Valentine (Almost) Play, Want, Bin
The Rev
Dragon Quest VIII (PS2) - Fifty-two and a half hours in. Still a fair
way to go by the looks of things. I dread to think how hard the final
boss is going to be, given the toughness of the odd 'normal' boss.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP) - Bloody, bloody great. So many
options! Such wonderful gameplay! Perfectly acceptable load times! I
spend half an hour in Free Battle yesterday practicing against Blanka.
It's that type of game. I've turned the speed down to Normal, because I
just can't hack any turbo speeds. As it is, on default difficulty I
can't get past round four of Arcade mode. (Not using continues.) Looks
great on the PSP screen, too. Best PSP game since launch? Probably. I
love it. Lots.
Zombie Zone (PS2) - No it's not very good in a lot of ways, but it's
brilliant in so many others that it doesn't really matter that it's a
bit rubbish looked at from a pure game design point of view. But is it?
Camera's wrong, environments are shit and it's very repetitive, but it
is actually great brainless fun.
Civilization 3 (MOB) - It's a very, very cut down Civ on my phone.
Permanent war, no naval or sea units. Worryingly easy to play for half
an hour without blinking, though.
Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) - Obviously.
King of Fighters M2 (MOB) - Shit, but it tries not to be, bless it. And
somehow it's avoiding the bin section. My standards are low for games I
can play on the loo at work, I guess.
Crystal Quest (360) - Another variation on the Robotron theme. Quite
good when the difficulty's upped.
Marble Blast Ultra (360) - Horribly compulsive when I let myself play it.
Smash TV (360) - Just to complete the set.
WANT
Armored Core (PSP) - Ordered the International version from Yes Asia,
but they've not got it stock so it'll probably sit in my order history
for a month or two before getting cancelled.
Tetris (DS) - Interested to see how the different modes play.
Oblivion (360) - Obviously.
BIN
Work getting in the way of Dragon Quest time.
The Rev
>
> BIN
Also: Monday morning text messages from friends telling you they've
beaten your Geometry Wars 2 score.
--
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http://www.mysecretshame.co.uk
deKay
2006 07:15:26 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk The Rev
<the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>PLAY
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (GBA)
Completed now! Hurrah!
Tony Hawk's American Sk8land (GBA)
This game is excellent. Best GBA TH game by far. The graphics are just
amazing, and no slowdown like in THUG/THUG2. But it did wipe my save
(although that was probably my fault) and I had to start over. Bah.
Animal Crossing (DS)
No turnips this weekend, but did make about 80,000 bells just selling fruit
and excess fossils :)
>WANT
Tetris DS.
More time to play the ever-growing backlog of games I have.
>BIN
Games that wipe your saved game when your GBM battery goes flat.
Me being the only person in work today.
deKay
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The Rev
>
> Games that wipe your saved game when your GBM battery goes flat.
Well, I think it's probably taught you a valuable lesson.
Smid
> PLAY
We Love Katamari - I've rolled up the clouds and cities and got above
500m, and now what? I went to the cheat guide to work out how to do the
precisely 20cm one (not done it yet). Do I have to go back and do the
previous levels a second time? (And indeed a third?) And then roll up
the sun after that? I never could work out what the cowbear level was
about, you had to avoid the cow bears?
Psychonauts (PC) - Yes, it finally appears in this country and It
feels, I dunno, Grim Fandangoesque and its been a long long long time
coming... Where have you been Tim Schafer? I'm enjoying it immensely
though and look forward to some right weird dreams based on it. I could
do without the unpausable cut scenes though...
> WANT
The rest of the games which made the top 50 of last year at Eurogamer,
and elsewhere, which aren't actually released yet... Shadow of the
Collossus?
> BIN
Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones (Xbox) - I will confess that I
actually download this off Bittorrent to play on my chipped Xbox, a
month after buying the PC version and Ubisoft not giving a flying fuck
that I couldn't play it past a certain point. I feel fully justified in
doing that, cos I'm not going to give them any more money for a product
I have already paid for. Thats not the reason for binning it though,
its the three speed kills in a row needed every so often to progress,
and thats after fighting another 4 blokes to get there. For some reason
I've lost the ability to speed kill. No matter. It goes onto the list
of being more Warrior Within rather than Sands of Time...
Smid
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk The Rev
<the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>deKay wrote:
>>
>> Games that wipe your saved game when your GBM battery goes flat.
>
>Well, I think it's probably taught you a valuable lesson.
Shush. I'm still crying.
The Rev
>
> Lunar Legend (DS), Fire Emblem (DS) - nearing the end of both games.
You've played Lunar Legend (almost) all the way through?
Is it as bad as the reviews suggest?
Nathan
and maintain peace!!!
> Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP) - Bloody, bloody great. So many
> options! Such wonderful gameplay! Perfectly acceptable load times! I
> spend half an hour in Free Battle yesterday practicing against Blanka.
> It's that type of game. I've turned the speed down to Normal, because I
> just can't hack any turbo speeds. As it is, on default difficulty I
> can't get past round four of Arcade mode. (Not using continues.) Looks
> great on the PSP screen, too. Best PSP game since launch? Probably. I
> love it. Lots.
Are you using that stick-on dpad? If so how is that working out for you, or
if not how is it with the PSP pad?
--
Nathan.
Bow to the Cow!
Gaming Diary: http://blog.cowfields.com
AC:WW [ 287 824 739 648 ] Nathan in Cowfield
The Rev
> The Rev has fallen from outer space. Launch them back to defend the planet
> and maintain peace!!!
>
>> Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP) - Bloody, bloody great.
>
> if not how is it with the PSP pad?
Nope, haven't got a stick-on d-pad. Don't know where to get one from.
But the standard PSP d-pad isn't actually too bad. I've probably played
for two or three hours in total and I'm really getting used to it.
Dragon punches are tricky to pull off, but I'm getting better. I don't
think it'll ever give me 100% success, but it's much better than I
expected. (And I could never do dragon punches 100% of the time even on
the ASCII fighting pad, truth be told.)
I'd like to try one of the d-pad toppers, but I'm not as desperate for
it as I was.
Zomoniac
> PLAY
Perfect Dark Zero (X360)
Not played since 23rd December, seemed a very expensive ornament, so I
got it back out. A few games of Killcount, one of which I got 13 kills
in and finished =3rd which for me is exceptional. I enjoyed it. A bit
slow for my liking (loved Halo 2 SP but not MP really, more of a Q3/UT
twitch guy) and did two single-player levels, which were alright.
Geometry Wars Evolved (X360)
I PWN J00Z WI74 MY 1337 5KI115Z.
Phoenix Wright (DS)
Started Chapter 4, two days in. Lotta made it all up. Bitch.
Katamari Damacy (PS2)
Still haven't gone back after it wouldn't let me finish the tutorial.
> WANT
To own 50 games instead of 400. Another big clearout binge is on the
way. But then I'm left with the console justification crisis. I don't
really care about any of my PS2 games except GT4 and God Of War, but I
can't justify keeping a console for two games, but I can't not have
those games, so I have the others to make me feel it's not indulgence.
But I can't keep them anymore. Bah.
> BIN
Games with saves that display cumulative playtime, but when you die and
it returns you to the save point reset the clock. According to Metroid
Fusion I've been playing 45 minutes. According to me I've been playing
3 hours.
Every fucking thing imaginable. I remember now why I took up gaming. It
preserves my sanity (usually).
--
Zo
GamerTag: Zomoniac (COD2, PDZ, PGR3, Kameo, DOA4, RR6)
Last game completed: Dead Or Alive 4 - 31/01/2006
Playing: Metroid Fusion (GBA) / Listening: Manu Katche - Neighbourhood
DBSnappa
> Me being the only person in work today.
>
> deKay
Have you got a copy of The Shining to watch?
deKay
yawatina tan reek esk DBSnappa <davidjREMOV...@hotmail.com> fornis do
marikano es bono tan el:
>deKay wrote:.
No. I really should have brought some DVDs in.
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
Zomoniac <the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 2006-02-13 07:15:26 +0000, The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> said:
>
>> WANT
>
>To own 50 games instead of 400. Another big clearout binge is on the
>way. But then I'm left with the console justification crisis. I don't
>really care about any of my PS2 games except GT4 and God Of War, but I
>can't justify keeping a console for two games, but I can't not have
>those games, so I have the others to make me feel it's not indulgence.
>But I can't keep them anymore. Bah.
The question you have to ask yourself is this.... Fifty quid is about what
a night out with nice girl might cost, for dinner and a show. Given that a
new release is fifty, and a console costs around two hundred, does having
a console with only one game give you the same amount of entertainment as
five nights out with a nice girl? If the answer is yes, then there is no
further justification required. Some perspective (and perhaps a well-wired
storage cabinet) will help you see the inherent value of a games machine.
Of course, the value of a night out with a naughty girl varies wildly
depending on individual tastes, any inadvertant language barriers, and
one's tolerance for physical pain. Do not use the cost of a night out with
a naughty girl as a relative measure for anything.
-KKC, who did not participate in the PWB this week because he didn't play
anything but Hexic. Dammit.
--
-- "I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house. But - kendrick
I think it's up to me how many bedrooms there are, - @io.com
dont you? F*** you, real estate lady, this bedroom -
has an oven in it!" - Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005 -
Toby Newman
> PLAY
Bangai-O! (DC)
Mario Something-or-other (GBA-SP)
I forget which Mario it is but it's the one I got guidance on in here
last week - I'm now through the forest and into the chocolate zone. I'm
really glad to have that sticking-point solved so I can play this again
- it's a very good game. I do wonder what the point of the lives is,
though. Every three times you die, it tells you that you are out of
lives, and that the game is over. And then you carry on playing as
though you have infinite lives. Whatever - works for me!
Thief 3 (PC)
Sumtuous graphics. Great atmosphere. Still playing this old dog.
Conker LAU (XB)
Despite its wonderful graphics and lovely sound, and its great story,
this is an annoying game. I am at a bit where I have to escort 4 catfish
past a mer-dog, and they will not follow me past him, despite me having
shortened his leash so that he is harmless. I have no idea what to do
next.
Want:
A DS:Lite.
Bin:
Day of Defeat (PC)
It was free all weekend, but by the time Steam had opened up and allowed
me to select the game I was already involved in something else in a
separate window, so it never got played.
Steam (PC)
It's not that bad, but it's annoying when you want to play a game and
you have to wait for STeam to patch itself up before it will even load.
I know I can disable this with offline mode, but my computer is online,
so it seems wrong to use offline mode.
--
-Toby, who...
Add the word afiduluminag to the subject
field to circumvent my email filters.
Ignore any mail delivery error.
The Rev
>
> Mario Something-or-other (GBA-SP)
> I do wonder what the point of the lives is,
> though. Every three times you die, it tells you that you are out of
> lives, and that the game is over. And then you carry on playing as
> though you have infinite lives. Whatever - works for me!
If you're at the half-way point in a level it'll dump you back to the
beginning.
DBSnappa
> PLAY
>
> Dragon Quest VIII (PS2) - Fifty-two and a half hours in. Still a fair
> way to go by the looks of things. I dread to think how hard the final
> boss is going to be, given the toughness of the odd 'normal' boss.
More importantly, I sincerely hope this is the best game ever, at >52
hrs and counting.
>
COD2 (360) Spent several hours playing this on Saturday. Am now at the
D-Day landings. This is excellent and definitely looking like a replay
on a tougher setting.
PGR3 (360) Saturday afternoon and early evening were spent playing this.
I spent nearly an hour trying to get one platinum medal on a top speed
run. Can't wait to get my HD TV this week to do this justice, but this
is excellence on a stick apart from MS deciding to make the HDD optional
which means no caching. All you programmers out there, how hard would it
be to put an auto detect into a game so that it could cache rather than
spin the disc?
Kameo. Finished this. Very enjoyable and just about the right length I
would say. Took me about 18 hrs and I left quite a lot unexplored, so if
you were trying you could drag this out further. Not sure if I will at
this juncture. Also, does anyone know if there's anything behind that
door in the dungeons of the Enchanted Kingdom?
Geometry Wars (360) Played this for about an 45mins last night and made
it a bit further up the score boards. Still not worrying anybody from
this group yet, though. It is highly addictive though.
Quake 4 (Demo 360) OK, this is Doom 3 with a torch you can strap to your
gun and slightly lighter (generally interiors) and some exteriors.
Complete Aliens rip off though. Seeing as I never finished Doom3, I'm
not sure I can be arsed to buy this.
>
> WANT
>
My new 37" LCD NOW!
My new DS Lite
>
> BIN
>
>
Nintendo for changing the charger for the DS Lite. What a bunch of
unutterable cungts!
James Sutherland
@individual.net:
> PLAY
Chibi Robo (GC) - I've been fairly busy this weekend, but I've still
managed to get 10 hours of this in somehow. Absolutely fantastic game.
Not at all what I was expecting. I thought it was some kind of level-
based platformer or something, but it's actually more of an arcade
adventure (like, I don't know, Dizzy or something). There always seems
to be loads of stuff to do, and you regularly get new abilities and
areas of the house to explore so it's quite hard to put down. I don't
know who did the translation, but it's a well-written script, and really
quite funny in places.
Tsuukin Hitofude (GBA) - This is getting fairly tough. I've done about
220 levels, though, so I got past the 200 mark that I was aiming for
this week.
Tales of Legendia (PS2) - But only for about 10 minutes. Pretty.
Tales of Eternia (PSP) - Cracking port of a great game. It'd be nice to
have some good original RPGs on the PSP, but this'll do for now. It'll
probably become my commuting game once I've finished/decided I'm too
stupid for Tsuukin Hitofude.
PQ (PSP) - Got to make up the balance with a load of games I'd traded
in. Not sure I really like it. It's more of an exam than a game, and I
hate the fact you only get a set time limit on each level then it goes
on to the next. It just makes me feel stupid.
> WANT
Nothing much over last week. Tetris DS is looking quite nice.
> BIN
All soft drinks that aren't Diet Coke with Cherry. It's like the nectar
of the Gods. Well, it tastes quite nice, anyway.
Tim Miller
> PLAY
>
Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
off my mortgage, and was ready with another 900,000 to buy turnips on
Sunday. And Joan didn't turn up. Bah.
Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox)
Hostages: saved. Helicopter: arrived. Terrorists: gunned down in a
hail of bullets.
Advance Wars Dual Strike (DS)
Oh, bugger off.
> WANT
>
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (DS)
I can't buy things since it's my birthday next month
> BIN
>
BIN. As in, buy-it-now.
Tim (tm)
--
tim (at) economic-truth.co.uk
http://www.gamerwiki.com - the videogame encyclopedia
http://xexyz.blogspot.com - Tim's Gaming Diary
Chris Whitworth
> PLAY
Psychonauts (XBox)
"Is this where I get another long speech about learning a lesson?"
"No. Here is your merit badge. Let us never speak of this again."
Excellent.
Boku no Watashi no Katamari Damacy (PSP) - Katamari! On a PSP! Portable!
Katamari! Woo!
Animal Crossing (DS) - Nook can just fuck off. I'm not playing the stalk market
any more. I've lost about 30,000 bells since I started playing it.
> WANT
Time to play Psychonauts.
> BIN
Work and life and that getting in the way of games again.
Chris
--
* Bring back blue sky in games! *
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk James Sutherland
<ja...@guybrush.demon.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>Chibi Robo (GC) - I've been fairly busy this weekend, but I've still
>managed to get 10 hours of this in somehow. Absolutely fantastic game.
I'm betting there's no UK release likely for this?>>
BIN
>All soft drinks that aren't Diet Coke with Cherry. It's like the nectar
>of the Gods. Well, it tastes quite nice, anyway.
I got slightly hooked on lemon Coke over Christmas.
deKay
--
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My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that
"Most importantly, I'm now playing as a girl who skates around in her bra and knickers"
DBSnappa
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 13 Feb
> 2006 10:16:50 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
> yawatina tan reek esk DBSnappa <davidjREMOV...@hotmail.com> fornis do
> marikano es bono tan el:
>
>
>>deKay wrote:.
>>
>>>Me being the only person in work today.
>>>
>>>deKay
>>
>>Have you got a copy of The Shining to watch?
>
>
> No. I really should have brought some DVDs in.
>
Ah well, just axe some doors down for good measure ;-)
Tim Miller
>
>>Chibi Robo (GC) - I've been fairly busy this weekend, but I've still
>>managed to get 10 hours of this in somehow. Absolutely fantastic game.
>
> I'm betting there's no UK release likely for this?>>
>
Stewart Smith
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 13 Feb
> 2006 05:41:33 -0600, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk James Sutherland
> <ja...@guybrush.demon.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>
>>Chibi Robo (GC) - I've been fairly busy this weekend, but I've still
>>managed to get 10 hours of this in somehow. Absolutely fantastic game.
>
>
> I'm betting there's no UK release likely for this?>>
>
Well it's on the Nintendo games insert I got with the UK version of
Mario and Luigi PiT so I would imagine that means it's getting a
release. Probably sometime in 2008...
Stewart
--
You are about to enter... The Scary Door...
Smid
Chris Whitworth wrote:
> On 2006-02-13, The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > PLAY
>
> Psychonauts (XBox)
>
> "Is this where I get another long speech about learning a lesson?"
> "No. Here is your merit badge. Let us never speak of this again."
>
> Excellent.
Thats precisely the bit I finished at.... Hoopy bit with the cube...
Smid
The Rev
> The Rev wrote:
>
>> QT wrote:
>>> Lunar Legend (DS), Fire Emblem (DS) - nearing the end of both games.
>> You've played Lunar Legend (almost) all the way through?
>>
>> Is it as bad as the reviews suggest?
>
>
> You must be mistaking it for Lunar DS (Dragon Song), perhaps because
> I'm playing it *on* a DS?
What's worse, is that I actually own Lunar Legend.
Not that I've ever played it. (I have played SSSC though, on which i's
based.)
Matt Hook
> spent nearly an hour trying to get one platinum medal on a top speed run.
> Can't wait to get my HD TV this week to do this justice, but this is
> excellence on a stick apart from MS deciding to make the HDD optional
> which means no caching. All you programmers out there, how hard would it
> be to put an auto detect into a game so that it could cache rather than
> spin the disc?
>
Pretty simple, there is space reserved on the HDD for caching, and MS
encourage developers to do so.
I imagine they left it out because they didn't have any time to do it, same
reason they left out 60fps and proper HD resolution graphics.
Chris Whitworth
It made me laugh, lots. The boss fight was kind of annoying, but still made
me laugh.
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
Mario and Weegie Partners in Time: DS. Just simply ACEBESTEST. It's funny,
it's clever, it's explorey, it's rythmny and it's portable.
Luigi's Mansion: Cube. Was having a play at the weekend, for old times
sake, and ended up doing the first quarter of the game. It really is a
lovely lovely game and quite a splendid launch title for the cube.
Star Wars: Empire at War Demo (PC). On highest resolution, it's a slideshow. On one notch below that, it's very smooth and pig ugly. Plays well, though. Don't
think it's a buy.
Want0r:
Not really much in the way of games. Zelda, obviously. Some more DS
stuff. Nothing specific.
The usual migration stuff.
Binn0r:
Shit jobs.
Choobs
--
Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury...@nelefa.org>
"Streaming through the starlit sky, travelling by telephone" - Syd Barret 1967
http://www.nelefa.org - Game Diary, Fiction, and Ramblings [ESC]:wq
[ste parker]
> PLAY
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA) - Aria of Sorrw is better, but
I'm hooked on this. Miles easier to see what's going on on the map now
too, with two full seperate maps and an overlay version.
Gradius Galaxies (GBA) - Great version of Gradius, can get about halfway
through L5 on one credit so far.
Trackmania Nations ESWC (PC) - Briefly. Played some annoying maps (the
"if you haven't played them a hundred times already be prepared to
restart after every single new corner sends you flying" sort), and the
lag wasn't helpful.
> WANT
Chibi Robo (GC) - Just realised I forgot to order this from Tronix.
Psychonauts (PC) - Maybe a budget game in the US by now?
Under Defeat (DC) - When it's out.
GBA SP "with brighter screen!" - Is $80 (£46-ish) a reasonable price?
> BIN
US websites not letting me buy anything to ship to where I'm staying
with my UK credit card.
--
[ste]
"No cars go
Where we know"
DBSnappa
Paul Tomlin
quicktransDE...@fastmail.fm says...
> The Rev wrote:
>
> > QT wrote:
> > > The Rev wrote:
> > >
> > > > QT wrote:
> > > > > Lunar Legend (DS), Fire Emblem (DS) - nearing the end of both
> > > > > games.
> > > > You've played Lunar Legend (almost) all the way through?
> > > >
> > > > Is it as bad as the reviews suggest?
> > >
> > > No, but it's every bit as good as the reviews suggest ;-)
> > >
> > > You must be mistaking it for Lunar DS (Dragon Song), perhaps because
> >
> > What's worse, is that I actually own Lunar Legend.
> >
> > Not that I've ever played it. (I have played SSSC though, on which
> > i's based.)
>
> same.
Different translation as well (so none of the usual Working Designs
silliness to brighten things up).
Paul Tomlin
> PLAY
>
> Dragon Quest VIII (PS2) - Fifty-two and a half hours in. Still a fair
> way to go by the looks of things. I dread to think how hard the final
> boss is going to be, given the toughness of the odd 'normal' boss.
Likewise in terms of time spent, but I think you are further through the
game than I am. Also, 30+ of those hours were clocked up in the last
week ^^;
> Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP)
I'm really not sure how someone could play this on the PSP - I had to
open my console up and mess around with the DPad just to get it to a
point where Eternia didn't annoy me (i.e. I could actually walk
diagonally without using the analogue stick). From what I've read on the
'net I've not been the only one to take such drastic action, either.
Tales of Eternia (PSP) - About three or four hours worth. Pretty good,
fairly pretty looking on the PSP screen as well.
Everybodies Golf (PSP) - The brother demanded to play it for a while
over the weekend, and I ended up putting in a few rounds as well.
I got the rest of my C69 doujin stuff in the mail today, so I guess I'll
have a look at those this evening.
> WANT
Grandia III mainly, plus the rest of the stuff I listed last week.
> BIN
Buying games for a while, I guess. I've got plenty of stuff to keep me
going for quite some time.
Nils Tanner
<the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> got it all completely wrong and
wrote:
>PLAY
We heart Katamari: It's a great game, but somehow it hasn't quite
caught me yet. I like it because it's a completly different kind of
game, but so far I'm not so sure whether it's really a super game. I
guess I'll find out in a few hours...
Clock Tower 3: Not my game. It's nice, but the genre doesn't do
anything for me.
Black & White 2: A nice concept, but it doesn't really do anything for
me.
>WANT
Seems like I need a new game which suits me perfectly. Might be
Katamari though, as mentioned before...
My new flat/house to be completely furnished and so forth. In some
ways I'm looking forward to it, mostly to playing in a new games room
:-)
A new TV or a beamer. Although I haven't got the money at the
moment...
>BIN
Lack of money, I suppose...
Nils Tanner
<chewbury...@nelefa.org> got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>Luigi's Mansion: Cube. Was having a play at the weekend, for old times
>sake, and ended up doing the first quarter of the game. It really is a
>lovely lovely game and quite a splendid launch title for the cube.
*Hellooooooooo?*
*Hm hm hmmmmmm........hm hm hm hm hm .....*
Love this game!
Paul Evans
Tony Hawk's Underground(PS2): Not so much playing it as finding myself
yelling at the screen when I land perfect combos but UG does not eliminate
them from the list (during those "complete this list of annoyingly easy
combos in under two minutes" challenges).
Animal Crossing DS: Finding myself getting more and more bored with it now.
I'm taking a break from this for a couple of weeks.
Mario Kart DS: I think we need to start organising races again because last
night's sitting there for nearly two hours trying to get a wi-fi competitor
was a bit of a joke. Why aren't people playing this any more??
WANT:
Not very much at the moment. Really, I want a yet-to-be-released game to
jump out at me and amaze me with its enormous replayability potential,
well-crafted controls and challenges and fairly decent graphics.
BIN:
Resident Evil 4 (PS2): People on here said it was good. My mates said it was
good. My work colleagues said it was good. I bought it on Thursday, loaded
it up. Played twenty minutes of it, got pissed off with the crappy camera
control that meant I couldn't see enemies fast enough and switched it off
again. It's now collecting dust at the back of my wardrobe.
Paul.
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Tony Hawk's : (Paul) 365 134 383 147
Animal Crossing: (Paul in Corona) 429 559 406 543
Matt Hook
news:45aucuF...@individual.net...
> The Rev wrote:
>>
>> BIN
>
> Also: Monday morning text messages from friends telling you they've beaten
> your Geometry Wars 2 score.
>
You'll be one place lower down your friends list now too ;)
I just doubled my best score and got the 250k survival and 500k score
achievements in one game!
[ste parker]
> In article <xn0eifnw...@news.individual.net>,
> quicktransDE...@fastmail.fm says...
>
>>
>>same.
>
> Different translation as well (so none of the usual Working Designs
> silliness to brighten things up).
1. that's a shame
2. what was the point of that?! re-translate an already translated game?
i can only presume it was cheaper to retranslate than get hold of WD's
translation....
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
[ste parker] <imag...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Paul Tomlin wrote:
>> In article <xn0eifnw...@news.individual.net>,
>> quicktransDE...@fastmail.fm says...
>>
>>>From what I remember of the PlayStation version (SSSC), it's almost the
>>>same.
>>
>> Different translation as well (so none of the usual Working Designs
>> silliness to brighten things up).
>
> i can only presume it was cheaper to retranslate than get hold of WD's
>translation....
Now that we know that Working Designs has been in financial straits that
led to their shutdown, I imagine that it would have been a legal hassle to
secure all the rights. For all the care and artistry in a WD translation,
there are also an army of writers and actors to whom royalties and re-use
fees might be owed. On the other hand, if Nintendo and Game Arts were
willing to deal, Working Designs certainly could have used the money at
the time.
On the other hand, this is a game that we've seen on three prior platforms
already (Sega CD, Saturn, and Playstation) so it's arguable that the cheap
way is the logical way.
-KKC, who hates making that argument but sees the virtue of it.
--
-- "I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house. But - kendrick
I think it's up to me how many bedrooms there are, - @io.com
dont you? F*** you, real estate lady, this bedroom -
has an oven in it!" - Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005 -
Zomoniac
YOU BIG FAT FUCKING FUCKER!
So I'm no longer top of my friends list? I can't bear to look.
FUCKER FUCKER DIE YOU FUCKER.
Sorry.
--
Zo
GamerTag: Zomoniac (COD2, PDZ, PGR3, Kameo, DOA4, RR6)
Last game completed: Dead Or Alive 4 - 31/01/2006
Playing: Metroid Fusion (GBA) / Listening: Manu Katche - Neighbourhood
Pessimist
> PLAY
GT4 (PS2) - The graphics are noticeably better than in GT2. In my opinion.
> WANT
SFA3 (PS2) - Yep folks, SFA3 is quality. I don't have a PSP, so I can't play
"Max", but I read recently that Capcom are releasing a SF Alpha compilation for
the PS2. Which is something I wanted them to do years ago... We can only hope
and pray that it has "World Tour Mode".
> BIN
This fucking evil bitch of a flu. More specifically, the endless flow of
delicious liquid that keeps pissing out of my pissed off nose. It's no wonder
I'm so bloody thirsty... We're starting to run out of bog roll here, so I'm now
using a nice soft bed sheet. As a hanky, I mean. Feels like I have a head pumped
full of steamy glue, and I swear my aching eyes are slowly melting into my
brain... Nurse!!!
-P
Matt Hook
news:45c3e6F...@individual.net...
> On 2006-02-13 18:41:03 +0000, "Matt Hook" <hookmanr...@clara.co.uk>
> said:
>
>> "The Rev" <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:45aucuF...@individual.net...
>>> The Rev wrote:
>>>>
>>>> BIN
>>>
>>> Also: Monday morning text messages from friends telling you they've
>>> beaten your Geometry Wars 2 score.
>>>
>> You'll be one place lower down your friends list now too ;)
>>
>> I just doubled my best score and got the 250k survival and 500k score
>> achievements in one game!
>
> YOU BIG FAT FUCKING FUCKER!
>
> So I'm no longer top of my friends list? I can't bear to look.
>
> FUCKER FUCKER DIE YOU FUCKER.
>
> Sorry.
>
hehe, *innocently asks* how long have you been trying to get that 500k
achievement?
Dr. Boggis
The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> PLAY
Snowbr0ding in Utah (RL) - Park City, to be precise. Managed to avoid
being mormonised and still managed to buy booze, despite the inaccurate
stereotypes. Also didn't break anything except for every little crappy
plastic bit of my bindings. Grrr.
Due to the above, handheld gaming only for me, namely:
Nintendogs - just keeping my Bollox happy.
AW:DS - On level 16 of Hard campaign now. Struggled with level 14 and
after a few attempts settled for a B rank, then only managed an A on the
next level. I decided just to carry on and see how I do, rather than
re-playing over and over. Not sure how many B/A ranks it takes to lower
your overall S rank to anything else - I had all S-ranks before that.
Mercury - Dug this out after having not really played it much since I
first got it. Onto the 4th set of levels now, and really enjoying it.
Load times are a bit annoying but other than that, I like it lots.
Probably 60% complete now, I wonder if I'll actually finish it or get to
some point where it just gets too stupidly hard.
Wipeout Pure - a few levels and races, still great. What I want is for
you to be able to look at your "progress" screen and go straight to the
race from there instead of having to remember what track it was you
haven't won yet.
Web browsing (PSP) - in the airport, managed to get the flight times
etc, but didn't want to pay $10 to access the rest of the web. Handy
though.
Syphon Filter (PSP online beta) - booted it up, eventually joined a
game, got lost and confused, and quit. I just wish they would at least
put in one small offline 1-player level so you could get used to the
controls and stuff before being dumped straight into playing online.
TOCA RD2 (PSP) - about halfway through now I think. Had a choice not to
do the hideous Ford GT90 series, thankfully.
> WANT
Katamari on PSP
Lemmings (on PSP or DS)
Resi DS
A new snowboard and boots, and another week snowboarding
> BIN
Being back at work
Having to do tax returns
Selling the Mustang (sob)
--
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My games blog: http://bloggisgames.blogspot.com
GT4 pics slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_boggis/sets/162932/show/
Hughes.
> PLAY
>
Chrono Trigger (SNES emulated on Powerbook) I haven't played this for so
long! So few old RPG's I can be bothered to play, but this is
excellence on a stick.
Everybody's Golf (PSP) Practically perfect in every way. This has got at
least 3 times more playtime than anything else right now.
Timesplitters (PS2) I thought I'd go back to the original after
finishing Future Perfect on easy. The challenges are much harder, but
the EA idiot proofing of auto-saving after EVERYTHING is thankfully
absent. Hooray! Doesn't seem like 5 years since this and SSX were
fighting for time in my launch PS2.
Timesplitters Future Perfect (PS2) It's not exactly knocking the ball
out of the park visuals wise, but there's plenty on offer, and at some
point I'll have to get to grips with making your own story missions on
the map creator. Bloody hate those scrolling messages on the loading
screens, except for one which seems to be Free Radical taking the piss
out of EA's corpora-bollocks meaningless catchphrase... "Have you
Challenged Everything yet?" Yes. Yes I have. Thanks for asking.
>
> WANT
>
Lego Star Wars 2, BEST FUCKING NEWS EVAR! WANNITNOWWANNITNOWWANNITNOW!
>
> BIN
>
Idiot proofing in games.
--
I Amuse (I am Hughes.)
Instead of a sig, here is a magic eye picture. Stare at these dots until
they merge into one.
. .
Great, now piss off you boss-eyed twat!
Zomoniac
When I doubled my high score to get 267k a few weeks back I just
overtook you to go top. Then I got to 346k, then Deekm overtook me with
395k, then I went back ahead with 472k with my Survived 250k run. Since
3rd January this year I've played it for 3 hours and 50 minutes, don't
know how that compares to you?
Hughes.
> "The Rev" <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:45aq0fF...@individual.net...
>
>>PLAY
>
>
> GT4 (PS2) - The graphics are noticeably better than in GT2. In my opinion.
>
Get new eyes.
Hughes.
>
> Selling the Mustang (sob)
Booooo!
The Rev
[BIG SNIP!]
It's a rubbish game anyway.
Hughes.
> Pessimist wrote:
>
>> "The Rev" <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:45aq0fF...@individual.net...
>>
>>> PLAY
>>
>>
>>
>> GT4 (PS2) - The graphics are noticeably better than in GT2. In my
>> opinion.
>>
>
> Get new eyes.
>
Oof! for some reason I read the "not" in noticeably twice, seeing "not
noticeably" I blame the double vision on this rather fine brandy!
GT2 is so ugly and pop-up ridden I can't stand to play it, whereas GT1
still gets a healthy re-play every few of months.
Dr. Boggis
"Hughes." <full...@the.end> wrote:
> Dr. Boggis wrote:
>
> >
> > Selling the Mustang (sob)
>
> Booooo!
'tis gone to a good home, for a princely wad of greenbacks. Well, it met
my reserve price ($6k) anyway.
Martin Linklater
Play:
Call Of Duty 2 (360) - Going back through the game and hoovering up the
Veteran achievements. It's bloomin' hard mind you - fighting for every
inch...
Geometry Wars (360) - I'm gradually getting better at this. 420K is my
highest score so far. Me and a bloke at work are having a bit of a
compo with this one. Great for a few quid
We Love Katamari (PS2) - Bonkers.
Want:
Psychonauts (XBox) - After all the rave reviews and awards I need this
one soon.
Shadow of te Colossus (PS2) - Saw this at work a few weeks ago. Looks
great, looks like it plays OK but may be a little frustrating. Worth it
for the graphics alone, surely ?
Bin:
Not much. Been off games for a few weeks. Now I'm back there's nothing
that's particularly pissed me off. Well, apart from the last tank on
the Russian campaign of COD2 - what a pain in the ring.
Valentines Day. You should have seen the bedlam at Tesco at about 9:30
this evening. Hoards of blundering blokes (me included) desperately
trying to find something nice (and cheap) on the shelves. A bit sad
really. Not as bad as all the restaurants are going to be tomorrow mind
you. I took our lass out on Valentines a couple of years ago and vowed
never to do it again. Packed in like factory chickens we were, and for
a tenner a head more than usual to boot. Robbing bar stewards.
--
'Cogito Ergo Sup' - I think, therefore I drink.
http://live.xbox.com/member/FizzyChicken
Martin Linklater
> Wipeout Pure - a few levels and races, still great. What I want is for
> you to be able to look at your "progress" screen and go straight to the
> race from there instead of having to remember what track it was you
> haven't won yet.
>
One of the missing features we are most definitely fixing in future
versions of WipEout. That particular thing came out top of our 'things
we should have done with Pure, but didn't' list.
WCZ
"Nils Tanner" <nta...@datacomm.ch> wrote in message
news:d4k1v1deod3kc672t...@4ax.com...
I've had this game for ages and not got round to playing it. How long is
it? I'm trying to get through all the shorter games I own whilst waiting
for new 360 stuff and before getting into KOTOR and Fable.
Matt Hook
> you to go top. Then I got to 346k, then Deekm overtook me with 395k, then
> I went back ahead with 472k with my Survived 250k run. Since 3rd January
> this year I've played it for 3 hours and 50 minutes, don't know how that
> compares to you?
>
Does it record the time played anywhere? I hadn't played it for weeks until
last night, then I was just in the zone. Maybe that apparent auto-adjusting
difficulty decided I wasn't any good anymore! I guess I'll find out the next
time I play and see if I can still get around 500k.
Unfortunately there are 2 people on my list still above me, one on 800k &
one on about 980k, he must be gutted to have missed a million like that!
Matt Hook
news:uT2If.303230$D47.2...@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
It wouldn't be that easy to patch, I can't see them bothering, it's not
really added value they can boast about like free car downloads would be.
Zomoniac
It doesn't record time, I do, because I'm sad (refer to a post within
the first few days of this year).
Matt Hook
> On 2006-02-14 08:48:48 +0000, "Matt Hook" <GoAwayN...@fromme.com>
> said:
>
>>> When I doubled my high score to get 267k a few weeks back I just
>>> overtook you to go top. Then I got to 346k, then Deekm overtook me with
>>> 395k, then I went back ahead with 472k with my Survived 250k run. Since
>>> 3rd January this year I've played it for 3 hours and 50 minutes, don't
>>> know how that compares to you?
>>>
>>
>> Does it record the time played anywhere? I hadn't played it for weeks
>> until last night, then I was just in the zone. Maybe that apparent
>> auto-adjusting difficulty decided I wasn't any good anymore! I guess I'll
>> find out the next time I play and see if I can still get around 500k.
>>
>> Unfortunately there are 2 people on my list still above me, one on 800k &
>> one on about 980k, he must be gutted to have missed a million like that!
>
> It doesn't record time, I do, because I'm sad (refer to a post within the
> first few days of this year).
>
ah yes, I remember reading that thread now and coming to that very
conclusion!
DBSnappa
mal franks
The Rev wrote:
> PLAY
Dark Age Of Camelot: Darkness Rising (PC) - bit of a busy weekend so
most of the time was spent spellcrafting on my wizard while doing other
stuff
Dark Age Of Camelot: Darkness Rising (PC - US Edition) - temporarily
reactivated my subs for this to try out the changes that have been made
to the friar class on the Pendragon test server - only have a level 15
friar on one of the normal servers and don't have any level 50s so I
just copied him over to the test server and played from that level (if
i'd had a level 50 elsewhere I could have hit /level and instantly
increased his level to 30)
> WANT
My new TV to arrive
http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/television/tftlcd/le32m61bxxeu.asp
> BIN
Weekend whizzing by too fast
Russell Marks
> PLAY
We Love Katamari (PS2) - I don't know what it is about the look of
this, but it reminds me of Jumping Flash for some reason. Anyway, it's
good and the sense of changing scale is great, and it's nice to have a
game with a new idea (um, apart from it being a sequel) which is
hardly common these days. Some oddly pretty levels too, I liked the
underwater one. But much as with RE4, I have to say the game's a bit
overrated IMHO. It's good, it's different, it's probably a must-have
for PAL PS2 owners, but it's just... it's like there's not quite
enough of a game there somehow. Or maybe I'm being harsh on it after
paying nearly twice as much as I'd originally intended to. :-)
Amplitude (PS2) - overall the music and gameplay aren't as good as in
Frequency and the difficulty curve is even *more* bizarre, and the
graphics are far more distracting than before, especially when you end
up with notes the same colour as the track. Still, it just shows how
good Frequency was that Amplitude is still very playable despite being
(I think) a fair bit worse.
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (GBC) - a bit of Challenge mode, but just the
coins and Yoshi eggs as most of the score targets are really tough.
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge (GBC) - just a quick go or two.
> WANT
Nothing much.
> BIN
Slipknot's track in Amplitude. Truly awful. And just to make it even
more fun it's also a total bastard to beat on Insane, so you have to
listen to the crap over and over again.
Getting the credits on We Love Katamari within a day. There's lots to
do after that like time trials, harder goals on a couple of the
levels, improving your scores, getting collectables, or even just
generally exploring the levels - so much so that they really shouldn't
have had the ending so early (even if there is an extra ending later).
But it really could have done with having a few more levels.
No endless levels in WLK - I really wish there were an endless version
of the bird/elephant one, or better still, an endless one going from
the very smallest to the very largest scale.
The way I got WLK, which was pretty messed-up from start to finish; I
actually ended up with two copies at one point.
WLK's manual not mentioning anything about the great/super-clears. You
do get a glow or glow-with-rays from behind the planet when you get
one, but it's silly that I had to check an FAQ to find out what that
was actually indicating.
-Rus.
Nils Tanner
<Dav1...@willnotwork.com> got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>> Love this game!
>
>I've had this game for ages and not got round to playing it. How long is
>it? I'm trying to get through all the shorter games I own whilst waiting
>for new 360 stuff and before getting into KOTOR and Fable.
>
Probably around 15 hours.
deKay
2006 08:42:54 -0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "WCZ" <Dav1...@willnotwork.com>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>I've had this game for ages and not got round to playing it. How long is
>it?
ABout six hours. Less, maybe.
Took me that long anyway.
deKay
--
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My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that
"Most importantly, I'm now playing as a girl who skates around in her bra and knickers"
Pessimist
"Hughes." <full...@the.end> wrote in message
news:dsr25r$e16$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hughes. wrote:
> > Pessimist wrote:
> >
> >> "The Rev" <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:45aq0fF...@individual.net...
> >>
> >>> PLAY
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> GT4 (PS2) - The graphics are noticeably better than in GT2. In my
> >> opinion.
> >>
> >
> > Get new eyes.
> >
>
> Oof! for some reason I read the "not" in noticeably twice, seeing "not
> noticeably" I blame the double vision on this rather fine brandy!
I did wonder... Anyway, these things happen. In fact, I believe something
similar occurred with the Ten Commandments...
> GT2 is so ugly and pop-up ridden I can't stand to play it, whereas GT1
> still gets a healthy re-play every few of months.
"Ladies and gentleman, we shall soon be making our final descent to Tahiti
Road..."
Yep, GT2 looks pretty shit. Well, it looks worse than the original anyway. OK,
the cars have 3D-ish wheels, which was an improvement, but the "reflections" on
the cars are terrible. And the framerate during races is a bit dodgy, to say the
least. But it has more cars, more tracks, and the handling is driftalicious, so
it still gets my vote over GT.
GT4 is something else though. It wasn't *that* long ago that we were playing
sprite-based racing games - and were generally quite happy with them, as video
games, incidentally - so GT4 is like a bleeding dream come true. If someone
could have magically shown me GT4 when I was a nipper, I think I would have
ended up dribbling incoherently on the blue bus or summat...
-P
Pessimist
"Martin Linklater" <mslin...@removemac.com> wrote in message
news:2006021323595016807-mslinklater@removemaccom...
> Bin:
> Valentines Day. You should have seen the bedlam at Tesco at about 9:30
> this evening. Hoards of blundering blokes (me included) desperately
> trying to find something nice (and cheap) on the shelves. A bit sad
> really. Not as bad as all the restaurants are going to be tomorrow mind
> you. I took our lass out on Valentines a couple of years ago and vowed
> never to do it again. Packed in like factory chickens we were, and for
> a tenner a head more than usual to boot. Robbing bar stewards.
I just slapped a note saying "Magical VD moments cancelled due to illness" on
the bedroom door.
-P
Dr. Boggis
Martin Linklater <mslin...@removemac.com> wrote:
> On 2006-02-13 19:38:26 +0000, "Dr. Boggis" <boggis...@yahoo.com> said:
> > Wipeout Pure - a few levels and races, still great. What I want is for
> > you to be able to look at your "progress" screen and go straight to the
> > race from there instead of having to remember what track it was you
> > haven't won yet.
>
> One of the missing features we are most definitely fixing in future
> versions of WipEout. That particular thing came out top of our 'things
> we should have done with Pure, but didn't' list.
No way you could release a downloadable update to fix it?
Dr. Boggis
Martin Linklater <mslin...@removemac.com> wrote:
> Bin:
>
> Valentines Day. You should have seen the bedlam at Tesco at about 9:30
> this evening. Hoards of blundering blokes (me included) desperately
> trying to find something nice (and cheap) on the shelves. A bit sad
> really. Not as bad as all the restaurants are going to be tomorrow mind
> you. I took our lass out on Valentines a couple of years ago and vowed
> never to do it again. Packed in like factory chickens we were, and for
> a tenner a head more than usual to boot. Robbing bar stewards.
It makes me very cross that we are forced to be "romantic" on a
particular day, and if we feel reluctant and badgered into doing so for
a hefty price and then complain, we are unfeeling bastards.
Luckily I managed to propose to my missus on the 15th of Feb, which
means we go out for dinner then instead, and miss all the overpriced,
overcrowded and restricted menu shite of the day before! Ha!
Gunther Gloop
> In article <2006021323595016807-mslinklater@removemaccom>,
> Martin Linklater <mslin...@removemac.com> wrote:
>
>> Bin:
>>
>> Valentines Day. You should have seen the bedlam at Tesco at about
>> 9:30 this evening. Hoards of blundering blokes (me included)
>> desperately trying to find something nice (and cheap) on the
>> shelves. A bit sad really. Not as bad as all the restaurants are
>> going to be tomorrow mind you. I took our lass out on Valentines a
>> couple of years ago and vowed never to do it again. Packed in like
>> factory chickens we were, and for a tenner a head more than usual to
>> boot. Robbing bar stewards.
>
> It makes me very cross that we are forced to be "romantic" on a
> particular day, and if we feel reluctant and badgered into doing so
> for a hefty price and then complain, we are unfeeling bastards.
>
> Luckily I managed to propose to my missus on the 15th of Feb, which
> means we go out for dinner then instead, and miss all the overpriced,
> overcrowded and restricted menu shite of the day before! Ha!
Nobody's forcing anyone. If you're too weak to treat such petty proddings
with the disdain that it deserves then you're nothing but a lame sheep.
...Not you personally, obviously, since you go out on the 15th as you say,
but whoever -you know who you are! There's lots of ewes out there.
-Kevin.
DBSnappa
Dr. Boggis
DBSnappa <davidjREMOV...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't even do cards this year!
You are a braver man than I.
Incidentally, I was in a shop yesterday looking at the valentine cards
(I didn't need to buy one, had it already). There were a number of
rather disturbing categories:
from your dog
to your mum
to your grandma
from your child
from your cat to your dog
etc.
Pessimist
"Gunther Gloop" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:45ek3oF...@individual.net...
In my experience, no decent bird (as in worth being with) really gives a shit
about Valentine's Day. Or, at least, they're sensible enough not to make a
ridiculous fuss over it, if and when I completely forget... Because they know
I'll just laugh at them if they do.
Perhaps it's all just yet another excuse for moody chicks to sit around on their
fat arses feeling sorry for themselves - as if they really need one - instead of
making some effort to be a bit more lively/interesting/attractive.
Anyway, bollocks to romance at the moment. Back to my sticky sheet.
-P
Hughes.
> "Hughes." <full...@the.end> wrote in message
> news:dsr25r$e16$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
>>Hughes. wrote:
>>
>>>Pessimist wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>"The Rev" <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:45aq0fF...@individual.net...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>PLAY
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>GT4 (PS2) - The graphics are noticeably better than in GT2. In my
>>>>opinion.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Get new eyes.
>>>
>>
>>Oof! for some reason I read the "not" in noticeably twice, seeing "not
>>noticeably" I blame the double vision on this rather fine brandy!
>
>
> I did wonder... Anyway, these things happen. In fact, I believe something
> similar occurred with the Ten Commandments...
>
Thou Shalt not NOT commit adultery!
Hooray! Next door's wife is quite the MILF!
>
>>GT2 is so ugly and pop-up ridden I can't stand to play it, whereas GT1
>>still gets a healthy re-play every few of months.
>
>
> "Ladies and gentleman, we shall soon be making our final descent to Tahiti
> Road..."
>
> Yep, GT2 looks pretty shit. Well, it looks worse than the original anyway. OK,
> the cars have 3D-ish wheels, which was an improvement, but the "reflections" on
> the cars are terrible. And the framerate during races is a bit dodgy, to say the
> least. But it has more cars, more tracks, and the handling is driftalicious, so
> it still gets my vote over GT.
>
> GT4 is something else though. It wasn't *that* long ago that we were playing
> sprite-based racing games - and were generally quite happy with them, as video
> games, incidentally - so GT4 is like a bleeding dream come true. If someone
> could have magically shown me GT4 when I was a nipper, I think I would have
> ended up dribbling incoherently on the blue bus or summat...
>
It was pretty much only the vast selection of new cars that kept me
interested, I did actually complete it 101.5% (The German language
option re-opening the Vauxhall races as Opel ones.) so it can't have
been that bad, but the slowdown when a bunch of cars were crowding your
mirrors, the vanishing Tahiti Road and the magically appearing 20 feet
in front of you just in time for you to smash into at the bottom of that
fast hill in Seattle worked hard to try to ruin the experience.
Martin Linklater
> In article <2006021400063175249-mslinklater@removemaccom>,
> Martin Linklater <mslin...@removemac.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2006-02-13 19:38:26 +0000, "Dr. Boggis" <boggis...@yahoo.com> said:
>>> Wipeout Pure - a few levels and races, still great. What I want is for
>>> you to be able to look at your "progress" screen and go straight to the
>>> race from there instead of having to remember what track it was you
>>> haven't won yet.
>>
>> One of the missing features we are most definitely fixing in future
>> versions of WipEout. That particular thing came out top of our 'things
>> we should have done with Pure, but didn't' list.
>
> No way you could release a downloadable update to fix it?
No. We would need to download executable code, which is a no no ATM.
DBSnappa
>
>
> You are a braver man than I.
I did buy her some books (which I didn't wrap), but there was no way I
was going to buy a card. She didn't get me a thing and I theatrically
sulked for a few moments ;-)
>
> Incidentally, I was in a shop yesterday looking at the valentine cards
> (I didn't need to buy one, had it already). There were a number of
> rather disturbing categories:
>
> from your dog
> to your mum
> to your grandma
> from your child
> from your cat to your dog
>
> etc.
Some of those are deeply scary.
Chris Whitworth
> I didn't even do cards this year!
Well, I'm obviously letting the side down because I cooked a big proper meal
and made strawberry champagne cocktails and put on romantic music and had
candles out and everything. To be fair, I got hugely stressed over the
whole thing, especially when my beloved told me she was going to be 15 minutes
late, throwing out *all* my timings. But it was worth it. And it's bought me
a few days of leniency for working late and playing too many video games.
Chris
--
* Bring back blue sky in games! *
Gunther Gloop
Yup. You're letting the side down.
Chris Whitworth
Did I mention how the meal was FUCKING FANTASTIC, too?
Because it was.
Jamie Oliver: pWnd
Gunther Gloop
Did it follow with... nah I won't go there...
> Because it was.
>
It's nice to cook for one's loved one(s). You shouldn't use the excuse of a
particular marketting dream date to impress your dream date though.
Do it a couple of times in early-February next year for instance. Then tell
her not to kow-tow to lame societal expectations when that date arrives.
Then give her a special present later on in the week, emphasising how you
don't need others to dictate when you should do something special.
...Then ignore it completely the year after.
;)
-Kevin.
Chris Whitworth
> Chris Whitworth wrote:
>> On 2006-02-15, Gunther Gloop <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>> Yup. You're letting the side down.
>>
>> Did I mention how the meal was FUCKING FANTASTIC, too?
>
> It's nice to cook for one's loved one(s). You shouldn't use the excuse of a
> particular marketting dream date to impress your dream date though.
> Do it a couple of times in early-February next year for instance. Then tell
> her not to kow-tow to lame societal expectations when that date arrives.
> Then give her a special present later on in the week, emphasising how you
> don't need others to dictate when you should do something special.
>
> ...Then ignore it completely the year after.
Heh. The thing is, we both regularly cook for each other and we both fancy
ourselves as a bit handy in the kitchen. So it's nice to have an excuse to
go all out on occasion and do a proper full-on restaurant style meal. There
was no particular pressure from her to do anything - she's kind of flat broke
at the moment - but I wanted the excuse, and it was fun.
Pessimist
"Hughes." <full...@the.end> wrote in message
> Pessimist wrote:
> > "Hughes." <full...@the.end> wrote in message
> > news:dsr25r$e16$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >
> >>Hughes. wrote:
> >>
> >>>Pessimist wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>"The Rev" <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>>>news:45aq0fF...@individual.net...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>PLAY
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>GT4 (PS2) - The graphics are noticeably better than in GT2. In my
> >>>>opinion.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Get new eyes.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Oof! for some reason I read the "not" in noticeably twice, seeing "not
> >>noticeably" I blame the double vision on this rather fine brandy!
> >
> >
> > I did wonder... Anyway, these things happen. In fact, I believe something
> > similar occurred with the Ten Commandments...
> >
>
> Thou Shalt not NOT commit adultery!
>
> Hooray! Next door's wife is quite the MILF!
Ah, Basil Brush would be proud! We're surely destined to be a much-loved light
entertainment comedy double act... But then our precious egos will inevitably
force us to go our separate ways, and I'll have to go to work dressed as a vicar
and be shagged all night long by Lenny Henry, whilst you get to hang around in
dressing rooms drinking champagne with a half-naked Julia Swallower. That's
entertainment.
> It was pretty much only the vast selection of new cars that kept me
> interested, I did actually complete it 101.5% (The German language
> option re-opening the Vauxhall races as Opel ones.) so it can't have
> been that bad, but the slowdown when a bunch of cars were crowding your
> mirrors, the vanishing Tahiti Road and the magically appearing 20 feet
> in front of you just in time for you to smash into at the bottom of that
> fast hill in Seattle worked hard to try to ruin the experience.
I just checked my status on GT2, and was a bit disappointed that it said 82.2%.
Seems that I finished all the proper championships, but then ended up doing time
trials, and missed a lot of the manufacturer's races. Then again, I do have six
memory cards for GT2 garage purposes, and I can't remember which one has the
most complete save...
-P
Isabelle Jenkins
wrote:
>Dark Age Of Camelot: Darkness Rising (PC - US Edition) - temporarily
>reactivated my subs for this to try out the changes that have been made
>to the friar class on the Pendragon test server
Ooooh, oooh, what did they do to them?
It's a toss up between Skald and Friar for my fave class in an RPG
ever, but I think the Friar wins in the end.
PLAY
Everquest 2, like the addict I am
Civ 4 (well, last week anyway) - I was away and installed this on my
laptop. I spent a few hours lost to the world, but haven't yet managed
to get the overwhelming superiority that I always got at an early
stage in the previous games. What, you mean I actually have to TRY
with this one?!
WANT
Everquest 2 Kingdom of Sky expansion, and all to go smoothly with the
servers for the launch (HA!)
Tales of Eternia PSP - if I could ever drag myself away from EQ2
World of Warcraft expansion - the pretty horde race will tempt me to
go back.
BIN
Nothing, I am a happy person.
Oh, maybe server downtimes and random crap in EQ2.
Isabelle
Dr. Boggis
Martin Linklater <mslin...@removemac.com> wrote:
> On 2006-02-14 17:31:30 +0000, "Dr. Boggis" <boggis...@yahoo.com> said:
>
> > In article <2006021400063175249-mslinklater@removemaccom>,
> > Martin Linklater <mslin...@removemac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2006-02-13 19:38:26 +0000, "Dr. Boggis" <boggis...@yahoo.com> said:
> >>> Wipeout Pure - a few levels and races, still great. What I want is for
> >>> you to be able to look at your "progress" screen and go straight to the
> >>> race from there instead of having to remember what track it was you
> >>> haven't won yet.
> >>
> >> One of the missing features we are most definitely fixing in future
> >> versions of WipEout. That particular thing came out top of our 'things
> >> we should have done with Pure, but didn't' list.
> >
> > No way you could release a downloadable update to fix it?
>
> No. We would need to download executable code, which is a no no ATM.
Well, in some ways I'm glad - don't want console/handheld games to be
released br0ken and get immediate patches, that's why I don't play PC
games!
Tim Miller
>
> Well, in some ways I'm glad - don't want console/handheld games to be
> released br0ken and get immediate patches, that's why I don't play PC
> games!
Other than Populous: the Beginning, I hope.
Tim (tm)
--
tim (at) economic-truth.co.uk
http://www.gamerwiki.com - the videogame encyclopedia
http://xexyz.blogspot.com - Tim's Gaming Diary
Dr. Boggis
Tim Miller <ne...@economic-truth.co.uk> wrote:
> Dr. Boggis wrote:
> >
> > Well, in some ways I'm glad - don't want console/handheld games to be
> > released br0ken and get immediate patches, that's why I don't play PC
> > games!
>
> Other than Populous: the Beginning, I hope.
Nope, I don't play any PC games, and even if I wanted to, our home PC
couldn't handle it.
deKay
2006 12:00:02 -0800, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "Dr. Boggis"
<boggis...@yahoo.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> Other than Populous: the Beginning, I hope.
>
>Nope, I don't play any PC games, and even if I wanted to, our home PC
>couldn't handle it.
Cripes. Really? I used to play Populous: The Beginning on a 96MB AMD K6-2
300MHz with a 32MB TNT2 graphics card. I suspect it'd run well on something
even less powerful, as I had most of the effects up pretty high.
deKay
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Dr. Boggis
deKay <an...@deleteme.lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed, 15 Feb
> 2006 12:00:02 -0800, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "Dr. Boggis"
> <boggis...@yahoo.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
> >> Other than Populous: the Beginning, I hope.
> >
> >Nope, I don't play any PC games, and even if I wanted to, our home PC
> >couldn't handle it.
>
> Cripes. Really? I used to play Populous: The Beginning on a 96MB AMD K6-2
> 300MHz with a 32MB TNT2 graphics card. I suspect it'd run well on something
> even less powerful, as I had most of the effects up pretty high.
Well, it probably *could* handle it, although I have no idea if we even
have a graphics card in there. It was the cheapest one we could buy, 4
years ago, and has since been filled to overflowing with crap such that
it takes a week just to boot up. [1]
[1] There may be some exaggeration here, but it *is* shite.
Hughes.
> "Hughes." <full...@the.end> wrote in message
> news:dstch3$407$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
>>Pessimist wrote:
>>
>>>"Hughes." <full...@the.end> wrote in message
>>>news:dsr25r$e16$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hughes. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Pessimist wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>"The Rev" <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>news:45aq0fF...@individual.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>PLAY
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>GT4 (PS2) - The graphics are noticeably better than in GT2. In my
>>>>>>opinion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Get new eyes.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Oof! for some reason I read the "not" in noticeably twice, seeing "not
>>>>noticeably" I blame the double vision on this rather fine brandy!
>>>
>>>
>>>I did wonder... Anyway, these things happen. In fact, I believe something
>>>similar occurred with the Ten Commandments...
>>>
>>
>>Thou Shalt not NOT commit adultery!
>>
>>Hooray! Next door's wife is quite the MILF!
>
>
> Ah, Basil Brush would be proud!
It's Dirty Gerty from Number Thirty! BOOM BOOM!
>
>>It was pretty much only the vast selection of new cars that kept me
>>interested, I did actually complete it 101.5% (The German language
>>option re-opening the Vauxhall races as Opel ones.) so it can't have
>>been that bad, but the slowdown when a bunch of cars were crowding your
>>mirrors, the vanishing Tahiti Road and the magically appearing 20 feet
>>in front of you just in time for you to smash into at the bottom of that
>>fast hill in Seattle worked hard to try to ruin the experience.
>
>
> I just checked my status on GT2, and was a bit disappointed that it said 82.2%.
> Seems that I finished all the proper championships, but then ended up doing time
> trials, and missed a lot of the manufacturer's races. Then again, I do have six
> memory cards for GT2 garage purposes, and I can't remember which one has the
> most complete save...
>
A lot of the manufacturers championships were tedious in the extreme.
Especially when I tuned up a Suzuki Cappuccino but decided to save money
by keeping the standard gearbox. The game randomly chose the high speed
Test Track as the race venue!
I shot off the line much faster than the others, but as we all had the
same final drive I had 3 achingly slow laps of the huge circuit in this
little 3 banger, all the time the bee-like drone of 5 cars all with the
exact same top speed in my ears, edging closer and closer with every
tiny drift I made off the ideal racing line.
Longest 15 minutes of my life.
deKay
yawatina tan reek esk DBSnappa <davidjREMOV...@hotmail.com> fornis do
marikano es bono tan el:
>> to your mum
This is traditional though.
>> to your grandma
As is this.
>Some of those are deeply scary.
Not as scary as the "To my sexy sister" card I saw in Clintons. Paired with a
"To my beefy brother.".
Clintons in promoting incest scandal!
deKay
--
Lofi Gaming - www.lofi-gaming.org.uk
My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that
Tim Miller
>
> Well, it probably *could* handle it, although I have no idea if we even
> have a graphics card in there. It was the cheapest one we could buy, 4
> years ago, and has since been filled to overflowing with crap such that
> it takes a week just to boot up. [1]
>
> [1] There may be some exaggeration here, but it *is* shite.
Well, you owe it to yourself to at least try.
Tim Miller
>
> Not as scary as the "To my sexy sister" card I saw in Clintons. Paired with a
> "To my beefy brother.".
>
> Clintons in promoting incest scandal!
>
DBSnappa
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed, 15 Feb
> 2006 09:31:23 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
> yawatina tan reek esk DBSnappa <davidjREMOV...@hotmail.com> fornis do
> marikano es bono tan el:
>
>
>>>to your mum
>
>
> This is traditional though.
>
>
>>>to your grandma
>
>
> As is this.
Well, all I have to say to this is, 'Traditional if you live in Norfolk,
maybe'
>
>
>>Some of those are deeply scary.
>
>
> Not as scary as the "To my sexy sister" card I saw in Clintons. Paired with a
> "To my beefy brother.".
>
> Clintons in promoting incest scandal!
>
And all I have to say to this is, oh! I've just said it!
deKay
2006 09:47:41 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Tim Miller
<ne...@economic-truth.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> Not as scary as the "To my sexy sister" card I saw in Clintons. Paired with a
>> "To my beefy brother.".
>>
>> Clintons in promoting incest scandal!
>>
>I'm not saying anything about Norfolk.
It was also reported elsewhere as being "up north" too.
deKay
>Well, all I have to say to this is, 'Traditional if you live in Norfolk,
>maybe'
Actually, when I lived in Liverpool, everyone seemed to do it. Round here, I
only know one person that does.
Tim Miller
>>
>>I'm not saying anything about Norfolk.
>
> It was also reported elsewhere as being "up north" too.
>
There be dragons.
DBSnappa
> deKay wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I'm not saying anything about Norfolk.
>>
>>
>> It was also reported elsewhere as being "up north" too.
>>
> Norfolk is up north, compared to where I am.
>
> There be dragons.
>
Playing banjos, no doubt.
DBSnappa
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Thu, 16 Feb
> 2006 09:50:34 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
> yawatina tan reek esk DBSnappa <davidjREMOV...@hotmail.com> fornis do
> marikano es bono tan el:
>
>
>>Well, all I have to say to this is, 'Traditional if you live in Norfolk,
>>maybe'
>
>
> Actually, when I lived in Liverpool, everyone seemed to do it. Round here, I
> only know one person that does.
>
Well, I can understand family love in Scallyland, as if you can't rely
on your family not to nick your wallet during sex, then who can you
trust ;-)
Pessimist
"Hughes." <full...@the.end> wrote in message
I have no option but to attempt to reproduce this myself.
MWC thread here I come...
-P
Toby Newman
I proposed. I win. Continue?
--
-Toby, who...
Add the word afiduluminag to the subject
field to circumvent my email filters.
Ignore any mail delivery error.
deKay
2006 11:54:57 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>I proposed. I win. Continue?
Tch. Proposing on Valentine's Day is so clichéd, and it now means that your
Engagement Anniversary and Valentines Day are forever the same day, which is
just WRONG.
It's like having your birthday on Christmas Day.