Games, games, games (Read 320735 times)

Bubba · January 16, 2010, 06:55:44 pm

We used to have drunken Tekken 3 sessions that would sometimes end up in a real life ruck in the living room

Eddies · January 16, 2010, 08:12:53 pm

Ive just completed Assassins Creed 2 on the X-Box... MINT
Really enjoyable game, spent lots of nights/snow days hooked on it.
WHAT NEXT?

Paul B · January 16, 2010, 10:08:50 pm

Quote from: Bubba on January 16, 2010, 06:55:44 pm

We used to have drunken Tekken 3 sessions that would sometimes end up in a real life ruck in the living room

TBH it posed quite an issue when picking consoles.

Xbox 360 with Halo or PS3 with Tekken

Worryingly I played over 1000 online games of halo within a year. Do you still play a lot Bubbs? Obviously I haven't been on for ages.

Quote from: Eddies on January 16, 2010, 08:12:53 pm

Ive just completed Assassins Creed 2 on the X-Box... MINT
Really enjoyable game, spent lots of nights/snow days hooked on it.
WHAT NEXT?

Jeez I couldn't be bothered to stick Assassins Creed 1 long enough to be able to use all of the controls, overly complex.

fatdoc · January 16, 2010, 11:01:26 pm

but did you finish AC2??

dont get me wrong...
but did you see the truth in it's entirety??

it takes longer than the whole campaign.. old school. awesome..

Eddies · January 16, 2010, 11:36:24 pm

Quote from: fatdoc on January 16, 2010, 11:01:26 pm

but did you finish AC2??

dont get me wrong...
but did you see the truth in it's entirety??

it takes longer than the whole campaign.. old school. awesome..

Ahh... Well.. Errr... Not Yet!
Ive still got some of the gylphs left to unlock... Ive not put it down yet.
My fav game since Final Fantasy

Jim · January 17, 2010, 12:42:53 am

why do you need the larger hard drive? all the stuff I want to watch will be streamed via LAN from my main PC or eventually from a NAS and the games come on blurays don't they?

slackline · January 18, 2010, 07:42:17 am

Quote from: Jim on January 17, 2010, 12:42:53 am

why do you need the larger hard drive? all the stuff I want to watch will be streamed via LAN from my main PC or eventually from a NAS and the games come on blurays don't they?

Hard-Drives (/storage) are cheap so I grabbed one because with the PlayTV you can effectively turn the PS3 into a PVR and 80Gb wouldn't have stored much TV. Added advantage is that you can also install all your games to the HD and not have to faff around changing discs (also gives lots of space for downloading games and films to the HD).

Carnage · January 18, 2010, 09:04:00 am

Quote from: Paul B on January 16, 2010, 06:44:55 pm

I miss tekken... I've never really found anything similar on the Xbox that wowed me.

You can get Tekken 6 for the 360 for the first time and its excellent.

See here http://au.xbox360.ign.com/objects/142/14288369.html

Paul B · January 18, 2010, 12:36:41 pm

slackline · January 20, 2010, 07:08:51 pm

Quote from: Jim on January 16, 2010, 10:31:20 am

slightly off topic but can' be arsed starting my own thead
I'm looking to replace my HTPC with a console that can also be a media server (ie play content over a network) and also used as a bluray player.
I have only a short experience of doing it on a PS3 when I set it up for a friend once. Does XBOX have a bluray drive?
Is there any benafit on either? I will be mostly playing .MKV, .avi and .mp4 files. Do either or both support 5.1/DTS/DD surround sound etc..
Also with regards to games, which have better games for a non-gamer gamer with very little time on his hands (ie arcade style)?
Cheers

If you're not arsed about games then you might want to consider one of these bad boys...

Now it does indicate that it doesn't support Media Centres, and this thread suggests that some sort of WDTV variant does work with network served media.

Jim · January 21, 2010, 10:55:37 am

Well I want it as a bluray player mainly.
I was thinking of getting a LG BD390 bluray player and network media player but for the same money I could have the ps3 and play the odd game when I get chance.
I could also just buy a bluray rom drive for the htpc I have but it just becomes complicated then and the ps3 should just work out of the box.

Anyone seen or know of any good deals? I'm after a ps3 slim (preferably 250gb) with a game or 2 (tekken 6, little big planet, ratchet & clank, wipeout. anything like that. none of the involved games, more arcade style), 2 controllers and the media remote control. Preferably pay with paypal as I have a fair bit of credit in there that I don't want to pay to get out nor do I want to leave it there.
Cheers

slackline · January 21, 2010, 01:07:30 pm

Yet another oversight of mine, missed the importance of the blu-ray player.

Good gamers have bigger brains (Original abstract the study looked at whether initial size of a specific area of the brain predicted acquisition and improvement in video games, so its not addressing whether you develop and acquire the skills as a consequence of playing video games more frequently).

SA Chris · January 21, 2010, 02:09:36 pm

Some bigger parts of the brain. Doesn't say if other parts are smaller.

They no doubt have bigger bellies and asses too.

slackline · January 21, 2010, 02:20:35 pm

Quote from: SA Chris on January 21, 2010, 02:09:36 pm

Some bigger parts of the brain. Doesn't say if other parts are smaller.

I was exceptionally tardy in my choice of words there, apologies.

Fiend · February 01, 2010, 05:39:14 pm

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html

Fiend · February 24, 2010, 11:44:24 am

Have started dabbling in QuakeLive. Nickname "Shamblerrr"

Bubba · February 24, 2010, 02:13:53 pm

Thoroughly enjoyed Bioshock II.

The Bioshock games are some of the most beautiful and atmospheric around imo and good fun shooters too.

Carnage · February 24, 2010, 09:31:39 pm

Never played Bioshock and will prob pick it up now its platinum.

I've just finished Dantes Inferno which I thought was great (and pretty fucked up in places). Just waiting for God of War 3 now which is likely to be the reason to own a PS3.

Anyone played Alien Versus Predator on the 360? I had it pre-ordered but the reviews/reception it got were very poor so I canned it.

BB · February 24, 2010, 09:50:06 pm

I'm off work after my knee op so I just picked up bayonetta, brutal legend and darksiders after finally completing AC2 yesterday. Has left 4 dead 2 left over from Christmas, but was not very impressed.

Fiend · February 24, 2010, 10:04:27 pm

Utter heresy not liking the utterly ace L4D2, you might as well donate your console / PC to charity

Carnage · February 24, 2010, 10:09:23 pm

Bayonetta is bonkers - I didn't get on with that.

Close to finishing Darksiders now. I thought this was a great game although the combat is a little basic and the bosses fights disappointingly easy.

Fiend - Our censored version of L4D2 is only fit for the bin.

Bubba · February 24, 2010, 10:35:43 pm

I must revisit Bayonetta now I've got a better screen. Agreed looks bonkers.

I'm still nuke hunting on MW2 - got 4 or 5 so far.

Carnage · February 24, 2010, 11:02:31 pm

Quote from: Bubba on February 24, 2010, 10:35:43 pm

I must revisit Bayonetta now I've got a better screen. Agreed looks bonkers.

I couldn't see what the fuck was going on most of thime

Paul B · February 28, 2010, 03:53:42 pm

I've just bought MW2. There's definitely a steep learning curve to it when playing on live. It seems like newbie's get the added disadvantage of having less tools at their disposal to start with just to make it even steeper

PM if anyone fancies a few Multiplayer games.

richdraws · March 05, 2010, 04:12:40 pm

I made this go and buy it now, its proper good fun x