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d_r_e
06/17/09

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I've been following this story for a little while now, and I don't even own any of The Sims games. It's definitely engaging.
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GDW1017
06/17/09

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Wow, that is a sad thing, made even more sad by the fact that I thought the shooting star was a dildo.

X.x
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Gossy... Fortune and Glory
06/17/09

@GDW1017: ouch!
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Talleh
04/15/09

In reply to Virtual Reality: The Year Twenty-O-Nine In Video Game History
How come games always take the world is on the brink of destruction, has already been destroyed, or is at global civil war. Why cant I just be a guy who does interesting things without having to stop an evil plot or an invasion.
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Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire
04/15/09

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so how the hell can we protect ourselves?
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-MasterDex-
04/15/09

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Really good article. That's the best read I've had in some time.
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fuchikoma
04/15/09

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Abuse... that must be one of the most fun deathmatch games I have ever played! I'm pretty sure it's free now, but I don't know if it runs on modern PCs - back when I first played it was a DOS game with IPX networking...
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luxfluxio
04/15/09

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That was cool to read.. but my eyes were basicly only on a certain image of a certain game on a certain girl.
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3inst3in just had rrod number 2 and is sad
04/15/09

@luxfluxio: raiden?
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Go Go Gadget: Guttah Trash!
04/15/09

@luxfluxio: If you're talking about the Dino Crisis chick, she definitely looks like an Asian dude in Drag. no lie homefry.
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luxfluxio
04/15/09

@Go Go Gadget: Thugmunk: Lol I am not talking about the one off of Dino Crisis.
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MaxDragon7 - In Memory of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett
04/15/09

@luxfluxio: The Persona 3 girl? Or maybe you are looking at the L4D girl and with her 16 fingers.

Lol
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Shiryu
04/15/09

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Excelent read, great work Fahey. b ^_^ d
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Shiryu
04/15/09

@Shiryu: "You know how those Europeans are, always interfering with international affairs they have no business in."

Yep, that's 'US' allright. ;)
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-MasterDex-
04/15/09

@Shiryu: Haha, I'd add you if I hadn't already, nicely done.

On a side note, I can't for the life of me remember how to clip articles.
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exion
04/15/09

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Nicely done :D

And now I have an annoying urge to make such a timeline.

oh, and Dino Crisis was a PSone game, not PS2, (unless it got a remake that I'm unaware of)
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Francis White
04/15/09

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coulda sworn dino crisis was for PSone
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-MasterDex-
04/15/09

@Francis White: You're right. Came out on the PSX first which was the main platform for its sequal too.
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TwistedChimp
04/15/09

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Damnit, just as I'd finally forgotten how much I want to play the Persona series you go and do this, now I'll have to spend what little money I have on a PS2 to play it DAMN YOU KOTAKU
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-MasterDex-
04/15/09

@TwistedChimp: Don't feel too bad. I still have to finish P3 and I'm dying to get P4.
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unangbangkay
04/15/09

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Don't forget that at this time in 2009 The Superdimension Fortress Macross PUNCHED A FOUR-KILOMETER-LONG ALIEN WARSHIP WITH AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

Then again the next year most of humanity died in an orbital bombardment, so I guess it balances out.
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Black-Dog-Howls
04/15/09

@unangbangkay: Could be worse. We might be switching over to Universal Century calendar in 2012. Australia is going to have a colony dropped on them.
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BritBloke916
04/15/09

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"...real-life Somali pirates are running rampant."

Unleash the Somali ninjas!
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Black-Dog-Howls
04/15/09

@BritBloke916: Do SEALs count? Those are doing pretty well against Pirates - though I can't be too sure PETA is behind it.
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excel_excel
04/15/09

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"Raiden eventually learns a great deal about himself, the shadowy Patriots, and how to get around a gigantic enemy fortress while covering his private parts, eventually foiling a terrorist plot to take over New York City."

Raiden is surprisingly good at that....

Thats pretty much all I remember about MGS2!
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Go Go Gadget: Guttah Trash!
04/15/09

@excel_excel: Blasphemy!

MGS2 is my second favorite in the entire MGS series (4 toppling it's masterpiece)

Yes it was kind of confusing, but there was substance there! Some may argue too much, but dammit, I loved it. I loved being smothered by the layers of meaning and depth the characters and background provided. Seriously, this game opened my eyes man... it opened my EYES..

Also MEMEs.
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excel_excel
04/15/09

@Go Go Gadget: Thugmunk: Ah I'm kidding I loved MGS2 when I played it for the second time, it was great!

I NEED SCISSORS 61!
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excel_excel
04/15/09

@excel_excel: It was the same for MGS3 first time I played it I didn't enjoy it that much. The second time, I don't know what happened but now its one of my fav games of all time
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-MasterDex-
04/15/09

@excel_excel: Brother! It's been too long!

MGS2 was awesome. I'm just after remembering that I still need to finish it on European Extreme. As far as I remember, I was about halfway through it before I left it down. Have most of the tags for each difficulty too....man, I raelly played that game to death. Still love it.
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Go Go Gadget: Guttah Trash!
04/15/09

@-MasterDex-: Dude same. I remember where I left off... I was fighting the harrier.. European Extreme.

So much fun on that level, only because it's super tough.

And I loved the Snake Tales side missions too. I was so PSYCHED to see Meryl! (They had a character model of her and you only see her in one of the Snake Tales missions!!) Mostly because MGS2 was my first foray into the Metal Gear games. And the soundtrack is brilliant. Everything makes me tingly in the wingly.

A+++++++ game. Will play again.
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-MasterDex-
04/15/09

@Go Go Gadget: Thugmunk: I got the game the day of release so I never played the Snake Tales segments, possibly played 1 or 2 at a friends house but that would've been it. Even without all the extra content, it was still a great game.
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MaxDragon7 - In Memory of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett
04/15/09

@Go Go Gadget: Thugmunk: I feel the same way.

MGS4 is awesome, (I can say otherwise for MGO :( , but oh well) and I was taken away by the storyline.

I even went and hid in a cardboard box to see how it feels to be "inconspicious"!

The Metal Gear series definitely taught me so much about the importance of Memes, and how to hang on to them even when you have nothing left. I guess when Snake supposedly "retires" in 2014 (Quotations, only because I can never tell what Hideo will cook up next!) I can go meet him and get an autograph from him!

Whippee!
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Orihalcon
04/15/09

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Wow i didn't know that Dino Crisis for Dreamcast had segments that were set in 2009. Cool.
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Go Go Gadget: Guttah Trash!
04/15/09

@Orihalcon: Speaking of dreamcasts, I have an unopened dreamcast that I have no games for. I don't know if dinocrisis would be good though.. any other thoughts? Shenmue? But is that all? D: Answers!
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-MasterDex-
04/15/09

@Go Go Gadget: Thugmunk:

-Jet Grind Radio

-Capcom vs SNK

-Street Fighter: Third Strike,

-Power Stone

-Crazy Taxi

-Sonic Adventure 1

-Resident Evil: Code Veronica

-Soul Calibur

-DOA2

-MDK2

-Skies of Arcadia

-Grandia 2

-Phantasy Star Online

-Sega GT

-House of the Dead 2

-Ecco the Dolphin

-Seaman

-Fur Fighters

That should help.
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Comatose Turtle
04/15/09

@Go Go Gadget: Thugmunk: Jet Grind Radio, Power Stone 2, Project Justice, and if you didn't get them for other systems, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, Skies of Arcadia, Grandia 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, MDK2...

I'm certain there's more, but I can't remember. I haven't played it in about a month.
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