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messing about w/gta3. thinking about scraping up for a psp so i can play gta:lcs.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

you can play it on ps2.

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.

katarina (katarina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't got a ps2 either!
I just have a PC at home.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I have only ever once played an "X" word on a triple word score in scrabble, as far as I remember (lots of drunken scrabbling). That word was "exist".

nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

get a cheapy ps2

katarina (katarina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone else looking forward to Okami, the PS2 sun god/wolf calligraphy game?

patita (patita), Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought that already came out

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 31 August 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

September 19 according to Gamespy (for the US). It's been out since April in Japan.

patita (patita), Thursday, 31 August 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

donkey kong country. amazing. broke my ds. not amazing.

rio natsume, Thursday, 31 August 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got a xbox 360 (yes!). any recommendations as to what games I should get?

badg, Friday, 1 September 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

DEAD RISING !!

Also Tomb Raider Legend looked ok.

The Arcade Live games are ACE.

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 September 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Watch yer internet d/l limits though (if you have them) - we slammed thru about 5 gb in a week just going "ooh cool demos!" on the xbox live thing and grabbing everything in sight.

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 September 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Animal xingors - Pulquedo's gates are open for the next hour or so if you're playing :) I picked all my exotic fruit, but there's apples if you want 'em.

jaq (jaq), Friday, 1 September 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, haven't even checked xbox live yet. Cable has to do the dreaded doorway-cross to make it to the room with the modem in it. So far I've just been hammering table tennis.

badg, Friday, 1 September 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Pfft, our entire flat is cris-crossed with ethernet and power cables!

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

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 September 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link

We played a mini Scrabble tournament AND I FUCKING WON. WOOHOO! I'm actually not that good. I should go for new words, but a lot of the time I just make a word plural. I feel a bit of a cheat that way. :-(

stevie nixed (stevienixed), Friday, 1 September 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Beat my friend at Scrabble tonight.

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

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 1 September 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah. Mongrels Ed to thread: he'd trounce you all in Scrabble. He's some sort of national Scrabble champ, apaz.

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of board games: best thing in the world is drunken Pictionary, innit? Especially if you make a little note on yr scrawl after the round of WTF it was you were doing.

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!

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i DRANK a cocktail last night. this is probably why i won: the others were inebriated but for me the alcohol doesn't affect my pea-sized brain. is it considered a faux pas to make words plural lots of times? i discovered yet AGAIN that my dutch is horrendous! fuck new spelling rules!!!

MOJITOS oh how i love thee!

stevie nixed (stevienixed), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Guys guys guys, it's a new season in Animal Crossing which means new bugs and fish!

ESTEBAN BUTTEZ IN THA HIZZOUSE, Friday, 1 September 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't played it for about 6 weeks and I'm scared to switch it on.

nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 September 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, haven't even checked xbox live yet. Cable has to do the dreaded doorway-cross to make it to the room with the modem in it. So far I've just been hammering table tennis.
-- badg (...), September 1st, 2006.

you can get a router and a wireless receiver.

and tomb raider legend IS good.

katarina (katarina), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

played more of Caesar IV demo, and CivCity Rome

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 1 September 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Nathalie, did you ever get logged in to ISC/install Wordbiz?

I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 September 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

can't cross Animals until this weekend. I'm a couple days behind, but may try to catch up over the weekend to take advantage of new bugs and fish!

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.

patita (patita), Friday, 1 September 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

We're traveling again this weekend, but will be in a hotel with fairly decent connectivity - look for Pulquedo or drop me a note :)

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?

jaq (jaq), Friday, 1 September 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Nathalie, did you ever get logged in to ISC/install Wordbiz?

wot u saying? i dont understand! :-(

stevie nixed (stevienixed), Friday, 1 September 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah that's it. Don't waste money by paying the last mortgage, you won't get anything.

xpost

Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 1 September 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

You may not have seen this on the regular-ILX Scrabble thread before it went down, but I linked to the Internet Scrabble Club, where you can also get the Wordbiz program to play online.

I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 September 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I shall now play counterstrike using the power of drunk. Wish me faces.

nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 September 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, I must have missed half of the stuff from the last Animal Xing season :( I am looking forward to winter though, like on the ads when the game launched.

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

melton mowbray (melton), Saturday, 2 September 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

What game?

stet (stet), Saturday, 2 September 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Shining in the Darkness. It shouldn't necessarily be that expensive, but it was hard to see it in such great condition in real life and not buy it.

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!

melton mowbray (melton), Saturday, 2 September 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Flea Market day always gives me the shits. Especially when they've already been to my place and then complain when I'm not at home when I want them to go home so I can visit and buy. Plus, Lucy tried to buy EVERYTHING I own.

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

ESTEBAN BUTTEZ IN THA HIZZOUSE, Saturday, 2 September 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

You may not have seen this on the regular-ILX Scrabble thread before it went down, but I linked to the Internet Scrabble Club, where you can also get the Wordbiz program to play online.

Oh THANKS so MUCH! :-))))

stevie nixed (stevienixed), Saturday, 2 September 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I made about 50k selling shit thanks to the flea market. Who rules? I DO.

Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 September 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
tell me what i should get: rocket slime, mario & luigi: partners in crime, or contact? contact looks pretty cool, i think it dropped today, it's made by the same dudes that made earthbound, anyone played it yet?

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

deep kid, Monday, 16 October 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't walk around freely in ffta, and i's not much like the FF series at all, though it's pretty addictive and fun in its own right. All you do in it is choose a mission, find the place where the mission is (on a kind of map screen, no wandering around much), fight, wash, rinse, repeat, whilst levelling up and switching jobs. I'd go for ffiv myself, it seems to get drowned out by vi and some of the later FFs when people talk about the best ones and doesn't get the credit it deserves..

Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I picked up a card game at the HPL Film Fest called Creatures & Cultists:

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

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

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
issue of The Escapist with a nice article on Psychonauts and the use of art in games.

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Sunday, 26 November 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

SpikeTV is having the Mega64 dorks do the adverts for the game awards this year, and fully admit in the ad how shitty the previous awards have been.

their 2nd bit is not quite as good.


kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Sunday, 26 November 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello this is all rather odd. How are we?

K Man (Darramouss), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

BNA!

Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

So what's up? Who here likes Guitar Hero and Chronos Trigger?

Kevin (kv_nol), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmm Guitar Hero has been fun. I've been seriously digging Okami too.

patita (patita), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

god, excite truck

cousin larry bundgee, Monday, 27 November 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone playing Vice City Stories?

I got a psp last week with this. Its great, athough i hate the pop up when you drive really fast. and my radio keeps cutting out, which is quite realistic actually.

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.

Ste, Monday, 27 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Should I buy Yoshi's Island DS or Yoshi's Island Advance? I never played the original.

JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone playing Vice City Stories?

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.

PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I finally got a Nintendo DS. And a buttload of games. My 5-second synopses after playing them for, like, under an hour each:

Trauma Center: So far this is amazing. I can see it getting boring super fast, though.
Brain Age: WTF? This is awesome. I definitely DON'T use my brain ever, because after playing this for like 30 minutes I started to get a bit manic. It was like drugs for my BRAIN, MAN.
Big Brain Academy: Eh, didn't like it as much as Age.
the first castlevania: actually only looked at the intro screen.
Cooking Mama: yet to even put it in the machine.
New super Mario Bros: You know, I'll say it... not blown away. My friend puts it as his fave SMB game of all time... and Yoshi's Island second. I think they both rank at (or near) the bottom of my list. SMB3 first, SMW1 second, SMBLL third, SMB2, SMB1, Yoshi, this game. But I'm only on world 2, so what do I know.

Will M. (Will M.), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I still need to get the Castlevania DS games.

And the Fire Emblem ones, too, just for good measure.

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

There are Fire Emblem DS games?! OMG want to play.

Will M. (Will M.), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

nah, these are just the GBA titles

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I rented three Wii games this weekend, one of them sucked completely (Metal Slug Anthology - why was this released for Wii, again?), and one of them was identical to the DS version (Trauma Center: Second Opinion) I stopped playing it because I hate being insulted by manga characters.

The other one was Zelda, and it completely rules.

Jay (jaymacke), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and Wii Play is precisely the waste that all of the pre-release reviews and other region folks claimed. Get it if you need the controller, because it takes about three hours to complete every single minigame at the highest level.

Jay (jaymacke), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I finally put 'em on the glass ceiling re: WoW - after one month+ of rampant nonstop glee, I can't stand to play more than twice a week, if that, & only for an hour or two @ a time (unless doing an instance w/ pals). Grinding solo is some bullshit.

David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

EXCITE TRUCK MADE ME SPASTIC WOOOOOHOOOOO XXXXTREEEEME

Seriously, it's pretty fun.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Raving Rabbids is like living a nightmare. It's fun to watch someone else stress out over it though. "Gangsta" Rayman is black!

Elebits, as noted above, is awesome; ransacking a house looking for little parasites and zapping them with your ghostbuster gun is more fun than I could've predicted.

My guy's score is at 2048 on tennis. I assumed it stopped at 2000, but that's not the case; you just keep going over the top of the chart. The game doesn't get harder though; you just keep playing one 1900 player and one 2000 player. Twitch reflexes and intuitive controls have me at a point where I'm consistently beating the computer in straight sets. When do I get to play real people online; that's the million dollar question?

Anybody know anything about realtime one-on-one wifi games for the wii? C'mon, they can do it with the DS; what's the hold up?

forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I got stuck at something really early in Raving Rabbids, got completely fed up, and haven't played it since.

Excite Truck is pretty fun.

Jay (jaymacke), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

We just got a Wii in the house and now I've crippled myself playing bowling... today I am walking with a stick, hurrah

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The Rayman game is amazing, just for how bizarre it is

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

forks: the first one will be pokemon, but that requires friend codes. i am assuming a whole bunch will be out after that.

Webber (Webber), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Excitetruck, from what little i've played of it, strikes me as a quintessential "Dudes, check this out!" title, to be demonstrated to a group of folks as drunk as possible.

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

And this is a bad thing because?

Anything that gets my friends to understand why I enjoy spending a couple of hours a weekend geeking out is fine by me!

kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Red Steel as bad/mediocre/etc as they say?

Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i just got a heck of a lot of amiga games for my xbox. played kick off already, it's actually still great fun.

Ste (fuzzy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

OH MAN AMIGA. Play... what was it called. Sword of Twilight? Also: Rodland. Also: Pandora (I had it in a 4-pack with an Arkanoid clone if that help). Also: Warlords.

Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

There was also a turn-based strategy with Marines in it called Breach 2, I think. And also, Star Command was great. I think you needed the manual for both, though...

Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

2.5 hours on Grid Wars last night, finishing at about 1am (why?). was determined to keep playing until i got on the highscore table but that's increasingly difficult. didn't manage it (currently need 600,000 plus on hard)

koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

cosign on the new Zelda being totally fucking awesome. it's as cinematic as any game I've ever played or seen. The twilight bits are totally cosmic/haunting, plus so far all the boss monsters are completely terrifying, which makes up for their total piece-of-cake nature combat-wise. Love the SM64 Bowser flashback with the Death Mountain miniboss.

things I hate so far, a list: motherfucking lava, portal monsters who won't cooperate and keep wandering around out of B-button death range, portal monsters I have to fight in human form, most of the little kids from my village, Midna giving me useless/redundant advice in dungeons.

TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I know I've joined in with too many "Name great Amiga games" lists, normally when you mention the Amiga, I think, Ste. But one I always forget to mention is 'Walker'. Which is still a great game.

As for Zelda, yeah, I hate the portal Monsters, but I've become a pretty big fan of riding round Hyrule Field as fast as Epona will go doing drive-bys (With my sword) on the baddies that wander about down there.

I still haven't made as big a dent in Zelda as I feel I should have, just haven't had a chance to dedicate a whole day to it like I really should. Maybe this weekend. maybe.

Craig Gilchrist (Craig G), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man ride-by slapping trolls upside the head is hilarious. I also like locking on with the boomerang whenever one of those bird fuckers comes in on my six and then letting them eat my dust while they float around stunned.

TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I still haven't made as big a dent in Zelda as I feel I should have, just haven't had a chance to dedicate a whole day to it like I really should. Maybe this weekend. maybe.

Same here - I'm only just catching my stride thirteen hours into the damn thing! (I do have to applaud the designers for building in a pretty brilliant degree of compartmentalization - as someone who rarely has the patience for gigantic sprawling games, it's a huge boost for the game to be structured by goals which can be accomplished in an hour or so, like "find the tears" or "get into the castle" or whatever. Maybe this has been an element of Zelda forever and it's just new to me since TP is the first Zelda I've ever owned and therefore had the time to obsess over; I 'unno.)

James Cobo (trdn89), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I am still playing Circle of the Moon. I spent too long trying to get specific item drops from certain monsters.

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Too long away from Animal Xing again. I felt ashamed to switch it on last night.

The Shrink guy (Shrunk?) is making me touch him!

Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah zelda still hasn't grabbed me like i want it to, it hasn't become compulsive yet (i played snes zelda recently and literally breathed that shit for a week) tho' i'm only at the zora lake so i guess there's still time. it seems a bit episodic at the moment. i can't wait to properly explore the castle town.

red steel is atrocious. terrible graphics (made worse by the fact that the game relies on long range shooting, often far away enemies can only be detected by gun fire or when they hit you), unresponsive controls, it is neither realistic nor fun to simulate opening a door with a flick of the nunchuck, so much time spent fucking around trying to escape through doors while getting shot the fuck up when a simple button press would suffice, ditto sword fighting, it just doesn't work. the music sounds like fucking propellerheads or some shit, like 10 minute tom rolls and played james bond melodies into atmospheric exhale drones/corny fake "j pop" drum n bass with insulting fake japanese vocals, terrible enemy ai and voice acting ("he's gone..", no i'm fucking not i'm shooting you in the head, dick). it's not so good. i just can't believe they fucked the controls up so bad, like who tests this shit?? how does it get through??

rio natsume (rio natsume), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The Shrink guy (Shrunk?) is making me touch him!

Can you show us on the doll where he touched you?

kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

God I miss San Andreas.

It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

lookee lookee, promo image for the Wii Fire Emblem game

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link

the wiimote makes it really difficult to smoke whilst playing

rio natsume (rio natsume), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I got Guitar Hero 2. Rock!

also playing mario & luigi: superstar saga. too many tutorials, not enough fun yet.

a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

like who tests this shit??

hahahahaha i think i know people who did.

Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn sandbox, since I have to come in ILE to get to my ILG substitute, I've actually started reading ILE/posting occasionally... I am out of my element and sad. Maybe I should be less ILG centric in general (only forum I ever go to).

Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

You're not missing much, honestly.

Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Finally beat Circle of the Moon. Took me long enough.

Now to get a used copy of Dawn of Sorrow...

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Thursday, 22 February 2007 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha, this cat has more wii than the rest of us

http://www.knitemare.org/cats/feb_12_07-13.jpg

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

finally got Dawn of Sorrow. Had to drive out to the meth-fueled lands of Clackamas, to a nice kid who lived in his grandparents stinky house.

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Friday, 23 February 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

gutted i can't play the pinball series games on my amiga emulator on xbox, need keyboard. Nothing a quick adaptor won't fix mind.

I'm surprised by how much fun most of these games still are, usually with emulators i'll play for a few seconds and then switch off but I was well into Robocod the other day. Alien Breed too was something I couldn't stop playing last night.

Ste (fuzzy), Friday, 23 February 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link


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