^lol

SupremeAC said:

I turned on my WiiU for the first time in months yesterday, hoping to play some Fast Racing NEO.  So I deleted my downloaded copy and popped in the disc.  The physical version doesnt' recognnize my digital save.    I tried a couple of things and by then the missus got home and commandeered the telly to watch Netflix.  On my WiiU...

So I didn't get to play anything.  But I did see Bugs playing The Swindle.  I'd love to hear some impressions from you Bugs.  I bought the game on launch myself and played 3 heists but then lost interest.  I just can't seem to get excited for games that use procedurally generated levels.

It's a love/hate thing.  I have been trying to stop playing it all week.  The game is buggy as hell, no pun intented.  There also isn't much variation between the levels of different areas.  But there is something very compulsive about it.  I just keep wanting to get one more heist in.  It's also the first "for keeps" game I'm playing because I hate losing progress and starting from scratch yet somehow this time around I find that it spurs me on instead of putting me off.  I will write a proper write-up once I finish it.  Though I think I will want to probably start again.

This is great.  I just stumbled on the Windows 10 event, which is going live right now.  They had this blonde woman in a tight T-shirt with some gamer-print of a skull and a cog on it talk about all the new features coming to Xbox.  Now they've got some other woman, wearing a black sweater, black rimmed glasses and a scarf, talking about the Creator update to Windows 10.  MS sure knows their stereotypes.  Although if they did they'd have some greasy nerd talk about the Xbox bit...  They're not only stereotyping, they're also discriminating on the basis of gender!

SteelAttack said:

Paper mario is an rpg? You know, i have never played a mario rpg.

The latest one, Color Splash blurs the lines a bit, its fun regardless. The N64 and Gamecube ones are regarded as the best. If you have a good sense of humor you're bound to like them.

robio said:

I don't know if it is a matter of Nintendo not hiding it well, so much as it is about how hard people were looking for it. A lot of people and resources were devoted to digging up any information about the Switch. I suspect moreso than any other console before it. And Nintendo's continued silence about it only made it more maddening for people. Christ, there was a new thread about the NX every other day at the GAF.


I think part of the question really has to be how long was Nintendo sitting on something that could have been shown? Was it ready in some form at E3? TGS? The longer it's been ready the harder it would have had to have been to keep it on the lowdown.

They were showing it to indies in March according to Image and Form, so one would expect that big publishers knew about it before that.

SupremeAC said:

And now we're back on the topic of the Switch, I hope Nintendo allows for portable only games.  That way we could still see small quirky games on the go like we saw on the DS and 3DS.

Aren't these just indie games?

bugsonglass said:

It's a love/hate thing.  I have been trying to stop playing it all week.  The game is buggy as hell, no pun intented.

Why wont you play Splatoon, you already own it right? Even if you don't want in on the multiplayer there's still a good single player platformer there.

edgecrusher said:

I think both Xenoblade games are being ported to the Switch. They're hoping for more exposure and higher sales.

robio said:

Nintendo just announced their next Switch presentation... January 12th. Gonna be a long 2 and a half months.

The Surface Dial:

It's a tool that you place on a touchscreen and it becomes a context sensitive dial with haptic feedback.  Honestly, I think this is one of the coolest PC peripherals to be designed since the wireless mouse.  The Magic Mouse was cool, but didn't really change how we intteracted with PC's.  Somethingn like this could really prove disruptive.  Ms is really on a roll with their Surface brand.

Anyone know about travelling from airports to hotels in New York and San Francisco?

The cab fare seems expennsive, especially given the exchange rate now for the UK pound. Is there a train or subway service from JFK to Chelsea, Manhatten?

How much is it? What's it called etc.

I hear there is some train in San Fran that goes from the airport into the centre of the city?