Evening Reading

February 20, 2007 6:00 PM

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Bank error in my favor! I actually got a notice in the mail today stating exactly that. Fabulous. It made me giggle.

- Remote co-inventor dies :(
- Addicted to email
- Virtual PC is here
- Young girls hurt by your Britney posters
- How the hot young hussie has fallen, Britney :(
- Cell fashion

Lastly, sure am glad I resisted temptation on upgrading my desktop to Vista while I watch these constant driver updates from NVidia come out. I'm happy fussing around with it on a laptop. Oh and the DVD authoring tool on Vista is great for quickies. Much love.

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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Prozium

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February 20, 2007 6:00 PM

Anyone up for some Crackdown?
- Clay
  
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  February 20, 2007 6:14 PM
  
  this game is nuts, especially when you hit that second agility level, you start jumping around like you're spiderman
  - Clay
    
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    February 20, 2007 6:15 PM
    
    speaking of which, somebody should take the crackdown engine and make a batman game. call it "Gotham" and put in slightly more story.
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      February 20, 2007 6:17 PM
      
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      - Clay
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:20 PM
        
        you could even keep the same flow of the game - there's some mastermind (probably the joker) up to something and you have to take out his lieutenants (penguin, clayface, twoface, riddler, etc) and generally fight crime in the city
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:22 PM
        
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        Clay
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:26 PM
        
        you'd probably need a slightly larger set of weapons (batarangs, smoke grenades, etc) and you could even have alfred (or omac?) feeding you information as you around the city
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:28 PM
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:29 PM
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:27 PM
        
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        Clay
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:28 PM
        
        that replay stuff is nonsense, but yeah, you could be out on patrol and you could stop mugging or bank robberies or purse snatchings or whatever
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:34 PM
        
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        Rauol Duke
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:24 PM
        
        I totally want to see Batman yank some dude out of his pickup truck and then drives the pickup through town.
    - dextius
      
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      February 20, 2007 6:20 PM
      
      wow.. speechless here.. especially with the day/night thing.. work that into the plot.. sheesh, that could be amazing..
      - Prozium
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:21 PM
        
        The art style would transfer over really well too.
        
        Clay
        
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        February 20, 2007 6:22 PM
        
        somebody needs to hire me to make this game
    - tashtego
      
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      February 20, 2007 6:29 PM
      
      Isn't that what Superman Returns basically was? Only, that wasn't a good game.
    - Smellsy
      
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      February 20, 2007 6:46 PM
      
      Why stop at Batman, chuck in Spiderman, Superman, any other hero you can think of... then just set up a random city of crime and villanry with a few hot damsels in distress, voila!
  - riptyde
    
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    February 20, 2007 6:16 PM
    
    With agility maxed in the demo, I could jump from the roof of one building to the roof of another building across a wide street. So awesome.
- burningtrees
  
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  February 20, 2007 6:28 PM
  
  A couple people might: http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crackdownuj5.png
  - Degenerate
    
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    February 20, 2007 6:29 PM
    
    lol
  - maulla
    
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    February 20, 2007 6:33 PM
    
    hey im famous!
  - mr brown
    
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    February 20, 2007 8:25 PM
    
    hey this is a neat game
- aggressor
  
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  February 20, 2007 7:06 PM
  
  Crackdown menz who are far into the game: Does it get harder? Like, a lot harder? I just did the first mission and it was stupid easy, but I'm hoping it's just because I'm in the tutorial part of the game. If not, I should increase the difficulty :(
  - maulla
    
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    February 20, 2007 7:09 PM
    
    the last boss i did gave me a 20% chance of success, and i didnt have a single problem. the bosses seem too easy, its so simple to just run/jump past everyone and take the boss out with a few nades and shotgun blasts.
    - aggressor
      
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      February 20, 2007 7:24 PM
      
      Is that on the easiest setting?
  - Frozen Pixel
    
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    February 20, 2007 7:56 PM
    
    turn up the difficulty, it defaults to 'toughest' which translates to 'Easy'
  - mitchwalker
    
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    February 20, 2007 8:18 PM
    
    The first gang is easy. The Volks is a nice step up. The last one can be pretty tough. Especially if you do the leaders out of order.
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- whistletits
  
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  February 20, 2007 7:56 PM
  
  its hard for me to get a game going on xbox live for some reason.