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04:08 / 19.06.03

Just finished Hitman 2. Good fun and not too taxing on Normal setting. Gotta admit, I was a little stuck untill I realised you didn't have to sneak around garotting people... Sure, there's scope to complete the missions entirely undetected with a flair that would make King Mob raise a zigzag brow [silent assassin rank], but that's not to say you can't just boot the front door in and wander 'round mowing down anything that moves with an M60 [mass murderer rank].

Stealth and strategy - carnage and catharsis... you'll probably complete it on a rental, but well worth it. Finding and collecting the entire arsenal of available weapons ensures replay value, but no compensation for the lack of multiplayer.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

05:05 / 19.06.03

Chaos Engine! Yeah, Chaos Engine! Thugs and Priests and Navvies with, like, Molotov cocktails and stuff! Yay!

05:09 / 19.06.03

If you need a D&D influenced RPG, then you can acquire Planescape: Torment

...or, if you have a few lifetimes to waste, try Morrowind. Less linear than the D&D range, and it offers you total freedom of the world from the start. If you do consider Morrowind however, you'll need at least a 1Gz PC and a dozen or so plugins before the world really comes to life.

At the moment I'm desperate to get my hot, sweaty hands on the upcoming Thief III. Based on the Unreal engine, it looks utterly fantastic.

07:38 / 19.06.03

I'm probably a bit behind here, but I just played Rez for the first time on the PS2 last night. Supposedly based on synaesthesia, and Kandinsky's paintings.

"Eden cannot handle the ability to create her own thoughts and buckles under the pressure in an existential breakdown".

That game fucking rocks. Reminds me a lot of Vib-Ribbon (in that your character evolves from a wire-frame mannequinn, through a super-buddha-in-a-bubble, into some odd super-dense sphere), except that the backgrounds of the game look like some odd mixture of Tron and Indiana Jones.

The soundtrack is almost entirely dynamic (drum effects, etc. being generated by your weapons and actions), and it has some of the funkiest end of level bosses since R-Type (just wait for when all the floating cubes click together to form the giant sprinting lego man from polygon hell).

Has anybody else played this auditory extravaganza?

I'm off to drop ice down my pants to calm myself from even thinking about it.

... okay, maybe it's not that good, but it's certainly worth a look

We're The Great Old Ones Now

08:32 / 19.06.03

Anyone got any info or views on Masters of Orion 3?

08:39 / 19.06.03

Anyone know of any good ROM sites that don't look like ROM sites? I mean I can't get to any of the big ones due to them being banned but there must be sites out there that don't look like ROM sites, personal sites and the like?

09:56 / 19.06.03

Previous Rez thread here.

Nick> All I know about MoO3 is what I've read, and what I've read hasn't been positive. Here's a sample review.

As for Neverwinter Nights, isn't the core of it the ability to customise multiplayer, allowing one person to build and/or GM their own adventure? The one player looks a bit tacked-on, Quake III-style.

10:07 / 19.06.03

E. Randy Dupre Cheers for the link

12:52 / 19.06.03

E. Randy Dupre:

Once again, many thanks. You are a mighty, mighty man. You (and Suedehead) are right, though, it is pretty pointless, especially at this stage in the game (I'm about to tackle Gannon). Might have been handy on some of the triforce chart challenges.

This has been my first Zelda and I've enjoyed it immensely. I love the graphic style - crisp, clean, bright and solid. None of the muddiness you sometimes get with over-textured 3D games. The curly-wurly smoke effects are particularly satisfying and put me in mind of the simple, paper-cut-out style of anim used in Noggin the Nog and Captain Pugwash. In fact there's a lot of Noggin in this game, wonder if the creators are fans?

Looking forward to playing Ocarina - is this the first time a game from an older console has been re-released in this manner?

13:29 / 19.06.03

Chaos Engine and God's kick ass

And they both have kickin' tunes in them

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MOO3, well I got turned off my the ire displayed by those who had bought it on the www.moo3.net forums. A whole load of MOO fans who were not happy, got kind of ugly. But I found out about galactic civilisations (www.galciv.com) there which looks shiney, if it ever comes out in the shops here.

14:14 / 19.06.03

Best thing for ROMs is Usenet. Get yerself a decent newsreadr for binaries (like Newsbin or Agent) and consult your ISPs help files for the settings.

Classic Gaming seems to still have all their ROMs, but the downloads are a pain in the ass, due to it now being part of the GameSpy/FilePlanet network. You've got to plough through a shitload of screens before nabbing a little 24k ROM. But if it's only one or two things you want, that's the way.

14:48 / 19.06.03

Rather than looking for a particular Roms site, give filemirrors a whirl. I've gotten really good results with it.

If you really want a Roms site, Quality Roms is a decent site with a good, if not large selection of games.

18:16 / 19.06.03

Looking forward to playing Ocarina - is this the first time a game from an older console has been re-released in this manner?

Nah. There are tons of emulated releases out there. I'm not sure, but I've got a feeling that the first commercial, stand-alone releases would have been on Saturn and PS. Midway/Atari/Sega/Capcom retro packs were all the rage for a while. The other way of doing it is hiding old titles inside newer ones - Zero Divide on the PS had a conversion of the SNES shooter Phalanx as a hidden extra, Donkey Kong 64 included emulated versions of the original Donkey Kong and Jetpac.

In terms of limited edition incentives, maybe. I can't remember ever seeing one as substantial as this before. Rumour is that it's something Nintendo are going to continue with for their big titles (see also the hidden NES Metroid in Metroid Prime).

06:46 / 20.06.03

Tezcatlipoca, I can't believe you're advocating Morrowind over, "What can change the nature of a man?". Completely non-linear games can be nice, but their plots will never be able to measure up to a game that features at least some linearity.

As for Neverwinter Nights, isn't the core of it the ability to customise multiplayer, allowing one person to build and/or GM their own adventure? The one player looks a bit tacked-on, Quake III-style.

Fair enough, but I'd like to point out two things:

1) Do you want to buy a game, or an engine?
2) No sane person of legal age wants to interact with 75% of the playerbase of any online RPG.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:37 / 20.06.03

Oh, and also, Rothkoid, Amiga-wise, Banshee, Syndicate (of course... one of my favourite games ever) and Hired Guns all rock like bastards.

Did I say Powermonger yet?

08:42 / 20.06.03

Syndicate.

Yesyesyes.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:46 / 20.06.03

Oh God yes... have at 'em with the flamethrower, wait'll they run screaming to the edge of the rooftop of a tall building- then make with the shotgun. Much fun had by all.

Sadly enough, I've just downloaded the (obviously) hugely-scaled-down-platform-version of Splinter Cell onto my phone, to tide me over until I get my graphics card sorted and can play the real thing.

10:11 / 20.06.03

1) Do you want to buy a game, or an engine?
2) No sane person of legal age wants to interact with 75% of the playerbase of any online RPG.

Good points.

IMO, Splinter Cell's a bit duff, Stoatie. I was pretty keen on it at first, but after leaving it for a while to play Metal Gear Solid 2 I tried to pick it up where I'd left off and found it completely lacking in style and humour. It's got some technical issues, too (or rather, the Xbox version has) - fairly low frame rate, general lack of solidity in the game world.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:17 / 20.06.03

Ah, but I found it 2nd hand for about a tenner, so just being a bit fun will be enough for me...

Anyway, once Deus Ex 2's out, all bets are off. That's why I'm also currently going back through all my fave games I haven't completed yet (pretty much all of them, actually... my short attention span is compounded only by my not being very good at games)... I wanna cleanse my palate, as it were.

The Return Of Rothkoid

12:36 / 20.06.03

Stoat: got 'em.

I downloaded almost everything from Amiga Island: everything in English, anyway.

I think I may buy a PS/2 tomorrow. And may god have mercy on my soul.

Is this a good thing? Answer quick - I go to bed in half an hour...

Old brown-eye is back

14:52 / 20.06.03

Currently up to my amoral little knees in GTA: Vice City, and having a whale of a time. The drive by at the funeral was easy enough, but fire bombing the shopping mall is proving to be a bit of a bitch, quite frankly.

Previous to that, Eternal Darkness:Sanity's Requiem. Scary, scary, scary.

15:21 / 20.06.03

GTA weapon of choice is still the baseball bat, it's like the chainsaw in Doom, it's just so ... satisfying.

Started on Medal of Honour: Allied Assault a few nights ago. Amazing sound and music. That first 'Private Ryan' level is quite terrifying.

15:24 / 20.06.03

The drive by at the funeral was easy enough, but fire bombing the shopping mall is proving to be a bit of a bitch, quite frankly

Blimy, you're far further on than I. I'm still trying to get Lance out of the Junkyard.

GTA weapon of choice is still the baseball bat

I have to say that I am rather partial to the golf club (and is it just me or are those golf cars impossible to roll?). Mind you, the golfing outfit is rather natty too. In fact, sod it, I like the whole golfing theme Vice City has taken.

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:15 / 21.06.03

So much for advice.

I now have a PS2. And a sizeably heavier credit card.

Oh god.

01:26 / 22.06.03

UK gamers getting screwed over has led to a strange mixture of bah humbug and happy happy joy joy in my head. The news that A) Animal Crossing definitely won't be getting a release in Europe and B) the PAL conversion of Ikaruga (don't know what was going on with my fingers last time I typed that here) is a bit tatty means I've resorted to buying import titles again. It's all a bit shit, really; the Gamecube's been out over here for, what, just over twelve months and already key titles are either dropping off the release schedule or getting rushed conversions.

Over the last couple of days I've fallen in love with Super Monkey Ball all over again, finally getting around to completing the Expert stages. I seriously doubt I'll ever catch a glimpse of the Master ones...

01:27 / 22.06.03

Oh yeah, what games did you plump for with the PS2, Roth?

01:33 / 22.06.03

Frankly, I've got extremely bored with Animal Crossing. You're not missing anything. I really cannot be fucked booting it up. Not only does it take up basically a whole memory card to itself, it's an endless round of doing the same thing over and over again in a tiny, tiny landscape, in a stupid hat. Perhaps it's better if you share the machine with other players and can visit other people's villages, but it's the only GC game I've regretted paying money for. Ooh! Dig up another fossil! Send another letter! Find another funny-noise-making thing to decorate your house with! Christ, just get The Fucking Sims.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:43 / 22.06.03

Well. I bought Half-Life new - because my PC can't play it properly as it's too shit, and because it was on sale at less-than-Platinum price, which struck me as a good deal after getting slugged for a memory card for the thing. I then his a second-hand store and picked up Red Faction, Soldier Of Fortune: Gold Edition (that is one VIOLENT motherfuckin' game), and Metal Gear Solid as I never got to complete it on the PS. From my PS1 days - when my brother had one - I've got a couple of Resident Evil games, Bushido Blade, Tenchu (which is FUCKING HARD, goddamnit.), Toy Story Racing (it came from work and is THE BEST thing when drunk), Nightmare Creatures and a couple of other racing ones - Gotham City Racer and a motorbike one? - that I got for free from work. Hm.

At the moment, trying to get used to the controls again. I haven't played any PS for about a year and a half, so it'll take a while.

05:06 / 22.06.03

*sigh* I really miss Tenchu on my - now very broken - PS1. There was something beautifully predatory about sitting on a rooftop for half an hour just watching guard movements and plotting your attack.

Time to install Bleem on my PC, methinks...

08:46 / 22.06.03

ePSXe is rather impressive, too, Tez.

Yes. Tenchu. And MGS - I've been replaying that because I really rather enjoy it and also because I need to work out how to adapt it into a screenplay.

Soldier of Fortune? Not my favourite game; beyond the nasty nasty violence, it got a bit boring. SOFII is marginally more interesting, but then gets seriously fucking more messy - taking out a neat biopsy of a guy's eye with the sniper rifle is just nasty. Left unpleasant tastes. "Shoot the darkie scum!"

Red Faction's OK, and HL is ALWAYS worth playing.

Top tips? You might like MGS2, Ico and Rez always get the plaudits, Splinter Cell is an impressive port and easier to control than the Xbox version... can't think what else has tempted me. I'm sorely tempted by an Xbox, really... oh, and one thing:

do NOT buy Enter the Matrix.

I've been playing Quake 3: True Combat. Mod for Q3 that's somewhere between hyperreal and Urban Terror. It has no crosshair; you aim by hitting a button and putting the gun to your cheek. Whilst looking down it you can walk, but not run or sprint. When you holster your gun, you can climb small walls, etc. And the more crap you load yourself out with, the slower you go. It's great fun, though the M4 SERIOUSLY needs recoil. And the animations are superb, especially the putting-gun-to-cheek-looking-down thing. Having fun - and it'll work on my Mac when it arrives!

09:04 / 22.06.03

Roth: If you've got a C64 emulator I heartily recommend downloading the following:

- The Sentinel: baffling to begin with, maddeningly addictive when you get the hang of it. It's a WTF classic, creepy, atmospheric. From what I've heard none of the remakes or sequels have been much cop.

- Paradroid: blinding game. Sub-Spectrum graphics, very heavy on paranoia, very playable. You're a droid control unit sent to a spaceship where the droids have gone loopy, your mission being to possess the droids in order to wipe them all out. It's an everhead scrolling game in which you can only see things in your line of sight, which gets very unnerving.

10:08 / 22.06.03

Sentinel Returns came out on the PS a few years ago. Managed to keep most that was good about the original, but rather stupidly changed the design of the sentinel to the extent that it was difficult to tell which direction it was facing. It did add to the feeling of panic, I suppose.

The PS2 here only ever gets used for bemani titles. Can't remember if I posted this already, but got Gitaroo Man a while back and loved every second of it. Space guitar Power Rangers. There's a brilliant section in it where, having played through a couple of fairly standard bemani tunes (a techno one, a rock one) you're suddenly asked to woo a girl by a campsite fire with your skills on an acoustic. Clever mechanics - a line on the screen has to be followed with the analogue stick, a little like those wire and buzzer nerve tests you used to see, which corresponds to the note you're playing, while the rhythm is played out with the O button. Far too short, but a lovely little game.

Animal Crossing's going to be played by three people here, fridge, and may well get taken up by others. If it was just me playing it I don't think I'd have bothered, as communication is the whole reason for its existence.

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:25 / 22.06.03

Has anyone got a working link for an Amiga .adf of The Sentinel? I've been looking - and it did come out on the Amiga - but no joy...

10:45 / 24.06.03

My housemate Ed has just picked up a PS2 in a moment of madness, and lo there was much DVD and gaming goodness. I must see if I can pick up Tenchu in a bargain bin somewhere as I never completed it when I was playing it round a friends house. It was just this pefect game, the running across rooftops, the music, the wind and the rain, wonderful

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I can also practice my GTA3 game, another game I only ever got to play round people's houses.

Oh digression what would people say are the perfect multiplayer games for the PS2. I'd go with Worms World Party (or whatever version you have) and Hogs of War (sort of worms but in 3-D). What else is good and tactical?

03:11 / 25.06.03

Trijhaos: That ROM site rocks! I've been playing Mario RPG for the last day. Much fun! Super Mario 3 is next!

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