I was playing on Beneath A Steel Sky yesterday in between bursts off UT deathmatches at a special Winter-Een-Mas LAN party. Which was awesome, almost 12 hours of constant UT2004 and Star Wars Battlefront 2. Was a truly brilliant time.

Been playing through Dead or Alive 4 this weekend, and it's an absolute sack of shit. It's ridiculously hard, way too fast to make any sensible decisions, has no tutorial, has far too many moves and counter moves that you just can't possibly learn, let alone pull off at the right time. It basically descends into a load of button mashing, where you happen to win occasionally. Also I can't believe they made an attempt at putting a "story" into it. Two women, fighting over a cabbage. And I'm not exagerating, that literally is one of the justifications for one of the fights. Not to mention the fact that they couldn't even be bothered localising the voices from japanese to english. Rubbish.

Beat me to the punch on DOA there.
Massively underwhelming. was expecting better but its basically a slightly nicer looking version of the older games. As Nonus said, the fighting system is insanely hard. You've basically got to learn the timings of every characters moves to stand any kind of chance. I can forgive the cheesy cut scenes between fights but what really pissed me off was the end boss. The boss has moves that can basically take you down in 5 seconds which results in constant re-trys. Glad its not me that owns it.

Nitefall- If you ever need a hand on KOTOR2 give me a shout. On my 4th play through now.

Thanks for the warning about DOA4, was going to go out tomorow and spend my hard earned cash on said monstrosity. I shall now wait until Dead Rising comes out to spend my £50

That always pissed me off about DOA3. The end boss in that was a bitch, In a purely fighting game, he'd chuck fireballs at you from range, when he fell over, you get taken down too if you didn't jump fast enough, and he's about 50 times harder than the preceding fight.

Been giving Smackdown vs Raw 2006 loads this weekend. Good but not great.

Just traded in my copies of The Warriors, From Russia With Love and Mafia, and bought Onimusha 3 and Fahrenheit. I've never played either of them, just bought on sight.

And what am I playing now? Madden 2006. As always.

Excellent choice young sir. Today I traded in a god few very old xbox games and finally got a copy of Metal Gear Solid 3, which I've been meaning to get hold of for a looong time. I've been playing a bit of Fable which is quite fun so far if a bit more linear than I was expecting.

Well just completed Condemned. A great game with a nice little feature at the end The revenge or compassion option. I just hope that there's a sequel that explains a bit more. Like why everyone was being possessed and whatnot.

Well, I'm currently getting spanked by the 2 Sith Lord gits in the temple on the Mandalorian jungle moon at the mo. Any suggestions as how best to whoop them?

Anyone here play Command And Conquer Generals Zero Hour online?

Did you crap yourself when you were asked to take a close up photo of the dead guy in the locker?

If you look on the official web site there's some flash videos which are supposed to be some kind of prequel. Haven't watched them yet, though.

I'd say Condemned is probably the best game I've played all year. It's just what the first person genre needed, a bit of originality. I'd like to see a few more first person games which don't almost exclusively involve guns. In Condemned, guns are a luxury, you pick a gun up that has 4 or 5 bullets in it, it's like christmas.

Well I've kicked it off, and completed the first Paris section with Samanosuke, but thus far it has been extremely samey. No doubt it's a beautiful game, but I want to be able to pull off some of the sweet moves from the sequences, and with only one attack button that seems like it's impossible. That said, the game has the possibility to open up into orgasmic quality if it wants, a la Devil May Cry. Hopefully it'll get a bit more complex as time progresses. Still gorgeous to look at though.

This is a bit obvious but activate as many stims, shields and force powers as you can before you go into the fight. Concentrate on one guy at time and try to heal yourself if you can. You could if down to the last guy run away from them, fire with a blaster, then run away again until they die, pausing a lot makes this easier, I don't think they use much force powers so they might not get you. Though if I remember correctly the fight area is kind of small for that battle.

I shat myself that whole level, I fucking couldn't stand the childish laughter. A great level though



Link? And cool, hopefully they'll explain a few things.



I agree with this completely. It's a great little title, even if the actual gameplay is a little linear. And the fear that the game creates is immense, so much suspense. I just didn't like the way that the mutant-zombie type creatures weren't expalined, it was just like "what the FUCK????" half the time .

Well, I've only just managed to stop playing Fahrenheit, so that gives you an idea of quality. If I'm honest, the gameplay thus far hasn't been inspired, and it's pretty slow going - no guns/fights and only one chase so far - but the story is superbly done. Changing between characters is good too, though I've found myself increasingly gripped by Lucas' story. It plays out sort of like Max Payne with much less violence thus far. Our protagonist has a fucked-up conscience, constantly flashing back to the night of the murder, having traumatising nightmares and odd premonitions of what is about to happen. The story has been sublime, I can't stress that enough, and given that there's just been a fully interacitve sex scene, this has been great fun so far, and I can only hope it continues. Highly recommended, even if more as an interactive movie.

Got to agree with the blaster advice. They beat my jedi and melee fighters down, but give Mandalore (or Mira, HK etc.), a good blaster, run away, take a shot, run, shoot, run, shoot, run... repeat as necessary.

The room is pretty small but there's some sort of pool in the middle which makes for a nice circuit to run around.

I've been meaning to get hold of this one for a while now, I think you've just convinced me. I'll be seeking out a copy once I've finished with MGS3.

Surely by the time you're finished wirth MGS3, MGS3 Subsistence will be out and you'll get drawn back minto it for all the shiny extras. Me I can't wait for the online multiplayer goodness that's been promised.

I think I'm going to start on Silent Hill 2 tonight, since I beat the first one about a week ago.

Its difficult to know how in depth to go with advise but whats been said so far is sound. What I can tell you really depends on how much you already know. Your choice of characters is pretty crucial, as well as the moves you teach them. Heres a few suggestions that always work for me-

Try to level up the Toughness and conditioning feats for as many characters as possible. You'll be able to take a massive beating if you do.
All mele fighters should learn master flurry asap. With no negative effect on this level of the ability you can do 2 attacks every turn with no problem.
Teach your main character master force speed asap. Again this will give you extra attacks, paired with flurry you can kill just about any enemy with one or two attacks.
Teach heal to your main character regardless of whether your dark or light. It invaluable because is basically an infinite healing power, thanks to the force regeneration.
Dont bother with the lightsaber throw move, its rubbish.
Duel lightsabers are the best, one long, one short for balance. Try to stock pile your crystals so your main character can have 2 great lightsabers. This combined with force speed and flurry gives you something like 6 attacks in one move.

Dont know how helpfull that is but give me a shout if you have any specific questions.

Nah I doubt it, I've never been much interested in the MGS extras. I couldn't be bothered with any of the VR missions or Snake tales on MGS2: Substance.

It's bloody good. The gameplay's not inspired, but I found myself so drawn in that I didn't mind the fact that it felt like an interactive movie. I would've posted sooner, but I've only just stopped playing it. I've now finished the storyline; not because it's short, but because I've been playing it solidly all day. It's very hard to put the controller down at any stage, since something important lurks after every sequence. I really enjoyed the game - a very original story, likeable characters and plays like a cross between Deus Ex, Max Payne and Path Of Neo. Original title which I loved playing and highly recommend. The best £15 I've spent in a good while.

It sure is an excellent game. I expected it to be good though, with it being made by Quantic Dream. I enjoyed Omikron: The Nomad Soul that they did a few years back. The only thing that lets Fahrenheit (or The Indigo Prophecy for any americans who are confused as to what we're talking about... It had different names in different countries) down is the ending, which is really weak, and feels like it was rushed to get the game finished.

True, but the huge fight with the Oracle on top of the building is excellent. Glad to see I'm not the only one who liked the game, I feared it was more personal enjoyment than general.

Just been playing on Kameo some more. This really is a breath of fresh air, don't overlook this little gem thinking it's just another shitty platformer. I mean sure the actual gamepaly is a little linear- save elemental sprite, save family member in elemental temple relating to sprite you've just saved, repeat - but the elemental sprites really are a great game dynamic and they're just so damn cute

I'm just waiting for Dead Rising to come out then I'll trade in Condemned.

I think Fahrenheit did quite well actually, I've not heard many people say anything particularly bad about it. Everyone I know who has played it was impressed. I expected it to bomb, with the style of game that it was, and was pleasantly surprised when it didn't.

Yeah, and the credits are cool too *hint*, especially under the games testers *hint*.

That must have been a fun job.

It was good, though it was a bit bad towards the end when I had to spend 15 hours in front of a computer and became unable to play games for fun, although I'm at a loss to say when in the 9 hours a day I had off that I would actually play games. Though I imagine that things were worse for Nonus and the other developers.

There's a chance that I could do it again this year, though nothing is set in stone yet.

I am not a happy chappy. Got a patch for Vampire the Masquerade the other day. Re-installed the game and played it solidly for a few days to get to where the games was crashing before (15 hours+). The moment of truth came, did the patch work... bollocks did it. It crashed like before and I'm stuck guessing as to how the game ends. I can remember someone saying that they finished it so, could whoever that was give me a brief discription of what happens after the Society of Leopold quest please? Its pissing me off a treat.

I used the dynamite bow and some good timing really there is no key way to winning the battle, then again i wouldnt know becuase i gave the game back.

EDIT: Crouching in the right places can save your life and its a check point when he runs up to the ledge so you will be fine.

I only had it for 4 days, so its gone back now, I got bored just fighting old 'I'll give you more bang for your buck' so I gave up in the end. I consider it completed, as if I'd owned it, I would have finished it back now. I just wanted to go and do more bounty hunting and Pony Express stuff

I know the feeling. For me, it always crashed when I was just about to enter the basement of the Giovanni mansion. I've never been able to find a way past that spot.

Got Civilisation 4 and it's sucking my life away. However good it is, it's still the same as Civ2 really but with much more detailed graphics and land/unit interaction, but it's nothing special to what they've done before.

Always preferred Alpha Centauri myself. Being able to cobble together your own custom units makes it so much better. Its even got a decent story.

Just wondering, what's the worst game you guys have ever played?
Virtua Fighter 2 for the Megadrive is near the top of my list. An utterly pointless conversion and ultimately a massive dissapointment.

I've been playing this to death in work. Everyone keeps looking at me as I'm twatting the keys.

http://www.davieboy.net/play/game.punchout.asp

enjoy, suckers!

Hmmm that's quite hard. It's probably the Winter Olympics game for the N64. Utter shite!

just got street fihter alpha for the snes

We had a street fighter alpha 3 tornament at uni on tuesday. The final is coming up soon. The mystery prize is worth over £100 and is suposed to be awsome.
One of my best mates is in the final, good luck Brett!

Last place gets the street fighter live action movie dvd

Bet it's a 360

I haven't actually played it, but there was apparently a game called "Big Rigs" which was released on PC which was just an abandoned prototype. It was supposedly a racing game involving lorries. However. There was no collision detection with anything other than the terrain, which means you could drive straight through your opponent or buildings, etc. The computer controlled opponent simply didn't even move from the start line, there was no way of actually losing the game (no time limit, etc). The lorry could drive up vertical cliff faces, and OOE, turn with infinitely increasing rotational velocity, and stop dead instantaneously. The promised "police chases" simply didn't exist, and trying to load one of the levels crashed the game.

Enter the Matrix. Took that one straight back 24 hours later. I generally steer well clear of games I think I'm going to dislike but that one was an impulse buy and it fucking stank. I can still smell it.

The worst game I have ever played has to be "Infiltrator" for the NES. it was a Metal Gear clone done very badly. You would pilot a helicopter in first person (something the NES could not do that well at all) get shot at, land the chopper, sneak into buildings. lather...rinse...repeat. awful! awful! awful!

EDIT: Aww, man, I hit "submit" before I typed anything...

Anyway, I love Civ 4, dearly, but, unfortunately, it crashes every few minutes. It's beautiful, though.

I played a demo for Fahrenheit and it's damn cool, I'll see if I can trade in some games and get it pre-owned this weekend.

Worst game I've ever played by a substantial margin was Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. I must have been high.

Worst game I can ever remember playing was the "Back to the Future" NES cart. The fracking Barbie game my sisters rented was more fun than that travesty.

That was just a rental, though. The game I regret buying the most, on the other hand? Doom 3.

It's good for benchmarking your PC, but that's about it.

I dunno, the two-gun control system was a ncie touch I thought, if only you could aim them both. Shooting with a machine gun and a pistol was more John Maclane than James Bond, but it was good nonetheless.

To restore your faith in Bond (or Bond-based) games, play From Russia With Love. Shpectacular.