[NGTM-1R]

1) It's a Space Ship, when the ship is in Space - where I would assume it spends most of its time - that section would be open to space. The point of a giant, canyon-like gap in the middle of a spaceship is beyond me.

That it's beyond you doesn't really prove anything. IIRC the Pillar of Autumn had several cases of what I'll call a partial double hull, because I can't think of a better way to put it. There were gaps in it. More to the point, you must have missed the several cases of large doors that bar your progress in some places. There are open to the air sections, but there are others that aren't too.

[GodisanAtheist]

I don't know if anyone has mentined this thus far, but the biggest problem with halo 2 (and Half-life 2, for that matter) is the devs promised SO MUCH during the E3 demos and delivered so little.

-What happened to AI kicking down/shooting through doors, using the environment and interacting in surprising and novel ways with one another? Half-life 2 was especially guilty of this kind of crap. Instead of getting fantastic and new AI, Halo 2 gave us Halo 1's AI and Half-Life 2 gave us retarded AI. Did it matter that half-Life 2 wasn't in black mesa anymore? Nope, cause you still walked down "corridors" of buildings in a straight line for hours on end, with maybe 2 open areas in the entire game. Halo 2 gave people plenty of free space (heh) but they didn't fix the "wasn't I JUST in this room?" syndrome that plagued the 1st game so badly.

Half-Life 1 is a great FPS (on PC, and sucked balls on the PS2) and Halo is the best FPS on consoles and at least a good game on PCs, but their respective sequels were boring and at times tedious.

Vista is going to become mandatory sooner than people think. MS has already begun cutting support for Win2K (AoE 3 is XP compatible only) and with all the pre-builts that people buy (OEM Vista, of course), there is no reason to believe Vista won't be adopted rather quickly.

[CP5670]

Does your emulator have a little know game called King Arthur's World ? Try it. Like Lemmings, but with Knights. And rock-solid.

I don't have it, but I could probably find it somewhere. I'll have to give that a try. Anything that's similar to Lemmings is worth playing in my book.

[Dough with Fish]

If you guys want some excellent boss battles, I highly recomend Shadow of the Colossus. Granted that is all the game consists of, they are still amazing. But each battle is just plain epic and tragic at the same time. Really, check this one out.

[CP5670]

I haven't played very many games with particularly memorable boss battles. I guess the ones that stick out for me are any of the Descent or Jedi Knight games. I remember the first time I ran into that yellow superhulk dude and his menacing clicking noises in that circular lava room in the D1 shareware version, and proceeded to take a direct hit from one of his smart missiles.

[phatosealpha]

RE4 had some pretty darn good ones.  Verdugo was a pretty darned cool fight.  And the black guardian from Eternal Darkness was pretty awesome.

[Mefustae]

RE4 had some pretty darn good ones.

The Verdugo weren't bad, Del Lago was the money-boss. Easily one of the best boss-battles in any game. Ever.

[Roanoke]

Boses in Super Proboptector on SNES were great.

[JoeLo]

Gentleman let me tell you something. Within two weeks there will be a hack allowing you to play it on XP.