The Bard

Go for it dude, the arcade stick I got for my 360 a year ago was 80quid. What you've got there is a bargain. I'm thinking of getting another stick aswell, but I'm probably gonna wait for SF4 to come out, as HORI will probably release an exclusive octagonal gate one for it (the one I have right now is only 4 way, which makes quarter motions a bit more difficult).

jaffa... mmmmmmmmn. awesome

How fuckin stoned was he?

That's altogether though, with tuition fees. Anyway, the residence is supposed to be 3,450 and the tuition fees are around 3,145 (of which I have to pay 1,145) a year. I applied for the loan company to cover 4.5k and then I'll be getting some from rents aswell. In fact, I'm sure most of that's wrong. I suck with finances. I'm not completely sure what the total cost will come up to every year, suppose I should add in a couple extra grand for food and shizzle. Anyway, that is pretty awesome for London. I'm just uber chuffed that I'll have cash for the arcade

It can't be helped

Thought I recognised it from somewhere. There's great a Japanese shop around there, where I got the Chono Trigger OST for like $15. Was awesome.

Is that your gf? I thought it was stevo from Jackass for a bit. No offense, Stevo is hot, I would totally hit that. Also, that 2nd pic reminds me of New York for some reason...

"Just Barely Breathing" has probably the best chorus riff ever conceived by human minds. Seriously, that album is so cramped with awesomeness it makes me want to weep for joy.

Fuck yeah! I've got the accommodation I want at QMUL (on suite) and my total fees, including everything are about 4500 quid, which about half what everyone else has to pay. I ma gonna be living the good life

Old and amateurish, but it made me rofl uncontrollably

That looks absolutely, thoroughly unbelievable. I hope they add some good new mechanics, rather than it being a next gen iteration of RE4 (although, I wouldn't complain one bit about that either) I'm really looking forward to seeing the details, like the Merchant from RE4 and the collectible weapons like the handcannon.

Yup, upscaled PS2 games would be great. And maybe as a Bluray player too.

Kurt was a pretty great lyricist. Fave Nirvana songs: About A Girl Dive Aneurysm Lithium Lounge Act Smells Like Teen Spirit (even though it's overplayed, it's still a lot of fun) Heart Shaped Box Serve The Servants Pennyroyal Tea Polly You Know You're Right. That's some fairly vacant hyperbole to be honest with you.

That's fairly appalling. Ok, so my only reason for ever buying a PS3 has gone down the shitter.

Ah, safe. Well, it does look fantastic. Hope it plays and sells well, need more games like this on Wii. No videos of this so far I suppose?

I really looking forward to this, although FF3 wasn't great. Didn't this come out on the PS2 though? What are the reviews like?

His Jinrai special is by far the most useful, since a maxed out meter lets you do it three times in a match. It's a total lifesaver in SF3. SF4 also looks far too slow at the moment. Deshiken: And of course, the infamous Daigo moment: SF4 just doesn't look as anywhere near as fun to watch.

New "vengeance" trailer looks great, although the character animations look a bit stiff and not as fluid as in the SF3 series, and I'm still bummed out about the lack of more than one special per character.

Around this time in the Cube's life I loved these games: Waverace: Blue Storm Star Wars Rebel Strike: Rogue Leader 2 Pikmin Resident Evil Luigi's Mansion Super Smash Bros: Melee (which I still maintain is superior to Brawl) Timesplitters 2 Zelda: Wind Waker Metroid Prime Splinter Cell Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (Not sure if this was out at the time actually) Tony Hawks 4 (back when the series was still kickass) Burnout 2 Mario Sunshine With the Wii, the only games I've really liked so far are MP3: Corruption Twilight Princess Mario Galaxy Zakk And Wiki Maybe I've become more picky, or maybe it's the fact that there are far better games available on the 360, but the Gamecube had much better games for it's time than the Wii, and funnily enough, I prefered the Gamecube iterations of Nintendo's titles (apart from Mario, obviously). To be fair, maybe I'm being a bit harsh on Nintendo, they tried something new with the Wii, and are still trying to find their feet, but I somehow still have faith that we will see some good stuff on the Wii eventually. There was also the factor of the Cube being an incredibly powerful machine at the time, more so than the market leader and was more than able to compete. With Wii, it seems that we're seeing games from the last generation, but with the added novelty of motion control (which is amazing some of the time, and badly implemented most of the time)

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Japanese rock, for the most part, blows.

Yes, well, you will get dumped on if you try to play tournament level in any 2D fighter (and most 3D fighters) without an arcade stick. The speed with which you need to do quarter turns to do...say, Ken's Low Medium Kick cancelled into medium shoryuken cancelled into jinrai super, you need to pull off a clockwise quarter turn (into low kick) followed by an anticlockwise turn (into medium or fierce shoryuken) and another anticlockwise turn (into jinrai) in slightly over 1 second, while at the same time pressing the correct buttons. Techniques like this are thoroughly impossible in competitive play without an arcade stick. Virtua Fighter 5's move list for pretty much any character is impossible to master without an arcade stick. Etc Etc. It takes quite a lot of practice to get accustomed to using them, but it's more than worth it. To be honest though, the only fighter I can still play very competitively is SF3: 3rd Strike, but that's a game that I can and will never get bored of. If you have friends who are a challenge to you, good fighters never lose their fun.

You have read this thread, right? The guy is saying he's been lifting weights for 3 years without putting on any weight.

Well, I was talking about the cover system. The over shoulder view has been pretty widely used, so it's not much to brag about, and Metal Gear is stealth action, not a Third Person Shooter, so it wouldn't make any sense to say that RE5 with a cover system would play like MGS, now would it?

It's the best cover system in any game I've played. The over the shoulder view was clearly inspired by RE4, but it worked perfectly in Gears too. I think Gears it the defining third person shooter this generation, so it seems only fair that people would compare other games to it, rather than reference some obscure, mediocre game in the past that nobody remembers. That, and the fact that if RE5 did implement a cover system, then it would probably play quite a bit like Gears.

Cheers for stating the obvious.