Author: BreakmanX

Christmas-time is usually this kind of orgy of presents, family, and food.  But, as I tend to do, I try to think of it as a game as well.  When your family asks you what for Christmas and you tell them you want Metal Gear Solid III: Snake Eater and, with a bewildered look on their face, they spit something like “Feter Weter Wogid Tree: Lake Peeer,” you can kind of gather what I mean.  Trying to explain your desire to take a man named Snake through the 60’s jungle to stop crazy Russians with super-powers sounds so good when…

As usual, there's all sorts of drama on our forums.  This time it hijacked one of Atticus's threads.  Click here to get in on it.

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Everyone at BreakmanX.com would like to wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas.  Thanks for your support!

I've noticed a recent influx of n00bs on our forums, so I'll take the time to send my greetings.  And a word of note:  BreakmanX and I like to joke and use sarcasm at times, so it's wise to take our posts with a few grains of salt.  We've gotten into flame wars over misinterpretations, and we're not prepared to change our style.  Deal with it.In other news, I've deduced that God hates me.  I know, because my two most anticipated games, Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo 4, are now under what seems like a delay curse.  GT4's been pushed…

Hey guys, Jack here, and I'm back in Wichita for the holidays right now.  After a very intense week so far of getting presents for all of my friends and family (Break, you're really going to like yours ;-)   ) I'm finally able to relax and sit back and watch football and play videogames like Halo 2 and Burnout 3 with my little brother and all of his friends.  It's amazing how much they actually like Burnout 3.  Now, when it came out, I'm pretty sure that you all remember me ranting and raving about how freakin' sweet the game…

I know most of you are here to take part in the ongoing ban/hottie drama, so I'll make it easy for you.Mecha tried out the recently released Half-Life 2 demo, and reported that it ran as smooth as butter.  This confirmed my confidence in the Source engine, and it's ability to make shit look good on just about any rig.  The same thing can't be said about Doom 3, which runs decidedly slower on the same hardware.  Unfortunately, my prescribed remedy still stands:  Put money into a new video card, then look at other options, like RAM and the hard…

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So that's it.  It's over.  Finished.  Finito.  The End.  What is it that I'm done with?  School!  I'm finally finished with school, and in 3-4 months, I will have a nice, palpable degree in theatre and film with a film emphasis from Kansas University.  Now this is both really cool and kinda scary at the same time.  What that means is that I now have to get a "real" job, and start really living on my own soon. But oh well, enough about that.  I'm still playing World of Warcraft, and I really haven't touched much else.  EA still makes me…

Can't play…world of warcraft.Must finish finals.Mercy?Post…later…gahurgahurgurt

With all the naysaying going on about how the videogame market is in decline, and there's no innovation in the market, I was starting to lose my faith early on this year.  However, once the DS, Halo 2, and games like Katamari Damacy made their way into our hands, I regained that faith that I had that the industry would pull through, and that good games, no matter what their origins or quirkiness might be, would be played and would be recognized my intelligent gamers everywhere.Well, that's the way everything was until Monday.  Then EA had to go and shit…

So instead of trying to create a better product than your competition (ESPN), you simply buy all NFL rights.  This is seriously one of the shittiest things I've ever heard.  Whatever motivation EA had to better your games just disappeared.  Football fans, welcome a five-year of license rape and consumer whoring.  Thank God I don't give a fuck about sports games. To say Jack was pissed would be a gross understatement.  Were it not for WoW to distract him, I'm sure our furniture would have been destroyed in a fit of blind rage.I knew from the beginning that Half-Life 2 would…

As a preface to this post note that I love you double because I’ve had to write this post twice.  I ‘posted’ it this morning, but it must have logged me out or some such bullshit because a post was not to be found.  Only a nice block of text explaining how sick I was yesterday, and that there was no show.  I’m still sick as fuck, but I have one more thing for you, I have a kind of cool story to tell.  You know you want to read more.

Yeah, I got sick, and don't even have much of a voice now.  I guess you could tune in and listen to me cough and hack…  Or not.  Anyway, hope everyone is having a Happy/Merry Chanukah/Christmas/Kwanza/Winter Solstice/Commercial Holiday.

So today, I'm going to be taking part in my first raid on Horde territory in World of Warcraft, and I'm really excited.  While I'm not 100% certain what all this entails, I do know that it means we're going to be going into Horde-controlled contested realms of Azeroth and put the smack down on pretty much anything that gets in our way in order to take a border town.  (If any of the other guys playing the game know that this is wrong, feel free to correct me)  I'm still having such a fun time.  I've already hit level…

Now, I've been addicted to games; I am still a refugee from Everquest, every time I think about it, I get all warm and fuzzy inside. Not like that, like…some kind of mix of pure ecstasy and real extacy, which in turn reminds me of my raving days, which in turn…never mind. To say that I'm addicted to World of Warcraft would be an understatement. I'm sitting here at work, talking with Yankee (Alpine in WoW) about how cool the game is. I'm attempting to find a way to extract pure World of Warcraft juice from my computer and inject…

It finally happened.  Steam, for reasons unknown, allowed me to download Half-Life 2 Deathmatch last night.  Maybe the servers really were that busy, maybe it got my memo, maybe it popped a couple Midol, I don't know.  But, hell, it doesn't really matter, I'm just glad to have it.I think it was IRC chatter eXistence who commented that HL2 Deathmatch was very intense, and he's God damn right.  Step into a 15+-player server and you'll be swept up in a hurricane of bullets and thrown objects.  If you step back and look at the battles taking place, you'll see a…

I'm weak.  That's about all everyone needs to know.  I broke down yesterday and bought World of Warcraft, even after I swore I would not even touch it until I got all of my finals and papers and such for all of my classes done.  Well, like I said, I'm weak.  I ended up creating my character last night when I got back from volleyball, and I am now a Human Rogue on the Darkspear server along with Afro and other guys around here playing the game.  If you're playing and you want to look me up, my character's name…

What's your problem?  Have I committed some transgression against you?  Something to piss you off?  Or, do you feel Kansans aren't worthy of your bandwidth?  I know you're busy with Counter-Strike and all, but c'mon, it's a measly 32 MB for Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and this is the fifth day in a row my request has been denied.  I promise, I won't nade spam or anything lame like that.  E-mail me, let's work something out. -Tyler "Richie" Richardson

I finally messed around with the links page.  I just kinda added links at random..  Just a bunch of different sites I frequent, and a few that I do.

No GameSavers show today, guys.  Sorry, Im feeling a bit under the weather and can't really host.  We will return soon, though!

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Two perfect adjectives to describe my feelings for World of Warcraft. I've been knee deep in this game since it's launch last Tuesday, and all I can say is if you've never played an MMO, or even if you're an MMO god…this game will tickle your fancy in the naughty places. Graphics are top notch and fit perfectly in the Warcraft world, the classes are all fun (and balanced from what I've experienced), the tradeskills are a hoot AND a hollar (yes, both) and the combat is exciting, not to mention PvP being an adrenaline pumper.

If you listened to the Show a couple weeks ago, then you know my feelings on Forza Motorsport.  I saw what looked like a potentially awesome game displayed at the Microsoft press event, only to be severely disappointed by the playable demo they had available on the event floor.  The physics felt downright twisted, and the graphics looked awful.  Well, thanks to Xbox Official Magazine, and their demo disc, I've had a chance to play an updated demo of Forza, and, while my general opinion of the game is much higher now, a select few things still bug me.What I…

I confess.  I never played Final Fantasy 1 on NES.  There.  I said it.  *sigh*  That feels so much better.  Anyways, with that weight off of my mind, I picked up Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls for GBA yesterday, which is essentially remakes of both Final Fantasy 1 and the previously unreleased (unless you count Final Fantasy Origins for PS1) Final Fantasy 2 for the NES…

Anyone out there remember the Warthog Jump video?  Remember how its creator melded some insane grenade-launching stunts to an uber cool soundtrack?  Remember liking it?  Then I've got something straight up your alley.  It's called the Shield Jump video, and, though not as varied as Warthog Jump, it's in the same spirit:  Fucking with the physics engine to create crazy stunts.  It has to do with those shield emplacements the Covenant use, and driving a tank over one.  Tanks get launched, hilarity ensues.  Check it, if you're buh-dah-kee. I'd also like to let all the Half-Life 2 owners out there know…

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Hey guys, hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving, I know I did.  Hopefully you all also used the BreakmanX.com 2004 Holiday Gift Guide as well yesterday when you all went out to shop for all of your holiday presents for your family and friends who also just happen to love video games.  If you didn't, go check it out in the features section.  I'm telling you right now, it's really good, and you can use it to find any gift for any gamer's tastes…

Even though part of me believes Thanksgiving is a holiday, like Valentines Day, that was created by retailers as an excuse to sell shit and have early morning sales.Metroid Prime 2 was somewhat of a letdown.  The game starts out…

So you have a gamer on your holiday gift list that you don't know what to get.  Well, luckily you came to the right place.  I'll help you sort through the crap and show you the real gems in each genre for each system.  Don't worry, Jack is here, and he'll help you make sure that you get that special someone a gift they're sure to love.  I'll give you my #1 choice for each genre and a few other games in the genre that they'll be sure to like as well as the #1 choice.