Morning Discussion

Greetings Shackers and welcome to the world of tomorrow. I know, you'll miss your old threads but these are fresh and clean, they'll have to do. Don't miss our interview with Garage Games about their new title Fallen Empires, one might call it the spiritual sequel to Tribes but I would hate to sell it short. In other news, North American XBox Live should be able to download The Club demo if shooting things is your fancy.

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    January 22, 2008 6:53 AM

    Happy Burnout Paradise day!

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      January 22, 2008 6:54 AM

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      January 22, 2008 6:55 AM

      Time to use the Christmas gift cards!

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      January 22, 2008 6:56 AM

      I forgot to bring the games I was going to trade in for it =( That's one less night of ShackHype I'll be able to take advantage of!

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        January 22, 2008 6:57 AM

        dont worry, I'll have very little, if any, time to play tonight as well :(

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      January 22, 2008 6:58 AM

      thanks for fixing that.
      Hitting Best Buy later today. Of course I have few shackers on my friends list so finding Denegerate to watch him get slammed repeatedly into concrete abutments may take a while.

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        January 22, 2008 7:01 AM

        its kind of crazy that we posted almost the exact same thing and the timestamp was the same too. We need the seconds back in the time.

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      January 22, 2008 6:59 AM

      Here's hoping GameFly sends it to me today.

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      January 22, 2008 6:59 AM

      Happy Advance Wars: Days of Ruin Day! :D

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      January 22, 2008 7:00 AM

      Picked this up at work today. I've never played a burnout game before so I hope it's good.

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        January 22, 2008 7:07 AM

        I'm picking it up at lunch :D

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        January 22, 2008 7:25 AM

        Yeah, I've never played a burnout game either. I'm really wanting this game but am nervous about fucking up the races because I don't have the city memorized. I'm still trying to download the demo. Anyone know if the demo is representative of the whole game?

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          January 22, 2008 7:29 AM

          I think everybody will be missing a lot of turns to start with. I'm sure it'll get better as you learn the city better.

          During the races just watch the street signs at the top of the screen. The middle one is the street that youre currently on. The ones on the sides are the upcoming streets. If one of the upcoming street signs is blinking then thats a road that leads to your destination.

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            January 22, 2008 7:51 AM

            Nice, thanks for the tip. (now give me your whole cock!)
            Why didn't they do the image capture thing with the PS eye? I want to see people's wangs as I smash their cars.

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        January 22, 2008 7:42 AM

        do you work at a gamestore?

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      January 22, 2008 7:11 AM

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      January 22, 2008 7:24 AM

      So how much does it suck?

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      January 22, 2008 7:24 AM

      cant decide if i want this or not...

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        January 22, 2008 7:27 AM

        how could you not want it?

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          January 22, 2008 7:29 AM

          Honestly I can't see how a Burnout Underground could be fun, also Crash Mode rape.

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            January 22, 2008 7:35 AM

            Did you try the demo?

            Like almost everyone else I really dont like the decision of not being able to choose your event from a menu or restart but I still think the game is going to be great fun, especially in multiplayer mode. Once you start to learn the roads and locations of things you need I dont think it will be that much of an issue.

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              January 22, 2008 7:37 AM

              Don't have a 360, I'm still waiting for a certain shacker to ship me his original Xbox so I can replay 3 and 4.

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      January 22, 2008 7:29 AM

      oh shit, wake up and RRoD. :|

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        January 22, 2008 7:31 AM

        that's just cruel

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        January 22, 2008 11:33 AM

        WTF?! Didn't you just get an Xbox 360? If so, dude... that sucks horribly. :(

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          January 22, 2008 3:44 PM

          Yeah, bought mine mid-September, didn't actually open it until mid/late October or so. I was watching old movies on the TV via streaming and fell asleep, and woke up with the 3 lights blinking. I shut it off and turned it back on later and it's working, but I'm guessing that this is on its way out no matter what I'm doing now.

          I got Burnout today, though. :P

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      January 22, 2008 7:42 AM

      I just don't know if I'm going to love it enough to spend $60 on it :(

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        January 22, 2008 7:44 AM

        You won't.

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        January 22, 2008 7:45 AM

        look around could it bring somebody down if I never made a sound again?

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          January 22, 2008 7:49 AM

          back beat, the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out

          That's XBL points, not real money! But I really don't have any 360 games that I can sink TIME into, Rock Band is great but I don't feel any sense of super-accomplishment with it, but I have three Wii games I can do that with! OH GOD WHY IS IT SO COLD

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          January 22, 2008 7:52 AM

          superdrag - who sucked out the feeling

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        January 22, 2008 7:49 AM

        I bet you have some games to trade in, or some Christmas gift cards to burn.

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      January 22, 2008 7:49 AM

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      January 22, 2008 7:50 AM

      Hopefully I get my copy today.

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      January 22, 2008 8:30 AM

      justin3d WOOT! Picking up my copy @ lunch. Looking forward to playing with you guys late tonight.

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      January 22, 2008 8:38 AM

      GameStop better have their shit together today.

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        January 22, 2008 8:43 AM

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          January 22, 2008 8:47 AM

          I got gift cards for Christmas. There's really no other reason I'd subject myself to shopping there.

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            January 22, 2008 8:59 AM

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            January 22, 2008 9:01 AM

            yeah I had a small amount of credit left there from trading stuff in quite a while ago. Thats the only reason I went ahead and pre-ordered from there.

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        January 22, 2008 8:44 AM

        yesterday gamestop manager guy told me that I could pick up my copy first thing today. I'm taking that as they already have them in the back.

        BUT...this did come from gamestop manager guy so what he may have actually meant by 'I could pick up my copy first thing today' is 'please come into the back room and let me suck you off while I jam Han Solo action figures in my rectum while dressed as pikachu'

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          January 22, 2008 8:48 AM

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          January 22, 2008 8:48 AM

          wow. it's Christmas in January.

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          January 22, 2008 9:44 AM

          oh they are always full of shit, once a manager acted like he knew when the fuck the PSP slim would be in stock (like, weeks later), then two days later after reading that the Daxter edition had been out for a few days I walked into the very store the manager worked at and picked up an unit. Fuck 'em, not to be trusted.

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      January 22, 2008 8:41 AM

      picking it up after work!!! woohoo!!!

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      January 22, 2008 8:46 AM

      More like Happy Advance Wars Days Of Ruin day! :D

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      January 22, 2008 9:08 AM

      burnout paradise more like you need a pair of dice to guess how long until shackhype burns out HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR money :(

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      January 22, 2008 9:39 AM

      oh god, this and advance wars? so happy!

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      January 22, 2008 9:57 AM

      What about Pirates of the Burning Sea!! Is there no Shack-hype and/or Guild set up for this?

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      January 22, 2008 10:23 AM

      * B O U G H T ' D *

      I got the last copy at EB Games. I love it when that happens, because then they ask me to pre-order something else and I say "but I've got this lucky streak going!", and that infuriates them.

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      January 22, 2008 10:28 AM

      Done. and Advance Wars: Days or Ruin and Quake Wars.

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      January 22, 2008 10:58 AM

      ThomW's piece of shit site is broken, because it's a piece of shit and ThomW "designed" it, but when it's back up everyone should update so I can add some gamertags to my list! Seriously gamewith.us is awesome, ThomW deserves a BJ but not from me. Maybe from Korban.

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        January 22, 2008 11:00 AM

        My web host keeps fucking things up. :(

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          January 22, 2008 11:43 AM

          no BJ from me till you get this shit figured out

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      January 22, 2008 11:04 AM

      Second car available? El Camino mother fucker!

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        January 22, 2008 11:17 AM

        did you take today off to play Burnout?

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          January 22, 2008 11:22 AM

          no. I just picked it up at lunch and play for a few minutes. work, mall and home are all pretty close.

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      January 22, 2008 11:10 AM

      Reminder

      Send Shacknews a Friend Request and use Friend of a Friend to play with Shackers!

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        January 22, 2008 11:25 AM

        yeah, more people need to do this, especially those of you with full friends lists.
        *cough* DarkKodiak ;P

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        January 22, 2008 6:26 PM

        How did you guys set this up ? Does someone pay to maintain this account ?

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      January 22, 2008 11:25 AM

      two quick interesting notes

      1) the bonus cars you can unlock with codes gamestop, etc can be used online right away but you have to upgrade your license several times in single player before you can use it there.

      2) I saw a marked man event where you have to make it to a certain spot on the map without letting AI drivers take you out of the race. I hope this is an option in multiplayer. I think that would be fun.

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      January 22, 2008 11:32 AM

      Fuck yeah, GF emailed me to say they shipped the game out to me. Should get it tomorrow.

      I'm really enjoying the hell out of Takedown when I downloaded it off of Xbox Originals. Crash mode has me hooked.

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        January 22, 2008 11:35 AM

        That crash mode that you're hooked on no longer exists in Paradise.

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          January 22, 2008 11:51 AM

          Crash mode was cool at first. Then you realized it all trial and error and boring after about an hour.

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            January 22, 2008 12:13 PM

            I'm about an hour in. Yeah, it loses its "OMG WTF" factor after an hour, but it's still pretty fun. Like bowling with cars.

            Takedown does it the most for me, will have to see if it is even more awesome online.

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      January 22, 2008 11:34 AM

      Let me know how it is. Earlier this year we downloaded the burnout revenge demo on the 360 and everyone has played that thing constantly when they come over. I haven't seen it at any stores or I'd have bought it. If this game is anywhere near the level of retarded hilarity then I'll surely buy it.

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      January 22, 2008 3:00 PM

      I'll be playing as soon as I can make her stop playing SMG shortly!

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      January 22, 2008 3:10 PM

      Is anyone able to get on the servers? They've been down all day for me. I spent hours getting the online record for every goddamn street before other people had the game for nothing!

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        January 22, 2008 3:12 PM

        problems getting on the servers? is this the Xbox Live problem i've been hearing about or is this an EA thing?

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          January 22, 2008 3:29 PM

          seems like an EA thing

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            January 22, 2008 3:48 PM

            Wouldn't surprise me. I had a ton of problems with EA's servers when I was first playing Burnout Revenge on the 360.

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            January 22, 2008 3:53 PM

            EA Nation servers were also goofing up when I was trying to play skate online a couple of days ago.

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        January 22, 2008 5:03 PM

        works fine on PSN for me.

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        January 22, 2008 5:52 PM

        we just played for about two hours with no issues. The make your own race feature is quite excellent.

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          January 22, 2008 5:56 PM

          You're so going to get run off the road.

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      January 22, 2008 3:28 PM

      Tomorrow for me :(

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      January 22, 2008 3:29 PM

      Crap! I totally forgot about this. Will have to pick it up.

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      January 22, 2008 4:23 PM

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      January 22, 2008 5:02 PM

      Whoever Nipgrip (PS3 - add me Ps3 player, Boxelder) is, didn't havee my mic and you weren't starting any races. This game is incredible BTW. The restart thing really hasn't bothered me at all so far. I could see it being a little annnoying later one the harder burning laps when everything else is done, but right now the variety and density of content is so good.

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        January 22, 2008 5:14 PM

        BTW the PS3 version is -$10 at the Future Shop in Montreal, probably all of them. (5 off, and comes with $5 gift card)

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      January 22, 2008 5:51 PM

      wooooo the fun is back! sorry I have to bail guys but plans for tonight cant be canceled. :(

      GGs and I'll be back for more abuse tomorrow night for sure

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