Pow, Wallop & Bam
gospvg
Batman Arkham Asylum (360) - Completed, great game. Just edges out Creed 2
for my game of last year. Looking forward to the sequel & hoping we get to
drive the car & fly the plane.
Splosion Man (360 XBLA) - Been helping out the kids when they have gotten
stuck, can't believe there is a skip level option (Coward way out)
DoodleJump (Iplod) - It's been No1 on the App Store for ages so I though
what the hell & much to Becky's annoyance it's a great little fun,simple
game. I've been taunting the Rev with my high scores getting a top of 21K
only to have it smashed by the Rev with a 30K+ score :(
Poker (360 XBLA) - Yay !! I won, Lucky all-in on the last hand (Sorry
Phinlee). I did not hang around to gloat because I ran off to go watch Lost.
So i'm gloating now YAY !! I WON !!!
Because Zo pulled out we only had 7 players so not sure if Phinlee gets the
pass or not but I'll let you guys sort it out just send me PayPal payments
to niaztwentyone (in numbers) at g m a i l dot com
Loft Clearout (Real Life) - I've had a good weekend in terms of clearing out
some games mainly Sega Master System & Megadrive Games. Including a big
shipment off today to Denmark. Coming soon, I had a sneak peak at the next
box & it's full of Snes Games :(
Wallop
Rpg (360) - The plan was after Batman to go back to MW2 but instead I am
going to go for an RPG so it's either Vandal Hearts XBLA, Infinite
Undiscovery or Star Ocean.
Games (360) - Split Second, Alpha Protocol, Sonic 4, Halo Recon, Final
Fantasy & I thought 2010 would be a quiet year.
Conservatory/Lean To (Real Life) - Getting some quotes this week for another
extension to the 2 year old extension :(
Bam
Loft Clearout (Real Life) - Sad to see some of my collection go but I have
been delaying the inevitable I guess.
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--
gospvg
[..getting old and still playing video games..]
Happy Harper
> Pow !!
>
Nothing
>
> Wallop
>
Nothing
>
> Bam
>
Gaming
The Rev
> Pow !!
Doodle Jump (iPhone) - Smashing scores set by gospvg.
Bejeweled 2 (iPhone) - Smashing a score set by a friend, only for her to
smash it right back.
Orbital (iPhone) - Finally got a score of over 100 on Supernova. Still
pathetic, but good for me.
Terminator Salvation (iPhone) - Great fun and very, very short. One-sitting
short, in fact. 59p well spent.
> Wallop
Aliens Vs Predator (360) - But I won't be able to get it at launch. Boo!
Bioshock 2 (360) - At some point; I'm a bit worried about it.
Sonic Kart (360) - Comes out the day after pay day. Now that's good scheduling.
> Bam
Nightmares. Especially nightmares where the big threat is from a lame horror
movie that wasn't the least bit scary. First nightmare - as opposed to
"fairly uncomfortable and tense dream" - that I've had in years.
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
gospvg <gospvgR...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Pow !!
Atari Masterpieces Vol 1 and 2 (N-gage) - Was in the mood for some arcade
emulation, and the N-gage is always on my hip (but curiously not often off
of it for play). I still suck at Warlords, have no staying power in
Centipede, and the real arcade Tempest crushes me much faster than any of
its sequels. But I found a good rhythm in the other vector-based games,
many of which haven't appeared in other retro libraries. In particular, I
scored high enough in Red Baron to unlock one of the many 2600 games that
lay dormant and hidden in these collections.
Sega Superstars Tennis (360) - I get it now, thanks to James. I note that
in the Super Monkey Ball challenges, a line is displayed in front of the
player character that shows where the otherwise invisible aiming cursor is
pointed. Seems like a perfect way to apply double-analog control, but I'm
no tennis video game aficionado and I don't claim to know better. Anyway,
I'm merrily unlocking things and bungling my way through each mission.
I've got all but two of the unlockable characters, and all of the stage
areas now (hee, Afterburner). Doubles matches take too long, and there are
quite a few balance problems. I'm pretty sure I can handily win most any
challenge with Sonic, but we'll see how that works out. Oh my, there are a
lot of achievements to be had here.
Stormrise (360) - An incredible amount of potential. I have nothing but
unconditional love for Creative Assembly, but many of their experiments
amount to nothing more than interesting near misses. Stormrise is an
excellent science fiction concept with deep and interesting characters
married to an RTS engine that doesn't quite get off the ground. But the
use of the analog stick to zip around to each of your units (rather than
mousing around highlighting them) is a wonderful concept and limits the
number of things you have to keep track of, which for an RTS neophyte like
me is a blessing. I'll definitely come back to this when my tennis elbow
is gone. :/
>Wallop
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii) - Ordered. I'm weak, and I don't even own
a Wii. On the plus side, it is a used copy, so I'm not playing the hundred
smackers for a new copy like the Amazon resellers want.
>Bam
Nothing game related, although the DS games I expected to play this
weekend didn't happen at all. We'll see what happens with those during the
week.
Expenditure:
Fire Emblem (Wii) - $28
Balance forward - $288
Total so far this year - $316
-KKC, up too early.
--
--"I think I'm kind of like pennies. You | kendrick
have 'em in your pocket but you don't | @ io.com
remember they're there." - Bill Withers | http://www.io.com/~kkc
Happy Harper
>> Wallop
>
> Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii) - Ordered. I'm weak, and I don't even own
> a Wii. On the plus side, it is a used copy, so I'm not playing the hundred
> smackers for a new copy like the Amazon resellers want.
>
It's really good. I loved it. I think I remember it being harder than
the GCN release of Fire Emblem. It's one of the games I bought a Wii
for. Is it really L@@K R@RE now ?
Happy Harper
> On 08/02/2010 07:25, gospvg wrote:
>> Pow !!
>
> Doodle Jump (iPhone) - Smashing scores set by gospvg.
>
> Bejeweled 2 (iPhone) - Smashing a score set by a friend, only for her to
> smash it right back.
>
How do you add friends in feint then? I've only got the odd one come in
through facebook.
My feint is "This Tree Frog" because I couldn't change it when I nym
shifted a while back. I have doodle jump and am always up for some
leaderboard action.
The Rev
In OpenFeint you add friends by name or import from Twitter and Facebook,
but Doodle Jump and Bejeweled 2 only use Facebook. I don't have any friends
on my leaderboard in Doodle Jump - we were using Twitter to keep each other
informed of new scores.
I tried to add you in OpenFeint, but it said your user name wasn't found -
I'm That Rev Chap.
gospvg
news:7t9uuu...@mid.individual.net...
> On 08/02/2010 07:25, gospvg wrote:
>> Pow !!
>
> Doodle Jump (iPhone) - Smashing scores set by gospvg.
Annoyingly I've been trying to beat your score for the last 24 hours but can
only get to around 18K !!
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
It's one of the few Wii games that hasn't had a price drop, in the same
way that Animal Crossing has never been discounted. Most of the Wii games
that were released at fifty quid/dollars eventually found their way down
to thirty. The fact that Fire Emblem is technically also out of print is a
factor, although Nintendo could elect to do a reprinting at any time if
the demand existed.
I don't have a link to back it up, but Fire Emblem is also the most
popular Wii game if you measure strictly by play time only. I think that
comes from the public Wii channel statistics. That's by way of saying that
used copies are just as uncommon as new ones.
-KKC, who is now carrying around 12 PSP games with him at all times, for
reasons passing understanding.
Happy Harper
I added you, and gospvg.
It seems I needed to download the Open Feint app, then things got easier
to manage.
For the record, I've got 28,219 in Doodle Jump
Happy Harper
The other thing is, I'm friends with gospvg on facebook, but he still
doesn't appear in Doodle Jump on my friends board.
All seems a bit unsatisfactory really. At least with XBLA titles, the
leaderboards are mostly integrated. Mostly.
gospvg
news:hkoldi$ran$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> I tried to add you in OpenFeint, but it said your user name wasn't found
>> - I'm That Rev Chap.
>
> I added you, and gospvg.
>
> It seems I needed to download the Open Feint app, then things got easier
> to manage.
>
> For the record, I've got 28,219 in Doodle Jump
28K !!
gospvg
>>
>> In OpenFeint you add friends by name or import from Twitter and
>> Facebook, but Doodle Jump and Bejeweled 2 only use Facebook. I don't
>> have any friends on my leaderboard in Doodle Jump - we were using
>> Twitter to keep each other informed of new scores.
>>
>> I tried to add you in OpenFeint, but it said your user name wasn't found
>> - I'm That Rev Chap.
>
> The other thing is, I'm friends with gospvg on facebook, but he still
> doesn't appear in Doodle Jump on my friends board.
>
> All seems a bit unsatisfactory really. At least with XBLA titles, the
> leaderboards are mostly integrated. Mostly.
Yes I hate these various different Friends list which is why I just stick to
twitter posting.
jochta
> Pow !!
>
Texas Hold 'Em (360) - Started off brightly but had hand after hand of
crap after that. Still got 3rd place.
Trials HD (360) - Some further attempts at Goin' Up without improvement
yet. It's the box on the slope after you drop down backwards that
buggers me up I can get there for zero restarts and then spend some
minutes failing to get on that box. I did improve some other times
elsewhere on various levels though. I gave Inferno II a go again, I got
to those wooden inclines with just 4 restarts, 89 restarts later I
hadn't got over them so I gave up even though if I'd carried on I might
have beaten my >200 restart best.
Magic: The Gathering (360) - Rather a lot of this. My son is now totally
addicted too. We've beaten 7/14 on the co-op campaign. I've been
unlocking cards in custom games and losing and winning some ranked
matches as well.
All XBLA games again this week.
>
> Wallop
>
Just Cause 2 and Crackdown 2.
Some clear skies.
>
> Bam
>
Cloud.
Holy exclamation Batman
Balance brought forward:
�23.93
New Spend:
�0.00
Total:
�23.93
Happy Harper
> "Happy Harper"<Happy...@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:hkoldi$ran$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>
>>> I tried to add you in OpenFeint, but it said your user name wasn't found
>>> - I'm That Rev Chap.
>>
>> I added you, and gospvg.
>>
>> It seems I needed to download the Open Feint app, then things got easier
>> to manage.
>>
>> For the record, I've got 28,219 in Doodle Jump
>
> 28K !!
>
>
Is that good?
If you play it enough, eventually the random boards give you an easier ride.
Sometimes, like when it gives you two, three aliens in a row and far far
apart platforms it's just not possible. I just try and hit as many
springs, helicopters and jetpacks as possible. Also, bouncing on the
aliens heads gets you out of a sticky situation at times as well.
Chris Stevens
> Pow !!
Assassin's Creed (360)
Completed. Not as good as the sequel, primarily due to the almost
game-breaking lack of variety. The 9 main assassinations are the only things
that offer any variety through the whole body of the game. As much as I
enjoyed doing everything there was to do in the first couple of areas, the
appeal wears off soon enough when you realise that each area has *exactly*
the same tasks/missions, at which point it just becomes a question of
slogging through the bare minimum you need to do to unlock the assassination
missions. It was all made a good deal more frustrating, too, by the fact
that the further into the game you progress, the less it takes to attract
the attention of the guards. Every bloody 2 minutes I was ending up in a
chase/fight in the final city-bound mission, often for as little as brushing
past a pot-carrier. Still, a good looking game for its age, and the end
sequence was almost enough to wash away the bad feelings I'd built up over
the previous few hours.
Chime (360)
It seems from the reactions in the other thread that I'm on my own with this
one! I continue to enjoy it, and scraped into the global top 100 for the 9
minute Paul Hartnoll level on Friday.
Bayonetta (360)
My 'not buying a new game until I finish an old game' rule crumbled on
Friday when I saw this in Asda for 25 quid. I redeemed myself by not taking
it out of its box until I'd finished AC, though, so no real harm done.
Haven't really played enough of it yet to have anything meaningful to say
(just done the prologue and chapter 1), but even after the demo I wasn't
quite prepared for the over-the-top daftness that the game provides. I spent
most of the first hour grinning a huge grin and generally being overwhelmed.
Wonderful stuff.
> Wallop
Nothing. Not a thing. Bayonetta will keep me busy for a while, then I've got
Arkham Asylum to go back to, and then probably Resi 5.
> Bam
Pointless padding in Assassin's Creed.
Do I want to find all viewpoints, save all citizens, pick all pockets,
interrogate all witnesses, eavesdrop all conversations and do all informer
challenges in every area? NO! Really, I don't. Except for the viewpoints,
obviously, because they're fun.
Expend!!
Balance Brought Forward: �30.96
New Spend: Bayonetta - �24.99, Chime - �3.40
Current Total Spent: �59.35
--
Chris
GT: SomethingWitty
hurricanepilot
> Pow !!
Mass Effect 2 (360) - Finished this early on Saturday night. A bit
disappointing after all that build up - mainly because that's all you
get. I can remember thinking early on..."jeez if it takes this long
just to build a crew, I can't imagine how long this game will be once
the plot really starts"...sadly, while there is a proper plot, you
don't get to be much part of it. It wasn't disappointing to the point
where I'd rather have not played it, but it's not a patch on the first
game.
Dante's Inferno (PS3) - A quick review from a mate put me off grabbing
this initially and I spent a good few hours umming and ahhing over the
purchase. I finally grabbed it yesterday afternoon after reading a lot
more impressions of the game and I'm very glad I did. It's fairly
gratuitous, but I'm kinda liking how far they've pushed the taste
envelope. I'm ignorant of the source material so I've no idea if any
of the tone here is in keeping with it, but I can't really see an
argument for holding back when depicting the circles of hell. Good
game so far.
> Wallop
Heavy Rain - I've read about half a page of a single review so far and
decided to go on a complete blackout on this game. Seems that nobody
can resist the urge to say "I'm not giving anything away, but in one
scene...". I just hope it gets here before someone ruins it for me.
Just Cause 2 - Watched some more vids over the weekend. Looks amazing.
> Bam
The need to sleep.
>Exenditure 2010
balance brought forward: £283.14
purchases: Bioshock 2, Dante's Inferno
total: £348.12
MerseyMal
says...
> Pow !!
Mass Effect (PC) - playing the original game which I picked up in
Steam's xmas sale. Loving it and looking forward to ME2...once it's
fallen below my £20 limit.
Bioshock (PC) - got the Steam version for free due to a certain pre-
order. Still a good game.
> Wallop
Bioshock 2 (PC) - pre-ordered on Steam. Looking forward to it being
unlocked.
> Bam
Mondays - work day Mondays only though.
--
XBLA/PSN/Steam/Twitter: merseymal
Byrodir the Human Champion of Moria Defenders (Snowbourn LOTRO EU)
gospvg
>>>
>>> For the record, I've got 28,219 in Doodle Jump
>>
>> 28K !!
>>
>>
>
> Is that good?
>
> If you play it enough, eventually the random boards give you an easier
> ride.
>
> Sometimes, like when it gives you two, three aliens in a row and far far
> apart platforms it's just not possible. I just try and hit as many
> springs, helicopters and jetpacks as possible. Also, bouncing on the
> aliens heads gets you out of a sticky situation at times as well.
Yep I hate the part where the platforms start to turn yellow to red & then
vanish. I always fall off then :(
Zomoniac
> Terminator Salvation (iPhone) - Great fun and very, very short.
> One-sitting short, in fact. 59p well spent.
Proof, if it were needed, that iPhone gamers have no standards. The 360
game was criticised to buggery by everyone who ever played it. The
iPhone version is like the 360 one but a bit less good, and is
universally praised. Just because it's technically impressive for a
phone doesn't make it good.
I'm yet to play any kind of 3D action game on my iPhone that isn't a
load of bollocks. Can't see it happening using on-screen controllers.
Still, at least it's better than that horrible Resident Evil thing.
--
Zo
Zomoniac
> Pow !!
Virtua Tennis 2009 (360)
Ranked number one, all slams won. Just need to mop up achievements now.
FIFA 10 (360)
Grinding.
Heavy Rain demo (PS3)
Need.
Singstar (PS3)
A lot. And lots of variations thereof.
> Wallop
Heavy Rain. Shenmue 3. Sonic 4.
> Bam
Virtua Tennis 2009 following the usual VT difficulty curve of being
ludicrously easy (as in not dropping a point easy) for 15 hours, then
becoming impossibly hard for the last ten minutes against Duke/King.
And it having glitchy achievements. I blame James :)
--
Zo
Hakk
careful/tight for ages because you don't get a hand. You finally get a
hand and get out flopped and lose 95% of your chips. Oh well. It
doesn't help having 2 kids who don't appreciate that you might need a
bit of peace and quiet with no distractions just for an hour. Making
excuses now, but I'm sure some of you understand!
Darksiders (360) Much hacking and slashing. Picked this up on
Saturday, trading in COD MW2 and AC2, for this and Batman AA as a
straight swap, so a bargain I thought. I haven't seen this mentioned
on here, so for anyone who hasn't seen or heard of it the story is
based around one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (War in this
case), who has been stripped of his powers and is wandering the now
deserted Earth looking for revenge. At least, that's what I think is
going on! You carry around an infeasibly large sword, think of Final
Fantasy sized and double it, and you'd be close. Enjoying it
immensely, the gameplay seems just on the right side of difficult so
it doesn't frustrate too much, and the graphics are spot on.
Batman AA (360). Took a break from Darksiders last night, and put a
few minutes into this. Just did up to the bit where you fight some
deformed Joker henchman. Well I say fight, I just let him keep running
into the electric barriers and then punching him a couple of times.
Good so far.
Chime (360). Enjoyed the demo, so for a measly 400 points bought it.
Nice tunes, relaxing gameplay.
Sploding Man (360). Or whatever it's called. As it was half price, I
thought "why not?" It's ok I suppose. Not exactly thrilling, but again
at 400 points not bad. Got through about half a dozen levels before I
got bored. Does it change later?
>
> Wallop
>
A holiday. And we're only in February. Sick of coming to work already!
>
> Bam
>
Being a designated driver at a purely in-law attended pub afternoon.
That was my Sunday. God how dull can it get! FOUR HOURS! AAAAGGGHHH!
Hakk
Hakk
Oh yeah, forgot:
B/F £10.50
800 Points: £6.67
Total: £17.17
Hakk
The Rev
> On 2010-02-08 08:05:50 +0000, The Rev <the_rev_y...@hotmail.com>
> said:
>
>> Terminator Salvation (iPhone) - Great fun and very, very short.
>> One-sitting short, in fact. 59p well spent.
>
> Proof, if it were needed, that iPhone gamers have no standards. The 360
> game was criticised to buggery by everyone who ever played it. The
> iPhone version is like the 360 one but a bit less good, and is
> universally praised. Just because it's technically impressive for a
> phone doesn't make it good.
I don't think it's that technically impressive. Probably was when it came
out, but it's nothing special now.
I simply ran around and had fun shooting Terminators. More so than with any
equivalent shooter on the PSP or DS, due to the controls feeling a lot
better. You can get headshots, the cover mechanic is nice and apart from the
rubbish laser beams there aren't any annoyances. (Why Gameloft have dropped
the "tilt to aim" control scheme from their later shooters I don't know - it
works better than the other methods.)
Also, the iPhone and 360 version share nothing but a licence and a genre.
Different publishers, different developers.
> I'm yet to play any kind of 3D action game on my iPhone that isn't a
> load of bollocks. Can't see it happening using on-screen controllers.
> Still, at least it's better than that horrible Resident Evil thing.
Resident Evil: Degeneration was the game that showed me that virtual
controls for 3D games could work. Never bought the full version because the
actual game didn't seem that good, but I had good fun with the little
Resident Evil 4 game, until my iPhone broke and I lost my save file. Never
did go back.
gospvg
news:ce5500d4-a0cf-4bbe...@l26g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 Feb, 07:25, "gospvg" <gospvgREMOV...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pow !!
>>
> Texas Hold'em Poker (360) I hate this game sometimes. You sit and play
> careful/tight for ages because you don't get a hand. You finally get a
> hand and get out flopped and lose 95% of your chips. Oh well. It
> doesn't help having 2 kids who don't appreciate that you might need a
> bit of peace and quiet with no distractions just for an hour. Making
> excuses now, but I'm sure some of you understand!
>
Funny you say that I usually have both boys with me when playing but on
Friday they were both in the other room playing with their DS machines. I
then went on to win.
I think I will now ask them to bugger off in the future :)
> Batman AA (360). Took a break from Darksiders last night, and put a
> few minutes into this. Just did up to the bit where you fight some
> deformed Joker henchman. Well I say fight, I just let him keep running
> into the electric barriers and then punching him a couple of times.
> Good so far.
Great game - can't wait for the sequel.
> Sploding Man (360). Or whatever it's called. As it was half price, I
> thought "why not?" It's ok I suppose. Not exactly thrilling, but again
> at 400 points not bad. Got through about half a dozen levels before I
> got bored. Does it change later?
From what I have seen no not really just more dangers in your path. Some big
boss fights.
Zomoniac
Resident Evil Degeneration was the game that put me off virtual
controls for life. Hated it.
--
Zo
jochta
> thought "why not?" It's ok I suppose. Not exactly thrilling, but again
> at 400 points not bad. Got through about half a dozen levels before I
> got bored. Does it change later?
>
No. If you play the demo you've seen the entire game. Not that I've
finished it, I got bored stupid with it after a dozen or so levels.
mooner76
> "Happy Harper" <HappyHar...@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
55,520 - Play with the sound on - helps - alot
You know you have played too much when you start reading and your eyes
still feel like they are bouncing!
GusTavToo
Ratchet & Clank: ACiT (PS3)
Still very enjoyable. I must be getting close to the end now.
RSV2 (360)
I've had this for ages but only put it the tray last night while a mate
was round for some split screen co-op. I don't think I'll bother with SP
but it's great for local MP.
Lego RB (360)
Simply joyful.
> Wallop
>
I have loads of Goozex points but there's nothing I really fancy
available. I'm in the queue for Uncharted 2 and the God of War
Collection Although I'm intrinsically opposed to point hoarding I think
I'll have to sit on them until I've played through some of my backlog.
> Bam
>
EA's wonderful account system that has meant I haven't been able to play
ME2 for 2 days. I now have my bonus armour but have lost access to the
Cerberus Network. As my save game has characters in it that are
dependant on that content I'm nervous of loading up my main save!
Their Support people have gone quiet, but I'm hoping they can fix it.
BT news server. Thanks to James's tip I've signed up to Eternal
September and I can now access newsgroups from anywhere - hurrah!
Gus.
--
GT: GusTavToo / PSN: GusWho - Sent from an overpriced iPod
Trooper
> Pow !!
>
COD:MW2
Back into this again, after taking a break for ME2. Prestiged over the
weekend and now back to L15. Getting mightily pissed off with the
unlimited care package glitch, especially as I don't have cold blooded
back again yet, but hopefully this will be patched soon!
A good mate of mine has finally got a router which works properly, and
allows us to play together on Live, so i'll probably be on it for a fair
while yet.
Lovefilm
Signed up to lovefilm with the idea of using it for games as well as
bluray, but looking at the games coming out, I can't see anything out
there that I fancy playing other than assassins creed 2, so i'm sticking
with films at the moment. I'll but AC2 when it gets cheap, as i'm not
arsed about playing it right this second.
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Demo
Well... It's ok...
My first few goes consisted of being dropped in the middle of nowhere,
running ages to get into the main area, getting shot in the head by
someone I never saw, rinse and repeat. I did have a few fun moments
involving the vehicles, but the environment itself is bland, difficult
to navigate due to everything looking the same and doesn't really make
any sense as a real environment. But you can blow it up, which helps.
It needs a lot of work, but apparently the demo is a year old code wise,
so hopefully the game will be better.
To me it feels like the sort of game that the contrary will always say
is better than MW2, regardless of whether it is or not, so getting a
realistic review or perspective might be tricky :D I'll almost certainly
buy it, but in terms of having fun, MW2 looks the more likely candidate
to me at the moment.
>
> Wallop
>
AC2, at some point in the future, maybe.
BF:BC2
>
>
> Bam
>
Xbox live. It's fine when it works, but it's a piece of crap when it
doesn't. No end of trouble getting it to allow me and my friend to play
together. We can both play ok with everyone else, it just won't let us
two invite each other. If I join a session he is already in it works
fine though.
We went through every possible combination of DMZ, unplugging everything
etc... It worked once but then stopped working again. I even tried a
couple of old routers I have laying around with no success. Ended up him
buying a new router, which still didn't work, until I unplugged
everything else from my router and rebooted it all with only the xbox
plugged in, which worked, but then I plugged everything back in again
and we tried again later and it is still working? Load of crap.
T.
deKay
> Pow !!
Mass Effect (360)
Before I start, I'd like to point out that I do like this game. I'm
enjoying playing it. But. It isn't without faults. The jerky graphics
(especially when walking round on planets - the snow planet I was on was
running at about 2fps), the nightmarish weapon and armour management
system, the TEN MILLION concurrently running missions, the mostly useless
squad, and the way you can't press X to speed through conversations as 9
times out of 10 it cancels the conversation entirely. And the QTEs to open
things and survey things and hack things? Stupid.
But aside from that, I'm loving it. No, I really am.
Excitebike: World Challenge (Wii)
The original never clicked with me, because I now realise I'd only ever
pressed Boost, not knowing there was an accelerate button too. Now it all
makes sense, and I'm not crap after all! The Wii game is EXCELLENT, and if
you don't buy it you need your head looking at. FACT.
> Wallop
Lots of things. Most importantly, Monkey Island Chapter 5 which STILL
isn't on the Wii Ware download hoodilly. FFS.
> Bam
Lots of bits of Mass Defect.
> The SPENDATRON
Date Game Price Running Total
11/01/2010 Ghost Squad 7.00 7.00
11/01/2010 Rabbids Go Home 12.00 19.00
11/01/2010 Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 5.00 24.00
11/01/2010 Donkey Kong Barrel Blast 4.00 28.00
21/01/2010 Lego Rock Band 17.99 45.99
01/02/2010 Batman Arkham Asylum 15.00 60.99
05/02/2010 Excitebike: World Challenge 7.00 67.99
So much for not buying anything.
deKay
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deKay
I didn't even get that far. It was rubbish.
gospvg
news:2fe75cb2-d4c5-4012-9b2e->>
>> > For the record, I've got 28,219 in Doodle Jump
>>
>> 28K !!
>>
>> --
>> gospvg
>> [..getting old and still playing video games..]
>
> 55,520 - Play with the sound on - helps - alot
>
Oh man I'm crap - it's difficult to play with the sound on at work :)
Chris Whitworth
> Pow !!
Bayonetta (360) - On the final boss, who needs to JUST FUCK THE FUCKING FUCK
OFF. Cheap insta-kill attacks have made me ragequit at least twice.
Bookworm Adventures 2 (PC) - Spell words! With no time limit! And level up!
Aces.
Harvest: Massive Encounter (PC) - for a bit of casual base defence fun. It's
fairly basic, but quite fun with it.
Demigod (PC) - Very briefly, having been prompted by an email from Stardock
that reminded me I had it. There's been a whole ton of updates since I last
played it, some new demigods and various tweaks, too. Shame there's no new
arenas to play in, but it's still a good fun strategy-ish game.
> Wallop
Disgaea 2 (PSP) - Well, I did, but I just bought it.
Heavy Rain (PS3) - I'm not playing the demo as it seems slightly silly to play
a demo of a heavily story-driven game.
> Bam
Cheap insta-kill attacks.
Chris
--
Gamertag/Steam ID: parm PSN: PopeWiggles
"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."
Hakk
wrote:
>
> Battlefield Bad Company 2 Demo
> Well... It's ok...
> My first few goes consisted of being dropped in the middle of nowhere,
> running ages to get into the main area, getting shot in the head by
> someone I never saw, rinse and repeat.
Replace Battlefield with COD MW2, and that describes the multiplayer
game to a Tee for me.
Hakk
MerseyMal
spa...@merseymal.com says...
> In article <7t9sn0...@mid.individual.net>, gospvgR...@gmail.com
> says...
> > Pow !!
>
> Mass Effect (PC) - playing the original game which I picked up in
> Steam's xmas sale. Loving it and looking forward to ME2...once it's
> fallen below my £20 limit.
>
> Bioshock (PC) - got the Steam version for free due to a certain pre-
> order. Still a good game.
>
> > Wallop
>
> Bioshock 2 (PC) - pre-ordered on Steam. Looking forward to it being
> unlocked.
>
> > Bam
>
> Mondays - work day Mondays only though.
>
>
Game spending
-------------
01/2010: £11.74
So far this month:-
£01.00 - Psychonauts (PC)
£20.25 - Bioshock 2 w/ Bioshock (PC)
Nils Tanner
<gospvgR...@gmail.com> got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>Pow !!
Lego Batman (360). With the wife. I started the first part of this
ages ago, and was quite unimpressed. However, I restarted this on
Friday and somehow I'm in the mood for collecting stuff...so yay.
Poker. Boo.
WoW. For about 30 minutes, then I got bored.
Fifa 10. Lost. Got bored.
Refurbishing the whole house. And cleaning everything.
>Wallop
Little Tanner to arrive, he's due in about 4 weeks and I'm getting
slightly fed up with waiting for him :-)
>Bam
�5, for the poker :-(
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[ste parker]
>
> Darksiders (360) Much hacking and slashing. Picked this up on
> Saturday, trading in COD MW2 and AC2, for this and Batman AA as a
> straight swap, so a bargain I thought. I haven't seen this mentioned
> on here, so for anyone who hasn't seen or heard of it the story is
> based around one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (War in this
> case), who has been stripped of his powers and is wandering the now
> deserted Earth looking for revenge. At least, that's what I think is
> going on! You carry around an infeasibly large sword, think of Final
> Fantasy sized and double it, and you'd be close. Enjoying it
> immensely, the gameplay seems just on the right side of difficult so
> it doesn't frustrate too much, and the graphics are spot on.
>
I'm playing through this, it's absolutely brilliant!
--
[ste]
gospvg
>>Wallop
>
> Little Tanner to arrive, he's due in about 4 weeks and I'm getting
> slightly fed up with waiting for him :-)
>
First?
--
Nils Tanner
<gospvgR...@gmail.com> got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>> Little Tanner to arrive, he's due in about 4 weeks and I'm getting
>> slightly fed up with waiting for him :-)
>>
>
>First?
Yes.
[ste parker]
> Pow !!
>
Darksiders (360). Swapped AC2 for this and it's BRILLIANT! It's like
Zelda with decent combat, a huge sword and one of the four horsemen
having a really shitty day at work and by christ is he going to let
everyone know about it! Best permanently annoyed character EVER! So over
the top it's raised a lol here and there for sure, there's definitely a
lot of character in the game, Ulthane being the standout of the
supporting cast so far. It's also rather rock hard on Apocalyptic, I
had to restart on Normal and even now there's been a couple of occasions
(such as just now, getting Ruin) where I've been utterly destroyed. Yet
it remains fun, the combat is relatively simple yet continually meaty
and satisfying, so wandering through the wasteland is never a chore and
there's never much of a gap before you're into the next dungeon. If I
have to pick one fault it's that the cutscenes are skippable, which
would usually be a good thing but the problem is the final boss kill
button is B, which is also the button for skip cutscene. Given I
usually hammer B (it's hard not to, I want the bastards dead!) this
means I've had to resort to youtube twice now to see what I've missed at
the end of a boss battle. It's rekindled my interest in the genre, I
might even finally go back to Twilight Princess after this!
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Demo (360). I was expecting something like
BF1943, but it's not what I got. Confusion and insta-death was what
happened, I spent a while trying to read the minimap but it seemed a bit
useless compared to the nice clear one in BF1943, same for the
battlefields itself - too much going on making it bloody hard to even
see the enemy. Not fun.
Aliens vs. Predator Demo (360). Now this was much more fun.
Unfortunately, I jumped in as a marine and it gave a brilliant sense of
fear, spot on with how it should be in the universe but that sense of
fear is something I can't deal with in games, even with constant
respawning. As such, I didn't make it past one round before leaving :(
Chime (XBLA Demo). Undecided, I do have 400 points and it seems decent
enough but the space it takes up! I really shouldn't be having to delete
stuff to put a game like that on. The worst thing is that apparently it
was avoidable, but time constraints means it's as it is.
> Wallop
>
Bayonetta (360). The price still hasn't dropped drastically, although
at least it appears to be hitting �25 in a couple of places which is a
start.
>
> Bam
>
Getting a job. This is really taking the piss now.
--
[ste]
Toby Newman
Chime Demo (360)
Seemed pleasant enough but the music was a bit repetitive.
Aliens vs Predator Demo (360 and PC)
As an experiment, I downloaded it on both platforms. This is
undoubtably a game to be played on PC. Moving quickly enough to deal
with an attacking alien requires mouse control, simple as.
I am suddenly quite excited about this and really want to play the
single player campaigns. I'm also tempted by the free face-hugger as a
cuddly toy for my son :)
Dead Space Extraction (Wii)
Continues to be excellent. I downloaded the trailer for the 360 game
but it did look a bit too scary for me! At least in a light gun you
are compelled to move forward.
Sonic and Sega Allstar Racing Demo (360)
I'm not comfortable saying this because I know we have a reg working
on the team, but... Framerates?
> Wallop
A better passive graphics card than my Geforce 8600.
> Bam
Samba De Amigo (Wii)
A friend lent me the disc. It's rather castrated, isn't it? The
controls are all over the place.
--
-Toby
Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
The Rev
>
> Aliens vs Predator Demo (360 and PC)
> As an experiment, I downloaded it on both platforms. This is
> undoubtably a game to be played on PC. Moving quickly enough to deal
> with an attacking alien requires mouse control, simple as.
You're the only person I've seen online to say it's more suited to PC than
console. I know a lotof people ended up playing with the 360 controller on
the PC.
> Sonic and Sega Allstar Racing Demo (360)
> I'm not comfortable saying this because I know we have a reg working
> on the team, but... Framerates?
It's old code. Framerate's fixed in final version, according to trusted
sources. It's bloody ace apart from that, though, except for being too
bloody hard by default.
Zomoniac
I get the whole "not representative of final product" thing, but
perhaps James and Jody could enlighten as to what is to be gained from
releasing a demo that seems to have received nothing but complaints,
all regarding the framerate? This is meant to be an advert, and surely
an advert that puts people off and leads to pre-orders being cancelled
is worse than not releasing one at all.
--
Zo
[ste parker]
I didn't like the handling much to be honest, and I found the whole
experience rather dull with things like the "upside down screen" powerup
being just plain shit.
--
[ste]
The Rev
I really like the whole drifting thing. It's reminiscent of OutRun 2 while
being its own thing.
It just made me happy when I played it and I'm certainly going to get a copy
when I can. The fact that it's out the day after pay day is certainly useful.
deKay
>> Bam
> Samba De Amigo (Wii)
> A friend lent me the disc. It's rather castrated, isn't it? The
> controls are all over the place.
I thought that, until I realised I was doing it wrong. Now I can 95%+
every track.
[ste parker]
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Toby Newman wrote:
>
>>> Bam
>> Samba De Amigo (Wii)
>> A friend lent me the disc. It's rather castrated, isn't it? The
>> controls are all over the place.
>
> I thought that, until I realised I was doing it wrong. Now I can 95%+
> every track.
>
That's the problem - you should be able to 100% most of the tracks
(certainly the easy and medium ones) but because the controls aren't
quite there more often than not you won't manage that because of them,
rather than because of a lack of skill.
--
[ste]
Toby Newman
> On 09/02/2010 14:00, Toby Newman wrote:
>>
>> Aliens vs Predator Demo (360 and PC)
>> As an experiment, I downloaded it on both platforms. This is
>> undoubtably a game to be played on PC. Moving quickly enough to deal
>> with an attacking alien requires mouse control, simple as.
>
> You're the only person I've seen online to say it's more suited to PC than
> console. I know a lotof people ended up playing with the 360 controller on
> the PC.
What can I say. I tried both, but felt much more immersed on the PC. I
felt like I could see more detail. As a marine, I felt more capable of
using my torch to inspect inky shadows for hiding aliens. Moving to a
controller I just felt crippled.
Russell Marks
> Pow !!
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex (Wii) - prestiged again, as I
decided there wasn't much chance I'd ever get the gold weapons (except
the Desert Eagle, which suggests that they look pretty rubbish anyway)
and as silly as it is I think I like having the carrot of unlocking
stuff. You kind of get used to it, and it's strange when it's not
there any more. :-)
> Wallop
Lego Star Wars 3 (Wii) - I'm not sure if branching out from the proper
films is really such a great idea, but as an excuse to go back for
more LSW I suppose it's fair enough.
> Bam
Sonic 4 being episodic.
Abuse of silenced P90s with Juggernaut on CoD:MWR by people who are
clearly good enough at the game not to need that.
-Rus.
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
> Pow !!
Bit of TF2 on PC
> Wallop
Nowt
> Bam
Nowt
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