I just recently watched Flags for the first time. I thought it was much better than friends had described, but Letters is still by far the better movie.

The book for "Flag of Our Father's" is much much better than the movie. I often find this to be the case when movies are made from books. As far as Letters from Iwo, the movie really depicted the feeling at that particular moment in time. Clint Eastwood did a fantastic job and selected the right people to portray the characters in the movie. One of my favorites to watch.

I can only speak for my area. Gamestop\ EB Games are pro console and have a minimal selection of PC games.

Where as my local BestBuy and FRY'S Electronics has aisle's of PC games at same and sometimes better prices.

I just cannot go to stores anymore. I try to buy as much as I can online. Like the other day I needed a new battery for my travel trailer. So the best deal was on Amazon, Optima Marine Type, Retail $230, they had it for $180 plus a $25 factory rebate. No sales tax and free shipping. I ordered it Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon its sitting on my doorstep when I got home. Its now charged and ready to go!

Amazing! I remember EB Games. They were pretty good.

EB will tell you pretty much up front that console games are their bag now. I was able to sell my old PC games to them. They do not accept them anymore. If you use the store for what they are directing it to be, it is a great store. My kids turn in Nintendo Wii and Gameboy games all the time. They receive store credit and buy more console games. It is just a revolving account for me and my wallet. I.m at the point now were I spend no money. The store credit is enough to get the next game they want. Plus I get a discount card and Game Informer magazine(excellent toilet reading) as part of the discount card program. Using the store for this purpose is wonderful. However, EB will order a PC game for you. In fact, I got SH4 from them the day it was released because I pre-ordered with cash. As anything in life, cash talks. The rest is just idle banter to the sales industry. So, for PC games that are not extremely popular like Half Life for example, they will not stock them because they will not move off the shelves. SH4 has it's nitch and knowing that I specifically pre-orderd and plunked my cash down for the game. I did not think they would clear a shelf for SH4. IMO, it is a good store for certain things. For other games, yep, Bestbuy, Walmart or Target. Lately I order online because I do not feel like getting my dead butt out of my chair. :roll:

Of all things on planet Earth...

I just bought SH4 Gold at Walmart. ($29.99)

So i've finally got a hardcopy of the U-boat missions add-on.

Kewl.

Any sign of SecuROM on that DVD of SH4 Gold?

I got mine at Gamestop $29.99 After installing it and looking it over .... I now call it UBI-RIPOFF-GOLD :down:

I can only hope the modders do to it what you and your team did to SH-3 GWX 2.1. :up:

Gee, I feel so sorry for you. After reading about RFB and TMO and RSRDC and some of the others, I'd say that's already well underway. Haven't you been following the threads with all the people making the same complaints about UBM but praising the mod work that's been done so far? The GWX guys are starting their version and when that's out you'll already be good to go.

I had to cancel my order due to lack of work, and now I don't have $29.99 to spend on it if I did find it. Which doesn't matter, because my computer has trouble running SH4 anyway. I'm still working so hard on my own mod loadout for SH3 and my own mod project I don't have time to play, so I'm not really unhappy about it.

I know: why don't you send me your copy and make us both happy.:sunny:

they didnt have it locally I will have to phone them and see about
Walmart canada?

did anyone get it north of the line that didnt get d2d?

ya know thats not so dumb as it sounds surely there is an unhappy
longtime member who has benefited from your wisdoms insights and
humours and wants to dump it for something new why waste copy.
send it to steve if you dont want it.

better yet lets start a games going spare sticky somewhere
the Up for grabs prior to pawning thread

you know "one copy ea. of shIII and SHIV(non ubm)" available until
end of month for any taker that will pay shipping.
or whatever a community sort of psuedo barter E library(ish) recyclying
and community savings system of sorts.

movies games books hardware

just a thought.
:|\\

Walmart...I really hate Walmart but were else can you go and pick up a package of underwear, a circular saw blade and the PC game you have been wanting all in the same stop? :rotfl:

Something you've got to understand, Firewall, is that as aggravating as any given element of the Silent Hunter series may be... there would be no GWX or any other organized mod package at all without the release of the Silent Hunter series.

Even on the worst of days... SOME is always better than NONE... and even the SH devs have to start somewhere... and are forced to finish somewhere.

(Fame and notariety comes in the same bottle whether you are a dev or a modder. No matter what you do... you still lose! :lol: )

That kind of raises a point I have considered

a lot of folks are scratching there heads wondering why ubi
chose the only the type IX and the Type XVII and only those
it seems to me that the devs are also people who I am sure
have every bit as much of a love of the genre as any of us.
however I feel they must realize that theres only limited shots
at getting it out there, because admit it we are kind of a limited
audience compared to something like WOW. so were a corporate
sideshow but a particularly artistic challenging and detailed one.

The devs I feel had to be aware that they would need to sustain
the genre for a very long time with this release and in order to
defeat the rift between ato and pto lovers they facilitated both
with there final release, why then only type ix and type xvii
because all the other boats can be made from those two while
we pass five years by and in so doing they have reconciled with
both sides of the silly theatre issue. they have enabled the sub
simming community (as opposed to subsim) to continue in happy
bliss for another half decade.

for all its limitations I think it reflects a great
love of the sport at its very core and a near
brilliant use of limited resources to achieve what
seems like both corporate and artistic goals
M

You all have a right to your opinion. And I will respect that. :yep:

I have a right to mine. And I hope you all will do the same. :D