Chiablo

I think it's funny that blizzard admits that the low level content is stale and worthless...

"players will be able to create a new death knight character, which will start at a high level."

Horray, they successfully avoided fixing the broken level 20-50 content for another two years.

My main problem with the new Sam & Max is the lack of originality between the various episodes.

In the first episode, you're introduced to this new world and it's amazing how much detail they put in the few areas you had access to. In each subsequent episode, it becomes more and more obvious that the designers are desperate to recycle content rather than spend development time to create anything new.

By episode 5, I was sick to death of the stupid Soda Poppers... and Bosco got old after episode 3. Yes, reoccuring themes can be useful and can sometimes be creative (i.e. always starting the game in the duo's office and having different reactions to the environment there) but shoveling the same 5 NPC characters down your throat is maddening.

Compared to the awesome guitar that is akin to Rock Band, the GHIII guitar looks like it was made by Playskool.

The more I hear about Guitar Hero 3, the more underwhelmed I become. The more I hear about Rock Band, the more excited I get.

Hey Enzo... read this:

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070509

Now you can go away like a good little troll.

Played it on PC. The best part of the whole game was the uninstall screen.

The character models, animation, lip sync, and just about everything else graphically are horrendous. I do have to say that the gameplay matches the graphics perfectly: craptacular.

Here's what I posted on the official forums about the broken whammy bar issue:

For those of you who are returning your guitars to fix the issue with an unresponsive whammy bar, you very well might be returning a fully functional guitar. There is a bug in the game that Red Octane could easily patch to fix the issue.

Here's what I've discovered...

I too have a whammy bar that was unresponsive about 60% of the time. In frustration, I plugged it into my PC to see what exactly is going on. In the control panel, under the game controllers section, you can see the raw information that the controller is sending to Windows. My whammy bar showed a full range of motion, no problems at all.

In Guitar Hero, in order to get my whammy bar to work, I just have to pull up on the whammy bar before pressing down on it... this works 100% of the time for me. The problem stems from what the game detects as the starting position of the whammy bar. Unfortunately, it's coded to only accept a whammy if the bar is in it's topmost position (100%.) An easy fix for Red Octane would be to adjust that amount to around 75%.

So, if you think you have a broken guitar, plug it into your Windows-based PC and see what Windows says about the guitar. If you have a full range of motion, DO NOT RETURN YOUR GUITAR. I am certain that Red Octane will patch this issue as soon as possible.

Two new races does nothing to decrease the now stale gameplay of WoW. I have 3+ characters that are over level 50. I have seen every end game dungeon there is. Adding two new races does NOTHING to change the gameplay. The game desperately needed two new classes to offer a substantial improvement for me to continue playing.

By adding a horde paladin and an alliance shaman, they have removed what made each side different and unique. Now there is no difference whether I roll a horde or alliance character.

I've played since late beta, and on the day of the expansion I cancel my account and begin my search for the perfect MMO anew. I hope Vanguard can give me longer lasting satisfaction than WoW.

I leave with fond memories, but it's time to move on.

Yup... the PS3 is just about as fun as stacking cups could be.

I for one would like to see a variation of the standard WW2 shooter where the player experiences the war through the eyes of a Nazi soldier.

They could even do an ethics system where if you kill more civilians, the more favorably viewed by the Gestapo you are. Eventually in the game, it branches to two different campaigns, one where you are a member of the SS and another where you continue as a regular German foot soldier.

And if you think it's morally wrong to make or play such a game, then explain why the Medal of Honor game based on the pacific war was released in Japan. Yes, Japaneses gamers were virtually killing their parents and grandparents for enjoyment.

I don't think losing 4db after doing all of that work is really worth it. Removing the Xbox from the side of your head would eliminate considerably more noise than this worthless mod.