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If you could only afford to buy one new game out of either the Sims 2 or SSX 4, which one would you get? I've been obsessed with the SSX series for the last three years, and have never played the Sims, but reckon the Sims sounds like the kind of thing I like, whereas SSX 4 is supposed to be a bit bollocks. Which would you recommend?
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Sims 2 will eat your time and disgust you. I lost days watching my little dolls go to the toilet, pick up rubbish and host crap parties. I've populated a whole town with my offspring, created an army of lesbian schoolgirls, and built wonderful virtual rooms whilst my own becomes soiled and polluted. I acquired the University add on, and it was only then that I saw the game for what it is. A monstrous, vacuous, murderous shit on a stick that should be killed.
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I really hated the Sims for the one afternoon I played it. It was just awful, stupid nonsense. I mean I really, really hated it. The mild pleasure I did manage to glean was in making their lives miserable - bricking up toilets, bedrooms, and then waiting for the kitchen to catch fire and boarding up all the doors.
There's suddenly dozens of games coming out that I want to play. F.E.A.R. is out today, which has prompted me to upgrade my computer to 2GB of RAM. And Quake IV is apparently out on Friday, although there doesn't seem to have been a hell of alot of hype around that one, which makes me wonder what the hell is going on there. And then Call of Duty 2 is out in November, which I'll be asking for for Christmas. Lovely lovely COD games.
On the console front, I'm curious about Ultimate Spider-Man. I like the idea of being able to play as a super-villain and smash things up. Also the freeform thing of Spider-Man 2 worked really well, and it looks like they've kept that in.
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At least with SSX you can pick it up, get a medal, switch it off. I would imagine the open-endedness of the Sims would make it horribly addictive, like Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon. And I actually gave away my Gamecube because I was so disgusted at myself for losing 2004 to Harvest Moon. Like all I'd achieved at the end of the year was a fucking cheesemaker and some very expensive cows. And not ever a real cheesemaker or real cows. So mebbe Sims 2 is not the one for me.
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I'd definitely go for SSX. I found the sims quite tedious after about a day, and bearing in mind that I got addicted to Harvest Moon for quite a while, that says something. Also, I think that controlling the sims on a console would be really frustrating. Using a mouse you would just drag stuff quickly to where you want it. Having to position it with a joypad would be a bit annoying I reckon.
SSX, you get to play as Mario, how shite is that? Although I'm sure I'll still love it.
On the Gamecube front (and all other consoles actually), Gun is coming out on 11/11, and that looks fantastic. Like Grand Theft Auto style of play but set in the wild west. Apparently you can scalp people, which definitely sells the game for me.
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If you've been a lifelong SSX fan, then you might find that the new version is pretty similar to the old, but with a few new bells and whistles. The Sims is definitely a love or hate thing, but if you've never tried it, you really should. Beware though - it will eat your time and turn you from the social animal you are into a housebound perma-gamer.
Saying that, you could use it to create a new TMO Sims storyline complete with a simMisc who gets burnt to death after saying unpleasant things to his housemates.
ETA: I share SG5's concerns about console-based Sims. I've only played it on PC, and I can't imagine it would be as much fun with a gamepad.
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I'm not expecting another Far Cry or nuffink, but the actual fighting is terrific. But yeah, I get the impression it's kind of repetitive.
They need more developers like the lot that worked on Half-Life 2. You could play that all the way through in one sitting and never get bored.
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The demo was okay, but from what I've read, was a kind of 'best bits' compilation rather than just the opening level or something. I'm interested in B&W 2 (I've only just picked up the original, and it doesn't work properly on my machine), X-3, and COD2. This movie game thing looks interesting - could be just like the Sims, could be something more.
There was an excellent mod for UT2004 on the front of PCZone this month. Killing Floor or something it's called, and it's a zombie surivival game set in London, after tEh aPocaLYpse. Looks and sounds great, but I can't fucking get anywhere on it.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I'm interested in B&W 2 (I've only just picked up the original, and it doesn't work properly on my machine).
I started playing this last night. It seems very similar to the original so far but from what I've read it eventually strays into simple RTS territory. My creature (I call him Wolfie) is pretty cool. I'm planning to turn him into a fireball wielding death beast before too long, but I'm currently spending my time turning people into disciple breeders (a fulfilling life, fo' sho') and building houses for them, whilst trying to extend my area of influence.
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Man, the more I read about Gun, the more excited I'm getting. I wonder if it's bad to get desky about a computer game?
Key features
New and savage ways to punish: Stealthily sneak up and attack your enemies, use them as cover, stab, shoot, or scalp them. Blast away and watch the aftermath, shoot guns out of enemy hands, or destroy with dynamite.
Extensive variety of missions and game play: Wage war on horseback, commandeer trains, protect whores, collect bounties, play poker, hunt buffalo, and more. Multiple game play styles include: precision shooting, stealth tactics, and use of explosives. Embark on numerous side missions that allow you to master gun slinging and horse riding. Unlock secret weapons and upgrade your skills and abilities to improve your weapon and equipment performance.
Brutal realism: Act as a gunslinger protecting righteousness, or seek retribution as you face corrupt lawmen, warring tribes, cold-blooded outlaws, and ruthless renegades. Encounter legendary gunfighters such as JJ Webb. Employ a multitude of authentic weapons including: Six shooters, shotguns, Gatling guns, flaming arrows, hatchets, dynamite, and more
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Er, can anyone remember the name of the big blonde woman in Tekken 3 who does the laugh and slices her hand through the air after she kills someone? That Daisy pretended to be in Spaced? I am doing a blank.
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I’m not really a fan of either series to be honest.
Just finished playing through the story mode of Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (which was great fun), and thinking that Burn Out: Revenge on seX-Box is likely to be my final purchase prior to hopeful Christmas acquisition of a 360 (most likely with Perfect Dark and Kameo, next-genofiles).
Also in answer to your previous question on another thread about needing to look like a character to identify with it or have that character be of the same gender, it’s not generally an issue for me, but there is an upcoming zombie game on 360 (Dead Rising) where the human protangonist is such a stupid nosed uggo that I doubt I could bring myself to play it. The function to alter and develop looks is generally welcome, but only if it’s done well (as in say Tony Hawk or Fantasy Star Online).
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I dreamed about the 360 last night. It was a post apocalyptic jobbie, and I was among the many citizens who were realising that the security forces were acting on orders to kill as much of the population as possible. The dream was set around Shaftesbury Avenue, and people were trying to find safehouses, while the police were killing people and burning homes. I found a secret door that lead into a basement, and there wasa 360 in there, connected to a TV, in a pretty big and luxuriuos room. I thought it might have been a bit innappropriate to grab a game, but I noticed that there was a box was a title that 'featured' David Bowie's son, who was called Bobby. Anyway, then Bobby actually turned up with a load of girls and started playing his own computer game, and making all these really lame hand gestures to his girlfriends when he got to the next level, and I was disappointed in him.
Later on, I busted in D666's place, and he told me that if I wasn't prepared to kill him, then he'd have to kill me. We got in the back of a car that was driving out of town, and I slowly drove a knife between his ribs. It was horrible, because he was kind of thankful in a way.. But his eyes started bleeding..
Later on, I was back on the street again, and there were these three beautiful women holed up in a shop, and one of them was just the most gorgeous girl I'd ever seen, but another woman told me that she was severely mentally ill, and needed constant care. But I like, stroked this mentally ill woman, and she started getting off with me, over and over again, but in a strange excitable way, not with any real eroticism, and I thought that this was probably a bit of a moral low point, but seeing as everything was in chaos, it probably didn't matter. Then Matt Lucas started sexually harrasing me, and he was really drunk. I tried to remind him of the time when I met him, but he wouldn't listen, he just kept trying to molest me, and I didn't like it.
So, the Xbox 360. I havn't even considered that, but I'm interested in the Revolution.
I own all three current console platforms and I imagine the same will be true of the next lot. It's my understanding that the 360 comes with Jeff Minter's light-synth-thingy built in, and the two new, long awaited, games from Rare come out at release.
I take it you've seen shots of the new Nintendo controller Benway? Anyone?
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quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: I buy platforms to play games on.
I'm a bit confused here. What else are you going to buy platforms for? Making breakfast perhaps? Rectal exams?
I think BR is making the point that he's not swayed by the power of 'branding' here and that's true, in a way. If you buy every brand you're kind of as brand unconscious as someone who doesn't buy any, or who only ever buys on price. But it does seem a bit gung-ho to buy every console you see. I remember reading in sub-SugaRape shitrag Stuff an article that said something like "Obviously, if you're a true Stuff reader you'll buy all three consoles", and thinking to myself "What kind of stupid twat would buy three games consoles from the same generation?" Now of course, I know. Boy Racer. Far be it from me to judge him for how he spends his money, though, the sad lonely twat.
If I do get a next gen console - and it's a big if - I'll employ the same rigourous purchasing procudure I always do and buy which ever one falls below the £50 barrier, second hand, first. So probably the Nintendo.
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I didn't buy my first console, a playstation, until 1998, and I doubt I would pay anything for either an xbox or a ps2, unless they came with a load of crazy Jap imports or something. The PC caters pretty to my gaming needs, but I do like games that are a bit strange, and the Gamecube is good for that. Saying that - has anybody else in the world apart from me played Darwinia on the PC? Because I've started that again in 6600gt-o-vision, and it's even better than it was on the 5600, but I don't know anybody else who likes it, so I just have to tell people who don't care how great it is.
Three consoles though? That's lunacy. The Xbox does seem to be least interesting of the bunch. I'm interested to know how this PS3 as supercomputer pans out. And the revolution controller does look strange, but it represents (for me, anyway) exactly the direction that entertainment machines should be going, in that it offers some different, and something that you interactive with in a more real sense. Most of the recent fuss over flawed actioner Farenheit was stirred by the use of some very simple techniques to draw players into the emotional stresses of the characters, and this was done without the use of a magic wand that can double up as something akin to the gloved hand in Virtual Reality. The way that the game is now coming outwards and affecting you (beyond just leaning sideways as you plough your racing car across a gravel pit and into a gaily painted barrier), just as you go in and affect the characters is a real progression in the way that we understand our relationship with technology. Games like Donkey Konga and Samba Di Amigo or whatever it's called have succeeded with extremely simple and repetitive software, but imagine if you had a controller that was universally adaptable, and it was being built into games with depth and plot.
I really really hope that this thing is a success, because it shows a company who understand what makes gaming fun and rich, and it isn't the amount of polygons on screen. Bollocks to Xbox, but as I said, I'm curious about the PS3
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: "What kind of stupid twat would buy three games consoles from the same generation?"
One who likes playing video games and wants to play games exclusive to all three consoles presumably (and strictly speaking it's four, I have a Dreamcast too).
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If I had the cash, I probably would too, but I'd have to have shit loads to justify the kind of expenses that you're talking about here. Like, even more than, say, £20,000 p/a!!
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Not really that expensive Benway. The only one of those consoles I got at release was the Gamecube, and that was a birthday present. I don't buy many games, just a few really good ones, which I then play to bits, and I'm a big fan of Game's ten day rental, sorry return, policy.
I too love Nintendo, and the way they actually use new technology to enhance gameplay, see the inspired use of the analogue stick in Super Mario Sunshine. Sadly the rest of the world don't seem to be on their innovative wavelength.
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quote:'m interested to know how this PS3 as supercomputer pans out
Man they said that about ps2. WE CANT SELL IT TO THE CHINESE THEY WILL CONQUER THE UNIVERSE.
I got 180 credit note from gamestation the other day which I will use for a psp when some are ins tock, especially now theyve announced a value pack with a 1 gig stick in.
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This review is pretty damn funny. The highlight being
quote: If SSX were a band, I'd call them sellouts. And then stop buying their albums and tell my friends to and alienate myself from the world, crying, and coddling their earlier work because we'll always have Dookie, won't we, Billy Joe?
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I bought SSX On Tour on Friday, so here are some of my thoughts of the game so far.
The game does look good, but not really any better than SSX3 did. It feels a little bit faster at times and the fireworks do look good, unfortunately sometimes causing a bit of slowdown on the gamecube.
The courses are fast and there seem to be a lot of different routes to take which is good, but unfortunately the courses don't seem to be as interesting as in SSX3, in that a lot of the time they seem more like a proper mountain. Perhaps there is more variety later on, I certainly hope so as I like snowboarding in between buildings. There are still ace long grinds, but it feels a little bit more rushed in level design that in 3.
Characters. This is my major problem with the game. You can only play the on tour mode with a created character, and the create a character is pretty shit. There are so many games out there that allow you to change so much so that you can make the character look like you or like someone famous, but this has very few options, and the created characters don't look as good as the pre-made ones. You also don't have much of a rivalry with the other characters. Sure you'll occasionally race against them, but there seems to be very little dialogue between characters.
The clothing options seem quite limited. There doesn't seem to be a huge range of clothing available, yet it all seems to be available right at the start. I've got up to professional level now, and apart from the odd item you get from beating an opponent, it doesn't seem to unlock any more clothing, which I think takes away from it in a way. I like the fact that as you progessed through SSX3 you got a wider range of clothing available.
I was going to take this back and get Killer7 instead, but then I got Killer7 for a tenner off ebay so I may as well keep it, or perhaps wait until Friday and trade it in for the new Tony Hawk game or something.
Overall, it's a good game, but it doesn't feel like a step forward from SSX3 in any way.
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