Dawn Of War obviously. The only game to be playing at the moment. Unless you like cartoons I guess.

Scraggy: Painkiller Secrets are utterly desperate, imagine they've been put together by a combination of Vondur and the 1337est of SDA speedrunners, then told by the game devs to "make them harder to find", and you have some idea... 

Some are just a matter of bothering to walk long distances though. There's a holy item hidden behind a hangar on the military base for instance, that there's just a matter of walking for 5 mins to find. But yeah, most of them are fucking impossible to find.

Other stuff been playing;
WoW beta. Gorgeous graphics in that one, and no gay space marines. Level 14 Hunter with a bear on test25, currently running around picking wood in the forest for some cheap slut that's going to make me some leather pants. Seksi.
I noticed the Link Of The Day on Blue's yesterday was some shitty flash recreation of Pang!. I'd reccomend you all to get mame and emulate some of the original Pang!, especially Super Pang! and Mighty Pang!. Jolly fucking good arcade fun.
Will be getting HL2 today, so hoorj! Some guys here are already playing it (was unlocked an hour ago) and just from seeing the first 5 mins I'm already giddy as hell.
To all you people who've got exams coming up: http://www.popcap.com/gamepopup.php?theGame=diamondmine

In other olds, Shambler is still a frumpy old git, and has the hots for the space marines even though he says he plays as orks. 

nwn currently
waiting for heletwo 

Less smoking crack up through your asshole, more making sense.

Even Jago admits WOW looks like shite (or words to that effect). 

supposedly in stores today (in the US.) But with HL2 and all... not sure when i'll actually play it. 

Metal Gear Solid 3 is out today too right? I've always liked the cinamatic approach those games have taken, even in 2 where many people were turned off. I approched it from the perspective of an interactive movie. This new one looks interesting, with some quality looking character designs. 

I never said that. I said that no MMORPG will rival the graphics of the greatest and latest in 3D shooters due to the size of the game world. That being said, WoW is the best looking MMORPG ever and I never stop to think: "gee, does this game look crappy".

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/screenshots/images/screenoftheday/ss0052.jpg
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/screenshots/images/screenoftheday/ss0065.jpg

How the fuck is that bad graphics? 

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=4967 

That looks to be a good title. My nephew has already asked for it for Christmas. Of course, I'll completely take over his system for a few days as I don't have a Play Station. 

I guess the graphics are technically advanced, but the style is questionable imo. It's bright and vibrant, but very cartoony, maybe too much so. That turns me off from the game initially. 

:( 

Already wrote my positive experiances with my Nintendo DS and Mario 64 DS in the General Abuse thread, so I'll just be brief and say that I'm totally loving the DS and love having it to mess with while I do compiles at work.

In the last few days, I beat Metal Gear Solid 3 (PS2), and loved every second of it. A little more than 64800 seconds (18 hours and something mins) to be exact. I need to go back to the other games in the series to remember exactly what all the signifigance of the story is, but the story still felt meaningful on it's own and I loved some of the turns it took. The sneaking aspects of it are just as fun as they were in MGS2, but my fave areas of the game were the bosses. A few were kinda boring, Ocelot and sadly the Bee Boss, but were completely made up for by the awesome sniper battle with The End (took over an hour to kill him cuz you had to sneak up around him without him seeing you, shoot him, then track him) and some of the final battles which I won't spoil. I will say that the bit with The Sorrow was one of the high points for me. So, if any of you liked the previous games in the series, definatly go grab this. And if you like games with some good combat and sneaking puzzles, try it out.

Also been playing a bit of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2). What can I say, anouther awesome GTA game. Really enjoying the addition of the Bicycle and being able to change your appearance. Been fucking around and I'm still on the first island, but so far the missions have been a good mix and there are a few differant guys to get them from even at the beginning. I'll update with more about them as I go, but I will say that this game will be very enjoyable to anyone who liked the othe GTA games.

And finally, been playing Final Fantasy 1 through the Final Fantasy Origins collection (PS1). Old game, updated graphics (I think it's the engine from FF3/FF6j) with some cinimatics added too. Really been liking this as the last few times I've attempted FF1, I was either too young to really 'get' how to properly play an RPG, or just never got very far before moving onto newer games. Currently, my party is all lvl 14. I have Bal the Warrior, Metl the Theif, Biff the White Mage, and I, Scamp, am the almighty Black Mage. Got 10 hours into the game so far, and I'm just about to go into Terra Cave to restore the light to the Earth Crystal.

After FF1, I'll start on the other game on the disc, Final Fantasy 2, which is FF2 Japan, not FF2 US which was FF4 Japan. Peeked quickly at it and it looks interesting, can't wait to get to it! 

on being in your ff2 party 

I was thinking Myself, you, a female func_mapper or #terrafusionite, and someone else. 

. 

That's stupid. 

<czg> jesus christ people! I've been sitting on f5 on func_qmap all day, and +there's only been like 2 new posts! I am so bored here people! I need some +socializing or at least some new posts to read (interesting ones and maybe +about barney and dicks)

So. Are there any other poker players out there? 

No.

Also: I've heard Barney has a dick. 

I'm glad I brought that up. 

 

is hip and cool 

I just got re-addicted to it over the weekend. I think it's a prime example of a game that comes in cycles for me. I'll play it none stop for a week or two, then not pick it up for a month. Strange.

The game is truely fun tho, great balanced between HL2DM.

Also I've been playing Soul Calibur on my buddies DC since my copy is scratched to hell and back. Forgot how much fun that game is. 

I've started playing the PC version of Escape from Butcher Bay, having previously completed it on XBox... So far I can't see any real differences, apart from I think the textures might be higher res, but it's difficult to say that for sure without comparing side by side. Also, there is a "commentary" option on the difficulty selection screen, which I haven't tried as yet. (The menus are the same crazy design as the XBox ones by the way)

The game itself is pretty good - a mix of reasonably non-annoying and often actually enjoyable stealth sections, shortish bouts of run-and-gun, and RPGish talking to people and doing 'favours' for people (which usually involves killing people). It's not showing any signs of lasting any longer than the original yet - which is a shame as the XBox version was a very short.

It's worth noting that this game has something I thought impossible - the minimum specs on the box are actually surprisingly honest! I fall somewhere between minimum and recommended and the game runs fine with everything pretty switched on - admittedly only at 640*480 though.

Oh, and sadly no printed manual except one of Sierra's cacky "keys you'll remap anyway" cards. This sucks because the manual for the XBox version was really worth reading and explained some stuff more clearly than the ingame help.

And HL2DM. Must harrass some of you for friends list addition (for those rare occasions when the Steam friends network isn't "being maintained"). I prefer to get whupped by people I already know! 

nick: DaZ
Email : daz@dazv3.co.uk

shame hl2dm chugs and lags like a mofo on my pc tho :( 

Cheers for the comments Starbuck, intending to get this one next.

I'm mostly playing "that game".