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Tiger WOOOO!

By Gabe – November 1, 2002

Some of you may remember my rant from a few weeks back were I laid into Links 2003 for looking like ass and not being on the Xbox with Live support. Well I got a bunch of mail from people telling me that I should check out Tiger Woods on the PS2. While it didn't have the multiplayer I craved, they said it was a great looking golf game that had some really fun and solid gameplay. Well I decided that since the new Tiger Woods 2003 would be coming out in just a few weeks I'd just wait and pick that up. Well I grabbed it yesterday and you guys were right, this game is great. PGA 2003 is almost everything I could possibly want from a golf game. I say almost because there is still no goddamned Live support. Otherwise this is the golf game I always wanted. For the most part I have always steered clear of console golf games because, honestly I find them a little insulting. I refuse to play a golf game whose slogan is "Got Balls?" I don't want to play a round of golf as a Biker or a dominatrix. If your golf game has an upskirt cam you can count me out. PGA 2003 is the absolute perfect mix of realism and flash. If I happen to really tag one I'm treated to some fancy camera angles, maybe a bit of slow motion or if I really pound it, a little flash of fire as the ball takes off. That is as much spectacle as I need in my golf game. I already love the sport, I already think it's cool. I don't want my character to make wise cracks or shake her tits. Fancy made up courses are fine but I also want to play the real thing. PGA 2003 has 13 famous courses and the ones I have unlocked so far look fucking beautiful. Playing the 18th at Pebble Beach with ocean waves crashing against the rocks on my left and mist rolling across the hole was awesome. I want to play the 17th at Sawgrass not some crazy hole with a volcano on it. PGA 2003 is fantastic. If you love golf like I do then you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. You won't be disappointed.

Rommel

By Tycho – November 1, 2002

Zoid Kirsch - creator of the original CTF for Quake, currently working at Metroid Prime developer Retro Studios - took me to task for talking about the Metroid Fusion ROM the other day. Gabe didn't say anything about it, but I'm certain he took some time out to leer.

Phoenix

By Tycho – November 1, 2002

I have been a proponent of Opera for a very long time, I've just liked how clean it felt. As it turns out, it gets even cleaner.

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The Night Train

By Tycho – October 31, 2002

Just got back from Jackass, and I know you aren't supposed to like that show if you're smart or whatever but that's the best Goddamn eight-fifty I've spent in recent memory.

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Shenmue II

By Gabe – October 31, 2002

Kara and I got it this morning as well. Kara is a huge fan but personally I’d say it’s the only game I could actually fall asleep playing. YAAAAAAAAAWWWN...

Shenmue II

By Tycho – October 31, 2002

A lot of the fundamental geometry of the game is fairly dated, coming as it does from the past, but it looks better than I remember. Facial textures have taken a step up, and even dingy urban environments manage to be colorful. To say that load times have been "improved" over the ponderous DC original is a feat of understatement. I can't tell you how happy I am to be playing a Shenmue game again. I had feared that I wouldn't find myself taken by it, that I had perhaps amplified the original beyond reason or measure. Thus far, this has not been the case.

Metroid Fusion

By Tycho – October 30, 2002

People keep hurling this ROM at me, and since my morality gland is largely vestigial I snapped it up.

Some More Shit

By Tycho – October 30, 2002

I was thinking about some more Tony stuff.

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One-Two, One-Two

By Tycho – October 30, 2002

I don't know if it's some kind of spam prevention mechanism or what, but it appears that Gabe can only send 500 messages or so per day from his e-mail account. I don't think they tell people about that limitation, as most people won't brush up against it - as soon as you send number 500, it places a twenty-four hour moratorium on sendings.

I Have No Comment

By Tycho – October 30, 2002

If I told you that Gabe kept hitting me with a tube he fished out of the dumpster - pausing briefly to consider the precise ferocity quotient his next strike should embody - well, that's not likely to reflect on me favorably. Please envision a scenario that doesn't make me look like a total pussy.

I give it an 8.62315

By Gabe – October 28, 2002

I stopped going to IGN about a year ago after one of their many re-designs. It seems that each time they get a bug up their ass to overhaul their website they make it harder and harder to actually find any content. So I probably never would have seen this review of Clone Wars by Cory D. Lewis had Tycho not been kind enough to bring it to my attention. We always joke about how terrible most reviews are. The rating systems are usually completely worthless. I mean, if you ask your buddy what he thought of a game he doesn't say "It's about a 7.8". This latest review for Clone Wars only served to prove our point. Cory D. Lewis delivers more mixed messages in this review than a teenage girl on her first date.

Dinky Bomb!

By Tycho – October 28, 2002

My friend/admin Webjester hooked me up with this Dinky Bomb game, whose mechanics should be familiar to anyone down with Worms. Anyway, Dinky Bomb is free, free, free, runs in a browser, and is Internet capable. So yeah.