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thats how all sorts of Claw-grabber based games work. it's all a matter of playing the machine at the right time when it is scheduled for a pay-out. you can sit around and watch enough people play to figure out the routine if you really wanted to. for small pay games it can be as low as 1 in 10, but like you said, most major games have incredibly high odds.

this ad has nothing to do with video games what so ever. are you kidding me? this insane naivety is exactly why america is the most obese nation on the world.

sure, they chose video games to illustrate their platform because its an easy platform to manipulate and illustrate your message. they could have just as easily filmed a fake sitcom skit or cartoon with fat kids eating fattening foods. the fact that its represented with a video game is inconsequential.

and then because you chose to concentrate on their "misrepresentation of pac-man" (although i feel that they have to be trying to represent pac-man to misrepresent him, and i don't think they were) the message is completely lost.

bottom line, your kids are fat. no, its not just because they are playing video games. if anything, games like San Andreas encouraged you to eat healthy and work out so your character would become more muscular and not a fat worthless blob.

it's not the end of the world if a commercial is encouraging kids to go outside for five minutes a day, nor is it that bad for parents to be encouraged to watch what their kids and eating and doing.

i can proudly say i've never eaten Lucky Charms in my life (or most sugary cereals for that matter), i didn't drink pop when i was a kid, and i got McDonalds maybe once a month. and guess what? i'm not fat. shcoking, i know. i have my parents to thank for actually having a healthy and active childhood.

kids these days are just chubby, pasty, basement dwellers and its not because of genetics.

i sadly won't be getting mine until at least monday. i have to wait until Friday to get that precious paycheck, and i have about 35 pages of essays to write before i can totally forget about the rest of the world and pretend i'm Slash.

who cares if they broke the street date? what does it matter? it's not like the stores that are holding their copies until the actual release date aren't going to sell now. it's good for the alert consumer, and for those that have to wait, they have to wait. i tried to get one at my Circuit City, but they weren't selling them, so i don't know. i think some people got lucky. good for them. i'm jealous. but i'm not about to go bitching to Activision that someone is selling their game FOUR days ahead of schedule. like Activision really cares man. c'mon... if anything, it's going to up demand and give some extra time for word-of-mouth to do its thing. i doubt you will see any fines. this has nothing to do with killing the small business in America. the small business is dying because they can't offer the same amount of products and a competitive price level, but i won't get into economics on Joystiq, there are dumber things to argue about.

this game has more then enough weight to sell-out everywhere, so don't worry about it.

let's all keep judging the success of Nintendo based on the sales figures of one crazy-ass island...

comments 5-11 are pretty much ridiculous and hilarious. good job guys.

if you want to argue its coolness out of the context, it still doesn't measure up. out of context as a machine that does something perfect everytime, its hardly original. as a piece of engineering, maybe... but i think more impressive machines have been built with legos, so i still don't like it.

does this not completely defeat the purpose of gaming? am i the only one slight perturbed by this?

BTW, R* confirmed that it is all in-game footage at 720p in real-time with the RAGE engine on a next-gen console.

its on gamesradar.com

its the opening story. check it out.

ditto Pete C

wow, you are going to continue to throw cars and collect orbs for no reason? that sounds like a blast. you must not get excited about much anything since you are so hardcore. you must not get excited at all considering you like a game that last 6 hours at most with no replay value what so ever.

and to the comment above that, what exactly do you think GTA is all about? it's about the gangs man. and there are going to be more of them in this game then in any previous. just look at the demographics of NYC. italians, jews, hispanics, asians, african americans, irish, russian, etc. etc. it goes on and on (i hope i didn't offend anyone with that list, i think its pretty PC).