Darth-Marximus

Yo Dudes & Dudettes, I come here with a bit of an issue regards "remote play" that I have not found an answer to no matter how many forums I scour. Hopefully some of you kind folks can help with this. 3 Options available in the manual state: PS3 - PSP via Internet (OK) PS3 - PSP via Private Network (OK) uses router make connection. PS3 - to PSP without router (cannot do) I have the UK 40Gb version (it has WiFi) however I cannot seem to get the PS3 to talk to my PSP directly unless my router is switched on. Has anyone else encoutered this problem. Is it a problem or am I missinterpreting the user manual? I rather liked the idea of using my PSP as a portable player having content streamed from my PS3 - but not having to have my router on as well. Can anyone shed any light on the issue? Marximus

It was my birthday a few days ago so i though "screw it" - gonna get a PS3 and a few games and Blu-Ray discs with some vouchers that I had saved up. However I also picked up a copy of Zack & Wiki! - Love that game! Why can't Wii games be cheaper - it was the same with Gamecube games - damn the system being so popular! - Now if only I could actually get excited about Mario Galaxy and Zelda Twilight Princess (had that since launch and still not played it yet - well not beyond the cow hearding bit at the start).

How to be a Complete B@st@rd - Amstrad CPC Swallowing ice cubes "hmm lumpy wee wee's!" & eating custard powder for industrial strength killer farts. Death Wish 3 - Amstrad CPC Pumping old Grannies full of hot lead with the machine gun or making instant corpses of folk with the rocket launcher (it made a fart sound when fired!) All Monkey Island games - PC "You are rubber I am glue!" Mortal Kombat II - Megadrive The "whoopise!" man that appeared on screen when you did a major combo. Another World - Megadrive When your alien friend first speaks to you and says: "Macaroon Bar!" Day of the Tentacle & Sam N' Max - PC 1st class visual hilarity through and through! - Worlds Biggest Ball of Twine. Black & White - PC Picking up a small citizen with your "god hand" and throwing them across almost an entire continent - having the rest of the citizens reply "oooooooh" Battlezone - PC Using the "Day Wrecker" weapon for the first time! Streets of Rage II - Megadrive Playing as Skate, jumping on some fools shoulders and punching the back of their head. Shaddow of Rome - PS2 Slicing off, picking up and then beating an enemy to death with his own arm in the Colloseum. I'll have a think about some others!

I still don;t get how you actually get your gamertag pcture to feature on postings that I make. I've posted my id in the past but I don't even know if it exists yet.

I Don't think so.. I relistened to the Chrono Trigger album again and I have to say that I'm still unimpressed overall. I like the fact that there is such a wealth of music for one game (29 released tracks!) However the track entitled: Reckless Robo Gang Johnny, reminds me of some wannabe Eurotrash progam on Bravo. Robos Theme Not bad. Undersea Palace Best on the album! If you want to find some real classic gems reworked and slightly modernised then I suggest people check out: http://www.ocremix.org Their Sonic, Streets of Rage and Castlevania work is absolutely exceptional! My Fav tracks of theirs are: Castlevania Castlevania 2: Bloody Tears Inspired OC Remix Castlevania 2: Simon's Town OC Remix Castlevania 4: CastleTrance OC Remix Castlevania 4: HouseParty OC Remix Castlevania 4: Castlemania OC Remix Castlevania Midnight Slayer (Solomn Mix) OC Remix Castlevania Wicked Orchestra OC Remix Castlevania WickedChild OC Remix Castlevania: Cirlce of the Moon Rude Awakening OC Remix Sonic Emerald Nights Chemical Reaction Aquatic Project Oil Spill High Above The Sky Robotnik's Theme Travelling Through A Dream Party in the Emerald Hills Sonik Caves Bring in the Machine Sonic the Hedgehog 2 BluestSky OC Remix Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Dream Pipe OC Remix Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Next My Generation OC Remix Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Robotnik's Trippin on Ecstacy OC Remix Sonic the Hedgehog Cryptic Marble OC Remix Sonic the Hedgehog Green Hill Zone (Euro Club '95 Mix) OC Remix Sonic the Hedgehog Love Hurts OC Remix Sonic the Hedgehog sonik special OC Remix And a Very Special Final Fantasy/Sonic Mix Track Hidden Palace Future Streets of Rage Streets of Rage (The Last Dragon) OC Remix Streets of Rage Trippin' on the Bridge OC Remix Streets of Rage 2 BadassPosse OC Remix Streets of Rage 2 EndingTheme (Reflecting Theme) OC Remix Streets of Rage 2 Go Back OC Remix Streets of Rage 2 SID of Rage OC Remix Its a must for any real videogame music lover!

16hr session on Monkey Island 2: Le Chucks Revenge. God Damn that special Green Grog concoction and having to wait for the wind flag to blow the correct way to win the spitting contest. Ahh the days of completing games before internet walkthroughs. Frustrating yet rewarding times!

No probs Petey - glad to be of service! I must say that many people responded to this thread and mentioned a lot of classic games such as the mighty Sam & Max. The only reason games such as these were not inlcuded in my own list is that Petey was looking for games where the main protagonist was specifically "human" ie not not Animal, Vegtable or Mineral. Although Petey I must say if you can acquire these games too I (along with many others) I would def recommend them. Ebay should see you good - especially for you FMV genre. Peace Marximus

Assassins Creed Mario Sunshine Zack & Wiki Mass Effect GTA IV

Aha, You've spurned my interest with this post. I love adventure games -therefore I will propose some of my personal favs - plus a few i just had to play for the sake of it. In no particular order: (Point and click 2D art) Monkey Island Series (3D presentation for Escape) The Dig Indy Jones: Fate of Atlantis/The Last Crusade Gabriel Knight: Sins of Father Full Throttle Beneath A Steel Sky (free download I believe) Day of the Tentacle Discworld I & II Runaway I & II Kings quest Series The Longest Journey Syberia I & II Blade Runner (3D elements) (3D games) Grim Fandango Discworld Noir Vampire: The Masqurade Redemption Te Nomad Soul Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned The Longest Journey II (FMV - Full Motion Video) Tex Murphy: Under A Killing Moon Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive Tex Murphy: Overseer Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within The Black Dahlia Ripper Spycraft the Great Game Phantasmagoria I & II 7th Guest 11th Hour Sherlock Holmes: Rose Tattoo Sherlock Holmes: Silver earring Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened The X-Files: The Game Hopefully that should be enouh to get you going Marximus

Guess it's my turn then Darth-Marximus | MadMarximus A note to all - I know of no-one locally who I can add to my friends list (its so empty )so please feel free to add me to yours and I shall do the same Peace

Best to start the game on Hard as opposed to Medium - me and my mate were breezing through it on co-op - but we were also loving every second of it Scarab killing is the best thing ever!

Well I have finally got some "hands on" play with the mighty Halo 3 and it is as expected - Excellent. I should say ahead of time that: No it was not a retail copy but a copy someone I know "acquired". Yes, I will be purchsing the full game - probably Limited Ed on 26th. I will not be revealing any major plot spoilers however I will say that the first level has you crash landed (along with your platoon) on Earth in a jungle undergrowth environment (which is sweet), as you brush past shrubbery and long grass it sways and reacts - it reminded me very much of FarCry. My mate and I played the campaign mode (he as Master Chief and me as the Arbitar) we had it on Normal and to be honest we were breezing through it. Listen to what Bungie are saying - play it first on a higher level if you are at all familiar with Halo. I was trying desperatley to activate the bubble shield (available later in the game) however it was not to be - I also could not initiate my invisiblilty cloak (however these are availbe throughout levels as pick-up items along with weapons such as Power Drain.) Some of the highlights for me were: Destroying Scarabs by begining the mission in an all out air assault using a new "HoverLift" craft - destroying a leg then landing inside its hanger bay and nuking its main core before fleeing the area to escape the shockwave. - Absolute class. We played the game up to a missions called "The Last Stand" - I have no idea if this is the last mission or not, (hope not) however I will say that the Arbitar was right there by the MC side throughout the entire story and features in all the cutscenes (however because they are all rendered in-game and it was on 2-player that may be why. We did not log into Live - for fear of its ban punishment - however all the typical options are there. I'm sur there are probably screenshots out there - however I will say that the main menus feature crisp HD renditions of the Master Chief and the Aribtar holding their weapons against a cool blue light (Oh Yeah!) and the loading screen between the main level portions of the game is a 3D halo ring replicated by lots of tiny dots scattering together like rain. Kinda like an effect on Windows Media Player when listening to music. Very cool. Any ways that me done for now - if any one has any questions please send me PM. Cheers Darth-Marximus

Am I ready??? New mobile phone deal - check! Free Xbox360 - Check One 2nd hand HD from bay - Check! 4 for 20 Preowned Xbox games from Gamestation (inc Halo 2) - Check! One 360 Headset + 1Month Live - Check! Oh yeah I'm Muth3rf&ckin ready!

Mario Kart - F*ck1n Sh1te! (it's just never appealed to me)

My first Nintendo experience was at a friends house way back in the good ol' 80's. He had just got a NES for his birthday. He had gotten Super Mario Bros with it and was raving on about it all that day in school saying how excellent it was and that I had to go round to his and see it for myself. When I did I remember thinking: "What a piece of sh/t - whats all the fuss? My other friends Master system had way better graphics than this - plus it didn;t have a stupid gray opening flap like a BetaMax video recorded" Couldn't tell him at the time caus he was way harder than me..but then I watched another NES owner/lover play Festers Quest and then Turtles and that got me intrigued. I never owned a NES - but I also never lost any sleep over it either. The Gameboy was another story... I never owned that either but was almost willing to sell my soul for one.

Never a truer word has been spoken - I just don;t se the appeal of marioKart at all and I hate any ind of spin off game ala "Diddy Kong" etc. F-Zero on Snes all the way! As for Underrated games???? Can't really think of any - perhaps Red Steel - while not perfect - its way better than Gamespot reviewed it as.

First gaming memory... Hide and Go Seek! then probably an old LCD game back in the early "early" 80's. But my first real computer gaming memory was: Harrier Attack on my Amstrad CPC 464 Woohoo! Marximus.

Absolute Classic games - Although I own these carts any way I do hope they both feature on the VC real soon - that way everone can appreciate how great these are. I also hope for the games below to feature soon: Road Rash Trilogy Flashback and Another World Ranger X That would be class! In the meantime I've included some shots of these two mighty games to let everyone in on these gems - that apparantly only we know about Peace Marximus

Yep totally agree, Nintendogs is an awesome game - I totally love it - but its no longer the kinda game that would once get you laid... Don't get me wrong it used to be ala... Girl approaches boy holding a new DS Girl sees Boy playing Nintendogs and tickling said Dog under its chin with stylus... "aaw look at that cute puppy - can I have a go?" Boy winks at camera - the end... However nowadays every kid over the age of 4 has a copy on their pink and blue DSlites and the novelty of surprise has diminshed and they you run the risk of Girls laughing in your face while they flock over some BuckFast swilling lout modelling the new Burberry range from his mothers Nova. Thank God I have a girlfriend....see I cashed in on the good ol' Nintendogs while the going was good, new and fresh. : peace:

Yup - I hear you... whippin out your Pinata on the train just ain't gonna go down well with the Grannies...Well... now that I actually think about it...I suppose it depends entirely on the Granny in question. Remember if any of them Grannies decide to get their freak on! "Real professionals always wear their gumshields during sparring sessions."

Games I'm embarrassed to say I enjoy? Hmmm... Amstrad CPC 464 Harrier Attack Jack the Nipper 2: Cocanut Capers How to be a Complete Bast*rd Amstrad GX4000 Fire & Forget 2 Megadrive 2 Crude Dudes GameCube True Crime: Streets of LA DS Nintendogs Peace Marximus

I love these posts - anything retro or nastalgic is great with me...however what I also love is music, especially Film and Game music - I have many, many tracks from the titles below (inc remixes and reinterpretations) so here goes.... Classics Robocop Amstrad CPC & Speccy - Themain title screen music had nothing to do with Basil Poledouris classic score from the fim but it was a beautifull and haunting piece of music nonetheless. - Especially true as it was coded and rendered on the 8-bit platform. Sonic2, Streets of Rage 2 & Thunderforce IV Three of the Megadrives greatest peices of gaming music (in my opinion) - Classic. Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Absolutely fantastic patriaotic, eerie and climactic orchestral music delivered by Hans Zimmers protege; Harry Gregson-Williams. God of War A thunderous and epic soundtrack (as it should be). Final Fantasy X Epic and beautifull (especially "Ending Theme" on disc 4 of the album) Biggest letdowns Chrono TriggerEveryone always raves about Chrono Trigger when talking about great game music - and while I appreciate its all about specific tastes - I just really couldn't enage with the tracks on any level and found them quite annoying. I must admit while having a quick listen to the tracks again prior to writing this post I keep imagining a player options screen when the Chrono Trigger tracks play especially track 4 Guardia Millenial Fair - Very dissapointed. Zelda While I love the games I don't think I can stand to hear that townsville music again. To me the best that Zelda music has ever been was as featured in the Twilight Princess trailer - as Zelda raises the Master Sword out of the ground and the wind is swirling around him... chills man, chills.... now thats EPIC - thats MAJESTY - - otherwise I don;t think thats the Link theme has ever been suitably rendered in as big a way as it should have been - they've all been a bit "hey-ho / so-so" for me. Peace Marximus

Hmm games I'm proud to say that I've completed... lets see. In order of hardware: Amstrad CPC 464 Robocop Double Dragon Renegade Midnight Resistance Ghostbusters II Terminator 2 Total Recall GX4000 Robocop 2 Megadrive Sonic Streets of Rage (Megadrive & Mega CD) Streets of Rage 2 Streets of rage 3 Sonic 2 Ecco World of Illusion: Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Batman Returns Strider Desert Strike Jungle Strike Golden Axe Aladdin Mickey Mouse World of Illusion StreetFighter 2 (with all characters inc Bosses) Robocop Vs. The Terminator Flashback Another World Jurassic Park Thunderforce IV James Bond: The Duel GameBoy Turtles: Rise of the Foot Clan Super Mario Land Arcade Double Dragon Star Wars PC X-Wing Monkey Island Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck's Revenge Monkey Island 3: The Curse of Monkey Island Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island Urban Chaos Simon the Sorcerer Outcast Toonstruck Under a Killing Moon Rebel Assualt Rebel Assualt 2 The Pandora Dorective Overseer Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred Blood of the Damned SpyCraft The Black Dahlia Jedi Knight Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast The Longest Journey Syberia Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Day of the Tentacle Sam n' Max Hit the Road The Dig Full Throttle Half-Life GameCube Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes PS2 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Star Wars Eps III: Revenge of the Sith Games I really should have completed by now (and may still yet) Amstrad CPC Golden Axe BombJack Star Wars Eps V: The Empire Strikes Back Star wars Eps VI: Return of the Jedi PaperBoy How to be a Complete B@st@rd Batman: The Movie Jack the Nipper 2: In Coconut Capers Target Renegade Predator The Spy Who Loved Me Knight Orc GX4000 Burnin' Rubber Fire & Forget II Megadrive Road Rash 1 Road Rash 2 Revenge of Shinobi AlienStorm Super Hang On Toe Jam and Earl LHX Prince of Persia Where in Time is Carmen Sandiago? Earth Worm Jim Pitfall Arcade Goloden Axe Final Fight Street Fighter 2 PC Magic Carpet Syndicate Syndicate Wars Alien Vs. Predator Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father Battlezone Battlezone II Tomb Raider Vampire Masquerade Redemption X-Wing Alliance Ultima X: Ascention Quake 2 GameCube True Crime: Streets of LA Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader Rogue Squadron 3: Rebel Strike Zelda: WindWaker Eternal Darkness PS2 GTA: San Andreas The Warriors Final Fantasy X Final Fantasy X-2 Shadow of Rome Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Prince of Persia The warrior within Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones Devil May Cry Soccom 2 ICO Shadow of the Collossus Need for Speed: Underground God of War Batman Begins Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Ashamed to have Completed Amstrad CPC Shanghai Warriors Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja Harrier Attack Megadrive 2 Crude Dudes. Predator 2 PC Omikron Phantasmagoria 2 I think thats my lot (for now anyways) Peace Marximus

Not an exhaustive list (and I'm afraid I went a bit old school) but these are just some of the covers that enthralled, encouraged and enticed me to "stick with it - and to play on!". Were it not for these classic covers - I may not have been encouraged enough to stay in the game. Thank god for these pieces of artwork and the truely great gaming momments they helped bring about! To me that is what makes cover art stand the test of time. Peace - marximus