theguyfromspark

just played multiplayer gears of war for the first time in a long time. I thought this game was all about cover and flanking? It seems that most of the ranked matches are just rushes for the best weapons then the usual circle strafe while firing at the enemies with a shotgun. It really disappointed me as i was looking forward to some cool tactical play.

Yay! Hope it's good... We've got to organise a tournament at some point!

Great minds think alike and all that. I just played the demo of alien hominid though... too hard for me to enjoy the full version + i've got crackdown, enchanted arms + lost planet to complete

I think you need an american credit card (with a valid US postal address) to buy points on an american account, but there's no IP location checking or anything so if you have one or have access to american points then it should work. Too much hassle for me, even though I have access to a US Credit Card.

It's coming up to my 360's 1 year aniversary.... I estimate 1 human year = 75 Xbox360 years so my 360 is currently picking the songs he wants played at the funeral, currently it's "Brick In The Wall" by Pink Floyd, "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash and "Crash Boom Bang" by Roxette. My Xbox has a sick sense of humour.

There's live multiplayer in the mini games though, but not in the main game

So is it worth the 800 points? I'm considering getting it tonight after work.

If Worms arrives before your Xbox, I'm going to email you videos of me playing it and laughing every hour for 3 days... just cos I'm a bit of a tit sometimes.

Not that I've played any version but apparantly the Xbox Live version is the same as the PS2/GC version which was substantially different from the Flash version. I think it will be a classic case of try before you buy for this one. There's full details about the changes on wikipedia if you're interested.

It's 800 and I think that's good value for money really considering all the mini game things they're chucking in.

Good News Everyone! Worms has finally been certified by Microsoft and should be with us all shortly!

If you guys end up playing something on saturday... I'd love to be invited

I'm not sure if those turtles shots are real, have they been confirmed by any developer?

So they can charge you for them a few weeks later of course! Is there a downloadable demo of alien hominid available for pc anywhere?

Admittedly i've not tried the release version of xna studio but the beta i messed around with seemed perfect for what it is (initially) touted as, a bare bones game development environment for bedroom coders. Yes the shader pipeline is all wrong, the sound system only half works and the performance is on the poor side but it's still the first technology that allows end users to create content on a console platform. I'm not touching the current version because I'm waiting for proper Visual Studio 2005 integration but some people have got some great (and fairly low level) stuff written for it, have you seen the NES emulator, that's pretty advanced stuff right there. We're you using the XNA studio express IDE from scratch or were you using some sort of pre-built helper engine such as the torque X engine because I don't remember coming across any of the drag and drop things you mention in the bare bones version I used.

Apparantly yes... there's an option called "Crime On" or something like that. It's enabled when you kill all the bosses. My plan is to "complete" the game once then concentrate on the achivements I didn't get. Then hopefully complete the new island they release as a download.

My sentiments exactly! I nipped home during my lunch hour to have quick blast, saw you sign in and thought "I know what he's online for!". Levelled up my jump once and my strength once, killed two bosses and took 3 supply points in about 45 minutes. While I was playing i couldn't help but think that this is what Dead Rising should have been, save regularly and with multiple restart points, instant fun, go anywhere, bosses that don't bugger off after 5 minutes, etc etc.

Just wondering what peoples reputation levels are like on here? Should I be worried that it seems that quite a few people have chosen to ignore me because of "unsporting behaviour" according to my profile? Is this just normal due to the fact that some people will mark me as evil for no reason other than I beat them at a game or do i have a serious problem with my online behaviour that i don't realize is considered naughty?

just confirmed by major nelson

I played it early on and I really enjoyed it, the whole persistant mmo thing is great and the scenery is good to look at too. I considered buying it but always got sidetracked by something else.

Rented Enchanted Arms today, seems like a typical jRPG at the moment, random battles, turn based combat, teenage angst. The strangest part is the cliche gay character which would be amusing if it was trying to be post modern or something... in the end it's just insulting my intelligence. I've barely started it though so you never know there may be some sort of twist to it at some point down the line

If we're replacing the bongos for the remote and nunchuck, what about the hand clap microphone? Are we getting a microphone attachment for the remote or will we have to press a button or motion in some other way? All of these alternatives don't sound as intuitive as the hand clap.

Looks like I'm officially addicted to COD3 Multiplayer now that they've finally fixed the ranked match connection issues. I might even buy those new maps... expensive as they are! This is the first game I've really got into the multiplayer side of on Xbox360, all the other games I've tried have been really difficult to get into a game (lost connections, game is full, server disconnected etc). I hope the forthcoming "secret" addition to GoW adds some better matchmaking code so I can move on to that once I've exhausted COD3.

Normality. It was a cool game in it's day!

COD3 and The Fountain Soundtrack