My sentiments exactly.

You could still trade it in, I got £23 for it at gamestation on sunday.

I feel that man. Traded it for DBZ. It looks incredible. Gotten used to the control system on it now. Had a nightmare of a time learning the controls but now I've got them down its all good. Cant wait to unlock some decent characters. USSJ Vejita!!!

Any WoW players are probably familiar with Leeeeroooooyyy Jeeeenkiiins (follow the "video" links)

Applicable to all gamers and most amusing, if you like that sort of thing.

Please elaborate?

Ugh, don't remind me. Until that thing stormed the net, I was ready to sign up for WoW.

I've only recently been shown it by an MMORPG playing friend of mine. I laugh every time at the "Gawddaymnit, Leeroy"

I'm thinking of buying 'The Warriors'. Will I dig it?

I dig it. Or at least I think I will, I'm considering it's purchase too. IGN review.

-m0r

Awesome.

I've only played the first few levels so there might be more features/gameplay variations available. Basically, you run around as one of the Warriors and beat the crap out of rival gangs and police officers. Lots of move variations and the hits look brutal. Aside from dishing out beatings you also have to earn money. You can do this by wrecking stuff, stealing car stereos, break into shops and mug people. Plus the story mode is 2 player. There's vs mode with a load of different fight types including a 9 on 9 rumble with one player controlled character per side and a load of computer controlled bots. Kicks ass hardcore. Going over to my mates to play it tonight.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is now available for play for all Half-Life 2 owners.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, a single-player level custom-created to showcase High-Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) in the Source engine, is available now to all owners of HL2. As a technology showcase, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast's system requirements are very high. During installation, Steam will prompt you if your system does not meet the recommended configuration

It think it "requires" 2.3 ghz processor, a gig of memory and a video card that supports DirectX9. It looks great regardless (and it's free if you already own HL2).

I played it on my PC at work which was below the requirement (it needs a 2.9GHz pc actually, and this one is a 2.8GHz)... This PC has 2 GB ram which helps, but it only has a DirectX 8 graphics card so HDR doesn't work, which is the entire point of the "game". I'm going to try it out when I get home, since mine should deal with it easily (Athlon 3800, 1GB ram and a 6800 Ultra). HDR is not exactly new to me anyway.

It was clearly all staged anyway. Still bloody funny, though.

I was just reading a bit about it over on Wanadoo. Sounds pretty sweet!

Hey, it's a violent beat-'em-up based on a 70's cult film about a gang of warriors fightin' their way through New York, of course it sounds sweet.

To get the money for it though, I have to win a bet...

Fire Emblem Path of Radience (GCN)

You like Fire Emblem you like this simple enough

Football Manager 2006. There goes what remains of my life.

The latest Sony bullshit.

120 fps! Wow! Yeah, probably in the front end menu or some retro arcade games. Gamespot pointed out that no TV is actually capable of displaying at 120 frames per second yet, but more importantly, I think, is that frame rates above about 70 fps make absolutely no difference whatsoever. The human eye cannot tell any noticeable difference in animation once the frame rate goes above that number. So if they're running games at 120 fps, it makes you wonder what they're sacrificing to get it to that, and why didn't they use the extra cycles to put more detail into their game? Or more complex AI? Or any number of things. I can't believe the utter rubbish they keep spouting out all the time.

Indeed Nonus, I think its 75 the limit for the eye, but don't quote me on that.

All the companys in the little console war are playing "I've got the biggest shoes" because they think it matters, I'm sure where that war will be won is with the quality of the games released at the same time of the machine, Microsoft seem to have noticed that and are putting a big push behind that aspect.

I'm easily please though, I tend to go with whichever company signs up the licenses to Final Fantasy and/or Resident Evil.

I won the bet, and so The Warriors shall be mine!

Well it's not an exact number, everyone eyes will be slightly different.

Indeed.

I'd like to but its damn near impossible. Also have a slight funding problem at the moment. Need to save all my money for a 360

I dig The Warriors, sweeeeet gaming.

Good then?

Yessum.

EDIt: Oh and slightly funny gameplay wise, you take drugs to regain your health, because that's how it works apparantly.

Must be, I saw it in a movie once.

The Megadrive ganes that Laz gave me. I never actually owned a Megadrive so it makes it even better.

But God i hate you Sonic.

Ive lost my ds stylus so my nintendoggies are gonna starve till I next visit my parents to pick up a spare

Use a cue tip, it's what Shigsy uses and it also cleans your screen.

You could also just pick up a generic PDA stylus, yeah? But the Q-Tip idea is rather keen, as it won't be as rough on your screen.

There's been a few things in the gaming press over the last few days about the scariest games ever since it's nearly Halloween, and I didn't think it deserved it's own thread, so I thought I'd ask here:

What is the scariest moment in a game in your opinion?

For me, the moment in a game that scared me the most was in The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time when I first encountered the redeads under the Kakariko Village graveyard. They are fairly scary in general, but when they see you and they scream at you and Link stops moving, it's truly quite horrifying. Though not as panic-inducing as when the latch onto your face and try to kill you. They really scared me as a kid.

Yeah that's mine too, I fucking hate the ReDead.

And anything where you hear big nasty things making big nasty noises in the general direction that you're going. Also I believe Resi deserves a mention I know that whenever some rogue zombie hands smash through the windows and grab you in 2 or the dogs burst through the windows in the original I shit myself good and propper

i hate the bit in the first Resident Evil when the first undead hell dog thing jumps through the window at you in the corridor.
i controlled my bladder by the smallest of lucky chances!


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Ahem

^ Agreed

I jumped out of my skin when that happened for the first time. Especially as your instinct is to leg it, leading you directly into the second one.

There were some quite unnerving bits in Eternal Darkness as well, not so much actual things that attacked you, though some were horrible to encounter, but the whole 'Insanity Meter' thing. For those who don't know about it, it was a system whereby every time the player encountered an enemy or something horrifying, their sanity would take a beating until strange things started happening such as the Gamecube'turning itself off', bugs crawling across the screen, the characters' heads explding at random. It really had a creepy atmosphere.

And Resident Evil, dear me that gave me nightmares. Especially the remake, which took the general horror of the original and made it far prettier (or uglier, depending on your point of view).

I really want to check this out but can't find it ANYWHERE

Internet may be your best bet since it's a fairly old game and the Gamecube doesn't get as well stocked as the other two consoles. I've seen a few copies secondhand, so that might be a option as well.

Yeah, funding prob at the mo' but I will surely check this lil' gem out.

It didn't scare me, but Killer 7 demented my mind. "I am the True Mask"??? What the fuck?
Resi 2 when the arms come through the boarded up windows shat me up. The second time on the way back past them was an even bigger suprise.
Been a while since I jumped while playing a game. The only thing that scares me now is dying at the end of a hard level.

Played more Warriors. Sweet as hell. Did a mission where I was being chased across rooftops. The gameplay totally changed, the camera went to a side view and I had to just run and jump across the gaps without being cought. Love the variation between levels.

Played, enjoyed and finished Tony Hawk American Wasteland over the weekend. Found it really easy, even on the hardest difficulty. Still got Classic mode to do, but even that seems easy from what I've played. Still a good game though.

I really want to check this game out, do you know if it's getting a 360 release?
Also is the film any good?

No 360 version to my knowledge. If you havn't seen the film then a lot of the game will make no sense.
The film rules in my opinion. Made in the 70's about "gang culture". Violent by the standards of the time, but very tame now. Mostly love it for the cheese factor. If your lucky you might find a copy of the old dvd for £5. They've just released a new version with deleted scenes and extra which is £17ish. Definitely worth a watch.

Just read that Elder Scrolls 4 wont be out till next year. Damn.

Great film it is, and the first I ever watched with my ex.

Ta, I'll check it out at christmas. And damn, atleast it'll even out the choice for games at christmas

Civilization IV is in the post! I am very excited. Lucky USians have had it for a week but it's being released in the UK tomorrow. I don't think I'll be posting here much over the weekend.

Hmm, just been playing Age of Empires 3... I played through the tutorial, which teaches you all about building a base, then dumps you into the first level in which you already have a base, thus making the tutorial useless, and are getting attacked by a seemingly endless stream of enemies which slaughter everything you have in seconds. Then you've got stupid AI that completely ignores you, or AI which rushes off alone and get themselves killed before you've noticed they've come out of the barracks. Oh, and your castle walls don't actually seem to prevent people shooting you from the other side. That has to be the most abysmal start to a game I've played in years.

There're too many games I want right now for my poor pocket to take - Black & White 2, Civ IV, FEAR... Bah. I might get BnW to tide me over for a bit...

If it helps blind, Civ IV has just been reduced to £19.99 on Amazon.