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 Smacktalk!  (http://www.smacktalk360.com/)

"audio graffiti"

another reason to pass on the 360

Eh? Tell me you're being sarcastic. Otherwise, bitch please!

I already knew the Xbox/360 was the Scion-with-spinners of the consoles.  This is mostly just another reason to avoid retards.

I dont quite get why you would record your own smack talk. Couldnt you just say it when you needed it said?

Well, the site says you can record from 'any audio source', so I presume the idea is to pull smacktalk clips from movies and TV onto the thing so you can feel really clever by pressing the "I'm Rick James Bitch" button 300 times whenever you get a kill in Halo.

Not really new in terms of utility - I think you can hook up some programs to do this to TS or Vent on the PC, although I don't have examples offhand.

On the other hand, probably a great gift for the 14-year-old in your extended family this holiday season.

Descent 3 had this feature back in the day, that was a boon and novelty in pre-Teamspeak days. I wonder how come Descent 3 did not turn into classic and did not produce and follow-ups.

Not if you are a motard that can only think of a comeback six minutes after your opponent has left the room.  This is pretty much the same as a hotkey macro for the psych-out metagame.

I always assumed Descent didn't become the national bird because it made lots of people blow lunch onto their monitors.

I don't know either. Descent was great. It's not like it was directly competing with Doom for first person action. It wasn't even competing with other space shooters for that matter.

Could say the same thing about a lot of games though. Myth, Jagged Alliance, Deus Ex, Fallout -- All great and at least modestly successful games. For some reason though, they inspired few sequels and imitators.

Jagged Alliance at least had a sequel (I'm seriously thinking of getting JA2 Gold on Steam) and directly inspired Silent Storm, which was fantastic until the giant-fucking-robots showed up and ruined everything.

Fallout had a great sequel and a, very IMO, great tactial game sequel.  Despite the soul crushing bugs (hello CTD) and some poor design decisions (all of the sudden energy weapons are required near the end) Fallout: Tactics was a blast. It still had enough of the into-the-wasteland flair to be a true Fallout game.  Fallout 3 is in the works from Bethsoft.  I could go for another post-apoc game using the SPECIAL system though..

I would like to see some more spiritual successors to DE (rather than the poor sequel) and Myth.  The gameplay formulas for those are something I'd like to see more of.

Because mouth-breathing pimply-faced twats need something more to waste their crack money on.

I was a bit shocked to see the lack of fan missions (http://www.deusex-machina.com/downloads/fm.asp) available for Deus Ex.  Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but I doubt it.

I almost bought this today.

What?  But you don't play with other people, only with yourself!   :|

Gadget-lure is strong.  I have a GBA e-Reader.  Do I use the e-Reader to play Donkey Kong?  No, Donkey Kong sucks.  It's cool to have, though.

Actually, one use it has is to spawn furniture into Animal Crossing.

When I joined my UO guild, they dragged me into Ventrilo even though I didn't have a microphone at the time.  I communicated entirely through Arnold Schwarzenegger soundboards.  It was awesome.

Hm, any source? Might have to get it then and record awful video game lines. Or fill every spot with the screaming of villagers from RE4.

UN POLICIA.

That'll be priceless when GTA or Crackdown comes out.

Oh, and of MATALO.

AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the fun.

I may.  I'm just not overwhelmed from the choice.  Le sorry.

Schild has a great idea.  I'm thinking I would probably grab sounds from Eternal Darkness.  I forgot how creepy that game is.  I am purposely letting the characters go insane.  System Shock 2 is a good candidate for both the monkey noise and the midwives.