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Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

19:03 / 18.05.03

One more thing, does Link start *every* game asleep?*

*Don't actually answer that, but it does seem to happen an awful lot... every incarnation after the NES, I think... (not that I actually know, or anything.)

19:20 / 18.05.03

A little disappointed, yeah.

The real problem with the setting is that, when you step back from the game, it's all far too disjointed. Add to that the pointless back and forth (I'm trying to get all the statues now, but keep on giving up, fed up with having to fast forward time for every bloody one), the extremely low difficulty setting (first time I've not died once in a Zelda title) and the fact that there are only four proper dungeons and it feels like a stop-gap, a rush job to fill an empty release schedule.

I still love it, though. Odd, that.

Ocarina only really picks up once you get past the first three dungeons. I felt the same as you, Suede, until I got to the Forest Temple and started remembering some of the stuff that comes after it. I do wish they'd included Majora's Mask on the free disc, rather than Ura-Zelda. MM is by far and away the most involving and original of all Link's adventures, and the only one (IIRC) which doesn't start with him asleep.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

19:44 / 18.05.03

That's the dungeon I just got to in Ocarina, I think. I find it all so clunky though. I mean, I can get past it, but the combat doesn't seem as well implemented as in the newer installment (even though it's practically the same, control wise). But I look foward to getting further at some point. Oddly enough, this game hasn't actually felt much like a Zelda game to me. It's always been a cartoon to me, in my head, and this one seems too... real, I guess. But having said that, the new one didn't feel right at first, either...

I'm sure I counted more than four dungeons in the game though, I'm pretty sure there's five, if that matters any. Personally, I did not consider for a second even attempting to get all the statues. I know you like your games 100% complete, but have you seen how many there are?! It makes me shudder.

I see all your points about the game though (and I've seen them echoed elsewhere). Personally I find the fun in this game immeasurable compared to anything else I've played (also it takes me back a bit to the first Zelda I played, "Links Awakening" on Gameboy). It feels shocking to type this, but it feels like more of an experience as opposed to a game. *shudder* (Also, packaging it with ocarina works so well. In a sense the new game is like an epilogue.)

But I'm obviously hoping that Nintendo stick to their word of "shorter games, more often" because this one is crying out for it. (And hopefully they can cram in the dungeons they didn't get round to using this time as well as a horse to make up for the people who are dissapointed). And this time they can package it with majoras mask.

I feel like a kid.

20:01 / 18.05.03

Welcome to my life.

I got a little overexcited earlier when I saw footage of the new Mario Kart looking like it's nearly ready for release. Then I found out that Skies of Arcadia Legends and Ikaragua are out in the UK within the week and quite literally exploded. I type this as a disembodied brain, hovering over my keyboard and controlling the shattered remains of my hands with the obscene mental powers gifted unto me by years of controlling pixels on a TV screen.

20:15 / 18.05.03

Ikaruga looks lovely. If mental.

I'm meant to be revising but find that Marvel Vs Capcom on Kawaks, the CVS2 emulator, tends to pass the time nicely. My Strider/Gambit combination is getting not half bad.

21:45 / 18.05.03

Been on the new GBA Castlevania lately - Aria of Sorrow. Quite good, in a Symphony of the Night sort of way.

Just got back from E3 last night, where I got to play the new Mario Kart, as well as the new Prince of Persia, which rocks. Not much else that really blew me away, though. Oh, the tech demo of next year's The Matrix Online - a Matrix MMO - was pretty impressive. And of course Half-Life 2 looks bloody great.

If you've got the sack to stand up to the toughest shooter ever, Ikaruga is indeed worth a look. Very fun, and frigging insanely difficult. The whole color-switching thing is a fantastic mechanic, but it melts my brain after a while. Watching someone play it who's really good is a thing of beauty.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:48 / 18.05.03

Currently spinning out my enjoyment of Deus Ex (finally got the fuckers with the scramble grenades... though the temptation to stick around and watch them blow fuck out of each other instead of me was almost insurmountable) with a replay of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Nazis shoot zombies. Zombies eat Nazis. I kill 'em all!!! Rockin'!) and the not as good as it should have been but still pretty smart Impossible Creatures. Though I spent most of this afternoon playing a demo of Tropico 2: Pirate Cove (thanks to Mr Auckland for that one), and am so buying that motherfucker when it comes out. Even the in-game messages about boring shit like resources are ace: "I can't shiver me timbers if I haven't got any timber!!!" My pirates seem happier now the wenching and massage place has opened.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:13 / 18.05.03

I have finished X-Com: Apocalypsde, and ploughed into Fallout Tactics. I feel terribly retro, but it was £3 at the Notting Hill Exchange, so who's complaining?

22:52 / 18.05.03

Videodrome: Did the matrix MMORPG have the bullet time stuff? I was tryin to figure out if they could include it in multiplayer games. If so how did it work??

Currently writing my dissertation proposal on MMORPG's, the social structures within them and the Political and Economic Ideals that these games promote.
Anyone got any interesting sources for theory on gaming?? Can't find fuck all about it online or book wise.

Still playing the Wolverine game, It's annoying me that he can take on three people much easier than one. Planning to get the Matrix game when I've finished all my work this week, wooo!!! It looks stunning.

Pot.

23:09 / 18.05.03

Stoatie: I went to a preview party for Tropico 2 a few months ago where they had pirates walking around, free rum drinks and a band playing on a ship in the lagoon adorning the center of the restaraunt the shindig was in. Thought of you the whole time...

Pot: Yes, it does. Combat is much better than most MMOs (which I don't really enjoy). Rather than two characters standing next to each other for a moment before one falls over dead, the Matrix game uses a bunch of context-sensitive fighting routines based upon stuff you assign your character.

The bullet time routines are worked out in such a way that one player sees slo-mo, while the other sees a blurred, sped up motion that's all synched together in some way. Supposedly when the encounter is over, both players come back into the same 'timeline' as it were. Looks like it works, but they weren't giving anyone hands-on with it.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

23:13 / 18.05.03

Currently downloading the Matrix game - the few reviews that I've read don't exactly rave about it, but it seems the 'Bullet time' whatchmacallit has been pretty well implemented, allowing you to slap the bad guys around in ultra-cool slow-mo.

Finding myself entirely engrossed in Freelancer at the moment - massive Universe, excellent flight system, quite intriguing storyline, too. The online version of the game is pretty spiffy as well.

Also must admit to a wee penchant for Postal 2 - it's total midless bollocks, but enjoyable mindless bollocks.

23:42 / 18.05.03

Played Enter the Matrix on a store-pod Xbox. Underwhelmed a lot. Handholdy direction-compass-thingy, unintuitive controls, a bit too easy and looks too shit. The bullet-time effects are pretty good, though - the bullets whizzing look more convincing than their Max Payne equivalents but it was so nothing special. I hold out for Max Payne 2 for my hit of action-mentalness.

Shame, that. Ikaruga does look like the bomb. When my disposable-income plans all collapse (having bought too much music equipment and computer stuff), I probably plan to acquire and Xbox. By that time, Soul Calibur II should be out for it. Mmn. (And much more. By abuot 2006.)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:20 / 17.06.03

Jesus! Haven't checked this thread in a while (hence me bumping it now).
Awww... a Tropico 2 pirate launch party? Man, that must have so rocked!
Anyways... I did buy the game when it came out. What little was left of my real life is shrinking still further...
Arrr!

12:23 / 17.06.03

I bought one of those dance mats and the new dance game so I've been dancing around my room to the sounds of Kylie and S Club Juniors which is quite scary if I stop and think about it!

I've not seen anything really for the PS2 that I really want, apart from Smackdown 5 - Here comes the Pain but that's not out until November.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:26 / 17.06.03

Bear. Honestly. S Club Juniors? Let's not forget the glory days of S Club 7! And, indeed, until a couple of weeks ago, S Club.
(Sorry. I have no excuse for this. I am hopelessly in lvoe with Hannah from S Club 7.)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:27 / 17.06.03

Apologies. Someone who couldn't even spell took over for a minute there. Dunno WHAT they were on about.

Pirate Cove, though... it's great! instead of dying when you fuck up, they go mental and start killing each other!

It has parrots, too...

12:36 / 17.06.03

Does it have ninja?

Cos really.. who gives a shit if it doesn't?

15:40 / 17.06.03

Right, this time it's the new Zelda. How the dickens do you get the Magic Armour? My suspicion is that it involves finding the Store Guru statue, which I suspect is in the secret cave in Shark Island. Which is impossible to do. Am I near the truth there?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

21:53 / 17.06.03

The magic armour is possibly the most pointless item in the game. Except it isn't, because that accolade is taken by another, even more useless, item.

But uh, I can't remember how you get it. (But I think you might be wrong, yet kind of on the right track. Or roundabout. Maybe. Helpful, huh?)

23:05 / 17.06.03

Playing Tropico 2, it's more of the same, but a fun more of the same.

I have GTA3: Vice City for the PC waiting until I'm done with Tropico.

Hanging for: Half Life 2, Deus Ex 2, Republic and Fable. I sincerely hope Fable comes out for the PC as well as the Xbox.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:43 / 17.06.03

Impossible Mission on a C64 emulator.

Kill him, my robots!

05:24 / 18.06.03

"Another visitor. Stay awhile. Stay FOREVER!!!"

Thanks Rothkoid. I'd forgotten about this sidestreet off memory lane.

I currently seem to be taking a retrogressive step in my games playing, devoting my 2 gigahertz of processing power to playing the boardgame Risk. Vizzini was right. Never start a land war in Asia...

08:01 / 18.06.03

Audio file:
Another visitor. Stay awhile. Stay FOREVER!!!"

I had completly forgotten about that. Great!

08:23 / 18.06.03

lol excellent - anyone remember Bruce Lee on the C64 that was cool!

10:00 / 18.06.03

Hmmm does anyone else get the Midwinter vibe off Republic, the whole start as one bloke, go out a recruit people, do a whole variety of missions and switch between people as they go out and blow shit up? Would be cool if it is so.
Oh but my current gaming obsession is Homeworld 2 it's just so very Shiney. But I'm probably going to have to sell a kidney or something to upgrade my PC to be able to play it. *sigh* So very shiney.

10:08 / 18.06.03

Sav> you need to complete the trading sequence with the three Goron traders and Zunari. Soultion here. Suedehead's right, though; you don't need it. I'm still trying to fill the Nintendo Gallery and haven't bothered with the armour yet.

Playing Deus Ex again, in preparation for Invisible War, and Age of Mythology, which is exactly the same as both the other Age of Empires games but still good fun. Also returned to the GameBoy's Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, which - like all the recent 2D Castlevanias, is Metroid-style platforming excellence. Oh yeah, and I'm still enjoying Skies of Arcadia Legends, quite possibly the biggest game ever. 20 hours in, less than a third of the way through the main quest and I've hardly bothered with sub-quests yet.

Went to a LAN party recently. Teamplay Halo is like no other multiplayer game I've ever experienced.

10:15 / 18.06.03

Ah, Gamefaqs don't allow direct linking to anything other than the main page. Click on the Gamecube link at the top of that page and the Zelda FAQ page should be in the top ten. Each sub-quest has been given its own separate FAQ, so you don't need to worry about tripping over spoilers for other sections of the game.

14:58 / 18.06.03

I just recently finished Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow . I liked it. The story was pretty good for an action game. The only other Castlevania I've finished is Symphony of the Night . I think it has something to do with the whole whip/sword thing. Whips are cool and all, but swords are just so much cooler.

I'm currently playing Megaman X6 and Wild Arms 3. I'm really glad I didn't pay more than $15 for MMX6. It's horrible. You can't play as Zero right from the start. There are parts of some of the levels that seem almost impossible and no matter what you do, an enemy will hit you. The difficulty level of this game is absurd. I like a challenging game as much as the next person, but come on, some of this stuff just isn't fair. I haven't played too much of WA3, but it doesn't seem too bad so far. I like the graphics, the story while a bit slow is makes me want to find out what's going to happen next, and it has guns! and horses! I hope there's some sort of duel between characters. It'd be really neat and keep within in the whole western theme, but I'm not holding my breath.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:24 / 18.06.03

I might go a bit mad and splurge on CM4, Neverwinter Nights and a few others, but at present I've been parsimonious and raided the £4.99 shelves for memory-unhungry software.

Currently playing Crimson Skies. It's a bit of a departure - I haven't played a flight sim since Elite, really - but quite fun, albeit hard to get the hang of (and this is one of the fun, simple, non-realistic games). But I like the universe - in general I'm a sucker for games which make an effort to convince you of a seemingly coherent world (Deus Ex, for example).

Worryingly, I got this after seeing it at my father's house. That's a terrifying inversion of the generation gap...

22:26 / 18.06.03

impossible Mission?? I revisited that last week, and I still have NO IDEA how to finish it. I just kept playing with these nonrepresentational puzzle pieces and visiting the SimonSays organ room. And yet still, I am fascinated by it...

Tried Star Wars:Galactic Battlegrounds again, (or rather Star Wars: Age of Empires)... fun, but obtuse.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:37 / 19.06.03

And I just discovered the ultimate coolest thing about Pirate Cove... if you build a graveyard, you can raise the dead to work for you!!!

Ahh, Crimson Skies... I loved the world, but unfortunately couldn't fly for shit, so didn't do very well at that one.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:56 / 19.06.03

Is anyone else currently on an Amiga trip? I've downloaded some emulators and a stack of games, but don't know what else to get. Name-drop! I'm going to redo Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken and Monkey Island as soon as I get the emulator working properly...

01:59 / 19.06.03

invisible >> I haven't played Morrowind, so I don't know. What attracts me to Republic, is the fact you can take over the state in so many different ways. Military, religious, corrupt political, honest political... apparantly every citizen has their own life and AI. Should be very interesting.

02:43 / 19.06.03

Haus, I would recommend that you not play Neverwinter Nights. The story doesn't contain one neuron worth of original thought, and the gameplay is extremely repetitive and boring. It isn't the worst game I've ever played, but it is definitely the most disappointing.

If you need a D&D influenced RPG, then you can acquire Planescape: Torment, the second best computer game ever, for significantly less money.

Here's a list of just about every review for planescape.

03:21 / 19.06.03

Rothkoid: head straight for the Bitmap Brothers, do not pass go. Speedball 2 is just perfect, and Xenon2 is an interesting shooter - but the real money, to my mind, is on Gods, the greatest mythologically inspired platformer known to man. Sumptuous graphics, really fun to play, top gaming. Those guys really knew how to program the damn thing.

Oh, and the Chaos Engine, because Steampunk rocks.

And then: Sensible Soccer, and Worms, and your life will end. Long live the Amiga.

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