phantom_leo said:

Hey! Listen!

All you people across the pond better download and enjoy Ogre Battle 64 for me today...!

...or Imma gonna start finding MALE cosplay pictures to post!

That is all.

You better do what he says folks, I think he means it.

SteelAttack said:

You never told me which kind of doctor did you see at first. Was it a general practitioner? Was the physiotherapist you saw a technician or a physician specialized in Physical Medicine?

The most important thing here is what diagnoses have your doctors reached? You have chronic back pain, alright, but there are a good number of causes for that, ranging from muscular to inflammatory to vertebral and everything in between.

The page you linked here offers a wide variety of services, but there's no use for them unless you know the underlying cause of your back pain.

What kind of assessment did you undergo with the physician?

 GP, he basically told me to take my shirt off. About 10 seconds of looking later he decides its muscular, refers me to a physio. She does the same, a 10 second look and a 15 second press around. 4 sessions later of basically me telling her how I'm doing her BS stretches and exercises and she says it must be something medical, she can't help and refers me back to the GP. 

GP tells me the same crap as the first time I saw him, with a 10 second look over, then sends me for more blood tests. This is all from June 2009 to present day. All he can do is offer me addictive prescription painkillers. I just got a posture brace in the mail today, seems to help, it pulls the shoulders back. 

Just a summary for you guys who don't check the thread that much, Edgecrusher, Archie etc. 

RED STEEL 2 REVIEW SUMMARY

Official Nintendo magazine

"It's taken new technology and the best part of three and a half years to get it, but precious few will argue that it hasn't been worth the wait. Red Steel 2 is finally here and it's awesome."

93%

Kotaku review

http://kotaku.com/5500030/red-steel-2-review-if-only-2006-was-this-good

"It's one of the Wii's best games .... a motion-controlled game with previously unfelt depth of control and excitement of action. To understand how well motion-gaming can feel, Red Steel 2 is a must play. This is a 2006 Wii promise delivered."

Examiner Red Steel 2 review

http://www.examiner.com/x-12218-Video-Game-Examiner 


" It's one of the best video game sequels ever made and not playing this groundbreaking Wii game would be an injustice."

Gamesradar review Red Steel 2

http://www.gamesradar.com/wii/red-steel-2/review/red-steel-2/a-20100322174021138019/g-20090430135117953091 


"we left Red Steel 2 thinking it could be the most improved sequel of all time. If you’ve given up on Wii shooters, here’s a reason to rethink your stance."

9/10

MSNBC Red Steel 2 video review

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30501433/vp/35989744#35989744 

9/10 

Red Steel 2 NWR review

"Plain and simple, this is one of the finest games to grace the Wii console."  

Gaming Nexus reviews Red Steel 2

"Are you a gamer? Do you own a Wii? Then you need Red Steel 2. In fact, this game is a reason to own a Wii all by itself." 

EUROGAMER ITALY

http://www.eurogamer.it/articles/red-steel-2-wii-recensione

"Swordfighting has never been so fun and intense: don't skip this amazing Wii exclusive, this is the game we've all been waiting for... Now get ready to fight!"

9/10

Aussie Nintendo review

http://aussie-nintendo.com/reviews/21947/


"Quite possibly the most enjoyable, adrenaline-charged combat system I've ever experienced. Fans of the genre really need to check this one out, it's fantastic."

9/10

gamingeek said:

GP, he basically told me to take my shirt off. About 10 seconds of looking later he decides its muscular, refers me to a physio. She does the same, a 10 second look and a 15 second press around. 4 sessions later of basically me telling her how I'm doing her BS stretches and exercises and she says it must be something medical, she can't help and refers me back to the GP.

GP tells me the same crap as the first time I saw him, with a 10 second look over, then sends me for more blood tests. This is all from June 2009 to present day. All he can do is offer me addictive prescription painkillers. I just got a posture brace in the mail today, seems to help, it pulls the shoulders back.

Fuuuu. Almost one year and the only diagnosis is "muscular"? Has he ever thought about referring you to an Orthopaedist or a Physical Medicine/Rehab specialist? In my humble opinion, your workup should have included vertebral column imaging studies also. You can't go from "it's muscular" to "it's psychological" without a proper workup.

phantom_leo said:

*Bump!*

gamingeek said:

Oh yeah started up Arkham Asylum. Wow at the graphics, superb detail and polish. Love the cartoon voice actors.

The camera is fabulous in the way it moves about framing the action, except when you walk up to and talk to a character when it cuts instead of seamlessly moving like it usually does.

The controls are really well worked too. The opening was impressive but less so because it was copy of Chronicles of Riddick basically. The metroid like scanner is nice, not as good as metroids scanner but nice all the same. It's sort of an auto-scanner that should have been adopted ages ago in more games, prince of persia could certainly use one.

It's a great production and they go out of their way to try and make you feel like a badass, to feel like batman.

My only problem is that the actual gameplay almost feels like its halfway between proper control and QTE. It's like sitting on the border between proper gameplay and almost insulting.

You vaguely point batman in the general direction of a bad guy, hit the X button and batman sort of magnetically leaps towards him doing all sorts of cool looking moves, capped off with some slow mo, close up. And I'm sitting there thinking - I only hit the X button a couple of times.

Then the stealth stuff, zooming up to the ceiling. Again you sort of vaguely point batman towards a gargoyle, an icon pops up, you hit the button, hit it again, then an indicator pops up "kill bad guy" you press the button and batman kills bad guy. It's almost QTE.

Still it's pretty cool so far, but I can't see myself giving it anything over like an 8.9 if the rest of the gameplay remains this simple.

Like MGS have fun with the stealth segments, experiment, play around with the guards. The combat is surprisingly deep if you try to chain a combo. Try the challange modes and come back and say this game has simple gameplay.

phantom_leo said:

^ For the benefit of the late-risers this morning (and to get Everquest he/she off of everyone's mind)!

*Remember, you have been warned!*

Old but still a classic, very nice.

Dvader said:

Mysteriously leaves out all 7 scores the game got.

 Shush, Gamespot and 1up don't count. 

There are a boatload of 9s, a good chunk of 8.5s and only a couple of 7s. 

FFXIII got worse reviews. 

gamingeek said:

You know she's a glamour model, name is Jezebel Bond or something? You can find topless pics online.

She is not that Bond chick, thats a porn star, got some crazy images there. I just searched and the model is Vikki Blows, she is more of that Nuts magazine type model I believe.