Ooh get Elder Scrolls. It is fab.

I used to love games like Kings Quest when I was a kid. Are there games like that now? Im big into medieval games, knights etc. Any ideas for the 360?

Oblivion, maybe? It’s more Fantasy though. You’re best off looking at PC games for that kind of thing (if you have a gaming PC, obv).

My kids were fighting about a Lego Star Wars 2 game yesterday and ended up pulling the PS2 off the shelf and scratching the disk to fuck. Now LSW2 doesn’t load and the machine’s making funny whirring noises (or maybe it always has and I’ve just noticed because of what happened) loading other games :(

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?

uh oh....how old is the ps2? i went through 4 of them since they came out all with the same problem...the dreaded disc read error. this may be a sign of things to come with your PS2...the whirring noise is one of the signs...

Never tried one, so I’m as curious as you.

No gaming for a week? HARSH.

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

A week is a bit much! Come on!

I came home from work to discover all this and their mother had already decided on the week long ban (which ends in time for new XMas games!).

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.

omg wai 2 brake kit’s hart with Xmas card story, Onimo?

It was like that Calvin (from ‘& Hobbes’) face when he’s done something really bad and is scared to tell his Dad ;_;

Yeah, I use that face on Kat all the time.

uh oh; I’ve now taken up trolling the local CL for used GBA/DS games in advance of getting my DS on thursday.

This won’t end well.

Oh, btw, after a hardcore online session last night, I totally recommend Clubhouse Games for DS. Multiplayer is awesomes fun, even with total randoms. I laid down some hardcore Darts pwnj on allcomers last night.

submitted for your consideration: NPR posted a list of kid-friendly games

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

Are you saying I’m immature? :o

I am excited about finally beating Guitar Hero 1 on Expert and getting to the final five songs of Guitar Hero 2!

I wound up buying Marvel: Ultimate Alliance even though my knowledge of that canon is fairly marginal: I know that some of their characters are hilariously weird (MODOK!) and Spider-Man is a lot cooler in his funnybook context than he is in the daily newspaper comics. So it’s sort of a crash course in Marvel Comics lore, and getting to form your own team is fun, as is beating the crap out of supervillains with Luke Cage and Ghost Rider.

Anybody here with experience of X3: The Reunion? This shit is impenetrable.

I’ve often been tempted to buy X2 and now X3 in the past, but always back out due to lack of joystick.

oh shit i just found out my officemate is heading to Japan for the holiday! WHAT DO I HAVE HIM BUY!?! I’m thinking of giving him enough cash to invest in as many copies of “Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan” as they can fit in their baggage.

Right, I’m off to hunt for a Wii.

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

disgusted that Sony has created a headphone socket on the PSP thats not a standard mini jack plug. But not surprised. I’m starting to hate Sony.

Eh, I thought normal headphones fit but it had an extra doobry for for the remote control on the sony headphones. But it’s been years since I used my PSP...

hmm, i’ll check again but no i couldn’t find a socket last night. i want to bring it into work, but the sounds of Depeche Mode on VCS might not be to everyones liking. as they are twerps.

Joystick not as essential for X3 as I imagined it would be—mouse control is pretty resonable. Reminds me of Wing Commander!

yay your right ledge, i am stupid.

funny ringtones for your ds supercard microsd

anyone is into appz and homebrew gamesz for the ds?

from website

plz 2 haev admin

http://official-linerider.com/movies_page.html

Fuck work!

There’s also a newer version with an eraser and line tool.

Argh, I have work to do...

Now that I’ve “completed”* Twilight Princess I’m not sure what I’ll do. It has been such a satisfying, beautiful, fun game.

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

ooh new line rider, the movies dont’ work for me but i can make my own. the new features are pretty swish.

and i see that nintendo have grabbed it!

O RLY?

Linerider DS plz!

They could call it Line Rider: Down Slopes.

Draw Sledging

its on the News section of the web page

Work’s shiny cleany scratch repair thingy made my Lego Star Wars disk shiny and clean and scratched :(

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

neet:

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.

AWESOMES!

I hope this slovenian kid got himself some ironclad licensing deals, otherwise he’s gonna get screwed out of a potential lifetime financial source, Tetris-style

FAO: Ronan.

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

Pimp my Cambiasso

Wii was absolutely MADE for linerider.

here nick, this guy is taunting you

Wii was absolutely MADE for linerider

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

Wii makes it more physical with big screen maybe? I dunno. Has anyone played the Family Guy game it’s going cheap and I’m sorely tempted!

all the reviews say the game is shit, thus the cheap pricing so soon

Then my interest has waned until I can get it for free...

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/familyguy (about 51%)

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/55177/print/ (hated it)

peruse at your leisure.

I just made my line rider perform an endless loop, huzzah!

the new sam and max is way too short :(

What, episode 1? I thought it was a fair length for $9 or so. bit much on trying to wring as many good-or-bad gags out of every interaction, but overall i liked it, and thought it much better than the Bone game.

I just got one less reason to buy a PS3.

they’re gunna crash the server

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

it’s been online for a while. they add new games on mondays.

gotcha. Still, BIIIIIIIG earl.

I just made my line rider perform an endless loop, huzzah!

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

i hope that they change the shop interface at some point.

hi dere i’m posting from wii opera browser

typing this in is too sloooooooow

okay, got my ds lite tonight, a copy of Clubhouse games, and 4 used GBA games(Golden Sun 1& 2, Advance Wars, and FF Tactics advance).

I am ready for my plane rides tomorrow.

That’s a great selection of games dude. That’ll keep you busy for a while.

the new sam and max is way too short :(
— a.b.

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.

okay, the DS lite worked well in the airplane, but the Mission mode of Clubhouse Games is fookin’ impossible

Just finished Zelda: Twilight Princess on Gamecube. Took about about 40 hours, but like Nicka I’ve just done the main story. I’ll do the rest eventually but I have a whole pile of new DS games to go through.

strike one of those abouts, wtf

I am posting this from the Wii! It is amazing and plays youtube videos but scrolling to the bottom of this thread was missions! Is there no ‘end’ key?

i’m trying to think of the last japanese rpg that had a compelling narrative. I’m thinking Chrono Trigger, but Xenogears had its charm for all its WTFness.

i played gears of war yesterday and now i think i will buy a 360

Man I am so close to being able to beat Guitar Hero 2 on Expert but the last three songs are fucking annoying. I know I can beat each of them but there are just these little passages I can’t QUITE get through. :/

got the family to play Ticket to Ride: Marklin last night. Finally got Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne today, so they’re next on the list of family compulsion.

Totally scored Contact, Rocket Slime and Lego SW II. Thumbs up, japanophile twin-sisters-in-law. Though it may be that Pops-in-law actually made out even better by acquiring Medieval Total War in the bargain.

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.

i got kid icarus for nes. i got mario & luigi: partners in time and i hate it :( anyone uk based wanna do a straight swop?

i got wii super monkey ball, madden 07 and tony hawk. not sure if i really want any of these games... maybe i want madden.

I just want to corroborate the reports that LEGO Star Wars The Video Game II is fucking awesome and rules all the schools

Welcome TOM BOT, to the dark side of the force...

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii#

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)

and all we plaid were like them golf and baseball and BOWLING

I played wii sports for the first time last night too, it was great.

kingfish the answer to the question you posted to the wrong thread is that I have not gotten any of the FF DS ports but FF5 or whatever came out for the GBA two years ago was pretty fun!

I tried to play Elite Beat Agents in Target the other day, I am so old and lame all I could figure out how to do was spin the globe around. As soon as I stopped trying some 12-ish year old kid jumped on it and it started making cool noises that sounded fun, it made me feel old. So then I went and bought some beer and felt slightly better about my life.

anyone happen to be another witness to the Amazon Wii fiasco today?

I’m waiting for them to do another FF6/Chrono Trigger re-issue, unless Sony’s got the rights to those for another 5 years.

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?

wha happen? I’m about ready to buy by amazon if necessary, barring fiasco.

(xp) the wii discussion threads filled me in. as always, very disturbing.

the discussion threads are HILARIOUS, I killed about an hour after they sold out reading them. The rather numerous people who CALLED Amazon and cursed them out!!! Granted, I think they’re kind of right that hording the shipments and then hyping the “release” is really, really lame esp since none of the other online stores are doing that, but FFS you’re all presumably adults.

(I happened upon the Amazon page while trying to kill time at work and showed up at basically the exact moment they went on sale, I had no idea beforehand)

wait are you saying that a wii is in the mail to our house

I’m not saying anything of the sort.

ie by the time I went and clicked the purchase button about 1.5 seconds later, they were gone. Amazon apparently only had like 500 of them which seems like a lot to me except that they probably had 50,000 people waiting all morning, hitting F5.

I did love the dredging back up of the dynamic IP sales system bashing. IF YOU LIVE ON THE EAST COAST YOU HAVE NO CHANCE ON AMAZON, PEOPLE. NONE.

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!

So then I went and bought some beer and felt slightly better about my life.

this is the Way

ha, ok. wtf amazon, watch and learn a little.

I had kind of a nightmare last night that we got a PS3 and it was exactly a $700 POS, I was like “there is nothing I want to play on this ugly thing. I would rather have an actual waffle iron. Jesus, this is sad.”

I’m not sure why they switched from the lottery back to this free-for-all to be honest. Oh, BEST #1 ALL TIME comment on the

discussion board: person advocating a priority system in which people who have had Amazon accounts the longest get Wiis and other high-demand items first, because she “has been a loyal customer since 2004 and deserves a better chance than others.” 2004, ORLY?! Yes, you would be the first in line in that system, obviously.

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.

speaking of $700 pieces of crap, i just stumbled upon this today:

interesting, i had no idea the going price dropped so much

There’s a PS3 (20 gig) that just ended on eBay for $490. And a 60 gig that just ended at...$700. LOL

Also can I just say that this person on eBay:

sucks and stole Christmas away from two little boys I saw crying in EB Games.

I’m glad that his Wii auction I clicked on to see a Wii end price went for $310. Enjoy your ~$30 profit, asshole.