The 360 thread!

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:59 am 0

Oh, in case anyone fancies some Snaking about, The Darkness is nice and cheap (and region free!) from PlayAsia. About Â£26 including postage

Wasn't quite tempted by the Â£39.99 Play.com pricetag, but for Â£26 it'd be rude not to

Cheers

Bubba

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:30 am 0

The oldskool Transformers themes are fuckin boss. Download them now.

chub · Post by **chub** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:31 am 0

Bubba wrote:Oh, in case anyone fancies some Snaking about, The Darkness is nice and cheap (and region free!) from PlayAsia. About Â£26 including postage Wasn't quite tempted by the Â£39.99 Play.com pricetag, but for Â£26 it'd be rude not to

Indeed. I ordered it from there the other day, so hopefully it should arrive soon.

Overlord is the same price and region free too if anyone fancies that as well.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:00 pm 0

Anders wrote:
Guru-Meditation wrote:Wing Commander Arena plays like a cheap quickly thrown together knock off version of Subspace/Continuum.
It did seem to slip by with barely a whimper. Was Super Contra any good, then?

Ugly as sin. And the problem with Contra to me is the screen is so fricking thin. I'm sure the Contra hardcore will enjoy it but eh, not worth 400 pts to me.

Additional : Grrr, Codemasters have removed the release date for Sensi World of Soccer from their website. IGN is worrying me with their Q3 2007 for Europe / TBA 2008 for USA because that is what Konami do for their Pro Evo Series (it's bad enough we get a game that doesn't work against Euros but on top of that we get it 6 months later, wtf?)

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:16 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:Additional : Grrr, Codemasters have removed the release date for Sensi World of Soccer from their website. IGN is worrying me with their Q3 2007 for Europe / TBA 2008 for USA because that is what Konami do for their Pro Evo Series (it's bad enough we get a game that doesn't work against Euros but on top of that we get it 6 months later, wtf?)

What I don't understand is, that last week, in my 'new games released this week advertisment pane' it displayed Sensi Soccer (on my profile which is Belgian! So I was amazed when they suddenly started talking about Wing Commander Arena or Super Contra... And since then I haven't seen that Sensi ad again in the 'new games this week'

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:38 pm 0

The second Fable 2 dev diary should be up now, starring the back of my head at least three times!

I suspect they'll have me in a speaking role for the next one, depends what they decide it should be about.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:01 pm 0

They tease us with Sensi Soccer. They know we're chomping at the bits for it ...

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:06 pm 0

Flabio wrote:The second Fable 2 dev diary should be up now, starring the back of my head at least three times!

Thats really handy Flabio - next time we play GoW i'll at least know what the rear of your skull looks like IRL.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:17 pm 0

At least I'm in this one, they filmed the first one on days when I wasn't in the office

2:03 - Thats me in the yellow tshirt, rumbled talking to someone on MSN. Didn't even know they had the camera there, the perils of in-ear headphones.

5:03 - Me again, post haircut, pointing at the tv.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:28 pm 0

Try to get caught using YY in the future

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:42 pm 0

For Wednesday:
Marathon: Durandal (800pts)
Spyglass Board Games (400pts) (Chess etc)

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:33 pm 0

benedictw wrote:For Wednesday:
Marathon: Durandal (800pts)
Spyglass Board Games (400pts) (Chess etc)

Mmmm.. The boardsgame are Chess, Checkers, Reversi and Mancala.. Not bad for 400 pts!

And is it me or do the graphics of Durandal look very Doom-like? I remember seeing something Doom-like in the E3 XBox Live Arcade video...

I think I might go for the board-games (to see if I still remember how to play chess

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pogo · Post by **pogo** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:25 pm 0

CarlBillen wrote:And is it me or do the graphics of Durandal look very Doom-like? I remember seeing something Doom-like in the E3 XBox Live Arcade video...

If it's like the version released on the Mac many years ago it's pretty much Doom, but with cannon fodder squad members, the ability to look up and down, a very confusing SF plot, and a much stranger and more colourful design.

Flojomojo · Post by **Flojomojo** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:34 pm 0

pogo wrote:
CarlBillen wrote:And is it me or do the graphics of Durandal look very Doom-like? I remember seeing something Doom-like in the E3 XBox Live Arcade video...
If it's like the version released on the Mac many years ago it's pretty much Doom, but with cannon fodder squad members, the ability to look up and down, a very confusing SF plot, and a much stranger and more colourful design.

Think of it as Halo Zero.

Not sure why they're starting with part two, and the pricing is a little weird, but I'm all over this when it launches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_% ... er_game%29

tentaclesex · Post by **tentaclesex** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:41 pm 0

Flojomojo wrote:
Not sure why they're starting with part two

2 is the best of them, and if they only get the chance to port one of them, they should do the best one. If they had a deal to do all three, then they would start at the beginning, but there's no guarantee that there will be more.

There are some other more technical reasons, but I think that's the main thing.

Interestingly, it's also the only one to get an official Windows release. (You can sort of play them all with the source port Aleph One. The Marathon 1 scenario for that is essentially a mod for Marathon 2, because the first game used all kinds of weird old MacOS shit.)