Because Toys R Us wishes to make a profit, and does so by selling consumer goods.

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By that I meant why does a toy store sell 18+ games?

I just played through portal 1 because i'm too poor to get awesome new games like Mortal Kombat and Portal 2.

That being said, Portal is still fun!

Why does Staples sell more than just staples?

Fuck you all with your 18+ ratings.

I was looking forward to the new Mortal Kombat.

Mortal Kombat is 17+ in the US, 18+ games aren't banned, but no one will ever sell them. Australia seems bat shit insane in this regard, which is a shame, since the country itself seems beautiful. I assume you are in Australia.

Have you considered that maybe he's not yet 18?

I really doubt that that's what keeping him from playing it, its fairly easy to acquire things your age prevents.

I am Australian.

The main reason it isn't released here is because it's so easy to obtain games with age ratings that exceed your age, I assume.

I got every single achievement in Portal 2 few days ago. Now I'm done with it for a while.

Mortal Kombat has kept me busy though, I wanna beat the arcade with everyone to see everyone's endings.

So far I've beaten the 'ladder' with:

- Kung Lao
- Jade
- Nightwolf
- Scorpion
- Liu Kang
- Sektor

Definitely Cyrax next, then probably Kabal, Kitana and so on.

I bought Outland yesterday and I love it. The artstyle reminds me of Oddworld a bit and it's overall a beautiful game. I like the simple combat and the ability to switch between darkness and light is pretty cool.

I definitely recommend it.

Still been playing though Okami if i'm not on the computer.

God damn that game is beautiful.

Playing the nostalgia that Super Mario 64. It's always bothered me that I didn't 100% that game myself (a friend did it for me =() so I've made that my objective. Doing pretty well so far.

Finally got my copy of Okami back from a friend (who never even bothered playing it), so I'll be spending the evening playing that.

Tell me where you got up to? I'm stuck on one bit.

Since my last post I've made it up to the Moon Cave, just before the fight with Orochi.

What did you get stuck on?

Oddworld and minecraft.

I'm doing Jedi Academy. Great game, very underrated. Plus, add a thousand Final Fantasy mods and you have near-perfection! As in, playing as Vincent Valentine wielding the Lionheart killing George Lucas.

If there's no difference between the Wii version and the PS2 version than I may be able to help.

I never minded getting stuck in that game because I just went and fished until I figured out what I had to do.

I bought Splinter Cell Conviction a few days ago, beat it pretty quick. It's an awesome game. I've never been much for Stealth games but this one got it right. It was also cheap so I reccomend you pick it up.

Also FEAR 2. I spoiled the ending for myself a looooooong time ago you are raped by a ghost , but everything that happens surrounding THAT is a big piss off. Still good for the price.

Picked up Brink.

I kind of hate it, but I kind of love it.

I picked it up day one despite the negative reviews, since I had played it before for a brief period and knew I loved the core gameplay. That part has not changed. Some things have changed though, like the performance. Holy hell, this is like launch Gears of War 2 levels of terribad lag, maybe worse. Nothing sucks more than literally having your gun teleport across screen to aim, and the other guy somehow killing you with his. Not every game is laggy though, I have had some good ones. Something else that I realized, you can't really tell how much content a game through a brief demo. Brink has 8 maps, and one game mode for each of those maps. The developers try to bullshit their way through this by saying all the modes are one in the same, play campaign with friends!, play multiplayer by yourself! Brink is a multiplayer only game, I always saw through this veil, but you see how much you can repeat maps over and over very quickly. Still, I love the core gameplay, so I dont regret buying it, but I kinda do because of the other stuff.

I recommend it to all fans of team-objective games(TF2, Enemy Territory, Battlefield), because it sits among the top of these with its core mechanics. That is, buy it eventually. I do not recommend you buy it now, wait and see if the devs add more stuff, and fix the net code. If not, dont pick it up and leave me to wallow in buyer's remorse all alone.

Rented Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and though the look of the game and the retelling of the classic story are interesting, as well as the voice acting and the animation, the gameplay mechanics make me want to rip my own face off. The Cloud, a device the main character uses to zip about through levels, is about as jerky and cumbersome as that fucking jetboard from Jak 2 and 3 and there's a boss level that I absolutely refuse to play because it involves chasing one of the boss bots, a giant ambulating meat grinder called a dog, across a lake of toxic waste, trying to avoid a bunch of hap-hazardly placed bombs that the asshole you're trying to meet has laid to prevent anyone from visiting. All of this is done while on the cloud, weeble-wobbling me into the mines.

So, enough of this shit.

I just preordered it (I've never been happier that PC and European release dates are always later. Wait for reputable views on the game after it's released, but still get money off. That said, it was only 4 hours to release when I got it, so I use the word 'Preorder' loosely).

I'm a sucker for customisation, basically. I'd play a multiplayer slug piloting game if I could change the colour of my mucus. I like the art style, so I bought it. And I like TF2, so good news there. Besides, I don't do enough co-op.

The customization is pretty awesome, I will say it takes longer to get the cool stuff for the rebels than for the security. I doubt I will change my security dude from what he is now, but I see so many things I want to put on my rebel that haven't unlocked.

I've seen games where they have a really cool unlock system that's also so obvious you could... that's also really obvious.*

When you start,the custom menu has everything unlocked. Pick and choose as you want. When you play, however, they won't necessarily be on your character. Instead, the game just saves up your points until you have enough for something on your list, and then it magically appears onto you.

*I'm tired.

Since I got iPod Touch, I've been playing a lot of games I bought from the Appstore.

So far I like Fruit Ninja, Doodle Jump, Monster Dash, Epic War TD and Cut the Rope.

Fun fun fun fun!

playing doom 1 right now im up to the last level of chapter 1 on hardcore

Rampage World Tour for Sega Saturn and Nights into Dreams

Rampage is really fun of course, just like i remember

But Nights...holy crap it's sooo good even though my fingers are killing me since I'm not using the 3D controller.

Demonbane.

It's like Lovecraft in a Noir city with giant robots, girls, porn, and a wicked sense of humour.

Last month I bought Bioshock 1 and 2 on steam when they were on offer for £3 each. It's fun to actually play these games rather than watch someone else play them, yay for having a powerful PC now. I completed Bioshock 1 and moved on to Bioshock 2... Both are quite awesome and immersive with some of the best storytelling I've seen in a game series, even though Bioshock 2 is simply a refined version of its predecessor and doesn't really offer anything new. However, it remains one of the only games to have made me cry, since the good ending is really touching. Heh.

Whatever you do though, do not buy the PC version of Bioshock 2. Even if you download it through Steam, you'll still have to play it through Games for Windows Live or else you won't be able to save your progress. And GFWL sucks. Hard. It steals all your system resources, and then conflicts with Steam.

For example I have an issue with some missing textures and sounds. I verify the downloaded files through Steam, it re-downloads 60 files that are broken - After which I verify the files again, which Steam says are fixed. However, on launching the game, GFWL updates itself and I have the same problems. So I verify the files with Steam and it again says that the files are corrupt. Viscous cycle. I have to run Bioshock 2 with GFWL or else I can't save my progress.

So yes, don't make my mistake. Fortunately the game isn't broken to the point where it's unplayable, but that's still annoying. Glad I didn't pay full price, and it's a big shame because the problems ruin the immersion, even though I know what I'm missing out on. Bioshock 1, however, runs perfectly fine.

Playing through Bionic Commando ReArmed a bit more, since I sucked rather hard at it when I tried before. Little easier, and I'm appreciating the music a bit more.

I bought Dark Void a while ago for really cheap, something around 2€.

It's terrible. I don't like the flying parts at all, the story pretty much sucks and there are only like 6 guns in the whole game from what I understood.

I'm now halfway through the game and it's all the same repetitive bullshit.

I rented that out shortly after it was released. It was quite possibly, the worst thing I've played on a next-gen console.

I'm playing through Portal 2 on my Mac. It's better with a mouse.

Also, it's better on a PC.

hurr durr

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...en_Box_Art.JPG

I 100%'d this game.

Nothing can be worse than this game.

I also tried out the demo for Dark Void a while back and enjoyed it. I guess if the demo is literally all the game has to offer it gets old quick.

I'm playing Doom 2 (Scythe 2).
It's a really hard mod actually, old but awesome.
I'm most of the way through it, considering I find it a bit easier since I've completed Doom I & II on UltraViolence. I would do The Plutonia Experiment and TNT: Evilution but they're waaaayyy too hard.
I'm playing it on GZDoom right now, Skulltag doesn't support my laptop's resolution which is a shame. I'd really love to play it online with some other people. I've tried Doomsday, however it's extremely laggy so I don't bother.
Also, GZDoom and ZDoom are the only ports I've managed to get a controller to work with (the Xbox 360 one).

Your post.

I did not understand it.

Why? What didn't you understand?

UltraViolence? The Plutonia Experiment? TNT: Evilution? GZDoom? Skulltag? Doomsday?