Archie!  You are indeed a monster!   That was probably my best game yet in terms of kills.   I love the Boulevard.  Too bad I have to work in the morning.   MP is sooo much more fun with you guys.

Funny bit:  I kept seeing a certain pattern of machine gun fire and begun to recognize it as Yoda's.  I'd see it spraying a wall, turn the corner, there's Yoda.  Watch a guy get mowed down from a distance, thought to myself" That's gotta be Yoda." Sure enough, it was!

I have spent nearly 7 hours in multiplayer!!

Video doesn't work. :x

i download parasite eve today and man i forgot how good it was back when square was the kings of rpgs and had no rival's  man how the mighty have fallen

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aspro said:

andirasang

"This is a bit of a random number to be announcing, but Square Enix said today that Dragon Quest IX has topped shipments of 5.3 million units worldwide. The figure was reached at the end of December.

DQIX is the first DQ game to top the 5 million mark and the best selling DQ game ever. The series as a whole has topped shipments of 57 million units."

Just to add a little something extra, this is the best the series has ever sold outside of Japan as well. The Nintendo publishing partnership paid off. They took it quite seriously - I remember seeing ads for it as late as December of last year. ANyway good for them. Maybe they'll bring over some of the other DQ side games now.

Well that's good to know. Makes me feel a little better. I'll still give the game another go, just because I don't feel entirely right judging a game in the first half hour, but if I can't play the game then I can't play the game. No sense in beating myself over the head with my shortcomings.

I was playing normal. Playing on easy seems so wrong though.... That's admission that I suck.

robio said:

Well I'm having a nice little gamer crisis. Last night I rented Resident Evil 5. Really excited to finally play it too, since this was one of the games I bought the system for. After about 20 minutes I had to turn it off. I suck at it. Completely and utterly suck. I'm not sure why. I didn't have this kind of trouble with RE4. Either the difficulty curve ramps up immediately or I'm just doomed to be one of those old gamers who can't play anything other than RPGs, puzzle games, and any other crap that's nice and slow.

Welcome to my world.  I ended up trying it 3 times before putting it on the shelf forever.  It's not you.  It's your experience with 4 combined with it being a horrible, horrible game.

Don't drop to easy unless you give it another go. Also try the alternate controls.

robio said:

With the prices that the next gen handhelds are going for, I don't have a problem calling them consoles anymore.

I always called them consoles until I came to this site and everyone said that was wrong.  "Hand-held consoles" is how I used to refer to them.

robio said:

aspro said:

andirasang

"This is a bit of a random number to be announcing, but Square Enix said today that Dragon Quest IX has topped shipments of 5.3 million units worldwide. The figure was reached at the end of December.

DQIX is the first DQ game to top the 5 million mark and the best selling DQ game ever. The series as a whole has topped shipments of 57 million units."

Just to add a little something extra, this is the best the series has ever sold outside of Japan as well. The Nintendo publishing partnership paid off. They took it quite seriously - I remember seeing ads for it as late as December of last year. ANyway good for them. Maybe they'll bring over some of the other DQ side games now.

With the DS they also have the largest consumer base to tap yeah?