Savage Cabbage

I miss Ken Kutaragi.

Guys, give Assault Heroes a go on XBLA I promise it will leave you smailling over the holiday season. Great as a singleplayer sit down and blast BUT do it co-op over Live and it becomes a real treat. Check it out. Money WELL spent!

"Spaff's girlfriend" makes an interesting point there... Anymore photos of merry joy joy vibes?

2010. PS4 - It's rise has been prophesied! Roy Scheider showed us all!!! HAL. I want you to listen closely to my voice. The cell processor was just the beginning...

Yeh, I guess you have to give it a year unless they come out with a few titles from the word go or make announcements for titles you are definately into. I went for a 360 because of Ridge Racer 6, Ghost Recon AW, and PGR3. They showed enough titles that gave me confidence that I would be able to get a good game fix from day one. With PS3 I have Ridge 7, and Motorstorm but not much else for a while that is at least exclusive to the console and worth spending £500 + (it is a while before MGS4 which I will get when it comes out). The Wii has Zelda and Trauma Centre to satisfy my needs. But I think if you weren't a serious game follower as many here it would probably take a year to see a consoles potential to your tastes on the shop floor.

How 'bout this... Run back and get your sword, then head across the newly created bridge to the castle platform. Nearly there. Leave Yorda and head up the chain, push the box onto the lower platform near the idol doors, climb down the ladder, push the box up against the ledge and climb on up. Pull the switch there and then head down and back up the ladder. Jump off the greenish wood to the chain, then swing across to the platform with the large handle. Turn it until the box pops out, then head back across the chain, down the ladder, and onto the box. Help Yorda across to the idol doors, and then through them. Whew! Keep going. This game made my wife cry. Actual tears. And she is a ninja I shit you not.

I agree with everyone but I gotta tell you...Spaff loves me more. No, relly ask him yourself. Spaff? Where's the real love huh?

Oh, please. You think Kutaragi made that statement through modesty? The man runs around his office in giant man nappies beating his P.A. with hams and kettle chips -possibly. No seriously. SONY are arrogant. Even they admit it. That statement was said solely because Microsoft got out of the gate first and the next gen was off with a bang. The days of comparing console releases like ps1 and 2 with Saturn and Dreamcast are over. The next gen began with the DS. There are few who would have bet on DS kicking all them shades of shit out of the PSP to the extent where heads at EA find themselves advising Sony to redesign and market the PSP. They do that for the sole reason that they invested financially and mentally in that console dominating. Now even in the UK DS outstrips PSP at an alarming rate. I tell you SONY made that statement through confidence that their fanbase and the genral public seriously believe what they say. Just read the Telegraph or any other broadsheet that focuses on console news only when it relates to money or a social event like Chrimbo and see how they speak about the PS3. It is spoken of as though it could walk on water, eat bullets, and shit ice cream. The article reads as though the writer leaned over to his younger brother and asked what was the 'best' console out. Come on people. We need to stop with this mentality of the my console is better than yours and everything starts and the fourth place. Where the hell is that? Sony did a great thing with the PS1 and created a fine arena for developers to start making certain ideas into reality but it has brought with it a society of people who just don't really know games and the variety out there. Imagine the equivalent if there was only EA? Yes we have to thank them in a great way for broadening the masses to the existence of games but would you want JUST them dominating games in the way that Sony has been? Buy a PS3 by all means. I'll be queing for the Ridge Racer and other game that allows for massive damage such as motorstorm, but i tell you I will buy a 360 and Wii twice over first if only to mantain a social balance in this industy. THe day is coming when kids will tell you they have never heard of Crono Trigger or Shining Force and that they suspect Spyro the Dragon was the inspiration for Panzer Dragoon. Yeah, laugh now. Kenty where are you? Expose the weak spot and deliver massive damage to the unclean!!! Now I sound like a fanboy. See what you have gone and done?

Heheheheh. Indeed. But if that's the mentality then there would have been no need to make consoles past the SNES. I don't hear any other company banging on about the next gen starts when THEY say so....

Then they (developers) should be ashamed of themselves because the whole point of more power is that you utilise it to the best ability of the hardware presented to you. Can you imagine if developers only used Geforce 9800 cards to produce original Quake graphical standards? It is a waste. So if the PS3 is THAT much more powerful then I as a consumer expect to see that power put to use. Just as 1080p is so much better than standard definition it is like them producing the Bluray and a film house producing discs with videotape standards from the master copy. Same assets - it's just what you do with it in relation to the hardware at your disposal. It goes deeper than graphics. There is the power for additional calculations for AI etc. I cannot see this currently in the titles lined up - at least not significantly greater than the likes of Lost Odyssey or Alan Wake. Don't get me wrong, as anyone who knows me will tell you I will buy a PS3 just for Ridge Racer 7. What I am at odds with is the manipulation of consumers buy a company and a mis-informed media that the PS3 is the greatest console ever created. It is time people had a balanced view on what is available to them at a far more sensible price.

Does this help? Is this where you are? Jump the gap, go to the rope, go across. Down ladder. Up tower to left, across, down chain. Swing and jump at bridge to push it down. Catch her. Go to the end. Get a bomb from the bomb room. Bring it to near the torch. Get a stick, light it on the torch, light the bomb. Now throw it at the water tower (the structure to your left) - it'll blow up and land as a bridge for you. Go up the chain over to the block. Push it down and follow it. Push it right. Climb up, push the lever. A chain goes right. Now go back up, jump to the chain, jump to the circle wheel. Push it around. A hanging box appears. Monsters come, jump across box to idol doors, get her to follow you, they all die. There's a ledge at the other end of the drawbridge and an idol gate. Then castle walls and an idol gate. Go in and they slam shut. Up ladder, cut 2 ropes in the left door, monsters will come. Save. "West Idol Stairs"

This is not an issue of bad/good porting. This is a clear cut case against Sony constantly using their advantage of (or should I say taking advantage of) general consumers belief that somehow video gaming began with the PlayStation and that there is no other console that can ever come close. With this generation, especially, Sony has banged on about the HD era and how integral the PS3 will be to our enjoyment of it through their games. (I don't count the Blu rays ability in it's film playback as it is not relevant in this discussion) They have continued to have consumers believe that games will look and play better on PS3, which obviously is a logical thing to say as it IS their job to do that, but the fact is that when Jonny Poppy Longcock shells out that much money for the unit in the first place, he expects to experience that difference. It is comparable under ANY variable simply because Sony has said repeatedly how much more powerful their console is. They have created the arena for comparison and now it is showing the holes in their promises. I expect Kojima-san to produce stunning results with MGS4 but there is more to a console catalogue than a handful of sudo-firstparty games. We want our Maddens and NFS's each year (well some sick puppies do) and the general games that are made for multiple platforms. At least that is what the general games consumer wants. We (and I speak more for Idle Thumbers) have the blessing (?) of having a greater knowledge of what determines a quality unique game -ICO, SOTC, 'naughts, etc. but most folk wont have even heard of those games let alone played them. This comparison is relevant only to a point but it is valid because it is really showing that Sony is once again relying on reputation of past to shift units and now we are seeing that infact there really isn't anything in it at all, and in cases, the 360 is proving the better unit for games and cost. For shame Kuturagi, for shame.

Lost Odyssey looks fantastic. I know it is just the opening cinematic but the look of contrast in the WWII grit and the medieval metals are just great. But i am a sucker for that sort of style (much like Konami's Ring of Red birth child with Kingdom Under Fire). The motion of him running and swinging that sword is just great. There are some cool ideas knocking around in that game. Even it it amounts to not much more than an HD version of Dynasty Warriors, i am still going to enjoy it. The tech of Forza 2 - well, i can't even begin to go into the joy that will be. Project Sylpheed, Blue Dragon, and Lost Planet are all on the radar for me too. The 360 definately has the games I am interested in across a solid spectrum. They have a really strong second console here.

Some true must buy titles for me. At last the 360 console is giving me the classic feeling i used to have when i first saw the likes of Soul Blade, Wipeout and Final Fantasy VII for the first time! I have to say it would be good to see the 360 doing well in Japan. It has huge potential as a games machine and the more of this we can get the more Japanese devs will start putting soul into making titles for it and the Live Arcade side of the business. Especially the smaller companies who don't have the resources to put huge "20 gig" PS3 titles in HD (because that is the heart and path to a true consoles ability) out there. Live is a sound business model and I hope more small devs. can give us some of their magic. Everyone should own a 360 - if only for Riiiiidge Raaaaacer!!!!!

That's one plus that HD DVD has over Blu Ray - You can have both the HiDef version and a standard DVD version on the same disc. It is actually part of their standard. It is a feature Microsoft will be making use of as it saves huge amounts in production costs. You can't actually do this with Blu Ray unfortunately.

And there's my point. When did the shape of a controller hold a console to ransom. It's a console by Nintendo with input from Miyamoto. It will be great. And as for consoles are just PC's crap. So. Technology is merging. Developers are just providing more and more features that can be used by both the PC and the console. But I want MGS4 and I want my lightgun joys from HOTD4 and Virtua Cop. I cant wait for the new SOnic, or Mario -they are all exciting games and it is always one or two games that totally convince me to buy a next gen console. On the one hand it seems like many dont really care for games THAT much but they are the ones who bitch the most about lack of this and that but they haven't even got a console or have only just got a ps2 and think a Saturn is astronomy. I weep for your loss. I'm gonna keep buying them and loving them as long as I know there are developers out there working their butts off to entertain me.

I can totally agree with you on those points. My concern is when people just slag a console off even before they have seen it. Or make technical criticisms without having any concrete knowledge of how it functions or the ramifications of a feature. Yes companies are in it to make money, but £279 for a console with everything, in England is an acceptable price. Sure it's more than a cube but I bought my cube when it was in triple figures. Same for my ps2 and xbox. Infact only my Snes set me back £79 and that was back in the day. Earthworm Jim cost me £60 but as soon as I switched it on, the money was the last thing I was thinking about. That game entertained me for years! I know some folks on this site have to be very selective with choosing which console to buy but there really are no bad consoles - just ones that offer a particular title or two you can't do without. So buy that one and love it. But my point was just about the negativity I have seen growing in many about games. It is sad when people start picking consoles apart and damning them before they have even played a single game.

And did you feel the same way when you first got your PS1? I don't know. Me? I am excited about every new console arrival. There are always games that get me in the mood to play. Ridge Racer and Tekken through to Loaded and Project Overkill. Saturn gave me Panzer series (ohhh the love of SEGA) and Nights through to Guardian Heroes and Shining Force and Burning Rangers. Gungriffon - never bettered on any other system. SNES - well just the existence of that box showed me love. PS2 gave me Ico and GT4 through to Ring of Red and Silent Hill and still giving us more. Xbox same story - tons of gems from Steel Battalion and Kingdom Under Fire to Jade Empire and Chronicles of Riddick. All consoles bring excitement with them and it's great to watch the webcasts on whats coming etc. Handhelds? None of them have disapointed me. They are all giving forth great titles. And what is the whole paranoid issue with media box in the home all about? The xbox gave us the first console to deliver ingame 5.1 digital sound and what a difference it made. Now we are taking it further with 360 and Ps3 with HiDef and on the fly messaging systems. I dont see how this is bad. The greater the enhancement the better. We will be looking at a future of online multichat warfare/coop etc. An additional HD in/out takes the burden from your amp and creates new possibilities for eyetoy style gaming. Sorry you guys seem so down about the coming systems but I can't wait!

true to the word son. true

Fear not dear Ed. You are embraced to the warm love that is the Browncoats. Welcome. Sit. Eat food. And shoot scumbags. And rob a train or two. Or four. Well...

I don't believe you lot. All you do is bitch. How many of you are developing games for the 360 and having serious problems writing a code that requires a hard drive? You sound like a bunch of clueless kids in a playground. Were is the love for games? I am eager for this console and all the others. I want Chromehounds ripping through my speakers, PGR3, Gears of War, Condemned, the lot. You are getting like grumpy critics who are passed their sell by date and don't even know why you are in it for. If you really don't like Microsofts business practises so much then don't buy their products but for fucks sake just stop bitching about it! Your supposed to be gamers!!!

I gotta agree with Yufster too still. Have you not played Shenmue? It's as dull and exciting as life can be. Many argue that Ryu is a drip and he couldn't even get it on with the girl who seemed like she lacked an emotion, but I think he represents tons of guys. I used to be just like him as a teen. I really don't get anyone who says games suck. You suck. How very dare you.

play.com is a bit lively

Games suck? How VERY dare you!?

We put your questions to our resident SEGA god and high seas pirate, BEN.