It took that long?

Speaking of the Wii I'm considering trading in my 360 for one. I'm pretty much done with the cavalcade of generic shooters and the d-bag kids who play them on Live.

BTW I'm playing good old Operation Flashpoint with a few mods.

Why does everyone want one so badly is the real question here >:

I want one because I kinda want to play the new Metroid, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, Brawl, and the new Mario Kart coming out next week :(

So I was up all night playing Fallout 2!

I am pretty much the king of all awesomeland because of how instead of negotiating Vic out of the slaver's guild I just shot everyone in the building dead. :picklehat

Man, Mario Kart is like the funnest thing ever. I didn't think it would be as awesome as it is. It's fun for the people playing, but also, watching four of your friends hold a small piece of plastic and pretend it's a steering wheel is the funniest thing ever. Last night we were all sitting next to each other on the couch but soon realised that it's way too easy to cheat seated that way. If your buddy overtakes you over a bridge, just bump his elbow and see if he doesn't go flying off the side. I had 12 twenty-something-year olds in my house yesterday all playing this rediculous game. Seriously good times.

oh i love to do that

did you talk to becky in the bar, she will give you a cash reward for it

My biggest roadblocks in fallout 2 involved my problem with murdering all the merchants ;<

i only ever murdered the joe pesci parody guy because he deserve it (and because he is otherwise unimportant)

fucking asshole and his swarms of child pickpockets >:

I killed everyone who SASSED me. I also became a slaver, which was really fun but everyone hated me. Super sledge ftw.

Milhouse - I have mario galaxy and smash bros brawl. I also have punch out, super mario world, harvest moon, streets of rage 2, ninja gaiden, and paper mario on my virtual console. Seriously, if you make a decent offer I'll sell it to ya. I never play it anymore.

I became a CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE by killing all the pimps and drug dealers in Reno :<

also is it just me or are the stealth skills not used at all in this game

I was a gigantic kleptomaniac in the original but now if I want something I just find a bad person who has it and kill him :<

Oh yeah, I also have link to the past on my virtual console :O

I've started playing Sims 2 AND LIKING IT! Help me someone!:(

Been playing a bit of Battlefield 2 recently. It's really annoying the way most servers have vehicles disabled these days. I can't wait for a new Battlefield game to come out; Bad Company looks pretty good but it's only out on consoles. Who the fuck wants to play an FPS on consoles?
Battlefield Heroes should be a nice diversion but they really need to get cracking on a proper PC-only sequel.

I was playing Battlefield 2 on a daily basis the last couple of months.

I read somewhere that they are developing BF3. The game is supposed to feature an mmo-like character progression system.

Yeah, there were some "leaked details" a while back for a new Battlefield game. Not sure how trustworthy they were though. My guess is they were details of Battlefield Heroes.

My perfect BF3 would have:
- Same time frame as BF2/Bad Company (modern warfare)
- Proper character development
- More unlockables (weapons, gadgets, abilities, skins, clothes)
- Better ranking system with achievements (Just rip-off CoD4's system but get rid of the cap and have more weapon-specific achievements)

If there's ever a way to have a FPS battle between console and PC, I want in on it. Everyone's all, "Oooh! FPS on PC is so much better than on console." I don't believe it. I got mad analogue stick skillz & drillz.

You can probably get away with a control pad in games like HALO and CoD4 but when you need access to more than about 6 functions you're screwed. For example in Battlefield you need stuff like the squad command menu, the squad communications menu, the general communications menu, all the weapon keys, sprint, switch kit, change fire mode, the list goes on. On a PC you can just bind them straight to the keyboard and mouse however you want. If you were to try and map them all to a controller it'd take about 30 seconds each time you wanted to switch to a different fire mode.

Which is all really irrelevant because the analogue sticks are to slow to aim with. :/

Okay, I can see how a stick would be slower than a mouse. However, if the sensitivity was high enough, I think that shouldn't be a problem. Sure, a pad is limited in function so that's why I think it would be interesting to see a match between only two people. Are console players limited to hardware? It'll be fun to find out.

I got San Andreas on my Pee Cee last night!

It's pretty much everything I've ever wanted out of a GTA title and a vast improvement over Vice City. I sorta miss the whole Scarface thing, but that game was impossible :<

I admit that the times when the collision on the ground wouldn't load made the game a little tricky, but it's still totally doable.

I'm trying to play Overlord, but it runs like crap, but it runs worse than Crysis on the PC.

There were a lot of missions in that game that filled me with rage, the worst offender being the one where you had to get Lance out of the junkyard and I kept trying to use a helicoptor which would explode upon me crashing it to land because what the fuck were they thinking with the keyboard controls jesus christ

I simply cannot go any further, because now I have to carefully pilot a seaplane over the city spreading porn movie posters, and it controls like it's towing a huge african bull elephant.

GTA 4, son. It's insane how much detail they put into it. I car-jacked a dude and he just held on to the door handle of the car for as long as he could. I only played it for five minutes for the novelty last night but I can already tell how friggin' sweet it'll be.

Yea that happened me too. I stayed up for days guiding the "Clandestine family" through all their wacky adventures.

I'm playing Tomb Raider Anniversary while waiting for playstation 3 and Grand theft auto 4. This is pretty good game. These new controlls are awesome. I haven't before liked tombraiders, but this waked my interest. After this i gotta borrow TR 2,3 and Last revalation from my brother.

Doom, on Steam.

I'm stuck playing Zelda: Windwaker at the moment because my PS2 died a few weeks ago, and the only other game I have for the Gamecube is Crystal Chronicles, which is a huge pile of shit. Looking forward to getting a PS3 with GTA 4 though.

I've played Sins of the Solar Empire for a couple of hourse now and it's actually pretty good. The lack of campaign doesn't even bother me. I don't know how it'll hold up for long term play, since many games like this get kinda boring after a while.

What really pissed me off though: The save file of a round I had already been playing on for 2 hours (long rounds in this game) got corrupted, and my brother had played, so the autosaves were all for his game, which means I just lost those 2 hours of game time and have to start a new game. I'm just glad I wasn't further (as I said, loooong rounds) but it still pissed me off.

FF9, it's my favvv :o

I just got my PS2 back from my freeloading brother-in-law so I'm playing Vice City until I find something better to play :o

I've been hooked on SSB Brawl practically since it came out. I don't even play online at all (you know, Nintendo online being the shitfest it is), I just CPU for an hour or so every once in a while. I've done it enough that the god awful sideways wiimote method almost feels....useable...

Pinball.

Shock Troopers on the PS2 (Via SNK Arcade Classics). until i saw this game, i never knew that a "Mercs" type of game could kick serious as with plenty of rock music, an assload of weapons, and more importantly: more stuff getting blown up than on the 4th of july and new year's eve combined.

I'm getting my hacked versions of WiiWare's Dr. Mario and Star Soldier R working. Once I back up all my data I'll be good to go.

I'm playing FF:CC on WiiWare and emily's playing Lost Winds on WiiWare :o :o :o

I've also been working on my DC collection lately and so far Shenmue is the most boring japanese town simulator I have ever played. And it was apparently designed on an engine meant for piloting TANKS. In hallways.

I'm looking for a sailor. Do you know where any sailors are? Are you a sailor? Am I a sailor?

is it true lost winds last 3 hours cause i read it in ign

I've racked up about 8 hours in Shenmue and so far I've been in one fight and 800 conversations with people telling me they had a hard day at work and don't want to talk to me right now.

Hey everybody, guess what Emu's not playing!

;_;

Persona 2. :(

where it at man

i think i'm going to start etrian odyssey for DS today. i've read reviews and it seems pretty good.

A buddy has it. Quit yer bitchin'.

Would you settle for Jade Cocoon? You could borrow it 'till I get Persona 2.

Nah, I'll wait for it.

Well you're missing out.

KOF '94. still trying to beat rugal. he's easy at first, but damn his Genocide Cutter during the second battle. that's got to be the cheapest move in KOF history.

I'm on GTA4 and Mass effect on my 360, but still drop back on COD4 for multi

I'm gonna get back into Mass Effect and The Orange Box on my 360. It refused to play them before, and now that my 360 is supposed to be fixed, you can look forward to seeing me beat your asses in Team Fortress 2.

mario kart wii and smash bros brawl are on and off everyday, but otherwise i'm playing FFXII: revenant wings on the ds. it's RTS, but it's quite fun. the only thing is there's a bunch of stats that i sort of "need" to take into consideration when playing and it's hard to keep track of all this on the field, but it's still early in the game so just grabbing a mass of people and sending them to attack and hope for the best is generally working.

gamefly is sending me a copy of gta4 soon!

Are you looking at it hopefully, ready for it to suck, or indifferently?

dang it i want to play that game but i dont want to buy a goddamn xbox or ps3 :mad

Buy one!

Or come to my house! :eek

Can I look forward to playing with one of you I-mockery chumps in GTA 4? I have yet to do so.

I don't have an AGENDA, fathom - I've played every GTA game soon after they've come out (bought the first one before it because controversial during a trip to Seattle this makes me OG you see so for my e-penis's sake I must point this out) and I think it's going to be a bunch of vapid fun. But I'm not really looking forward to it any more than I was the box of 6 genesis games I won on ebay ;<

wanna play free mode?
just add me and send me a message to say when

I just played through all The Godfather's mission in TWO DAYS, and I am not gonna extort every piece of shit business in this game. Seriously, what the hell? I got about 10 hours of playing time out of this game, and it doesn't have much replayability either. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it.

Thas game was pretty lazily designed in the first place though anyway. It's got a total of about 6 car models or so, which is just sad for a game of its kind. And they could've made a couple more designs for businesses, rackets and warehouses, because as it was, it got boring very quickly. Going through the same halls, having enemies hide behind the same boxes and peeking around the same corners all the time.

360=Genesis all the way. God bless Turrican!

Oh, and Sins of a Solar Empire is a broken piece of shit. I wanted to play a huge game with 10 players, so that I don't get bored when I constantly have to start a new game. I started one of these, but after 2 hours it would just constantly crash. So I started another one, with the same settings, and again, 2 hours into the game, it will crash 2 minutes after loading, so I've decided to fuck that. And yes, I've got the newest patch installed.

But now I need a new game to play.:(

Bully.

This game is really, really good! I run around in the red ninja outfit all the time!

lol niko el luchador

Yo! Noid

Grand Theft Auto 4. If I fail a mission but later complete it, can I still get 100% completion for game progress or do you need to do that without failing a mission.

yes you can

fathom is persona 2 coming today

Mailed off, as far as I know.

Dragon Quest : Journey of The Cursed King

It had a long stretch of fun in the middle there, but now it's back to stupid. And I hate the alchemy bullshit.

i just got a crap load of virtual console games: link to the past, ocarina of time, river city ransom, super smash bros :eek:eek:eek:eek:eek, harvest moon, something else i know... oh and lost winds.

Medieval 2: Total War - Kingdoms

I'm playing the Brittania Camapign as the Norwegians and the invasion is well underway. Take that England!

I played Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 for Dreamcast for an hour tonight. Surprisingly the graphics actually hold up pretty well considering the game came out 8 years ago. It gets pretty stale though after a few fights.

The 360 version of Iron Man. It has proven to be a remarkably fun game, apart from the shitty CGI cutscenes and an abominable defend mission.

Duke Nukem: Manhattan project and Trials 2.

i'm playing bully:scholarship edition and man does this game brings back good memories the only thing i never did was spit in my hand and rub it in someones face and i still haven't burned a backpack in-game but thats ok

Barkley Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden. It's fucking hilarious and a really well made homage to a the 16 bit era RPGs. It's pretty much a must play if you're a basketball and RPG fan.

I just downloaded Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Street Fighter III Third Strike for MAME. I never tried the SFIII games because they don't have as cool of a character roster, but it's really fun and the animation is some of the smoothest I've seen.

Sadly, I got a giant blister on my thumb. Always happens after too much Street Fighter.

Legend of Zelda Phantom hourglass for the DS. They had it for only $17 on memorial day at Circuit City.

Me i'm playing gta 4. well i would be but my basement flooded, and my damn xbox broke.

I'm replaying Ocarina of Time now.

It's weird how nostalgic I feel about a game I played for the very first time in 2002.

I was playing OOT a few months ago and I was loving the shit out of it until I got to the Water Temple.

Nobody likes the Water Temple, Emu, don't feel defeated.

Seriously. Thats one reason I was scared to play the master-quest version of Ocarina of time.

I remember the water temple being really annoying, I just got done with Twilight Princess and I feel like the whole game was a breeze compared to OOT.

I uh actually like the Water Temple :(

I'm less of a fan of the Shadow Temple

I'm not going to lie, I haven't played it in 10 years, back then I'm pretty sure I needed a strat guide for it. The one thing I always liked about water temples in Zelda games meant it was hookshot time.

The desert temples were always my fav through the series.

Shadow Temple scared the hell out of me as a kid :(

Forest Temple is probably my favorite, if only for the music.

The barge creeped me out in Shadow Temple

Now that i am throwing rockin' parties at my place, I will try to remember what we played the night before while I was in a drunken stupor and list them in order of most-played to least-played:

1. Genesis - Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (w/ Knuckles)
2. PC - O2Jam
3. PS2 - PaRappa the Rapper 2
4. Wii - Super smash Bros. Brawl
5. CD-i - Hotel Mario
6. PS1 - Um Jammer Lammy
7. 3DO - Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
8. Wii - Mario Kart Wii
9. Wii - Red Steel

PROTIPS
- Girls like Hotel Mario (!)
- The mission-based 4-person multiplayer game in Red Steel is awesome
- Schimid has the attention span of a retarded cat
- The 3DO has the best port of SSF2T ever
- Fuck the metropolis zone
- O2jam is terrible and no one should ever play it
- I hate smash bros, guys
- Schimid also never cleans up after himself for any reason
- Even, even, even, Alaskan.

I started up Etrian Odyssey. It's not fun at all, but I can't stop playing. I can't even start exploring the third floor because something always goes horribly wrong by the time I get there.

Didn't the Metropolis Zone have an extra act to it? I fucking hated that level.

I'm currently playing Street Fighter HF on Live Arcade.

I've finished the Britannia Campaign as Norway in Medieval 2 Kingdoms and I completely pwned the Crusades Campaign as Jerusalem, and if I'd kept playing instead of fulfilling the victory conditons after 120 turns, the map would have been 100% mine. I was actually just buying regions off the other factions toward the end because I had so much money. About a third of my Kingdom was purchased.
I'm probably never gonna finish the Americas campaign 'cause I got pised off by the ridiculously boring battles. Sending one horde of indians against another is just not that interesting.
Unless Mass Effect comes in the mail sooner than expected, I'm gonna do the Teutonic campaign next, but I'm not sure what I should play as. I generally prefer well traned troops over large troops of shitty ones, so I might play as the Teutonic Knights, or maybe the Holy Roman Empire or Poland or something. I don't wanna be no punk ass Lithuania bitch.

Metropolis Zone had that mile-high nut and bolt that you had spin up while avoiding about 50 of those exploding starfish. FUCK that zone

and O2Jam is not terrible, and I love it :< There was a line to play it at my computer. It's just a music game that's like IIDX that uses the keyboard. There are mostly shitty songs, but I like the game itself, and apparently tons of other people liked it enough.

I downloaded Dwarf Fortress and I must be a huge fucking idiot because I have no idea how to control anything in my Dwarf Fortress

or even look inside it :(

i dont ever play the actual dwarf fortress, i just go adventuring and see how many cyclopes i can strangle to death :(

before i pass out in a slurry of blood and vomit and a pack of jaguars tears my head clean off :(

Okay, Mass Effect DID in fact come in the mail a whole 3 days sooner than I expected, and so far, it's pretty nice. Nice fight system, though I wish there was a bit more to character creation. Very good voicework and overall good graphics, though there's something wrong with the dynamic lighting: Really weird facial shadows. I haven't gotten that far yet, but I imagine it will only get better as I keep going, so I'm looking forward to a good roleplaying experience like I haven't had in a while.

Sometimes the shadows look a bit grainy to me. But it looks like a moving drawing, so I can't complain. I can't decide if that's how they wanted to do it or not, so I just enjoyed it.

I'm attempting to OpenRPG some D&D with a few guys from Team Weeaboo but we have no idea how to work the program so we're just rolling hundred sided dice and yelling at each other over Vent

Perry Bible Fellowship fucking rules. I plugged in the PSOne and tried to play Siphon Filter out of sheer boredom the other day. Now I'm back on GTAIV.

IF I GET MY SLEIGHT OF HAND HIGH ENOUGH I CAN HIDE DAGGERS IN MY NOSE