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    • #3334
      Anonymous
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      Of late there has been little or no talk of games on the Forum, so here is the game journal, a place where you can write about what you’ve been playing recently and how your finding it.

      Started playing Breath of Fire 2 yesterday on me GBA, found it quite good to be honest, although you would have to be an RPG junkie to appreciate it’s “crap graphics great gameplay” approach, the music is quite catchy in it, as is the combat system. Also finished Metal Gear on the Cube, played the original years back but wanted to see what Kojima and Miyamoto could bring to the table this time, and to be honest apart from a few flashy cut-scenes nothing ground breaking was evident, even the camera was left at it’s “too far away to see snake” location, but still it’s better than alot of the crap around today. So going to continue playing BOF 2 tonight and maybe alittle bit more Morrowind….

      “smoke if ya got’em”

    • #13472
      Jamie Mc
      Keymaster

      Of late there has been little or no talk of games on the Forum[/quote:483c18d729]

      Was there ever? :cool:

    • #13474
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Originally posted by jamiemc
      Was there ever? :cool: [/QUOTE

      Can’t blame a man for trying,eh.:D

    • #13480
      Anonymous
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    • #13482
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      See here:

      http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/community/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=5044#post5044 [/quote:4f11c6cf7a]

      Well Ian are you trying to say I’m gonna get fat and lazy from playing games eh?…..or are you merely pointing out that GTA is a game and that we are talking about it, Quite a dilemma really???????

    • #13483
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Always leave it open Omega ;)

    • #13485
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      What?, the back door….no I always close it.:confused:

    • #13530
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Cool, am looking forward to this:

      http://news.spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=7180

    • #13531
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Some of that sticky action could be well handy! I’m always misplacing stuff ;)

    • #13654
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      got harvest moon its a wonderfull life in gamecube. didnt like it at all! it started out promising but it eventually bored the pants off me. if i wanted to actually do boring repetative tasks with my spare time i would just go to work!
      In the end i brought it back, got my sixty euro refund and used that to getr metroid prime(excellent) and also luigi’s mansion which is in my opinion, equally as entertaining. anyone else have any opinions on harvest moon on gc?

    • #13658
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      I have it, and don’t mind playing games that take ages to get somewhere in – especially if the whole world evolves; but for now I really don’t have the time for HM.

      It would take 2 years of “half an hour twice a week” to get anywhere. Unfortunately the damn thing takes up a huge amount of memory on the memory card, so I’ve deleted it to make way for Mario Golf, which everyone else likes. That means it probably it won’t be played until I’ve alot more time on my hands.

    • #13666
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      I also have HM, and played about 12 hours a few weeks back but soon lost interest, it is a lovely game and I couldn’t bring myself to trade it in, maybe some day i’ll go back to it….

    • #13668
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      playing Spidey 2 on the xbox at the minute. It’s a great movie tie in, very gta.

    • #13671
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      playing Spidey 2 on the xbox at the minute. It’s a great movie tie in, very gta. [/quote:018a9697ce]

      Did you actually pay 60 euro’s for it?
      regardless is it any good?

    • #13688
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      gamestop just opened in derry, they were doing an offer where you trade in any 3 games (as long as their resale value is over a tenner) and you get it free.

      It is pretty good actually, few dodgy missions, camera can be annoying at times but it’s enjoyable.

      on another note Omagh’s excellent for shopping for games at the minute, the game down there is struggling against the Xtra-game and has loads of offers on, plus they’re one of the only game stores in the north still doing Dreamcast and N64 stuff.

    • #13712
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Whoo hooo, got past Lyn’s story in Fire Emblem, this game rocks!
      the brother picked up Full Sectrum Warrior yesterday, so i’ll have a go of that tonight.

      still lagging in Morrowind(you really should have stuck this game out nooptical, it’s definatly one of the better role playing games of late, well disregarding KOTOR

    • #13714
      Anonymous
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      Full Spectrum Warrior – folk round here have not really liked it :(

    • #13717
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Full Spectrum Warrior’s not a bad game at all… nothing terribly original, but the control scheme is fantastic – a lot of complexity distilled into a very neat interface

      not being able to control your troops directly takes a bit of getting used to though, but it doesn’t seem to hamper the immersiveness

    • #13811
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Well Nooptical started play FSW last night, and it’s pretty good, very realistic. I like the feel of the game but it’s all a little “Full Metal Jacket” for my liking, I mean the Americans are great but come on, their not all that ‘hard’. still the gamplay is good……

    • #13814
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Bought Metal Gear Solid 2 – Substance (XBox). Put it on at the weekend…is it me or is the control system horrible? Does it improve?

      In fairness I didn’t give it a good playing cos I’m too busy with Project Gotham at the moment.

    • #13820
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      As in the interface?, or the way Snake/Raiden is moved?

      Anyway MG SOL wasn’t great by any stretch of the imagination, such a great story hampering such a great concept, a bit of a ‘curates egg’ really.

    • #13822
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Mainly the movement in the isometric view and then having to switch to first person to look around and aim and then back to isometric and on and on and on…

      Heard lots of good things about it, so I was jsut wondering if i was missing something.

    • #13824
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      played on both the ps2 and xbox versions and have to say that its one of the only games where the control feels better on a PS2 pad

    • #13826
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Controlling Raiden is akward to say the least, but the game does have some good points, it’s just not a patch on the original(and no not the 1988 MSX version).

    • #13831
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Finished the story part of spidey 2 at the weekend, it goes all open ended then. Still good for the odd blast though.

      Started playing Evil Dead: Fistfull of Boomstick, quite enjoyable mindless hack and slash with a few “find-the-key-open-the-door” puzzles. Bruce Campbell voicing is always a bonus though.

    • #13834
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Evil Dead rocks, even the comedic 3rd outing is a classic!
      especially when the undead zombie-dude try’s to get it on with the fair maiden….

    • #13843
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Evil Dead rocks, even the comedic 3rd outing is a classic!
      especially when the undead zombie-dude try’s to get it on with the fair maiden…. [/quote:cbcd2a4dea]

      yeah sam raimi needs to make a fourth, apparently bruce campbell is up for it.

      Managed to get my hands on BC’s latest film “Bubba Ho-Tep” and it rawks. Basically it’s Elivs (bc) and (a black) JFK Vs an egyptian mummy, set in a nursing home in texas. You can only get it on reigon 1 tho, its on playusa.com’s top ten sellers though.

    • #13846
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      yeah sam raimi needs to make a fourth, apparently bruce campbell is up for it.

      Managed to get my hands on BC’s latest film “Bubba Ho-Tep” and it rawks. Basically it’s Elivs (bc) and (a black) JFK Vs an egyptian mummy, set in a nursing home in texas. You can only get it on reigon 1 tho, its on playusa.com’s top ten sellers though. [/quote:534420477d]

      Aye I’ve seen that – there are two commentaries, one with BC as elvis and the other with BC as BC

    • #14000
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Working my way through Knights of the old Republic again, Light side this time, scout LvL 13…..whata game.

    • #14001
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Joined the ranks and got a GameCube.
      Pokemon Colosseum is strangely addictive!

    • #14002
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Joined the ranks and got a GameCube.
      Pokemon Colosseum is strangely addictive! [/quote:9aaf2fbb90]

      Way hey boy’o, quick get Metroid Prime.

      here’s a list of a few good games for the system:

      Ikaruga:Treasure
      Prince of Persia:Ubi Soft
      Zelda Wind Waker
      Metroid Prime:Retro Studios
      Soul Calibur 2:Namco
      Mario Kart DD

      there are more but this should get you started.

    • #14003
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Ikaruga:Treasure
      Played it….damned hard….might get it

      Prince of Persia:Ubi Soft
      got it on xbox

      Zelda Wind Waker
      Played it almost to the end…probbably get it

      Metroid Prime:Retro Studios
      Played about half it….need to get it, especially with the sequel coming

      Soul Calibur 2:Namco
      not a fan of fight games

      Mario Kart DD
      completed it already

    • #14004
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes

      Harvest Moon

      Viewtiful Joe

      F-Zero GX

      Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2

      Resident Evil

      Resident Evil 0

    • #14008
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes
      – Already mentioned about its crap controls on xbox

      Harvest Moon
      – haven’t playe dit, but sounds strange…bit too sim for me i think

      Viewtiful Joe
      – meh….

      F-Zero GX
      – played it a bit…maybe a bit too much of the same
      – fun in multi player though

      Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2
      – Good party game..dunno if i’d have the patience for all the puzzles, i’ve seen some of the hard ones, and well….yikes!

      Resident Evil, Resident Evil 0
      – Maybe I’ll wait for the new one :)

      MarioParty!

    • #14013
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Just finished Doom 3, great game.

      Not much time to play anything at the moment, blame Ian for that. ;)

    • #14016
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      No time to play games eh, well that does tend to happen when you’ve got a job…….ah well.

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