Easter Monday Play, Want, Bin
The Rev
Sega Superstar Tennis (360) - Great fun, thankfully, and Superstar mode
has kept me very busy, but I can't help wishing it had more characters.
Where are the Virtua Fighter and Shenmue guys, for example?
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
Pain (PS3) - Very odd, in that there's nothing much to it but it just
somehow eats time. Fun, but even £4.99 is maybe a little expensive.
WANT
GTA IV (360) - Now, please? Actually thinking about it, maybe...
GTA IV (PS3) - I think the 360's on the way out. The drive sticks shut
and it takes two or three times to open it every time and I'm seeing
some odd graphical glitches here and there, so the PS3 version of GTA
might be safer.
BIN
360 reliability issues. It's really fucking stupid that I'm even
considering GTA IV on the PS3 when the 360 has the better controller,
Achievements, more people online and the exclusive DLC.
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Nils Tanner
<the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> got it all completely wrong and
wrote:
>PLAY
Icewind Dale II: Chapter 3, here we are! I killed loads of monsters,
helped various people, unraveled trickery and mysteries....and so on.
I have now realised why I didn't really like ID2 when I first played
it a few years ago. The game does everything quite well, but somehow
something is missing. Still, I'll complete it (or I'll try to complete
it) and then it's probably off to Ebay...
>WANT
Another Easter weekend. Preferably starting from tomorrow.
GTA4, WiiFit, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, ... , money.
>BIN
Gridlocks and traffic jams on motorways.
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>PLAY
Virtua Fighter 5 (360) - Spent some time with the quest mode, which is
incredibly fun. I see shades of Pocket Kingdom in this virtual metagame,
where you wander the streets of Tokyo looking for other 'players' to
fight. I wonder if the real VF5 arcade machines retain your individual
ranking and costume preferences (and synch them up via Internet.)
Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus (PS2) - Cool. In the
casino, there are customization objects that allow you to turn your
private room into a giant bath, complete with faucets and giant communal
tubs and big hanging bamboo curtains.
Sonic Jam (SAT) - Finally found a copy of this for a reasonable price, as
most of the online shops want $60 or more for the thing (and never mind
what the brick-and-mortar stores charge.) The 3D Sonic World minigame is
very interesting from a historical perspective, and I wish Sega did more
of this transitional experimentation still. Virtua Fighter Kids, Daytona 2
in the arcades and Confidential Mission all fit into this sort of
try-and-see-what-happens category.
>Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
>I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
Wonderful game, innit? Although I question why it had to be a DS game,
given that it doesn't seem to use more than one screen at a a time for any
useful purpose. I suppose that the DS is the 'now' handheld and publishers
are afraid that putting out a GBA cart will hurt sales.
>WANT
Etrian Odyssey (DS) - Went searching for this obsessively on Friday after
work. I found a copy, but with no manual. I've gone and bought it, which
means that now the inevitable MIB copy will appear by accident the next
time I'm shopping with no purpose in mind. For now, this stays in the want
category since I haven't actually made time to play it.
>BIN
Nintendo Store - Nowhere on their website does it say I'm paying $1.25 for
a photocopy of a game manual. I feel that's an important distinction. They
lose points, and make me less sympathetic regarding piracy.
>360 reliability issues. It's really fucking stupid that I'm even
>considering GTA IV on the PS3 when the 360 has the better controller,
>Achievements, more people online and the exclusive DLC.
Not at all. Microsoft should be managing the issue by talking about a
redesign of the housing and putting out daily blog entries about chip
testing. Instead they're leaving us in a state of wary distrust, and
Sony's going to win the waiting game like they did the last time. This is
not how market competition is supposd to work.
-KKC, handling various family trauma with aplomb.
--
-- "Arabs are the new Asians, at least in media. Stereotypes gave way to
deeper roles over 40 years of assimilation into western culture. Bruce Lee
kicks ass, Jackie Chan gets laughs, B.D. Wong is a top. Arabs have | kendrick
had Klinger and Monk. Clearly, they have some catching up to do." | @io.com
hurricanepilot
Lost Odyssey (360) - Finished the main quest now, and if I didn't have
an bunch of things on my "to play" pile, I'd be tempted to start it
all over again. The second disk contains the only section of the game
that I'd consider to be grinding, but even then it's well put together
and is very much a part of the overall plot. 50 hours in total, and I
didn't do too much wandering off the beaten path at. Only gripe I'd
have is that the first time you go up against some of the harder
enemies, unless you have your tactics figured out, you can lost 45
minutes play time. It only happens a couple of times throughout the
game, but it's not in my list of most favoured game mechanics.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360) - Surprisingly good. It feels like they've
streamlined the gameplay, as the levels all seem to flow a little
better and there're a lot less of the sill shootouts in big open
areas. Co-op is actually pretty fun, as the extra person doesn't in
anyway change the game, and it makes the game a little easier as you
respawn if your teammate lasts long enough. The free poker set from
gamestation is much better than I expected as well.
> Pain (PS3) - Very odd, in that there's nothing much to it but it just
> somehow eats time. Fun, but even £4.99 is maybe a little expensive.
I've only played the sandboxing mode so far, but it seems like a
laugh. It's maybe missing the direction of the party games in
Flatout:UC, as all I seem to have to do so far is just hit stuff and
hurt myself as much as possible. Has that "just one more go" thing
going on though, which, like you say, can eat up some considerable
time.
> WANT
in the near future:
GT5P
GoW:CoO (when I have the time to play on my PSP)
Ninja Gaiden DS (all DS games are region free right?)
Condemned 2 (demo up on the US PS3 store if anyone is interested)
Everybody's Golf: OB
The gamer tv review of Dark Sector made it sound kinda ok, so I may
plump for this if I need some filler.
> BIN
nada
Steve Jackson
> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
One cart multiplayer?
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> PLAY
>
> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
This looks ace! Why haven't I heard of this? Is it Roguelike to the
extent of having random dungeons?
Anyway:
Donkey Conga (Wii/GC). Spent aaaaaages on Sunday night playing this,
with everyone else joining in. Music put through the hifi and cranked.
Forgot how good it was.
The Being Pleasantly Surprised By Free Software Game (RL)
Built the CVS version of KMyMoney and discovered it's actually better
than Microsoft Money and Quicken rolled into one.
WANT
Nothing specific.
BIN
Ditto
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The Rev
> Would you like a chocolate covered pretzel, The Rev?
>
>> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
>> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
>
> One cart multiplayer?
Nope. Two carts needed. It's not strictly multiplayer. If you die you
can request a rescue and you can send the request wirelessly or using a
password. The other player then has to reach the floor you died on and
find your corpse. They then send you a revival scroll, which allows you
to carry on from where you left off.
The Rev
> In article <64odlvF...@mid.individual.net>,
> The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
>> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
>
> Wonderful game, innit? Although I question why it had to be a DS game,
> given that it doesn't seem to use more than one screen at a a time for
> any useful purpose. I suppose that the DS is the 'now' handheld and
> publishers are afraid that putting out a GBA cart will hurt sales.
Having the map on the top screen and leaving the play area uncluttered
makes it worth being a DS game, I reckon.
The Rev
<chewbury...@nelefa.org.invalid> said:
> The Rev the Monkey was never naughty:
>> PLAY
>>
>> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
>> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
>
> This looks ace! Why haven't I heard of this? Is it Roguelike to the
> extent of having random dungeons?
Yep. It does. And when you die you lose your inventory, get sent back
to the start and are a level one character again.
The only wrinkles are that characters you've talked to remember you -
allowing for little subplots that play out over multiple play throughs
- and there are storage areas where you can put items and pick them up
on another play through. This allows you to build up weapons over
multiple attempts - if you can get them back into storage before you
die, which is easier said than done.
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 2008-03-24 10:36:09 +0000, Sir Chewbury Gubbins
><chewbury...@nelefa.org.invalid> said:
>
>> The Rev the Monkey was never naughty:
>>> PLAY
>>>
>>> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
>>> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
>>
>> This looks ace! Why haven't I heard of this? Is it Roguelike to the
I raved about this in the PWB on the tenth. I shall now feel hurt and left
out that you didn't bother to read my post on the matter. :)
>> extent of having random dungeons?
>
>Yep. It does. And when you die you lose your inventory, get sent back
>to the start and are a level one character again.
>
>The only wrinkles are that characters you've talked to remember you -
>allowing for little subplots that play out over multiple play throughs
>- and there are storage areas where you can put items and pick them up
>on another play through. This allows you to build up weapons over
>multiple attempts - if you can get them back into storage before you
>die, which is easier said than done.
How's the mutation system work for you? I haven't had much opportunity to
play past the tutorial level, but I remember some NPC dialogue about
eating the flesh of the monsters to transform and power up a la Final
Fantasy Legend.
-KKC, who thinks it's high time for a PSP version of VF2.
The Rev
>
> How's the mutation system work for you? I haven't had much opportunity
> to play past the tutorial level, but I remember some NPC dialogue about
> eating the flesh of the monsters to transform and power up a la Final
> Fantasy Legend.
I've only ever eaten monster meat in one of the puzzle levels I did,
where it was required. Otherwise it's very rare and I've only seen
low-level monster meat, so if I get it I throw at tough monsters to
power them down.
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
> On 2008-03-24 10:36:09 +0000, Sir Chewbury Gubbins
><chewbury...@nelefa.org.invalid> said:
>
>> The Rev the Monkey was never naughty:
>>> PLAY
>>>
>>> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
>>> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
>>
>> This looks ace! Why haven't I heard of this? Is it Roguelike to the
>> extent of having random dungeons?
>
> Yep. It does. And when you die you lose your inventory, get sent back
> to the start and are a level one character again.
>
> The only wrinkles are that characters you've talked to remember you -
> allowing for little subplots that play out over multiple play throughs
> - and there are storage areas where you can put items and pick them up
> on another play through. This allows you to build up weapons over
> multiple attempts - if you can get them back into storage before you
> die, which is easier said than done.
Ohhhhh!
Choobs
Zomoniac
> PLAY
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PSP) - I have played all three of
the 'proper' 3D GTA games fairly extensively. I thought they were all
rubbish. But that article in this month's Edge got me drooling a bit,
so I picked this up cheap and have spent the last day playing it and I
can't put it down. I'm not sure why because it's crap. The camera is
awful, the targetting system is rubbish, the AI is laughable (on
numerous occasions my partners have gotten stuck onto a wall just
running into nothing and I've had to drive into them to get them back
on track) and the whole thing is just one fetch quest after another.
And yet despite that, and despite the fact that I'm sticking fairly
rigidly to the story, I'm loving it.
Sega Superstars Tennis (360) - It's fun enough but a big
disappointment. I'm confused that the reviews are all criticising it
for being too easy. I consider myself a pretty good VT3 player (up
until the final match against king I did the entire career without ever
losing a game), and this seems much harder. Yes the controls are
simplified, but some of those minigames (I'm looking at you, Dodge Ball
2) are bastards.
God Of War: Chains Of Olympus (PSP) - I'm in a temple. I can't remember
because VCS has erased my memory.
> WANT
GTA IV.
> BIN
The bad things listed in the Play section.
--
Zo
Paul Murray
> PLAY
Entropay virtual credit card
Works on the US and HK PSN stores.
PS1 games are ~2.20 on the HK store.
Everybody's Golf 2 (PSN/PS3)
In preparation for:
WANT
Everybody's Golf 5 (PS3)
Played through the demo dozens of times, and really looking forward
to this. Although billed as a 'silly' golf game, rather than a
'serious' one like TW, in some ways it plays a more realistic game.
BIN
Buying a 300 quid console and playing PS1 games on it?
I'd like to be able to bin the jet engine sounds of the 360, but it still
has many more games I want to play.
Video playback on next gen consoles. How come they are still inferior to
the free XMBC on the original Xbox?
Navigating the PSN store. This is really poorly designed.
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
>
>Navigating the PSN store. This is really poorly designed.
Yours is not the first complaint about the incremental, stutter-step
process of buying things from the Playstation Network:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/02
-KKC, attempting not to goof off at work.
Shak
news:64odlvF...@mid.individual.net...
> PLAY
Bioshock (360) - The game that never seemed to end, finally completed. I
have to admit that the last 20% or so was ace.... I'm still trying to decide
whether the other 80% was worth it though. Definintely not game of any year
for me, but a good bash.
MGS3 (PS2) - It seems that my original impressions have held:
http://www.radioshak.co.uk/2005/01/game-metal-gear-solid-3-snake-eater.html.
However the game seems to be much more fun once you stop trying to play it
on its terms - I've given up trying to sneak around and not get caught since
it's much quicker, less hassle and more rewarding to just storm in and slit
everyone's throat. This has the side effect of not having to worry about
food, radar batteries, camo or any of the other guff. It also acts as a big
FCUK YOU to developers who decide to ruin games.
> WANT
Mario Kart Wii - Getting excited now, even though it sucks that there's no
online GP mode. Why Nintendo, why?
> BIN
>
Stupid avoidable developer decisions.
Shak
Zomoniac
> In article <slrnfuf38...@ZLUKB001957.eu.boc.com>,
> Paul Murray <pa...@murray.net> wrote:
>> On 2008-03-24, The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> BIN
>>
>> Navigating the PSN store. This is really poorly designed.
>
> Yours is not the first complaint about the incremental, stutter-step
> process of buying things from the Playstation Network:
>
> http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/02
>
> -KKC, attempting not to goof off at work.
Brilliant!
--
Zo
James Sutherland
@mid.individual.net:
> PLAY
Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (PSP) - Quite a lot of this, in fact. I've
started looking at weapon upgrade charts and material lists and things
online. I'm having some trouble killing one of the monsters (Zhezu) in
order to progress with the quests, but I'm getting a bit closer each
time. Picked up a PSP component lead, and it actually looks nicer on the
TV than I expected it to.
Sonic The Hedgehog (360) - The Sonic Unleashed trailer and screens made
me dig this out again. I don't hate it as much as most people, but it's
certainly not great. The annoying thing is that it has these brief
moments of really nice level design, but it's surrounded by slow
loading, broken tedium.
> WANT
Sonic Unleashed to be good. The video looks great, but so did the first
video of Sonic 360. I do like the nice bright level that they've shown,
though the were-Sonic is a bit troubling.
Echochrome (PS3) - The demo was really good, so I'm tempted to get this.
It seems that the PS3 version has fewer levels, though, which is a bit
rubbish (presumably they'll be released as downloadable content later).
Anybody happen to know if the version on the Japanese PSN is in English?
I think the HK store version is dual language, but I already have credit
on the Japanese store.
> BIN
Nothing.
James Sutherland
> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
I've been tempted to get this, but I suspect I'd get annoyed by it. Did you
ever play Izuna? If so, which is better?
I've always quite fancied making a game like this.
Toby Newman
>
> Sega Superstar Tennis (360) - Great fun, thankfully, and Superstar mode
> has kept me very busy, but I can't help wishing it had more characters.
> Where are the Virtua Fighter and Shenmue guys, for example?
I tried this for 5 minutes on a demo pod on Saturday and it seemed a bit
naff. The character animation was very stilted (as compared with, say,
Virtua Tennis 2 on the DC). I wasn't able to summon anything beyond
moving, hitting, and lobbing, although that could be my naivite at fault.
--
-Toby
Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
The Rev
<ja...@guybrush.demon.co.uk> said:
Nope, never played Izuna.
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 2008-03-24 13:02:43 +0000, James Sutherland
><ja...@guybrush.demon.co.uk> said:
>> The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:64odlvF2cfequU1
>> @mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
>>
>> I've been tempted to get this, but I suspect I'd get annoyed by it. Did
>> you ever play Izuna? If so, which is better?
>>
>> I've always quite fancied making a game like this.
>
>Nope, never played Izuna.
I have, albeit briefly. Going from about equal time with both games, I
would say Shiren is superior. It helps that Shiren the Wanderer was
developed by Chunsoft, who have been making roguelikes in the form of the
Fushugi No Dungeon games for about 15 years. By comparison, Ninja Studios
has only Izuna to its credit if you don't also count the mobile phone
version of the same game.
That being said, Izuna has some excellent graphics and a nicely
entertaining translation. I wouldn't count it out completely, but if it
comes down to a choice then I would say go with Shiren.
-KKC, who wonders why none of the DS game reviewers seem to have any
familiarity with roguelike games...
deKay
> PLAY
Psychonauts (Xbox)
Hilarious. The whole level in the lungfish's head is utter genius. Stuff
trying to find a milkman now, though.
Tingle Touches Inappropriately (DS)
I'm enjoying it, aside from the annoying guess-the-number stuff.
Wii Sports (Wii)
My inlaws played it, then went home and bought a Wii. Amaze!
> WANT
Nothing. I'm resigned to finishing at least some of my backlog before
buying anything else. Except skate, which was Zo's fault. Tch.
> BIN
Headaches. Yeah, almost three weeks of them now. Hurrah!
[ste parker]
> PLAY
>
> Sega Superstar Tennis (360) - Great fun, thankfully, and Superstar mode
> has kept me very busy, but I can't help wishing it had more characters.
> Where are the Virtua Fighter and Shenmue guys, for example?
>
> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
>
Everytime I play a rougelike I want to get into it, but they usually end
up feeling me cold-ish. Mystery Dungeon reminds me a lot of Izuna on DS
(which you don't hear much about), and Dragon Crystal on Game Gear which
I really enjoyed. I think I just prefer something with the relative
simplicity of Larn which is why I probably took to Dragon Crystal best.
--
[ste]
DBSnappa
> PLAY
>
SSD HD (PS3) This is fun. My score is over 20m which isn't bad
considering I've only had it a couple of days, but I've noticed that I
usually score best first attempt and gradually get worse.
UT3 (PS3) Spent a couple of hours on Sunday playing this with DrG and a
friend of his. Once we'd figured out the maps and play styles it was
enjoyable stuff though it really needs more than three of us to do it
justice.
COD4 (360) Played this online only for about a couple of hours -
starting to get to grips with some of the maps and modes - made some
classic newbie errors on S&D in Hardcore mode (i.e. shooting team mates
by accident). It's still excellent fun for me - I really like the team
based death match and Search & Destroy modes, and particularly like the
fact that it doesn't take 300 rounds to kill opponents - it evens up the
skill base a little, I find.
Ratchet & Clank (PS3) Resurrected my save from January (half way into
second play through) a few days ago and went on a treasure hunt (mainly
on Sunday) for the secret weapon parts - I got them all and finished the
game again. Still excellent fun even if it is a tad easy apart from the
end of game when, but even then it's hardly difficult. Unlocked a
challenge mode, but I have too many other games to get on with...
TF2 (360) Briefly and for the first time on Sunday. Wasn't knocked out,
truth be told.
>
> WANT
>
GT5 Prologue (PS3) On order
GeOW2
Sega Rally (only because I ordered it for a tenner from Play, *and* I
only stopped myself from ordering PGR4 when I remembered I had GT5
coming next week!)
>
> BIN
>
> 360 reliability issues. It's really fucking stupid that I'm even
> considering GTA IV on the PS3 when the 360 has the better controller,
> Achievements, more people online and the exclusive DLC.
>
I think they're going to fuck this up spectacularly if they don't
resolve these issues sooner rather than later. Even though mine seems to
be working fine, it can be erratic and funnily enough I feel no security
in the knowledge that it's more when rather than if. I want a rock solid
quiet 360, please.
DBSnappa
> The Rev wrote:
>> PLAY
>>
>> Sega Superstar Tennis (360) - Great fun, thankfully, and Superstar
>> mode has kept me very busy, but I can't help wishing it had more
>> characters. Where are the Virtua Fighter and Shenmue guys, for example?
>>
>> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent
>> roguelike. I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
>>
>
> Everytime I play a rougelike I want to get into it, but they usually end
> up feeling me cold-ish.
Are you deliberately talking gobbledegook?
[ste parker]
> The Rev the Monkey was never naughty:
>> PLAY
>>
>> Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS) - Bloody excellent roguelike.
>> I spend an awful lot of time rescuing my wife.
>
> This looks ace! Why haven't I heard of this? Is it Roguelike to the
> extent of having random dungeons?
>
Does this mean you haven't heard of Izuna either, which came out over a
year ago? Amusingly, it's listed on Play.com as "a new variation of the
RPG genre".
--
[ste]
[ste parker]
I'm not well! It does read not quite like it's supposed to, doesn't it.
--
[ste]
Chris Whitworth
> The Rev the Monkey was never naughty:
>> PLAY
>
>
> Built the CVS version of KMyMoney and discovered it's actually better
> than Microsoft Money and Quicken rolled into one.
You're going to come home one day and discover it's emailed all your account
details to someone in Nigeria, erased your hard disc and fucked your dog.
Goddamned hippies.
Chris
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"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."
Toby Newman
Super Metroid (Wii VC)
I love bank holidays. They give you a nice usable block of time. I've had
Super Metroid downloaded since the week it was released but not been able to
give it a fair whack. This weekend I've ploughed about 3 hours into it
and enjoyed it immensely. Fantastic game. Really getting me psyched
for Prime 3!
Bin
Someone losing the copy of Quake 4 I lent them. I'm half way through it.
Chris Whitworth
> PLAY
World of Warcraft (PC) - Lots of. I've hit level 60 for the first time ever,
which is moderately exciting, but I'm remembering slightly why the Outland
never excited me much - it's a bit directionless, although that might just be
because Azeroth is so familiar to me now, whereas I don't know my way around
the Outland too well. Also, I'm fed up with Hellfire Peninsula now.
Lost Odyssey (X360) - Up to the point it crashed and lost at least an hour of
levelling. KILL DESTROY MAIM CRUSH.
Rebuilding the PC - HUGE SUCCESS! I now have cake, and also a Core 2 Duo
based machine that I haven't had to reinstall or anything. Okay, it's still
refusing to install the system management bus controller drivers, but it seems
to work fine without it and SpeedFan is telling me it's actually running cooler
than my old AMD was. Which is ace. And it gets >100fps in WoW now, and
Lightroom positively zips along. Sounds like a vacuum cleaner, though.
UT3 (PC) - Trying out the new PC. Runs blindingly fast. Silly stupid violent
fun.
Doing real life things (RL) - Parents came up to show off the MX-5, had a nice
roast dinner, went for a walk in the peak district, etc, etc.
> WANT
Vista for my desktop PC, I think. I like it on my laptop, and I'd quite like
to stick it on my desktop. However, it's somewhat dependent on...
OpenVPN for Vista to actually work. At the moment, my Vista-based working-from-
home solution is to boot Debian under VMware, which is a bit unsatisfying.
> BIN
Dirty disc errors.
deKay
> Bin
> Someone losing the copy of Quake 4 I lent them. I'm half way through it.
That's probably for the best.
Chris F
wrote:
>Bin
>Someone losing the copy of Quake 4 I lent them. I'm half way through it.
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
Have you tried Zangband? It's kinda like the daddy of them all (a bit of
a learning curve) but is genuinely ACE.
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
> On 2008-03-24, Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury...@nelefa.org.invalid> wrote:
>> The Rev the Monkey was never naughty:
>>> PLAY
>>
>> The Being Pleasantly Surprised By Free Software Game (RL)
>>
>> Built the CVS version of KMyMoney and discovered it's actually better
>> than Microsoft Money and Quicken rolled into one.
>
> You're going to come home one day and discover it's emailed all your account
> details to someone in Nigeria, erased your hard disc and fucked your dog.
> Goddamned hippies.
Actually, given that I have the source code, I can categorically say
that there's more chance of a closed source app like Money doing that -
you've no idea WHAT is going on in the internals of MS stuff.
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
>
Are you having a problem where Vista won't allow openvpn to add routes?
If so, there's a fix in the beta build of OpenVPN. Isn't it nice of
microsoft to tell you what you are and aren't allowed to do with your
own puter.
Russell Marks
> PLAY
Hitman: Blood Money (PS2) - finished on Normal (which weirdly isn't,
it defaults to Rookie for some reason), admittedly with quite poor
ratings again (better ones than I managed on Contracts, but I think
it's just being more generous with them). That was a great little bit
at the end, I have to admit I didn't twig what was going on at first
despite the fairly heavy hints both at the time and much earlier in
the game. :-) Anyway, overall I think it's a better game than
Contracts with much more interesting and varied locations - almost
every level is at least as good as the best level was in the previous
game. But that crazy disc-hammering it does (at least on the PS2
version) can be hard to put up with, and most of the changes they made
to the controls were a bit thoughtless and gratuitous (e.g. swapping
the meanings of L1 and L2, and changing what most of the face buttons
do). There's also one level where the sound effects drop out halfway
through; apparently this is a problem it has on that level with all
slimline PS2s, which is pretty stupid for a game dating from 2006.
Hitman 2 (PS2) - finished with rubbish ratings. I'm glad that I got
around to this one last, as if I'd played it first I really doubt I
ever would have tried the others. It's all just a bit too crude and
repetitive and tedious, with too many missions really not feeling like
"hits" somehow, and I probably shouldn't have bothered finishing it to
be honest. Though I have to say, I liked what they did with the target
in the penultimate level. :-)
> WANT
Gran Turismo 4 (PS2) to arrive. I didn't really get on with GT1 or GT3
(and never even bothered with GT2) so I don't exactly have high hopes
for this, but I thought I might as well give it a chance.
Urban Chaos: Riot Response (PS2), possibly. There was a demo for this
on the HBM disc, and while it's Yet Another FPS it doesn't look too
bad.
> BIN
The odd way HBM deals with replaying levels. Even after you've
finished the game, it seems to give you very little money when you
redo a level - maybe a fifth of what it says you made - and it doesn't
give you the option to reduce your notoriety (though this may just
mean the notoriety stuff is disabled for replays, it's not terribly
clear). And it really should show your best ratings somewhere.
Saving on PS2 HBM. You get three save slots per profile, which are
basically just checkpoints as (for no obvious reason) you lose the
saves if you exit in any way. In principle I'm not too bothered by
that, but on the PS2 it's frustrating knowing that while a profile
takes up nearly a third of a memory card, probably only 1% of that is
being used for anything at all when you're not playing the game.
-Rus.
Toby Newman
Nice one Chris!
Toby Newman
> The Rev wrote:
>>
>> BIN
>>
>> 360 reliability issues. It's really fucking stupid that I'm even
>> considering GTA IV on the PS3 when the 360 has the better controller,
>> Achievements, more people online and the exclusive DLC.
>>
>
> I think they're going to fuck this up spectacularly if they don't
> resolve these issues sooner rather than later. Even though mine seems to
> be working fine, it can be erratic and funnily enough I feel no security
> in the knowledge that it's more when rather than if. I want a rock solid
> quiet 360, please.
If they made one of those, I'd buy one.
Toby Newman
I was really enjoying it, though. It went a long way towards capturing the
gung-ho space marine feeling of Quake 2.
I hope you're not thinking I'm playing a console version of the game. I imagine
it wouldn't work well with a pad.
[ste parker]
> [ste parker] the Monkey was never naughty:
>> up feeling me cold-ish. Mystery Dungeon reminds me a lot of Izuna on DS
>> (which you don't hear much about), and Dragon Crystal on Game Gear which
>> I really enjoyed. I think I just prefer something with the relative
>> simplicity of Larn which is why I probably took to Dragon Crystal best.
>
> Have you tried Zangband? It's kinda like the daddy of them all (a bit of
> a learning curve) but is genuinely ACE.
>
Is that the one the rev was on about some time back (Zangband TK)? If
so then yes, and I didn't really like it. Mystery Dungeon is good
though, it's got so many little things just right - the rescuing aspect
standing out in particular. I'd say if it's the sort of thing you're
after, both this and Izuna are different enough to warrant a purchase
but I don't know if you'd find them a little too simple or not.
--
[ste]
gamertag: stefcha
Chris Whitworth
> Chris Whitworth the Monkey was never naughty:
>>
>> OpenVPN for Vista to actually work. At the moment, my Vista-based working-from-
>
> Are you having a problem where Vista won't allow openvpn to add routes?
> If so, there's a fix in the beta build of OpenVPN. Isn't it nice of
> microsoft to tell you what you are and aren't allowed to do with your
> own puter.
No, I'm having trouble installing and running the thing at all. I can't
remember the errors, but it Just Wasn't Working, and I was using the beta
build.
DBSnappa
> On 2008-03-24, DBSnappa <davidjb...@REMOVEMEhotmail.com> wrote:
>> The Rev wrote:
>>> BIN
>>>
>>> 360 reliability issues. It's really fucking stupid that I'm even
>>> considering GTA IV on the PS3 when the 360 has the better controller,
>>> Achievements, more people online and the exclusive DLC.
>>>
>> I think they're going to fuck this up spectacularly if they don't
>> resolve these issues sooner rather than later. Even though mine seems to
>> be working fine, it can be erratic and funnily enough I feel no security
>> in the knowledge that it's more when rather than if. I want a rock solid
>> quiet 360, please.
>
> If they made one of those, I'd buy one.
>
was tidying boxes away and forgot to turn it off. I didn't notice this
until half an hour ago, that's how quiet it is and how quiet I want the
360. Unfortunately, the PS3 still doesn't have enough *great* games and
the PSN and XMB are just irredeemably crap compared to the 360. Hell, I
spent three hours playing UT3 on the PS3 on Sunday, while using the
in-game lobby chat function of Forza 2 on the 360 so that we could talk
- that's how broken it is.
Mal F
the_rev_y...@hotmail.com says...
> PLAY
EVE Online (PC) - and that's about it. I've transferred my addiction
from DAOC to this apparently.
> WANT
>
> GTA IV (360) - Now, please? Actually thinking about it, maybe...
Me too and the PC version please
Gran Turismo V Prologue (PS3) - have this on order
> BIN
Zombie Jesus weekend flying by
Usual financial matters
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Chris F
wrote:
>On 2008-03-24, deKay <an...@deleteme.lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
>> Toby Newman wrote:
>>> Bin
>>> Someone losing the copy of Quake 4 I lent them. I'm half way through it.
>>
>> That's probably for the best.
>
>I was really enjoying it, though. It went a long way towards capturing the
>gung-ho space marine feeling of Quake 2.
>
>I hope you're not thinking I'm playing a console version of the game. I imagine
>it wouldn't work well with a pad.
it's not the controls, but the framerate on the 360 version, it's
pretty awful really, but then it was a launch title...
deKay
> I hope you're not thinking I'm playing a console version of the game. I imagine
> it wouldn't work well with a pad.
The problem isn't that it's crap with a pad, the problem is that it's
crap however you play.
Gareth Robert Halfacree
> The odd way HBM deals with replaying levels. Even after you've
> finished the game, it seems to give you very little money when you
> redo a level - maybe a fifth of what it says you made - and it doesn't
> give you the option to reduce your notoriety (though this may just
> mean the notoriety stuff is disabled for replays, it's not terribly
> clear).
As far as I'm aware, if you replay a previously completed level on HBM
it grants you the difference between your previous money earned and what
you earned on the replay: so if you got $20,000 the first time and
$25,000 the second you'll only actually get $5,000 the second time.
However, it doesn't enforce this for anything except the first replay:
if you reload a save from before you finished the level, you get get
$5,000 again. And again. And again.
--
Gareth Halfacree
http://gareth.halfacree.co.uk
Russell Marks
Ah, in that case it's just as well I had the foresight to do the
missions so badly the first time around. :-)
-Rus.