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Lips Karaoke Game For Xbox 360: Hardware and Media Import Review

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OMG! Ponies!
12/10/08

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Stephen Fry should take a lesson from Chen. In spite of having difficulty with the hardware, Chen did not throw a Twitterhissy. Instead, he incorporated them into a full coherent review using a minimum of profanity.
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The Intern
12/10/08

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I wouldn't call it "partially-assed" so much as just overambitious. The game works with what it gets, and that's a single-track mp3 with no coorelating metadata, possibly aside from lyrics it has no indication on how to display in correct timing. Not sure how else a game could do what people are evidently expecting.
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Jason Chen
12/10/08

@The BCS Dartboard Mount Intern: Well, there's an app, TuneWiki for Android and iPhone, that syncs lyrics with the song. Easy peasy. If they can do it, these people can do it.
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karmaghost
12/10/08

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Jason, what size is your Vizio? The angle of the picture is throwing off my usually acute sense of size.

I think this is an interesting review because you usually don't see just the hardware of a game put under the microscope. Also, it sounds like Lips' scoring is just plain broken, which begs the question: can you turn it off? I don't know why it would even bother trying to score you on music you've imported.
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ripfire
12/10/08

@karmaghost: "Jason, what size is your Vizio?"

From the size of the 360 game case next to it, it looks like a 37" screen.
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Jason Chen
12/10/08

@karmaghost: It's a 47"
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OMG! Ponies!
12/10/08

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Can I sing Star Wars a la Nick Winters? Because if I can, you've got yourself a sale.

I'm willing to transcribe Sir Bill Murray's lyrics:

Aww..Star Wars/

Nothing but Star Wars/

Give me those Star Wars

Don't let them end.

Oh Star Wars

If they should bar wars

Please let these Star Wars stay

And hey!/

How 'bout that nutty Star Wars bar?/

Can you forget all the creatures in there?

And Hey!/

Darth Vader in that black and evil mask/

Did he scare you as much as he scared me?/

Yeow!

Star Wars/

Those here in bar wars/

My 7th Winter up here!!/

Star Wars!
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ripfire
12/10/08

@OMG! Ponies!: I can actually sing that in my head. Amazing!
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
12/10/08

@OMG! Ponies!: I got dibs on the Star Trek Theme.

Beyond the rim of the starlight,

my love is wandring in star flight.

I know he'llfind

In star clustered reaches

Love, strange love

A starwoman teaches.

I konw his journey ends never.

His Star Trek will go on forever.

But tell him while

He wanders his starry sea,

Remember,

Remember me.
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