Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[Keef]

Cool!!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

With you there shell_8

A lot of speculation about what engine it will use ? heavily modified version of existing (a la Fallout) or new (incorporating buts of id Tech 5 which they acquired last year)

A year seems like a long time to wait tho doesn?t it?

A new SSX game announced too, but it seems to dispense with much of what people loved about the originals.. bah

[SeanMacGabhann]

Another big request for Elder Scrolls 5 ? get rid of the rubbish enemy-levelling employed in Oblivion. I LIKE starting a game knowing if I get cocky some foes can KO me in one fell swoop. And I like taking the risk for greater reward. But knowing that all the way through the game everything you get is the same, because everything levels accordingly is really frustrating

And the person who wrote the Dark Brotherhood quests and storyline? Get them to do all of it in the new game

Oh and another thing ? Oblivion gates. Don?t do anything as silly as them again.

[Keef]

Agree with all of that. Plus, make lock picks easier to get hold of (before you get the skeleton key). And as well as the dark brotherhood, whoever did the knights of the nine add on, should be involved!

[mockney piers]

That was far and away the most annoying thing about the game, breaks every rule of levelling reward. Very very annoying.

I didn't minds the gates, though very repetitive, plus the enemy legroom g sort of works within that context. Or at least do something similar with enemy levelling as new areas are revelead.

[SeanMacGabhann]

If it sounds like I?m being too harsh on the game, I should point out it?s only because I love it ? I spent more hours on that game than anything else and still like to have a wander throught that world even now

And keef is so right about lockpicks ? before I got the skeleton key I used to sit in front of some locks and whimper with frustration (knowing full well that what was behind the fekkin thing probably wasn?t worth it anyway)

[Jeremy]

Captain Scarlet Wrote:

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> I love the resident evil games....anyone p;laying

> resident evil 5 gold? fancy some online Zombie

> hunting?.

I've been playing RE5 with the move controller, and loving it. Although the game is probably a bit weaker than RE4.

[Keef]

If I delete a game that is saved to my xbox hard drive, will I also lose all my game progress, or is that stored elsewhere? Thinking of taking Oblivion off, but definitely don't want to lose my progress, as still have quite a lot of quests to do.

Definitely time to play something else though!

[Keef]

Right, having one a couple of hours of each of my 3 games, first impressions are good.

Assasins Creed 2 - Seems fun, and actually reminds me a bit of Spiderman 2 (the movie) on Gamecube, in so far as you get to do lots of running around rooftops, and looking at the city from the highest tower.

GTA4 - I like, although the driving bit gets on my tits a bit. It's fun though, and the radio stations are cool.

RDR - Saved this til last. It looks amazing from the off, and I think I am going to love this game!

[paragon]

Just Presitged on COD Black Ops - first time ever.

Bit of an anticlimax. I now feel the pressure to perform ever greater.

[felt-tip]

I have a PSP and been playing Ridgeracer recently but its too easy. I've asked for the Sega Megadrive collection for Xmas. I like platform games.

[Ms_Lilith]

Second sight is a good game. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codemasters-Second-Sight-PS2/dp/B0002OAMG6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1292515118&sr=8-2

[Marcus]

Is anyone still playing bfbc2? I've got addicted to it since the last map expansion pack.

Should I be ditching it and playing black ops? There was a lot of talk about the multiplayer not working well on release. I imagine it's been patched by now?

[mockney piers]

Its all about the chu chus!!!!!!!

[ruffers]

Does DJ Hero 2 count as gaming?

[Marcus]

It's all about Nam this evening, surely? Some heavy shit going down (bfbc2 Vietnam released), smoked some bad grass, smoked some Gooks etc. Played as a, so called 'Gook' and got smoked. Having said that, I had an absolutely fantastic meal at Song Que recently. So it all turned out well I suppose....

[Tarot]

How many of you play actual war games. Like War Hammer ,etc.

I know quite a few people go war gaming with these warrior armies.

A lot in Dulwich.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Partly because of keef's post, partly because of spare time over Christmas holed up with the snuffles, and partly because I regret not continuing past the hand-holding missions at the beginning when I first got it, but I fired up Red Dead Redemption a lot over the last few days and am seriously loving it

An early mission had me searching out some old geezer who lives alone in a shack in the middle of nowhere. I was supposed to buy the place off him for some prospector but he wanted $200. I had $35 on me.. As I stood there thinking about ways I could raise the money, the skies opened and the mother of all storms started pelting down and then I thought about the long schlep back to town. I looked again at the old guy, out here in the middle of nowhere and thought ?I could just do him in and take the deed to the house. NOONE is going to know?

But I couldn?t.. so I just schlepped back to town, got drunk and lost all my money at the poker table and switched off the game in a sulk

Interesting review from Philip French ? the sometimes sniffy film reveiwer at the Observer/Guardian ? basically someone who doesn?t do videogames

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/may/23/red-dead-redemption-game-panel

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100523190602/reddeadredemption/images/thumb/c/c4/Irishsshack.jpg/300px-Irishsshack.jpg

[Keef]

Ha ha, I'm the same, just can't kill the innocent. How stupid. By the way. Best way to make easy money, is the game with the knife and your fingers. Work up to $100 dollar bet, and it's the same button sequence every time. Then you can just bet 100 each time.

[Keef]

I am loving it by the way, although a couple of missions have been frustrating (the one where you have to ride alongside the train had me beat a few times).

[SeanMacGabhann]

Good tip for the cash - cheers

It's par for the course for some missions in Rock* games to be really frustrating - it can take dozens of attempts to get past some and then when you do it's plain sailing.

But none of them are as hard as being a prostitute in the towns... those poor girls get picked on A LOT

[david_carnell]

You lot are all heart....just waste the guy.

In the words of Brian Connelly, "it's a PUPPET!"

[SeanMacGabhann]

although, if one is to live one's life by the maxims of others, ouw Bwian wouldn't be first on the list

Anyway, you miss the point. Unlike many (most) other games where killing is rather the point, to have ambiguity introduced gives pause for thought and reflection. And it's only baby steps compared to the future where games continue to evolve and present much more than shooting galleries

But if mayhem is your thing, then there is nothing in the game to stop you (say) lassoing some scrote beating up on a woman, dragging him out to the bear-infested woods, throwing a whole bunch of meat on top of him and watching him suffer as the bears come out for a feed

or leaving him on the train track waiting and waiting for the next train

Just sayin...

[SeanMacGabhann]

more innocently, leaping off teh top floor of the saloon, straight onto your horse and riding off never gets old

Ever

[mockney piers]

not really a game but the google search page is good for a chuckle today.

It must be Jules Vernes' birthday or somesuch, but instead of the usual pictographed google, today we have a fully functioning submarine.

Coool.