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Nov. 5, 2009
  • PlatypusPlatoon commented on Brad's editorial review Torchlight
    Torchliiiiiiiiiiiiight!  4 stars seems about right.  It lacks the polish and infectious personality of triple-A titles from the house of Warcraft, but gets all the little gameplay elements right.  They've taken the best elements from Diablo and WoW, fixed all the niggling annoyances, and deftly streamlined the experience, so that all you need to care about is clicking monsters and picking up hordes of loot.  However, I will say that ...
    2 days, 13 hours ago
Nov. 4, 2009
  • PlatypusPlatoon commented on Ryan's editorial review Grand Theft Auto IV
    Ryan didn't like it.  Many  other reviewers did.  So what?  Are we still at the point where we care what rating professional journalists give to a game, even after we've played through it, and already formed an opinion for ourselves?  Reviews are there to aid the decision making process in a purchase.  Should I plunk down $20 (or $60, or what have you) of my hard earned dollars?  As with ...
    3 days, 13 hours ago
Oct. 29, 2009
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  • PlatypusPlatoon commented on the achievement How Could I Dance with Another?
    Goddamn, this is difficult.  If you can't get it, I don't recommend attempting it over and over again in one sitting, because it's tiring.  Come back and try it again another day when you're fresh.  Like Roughmar, I double tapped at one point in the middle of the song, lost my multiplier, but kept on playing, figuring it would be good practice.  I didn't make another mistake and to my ...
    1 month ago
Sept. 23, 2009
  • PlatypusPlatoon is glad he got Xbox Live just in time for Beatles Rock Band.
    1 month, 2 weeks ago
Sept. 22, 2009
  • PlatypusPlatoon commented on the achievement Like a Million Suns
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the song I got it on.  We had the Vocalist, Guitar, and Bass on Hard, and Drums on Expert.  This is likely the easiest song to get the achievement on, as we were far from perfect, but still cleared 1 million by a fair amount.  Just make sure you sync up your band multipliers to get the 8x bonus, and it's smooth sailing. ...
    1 month, 2 weeks ago
Sept. 16, 2009
  • In story mode, did anyone notice that for the last song in every chapter, the pitch detection is more strict?  Last night I finished Chapters 1 and 2 on vocals on hard, and on the fourth song in each set, the pitch bars were noticeably narrower.  The first time this happened, I thought I moved up to expert by mistake, so I restarted.  Nope, still narrower pitch bars.
    1 month, 3 weeks ago
Aug. 24, 2009
  • I like 10 point.  Like the poster above me mentioned, you could implement it as 5 stars with half stars.  Gives you a little more granularity, and lets you separate out all those "average" 3-star games into 2.5, 3, or 3.5 stars, so it's a little easier to tell if something is worth trying or not.  Right now, I just see 3-star, and I automatically skip the game, but perhaps ...
    2 months, 2 weeks ago
  • Etrian Odysessy may be what you're looking for.  It fulfills all of your criteria, and as I understand, is hard as hell, to boot.
    2 months, 2 weeks ago
Aug. 10, 2009
  • Foo Fighters is still the ultimate Rock Band... band. Their songs were made for that game.
    2 months, 4 weeks ago
July 23, 2009
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  • PlatypusPlatoon is playing Half-Life 2. Afterwards, I can finally create my "Best of 2004" list!
    3 months, 2 weeks ago
July 12, 2009
June 24, 2009
  • Lightning Bolt is coming back to Magic. Hold onto your socks.
    4 months, 2 weeks ago
June 23, 2009
  • PlatypusPlatoon replied to the topic What do you think of Bikes? in the Burnout Paradise board.
    It's unfortunate there's no content to go along with the bikes other than time trials, cause the feeling of riding the bikes is awesome.  I think the bikes should have been paid DLC, which would allow Criterion to justify spending more time in adding additional game modes and content surrounding the bikes.
    4 months, 2 weeks ago
June 22, 2009
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Date Joined: July 21, 2008
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Jeff 3 days, 13 hours ago
Game of the Day: Rambo: First Blood Part II (SMS)
coonce 4 days, 6 hours ago
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screeley 5 days, 9 hours ago
Working on Giant Bomb's search.
gpbmike 6 days, 21 hours ago
gpbmike is sorry for running people off the road in forza tonight. I didn't mean it. Except for that chrisd guy. He deserved it.
snide 1 week, 3 days ago
snide should finish DAO tonight.
andy 2 weeks, 4 days ago
working on some new status changes
drewbert 2 weeks, 6 days ago
But of all the level 20 support gunners, Roland was the best.
Ryan 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Ryan's status has changed!