PWB - I've got wood for your sheep edition
Steve J
Catan (XBLA) - Finally released and well worth the wait. It's my favourite
XBLA title to date and the first I bought outright without trying the demo
beforehand. I've given this some heavy play over the weekend and even made
it to 12th in the single player leaderboard yesterday. Oh, and for the
confused, the subject of this thread is a cheeky reference to trading in the
game.
The Lord of the Rings Online (PC) - Basically, this is WoW 1.5 with added
prettiness and an actual storyline to follow that overlaps with events in the
books and has you interacting with the main characters. I'm hooked.
Want:
Carcassonne (XBLA)
Catan on DS with wi-fi play. Somone see the potential.
Ticket to Ride on XBLA. Someone see the potential.
Crackdown DLC (360)
Bin:
The usual new MMORPG flakey server problems.
--
:: Last game completed Guitar Hero II (360) April 13th 2007
:: Join the ugv* LastFM group: http://tinyurl.com/ewdkb
:: Use Amazon? http://tinyurl.com/4kdn to help a preschool charity
:: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega." - Brodie (Mallrats)
Beck
"Steve J" <qwe...@qwerty.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns99295590...@216.196.109.145...
> Play:
God of War 2. I am actually stuck in the very first room. Killed all the
monsters, and there is a big giant stone man outside, yet I cannot reach
him. Cannot seem to do anything to get out of the room. Oh the shame of
it.
Rainbow 6 Vegas. Quite good. Not much else to say, its just a FPS
Want:
Lots and lots. Especially want more ps3 games to come out.
Bin: Preparing for holidays.
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
Steve J <qwe...@qwerty.invalid> wrote:
>Play:
Phantasy Star Universe (PS2) - No update this week, just levelling up.
Getting a human spellcaster up to a decent skill level is hard work.
Armada (DC) - Finished this earlier in the week, and it was rather
anticlimactic. You can continue to explore and fight after completing the
last mission, but the fact that you can't view numerical stats makes the
act feel less rewarding. I'm really disappointed that the sequel never
made it to print.
>Catan (XBLA) - Finally released and well worth the wait. It's my favourite
>XBLA title to date and the first I bought outright without trying the demo
>beforehand. I've given this some heavy play over the weekend and even made
>it to 12th in the single player leaderboard yesterday. Oh, and for the
>confused, the subject of this thread is a cheeky reference to trading in the
>game.
I played the demo this weekend, and I can't help comparing the game to
Capcom's N-gage version at every turn. Why have a beautiful 3D game board
and then use only a nondescript pillar piece for the robber? On the
N-gage, the robber is actually a human figure with an eyepatch and a
scruffy beard, and when you roll a seven he actually flails around as you
decide where to move him. The portable version also automates a lot of the
commerce options by making port trading part of the build process, so your
next road has multiple price options (one brick and lumber, or five
lumber, or five brick, and so on.)
On the other hand, Xbox Live users number in the hundreds of thousands,
and the only N-gage users are me and deKay.
>Want:
Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 (360) - I'm sure the urge will pass eventually. Or,
the game will end up in the bargain bin along with the last one.
>Carcassonne (XBLA)
I see your Carcassonne and raise you a Talisman. Although half the fun of
Talisman is arguing about the rules, a la Munchkin, so I don't know how
they're replicate that part of the game online.
>Catan on DS with wi-fi play. Somone see the potential.
Only if Capcom brings it to us, rather than Big Huge. Let's give it that
handheld flair and not have such a literal translation of the board game.
>Bin:
Nothing right now, although Armada is definitely on its way back to the
shelf soon.
-KKC, who mentions Game Gear repair and Tivo repair only tertially....
--
-- ...Durante la batalla, espias rebeldes lograron robar - kendrick
los planos secretos del arma mas extrema del Imperio, - @io.com
la ESTRELLA DE LA MUERTE, una estacion espacial blindada -
con suficiente potencia para destruir un planeta entero. -
Chris Stevens
news:Xns99295590...@216.196.109.145...
> Play:
TMNT (360)
Picked this up from the rental place Saturday lunchtime, and had completely
finished it by Saturday evening. It's quite a decent game (what there is of
it), but it is disgracefully, outrageously short. I can't imagine how
annoyed I'd be if I'd actually spent money on it. The in game stats suggest
that it took me a massive 5 hours to complete it, and I'm not exactly the
quickest of gamers. Apparently jochta did it in 4h15m.
Anyway, asides from that gripe, the combat is decent, the platforming is
fun, it looks pretty-ish in places, and I'd absolutely recommend it as a
rental. Just don't buy it. I should probably also mention that the final
boss battle involves fighting all the previous bosses from earlier in the
game, because I know how everybody loves that. ;)
Guitar Hero 2 (360)
Just to check that I'm still rubbish.
I am.
PGR3 (360)
Don't drink and drive, kids.
PES6 (360)
Another game at which I suck horribly. Maybe one day I'll find an online
game where I'm actually capable of competing.
Viva Pinata (360)
Picked up all but one of the remaining achievements. I don't think I'll be
getting the last one, as it's the 50 hours one, and I've pretty much had my
fill of it now.
Happy Dad (RL)
I took my son to watch his first football match yesterday. I've been quietly
wanting to for quite a while, but I thoght it better to leave it until he
expressed some interest in the idea himself, rather than being the sort of
dad who drags his miserable looking kids to matches week in week out, when
they'd clearly rather be doing ballet or cross-stitch. So, he chose to go
and Ipswich obliged by putting on one of the most entertaining attacking
displays of the season, and now he's hooked. He wants a replica shirt, and
he wants to go to as many games next season as possible. I probably ought to
explain to him that they won't play like that every week, but I don't want
to spoil it for him. Instead, I'll let Ipswich slowly disappoint and
disillusion him for years until he's cynical and bitter, just like they have
me. :)
> Want:
Bank Holidays every week.
> Bin:
The small amount of DIY/ fixing stuff that stands between me and a
completely relaxed day.
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
Nils Tanner
<qwe...@qwerty.invalid> got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>Play:
Nothing at all! I've watched others play some Kingdom Hearts II and
Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door, but didn't pick up a controller this
weekend. Sad times, really.
>Want:
The sad times to end.
>Bin:
Guess.
deKay
2007 02:24:40 -0500, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Steve J <qwe...@qwerty.invalid>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>Play:
Guitar Hero II (360)
AMAZE! I've managed all of the first five tracks on Hard mode! GORSH!
Centipede and Millipede (360)
Despite saying it was meh, I bought it. Oops. But it's pretty ace and acely
pretty. Lots of insect goo when you shoot them. Lovely. Only me and The Rec
seem to have it though.
Catan: The Forever Man (360)
I winned against the Moderate AI. Ace! Sadly, online is still broken and
I've yet to successfully host or play a single game this way.
Wing Island (Wii)
Bought yesterday, completed just two and a half hours later. Erm. OK,
there's more missions, and scores to beat, but it just ended with no warning.
> Oh, and for the
>confused, the subject of this thread is a cheeky reference to trading in the
>game.
I gots yer joke :)
>Want:
The $hlmun games I have in the post to actually arrive.
Ouendan 2.
Phoenix Wright 3.
>Bin:
The post.
deKay
--
Lofi Gaming: www.lofi-gaming.org.uk [Gamertag: deKay 01]
Gaming Diary: www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/
My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that
"Zomoniac is wrong"
WCZ
"Chris Stevens" <ne...@thestevensfamily.plus.com> wrote in message
news:463eee1f$0$8755$ed26...@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
Could you like, erm, say, just start a the game and go off and do other
stuff whilst the hours rack up?
DBSnappa
>
>
> Happy Dad (RL)
> I took my son to watch his first football match yesterday. I've been quietly
> wanting to for quite a while, but I thoght it better to leave it until he
> expressed some interest in the idea himself, rather than being the sort of
> dad who drags his miserable looking kids to matches week in week out, when
> they'd clearly rather be doing ballet or cross-stitch. So, he chose to go
> and Ipswich obliged by putting on one of the most entertaining attacking
> displays of the season, and now he's hooked. He wants a replica shirt, and
> he wants to go to as many games next season as possible. I probably ought to
> explain to him that they won't play like that every week, but I don't want
> to spoil it for him. Instead, I'll let Ipswich slowly disappoint and
> disillusion him for years until he's cynical and bitter,
And he turns into a Man Utd fan :p
Zomoniac
Nope, those academy people ensure that. It's annoying.
--
Zo
Zomoniac
> Play:
Virtua Tennis 3 (360) - It still cheats. Can't do it.
Guitar Hero 2 (360) - 3 to go. Can't do it.
Oblivion (360) - In a gate. Can't do it.
FIFA 07 (360) - Trying to up the average. Can't do it.
Crackdown (360) - Trying to do Shai-Gen bosses. Can't do it.
GRAW (360) - I actually made some progress in a game. Did another level
on hard.
> Want:
To be good at games.
To know what the hell's going on at Leeds.
> Bin:
Being a hardcore gamer who is really crap at games. It wasn't a good idea.
--
Zo
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
Zomoniac <the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 2007-05-07 08:24:40 +0100, Steve J <qwe...@qwerty.invalid> said:
>
>> Play:
>
You tried relying on stealth tactics? Even with my axe-swinging barbarian,
I found the best way to conquer the Oblivion gates was to run into the
tower and zip past all the monsters without fighting them. After you grab
the stone in the middle of the flame, you have about ten seconds to avoid
getting hit before the gate closes and spits you out into the real world
again. Of course, by that point you have a dozen daedroths and elementals
on your heels...
>> Bin:
>
>Being a hardcore gamer who is really crap at games. It wasn't a good idea.
You must be good at some games, just not the ones everyone else is
playing. So why bother playing anything else? Strangely, there are some
games I stink at that I love playing regardless... Virtua On, any Street
Fighter, anything SNK has ever published for a home console.
-KKC, who doesn't own a copy of Halo and only played it once.
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Kendrick Kerwin Chua
<kend...@nospam.io> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>I played the demo this weekend, and I can't help comparing the game to
>Capcom's N-gage version at every turn. Why have a beautiful 3D game board
>and then use only a nondescript pillar piece for the robber?
You didn't turn the Real World skin on then? :) The fields even have sheep
grazing in them then...
>On the other hand, Xbox Live users number in the hundreds of thousands,
>and the only N-gage users are me and deKay.
I don't even have the N-gage version of Catan.
deKay
2007 10:15:12 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "Chris Stevens"
<ne...@thestevensfamily.plus.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> Play:
>
>TMNT (360)
> I should probably also mention that the final
>boss battle involves fighting all the previous bosses from earlier in the
>game, because I know how everybody loves that. ;)
http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/articles/gamecliches.php
#1 :)
>Viva Pinata (360)
>Picked up all but one of the remaining achievements. I don't think I'll be
>getting the last one, as it's the 50 hours one, and I've pretty much had my
>fill of it now.
If you've done all the others, I'd imagine you can't be more than 5 or so
hours from getting the 50 hour achievement.
[ste parker]
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 07 May
> 2007 04:03:31 -0500, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Kendrick Kerwin Chua
> <kend...@nospam.io> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> I played the demo this weekend, and I can't help comparing the game to
>> Capcom's N-gage version at every turn. Why have a beautiful 3D game board
>> and then use only a nondescript pillar piece for the robber?
>
> You didn't turn the Real World skin on then? :) The fields even have sheep
> grazing in them then...
>
No, because you can't in the demo.
--
[ste]
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
<imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> You didn't turn the Real World skin on then? :) The fields even have sheep
>> grazing in them then...
>
>No, because you can't in the demo.
Then buy the full game :)
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
deKay <an...@deleteme.lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
>Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 07 May
>2007 12:33:33 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
>uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
><imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>> You didn't turn the Real World skin on then? :) The fields even have sheep
>>> grazing in them then...
>>
>>No, because you can't in the demo.
>
>Then buy the full game :)
I already have the full game, just for the other console. I'll admit to
being prejudiced, and challenge you to dispute the merits of the mechanics
rather than the aesthetics. :)
-KKC, who wonders if Sony will greenlight the PS2 version of Catan now.
Zomoniac
<an...@deleteme.lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.invalid> said:
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 7 May
> 2007 10:15:12 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "Chris Stevens"
> <ne...@thestevensfamily.plus.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>> Play:
>>
>> TMNT (360)
>> I should probably also mention that the final boss battle involves
>> fighting all the previous bosses from earlier in the game, because I
>> know how everybody loves that. ;)
>
> http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/articles/gamecliches.php
>
> #1 :)
>
>> Viva Pinata (360)
>> Picked up all but one of the remaining achievements. I don't think I'll
>> be getting the last one, as it's the 50 hours one, and I've pretty much
>> had my fill of it now.
>
> If you've done all the others, I'd imagine you can't be more than 5 or so
> hours from getting the 50 hour achievement.
>
>
> deKay
I'm on about 24 having done the others.
--
Zo
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Zomoniac
<the_pro...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>I'm on about 24 having done the others.
Yes, but you also managed to do the first 5 hours of Oblivion in 73 seconds.
YA Hiro Nakamura AICMFP.
jochta
> "Steve J" <qwe...@qwerty.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Xns99295590...@216.196.109.145...
>
>>Play:
>
>
> TMNT (360)
> Picked this up from the rental place Saturday lunchtime, and had completely
> finished it by Saturday evening. It's quite a decent game (what there is of
> it), but it is disgracefully, outrageously short. I can't imagine how
> annoyed I'd be if I'd actually spent money on it. The in game stats suggest
> that it took me a massive 5 hours to complete it, and I'm not exactly the
> quickest of gamers. Apparently jochta did it in 4h15m.
> Anyway, asides from that gripe, the combat is decent, the platforming is
> fun, it looks pretty-ish in places, and I'd absolutely recommend it as a
> rental. Just don't buy it. I should probably also mention that the final
> boss battle involves fighting all the previous bosses from earlier in the
> game, because I know how everybody loves that. ;)
>
It's a good little game. Not worth full price. Looks OK plays OK.
Achievements have been made kiddie friendly, which is a shame as they
could have had things like complete all the challenge levels under par
and complete game 100% for example.
Bringing out all the previous bosses at the end was lame.
4h12m31s to complete the game but only 64% complete IYSWIM and I watched
the credits all the way through :)
The Rev
> Play:
Test Drive Unlimited (PSP) - This is excellent. I've played for a while
this morning and driven over a hundred miles in my first car - a Ford
Mustang - and I've had a very good time. It is Test Drive Unlimited as
it was on the 360, pretty much. There's an obvious downgrade in the
graphics and sound, of course. It's very, very impressive, but obviously
the PSP isn't going to have high-def, high-poly graphics and booming
surround sound. So no dashboard view, for one thing. Apart from that,
the only other major difference I've seen so far is the handling. It
seems much, much easier to get round corners in the PSP version and it's
consequently a lot more fun. There's not the same feeling as learning
your car and constantly driving on the edge, but I think the fun to be
had screaming round corners as soon as you get in a car makes up for
that. There's also a nice feature I don't remember from the 360 version,
which is that the GPS automatically points you towards the next race
after you finish an event. Makes it a lot easier to find things to do.
And if you decide to go somewhere else then once you've been there the
GPS will set tiself back to te next race. Lovely. But, you know, a few
days ago I thought Ninja Gaiden was a 360 game, so my memory's not to be
trusted. There are also a lot of (to me) minor downgrades. No bikes, no
delivery missions, that sort of thing. I think there might be fewer cars
too. I can't say I'm too bothered. My main wish for the game would be
for the sun to come out. It's awfully grey for Hawaii at the moment.
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Wii) - This is fun, but I keep losing
to the first boss, even though I know how to damage her. I hate bosses.
Pokemon Diamond (DS) - Well, that's the fourth gym done. No mention yet
of being able to use traded Pokemon above level thirty though. I've now
got a team of Pokemon I've caught myself.
Spider-Man 2 (XBOX) - As I've not got the shiny new Spider-Man 3, I
decided to revisit this old thing. The camera is rubbish, the graphics
have dated horribly and it generally doesn't feel nearly as good as I
remember. Swinging around is still fun when it works properly, though,
so I did some of that.
Jetpac Refeulled (360) - Ah, now this is better than I thought it was. I
may even put some time in and try to make my score slightly more
respectable. I'm not bottom of my Friends Leaderboard, but I'm down there.
Lumines Live (360) - I'd like slightly shorter games, I think. Playing
for half an hour and not getting close to a high score isn't much fun.
Well, the playing part is fun, but I tend to get a little disgruntled
when I die.
Earth Defence Force 2017 (360) - Best played in half hour chunks. Bear
that in mind. Also, it's awesome.
Catan Demo (360) - Hmm. I need to ponder any purchase decision
carefully. On the plus side, it seems like a well-designed and
engrossing board game. On the minus side, the interface is a bit rubbish
and each game takes approximately eight days to play, which doesn't
really fit with how I use Live Arcade. Also, I'd probably never dare
play it online, so I have to base my decision on the single-player side
of things. My gut is telling me to use the points, but my head's telling
me that I'd not give it enough time. Tricky, very tricky.
Mutant Storm Reloaded (360) - Jumped in to Tally mode for the first
time. Making things difficult for myself by starting each level on Black
Belt and only turning the difficulty level down with the greatest
reluctance. After nine levels I've already got a better score than half
the people on my Friends Leaderboard, though.
TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge (PSP) - I really like having fewer games
since my big PS3-funding clearout. I like the focus it gives my games
collection. However, I didn't trade in any handheld games, because they
tend to be imports. I do have some UK handheld releases and I'm
wondering which of those I could use as trade-in fodder now my gaming
budget is approximately zero. TOCA won't be one of them. When I started
it up I was all over the road and it's taken me over half an hour of
trying to even finish the race I was on when I last played this. And
that was only in fourth place. However, despite a framerate that's far
worse than I remember, it really does have a handling model that makes
driving a complete joy. I really need to work out the best way to get
rid of the import games I no longer need.
Centipede/Millipede (360) - Well, that was a surprise. As the Catan demo
has been removed I downloaded the demo of the Centipede/Millipede double
pack. Didn't expect much, but found a couple of shooters that have aged
surprisingly well and have been given some very nice visual makeovers.
Needless to say, I spent some points on them as soon I was asked without
a second thought. Excellent update all round. Hooray.
Pinball FX (360) - Trousers is a bad, bad man.
> Want:
Nothing much. I think have enough games right now. Though Odin Sphere on
the PS2 is looking lovely. And I might spend points on Catan and Battle
Lode Runner at some point.
> Bin:
Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars Demo (360) - I did the tutorial, then
decided life was too short to do any more.
Rainbow Islands (XBOX) - There are people in this gaming subculture who
think that some games, mainly fighting games, can't be played with a
pad, but require an arcade stick. I've never been convinced by this and
I'm quite happy playing Street Fighter and its children with a standard
controller. However, there is one game that I can't seem to play using a
normal controller. As the title of this post might suggest, that game is
Rainbow Islands. I tried the Taito Legends and the MAME version on my
Xbox today and I couldn't play either of them. Random jumping, rainbows
flying everywhere, it wasn't pretty. It's because I need to use my thumb
and not my fingers for the jumping and firing. (Well, either that or I'm
just rubbish these days. But that can't be the explanation, can it?)
And here ends the longest PWB post ever.
Paul Evans
> Play:
GTA Vice City (PS2): Not much to say really. I'm used to the analogue
controls of San Andreas so Vice City feels really clunky in comparison.
However, the soundtrack continues to kick the crap out of San Andreas, so
that's a good thing although the graphics haven't aged well at all.
Joost: Eats bandwidth like mad, but there's a lot of stuff on there worth
watching, and some anime too.
Pokemon Diamond (DS): I really want more time to play this, but I'm only
getting five minutes here or there. One thing I do like about it though is
that after a while of leaving it alone (a few days), the first thing that
loads up is my journal listing everything I've done so far - certainly helps
with that "what the hell am I supposed to do now?" situation.
The jobhunting game (RL): It just isn't funny any more.
> Want:
A job, but no-one seems interested in hiring me, especially for the same
money I was on before. Job market has gone shit whilst I've been away and
salaries have plummeted.
My own place. Is there really an excuse for a 28-year-old to still be living
with his parents? No job, no place of my own. Sort out the first problem and
the second one should sort out itself.
IT skills, but from I've read on t'internet, most of these companies
advertising on TV (Skills Train, Computeach) are little more than scammers
who have been investigated on Watchdog. I may as well get myself some books
and just pay for the exams, it'll work out a lot cheaper (far less than
£3500!) and I might even learn something at the end of it!
> Bin:
AR Max (PS2): Why the hell did I even buy this piece of shit? I tried to use
it in conjunction with Vice City last night because I like to see a lot more
pedestrians and cars on screen than the game actually offers. However, it
should NOT take 25 minutes of resetting the PS2 to get the crappy AR Max
software to load, or the PS2 to realise that the inserted CD isn't a pirated
copy.
Paul.
--
Want a Joost invite? Email me!
-=Friend Codes=-
Mario Kart DS: (UKN2K) 060 190 161 942
Tony Hawk's: (Paul) 365 134 383 147
Animal Crossing: (Paul in Corona) 429 559 406 543
Tetris DS : (UKN2K) 666 286 374 352
Pokemon Diamond: (Paul): 4252 9993 0598
Chris Stevens
news:5h2u33prvaamcrvbp...@4ax.com...
>
>>> Play:
>>
>>TMNT (360)
>> I should probably also mention that the final
>>boss battle involves fighting all the previous bosses from earlier in the
>>game, because I know how everybody loves that. ;)
>
> http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/articles/gamecliches.php
>
> #1 :)
I knew you'd like that. :)
>>Viva Pinata (360)
>>Picked up all but one of the remaining achievements. I don't think I'll be
>>getting the last one, as it's the 50 hours one, and I've pretty much had
>>my
>>fill of it now.
>
> If you've done all the others, I'd imagine you can't be more than 5 or so
> hours from getting the 50 hour achievement.
But that's still 5 hours of playing something I'm basically a bit bored of
now. Hell, I could rent and complete another whole game in that time. ;)
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
Chris Stevens
news:HlD%h.112191$aB1....@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
It frightens me that every bloody kid at his school either wears Man Utd or
Chelsea kits. I'm sure it'll be good for him to be the only one in an
Ipswich shirt, and besides I'll send him off to join the circus before I'll
allow him to support either of them. :)
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
Chris Stevens
news:2NmdnaIDQOI...@pipex.net...
>>
>> Viva Pinata (360)
>> Picked up all but one of the remaining achievements. I don't think I'll
>> be getting the last one, as it's the 50 hours one, and I've pretty much
>> had my fill of it now.
>
> Could you like, erm, say, just start a the game and go off and do other
> stuff whilst the hours rack up?
If I was that motivated by achievements that I'd go to that much trouble for
20 points, then yes, I could. However, I am *still* in denial over the whole
score-whore thing, so no. :)
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
Chris Stevens
news:5a8mo2F...@mid.individual.net...
>
> IT skills, but from I've read on t'internet, most of these companies
> advertising on TV (Skills Train, Computeach) are little more than scammers
> who have been investigated on Watchdog. I may as well get myself some
> books and just pay for the exams, it'll work out a lot cheaper (far less
> than £3500!) and I might even learn something at the end of it!
I'd recommend going back to university.
I did my degree in geography, even though it qualified me for absolutely
nothing (on the plus side, I got to go and stand in glacial meltwater
streams and suchlike). After a number of years tooling around in low paid
jobs, I decided that I needed to retrain. I went back to university and did
an MSc in Computing Science, which I funded myself. Getting about 8 grand in
debt seemed like a huge risk at the time, but that qualification opened a
lot of doors, and 10 years later I can honestly say it's the best decision I
made in my life, and has paid for itself many many times over.
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
James Sutherland
> Play:
Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition (PSP) - Great remake of FF1. It's more
or less based on the Dawn of Souls version, but with an extra dungeon
and a few other things, and very nice hi-res graphics. Looks great on
the PSP's screen.
Chikyuu Boueigun 2/Global Defence Force (PS2) - Not playing this as
solidly as I did EDF on the 360, but I'm enjoying it a lot. The weapon
selection is a bit of a nightmare in Japanese, and I'm missing the
slight tactical elements that you get by picking the right weapon for
each level, because I don't really know what all the weapons do. Other
than that, it's definitely better than the 360 version, if only for the
flying woman.
Guild Wars (PC) - Finally got to level 20. Been trying to capture some
of the Dervish's elite form skills, but haven't managed so far. I did
get my first elite skill last week, though. Oh, and my 2nd birthday pet.
Spider-Man 3 (DS) - Pretty good, with a neat touch screen control system
(a lot better than the one on Ultimate Spider-Man). Actually seems to be
getting the best reviews of the Spider-Man 3 games so far, though it's
had fewer than the main console versions.
Battle Lode Runner (Wii) - I've no idea what they were thinking with the
main battle mode. Probably "Bomber Man sold well, so let's try to make
Lode Runner into some kind of four player versus game despite it being
entirely unsuitable". It doesn't work. Fortunately, you can ignore it
entirely and play the excellent puzzle mode, which is Lode Runner as it
should be. Has a proper save function too, so you don't need to rely on
the Wii save state suspend/resume stuff.
> Want:
Etrian Odyssey (DS) - I still can't actually work out what this is, but
it looks brilliant. Seems to be some kind of mix of Dungeon Master,
Final Fantasy, Nethack and Elite, with a map making tool on the bottom
screen. Out next week in the US.
> Bin:
Nothing.
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "Chris Stevens"
<ne...@thestevensfamily.plus.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>But that's still 5 hours of playing something I'm basically a bit bored of
>now. Hell, I could rent and complete another whole game in that time. ;)
You could rent and complete Wing Island *three times* in that time :)
Chris Stevens
news:5a8ennF...@mid.individual.net...
>> Play:
> Virtua Tennis 3 (360) - It still cheats. Can't do it.
> Guitar Hero 2 (360) - 3 to go. Can't do it.
> Oblivion (360) - In a gate. Can't do it.
> FIFA 07 (360) - Trying to up the average. Can't do it.
> Crackdown (360) - Trying to do Shai-Gen bosses. Can't do it.
>
> Being a hardcore gamer who is really crap at games. It wasn't a good idea.
You know what you need? TMNT.
It'll restore your faith in your own gaming ability. You'll feel like a
gaming god as you smash your way through the story in just a few hours.
:)
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
Paul Evans
qualifications alone. Everywhere I look, the goalposts keep on getting
moved - Eight years ago, a degree was all you needed to get a decently paid
job. Today, it's a degree plus x number of years experience before they'll
even invite you to an interview, and the number of years seem to vary
depending on the job. The shortest I've seen so far is two years for an IT
helpdesk/support role, with both years combining working in an IT
environment as well as call centre work. In other words, it's a catch-22
situation where IT companies will only hire you if, erm... you already work
for an IT company doing the same job in the first place!
The thing is, what I have written above doesn't just apply to IT, but also
to admin and marketing - the two things I've been doing for the last couple
of years (before I was made redundant last September). Now, to earn a
fraction of the fifteen grand I was on before in Admin or Brand Marketing, I
need to have three or four years experience with a CIM qualification! Either
I was very lucky to land a fifteen grand job in the first place, or pay and
working conditions has rapidly deteriorated in the last year or so.
University isn't an attractive option for me at the present time because of
the above, and because I can't afford to add another eight or nine grand to
the five grand debt I have yet to pay off from the last time. Also, there's
the added prospect that without the relevent two or three years' experience,
I could be wasting my time. :-(
Paul.
Rach
>> Want:
>
> Bank Holidays every week.
Wouldn't it be great?!?
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
Until you need to do some banking on a Monday.
-KKC, who finds every excuse to say a word that ends in the letter 'S'
before speaking the word 'banking' so as to create the mistaken impression
that the discussion is about 'spanking.'
Chris Whitworth
> Play:
Slitherlink (DS) - You don't need me to say any more. Hours and hours.
FFIII (DS) - This suddenly gets a bit directionless about 5 or 6 hours in when
you go to the village of the ancients. Well, not directionless, but it takes
quite a lot of wandering around to figure out what you're supposed to do next.
Figured it out in the end, but not before I'd spent ages wandering around
fruitlessly killing stuff. Still, killing stuff is fun. So that's good.
Hexic HD (360) - For some reason, I got really into this again this week, only
to realise that in order to unlock any of the achievements or anything, you
have to play multi-hour long games. Bah.
Uno (360) - Won a game! At last! Finally!
Catan Demo (360) - For about 30 seconds. I'll come back when I've got some
more time.
Training for the Great Manchester Run (RL) - I'm on track to do about 55
minutes or so, so long as I can sustain my pace for 10km. I'll start doing
longer and harder runs this week and next in preparation.
Walking and Sailing with my family in the Lake District (RL) - Lovely. Even if
it /completely pissed it down/ yesterday when we were on top of Catbells. Bah.
> Want:
Nothing much gamingwise. Looking forward to C&C3, I think. Although less than
when I played the demo.
More time to play Slitherlink.
A replacement phone and Orange to stop being completely useless. See also: Bin.
> Bin:
The weather in the lake district, which is... somewhat changable.
My phone, which apparently isn't waterproof.
Orange, who think that a Sony Ericsson K610i is in some way "equivalent" to a
Nokia N70. Can I run all the apps I've downloaded/bought for my N70 on a K610i?
Can I hell. Oh, but it's got a 2 megapixel camera and 3G, so it's *obviously*
the same. So, I either have to /keep ringing back/ to find out if they've got a
replacement, or I have to accept something that's not a like-for- like. I pay
5quid a month for this shit? Fuck off. That and their piss-poor data tariffs
mean they're going to have to have a damned good offer to keep me when my
contract is up in a couple of months.
Chris
--
Gamertag: parm * BRING BACK BLUE SKY IN GAMES *
"Back when I was young, we had to travel back in time to put the tape in so
the game would load before we died."
jochta
My son wears his Oxford United shirt with pride at school amongst the
Chelsea, Man U and Liverpool shirts. How chuffed was he when the OUFC
coach came to do some coaching at the school...
We're off to see them hopefully book their place at Wembley tomorrow
night...
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
Chris Whitworth <usenet...@parm.net> wrote:
>On 2007-05-07, Steve J <qwe...@qwerty.invalid> wrote:
>> Play:
>
>to realise that in order to unlock any of the achievements or anything, you
>have to play multi-hour long games. Bah.
That's not necessarily the case. You can work the system by producing
starburst pieces early in the game. Group them two at a time together and
you can move pieces around to produce them in bulk without also creating
unnecessary combos that advance the levels too quickly. You can easily
form a three-pearl combo and win the game in under 20 minutes if you do it
right.
-KKC, who is head of his friend list Hexic leaderboard.
DBSnappa
> Play:
>
PGR3 (360). Funnily enough, having shelled out for the FF Wheel, I spent
a considerable amount of time playing this this weekend - enough to
have sore thumbs (I don't know why just my thumbs are sore either) from
gripping the wheel. Actually, now I come to think about it, my shoulders
are a little achey as well - but not much. You'd be right in concluding
that using the wheel is A LOT more physically demanding that a joypad,
but not to the point that it wears you out.
So, what do I think? All in all I'm very pleased with the wheel after my
initial disappointment which anybody who read my Friday ramblings will
know about. In a nutshell, I was mistaken. I made the mistake of
plugging the damn thing in and picking the hardest track and a very fast
car that I had little or no experience of (completely ignoring the fact
that my lack of play time in the last six months meant I was close to
starting from scratch skills wise anyway). Anyway, amazing that the
Nordschleife is, it's a very difficult track to drive well and one that
punishes you mercilessly if you make even small errors. Anybody who has
spent any time racing around this circuit will know that picking some
500+bhp monster is not a recipe for clean or satisfying racing, not
unless you have superhuman skills and can make the car dance to your
every touch - me? I find any car capable of more than 200mph very
difficult to control on that track - I'm sure there are cars that do
have benign handling or ones that are your favourite, but until I get
considerably more practice, the car I found transformed my experience
was the Ferrari F430 Challenge - very easy to control and very quick to
accelerate to it's modest top speed of 179mph and it wasn't as twitchy
as fuck on the limit. A total joy.
As for the wheel itself - it's very very good. I can't wait for Forza.
As for PGR3, well, I was reminded of it's many flaws offline. The AI is
a bit shit, but not a lot, but my main gripe is the relative weighting
of the vehicles - your own car feels disproportionately light compared
to all of your opponents, which leads to frustration at the start of
most races against the computer on gold and platinum - I was getting
biffed out of the way yesterday by cars that were several hundred kilos
lighter yet I couldn't do the same in return - I'm sorry, but driving
into the back of an Ariel in my F50 GT I expect it to spin out of the
way, but no, it moves slightly - yet if the ariel rear-ends me in a
corner I spin out of the way quite easily. It's a shame it takes so
bloody long to load as well - MS REALLY fucked up with the release of
the Core machine.
I will endeavour to get online at some stage in the next month as well.
>
> Want:
>
Ummm, let me think about this? Forza 2
>
>
> Bin:
>
There're a lot of things I could put here, but I've already written too
much this morning, methinks ;)
Trousers
>
>> Play:
>
> Mutant Storm Reloaded (360) - Jumped in to Tally mode for the first
> time. Making things difficult for myself by starting each level on Black
> Belt and only turning the difficulty level down with the greatest
> reluctance. After nine levels I've already got a better score than half
> the people on my Friends Leaderboard, though.
I did that also - You can get through a lot of the early levels on black
belt but then I just got tired of the whole thing by level 60 something
so chickened out and did it at something like white belt just to get
through them.
> Pinball FX (360) - Trousers is a bad, bad man.
I think with any pinball if you play it enough you will just get one of
those games where you can't miss a shot and everything hits the ramps or
targets. If you ever played Fish Tales with those two ramps in the
middle you knew when you were on for a decent score as you could
alternate those two ramps to your hearts content.
Rach
> Orange, who think that a Sony Ericsson K610i is in some way "equivalent" to a
> Nokia N70. Can I run all the apps I've downloaded/bought for my N70 on a K610i?
> Can I hell. Oh, but it's got a 2 megapixel camera and 3G, so it's *obviously*
> the same. So, I either have to /keep ringing back/ to find out if they've got a
> replacement, or I have to accept something that's not a like-for- like. I pay
> 5quid a month for this shit? Fuck off. That and their piss-poor data tariffs
> mean they're going to have to have a damned good offer to keep me when my
> contract is up in a couple of months.
Isn't a nokia n70 symbian while a k610 is only java? Thats not even
close to being the same!
Trousers
> Play:
Guitar Hero 2 (360) - Finished the Medium tour and moved up to second on
my Friends Career list. Chances of catching Zo however seem very
limited. Will probably go back and try and five star the lot before
moving up to hard. One downside of the whole thing is my inability to
sleep at the moment thanks to seeing notes sliding towards me every time
I close my eyes.
Earth Defence Force 2017 (360) - The perfect antidote to GH2. No
concentration required and very little dexterity. Aim (or in the case of
missles not even that) and fire with gay abandon. VERY satisfying.
Knocking buildings down to improve your line of sight to a bunch of ants
with no penalty whatsoever is a sign the designers just want you to play
it with as little obstruction to you actually having fun as possible.
Apart from the mid-level cutscenes which *always* end up with you
staring at the floor once you get control back.
Geometry Wars Retro (360) - Had a go on the retro version for a quick
blast and was doing rather well until the wife turned off the baby
monitor upstairs and the unit next to me started beeping in my ear and
dragged me right out of the zone. I lost three lives in about 30 seconds
after that but I must be mellowing in my old age as I just laughed about
it and only removed one of the wife's limbs.
Millennium Magic (RL) - Actually a much better than anticipated
experience down in Cardiff which included a win over Hull FC and free
booze and grub.
> Want:
> Crackdown DLC (360)
Most definitely this - seems to have been ages coming out.
> Bin:
The GH2 version of Killing in Name. Is the bloke so disgusted with his
own impression that he feels the need to whisper throughout the entire song?
Chris Whitworth
Quite.
DBSnappa
>
>> Want:
>
>> Crackdown DLC (360)
>
> Most definitely this - seems to have been ages coming out.
>
Hopefully sometime soon, but I have a horrible feeling it may be after
the Halo 3 beta finishes, which means another month :\
DBSnappa
The K610i is crap.
I'm pissed off with Orange as well due to their raping me in the last
upgrade and I'm a bloody business customer. Let me know who offers the
best deal for you if you switch.
hurricanepilot
>
>"Steve J" <qwe...@qwerty.invalid> wrote in message
>news:Xns99295590...@216.196.109.145...
>> Play:
>
>God of War 2. I am actually stuck in the very first room. Killed all the
>monsters, and there is a big giant stone man outside, yet I cannot reach
>him. Cannot seem to do anything to get out of the room. Oh the shame of
>it.
Have you got the tutorial messages turned on? Anyway, if you are where
I think you are, you should wander over to the portcullis-like door
and hit R1 when the icon appears. After that you have to tap Circle
repeatedly until Kratos shoves the door into the ceiling.
hurricanepilot
<an...@deleteme.lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
>>Play:
>Catan: The Forever Man (360)
>I winned against the Moderate AI. Ace! Sadly, online is still broken and
>I've yet to successfully host or play a single game this way.
how broke? I was planning on having a bash online tonight.
deKay
2007 09:29:17 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk hurricanepilot <a...@me.com> fornis
do marikano es bono tan el:
>On Mon, 07 May 2007 10:51:02 +0100, deKay
By "broke" I mean "never works at all ever".
deKay
--
Lofi Gaming - http://lofi-gaming.org.uk
Gaming Diary - http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary
Blog - http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/blog
Beck
"hurricanepilot" <a...@me.com> wrote in message
news:n5c043t0jkmpcntts...@4ax.com...
I had come across a glitch. I checked the walkthrough and there was
supposed to be a cut scene after the wave of soldiers but there wasn't one.
I reloaded and got the cutscene. I hope this is not going to be a common
occurance playing it on the ps3.
hurricanepilot
God of War 2 (PS3 - BC) - Completorated. Much better boss battles than
the first game, and the ending is damned fine. I must have raised my
game since I played the original GoW though, as that took me 18 hours
and GoW2, which is apparently longer, took just shy of 14.
Spiderman 3 (360) - I went up to tesco yesterday and ummed and ahhed
over this and VT3, and just couldn't get out of my head the notion
that VT3 is just tennis, and Spidey had combos and swinging through a
big city. A shallow victory for Spidey. I played it for about an hour
or two yesterday afternoon and then accidentally downloaded:
Catan (XBLA) - Which is a great little game. I played about 4 or 5
goes against the AI on moderate and won a couple of them. It's a
nicely balanced game, and I can see me wasting lots of time on it.
PinballFX (XBLA) - I'm crap at it, and can't figure out why when I've
scored a brazillion points on the stunt challenge, it says MODE
FAILED. What do I need to to to be a SUCCESS?
>Want:
Some more single player games to come out that don't have review score
averages of 5/10.
>Bin:
The fact that I want to buy TMNT and whore the points off of it. Is it
really that bad?
Zomoniac
>> Play:
>
> God of War 2 (PS3 - BC) - Completorated. Much better boss battles than
> the first game, and the ending is damned fine. I must have raised my
> game since I played the original GoW though, as that took me 18 hours
> and GoW2, which is apparently longer, took just shy of 14.
Huzzah. I WILL start it this week.
> Spiderman 3 (360) - I went up to tesco yesterday and ummed and ahhed
> over this and VT3, and just couldn't get out of my head the notion
> that VT3 is just tennis
You made a big error.
> Want:
>
> Some more single player games to come out that don't have review score
> averages of 5/10.
I'd love to recommend some, but it appears you've played every game
ever. I recommend FIFA 06, NBA 06 and WC06 for whoring. Other than that
the only games of mine you haven't played are Sonic, Superman, Rayman
and FEAR, only the latter of which is worth playing for anything other
than whoring (Sonic is the worst whoring game ever).
>> Bin:
>
> The fact that I want to buy TMNT and whore the points off of it. Is it
> really that bad?
Rent it.
--
Zo
hurricanepilot
I don't think so, I didn't get a single glitch like that. The only
thing I noticed through the whole game was that I kept accidentally
switching weapons after opening doors, as it's really easy to trigger
the R2 button if you rest the pad on your knee when bashing the circle
button.
Beck
>
> I don't think so, I didn't get a single glitch like that. The only
> thing I noticed through the whole game was that I kept accidentally
> switching weapons after opening doors, as it's really easy to trigger
> the R2 button if you rest the pad on your knee when bashing the circle
> button.
Well hopefully it was a one off. The compatibility site doesn't list any
issues.
Good game so far but I reckon its going to be just more of the same from the
last game and nothing new?
Chris Stevens
> >> Bin:
> >
> > The fact that I want to buy TMNT and whore the points off of it. Is it
> > really that bad?
>
> Rent it.
>
Yep, renting is the way to go.
It really isn't a bad game at all. I enjoyed every minute of it.
Unfortunately, that's a relatively small number of minutes. :)
One thing I forgot to mention about it in my PWB is that it's one of the
first 3rd person action games that has a fixed camera that I didn't
absolutely hate. After one level of instinctively reaching for the right
stick every few seconds, I soon forgot about it, and not once did I feel
aggrieved about the choice of camera position.
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
hurricanepilot
<the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 2007-05-08 09:52:43 +0100, hurricanepilot <a...@me.com> said:
>
>>> Play:
>>
>> God of War 2 (PS3 - BC) - Completorated. Much better boss battles than
>> the first game, and the ending is damned fine. I must have raised my
>> game since I played the original GoW though, as that took me 18 hours
>> and GoW2, which is apparently longer, took just shy of 14.
>
>Huzzah. I WILL start it this week.
I loved it. I can remember breezing through the final battle on the
first game but this one took some doing, even on normal. There are
more interim boss battles as well, which is nice, as the first game
didn't really have any.
>> Spiderman 3 (360) - I went up to tesco yesterday and ummed and ahhed
>> over this and VT3, and just couldn't get out of my head the notion
>> that VT3 is just tennis
>
>You made a big error.
It's not that bad so far, it just got sidelined by Catan. I know I
should have plumped for VT3, but I just wasn't in the mood for it.
>> Want:
>>
>> Some more single player games to come out that don't have review score
>> averages of 5/10.
>
>I'd love to recommend some, but it appears you've played every game
>ever. I recommend FIFA 06, NBA 06 and WC06 for whoring. Other than that
>the only games of mine you haven't played are Sonic, Superman, Rayman
>and FEAR, only the latter of which is worth playing for anything other
>than whoring (Sonic is the worst whoring game ever).
I played through FEAR on the PC many moons ago. I didn't think much of
it to be honest. I think it's was the complete lack of environment
change through the whole game that let it down, and the scary stuff
just wasn't scary. Which is weird, as they also wrote Condemned, and
they nailed that in almost every way.
I'm not a great fan of sports games TBH. I play PES5 when a mate comes
around at the weekend, but I'm not a big enough fan of the game (or
even remotely good at it) to throw cash at the 360 version.
I have SOTC on the PS2 that's waiting to be played, so I may have to
resort to that. I want to play something on the 360 though, so that I
can have a nice long natter at the same time.
hurricanepilot
It is more of the same, yeah, but they've added some new gameplay
elements (that get introduced as you progress) that lend a lot to the
overall experience. It'd be spoiling things to say what they were, but
I thought they added a lot to the experience.
Zomoniac
<ne...@thestevensfamily.plus.com> said:
I presume you haven't played GoW then?
--
Zo
Chris Stevens
> >
> >>>> Bin:
> >>>
> >>> The fact that I want to buy TMNT and whore the points off of it. Is it
> >>> really that bad?
> >>
> >> Rent it.
> >
> > Yep, renting is the way to go.
> > It really isn't a bad game at all. I enjoyed every minute of it.
> > Unfortunately, that's a relatively small number of minutes. :)
> > One thing I forgot to mention about it in my PWB is that it's one of the
> > first 3rd person action games that has a fixed camera that I didn't
> > absolutely hate. After one level of instinctively reaching for the right
> > stick every few seconds, I soon forgot about it, and not once did I feel
> > aggrieved about the choice of camera position.
>
> I presume you haven't played GoW then?
>
Nope. Never owned a PS2.
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
WCZ
4 to 5 hours for 1000 points. Gamerpoints are bad. :-(
> --
> Zo
>
Zomoniac
<ne...@thestevensfamily.plus.com> said:
You should.
--
Zo
jochta
It reminded me strongly of Pandemonium on PS1, as you say the camera was
very good.
Russell Marks
> Play:
Flipnic (PS2) - finished this, quite a mixed bag I thought and I doubt
I'll be coming back to it much. Admittedly I don't normally like this
sort of pinball, with lots of small tables you move between and
baddies moving about on them - in this one they do at least avoid some
of the worst annoyances with that approach by only having occasional
baddies, and by putting in a persistent side where it gives you goals
to progress (like a mixture of Pokemon Pinball and the early Tony Hawk
games). But each individual bit of the tables tends to be rather
bland, and the game really can get quite tedious and annoying
especially if you get lost or stuck somewhere (which is entirely
possible - e.g. I find the non-stop area in Optics a pain to get out
of), The weirdest thing about the game is how hard it tries to *avoid*
being pinball - jumping to get coins, shooting UFOs, the flamingo
pachinko bit, the multi-level moving 3D maze, the particle boss areas
where the table plane moves up and down in a cube... it's all nice
stuff but sometimes you wish it'd just settle down and be a normal
pinball game for five minutes. :-) I could have lived without it
crashing too, even if it did "only" happen once.
Outrun 2006 (PS2) - replayed the Flagman stuff.
THAW (PS2) - some messing about on the Kyoto level, which is a bit
weird and scrappy but still one of my favourite levels in the whole
series.
THPS3 (PS1) - similarly messing about on Canada and the Downhill
level. I vaguely remember reading that the Downhill one is included in
PS2 THP8, but I think the PS1 Canada would have been a better idea.
> Want:
More games to have an LED-style monkey-fishing animation in the intro.
Tony Hawk's Project 8 (PS2) to arrive - yes, I was mad enough to get
this despite all the reviews saying, essentially, "AAAIIIEEEE THE PAIN
THE PAIN MAKE IT STOP". Bah, you can't scare me, I saw the GBC games.
Sega Superstars (PS2) to arrive - which should be fun for roughly ten
minutes before I wonder why I bothered buying it. :-)
> Bin:
One Piece Mansion (PS1) - an arcadey strategy puzzler focused on doing
lots of hands-on maintenance (moving tenants around and putting out
fires etc.), it's almost a Game & Watch sort of game. It's briefly
diverting, and I suppose you have to give Capcom credit for trying
something a tiny bit different, but somehow it doesn't quite work.
After finishing the extremely short Story mode I'd had enough really -
and the only other mode is Endless, so I doubt I've missed much.
Flipnic's "Now do it all again, but er... mirrored! And darker!"
silliness. It would have been fine as a pointless bonus, but instead
they force you to do it to unlock the fourth table.
-Rus.
Beck
>
> It is more of the same, yeah, but they've added some new gameplay
> elements (that get introduced as you progress) that lend a lot to the
> overall experience. It'd be spoiling things to say what they were, but
> I thought they added a lot to the experience.
Just something I want to ask. I had a cutscene where I was offered a new
weapon. This weapon landed somewhere in the distance. Will I have to find
this myself through different routes, or will I happen upon it through
normal play?
hurricanepilot
You'll end up right in front of it shortly. The game is very linear in
this regard. I only found one instance where leaving the beaten track
was useful and even then it wouldn't have hurt if I missed the
opportunity.
Beck
>
> You'll end up right in front of it shortly. The game is very linear in
> this regard. I only found one instance where leaving the beaten track
> was useful and even then it wouldn't have hurt if I missed the
> opportunity.
Thanks. Got my new blade.
Bit of a boring game really. I feel like I am going through the motions to
get to the end.
hurricanepilot
The game is basically combat, puzzle solving and narrative. If those
parts of the game aren't really getting you, then you're not going to
like it. The intro section isn't really indicative of the main game
though, it's all about the boss in that section.
Rach
>> It frightens me that every bloody kid at his school either wears Man
>> Utd or Chelsea kits. I'm sure it'll be good for him to be the only one
>> in an Ipswich shirt, and besides I'll send him off to join the circus
>> before I'll allow him to support either of them. :)
>>
>
> My son wears his Oxford United shirt with pride at school amongst the
> Chelsea, Man U and Liverpool shirts. How chuffed was he when the OUFC
> coach came to do some coaching at the school...
>
> We're off to see them hopefully book their place at Wembley tomorrow
> night...
You know what, I'm a United fan and it still annoys me that kids won't
support their local team. Mind you I live closer to Oldham Athletic than
I do to Old Trafford (Pretty sure anyway....) but you can blame my dad
for that :-)
Rach
>> Play:
>
> God of War 2 (PS3 - BC) - Completorated. Much better boss battles than
> the first game, and the ending is damned fine. I must have raised my
> game since I played the original GoW though, as that took me 18 hours
> and GoW2, which is apparently longer, took just shy of 14.
>
> Spiderman 3 (360) - I went up to tesco yesterday and ummed and ahhed
> over this and VT3, and just couldn't get out of my head the notion
> that VT3 is just tennis, and Spidey had combos and swinging through a
> big city. A shallow victory for Spidey. I played it for about an hour
> or two yesterday afternoon and then accidentally downloaded:
So is it good?
Beck
Thing is I enjoyed the first game, but this time round its boring. Maybe I
just had my lot with the previous game, I don't usually like hack and slash
games anyway.
I will keep plodding on though. It might be like Oblivion where I disliked
it at first but then really enjoyed it later on.
hurricanepilot
wrote:
Not from what I've seen (about 2 hours of the game), but I'll probably
play through it regardless knowing me. I think it's 6/10 from IGN is
well deserved.
The one bit that is well done is swinging through the city. It's a big
city, with sensible amounts of traffic. Not really enough reason to
buy the game though.
Martin Linklater
Guitar Hero 2 (XBox360) - Easy and Medium done. Ploughing through Hard
now. Stuck on bloody Woman by Wolfmother - far too widdly for my
useless fingers.
PinballX (XBox360) - Not bad at all. Still to get to grips with the
tables though...
Puzzle Quest (PSP) - Still great. Still plodding on.
Dead Rising (XBox360) - Borrowed this from a geeza at work who thinks
it's the bees knees. Only about 30 minutes in but I'm not getting it
yet... I'll give it another hour then it's going the journey.
Disgaea (PS3 - PS2 mode) - Kind of forgot about this one once GH came
along... should go back to it though...
WANT
Anything worth buying on the PS3 - I'm not seeing any.
BIN
Not much...
Chris Stevens
news:463f98e1$0$10245$9a6e...@unlimited.newshosting.com...
>
> My son wears his Oxford United shirt with pride at school amongst the
> Chelsea, Man U and Liverpool shirts. How chuffed was he when the OUFC
> coach came to do some coaching at the school...
>
> We're off to see them hopefully book their place at Wembley tomorrow
> night...
Absolutely gutted for you. :( There's no worse way to lose a game than
penalties.
I really thought you were going to win it in the second half of extra time.
You really battered them for about 10 minutes solid, and should have had at
least one penalty (and I'll resist the temptation to say you'd probably have
missed it).
Still, nice to see that Super Gavin Johnson is still around. He scored our
first ever Premiership goal back in 1992, and I was amazed that he was still
playing, and in fact looks exactly the same as he did back then!
Chris.
GT: SomethingWitty
jochta
Totally gutted. We were so looking forward to our trip to Wembley. How
many chances will my son get to see his team play at Wembley?
Exeter were the better team last night, at times Oxford were totally
clueless. But still very disappointing to lose a 2-0 advantage for a
place in the final.
It's only a game though innit :)