Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[mockney piers]

Does that mean we can't even play the demo anymore? Not even on single player?

waste of time anyway, though I've been assured that multiplayer is brilliant.

Went and got CoD5 last night, solid single shooter as per expectation. Multiplayer supposed to be lots of fun too, up to 4 man coop and lots of extras like night of the zombies, sounds great.

[Floating Onion]

Yeah, I couldn't find the Left 4 Dead demo last night to download. I guess single player would still work. Good review that Sean posted.

I'm sure I'll be getting CoD5 at some point soon. Love CoD4 & the multi player system in that is great.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Must get around to CoD 4 at somepoint. But when???? When??????

I picked up a 120gb drive in Argos a while back for ?70 - which is shocking for that much space but for a 360 version wasn't bad - I had started to download films etc and knew the update was coming to install games so I bit the bullet. It has been worth it

[mockney piers]

I've a copy of COD4 you can borrow.

I'm pretty much done with Fable II for the time being if anyone wants borrowage?

[Floating Onion]

You're welcome to borrow it. My problem right now is there are so many games coming out that I want, I just don't have the time to play them all!

I suspect I'll just have to bite the bullet, it just annoys me that they cost so much. That said ?70 is cheaper than I've seen elsewhere.

One of my coworkers has been raving about the new horde mode in GoW2. All coop with waves of creatures that keep getting bigger.

[Floating Onion]

If I had the time I'd borrow Fable. Anyways, I have the following if anyone wants to borrow or play online:

Need for Speed Prostreet

Rainbow Six Vegas 1 & 2

Gears of War

Lego Indiana Jones

Halo 3

Mass Effect

GTA4

CoD4

Fallout 3 (still playing)

[mockney piers]

Mass Effect

GTA4

Big no nos off the back of fable and fallout!! Mrs Mockers would disown me.

She understands my need to kill people or shunt them off a track in a high speed race after a bad day at the office, but is most distrustful of RPGs (post WoW you understand)

[bon3yard]

She has a point. Its only a short hop from RPGs to Death Metal and Columbine. ;-)

[mockney piers]

The bowling alley? She quite enjoys the wii bowling as it goes ;)

[Floating Onion]

Mass Effect can certainly consume a lot of time. I wouldn't call GTA4 an RPG though.

I take it you don't want to borrow Fallout 3 when I'm done then? >:D<

[Keef]

Okay, you guys are taking geek to new levels. I like games, but come on.

[mockney piers]

I have fallout 3, but it's not doing it for me.

Says Keef who completed a game 3 times right through ;)

[SeanMacGabhann]

oooh words out of my mouth Piers!

[Floating Onion]

No? I've heard that from a few people. Took me a little bit to get into it, but now I'm really enjoying it. The mechanics almost seemed a bit clunky at first.

Isn't this area a geek's paradise? I'm quite sad really.

[mockney piers]

There just haven't been any great story hooks really. It's not enough to want to build my character's lockpick skill to 50 just to get past a door to fins the radio station.

Plus there's so little ammo I'm constantly using a spiky stick and having to go to sleep to recover after every second fight (cockroaches not included).

The zombie gas flame moment was fun though.

[Floating Onion]

I'm still enjoying wandering around making a mess. I haven't headed to the radio station yet, busy with the side quests. No other way past it? Most things seem to have another way around them.

I haven't gotten to the spiky stick stage, but it's gotten close! Trying to be very easy on the trigger finger. I wouldn't survive a melee fight with most things.

Zombies? Not found them.

[Keef]

Says Keef who completed a game 3 times right through

That was different okay!

I am just jealous really, how do you get the time to play so much? If Mrs Keef is home with me, Wii is not really an option.

[mockney piers]

I get in an hour earlier than the missus most days.

I do my killing in that time and start cooking when she gets home.

Soemtimes might stay up late too if the game has got its hooks into me.

[Keef]

Sounds good, who needs guitar practise when you can be shooting stuff! :)-D

[mockney piers]

First impressions of the new console?

I'd say slicker and perttier if less intuitive.

Also they seem to have broken the streaming from yuor PC a bit. It no longer interrogates the media player library, but looks at some specific directory which is a bit annoying.

Unless you install media center(sic) which it asks you to do on every other pane. For which of course you need to upgrade to bloody Vista.

Harumph.

5/10

Mind you SB's WiiMii Avatar is an uncanny likeness!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

* through gritted teeth *

I thought we had decided to stop with the SB thing!

 

[mockney piers]

how did you get that?

[SeanMacGabhann]

You should be able to login to

"http://live.xbox.com/en-GB"

And you'll find it (well - yours) there

[mockney piers]

a ha!

 

[SeanMacGabhann]

It's like you are in the room!