edgecrusher said:

gamingeek said:

Dvader vs Edgecrusher.

Let the balls commence!

He would be crushed by my edge!

Yeowch, would the edge cut the balls in half?

edgecrusher said:

What is Bethesda thinking releasing crap like Rogue Warrior? They better stick to RPG's...

Did you forget about Wheelspin? Their mature wii game that got rated 11% by NOM as the worst game, ever?

Dvader said:

So Silent Hill, reading those reviews makes me not want to play it and play it at the same time. For one I am upset at the lack of combat but I knew that already. I dont like that its short, or that the choices you make aren't as game changing as they were implied to be. I especially dont like that there is basically no danger, monsters show up and you run, no worries about ammo or health, just a running sequence. This maybe the least scary SH game ever.

But the puzzles sound excellent. This game sounds like an adventure fans dream. So I will try it, I just don't know when.

The length is problem, when something like that becomes known it becomes almost like a death knell for a game, unless its a shooter where you do the 6 hour single player then move onto months of online shooting/swearing. Otherwise it sounds okay to me. I already knew about the chase bits.

Dvader said:

I have never played Blaster Master, heard excellent things about it.

Where is last weeks podcast, Leo needs to listen to it.

Blaster Master was brilliant for its day.

While most games had ONE perspective. In this one, you could drive the tank in 2D stages; Get out of the tank in 2D stages; It had huge (for the time) sprites, in its top-down, action-stages. Many of the bosses filled the whole screen. You could upgrade the tank. It had so much going for it that was unrivaled back then by most other NES games!

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I need to listen to the podcast...?

Should I call Ernesto first and get a box of tissues ready?

phantom_leo said:

Dvader said:

I have never played Blaster Master, heard excellent things about it.

Where is last weeks podcast, Leo needs to listen to it.

Blaster Master was brilliant for its day.

While most games had ONE perspective. In this one, you could drive the tank in 2D stages; Get out of the tank in 2D stages; It had huge (for the time) sprites, in its top-down, action-stages. Many of the bosses filled the whole screen. You could upgrade the tank. It had so much going for it that was unrivaled back then by most other NES games!

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I need to listen to the podcast...?

Should I call Ernesto first and get a box of tissues ready?

It was also brutally difficult. It was a pretty long game, but didn't offer saves or a password so not too many people saw the end of it.  But the game really was one of the best the NES ever had. Upgradeable tank, upgradeable weapons for the player on the solo missions, sideview and overhead view screens, great graphics, great music.  I think its difficulty and lack of save feature is ultimately what kept it from being more highly regarded.

And as a special bonus, it was one of the few games where the "slow" button on the NES Advantage controller actually worked.  Had it not been for that button I never would have made it past the level 5 boss (which if I recall is the boss pictured in the screenshot here).

Okay that is IT.

I have lived with red and green dots on my Wii for 2 f****** years now. NO MORE!

Recent games with tons of smoke effects just set it off so badly that my screen is covered in that shit.

And it almost seems a crime to play a game with visuals as great as Extractions on this POS.

I am going to book it in to be fixed, that's £70 down the drain shit-tendo. Their hardware has gone down the drain this gen. I had a broken hinged DS Lite too.

^Looks like the spirit of an Atari 2600 game has invaded your Wii.

Well guys I'm still playing Dragon Age, and this is easily my pick for Game Of The Year. I've put 80 hours into it already and I just do not get tired of playing. Another Bioware classic, and a game that nails everything that an incredible AAA game should, its just slick from top to bottom.

I may even like this more than Mass Effect. Its certainly nowhere near as glitchy as ME, or really any game Bioware has made since KOTOR.

This is what a AAA game is supposed to be. Made me stop playing Modern Warfare 2 halfway through the campaign and I've felt no desire to go back to it yet.

Well I'm here today to tell you that Harvest Moon: My Little Shop is complete and utter shit. Not a huge shock, and I really wasn't expecting it to be good but this game is just terrible. Sad too because it's a fantastic looking game, but they've removed any level of difficulty from it.  Plus you can only do so much a day. They've taken a nod from a few other games that require you to play daily and in real time, but only allow you to do so much actual work each day.  I blame Animal Crossing for this dumb ass idea....

The very very few reviews out there are pretty bad, but I thought as a Harvest Moon fan I'd be able to overlook them to some degree.  Nope. Game just sucks.  Not that anyone was planning on buying it but avoid it at all costs anyway.