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[Barry Matthew Ween]

Time for a shiny new thread...

[brucegray666]

Saints Row 3 DLC - Genki Bowl VII. Bought the SR3 season pass ages ago so this didn't cost me anything. Just seems to be a collection of challenges and some new vehicles. A wee bit disappointed at that, was hoping for something a wee bit meatier... oh well, it's a good excuse to run about Steelport punching people in the dicks again.

[Martin Smith]

Set my old Atari ST up today and played a few games.

First was RISK, which took ages to set up (which I took as authentic board game emulation) but then I managed to win on my first turn. Which means either I'm a military genius (not likely) or it's a bit off.

Then a Thunderbirds game which is so difficult as to be perverse. A 2D single point perspective point and click, just without point and click controls, it's impossible to tell what you're meant to be doing and the inventory system is bizarre. So easy to fail/die, which then means you have to wait for it to load back to the main menu again.

And then something called Pac-Mania, which is a 2.5D variation on Pac-Man that sort of works. Had trouble divining the controls though (as with Thunderbirds) which didn't help.

Oh and some platformer my sister and I just to love called Baby Joe, which was kind of cool, but impeded by the very stiff, not properly working joystick.

Got tonnes more games left to get nostalgia buzzes from, including a Masters of the Universe one! (which I expect will be lame).

[Ben the Obiwomble]

Still spending far too much time on Xenoblade Chronicles....

[craggy]

SWTOR PVP is broken after new patch. I suck at PVP anyway so no big deal for me right now. I just want to kill this one damn guy in this (PVE) quest I have. Gonna farm the space combat til I can whoop him good.

[Ogul]

I've been working on my Scoundrel. They play weird, much more complicated to do right than my Commando, but pretty fun when they're working right.

[brucegray666]

Completed Shadow of the Damned this afternoon. Really enjoyed it. Great 3rd person shooter with a lot of humour in it.

Only gripe would be the pacing of the final boss battles. The first "final" boss happened in three waves - all pretty much identical to each other. The only thing that seperated the final one from the first two was the fact it took about 20 minutes longer. The final final boss wasn't that hard, the main issue was the fact that it was against the clock and ammo was fairly scarce after the boss before. Was very nearly ready to jack it in but completed the game on my "JUST ONE MORE GO DAMN IT!!!" attempt.

Only other issue: after completing the game in hard the achievements for completing the game on easy and normal didn't pop... not cool!

[craggy]

got Dragon Age 2 today after my mum saw it for £7 in Morrisons. haven't played it yet, mind, but I have it.

[Chris Fenton]

I think my x-box is heading for RRoD, had a couple of freezes/crashes in the last few days.

[Ben the Obiwomble]

For anyone interested in Mass Effect 3, you've a good enough reason to give the Kingdoms of Alamur: Reckoning demo a try as doing so secures you items to use in ME3!

Beyond that? Don't expect too much.

[brucegray666]

Completed the Transformers game War for Cybertron. Haven't played any TF games before, this one was pretty fun, if a little bit short.

Nothing lined up next, not got my next LoveFilm rental yet. Might try and get stuck into the MW3 multiplayer - haven't really given it much of a go since my initial bash.

[craggy]

For anyone interested in Mass Effect 3, you've a good enough reason to give the Kingdoms of Alamur: Reckoning demo a try as doing so secures you items to use in ME3!

Beyond that? Don't expect too much.

ooh, what you get?

Completed the Transformers game War for Cybertron. Haven't played any TF games before, this one was pretty fun, if a little bit short.

Nothing lined up next, not got my next LoveFilm rental yet. Might try and get stuck into the MW3 multiplayer - haven't really given it much of a go since my initial bash.

Transformers was good. They haven't made any other Transformers games for years, but the WFC sequel, Fall Of Cybertron looks...okay.

[brucegray666]

So, you're not acknowledging the movie tie in games then? (Rightly so, I've heard they're shit).

Fall of Cybertron - that's the one with Grimlock in the trailer, yeah?

[craggy]

yes, on both accounts.

[Ben the Obiwomble]

Exclusive armour and weaponry Craggy

[craggy]

armour! new hats! me wants!

edit: when I play ME "I'm Commander Shepard, and I'm the best dressed man on the Citadel"...and if not, I'll kill him.

[Ben the Obiwomble]

You have to play and finish the demo once to get the items.

[brucegray666]

I have had Sonic and Knuckles downloaded on my Xbox 360 for almost 2 1/2 years yet I only just discovered tonight that it has Sonic and Knuckles 3 and Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 hidden away in the "bonus content" section of the options menu.

[Chris Fenton]

For anyone interested in Mass Effect 3, you've a good enough reason to give the Kingdoms of Alamur: Reckoning demo a try as doing so secures you items to use in ME3!

Beyond that? Don't expect too much.

While I did enjoy myself playing the demo I was also thinking the whole time "this is very familiar" then I got the the first NPC quest once you escape the well and I relaised it was a copy of an early WoW quest... Then it was all I could do but compare it to WoW...

Then my x-box froze!

[Dave Wallace]

I have had Sonic and Knuckles downloaded on my Xbox 360 for almost 2 1/2 years yet I only just discovered tonight that it has Sonic and Knuckles 3 and Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 hidden away in the "bonus content" section of the options menu.

Is that the full Sonic 3 + Knuckles version? I've held off buying the Megadrive collection on PS3 because it only has the two games separately (rather than the full version with both games together), which means you can't actually complete the game properly with all 14 chaos emeralds. But if there's a downloadable version available, I might get it.