I just wanted to point out that playing Mario Kart DS on local wifi netwok is ridiculously fun, haven't had so much fun with a multiplayer game in quite a while, and the fact that it's on a portable console makes it even nicer. 

is crazy, silly and a lot of fun! 

I bought this a few days ago.

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/fahrenheit/

"Fahrenheit" in Europe and "Indigo Prophecy" in USA. They cut out some love/nudity scenes in the USA, which is bullshit because USA's middle name is T&A.

It's an adventure-action game where you unravel a supernatural conspiracy involving ritualistic murders. You play 4 (or 5) characters throughout the game, but the main character Lucas as at focus - he's one of the latest murderers. Along the game you're trying to unravel why you did what you did.

You can do little things like mop up blood, drink a glass of water, open cupboards and find food to eat to boost your mental state. If it goes too low, you become despondent and may commit suicide or make a decision that ends the game. Fortunately it's not a tedious gameplay feature, so you won't be forced to eat/drink and do little things like that all the time.

Basically the actions you choose to do - whether hiding your evidence, or a dialogue option you choose with character(s), affects what happens now, and later - in the game. There are 3 endings, and it's a fairly replayable game because of this. It's VERY cinematic, it's like you're in a movie, controlling the scenes. You just have to get used to the pace.

The action scenes are a "Simon Says" mini-game of hitting lights in order (you have 2 sets of these lights that correspond to the keys or gamepad [analog sticks] you choose. Get them in the right order, and your character will perform a (successful) action sequence. They're not frustratingly hard at all, but a bit of fun.

I haven't passed the game yet, but if you're looking for a replayable adventure game deep with story and emotion - try the demo out. It's fucking ridiculously short demo, but the gameplay itself swayed me over and ever since getting the game - it's a keeper. 

can you play it coop? I suck at Mario Kart and hate playing ultra competetive types because I usually lose and get fed up of losing. I much prefer racing against the AI with a mate. I heard it was possible... do people actually do this, or just have races (which they drop out of if they are losing so I've heard). 

4 out of 5

http://phaitplays.blogspot.com/2005/12/quick-review-indigo-prophecy-aka.html 

Hmm, well MKDS really isn't a competetive game to start with, you can pretty much go from being 8th to 1st in the last few seconds of the race with a bit of luck (what with how you get much better items when you're doing badly). I've been playing it with 3-4 people quite a bit at school, and the scores balance out pretty well. You can set up teams and play against the cpus, but I never really saw the point as it actually plays exactly the same as other races (you can still hit your team mates) and just adds up team scores at the end of each race...
Haven't heard about people droping out when they are losing, but I haven't played online yet (don't have any wifi here). 

yes, the blue spiked shell really pissed me off in Double Dash on the GC. I gave up on 150cc special cup (or maybe star, I don't remember - had rainbow road on it) because every time I would be doing well, some cunt would get the blue spiked shell and fuck me over on the last lap - when there is no time to make up for errors.

Anyway, I didn't like playing Mario Kart with my mates when I was at uni because they were better than me, and it really sucked to come last most of the time. I don't really go in for games that feel too competetive these days. 

I haven't played MK since the original on snes, so I don't really know how this one compares to the N64 and GC versions, but it's definatly less competitive than the snes version. Most of the people I play with (who've played the other versions) seem to agree that this one is at least a bit more fun.

Hmm, grabbed Meteos, have to try and see if that's any good multiplayer... 

I haven't played the DS version but all the between it and the snes game has added lots of more powerfull items and tons of annoying somtimes semi-random hazards on the course. To me the snes version is still easily the best one I've played because it's simpler and awards skill more but then again I guess that makes for more uneven fights wich can be boring for beginners.

Played mario kart double dash recently for the first time and the giant boswer shells and some other things taking up half the width of the course was the most annoying thing ever.. despite all powerfull items I still didn't have any problems racing far ahead of the people I played with on most tracks. 

you obviously own.

I prefered the snes one to double dash too. Double Dash just looked a lot prettier. 

I bought it today for 1800 Yen, so it was a bargain. I don't buy many DS games purely because I find the price a bit insulting for the hours I usually get from them.

I've only had a quick go so far, but it seems cool, but insanely hectic and becomes very hard very fast (on the regular mode). Maybe I will get good if I keep playing...

...didn't get good at Lumines though :( 

what are u doing there? any job? (jpn is bloody expensive to live afaik) 

jesus, where have you been for the last 3 months?

I have a cooking show called "than's 101 peach fizz recipes". Each show I make a meal where one of the key ingredients is peach fizz drink. I always make sure either me or someone else has dipped their penis into it before adding it to the recipe.

I'm a damned celebrity!

I still find time to map between dating all the hot actresses and producing and starring in my show of course. It's because Japan is 9 hours ahead of the UK at the moment, so I have 35 hours in a day rather than 24 - it gives me lots of spare time. 

...Iron Chef Fizz 

I like you; you're full of shit. 

Hmm, Meteos is weird, you can pretty much just swing your pen around the screen randomly and not lose for quite a while, make some funky uber combos is fun though, still have to try it multiplayer to see what it's really worth.

About game prices, I find I spend alot more time playing these silly DS games than pc games that often cost 2 times more... I have about 50 hours of play time on Advance Wars, and probably at least half that on Mario Kart. But as it's already been said, it's probably silly to judge a game by the time you spend playing it. 

Than, I wonder how you got 35 from 9 and 24 (and 3 and 101)...

Just picked up Shadow of the Colossus for christmas... pretty nice game. It's just boss fights (and riding your horse from boss to boss,) but it takes as long to fight a boss as most games' full levels. Artistically very nice, though the PS2's technical weakness shows through sometimes.

Also got We Love Katamari, but it's too early to tell if this game offers enough new stuff to be worth having if you already own the first game. 

the Japanese day is 26 hours long anyway, since the Sun rises here, which takes two hours, and thus there are an extra two hours in the day.


Ok, I admit, I am just retarded. 

Has anyone got or is considering getting one of these?

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-d1-70-uq6.html

They sound pretty cool, and support custom code properly, rather than the annoying hacks/updates of the PSP. I am thinking about getting one so I can upgrade my PSP bios and forget about PSP homebrew forever.

btw, Metlslime, if you are reading, can we have a tags help button somewhere, since I don't know what they are. 

http://www.celephais.net/board/faq.php 

they might be good for homebrew but less so for unique games, I guess if you can run most old console/arcade games on it you might need need much more though.

btw I'm going to Thailand today so we'll almost be neighbours! 

What are you going to Thailand for? Work or picking up ladyboys?

Do you speak Thai? 

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/youareempty/screenindex.html

Does that appeal to anyone else? Absolutely gorgeous graphics, interesting setting (I suppose comparable to HL2, but with far more detail to the environments) and gameplay that sounds like it will be another return to the old school style of run and shoot, as featured more recently in games like Painkiller and Serious Sam, but mixed with more slow paced horror and exploration levels.

Sounds and looks awesome to me.

One of the monsters looks a bit crap though... kinda looks like a mutant kangaroo. You will know what I mean if you look at the shots. 

I understand it's out now.

Is it any improvement on the previous releases? Or are you just lurching from killbox to killbox again but with better graphics? 

i like the setting... anything that looks post-apocalyptic is good to me. ^_^