Being the Kojima fanboy that I am, I caved and bought Peace Walker yesterday on my way home from work.

I only got about half an hour in, but god, the controls are morbid. It will take a while to get used to. A looong while.

Everyone I've spoken to who played that says to switch the controls from "Action" to "Shooter", otherwise it's practically unplayable. Give that a shot and see if it works any better for you.

(I don't own it, just going by what fellas have said.)

... Stephen and I have gotten quite a few things in the past month or so, thanks to Amazon giving us multiple 10 dollar credits:

Super Mario Galaxy 2
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Okami (Wii)
Lost Odyssey

Almost sprung for FES. But no. (FES not yet)

Very true. Shooter is much more bearable. I think it's just that many who are playing Peace Walker have been spoiled by the dual analogs from the previous games.

Very enjoyable game though <3

That's not to say movement and controls in MGS games haven't always been stiff and unwieldy.

Alpha Protocol, Mice Heist (which was given to me by the developers for saying it should be called "Mouse Porno"), 3D Dot Game Heroes,and Killzone 2. I will add a screen at some point.

Alpha Protocol is not Mass Effect, but I think it's getting slammed a bit too much. It's a decent game.

Epic trade in.

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Let us know what the new machine is like (and how easy it is to transfer your shit onto) as I'm somewhat tempted to pick one up when the land over here next month.

Yeah about that. It helps that we had two 360s already and he had a memory card to transfer all of his saves and what not onto my HDD (FFXIII's) and will buy a usb cable or this later on that will make things easy to transfer stuff. The slim does not support a memory card port. I think.

On the other-hand, it does support loading stuff onto a USB flash drive to transfer data over :)

I've never even heard of those before. A friend of mine's XBox Arcade took a shit on him (big surprise): Will this cable allow him to transfer data from one hard drive to another, directly? Or will he have to go from HDD->Mem Card->HDD?

I really want to know how quiet they are compare to the last model.

Yeah, that's what I did. Since the slim doesn't take Memory cards and I don't actually own a USB flash drive, what I did was move everything on to Philia's system (which is now sporting my old FFXIII-branded 250 gig HDD ;_;) so I could dump the memory card for the trade-in (and I wouldn't need it anyway since we'd only have one system). Then I bummed a USB flash drive for a few minutes off of Kyndig to move my stuff off her system onto the new one and done.

You can transfer directly; you plug the old HDD into this cable thing, then that goes into the new system via USB. You then run a program off a disc and it basically wipes anything on the destination HDD, and completely transfers everything off your old HDD as well as wiping it at the same time (to avoid copying data I guess). Keep in mind there are a few game saves that cannot be transferred, I think the big one is the first Viva Pinata and there's one other game.

I don't really have any way of confirming it, but supposedly these new systems have the software built in, but you still need the cable. Wouldn't help me in this case though because you have to trade in the HDD to get the new system :p

I'll check it out in a minute, but first reports I'm seeing from people is that it runs way way quieter.

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Edit: At first impression it's waaaaaaaaay quieter. It wasn't as much of an issue for me since I was installing game for the most part, but I was just running ODST non-installed and it was almost completely quiet. I could still hear the fan if I was right up on the system but it wasn't even terrible then. On a couch a few feet away I doubt you'd hear anything even if you tried.

Protocol has indeed some nice ideas, but the execution is sloppy. I'm enjoying it though, but it can get tedious.

Protocol is okay. I'm liking the dialog.

Frustrating on rookie, though. Man, going full on stealth can be rough.

I'm just playing on easy with Rookie. Saving the real challenge for Veteran mode, where I'm going to be the biggest douchebag on the planet.

I don't suppose you have some old Xbox games lying around? I'm anxious to know if it's still backwards compatible with the original (not that's it's a deal breaker for me).

Another huge Steam sale going on.

So far, just the Overlord package for $4.50. I've been eternally curious about this game since I saw it at Gamestop and getting both games and the first expansion for about $10 less than buying a used copy for the 360, I figured it was worth it...

Even if my computer might not be able to run it. Yes, I checked Can You Run It already, but they said I couldn't run The Sims 3 either and that ran fine.

OH GOD, WHY DO YOU DO THIS STEAM, RIGHT WHEN I GOT PAID TOO. :gonk:

[Steam] attacks [DN] for massive wallet damage.
Its Super Effective!

Grabbed Flotilla, And Yet It Moves and Culpa Innata from the sale~

So many wonderful games people should be buying.

I ordered Resonance of Fate yesterday, which should more than keep me going until Reach comes out.

Finished paying on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Picked up Lego Harry Potter for PSP (wish I had waited and got the PS3 version) and some hack n' slash dungeon crawler called Warriors of the Lost Empire on PSP.

Toying about preordering the new Fist of the North Star game coming out by Koei. It looks really good.

Gamestop had a buy two get one free Used sale a couple of weeks ago, and I picked up Deadly Premonition (360 GOTY Edition), Wario Land: Shake It (Wii Not Enough Wario Games Edition) and Escape from Monkey Island (PS2 wvlf hasn't played it yet edition).

Picked up Ace Combat 04 a week and a half ago, finished it within 24 hours. it was alright, not nearly as good as 5 though.

Just bought Hydro Thunder Hurricane (XBLA). This game is awesome! Feels just like the original arcade one (iirc), and crazy shortcuts abound.

I'll be buying Limbo soon as well. The combination of the unique visual style, puzzle-based gameplay, and surprisingly gruesome deaths is too much to pass up.

I love Summer of Arcade.