meh ive not had that problem at all so far at least!


anyway... does anyone else use steam? and if so user names? Mine is imnotapenguin..... feel free to add me

ha.... there are two fork_boy 's on steam.... what are the chances!!

Civ 5 does look amazing...

Anyone played Halo: Reach yet? Isn't it awesome?

well, Black Ops is going to give it some stiff competition and I'll probably play black ops more because I'm more a fan of the CoD games more

Call of Duty hasn't had fun multiplayer since CoD4 (and to a lesser extent WaW, I still like WWII). As far as more options for combat in Call of Duty vs. Halo I don't know which game you are playing but both are pretty similar in terms of weapon use. The weapon selection in Call of Duty really isn't that big, you have like 5 weapon classes and each gun is simply a variant of the others in its class. Halo may not have the same number of weapons, but there is more variety between the weapons compared to Call of Duty where the difference between two SMGs is simply fire rate. Also, you complain about map symmetry in Halo and to me that communicates a basic misunderstanding of the game. Call of Duty game types revolve around deathmatch or territory type games, you are killing people or grabbing land. Halo is a game that is heavily based around CTF game variants and deathmatch. To effectively have 2 Flag CTF the map needs to be symmetrical as to not give one team an advantage in terrain.

One of the biggest problems in the multiplayer in recent CoDs (BTW, I prefer to play CoD4 over all) is that the spawns are very broken. In MW2, the game engine has set it up so that it will only spawn you at places where no one is looking, and if you look through say a chain link fence, it counts as no one looking. Also, they added too many over powered weapons in the game and never nerfed any of them. That's why I play CoD4

My problem with the Beatles Rock Band is also one of my favorite things about the game. I have a love/hate relationship with it only having Beatles songs. On the one hand, I am glad Harmonix respected the band and music enough to let it stand on its own. On the other hand, even with all the DLC the amount of music is small and eventually when I am playing it (alone or with friends) we have to switch discs to Rock Band 2 because we can't simply load the music on the hard drive. On Rock Band 2 between Rock Band 1, Lego Rock Band, Rock Band 2, and my almost 300 downloaded songs the music library is hard to get bored with in a single play session.

I think Harmonix is done with Beatles DLC. The game really didn't sell as well as expected (still well but not the numbers they hoped) and from what I remember reading the DLC was even worse. I think the biggest knock against it was the challenge. None of the songs are extremely hard and I know the main reason I continue to play Rock Band is because it is still one of the few games out there that can consistently challenge me.

The art direction is fantastic though. One of the most beautiful games I have seen.

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The new Halo is taking over my life. Shouldve seen this coming haha.

Finally got The Ballad of Gay Tony yesterday after completing The Lost and Damned. And man, it's FAR more frustrating thatn TLaD AND GTAIV combined. Fucking helicopters! Haha. Despite that, it's still fun. Not quite sure I agree with most folk about it being better than TLaD, but then I guess as a Sons of Anarchy fan Johnny is more interesting the Luis to me.