Official Online Gaming Engagements

[Brodie]

So, sitting here, thinking I wanna play some Halo 2 with some drome-ites. But I kinda want a guarantee.

So I'm thinking we should try this, where someone throws down an invite to play something, other people agree, or throw down their invites. Etc, etc.

So, anyone up for Halo 2 tonight?

[Cure]

I don't have Halo 2, but I know this thread is gon' be poppin' when Halo 3 comes out, fa sho'! Fo' player co-op, boy-eeee!!

But nah, no Halo 2. Sorry, man.

[Dr. Doom]

It's a great idea for a thread. I should be up for some DS stuff whenever. Like Hunters or Mario Kart.

[愛]

I'd be up for Halo 2, but I moved my HD set into my room, and there's no access to internet up here. Sucks.

[Mecha Cow]

Good thread.

My Pokemon Friend Code is 3479 9937 2839. I could use a Ditto for breeding purposes, anyone willing to trade? I don't have much to offer at the moment, though I have access to both versions in regards to exclusives. Once I'm able to breed I can hook ya'll up with either of the three starters as well as Totodile.

[Brodie]

Can I get a sticky on this?

Cure and I just played some Halo2 for an hour. Was neat, especially since he hadnt played before.

[GK Punk]

Can I get a sticky on this?


sure thing

[Brodie]

You so good to me, yo.

[Cure]

Does anyone wanna help me with Gears of War on insane? I was gonna start tomorrow in the afternoon. Anyone?

[Jed]

I'll play through it with you, I'm free tomorrow night (I think) but not Wednesday cause I've work, Thursday during the day should be good too. I nearly got through the whole thing on my own before but couldn't finish off Raam.

[Cure]

I'll play through it with you, I'm free tomorrow night (I think) but not Wednesday cause I've work, Thursday during the day should be good too. I nearly got through the whole thing on my own before but couldn't finish off Raam.

Cool. Thanks, man. But I am going from the beginning, so it'll be a while before we get to him.

[Jed]

That's no problem, Gears is one of those games that's always fun to play through. I don't have the Dom co-op achievements so can I play as him?:D

[Cure]

That's no problem, Gears is one of those games that's always fun to play through. I don't have the Dom co-op achievements so can I play as him?:D

It's a date. ;)

[Cure]

Sorry Jed but I gotta cancel for tomorrow. I thought I was gonna be home all day tomorrow but as it turns out tomorrow's the day I gotta visit some relatives in Philly and yet no one wanted to tell me. :cry:

I guess we'll just have to go for it on Thursday. I PROMISE! :)

[Jed]

I gotta go to a friend's gig Thursday but Friday or Saturday should be alright (taking into account my girlfriend might have other plans for the weekend), I'll add you to messenger and we can figure out a day and time on there.

[raphael_is_cool]

I'd love to play with you guys, especially since I've never had the chance to try Halo 2 online before.

Problem is the time difference though.

[Cure]

The 25th it comes. Halo 3. I'm putting this out early to get a day when we can ALL be on. We need to have a last hurrah on Halo 2. When would be best for everyone?! Times and dates people! LET'S ORGANIZE THIS!

[Peanut]

Yeah, let's get this down. If you're on the Drome and own a copy of Halo 2, we've all got to get on for one last huge game before Halo 3 hits.

[ThirdMarioBro]

How typical my Xbox 360 blows up during the ONE GODDAMN MONTH I NEED THE FU*KING THING.

Canceling the Halo 3 preorder tomorrow. I won't even be able to send the machine out until after the 20th, and if its four to six weeks from then, there's no point in spending $70 on a game I can't play. I was only preordering it so I could be ahead of the curve and not get completely destroyed by the community right out of the gate, but since they're going to have eight weeks on me at least, there's no point. Hell, I'll be playing Super Mario Galaxy by then.

Just another $70 towards a PS3. We'll talk when Banjo comes out.

[Peanut]

WTF are you going to buy a PS3 for? ROFL!

[Barkworm]

For Lair of course!

[ThirdMarioBro]

And the eventual better version of Bioshock.

[Peanut]

And the eventual better version of Bioshock.

ROFL! Ok, buddy. We all know the dual-shock is such a terrific controller for FPS's. And all of those 360 to PS3 ports have gone OH SO WELL. Also Microsoft pretty much bought BioShock for Windows and 360...that's why it's got the "Only For" tag on it. It isn't a timed exclusive anymore. You fail again.

You're not too talented at trolling, man.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Exclusives don't last anymore. Either way, I'm not going to be playing any more 360 games this year. I'm not spending $200 to get a refurbished time bomb when I could spend that money on things I actually want.

[Cure]

So would this weekend be good for everyone?

[mikey2007]

So would this weekend be good for everyone?

i'm down for playin halo 2 or gears of war anytime ya want, lol i'll be on this weekend (cept for when the huskers are playing wake forest....) but just add me on ur friends list Zee6 is my gamer tag easy enough...

[Brodie]

I'd be down, but with an expired live until either next week or up until the 25th, it makes it difficult. So if anyone has an extra free 48 trial thing, and wants to hook me up?

[Brodie]

Lets play this weeeeeek!

[Cure]

Lets play this weeeeeek!

Yeah, yo. Everyone that doesn't play is a LOSER! A broken 360 is not an excuse!
OK it is, but you know what I mean.

[Peanut]

I'll play as long as I'm not still feeling like ****.

[JameO]

Im down for Halo 2 as well.

[Toonami Tom]

Halo 2 sounds good to me. Just arrange a time and date, then invite me to the game. My gamer tag is Sam24007.:)

With college classes starting again, I won't have as much free time though.

[Jed]

I'll play too depending on if I'm home, if I haven't got plans or if I'm not up early for work.

[Mr. Snackpants]

My roomates are being d-bags and will be going straight into multiplayer. I wanna finish the fight before I do that.

Anyone wanna play some Halo 3 campaign tonight? I'm talking finish the whole thing, straight through. Anyone? It'll be faster and more fun the more people you have. That and if I play with random people I'm afraid they'll skip through cutscenes, like in Gears.

[Peanut]

I would, but I'm playing through the entire thing by myself first. I don't want anything else involved in the experience.

[ThirdMarioBro]

I would, but I'm playing through the entire thing by myself first. I don't want anything else involved in the experience.

Good call. Inconsiderate douche bags might show up online to spoil it for you.

[Mr. Snackpants]

Yeah that's a good point. It's just that it'll be faster doing it co-op and I wanna be done by 9 or 10am when my classes start. I dunno, maybe I shouldn't rush it.

[Peanut]

Good call. Inconsiderate douche bags might show up online to spoil it for you.

Well that's not a possibility, because there is no drop-in drop-out in co-op. You get who you want to play with and you start the game, you can't just jump in and out at any point.

I just don't want to play it with anyone else the first time through. I want to be alone and play it the way I want play it, at my pace and doing what I feel like doing.

[Mr. Snackpants]

Yeah but people could make you skip through cutscenes right?

[Peanut]

Yeah but people could make you skip through cutscenes right?

I'm not sure. I think it may only be the party leader that could skip cut-scenes. Either way, I'm not chancing it.

[Spitfire]

And the eventual better version of Bioshock.

PC is the only place to play FPS games, and I think the only place to play RPGs like Oblivion and KOTOR as well. But I like mods and I think the keyboard is way better to use then a controller for them.

I've played both Bioshock and KOTOR on 360 and PC and the PC was way better. Just my opinion on the matter. I personally find the PS3 controller to be very uncomfortable.

[Toonami Tom]

Let's arrange a game of TMNT Arcade on XBox Live.:)

http://www.maj.com/gallery/AgeTec/4TMNT/turtlescabinetgu6.jpg

Tomorrow night maybe? Anyone have a suggestion for a good time to play?:) Or is anyone on tonight?

[Dr. Doom]

Who's got Team Fortress 2 for PC?

[Peanut]

I'm pretty sure everyone here bought it for the 360.

[Dr. Doom]

Except for Rhen. I really wish it were cross platform, but I dunno f fthe logistics of that would really work.

[愛]

I wanna buy it, but the next time I can play it is not this weekend, but the next weekend. And by then, no one will even want to play. It'll be some other new game everyone is hooked on.

I might just buy it anyway for the game itself to play. I do want the achievements and the chance to play TF2.

[Dr. Doom]

I'll play next weekend. :3

[Peanut]

He's talking about on 360, not PC. Why would he get a game and play it with you when he could play it with me, Cure and Brodie instead? Pfft.

[Dr. Doom]

Cause he doesn't have a 360?

Though I amdit it's certainly possible that he could have one now and I just didn't remember due to all those times he was supposed to be getting one and didn't. Why don't we let him talk for himself?

[愛]

Uhhhhhh, why did I say I couldn't play until next weekend? Because that's when I go home to play my brother's 360. I don't want to play on PC!

[Dr. Doom]

I can live with being only technically right.

[Peanut]

Or just completely wrong. Go S some D.

[Dr. Doom]

He doesn't have a 360, does he? That's what I was going off. Do we need to make an e-peen thread for you so we can all go about our business here uninterrupted?

[Brodie]

Who wants to get on the Dreamcast for some Phantasy Star Online?

[Storm Wolf]

Hello....Hello...I know I don't post often in the games section, but I thought it would be fun to play with a few Drome-ites here. So...Anyone up for some Halo 3? I'm usually on after 11PM. Let me know and I'll give you my gamertag.

[Cure]

Hello....Hello...I know I don't post often in the games section, but I thought it would be fun to play with a few Drome-ites here. So...Anyone up for some Halo 3? I'm usually on after 11PM. Let me know and I'll give you my gamertag.

Not tonight, but maybe tomorrow night or something I can play.

[Storm Wolf]

Sweet! I already have you added to my list Cure...but you never seem to be on or playing Halo3.

Anyone else?

[Dr. Doom]

I've been trying to get a 4 player game of TMNT '89 together for a few days now, so If anyone wants to play, feel free to let me know. I'd only ask that I get to be Donny. I also have Streets of Rage 2 if anyone's interested in that (these are my only 2 games so far that actually utilize XBL, so I'm trying to get as much outta them as I can).

[KROW]

Hello....Hello...I know I don't post often in the games section, but I thought it would be fun to play with a few Drome-ites here. So...Anyone up for some Halo 3? I'm usually on after 11PM. Let me know and I'll give you my gamertag.

Yeah, folks, you should play some Halo with Stormy at least once. You'll get to hear her cuss like a drunk sailor on shore leave without a date.

[Dr. Doom]

I just picked up Ultimate Alliance and Rock Band for 360 and am very excited to play either of those online with anyone who wants to join me.

[Peanut]

I just picked up Ultimate Alliance and Rock Band for 360 and am very excited to play either of those online with anyone who wants to join me.

OH SNAP, son! Did you get the gold edition of UA? If so, Brodie and I have been looking for people to play with, but no one has it.

[Dr. Doom]

No. You don't need the gold edition to play with people who have the gold edition, do you? I was just gonna download the extra characters.

[Peanut]

Well that's what I mean. We both have the extra characters, through download for me and gold for him. You said you just got it, so I figured it would be the gold edition. I didn't even know they still sold the old one.

And did you seriously buy the Rock Band picture pack for that gamer pic? Like...for real?

[Dr. Doom]

Out of all the pictures I could actually find on the marketplace, the one I wanted was the Bass icon. I play bass IRL.

I did buy the old version, yes. It was used. I was trying to check whether or not you could play with folks who have a different version, and I kept encountering all these weird problems. Chiefly, there's an update that it tells me I need to get for the game if I want to be able to play with more people. But when I go to get it, it either brings me to a page with nothing to download or gives me some error code saying it "can't get the information from Xbox LIVE." Not to mention the fact that I've been having consistent problems connecting to XBL on my dashboard, making it a rarity that I'm actually able to get to my friends list or the marketplace.

[Peanut]

Well, I heard XBL has been acting up a lot this weekend, so you may just have to wait it out and try later.

[Dr. Doom]

It's good to know it's not just me.

EDIT: That update you need to get to play with more people appears to be required in order to play with people who have Gold, but I still can't get it. "Can't retrieve information from Xbox LIVE. Please try again later. Status Code: 807b01f7"

[Jed]

Yeah, if you go to Major Nelson's site you can see they're having problems with a lot of the Windows ID stuff (Xbox Live, Zune profiles and stuff like that) and they're working to fix it. I wasn't able to sign in at all earlier.

[Peanut]

It's totally f*cked right now, so there's no point in even attempting it. I was trying to get some Rock Band songs, but my profile wouldn't sign in to Live. Hopefully they have it fixed soon. I don't pay $50 a year for Live to not have the service when I want to use it.

[Dr. Doom]

Yeah, the problem seems to be localized entirely to the dashboard. I've been playing Rock Band online all day.

[Dr. Doom]

Me and 2 friends are looking for a 4th for TMNT '89 right now! If you wanna play, jump on XBL and gimme your tag if I don't have it!

[Brodie]

I had some issues with live too, when i tried to sign in at the dashboard, it froze both times. then i gave up and just played conan....wtf.

[Dr. Doom]

So yeah, Xbox Live seems to be working perfectly fine, but when I try to get that update, it either A) still gives me that error, or B) goes to a screen where I'd download something, but there's nothing there to download. I'm wondering at this point if downloading the hero/villain pack would solve this problem. I don't want to download it until I'm sure I'm not gonna have to go buy the Gold Edition somewhere though.

[Dr. Doom]

Well, I never did solve the issue of being taken to that page with nothing download. However, someone at Activison was able to inform me that what I needed, the "Playable Character Teaser Pack", was sitting in the Marketplace the whole time. There was no indication of this being the required update at all aside from the description, and from the title of the download, I'da guessed it was some sort of teaser for the characters, so I never bothered reading it.

Either way, I got the update and it seems I'm fully capable of playing with Gold Edition users. I'd be up for playing just about any time you can find me online, so feel free to let me know if you guys wanna start up a game.

[Brodie]

I've been zippin through Marvel on single player. If you see me on, Doom, send an invite.

[Dr. Doom]

Will do, sir.

[Peanut]

I've got the whole weekend off, so I'll be able to play if you guys want to.

[Brodie]

About time, sir. I just finished one play through.

Lets play something, ****.

Also, I think I want to purchase Metal SLug 3

[Peanut]

About time, sir. I just finished one play through.

Lets play something, ****.

Also, I think I want to purchase Metal SLug 3

Metal Slug 3 is awesome. You'd be all about the second level.

[Dr. Doom]

We were gonna jump into Ultimate Alliance with a friend of mine in about 20 minutes if you wanna join us, 'Nut.

[Dr. Doom]

Does anyone own Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga for 360? I'd love to play it online with whoever does.

[Mr. Snackpants]

Someoneplaybrawlwithmerightnowdamnit!!!!

WTFWHYISTHATNOTINCAPS!!!

[Cure]

Someoneplaybrawlwithmerightnowdamnit!!!!

WTFWHYISTHATNOTINCAPS!!!

Get on AIM!

[Mr. Snackpants]

My bad Cure. I need to change the router settings, but like I said it's not in my room. It's getting pretty annoying having to beg him to reset it, ect. He's so pissy whenever I ask and if I need to do it a second time, oh boy watch out...he's such a f*cking whiner. I'm planning on getting my own modem for my room next fall so I don't have to put up with his sh*t.

[Cure]

My bad Cure. I need to change the router settings, but like I said it's not in my room. It's getting pretty annoying having to beg him to reset it, ect. He's so pissy whenever I ask and if I need to do it a second time, oh boy watch out...he's such a f*cking whiner. I'm planning on getting my own modem for my room next fall so I don't have to put up with his sh*t.

It's cool, homie. I'll be home around 4:00 EST so if you're on and capable, I'll play you then.

[Dr. Doom]

I'm curious if Brawl's gotten any better in regards to the connection issues and lag (though I doubt anyone's tried recently), mainly just cause I'm sort of in the mood to play lately and don't find myself able to do it with friends in person as much as I'd like. If anyone who's as stubborn as I am wants to give it a shot, let me know. If anything, maybe the similar (albeit less catastrophic) issues I've experience in Soul Calibur have made me more tolerant and patient in regards to this sort of thing.

[Brodie]

Halo 3 tonight, anyone?

[The Stryker]

Woooot wooooooo!!!

[BigApple3AM]

Hey guys I finally got Halo 3 and XBox live, anyone want to play some multiplayer?

Edit: No one? We can do some team or go death match... c'mon I'm sick of playing with smack talking preteens.

[Cure]

Hey guys I finally got Halo 3 and XBox live, anyone want to play some multiplayer?

Edit: No one? We can do some team or go death match... c'mon I'm sick of playing with smack talking preteens.

What's your gamertag?

[raphael_is_cool]

I hadn't played Halo 3 for a while until yesterday. Man, I am rusty. I also need to sort out my connection. Get some homeplugs. 1 out of 5 bars for the wireless signal does not make for a stable game.

[Peanut]

Let's play some games on Liiiiiiive.

[Peanut]

F*ck you guys! We're playing tonight! No dumb ass exceptions!

[愛]

I'm ready to play, gangstas! LET'S DO THIS!!

[Cure]

We're doing Halo at midnight EST tonight. If you wanna play, look up time zones, do the math, and send one of us (Brodie, Peanut, Ai or me) a message on live (gamertags in sigs).

[Toonami Tom]

Anyone want to play Gears of War 1, Halo 3 (zombie mode), or TMNT 1989 arcade?

[Cure]

Who's up for trading some Pokemanz?! I have SoulSilver, dawgzzzzzzzzzzzz.