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. ^_^ 

I'm looking at these games. The last *new* game I played was Star Trek : Elite Force 2.

Any other suggestions :


Doom 3

D3 exp � ROE

Quake 4

Painkiller

Far Cry

Half Life 2

FEAR

Call of Duty

Medal of Honor � Pacific Assault

Max Payne 2

Prince of Persia � sands of time

Halo

Unreal 2

Splinter Cell

Splinter Cell 2

The chronicles of riddick

Driver 3

Enclave

King Kong

Splinter Cell 3

XIII 

Terrible monster design. Crap name. Beautiful environments, with particularly good lighting.

I like the visuals and the coherently old fashioned feel, but can't say anything more than that is terribly appealing. At least it isn't god-awful ww2 bollocks. 

I think there are a couple of monsters that look quite cool. I quite like the art style of them too.

The environments are the real standout visual feature though, I suppose.

I'm looking forward to a demo anyway. 

it's a boardgame originally, but one can play in the internet for free - it's a java thing in the browser and looks exactly like the original. It's a fun multiplayer game, turn-based, where you build railroad tracks across north america (the europe map is crap imo). You have to draw objective cards between cities and then approximate what the others will do, if they might block your routes or something.

I like it. Played the boardgame too a while ago and it's even nicer.
http://ticket2ridegame.com 

Are you into RPGs at all? If so, I would recommend Vampire: Bloodlines (kinda buggy out of the box, but great fun, and made superb by patches, both official and fan-made), and Morrowind + expansions (also made even better by fan-made plugins). If you try the latter, let me know, and I can post a pretty decent list of plugins that enhance the game without changing the overall feel too much. 

sam2 sux. worse than 1st one, 10x worse than PK

there is a demo, so u can give it a try urself 

You Are Empty - forget it
its Russian shooter
russians can model. cant do a game yet 

Doom 3 - sure

D3 exp � ROE - MUST HAVE

Quake 4 - ofcourse. its vety good, just forget its QUAKE. play it openminded

Painkiller - yeah, most likely. much better than SSam. You`d still get bored half thru it.

Far Cry. - Prolly Yeah. I didnt like it, but its a fine game. Very good looking outdoors, mediocre indoors. Fine game if you dont mind restarting (no quicksave, unless its been fixed in some patch)

Half Life 2 - Must Have. Despite any letdowns, its a great game.

FEAR - NO. Looks shit. Runs like sloth. There is some neat AI to battle tho (try demo)

Call of Duty 1\2 - well, if you like braindead linearity and WW2 and some arcade-like bits. Try demo (was enough for me).

Medal of Honor � Pacific Assault - didnt try

Max Payne 2 - its ok.

Prince of Persia � sands of time. Get Warrior within! YES. GREAT slasher. Great gameplay.

Halo - BIG FUCKING NO. Looks pos, boring repetative

Unreal 2 - its OK. You might even like it.

Splinter Cells - well, if u like stealth (I got bored by the demo of Cell2/3)

The chronicles of riddick - fine game. bit of fps, bit of adventure, bit of stealth. nice dialogues, good charachrters, OKish environments (much more modest than d3/q4)
Gets boring a bit.

Driver 3 - NO. Shit gameplay, good cinematics

Enclave - YES! gorgeous slasher

King Kong - hmm dunno, only played demo

XIII - NO ( avrage shooter with some stealth, gets boring pretty soonish)


Add 'Beyond good and evil' and 'Fable- Lost chapters' for envolving marvelous looking lush and immersive slasher-adventure games. My faves.

Trying to be honest and unbiased as ever. 

I'd be interested to know what plugins you'd recommend for morrowind. I'm finally getting into it properly, and having a bloody great time. Can't wait for Oblivion; those demo vids look fantastic. 

thanks, I'll go with that.

I was mainly going off screenies and some reviews. Cant run any demos on curretn system.

Beyond good and evil & Fable, are they like enclave ?

And is warrior within a newer prince of persia ?