ThunderPeel2001

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    The UI is fine...? Not sure what your problem with it is... You'll probably get used to it after some time, it's pretty straight forward.

    Also, of course it changes for Widescreen TVs. You must have it set up wrong.

    Scart lead

    There's millions of them on Amazon, too (search for 360 SCART). There's an official one and loads of third party ones. I bet they're all pretty equal really.

  6. Posted

    1. Um?

    2. Gold membership allows you play games online with your chums.

    3. Ah..

    4. You can buy a SCART lead, and yes, it does look very nice with one!

    5. No you set that yourself in the Settings.

    6. No, once you've used a credit card it "helpfully" remembers it for you so you don't ever have to enter it again... Although you can't delete it either :(

  8. Posted

    Yessum! This thread's hit the right forum... Anyone else interested in Speedball 2? I have to say that I'm a little let down by the fact it's literally an emulation of the Amiga version... but hopefully they might "spruce" it up in some way. At least the gameplay should be good!

  9. Posted

    Just to re-add my 2c: Gears and Guitar Hero are great places to start, IMO. I've not played Crackdown, though. I, personally, am bored to death with "gritty" games. I liked Gears because it was fun, well designed, very polished and... fun, despite the grit.

    Hope you like whatever you end decide on!

    Also: Make sure you pick up these games second hand... (except maybe Guitar Hero)... "next gen" prices are not nice!

  15. Posted

    Read: "Our profits look like they might begin to fall, let's take do some research. Gee, it turns out that the public has caught up with all those moaning critics who complained about formulaic re-releases. Plus there's an older generation of gamers emerging who don't have the free-time to develop the skills necessary to become proficient at stupidly hard games. They've got money, as well. Guess we should do something 'new' and 'exciting'."

  17. Posted

    Not sure about the list so far (wasn't Lost Planet supposed to be hugely disappointing?). As far I'm concerned, there's two great games on the 360:

    Gears of War

    Guitar Hero II

    There's nothing else I've played I couldn't leave, but I haven't played an awful lot. There could well be some other great games out there that I'm completely ignorant to (Viva Pinata always looked interesting and Oblivion got good reviews, but I've never found the time to get into it properly).

    Metacritic (an average score from loads of different reviews) says:

    1 Gears of War (2006) 94%

    2 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The (2006) 94%

    3 Guitar Hero II (2007) 93%

    and then...

    4 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (2006) 90%

    5 Forza Motorsport 2 (2007) 90%

    6 Call of Duty 2 (2005) 90%

    That's it for anything over 89% :'(

    I would heartily recommend Gears of War and Guitar Hero II (if you don't already have GH2 on the PS2, or something).

  21. Posted

    Cool..... It certainly sounds like the stuff regarding the Consolevania towers is a reference to the promise of "better things" (ie. it's exactly the same, only now they've got some guy who knows nothing about computer games to answer to).

    It makes you wonder why they've gone back to their old show... I can only imagine it's because they enjoyed making it so much?

  23. Posted

    I have to break a lance (Dutch expression) for Gears of War here: I thought it was rocking good and I'm a PC gamer historically.

    Same here. Plus, there's nothing really like it on the PC, it certainly doesn't borrow as much people are saying. The duck and cover gameplay was inspired, if you ask me. It's a straight forward shooter, with not much else, but it's also highly addictive, extremely playable, polished and most of all, fun, game. The storyline sucked, as did the characters, but it was inventive enough to the adrenaline pumping. I doubt it will find an audience on the PC, though, it's too straight-forward (ie. consoley) for the PC market, I think.

    If you want to talk about sub-PC, uninteresting FPSs, then surely we should start with things like Prey?

  24. Posted

    Thanks for your comments, Rodi! I'll keep watching the series.

    Watershed moment for me; guarantees I'm hooked on this show, as I couldn't agree more (massively-over-hyped Space Invaders reskin that it is).

    Well, he didn't say it was a bad game, so you might disagree there. I just found it a pleasure to play, though, re-skin/hyped or not.

    Just remember: he's "not evil!"

    Now! I DO seem to remember something about Consolevania being made into a TV show? Is that right? Is all this (Consolvania Towers/The Sponsors) a reference to the failure of that? Or am I completely wrong?

  25. Posted

    Yikes... this is the first episode of Consolevania I've ever seen... Freaky, is the word I'd use. I felt there were quite a few references I didn't get (who's the "dog" character? who was the "not evil" guy supposed to be? was the guy in the anorak a reference to anyone in particular?). The reviews themselves were good, as it's nice to hear someone talk somewhat in detail about games, and feel like you're on the same wavelength. Some of the comments that were made were really interesting, too. It's a helluva lot better than Gamesmaster and that other one with Violet Berlin... but of course, they were shite.

    Not quite sure where these guy's boundaries are the moment though, I kind of get the feeling that they could come out with some really ignorant borderline rascist/homophobic/sexist stuff for no reason... but that's the "thrill" of homemade internet videos, I guess. Will I end up liking them, or is part of the comedy laughing at them for their "outrageous"/unpredictable comments? Hmmm.

    "Gears of War isn't really that good" - Whaaa? I respectfully think he's talking out of his arse on this one. For me it was the first 360 game that made think "phew, there ARE decent games for this machine". Still, we can't all agree on everything. I might check out Overlord based on his review, though.