Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[Keef]

Piers I'm relying on you to tell me when a game worth buying comes out on the Wii, as I don't really keep up with such things... I actually need to finish Metroid Prime and then to Metroid Prime 2 for the Gamecube which has been sat unplayed for ages whilst I've been doing other stuff, then I can play the new Metroid for Wii. I also need to get my Wii online, as you can get the old school Super Metroid and Mario 3!

[mockney piers]

Can you?! cool, that gives me something to do tonight. *as well as an informal telephone job interview .. woo hoo*

[Brendan]

Just watched that video Mockney. Very very cool indeed. A feature on the next generation of consoles?

[mockney piers]

It's nice to see someone prototype a concept and you can immediately think of tons and tons of applications.

I hope so Brendan, in fact I don't see why it couldn't be done on the Wii.

[Keef]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Can you?! cool, that gives me something to do

> tonight.

In case you didn't look in to it, see HERE and HERE.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Keef/Piers

Stop it - or I'll end up with a wii.

Brendan - exactly!

And in other news. This makes me VERY happy indeed

REZ. In HD!!!! just weeks away

[SeanMacGabhann]

Things are bad. Very bad

I have realised that the number of posts I have made on here is not far off my Xbox Gamerscore - and part of me thought about synching them up....

Time to go away and have a good hard look at myself

[Floating Onion]

That says something about either your game playing abilities, or your prolific posting! Which is worse?

[mockney piers]

catching me fast, but we can't hold a torch to the messaginous tour-de-force that is the Keefster!!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

indeed onion, indeed.

[mockney piers]

oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god

Rare's Goldeneye to be updated and released on XBox Live Arcade!!!!

http://xboxevolved.e-mpire.com/article/No_Title/4272.html

[SeanMacGabhann]

hmmmm - when did you last play it?

Time has not been kind I fear

[Ant]

Oh dear, I've spent far too long messing about with this already and I'm far from done with it.

http://www.enigmasand.com/games/nphys/

Slightly OT, but this seemed more relevant to here than anywhere else.

[SeanMacGabhann]

oooh that is very nice... just the ticket on a Friday afternoon

Nice on Ant

[Ant]

I've tried see-saws, catapults, actual drawings of things, falling alphabets, all sorts.

[mockney piers]

Most excellent!!

[barrymarshall]

Dunno if this has been discussed much of late (did a search but nowt came up), but does anyone have any clue when the Wii shortage might be coming to an end? I should have bought one back in October when I had the chance, but my flatmate got a PS3 about the same time so I decided to hold off until just after Xmas. Big mistake!

[SeanMacGabhann]

The only reason I haven't picked up a Wii yet is because I have neither the space or time but I have been tempted several times and always check out stock levels when I'm around those kinds of shops

Pretty sure the main HMV on Oxford St had some last week

As for the PS3 - I've had 1 and 2 and was looking forward to 3 - but NOTHING has come out for it yet. At all....

[mockney piers]

A colleague got one in Game in Woolwich the other day....or was that Keef?

[Keef]

That was me (that mentioned it), but that was before christmas, and they all seem to have gone now... I'll keep my eyes peeled.

[barrymarshall]

okay - cheers - I keep checking Play, Amazon, etc., regularly, but I guess I'll have to pound the old pavement.

The PS3 is alright actually - there are a few decent titles - and for me it beats the 360, though the Microsoft machine has been out for longer and has a bigger back catalogue. I think you can do more with a PS3. Mind, a Wii is what I's after the noo.

[Floating Onion]

Well seeing as Santa's little helper reads the forum I've now got an xbox 360. Quite impressed with it. Took me a while to get use to the controller (I'm a PC gamer), but definitely getting the hang of it.

The capabilities of both platforms from a user stand point seem pretty similar. Once I get the latest update on the xbox it should be quite a decent media center. They'll now play DivX.

[SeanMacGabhann]

gamertag = FloatingOnion ??

Bioshock is still haunting me after I've finished it weeks ago..... I hear tell of a prequel

[barrymarshall]

yeah, the biggie for me is that PS3 supports Blu-ray and has a brilliant processing engine that upscales standard DVDs miles better than most bog-standard DVD players, like my Samsung.

[Floating Onion]

Not online yet. Waiting on broadband install..... Is Onion taken?