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God i hated those streakmania challenges, Here I Go Again gave me the most trouble for that for some reason, (i play hard difficulty). I completed the game today and i also noticed a lot of tweaks and changes to the gameplay. The overdrive meter glows differently or at least i think it does and that instant overdrive you get happens when the fret board around the white notes is a yellowy colour. No idea why they added that but more overdrive = win. Oh and i went for it and played Free Bird and it seemed to match the difficulty of guitar hero 2, perhaps a tiny bit easier and instead of the pause before the guitar part kicks in you have some notes. Still has the awesome factor though, love playing that song! Again though this is hard difficulty, but i imagine it to be truly challenging once again on expert. Edit: missed seeing the last 2 posts so if the post seems a bit odd, yeah oops.

I have £50 transferred automatically to an ISA every month so that i don't spend it. I do have a bit of money in my normal account, i use that as a 'just in case' buffer.

Holy hell that looks awesome! Finally some modern weapons in zombie game, should make it interesting. Also makes me wonder if they'll bring back the lazer weapons or something totally new.

I've only had a problem with one GAME store really and that was the Great Yarmouth branch. They didn't know what was in or out of stock and once had a whole shelf full of Guitar Hero: Metallica boxes ready to buy...and when i got to the checkout was told that they were out of stock. Not one single 'out of stock' sticker in sight. That same shop also had a guy who pestered me to take up one of the offers while buying pokemon diamond, i swear he would not stop until i agreed to buy something extra for 2 quid or something, argh. Walked out with a stylus that i never use. (Apologies if any of you work at that branch). Besides, as gamers isn't it a little bit satisfying when you know more than the staff in GAME sometimes? I don't mean in a being an arse kind of way, but telling them release dates and information that they don't know. I don't expect all the staff to know information about every game, all i need to know is if it's in stock and to not constantly try to sell me what i don't want.

While we never did the character rule as we never really abused oddjob, we did do the 'don't shoot if your opponent is weaponless.' Made it more fair and fun We usually used the weapon setup with the RCP90s. Best gun in the game in my opinion.

Rockband 2 didn't appear in tescos until months after it was released in my area and i only saw advertisements for it on tv 6 months after! I had to go into Game to get it. Rockband 3 on the other hand, no trouble. Went into tescos and picked it up, was number 1 or 2 in the xbox360 chart. As for the setlist, this is probably the best Rock Band setlist i've played. It's just a shame Warriors of Rock got Rush and the superior Dire Straits song.

Wouldn't have known about those free tracks if you hadn't of said, cheers! Picked this up today and had a go. Seems really good once again but all the rock bands gave been good. Don't see myself doing pro mode though, i'll just stick to hard.

Oh god i used to love k'nex! Had boxes full of the stuff. I also had those micro machine vehicles that folded out into a town where you could drive around the micro machine cars. But alas my mother never kept things, she sold them. Including the k'nex, micro machines and a gameboy colour.

It's not nearly as bad as a lot of things that have been mentioned, but a family member who i no longer speak to that much stole a ds game out of my ds and thought i wouldn't notice. I knew it was him that done it too as he was the last person other than me anywhere near it, never got it back either. I think stealing, although a horrible thing anyway, is made even worse when it's a family member who has done it.

It looks soooo good! It seems there will be more mine cart levels than the normal 2 or 3 too which is always a good thing And i can see myself swearing at those levels where your being chased, jeez those are always so tense.

Preordered this today with the Golden Classic controller. Really looking forward to this now!

Kotaku have a story up relating to the difficulty of DKCR and it all looks good. Whilst i have been looking forward to this i was starting to wonder about the difficulty seeing as you now have 2 hits per kong, (i think i've seen if you die as one you die overall, but if you switch kongs that's still 3 hits to play with). Looks to be following New Super Mario Bros in still having a challenging difficulty which is good to see. http://kotaku.com/5675560/50-deaths-in-donkey-kong-country-returns-in-one-sitting

No no, that's not what i meant at all and i didn't say stealing, i said copying but still i was vague. If you look at a lot of Nintendo's successful controllers/consoles they take a pre-existing idea and make it work better and make it popular. They made the d-pad popular, the analogue stick, the rumble feature, touch pad, motion controllers etc. I know they didn't make the touch pad, the first console to use it as far as i know, was the Game.com. Although they might have come up with the rumble idea, but i'm not sure. Anyway the point i was trying to make was: -Nintendo uses the d-pad, it becomes popular, others use it -Nintendo uses analogue sticks and rumble functionality, others use it -Nintendo uses motion control, suddenly xbox and ps3 have their own versions Nintendo aren't the be and end all of gaming ideas, but they have made a lot popular.

I'd go see Raiders of the Lost Ark just to see the bit with the boulder.

So would mine be if most of the people involved with Rare's best games like Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie etc, hadn't leftI the company. Hell the people who formed Rare have left. And i also agree that Viva Pinata is a good game, (haven't played Kameo or Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts but heard mixed reviews on both - not denying they're good games), but they now seem to be a company doomed to make Kinect games and games that 'don't quite get there.' Heck i loved Rare, one of the best game companies ever created, but they've just lost that spark and where they've lost it, Retro Studios seems to have found it. But anyway, whoever develops it i'd still buy it. Especially when it looks as good as it does.

Well the new psp apparently has a touch screen so i wouldn't be at all surprised, especially with their past track record of copying Nintendo's ideas. The 3DS will almost certainly out sell it though, even if they try to 1up it.

I'm surprised you didn't make a joke about it being a free (Donkey Kong) Country. This is a very important release to me as well but I am reserving judgement until i play it, like i did when i played New Super Mario Bros DS after playing Super Mario World so long ago. And i also don't see how it's physics being slightly different means that it shouldn't have the 'Country' label. Just because Sonic 4 was different should that drop the 4? And should New Super Mario Bros DS and Wii be disgarded from the mario timeline, or 2d mario's in general because they play differently? I don't think so. This entry will evolve the Country series into the next gen and make it better. It may not rank as high as Donkey Kong Country 2 (<3), but like New Super Mario Bros before it will be a damn good game. Besides, Retro are developing it. Would you rather have Rare as they are now developing it? Didn't think so. So just relax, it's going to be a good game, you'll see.

Part 4 is up: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/part-iv-the-castlevania/705742 Edit: Sorry for the double post

I can't really remember. I'm guessing it was in my later 'single digit' years, as i used to wonder why everyone else in my family had presents wrapped up by my mother and why i was always told to thank certain family members for certain presents. I don't think i ever got a 'from Santa' on a present label, so eventually i figured it out.

I can sort of see what you all mean about the jumping, but it doesn't look that bad. You have to remember that newer games are not going to play 'exactly' the same as the old games and that's probably a good thing to a certain degree. Hype-ness levels not dampened in the slightest.

I enjoyed the story more than the others i've played, but i think the lack of flood was a big factor. I still have nightmares about 'Cortana' on Halo 3.

I will be immensely surprised if it's anything less! Not been this hyped for a game release in ages, (nostalgia a major factor).

Oh dear, that clashes with the 'potential' 3DS release month. I will be hard strapped for cash!

Ahhhh, it all becomes clearer cheers! It's been 4 long years since i last used that.

Wow what awesome jobs, congrats! Gets me thinking that i have a BTEC National Diploma in Media Publishing/Journalism sitting there going to waste, oh well maybe one day i'll pursue it.