So off topic we forgot what we originally were talking about

west · Postby **west** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:32 pm

I love how these topics inevitably devolve

Floyd · Postby **Floyd** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:34 pm

mmm thats because we didnt have your expert input to guide us :wink:

west · Postby **west** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:37 pm

Alright, smartypants.

Ninja Gaiden was one of the best action games to come out in the last two years (I'd say THE best until the new God Of War came out this month).

Discuss.

Floyd · Postby **Floyd** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:44 pm

My PS2 has been lying in state since it's damn disk drive broke six months ago, so you'll be happy to know i have nothing to add

Postby **Surly** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:52 pm

I still have my original, grey Playstation. Served me very well. It may be a bit elderly now, and occasionally forget whats its doing... but I don't mind too much. I play most of my games on the PC... and my Playstation accounts for the rest.

Floyd · Postby **Floyd** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:57 pm

Yeah, the ol' grey wonder sure was a lot less frustrating than its sleek black, but Flimsy child

Nixit · Postby **Nixit** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:26 pm

PC is where I mostly play. I recently started playing Unreal Tournament on the demo... and I can still play online so it's cool. I suck... but it's fun.

nitefyre · Postby **nitefyre** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:34 pm

Hey, has anyone gotten the PSP, and how does it fair?

For a little while, I was thinking about it. Then, I decided against it.

Razorlance · Postby **Razorlance** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:12 pm

Too early over here, it's not out for another month or two, But I am tempted, not really as a games machine but as a pretty good all round portable device, and you can plug it into a PC and download all sorts of homemade hacks apparently.

Yo_Yo · Postby **Yo_Yo** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:34 pm

My buddy got one already. It's s'okay. It has the problem the first gameboy advance has in the fact it has nothing to cover the screen. He was too poor and couldn't but a game for it yet.

Tell you in a week.

rklenseth · Postby **rklenseth** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:35 am

SekoETC wrote:It's possible to own a TV where the channels are taken out somehow and it's only used for watching videos so it's the channels you're paying for, not the box. I guess. People usually don't brag about not paying their TV licence because if people don't pay the cost gets higher and the ones who do pay sort of have to pay for the slackers too. So if you keep too much noise about it, someone's gonna rat you out to the inspector. I know one woman who didn't pay her licence and the inspector never came to her door, yet she got fined and wondered why... before realizing that their TV shows out of the living room window, the inspector had probably been peeping in!

Wow, that would be illegal in the US. The inspector part that is. And in fact a lot of inspectors would probably disappear in the country. Ever see the Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Minus Leatherface, my village is like that as well as a lot of places in America.

rklenseth · Postby **rklenseth** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:37 am

Mr. Floyd wrote:Cant Fault British advertising

Seriously though, has anyone seen adverts from the continent and America?

painful...

What's wrong with commercials in America?

west · Postby **west** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:42 am

Do you really have to ask?

Nixit · Postby **Nixit** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:26 am

Every other one is some random commercial about cars that has nothing to do with cars...

rklenseth · Postby **rklenseth** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:36 am

Yes, because if I'm going to enter into this industry I got to understand what people think is wrong with it so that I can change those things.

What are the commercials not doing for you? Now if the commercial is so funny or too artsy that you don't know what they are selling or what the message is then the commercial has failed. But if the commercial is not entertaining enough to grab your attention then it has once again failed. There are many commercials that fail in either one or even both matters.

Lets take a Geico commercial. Usually it is indirect ie. some doctor saying that he can cure baldness but at the end he turns around and says "but it won't save you money on car insurance". Now yes the commercial is entertaining and funny but do you get enough information about the company other than the fact they Geico sells car insurance.

Lets take Capital One commercial, the ones about saying no. You get the idea that if you sign up for a plan that there won't be any blackout dates. At the same time it is done in an entertaining way that grabs your attention. That, in my opinion, is a good commercial. It sells their product or service in an entertaining way that is able to grab your attention.

So give me your opinions?

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