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Love those posters. It was weird I woke up this morning with this strange desire to play Fallout 2 then I logged on to this Forum... coincidence? Played SpeedBall 2 last night and beat Revolver 606 - 2. That made me very happy. Also found myself getting sick pleasure on Hunter the Reckoning: The redeemer. The four player co-op is it's biggest strength and weakness.

I love this comparison we are making to 'art' and computer games. For centuries paintings and statues were generally made only of rich people or of historical and religious occasions. They were merely symbols of wealth and power, it wasn't until the advent of the industrial age, and the introduction of the camera that 'artists started to experiment with other forms of expression. It wasn't until the beginning of this century that actors were ellevated to the height that they are now considered, and saying that one was an artist/actor was tantamount to saying you were a 'whore'. Books are a fairer comparison, but then I always find it difficult to imagine intellectual musings as 'art'. I find it odd that gamers feel the need to justify their enjoyment of a craft, by lumping it in with the prozzies of Hollywood and the stuck-up-my own-bottom navel gazers (interesting if they could do both at the same time) painters of this century.

What?!?!? Idle Hands is genius, well I don't know about genius, but any film that has a possesed hand ripping off the Lead singer from Offspring's scalp, quite definitely rules.

First game I played was either Granny's Garden or Yie Ar Kung Fu on the BBC micro computer. I remember thinking that I was never going to stop playing computer games during a 4 hour caning session of Arcadians on th BBC when I was about 6. But the first game to make me gush was probably Snow Brothers in the arcades of a water slide park. Everyone was out on the slides or swimming, I spent the entire time trying to get past the first Boss... I tried to get an import copy of Snow Bros on the Megadrive but it was 80 quid!

As usual I show myself to be up to date with breaking news... Man do I suck, must buy a DS.

The much maligned pocket Kingdoms was pretty fun. It was a remake of Dragon Force on the Saturn.

Does anyone know if they are going to release Mr Driller for the DS? That would seal my decision if that came out. I might even stop playing Biomotor Unitron on my Pocket Colour and fork out for the Nintendo oddity.

Just completed yesterday, with Scar the best way to get it so that he is so wounded he starts licking himself (sounds dirty but I assure you it is innocent), is to angle your jump attacks to diagonally hit him at his eye level so that instead of just hitting him once you do a pummeling move that really hurts him. Then when he is in that state you need to get him to the far left so that you are standing between him and the edge of the screen, then perform a throw on him to send him over the edge. that scene is completable in about three minutes. Going to aim to complete Mickey Mania in the next couple of days (graphically it hasn't really dated in the last decade)

Duck tales and Darkwing Duck on the Gameboy... I really want to play those. Didn't rate Alladin on either platform to be honest.

I almost bought a copy of this game yesterday... Loved the Indianan jones inspired 'leap of faith' area at the end of the game. By far the best Disney game, close second is Donald Duck's lucky Dime Caper, which was setup in the same way but with a mallet.

It was part of the Street fighter anniversary edition (definitely for Xbox, and maybe on the PS2 version as well) 3rd Strike wasn't particularly hard (well I didn't think it was) it was just tweaked so much all the old school gamers had to adjust to the new style.

Sticking with someone (if you are ugly or not) because you are afraid to be alone (or as yufster put it, you are afraid of not getting laid again) is never the answer to a good relationship. Not that I would really know, as I haven't had a relationship for two and a half years, too busy playing games

Yeah, pretty much second what knar said. But if you really think he's worth it, it is going to pretty difficult to drag him away from WoW.

You had troubles with Street fighter 3? Was that Alpha or third strike? Third strike was a markedly different game to the rest of the genre with there being more empahsis on blocking and counters (something that appears quite a lot in capcom evolution and confuises a lot of peeps). If you want a decent fighting game try samurai showdown 5 when it comes out, or at a pinch King of Fighters: Maniax. Capcom have neglected their fighting franchise for some time now (gone are the days of Alpha 3 and X-men vs Capcom) adn it shows. You mentioned the lazy graphics, that has been going on for years now and I think it is downright rude. The last decent Capcom game was SNK vs Capcom 2. And it is in great part thanks to SNK that that wasn't a turd (the PS2 version is the better of the lot).

Have you seen Strays? Or the Boiler Room?

Damn I only have a cranky old laptop...

I have been keeping quiet for some time about this game... But I can't help it anymore, but does anyone know when the official release date was for this game on the X-box in England? I've looked at a few websites and most of them say it has already been released, yet I can't find a copy any where. It is driving me nuts reading all this stuff about Psychonauts and not being able to get my sticky mitts on a copy!

Personally I loved Halo and Halo2. I went around to a friends house and it was the first time I'd played on an X-box and they had set up a four x-box, four tv and sixteen player game. Being a noob they let me play a bit. There were no gimmicks, nothing special, well, nothing special I could put my finger on. It just made sense. Which was amazing for me, because I'd never been much of an FPS man, and much less believed that you could put one on a console. Halo, to me, is a game that is greater than the sum of its parts. It shouldn't be a good game, but somehow it is. I fully appreciate why people hate it, but I never much cared for computers so being able to play a more-than-competent version of a genre often screwed up (timesplitters and red faction are perfect examples) on consoles is fine by me.

Agreed. The plot is spoiled by the fact that each game paves the way for the next in the series, have they not considered that the company might go bust? I have followed the game religiously since it started on the PS1, playing versions on the Dream cast, PS2 (ugh), and X-box. It still feels like I've never been given a complete story. That said I haven#t played the last one.

I see what you mean and agree. SEGA should just call it something else entirely and be done with it. That at least would have the double merit of stopping them looking like cheeky, manipulative buggers. And give the game a chance of standing on its own merit, and not having the fan boys drawing comparisons between it and the strategy series, as well as rubbishing it in the process.

I don't think SEGA should have used the Total War franchise in such a cold manner (blatant exploitation of a known series). But I quite like the idea, mind you I like the button basher Dynasty Warriors. Hopefully they'll make it a bit more like Kingdom under fire: the crusaders (?). But knowing SEGA they're just as likely to make Panzer Dragoon 'but with the novel twist, he is on foot!'

Agreed it was the same 'I'll wait for a PS2' attitude that killed the Dreamcast, one of the best consoles I ever played. Don't let it happen to the DS!

Finally another person who thinks the same as I do! I hated the control system on that game as well, the PC version remedied this somewhat, but the flimsy missions (the one that immediatley springs to mind is Vice City's remote control biplane boat bombing piece of crap) the awful pacing just made it a free roaming game with a bunch of pathetic party games stapled onto it. I also despise Worms, but that is because I suck at it, so it doesn't count.

Yeah, but it could get a whole lot dumber, if someone edited their post to 'violent dick'. Oh, hang on...