Two weeks to pitchers and catchers reporting... I can hardly wait... :)
Oh, predictions. :)
AL
East -- Boston... I have to believe...
Central -- Minnesota. I think they're still good enough...
West -- Oakland. Though my favorite team in the West is Seattle... Oakland just always seems to get it done...
Wild Card - New York. Very close behind the Sox.
NL
East -- Atlanta. I know the Phillies are a popular choice, and I'd rather they win than Atlanta, but the Braves have to be proven to be beatable and they've had a hold on this division for so long...
Central -- I don't know... Cubs? Or Astros. I'd rather the Cubs, but it could be either one.
West -- Giants. My favorite NL team, too...
Wild Card -- no idea. Phillidelphia? Los Angeles? Houston? Arizona?
Oh, and the Mets will be in last place again. :) And I hope the Expos do well... I like them...
Is anybody watching this pathetic excuse for a Super Bowl? There is no score and it's almost friggen halftime! New England missed a 31 yard field goal! Carolina just got sacked and lost the ball!
If the commercials this year weren't so good, I'd be playing Soul Calibur II.
Maybe I still will unless something happens soon. This is awful.
Quote:The much-lauded and critically acclaimed Namco RPG “Baten Kaitos” looks likely to be released in the United States before the end of this year.
This is excellent news for those non-Japanese speakers out there, as this title is well worth importing. No news of a European release to tag alongside with the English-translated version of the game, but now we all have another reason to dust off our freeloaders and get involved in some solid gaming!
For those of you who do speak Japanese, this is no great news, but could you answer one question for me: Honto no kohi desu?
Quote:Amidst poorly translated Japanese, and innumerable statements of "I had a lot of fun working in this game, it is very cool," we were able to gather a few new tidbits of information about Pokémon Colosseum.
The developers repeatedly stressed that this is a completely new game. Pokémon Stadium and its sequel for the Nintendo 64 were really nothing more than extensions of the Gameboy game, allowing you to battle friends with your own Pokémon in 3D. However, Pokémon Colosseum goes one step further, adding a brand new 30+ hour long RPG adventure which makes the game stand by itself as a title, instead of just acting as an add-on for Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire. One developer even went so far as to say that with the inclusion of the RPG mode, Colosseum is really two games in one, and that should help attract people who have never even played a Pokémon game before.
Battles will still work the same as they always have. The two-on-two battles from Ruby & Sapphire are back, but there are some new concepts thrown into the mix that are completely new to the Pokémon world. The major new concept, as far as battles go, is the ability to snag other trainers' Pokémon. The mechanics of this have yet to be revealed, but we can assume it works in the same way as catching a wild Pokémon. The developers also mentioned a new feature called 'purifying' although they gave no details as to exactly what it is, or how it works.
As in Pokémon Stadium, your Pokémon can be uploaded to the game from the Game Boy version. A new feature in Colosseum though, allows you to use your Game Boy Advance system as a controller. This can give you an advantage when playing against human opponents, because your commands are input on the GBA screen, and aren't visible on the main screen.
Contrary to the fact that the developers specifically mentioned the target demographic hasn't changed, they did say the RPG mode is an 'older', 'darker' Pokémon game, and even the game characters themselves are older and more sophisticated. Although the roots of the game are still intact, this new adventure will be nothing like any of the games seen on a Game Boy system. The world in the game was actually designed to mimic pictures the developers had seen of Arizona. So we can expect a mostly desert landscape. They also mentioned the CPU opponents have been made significantly more difficult.
Every year 989 sports does a media event, called "Game Before the Game" with a player from each Super Bowl team, in which they play a game of NFL GameDay against each other. Every single year, the team whose player won the GBTG ended up winning the Super Bowl.
This year, it was between Steve Smith of Carolina and Troy Brown of New England.
Quote: The media and celebrities turned out in droves to watch the 9th Annual NFL GameDay Game Before the Game. Hosts Deion "Prime Time" Sanders and Pat O'Brien warmed up the crowd and introduced this year's players: Steve Smith of the Carolina Panthers and Troy Brown of the New England Patriots. The two players seemed a little nervous at first, a fact that Deion Sanders was more than happy to point out to all. But once the game got underway, both players showed that they had come prepared. The Patriots had gotten the ball first, and drove impressively down the field to score the first touchdown of the game on a run by Antowain Smith up the middle. However, Steve Smith of the Panthers answered quickly on the next drive with a touchdown of his own, on a powerful run by Stephen Davis. And the game was on.
A key play occurred midway through the second quarter. The Patriots had the ball and were driving to score, but then fumbled at the 5-yard line, where the ball was recovered by Carolina. Steve Smith quickly capitalized on this costly mistake and scored his second touchdown of the game, taking a 14-7 lead into halftime.
Steve Smith led his Panthers to another score to open the second half, and then took a big risk by going for 2 points on the conversion. He was successful and took what seemed to be an insurmountable 22-7 lead. But Game Before the Game veteran Troy Brown of the Patriots was far from finished, quickly scoring to make it 22-14. Steve Smith answered once again with another long run for a touchdown by Stephen Davis to go up 29-14. Things looked gloomy for the Patriots.
Troy Brown rallied once again and set up an exciting finish by scoring his third touchdown of the game, bringing his Patriots to within 8 points of the Panthers late in the fourth quarter. The Patriots then attempted an onside kickoff, but Carolina was able to recover it and then ran out the clock. At the end-game whistle, Steve Smith and the Carolina Panthers were the champions of the 9th Annual NFL GameDay Game Before the Game.
Final Score - Panthers 29 Patriots 21
So if history continues, this means I'll be happy tonight. Hey, GameDay might be a crappy franchise now, but the results don't lie:
Quote:All Game Before The Game Champions - All Super Bowl Champions
2004 Champion: Steve Smith, Carolina Panthers
2003 Champion: Keenan McCardell, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Fidel castro isnt a threat to the U.S and really isnt the worse dictator in the world , He doesnt have any genocide under his belt. Fidel castro can be a cooperative leader and he has helped for example in custody cases were parents kidnaped their kids and ran to cuba Mr Castro orderd that his country would not be used to child kidnapers as a saunctuary and helped return some kids to the U.S personally,Killing castro would be murder . I think their no reason to have Saunctions on Cuba because everyone else is trading with Cuba and he isnt building massive nukes with that money.
First Dead Phoenix died, then they made an online Resident Evil game for PS2, then there's the $40 price for straight ports of old games, and the somewhat mediocricy of P.N.03, and now?
