used to play tennis. And it's just far more satisfying, intuitive, accurate and fun doing it with motion IMO. All it was waiting for was a proper championship mode and some expanded options/multiplayer online etc. Now someone is finally doing it.

BUT Virtua Tennis 09 Wii edition is using motionplus too, so I want to see how that works out before going with either one as those guys are really great.  

Eh, wii sports needed far more and better shot selection. Hell, you couldn't really slice the ball properly either.

gamingeek said:

Ravenprose said:

gamingeek said:

WTF? How can you passover Oblivion for Banjo? Damn you Hamster.

Banjo > Oblivion

I actually played about 20-30 hours of Oblivion when I first got my 360. It's a cool game, but I'll probably enjoy Banjo more.

Your suckitude knows no bounds!

Oblivion is by far my favourite 360 game.

Which goes to show how lacklustre the 360's library is.

Look what I have ordered

I am going to use it together with this

Awesome, huh?

Punk Rebel Ecks said:

gamingeek said:

Your suckitude knows no bounds!

Oblivion is by far my favourite 360 game.

Does the rest of your 360 library only include "Vampire Rain" and "Hour of Victory"?

Ravenprose said:

gamingeek said:

Your suckitude knows no bounds!

Oblivion is by far my favourite 360 game.

  Kameo > Oblivion

No bounds at all!##

Ravenprose said:

De Blob was boring.

The bounds have transcended the universe.

Punk Rebel Ecks said:

Madworld has high expectations - I don't know the game still seems to scream "NICHE" for me. Then again De Blob is nearly a million seller now...

Haven't read that article yet. It screams niche to me too. I hope it does half a million though. That's a decent number. It probably deserves a million though. EA are crazy doing and promoting BBBash Party now IMO. They should have re-advertised and gone for higher sales of the first, then did the sequel a bit later, maybe Christmas or new year instead of Spring this year.

Updating now, Official PS Mag reviews

Tom Clancy's HAWX (PS3, Ubisoft): 6
Resistance Retribution (PSP, Sony): 8
Afro Samurai (PS3, Bandai Namco): 5
Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box (PS3, EA): 9
Cuboid (PS3 PSN, TikGameS): 6
Shellshock 2 Blood Trails (PS3, Eidos): 3
Noby Noby Boy (PS3 PSN, Sony): 7
White Knight Chronicles [Import] (PS3, Sony): 8
50 Cent Blood on the Sand (PS3, THQ): 7
Stormrise (PS3, Sega): 6
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 (PS3, Bandai Namco): 4
Sega MegaDrive Ultimate Collection (PS3, Sega): 7
3 on 3 NHL Arcade (PS3 PSN, EA): 8
Outrun Online Arcade (PS3 PSN, Sega): 7
Star Ocean Second Evolution (PSP, Square Enix): 8
Destroy All Humans Path of the Furon (PS3, THQ): 1
WSC Real 09 (PSP, Koch Media): 6
Resistance 2 [Online mode] (PS3, Sony): 9

'You’re a Big Daddy, and you get to use the drill and rivet gun. And you can use plasmids too. You can take little sisters from other Big Daddies and take them around Rapture to collect ADAM like you see happening in BioShock 1.

• The Big Daddy drill takes the place of the wrench. Can spin, but overheats so you can’t run it constantly. You can do the Big Daddy charging shoulder bash. You can heal your hacked turrets/camera bots. Incinerate upgrades let you throw fireballs and shoot a stream of fire. Cyclone trap can be hit with incinerate and become a flaming cyclone trap. Upgrade trees are more diverse to give you more unique options.

• It’s 10 years since the first game. The Big Sister returns to rapture, bringing back the Little Sisters with her. You play as the original Big Daddy. You can use the drill, the rivet gun, and you can still use plasmids.

• Little Sisters have been given a new look to be less creepy, as you’re seeing them from the eyes of their protectors. You don’t get your own Little Sister from the start, as you’re a renegade Big Daddy. So you fight other Big Daddies to get your own sister. You can still harvest them, but the other option has been changed to “adopt” instead of rescue. If you adopt the sister, she’ll ride on your shoulders, and you can go around Rapture looking for corpses for her to collect ADAM from. When your sister goes to harvest ADAM, a wave of Splicers will come and start attacking to try and harvest her. You have to hold them off until she finishes harvesting. You gain some ADAM from this, but not enough to tide you through the game. You can permanently rescue them, but the article doesn’t say how.

• The Big Sister is one of the surviving little sisters from the last game. She’s the new ruler of Rapture, and is the main antagonist of the game. With each Big Daddy you kill, the game lets you know how close you are to incurring the wrath of the Big Sister. When you do, the little sister you’re with will sing a song about how the Big Sister doesn’t want you playing with her, then you get jumped.'>/i>

Punk Rebel Ecks said:

gamingeek said:

This is from the G4 preview of Grand Slam Tennis

As I mentioned in the intro, this was my first hands-on experience with the upcoming Wii Motion Plus peripheral. I was very impressed with what this little add-on offers, at least in the context of this game. Without Wii Motion Plus, the experience was better than Wii Sports tennis offering. With it, the experience was in a different league.

It sounds eerily similar to what IGN said. The preview also says that is suprisingly authentic to the way characters behave and the way the courts effect the gameplay.

Can't wait for motion plus. This should've been packed on the Wii day one.

What I want to know is if Nintendo cheaped out on not providing it at launch. Or whether the technology came into being later, or if the component cost lowered sufficientely for them to incorporate it now.

It's probably a combination of things, but I would rather they include it rather than not at all. And above all else I want to see what they are doing with it in software terms. Because Wii Sports resort wont be IT.

They would be mad not to use it for other games. Imagine doing the RE5 Super punch with motionplus?