Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It's Play, Want, Bin!
The Rev
City of Heroes (PC) - Got my new PC working and got this running,
finally. And - phew! - it's ace. I've teamed up with people, though no
strangers, and gone on solo adventures. I went through quite a few
characters in my first night online.
http://www.mysecretshame.co.uk/coh/coh_char_woodsman.jpg
http://www.mysecretshame.co.uk/coh/coh_char_fearline.jpg
http://www.mysecretshame.co.uk/coh/coh_char_rougetrooper.jpg
http://www.mysecretshame.co.uk/coh/coh_char_podperson.jpg
And they were fine, but I kept wanting more.
I've finally settled on a magical empathy/dark stuffs controller. Not
because he's better, but because I decided it was time to stop creating
and start playing. He's called The Last Hope. It's all to do with his
origin. And the other names
I thought of were taken.
http://www.mysecretshame.co.uk/coh/coh_char_lasthope.jpg
I can fly now. Very, very slowly. And bring people back from the dead.
But I haven't. I could, though.
Anyway, it's great.
Far Cry (PC) - Oh my. An excellent FPS that I might be raving over if it
wasn't for CoH. Great fun to play, but so many different keys used! It's
practically a Hawaiian-shirted tosser SIMULATOR.
Sonic Advance 3 (GBA) - Played some of this earlier in the week. Probably
played other stuff, too, but I can't remember anything earlier than
Friday.
WANT
My random crashes to stop happening. Seem to be an ATI driver issue.
Shock, horror, etc. Only happens in CoH... but, then again, I've not
played much else.
Full Spectrum Warrior (Xbox) - Sometime. When CoH loses its grip.
Good PC games. Recommendations?
BIN
3DMark03 (PC) - Wow, so I've got 5,811 3D marks! But, um, that doesn't
mean anything. It should give a meaningful rating like, "Okay, but Half-
Life 2 will laugh at you". I do remember my old Toshiba laptop got a
score of 186 on an earlier version of the software, though.
Kramer
> PLAY
Full Spectrum Warrior (Xbox): Class. Wish there was a random variables
option, in the main game - but at least it's there in the Army Mode. Gonna
crank it up a notch, to Authentic, to make it harder and more realistic.
Live implementation is superb - you can jump straight into a friends game,
while they're playing and take over Bravo Team.
Ace Golf (GC): Good fun. The swing system's not as good as Links, but for
£6 - it's a great little game.
Singstar (PS2): For a combined weekend total of 8 hours. Great fun, four
people, playing in teams. Listening to the initial difference between male
and females voices, concludes there's too many songs in the wrong key for a
male voice, so I sing everything an octave, or two octaves, lower.....
except for the falsetto bits, of course! 9000+ on most songs, on easy and
medium.
> WANT
City of Heroes sounds great - it's not my kinda thing and won't be getting
it - but it sounds good!
> BIN
Weekends not being 3 or 4 days long.
K.
Conkers 'other' bad fur day
PLAY:
Champions of Norrath PS2
Great action RPG but I am finding it a tad tricky single player. Designed
for multiplayer FULL STOP maybe ????
CM4 PC
Still need to win Champions League
Legend of Dragoon PSone/PC
Playing on epsxe because I am lazy and it reminds me of FF series when it
was good.
Sword of Mana GBA
Excellent action RPG
Neverwinter Nights PC
Love it but been squeezed out by football....
Burnout 3 PS2
Hmmmm lovely. PS2 demo brought to work but nice EA man. Awesome graphics for
a PS2 game too. Seems they are working in tandem with the EA Need for Speed
team and sharing stuff.
WANT:
Sudeki XB
Maybe....
Erm lots of stuff ages away ie. Fable,Half Life 2 etc etc
BIN:
Beckham Bashing.
Leave the guy alone....they fell as a team afterall.
epse setups....why no one standard set up ????
Cya,
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>PLAY
PGR2 (Xbox)
Mostly online this week. Thrashed the kecks off cboy and cowfields last
night[1], because I am the bestest[2] at it. Haven't seen Tim online yet
though, and he will be crap due to his parting[3].
Famicom Mini games (GBA)
I HAEV TEH ALL TWENTY!!!!!11!ONE
Yeah, I got the last 5 this week. Been playing Makai-Mura most out of them,
and still haven't got past about the fifth screen. HARDEST GAME EVAAR.
Pocket Slay (Pocket PC)
BEST GAME EVAAR. No really. It is.
>City of Heroes (PC) - Got my new PC working and got this running,
>finally. And - phew! - it's ace.
LALALA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!
>WANT
Every game ever. Including That One Up There.
>BIN
Oooh, France? Just for the hell of it, like.
[1] Lie.
[2] Another lie.
[3] FACT
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> PLAY
Gish (PC) - stupidly addictive physics-based platformer. You're a ball
of tar and you bounce, stick and plummet your way around various levels.
It's a great "highscore table" game and really satisfying, as long as
everything goes right and I find myself swinging gracefully between the
platforms I've managed to get spinning perfectly in sync. If I don't
manage any of that, it's incredibly annoying - but I keep coming back
anyway.
UT2004 again (PC) - all change on the servers. Most of the ones I used
to use seem to have disappeared, and the ones that are still there are
infested with voice-chatting French types. Hmmm....
Ocarina of Time again (GC) - making progress, slowly. Still great,
despite its age. Now I really feel like I missed out on all sorts of
stuff by being a PC gamer exclusively until last year. :P
> WANT
BG&E for the GC to stop being out of stock at Play.
The vague desire for CoH to pass. I promised myself I'd never subscribe
to a mere game, nrrrg! And, having been addicted to MUDs at one point, I
fear the effect a MMORPG would have on me.
HL: Blue Shift to turn up on Steam (preferably for free).
> BIN
HL: Opposing Force (PC) - managed to download this for free when I
installed Steam on top of my original Half-Life, so I thought I'd give
it a go. Completed it very quickly, and found it a bit bland compared to
today's FPS offerings - even the end boss was poo. HL2 had better be
pretty innovative...
There being no demo of CoH available. Any more temptation is probably
the last thing I need, but, you know... curiosity. >:
James Sutherland
> PLAY
>
> City of Heroes (PC)
Hey, me too! Still seems to be great. Star Wars Galaxies account is now
firmly closed. The flying stuff is brilliant. You get loads more freedom
than I expected. You can pretty much fly up to anything you can see. Just
very slowly.
I started a new character today, and got him up to level 6. Now have to
decide which one is my main character. Probably my original one.
Sonic Advance 3 (GBA) - Finished the main game now, and working on getting
all the emeralds so I can finish it properly.
Space Channel 5 Special Edition (PS2) - I didn't know this (the PS2 pack)
existed until Mike mentioned it last week, but it's really pretty good.
The first game isn't as good on PS2 as it is on the DC. It's a bit jaggy
and drops frames every so often (although it seems easier than the DC
version, unless I've got better since I last played it; that was only a
fortnight ago, though). The second game, which I'd not played before, is
great, however. They're both graphically dated, but still pretty slick.
Mega Man Anniversary Collection (GC) - It's Megaman 1-8, with added save
game and some other stuff. If you like Megaman, there's nothing
fundamentally wrong with this collection. The ports are by British company
Atomic Planet (who also did the really-good-if-slightly-buggy GBA port of
Puzzle Fighter), and it's all pretty solid.
HDLoader (PS2) - Hard drive's about half full now, and I'm running out of
games I want to install. No point installing RPGs and the like unless I
decide to actually replay them. Four games failed now: Virtua Racing,
Space Invaders, Psyvariar and Samurai Warriors. Not too bad, on the whole,
but it's a shame they're all "quick blast" type games, as they're ideal for
sticking on the hard drive.
> WANT
Nothing really.
> Good PC games. Recommendations?
Unreal Tournament 2004?
> BIN
The CoH chat system. Why is it so confusing and fiddly?
James Sutherland
berlin.de:
> Gish (PC) - stupidly addictive physics-based platformer. You're a ball
> of tar and you bounce, stick and plummet your way around various levels.
I'm tempted to get this. The demo's great fun. I quite fancy Hamsterball
as well: http://www.raptisoft.com/Hamsterball/index.shtml
The Rev
> I've finally settled on a magical empathy/dark stuffs controller.
DEFENDER, rather. Pod Person was my controller.
I have to wonder if I'm ever going to play of those old characters. I'd
delete them, but I'm strangely fond of them.
The Rev
> The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9515E1A7D9D3Ft...@130.133.1.4:
>
>> Good PC games. Recommendations?
>
> Unreal Tournament 2004?
I thought about it, but I'm rubbish. Also, as I have CoH and two
(probably) Rallisport seasons coming up and a pile of unplayed games... I
think I'll avoid buying anything for as long as I possibly can.
>> BIN
>
> The CoH chat system. Why is it so confusing and fiddly?
I keep replying to people in the wrong place. I need to work out some
keyboard shortcuts. Playing in 1280x1024 makes the little buttons very
difficult to hit.
Paul Evans
Sonic Advance 2 (GBA): Leaps of faith pissing me off on the Sky Canyon level.
Absolutely ****ing me off making it to the end of the level only to fall short
of the last platform.
Er... that's about it there.
> WANT
An Animal Crossing-alike game for the PS2, with realtime clock, weather, seasons
and shit. Is there such a thing?
A job, but you all know this already.
Sol Campbell's goal to be reinstated.
> BIN
GBA SP's screen - I just hate it. It's blurry in SA2, not bright enough and
there's too much glare. I wish the damn thing had a backlit screen, with vibrant
colours!!
Yep, it's been a slow week.
Paul.
El Dave
>>>Good PC games. Recommendations?
>>
>>Unreal Tournament 2004?
>
> I thought about it, but I'm rubbish. Also, as I have CoH and two
> (probably) Rallisport seasons coming up and a pile of unplayed games... I
> think I'll avoid buying anything for as long as I possibly can.
I'd give the demo a try if I were you! I'm generally pretty bad at FPS's
(and UT2004 is no exception), but the Onslaught mode has a totally
different gameplay style thanks to the vehicles and the need to capture
'flags' sequentially. You can zip round running people over in the
vehicles and feel as though you're making a real difference to your team
by being all tactical in the way you attack and claim the enemy nodes.
Given a nippy vehicle and some sneaky one-man node attacking while the
enemy are distracted elsewhere, it's quite easy to advance up the score
table, too. Anyway, Onslaught mode online is pretty much the only bit of
UT2004 that I play (that and a bit of Double Domination), but I still
reckon it's probably worth the purchase alone.
El Dave
>>Gish (PC) - stupidly addictive physics-based platformer. You're a ball
>>of tar and you bounce, stick and plummet your way around various levels.
>
> I'm tempted to get this. The demo's great fun. I quite fancy Hamsterball
> as well: http://www.raptisoft.com/Hamsterball/index.shtml
Aaargh - also tempting! I should have added 'joypad' to my want list, as
a big Logitech joystick just doesn't work too well for games like this!
Gish is definitely fun, but there doesn't seem to be quite as much
interaction with the environment as I was hoping for. 'Level 1' from the
Collection mode on the demo is still my favourite in the full game, from
what I've seen. I was hoping there would be more levels like it, but
most of them seem to be more like "climb up this wall, slide through
this narrow gap, make this tricky jump to stick to the ceiling", etc. Ah
well - I haven't really got into the Story mode yet (or played the later
levels on Collection mode), so perhaps I'll find some more environmental
interaction there! Incidentally, I still haven't managed to complete the
second Collection level on the demo (the one with the mine cart), so
perhaps too much interaction is a bad thing after all... :P
Nils Tanner
<the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> got it all completely wrong and
wrote:
>PLAY
Eternal Darkness (GC): About 2 years after everyone else, I start
playing this game. I can see why it got all those rave-reviews. It's
good, I enjoy it. Hooray
Wild Arms 3: Finished the introductory sequences, so I'm not really
sure whether this can be called playing :-)
>WANT
Time to play through my backlog of games.
Time to play new games
Money to buy new games
Champions of Norrath
>BIN
Nothing really, maybe the Euro 2004, but then again with my
team-preferences it's always BIN-Time when they're playing the
semi-finals...
Martin Linklater
Far Cry (PC) - Got myself a 9800 Pro over the weekend and this game
looks ace ! A refreshing first person sneek-shoot-a-thon. Lots of
tension and some great level design. The AI can be a little dumb at
times, but it's still quite a tough game. Higly recommended if you've
got a meaty PC.
Beyond Good & Evil (PS2) - Great story based action game. Beautiful
graphics, great characterisation, and nice difficulty progression.
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga (GBA) - Nice RPG with a very unique blend
of turn based and timing based combat.
Want:
Thief 3 (PC) - Now my PC can actually run it.
Not much else.
Bin:
GT 4 Prologue (PS2) - Bored, off to eBay !
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The Rev
> Far Cry (PC) - Got myself a 9800 Pro over the weekend and this game
> looks ace ! A refreshing first person sneek-shoot-a-thon. Lots of
> tension and some great level design. The AI can be a little dumb at
> times, but it's still quite a tough game. Higly recommended if you've
> got a meaty PC.
SPOOKY GRAPHIC CARD TWINS!
I was pleased to see it say my spec was Very High and run everything
accordingly, except for putting textures on medium. Something of a more
useful benchmark than a 3DMark score. I'm hoping HL2 and DOOM3 with this
spec.
I'm quite stuck at the moment though, it's not an easy game by any means.
At least the reloads are relatively quick, though.
I might restart actually. I zoomed through some of the early stretches
without any thought or, indeed, skill.
Trooper
the_rev_y...@hotmail.com says...
> PLAY
>
You already know...
>
> WANT
>
That hard disk thingy for the PS2, but that means buying the software,
and a hard disk, and a broadband adapter...
>
> BIN
>
The RC2 tournament start date getting put back, the weekend was a
perfect time to get some good runs in.
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City of Heroes: Ice Trooper, Old Red, Wonderous Kevin on Victory
Tim Miller
>
> PGR2 (Xbox)
> Mostly online this week. Thrashed the kecks off cboy and cowfields
> last night[1], because I am the bestest[2] at it. Haven't seen Tim
> online yet though, and he will be crap due to his parting[3].
>
Now, however, my router has decided that it is connected to the Internet and
not connected to the Internet at the same time. On the status page, it says
it is connected. On the connection status page, it says it is diconnected.
But I can't connect because, well, it's connected.
STUPID THING.
Tim (tm)
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Toby Newman
> Far Cry (PC) - Oh my. An excellent FPS that I might be raving over if
> it wasn't for CoH.
I played the second demo of this last night and was pleased to find that
they've fixed the audio problem in this version, so now I'm thinking of
getting it. One question though:
Is it nice and sunny and outside most of the time, or is there a lot of
underground cave-tramping? I fancy a happy sunny game, not a moody
corridoors game.
> WANT
> Good PC games. Recommendations?
UT2K4 instagib.
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Toby Newman
> BIN
> HL: Opposing Force (PC)
I really enjoyed OpFor, but I think that was mainly because it was so
nicely tied into Half Life. Lots of bits where you crossed paths with
Freeman. I didn't like Blue Shift much, but it was very short so that
made it okay.
--
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The Rev
> # The Rev
>
>> Far Cry (PC) - Oh my. An excellent FPS that I might be raving over if
>> it wasn't for CoH.
>
> Is it nice and sunny and outside most of the time, or is there a lot of
> underground cave-tramping? I fancy a happy sunny game, not a moody
> corridoors game.
I'm not very far through at all, but so far it's been mostly sunny with
scattered corridors.
I have head rumours that there's something of a deluge of corridors later
in the game, though.
Trooper
the_rev_y...@hotmail.com says...
Yep, not wishing to put a downer on things, but the first 6 levels were
excellent...
Toby Newman
Beyond Good and Evil (GC)
FINISHED! What a wonderful game! Everyone must play this, it's like the
gaming equivalent of a Studio Ghibli movie: Enter into a charming world
of imagination and wonder :)
Bernard 2 + logi wheel (GC)
It's getting a bit harder later in the game, and becoming less enjoyable.
I like the long high-speed sweeping roads, not the swervy technical
tracks in the snow. They're just difficult. Or maybe I'm a pansy. After
all, I have been playing...
Ribbit King (GC)
This is genius. The FMVs are ridiculous and funny. I can't wait to get it
going on multiplayer.
Rainbow Six Raven Shield (PC)
Online co-op. Very good. Anyone else got this and fancies a sesh?
#Want
Thief 3 (PC)
Far Cry (PC), if it's sunny for most of the game.
#Bin
Time limits in Viewtiful Joe. I'm on a train and I keep running out of
time. Mainly because I spend the whole time in slow-mo because it looks
so cool :)
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Paul M
>
> #Bin
> Time limits in Viewtiful Joe. I'm on a train and I keep running out of
> time. Mainly because I spend the whole time in slow-mo because it looks
> so cool :)
>
Chris Whitworth
> PLAY
UT2004 (PC) - I AM TEH OWNZ0RER
Not City Of Heroes
> WANT
Thief 3
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
> BIN
My bowels, today, after eating nothing but meat and drinking nothing but
beer yesterday.
Chris
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deKay
2004 09:25:45 +0100, 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:
>> Mostly online this week. Thrashed the kecks off cboy and cowfields
>> last night[1], because I am the bestest[2] at it. Haven't seen Tim
>> online yet though, and he will be crap due to his parting[3].
>>
>I was on from time to time last week, so no idea where you were.
ONLINE. ALL OF THE TIME.
>Now, however, my router has decided that it is connected to the Internet and
>not connected to the Internet at the same time. On the status page, it says
>it is connected. On the connection status page, it says it is diconnected.
>But I can't connect because, well, it's connected.
>
>STUPID THING.
Are you with Pipex? They're been having "issues" this weekend.
You could also try old reliable SEOLFFMSBO method.
deKay
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> PLAY
>
Lots this weekend.
Project Gotham Racing 2 (Xbox)
I've done all but one and a half of the classes to silver level now, and
there's only the odd race that I've struggled with. I very much doubt I'll
be bothered to do it all over again to gold though.
Pikmin (Gamecube)
Finished it, with all 30 parts in 29 days. First time. The last level is
great, even though I killed loads of yellows by throwing them into the water
by accident.
Mr Driller 2 (GBA)
I have got to 1,380m on medium endless driller, and I need 1,500m for a
stamp/badge thingie. It frustrates. You also don't seem to be able to get
extra lives like you do in the mission mode.
Turok: Evolution (Gamecube)
As I promised. I am almost at the stage where I could review it now.
R: Racing (Gamecube)
It's a really great game when played with the Logitech wheel. A bit crap
without it.
Then Sunday was GAMES DAY THREE. Three people, a Gamecube, three Wavebirds,
three GBAs, 10 memory cards and a choice from about 60 games. So we played:
Mario Party 5 (Gamecube)
They've sped up the turn-taking and reformed how items work. But the
minigames are still where it's at, and it's still good fun. The computer
player is monumentally rubbish though, which meant the 2v2 games were unfair
on one of us.
James Bond: Nightfire (Gamecube)
The multiplayer game is great, especially with the senitel. Both john and I
became pretty adept at flying it through an archway and landing it at
Kieron's feet.
Conflict: Desert Storm (Gamecube)
We played this mission where you have to go into Baghdad and liberate some
prisoners of war. We did well, with me sniping the enemy from afar before
Kieron and John ran around the corners to take out any stragglers. I also
found the mahoosive gun that just happened to point up a staricase down
which around 50 enemies were swarming.
Then we got to the compound, and found two of the POWs. We let them out of
their cell and they went and sat down outside the compound in an alley. The
n we realised that there was a rather large tank standing guard over the
door leading to the last prisoner. John waited in place while Kieron and I
ran around the back. When we were in place, John ran into the road until
the tank's turret was pointing at him, then he legged it. Meanwhile, I'd
run behind the tank and planted some C4 on it. Unfortunately the turret
locked onto me by the time it was set.
We've found this before; if you're standing next to a tank, it can't shoot
at you (unless there's a man sitting in the top - but I'd sniped him ages
before). So I just leged it around the corner before the tank could shoot,
and blew the tank up. Hoorah.
I almost then ran into a minefield. But didn't.
So we rescued the last POW, and ran with him to where the first two were.
Then they all started running to the exit, which was on the other side of
the map. None of this letting us go first to clear the way. Predictably,
about 10m from the meeting place, one of the prisoners got shot. Mission
failed.
And then we realised that we hadn't saved mid-way through at all. An hour
gone, just like that.
Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles (Gamecube)
A really excellent multiplayer game. We have a good strategy now of one
person staying out of trouble and curing everyone else. Or, alternatively,
if John's died after meeting the first baddie (an all too frequent
occurance), Kieron and I will heal each other until we find some way of
bringing John back to life, ready to die again. It worked fine until we got
to these big beetle things which just killed us all in about ten seconds.
Eventually I worked out that Thunder paralyses them. So we had a system
where Kieron was casting Cure on me and John, I was casting Thunder on any
beetle who moved, and John was running up to the paralysed beetles and
thwacking them. It took ages to kill all three, but we got there in the
end.
The thing I'll remember from this session, however, is Kieron's continual
cries of "you two, stay next to me, I can't cure you if .... Tim, get back
here!"
Mr Driller: Drill Land (Gamecube)
Normally, when we play this, Kieron or john win in equal measure, and I come
last. Yesterday, I won one of the race mode, but still can't win the
search-for-a-coin game. But that's just luck.
Atsumare! Made in Wario (Gamecube)
To finish off, we played a number of games in this. Kieron got annoyed
since, during the Othello-type game, he was winning by quite a margin until
we all played minigames for the chance to place a piece anywhere on the
board. I can't remember who won that, but it wasn't Kieron, and as a result
he was calling Wario some "interesting" alternate names for the rest of the
evening.
> WANT
>
Not a lot, at the moment. I have compiled a list of games I want to finish.
It is 32 games long.
> BIN
>
Turok: Evolution (Gamecube)
Oh my word.
Toby Newman
Maybe. No idea TBH.
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John Parkinson
> Not City Of Heroes
You know you want to.
Anyhoo....
PLAY
City of Heroes
- although not as much as I'd wanted. Suddenly ended up being out most
nights and not being able to put in a nice long session.
But that's what tonight is for. I'm cleared for the evening.
WANT
Recovery Aura (CoH)
- damned keeping on running out of endurance.
Lvl 18 when I get that aura is my big target for my main character
atm.
BIN
Vahziloks (CoH)
- nasty undead things. Zombie vomit burns and Eidolons are horribly
powerful.
--
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Toby Newman
> Pikmin (Gamecube)
> The last
> level is great
Yep, the last level is excellent. It feels just like 3D lemmings, doesn't
it?
--
Toby
Paul M
>
Sonic Advance 3 - Plays more like the MD originals then SA2, and its nice to
finally play as Sonic with Tails following on the GBA. Still not as good as
the MD games though and the hub structure seems pretty pointless. Excellent
remix of the Green Hill theme for the second zone though :)
Also
Virtua Tennis
Capcom vs Snk 2
Streets of rage 1+2
Soul Calibur 2
>
> WANT
>
Czech Republic to win Euro 2004
>
> BIN
>
nothing
Tim Miller
>
>> Now, however, my router has decided that it is connected to the
>> Internet and not connected to the Internet at the same time. On the
>> status page, it says it is connected. On the connection status
>> page, it says it is diconnected. But I can't connect because, well,
>> it's connected.
>>
>> STUPID THING.
>
> Are you with Pipex? They're been having "issues" this weekend.
>
"During the morning and early afternoon of Sunday 27 June 2004 many PIPEX
customers were either unable to connect to the network, or if connected,
unable to access some PIPEX servers, including email and Web."
I wish I hadn't turned my router off, since "many customers who were already
connected to the network were unaffected."
My router, however, is being a bit thick at the moment and not recognising
my PC when I turn it on - it only recognises it if I turn the router on and
off again.
The joys of computers.
> You could also try old reliable SEOLFFMSBO method.
>
And what would that be, pray tell?
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "Tim Miller"
<ne...@economic-truth.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> Are you with Pipex? They're been having "issues" this weekend.
>>
>Cheers for that. I hadn't looked at their support site yet, but it says:
>
>"During the morning and early afternoon of Sunday 27 June 2004 many PIPEX
>customers were either unable to connect to the network, or if connected,
>unable to access some PIPEX servers, including email and Web."
See. I KNOW ALL.
>> You could also try old reliable SEOLFFMSBO method.
>>
>And what would that be, pray tell?
Switch Everything Off, Leave For Five Minutes, Switch Back On.
Tech support jobs rule.
acrules
wrote:
>PLAY
>
>City of Heroes (PC) - Got my new PC working and got this running,
>finally. And - phew! - it's ace. I've teamed up with people, though no
>strangers, and gone on solo adventures. I went through quite a few
>characters in my first night online.
>
>Anyway, it's great.
>
Damn you all. Makes me want to buy a brand new PC just for this game.
Shining Force: Reserrection of the Dragon (GBA)- Picked this up
reduced to £19.99 in a sale. Superb. The original but with a whole new
lick of paint to feel new.
Mr Driller 2 (GBA)- Don't know why I play this. Still can't do 1000m
in mission mode.
Virtua Tennis 2 (DC)- Picked up where I left off and still great fun.
>WANT
>
My Play Asia order to arrive
A new PC that can play City of Heroes without having to pay for it
MegaMan Anniversary Collection
A new PS2 memory card. Are the Hori themed memory cards reliable or
the same as third party junk?
>
>BIN
>
Nothing
Trooper
gaming.org.uk says...
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 28 Jun
> 2004 11:04:17 +0100, 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:
<snip>
> >> You could also try old reliable SEOLFFMSBO method.
> >>
> >And what would that be, pray tell?
>
> Switch Everything Off, Leave For Five Minutes, Switch Back On.
>
> Tech support jobs rule.
>
The reboot option, otherwise known as "I've got no idea at the moment,
but get back to me in 5 minutes and I might have thought of something."
The Rev
> On 27 Jun 2004 21:09:37 GMT, The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>City of Heroes (PC) - Anyway, it's great.
>
> Damn you all. Makes me want to buy a brand new PC just for this game.
Well,I shouldn't be the only one. I even switched back from the Mac world
for this.
[ste parker]
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 28 Jun
> 2004 11:04:17 +0100, 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:
>
>
>>>Are you with Pipex? They're been having "issues" this weekend.
>>>
>>
>>Cheers for that. I hadn't looked at their support site yet, but it says:
>>
>>"During the morning and early afternoon of Sunday 27 June 2004 many PIPEX
>>customers were either unable to connect to the network, or if connected,
>>unable to access some PIPEX servers, including email and Web."
>
>
> See. I KNOW ALL.
>
>
>>>You could also try old reliable SEOLFFMSBO method.
>>>
>>
>>And what would that be, pray tell?
>
>
> Switch Everything Off, Leave For Five Minutes, Switch Back On.
>
> Tech support jobs rule.
>
My brother is on pipex, and I had to do this several times, pain in the
sodding arse when you're mid game. Perhaps the service problems (when
it wasn't totally losing the ADSL connection) explain the frequent
disconnects from CoH too.
--
[ste]
[ste parker]
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 28 Jun
> 2004 11:04:17 +0100, 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:
>
>
>>>Are you with Pipex? They're been having "issues" this weekend.
>>>
>>
>>Cheers for that. I hadn't looked at their support site yet, but it says:
>>
>>"During the morning and early afternoon of Sunday 27 June 2004 many PIPEX
>>customers were either unable to connect to the network, or if connected,
>>unable to access some PIPEX servers, including email and Web."
>
>
> See. I KNOW ALL.
>
>
I was going go with Pipex if I get BB ever, but i've not been impressed
over the last week or so. They have an office over the road from mine
(subliminal advertising, whenever I drive past I think, oooh, they might
be good, for some reason), so at least I could barge in and complain in
person - probably to some call center representative :)
--
[ste]
[ste parker]
> On 27 Jun 2004 21:09:37 GMT, The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>PLAY
>>
>>City of Heroes (PC) - Got my new PC working and got this running,
>>finally. And - phew! - it's ace. I've teamed up with people, though no
>>strangers, and gone on solo adventures. I went through quite a few
>>characters in my first night online.
>>
>>Anyway, it's great.
>>
>
> Damn you all. Makes me want to buy a brand new PC just for this game.
>
Would you really need a brand new PC? As long as you have a graphics
card that meets the minimum specs (only a GF2 or Radeon 8500) that
should be plenty, the rest of the specs aren't that demanding.
> Mr Driller 2 (GBA)- Don't know why I play this. Still can't do 1000m
> in mission mode.
>
Oh come on!
--
[ste]
Toby Newman
> acrules wrote:
>
>> Mr Driller 2 (GBA)- Don't know why I play this. Still can't do 1000m
>> in mission mode.
>>
>
> Oh come on!
>
1000m, that's "normal", right? I can't do that either. I can do easy
though.
My stragegy is to slow down around trapped air capsules and work out how
to collect them. Maybe I should ignore them and fly right past, saving
time.
--
Toby
[ste parker]
> PLAY
>
CoH also, mutation gravity/storm controller. Should have spent more
time creating, less time playing - my char looks quite cool, but when
you see the same thing running from behind the whole time I wish I'd
have done better. And the day/night lighting effects make him look crap
in the evening/night.
Don't know how long I've played (is there a timer for the character
anywyere?), but must be several hours solid. A bit boring at times, and
group battles so far seem to be just everyone hit anything and
everything as fast as possible. Some of the indoor levels where you have
to find things/kill everything can be infuriating too, if you miss one
little thing and have to search the entire map over until you find it
and the map is a little complicated. Still, its been reasonably
enjoyable and I'll keep playing, having seen what you can do at much
higher levels helps.
>
> WANT
> Good PC games. Recommendations?
>
What sort of games?
--
[ste]
James Sutherland
berlin.de:
> Don't know how long I've played (is there a timer for the character
> anywyere?)
Talk to any civilian whose name begins with M and they'll tell you.
John Parkinson
> Don't know how long I've played (is there a timer for the character
> anywyere?)
If you click on the civilians wandering around they'll say random things,
one of which is "You've spent x hours in Paragon City".
--
John Parkinson
The Rev
> The Rev wrote:
>
>> WANT
>> Good PC games. Recommendations?
>
> What sort of games?
Umm... good ones...
Except, no, I don't. I have too many games!
I might buy a Total War thing at some point, though, see if they're any
good.
ammo...@cc.full.stop.helsinki.fi
Howzabout all those ker-azee Japanese shooters? They're free!
-a
Tim Miller
>
> I was going go with Pipex if I get BB ever, but i've not been
> impressed over the last week or so. They have an office over the
> road from mine (subliminal advertising, whenever I drive past I
> think, oooh, they might be good, for some reason), so at least I
> could barge in and complain in person - probably to some call center
> representative :)
Apart from the last week, my experience with Pipex has been excellent. They
even deal with BT well to get problems fixed.
[ste parker]
Depends on how far down you are, sometimes I do this, and still don't
get the sodding thing and wish I'd have just rushed down.....
--
[ste]
Paul Tomlin
>A new PS2 memory card. Are the Hori themed memory cards reliable or
>the same as third party junk?
I have a Sakura Taisen Monogatori one (and soon, predictably, the
Xenosaga Episode 2 one...) and I've had no trouble with it in the
couple of months I've been using it. The packaging tends to be a bit
nicer for them as well (the Sakura Taisen one, for example, came in a
lovely illustrated DVD case with room for another three cards, plus
some nicer character stickers for further memory card purchases).
Paul Tomlin
wet noodle:
>PLAY
Xenosaga Episode 1 (PS2) - You get a 60*level skill point bonus for
each character in Episode 2 for porting in your save. Given how much
harder Ep 2 is supposed to be, I figure I can use as much help as
possible...
Gunslinger Girl 2 (PS2) - Still relatively rubbish (though the level
design is more ambitious than the previous installment), but I still
like it for no good reason other than the fact I do. A little on the
easy side compared to the first though.
>WANT
>Good PC games. Recommendations?
Errr, Melty Blood? Maybe not...
Xenosaga Episode 2 (PS2) - Now, before I spoil myself waaaay too much.
>BIN
Not having XS2 yet (Obsessive? Me? Never...)
Steve Jackson
> The Rev wrote:
>
>> PLAY
>>
>
> CoH also, mutation gravity/storm controller. Should have spent more
> time creating, less time playing - my char looks quite cool, but when
> you see the same thing running from behind the whole time I wish I'd
> have done better.
Press B for a first person perspective.
> Don't know how long I've played (is there a timer for the character
> anywyere?), but must be several hours solid.
Click on a NPC who's name beings with M for this info. Although most seem
random there are other NPCs who tell you specific things based on the first
initial of their name. I did compile a list but seem to have lost it, but it
doesn't take much working out anyway.
--
:: Steve Jackson Gamertag: SteJay City of Heroes: Blue-Vixen on Victory
:: Use Amazon? http://tinyurl.com/4kdn to help a preschool charity
:: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega." - Brodie (Mallrats)
Dr. Boggis
The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> PLAY
>
AW2 - only 2 war room maps to clear, but will that stop me playing it?
> WANT
>
Time to try out some online games with our new DSL connection.
New car stereo (see Bin)
> BIN
>
Some bastard nicking the stereo out of the Alfa, while it was in our "locked"
garage. We don't lock the car, since someone smashing a window or going through
the roof would be a lot more hassle than replacing the stereo. But still.
Wankers.
--
-Take out Ron to reply-
Votre mčre était un hamster et votre pčre a senti des baies de sureau
Martin Linklater
>
> SPOOKY GRAPHIC CARD TWINS!
Heh - at the current price-per-polygon the 9800 is a great deal. I'm
very impressed with it.
>
> I was pleased to see it say my spec was Very High and run everything
> accordingly, except for putting textures on medium. Something of a more
> useful benchmark than a 3DMark score. I'm hoping HL2 and DOOM3 with
> this spec.
I've not tried 3DMark yet - I must have a go and see what score my PC gets.
>
> I'm quite stuck at the moment though, it's not an easy game by any
> means. At least the reloads are relatively quick, though.
I played the demo through a couple of times and realised that anything
much above 'novice' is quite a challenge. It's good to see that Far Cry
doesn't suffer from the quicksave problems of most PC games. When you
know your next checkpoint is a way away you suddenly become very
cautious. 8)
>
> I might restart actually. I zoomed through some of the early stretches
> without any thought or, indeed, skill.
I'm playing on normal and it's taken me about 5-6 hours of gameplay to
get to the third island (the first one that's not set in midday
sunshine).
--
XBLive Gamertag: FizzyChicken
S:MS:M
The 19 Famicon mini games I have. deKay -number 20 had a japanese title and
is the only one I cant get hold of,do you know what to call it when I want
to search?
I've been at Glastonbury and missed out on play time this week but I have
been looking at the complete set of console style keyrings (as seen in
NOM)that I've just aquired!!
Want: Classic Nes game number 20!
Bin: Rain and Sun.
acrules
<imag...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>acrules wrote:
>
>> On 27 Jun 2004 21:09:37 GMT, The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>PLAY
>>>
>>>City of Heroes (PC) - Got my new PC working and got this running,
>>>finally. And - phew! - it's ace. I've teamed up with people, though no
>>>strangers, and gone on solo adventures. I went through quite a few
>>>characters in my first night online.
>>>
>>>Anyway, it's great.
>>>
>>
>> Damn you all. Makes me want to buy a brand new PC just for this game.
>>
>
>Would you really need a brand new PC? As long as you have a graphics
>card that meets the minimum specs (only a GF2 or Radeon 8500) that
>should be plenty, the rest of the specs aren't that demanding.
>
I probably would. My PC doesn't meet the spec by quite a way. I only
have Pentium 1.10Ghz, 128mb RAM and 32mb video card.
>
>> Mr Driller 2 (GBA)- Don't know why I play this. Still can't do 1000m
>> in mission mode.
>>
>
>Oh come on!
>
I don't mean mission mode, I mean the America Normal stage that's
1000m. I am terrible at Mr Driller 2. I tried the keep drilling
approach and ran out of air at 930m.
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "S:MS:M"
<Mary...@langridge67.fsnet.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>Play:
>The 19 Famicon mini games I have. deKay -number 20 had a japanese title and
>is the only one I cant get hold of,do you know what to call it when I want
>to search?
http://www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/museum/games/game.php?id=945 :)
You went for the full set in the end then? Good girl :P
You may find Ganbare Goeman a bit difficult if you know no Japanese at all
though - there are loads of menus and shops and stuff.
>I've been at Glastonbury
I hate you :(
I went 1997/8/9 and loved it. Then I got a job where I can't take holidays
when Glastonbury is on (I like to go down on Wed and come back Mon). I've
been watching the coverage on BBC3 and getting rather jealous. I'd have loved
to have seen Scissor Sisters live. Boo.
> and missed out on play time this week but I have
>been looking at the complete set of console style keyrings (as seen in
>NOM)that I've just aquired!!
I HATE YOU MORE!!
I want these though: http://play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-93-70-4lg-4-7.html
deKay
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Gunther Gloop
> # The Rev
>
>> Far Cry (PC) - Oh my. An excellent FPS that I might be raving over if
>> it wasn't for CoH.
>
> I played the second demo of this last night and was pleased to find
> that they've fixed the audio problem in this version, so now I'm
> thinking of getting it. One question though:
> Is it nice and sunny and outside most of the time, or is there a lot
> of underground cave-tramping? I fancy a happy sunny game, not a moody
> corridoors game.
>
There are both. The beaches and mountains are beautiful and its great fun
blowing up a jeep that is racing along the sand about a mile away. There are
also jungles and rivers that are quite nice too.
Then theres the corridors too. I reckon around 50/50 in total.
-Kevin.
--
Reply to: ne...@SPAMBEGONEkevinforde.com
S:MS:M
That's cool but you know on that screen it says 'Wind Maker'. Thanks for
classic games info. Glastonbury was muddy but ace. I'm very pleased with my
stuff. I now have over 100 games for the first time!
S:MS:M
S:MS:M
Are the USA/UK and Japanese GBA Famicom Mini consoles a different style. My
Japanese one is just red and cream and the pics of the ones i've seen have
black bits around d-pad etc. Just wondered why they were different.
S:MS:M
Ben
"The Rev" <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9515E1A7D9D3Ft...@130.133.1.4...
> PLAY
Archer Maclean's Pool Paradise (PS2):
Rubbish. Then I bought the laser sight upgrade, and it took on a whole new
lease of life. It may have superb ball physics, but the whole thing seems
very cheaply cobbled together. Bargain for £20, though.
Deus Ex: Invisible War (XBox):
Not too sure about this one yet - I've only just managed to get out of the
first level, because my old Deux Ex ways came flooding back and I had to
explore every locked door, collect every multitool and bag of soy, and
exhaust every conversation branch. It has the potential to make me very
happy, but we will see.
Pokémon Channel (GC):
I only bought it for the importing of Jirachi into Ruby/Sapphire. Honest.
(Watching Pikachu do aerobics is strangely hypnotic, though.)
Amplitude (PS2):
I will never stop playing this. Ever.
> WANT
Full Spectrum Warrior (XBox):
I'd forgotten about this until I read the Edge review, then I got all
excited. Then I realised I was skint, and calmed down a bit. Now I've just
checked my bank balance and noticed I have £50 left in my account for some
reason, but the shops are closed, so now I am irritated.
City of Heroes (PC):
So not going to happen on my crappy GeForce2MX equipped desktop. So even
more not going to happen on my crappy Radeon IGP laptop chipset. Bah.
Rainbow Six 3/Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (XBox):
Game appear to be doing an offer where you buy one of them and get the other
free. Is this a nationwide promotion? When it works out at £20 a pop for 2
Live-enabled titles, it becomes quite an attractive prospect.
Action Replay (GBA):
Anyone had any experience with these? Now I've missed the
Nintendo/Gamestation promotion, I think it's the only way I can unlock the
Latios/Latias Pokémon in Ruby and Sapphire. I'd be interested to hear any
praise/damning criticism of these little gizmos before I order, though.
The khaki t-shirt that comes free with a yearly Edge subscription - it's
almost enough to make me give them my bank details.
> BIN
Having to wait another 3 months for Donkey Konga to be released.
Wanting to buy Singstar, but feeling like a big girly ponce every time I
pick the box up.
Cheers,
Ben
ammo...@cc.full.stop.helsinki.fi
> Are the USA/UK and Japanese GBA Famicom Mini consoles a different
> style. My Japanese one is just red and cream and the pics of the ones
> i've seen have black bits around d-pad etc. Just wondered why they
> were different.
Yes, the Japanese version is coloured after the Famicom and the export
version uses the NES colour scheme.
-a
Toby Newman
>> BIN
> Having to wait another 3 months for Donkey Konga to be released.
Do we have a confirmed UK release date?
--
Toby
Tim Miller
>>
>>> Mr Driller 2 (GBA)- Don't know why I play this. Still can't do 1000m
>>> in mission mode.
>
> 1000m.
That is mission mode!
> I am terrible at Mr Driller 2. I tried the keep drilling
> approach and ran out of air at 930m.
Look out for air that would be easy to get as you go down.
Ben Ashmead
"Toby Newman" <goo...@asktoby.com> wrote in message
news:Xns951750E455702...@127.0.0.1...
Uh, not sure - I'm relying on the date shown on the Game website to be at
least vaguely correct..
Cheers,
Ben
Matthew Clemson
"[ste parker]" <imag...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2kae8oF...@uni-berlin.de...
> acrules wrote:
> >>PLAY
> >>City of Heroes (PC) - Got my new PC working and got this
> >>running, finally. And - phew! - it's ace. I've teamed up
> >>with people, though no strangers, and gone on solo
> >>adventures. I went through quite a few characters in my
> >>first night online.
> >>Anyway, it's great.
> > Damn you all. Makes me want to buy a brand new PC just for this game.
> Would you really need a brand new PC? As long as you have
> a graphics card that meets the minimum specs (only a GF2 or
> Radeon 8500) that should be plenty, the rest of the specs
> aren't that demanding.
Ahahahah. Ahahahah. Ahah. Hah.
P2 400 with a GF2 MX here. FEAR THE POWER.
I *want* to upgrade, and I'm saving up to do so, but I want to be out of
debt before even thinking about it, so it doesn't look affordable until
about the end of the year. By which time everyone will have probably moved
on anyway. Of course, it doesn't help that my housemates owe me ~= £900...
-Matt
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "S:MS:M"
<Mary...@langridge67.fsnet.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>That's cool but you know on that screen it says 'Wind Maker'. Thanks for
>classic games info. Glastonbury was muddy but ace. I'm very pleased with my
>stuff. I now have over 100 games for the first time!
>
100? Pah - 921 :)
deKay
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deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "S:MS:M"
<Mary...@langridge67.fsnet.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>Are the USA/UK and Japanese GBA Famicom Mini consoles a different style. My
>Japanese one is just red and cream and the pics of the ones i've seen have
>black bits around d-pad etc. Just wondered why they were different.
The Japanese Famicom SP is styled after the Famicom, which is Strawberries 'n'
Cream, whereas the NES SP is styled after the, erm, NES. Which is black and
white.
deKay
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>
>
> Ahahahah. Ahahahah. Ahah. Hah.
>
> P2 400 with a GF2 MX here. FEAR THE POWER.
>
> I *want* to upgrade, and I'm saving up to do so, but I want to be out of
> debt before even thinking about it, so it doesn't look affordable until
> about the end of the year. By which time everyone will have probably moved
>
i had a similar spec (P3 450, 32meg ati rage pro) a few months ago when i
replaced it with the medion from aldi.
and i now have a dell pocket PC that runs at 624MHz, that emulates a
playstation better then my last pc. its nuts i tells you.
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Go Munkie. Yep.
S:MS:M
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon,
> 28 Jun 2004 22:47:59 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "S:MS:M"
> <Mary...@langridge67.fsnet.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> That's cool but you know on that screen it says 'Wind Maker'. Thanks
>> for classic games info. Glastonbury was muddy but ace. I'm very
>> pleased with my stuff. I now have over 100 games for the first time!
>>
>
> 100? Pah - 921 :)
>
> deKay
I know, I know. I'm trying. I'm new at this collecting stuff thing...I'm
getting there slowly, apparently 100 makes me hardcore. IGN only has about 8
Famicom mini games listed...damn them! My IGN collection still says 97 :(.
deKay
2004 10:54:13 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "S:MS:M"
<Mary...@langridge67.fsnet.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>I know, I know. I'm trying. I'm new at this collecting stuff thing...I'm
>getting there slowly, apparently 100 makes me hardcore. IGN only has about 8
>Famicom mini games listed...damn them! My IGN collection still says 97 :(.
The reason they only have 8, is that only 8 have been released (as NES Mini
rather than Famicom Mini titles) in the US. I tried setting up an IGN
collection, and found not only were loads of my games not listed, but several
of my computers and consoles too :(
deKay
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> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue,
> 29 Jun 2004 10:54:13 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "S:MS:M"
> <Mary...@langridge67.fsnet.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> I know, I know. I'm trying. I'm new at this collecting stuff
>> thing...I'm getting there slowly, apparently 100 makes me hardcore.
>> IGN only has about 8 Famicom mini games listed...damn them! My IGN
>> collection still says 97 :(.
>
> The reason they only have 8, is that only 8 have been released (as
> NES Mini rather than Famicom Mini titles) in the US. I tried setting
> up an IGN collection, and found not only were loads of my games not
> listed, but several of my computers and consoles too :(
>
> deKay
Where did you get your Famicom mini games, I want to import Number 20 to
complete the collection but can't find it on eBay and don't know which
international sites are safest. I'm also missing the NES style keyring but
have the other 8, any idea where I can find that one? Cheers
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Nathan
> I've finally settled on a magical empathy/dark stuffs controller. Not
> because he's better...
I dunno, I think he is the coolest out of the other ones.
Anyway,
Play:
The shall I shant I get CoH game. So far I'm saying not. I think the
thing that appeals is the fact that there's a Few Good Men here playing
it. What puts me off MMOs is having to find random people that aren't
obsessives in some clan or something. When I have a bit more money I may
indulge if you lot are still playing it. If you're not, then I'll know
it doesn't last long :)
RSC2 - BWI = Cheating Scum. Okay, that's not true rather: Me = Just
can't beat his time for the first australia one, think if I did a super
perfect lap I might be able to but I was getting a bit sick of the track.
Well done BWI.
FFX2 - Really getting into this now. I'm actually loving the combat.
I've picked up a no encounters thing amazingly easily which means the
random battles don't get in the way if I don't want them to, but even so
I'm finding levelling up really quite fun because you don't have to think
too hard but there's still strategy. The speedy combat means you're not
waiting around for ages and the campy story is fun enough.
The Longest journey - Not really done much except talking to people but
the dialogue and characters are fairly good, at least they're not the
kind that you usually get in these games and already I'm relating to the
character a bit more, they've done a good job of making her seem like
she's really got a life there.
Want:
Donkey Konga 2 Hit Song Parade. Think it's out now according to play-
asia, so I may or not buy it soonish.
Wonga
Bin:
In Memoriam. Not much of a payoff for completing the game. A few
emails? thanks. Suppose that's in keeping with the game so no big deal.
The game really needed a bit more playtesting as some games were just
annoying and there were a few "just click randomly for no reason" bits
that should have been ironed out. Other than that, it's an excellent
concept and I want another to be made. They way they used real history
and characters and places along with some fake websites was really
cunning.
--
Nathan.
Bow to the Cow!
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "S:MS:M"
<Mary...@langridge67.fsnet.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>Where did you get your Famicom mini games, I want to import Number 20 to
>complete the collection but can't find it on eBay and don't know which
>international sites are safest. I'm also missing the NES style keyring but
>have the other 8, any idea where I can find that one? Cheers
I got them from PlayAsia.com, but Lik-Sang.com sell them too. I suspect you
might get the keyring from there as well.
Burning_Ranger
> Deus Ex: Invisible War (XBox):
> Not too sure about this one yet - I've only just managed to get out
> of the first level, because my old Deux Ex ways came flooding back
> and I had to explore every locked door, collect every multitool and
> bag of soy, and exhaust every conversation branch. It has the
> potential to make me very happy, but we will see.
If you've played Deus Ex: Don't get your hopes up too much.
Kieron Hyams
> They've sped up the turn-taking and reformed how items work. But the
> minigames are still where it's at, and it's still good fun. The computer
> player is monumentally rubbish though, which meant the 2v2 games were unfair
> on one of us.
Erm... we did put the CPU on easy, though....
Still, fab game.
> James Bond: Nightfire (Gamecube)
> The multiplayer game is great, especially with the senitel. Both john and I
> became pretty adept at flying it through an archway and landing it at
> Kieron's feet.
I feel that the next issue of UGVM should contain a sequel feature on
gaming ettique. Namely, not shooting someone as soon as they
respawn....
KieRON.
---
Tim Miller
>> Mario Party 5 (Gamecube)
>> They've sped up the turn-taking and reformed how items work. But the
>> minigames are still where it's at, and it's still good fun. The
>> computer player is monumentally rubbish though, which meant the 2v2
>> games were unfair on one of us.
>
> Erm... we did put the CPU on easy, though....
> Still, fab game.
>
>> James Bond: Nightfire (Gamecube)
>> The multiplayer game is great, especially with the senitel. Both
>> john and I became pretty adept at flying it through an archway and
>> landing it at Kieron's feet.
>
> I feel that the next issue of UGVM should contain a sequel feature on
> gaming ettique. Namely, not shooting someone as soon as they
> respawn....
>
Well, I got a grand total of two responses regarding the multiplayer
etiquette article I wrote before, so a sequel is some way off.
And of course you're relying on Andy ever actually sitting down and creating
a file called ugvm08.pdf
deKay
2004 17:33:22 +0100, 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:
>And of course you're relying on Andy ever actually sitting down and creating
>a file called ugvm08.pdf
I have such a file sat here on my HD. Sadly, it is mostly blank.
HOWEVER!! THAT IS AN OLD FILE!! I have most of the WORDS now, I just need the
PICTURES!
Hooray!
Mal Franks
the_rev_y...@hotmail.com says...
> PLAY
Dark Age Of Camelot (PC) - been playing this for over 18 months now and
still enjoying it - in the process of forming a regular group for
going out and killing beasties with several members of my DAOC guild.
Last night it was killing Grey Ghosts, Corpse Lanterns, Undead Marshmen
and Urchin Filchers (I said "FILCHERS" not what you're thinking - bloody
pervs in this group especially that dekay chappy)
> WANT
City Of Heroes (PC) - but I'll need to pack in my job after winning a few
million £s as there's currently no time available in my busy schedule of
getting up, going to work, working, eating lunch, working, going home,
eating dinner, playing Dark Age Of Camelot, going to bed, getting up,
going to work, working, eating lunch, working, going home...and so on
>
> BIN
>
my busy schedule of getting up, going to work, working, eating lunch,
working, going home, eating dinner, going to bed, getting up, going to
work, working, eating lunch, working, going home...and so on