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Posted by French Toast on Tue Aug 22nd at 2:53am 2006

Mm, turn on cheat mode, and then ingame fire up noclip. That way you can bypass the trigger that ends the game and fight the ogre at the end.



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Posted by Crono on Tue Aug 22nd at 7:50am 2006

Checked out the multiplayer for Prey and it's badass.

I also grabbed the demo for Call of Juarez. It's a first person game that takes place in the "old west". You can play two sides cowboy or "indian" (not really). It seems like it has some unique stuff, nothing to go crazy over, but it deserves a look. Also, the game is using Chrome's engine (you can't tell by looking at it though) The other thing is the game looks fantastic.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Aug 22nd at 1:13pm 2006

I've been playing a lot of Kameo for the 360 the past few days after picking it up in a sale. I wanted the game well before getting a 360 but the demo didn't really impress me all that much, so I waited on it reaching a good price before picking it up. Thankfully the game is far better than the demo suggested. The game doesn't really break any new ground, choosing instead to base itself almost entirely on the Zelda school of adventure gaming, but what it does, it does really rather well. It certainly looks good, hell it looks great at times, with some really lush environments and charismatic character design. Even Kameo herself - perhaps the most orthodox character, feels quite fresh and different as she hovers along with the help of her (mostly useless) fairy wings. The game's structure is totally by the books for the genre - travel across a world map to a dungeon, go through dungeon to get new ability/equipment (in this case, new creatures to transform into), use new ability/equipment to do some little quests and get rewards, use new ability/equipment to gain access to the next dungeon, repeat - but its tried and tested and hard to fault. The only thing that really sets the game apart is that, unlike most games of this sort, you have 11 characters to play as that you can switch between at the press of a button, and even though they mostly have very specific uses, little differences such as movement speed, turning circle and physical size mean there are benefits to be had from switching between them frequently.

So, in short, a charming adventure game that looks fabulous. Well worth checking out in my opinion <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Aug 23rd at 4:36am 2006

I picked up Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion two days ago.

I'm really not sure how I feel about this game. I expected a lot from it, based on all the reviews and word of mouth, but ultimately I haven't been as satisfied. I thought I was going to really enjoy all the freedom, but as it turns out you don't really have a lot of freedom when you walk into an area and realize you can't kill anything because you're too weak.

The variety and different class types seems nice, and I do like the thieving aspect of the game, but right now I'm just cranky because I've hit a deadend in the storyline and I can't seem to progress.

If any of you have played the game, right now I have to kill a bunch of vampires in order to please some evil goddess so she can do something for me. I killed the first vampire, but the rest are in groups of two, and there's a giant orc who I can't get close to killing. I decided maybe I just wasn't strong enough, so I did some side quests, and ended up leveling about 8 times, and picked up a new sword, but this vampire is still spanking me. It's frustrating.

I ended up creating a new character, more magic heavy, so hopefully I won't have the same problems.

Anyway, I like the gladiator arena, thieving, and the scale of the game. I don't particularly like the way the people look, the pursuasion gameplay, or the huge amounts of time it takes to level certain skills, as well as how hard it is to do certain quests. I just don't know if I've progressed too quickly, or if I need to buy new skills or weapons (if that'll even help).

I'll revise me opinion of the game once I play more but right now it's sitting at "barely fun."

Is there anything I'm missing?



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Posted by Finger on Wed Aug 23rd at 7:02am 2006

Just started playing DeadRising. Pretty cool sofar, if you can look past the save system and first mini-boss fight. If you like a little zombie killing with as many weapons as you can imagine, you should like this game. I dig the humor.



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Posted by reaper47 on Wed Aug 23rd at 10:11am 2006

Dead Rising... is that the Xbox360 game with all the zombies in a mall? That one looks amazing.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Aug 23rd at 2:30pm 2006

I liked the trailer a lot. I wish I knew anyone who owned a 360 and liked zombie games, so I could go over to his house and mooch off him.



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Posted by FatStrings on Thu Aug 24th at 2:44am 2006

that's very similar to an older game i remember playing on ps2 only without the zombies
you basically just ran around a mall and killed innocent bystanders




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Aug 24th at 3:24am 2006

State of Emergency.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Aug 25th at 2:53am 2006

Okay, so I've played Oblivion for 2 more days, and I have to say the game is growing on me.

When I wrote my last post about the game I had barely scratched the surface of the story and the enormity of the world. I was mostly frustrated by the learning curve, but now that I've figured out how this game really works, its getting more fun.

The biggest change though, is that I found a character that matches my play style (jumping from rooftop to rooftop while throwing lightning bolts with reckless abandon).

Also, joining the mage guild and thieves guild was a good idea, it gives you a way to connect to each town that you travel to, with a guaranteed place to sleep.

Once I work my way through the mage guild storyline, I'll move on to the thieves guild, then the fighters guild, then the main storyline. And maybe if I get bored I'll turn to the dark side and join the dark brotherhood <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

So yeah, this game really is pretty sweet. I'm appreciating the sheer amount of voiceacting work they've done as well.

Anyone else play this game? Frenchy maybe? What did you think?



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Posted by Naklajat on Fri Aug 25th at 4:00am 2006

I played Oblivion for about a month. I don't think big RPG's like that mix well with my addictive personality though, since I started spending all my time playing it. I've been Elder Scrolls-sober for more than a month now. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">


=o



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Aug 25th at 4:02am 2006

Yeah the thing about it though is it's offline. Online stuff gets more addicting for me.



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Posted by French Toast on Fri Aug 25th at 4:45pm 2006

Oblivion wouldn't work MP for me...

Anyways, all I can say is I love it. My thoughts though: Play through the Fighters/Mages Guild before the Thieves Guild. Part of the Thieves Guild last missions are to steal from members of the Fighters/Mages Guild, and if you ever get caught thieving, you won't be allowed in those guilds. On the flipside though, if you do play them afterwards, you risk being kicked out of the Guilds and losing your position. So... be careful...

Also, I'd recommend playing the Dark Brotherhood. It's definitely worth it. Well... it depends on your character. My character was very much the Sam Fisher of Oblivion. I used a bow/dagger and snuck around a lot. In the Dark Brotherhood, you get good stealth equipment and good weapons for a spy type class. Additionally, many of the missions require you to sneak in, kill silently and then sneak out.

Also, go to the main city (suddenly forgot the name, the one that's built in concentric circles) and sign up for the gladiator tournaments. You get some money (you can picklock the bookies chest at the front for a few hundred as well) as well as good equipment.

If you do do the gladiator missions, I've got to let you know this. When you talk to the big green orc, he gives you a quest. If you complete that quest then in the final round, when you face him, he lets you win. So if you want to fight him, make sure not to do his quest.

Wow... kinda rambled there.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Aug 25th at 5:29pm 2006

Ah cool. I did the Gray Prince quest with my first character, but not this new one. I'll probably save it right before the fight, and experience both ways.

Thanks for all the tips. I'll put the thieves guild on hold with my character, he's turning out to be a regular Joe Hero, and I don't like the idea of gaining infamy rep.

Dark Brotherhood seems so sweet. I found the secret entrance, and its pretty creepy.



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Posted by French Toast on Fri Aug 25th at 5:58pm 2006

Hah, yeah. It's a real pain going in and out, but after one quest you get the key that lets you go right down the well behind the house.



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Posted by Spartan on Fri Aug 25th at 8:00pm 2006

Currently playing Fable off a disk that my friend let me borrow. So far it's been a really good game, and I'm currently playing the part after Jack of Spades. I'm trying to get my character on the "good side" as much as possible and I've also got a really sweet armor set.

The game is much more linear and the world itself is much smaller than in other RPGs I've played. It's definatly no Oblivion or WoW but it's still a lot of fun in it's own right.





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Posted by reaper47 on Fri Aug 25th at 9:17pm 2006

I started playing "Blue Shift", the HL1 expansion everyone says it's crap. Considering you get it pretty much for free these days (I did) it's a decent mod. No new weapons or enemies which is disappointing but as I was prepared to expect the worst the game has turned out to be quite OK!



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Posted by French Toast on Sat Aug 26th at 4:12am 2006

I loved Blue Shift, 'cause it was a great game, and you got the new weapons pack.

Beat it in 4 hours though...



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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Sat Aug 26th at 7:21pm 2006

Dead rising = best game EVER.

That is all.

(go find the excavator. NOW.)


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Posted by ReNo on Sat Aug 26th at 7:41pm 2006

13 days to go til it hits the UK's shores.

...13 days too long <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">



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