Wake up in the morning with a hankering and he’s away at work.
NOW’S YR CHANCE!
I kinda want to get that Bionic Commando/Strider combo that came out for GBA.
I just got told off for wanting an Xbox :(
NOW’S YR CHANCE!
— nklshs
I’M IN YOUR HOUSE. PLAYING YOUR 360.
I want a regular XBox.
So i can set it up to play emulators. Better video connections available.
I started playing M2TW at last. Much pwnage, but Inquisitors are a right pain in the arse.
I has got the bairns a DS for chrimbo. Will probably have to wait til mid January before I can play on it without feeling guilty.
But you bought it?
I want to play Gears of War!
Oh, what’s this huge blue parcel here? Why, it smells like Guitar Hero 2!
INVINCIBILITY BRICK UNLOCKED!
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.
NO FUCKING SHIT
ooh I got Lego Star Wars 2 with the DS. Maybe I can hold out til Boxing Day.
Haha playing as Teh Emperor pwns. You end up zapping everyone with mad lightning force just so you can hear his mad laugh.
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!
I somehow managed to get him spinning upside down light sabring between two objects the other night. I thought he was going to stick like that but he eventually jumped down.
Haven’t tried the bounty hunter missions yet, are they any good?
They’re really short. But you got a posse!
I gotta try me some of this lego star wars action.
The BH missions are okay... They’re not too exciting. A necessary evil perhaps but as Andrew said, you gets a crew for your gattin’!
ooh I got Lego Star Wars 2 with the DS.
It sucks, sorry. :( Really buggy and not that fun.
(just the DS version I mean, I haven’t played the real version yet)
i had a quick dabble on my mates headset on Day of Defeat last night, it was giddy and exciting. I’m going to get one!
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Ah well, it’s for the kids. Their standards are less exacting than mine.
i am playing Lego Star Wars 2 but v v slowly. a good game to play to try and get back into games generally for me i think. fun but feels a bit too aimless at times and it seems you have infinite lives by default?
I’m going to get one!
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!
I miss Meltang :(
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.”
What did happen to Melton?
Headsets? Has anyone seen that add for Xbox (I think) where someone’s eating crisps? Brilliant!
I can’t make out anything anyone with a headset says on CS—they all sound like Zombie Dave.
melton got a fkin job and broke his windows drive on his PC.
therefore he isn’t playing PC games and is always working nights, so it’s rare we even get to chat these days.
he is a DISPLACED PERSON.
i have bought ps2 games for my boy! I will buy the machine this weekend! I am excited! How hard should I try and hide that this is also a gift for myself?
http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/3E046096-938E-4024-B265-4FEBC620C672/0/vidukcrunchlo.asx
^^ xbox crisps ad ^^
(footage from Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter)
Poor Teh_kit. I’m sure he’ll come back soon. ILX is hard to quit!
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!)
ILX is hard to quit!
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!”
hold on, there are video games where you talk to each other?
this is craziness. the last game system I every owned was the nintendo with super mario bros. and duckhunt. what am I getting into?
if “talk to each other” = Melton randomly shouting “WILLY!” while we shot people, then yeah, people talk to each other now.
hold on, there are video games where you talk to each other?
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 was at a LAN event and people were talking via headsets to the person sitting next to them.
I usually mute everyone on public servers to save me time working out who is repeatedly shouting “fucking faggots!”
how do you mute yourself, d00d?
I don’t like multiplayer headsets. If i don’t plug mine in, i can at least pretend the people i’m playing against are normal human beings—rather than degenerate 15 year olds who haven’t seen the sun in weeks :(
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.
b/c being able to blast your friends is way better than blasting random AI, much in the same way that blasting imperial stormtroopers is way better than blasting random demons.
“much in the same way that blasting imperial stormtroopers is way better than blasting random demons.”
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.
Get one vent server.
I played the zombie mission in Vice City Stories last night, haha. Shoot and slash zombie actors in a film mock up in the mall. Too easy though.
Still fighting through M2TW. 100 turns played so far, and the fucking French just put 3 of my captured settlements under siege in the same turn. They’re all stuffed with poorly armed militia and peasants, so I’m pretty much resigned to losing them.
I’m just gonna write them off and turn my attention to the less powerful Danes.
Loving this game. Better than Rome.
I started playing FFIII on the DS, but it took me a few tries to get past the first boss, then I couldn’t figure out how to save so figured I’d just keep playing til any kindly townfols say “You can always save your progress by doing X”, but it never happened. I then promptly died and refuse to play through it all again (I probably will though).
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...
Oh HOT DARN I meant to go and get Animal Crossing this lunchtime, but work was busy so I just ran out for some oatcakes and forgot. ARGH! And I have stupid gym assessment immediately after work so can’t go to the shop afterwards either. OH NOOOO.
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 :(
Is Cooking Mama out?
I’m trying to decide between a Yoshi game and the new Castlevania.
I’ve seen in it shops in the UK—actually WEEKS before my copy from play-asia arrived, but I guess it’s out in the US as well as my copy is NoA.
FF3 apparently only lets you save while out & about on the world map. no dungeon or town saving, for a game on a protable system = I’m going to Amazon and deleting this from my wishlist right now
The last GBA FF game I played didn’t let you save in dungeons, I don’t think, but you could “suspend” or something (basically worked like a temp save).
Has anybody tried out BLUE RESCUE TEAM?
Well I got me some lego star wars action. And call me a grumpy old bastard, but I have so many issues with this game. Unskippable cut scenes, infuriating control system (I cannot do the flying missions for shit), frustrating camera angles, ridiculous puzzles (you want me to use the force to grow some flowers? Which then explode? And then I have to smash them with my lightsabre? And make a bridge with the planks underneath?!?) The Dagobah mission near killed me. Yeah it’s a cute concept, there’s a few roffles in the cutscenes, but the gameplay is currently providing me with negative fun.
Those aren’t puzzles, those are part of “fucking around with everything you see”.
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.
FF3 apparently only lets you save while out & about on the world map. no dungeon or town saving, for a game on a protable system = I’m going to Amazon and deleting this from my wishlist right now
— TOM. BOT. (tombo...), Today 4:41 PM. (trm) (later) (link)
The last GBA FF game I played didn’t let you save in dungeons, I don’t think, but you could “suspend” or something (basically worked like a temp save).
— JordanC (jordan...), Today 4:46 PM. (JordanC) (later) (link)
FFIII lets you quicksave at any time.
I so want to see the hamster fight against a level-end boss! And then he can do a little victory dance or something! Also, very impressive level design
Well I got me some lego star wars action. And call me a grumpy old bastard, but I have so many issues with this game. Unskippable cut scenes, infuriating control system (I cannot do the flying missions for shit), frustrating camera angles, ridiculous puzzles (you want me to use the force to grow some flowers? Which then explode? And then I have to smash them with my lightsabre? And make a bridge with the planks underneath?!?) The Dagobah mission near killed me. Yeah it’s a cute concept, there’s a few roffles in the cutscenes, but the gameplay is currently providing me with negative fun.
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!
Football Manager 2007 because I am
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)
Yeah, when my San Andreas disc started skipping and refusing to load it was the first sign of my PS2 dying. WIsh I’d known that before buying another copy, try it on someone else’s first.
Nostril rape.
Ok,hamster video game is the beast thing I have seen on YouTube since “Guinea Pigs on a Bed.”
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2117
You MAC lovers might dig this^
Mac OS on a Genesis/32x.
Penny Arcade talked me into trying the Bookworm Adventures from Popcap and now I wannit.
i have bought ps2 games for my boy! I will buy the machine this weekend! I am excited! How hard should I try and hide that this is also a gift for myself?
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:
HEY DUDES
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?
Could be a coincidence. Japanese music hes a tendency to re-use chord progressions alot(in different keys and scales) and inevitably you’ll overlap with something that has the same progression.
it is possible though, and interesting.
Wii Need for Speed is really hard to get used to after playing so much Excite Truck.
Okay, I finally found a good WWII flight sim, that’ll let you fly most of the Allied fighters(RAF/Red Army/USAAF) and Axis, too.
I’m afraid to open up my DS for Animal Xing; it’s been months and months so everyone will have moved out and there’ll be nothing but desert and tumbleweeds and algae choking the river :( Also, it is in Seattle and I am not.
To kill time today, I downloaded Kyodai and have been playing Clicks all day long. click click click click click click click click
The Warriors is king! PS2 will be bought in Jan sales. It was second hand so never had much faith. I bought it to play Katamari thanks to bloody ILG :)
The Warriors is king! PS2 will be bought in Jan sales. It was second hand so never had much faith. I bought it to play Katamari thanks to bloody ILG!
My mind has lost its mind. If that mind had a mind and that mind ever existed...
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...
You’re not a martyr if no-one gives a shit.
I am playing Grid Wars 2. It is insane.
Wow wtf. That looks flashback-inducing.
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!
YAY I GOT MY VIDEO CARD AND AM IN NWN2 HEAVEN
BOO 2 YRS OF PLAYING WOW HAS RUINED THE CONTROL SCHEME FOR ME
Don’t fret, Dan... 4 years of playing NWN1 has ruined the control scheme for me and every other NWN player. OH WAIT, MAYBE OBSIDIAN SHOULDN’T HAVE CHANGED THE WHOLE FUCKING THING.
“If it ain’t b0rk3d, don’t fix it” is obviously not their motto.
Still a great game, though.
“You’re not a martyr if no-one gives a shit.”
See, that attitude’s gonna get you killed whether I have to do it or not, so it doesn’t matter that I don’t know where you live.
oh bloody hell, here we go again
very Conor Smedley-esque melodic elements
‘licious, I think you just sold me on the Wii.
Andrew that was very funny, if perhaps a little bit intellectually lazy (but this is ILG so the zings are expected to fall on that end of the curve) BUT I THOUGHT YOU KNEW BETTER.
STOP TALKING TO HIM.
Besically, don’t fuck with me, and it’s all good.
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.
I’d like to have editied rather than post again, but here it is.
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.
I just read the entire feature on Grid Wars 2 linked to above, got EXTREMELY PUMPED UP, and then I downloaded the OSX version, and it won’t even open without crashing.
Nooooooooooooo!
Weird. I went to the website of the guy who did Grid Wars, and it said:
“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!
ok yeah i made grid wars work on my mac — go into config.txt and set the Screen Height and Width to yr. screen’s settings and then it should boot fine — it crashes coz it tries to set the height and width to proportions not available on yr. screen.
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.
Puts the ‘ass’ into aspergers...
mmmmmm.. ass burgers
Oh no Ste, why? Thank god Dan P can’t revive that “Burger thread”. There is good in this world occasionally.
I want to get a DS to take with me on the plane ride back east. we’ll see if i can actually afford it before Christmas.
OK, this Final Fantasy shit has gone too far:
http://www.trueswords.com/final-fantasy-c-3.html?osCsid=982e25e82d2013d5aceef584db8b278c
ok yeah i made grid wars work on my mac — go into config.txt and set the Screen Height and Width to yr. screen’s settings and then it should boot fine — it crashes coz it tries to set the height and width to proportions not available on yr. screen.
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.
First paragraph of that should be italicized. I cuss ILX for not understanding the <em> tag.
can’t decide which play mode i like best — dual keyboard or keyboard/relative mouse. i got up to about 580,000 so far—10 mins of play. still screwing up fairly royally when i try to do any serious farming. this game is awesome tho, yeah. so pretty.
I beat FFIII. it was fun.
Ah, THANK you for the config.txt tip. I got it working. It is a fantastic game, I’m already hooked. It’s a nearly perfectly balanced game.
i know the wii has a lot of minigames but etc etc
http://www.gamebrink.com/nintendo-wii/2276-Nintendo_Wii-video-2.html
Some fucker broke into my house yesterday and nicked my xbox 360 & my PSP, leaving everything else untouched! To make matters worse the Wii only got released in Australia yesterday, making them a bit thin on the ground, so chances are I may have to spend Christmas actually interacting with actual people. Goddammit.