Armchair General

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  3. Posted

    It's getting quite hard to find for a decent price now. However, the Japanese version is fully English (once you pass the first screen with a language select on it), and is still available for a decent price. No region locking on DS games.

    Don't be tempted to skip the first game. It's one of the best, and the series really has to be played in order.

    Where are they based? It looks like I could get stung for customs taxes...

    But that's the same game right?

    Andy

  5. Posted

    That's nothing. I have a Gold Swimming Certificate AND a Cycling Proficiency badge. I think we all know who's winning here :tmeh: (That's a thumb pointing inwards at myself)

    I have neither of those...yet I went to swimming club and cycle safety lessons :erm: I have been DIDDLED :eek:

    Andy

  6. Posted

    Law and medicine? You're like some kind of qualifications machine!

    An eternal student is the term used I think :grin:

    It's on the backburner for the foreseeable future anyway :(

    Andy

  8. Posted

    I was reading a bit about the mining elements of ME2 and I remembered this..

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    CLASSIC. Was really hard until you could level up to a mahoosive freighter that could just crash into attackers and then self repair. Great music too, still love listening to Grieg's in the hall of the mountain king.

    Andy

  9. Posted

    Thanks for the kind words guys, I mean it. I 'm just having a bad couple of weeks, buried my uncle two weeks ago (died of cancer too), massive pile of hard graft to do for the next three months, treadmill of life still rolls on...what's not to like :D

    I do still want to and will be a doctor, it's a fantastic job. I am playing with my long held idea of studying law after medicine with a view to becoming a medical defence lawyer as I am not sure I want to be just a doctor for the rest of my days but we will see.

    Anyway, bottom line is I am not quite so miserable as I was when I posted and in a small way, some of that feeling betterness is down to your kind comments for which I am thankful.

    (THIS IN NO WAY MAKES ME WEAK IN LEFT FOR DEAD OR ANY OTHER MULTIPLAYER GAME I PLAY WITH YOU GUYS)

    Thankyou ;)

    Andy

  11. Posted

    That might be convenient for us Canadians and Americans, but I am sure it gets too early for our European comrades.

    Yeah sorry, that would be taking up the afternoon and evening with gaming... a practice that wives strongly disapprove of :(

    9pm GMT is a good time, as I said before, Friday is the best day for me.

    Andy

  12. Posted

    Woot! We have a Wii. for. the. kids. (ahem). I can recommend Carnival which can be picked up really cheap now and Mariokart is a must :D

    My 5 year old son loves Lego Star wars and Indiana jones, my 3 year old daughter enjoys big brain academy (bizarrely) and my 11 year old son likes Mariokart the best when he is not being too cool to play babyish things (Wii:tmeh: Xbox:tup: for him)

    We have found the Wii fit to be a bit rubbish and basically use ours as an expensive pair of scales but that could just be us not really devoting enough time to mastering it.

    If you get mariokart we will have to exchange licence numbers (or whatever it is) and play on the internets:tup:

    Andy

  13. Posted · Edited by Armchair General

    This is my mouse configuration...

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    This way I can play L4D2 and have both hands free to type abuse....:getmecoat

    I second the Microsoft vote. I have used the various models of the Microsoft laser series for yonks, and have always found them to be comfortable etc. I would say though that workmanship can vary with them. I have had a couple that have not lasted very long at all (less than 8 months for one) despite the usage being the same as others that have lasted for ages.

    Andy

  14. Posted

    We do L4D2 at 8pm GMT now. Are you thinking 10pm GMT for BTIC? That could be a bit late but I'm happy to do that if it means you can play as it's more of an inconvenience for me than prohibitive.

    Alternatively, we could have one Sunday as an L4D2 night and the following Sunday a BTIC night and so on. Just a suggestion.

    Andy

  15. Posted

    So after leaving school at 15 with one GCSE at grade 'C', 5 years of bumming around in shit jobs, ten years of further education, getting married and starting a family, and at times doing soul destroyingly hard work, I am now 3 months away from adding an MBChB to my BSc in physiology and graduating as a medical Dr.

    But I am having second thoughts...

    Recently I have been party to (at some level or other) so much suffering, pain, sorrow and death that I am not sure I can do it. I have been an ambulance paramedic (EMT) for ten years too, and have been involved with some horrendous jobs that haunt me still, so I knew what I was letting myself in for. In some ways then I am a bit of a fool for getting this far in.

    I'm probably just feeling miserable because I am tired and have been at a clinic telling people they have incurable cancer and listening to the consultant list treatment options involving toxic, energy sapping drugs all afternoon. But I must be able to deal with this.

    I'm not sure I want to be a doctor anymore, but sort of worse still, I have no idea what else I would want to do, except play computer games 24/7 and get paid for it...anyone know of any openings in this area :D

    Also, before I forget Patters, I am especially sad that you are made to feel ashamed of whatever mental illness you suffered from. I always challenge (within and outside of my profession) shortsighted attitudes to mental health wherever and whenever I come across it. It is real and arguably worse than many forms of physical disease (steps off soapbox).

  17. Posted

    I think the topic's more along the lines of fan-made things, not official stuff that fans could buy. If that were the case, any ol' DLC would count as fan stuff...

    I could be wrong ( I usually am:fart:) but it appears to tick all the boxes..it seems pretty extreme fandom to me to pay money for in game items as opposed for more game (DLC) and it wouldn't have happened before the internet and it's a global commodity.

    Also, it could be good for a dissertation as it is widely known in the wider social context as opposed to just the gaming community.

    But, as I said, I could be (probably am) wrong

    Andy

  20. Posted

    A :tmeh: for Arkham? Care to qualify that? I'm interested in what brought it down for you, as my own experience and the general reaction to the game both seemed to have been very positive.

    I'm with Miffy. Innovative combat (to me at least) was great. Plus all the other stuff make this a classic imho.

    Andy

  22. Posted · Edited by Armchair General

    Thinking about it, this...

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    and this...

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    ...were the first games I genuinely tried to complete for the sake of doing so. I achieved neither but do you remember the size of the manual for Red Storm Rising!?

    Dungeon master was made soo much better when the food and drink spell had been acquired.

    Which was the first game you attempted to complete? (the next stage, post cherry popping)

    Andy

  24. Posted

    I have almost that exact same Commodore (minus the VIC sticker) sitting in my parent's loft for posterity. It also came with a separate tape deck. My first game was a horse racing programme written by the guy who I bought the computer game from.

    Does anyone remember the dizzy series of games? The adventurous egg...

    fantasyworlddizzytitle.png

    Andy