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20:56 / 11.08.02

Just got a used copy of Ico for PS2 and played through it quickly. Great game...soft feel, ambient noise, good puzzles, etc. You're a kid with horns who was to be sacrificed but broke loose, found a girl trapped in a tower, and have to hold her by the hand and open paths so she can join you. You also have to fight off demon spirits who try to drag her into a portal, usually when your away from her side.

It's a bit short but there's a second one coming out soon. Really looking forward to it.

Oh, also emulating Zelda 3...what a great game...

Tryphena Absent

22:01 / 11.08.02

Grand Theft Auto 3, I love hitting people, picking up hookers and stealing cars in fantasy land!

23:13 / 11.08.02

It is now 01:12am. And why am I up at 01:12am? Because I am still playing Morrowind. That's why. Bah! Sleep is for losers...

23:38 / 11.08.02

I'm switching between Arcanum and Final Fantasy X.

I'm on my second playthrough of Arcanum, I'm playing as a technologist instead of a mage and it seems significantly harder without the ever useful harm spell.

Final Fantasy X, unfortunately, is starting to get boring. I'm about 30 hours in, just defeated Seymour Flux and I'm losing interest. I screwed up with Tidus on the sphere grid so the damage he does is pretty pathetic, and I'm sick of being on rails. All the reviews were right. You fight some battles, watch a movie, fight some more battles, watch another movie; rinse and repeat. I want to decide where I go. I'm sick of being herded along like some sort of sheep.

00:26 / 12.08.02

Dusted down the Saturn. Panzer Dragoon Zwei, NiGHTS, Radiant Silvergun, Vampire Saviour. I luv my Saturn.

Plus! Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands! Yowsah! *Tinkletinkletinkle* Dooo... dooo... dooooooooo... do do do, da do do do, da do do do do dum, do da do do do da do do do, da do do do da dum, do do do

Vampire Saviour's returned my Capcom addiction. Must get Dreamcast out from under bed for Marvel vs Capcom session.

09:11 / 12.08.02

Gonna have another stab at 'Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain', armed with cheats this time. I got really really stuck in this locked room with regenerating spider vampires, having to move blocks about in a semi-complicated fashion. This whole thing is, of course, rendered more difficult by the fact that the vampire bloke only has one weapon, and that weapon disappears when he's not at full life. It's bloody difficult to stay at full life when you have three regenerating spider vampires locked up with you. It's also impossible to move the blocks when you're being attacked by the creatures. Grr.

09:43 / 12.08.02

Cholister: don't pander to petty block puzzles! They've never ever been a good idea, and whilst your persistence is admirable, all it means is that designers will continue to put out shitty block puzzles as a substitue for real mental taxation.

I fucking hate block puzzles. Unless, of course, you're talking Sokoban, in which case, it's the entire point.

10:19 / 12.08.02

I've been a web designer for about six years now and still can't write straight javascript. I can read it, modify it and alter it but I'm crap at writing straight code, too lazy I guess.

But along comes neverwinter nights and suddenly I'm staying up all night learning how to write scripts for my tailor made world. Who says games aren't educational.

Still working through Jedi Knights II, got to love that lightsaber, as well as a few strategy gamnes on and off, multiplayer sudden strike is pretty cool, heard mention of a cthulhu game on the chaosism website a few months back that looks very nice.

Republica is being hotly anticipated. Anything else good in the pipeline.

And of course there is starwars galaxies.................

Just a thought would anybody be into gameswapping, I don't play games enough to warrent buying them new all the time so would be happy to do game swaps with people.

10:50 / 12.08.02

Gameswapping? I'm vaguely interested. It seems whenever I swap games with someone I always end up kicking myself for it. It's been like 8 or 9 years and I'm still kicking myself for trading Final Fantasy 2 for Street Fighter 2.

I despise block puzzles, that's one of the reasons I never play adventure games, as you'll usually end up with at least one block puzzle. Look, if I want to move blocks around, I'll play Tetris. If I'm playing an adventure game, my only goal is to crush, kill, and destroy.

11:23 / 12.08.02

But it's a lovely game apart from the block puzzles. I like gliding with my tattered vampire wings. I like the environments. I hate the shagging block puzzle. It's not even so much that it's hard, just that it is very very very time consuming, hefting things around, and it's difficult to concentrate and even more difficult to actually *move anything* when one is being attacked by spider vampires. But I think it would be a tad pointless to make a stand on block puzzles now, seeing as I own the game and can't be arsed to write anyone a whiny letter. So I'll avail myself of the cheats...

14:30 / 12.08.02

Chol> Go for a walkthrough rather than 'cheats' as in codes. Once you've used an invincibilty code (or whatever) once, you'll find yourself going back to it every time you get even slightly stuck, shortening the game's lifespan considerably. Soul Reaver's not exactly the type of game you back to after finishing it, either, so you want to get your money's worth. Gamefaqs will be able to help you out.

By the way, which bit are you stuck on? Are the block puzzels in question the ones in four or so ajoining rooms, where you've got to manipulate them to form images? I seem to remember a fairly tricky bit where the images fit together to form a pictorial representation of either the game story or human evolution.

16:07 / 12.08.02

Thanks, e.r.d... Unfortunately, I've already used a walkthrough... didn't help, evil thing. Just said 'kill the spider vampires, then move the blocks into their rightful places', or words to that effect. And I'm not good enough to kill the bloody spider vampires and remain untouched myself for any length of time, and the whole capacity to regenerate thing is just really annoying.

I'm on the first pictoral block puzzle, so I'm not sure where it comes in the greater scheme of things...

16:19 / 12.08.02

Oh, thanks for the link though. Someone already recommended that site to me, but I'd forgotten its name, so that's v. useful.

02:59 / 13.08.02

Playing Warcraft 3 single player and (up to 4 player LAN)...I like it alot.
also Neverwinter Nights (3 player LAN.

I want to play Project Firestar(ter?) the old game on the commodore 64.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:14 / 13.08.02

Jedi Knight II's getting on my tits now... cos, like, I'm supposed to be able to take out a room several hundred feet away of bad guys, while guiding a FUCKING ROBOT through a laser minefield! These Dark Jedi truly do have a cruel sense of humour.

11:50 / 13.08.02

Ah. Maominstoat has got to that bit on Bespin. All I can say is: force speed, run and jump like a lepping. Get forward of the mines, knacker the mines for the R2, and then snipe everyone else; the repeater gun IS your friend.

That's one of the "shit bits" I mentioned...

16:37 / 15.08.02

Finished Deus Ex with one of the endings, and now have to get around to seeing the other endings. Very very fun.

16:49 / 15.08.02

I was trapped in the horrific zone between finishing Half-Life and Deus Ex and the release of their sequels. Then I had a dream in which the message 'Buy System Shock 2' came across, having been implanted in my head by Paleface months ago. Well, I've got it, and all I can say is goddamn. Scary, exciting, sleep-with-the-light-on good, with a plot development that's not so much of a twist as a slow, creeping revelation. Thanks Mr Face.

17:04 / 15.08.02

No trobule, Biznuth. I really ought to finish the damn thing... incidentally, the scariest way to play it is on Easy. There are less monsters... so every time you see one, you jump a LOT more because, well, you're expecting it less. It's really lovely, though, and you can see where Deus Ex came from.

I'm in a retro mood, and just finished Goldeneye for the first time ever (EVAH!) on Agent. All I'm saying is this: if that's what Control's like on Agent, I don't want to THINK about the harder difficulties... It was good whilst it lasted, though - there's that magic "x" factor about it.

I'm now desperately trying to find a cheap Zelda 64 cart. I have it on an emulator, but it's not the same...

17:09 / 15.08.02

This thread keeps reminding me of all the games I really should finish. In Deus Ex, I stopped playing after checking out the mansion in Paris and I've never gotten around to finishing Zelda 64. Fun game, but I got stuck in the Shadow Temple.

I've put aside Final Fantasy X for the time being and I'm now concentrating on Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete. I love old 2-d rpgs. I never have to spend five minutes on a screen trying to find the exit. "Is that a door or just part of the background?"

20:07 / 15.08.02

I've been playing a bit of "Aggressive Inline" on the PS2. It's very fun, and SUPER-smooth, but it makes me naseous after about ten minutes, so I haven't played too much of it. I have an iBook, so PC games are pretty much out. I DID play Baldurs Gate 2, which was GREAT. Has anyone gotten into Neverwinter Nights?

Mostly, though, I'm waiting for Mario Sunshine for Gamecube.

10:53 / 09.10.02

Lots of gaming greatness coming up eh people -

Next week I'll be buying Timesplitters 2, played the demo and its excellent (although I've heard the following levels don't live up but its still meant to be great) - basically its Goldeneye with Zombies and I can't wait

Next month we've got WWE Smackdown : Shut your Mouth which looks like its going to be a huge improvement on Just Bring It. And who could forget GTA - Vice City, I know that some people have issues with the number III but who can resit driving around Miama Vice style with over 8 hours of 80's music and motorbikes and chainsaws..

Also Hitman 2 its another thats meant to be great but the loading times are meant to be terrible...

Flatmate bought a Gamecube, Resident Evil just looks unbelievably good and I just read a review of Animal Crossing which sounds cool too, God bless Nintendo...

11:12 / 09.10.02

I'd heard that Hitman 2 was deeply disappointing, failing to deliver anything like a decent plot or thoughtful gaming experience and instead falling back on old standards.

Timesplitters 2 does indeed look mighty fine. Apart from the Nintendo big guns (Zelda, Metroid, Eternal Darkness), there's very little else Gamecube-bound in the near future that's likely to make me part with my cash. Considering the current state of my finances, this is a very good thing indeed.

But right now it's all about Super Mario Sunshine. It's a little underwhelming in some respects - I've had it less than a week and am already at 72 Shines, the supposedly 'extremely high' difficulty level of the game not being an issue at all if you've completed SM64 a couple of times - but the quality of the whole package is so far above anything else out there that it really makes me despair for the future of gaming. Nobody's come close to moving the platform genre - still, along with FPS and racing titles, one of the most over-subscribed around - forwards in six years.

11:21 / 09.10.02

I played the Timesplitters 2 demo for about 5 minutes and then gave it up as hopeless. The game seemed too hard to control, especially with that little PS2 controller. Keyboard and mouse is the way to go for first person shooters.

Right now, I'm replaying Suikoden and will start on Suikoden 2 when I'm finished with it. I'm doing all this in anticipation of Suikoden 3's October 22 release day. I want a good S2 save to import into S3. It's too bad I won't be finished with the two games before the release, but it's not like I'd be able to go pick up a copy anyway.

11:23 / 09.10.02

Finished Soul Reaver a while back. Kind of lost enthusiasm for it towards the end, though I still think it'd make a better film than Tomb Raider. Got nowt to play anymore... any recommendations for PS1 for a picky fucker who's only ever liked Tomb Raider, Soul Reaver, Tekken and (oh, the shame) Crash Bandicoot? Can't stand clunky movements, so Resident Evil and the Final Fantasy games are a definite no no.

11:41 / 09.10.02

Bought 'Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus' on a whim. Great fun. Platform jumping and puzzle solving, with the delicious ability to possess your enemies and use their abilities to eliminate their comrades. All' ya!

11:45 / 09.10.02

Forgot about Red Faction 2 which looks like it might be fun...

Trijhaos I guess it must be what your used to, I had no problem with Timesplitters 2 but then I can't use a mouse and keyboard for FPS at all..

Cholister I've got some PS1 games down here in London you can have, I can't remember what they are though, I know I've got one of the Final Fatasys though but I can't remember what else...

11:48 / 09.10.02

Hey, Bear, that's really sweet... we should work out some sort of swop, huh?

11:54 / 09.10.02

Chol> Metal Gear Solid, maybe? If you can get it cheap, along with the Special Missions add-on pack, it's about as close as you're going to get to Tomb Raider and Soul Reaver on yr PS1 while still playing a decent game. Plays some clever tricks on you in a 'self-aware game' stylee while still providing an engrossing atmosphere. It's even got a psychic rubber fetishist as one of the main baddies, which has to be a bit of a selling point.

At the other end of the scale is Ape Escape, which is about as close to a Mario-quality platformer as the PS1 has ever managed. Tomb Raider's got platform gaming history hidden beneath its adventure game false moustache, so this may well appeal.

And if you want to dip your toes into the PS1 RPG market, I'd have to recommend Grandia.

12:18 / 09.10.02

Danke, E.R.D., much appreciated. I shall definitely try and check 'em out.

12:29 / 09.10.02

Metal Gear Solid is probably my favourite game on the PS1, so many nice touches, much better that the sequal on the PS2.

I'll see what I've got first Cholister, there maybe nothing you fancy.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

12:36 / 09.10.02

Mario sunshine is actually the best thing ever. You can never actually beat a good mario game, for pure gameplaying madness and absurdity.

I bought a SNES a month back or something, purely to play Mario World again. I like the nostalgia, it reminded me of being however old I was then and thinking it weas the best thing EVAH. (But it actually changed my life, I'm sure. hey, I was at that age.)

And it's still a bunch of fun. Now I need to find Zelda. (My friend has it and won't let me borrow it! Bastard.)

Ooooh! Randy! How much I love thee. You have a Saturn! Nights was the best thing ever for a long while. (And for some reason listening to "The Soft Bulletin" keeps reminding me of it. In a good way, o' course.)

And... feeling slightly ashamed, I've been up to five am the previous two nights to complete the first two mnkey island games. But I'm a goddamn pirate. So it's worth it, gimme a mug o' grog!

I've noticed my post contains a lot of "best things ever". But goddamn it, it's the truth.

13:11 / 09.10.02

Just finished playing about with Mafia for the PC, and it's definately worth a look. Whilst the free mode is pretty much just GTA3 in prohibition America, the story mode is very nicely put together and - oddly for a computer game - actually quite well written.

And for all us pirates, this is looking like it's going to be good...

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

13:31 / 09.10.02

Grandia is OK (I'm playing it off and on when not playing Sytems Shock 2), but the story is lacking...it doesn't have the epic sweep of a Final Fantasy or either of the two Lunar RPGs. In a way it's more like a nice fantasy trifle with a really good combat system, but too many battles on and on and not enough story or character.

Whoever first recommended Syatem Shock 2 has my thanks...it's a very creepy game that makes Half Life seem more like a mindless shoot-em up. I coudl very easily spend endless hours on that game...

And I started Morrowind for X-Box and it scares me, not because it is a scary game, but because it woudl be so easy to get sucked into that game for days on end.

13:52 / 09.10.02

Ay! I need a new computer! I'm on a 233mhz and such have lost my civ3 and day of defeat. I'm left playing Transport Tycoon and Peoples' General... which, bugs aside, is pretty fun, stopping the Chinese army from conquering the world.

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