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    Still playing BF2 on and off.

    - It's still the most fun I've had in ages. If it weren't bug riddled it'd be the best FPS around on the PC in ages.

    Gears of War on my buddy's Xbox360

    - Refreshing and fun. Unfortunately it's overrun by pre-pubescent Americans on XBox live. The chainsaw is one of the greatest realisations of violence ever. There was some dude stalking another guy while the other guy was running for what seemed like a few minutes (everyone was dead so we were just watching) when suddenly the hunted jumps out from behind a shipping crate and chainsawed the guy while everyone screamed over VOIP haha. I bet he shat himself.

    Crackdown demo

    -I liked it a lot and the mechanics are really nicely done (shooting fuel tanks, going for headshots etc) and the jumping around is brilliant but uh... story? Seems like this one could've been so much more. It probably outdoes GTA in the mayhem stakes, but that can only sustain your interest for so long. When you get bored in GTA, you have the missions & story to work through in addition to pretty much the biggest assortments of side missions to do for fun, though they are not integral to your success.

    Also, anyone else really fed up of collecting shit in games? "Collect 100 tokens to get a bigger willy, agent!" -- why not just integrate it with the missions rather than have people running around collecting them? It really, really annoys me when I'm forced to perform mundane tasks just to "level up". IMO intertwining the ability increase with the missions makes it a lot less tedious. E.g. you could have a mission where you have to climb up some tricky series of jumps and level up in agility as a result. I haven't played the full game so maybe they did this in the full game and I just don't know about it yet, though. Incidental levelling is fine by me (shooting bad guys constantly = better aim) but when you have to actively go out of your way to do monkey boy work it really gets old.

    DoD:S & CS:S

    - Still fun, though I just dally now and then these days. The new CS:S pricing model sounded like a good idea, but it's pretty clear that it's gone bananas now. You can only balance the prices so much without changing the guns themselves. TMPs & mac-10s are practically free now ($200 for a mac-10, lol) yet barely anyone still uses them short of a pistol round surprise. Kevlar & Helmet now costs something like $4000 and the Deagle costs a zillion dollars, too... In other words, old habits die hard. People's insistence on playing just like they used to is artificially driving up/down prices. It's good in some ways, but I think they need to tweak the shitty guns up a little bit to make these prices calm down. Unfortunately they're in a bind because they can't touch the old favourites (ak, m4, deagle, awp) too much or people will go bananas and burn down Valve HQ. They could also introduces a max pricing bracket depending on the gun type. E.g. pistols can't exceed $1200, sub machine guns can't go lower than $700 or higher than $2500, rifles can't go lower than $2000 or higher than $4500 (sniper rifles excluded) and so forth. I bet no-one at valve expected it to go this bonkers.

    Man I need to get more games.

    Just got FFXII yesterday and played it for a few hours last night. Seems great so far, very refreshingly different to previous games in the series. Not sure what I think about the new combat system yet - given I've only just got a second party member and only had a few fights its not exactly at the point I can pass judgement - but given time I'll no doubt get used to it. Characters seem interesting and the world, or what little I've seen of it, feels far more mature and convincing than most games in the series.

    I adore the fact that every sound effect sounds like it's ripped straight outta Vagrant Story, though I must admit it kind of makes me long for a range sphere to appear around my character every time I bring up the action menu

    Neverwinter Nights 2

    Sam & Max - Situation Comedy

    Dawn of War - Dark Crusade

    Viva Piñata !

    Supreme Commander

    Stuck in my replay of Gears of War. I keep dying the same place

    i just finished Kameo on xbox360

    will play/finish Call of Duty 3 now

    Cybbe how is Viva Pinata? i though of checking it out but somehow it seems pretty boring after a while. well i though that of loco roco too but it was still funny.

    Played these a little bit now, so I thought I’d comment as everyone else does.

    Okami is basically the Playstation version of Zelda and doesn’t even try to disguise the fact: you have a little bug sidekick who may as well be called Navi, the first dungeon you go into is a tree and as soon as you leave your little forest village you’re on a big open plain they should’ve called Hyrule field.

    But I love the graphical style and it’s just really fun to play even though the combat is ridiculously easy. I also like the fact your main character (a God) gets stronger the more people belief, or praise, there is. Something I always thought was cool in Small Gods (the turtle moves!).

    Final Fantasy 12 is... well, Reno’s word was appropriate: Different – and you’ll note where we both reside, Squares European releases sure are punctual. Anyway, it feels to me very much like what World of Warcraft should be, a party of adventures in an immersive world all controlled by me! I remember the painstaking wipes in Naxxramas, if only I could give my raid members Gambits!

    The combat seems slow and tedious at the start, but just crank the speed up to fastest and wait until you get a full party before you judge. I love the Gambit system, it’s so brilliantly simple, and if games like The Summoner used this they might’ve actually been good. The only let down about the combat system is this seems wasted on only two-three characters at once.

    My only grumble really is they promote you having lots of side-quests to do (like the aforementioned hunting system) and exploration. But trying to do any of this, or exploring old areas, results in complete rape! Especially since you usually only have Vaan unless you're in the middle of a story mission - at least for the eight hours I've played it.

    • [*:2k61n2bs]1st hunting mission boss hits for single digits, 10 feet away from him are normal monsters that hit for four digits.
      [*:2k61n2bs]2nd hunting mission is a natural progression from the tutorial one. I had to pop potions and I was 5 levels higher than you would be if you went there after the 1st.
      [*:2k61n2bs]3rd hunting mission casts Doom. Doom! Even if you win, you lose. Not that you could!
      [*:2k61n2bs]3rd hunting mission is kind of hidden and in an area I’d already cleared so I missed him and backtracked through it. First monster hit me for four-digits! They’d gone back and levelled them all up!

    I just entered the mine as part of the story, came out and was told to go to the next story location. So I thought I’d do the two hunting quests I had – I re-entered the mine, chopped through the trash and got to the first boss – who hits for ten times the amount of normal mobs there and starts buffed off his tits with haste and protect! So I flee, and the room previously now contains a bat reskin that hits for... yes, you get it.

    Still, grumble aside, everything else is awesome. You know a game like this is a winner if it’s fun just doing normal fights. And in fairness you can usually run - I only got game over once when Vaan got one-shot during bullet point 4.

    Edit: Ashe even has the same animations as Yuna!

    Starcraft, lots of Starcraft! Damn that game still rocks:) Catch me on msn any day and lets have a match. If you don't have a legal copy(shame on you), then just grab Hamachi.

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