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fitbabits
08-18-2010, 08:13 AM
Watching The Expendables last week has left me hankering for the good old days, both in movies and gaming. This got me to thinking - some of the best times I've ever had on Xbox LIVE was when a hardcore group of us set up GRAW Tuesday's over at EvAv.

I would like to rekindle those burning embers. Who's with me?

"There are beans in the burrito. I repeat, there are beans in the burrito!"

(I do understand a lot has changed since then, what with the move from EvAv to CoG, etc.)
Expugnare
08-18-2010, 08:40 AM
Oh god, please no. That would be enough to make be buy GRAW again and resub to XBL. I don't need to be spending more money.
National Kato
08-18-2010, 08:41 AM
I'd also be down, Fitty, but I'd have to purchase the game again. Let's see who's in.
Khrymsyn
08-18-2010, 09:50 AM
Oh hell yeah. I'm pretty sure I still have GRAW too. Need to get Bap in on that, as he's the one who actually uttered that meorable line.
fitbabits
08-18-2010, 09:59 AM
Oh god, please no. That would be enough to make be buy GRAW again and resub to XBL. I don't need to be spending more money.

I'd also be down, Fitty, but I'd have to purchase the game again. Let's see who's in.
$4.99 (http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=39276). You know it's worth it. :)
Drayven
08-18-2010, 10:00 AM
If I can scrounge up a copy I think I'd be interested if you guys don't mind having a noob involved :)
Siraris
08-18-2010, 10:07 AM
Sorry, Quickie isn't here, this cannot be done.
mightbe
08-18-2010, 11:19 AM
I no longer have my GRAW but ODST and MNC both have awesome border patrol-esque modes that I would love to throw down in.
biosc1
08-18-2010, 11:22 AM
Man, I love GRAW. I Goozex'd both copies away though and my 360 is dead :(

Used to have a good Co-Optimus group going at one time.

I'll have to sit this one out.
Expugnare
08-18-2010, 11:30 AM
Oh hell yeah. I'm pretty sure I still have GRAW too. Need to get Bap in on that, as he's the one who actually uttered that meorable line.

If somehow I do end up playing this again, I am going to teamkill you so hard.
MalReynolds
08-18-2010, 12:21 PM
id be up for it :)
Khrymsyn
08-18-2010, 02:22 PM
If somehow I do end up playing this again, I am going to teamkill you so hard.

Pfft, that's a tradition that apparently still lives on in just about any FPS I've played with this community.
GigaFuzz
08-18-2010, 02:51 PM
Oh fuck yes. I've missed those days. Thanks to my habit of never getting rid of my games, I've still got copies of both GRAWs. I'm not sure how many others are going to be up for it, but if there're enough, there's a no-bean burrito policy that needs enforcin'!
Borthcollective
08-18-2010, 02:57 PM
I'd be down for some GRAW, I can't remember when the last time was I played a game with any of you guys.
wyeast
08-18-2010, 05:27 PM
Haven't played GRAW in a while (but I think I still have it). A few of us have been playing GRAW2 intermittently for old times sake. :D

I still say if not for a rickety ass lobby interface (especially with how we had to keep shutting off DLC if just one person didn't have EVERYTHING) that game would've had way more legs.
Goronmon
08-18-2010, 05:50 PM
I still have my copies of both games.
Zecon
08-18-2010, 05:58 PM
I've missed graw for quite a while now, I'll pick one up tomorrow.
violent
08-18-2010, 07:19 PM
Still have my copies of GRAW and GRAW2. Out of all the 360 games I've sold in the past, I've refused to sell those. Some odd respect.
MalReynolds
08-18-2010, 07:55 PM
i have both Graw and Graw 2
biosc1
08-19-2010, 12:10 AM
face (especially with how we had to keep shutting off DLC if just one person didn't have EVERYTHING) that game would've had way more legs.

Honestly, if they don't have all the DLC, should you really be playing with them? :cool:
fitbabits
08-19-2010, 07:03 AM
Okay, so it looks like there's a respectable amount of people willing to rekindle the memories. Next question - when? We used to have these nights every Tuesday. That would probably work for me if I can get my girlfriend to go to dinner with her friends or something.

What say y'all?
wyeast
08-19-2010, 08:53 AM
Honestly, if they don't have all the DLC, should you really be playing with them? :cool:

It was often that ONE map you had to get through the game via registering on the website (or something) that usually fucked it up for people.

As to bootsy's question, Tuesdays I'm often out of the house, but then again being a west coaster I'm usually late to the party anyway. :p
civil
08-19-2010, 09:50 AM
I wish I didn't suck so much at shooters. I'm honestly so bad I'm usually dead within a minute or two. That, and I feel "weird" talking into a headset. I feel like I miss out so much on gaming because of my handicaps. :(

Why I have XBL I'll never know. The last time I played online was with Kato, rinni and pronononononon (I think torre even jumped in for a bit) and that was, I think, two years ago now.
biosc1
08-19-2010, 10:55 AM
That, and I feel "weird" talking into a headset.

I still do feel weird as well. I'm getting a little better...but I mumble a lot, so even if I do talk, people have no idea what I'm saying :(

In games like GRAW, you can always just be the heavy machine gun guy and follow others around and lay down covering fire. You'll usually get some good kills by just hanging back and spamming the countryside.
wyeast
08-19-2010, 06:43 PM
I wish I didn't suck so much at shooters. I'm honestly so bad I'm usually dead within a minute or two.


But see, this is GRAW. With my usual crew, I'm literally the guy in the bus. I'm in charge of the drone, sweeping it ahead of my guys trying to sniff out the baddies. Yes, I do a fair deal of sniping/grenade launching, and in Territory Defend I'm one of the guys with the noisemaker (LMG). But other than that, I'm usually hanging back staring at the map a lot.
National Kato
08-20-2010, 08:40 AM
Why I have XBL I'll never know. The last time I played online was with Kato, rinni and pronononononon (I think torre even jumped in for a bit) and that was, I think, two years ago now.

Yeah, and your handicaps still resonate to this day whenever we play together online. It's always like:

"Do you hear that, guys?"
"What?"
"That sucking sound?"
"Hm? Oh...oh, yeah. I hear it now. I FEEL it."
"Yeah..."
"Adrian."
"Yeah."

Then there's an uncomfortable silence before everyone starts shooting again.
civil
08-20-2010, 09:25 AM
Yeah, and your handicaps still resonate to this day whenever we play together online. It's always like:

"Do you hear that, guys?"
"What?"
"That sucking sound?"
"Hm? Oh...oh, yeah. I hear it now. I FEEL it."
"Yeah..."
"Adrian."
"Yeah."

Then there's an uncomfortable silence before everyone starts shooting again.
Forgive me, I had eaten a lot of broccoli that day.