OMG A STARRY SARAH SIGHTING
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)
Ok, it’s definitely time for UK/European ILGers to be getting excited about the Wii. Anyone getting one tomorrow? Mine is preordered and should hopefully arrive tomorrow if everything goes smoothly. :)
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...
YEY!!!!!
Amazon.co.uk items (Sold by Amazon EU S.a.r.L.):
1 Nintendo Wii Console (Incl... £179.99 1 £179.99
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
i really hope this report about the UK virtual console isn’t true though
Warriors is button mashing goodness still. But quick: I need a game with the same happiness as katamari, same calmness and more n.b. not horrific levels of violence. Any clues? Oh and it has to be PS2. Preferably not requiring nostril rape...
Rainbow Six: Vegas is kicking my ass, but it’s a lot of fun. Seems to be just the right combination of sneaky + POP POP POP.
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.
milo, CoD3 really exists for the multiplayer. I hope you’re not playing it on a Wii.
i really hope this report about the UK virtual console isn’t true though
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.
I want a new Wii game I’m tired of fuckin Zelda. Just not my kinda game...
I actually think the apex of gaming was Jet Grind Radio.
It’s interesting to watch people bitch about virtual console licensing issues all over the world, now we can all share in the pain of lame copyright/trademark bullshit protectionism schemes fucking up our entertainment, perhaps this is part of a grand plan by Nintendo to get the consumers so worked up we finally demand a little fair play from the legislators and multinationals who force this ridiculous shit down our throats constantly. I, for one, await an actual legal english-text edition of Super Robot Taisen, and not the shite GBA nonsense they keep trying to push that doesn’t even have fucking Gundam in it.
Or we can just blame Nintendo for reminding us that living outside of Japan has been a third-class existence for video games enthusiasts since 1985.
Good job I didn’t buy that HDTV then!
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!
Wii doesn’t do HD anyway, so your old TV should be fine.
HEY GAIZ plz to recommend yr favorite side scrolling fighter games for emulators (anything is ok). i love these games, and now with freezes i can actually beat them.
still haven’t beated ninja gaiden, jesus christ what a torturous monster the final stretch of that game is
river city ransom, of course.
(prompted by having wierd flashes of KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND while in the shower this morning, wwwierd)
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
its here! its tiny! and.... it won’t update cos their servers are crashing, even their website nintendo-europe.com is down. GET BETTER SERVERS YOU MORANS
Got a version of Vice City that works! It’s gorgeous! But skips. Stupid machine, I keel choo!
Someone is not helping:
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.
i am becoming so obsessed with elder scrolls: oblivion—
anyone else?
Yeah, i played little else for 2 months
Yeah I’ve been playing it a lot too. Its one of the reasons we bought a HD tv, even. I havent even started the main quest yet! I’ve been having too much fun moving up the mages ranks and gettin’ into Arcane Uni and stuff. Fingers of the Mountain spell! KABLAMMM
getting fingers of the mountain was awesome
get the book, give it to the wrong person, shock the column, get in trouble, steal book back from person and give to guild!
(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)
my VCS has started skipping, what a load of rubbish. Don’t buy a PSP!
Oh noes! Had to give up on VC, it was dying at odd moments. Which is a pity because it is so beautiful. Tried Rugby 2004. I was embarrassed at how little I understood of the game after watching it for so many years!
Twilight Princess is killing me. Currently, I have no desire to play any other game.
wiis are now selling for £400 on ebay, i’m having a hard time persuading myself not to sell mine & buy one again in the new year (+ loads of games virtual or otherwise with the extra money). Twilight Princess really is awesome. um. oh yeh theres a new GROW game up, not very complicated though—i finished it at the second attempt.
If you finished on the second attempt then you missed about 90% of the game
Finished it after a few attempts. I really like this one, it’s like the Cube!
im getting the 360 this weekend. anyone play viva pinata?
WHAT
LOOK Confident
My son finds the tv commercial for Viva Pinata seen on Nickelodeon EXCRUCIATINGLY entertaining.
Does anyone know if pro evo 6 on the PC will be good, or a giant heap of ass? I’ve been told that the 360 version is the worst apparently, and I realy enjoy that. It’s only £17 from play.com at the moment.
It’s kind of the same as on the PS2, ie better than the 360 and better (but not amazingly so) than PES5.
http://www.eyezmaze.com/game/grow_v1.html
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 :(
there’s less internal logic to this game it feels and more external logic — i.e. less each try tells you something about the others and more just intuit it. try watering the egg instead of pushing it further down, for one.
who wants to play Zookeeper online?
I’m gonna get a new DS this week. Numerous people that I consider to be ‘sensible’ have reassured me that it’s the best thing to do.
I’m loving this!
http://www.kiteretsu.jp/games/zka/zka.htm
more random japanese games
But quick: I need a game with the same happiness as katamari, same calmness and more n.b. not horrific levels of violence. Any clues?
Shadow of the Colossus and ICO!
viva pinata
Next game for Wii after Zelda is probably going to be Elebits.
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.
the genesis or the SNES version?
It’s emulated, I think he said it’s the SNES version. It kind of looks like lots of fun.
Yup, it’s entertainment. I played it a lot during Xmas flights last year.
viva pinata? i thought you were a hardcore gamer nerd, cutty? why the gay stuff? that makes elebits look like doom.
It’s kind of the same as on the PS2, ie better than the 360
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).
from our daily campus police report:
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
is viva pinata any good? i am thinking of buying a 360 at some stage and this would influence my purchase (in fact all 360 games that aren’t ‘run around and shoot people’ would influence my purchase)
lols, we now have 5 people in my department playing WoW! So far, we’ve got:
1 warrior
1 priest (me)
1 rogue
1 paladin
1 warlock
HI DERE WORK-BASED GUILD
dragon quest 9, exclusive to the DS. Super high level of tension.
viva pinata? i thought you were a hardcore gamer nerd, cutty? why the gay stuff? that makes elebits look like doom.
my girlfriend bought it
she makes you play it too?
(i’m not judging, as i am someone who has already preordered elebits)
no, she doesn’t, but i can make a recommendation based on But quick: I need a game with the same happiness as katamari, same calmness and more n.b. not horrific levels of violence. Any clues?
Well as long as no-one’s gay, that’s alright.
She sounds pretty gay though.
Time will tell.
But quick: I need a game with the same happiness as katamari, same calmness and more n.b. not horrific levels of violence. Any clues?
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 ;_______;
I know it was way upthread but whaaaat? Abbie Herpe? She stole my first name, ferchrissakes, and got a stupid Suicide Girls look, gets mad points for playing Animal Crossing? I am mad at her because she is associating my fine Christian name w/an STD and stealing a pseudo-dreamjob.
jahahaha wait do u know Abbie? it’s HEPPE btw but Herpe is way funnier. i thought about trying to explain her to ILG once but i don’t really know where to start.
By crying.
the game based on the eragon movie is everything you’ve hoped it would be.
Can someone please give me the relative merits of
Sopranos game vs. Desperate Housewives game kthx
lost game on the way
ade from someone who had his special playing-world-of-warcraft AIM away message up for about 72 hours straight that’s a bit much
xposts
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
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?
Shadow of the Colussus is a little more hectic than ICO, though they are both awesome.
When does the HOUSE, M.D. game come out? Like Phoenix Wright but you’re a huge dickhead and you have to argue about congenital disorders that only occur in 0.04% of the human race.
haha ade u just got gzeused in a fanboy backlash beef
(though frankly gzeus is the biggest nintendo fanboy here, channeling him would be exactly the opposite of what ade is on about)
Level 3: Swallow as much Vicodin as you can in 60 seconds to avoid clinic duties.
trying to find a wii here in my town but alas no... :-( i really wanna find one so i can give it to ophelia who will look at it, give it back and say (hah!): YOU play with it. ;-)
Very cunning :)
I’m going to Battersea to play with my friend’s wii tonight, do you see, I will be getting my hands on his wii, we will both play with it etc etc bdum tish veal blah.
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...
haha
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.
Back when I was renting(yes, renting) that game I used to go to my save(people were pretty civil about that back then) and change all their names to random things, messages...
You
Are
A
Horny
Anal
Probe
Robo was usually name Vibro, though.
So I’m sure this is total child’s-play online flash-gaming to you
veteran-gamer masterlords, but I’m totally obsessed with this turn-based chess-style Tactics Online Arena thing, mostly because I can NEVER WIN, no matter what. (Okay I did win once.) Maybe I’m getting too distracted by chatting with the humor-impaired* 13-year-olds who constitute the main audience of this thing (“how old r u” / “29” / “daaaaaaamn”), but it’s becoming a major quest for me.
* 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
Haha, me & the man always joke about a House M.D. game. You get extra points if the patient gets anal hemorrhaging. I think such a thing would be best suited to either a text adventure or a wacky series of mini-games about busting into clean rooms with offending parasites mid-surgery.
Nabisco, that reminds me of my approximately 8-hour stint with Runescape. I spent a few hours going through the tutorial, then I spent about 4 hours reading a bunch of tips and studying maps online, getting my strategy ready. Then, about 20 minutes into the game, somebody walked up to me and said “How old are you?”, and I said “23”, and he said “LOL I’m 12”
Game over.
shadowrun!!
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.
sense OF movement
wasn’t there a flashback for PC? They had PC versions of Out of this World(a.k.a Another World) and Fade to Black...
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1351
and here ya go
New Alien game coming out, done by Obsidian, the Neverwinter 2 guys
I just had a whack at Wii golf. Kinda fun! We’ve set it up in the office with a projector screen on the wall. I do like the intuitive feedback of the controller: it both vibrates and makes noises that totally tell your brain “you just hit a golf ball” or whatever. Quite suprised, I thought it’d feel a bit dinkyshit.
And yes, I get away with playing Nintendos at my work it would appear. Aw yeah.
(Mind you, my bf actively HAS to play games all day long, part of his job, bastardface. etc etc)
Nabisco, that reminds me of my approximately 8-hour stint with Runescape. I spent a few hours going through the tutorial, then I spent about 4 hours reading a bunch of tips and studying maps online, getting my strategy ready. Then, about 20 minutes into the game, somebody walked up to me and said “How old are you?”, and I said “23”, and he said “LOL I’m 12”
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.
I’m sure I told this story on real ilx but whatever:
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 play Tribal Wars at work and the amount of crap on the forums or I get by email. LOL? [Future] you! SPEAK ADULT grrrrrrr!
I wish I had this problem. C’mon Kevnol, at least you have the loffles factor!
Finding a used DS lite is proving too difficult.