Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[SeanMacGabhann]

blimey AndyB - I'm surprised you have time for the forum after that lot

I was convinced I would get at least one solid day of gaming over the Christmas break - I hardly had time to turn the thing on - was gutted

[Keef]

I finally got Mario Kart which is great fun and very addictive. Also got Sean White snow boarding which is quite fun with the wii fit balance board!

[Floating Onion]

A bit of gaming overload AndyB?

Anyways, Santa was very nice & brought me Scene It (Movie quiz) & Lego Batman. Haven't tried either yet, but looking forward to both of them.

I got myself Call of Duty 5 just before Christmas & it's good fun as well. The multiplayer side is great.

On a different note, has anyone on here ever payed any of the X games? They're, different. Not for everybody, but if you like empire building in space they can be great fun, if a bit slow.

[lozzyloz]

COD 5, bit of a gore fest :)

[AndyB]

Well, I got Resistance 2 and Mirrors Edge for my birthday- 20th of December. I ffnished Resistance 2 yesterday and started on Far Cry 2. Is it just me or are games getting shorter? I rememebr taking weeks to play the fisrt Tomb Raider.

I played a bit of LBP, made me laugh, I love it!

Can't seem to get the voice activation of Endwar to work properly.

[ed_pete]

Santa was very generous this Christmas and endowed the ed_pete offspring with a Wii. As there seem to be a number of fellow Wii owners in here I thought I pose a question: I'm going to connect it to the internet and given the choice, is there much difference in performance between a wired and wireless connection ? I plan to download the browser app so I can use it to access the EDF from my Wii. Is wired best for web access or would the wireless performance be OK ? (It's OK on laptops in the house). Would online gaming (assuming we get that far) be better wired or wireless ?

All advice gratefully received.

[SeanMacGabhann]

My wireless setup is faaar from optimised (it's an old Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange Livebox) but certainly for anything Wii related it's fine. I only use the browser on the Wii for iPlayer catchups - for general text browsing the resolutions is too small for my taste. Gaming-wise I haven't noticed any undue lag with the wireless connection

When I need more robust speeds (streaming HD content to the 360 say) I tend to use wired connections - all else seems fine

[mockney piers]

I do mine on a wireless connection. Wired always best, but I've rarely noticed the difference unless the missus happens to be watchin iPlayer on her laptop or uploading emails with huge attachments

[mockney piers]

Here's an interesting little web game, move the directional circles to deflect the particles of music, to fill up the little refrain boxes and finish the tune.

It'll make sense when you play it.

http://www.playauditorium.com/

[SeanMacGabhann]

After several emd of year round ups named it as one of teh best games you won't have played, I stumped up 1500 Wii points to download World of Goo... and fantastic it is too. Bags of charm and plenty of "oooh I know WHAT to do but it's going to take me a while to figure out just HOW to do it" - very reminiscent of that feeling one had playing Lemmings for the first time

Lady MacGabhann has also taken a shine to it so it had pretty broad appeal. So go download it

Doooo eeeeeeet

[Keef]

Really must sort it out and get my Wii online. You can download some old school NES games too, and I want Super Mario 2, classic! (the one where you could be Mario, Luigi, Peach, or Toad, and Peach could hover, making her easiy the best character).

Had the Wii round at my sister's place on Saturday night for a little game night (I kick ass at Articulate by the way), just with Wii Sports and Mario Kart, think I sold a couple of Wiis for Nintendo!

[SeanMacGabhann]

those are the games to do it alright... just wish there were more like them

Some of the classics on the virtual console for the wii are ropier than you possibly remember, and the download mechanism is enough to drive me to... well I'm already there. But there is some good original stuff coming out on the wiiware channel for sure

browsing the EDF on a wii remains a guilty pleasure as well!

[mockney piers]

Zero Punctuation on very good form.

Ooh, and his orange box review worth watching just to hear him say "I can't criticise it" re Portal!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Just picked up Chrono Trigger on DS this weekend

I never played the SNES original but this is JRPG heaven - finally getting value from my DS.. recommended

[SeanMacGabhann]

@BBW

It's an age old debate - gameplay v realism. I've been gaming since 82 or so and can honestly say I haven't had as much fun as I have had since the 360 came out (caveat: idiot count online at XBOX live is too high and some of the blockbuster games of today are aimed at them. But when we have had Braid, REZ HD and others to delight in recent months, we can't complain either)

[mockney piers]

eh? are you hearing voices SMG?

Talking of which just released the really good russian submachine gun on CoD5.

[????]

OH MY GOD, YOU'RE ALL FUC*ING FREAKS....

*sprints back to lounge

[Keef]

It is a bit weird isn't it quids. Especially when you hear people saying "I've been GAMING since 82" ;-)

[mockney piers]

But I have!!!!

Aah the old Atari 2600, whatever happened to paddles?

 

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

FYI old heads refer to that model as a "Heavy sixer"....Gaming since Binatone Pong circa '77.

Best paddles were the 360 degree ones that only came with Indy 500 ^^

[Mikecg]

I used to go to SPACE CITY in West Croydon every Friday with a ?20 note and the odd visit to the Arcade in Camberwell, they were the days. Defender Galaxian Gorph BattleZone SpaceInvaders and Misile Command, I remember closing my eyes and seing the games still playing in my head.............

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

http://mamedev.org/

With the right skills you can see them all again.

[Floating Onion]

Well I got the Orange Box a couple of weeks ago. Who gives my better half all the good suggestions? Thank you, who ever you are!

Just started getting into it & enjoying it. Played most of HL2 on the PC, but quite happy to start that again. Started portal last night & it's good. Different, but I like the puzzles so far. Also looking forward to trying TF2.

[SeanMacGabhann]

* coughs *

Having just finished Episode 2, I can say you have some cracking moments ahead of you. The White Forest is all kinds of ace

[Floating Onion]

Oh I'm looking forward to playing through all of it! Just need to get through HL2 & Episode 1.

It was rather fun trying to explain Portal to the Cat last night.