I agree with Super Meat Boy. If you can tolerate the difficulty, the amount of hours you could potentially put in will justify the cost (I'm at 68 hours, and still doing some speedruns and playing some of the user created levels/chapters)

Just wondering, is Kinect worth 80€? I could get it at that price and I'm actually kind of interested in getting one but I have heard some bad things about it. Anyone who has one, please, is it really worth it? Does it work? I'm really interested in Child of Eden and other upcoming titles.

Make sure you have enough space for it, 10 feet should be enough, also what is that in US currency?

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=80+euros+in+USD

I'm playing Spiral Knights and fucking loving it. I'm a bit annoyed that you need 2-star equipment to proceed into tier 2, but I can imagine that it would be annoying playing with someone that was under-equipped. I currently have a Wolver helmet-thing and I'm working on gathering ingredients for a 2-star sword and armour set.

Internet checkers.

Fucking bullshit rules everywhere, I must play street checkers normally because I haven't heard of these fucking bulllshit rules.

I'm actually kind of interested in picking one up too. Not for any games, but just to navigate the 360 dashboard.

Also for this: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/...k/default.aspx

Been playing Magicka with Cammy.

It's pretty fun, but also very buggy and hiccupy.

Though it's funny, so I can persevere.

Since the cart goes back and forth along the same track, if it goes up then down hill, I'll have to place powered ones on both sides.

I've been looking for a seed to give lots of ore (especialy gold and diamonds).

Bought Dead Space 2, maybe an hour into it and it's already really fun. Love picking up shit and throwing it at enemies.

So build flat tracks, then.

my mate wants me to get that game of steam...
is it worth it?

It's totally worth it, especially if you have a mate to play it with. I don't have anyone to play it with but even on your own its addictive as. So yeah I'd recommend it.

Is it worth someone like me, who has fuck all knowledge of computer-y things, to install Wine for?

I got Blur today because it was really cheap and I've been looking for a good racing game. I really like it already and the thing I like most is the power-up system.

I also bought two PS1 games, Carmageddon (A classic!) and Gran Turismo (Also a classic!).

Man, these Mass Effect games are some of the biggest games I've ever played. Certainly bigger than Fallout in terms of missions and dialog. Been playing ME2 for 18 hours and I don't think I'm even halfway there, then again I'm doing all the side quests too and I skipped quite a lot of those in ME1.

I've been playing a lot of games lately, mostly older ones while I wait for my new graphics card. Just recently I started playing Duke Nukem:Manhattan Project, and it's kinda cool, but the music is blech. Also been playing a lot of American McGee's Alice, I'm too nervous to play Silent Hill 2, Postal 2 is friggin awesome , and way too much of COD4 and MW2 :D

The end kind of sneaks up in 2. The first one seemed to have a more coherent story arc, and was more satisfying. My point being that you may be closer to the end than you think.

The Kinect is worth the money. The games are slowly but surely getting better, and the voice/gesture commands are nice, plus being able to video chat with people instead of picking up the phone not only saves money, but makes things more, I don't know, personal.

Except only one person who I know has a Kinect. He never uses it.

Yeah, but people with windows live messenger and a webcam can chat with you.

Oh, well that's a cool feature. Didn't know that.

They're also apparently going to be integrating the windows 7 phones with kinect so they can video chat with people as well. Or so I've read.

Fuck Apple.

I kind of want a Windows phone but they're a bit pricey and I'm not completely sure if they even sell them yet in Finland.

Anyways, back on topic, I've been playing a lot of Blur today. I can see how someone (JennyGenesis :p) could easily get hooked on the game, it is really good.

I also borrowed Spider-man: Shattered Dimensions from my friend and I think it's fucking terrible. I understand if some spiderman fan would play it and like it but it's definitely not for me, it's way too repetitive and the jumping and moving feels too light. It's really dumb.

Still playing Dead Space 2, really fun. Im in the Unitology Church and just fought some raptor enemies.

Anyone plan on getting Trenched tomorrow? Id be more enticed to buy it if I I knew I had some people to play with, probably gonna buy it anyways though.

That sounds pretty sweet, shame I don't really have enough Xbox friends to take advantage of it.


I got mine at a nice deal and don't regret it at all. It's got a few issues (no custom ringtones, no multitasking), but the Autumn update's gonna iron out pretty much all of them. Until then, the phone's already sweet, and I'm in love with the UI.
tl;dr if you can get one at a fair price, jump on it.


...On-topic, I'm finding the AC: Brotherhood multiplayer fairly interesting. I like how big a part stealth plays, but at the same time I don't like how you're essentially a sitting duck if you're the target.

I also picked up New Vegas; haven't really gotten far into it yet but from what I've seen it's pretty much FO3 with a less serious tone.

F:NV is also worse than 3. There are some neat, new features, but they don't make up for the old, buggy engine and worse areas. One of the areas is a big airfiled with nothing in it. There are no items to pick up and there are simply a few radscorpions walking around. None of the areas in FO3 were just empty like that.

Except, y'know, most of the game.

Oh snap! Yeah, that's true.

Those were the bits in-between areas. In this game there is actually a location marked on your map that is just a fucking empty airfield. There are lots of areas that, like that, do nothing. In Fallout 3 they were almost all big enemy strongholds, buildings with locked doors/chests containing money or towns.

I do agree that both games feel empty while you're exploring. They argue that it's supposed to be empty because you're in a wasteland, but that's just fucking stupid.

I'll be the first to say that I haven't played that far into the game yet I just had my first run in with the legion (and killed them all because what the fuck their insane) but personally a big fucking airfield sounds awesome.

Gotta use your imagination.

I'm a sucker like that

But it's not that huge and there's nothing interesting there. There are neither planes nor buildings that you can enter. It's just a big asphalt area.

I haven't played far enough into New Vegas to make a comparison, but as memory serves there's a huge amount of nothing in FO3. There's like, five towns with three people living in them, huge amounts of empty wasteland, masses of barren subway tunnels, completely pointless ruined buildings, and areas that do have interesting shit in them have about one room worth exploring (the room with the item you're looking for).

So you're basically complaining that it has a certain amount of realism rather than being overtly like a game?

I'm not complaining, just pointing out that FO3 was emptier than Phylum's making out.

Any game designer that puts realism before fun is, to an extent, doing a bad job.

One of the big mistakes they made in Fallout 3 and NV was making it a convincing wasteland. There are big, empty areas that are just fucking stupid. It's just that more of the locations in NV are pointless.

*shrug*

I haven't played any of the Fallout games, so I can't comment specifically. But I can say that I find games that have me falling over weapons caches or enemy targets every two steps annoying. There's got to be a balance between plausibility and gaminess, otherwise the game is less fun.

Although my serious competitive days on it are over (I used to race for money) lately I have been enjoying alot of friendly sessions with friends.

I liked New Vegas. Being Desert based, it was a lot more brown than 3, but once you actually get into New Vegas it's not such a big deal. I liked the fact that you didn't spend 60% of your quests in subway tunnels this time. That's probably what I hated most about 3. Everyone said 3 was 'Oblivion with guns', and I agree in the sense that in oblivion every cave and dungeon looked identical, as did every god damned subway tunnel in fallout. I mean I understand it's a subway and they're all fairly uniform, but come on.

On the subject of phones, we were going to get a windows phone, but decided to get the Google G2X because all of our friends had such nice things to say about Android phones, plus we generally trust google. We're really happy with it. But we're not phone junkies/snobs who upgrade to the latest and greatest every six months. Prior to this we've had the same phone for a few years.

I borrowed Halo 3 from a friend due to being sick of everything else I have. I've played through Halo 3 for 3 separate people on three different Xbox's, but I was surprised to find I'd forgotten almost all of the game. Still pretty fun, but none of the weapons feel at all satisfying.

Also, I was surprised at how much I actually liked Fallout 3. Would you folks say that New Vegas is a worthy purchase at 25$? I really hated having big chunks of Downtown DC blocked by obstacles.