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Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:49 pm
by scouseknight
Nephilist wrote: It's by far the glitchiest game I've ever played but have thoroughly enjoyed it.
I thought it was being hard done by with the glitch comments at first but I've started new players a few times due to things not working - it's a massive game with a lot going on and it doesn't glitch often but when it does, it really does spoil things - I've got a player now at level 50 with a quest log full of quests I cannot finish.

After doing research on-line, the majority of the quests have borked because of a sequence of events such as talking to a character at the wrong time - how was I to know it was the wrong time? I wasn't - but it caused the quest to break.

However, as soon as the patch hits the 360 I am going to do it all over again - the game is simply that good. It is so close to being perfect in fact.

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Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:47 pm
by PzR Slim
Project CARS just keeps looking better and better 8O

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Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:32 pm
by mac_d
So, for those of us not watching news or using the BBC website as a respectable way to gherkin away the work hours, Game went into administration yesterday. I think most of us saw this coming after Mass Effect 3, which was followed by numerous other publishers and Sony/MS/Nintendo calling time out on them.

All pre-order downpayments are gone. If you had one, you are now a creditor. And you'll be bottom of the barrel in line.
You can't spend reward points, but you can trade in to get them! Anyone stupid enough to do this? I doubt the buyers will honour these anyway, assuming it gets bought.

About half of their stores shut yesterday. Around 300 of their just over 600. I feel sorry for the staff but the company was managed poorly. More shockingly, the UK and Spain wings actually did make money?!?!! It was a couple of other countries versions that didn't. It shocks me that GAME actually made money. They are stupidly expensive, and while the days used to be that GAME was a big name that stocked games the kids wanted that mothers would go to, Amazon is amongst online places easier to buy from. You can go to Tesco these days for video games. Why spent the reasonable difference (£37.99 for a new release in my local independent store vs £42.99 in Game - around 15% difference). For trade ins they were decent, so I can see that section making money (and from what I hear this is where a large proportion of the money comes from). That said, HMV and Tesco both also now do trades, so perhaps GAME/station were still not great comparitively.

Anyway, I don't want Game to go bust. I use their online services a lot (Gamestation more than GAME). But the company was bloated and prices were over the odds.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:26 am
by matzy
It is a real shame to see Game in trouble.

Unfortunately, times move on. I stopped buying games from places like Game and HMV the moment I could download the same (legally) from services like Steam. Games I couldn't get from places like Steam (few and far between now, and mainly just console games for my PS3) were generally cheaper from massive on-line retailers like Amazon.

Personally, I never purchase games from supermarkets ... I know millions do though, and I suspect this played a major part in Games downfall too. All the big releases are hi-jacked now by the likes of Tesco and Asda, as a way to get you into their stores. Quite a destructive way to drum up more custom, IMHO.

Game didn't see the writing on the wall. They should have scaled down significantly, years ago, and pushed the on-line store (and digital download market) with the recognisable brand they had. Every high street has one (or even two) Game stores ...

Apart from everything else, this will leave a gaping hole in most of Britain's High Streets and will add to the ever increasing youth unemployment :(

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:38 am
by Sarhan
totem wrote:Well this development is already well underway with day 1 DLC, microtransactions, and so on. Most video games aren't works of art anymore, they're services that can be bought piecemeal. Gamers have learnt just how much artistic integrity means for the likes of BioWare and act accordingly. Slippery slope? Some firms are already at the bottom of it, some, like CD Projekt RED with their free DLC, don't know what slope you're talking about. Sure it's sad to see BioWare do it, but I'm not surprised.

I've actually decided to buy the GOTY edition of ME3. That'll show em... :nod:
CD Projekt? I know that company, they're from my town :)

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:14 pm
by matzy
Do we have any "Star Wars: The Old Republic" (SWTOR) players on this forum?

I am enjoying the game immensely, although its not without its problems.

I had to re-roll on another server, after already reaching max level on one character, but on a dead server. It is a good game, and I think Blizzard will have to pull out all the stops during the development of Mists of Pandaria expansion (WOW: MoP). Having experienced the levelling process in SWTOR now, twice, it is a far more interesting levelling experience, and I am dreading levelling a character in WOW: MoP if it is similar to all other WOW releases/expansions.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:59 pm
by dizlexik
I avoid MMORPG.

Only games I play are TF2 and elastomania.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:34 pm
by mac_d
I like the idea of MMORPG but I always thing it seems like an excuse to charge for the game then charge a not small amount for further play. I bought the game, I should be able to play for free. Or I should be able to get the game for free and pay for my play.

Only thing close to MMORPG I played was Phantasy Star Online Ep. 1 & 2 on the Gamecube. The other thing that puts me off MMORPG is how hooked I get. I spent about 4000 hours playing PSO, including 2 level 200s, and another 2 in the 190s. I have a total of 8 characters above Level 160. And this is a game that really ups the EXP to level when you level up. (Halfway point in terms of EXP comes at Level 182 iirc, with 200 being maximum). I had a lot of fun doing it, and a few members of the community that I still keep in contact with online. But I spent almost half a year of solid playtime on it. That is just stupid. Even over the 7 or so years I played it, that is time I wish I had put into something else. MMORPGs are the devil to me, so damn good.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:37 pm
by Megamoss
To echo sentiments about GAME going out of business, sad but hardly a surprise.
They were nowhere near competitive and even their sale prices often did not match up to Amazon's normal prices. I'll be sadder to see the Gamestation brand go. They at least did fairly well on the second hand side of things.

I read on Gamespot that they had an annual turnover of £1.6 billion. They weren't exactly struggling for business despite their uncompetitiveness. Some real mismanagement going on there somewhere.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:34 am
by matzy
Megamoss wrote:To echo sentiments about GAME going out of business, sad but hardly a surprise.
They were nowhere near competitive and even their sale prices often did not match up to Amazon's normal prices. I'll be sadder to see the Gamestation brand go. They at least did fairly well on the second hand side of things.

I read on Gamespot that they had an annual turnover of £1.6 billion. They weren't exactly struggling for business despite their uncompetitiveness. Some real mismanagement going on there somewhere.
I hate to break it to you, but gamestation is part of the Game group, and is also in administration therefore. Check out the website :(

Unless you already knew that and this was your point. I cannot tell ;)

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:41 pm
by Alienturnedhuman
I have completed Mass Effect 3 and while I have a whole list of criticisms of it the ending is not one of them. While I can accept some people might not like it, I don't understand what it so controversial about it, it's not like the ending to Lost where the producers backtracked on a lot of what they had said and left a million unanswered questions.

My biggest complaint with the game is the artistic style getting in the way of its usefulness. With the radar only visible when you go into the powerups menu it means you have to keep track of the enemies with your eyes in combat and the majority of the times I got killed was simply because I hadn't been able to see or distinguish enemies. Now, this would almost be bearable if it was not for the fact the scenery was also difficult to see at times and I would find myself running into what I thought was empty space to get away from a boss only to find myself cornered in a load of black crates in the shadow of a shuttle or something. Given that Mass Effect 3 does not have a particularly advanced movement system (it's on a par with the first Gears of War game, which is now over 5 years old) it makes it even more vitally important that you can see what bits of ground you can walk on or jump over and what is an invisible wall.

My second annoyance refers to the sense of scale. Now, given this is a game about the whole galaxy being at war, in every single corner of the quadrant it becomes quite comical when you land on a planet get sent on a assignment to track down some general lost in the battle field and when you leave base camp he is less than 100 metres around the corner. This is ultimately a consequence of scrapping the vehicle sections... but just because the Mass Effect 1 vehicle sections suffered from terrible handling physics doesn't mean they were bad, it just meant they needed much more refinement. Look at the leap that was made from Mass Effect 1 to Mass Effect 2 and then again to Mass Effect 3 with the combat mechanics - if the same leap had been made with the vehicle mechanics then the vehicle sections would have been brilliant and not - as Yahtzee described it in his ME1 review - piloting a shopping trolley on a bouncy castle.

My third issue comes with the flow of the game. Mass Effect 3 truly has been reduced to the Gears of War "Exposition cutscene - SHOOT SHOOT KILL KILL SHOOT SHOOT KILL KILL - super awesome ending cutscene" + REPEAT. Obviously there are times where you might have to make a choice, but these happen during dialogue cutscenes. So really it is Gears of War combat with powerups and interactive movie cutscenes. If the vehicle sections were still in the game then maybe this would not be so bad, but it is also a consequence of the fact that the levels have become linear. The first game had you visit worlds where there were multiple missions - now the only place where there is this type of interaction is on the Citadel and there aren't any missions that occur while you are engaged it in it.

On to the ending (in spoilers obviously)
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Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:14 pm
by bbobeckyj
Alienturnedhuman wrote:I have completed Mass Effect 3 and while I have a whole list of criticisms of it the ending is not one of them. While I can accept some people might not like it, I don't understand what it so controversial about it, it's not like the ending to Lost where the producers backtracked on a lot of what they had said and left a million unanswered questions.

My biggest complaint with the game is the artistic style getting in the way of its usefulness. With the radar only visible when you go into the powerups menu it means you have to keep track of the enemies with your eyes in combat and the majority of the times I got killed was simply because I hadn't been able to see or distinguish enemies. Now, this would almost be bearable if it was not for the fact the scenery was also difficult to see at times and I would find myself running into what I thought was empty space to get away from a boss only to find myself cornered in a load of black crates in the shadow of a shuttle or something. Given that Mass Effect 3 does not have a particularly advanced movement system (it's on a par with the first Gears of War game, which is now over 5 years old) it makes it even more vitally important that you can see what bits of ground you can walk on or jump over and what is an invisible wall.

My second annoyance refers to the sense of scale. Now, given this is a game about the whole galaxy being at war, in every single corner of the quadrant it becomes quite comical when you land on a planet get sent on a assignment to track down some general lost in the battle field and when you leave base camp he is less than 100 metres around the corner. This is ultimately a consequence of scrapping the vehicle sections... but just because the Mass Effect 1 vehicle sections suffered from terrible handling physics doesn't mean they were bad, it just meant they needed much more refinement. Look at the leap that was made from Mass Effect 1 to Mass Effect 2 and then again to Mass Effect 3 with the combat mechanics - if the same leap had been made with the vehicle mechanics then the vehicle sections would have been brilliant and not - as Yahtzee described it in his ME1 review - piloting a shopping trolley on a bouncy castle.

My third issue comes with the flow of the game. Mass Effect 3 truly has been reduced to the Gears of War "Exposition cutscene - SHOOT SHOOT KILL KILL SHOOT SHOOT KILL KILL - super awesome ending cutscene" + REPEAT. Obviously there are times where you might have to make a choice, but these happen during dialogue cutscenes. So really it is Gears of War combat with powerups and interactive movie cutscenes. If the vehicle sections were still in the game then maybe this would not be so bad, but it is also a consequence of the fact that the levels have become linear. The first game had you visit worlds where there were multiple missions - now the only place where there is this type of interaction is on the Citadel and there aren't any missions that occur while you are engaged it in it.


I just finished playing ME2 two days ago. I was confused for a few minutes, I couldn't figure out how the game decided who should die at the end. I had to google. This is the first game I've played where if a character says something to the effect of 'we must hurry', it actually matters if you don't continue the main quest immediately. I quite like that, but I'm far too impatient to play the whole game again just to see a different ending, I've got youtube for that... I also don't think that I was forced into making a decision during combat like you described for ME(1) earlier. Maybe that was what would have happened if I fought my way through the ending too slowly and 'allowed' the other team to die.

The ME3 ending-
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Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:30 pm
by Alienturnedhuman
bbobeckyj wrote:
Alienturnedhuman wrote:I have completed Mass Effect 3 and while I have a whole list of criticisms of it the ending is not one of them. While I can accept some people might not like it, I don't understand what it so controversial about it, it's not like the ending to Lost where the producers backtracked on a lot of what they had said and left a million unanswered questions.

My biggest complaint with the game is the artistic style getting in the way of its usefulness. With the radar only visible when you go into the powerups menu it means you have to keep track of the enemies with your eyes in combat and the majority of the times I got killed was simply because I hadn't been able to see or distinguish enemies. Now, this would almost be bearable if it was not for the fact the scenery was also difficult to see at times and I would find myself running into what I thought was empty space to get away from a boss only to find myself cornered in a load of black crates in the shadow of a shuttle or something. Given that Mass Effect 3 does not have a particularly advanced movement system (it's on a par with the first Gears of War game, which is now over 5 years old) it makes it even more vitally important that you can see what bits of ground you can walk on or jump over and what is an invisible wall.

My second annoyance refers to the sense of scale. Now, given this is a game about the whole galaxy being at war, in every single corner of the quadrant it becomes quite comical when you land on a planet get sent on a assignment to track down some general lost in the battle field and when you leave base camp he is less than 100 metres around the corner. This is ultimately a consequence of scrapping the vehicle sections... but just because the Mass Effect 1 vehicle sections suffered from terrible handling physics doesn't mean they were bad, it just meant they needed much more refinement. Look at the leap that was made from Mass Effect 1 to Mass Effect 2 and then again to Mass Effect 3 with the combat mechanics - if the same leap had been made with the vehicle mechanics then the vehicle sections would have been brilliant and not - as Yahtzee described it in his ME1 review - piloting a shopping trolley on a bouncy castle.

My third issue comes with the flow of the game. Mass Effect 3 truly has been reduced to the Gears of War "Exposition cutscene - SHOOT SHOOT KILL KILL SHOOT SHOOT KILL KILL - super awesome ending cutscene" + REPEAT. Obviously there are times where you might have to make a choice, but these happen during dialogue cutscenes. So really it is Gears of War combat with powerups and interactive movie cutscenes. If the vehicle sections were still in the game then maybe this would not be so bad, but it is also a consequence of the fact that the levels have become linear. The first game had you visit worlds where there were multiple missions - now the only place where there is this type of interaction is on the Citadel and there aren't any missions that occur while you are engaged it in it.


I just finished playing ME2 two days ago. I was confused for a few minutes, I couldn't figure out how the game decided who should die at the end. I had to google. This is the first game I've played where if a character says something to the effect of 'we must hurry', it actually matters if you don't continue the main quest immediately. I quite like that, but I'm far too impatient to play the whole game again just to see a different ending, I've got youtube for that... I also don't think that I was forced into making a decision during combat like you described for ME(1) earlier. Maybe that was what would have happened if I fought my way through the ending too slowly and 'allowed' the other team to die.

The ME3 ending-
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Regardng the Mass Effect 2 ending:
Spoiler (click to show)

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:22 pm
by Alienturnedhuman
Game and Gamestation's websites are back up and when I went in to town today Gamestation was open. I went in expecting to find some good deals but was surprised to see the prices weren't any different to normal, if anything they seemed slightly more expensive.

Considering that in Morrisons I could get a brand new copy of Just Cause 2 for £8 or LA Noire for £15 (both for Xbox 360) the prices of their preowned games were more than this. Now that videogames are mainstream I don't see how specialist shops can continue without diversifying. For buying the triple A blockbuster titles the supermarkets will always do the best deals now.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:56 pm
by Bosse
matzy wrote:Do we have any "Star Wars: The Old Republic" (SWTOR) players on this forum?

I am enjoying the game immensely, although its not without its problems.

I had to re-roll on another server, after already reaching max level on one character, but on a dead server. It is a good game, and I think Blizzard will have to pull out all the stops during the development of Mists of Pandaria expansion (WOW: MoP). Having experienced the levelling process in SWTOR now, twice, it is a far more interesting levelling experience, and I am dreading levelling a character in WOW: MoP if it is similar to all other WOW releases/expansions.
I played for a month and few weeks. I really enjoyed leveling my gunslinger. At 50 though there wasn't really much to do. I did one raid and got bored, that wasn't really for me. I think part of it was that you'd just get better gear from pvp. I never really raided in wow either, though vanilla MC raids were the best time ever. :lol:

After a while I decided to reroll a marauder to another server (the one I played was kind of dead unfortunately) but only got it to lvl 26 or something before I quit, mostly due to not having time. I'm studying for upcoming university entrance exams in the summer so I'm putting my effort on that. I might jump back in summer or after it though and I bet the game is much better at that point already (felt a bit rushed to the release tbh).

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:12 pm
by Robbo-92
So as i have started playing Assassin's Creed Revelation's again to do a 100% single player game run (I found multiplayer terrible on AC:Brotherhood and really could not be bothered to try Revelations multiplayer - is it better?), I have also done a 100% run on AC:2 and AC:Brotherhood and i have found with Revelation's that I'm enjoying it a lot more the second time through than i did first time (I found this with Brotherhood as well), this is not to say that i did not enjoy them on my first playthrough as i think they are each fantastic games but i just found them slightly better on my second play, did anyone else find this with the Assassin's Creed series or any other games?

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:22 pm
by Robbo-92
Also that Project CARS looks pretty good and by the looks of it is is coming to the console market as well (not just PC) which is good as my laptop would never cope and when it comes to upgrading PC's I'm clueless.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:49 pm
by mac_d
Game has been saved. Still lost jobs for a lot of people, and the half of the stores that shut will stay shut, but the company will still exist.


Anyway, since GAME went bust I bought a lot fo cheap games. I like the SAW movies so I invested in the Saw videogames (first one £3, second one £8) and just finished the first one. A very enjoyable game. A little simplistic in the end but very enjoyable and good fun if you like the series.

Now just gotta get working on the gigantic backlog I have got going on. I have far too many games these days. I buy cheap so even not spending much I end up with more games coming in than I finish. I think my current backlog is like 40+ games. That's more games than I even had on my Gamecube and Xbox (until 360 came out, when xbox games were like 4 for £10) in their primes.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:02 am
by huggybear
Just finished Heavy Rain. It's absolutely brilliant. Story sucks you in, so you actually care about the characters (well most of the time anyway), and the control system is pretty great for the most part. Some of the multiple button presses require you to have 4 hands and/or explicit knowledge of the buttons you need to press beforehand, but it works pretty well.
I restarted from a save point 4 times, just so I wouldn't have to kill an NPC. And not even a pivotal character NPC, just an NPC I didn't want to kill.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:42 pm
by hk77
I have been playing ssx on the ps3 for the last week, shame they complicated it in comparison to the older ones.
Also enjoyed saints row, gt5 and most of the gta's

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:19 pm
by mac_d
Bioware are releasing some extended ending cinematics for Mass Effect 3 as a large part of the players got tiddled off at the ending. It's free and will be released in a few months.




I think I might buy a pokemon game on my way home. Either Black/White or Heart Gold/Soul Silver. Last pokemon game I played was Diamond, and it was a good fun game. Easter weekend, so I'm perhaps going to have some time to kill. I was going to buy a 3DS too, but I think Gamestation is all out of them at the moment sue to their recent issues.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:54 pm
by Alienturnedhuman
mac_d wrote:Bioware are releasing some extended ending cinematics for Mass Effect 3 as a large part of the players got tiddled off at the ending. It's free and will be released in a few months.
With regards to the ME3 ending, while I don't understand why the controversy reached the proportions it did, I do think the ending was very flawed:
Mass Effect 3 Spoilers (click to show)

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:39 pm
by medgar
Alienturnedhuman wrote:
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Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:03 pm
by Alienturnedhuman
medgar wrote:
Alienturnedhuman wrote:
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Mass Effect 3 Spoilers (click to show)

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:47 am
by mac_d
Regarding the ME3 ending discussions we are having:
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Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:18 am
by Jezick
Local DVD was having a clear out so picked up Portal 2, new, for 9.99 :) So I get a copy on the PS3 and PC + DLC free via Steam all included.......... gotta say, bloody addictive GRRRRRR

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:22 pm
by Alienturnedhuman
I have been playing Fez and it is absolutely brilliant.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:53 pm
by mac_d
Didn't pick up Fez yet, I've got a stupidly large amount of games that I need to play so I'm trying to leave off purchasing anything until I reduce the list a fair amount.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:39 am
by CrD
I'm still jamming away on F1 2011, waiting for the 2012 release :) Played all the recent games as well that's been mentioned in here but I seem to get bored of them quite easily!

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:42 pm
by Saorsa
Just wondered if anyone had an any suggestions for good online multiplayer racing games for the xbox 360??

I've got GRID and had this for over 3 years and still play it online but the number of folk playing has diminished.

I've tried F1 2010/2011 but got bored pretty fast. I not tried Forza 4 mainly cos I've never liked the feeling of the Forza series.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 7:47 pm
by huggybear
Saorsa wrote:Just wondered if anyone had an any suggestions for good online multiplayer racing games for the xbox 360??

I've got GRID and had this for over 3 years and still play it online but the number of folk playing has diminished.

I've tried F1 2010/2011 but got bored pretty fast. I not tried Forza 4 mainly cos I've never liked the feeling of the Forza series.
Forza is immense with a wheel.

I do think that to have a properly satisfying online race these days you have to join a league of some sort. On the popular games, there are too many idiots that just want to smash you off the road at turn 1, every single game. I've stopped playing F12011 for this exact reason (and there is not enough feedback through my wheel to make it a satisfying single player game)

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 8:44 pm
by Saorsa
huggybear wrote:
Saorsa wrote:Just wondered if anyone had an any suggestions for good online multiplayer racing games for the xbox 360??

I've got GRID and had this for over 3 years and still play it online but the number of folk playing has diminished.

I've tried F1 2010/2011 but got bored pretty fast. I not tried Forza 4 mainly cos I've never liked the feeling of the Forza series.
Forza is immense with a wheel.

I do think that to have a properly satisfying online race these days you have to join a league of some sort. On the popular games, there are too many idiots that just want to smash you off the road at turn 1, every single game. I've stopped playing F12011 for this exact reason (and there is not enough feedback through my wheel to make it a satisfying single player game)
An online racing league, emm that would be good. Right going to get on the xbox forums to find out it anything exists and on what game.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:10 am
by PzR Slim
Saorsa wrote:
huggybear wrote:
Saorsa wrote:Just wondered if anyone had an any suggestions for good online multiplayer racing games for the xbox 360??

I've got GRID and had this for over 3 years and still play it online but the number of folk playing has diminished.

I've tried F1 2010/2011 but got bored pretty fast. I not tried Forza 4 mainly cos I've never liked the feeling of the Forza series.
Forza is immense with a wheel.

I do think that to have a properly satisfying online race these days you have to join a league of some sort. On the popular games, there are too many idiots that just want to smash you off the road at turn 1, every single game. I've stopped playing F12011 for this exact reason (and there is not enough feedback through my wheel to make it a satisfying single player game)
An online racing league, emm that would be good. Right going to get on the xbox forums to find out it anything exists and on what game.
Check out forzamotorsport.co.uk Great bunch of guys with regular race series and some uber quick people.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:19 am
by vikz22
i just bought Mass Effect 3, so will play that when i get a little more time (i'm on the final mission of mass effect 2 still!!)


i've heard mix reviews about this game, but i do adore mass effect 2, and if its similar, that will suffice for me!

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 12:26 pm
by mac_d
I think the worst thing most people would say about Mass Effect 3 was that the first 95% of the game was brilliant and they maybe felt let down by the last 5%.


ME3 is actually quite different to play than ME2, despite being pretty much the same. Figure that one out, I dare ya! For Soldier class anyway.

I've actually been through the Mass Effect Trilogy 3 times this year. Did my normal Shep (Ashley romance, Miranda Romance, Miranda Romance), a paragon Shep (Ash/Miranda/Ash romance) then did my utterly badass scarred femShep run with Liara romanced in all games (I count Lair of Shadow Broker as a romance, though I'm not sure the game does).

Vikz, if you haven't already I really recommend buy Lair of Shadow Broker and playing it. It's one of the best bits of DLC I've played for any game.

Anyway, I'm trying to work through my huge backlog of games at the moment. Plus games that I still have stuff to do in. As a result, backlog list is massive but I will persevere! I do have about 80 Arcade games and 200 retail games total, so proportionally the list isn't so bad.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 2:14 pm
by Alienturnedhuman
mac_d wrote:I think the worst thing most people would say about Mass Effect 3 was that the first 95% of the game was brilliant and they maybe felt let down by the last 5%.
Talking about the last 5% of the game, if you haven't come across this then it does make the ending a lot more clever if it turns out to be true:
Major Mass Effect 3 ending spoilers (click to show)

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 2:27 pm
by vikz22
mac_d wrote:I think the worst thing most people would say about Mass Effect 3 was that the first 95% of the game was brilliant and they maybe felt let down by the last 5%.


ME3 is actually quite different to play than ME2, despite being pretty much the same. Figure that one out, I dare ya! For Soldier class anyway.

I've actually been through the Mass Effect Trilogy 3 times this year. Did my normal Shep (Ashley romance, Miranda Romance, Miranda Romance), a paragon Shep (Ash/Miranda/Ash romance) then did my utterly badass scarred femShep run with Liara romanced in all games (I count Lair of Shadow Broker as a romance, though I'm not sure the game does).

Vikz, if you haven't already I really recommend buy Lair of Shadow Broker and playing it. It's one of the best bits of DLC I've played for any game.

Anyway, I'm trying to work through my huge backlog of games at the moment. Plus games that I still have stuff to do in. As a result, backlog list is massive but I will persevere! I do have about 80 Arcade games and 200 retail games total, so proportionally the list isn't so bad.

thanks mac, i might give that a go (is it easy to download for PS3?)

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 7:40 am
by mac_d
I assume the game itself is set up like the 360 version, in which case there will be a "downloadable content" section on the main menu. Assuming the price is mirrored in (I expect it is) it will be about £7 or £8. While it's not great, Arrival (another DLC pack) is pretty important to making sense of ME3 (a scummy move from Ea/Bioware imo but what they did).

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 10:02 am
by MrMuttley
One of the little things about being a PC gamer that makes me smile is when you upgrade hardware and then play old games on max settings.

Just did a quick rerun through need for speed most wanted. All the extra setting made little difference from the medium setting. Still it's a decent game and one of the better "arcade racer" type ones from the NFS series.

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 5:18 pm
by vikz22
so i just completed mass effect 2

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