COD4 got played for 2 weeks, then Halo 3 was back in the tray.

@3.2: Bungie already did release a patch. You'd know that if you actually played Halo. Judging by your post history, you don't. You're just another Halo hating troll. View

Here comes the Sony fanboy parade. Just a quick glance at 95% of the posters so far on this page and its blatantly obvious.

Why do you idiots feel the need to troll Halo news all the time? Every story about Halo has 80% of its comments hijacked by jealous Sony fans.

You know it *IS* possible to own a Playstation and not be an @$$, right? I know, I have friends who do it every day. You should try it sometime. View

Dlacy13g -

Thank you! I've felt that way about Mark Rein for a while now. He's constantly tooting his own horn, and throwing his two cents in where it doesn't necessarily belong. Then, he goes and makes an asisine comment like this.

I fear for the online multiplayer of Gears 2 if Rein thinks that UT3 outdid Halo 3. I'm sure everyone remembers how pathetic the lobbies and multiplayer setup for the original Gears was. God forbid they take the success of that title as a 'free pass' to offer the same crap in Gears 2.

- Crappy server lists
- Extremely limited customization (choose starting weapons, etc)
- Can't play ranked games with friends
- No matchmaking
etc
etc

It always seemed to take forever to get into a game. I'm sorry, but I play video games to PLAY games, not to sit in a lobby (or get repeatedly booted out of lobbies I join).

All games need a matchmaking option. Gears multi sucked for that very reason.

Rein - if you seriously think that your online offering "surpasses" what Halo 3 offers, you're sadly, SADLY mistaken. View

Apple computers don't get viruses because they don't have very much market share and it isn't worth the time to write a virus that targets them! It's not like they're magically IMMUNE to getting a computer virus or something. It's just that the majority of the total market uses Windows as its OS. That is why viruses are written for Windows computers - a wider audience, bigger payoff. View

I won't buy a BR player until the price drops to the $120-$150 range. Of course by then the landscape could look very different and I'd have to re-evaluate (maybe digital distribution will be more viable by then?). But if things remain as they are today, it would take a $120-$150 price point for me to consider a purchase.

I just can't justify $400 for a movie player when upscaled DVDs are doing me just fine for now. View

Blu-ray uses blue laser diodes. HD-DVD used red laser diodes. No they were not in competition for the same resource. View

Sounds like you get r4p3d at Halo and just can't handle the heat... View

1) Fix the damn multiplayer server setup!
2) Give more options to the multiplayer so we can choose starting weapons, weapons on map, etc.
3) Add video replay.
4) ALLOW US TO PLAY WITH OUR FRIENDS IN RANKED GAMES
5) Fix the ranking system
6) Don't be afraid to copy what Halo 3 does well (Ranking system, video replay, matchmaking, etc) View

You lost like 4 bubbles just because you posted that these articles are getting pointless and redundant? This site is going down the crapper. You didn't say anything hostile or anything else that would warrant losing bubbles.

Some people take this crap way too seriously.

Bubble + for you, because it's BS that you lost any in the first place. View

Hmm... lets see here. There's only one HD disc format left on the market, what do you THINK the movie studios are going to do? They want to sell their damn movies, don't they?

Movie Studio Exec #1: So, Toshiba pulled the plug on HD-DVD, I guess that means we're going to Blu-Ray now.

Movie Studio CEO: Nah. We'll just stop selling movies.

<YAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWN> View

What's wrong with Team Slayer???

...getting pwnd? ;)

The worst part about TS is the AR start. BR start and TS is great. But then again, that's why I play Hardcore. =) View

1) It's BenzMONEY (without a 'k'). Trying finishing high school english to get your spelling down, and work on that reading comprehension while you're at it.

My point is EXACTLY what you're alluding to in your post. If there was an article on every defective 360 console, there'd be millions of them! Sometimes that's exactly what it feels like on this site. I swear we can't go a day without at least one or two "defective 360" articles popping up.

Good, great, we get it. The 360 breaks down - a *lot*. It isn't news anymore.

2) How am I a fanboy and/or defending Microsoft? I'm the first to admit that the hardware breaks down and somehow I'm defending them and acting like a fanboy?! Christ you're dense.

3) Everyone knows the 360 is unreliable hardware. The only people who still consider that "news" are Sony fanboys looking to troll. FACT. View

"BTW ... none of what you said makes this any less of an inventory blow out."

Please don't tell me that you're REALLY that dense. Did you not read my first sentence in the last post? Here, I'll repeat it for you. Read slowly:

- I don't think that's why people are disagreeing with you. They're disagreeing that its 'useless' or not even worth $20. -

Yes, of course it's an inventory blow-out! Christ, how stupid do you think people are?

What I was saying is that it's not a complete waste of money, like you pretend it is. Yes, my 360 is an upscaling DVD player, but it can't play the large inventory of HD-DVDs. Not only that, but lots of people don't like prematurely wearing out their drive by watching movies on it.

My point stands. $20 for an HD-DVD drive is not a waste of money. It is still an excellent upscaling dvd player that also happens to play a back catalogue of hd-dvds that you can get for dirt cheap right now. For people who aren't interested in spending (wasting?) large sums of money on a movie collection, it might be worth a purchase. That isn't for you to decide. Cut the elitest crap. View

Of course I'm mad that my console broke. This isn't even the first time - its the second!

My original comment had nothing to do with my broken xbox, I was using it as an example. Or are you too dense to understand that concept?

My point was/is that every single 360 failure is not news. We all already know that the 360 has hardware issues. ITS A KNOWN FACT. Why some people still seem to think that every single peice of failing 360 hardware is "news" is beyond me. It's not news! It was news 2 years ago. I could probably do a search of N4G and find over 500 'news' articles about faulty 360 hardware. View

"Whoever thinks this is anything but an invetory blow-out of useless stock is either stupid or hasn't been reading all the format news constatnly posted on N4G."

I don't think that's why people are disagreeing with you. They're disagreeing that its 'useless' or not even worth $20.

HD-DVD players are still exceptional upscaling DVD players and they play a catalogue of more than 100 HD-DVD titles (not sure on the exact number). Hell, I spend more than $50 on beer on a Friday night. I noticed these (Toshiba HD-A2's) going for like $30 or less on Ebay yesterday. Hell, that's cheaper than DVD players.

Don't forget - THEY STILL PLAY (and upscale) DVDs. Anyone who fails to realize THAT is either stupid, or can just chalk it up to 'fanboy feelings'. View

It looks pretty freakin' sweet. View

"...which would essentially do away with the IRS and as long as we repeal the 16th amendment then that means we no longer have to pay income taxes."

The notion that the 16th amendment is what allows the government to tax income is a fallacy (albeit a common one). The actual effect of the 16th amendment is that, "Congress may impose the tax on income from any source without having to apportion the total dollar amount of tax collected from each state according to each state's population in relation to the total national population".

The fact of the matter is that the government had the power to tax *direct income* (wages) long before the 16th amendment. The 16th amendment essentially allowed them to declare (and hence make eligible for taxation) other sources of profit 'income'. For example, the gains you make on the stock market, or selling your investment properties.

A quotes on the matter (taken from Wikipedia for ease of use, though it has been recorded extensively):

In the Supreme Court case of Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.,[25] Mr. Justice Butler stated: It was not the purpose or the effect of that amendment to bring any new subject within the taxing power. Congress already had the power to tax all incomes. But taxes on incomes from some sources had been held to be "direct taxes" within the meaning of the constitutional requirement as to apportionment. The Amendment relieved from that requirement and obliterated the distinction in that respect between taxes on income that are direct taxes and those that are not, and so put on the same basis all incomes "from whatever source derived". "Income" has been taken to mean the same thing as used in the Corporation Excise Tax of 1909 (36 Stat. 112), in the Sixteenth Amendment, and in the various revenue acts subsequently passed. After full consideration, this court declared that income may be defined as gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital.

***After full consideration, this court declared that income may be defined as gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital.***

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Repealing the 16th amendment won't eliminate income tax, or force the dissolution of the IRS. Contrary to popular belief. View

"thinks were all poisoning the planet and figures we should tax carbon emissions which would almost bankrupt a society."

So let me get this straight...

1) You don't believe that pollution is bad.
2) You don't believe that its possible to reduce pollution without destroying an economy.

Gotchya.

P.S. My province, British Columbia, just announced a new budget yesterday that includes a carbon tax. The first in Canada. It is designed to spur and encourage development of 'green technologies' which, it is predicted, has the potential to become a multi-trillion-dollar industry. Why can't we make money by being environmentally friendly? There's a whole, new, untapped industry there just waiting to boom. View

What do you think On Demand is? Why, oh my goodness, it couldn't be! No way. It's... It's digital distribution?!?! Wow!!! View

Wtf? "Right now it takes like 7 hours to download an HD movie on XBOX 360"

What are you, on dialup?

If I start a download for an HD movie on XBL, it takes about 5 minutes before I get a message that the movie is ready to play. I then start the movie, and finish it, as it streams. No hiccups. I can't remember the last time I watched a 7 hour movie, either.

Stop making up lies. If you prefer having your media on a physical format (Bluray, DVD, whatever) then fine, all the power to you. But don't try to make DD sound like it's such a horrible idea that will never come to fruition. It already is! Look at on-demand movies, PPV, etc, from your local cable provider. That's DD just as much as downloading those things from XBL is.

Like it or not, DD is coming. Toshiba execs aren't "acting like children" for pointing that out. View