jim w
i was once dogbeak
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posted 01-07-2009 22:15
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I forgot to mention, in my earlier post, that I have been playing Team Fortress 2 for 10 minutes here and there. It is a lot of fun.
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posted 02-07-2009 09:41
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Fellas, I've only got four games, so any games from the whole Xbox 360 back catalogue would be good.
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posted 02-07-2009 09:52
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In that case, Liq, pick up a copy of The Orange Box. For somewhere in the region of £15 you'll get Half Life 2 (plus episodes 1 & 2), Team Fortress and the unutterably brilliant (if too short) Portal.
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posted 02-07-2009 10:03
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OK. My top 360 games, in no particular order:
Rock Band
Mass Effect (RPG with boring sidequests warning)
Gears of War 1 and 2
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Orange Box and Left 4 Dead
GTA IV
Saints Row 2
Bioshock
Fifa 09
Madden 09 (might as well wait for this year's though)
Geometry Wars 1 and 2
Catan
Braid
Burnout Paradise
Forza 2
Crackdown
Dead Rising
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Last Edit: 02-07-2009 13:21 By Ginger Yellow.
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posted 02-07-2009 10:03
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Been playing (and getting my arse handed to me regularly) Wipeout HD online.
I tried to play multiplayer LittleBigPlanet but it never seems to work, so I'm stuck playing with P, when I can convince her.
Other than that, I'm going to get Ghostbusters when I get round to it. I bloody love the film (although the sequel was carnage) but it always annoys me when I buy a game full price and 2 months later it's £18 on Amazon so I'll wait for a bit I think.
It's not that I need the £20 so much as it irritates me.
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posted 02-07-2009 13:05
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Anybody played the Rock Band version for the PSP yet? Curious as to whether its worth the purchase.
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posted 02-07-2009 13:16
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I'm playing World Of Goo on the Wii. Fantastic fun, very imaginative and, as a Wiiware download, preposterously cheap.
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posted 02-07-2009 13:18
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I hate to bear bad news, Hobbes, but apparently the PS3 version got shortchanged, despite the fact that it's being published by Sony in Europe.
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posted 02-07-2009 13:29
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Yeah, I saw mention of that elsewhere. It's a little less sharp, which I suppose is annoying (although judging from the video there, the people look better in the PS3 one and everything else in the 360 one.)
To be honest though, I'm not really that bothered as long as the game is fun. I still sometimes play wipeout 2097.
I wouldn't change machines to be honest. I use the PS3 more as a Blu Ray player and a way to watch matroska files than a games machine generally.
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posted 02-07-2009 13:30
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John Godot wrote:
Street Fighter IV - Still getting used to the controls, but it's a great fighting game, I reckon.
I've got this, and i am rubbish at it. I can remember the good old SNES SFII days, when I completed it with every character within a day of getting it. Maybe I'm just too old to grasp the mechanic now.
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posted 02-07-2009 17:00
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Oh cheers GY. When I read your post about a Blood Bowl game, of course I just had to investigate, and of course I ended up buying the bloody thing...
Looks quite good, but I've only played the AI thus far.
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posted 02-07-2009 17:31
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Haven't tried the multiplayer myself, so I'm not sure how it works, but we should play a match some time.
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posted 02-07-2009 17:58
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Furtho wrote:
I'm playing World Of Goo on the Wii. Fantastic fun, very imaginative and, as a Wiiware download, preposterously cheap.
It's brilliant, isn't it? One of those games you struggle with and then give up on because it's so difficult. But then, a week or so later, whilst you're walking to work or doing the ironing, you suddenly think, "What if I put more support under the bottom of the bridge and decrease the weight of the cantilever support arm?" Turn on the Wii and you're back up and running.
I bought Bit Trip Beat because someone mentioned it on another thread. Whilst it's undoubtedly cool and clever, I just can't play it, it makes my eyes insanely sore after about 3 minutes. Not only that, but it takes up a huge amount of space/blocks on the Wii.
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posted 13-07-2009 10:18
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I've been playing Overlord II and Anno 1404, both of which are very good.
Overlord, for those who aren't familiar with the original, is basically Pikmin, but with upgradable minions and, well, evil. One of the earliest tasks in the game is clubbing a whole load of baby seals to harvest their life force. The sequel is very much more of the same, but with a lot of the annoyances of the first game ironed out. Top stuff.
Anno 1404 is the latest in the German citybuilding series, and again is more of the same, but it looks absolutely gorgeous, as you can see if you head over to Fidgit.
I've also been playing some Company of Heroes with Raskolnikov - still the greatest real time strategy game ever, and I'm going back to World Of Goo because I left off before World 4, which I hear changes the game completely.
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posted 13-07-2009 13:19
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Anno 1404 looks wonderful GY. How does it compare to Civ or Rome Total War gameplay-wise?
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posted 13-07-2009 13:44
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Nothing like them at all. It's closest to the Caesar/Pharaoh games, with a hefty bit of naval trading and some very basic combat. It's mostly about city planning, managing supply chains and satisfying your citizens' needs.
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posted 13-07-2009 13:50
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Has anyone tried the 1 vs 100 thing on XBLA yet?
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posted 13-07-2009 14:20
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The first games (in Europe) are this evening, aren't they? I hear from people who've tried the US beta that it's pretty fun.
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posted 14-07-2009 11:18
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Well, I had a go last evening, and I can confirm it is pretty fun. It's hard to gauge how fun the final game will be without the One/Mob dynamic in place, but it's a pretty decent trivia game (especially since it was free). I did pretty well, despite a shaky start when I was a bit too quick off the trigger, and the fact that about a fifth of the questions were about the UEFA cup (seriously, what's the deal with that?). I made up for that with my superficial knowledge of science and classical history/mythology and some judicious use of the skip bonus, which preserves your streak. Clearly getting long streaks is the way to score big.
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posted 14-07-2009 12:55
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Yeah, I had a crack at it last night too. Pretty decent fun, especially for free, as you said. I managed to win my little group of 4 too, despite seeming to get an inordinate amount of skiing / ski jumping related questions. No idea what that was about.
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