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Post by Alex on Jan 19, 2008 23:19:12 GMT
I've never stood up to play the Wii. Ever. Forget the stupid adverts with people paid to look like dicks, you can play every single Wii game perfectly fine sitting down making gentle gestures with the Remote.
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Post by Nam on Jan 19, 2008 23:24:22 GMT
yeah, but my standard gaming position is laying on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed, looking up at a 14" TV on a rack about five foot up from the floor, and six foot away. Not only is it A) neak ache city, but it's also B) not ideal conditions for waving a motion sensitive controller around
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Post by Baron Canier on Jan 19, 2008 23:32:36 GMT
Meh. Its light flicks of the wrist at most, unless you're playing Wii Sports.
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Post by Pombar on Jan 20, 2008 0:57:54 GMT
Agreed on the "If you didn't get a Wii what else did you spend £180 on?" mentality being bloody stupid. How about games for other consoles? Y'know, since good ones actually came out last year for the non-Wii consoles. And it's not as if gaming is the only moneysink in my life either. Parties & party 'supplies' drained the summer, while the rest of the miserable year's excess cash was spent on my other hobbies. Like reading. Books & graphic novels cost a ton, y'know.
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Post by Turbocharge on Jan 20, 2008 13:02:32 GMT
A quick reply to the "overpriced PS3" comments: I bought a PS3 at the and of December. I've had it for several months less than I've had my Wii. I play my PS3 more. Go figure.
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Post by Insector on Jan 20, 2008 13:59:02 GMT
I didn't buy a Wii in the first year because it was an awful console with gimmicky controls and n games whatsoever. Now that it seems to be clearing up those issues, I may well have to get one. For SMG and Smash Bros. Oh, and I [censored]ing HATE that mentality. "If you didn't buy a Wii, what else would you buy" etc? SOME OF US DON'T HAVE THE [censored]ING MONEY TO BURN [censored]ING NINTENDO MORONS*Goes over the edge* Seconded. And am I the only person who hasn't bought into any of this gen, because it's either painfully derivative/average/unoriginal or gimmicky/badlyexecuted/expenisive? The only game I've wanted for months is Kirby 64. And I got that for christmas. I can take it or leave it with this modern [censored]. And it's cheaper to leave it.
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Post by Baron Canier on Jan 20, 2008 14:04:29 GMT
And am I the only person who hasn't bought into any of this gen, because it's either painfully derivative/average/unoriginal or gimmicky/badlyexecuted/expenisive? Probably not. This gen seems to be going down the toiler so far.
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Post by Alex on Jan 20, 2008 14:45:56 GMT
Most of what will define this "generation" is obviously still to come (but then, that's a bit of a "duuuuh" statement as there ARE another 4 or more years of games to come - and generally the purely good stuff only comes closer to the end when people are really getting how to get the most out of the machines...), but so far we've had games like Mario Galaxy, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Rock Band (for 'Merikans), Bioshock (as claimed by some peoples), Metroid Prime 3, Gears of War, Assassin's Creed and plenty of massive titles coming out in the very near future (SSBB and GTAIV easily being the games that are going to dominate the world for the rest of the year, and stuff like Mario Kart for the Wii not being too far off either).
I'd say that most fronts are certainly delivering very well - though the Wii does need Nintendo to give it a massive kick up the arse and actually get their games out for it as opposed to indefinitely delaying them...
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Post by Sin on Jan 20, 2008 14:48:51 GMT
How much is 500 Wii points in real money?
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Post by Alex on Jan 20, 2008 15:18:58 GMT
£3.50. Or 2000 stars if you're a [censored]alogue Ninja.
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Post by Pombar on Jan 20, 2008 17:06:43 GMT
Where has this mentality of "if you have £180 and didn't get a Wii what did you spend it on?" come from? I've never heard nor seen it anywhere. Then you obviously didn't read Oak's post which said that earlier in this thread.
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Post by Alex on Jan 21, 2008 1:29:23 GMT
I thought I was the only one who did that?
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Post by Pombar on Jan 21, 2008 9:05:58 GMT
I do it too, but when I'm caught out on it, I just pretend that I hadn't and that the opinion I formed was still formed with the benefit of knowledge of the rest of the thread, and just wing it from there. Tha's why they call me the Pombar.
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Post by Baron Canier on Jan 27, 2008 14:44:41 GMT
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Post by Sin on Jan 27, 2008 15:12:04 GMT
I got to the point where he said Jigglypuffs name for the first time before shutting it off.
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Post by Baron Canier on Jan 27, 2008 15:16:34 GMT
I got to the point where he said Jigglypuffs name for the first time before shutting it off. You haven't seen the worst of it; skip forward to where he discusses Sonic. It took multiple viewsing for me to get through it all. I originally turned it off when he got to Wario.
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Post by Samface on Jan 27, 2008 15:42:05 GMT
I actually couldn't get past "so first of all we have Pit. He was originally gonna be..." before I had to turn it off to avoid my eardrums committing suicide.
BLOW YOUR [censored]ING NOSE.
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Post by Moo on Jan 27, 2008 16:11:37 GMT
He sounds like the result of the butler from The Birdcage and Hilda Swarez from Ugly Betty having a baby. Also probably looks like it.
And wtf?
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Post by Blizz on Jan 27, 2008 16:15:05 GMT
"He hath duh Thpanish aaaaakthent, dath kinda coo-ull. Kinda coo-ull."
Until now, I thought no-one could have a more annoying voice than Alan Carr.
I say we inject this kid with that flesh-eating disease (necrotising however-the-[censored]-it's-spelled) and hang him from a tree just above a tank of great white sharks and see what gets him first.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 27, 2008 16:26:53 GMT
Urge to kill... rising... rising.... FADING... rising.
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Post by Baron Canier on Feb 1, 2008 19:27:54 GMT
Question: Some time ago my PS2 memory cards up and vanished. Without trace. I'm not going to bother doing all of my Budokai 3 crap again, and Resi 4 can wait because I played it to death. However, I was wondering, should I bother playing through Soul Calibur II all over again and getting all my crap back? Or should I just move straight onto SCIII and try to recover everything from that one? It hurts too much thinking about all the stuff I had.
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Post by Pombar on Feb 1, 2008 19:31:29 GMT
N'Gai Croal did a piece on how it's SO MUCH WORSE to lose your memory card than your games or even your console. It sure does suck.
Anyway, SC3 is far less balanced and the cookie cutter or cheap characters are hilariously overpowered. I just fond that most of the good bits from SC2 were taken out, most of the mediocre bits kept in, and it added all new bad stuff to sit alongside the existing issues with SC2. Just a generally worse sequel.
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Post by Baron Canier on Feb 1, 2008 19:39:09 GMT
Whilst we could get into a discussion about the quality of SCII and SCIII, that's not what I asked. I'll probably end up doing both. God damn, I'd already completed Weapon Master once and was three goddamn fights away from getting 100%. RAGE.
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Post by madhair60 on Feb 1, 2008 21:05:09 GMT
Soul Calibur 3 is awful.
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Post by Baron Canier on Feb 1, 2008 21:08:35 GMT
So I'll start on SCII first, then.
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