BigChiefSlapaho

That's true... I do miss the days of 007 w/ the Proximity Mines on w/ License to Kill & no radar... those were the days. I remember Jason coming around & whoopin' up on IC & getting him so upset he'd refuse to let us play... then of course IC would get the upper hand for a few days & back & forth.

Remember that day I danced around Jason's bullets for a good 30-40seconds before someone finally shot me? I had no weapon & we were playing License to Kill & I was break dancing to the gunshots!

But my vote goes to Rainbow Six. Although 007 was pure fun, and Quake was a ball to play on a LAN, there's no feeling like jumping into a Rainbow Six game & trying to walk through a map quietly enough so that the bad guys don't hear you, all the while leading a team of 6 safely and trying to rescue the hostage before the crazy terrorists put a hole through his cerebrum.

From the frontpage of www.cityofheroes.com

Hey gang! I’ve been asked to provide an open letter detailing something every City of Heroes fan wants: NEWS! Yep. Some honest to goodness news. So here we go...

As many of you know, MMORPG’s take a lot of testing – and we’ve been doing that here for quite some time. Balancing a game of such epic proportions is nothing less than a Herculean effort. And we’ve come up with some good stuff – but as a result, we won’t be able to start-up the Beta at the end of March like we originally thought. The game, however, is really going to benefit. I don’t want to promise a specific date for Beta until it is rock solid, because that’s what is most fair to you guys.

For the next three or four months, we’re going to put our noses to the proverbial grindstone. We’re working on the game and nothing else, so you’ll see few, if any, updates here on the web site during that time. Why three or four months? Well, E3 is right around corner – and expect City of Heroes to come out of the box with a bang. You can look for Statesman to return to the web page with a vengeance in May – and then we’ll start letting our cats out of the bag.

Now for a couple of exciting staffing changes. Michael Lewis, our initial investor, has recently joined us as interim CEO. Those devoted fans who’ve followed us from the beginning might remember that it was partly Michael’s vision to create this game in the first place. I can’t even begin to tell you how much excitement and enthusiasm it gives the team.

Rick Dakan is now our official Fiction Writer. Yep – the big guy who’s penned the great Paragon City histories and the villain group backgrounds is going to be focused entirely on the fiction side of the game. We want City of Heroes to be a game of stories – where the players determine the result – and having Rick as our #1 writer is the best way to do that.

We’ve also hired several more artists and programmers in order to continue the growth of the game. And if you’re interested in getting into the game industry – keep your eyes peeled to the Cryptic Studios web site for openings.

Now what about moi? Good question. Statesman is kinda shifting his role – I’m now Producer and Lead Game Designer. Needless to say, I’m not getting much sleep anymore! But if you’ve followed my Statesman’s Statements or my interviews, I have a passion for super-heroes and comic books. Heck, comic book ink runs through my veins. I want City of Heroes to be the game that brings all of us fans – gamers, comic book readers, super-hero enthusiasts – into one big melting pot. A place where we can meet – fight evil – and then bask in the glory. As I said, I won’t be as active on the site as I’ve been, but I’ll be back – armed with tons of stuff on the game we’re all so excited about.

So there you go: news! Maybe not the best – but certainly not the worst. Cryptic Studios and NC Soft are absolutely dedicated to making the best game we can. So, in the short term, we won’t be able to do as much as we’d like on the web site, but in the end, it will all pay off.

See you in Paragon City.

-Jack Emmert

Statesman

Rainbow Six review @ pc.ign.com

Very funny article, read up & enjoy.

Yeah I'm with you on the Garner thing.

Did you guys catch Stan Lee's cameo at the stoplight? Was a cool one.

+ I thought Bullseye was the shit. Farrel's done alot of really good work & he really comes off disturbed & believable in this one.

+ Jennifer Garner's the hizzle-bang-shizzle-dizzle! Don't know if I'm crazy about the way they portrayed her, but it worked w/ the movie I guess. She's too hot tho.

+ The portrayal of the sonar was awesome. I'd never guessed it.

- That ending left me upset. If there's one thing I hope movie folks are catching on to is the setups for the sequels. It's pissing me off. That film should've left the Kingpin alone & given the DD/Bullseye battle more of an asswhoop, at least that way people wouldn't be pissed about the setup for the sequel.

- I think the story was too rushed at several points. Kept me feeling like "all of a sudden they're here, then all of a sudden he's somewhere else & she's gone, then all of a sudden he's somewhere else..." Maybe its just me.

I know trilogy's & sequels are a cashcow, of course, look at SW, LOTR, HP... but still, why sacrifice a good movie for the sake of making money, when in the end slacking on the movie might make loyal fans angry? Power of the $$.

BTW - Hulk looks cool, Phone Booth is a must see, Head of State will be fuckin' hilarious, X2 will rock, Bulletproof Monk looks like fun...

Guy ::all mad:: - "You're a fuckin' bitch!"

Girl ::sarcastic grin:: - "I'm not even going to stoop myself low enough to respond to a complete and total moron who displays a total lack of respect towards me... and also is bad in bed. I have dates to prove it."

Guy - ::silent::

Clint would've whooped the Duke's ass any given day even with the flu.

Those rims are the shit & putting a body kit on that beautiful car is a sacrilege. Why ruin a good thing?

Yeah but could you imagine if one tried to?? All that body kit hanging off the car... those big wings slicing every cone that goes over the hood... that would truly be a holocaust.

:mischievous:

RICE =

Notice the guy on the left is in a HYUNDAI 4DOOR. That car couldn't be less sporty if you gave it a bike rack & a handicapped sticker. The one on the right is an Acura Integra, the only fast Integras are the GSR & Type R... and you dont do gay stuff to a Type R because they're expensive and rare, meaning that this is either the slow GS model or a GSR that someone massacred. See that huge body kit opening in the front? Yes there's a turbo intercooler in there... so he's probably got turbo work done on the engine... good... that means it will last him a year before it explodes. Lets see... he spent $18K on the car, $6K for the turbo kit, $2K on rims & tires, $4K on the body kit, $1K on the neon lights... that's about $31K... for that he could've bought a 2002 Mustang GT w/ 305hp & 320ft-lbs of torque that would've killed all of his friends out of the box.

RACE =

A true race car. No interior, race seats, everything lightened, race rims, racing engine completely built, suspension from hell, roll cage, breaks from hell... the real deal.

Look, girly, I like ya, but... street racing is cool & all, especially on the West Coast, that started the whole import street racer... but be real

1) Unless your Civic has a turbo, nitrous, or a supercharger, YOU ARE SLOW. 17 second 1/4 miles were never even heard of in the 60's when our grandmothers drove cars with 350+ cubic inch V-8's that could easily break into the 14's out of the factory AS A STATION WAGON. A 4-cylinder car w/ 130hp IS NOT A HOT ROD.

2) A car w/ Neons, big ugly wings, tons of stereo equipment, a million pounds of stickers... etc... IS NOT A RACECAR. You want to see streetcars turned racecars? NIRA or SpeedWorldChallenge, for two examples. Those cars are light, have rollcages for safety, have fully built racing engines, HAVE BREAKS THAT CAN SLOW THEM DOWN fast enough (how many kids do we know plop $5K down for a turbo kit on their Hyundai, then don't bother getting brakes / tires to slow them down from their inevitable doom?), have their interiors removed for lightness... these are racecars. You see any big body kits on those cars I mentioned? No... why? BECAUSE THEY'RE HEAVY! And also, they increase drag, which is bad, and makes you slow.

See any big fat exhausts on these cars? Nope... why? Because any exhaust on a 4-cylinder car that is over 2.5 inches in diamater IS A WASTE OF METAL and only makes noise!

3) The skill of a street racer is such:

a. You pull up to another poseur at a stoplight.

b. You give dirty looks at each other or you challenge that person to a quick race.

c. The light turns green, you go really fast... here's the hard part

d. You shift gears, you hold the car STRAIGHT, a little while later, you shift gears again, all the while you hold the car STRAIGHT, then... yep... you switch gears, but! You hold the car STRAIGHT.

e. Someone gets to the next light first without having killed themselves or the person next to them or the person who was crossing the street and they're a winner.

There's no skill involved in changing gears & driving straight, that's called FREEWAY DRIVING. Everyone changes gears & drives straight, often fast! I've street raced & 1/4 miled for a while now, a Jr. High School kid w/ an automatic can do it.

Now, tell one of your street racin' buddies to come down to an SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) Autocross in their respective towns and see what their swoopy winged, fart exhaust cars can do. These people are real drivers, or at least want to learn how to be one. They can do everything your 1/4 mile crew can do, often better, plus they know exactly how to handle their car in any situation. I really dont' have to even say much... go to the site & look at the videos in the gallery. True, its not a 9 second RX-7, and it doesn't "Look" that fast, but there are some vids w/ the camera inside the car watching the driver... you'll be impressed.

IC - There's an intro with all 3 doing a line or two, its nice, we could alter that for us & each drop a freestyle, I'm hunting for an instrumental version of the song now...

Spongey - Bad Guy challenged you a few posts ago... I'll go toe to toe with you if you can hang.

ah 1... ah 1 2...

::bom, pssst, bom-bom bom, pssst (repeat)::

Taking Junkerseed to get his car fixed.

Hopefully the engine don't get in a mix.

I don't want to have to go call a tow truck,

Just because it overheats and it starts to buck.

He should've fixed the car a few days ago,

but I gotta step in & show him where to go.

Waiting on a cuban is like waiting on messiah,

You wait long enough, your ass catches FIRE!

out...

You'll let me do some editing? Actually its very good, the timing's a bit off... I can fill it in.

Get it yet?

...and their elitist too, those people in the MUSIC forum. The only accepted music in there is rock, and not good rock either. They won't stoop themselves to participate in anything as cool as what we've got going on...

Yeah, get the song and see how they all come in on the chorus... We could adapt that for us 3, easily. I've already got some in my brain.

Hey IC, Freebird... download this track... Eve - Double R What. It's got a really nice beat, features Eve & the 2 big shots from the LOX. You think us 3 can trio over that beat?!?

CHALLENGE!

Pick up the mic Rob!

... you know... the mic's sittin' there... on the floor... no one's picked it up.

::looks at mic on the floor::

Still waitin...

"...It's the ChiefSlapahizzle mah nizzle,

and I'm looking for the man they call the I-Cizzle.

You better watch who's bizzle you fizzle,

or their man might come around and make you eat dizzle!"

Lets see if we can keep it going, maybe we can do like a mix & change beats... this is fun. That freestyle idea is good.

EVEN YAHVE battle raps. Very good first try Mr. Admin. I commend your efforts!

Hey IC, I passed the mic... what you gon' do with it?

UH OH! (drop a verse & pass time! to the beat Beanie Segal f Freeway - Roc The Mic)

It's Big Chief in the place w/ IC,

and I got what it takes to smack the ho's right.

You better watch how you post around herre

Cause I got a Mod panel to make your whole post jump.

I ain't got 60 minutes, only got 1 verse,

that's more than enough to make this shit hurt.

Sendin' stupid rappers to sleep with the fishes.

Eatin' out your sister while she does my dishes.

You wishin, someone would tell me to quit this

but I'd break his fuckin' jaw if he tried to interupt this

outstanding, super, unbelievable flow

I grab the mic, the punks hit the do' fo sho'.

Tie you to a chair, set your toes on fire,

I'll have you hitting high notes like you was Mariah.

Toss you out of a fast movin' car,

you'll be all over the sidewalk like a Hollywood Star.

It's the ChiefSlapahizzle mah nizzle,

an I'm lookin' for the man they call the I-Cizzle.

You better watch who's bizzle you fizzle,

or their man may come around and make you eat dizzle!

::pass the mic::