Guitar Hero 3 and Zack & Wiki.

Zack & Wiki is absolutely outstanding. It pains me that it hasn't sold as well as it should, because it deserves a sequel.
Its puzzles are fantastic, especially in the later levels.
*COUGHBUYITCOUGH*

Hoo boy, I'm currently brickwalled by JJF on sweatin', but I think I've almost got it, as long as there isn't another section after the hell that is the bit with the three spinners.

There is. And it's hell. :(

The three spinner part was probably the most difficult bit for me, though.
The worst thing about that game is that the health meter is constantly draining, and in the late game it goes down so fast that missing 5 notes is enough to fail. It even goes down WHILE SPINNING THE SPINNER, for christ's sake.

Guitar Hero 3 and Zack & Wiki.

Zack & Wiki is absolutely outstanding. It pains me that it hasn't sold as well as it should, because it deserves a sequel.
Its puzzles are fantastic, especially in the later levels.
*COUGHBUYITCOUGH*

GH3 is truly one of my favourite games ever.

Zack & Wiki is high on my wish-list, which currently has more titles than I care to recall.

I got Endless Ocean for Ʃmas which I really can't wait to start playing when I get back to the UK :D

I'm playing Re-Volt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-Volt) again.
This time with my girlfriend though.

She said she loved WA too back in the day. :D

Carnival !

GH3 is truly one of my favourite games ever.

If you have any means of getting it, GH2 has a far better song selection and apparently less insane difficulty curve in the higher tiers. I mean, come on -- what other game lets you jam out to the Trogdor! theme? And Misirlou, and Less Talk More Rokk, and Free Bird, and it goes on.

And GH2 was actually made by the team (Harmonix) who came up with the original game -- they split from Red Octane at some point afterwards and so those guys did their best to KICK IT UP A NOTCH for the sequel by adding boss battles and powerups and crap that really wasn't necessary.

Super Mario Galaxy evokes feelings in me I've not felt since Super Mario 64 or either of the N64 Zelda games. It is so very epic, harkens back to aspects of the past series in ways all but forgotten, and is nearly perfect in every way.

I dunno, the deviation from the normal mario games with the addition of the gravity and planet stuff kinda makes it not feel quite right to me. still an amazing game, just doesn't evoke the same feelings mario64 did.

Yay, the graphics card works! Yay Portal! Yay, TF2! Yay, HDR effects on Episode One! :D:D:D:p

If you have any means of getting it, GH2 has a far better song selection and apparently less insane difficulty curve in the higher tiers. I mean, come on -- what other game lets you jam out to the Trogdor! theme? And Misirlou, and Less Talk More Rokk, and Free Bird, and it goes on.

And GH2 was actually made by the team (Harmonix) who came up with the original game -- they split from Red Octane at some point afterwards and so those guys did their best to KICK IT UP A NOTCH for the sequel by adding boss battles and powerups and crap that really wasn't necessary.

I was so dissapointed when I realized that the songs in the shop at the beginning are the ONLY bonus songs (Apart from Beyond the Fire and Flames).

I mean, Devil Went Down to Georgia was awesome, but I wanted at LEAST some more Metalocalypse/Freezepop/Goofy injoke stuff.
And WHY WHY WHY do they continue to ignore Liquid Tension Experiment's Acid Rain? :(

Still, I quite like GH3.
I'd buy GH2 too if they ported it to the Wii, but I doubt that's going to happen, and I don't want to have 2 guitar controllers that only work for specific versions.

Super Mario Galaxy evokes feelings in me I've not felt since Super Mario 64 or either of the N64 Zelda games. It is so very epic, harkens back to aspects of the past series in ways all but forgotten, and is nearly perfect in every way.Seconded. I keep getting awed by how they keep bringing back old game elements in a new yet familiar way. Plus old music remixes. :D

blah GH2 blah

I have all of the GH games on PS2, the Cherry guitar, the Black guitar and the white wireless guitar.

What I like most about GH3 is that the hammer-ons and pull-offs work in such a way that it feels like you're changing strings mid-stream. I also like about as many of the main setlist tracks in 3 as I do in 2; there are loads I would never listen to on a Walkman but absolutely love playing.

In terms of difficulty, playing Hard on GH3 is like playing Expert in GH2 and I never got as far as completing GH2 on Hard, so going back to it now should be a doddle. That's another thing I like about it because it has improved my skill level but still offers a tougher challenge.

Also, co-op career mode is going to be so freakin' sweet. Me and my girlfriend are yet to start as we have been working through single-player, taking it in turns, but co-op is so very much the way to go.

In fact, there's so much I could write about the beautifully intricate and hugely in-your-face changes in 3 that I might as well write a full review.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no expert at the game but it's just so much fun that I don't care about winning or losing, really (although the Slash battle on Hard did give me rage; I think it's that rage which fuelled my victory).

Portal is AWESOME. :p

I refuse to buy GH3, partially because Activision suck but mostly because the game's rubbish. It has none of the soul, charm or character of the first two games, largely because it was developed by a different company - a company who's major output over the past decade has consisted of the same Tony Hawk's game with a slightly different title.

Portal is AWESOME. :p

Hell yes. That game is delicious.

Supah Mareeoh Galackseeeeeeeeee!

Welcome!

Welcome nooooooh Galaxies!

I refuse to buy GH3, partially because Activision suck but mostly because the game's rubbish.

Have you played it? It's got soul and character, it's just different. I'd even argue that the cutscenes add quite a bit of story depth (despite their simplicity); the first 3 games sadly lacked any real attempt at a story.

Portal is AWESOME. :p

LOL YEAH! It lolling pones.

TRANSFOOOOOOOOOORM!i

Mama's storybook! <3

I'm really rather enjoying Endless Ocean on the Wii. I've only done about 5 hours of diving but it's sucked me in something rotten.

*relaxes*

Drawn to Life is really fun, but the second boss is a nightmare.

"So I've got to destroy these four pinecone things that are hanging from the Evil Tree Thing, and each pinecone takes three hits to destroy. Getting to the pinecones requires some platforming, and the tree shakes periodically, dropping you back down to the floor again, so you have to be quick. As yet, nothing that actually harms you. But now add endlessly spawning Goddamned Bats (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoddamnedBats) to the mix. By the time you kill the bats, the tree shakes. By the time you get back to where you were before the tree shook, the bats are back. ARGH"

Picked up Zack & Wiki, loved it. Got to the fourth level or so, where you're required to make constant upward-jerking motions to reel in a giant fish. Game absolutely refuses to detect this motion properly regardless of how I perform it.

Half an hour later, puzzle is completed, absolute minimum score is achieved, wrist hurts. Rest of week: entire arm in bloody agony. Haven't returned to it since.

Also reiterating Monster Hunter Freedom 2. Probably the best PSP game yet. I've sunk 30 hours into it already and I'm not even an eighth of the way through all the available quests. Unfortunately I just seem to have hit a brick wall, as the final 2-star quest features a monster which hammers have no effect on whatsoever, meaning I'm going to have to go back and grind for the materials to upgrade some other weapon class. :p

Also reiterating Monster Hunter Freedom 2. Bulldrome is no match for Deluxe Giaprey Armor-Clad Zero with this Iron Katana *Grace* Action!

Picked up Zack & Wiki, loved it. Got to the fourth level or so, where you're required to make constant upward-jerking motions to reel in a giant fish. Game absolutely refuses to detect this motion properly regardless of how I perform it.

Half an hour later, puzzle is completed, absolute minimum score is achieved, wrist hurts. Rest of week: entire arm in bloody agony. Haven't returned to it since.

One of the annoying bits in that game. There are a few times when the motion they want you to do is... unintuitive. :(
I don't think it's even POSSIBLE to reel the fish in the first time, i.e. get the maximum score with it.

It is, however, possible to lure the frog down the water slide, turn it into a bomb and blow the fish up. Maximum score and minimal arm-ache.

You know, it's not every day I'm blasted clean off my feet and at least 10 feet back by the explosive ass-wind of a pink gorilla.

You know, it's not every day I'm blasted clean off my feet and at least 10 feet back by the explosive ass-wind of a pink gorilla.I would like to enquire as to the source of that statement my good sir.

Monster Hunter Freedom 2. I'm supposed to kill 10 of these dumb pink gorillas, and I'm doing so pretty easily with my amazingly badass and big-ass katana. I run up to one of them, and rather than roar at me and lunge uselessly at me like most of them do, he turns around and raises his big ugly ass at me. Just as I'm starting to think "what the hell is he doing..." BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAP

The stench lingers for some time and spoils your appetite, rendering you unable to eat stamina-restoring food items.

That was the worst injury I got on the whole quest, no less. One of them charged into me and did like half the damage the big fart did. I even killed a velocidrome without injury -- think big-ass raptor having a bad day. Of course, I did blind it with a homemade flash bomb first, so maybe that doesn't count.

What a great game.

I won't ruin it for you, as part of the fun is realizing what the game's mechanic is.

Just click this link and play this game.

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html

I won't ruin it for you, as part of the fun is realizing what the game's mechanic is.

Just click this link and play this game.

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.htmlhehe, any more versions of that game? that was really fun, and whoever made it gets huge points for creativity.

I won't ruin it for you, as part of the fun is realizing what the game's mechanic is.

Just click this link and play this game.

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.htmlThat was really nifty. Thanks.

Scored 100 points with three "lives" left.

That is pretty darn cool. I'll have to take a better shot at it later on.

That's absolutely brilliant.

I got 171.

I suck. :(

Monster Hunter Freedom 2. I'm supposed to kill 10 of these dumb pink gorillas, and I'm doing so pretty easily with my amazingly badass and big-ass katana. I run up to one of them, and rather than roar at me and lunge uselessly at me like most of them do, he turns around and raises his big ugly ass at me. Just as I'm starting to think "what the hell is he doing..." BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAP

http://e.photos.cx/9TM-c0a.jpg

Jumping Jack Flash is now my *****.

At least it is on Sweatin'.

Hard Rock isn't quite the step up in difficulty I was expecting. Unless I'm mistaken all the hit marker patterns are the same as before, just slightly smaller and they don't show up untill right before you hit them.

Then againI've only played the first level.:p

Unless I'm mistaken all the hit marker patterns are the same as before, just slightly smaller and they don't show up untill right before you hit them.

That's pretty much all it is. The positions are flipped and mirrored, they're smaller and they appear faster.

Not too much of an issue in the early stages, but when you have to handle the massive run of tiny, rapid beats in JJF... agh.

I've gone back to play Final Fantasy X. I only got about 10 hours into it before I pretty much chucked it for... something. I find it much more bearable now but I still think the game's a bit broken. Fortunately it's no where near as broken as FF8 was.

huzzah!

Jumping Jack Flash Hard Rock Defeated!:cool:

Well, B ranked with two failed sections. I got pretty hairy near the end, I only just made the final spinner. Only took about 30 tries, but to be fair I must have learnt the marker placements during the hundreds of times I failed it on Sweatin'.:p

And now I shall shut up about Elite Beat Agents. At least untill Ouendan 2 arrives.

You are better than me. :(

I'm still the Stepmania king, though. Except for all of those people who are better than me. :p

apparently, Call of Duty 4s multiplayer really is as amazing as everyone says it is. I've been playing the hell out of it, and it is great :)

You are better than me. :(

I'm still the Stepmania king, though. Except for all of those people who are better than me. :p
i fit in the latter category :cool:

MEH, Yakuza and I just got out of a game of this: http://www.teewars.com/

Lots of fun after you get the hang of it, but it still needs some polishing.

MEH, Yakuza and I just got out of a game of thisyou can stand to play anything with that troll?!

edit: that game is actually pretty great.

Trying to ration time between MHF2 and Phoenix Wright: Justice for All, which I'm somewhere around halfway through. It hasn't disappointed me. I'd better pick up Trials and Tribulations while it's still on the shelves.

MEH, Yakuza and I just got out of a game of this: http://www.teewars.com/

Lots of fun after you get the hang of it, but it still needs some polishing.
That's brilliant! How on earth did you find it?

Teewars is indeed brilliant.

Also because I can beat you all at it.

That's brilliant! How on earth did you find it?

All MEH's fault. I was actually playing Aquaria when he made us try it out with him so that he could embrace the mentality of online-only games. I don't regret it, though, awesome as Aquaria may be. Get your behinds to #worms, everyone, and we'll try out the team modes sometime.

Teewars is indeed brilliant.

Also because I can beat you all at it.

That was lag and you know it. :(

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1493/s7300016av0.th.jpg (http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=s7300016av0.jpg)

Go ahead, daimyo hermitaur. Make my day.

Edit: Ironic that I should decide at random to use that monster's name, because most of the armor is made out of daimyo hermitaur.

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1493/s7300016av0.th.jpg (http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=s7300016av0.jpg)

Go ahead, daimyo hermitaur. Make my day.

Edit: Ironic that I should decide at random to use that monster's name, because most of the armor is made out of daimyo hermitaur.so....what is it that you're talking about, exactly?

Monster Hunter Freedom 2, like I have been for pretty much the whole page. I'm addicted. It's number 2 on my "why haven't I given it an official review for RealVG yet" list.

experience, one and all, the wonders of FANCYPANTS!: http://armorgames.com/play/553/the-fancy-pants-adventure-world-2

experience, one and all, the wonders of FANCYPANTS!: http://armorgames.com/play/553/the-fancy-pants-adventure-world-2

It is indeed brilliant. It's just a shame it takes a lifetime to load.

It is indeed brilliant. It's just a shame it takes a lifetime to load.
took about 20 seconds on my computer :confused:

It is indeed brilliant. It's just a shame it takes a lifetime to load.I have to agree. Whatever happened to the art of compression? :p

I won't ruin it for you, as part of the fun is realizing what the game's mechanic is.

Just click this link and play this game.

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html

54 on my first attempt (did not clear), 156 on my second attempt (cleared), 188 on third attempt (perfect score with 1 cursor left)

fun game, gets a thumbs up in my book

Cleared with 100 on my second attempt (2 cursors left)

probably old,old news but Barkley: Shutup and Jam Gaiden is out.

http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=68488.0

and it's awesome.

I am currently addicted to Advance Wars: Days of ruin. I'm actually one who LIKES the style change they did, and it's a heck of a lot more balaced.

Oh, and online play... DS friend codes anyone?(This game alone might get me to buy the wireless adapter.)

I am currently addicted to Advance Wars: Days of ruin. I'm actually one who LIKES the style change they did, and it's a heck of a lot more balaced.Oh, is it out? Sorry, didn't notice.

Personally I'm going to miss Andy & Co., but I guess I'll put that aside if they've managed to improve the game balance.

EDIT: Funnily enough, it came out in Europe today.

Right, let's take a look at this unit list.

Gunboats look nice, even though they're taking on the difficult task of replacing the (very very awesome but still not broken for some reason) Black Boats. They cost 6000G, can transport one infantry, and carry one round of ammo that they can use against other ships. Still, pity they can't supply stuff any more.

Dusters look neat too, essentially filling the open Assault Plane slot in the roster, although I can't help but worry that they make B-Copters (still my favourite unit :p) kinda redundant.

The Anti-Tank looks a little overpowered, but I guess it still costs nearly twice as much as an Artil so hey.

Battleships can now move and fire on the same turn. That's realistic, but it doesn't half change things.

Suddenly Aircraft Carriers are direct combat units, but they make up for losing their massive missile range by becoming mobile seaplane factories.

APCs are now called Rigs and can apparently build temporary structures.

The Flare looks interesting as a sort of Anti-FoW Tank.

A lot of old units cost a bit less, but Infantry cost a bit more.

Hmm. Lots of stuff.

Yes the changes are really nice. Gunboats actually are useful, they make up there cost with that one attack if against the right kind of unit. Plus they navy needed it's own "Cannon fodder" like copters are for air and infantry are for ground.

basic infantry cost more(but mechs less). This is probably to prevent the old "infantry + arty meatgrinder" strategy.

Medium tanks are slightly less powerful then they were before, but only cost 12000

Fighters no longer one hit kill bombers. Makes missles seem more powerful.

The ubertank of the game is probably only as powerful as the neotank, and much more vunerable to helicopters

Anti-tank is somewhat anti-everything(besides planes, yes, they actually hurt copters good too.) But they only have the range of an arty. Infantry make up their cost very well against antitank. Rockets work too.

temporary supply bases are 7 kinds of awesome when going on the offense.

Theres no uberly unbalanced CO abusing like colin/sashi from previous games.

Dusters are cheaper planes and somewhat good against soft targets. They are pathetic against armor. Copters keep a good niche through that.

Seaplanes are like the stealth planes of dualstrike without the stealth. They hit pretty hard against anything but need refuelling every two turns. (Personal Peeve: Why is the red seaplane modelled after an A-10? That is certainly NOT a carrier plane.)

Some major differences with the actual gameplay (not units) to note are:

All building provide cover/fow.

FOW is lifted and stays lifted for the rest of the turn when a unit drives by it.(you can scout a whole forest with one air unit potentially, this counterbalances the above.)

Both ground AND NAVAL units can travel on/under bridges.

This is the game changes i can think of right off the back that people wouldn't know from screenshots/most game reviews.

Now back to playing it some more...

I installed my copy of 'Enemy Territory: Quake Wars' last weekend. Been playing that mostly when I have time.

I installed my copy of 'Enemy Territory: Quake Wars' last weekend. Been playing that mostly when I have time.game is pretty cool, but far too many other games came out at the same time, so I didn't really get into it much.

My copies of The Sims 2 Deluxe and The Sims 2 University arrived today, so I'll be installing and playing thoseDON'T JUDGE ME.

Too late.

Righto, I now have Advance Wars: Dark Conflict (European name. Lots of stuff has European names, including a good chunk of the units. Artillery, for example, are now Mech Guns. Oh well).

Still, gotta admit, it's as addictive and as fun to play as ever.

Strangely i finally picked up Advance Wars DS the other day.

The Andy replacement is awesomely horrific.

'dropped like a phat beat!':cool:

Jake is... a sad attempt at...something.

Will/Ed in days of ruin/dark conflict (Is there a reason for name changes in Europe?!) still has his cheesey moments, but is overall a much more likeable character.

Jake is... a sad attempt at...something.

Will/Ed in days of ruin/dark conflict (Is there a reason for name changes in Europe?!) still has his cheesey moments, but is overall a much more likeable character.Apparently the European names are closer to the Japanese ones than the American ones.

So why couldn't the north american release use those?

Though I still say "Brenner's Wolves" sound better then "O'Brians Wolves" :P

ROAD RAGE!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/ScreenShot00004.jpg

Every screenshot of UT3 instantly puts me in mind of that brilliant VG cats comic (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=224) :p.

It makes it easier to spot the bright glowing enemies. :p

Right, my AW:DC/DoR friend code is

416737
213248

Ouendan 2 is magnificent.

I have no idea what's happening half the time.

I'm playing Micro Machines V4 at the moment.
Very fun multiplayer part.

Playing HL2 Epiode 2. Man it's awesome. And it looks awesome too. :cool:

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7728/s7300020ee2.th.jpg (http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=s7300020ee2.jpg)

Go ahead again, daimyo hermitaur. Make my other day.

This one's made out of shogun ceanataur, which is what a daimyo hermitaur is when it sucks even worse. Ergo, this armor was stupid hard to get, and I'm just way more thrilled than I should be to have it. I'm keeping the hermitaur armor, though, because it offers better defense -- this one is more offense-oriented. It's so pointy all over the place that it actually makes my weapon sharper, and, with a little buffing from Decorations, somehow makes me better at sharpening weapons that have dulled. Also, the hermitaur armor, despite overall much better defense, leaves a couple of glaring elemental weaknesses that this one doesn't. Well, now I feel like all my bases are covered. Oh, and I look more badass than... A really, really badass thing.

Woo! Nerdsplosion.

Well, I beat Story Mode in AWDC, and played my first game over Wifi: a co-operative 2v2 vs. the AI with some guy I met on Advance Wars Net, on the map Four Corners (we were the southern two armies). I ended up making most of the hard yards, taking down the guy opposite me courtesy of that old classic, the Inf + Artil (more a of a Bike + Artil spam, but there y'go), before arriving to be the cavalry for my ally with a great big wodge of bikes, artils, b-copters and one megatank.

I'm playing Atomic Bomberman again with my girlfriend.
Great memories of 1997!

Gotta love the voiceovers.

Finally just got back to finishing HL2ep2, and...

...I'm honestly a bit shaken.

Puzzle Quest!!
I play casual games much more actively than I do with 'big' games.

I played COD4 the other day, beat it in a few hours. Short game is short! >:[

The Prototype
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3650/ctf2fort0001tq4.jpg

On, my noble steed!
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4408/ctf2fort0004hr7.jpg

Hey, I wonder what's down here?
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2307/ctf2fort0006yn1.jpg

Oh. Oh... dear.
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7747/ctf2fort0007ga2.jpg

Alas, poor sort of six-wheeled car thing.
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8098/ctf2fort0009jd6.jpg

So yeah, Garry's Mod.

The Masterpiece
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9985/cpbadlands0010lh0.jpg

Made from a store cupboard, it has independent drives for its left and right wheels, allowing it to steer as well as drive backwards and forwards.
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/8262/cpbadlands0013xp9.jpg

Climbing hills remains a problem even with maximum torque, however.
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7214/cpbadlands0015fs0.jpg

In other news, WHEE AUDIOSURF. And WHEE APPLES TO APPLES (sure it's a card game, but it's still something one plays)

i am a big fan of your pinewood derby car but you should really consider upgrading your graphics card

He's got a laptop.

He's got a laptop.
ah, what a shame

My copy of Twilight Princess for the Wii arrived today, so I imagine I'll be playing that before long.

For the hell of it, let's see what else I've been doing with GMod.

http://g.photos.cx/gm_construct0009-ac.jpg
RAWR

http://g.photos.cx/cs_office0026-52.jpg
This, unfortunately, didn't work. It's either because the Pod imbedded in it (rendered invisible) dragged on the ground, or, more likely, the engine was way too damn heavy. I tried a couple of different levels of torque on the wheels, too. I'll have to give it another try with a few changes.

http://g.photos.cx/gm_construct0004-a2.jpg
Attempted a spectacular stunt car jump. Untested thruster on the back of the stunt car was too strong, causing me to overshoot the barrels. Haven't re-attempted because the vehicles crash GMod periodically, which sucks unbelievably.

http://g.photos.cx/cs_office0000-02.jpg
Fun with Hoverboard!

http://g.photos.cx/cs_office0037-48.jpg
And fun with Meatboard!

I present the most dangerous object in the known universe:

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/6336/gmconstruct0022px1.jpg
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6642/gmconstruct0024nn4.jpg
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1518/gmconstruct0026aa5.jpg
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/2240/gmconstruct0031ue2.jpg
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/8108/gmconstruct0032gk2.jpg

Ben, Zeor and Munkee can verify how many kills it has racked up.

since we're posting about GMod, I got bored yesterday and it's amazing how amusing this stupidly simple toy is.

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/bfd0ca7d185cb5f5f53f3a6c6d1d18170845b152.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/21ad7867abf7996572e2b4dda5cd1ebad1c17314.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/c4daddddf93e767e71fa1d8cfc3b925f6c983f9c.jpg
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

:cool::cool::D:cool::cool:

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

:cool::cool::D:cool::cool:

snap!

I like how the prosecutor is also a rock star.

Audiosurf. :cool:

Most awesome songs I've done so far have been The Sword: Freya, the Sonic 1 Cryptic Marble Overclocked Remix, and, naturally, one of the very most popular among all Audiosurfers, Dragonforce: Through the Fire and Flames.

...Damn it. I'm up way too late.

one of the very most popular among all Audiosurfers, Dragonforce: Through the Fire and Flames.ok, THAT level kicked ass.

my complaint about the game in general, though, is that while the movement of the tracks reflects the movement of the song very well, the blocks that you need to collect completely don't. it seems rather random on the songs I've played so far. occassionally it gets it right, but most of the time it just randomly sets the blocks without any concern for tempo.

Go to [Cicada's website (http://www.cicadacom.com/)], click on the "Technology Crisis" album, download the track "Earth's Assault on the Central AI," and give that a go. Bloody tricky ******* of a level, that'n.

ok, THAT level kicked ass.

my complaint about the game in general, though, is that while the movement of the tracks reflects the movement of the song very well, the blocks that you need to collect completely don't. it seems rather random on the songs I've played so far. occassionally it gets it right, but most of the time it just randomly sets the blocks without any concern for tempo.

Well Audiosurf is both a rhythm and puzzle game. With all the difficulties and gamemodes, the block layout probably has to be more fluid so the game doesn't get too predictable.

There's an awesome amount of Frank Klepacki tracks on the scoreboards. :)

Go to [Cicada's website (http://www.cicadacom.com/)], click on the "Technology Crisis" album, download the track "Earth's Assault on the Central AI," and give that a go. Bloody tricky ******* of a level, that'n.that's is a rather oddly tricky level.

I got X-COM UFO Defense working on Vista today, and I played that for a bit. Had to disable my video card temporarily though in device manager, which was kind of a pain, but it works, sound and all.

Go to [Cicada's website (http://www.cicadacom.com/)], click on the "Technology Crisis" album, download the track "Earth's Assault on the Central AI," and give that a go. Bloody tricky ******* of a level, that'n.
Tried that on the demo and it's both an awesome song and the level was incredibly fun. I really really really want to get this game, but it appears I cannot use my debit card to purchase stuff online. I'll just go to my bank tomorrow and check that out see if I can sort that out, and if it can't be done then I'll have to get a credit card I guess. There's so many stuff I went to purchase, and I just can't keep convincing my dad to let me use his. :p

I... don't even have any idea how much time I just spent playing that friggin' game. It's... addictive.

Try Steve Reich's 'Piano Phase'
20 odd minutes of straight down. It's worse on Ninja Monom it's not that fast, but the number of grey blocks can be a little overwhelming.

I... don't even have any idea how much time I just spent playing that friggin' game. It's... addictive.
6 hours (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197979987727/stats/AudioSurf), apparently. Damn, I need to catch up (http://steamcommunity.com/id/supsuper/stats/AudioSurf).

I got X-COM UFO Defense working on Vista today, and I played that for a bit. Had to disable my video card temporarily though in device manager, which was kind of a pain, but it works, sound and all.
you should try running it in DOSbox instead

6 hours (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197979987727/stats/AudioSurf), apparently. Damn, I need to catch up (http://steamcommunity.com/id/supsuper/stats/AudioSurf).A fair amount of that time is idle time, to be fair... Maybe like a half-hour, so not a lot, but still. I'd say the actual time I spent last night was about 3 or 4 hours. :p

team fortress 2, portal, half-life: source, etc. because i just purchased the valve source pack from steam :cool:

also audiosurf

team fortress 2, portal, half-life: source, etc. because i just purchased the valve source pack from steam :cool:

also audiosurf

Yeah, audiosurf is great, especially with Aphex Twin.

Yeah, audiosurf is great, especially with Aphex Twin.
i haven't tried that, but i think i'll do so right now

Windowlicker made for a pretty surreal Surf, yeah.

I had the foresight to get to Wal-Mart about 20 minutes early and then to be near the register when they started forming a line, and got copy number 3 of 15 of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

I think I just spent something like 6 hours playing it.

Hell of a time for Daylight Savings to take an hour from me.

Hell of a time to need sleep.

Curse the daylight savings! Because of it I'm going to have to go to work one hour earlier(and get out one our earlier of course) for like 3 weeks. And I hate having to go one hour earlier.

I just beat Classic mode for the first time and got to challenge Falcon. He broke a Final Smash ball in two hits and all I could do was watch a cutscene as I went from 0% to 75% damage and got knocked completely off the stage.

I was right about those damn things the moment I heard about them.

Smash Bros Brawl is awesome. I'm currently working my way through The Subspace Emissary.

Oh you *******s! I forgot they had it in Yankee Land (and neighbouring places) now.

I had the foresight to get to Wal-Mart about 20 minutes early and then to be near the register when they started forming a line, and got copy number 3 of 15 of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

I think I just spent something like 6 hours playing it.

Hell of a time for Daylight Savings to take an hour from me.

Hell of a time to need sleep.
great job

I'm about 35% of the way through Subspace Emissary, and it's starting to get a tad on the tricky side.

@#$%&%&£§€

I'm about 35% of the way through Subspace Emissary, and it's starting to get a tad on the tricky side.no no. wait till you get your team all together. then we'll talk about tricky.

anyway, I've got the subspace done and at 90%, beat the classic mode on hard and the boss battles on hard as well. no idea how to unlock the other characters and god do I wish I had some kind of hints....

@#$%&%&£§€

Patience is a virtue.

Although for me the most frustrating thing is not knowing when it's going to come out. If there was a set date, then I could happily put it to one side and think about other stuff. This way it's far more of a niggle.

now that bioshock is only $29.95 on steam, i'm considering purchasing it - however, i'll need to get some money and a better graphics card first

just playing AudioSurf on the song "Someday" by Sugar Ray. the strong, steady bass of the song makes for a freakishly disorienting course. the blocks aren't particularly challenging as the song is fairly slow but the level keeps jolting constantly and sending you at super-speed for almost unnoticeable bursts. was a very awkward course to play.

anyone have any other song suggestions to try out with the game? things you've played that make for particularly interesting courses?

Road Rash III on Sega Megadrive. It's such an awesome rush, a really fast-paced and well-balanced game with good controls, and yet sometimes you're barely in control at all. Such as when you get kicked across the path of an oncoming car, or you're sliding madly around a corner and you barely pass the car on the outside. The near misses and the bad luck of the opponents make the game hilarious at times.

anyone have any other song suggestions to try out with the game?
I'm going to surf some songs from The Jazz June.
They have nice rhythm changes and probably make for good Audiosurf tracks.
things you've played that make for particularly interesting courses?
Songs by Angels And Airwaves are quite intense.

anyway, I've got the subspace done and at 90%, beat the classic mode on hard and the boss battles on hard as well. no idea how to unlock the other characters and god do I wish I had some kind of hints....

There are 3 new doors in certain places after you beat subspace. Look around any level you haven't totally cleared (Green flag).

I could tell you which levels those are if you can't bother.

Actually, I'll just do that now. I won't tell you who's at each place or where the door is.
Don't look at the bright text if you don't want the MAD HINTZ.










Forest
Swamp
Ruins

There are 3 new doors in certain places after you beat subspace. Look around any level you haven't totally cleared (Green flag).

I could tell you which levels those are if you can't bother.

Actually, I'll just do that now. I won't tell you who's at each place or where the door is.
Don't look at the bright text if you don't want the MAD HINTZ.yeah, I unlocked the rest of the characters a while back :p

I was more than slightly confused by your hint because I did have green flags on all of those spots, and because I had already unlocked two of them in other game modes; thanks for the hint, because I probably never would have found the last one, having pretty much left SE to rot after completing it. :p

Last thing I was up to when I played was having some regular Brawls with the AI. It sucks. Loudly. It's almost more merciless to the human player than Level 11 of Classic mode where all 3 of the other guys are supposed to be ganging up on you. They don't give damn one about anybody but the player. I don't even mean they're all headed straight for you like drones, I mean they actually make coordinated, deliberate efforts to surround you.

I'm only at this so I can chip away at some of the unlockables that can only be gotten from that mode, then I'm going back into single player mode where single players belong.

I need to find people here in the Real World willing to play Brawl with me.

Last thing I was up to when I played was having some regular Brawls with the AI. It sucks. Loudly. It's almost more merciless to the human player than Level 11 of Classic mode where all 3 of the other guys are supposed to be ganging up on you. They don't give damn one about anybody but the player. I don't even mean they're all headed straight for you like drones, I mean they actually make coordinated, deliberate efforts to surround you.yeah, it freaks me out how well the computer uses the shield and dodge abilities. level 9s almost constantly dodge and shield. makes for some really fun fights in some instances. I've yet to do a 3v1 battle against some level 9s but I get the feeling it won't be NEARLY as easy as it was in the other 2 games.

and as for them coordinating attacks on you, it's always fun to have one send a random missle/plasma ball/other projectile somewhere away from everything just to have the other 2 chunk you into said projectile.....overly-accurate computers ftw...

There was a SSB:B night here at college a little while ago.

Greatest night ever. :D

yeah, I unlocked the rest of the characters a while back :p

anyway, I've got the subspace done and at 90%, beat the classic mode on hard and the boss battles on hard as well. no idea how to unlock the other characters and god do I wish I had some kind of hints.... - 12 Mar 2008

I need to get used to this whole "Don't visit the forum every single day" thing. :p

*rediscovers SC3K* Woo!

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2024/newlandsoverviewnf2.png
The city of Newlands (not named after the place in South Africa). Over on the left, you can see the fault line left by the relatively harmless earthquake (that made me decide that it might be a good idea to turn Disasters off. Yes, I'm a wuss. Sue me).

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3194/oldnewlandsxi0.png
Old Newlands (whee, oxymoron). It's changed a bit over the years, what with replacing the old coal power plant, decommissioning the old landfill, the rise of land values, and the introduction of high-tech industry. This is where most of the rewards like my house, the courthouse, the city hall and that weird statue live.

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/227/newernewlandsdb1.png
Newer Newlands. Home of the university (that conveniently fitted into a big rectangle of road that I wasn't sure what to do with) and the awesome microwave power plant.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5502/newestnewlandskw9.png
Newest Newlands, home of the newly developing railway system (Eventually I'll probably have to build subways and some sub/rails to service Old Newlands) and the port.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/3848/thebitwedontlikepeopletxz0.png
And finally, the stuff that the City Beautification people would rather you didn't see, but you're going to see it anyway. The jails, the Maximum Security Prison that helps the budget tick over, the giant landfill, waste to energy incinerators and recycling centres that cope with the garbage we get from a highly lucrative Neighbour Deal, and an army base. And, uh, a park. Yeah.

Dan might post his city at some point. It's twice the size of mine in terms of population.

I recently got Disgaea on my PSP. I got about 14 hours under my belt in about 2 days - it's probably the best port of anything ever.

Mmmmmmm. Item wooorrrld.

At the moment I'm playing Ninja Reflex (Steamworks Edition) (http://www.ninjareflex.com), Audiosurf (http://www.audio-surf.com/) and Teeworlds (http://www.teeworlds.com/).

Dan might post his city at some point. It's twice the size of mine in terms of population.My city will knife-fight your city!

Before:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/th_sc3u_supertropolis.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/sc3u_supertropolis.jpg)

After:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/th_sc3u_supertropolis3.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/sc3u_supertropolis3.jpg)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/th_sc3u_supertropolis2.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/sc3u_supertropolis2.jpg)

At the moment I'm playing Ninja Reflex (Steamworks Edition) (http://www.ninjareflex.com), Audiosurf (http://www.audio-surf.com/) and Teeworlds (http://www.teeworlds.com/).

I might have to get Audiosurf, everyone seems to enjoy it.

Anyone got any idea why Teewars changed their name though? They said it was for legal reasons and won't say any more, which kind of sucks.

They've been considering a name change for quite a while, I guess because there's just so many games called *wars. Either that or the word "wars" is George Lucas' IP. :(

Either way, I'm not the biggest fan of the changes brought by version 0.4.0. Feels like it flattened the learning curve somewhat. But that shouldn't keep you folks from trying it, the game's still a lot of fun.

We don't got a shortage of *worlds games either. :p

They did a Google search for "Teeworlds" and nothing came up! But yeah, they didn't seem too happy with the name change either. I don't mind it myself.

I preferred Teewars, it had a better ring to it. Wouldn't be half so annoying if they'd just say why.

I've been wondering about picking SC3K back up myself... :p

Bought the Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection today, and got a little way into that.

I'm having a go at CaveStory again. Already in Hell, using the Snake and Nemesis.
The Mac version. :cool: :p

I thought Snake was useless in Hell.

Well, against the boss, anyway.

Wasn't aware it was useless against the boss... but it helps to get trough hell anyway, since it goes trough walls can be used to kill enemies on the other side of those exploding door things. Then I can *** Ballos with the Nemesis.:p

Well, if there's anyything that could get me into Techno music it'll probaly be Audiourf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGoz-iV5GI&feature=related

Either that or a hot chick. :p

Wasn't aware it was useless against the boss... but it helps to get trough hell anyway, since it goes trough walls can be used to kill enemies on the other side of those exploding door things. Then I can *** Ballos with the Nemesis.:p

Well, if there's anyything that could get me into Techno music it'll probaly be Audiourf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGoz-iV5GI&feature=related

Either that or a hot chick. :pyeah, while the level would be interesting, that music was god-aweful. I like the occassional techno song, but that one was just boring...:-/

I preferred Teewars, it had a better ring to it. Wouldn't be half so annoying if they'd just say why.When legaleeze tells you to stay quiet, you stay quiet. :p

I've been wondering about picking SC3K back up myself... :pYes, join us... mwahahahaha!

trance music is really fantastic for audiosurf

I'm fooling around in Sim City 4 Deluxe a little.
I'm doing everything that my advisors tell me, since the last time I played a Sim City game was in about 1995 with Sim City 2000. :p

You can get much harder tracks in Audiosurf if you play with alternative, prog-rock music that has many rhythm changes.

Audiosurf isn't about the challange, it's just a interactive visualiser :p

Also, I've started Jedi Academy again last night. What a great game, even if it has odd aspects like the voice is the same whichever race you choose to play as. My character is the really uggly alien and he speaks like a sporty young American. lololol.

i just finished portal on saturday night, and let me tell you, that was a good time

i just finished portal on saturday night, and let me tell you, that was a good time

I thought I was the only person left!

I probably am now, though.

Hahaha I just got an e-mail from Audiosurf that I was dethroned on the song Coco Jamboo. I had the worldwide top score and some dude just beat me. :p
I had no clue they mailed you like that.

Hahaha I just got an e-mail from Audiosurf that I was dethroned on the song Coco Jamboo. I had the worldwide top score and some dude just beat me. :p
I had no clue they mailed you like that.

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I haven't been dethroned on any of the songs I played yet.
The reason is that the ID3 tags of most of my songs are formatted badly or are missing entirely. :p

Also, I'm playing The Ship (http://www.theshiponline.com/) again right now.
I didn't realize how much fun that game is when I bought it 1.5 years ago.

Whether you wanted it or not, an update of how Newlands is coming on:

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/8886/newlandsupdateee4.th.png (http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newlandsupdateee4.png)

Notes:

1. Past the 100,000 population mark, whee.
2. Over the river, whee.
3. Zoned some areas of high density residential in the old town area and got a few skyscraping apartments, whee.
4. Built the Geyser, Medical Research and Science Centres, whee (although commercial is still being very sluggish).

In terms of the game itself, everything is running fine: budget is perky, all services are doin' fine, high-tech industry is going great... but there are one or two Matters Of Civic Pride:

1. Newlands' slogan may as well be Built On Other People's Rubbish: we have a deal with one of our neighbours where they give us a silly amount of trash (>20,000 ktons) for a silly amount of cash (>2k simoleons) every month. Take this away and the city would implode on two counts. Firstly, this contribution to our budget has ensured low taxes and generously funded services for generations, and without it we would quickly be plunged into the red, necessitating lots of service cuts and tax raises to ensure that the city didn't go down the toilet. Secondly, this rubbish is our main source of power, thanks to a battery of six Waste to Energy Incinerators, whose contribution to the grid dwarfs our supposed "mainstay" the Microwave Power Plant.

Okay, so why would I ever want to stop this life-giving deal? Well, firstly as I say it's a Matter Of Civic Pride. In-game it doesn't amount to much, but from my point of view, imagine what the tourists will say. "Newlands: The Garbageman City"? There's also the whole self-sufficiency thing. Oh, I dunno. More pertinently, a large amount of the money that I earn from this deal goes into maintaining the said W2E battery: every 70-odd years, one of them (sometimes two or more) gives up the ghost and that's 25,000 simoleons (or 50,000, or whatever) I have to pay for a new one. Even with all the money this deal brings in, I'm never going to be rich. Without it, I could probably decommission half the W2Es. Finally, six of them so close together produces a cloud of pollution so dense that it makes coal power look friendly. I could space them out, but somehow I feel that would be worse. At least with them in their current ghetto the rest of the city is fairly safe. The third worry is more "what if something goes wrong? What if they explode when I'm not expecting it, or garbage supply naturally exceeds demand as my own city grows? Then the deal cancels and I get a chuffing huge penalty fee. Am I better off just cancelling it for free whenever the other mayor asks for a change in terms?". So that's it for garbage really.

2. As I say earlier, commercial just won't develop. They've got an army base, a science centre, a medical centre and stupidly low taxes, but the C indicator (the odd spurt aside that really gets covered by re-developing abandoned buildings) remains steadfastly inactive. In one sense, it's no big deal: I've got enough demand for high-tech industry that I can plop it down right next to residential and not really care about nimbyism. But it is a Matter Of Civic Pride. I'll never have a downtown at this rate. And it's downtowns and city centres that give a city soul. Without one, Newlands is basically just a happier version of Milton Keynes.

Related to this is the issue of land values, which refuse to go past medium. It's not a massive deal: poor people have got to have somewhere to live, and they're well-educated, healthy and safe poor people. In this sense, my city is a socialist utopia. There's also a sizeable middle-income bracket that I have no problem with because they power my high-tech sector (that's my guess, anyway. I know that this is the case for SC4, but I'm less sure about 3K). But it would be nice to have some rich people. Any rich people. They'd make the city look a little classier somehow. The one annoying thing about the low-income houses and shops is that they, well, look ugly. Maybe I should change my tileset :p.

When all's said and done, the low land values are probably the fault of the Giant Prison, which I know depresses land values and I probably could get rid of and still have my budget look healthy. In terms of money, the prison is now a drop in the ocean compared to the trash deal. So yeah, maybe that's the answer.

Thoughts?

I've even got mailed about being beaten on really obscure game music, even OGG files!

The year is 2275. Steam trains rule the railways of Newlands (they always do in SC3K. Not that I'm complaining ;)).

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7615/newlandsupdate2275xj9.th.png (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newlandsupdate2275xj9.png)

Notes:

1. The city is now slightly too big to fit into the window at the furthest zoom level! There's a little bit of light industry hiding off in the south-west.
2. An airport has been built where the maximum security prison once stood.
3. Every time I decommission a W2E, I build its replacement slightly further from the city, slowly taking all the pollution towards the northern corner.
4. We're getting some big commericial skyscrapers going.
5. Lots of money, even despite having to keep replacing all my W2Es.

Only one problem, really: the RCI indicator is starting to go a bit haywire. Up until now it's been a fairly straightfoward "Residental and industrial booming, commercial flat" - there's been the odd wobble, but on the whole that's how it's stayed. Now suddenly the three indicators keep jumping up and down. For example, at the time I took this screeny it was Res' turn to take a dive, and Ind and Com were both clamouring for attention.

I've also still to attract any high-wealth residents.

EDIT: 2300

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6411/newlandsupdate2300tm7.th.png (http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newlandsupdate2300tm7.png)

The first major new thing is that big square of Res and Com, built on an artificial hill and with water around it. It was at this point that Randall Shoop appeared and told me that the Sims wanted a stadium.

"Okay, Randall", I said, "how do I build it?"

But he was mysteriously silent, in that enigmatic way of his.

After looking it up online, I realised I must have missed the Below Average Bowlers petitioning me for it, so I went over to the Meet screen to see him. I could now build the stadium.

Well, other than the whole 75,000 Simoleons thing. Irony is, I had the money - but that was before my Massive and Slightly Pointless construction project. Still, I took out a loan (my profits are strong enough that it isn't a problem) and got it. The good news is, the stadium seems to have stabilised my RCI meter again - although commercial is still moribund.

Well, all of Munkee's Sims 2 talk got me into the mood for it, so I fired it up for a little while. Not a lot was happening, and THEN

http://g.photos.cx/snapshot_f1966ff1_1505e40a-e6.jpg
AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW

http://g.photos.cx/snapshot_f1966ff1_f505e5e2-e5.jpg
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

http://g.photos.cx/snapshot_f1966ff1_7505e7af-e2.jpg
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

http://g.photos.cx/snapshot_f1966ff1_b505edc1-73.jpg
AAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwWWwwwww

http://g.photos.cx/snapshot_f1966ff1_f505e596-4f.jpg
AAAAAAAAAAAaaAAWWAAAAWWWWAAWAAAAAAAAWWWWWWwwwAAWWw ww aww aw

*ahem*

Also, got myself into my first anonymous online Brawl and totally won it, yo.

Been playing Mario Galaxy, it's quite fun. Love the music, particularly those remakes of SMB3 music. Kinda makes me want to stay on those levels forever. :p

Holy screamin' hell did Aku and I just have some amazingly epic Brawls. They should have been televised. :p We also kept picking interesting character combinations by coincidence; our first fight was him as Marth in black vs. me as Marth in white, then later on there was a Meta Knight vs. Kirby, and, the most amazing fight of them all by a long shot, a Marth vs. Ike.

We were all ARGH DAMN LMAO and stuff.

but the best part of the whole deal was when in the middle of a tense fight the fish came up out of the water in the ice climber level and swallowed both of us whole :p

GRRGHHRGHH

I saw that Slick was "Online", but there was no way to tell him "HEY! I'M HERE! LOOK AT YOUR FRIEND LIST! DON'T LEAVE! NOOOOOOOOO"

I don't mean that it should be a huge intrusive display that shows up during a battle. I think a little icon in the corner that shows up when a friend is online would be invaluable. (And you'd be able to choose if it shows up during a "With Anyone" brawl or not.)

That would be a lot better than staring at your friend list until something happens, or having to set something up in MSN or something.

...

Now that I think of it, though, there IS a little comment you can have by your name. You could make it something like "LET'S GO: Wednesday 8pm Central, YA DIG?" and then it would work out fine and dandy and stuff. It's better then nothing.

they need to allow oyu to stay connected while playing offline games, and then add the buddy icon thing. that way it's not impossible to play online games without a set schedule.

No more heroes is a great game and everyone should buy it.

Never have I laughed so much at a single-player game than the 5th ranking fight.

From the sound of it, I hope part of the reason Brawl is so delayed is because they're adding mariokart's online improvements.

From the sound of it, I hope part of the reason Brawl is so delayed is because they're adding mariokart's online improvements.oh that would be awesome!

From the sound of it, I hope part of the reason Brawl is so delayed is because they're adding mariokart's online improvements.

Nope. Sorry.

Jedi Academy is awesome, it's so full of strange glitches that it's hilarious.
For instance, I love how that if you shoot lightning at enemies they are sent flying for about 50 meters up in the air and just as far away, but they still fire their lasers at you. :D
If that's not taking your job as a henchmen seriously, I don't know what is.

Oh yeah, not playing this, but you can bet I will be:

JUBILATION; THEY FINALLY DONE IT (http://g.photos.cx/gyakuten-not-saiban-ac.jpg)

[This is the stupidest idea ever (http://www.worldscollide.com/)]

[This is the stupidest idea ever (http://www.worldscollide.com/)]
Well I think its AWESOME. :eek:

I'm with Angelus on this one.

my god! taddar was telling me about this travesty earlier.

the only redeeming quality about it is the ability to put any given mortal combat character up against Aquaman! which is just sadistically funny

Bad idea? Mmmmmaybe. Worst idea ever? Absolutely not.

Wait, wait. Wait. I just spotted a flaw in this game! No one can beat Batman! :eek:
I mean even if he was the last boss he'd had to be unbeatable.
:(

Wait, wait. Wait. I just spotted a flaw in this game! No one can beat Batman! :eek:
I mean even if he was the last boss he'd had to be unbeatable.
:(shouldn't superman be able to kill batman? I mean, I saw the comic where he did, so I imagine it'd be the same?

That comic was CAKE.
No one can beat Batman.
He's... Batman, y'know? Like... the Batman.
...
Nananananananana Nananananananana Baaat-Maaaaaaan!

shouldn't superman be able to kill batman? I mean, I saw the comic where he did, so I imagine it'd be the same?

Batman would just breakout his anti-superman kryptonite spraycan.

Besides, Sman's too much of a ***** to kill people (except for lois lane). he deals mainly with robots and aliens

Besides, Sman's too much of a ***** to kill people (except for lois lane). he deals mainly with robots and aliens

Oh really?


http://www.superdickery.com/images/dick/planestrainsandautomobiles0nz.jpg

http://www.superdickery.com/images/dick/icommandyoutowank1nv.jpg

http://www.superdickery.com/images/dick/whatkindofsicksupersnuffcomicisthis.jpg

Fun fun fun

[I hate them all... my parents are dead! (http://www.pvponline.com/my-parents-are-dead/)]

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I just started Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition. And it's taking some time to get used to. So I went back to playing Twilight Princess, which I have almost completed I think. Hope. I need my time back. D:

Aaaand I got some Wii points and bought Super Mario Bros 3 and Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, which I got about halfway but never finished a couple of years ago so hopefully I'll be able to finish it now. After I finish TP. :p

Munkee and I were up ridiculously late GModding it up the other night.

Well, I'll let the pictures talk.

http://g.photos.cx/gm_construct0020-0b.jpg

http://g.photos.cx/gm_construct0019-6c.jpg

http://g.photos.cx/gm_construct0022-51.jpg

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Ahh... I was so proud of that little aircar. Came up with the whole plan at work, incidentally. Fun fun fun. Good times. I love GMod.

The new Gold Rush map in TF2 is good fun. Played through it three times on both attack and defence: won (i.e. got all seven control points) two out of three on attack and all three on defence. I'm not sure how, but I somehow managed to get 14 points in one life as a Pyro: mostly through captures, I think.

There were also a lot of Medics around trying to get these new achievements, naturally (when I first went on, my team had six other players, four of whom were Medics). Still, makes a change from none at all, and it did make the game flow better.

yeah, i like gold rush - once the medic mania dies down a bit, i think it might supplant 2fort as my favorite

People don't seem to focus on the cart much. I've managed to do a whole run without being stopped.

People don't seem to focus on the cart much. I've managed to do a whole run without being stopped.
in that case you're probably playing on the wrong servers

I had kind of a hard time remembering to be near the cart, myself. Of course, as we've established, I suck.

Resident Evil 4 is awesome. But I spend way too much time looking around for stuff. :p

Also Mario Kart Wii is not as fun as Mario Kart 64 for some reason. Maybe because of it being too crowded, and also I hate not being able to play the cups with 2 players. :mad:

just picked up Okami last night. not far into it even a little bit but it's pretty cool so far. quite enjoying it.

From the makers of Gamma Brothers: Dino Run!

http://www.pixeljam.com/dinorun/

And it is quite fun, it is.

My very silly contribution to the world of TF2 custom sprays:
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/1396/sprayrv6.png (http://imageshack.us)

Resident Evil 4 Wii edition.

Daaamn.

Been playing mario kart. Only need to complete the Mirror Cup now.
Also been playing Ocarina of Time on the Virtual Console. :D

Edit: Has anyone here tried any of the WiiWare titles?

ORF Football Challenge 2008 (http://fussballchallenge.orf.at/stories/englishinfo/)
A football (soccer) game that the Austrian Broadcasting has made for the upcoming Euro Championship.
Simple, cartoon-style game with online and 2-player offline multiplayer and online ranking.

You can install it in English and other languages than German.
And funnily enough, you can choose/create non-European teams to play too.

It has a built-in friends-list system, so if anyone wants to play me, my team/friend name is Bonzi_Buddy.

Edit: Has anyone here tried any of the WiiWare titles?

I got Lost Winds and Defend Your Castle.

Defend Your Castle is fun, but tiring.

Lost Winds was quite nice, but... uh... it's incomplete, which kinda caught me off guard.
It probably has to do with that size limit Nintendo put on WiiWare titles. Sigh.
Really hope that I won't have to buy each section separately.

Really hope that I won't have to buy each section separately.you will. they're releasing them as episodes.

Son of a gumble.

I figured that would happen, but still... at the end, that's going to be at least $50 at the rate it's going (though maybe it'll quicken the pace at some point...)

The unusual thought processes going on in my slightly bent mind led me to remember the demo for Critical Mass, which was a little space warfare turn-based strategy sort of thing from back when Windows 95 was the norm and computers themselves were pretty new to little old me. Not the most technically impressive thing ever, but deep in simple, engaging kind of ways, and very addictive. I assumed that it was abandonware by now.

Instead, I found Critical Mass 4.0, which was released some time last year. (http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/critical.html) The game has been under development for eleven years. The newer version has somewhat updated graphics (woo, triangles in more than two colors) and a handful of new ships and missiles, along with easy-to-use editors so you can design your own ships and missions. It was a bit pricey at $20, but I sprang for it, for nostalgia's sake, and maybe just to support the guy. I've already designed an Arwing (http://g.photos.cx/arwing-bd.png), which is, as it should be, a very high-end, expensive ship which moves quickly and is well-armed.

Action-packed super gameplay screenshot. (http://g.photos.cx/OHSNAP-62.png)

Edit: Updated Arwing after figuring out the height thing so the game shades it properly.

Finally got all 121 stars on Super Mario Galaxy and now I'm playing Super Luigi Galaxy. :p

Praise be to the weak dollar for making Sam and Max series two so cheap.

I've only played the first two episodes, and I'm glad to say it's a great deal better than the first season.

...and now I'm playing Super Luigi Galaxy. :pwhy? :p

why? :p
Because I've already played all the other 3 good games available for the Wii to death. :p

It was a quiet day in Gravelpit. Nothing was heard but the calm noise of sentries being built, medics charging up, and snipers standing ever so motionless.

Until... they came.

At first it seemed like an every-day run. A few were killed, a few died for it, lots of bullet fire. But then they wouldn't stop coming. They kept growing in numbers, coming from every hook and cranny. The more we took down, the more followed. Nothing could stop them. They stood tall and strong, grinning gleefully as they marched through our defenses. Spies merely poked them, snipers merely bounced off their thick heads, pyros merely made them smell funny. It was a disaster.

Before we knew it, points A, B and C were taken. It all happened in the blink of an eye. Nobody could believe it. Nobody could stomach it. Nobody could react... until it was too late...

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It was time... for revenge...
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Just picked up Beyond Good & Evil. Now all I need to do is figure out how to stop the graphics glitching all over the damned place on my PC and I'll be able to play it.

Just picked up Beyond Good & Evil. Now all I need to do is figure out how to stop the graphics glitching all over the damned place on my PC and I'll be able to play it.

What kind of glitches?

Polygon jumping, some sprite-based elements (such as tufts of grass, leaves on trees, particles, etc.) flickering with the wrong element for brief periods (grass becomes pink leaves, particles become chunks of grass, that sort of thing).

Polygon jumping, some sprite-based elements (such as tufts of grass, leaves on trees, particles, etc.) flickering with the wrong element for brief periods (grass becomes pink leaves, particles become chunks of grass, that sort of thing).
that really sounds like a graphics card-related issue

obvious questions here: what card do you have and what drivers are you running?

It would probably be a graphics card driver issue were it not the fact that BG&E is the only game affected. Graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS, drivers are latest.

The older they are, the sooner they glitch. This might help: http://www.vistareadygames.com/showthread.php?p=679970

I'm re-playing the original Half-Life. I had almost forgotten how awesome this game is.

I'm re-playing the original Half-Life. I had almost forgotten how awesome this game is.really? I found it confusing and pointless :-/

really? I found it confusing and pointless :-/
Yes, but that's because you suck.

:mad:

Yesterday I finished LostWinds having collect all 24 statues.

It's a beautiful game. It reminds me of so many other games in a really good way. I really like the big open platform world; it reminds me of Super Metroid, stripping away the barriers of "level 1", "level 2" etc and allowing you to access areas you couldn't and further explore areas you could the further you progress. I also really like the simple Wii Remote gestures; they make me pine for Okami on Wii but they're also so very well implemented that I suspect Okami may fall short of its brilliance. I found the puzzles a little simple but they reminded me of Zelda enough that I could forgive their simplicity and lose myself in the process, using lateral thinking and often bending the rules to create shortcuts. The design is adorable through and through, not just visually but also interactively; the way the whole world seems affected by your pointer but the real action is limited to the plane on which you walk.

If you don't own this, go and get it from the Wii Shopping Channel. It's frookin' magic.

Incidentally, I reckon the future episodes will be cheaper, since you've already bought all (or at least most of) the assets and you'll basically be buying additional code and level structure (and a few more assets - bosses, new enemies etc). I could be wrong, though.

sins of a solar empire is suh-weet

Yes it is. I almost wish I had a computer capable of running it. But I don't, because it would put an end to my social life and the social lives of everyone I made play with me. Instead, I've just picked up this smaller, but just as addictive alternative called Harvest: Massive Encounter. It truly gets massive later on. Love the B movie feel.

http://www.oxeyegames.com/harvest/

I recently brought paper mario on the virtual console. It's quite fun so far. Although it's not nearly as great as SMRPG.
Paper Mario seems just a bit too easy.

Cuddles:

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/8756/crecuddles067d3eedsmljg8.jpg

Did you make that?

are they actually charging $20 for that, btw? is there a free version somewhere? or is it actually worth that much money?

are they actually charging $20 for that, btw? is there a free version somewhere? or is it actually worth that much money?

£10 isn't much. :p

yes, but the amount of fun one can have creating monsters that don't do anything is far less than even that :p

'bout 99p :p

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flair-Plasticine-8-Colour-Pack/dp/B0007QJMWO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys&qid=1213453751&sr=8-1

exactly :p

'cept your clay creations don't walk around.

Stop motion animation ftw.

Stop motion animation ftw.
I was going to say that, but for some reason I didn't.

Probably because I was inevitably going to link it to cricket (http://leftarmchinaman.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-zealand-vs-england-complete-series.html)

That's awesome. Even if it does remind me of Pingu :p

I'm going to have to try some blu-tack stop motion after the exams.

Cuddles:

Wait, how'd you get that? It's not out yet! You cheated! At... the... downloading...

[EDIT]Nevermind (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=655930&postcount=1395).

yes, but the amount of fun one can have creating monsters that don't do anything is far less than even that

Seriously?

I think the editors look more fun than the actual game. :p

I think the editors look more fun than the actual game. :p

Mostly yes.

Except I have been overcome by an unusual desire to see some poor creature be brutally murdered and devoured by a giant two headed reptile thing.

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/3368/crebrutusdisaraus067e71po0.png

T'is fun.
But I've noticed there's a version with more stuff in it.
Or is that the one you have to buy?

:p

T'is fun.
But I've noticed there's a version with more stuff in it.
Or is that the one you have to buy?

:p

Yeah, the leaked version is the free one, with about 1/4 of the parts available in the full ($10) version.

I've only put up a few things (http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-Munkee79) so far, because I'm reserving most of my final design decisions for when I can actually use all the parts. :p

Seriously?

I think the editors look more fun than the actual game. :pthe part of the game that looks fun to me is the making the creature and seeing how it acts in the game itsself. then the rest of the RTS elements add to it till it's worth actually paying money for. i'm not paying $20 on top of the $50 the game's going to cost at release just to play with the creator for a little bit.

now, if I can get a hand on the free version, you're damn right I'll be playing around with that :p

Just google for "spore creature creator demo", you'll run into it.

Just finished Portal.

And it deserved every ounce of praise it got. :D
...not that I really needed to tell anyone that.

Just finished Portal.

And it deserved every ounce of praise it got. :D
...not that I really needed to tell anyone that.
yes, it is amazing and i love it

Half-Life 2.

I love how I'm playing this 4 years after everyone else has. :p

Looks like Trackmania Nations Forever (www.trackmania.com) came out while I wasn't paying attention.

http://g.photos.cx/ZRT-c8.png

Now with representation from Zeortopia. :cool:

Half-Life 2.

I love how I'm playing this 4 years after everyone else has. :pI thougt I was late with the 2 years after its release.

Looks like Trackmania Nations Forever (www.trackmania.com) came out while I wasn't paying attention.

http://g.photos.cx/ZRT-c8.png

Now with representation from Zeortopia. :cool::D What's your Trackmania ID?

I thougt I was late with the 2 years after its release.I'll beat you all and play it when Half-Life 3 is out!

I thougt I was late with the 2 years after its release.

Yeah, but PB uses Mac. He has excuse. You don't.

SHAAAAME ON YOU, AKU!!!! SHAAAME ON YOU!!!!


And you too, Sup. :mad:

:D What's your Trackmania ID?zeor72, I think.

Also, for that certain extra professional touch...

http://g.photos.cx/ZRTplate-d4.PNG

I'm way too proud of this. :3

Well, the plate doesn't exactly match the regulation ones perfectly, but close enough. Still looks cool.

yo i just finished bioshock and it was sweet

Been a while since I worked on my SC3K city, but here, have an update:
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Notes (part one, because my arms are tired):

1. Old Town. What it says on the tin, this is where it all began. It's also where my house, the town hall, the courthouse and a lot of other civic buildings live.

2. University Lake. The name of both the largest lake in Newlands (well, it's a... lake with a university near it) and the waterfront bedroom community next to it.

3. Downtown. The first proper area of downtown (i.e. high-density commercial) zoned in Newlands, set around the focuses of the medical centre, the science centre and the stadium.

4. Twinlakes. Two small lakes that are sort of perpendicular to each other form the basis of this community. The construction of the stock exchange here has also led to the construction of some high-rise commercial nearby.

5. East Harbourside. Newlands seaport and environs, mostly industrial but parts of it are slowly being rezoned as residental and commercial as my industrial sector begins to scale back.

6. Newlands Utilities. AKA "the bit we don't want you to see". The army of incinerators and W2EIs that take silly amounts garbage from our neighbours in Coffers Corner and keep the city's budget afloat. One recent change has been the slightly dubious switch from Waste to Energy to conventional incinerators. You don't get electricity from them, and they pollute more, but hey, they're a lot cheaper to replace when they go kaput. To compensate for this sshortfall in electricity production, the city is switching from microwave power to fusion power - more expensive, but much, much more cost-effective.

7. Newlands Village. Symptomatic of trends in Newlands recently, Newlands Village began life as a light industrial estate. With the rise in population and the tipping of the commercial-industrial balance in favour of commercial, industry has fallen out of demand somewhat and many industrial buildings have become abandoned. So the plan has been to bulldoze the abandoned buildings and rezone the blank squares as residental or commercial, depending on demand. The village is now an eclectic mix of high-wealth residental and commercial, and high-tech industry. Well, at least people are close to their jobs.

Kicked LeChucks ass in The Secret of Monkey Island, so now I'm onto the second game :cool:

I also just got the old game Heart of Darkness which I plan to play soon. Always wanted to since I played the demo many years ago.

I remember Heart of Darkness. I remember dying a lot on the demo. I remember dying so much the game patronized me. Worse than Another World. :(

8. Newlands Airport. Does what it says on the tin, basically this was a redevelopment of an old landfill site with a view to boosting commerce in the city. Didn't really work. But anyway: planes!

9. Central Heights. Newland's first real planned community: built on an artifical hill surrounded by lakes in an endeavour to raise land values, this square grouping of residental and commercial has gone on to become a focal point for the city.

10. Northside. More light industrial estates, originally built to provide jobs for the residents of Central Heights. As with Newlands Village, this is slowly being redeveloped as mixed zoning as industrial demand declines.

11. The N1 Corridor. In many ways, the N1 Highway is Newlands' biggest (hopefully only) white elephant. It sees little use, and it doesn't really go anywhere, stopping short of downtown while also managing to go right round Central Heights without really servicing it. Given the effectiveness of Newlands' mass transit system, the highway could even be called superfluous. Still, at least it serves as a focal point for development, although I can't develop it too much without venturing into the high pollution areas around Newlands Utilities.

12. South Harbourside. Ironically rather younger than locations 7 to 11, South Harbourside was the first community to be founded on the western side of the River New. Mostly a mix of industrial and residential.

13. Newbanks. Growing out from South Harbourside, with the boundary marked by the country club and a windy road, Newbanks was the first real attempt to get upper-class housing going: riverside properties, country club. Didn't work brilliantly, but the middle wealth houses are pleasant enough.

14. Factory Heights. Growing out from South Harbourside in the same way as Newbanks, but for "residential by a river" read "industrial on a hill".

15. Varleytown. Because if you haven't named at least a part of the city after yourself, you aren't doing it right. Another planned community, with an avenue leading up to North Cross.

16. Lakeline Drive. A windy road that runs down a land bridge between two lakes, Lakeline Drive is the city's first real example of trying to work with a piece of geography rather than barge round it. Low density residential.

17. The Horseshoe. The second real example of trying to work with a piece of geography rather than barge round it. A semicircular road that travels around a lake on the edge of the map. Mostly low density residential, with some commercial and industrial mixed in.

18. North Cross. The newest community, North Cross is based around a series of crossing railway lines laid in before development began as a sort of "placeholder" for things to come. The diagonal nature of the railways constrains development somewhat, but it looks interesting, which is the main thing.

Just played a fantastic game on 2fort in TF2.

I was a scout, and somehow I was able to run to the enemy intel without being seen by anyone. I grabbed the case and ran all the way out of the enemy base, but there was a huge firefight on the bridge, and I think the sewer was being attacked as well, so the only way through was to jump over the river. I leaped as far as I could but it wasn't enough.
Then a sniper shot me in the back, which nearly killed me but also propelled me into the air, giving me just enough distance to barely land on the other side and run into my base.

It doesn't sound nearly as good in writing, but seriously, that was the coolest thing I've seen in TF2 so far. :D

Etrian oddysse is kicking my ****.:p

Just played a fantastic game on 2fort in TF2.

I was a scout, and somehow I was able to run to the enemy intel without being seen by anyone. I grabbed the case and ran all the way out of the enemy base, but there was a huge firefight on the bridge, and I think the sewer was being attacked as well, so the only way through was to jump over the river. I leaped as far as I could but it wasn't enough.
Then a sniper shot me in the back, which nearly killed me but also propelled me into the air, giving me just enough distance to barely land on the other side and run into my base.

It doesn't sound nearly as good in writing, but seriously, that was the coolest thing I've seen in TF2 so far. :DLol nice, TF2 always leads to the most randomly fun situations.

My latest accomplishment seems to be sniper feuds! An enemy sniper kept headshotting me on CTF_Turbine, so I switched to Sniper and got back at him! After a while of this, he walked over to my side just to whack me in person so we ended up gunfighting. As Snipers! And after a while of this, he got fed up and switched to a Sniper Spy (even though I was the only Sniper so he was pretty obvious) just to backstab me!

Hilarity in a can.

http://www.p01.org/releases/DHTML_contests/files/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/

This is pretty cute.