Thrik

I'm guessing the fun largely comes from playing other people's levels, not your own — obviously if they're reasonably good they could easily be fun. The whole draw of the game is that it's a social platform game; you're not meant to just sit there playing your own levels, and not necessarily playing by yourself either (Co-op!). There're also meant to be a lot included with the full game by the developers. Apparently the developers were banned from cheating with the promotional/stock levels, so anything you've seen is in fact possible in your very own levels. Check out GameTrailers.

Forgot to mention, 1up were giving away keys last night and GameTrailers started this morning. I'm waiting for the final release, but check those sites out if you're after one.

That's arguably one of the main draws of C&C, so no it certainly hasn't done away with that. You can certainly be tactical in C&C3 if you want though, as there is a lot of intricacy to the units. It's a very fun and exciting game, and I'd just get that rather than wait for Red Alert 3 if you're fancying some — it's excellent.

While I'm inclined to believe that's sarcasm (Has a single internet petition ever had any effect?), it's redundant anyway because 50 Cent is in the same predicament as Brutal Legend — a game that arguably has a higher budget and retail potential.

I can see him eventually starting to see the lines turning blurry, killing gamers as a way of protecting America's children.

I think it's fair to say everyone is aware of this — the news broke around the end of July. :~ Read this too.

Haaahahahaha. :tup:

It does look fantastic. Levels like this say impress: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40525.html http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36988.html But I agree that the platforming looks a bit quirky. To be honest the only real issue I see with it is that the jumps look a bit low-gravity, as if they don't have much weight (which is probably accurate). If there isn't a way to make the gravity more Mario-like, I hope they patch it in.

Hahaha, that's excellent. Is it just me who got like 20 seconds in before realising what the site was doing, though? :~

Eh? Isn't that the same video right up in the original post?

Isn't there something you can do to remove wanted levels? Could make it possible.

Ahh, I recognise him as the crazy Russian bastard with an eyepatch in Lost.

Trailer showing the cutscenes proper btw, for those who haven't seen it: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38711.html Who is the guy in the elevator beside Curry? I know I recognise him, but can't pinpoint where from at all.

Sniped. ;

A bit of Peter Stormare and Jonathan Pryce too. The game looks promising. If it's got the same team as C&C 3 behind it then I have a lot of confidence in them delivering a quality RTS, although I am concerned that some of the things that historically distinguished Red Alert from regular C&C have been compromised a bit (Mechs?!).

GamesRadar interviewed him the other day and he categorically denied ever saying that. I think it was a misquote or complete fabrication that grew legs. We all know the games press doesn't need to do something as outlandish as research of sources, right? It's a pretty good interview: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/interview-peter-molyneux-opens-up-about-fable-2/a-20080917102625140012 He seems very down-to-earth and likeable.

Well they're obviously not going to go into full-scale game development; anything they buy is only going to be peripheral to games. I'd say Lively is closer to an actual honest-to-god game than Steam is, to the point where it's fair to say Google has dealt with gamey things.

Yes.

Steam is always getting enhancements, albeit minor ones. I cannot imagine how it could be much simpler and quicker to do what it does, which is to deliver games with the smallest amount of fuss and then provide community/update services afterwards. This is soon getting even better with the Steam-hosted saved games, configurations, and whatnot, which I'm really looking forward to. Ultimately your games will be completely 'in the cloud' and not tied to one particular computer, meaning you can reinstall somewhere else. Once implemented properly this is a seriously killer feature IMO. What exactly do these other services have that gives them a one-up on Steam? I honestly can't think of anything else I'd like Steam to do beyond what it does already, cemented with the player networking stuff that makes joining friends' games and such a breeze.

I'd say this has some serious credibility, regarding the notion of Google wanting Steam. It is indeed a fantastic system, and definitely the best in its field at doing what it does — especially now it has the tight social networking integration of Steam Community. The downside I guess is that Google will inevitably want something out of it. Hopefully that doesn't eventually translate to ads.

I think you've got component and composite mixed up. Component is the good one, which the PS2 slim does have.

Yeah, that's true. I'm guessing you can get decent results if your television has a particularly good upscaling chip and you output via component, but it's definitely sad to see that gone. I'd liked to have played the MGS games with that.

You'd have to get one of the extremely expensive original models, which weren't released at all in Europe AFAIK. I believe the first European models had partial PS2 support, but like the Xbox 360 it requires software emulation. This is a contrast to the original US PS3 which could basically natively play all PS2 games. Unlike the 360 though, Sony decided to drop support for backwards compatiblity and so not only was it removed from all newer PS3s, but they ceased adding new games to the compatibility list. I'd just go with a PS2 Slim personally as they can be slotted into just about anywhere for the rare occasion I want to play a PS2 game (which is in reality about once or twice a year, despite me originally thinking it'd be more often). You're looking at a premium of several hundred dollars for an original PS3 last time I looked.

Current models do indeed not play PS3 games, and haven't done since beyond the first generation really. It's worth noting that the price was able to drop a huge amount as an almost direct result of this though, as they used to literally put PS2 hardware into the PS3 so it could run them. With the money saved you can grab a PS2 Slim (smaller than a Wii), and second-hand they're practically nothing.

Heh. I have it, but the user account is also being used by my two sisters so it's not up for sharing.