Tyree_Cooper

Hot Pursuit on the PS3 feels more like Burnout than Burnout: Paradise! Sure it has more crazy cars with silly decals but it has NO proper races. Just pointless go from point A to B as fast as you can. I spent 80% of my playing time looking at the map.

Burnout 3 was a blast.

Burnout: Revenge was, initially, unplayable. I got into it right after finishing Burnout 3 and I was shocked that I kept crashing like an idiot. After some time things got better but I didn't enjoy it half of Burnout 3.

Burnout: Dominator (developed by EA UK, not Criterion) was a fairly good surprise. It felt different and less polished but was still lots of fun. I heard it was given to EA because Criterion were busy with Paradise.

Burnout: Paradise is more like Burnout Parasite. I finished all of it except for some stunt events. It's a pretend-open-world racer and they could have slapped any name on it. Races are lame. Crash mode replaced by a bowling mode where your car jumps like a grasshopper after touching a car. I guess it's an OK game, but not a real Burnout.

None of these games have a soundtrack though. It's just commercial songs stuffed on the disc.

Just finished Ridge Racer 7 (PS3) and now almost done with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (PS3). I think the next one is going to be Ridge Racer: Unbounded (PS3).

Have you played Shox (PS2)? It blew my mind. It's really hard, the AI cheats like there's no tomorrow, and some times/races seem impossible to beat. But it looks great and feels amazing! It's a pure, unrealistic arcade rally game with licensed cars. Highly recommended by me.

So I need to cancel someone's bid because he didn't read the description and I can't ship to his place.

So I go to "Bid History" > "Cancel Bids", I select the auction, then cancel a specific auction, and I'm presented with 3 options:

- The buyer contacted me to cancel bid --> using this goes to the enter password page and loops forever

- I can't verify the buyer's identity --> same as above

- Other --> This makes a text input box appears at the bottom, except that it doesn't work.

I tried all the options several times, on Mac, Windows, different browsers.

Anyone had to cancel bids recently and managed to do it successfully?

Yeah most signed game covers I've seen from different completely different producers are done with a thick silver pen.

It's really strange that he signed a ridiculously small DS cartridge label instead of the box insert, as he (and everybody else who signs games) usually does. I guess the guy who got it signed wasn't having his brightest day. It's also possible the insert was signed and swapped at some point by a previous owner. It's easy to miss a signature or dismiss it as random writing (especially if it's in a different language).

That Dracula X signed insert is how it should be done

Let me know how much you manage to sell it!

So only the cart is signed? What about the box insert? or manual?

and for those who really want to know, the signature is actually supposed to be

五十嵐 Iga (IGARASHI in Japanese and then IGA in English).

But for some reason sometimes he omits the 十, like below.

And 嵐 being rather complex, is written super quick and distorted, basically unrecognisable.

my job here is done

IGA is Koji Igarashi's nickname. You can see it at the bottom of Curse of Darkness' Japanese boxart.

IGAプロデュース

(Produced by IGA)

That's IGA's signature in his silver pen all right, from top to bottom. good thing you didn't remove it

Matches this one:

31 February at 21:00 works for me

it's a turtle hole made by bootleggers

Could those numbers be plant or location code? Similar to how two digits on the punchcode are for the machine. I think N64 games have those too, even with letters sometimes. I'm sure someone somewhere figured out what they mean on the box flap.

got it thanks!

So there's no box variant, only manual and cart ? What cart goes with manual -1 and -2 ?

When is a real alternative to eBay going to materialise?

guys can skip directly to the TGS 2000 young babe collection here

I like to think the girl at 40:13 is waving a packed condom lol

Here's my CHRISTMAS 2020 GIFT to everybody

I've spent the last few weeks scanning all my gaming-related Video CD and DVD.

Most were bundled with Hong Kong magazines and include trailers and game footage.

The most interesting ones include footage take at different Tokyo Game Shows. I even got an "for internal use only" Sony Hong Kong video celebrating the Asia Game Show 2002. Here are my favourites, for the rest, click on the link at the beginning of the post.

switch carton boxes all over the place near the game shops i go to, i see them all the time on the floor near rubbish bins with dirt and food/drink liquids dripping on them. and all those i saw being opened by shop guys were never sealed

i will wear sunglasses and a wig, and start picking all of them up for "recycling" like they say

What, really? I'll check again but they really seemed unused. Maybe you remember wrong? The codes are probably on the other side.

Yeah, did some eBay search, I saw some which had everything but the WHOA! paper. maybe only early copies had it? They didn't want to give a FREE PLAYERS GUIDE anymore?

Here's what's inside my copy. It's basically brand new unused, really amazing condition. Pretty sure the previous owner never played the game, so I find it really hard to believe he added anything.

Do you actually type, or do you use a buggy speech-to-text program?

Paradox was a cracking group. If you know anything about Amiga, you know about cracking groups. I guess they cracked PlayStation games too.

On 12/18/2020 at 5:52 PM, Joyomofrobro said:

the in full strategy decisions for entire game

ahhh ok, right

I'm no expert but it is my understading that ANY light, be it natural or artificial, eats at colours, it's just a matter of time.

I'd like the advice of those who have looked into the matter more seriously though.