I LOVE GAMES -- displaced persons center

Caeser IV: Imperial city builder download here screenies here

http://z.about.com/d/compsimgames/1/5/N/A/1/Caesar_3.jpg

Faces of War: WW2 RTS (less like Command & Conquer, more control over individual squaddies) download here screenies here

http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/vandal/20060207/19/3838341726.jpg

Star Wars Lego: Original Trilogy: (this is awesome) download here

http://ps2media.gamespy.com/ps2/image/article/707/707942/lego-star-wars-ii-the-original-trilogy-20060511031208836.jpg

Oh yeah, and a bunch more demos here

It's about time!

If this fails then I guess it's' back to Psychonauts, which I still haven't finished.

Lego Star Wars looks fantastic - I love the way it looks like they realised that building a Lego Rancor would have been near impossible, so made it a pre-built character like the dragons in Medieval Lego. I'd quite like to give it a go, but no doubt my PC's not good enough.

I had to put Chrono-Trigger on hold because my roomy is being stingy with the PS2, so I went gungho and hooked up the SNES to a tiny 12" tv and have been playing the other classic-RPG-I'd-never-played-before - FINAL FANTASY III - and am in LOVE.

psp is a waste of money and if youre anything like me, you wont be able to play it for more than 5 minutes without becoming seriously ill.

Also Tomb Raider Legend looked ok.

The Arcade Live games are ACE.

Mind you I *do* keep tripping over on them and hurting myself.

Also, played the Märklin Edition of Ticket to Ride on saturday. I think I like it better than the regular edition, for just the addition of the little passengers. They have their straw hats on, their heads tilted full of optimism towards the sky, their bags packed and they're ready to go.

http://static.ticket2ridegame.com/lang/english/images/tm_photo3.jpg

I somehow won a whole game, teamed with good friend K (against her fiancee and my bf) by drawing "pina colada". Somehow, drawing a cocktail glass and a coconut tree won the day!

MOJITOS oh how i love thee!

you can get a router and a wireless receiver.

and tomb raider legend IS good.

anyone going to be around this weekend for visiting? I feel all weird going to the AC online community and finding 15 yr olds to befriend.

I caught red dragonflies, monarch butterflies, and a migratory locust at lunchtime today. Mr. Jaq caught a rainbow stag beetle - 10,000 bells!

I think I have maxed out my house - three huge downstairs rooms and the second floor?

wot u saying? i dont understand! :-(

xpost

Yesterday I spent over £20 on a Megadrive game :/

On the other hand though, I've just worked out it's my 200th PAL megadrive game, unless there are any I've forgotten to count!

But tonight I got me...K.K. SLIDER'S PICTURE! BOOYAH!

Oh THANKS so MUCH! :-))))

also, ffiv advance vs. tactics advance? is tactics just like advance wars? or can you wander around villages and stuff?

http://www.eos-press.com/images/creatures-cover-250.gif

which also has the fun card of Suck the President's Brain.

their 2nd bit is not quite as good.

Just opened up the second island. I'm loving the fact that you can replay rampages, and the option to buy back all your weapons once you die or get busted.

the AK is king.

I think I'm done with the GTA series for awhile.

I was playing plain ol' Vice City, trying to get 100%. That was ruined when one of the rampages I failed didn't regenerate. I was aiming for 99% just for kicks when last night, while I was doing some boat thingy, I just lost interest. Just like that.

When I think of a new GTA, but still with fire, paramedic, and vigilanted missions, my brain just dulls up. They better think of something different - and NOT DATING OR EATING - fast.

- August 23rd, 2006

LOLZ way to post prematurely (I didn't have a memory card and gave up within 1 hour)

However NOW I am playing CT, and saving game.

playing a bit of elder scrolls oblivion, dont know how i feel about it yet

Just got a DS Lite the other day so I'll be playing FFIII, Animal Crossing, New SMB and Mario Kart for a while along with finishing up Bully on the PS2.

no this is perfect actually it could take place present day starting out w/trying to decide on a restaurant and learning all the kinds of sushi and stuff in the end you open yr own bistro in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood.

I kinda know what you mean, but I still love the vigilante missions because they're always different. I've never liked the Paramedic missions and the fire ones are just ho hum.
They tried some variety in VCS at least, have you driven the ambulance and fire helicopters? And there's beach patrol, and you don't have to start at level 1 each time either. So yes I do hope the next big GTA game tries something new here.

It's the pizza delivery missions I find pointless, LCS had at least 3 of these alone. bah.

For me GTA is all about racing other cars, those crafty fish tailing manoeuvres, the old luring the other car into a wall trick, and all the fun to be had when the cops are after you. The on foot missions are too easy.

I'm loving VCS at the moment, the 99 red balloons thing is genius. Have you seen the 'little willy' copter, oh my!

I'm getting too old for this shit.

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/lethal_weapon_4/danny_glover/glover.jpg

The thing is, when I told the boys this morning they were like "Yay, now we can make a character with Darth Vadar's head and Princess Leia's boobs!" and Anne ended up shouting at them for being rude.

i have been playing for a month and am still on the first island. great game tho, although the cut scenes are pretty rubbish, esp. for GTA. feels like some rub. exploitation movie.

have found exactly one balloon so far, near the stadium i think, but cannot reach it. also found the 'defending your businesses' bits tres glitchy, so now just let 'em damage the premises and then go by to fix it up. every time i get in/out of a car, two bikers come and try and kill me - happens like 3 times every ten minutes. i must have pissed them off.

the businesses thing is great, the radio awesome.

it's great when you open the second island, you get access to most of the helicopters and boats.

i haven't had to defend my business yet, is this because you've purchased all the buildings? i haven't done that yet.

aha!

i haven't had to defend my business yet, is this because you've purchased all the buildings? i haven't done that yet.

i have indeed! at least for my side of the island. i've also jacked up every operation to 'high roller', so am coining in some serious dough. have you tried the multiplayer modes yet? i don't know anyone else who has a psp, is there some wireless netplay option?

also, i can't swim very well. is it me or the game? i drown a lot.

ah so that's what you've been spending the month doing. i'll have to catch up there.

not tried the multiplayer mode, i have a wireless router in my house and i think i'll switch it on tonight to see if it does anything.

And Iron Man.

http://www.pulparcade.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/thumb_sammax.jpg

http://www13.plala.or.jp/french/dmp.htm

Running jumping, shooting run&gun/shmup.
With Japanese Catholic Schoolgirl Lesbians.

but also, with the magic of emulator freeze states i have been able to BEAT BIONIC COMMANDO.

NOW'S YR CHANCE!

-- nklshs
I'M IN YOUR HOUSE. PLAYING YOUR 360.

I want to play Gears of War!

Now I can spend hours collecting millions of wee lego credits without worrying about getting shotted. Only got TRUE JEDI on about 15 levels so far, now it'll be a piece of piss.

Haha playing as Teh Emperor pwns. You end up zapping everyone with mad lightning force just so you can hear his mad laugh.

I was dreaming about collecting wee lego credits last night. This is a worrying development. I need to get back to shotting terrist faces.

If you change into someone else halfway through his jump attack you go flying through the air. Perfect for all those hard to reach places.

God I love this game. Only 3 gold bricks left to get but I don't really feel like doing all the levels in one fell swoop!

Haven't tried the bounty hunter missions yet, are they any good?

It sucks, sorry. :( Really buggy and not that fun.

(just the DS version I mean, I haven't played the real version yet)

Ah well, it's for the kids. Their standards are less exacting than mine.

You seem to say this at least once a week. I hope you never see Melton's photos of his collection!

Stevem you do get infinite lives. The drawback is you lose studs and studs mean prizes!!! Or at least gold bricks.

I love the cut scenes, they have made me smile more often than not!

Headsets ftw! Mine was only like £7, which is a small price to pay to yell "OMFG NOOB!" at people.
I've been playing multiplayer NWN2 with my brother using headsets over XFire. Fucking hilarious!
kit: "k just gonna barkskin us both and cast a few wards and then we can charge them"
kit's bro: "fuck that, i have loads of cure potions, LET'S AVE IT"
*someone casts slay living*
kit's bro: "OMFG RUN AWAY, I'M DOWN"
kit: "lolol i have death ward"
kit's bro: "fuck you"

Headset is also invaluable for re-establishing the crushed morale of the terrorist team on de_dust.
"srsly, just rush A and we'll win. NO STOPPING."

Headsets? Has anyone seen that add for Xbox (I think) where someone's eating crisps? Brilliant!

^^ xbox crisps ad ^^

(footage from Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter)

Ms Misery, try hard cos the minute he realises you like it too gone are the cuddles on the couch and evenings in front of the tv!

(Cheers nu_onimo!)

LOLOL. My fondest memory of playing CS:Sauce with Melton was him explaining ILX politics to Darramouss, which ended with Meltang yelling into his mic "... but i don't post on ile BECAUSE IT'S SHIT!"

this is craziness. the last game system I every owned was the nintendo with super mario bros. and duckhunt. what am I getting into?

yes, what Sega and the Simply Red dude failed to realise in their ads was that people had been 'playing together' already for years on PCs.

I usually mute everyone on public servers to save me time working out who is repeatedly shouting "fucking faggots!"

Why is multiplayer gaming so much better in theory than in practice? I like the idea of cooperative game..but all it does is invade my homes with new levels of social awkwardness.

Blasting my friends I'm ok with. It's blasting sweaty 35 year olds who have posters of Princess Leia on their walls which ends up making me fell dirty.

Loving this game. Better than Rome.

I also got a PSP recently and started GTA:VCS! It's pretty good! Not got very far yet. I should try actually playing games to completion...

Wot I AM playing on the DS instead is COOKING MAMA! It's so great! I have stalled in Partners in Time. I am at the bit where you have just finished fighting Mrs Thwomp, a battle which took me ONE HOUR AND TEN MINUTES of frustration, boredom and ANGER - I was nearly in TEARS! And it never EVER tells you the hit points of your opponent so you have no CLUE how close/far you might be!

And you know what happened after that? A wander into a volcano which took all of about 20 minutes... and now ANOTHER boss fight, with Adult Bowser and Baby Bowser! Just letting ONE of Bowsers attacks hit you reduces you to half life points and it just seems NOT WORTH IT! Let Peach suffer!So no wonder I like a simple cook-em-up game instead!

Have finished Gyakuten Saiban 2 :( *thumps chest*. Oh Phoenix! Oh Maya! Oh Edgeworth! Oh Pearls! Oh Mia! I love Phoenix Wright SO MUCH why oh why does it have to end??

I don't suppose any of you chaps would have a Japanese GBA rom of Gy4ku+3n 541b4n 3 by any chance? I simply CANNOT find one, but you need one to run the ongoing fan translation project. I am so desperate I am even willing to buy the actual GBA cart (it is best price so super cheapo anyway) but ARGHH how would THAT do me any good?! Anyone know how you get roms off the cartridges? What, we're in REALLY illegal terms here well tell me something I didn't know :(

I'm trying to decide between a Yoshi game and the new Castlevania.

You're OTM on unskippable cut scenes, especially when you're revisiting bits you've already done to collect minikits or whatever.

Using the flip thing in flying is invaluable but I agree the control is a bit clunky.

-- JordanC (jordan...), Today 4:46 PM. (JordanC) (later) (link)

FFIII lets you quicksave at any time.

You're wrong. So wrong.

Today I bought:

GTA: Vice City - Disk so scratched it keeps skipping :(
Star Wars Battlefield II - WHAT'S GOING ON? WHY ARE THEY SHOOTING AT ME? AM I GOOD OR BAD? OOOOO LIGHT SABER...
The Warriors - Savage. Can anyone give me a clue how to spot the police? They are currently really pissing me off!

A) Canadian
B) affected, it seems

TOTTENHAM + DOWNING + MADURO is WIN

If your GTA game is skipping, it might be the PS2. That game is nostril-rape on a PS2's systems (also GTASA, if I remember correctly, and to a lesser degree, Bully)

Ah heh heh. You totally have to watch this clip, Aus comedy troupe Tripod... singing about their woman... and, well, you'll see the relevance to this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSqFqhUzutg

I just realized that the Guardia Castle music from Chrono Trigger lifts its melody in that one section from "Theme from A Summer Place"! Who knew that the Yas wz a Percy Faith fan?

To kill time today, I downloaded Kyodai and have been playing Clicks all day long. click click click click click click click click

Proof:

I cannot stop my brain/mind from designing a NEWER BETTER FASTER Genesis/Mega Drive and CD unit.

I didn't know jack shit about digital ANYTHING, really until about a month and a half ago.
Now:
How can I sleep without knowing what version of the 68k family I should be using in Enhanced mode?(68040 looks good...just looked now)
How much memory can each chip address in each mode?
What should the chips do in each mode?
What changes should be made on the CD end?
What VDP should be used? An existing design? Which one?
If a new design, what features should be added?
What about the sound unit? A new one is needed, but what needs to be done? Can an existing design be used? What patents are still held on X chip?

That's just the beginning. The easy part's the hard part(MIND??!!?!?):
I need to re-design these chips myself/with help.
FPGA. What chip/memory will be doing the re-programming of the gate array(s) to change modes?

Teaching english to people of two different ages, cultures, and native tongues, learning Chinese, and now designing computer actitechture.

This is one step beyond masocism. This is the brink of martyrdom...

http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/gw17.jpg

Logged a shit ton of Wii hours this weekend with the boy. Nu-Zelda is amazing, the little surprises really make it (horse-back battle sequence that climaxes in duel on bridge over chasm, very Conor Smedley-esque melodic elements [HOOOWWWLLLL], walking on ceilings, etc). Also BOMB ARROWS. Hooray for fun!

BOO 2 YRS OF PLAYING WOW HAS RUINED THE CONTROL SCHEME FOR ME

"If it ain't b0rk3d, don't fix it" is obviously not their motto.

Still a great game, though.

'licious, I think you just sold me on the Wii.

STOP TALKING TO HIM.

I have no idea why someone would attack me for posting something ABOUT GAMES.
Don't care....THEN IGNORE IT.

Or go play baseball with a brick up your ass, I don't care.

In any case it's no cause to insult me.

basically, I've decided than people in this 'forum'(thread now) are by and large self-centered mongoloids who think sarcasm is the greatest form of humour, fail to understand what the proper use of an in-joke is, and still lack anything close to a true sense of irony.
As such, I could give a fuck about you, but it's too much of an effort.
I'll just spit back the attitude spit at OR handed to me. I just don't feel the need to stand on ceremony.

Nooooooooooooo!

"Sorry folks... I've had to remove the link to the download.
Email from BizarreCreations:
"We're beginning to feel the effects of the Geometry Wars clones on our sales via Microsoft now and are beginning a process to begin to more robustly protect our copyright and intellectual property.
Therefore, I'd like to ask you in an amicable fashion to stop infringing our IP and pull the game 'Grid Wars' from the internet for download.
I hope you understand and are able to do this without us having to take further steps."

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Puts the 'ass' into aspergers...

Yup. I had to do that (on OS X too). The defaults were a rather eccentric resolution that my 12" iBook didn't support, and perhaps because of the hacky way its distributed/bundled you don't get an error message or anything. Just a crash.

My high score is about 250,000 (need to check this). I hate the red car things with the shields that follow you around. I love this game.

i am taking a WoW brake bcz the new patch has fukked up all my add-ons (;_;) and also because i get disconnected every 5 minutes since the patch. which is probably better for me and the extant remains of my social life.

also hey guys I am starting a new gzeus-free ILG who's cumming wit me. (actually it is mostly dedicated to making fun of ABBIE HEPPE OF TIPS & TRICKS MAGAZINE)

Should be getting Zelda, Red Steel and Wii Play with it too, though it may be a weekend of impulse buying as I want to play Rayman Raving Rabbids too...

Shipped via Parcelforce Worldwide (estimated arrival date:
08-December-2006).

BOO!

The following items will be sent separately:
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Ordered Title Price On order
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1 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight £34.99 1

Call of Duty 3 is terribly dull - it's all straight-line plot and random shooting. I like being expected to sneak around and snipe a little, to plan how I should move.

Sorry, it is totally true. To make it worse, Australia/New Zealand don't even get TurboGraphix games or games like Mario RPG. Oh! Also, our games are like US$2-3 more than the superior NTSC versions US gamers get! Nintendo of Europe/Australia really are massive cunts.

Rumour hav it that you have to buy a US wii and download from the US wii store (which given strength of dolla, holla doesn't seem so bad apart from import schmimport etc) but I have 0 clue if THAT would then work with Old Cathode Ray Faithful. I guess. I don't know. I afford a wiiii anyway but luckily I have friends who can!

still haven't beated ninja gaiden, jesus christ what a torturous monster the final stretch of that game is

xpost yeah i've got RCR!! it is great. i think i ruined it by cheating tho; found a get-everything code and i don't know what to do with myself

Hot on the heels of the release of the Iraq Study Group Report -- and a day in which 10 U.S. servicemen were killed and at least 84 Iraqis were blown up or shot -- prospective presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will join with Joe Lieberman to hold a press conference today at 3 pm ET to announce the launch of a television PSA campaign about... video game ratings.

seduced by the power of Joementum.

anyone else?

get the book, give it to the wrong person, shock the column, get in trouble, steal book back from person and give to guild!

The furthest I've gotten is the little underground empire and that was still one bar short of MAX. I feel like I've tried every 'branch', wtf am I missing :(

I'm loving this!

more random japanese games

Shadow of the Colossus and ICO!

My roommate has been playing this old game called Shadow Run that sometimes has awesome music but more often makes horrible annoying repetitious unpleasantness noise.

Thanks, I've been hearing conflicting stories but your opinion seems to be the most common, roll on payday (Thursday at midnight for some reason).

BLANTON DORMITORY, 2500 University Ave.
Fraud: A UT student reported that he had made the winning bid on an online auction site for a PlayStation 3 gaming console. The student anxiously awaited the delivery and soon discovered that he had gotten into a bidding war for pictures of a PS3. Loss value: $835.00

1 warrior
1 priest (me)
1 rogue
1 paladin
1 warlock

HI DERE WORK-BASED GUILD

my girlfriend bought it

i recommend u get a Wii like all the other mental children who like getting the mail and popping clouds with a lollypop and chasing marshmallow baddies in a cloud car faggot mushroom face bulshit kirby recycled crap nothing interesing stupid kiddie retard garbage, READING THIS THREAD IS LIKE GETTING A DICK IN THE GULLET

"(hey ade, I cansen you the add-on package one of guild officers made up that works with the 2.0 patch if you want it... haven't figured out how all the mods in it work and a couple of them actively suck (grr fucking Pocket Gnome, I hate you) but it mostly works well and looks good)"

that'd be kewl thx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wait what addons are there? I updated a bunch of them, it's just some key things like Auctioneer and Gatherer that I am missing now ;_______;

Sopranos game vs. Desperate Housewives game kthx

xposts

and a fuller press clip showing Wii action

(both in japanese)

Deep breaths... Your channeling GZeus!

Cheers Michael, I'll check out the Shadow of the Colussus. ICO sounds a little too involved for me.

The questions is: get myself a new PS2 after christmas in the sales or go for a Wii?

EXCITING.

I was going to do the Animal Crossing friends code on here but it all seems to have gone a bit loco with the menks so maybe not right now...

btw after playing through Chrono Trigger (3 diff endings so far too!) I can honestly say that Robo is totally my favorite. I love his one LaserSpin attack or whatever where he goes all disco ball Death Blossom on everyone.

Robo was usually name Vibro, though.

* Humor-impaired = conversations like this, when my opponent has just killed another of my guys and I now have like 2 weak-ass characters left against his six dragons and super-powered witches and he's clearly slaughtering me:

ME: My plan is working perfectly.
ME: You're falling right into my trap.
THEM: okay
ME: I'm luring you into a false sense of confidence.
THEM: beat me, then
ME: The blood of my men will rust your swords until they prove useless.
THEM: i win in 2 moves
ME: You haven't counted on my invisible dragon cleric.
THEM: you can't get dragons without a gold account

Game over.

another emulator gem: Flashback. downloaded while pulling a bunch of shit from coolrom based on titles alone (of course mostly turning out to be untranslated japanese stuff) and wow! looks really great, really convincing visual style and sense and movement (a little prince of persia-y). i'd never heard of it before.

and here ya go

put out by Sega

(Mind you, my bf actively HAS to play games all day long, part of his job, bastardface. etc etc)

I play Tribal Wars at work and the amount of crap on the forums or I get by email. LOL? Fuck you! SPEAK ADULT grrrrrrr!

I have decided to buy myself a Wii because I was told to. Ah, l'amour etc.

My dad plays WoW. He & some members of his guild were beginning to suspect that one of their members was but a kid. Their suspicions were confirmed when, as a raid went sour, on the chat channel, full of "fuck!"s and "god damnit!"s, that particular guild-member swore "TARTAR SAUCE!"*.

*note: "tartar sauce" is used as a swear word on Spongebob Squarepants (other Spongebob swears include: "fish paste!", "barnacles!", "dirty barnacles!")

I wish I had this problem. C'mon Kevnol, at least you have the loffles factor!

2. Best Buy is releasing held-back Wii shipments this weekend, rumors are 40 units+ per store that they've been shoring up to boost sales.

New conversational highlights:

THEM: my other account has like 1200 xp
ME: My other car is a Ferrari.
THEM: yea right what year and model
ME: It's an 1824 special edition.
ME: From before cars were even INVENTED.
THEM: well if yr driving it then it must be a piece of crap
THEM: if it was worth nething u'd keep it in a glass case
ME: I have four others in a glass case.
THEM: i drive a honda

your opponent is an insufferable, spoiled 13-year-old. everything else follows from this:

1. your opponent will disconnect to avoid "actually" losing.
1a. the chances of this are roughly tripled if there is any kind of win/loss record-keeping or ranking system.
2. your opponent will accuse you of using "cheap" tactics. for a short while you will attempt to reason with them and fail 100% of the time.

etc

THEM: how old r u
ME: 29
THEM: omg old
ME: How old are YOU?
THEM: i'm almost 18, 17 now but i'll be 18 in a month
ME: I'm not your Congressman, dude, chill out.
THEM: ???

My son loves that game, especially the way it sounds like Joe is saying his own name when he jumps (Joe-HWOOO!).

In Runescape I always have the chat turned off, it's much better.

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=729

the reason being, there was one town in it that was supposed to be more vanilla and peaceful, so the random encounters were more civilian. but there was always a chance that any encounter would turn violent right away, no matter how advanced you were. so you would have to, at some point, fight off a family or group of unarmed bums that jumped you.

TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed MOTHER with AUTORIFL.
SUCCESS.

I lucked him the first time around after a bazillion attempts and now on the "fight all the bastard bosses again" level I just have no clue what to do with him :(

Congrats Nathalie :) Did you get Zelda?

HIM: how old are you?
ME: 29
HIM: you're like an older brother to me

The only tedious moment I've witnessed in the game so far has been SPOILERS AHOY the giant statues puzzle right before the master sword SPOILERS NO LONGER AHOY.

Yeah, but I heard Pheonix Wright is pretty damn short, w/ no replay value.

Also, i'm boggling at the fact that I'm older than nabisco.

can handheld systems sustain playing a long-form RPG(e.g. FFIII?)

Desert temple. They've all got one though right? It has one of the most fun items Ive yet seen in a Zelda game though (probably forgetting some), hoping it comes in for use again at some point and I'll be shocked if Nintendo haven't crafted a mini game or two with it in mind...

HERE ENDETH THE SPOILER

I spent fuckin hours today just pootling about Hyrule though, trying out all the fishing (possibly the only thing to make me sad I don't have the Wii version) and everything. The point at which you can really explore - usually when you've collected the initial three items say - and the game really opens out is always my favourite. I think I'm starting to see a proper town starting to develop - along the lines of Wind Waker more than Clock Town from Majoras Mask most likely, but I'm hoping for anything in that regard, cos thats often one the greatest things about Zelda. I love the working, changing towns... Like having a mini animal crossing in the middle of a huge adventure game or something.

But yeah, it's fucking huge. Like they've just crammed in every last bit of every Zelda game in to one huge best of. And if, like the rumours say, this is the last Zelda in this traditional style then it makes sense to go out epic style.

Yeah I really really wanted to talk about this but don't want to ruin the surprise for others, opening that chest was one of the ultimate WTF moments in gaming history for me.

This game has really made me laugh on numerous occasions, and I'm really glad that's all still there (and especially that it's text based - contrary to what many reviews have said - cos the humour relies on being read for one [Malo's little mumblings when you're showing the kids how to use yr sword say], and having everything spoken breaks the game and how it all works...), supposed "darker serious tone" or not (and that item just sort of had me chuckling to myself with joy). S'funny though, I've seen a few people mention online that... nobody is talking about Zelda online! I mean, I'm sure they are in some places but it's almost as a)too busy playing and b)nobosy really wants to give anything away.

guess i should stop reading this thread for a few hours

I just got to another dungeon, saw it was eight floors in all, saw the time and thought... yeah, fuck that.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-PdMRLzcGDg

Reminds me of Shadow of the Colossus, only set in neo-/megatokyo and you have to take down a big stompy robot.

earth defense force 3 for the 360. it looks good!

some insane wii/nintendo fan art

Bummer, I just signed up for this last night after reading you talking about it. Gravel, what server are you on? I just picked Great Lakes or whatever at random.

Next expansion: Seasons! Finally, we get weather in the game!

I heard this too, but it still seems pretty mammoth to me! I played it every day on my hour journey to work and it took me a couple of months. I have replayed it since, but yeah, you won't get anything new out of it the second time except for a couple of different bits of dialogue based on answering questions differently. If you see it cheap though, definitely get it - it's my favourite DS game by miles.

anyway managed to play a bit more of vice city stories last night, it seems to have stopped skipping now - radio still jumps from time to time. I'm loving it again. I did the CIA vehicle collection thingy, but where are the rewards ??

Sad I've finished it though, felt a lot like GTA:SA for characters etc.

IGN brings the syntactic mischief

so does mine - i think that's just how it is!

:(

kat says:
u get bs>?

teh_kit! says:
noes

teh_kit! says:
world is made of haet

teh_kit! says:
;_;

kat says:
oh dears

teh_kit! says:
not even exaggerating

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Anyway, I managed to get a BS Lite on the way home. Hoorah!

Now, I can only wish it upon the next generation.

http://www.comics.com/comics/peanuts/fun_and_games/images/cards/snoopy_soaring.jpg

YES! It is CRAZY.

Also, I found it really useful a number of times to check the rules of a bunch of card games when I went on holiday last year.

Too true. Which is a shame cos handling wise I much prefer DS PHAT. The lite is like a crappy iPod thingy.

They've been banned from gaming for a week.

Anyway, scratch repair thingies: do they work or do I need to buy a new game?

No gaming for a week? HARSH.
Surely you could've been a little less severe. No food for a week or something?

The PS2 is ancient, one of the old fat ones. I've had it for years and it was 2nd hand when I got it :) I tried a number of disks and they all loaded apart from the LSW2 game that was spinning in the drive when it was dropped and got scratched.

Mark wrote me a Christmas card with "Happy Christmas Dad. I'm very sorry for breaking your Playstation" and gave me it with tears welling up in his eyes and I felt terrible and wanted to go buy him a new Lego Star Wars game but the wife wouldn't let me. They've got to learn a lesson, apparently. She's right of course but it still sucks and it also means _I_ don't get to play Lego Star Wars until they save up for a replacement.

This won't end well.

(includes Elite Beat Agents, so it's probably good enough)

Wii will prevail, or something. I bet I dont find one tho. ;_;

from website

Fuck work!

*"completed" only applies to primary story arc, there are still a shit ton of sidequesty type things I can and will do

and i see that nintendo have grabbed it!

Linerider DS plz!

They could call it Line Rider: Down Slopes.

I'll try loading it again when I get home but I'm not hopeful.

Anticipated to ship in Spring 2007, Line Rider for the Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo Wii from inXile entertainment will retain all the fun and thrills of the addictive Web version, but will also include new added features.

Someone finally looked at the player editting thing on Pro Evo 6:

Pimp my Cambiasso
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/2296/newbitmapimagelu9.jpg

how so? i wouldv'e thought the DS was more applicable.

peruse at your leisure.

The Wii shopping thingee is going online on christmas morn. you can get NES SMB, R-type, and TOE JAM & EARL! BIIIIIIIIG EARL!

haha, this has been the one thing I have tried to do with linerider since day 1 (unsuccessfully)

I am ready for my plane rides tomorrow.

What, episode 1?

no, episode 2 (i got it on gametap). it feels like a few puzzles that got left out of the first one.

Contact appears to have possess an extremely poor save system. You can only save by going to your bed on the mothership but there's no teleport-home function. WTF, this is for a PORTABLE, Atlus.

ok it is way more fun than i thought.

even though we havne't managed to sort out the sensor (IR emitter) thing yet in relation to the projector screen (it's TOO BIG)

I did pick up FFTA, but I'm still on the final bosses of the first Golden Sun game, so no go.

What's the story with the Amazon thing, ally?

THe PS3's took at least 5 minutes to sell out, btw, since you have been keeping tabs on such things. I was truly that bored, that I sat there, refreshing every once and a while, after those babies went on sale. We could've hada $700 piece of crap, baby!

this is the Way

I had a nightmare last night that Justine was coming to kill me andI had to hide in a fridge, man up on your nightmares you pussy.

http://www.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/12/declineps3final-thumb.jpg

will you play me via wireless gaming internet? thanks.

A-Shoes are totally two years ago! I made a more realistic "Adam" character and was told it looked like well-paid Hollywood actor Eric Bana.

are they anybody in particular(e.g. certain Nintendo execs), or just randomly cast japanese guys?

i just got a wavebird real cheap, any recommendations for gamecube games i can play on wii when the inevitable game shortages come?

Nah, def. Killer7, Eternal Darkness, Anything Resident Evil but esp. RE4, Wind Waker, Ikaruga, Fire Emblem, Metroid Prime, Paper Mario...there's a FF game (Crystal Chronicles) but it's the twee-est damn thing ever.

New SMB is pretty cool. I haven't played much of my DS platformers (New SMB, Sonic Rush, Yoshi's Island) yet. I'm mostly still trying to finish FFIII but I'm also screwing around with Nintendogs, Phoenix Wright and Rocket Slime. I finished Trace Memory, a DS graphic adventure that only takes about 5 1/2 hours. There's another game from the same developer coming out next month called Hotel Dusk.

BTW, I have FFIV and FFV for GBA now and as far as I can tell they're just like the PS1 ports, i.e. FFIV has the restored scenes and more accurate translation. I'll have to see if "you spoony bard!" is still in there.