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 ? 

thanks for the suggestions but I havent come acroos an rpg that I like yet (unless you count diablo2 which I dont since it's more of a slasher). 

Pretty much what Speedy says to be honest except I'd rate Far Cry a lot higher, not least because of this trick I found:

"Open the console with "~" then type "\save_game name" where name is the name of your savegame file. I just use 2 names (0 and 1) and alternately overwrite them when I'm far enough along bwteen in-game checkpoints. Then when you want to load one of your own savegames, use the Esc key and double-click the savegame written at whatever time you saved."

Remember that, homie.

Ummm Max Payne 2 is good. You should make sure you've played all the important older stuff too: RTCW, Undying, FAKK2, Blade Of Darkness (especially).

If you want to try a semi-MMORPG, I reccommend G***d W**s ;). 

played and have the older stuff. Except Blade, whcih I didnt really like. 

I was in the Rune is more fun and imaginative than Blade, but Blade has fancier tech and is perhaps a bit more ambitious but is ultimately flawed camp :) 

I thought Blade was pretty cool, enviroments were beautiful and gameplay quite original, it was bloody hard though... =\ 

Blade had gameplay. 

if you liked diablo, you could pick up 'fate'

it's really cheap too. you download the game off of the website (about 120mb) then, you pay 20$ to get a serial number to unlock it from demo mode.

i don't have the site, but a quick google search will turn it up for sure.

it's a nice game where you can play for 10 minutes, and not touch it for a week and come back to it and not be lost or anything. very straight forward etc etc, but fun. 

I really enjoyed the hell out of Fear when I played through it. It doesn't do a whole hell of a lot, but it does a few things quite well and I enjoyed the combat.

@Starbuck, I'll post my canned "Morrowind Tips and Suggestions" and see if breaks some kind of func_character_limit or something:

Morrowind Plug-In Sites (some of these might be dead):

http://teyandei.net/projects/morrowind
Excellent basic place to start. This has a list of all the official mods (the only one I would avoid is the Siege at Firemoth, which I found to be kind of dumb and tedious), and a bunch of recommended ones--I notice that most of the links seem to be dead, so use it as reference. :( If nothing else, be sure and grab the Animal Realism and Real Signposts mods from one of the other sites.

http://www.hiredgoons.net/MWFiles
Pretty much everything on this site is good, especially if you play a thief-type character. The Illuminated Order quest is very cool for high-level types.

http://www.thelys.org/modlist.php
Limited selection, but seem to be typically high-quality.

http://home.tiscali.co.za/~31003603/comp.html
I pretty much grabbed all the Texture Replacer mods from here. I didn't bother with the face replacer ones since I was already using different ones . . .

http://khalazza.production.free.fr/
The Visual Packs from here basically replace textures in the wilderness areas, unlike Carnajo's textures above, which are primarily urban.

http://www.rpgplanet.com/morrowind
http://www.mwsource.com
http://www.euro-morrowind.com
http://unforgottenrealms.net

I would recommend being careful and organized about what you're using, and keeping backups of all the .zips etc. in a different folder, just to keep track of what you're using and where it came from. And, obviously, read the readmes, to make sure that you're doing what the author intended re: installation.

The plugins that I'm currently using are below--I feel like these enhance and improve the game without changing it too drastically.

Face replacement textures from Astarsis.
Adamantium Armor
Area Effect Arrows
Atmospheric Sound Effects from Duncan (up to update 4)
All of LDones game-improvement stuff from the second link above.
Bitter Coast Sounds
Pretty much all the offical mods except Firemoth (which I found to be long and annoying and silly)
A fix to add a ring to your stronghold that teleports you there when you put it on (since they seemed to enjoy putting your stronghold in the middle of Bumfuck Egypt).
Real Signposts
All the texture upgrades from Carjano
Sharpened Armor, Weapons, and Clothes upgrades from NelothsMouth
Gnomish Sky Glider from Mykul
All of Wakim's Game Improvements
Calender Fix from Spuzzum
Book Rotate mod that allows you to place books just so
Vivic Expansion mod from Hoghead
Climbing Gear from GhanBuriGhan
Foreign Quarter Manor from DJGrim (my preferred home base)
Text Patch from Kevin Dorner, that cleans up grammar, spelling, etc.
Sell n Sail Galleon from detritus2004
Nature-based visual pack from Zuldazug, Raptre, Lord Gabryael and Ayse

(it did, part 2 follows)