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Arnieboy

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  1. Gran Turismo 5

    ^ Holy crap. Got to level 21 a little while ago, with my main cars being a Mercedes SLS AMG, Audi R8 and my recently purchased Mclaren F1 All fully tuned up and kicking arse. The only races i can't win with them (not sure about the Mclaren) are the recent unlocks with the racing cars. I don't stand a chance yet I've also found a great race for exp and money, 4.7k exp and 59k credits a time. You need to be level 20 though. Edit: By the way, the last Top Gear Event is INSANE, you'll know what i mean when you get to it.
  2. Gran Turismo 5

    I got a few gold and silver but there's no way i'm going back and doing the licenses, i hate them with a passion but always do them all I think i'm up to level 15 now
  3. Gran Turismo 5

    After playing it a bit longer i have some issues that may stop me playing as much til i get a wheel stand. The loading times i agree, are still a bit much at times. But the thing that annoys me is the levelling system. Now at the start of the game it's fine, goes up quick, but by level 13ish it slumps down and the only real progress i can make is to keep doing a 17k credits a time race over and over til i can get required cars and even then it's a gamble. It's even more annoying as i have completed ALL the licenses and on any other GT game that would mean i'd have free roam of the races. I don't want this to be like an mmo where you have to unlock the next area by 'grinding races' and i'm not really good enough to gold every license test. Hopefully when i finally get the wheel in motion things will seem fresh enough to grind on a bit more, i hope so as the rest of the game is fantastic.
  4. Donkey Kong Country Series

    Bramble Blast is, and always will be my all time favourite. Great music, good level. After that i suppose any mine kart/rollercoaster level and the snow levels from DKC1 have to be up there, especially the one where it gets heavier the further you get into the level.
  5. Donkey Kong Country Returns

    Oh wait, i get what your doing now, you've been pessimistic so that you enjoy it more when it gets here. Gotcha :wink:
  6. Gran Turismo 5

    Massive facepalm. Just went out and bought the logitech steering wheel from Argos. Came back and there is absolutely nothing that i can stand it on. Back to the controller for now then...
  7. Donkey Kong Country Returns

    So a Donkey Kong Country game must have Enguard in it which means Returns isn't a DKC game, yet DKC2 and 3 didn't have Donkey Kong (the title of the bloody game!) as a playable character but they're still okay? That's like having a game called Mario 4 and having just Luigi as the playable character, but it's okay because Yoshi's in it.
  8. Gran Turismo 5

    Right, been playing this for about 9 hours now, all but super license done, level 13, 25% race completion apparently. It's good so far, the difficulty scales well for the most part, controls seem all good (controller), the premium cars are awesome with the extra cockpit view with fully controllable windscreen wipers and full-beam on your headlights. It's just what you'd expect i suppose. My only complaints are: - The music isn't as good as the others, it's okay but don't expect any Feeder as sadly there is none - The first half of the opening fmv, the music is terrible and it's quite boring for a bit (hardly matters though i know, nitpicking) - The levelling, while not bad, hinders progress, i have all but 1 license done and i can't do the last one yet, a bit annoying - The licenses are a pain in the arse and by that i mean the 10th (last) bit of each license which usually pits you in a multi-lap race with other cars. You can't go off course, you can't run into them which means if they suddenly break you can get disqualified and the biggest problem is that if you overtake someone and they run into YOU hard enough, you still get disqualified! Without a word of a lie, the last race on the international A license must have taken me between 30-40 tries before i got it right, which doesn't help when it's a hard to control car. Bloody AI. But i'm enjoying it, the variety in the used car shop is amazing and it changes with time and the tuning is as good as ever. The only thing i'm unclear on is if you can re-obtain unlock cars, it doesn't look like you can but i'm not sure. One thing i do know though, is you can't abuse the 'special races' to get your cash up quick, they won't give out a reward twice. @ Cooky: I did read your post and hence i've played it all day offline, the servers been undergoing maintenance anyway, no freezes offline I'll put my psn id up later though probably won't play it online for a while yet. Current cars in use: - Fully tuned Ford Focus ST - Fully tuned Mitsubishi 3000 GT (had to buy it, nostalgia from GT2) - BMW M3 Edit: Oh and even though i installed to the hard drive beforehand, it's still installing in segments whilst playing. Not sure if that's supposed to happen
  9. Gran Turismo 5

    It's here and it's nearly installed on the hard drive.
  10. Donkey Kong Country Returns

    Are you joking or did you honestly not know about that? That was announced a-g-e-s ago The only drawback i'm seeing is that you have to waggle to roll, but i'm sure i'll get used to it. Looks fantastic..and i have to wait an extra 22 days at least
  11. My dog just died.

    I'm not a pet person but that really choked me up. My family have dogs and i've witnessed a generation of their dogs pass away and it really is sad with the emptiness left behind.
  12. Call of Duty: Black Ops

    I've noticed this. The amount of times i've shot first and a level 40+ with an awesome assault rifle headshots me, bah. Though i have managed to rack up quite a few kills on this compared to the others.
  13. Gran Turismo 5

    Seriously considering getting that £80 racing wheel on payday. Will have to see how good it is with just the controller, been so many years since i last played a Gran Turismo game.
  14. Awesome NES Modification

    Where are the light guns for duck hunt?
  15. Sonic Colours

    I think this looks really good, as i've previously said and a lot of other people seem to agree that this is probably the best or one of the best 3d sonic games. But Gametrailers trashed it! Probably the worst Gametrailers review i've ever watched, a 6.4? Seriously?
  16. Wii General Discussion

    What a shame, although i suppose everyone moves on. A lot of great people have left IGN now and i agree that it isn't what it once was, i always used to like Matt's stuff.
  17. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

    I kept seeing this thread pop up and bought this earlier this month and totally forgot i had bought it. Then i was looking for a game to play last night and it caught my eye so i put it in and let's just say it's kept my attention! Enjoying it so far, up to that abby place where you can finally job change, completed the tower. The story is good, i'm liking it, not as good as most FF stories but that's to be expected i think. Visually impressive, loving the enemies in this, memorable for the most part with the slimes, the cruelcucumbers and sacksquatches. Currently have just changed to a warrior with my party being a priest, mage and a martial artist (the party being named Eiko, Vivi and Yang ) Was getting a little tired of backtracking and having to buy the wings when i got zoom <3 So yeah, my first DQ game and i'm impressed. The only thing i don't like is how dull the dungeons seem to be, but that's just me. The end bosses and loot all make up for it. The praise in this thread was indeed well deserved : peace:
  18. PlayStation 3 Console Discussion

    Yup, that's the little bugger. And yeah i've tried a number of those, think the open dns one too, but not the google one. If that doesn't work it's probably a problem at the router's end, will try and sort it out this weekend sometime. Cheers for the tips : peace:
  19. PlayStation 3 Console Discussion

    DNS error is something like i have an internet connection but it won't connect to PSN, so it says i have a good signal but won't sign me on. BT is our ISP, a homehub. And it was on and off like it would work 50 percent of the time but since trying to resolve it, it won't go online at all even with the 'easy and automatic settings.' I've read countless pages with people having the same error so this weekend i'll probably go and look at the router end of things. And yeah i agree, loft isn't the best place but if i remember correctly it was moved as the dogs kept knocking it off the window sill, disconnecting it.
  20. I don't see why it would be cancelled. The 3DS still plays DS games right? Although i suppose it'll be like when FF6 got it's gba release, the DS had gba support but people had just stopped buying gba games at that point. It's such a shame.
  21. PlayStation 3 Console Discussion

    I wish wired was possible but at this moment in time the family router is safely located in the loft of all places. I've spent countless hours looking up possible solutions, finding ip and dns addresses, turning features off but the furthest i seem to get is it finding the ip. It's always a dns error message i get. Apparently you can configure the router to a certain dns and then match it on the PS3 or something, i may give that a go this weekend as i really do like the PS3 but the online is giving me a headache.
  22. Sonic Colours

    I wasn't planning on getting this til later but after seeing that video i'm sorely tempted
  23. PlayStation 3 Console Discussion

    It's a Slim thus doesn't have one unfortunately.
  24. PlayStation 3 Console Discussion

    I decided to buy Black Ops for my PS3 to give it some use but the online for the PS3 is horrendously unreliable. I couldn't get connected to the psn launch day then it was fine for 2 days and since then i can't get on at all. Fiddled with DNS settings and everything. I'm really disappointed that Sony's online service seems to be so damn awkard and unreliable. In comparison my xbox360 and wii connect just fine every time.
  25. Name That Game: 2010 edition

    6) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2?
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