• FPS- Duckhunt(+NES Zapper Gun)
• TPS- Contra
• Arcade- Galaga
• RTS- C&C: Tiberian Sun
• Sports- Olympic Gold (1992)
• Racing- Super HangOn
• Sandbox- Gmod (10)
• Adventure/Action- Sonic The Hedgehog (2)
• Fighting- Streets of Rage (1)
• JRPG- Phantasy Star (2:GoD)
• Simulator- Harvest Moon (farming simulator?)

Nothing has beaten them for me yet.

Other: Dying. I don't know why but I can't seem to use any other playstyle; even when I set up what I think will be a commando knifing style - it turns out just to be the same old "Dying" one.

I'd have to agree with MS on this - he's done it to annoy other people and so deserves to have it removed, whether or not it should be offensive is a different matter, but since it was clearly going to rile people it's good they took action and stuck to it.

The only thing I can add to this conversation really, is that MS have recently changed their name policy. In the past, people would get friends to submit multiple "bad gamertag" reports on them, and when it hit a limit, MS just send a message telling the person to change it; for free (making it a cheap work-around instead of paying to get the gamertag changed.

However, they now look at the gamertag manually after it gets any complaints at all; and if they deem it to be safe - it doesn't get changed (no matter how many complaints). But, if they deem it to be a breach of the TOS they now make you pay for a change instead.

Generally I have to congratulate the Xbox-Police; they do a better job of keeping xbox live clean than any other similar service does.

Ah thanks for the articles - at least now we have a conclusive answer to it all. I guess the paper codes is the only way then.

PS: We're all too generous; getting upset that we can't give away our money :P

All copies get the VIP code - it's just part of the EA "$10" plan as they call it.

Everybody gets one code and so can claim the content once. However, if you were to trade the game in, the next person would have to pay for the extra content; meaning that EA will get money from second-sales (something that they've been wanting to do for a long time). So yeh, everybody gets a one-use code; it's simply to make EA money when somebody trades the game in or sells it to a friend.

I'm having the same problem - I've been wanting to send MS points to my sister, but can't. From what I've heard, there was an old method that existed but it got removed due to the accounts being hacked ( or otherwise compromised) and points being sent over to a different account. I guess we're stuck just buying those code packs and sending them either by email or post.

It's a shame really, it would be nice to be able to gift games - like you can with steam. It makes a nice little birthday present when you log-on and find you've got a gift for your birthday.

Yamaha HP-2's with a BT928 Amplifier/equaliser - it's worked pretty well for me over the last 6 years. That said, now I've got a TV which actually has speakers - I've found there's no advantage in headphones; you can still easily hear the footsteps through etc through the TV alone.

i use the headset that came with my system, ive never understood how people manage to break them-DirtySanchez-

I wouldn't have called KOTOR turn based, but it had quite a nice style where it wasn't all-out jump around action, but it wasn't so slow that it lost it's dynamics. If it wasn't for the 20 games that all followed it on the dialogue choice system and bored me a little, I'd still be playing it. Are you thinking that's what this new LOTR will be like?

Looks pretty impressive I'd say.

I know it'll never happen - but it would be really nice if one of these fantasy RPGs (LOTR in particular) had some community mapping tools - so after completing the main storyline, you could use a Warcraft 3 style editor (I think most people will agree it was one of the best and simplest editors ever made) to make new stories and quests to share with your friends.

Ah well, in reality though; I hope it will just generally have a feeling of epic storyline and quest; rather than focusing on the action and combat like a lot of these games.

I stopped reading at "high horse"Hahadouken