Currently playing.....

weebleswobble · 06 Jan 2007, 20:54

I'm so getting my arse kicked

smiscandlon · 07 Jan 2007, 11:58

Brideoffrankenstein · 07 Jan 2007, 13:25

I fear my XBOX version of Sonic the Hedgehog mega collection plus may get an airing tonight

Nic · 18 Feb 2007, 23:10

I bought myself a Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago, would really appreciate some tips regarding good games.

Cheers.

christophe · 18 Feb 2007, 23:16

I'm playing 'Need for Speed Carbon' since a couple of days now.
its a must have game for Tuners and car nuts and hiphop lifestylefans and ......
... all the stuff I hate

Carpathian Psychonaut · 18 Feb 2007, 23:20

Nic wrote:I bought myself a Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago, would really appreciate some tips regarding good games.

Cheers.

What sort of titles float your silicon boat ?

Brideoffrankenstein · 18 Feb 2007, 23:23

Nic wrote:I bought myself a Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago, would really appreciate some tips regarding good games.

Cheers.

I have found that this game is more than sufficient when you consider "taking over your life" possibilities

Izzy HaveMercy · 18 Feb 2007, 23:34

Me too!

Currently playing meself:

AEGIS online game, and WARRING! It was like ages ago since our kingdom did a war, and now my spies are so fully trained my King has some good use for them!

All the others build camps for fighters, I build spy towers and infiltrate and kill from WITHIN enemy lines

Ahem..

Sorry...

IZ.

Nic · 19 Feb 2007, 00:25

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:
Nic wrote:I bought myself a Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago, would really appreciate some tips regarding good games.

Cheers.
What sort of titles float your silicon boat ?

Hmm, mostly action and adventure I believe.
I like the Tom Clancy games and have just started playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Carpathian Psychonaut · 19 Feb 2007, 00:57

Nic wrote:
Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:
Nic wrote:I bought myself a Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago, would really appreciate some tips regarding good games.

Cheers.
What sort of titles float your silicon boat ?
Hmm, mostly action and adventure I believe.
I like the Tom Clancy games and have just started playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Oblivion ?

Oh, grief, that's a life-pit. Once you get a feel for it and used to the hows and wheres you'll find a whole world of "I'll just do this next...."

[sad]
Go to the north and climb the mountains until you get right up in the snow. You'll find a long rope bridge strung between the two mountain peaks. It's quite a thing.
[/sad]

Carpathian Psychonaut · 19 May 2007, 22:06

I'm currently (well, you know, before typing this) playing.....

The Halo3 beta

On the first game I was underwhelmed, as it looked like Halo 2.1 but the more you play then the more you notice the extra little details.

I saw somebody leap into a Mongoose and hurtle out of a compound, smashing through some gates - behind them all the leaves etc on the floor swirled into the air. Also look out for players in dark areas - little lights on their suit and visor turn on.

Also, wait until you see somebody wading into the sea to mess around and drop them.....and the body will get washed back up to the shore by the tide!!

Personal favourite combination of weapons is a dual-wield of a pair of Spikers - a great rate of short range fire with a ruddy great T-rex like claw on the end of each. Run at somebody all guns blazing then drop them at the last second. Such fun

Dark · 19 May 2007, 22:56

Can you still get dual Needlers?

undertow · 19 May 2007, 23:06

I've never played 'video games' or whatever you call them. Well tell a lie, I played Grand Theft Auto about 5 christmasses ago at which my 12 year old nephew beat me.....apparently,... I wouldn't know, but I definitely believed him. it was his game.

I just don't get it

I used to be quite good at pinball when I was a kid and used to trainspot on Reading Station. We'd hang out in the buffet being really...well probably annoying. Actually there was a space invaders there as well. But I wasn't very good at that either ...that was probabaly about 1977 /78.

Is pc / VIDEO gaming an age thing do you reckon?

I am listening to 'If looks could kill' by Heart though!

Carpathian Psychonaut · 19 May 2007, 23:12

Dark wrote:Can you still get dual Needlers?

I had a Needler tonight so yeah, I guess there may be other around the place - great from distance but it can take a while to fill somebody enough for them to go off.

There's a great new grenade that will stick to surfaces and when it detonates you get a directed explosion of shrapnel - great for ceilings and the end of corridors

Carpathian Psychonaut · 19 May 2007, 23:14

undertow wrote:Is pc / VIDEO gaming an age thing do you reckon?

No, I wouldn't say so.

I do think, however, age can affect what sorts of games you might want to play....but even then not for everybody.

Like I often say to people that tell me they "don't like videogames":-

"What you mean is that you've not played the one you might like yet"

undertow · 19 May 2007, 23:19

Psycho Carp wrote

What you mean is that you've not played the one you might like yet"

I would have to say you may be right , but that almost sounds like a threat!

Com'n sonny I 've got something here your'e gonna like!

Before I knew where I was my hands were shaking if I didn't get near a console within 30 mins of waking up.

Mind you I wouldn't mind learning how to fly a ME 109............

Carpathian Psychonaut · 19 May 2007, 23:24

undertow wrote:Mind you I wouldn't mind learning how to fly a ME 109............

Exactly my point - a game flying a plane from point to point, a first person shooter and an online card-game are all completely different but all videogames of sorts.

undertow · 19 May 2007, 23:30

One day when I have more time.............

Has Jon Snow got proper breathable walking socks?

Also do you know how to upload a video onto youtube if you have it 'on disc'? not on your hard drive...........it's not commercially available , just one that's been transferred from VHS?

weebleswobble · 20 May 2007, 00:48

Played this and it was alright..

and this is just frustrating

but in wee short bursts this is fookin' grand

But as soon a this comes out I'm selling the family to white slavers*

*no white slavers will actually be used during this period, weebles will simply put a lock on the living room door!

Obviousman · 20 May 2007, 09:08

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:"What you mean is that you've not played the one you might like yet"

Probably, the only game I ever played for a long time was some early nineties version Grand Prix game

It was the only one I could ever win, â€¦ In easy mode that is

Big Si · 20 May 2007, 11:18

Carpathian Psychonaut · 01 Sep 2007, 17:45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OygxkgewEhU a block of gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8W1PjVqsfo 7 mins of clips

Playing Bioshock - easily Game of the Year for me and probably the best title on the 360......

smiscandlon · 01 Sep 2007, 17:48

I'm on a bit of a retro trip and (very slowly) working my way through Final Fantasy VI on the Playstation.

6FeetOver · 01 Sep 2007, 18:10

undertow wrote:I used to be quite good at pinball...

I *heart* pinball machines.

I'm useless at videogames, except for Animal Crossing...

ETA: ...but I don't mind watching other people play, especially if they've got some nice horrorshow title going - see Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc. \m/

6FeetOver · 01 Sep 2007, 18:11

smiscandlon wrote:I'm on a bit of a retro trip and (very slowly) working my way through Final Fantasy VI on the Playstation.

OI. You can come hang out with my ex, then. He's addicted to FF, in all of its incarnations...