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I seem to have successfully changed my degree field at the end of my second year of University. I hope this has actually happened. I don't believe it yet.

They're very well known as indie RPGs go. Not really my cup of tea.

Mention the war, set off a smoke bomb, and escape!

There's an essential IGN.com moment at the end of this video. http://www.giantbomb.com/the-ambition-of-kane-and-lynch-2-straight-from-io/17-2977/

Minecraft Classic is a much earlier version that's effectively just a building sandbox. It's still on there because it became very popular and supports multiplayer. Minecraft Alpha is the latest alpha version of the proper game which is more of a sandbox roguelike/survival/sandbox thing with monsters, combat, crafting, limited resources etc. Multiplayer is still being implemented.

I get that in stuff like Stalker. As soon as I achieve something I immediately want to stop playing, so I end up doing loads of short sessions.

I've played everything on a monitor in whatever student room for the last few years. I was only able to use a PS3 after getting a new monitor that supported HDCP DVI, it doesn't do VGA like the 360. I couldn't use a Wii even if I wanted to. The Dreamcast beats the Wii on video output options...

Looking back at my compound as a skeleton persues my speedboat at night

I have so many memories of playing demos from borrowed PC magazine demo discs that barely ran on my Dad's PCs over the years. The Half Life demo in particular, I remember it was justabout playable at around 5fps (head crabs were a nightmare), until you came to a scripted explosion when it would just grind to a halt and chug out a frame every couple of seconds and you just had to wait. Probably played through that about a dozen times even so. That might be why we played a lot of RTS at that point. They were still 2D with pretty low requirements. I also remember double page mail-order ads in late 90s PC magazines with just lists in tiny writing of quite old dos games for just a couple of quid on floppy disc. Pretty sure they were new rather than used. You don't see anything like that anymore.

I'm very 50/50. My earliest memories are of loads of boys (me usually the youngest and always losing) huddled over Worms, Descent and Warcraft 2 on other people's PCs, and pack-in shareware CDs on my Dad's PC, and I mostly play PC at the moment, but I longed for consoles early on and only came back to PC in a major way the last couple of years. My brother and I saved up for an N64 in 1998 which got a lot of use, but from 2001-2004 I didn't play a lot of games, just a few emulated SNES RPGs and a repeatedly borrowed copy of Deus Ex. My parents always hated games and said I was too old for them, but I was too young to be able buy them myself. In 2004, armed with money from a saturday job I started messing around with eBay and bought a few N64 games I'd wanted back in the day like Majora's Mask. I then became pretty obsessed with 'catching up' and gradually bought, played and resold shedloads of games and consoles from Saturn to Xbox. Hundreds of classic games in just a few years. Briefly in 2007 I had the following all hooked up simultaneously: Mega Drive, Saturn, N64, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, and on a monitor: 360, Dreamcast and PC. Jesus. I eventually settled mostly on the 360 for a while. In 2008 I built myself a PC to explore that side of things properly. Since then I've leaned towards it more and more, largely due to the practicality of it as a student, the lower cost of games and digital distribution. I've been studying in Paris this year and only brought the PC with me (in pieces).

That's the thing. Outside Nintendo fandom hardly anyone seemed to play it.

Majora's Mask is much better in my opinion and I think might be better for first timers at this point in time. Not only does it start much more quickly and in a much more gripping way (OoT's massive village starting routine hasn't aged well), it has some really interesting systems that have never been ripped off and iterated on a million times since it was released (the greatest being the parallel scripted events/quests), and a much more interesting aesthetics. Such an interesting, original game and nobody talks about it anymore.

Looking round the horrible PS store website, it would appear not to be available, rendering the PSP Go a total brick.

THQ, publisher of the first game?

Well the game grew on me more and more as I went. Things that initially seemed like crude level design started to 'make sense' in the context of the increasing abstraction. I also think the story impressed me because for a large part of the game I was putting together this cliched horror story that I thought was going on based on the main layer, the flashbacks, the narrated side story. But this lame revelation never came and the actual plot hooks (which I agree are open to interpretation, which is great) become apparent instead which was really cool.

This is next on my nonexistent list of guilt now that I've found a copy at a price that fits my current OHSHITSTUDENTDEBT thrift level. Hate the world already, hate how it looks and feels, hate how unconvincing and video gamey everything is (e.g. the stupid computer-based gun shop). Persevering.

No not really. Thinking about it, if you're playing after reading this thread, WAITING FOR THE AWESOME to happen, you're inevitably going to be dissappointed.

Keep going.

My post in the cryostasis thread is apparently in the style of Ursula LeGuin.

Finished. Great stuff. The minute to minute gameplay is so standard and the setting so monotonous, there's even that , but the story is told so brilliantly (and is such a, in the end, refreshingly unvideo gamey story), with so many clever ideas. The only criticisms I can think of are too petty to mention. It's just a beautiful production. Can't even find anything about the developers and their site seems to have been hacked. EDIT: Always had Condemned in my mind as weirdly having no PC version but you're right, there seems to have been one. Why isn't it on Steam?

I'm quite far into this now I think ( ). Really nice game. If you like this I recommend Condemned if you've not played that (no PC version sadly), it's great. Its sequel is a bit less subtle apparently but I've not played it.

Is every UMD game ever available for download? If I was to buy a PSP Go would I be able to buy Gitaroo Man Lives?

I'll be waiting for PC as well. My consoles are in another country until September. Hothead put the PA games on Mac, Linux and selected fridges so...hopefully.

I strongly recommend OutRun 2006 Coast to Coast, the best version of probably the best arcade racer there is. If you're not familiar with the genre you'll be born again. Use a 360 controller. Use manual transmition. A standard race takes just 5 minutes and there are shedloads of modes including huge marathons through every stage consecutively. Force higher graphics settings with nvidia/ati controls, still looks lovely. aDk_pstvdrg Outrun 2/2006 was my favourite Xbox game. I love it so!

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