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Posted by Spartan on Sun Jul 30th at 6:25pm 2006

? quoting ReNo
How did you play Saints Row spartan? I've not seen any demo of it on the Live Marketplace yet, and I'm pretty sure the game hasn't slipped out onto the shelves anywhere yet has it?

There is a demo of it that just came out a few days ago. It was a fun game. It's basically the exact same thing as GTA. Even the HUD is similar.





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Posted by Naklajat on Mon Jul 31st at 7:45pm 2006

Recently played: Impossible Creatures

I remember why I uninstalled this game. The creature creation thing is pretty fun, but when it comes down to actually playing the game it falls far short of the mark. The sound effects and voice overs are really bad too. Neat concept, poor execution. It also would have been nice to be able to combine more creatures, and have a pig, and a man, thereby giving the ability to create manbearpig.


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Posted by Andrei on Mon Jul 31st at 7:52pm 2006

Recently played:



I just love the oldies, especially the (old) strike trilogy - Desert, Jungle and Urban Strike. Nuclear strike is pretty cool too, but that's already a new game :P .




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Posted by Crono on Mon Jul 31st at 9:03pm 2006

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Recently played:
I just love the oldies, especially the (old) strike trilogy - Desert,
Jungle and Urban Strike. Nuclear strike is pretty cool too, but that's
already a new game image .


For some reason that makes me want to go play TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by keved on Mon Jul 31st at 9:04pm 2006

I bought Field Commander on PSP over the weekend. Seriously, I wouldn't at all be surprised if the guys at Intelligent Systems (makers of Advance Wars) sued. I knew FC was heavily influenced by AW, but not a complete and total rip-off. Virtually every mechanic is identical to Advance Wars!

Not a bad thing of course, since the Advance Wars series is The Daddy when it comes to turn-based war handheld games, but tbh the overall presentation is a big step backwards imo.

Unfortunately they've gone down the "we'll do it in 3D, cos 3D is obviously better than 2D" route. As a result, the structures look very poor, the units are a mess of pixels and each tile is so big that I find myself constantly scrolling around the battlefield. And all for what? So the battlefield can be rotated, which is entirely pointless.

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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jul 31st at 9:17pm 2006

Playin' Day of the Tentacle, which is a sick adventure game. 'Tis very old. 'Tis very awesome. Y'all should try it. You can get it for free, along with other old classics (legally) at this site. Register and get 10 posts and then you can get some pretty kick ass classic old games.



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Jul 31st at 9:51pm 2006

Argh, kinda sad to hear that Field Commander was a disappointment, as I was planning on picking that up at the weekend or something. Oh well, might grab it anyway. I've only played AW briefly on a mate's DS, so I guess the ripped off mechanics won't bother me much image

Oh and congratulations on beating the 1 million mark kev - I was over the moon when I broke 500,000 recently <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Andrei on Mon Jul 31st at 10:25pm 2006

the-underdogs.info have a decent quota of old games.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jul 31st at 10:33pm 2006

Yeah but I'm supposed to be pimpagin Sneaky-s**ts. So... yeah.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Aug 1st at 1:16am 2006

? quoting French Toast
Playin' Day of the Tentacle, which is a sick adventure game. 'Tis very old. 'Tis very awesome. Y'all should try it. You can get it for free, along with other old classics (legally) at this site. Register and get 10 posts and then you can get some pretty kick ass classic old games.

Man I played and loved every single one of those old LucasArts games. I never beat Day of the Tentacle... but I did beat:

1) Full Throttle

2) Sam and Max Hit the Road

3) That game where you have a Kazoo and ... its an adventure game like the two above.

4) Indiana Jones and something something Atlantis

Loved both. My first videogame ever was Maniac Mansion on this old ass PC with the huuuuge floppy disks. Black and white and everything.

I'll check out that site when I get home.





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Posted by keved on Tue Aug 1st at 1:26am 2006

Thanks. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> I'm going for some of the other achievements now; 500k without dying, gaining 9 lives and gaining 9 ships, but they're very difficult indeed to get. Unfortunately the achievements for most Xbox Live Arcade games are far too hard to get imo, that's my only gripe about the current XBL games. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">

In Geometry Wars the emphasis is to stay alive and build up the multiplier, even if it means using up all your smart bombs for 1 life and losing your other lives cheaply. ie, say you have 5 lives during a game, your score will be bigger if you stay alive for 10 minutes then lose 4 lives for no score, than if all 5 lives last 2 minutes each. So, basically, use smart bombs to keep a good multiplier run going, don't bother using them at the beginning of each life.

Unless you either don't have a DS or you want the online multiplayer capabilities of Field Commander, ReNo, I'd definately go for the far superior Advance Wars: Dual Strike.

The more I play FC the more I'm disappointed. The core gameplay mechanics are fine - not much is changed from AW:DS, but the presentation and UI are often dire and drag it down a lot.

If you were to look at screenshots it looks quite impressive. For instance...

http://www.gamepro.com/screen_viewer.cfm?globalId=112503&p=21&s=1

However, try working out at a glance what the hell those units in the bottom right of the screenshot are. No chance! They look far too similar. Turn based strategy games take long enough to play without having to hover the cursor over everything constantly to see what it is and this is especially important on a handheld of course when you might only have a spare 5-10 mins on the train or whatever.

Additionally, when a battle occurs it zooms in to focus on the two units involved. Sounds impressive, but the end result just highlights how low detail the units, structures and landscapes are, and frankly the battles themselves look feeble. AW:DS got this right once again with its fun, OTT and stylised approach.

And in terms of the UI, FC is constantly having to load stuff from the UMD so virtually every button press on the menu system has a delay of about a second before it responds. May not sound much, but try navigating several layers of menus and scrolling through maps & commanders, with a delay whenever you press anything.

There are also some major omissions when it comes to long-term gameplay; there is very little to promote players to beat their best scores. For instance, AW:DS saves your top 5 scores for every single skirmish map as well as which character you used (and additionally running totals of every enemy unit destroyed in every game you've played, which contributes towards 100% completion), while FC doesn't save anything whatsoever after a map has been completed!

Overall Field Commander is a good game if you can live with the shoddy UI and visuals, but unfortunately it's pretty far from an AW:DS for the PSP tbh.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Aug 3rd at 2:23pm 2006

I just played through the first 10 missions of Syndicate, that game that came out 13 years ago, developed by Bullfrog.

I loved that game, and after not playing it for probably... 11 or 12 years, I still love it.

It's not as mindless as it might seem, and it was way mature beyond its time.

I have to play without sound unfortunately (no headphones here ) but it's still a blast. To reminisce:

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Unmitigated Badassery.





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Posted by reaper47 on Thu Aug 3rd at 3:36pm 2006

Uhhh, Syndicate, brings back memories. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">

I recently played some Xcom. That game's so good it's scary.



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Fri Aug 4th at 10:40am 2006

Ah Syndicate and UFO (X-com) not played those in a while.

A friend found a multiplayer version of UFO on the net a while ago. That was quite fun to play.

I've picked up the Total Wars Eras box set the other week and been playing though that aswell as Lego Star Wars and I carnt wait for Lego Star Wars 2 now. Its just lots of fun can get a little annoying sometimes though when your trying to use the force onsomething and you keep getting shot.


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Aug 4th at 11:23am 2006

Still going strong with Syndicate. I just finished taking control of all of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. I'm working on breaking into North America via Alaska, but from what I remember this mission's a bitch.

I have to call it a day anywho. Too much veggin' not enough excitement. I'm going to a bar area tonight, actually the same one from all the crazy pictures I took last time.





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Posted by French Toast on Fri Aug 4th at 11:51am 2006

Woah, just got Raptor and Wacky Wheels!

Man, if those don't bring back some memories...



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Posted by reaper47 on Fri Aug 4th at 5:42pm 2006

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A friend found a multiplayer version of UFO on the net a while ago. That was quite fun to play.


lol, you have some info on this? Sounds crazy.



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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Fri Aug 4th at 7:03pm 2006

That sounds somehow familiar... UFO 2000?



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Posted by Juim on Sun Aug 6th at 6:19pm 2006

Just bought Prey yesterday for ma 360. I must say, although there is little to no story intro, and some weak voice acting, the level design is holding my interest greatly at this time. The space ship is absolutely awesome, and the multi gravitational walkway thingies are definitely cool. I have already become disoriented as to where I am a couple of times.



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Posted by ReNo on Sun Aug 6th at 6:52pm 2006

The Dead Rising demo hit Live Marketplace the other day, and for me at least it performed as expected. Violent zombie killing in a hugely populated city mall with the most ridiculous and varied weapon selection you could imagine. Popping giant lego heads onto zombies and watching them stumble into one another before skateboarding around and knocking them all over is a gaming experience you don't find anywhere else. Looks really nice to boot. If you have a 360 and a Live subscription, grab it and have fun <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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