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I went out to Best Buy to pick up Prototype today and was expecting to see the conventional game in hard plastic cover which the clerk takes off when you pay.  So I'm walking through and noticed their games looking mighty thing.  I discredited it thinking maybe they were moving stuff around, but as I looked closer, every PS3 and 360 game was just a piece of paper with the cover and back of the game on it. 

I just stood there for a few minutes trying to wrap my head around this concept.  Isn't this 2009 we're living in?  I had flashbacks to when I was a little kid at Toys R Us walking up to a wall of video games that just had box art, taking a ticket and going up to a window that was surrounded in like...bullet proof glass to get the game.  I never did figure out what I was supposed to do as I got the game w/ t-shirt that I'll never wear (it was the same price).  But still...it blew my mind.

Anyone else's Best Buy do this - is mine just late to the party?

You're essentially having one single person make up your mind if you're going off a single review.  I'm sure we all have games that we don't like that everyone else seems to like.  I give Jeff the most respect in terms of game reviews out of any reviewer but still don't agree with his take on Matt Hazard.  I'm not trying to change anyones mind, but be smart.

I just got the game and have yet to play it - but so far my favorite part has been the PS3 fanboys ripping on Prototype to make inFamous look better (despite it being multi platform) and the 360 fanboys trying to put down inFamous and discredit any bad Prototype scores.  Internets FTW!

Ryan - I was going to say Jeff until I remembered he was "meh" towards Fallout 3.   Then I remembered Ryan kind of enjoyed it.  Pretty similar taste in games.

I only use reviews for games I'm on the fence about or when I'm really interested in a game, only for it to get a crazy low score (I'm looking at you MLB 2K9).  I've been sold on Prototype for a while so no review could discourage me unless it flat out read "this game is broken".  I love Assassins Creed and that game had scores all over the board.  In addition, IGN gave Crackdown an 8 and that game has easily provided me some of the most fun I've ever had playing games.

For what its worth, a few weeks ago on the TalkRadar podcast, their PS3 editor is a sandbox game fanatic.  He said he actually enjoyed Prototype quite a bit more then Infamous and Prototype is Sandbox game done right.

The first time I was ever really afraid was on "Home Alone" for the SNES.  I have a fear of spiders to this day and one of the earlier "bosses" is a giant tarantula.  Whenever I would get to that part I would either turn the game off or hand off the controller to someone else and hide behind a chair (I was 6 at the time).

I was good until the GameCube Resident Evil remake came out.  First time a crimsion head popped up it startled the shit out of me.  Shortly there after, Eternal Darkness Sanitys Requim came out and the game just messed with my head.  I have vivid memories of the scene where a dead body in a bathtub of blood comes on screen making me jump.

Current generation, first game that made me jump was the first Condemned.  I felt like such a pussy - my girlfriend/now fiance was in the room and was at some part where I had to climb over a rope.  As you're climbing the rope a crazy hobo jumps on you and for the first time ever I let out a "Bahh!".  I get shit for it to this day.  I couldn't play that game in the dark and usually had to have the volume down - as each time I'd kick a can or box in the game I'd get on edge.  Dead Space had a few startling moments.   There is a vault in Fallout 3 (the number escapes me) where you start to see things in some purple filter which was really creepy.  I had to actually stop playing the game for the night about 1/4th the way through.

I guess in conclusion, the game that scared me the most was probably Condemned.

If you send it in, you should be able to get one of the new jasper consoles which supposedly don't overheat and cause the E74 error.

Rather then a review, I think a special edition bombcast where Jeff and Vinny can just reflect on the game would be more appropraite.  I'll be honest, I stopped watching a few episodes before 50.  I missed a few episodes while out of town and came back and had no idea wtf was going on.  With the episodes seemingly have increased in size, I'd rather be playing games then spending hours watching and catching up.  Just a quick - 1 hour look back on the highs and lows of the game would be fine.