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So after checking through the Play.com sale and finding several albums I'd been monitoring for a while cheap I also discovered that there are plenty of Paradise Lost and Opeth albums there too.

So with student loans to burn, what Opeth or Paradise Lost should I be checking out?

For Opeth I'd say Blackwater Park, Watershed and Damnation.

Add Ghost Reveries to that mix. Not quite on the same level as the 3 afformentioned albums but it's still great.

4/10 Not Familiar with most of these acts...sorry man

Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop

RHCP - Falling into Grace

Fall of Troy - Ex-Creations

The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini (The Whole 45 minutes track 4-12 on album combined)

Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times

At The Drive In - Lopsided

Queens of the Stone Age - The Sky is Fallin'

Jimi Hendrix - If 6 was 9

Faith No More - Caralho Coador

Mastodon - Island

Has Australia gotten BR1 yet?

Yeah we finally got it released here a week before World Tour came out. Should've got the RB instruments though because my WT drums have screwed up twice (once the Yellow Cymbal, now the Red Pad) and my guitar i got with it doesn't register up strums, which sucks because i play on expert.

Battle of the Sword Fighters

Smashers: Link VS Marth VS Ike VS Toon Link

Stage: Hyrule Temple

Items: None

Winner: Toon Link

Runner-Up: Link

Battle of the Pokemon

Smashers: Pokemon Trainer VS Pikachu VS Jigglypuff VS Lucario

Stage: Pokemon Arena 2

Items: None

Winner: Pokemon Trainer

Runner-Up: Jigglypuff

Battle of the Mushroom Kingdom

Smashers: Mario VS Luigi VS Yoshi VS Bowser

Stage: Mario Circuit

Items: None

Winner: Luigi

Runner-Up: Mario

Battle of the Seed One Winners

Smashers: Toon Link vs Pokemon Trainer vs Luigi

Stage: Corneria

Items: None

Winner: Toon Link

Runner-Up: Pokemon Trainer

Battle of the Seed One Runner-Ups

Smashers: Link vs Jigglypuff vs Mario vs Pokemon Trainer

Stage: Pokemon Stadium

Items: None

Winner: Pokemon Trainer

Battle of the Bounty Hunters

Smashers: Captain Falcon VS Fox VS Wolf VS Samus

Stage: Lylat Cruise

Items: None

Winner:Captain Falcon

Runner-Up: Wolf

Battle of the Heavyweights

Smashers: Wario VS Donkey Kong VS King DeDeDe VS Ganondorf

Stage: Smashville

Items: None

Winner:Gannondorf

Runner-Up: Donkey Kong

Battle of the (Technically) Non-Nintendo Created Characters

Smashers: Diddy Kong VS Sonic VS Snake VS Mr. Game & Watch

Stage: Pictochat

Items: None

Winner: Diddy Kong

Runner-Up: Sonic

Battle of the Seed Two Winners

Smashers: Captain Falcon vs Gannondorf vs Diddy Kong

Stage: Corneria

Items: None

Winner: Captain Falcon

Runner-Up: Diddy Kong

Battle of the Seed Two Runner-Ups

Smashers: Wolf vs Donkey Kong vs Sonic vs Diddy Kong

Stage: Pokemon Stadium

Items: None

Winner: Sonic

Battle of the Old-Timers

Smashers: Kirby VS Pit VS Ice Climbers VS R.O.B.

Stage: Onnet

Winner:Pit

Runner-Up: Kirby

Battle of Magics and Psychics

Smashers: Zelda VS Ness VS Lucas VS Peach

Stage: Castle Siege

Winner: Zelda

Runner-Up: Lucas

Battle of the Wildcard Entrants

Smashers: Metaknight, Falco, Olimar, Randon (Link)

Stage: Skyworld

Winner: Metaknight

Runner-Up: Link

Battle of the Seed Three Winners

Smashers: Pit vs Zelda vs Metknight

Stage: Corneria

Items: None

Winner: Zelda

Runner-Up: Metaknight

Battle of the Seed Three Runner-Ups

Smashers: Kirby vs Lucas vs Link vs Metaknight

Stage: Pokemon Stadium

Items: None

Winner: Link

EDIT I was wondering why there was a runner up in the winners match but not the runner up match. Makes sense now.

Morbo for sure, closely followed by The Professor and Brannigan.

that's what i meant...does anyone write up full wrestler edits or is it just a formula?

So I've got the game coming tomorrow according to multiplayer.it, while i wait for my next pay to come in so i can order a MAX drive, could someone direct me to any sites that have Formulas for CAWs? I've found a fair few saves, but i want to just get a feel of how accurate the CAW system is by making someone I'm familiar with like Jericho, RVD, Benoit, Guerrero etc.

1 - Super Mario All-stars (SNES)

2 - Goldeneye (N64)

3 - GTA San Andreas (PS2)

4 - Guitar Hero II (360)

5 - Super Mario World (SNES)

6 - Sonkey Kong Country (SNES)

7 - Unirally/Uniracer (SNES)

8 - Super Punch-Out! (SNES)

9 - Mario Kart 64 (N64)

10 - Peggle (PC)

Any Auzzies seen this game out in stores? I Heard it was supposed to come out last week, but EB and JB hi-fi don't seem to know of its existance.

TMV are pretty hit or miss live, from the bootlegs I've gathered over the years. Cedric and the boys have their nights when they're spot on, and then sometimes it's just awful.

Yeah but for Melbourne they've been hit 4 times and miss once. The only thing that's ever shoddy is Cedric's Vocals when he's running around too much and loses his breath. It's pretty cool anyways because the band's always spot on, and Cedric's either nailing the vocals or not nailing the vocals but going apeshit around the stage, which is still cool.

All 5 times I've seen the Mars Volta live I've gotten tix as soon as i could and gotten into full hype mode. I'm going to see Opeth in September too, counting down the days until that one.

1988 - The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

1989 - Faith No More - The Real Thing

1990 - Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

1991 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

1992 - Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled

1993 - Tool - Undertow

1994 - Weezer - Blue Album

1995 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute

1996 - Tool - Ænema

1997 - Buena Vista Social Club

1998 - The Living End - Self Titled

1999 - Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory (Metropolis pt2)

2000 - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

2001 - Opeth - Blackwater Park and Tool - Lateralus

2002 - Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

2003 - The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium and Opeth - Damnation

2004 - John Frusciante - Shadows Collide with People

2005 - The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

2006 - Hilltop Hoods - The Hard Road, Mastodon - Blood Mountain and Tool - 10,000 Days

2007 - The Fall of Troy - Manipulator

2008 - Opeth - Watershed, The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath and Weezer - Red Album

Get some of the text message cars when you can, or at least don't let the messages get deleted or have too many that they'll be pushed off your saved ones. My Mate's finished the game and he doesn't know how the hell to start the text message missions now because he can't find the SMS'.

"Don't Start a Band" and "Sellout" by reel Big Fish spring to mind...i'm pretty sure they got a couple more

also Zimmer's Hole are everything about Death Metal multiplied by a billion. They're Parody Metal at its finest

i've been listening almost exclusively to JNR and Fusion, with bits of Radio Broker , LCHC and LRR in there too when there's a good song on.

Fall of Troy and Circa Survive remind me of the Mars volta, but i think that's the spacey sound of CC and the prog aspects of FoT, along with the fact that all 3 bands have high pitched singers

Also Opeth and Mastodon remind me of one another, because i got into both of them within a week of each other and listened almost exclusively to them for the next week. Great stuff

FINALLY!!! *jumps for Joy*

Let the comeback commence...

EDIT - So when's the next round starting? are we taking hiatus due to GTA IV or what?

I'm in the same boat as you Russo. Damn annoying song when you play it a few times in a row.

So, when's the next round on?

The thing with the Rumble match, or any match at that (particularly Iron Man, Submission, etc.) is a more varied and indepth damage system with a way to regain health and/or stamina/whatever in the match.

The way the Smackdown games are designed is for 3-8 minute matches if you're lucky. The rare longer one may happen. But it's rather difficult to effectively pull a Flair/Mysterio/Benoit/Michaels/et al Rumble performance on a system designed for such short matches when these matches (and even in the game) can go for a time. Also once both guys are red in a Iron Man match it's effectively redundant as either can whip off a pin or submission with relative ease.

I agree completely with this. I think they should implement a system where say in a singles match, moves do 100% damage, but on say a hardcore match where people get hit in the head with chairs and the likes all the time they should only have a 50% damage or something. It'd be like the wrestlers going into a big match like a Royal Rumble or a title match would step it up and bring their 'A' game, so they're a bit more versatile in kicking out. It's silly that you play through season mode and get to hardcore matches and they're over in like 5 minutes because it only takes that long to get your opponent in the red for a pin.

oh crap...100k behind...i've got some serious catching up to do

Dead rising on the underground maintenance tunnel mission with carlito.

Raining Blood on Expert in GH3

General RAAM on GoW on insane.

Damn man, you just wait till we get to Expert though. It'll be a tough contest for sure. I think I'm like 30K behind at the moment though in the overall standings so i got allot of catching up to do.

Finally, I take out a round (hopefully). My hand's in pretty good shape from actually playing proper guitar (i got a les paul with a wide neck so my hands are strong)

I totally fluked that run. My best score before that was 398k and i said "ok I'm gonna crack the 400k mark then post my score". First run through got 402 but felt good about the run so i did another and got this score. Absolutely nailed it then can't get anything over 410k anymore.