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anyway, I'd like to welcome the most recent members of team xbox - jhonj and mcandrew. 'Jump in', etc. Once tilde sorts himself out, we're going to have sweet Call of Duty games.
In the past Sony have counted Units sold as Units sold to shops rather than to customers while Microsoft and Nintendo report units actually sold to customers.
I don't know if this is still true, but it definitely used to be.
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Of course they're overtaking sales. I mean, there's only about ten people left in the world who don't have an EggsBocks and there's got to be at least 11 people who bought the PS3
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Don't think you understand mikee, they're saying that more people in europe now have PS3 than x360. Not that it's outsold in a certain month or something.
Though I'm sure MS could claim double sales figures if they counted all the new ones they've had to send out to replace the RRODs
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also soon you will be able to play a more expensive version of second life, kitting out your virtual pad with virtual tvs, showing the latest videos from the highly esteemed Sony artist Avril Lavigne. Not only that, but you could message up some buddies over PSN and watch it together! This is Living
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as much as I enjoy all this, I should point out that I don't totally hate sony. I spent most of monday playing Patapon and Crush on the PSP. I could have been playing N+ with jnhoj or GTA with 'Seb Newman', but instead, I played PSP on my own. I will also get God of War for the PSP at some point. I know there are a couple of PSP owners here, so perhaps we could swap stories of the quirky yet engrossing titles that pop up for that machine every now and again. Not Loco Roco though. That's so over.
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on the old Nintendo Dual Screen, I am also enjoying The world ends with you, the new non final fantasy game from square enix, but fuck me, I can't control the fighting on the top screen at all, which puts me at a pretty big disadvantage in terms of getting the most out of it. But it's a radical game in both senses of the word, with some sweet tunes, nice art, and an interesting ARG themed plotline. Also still playing Prof. Layton, but only the same bit over and over again because the G4 card has a habit of really draining the batteries when you leave the DS in standby, and I keep forgetting save.
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I keep seeing those PSP releases, patapon et al and thinking I would really like to get myself a PSP. They should make ports of more of them for the PS3 I think, like they did with Loco Roco.
Maybe when PS3 TV is released I'll get myself a PSP
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if you had a psp we could show each other our boners using the new wifi video conferencing thing they've put out there. That would be stylin'!
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quote: THIEVES performed a bank-job style heist on a Newbury computer game store by drilling through the wall of a neighbouring shop.
Gamestation at the north end of Northbrook Street was burgled during the early morning hours of April 29 and 18 sought-after Nintendo Wii consoles were stolen along with a Playstation 3.
According to police, the thieves gained access to the building by cutting a hole in the roof and slipping inside, before knocking down an internal wall to get to the secure store room where the expensive consoles were kept. However, Gamestation spokesman Nick Attenborough, said that the thieves actually broke into McDonalds Restaurant first and bashed through the wall joining the two properties.
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Every time I play it I seem to spend hours just enjoying all the details. I spent a good three hours just surfing the net in a tw@ cafe the other day. My progress through the missions isn't brilliant because I keep getting distracted. Not that I'm complaining. But I'm making a point of not letting it suck me in every day. I only play a couple of times a week and when I set aside a good evening to play it.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Every time I play it I seem to spend hours just enjoying all the details. I spent a good three hours just surfing the net in a tw@ cafe the other day. My progress through the missions isn't brilliant because I keep getting distracted. Not that I'm complaining. But I'm making a point of not letting it suck me in every day. I only play a couple of times a week and when I set aside a good evening to play it.
Same as me - I can't be doing with rushing through this one for some kudos of being one of the first to complete it - I'd much rather drink it all in during little sessions of joy, and not do what one of my mates did and phoned in sick as he was up three days straight playing it (and this is a 51 year old by the way!)
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I've spent literally hours trying to win the first car race. Came so, so close three times in a row last night, but kept stacking my vehicle into oncoming traffic on the final straight. I don't get that many chances to practice the race as Octavia can't stand Brucie's voice.
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I've never been good at the races in GTA, though. With this one my tactic has been to start shooting at my opponents' tyres as soon as the race starts, which works pretty well in letting me get to second place. You occasionally pick up some police attention, but this seems to disrupt the NPCs as much as it does me.
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Ah right, I just raced. Didn't bother shooting anything. I find it almost impossible to control the car while firing a weapon.
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I found the races in San Andreas almost insultingly easy. The AI cars would often get stuck, or drive each other off cliffs, which (coupled with the rather simple driving physics) didn't make for the most challenging racing. I hear the driving is a bit more realistic in IV.
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I think one criticism I've got of this game is how most of the missions that aren't part of the main story seem to involved driving from the middle island to the island on the right. Every time I go to nick a car or go out with a pal I end up having to make the increasingly tedious journey over the bridge, through the toll, out the slip on the right. And then back again. And the whole friend system of going out eating and bowling and darts etc gets a bit...grindy. Like, well, I know that I need to get this person up to beyond 80% to get the friendship benefits, but I'm currently at 30%, which means a LOT of driving backwards and forwards between the two main islands.
Anyway I've clocked up between 30 and 40 hours I think now, and still going, on about 55% completion. The story has a couple of nice turns, but it's still not blowing me the fuck away. I guess you have to see it through to get the hype.
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Do you think you might enjoy it more if you weren't forcing your way through it like it was a second job or something?
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If I've got a criticism it's that some of the voice acting is really weak. Nico in particular, which is kind of surprising. You can excuse hammy charicatures like Brucie and Little Jacob, but for your main protagonist to have such painfully poor voice 'talent' is kind of unforgivable. Especially given the amount of effort put into the rest of the game.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Do you think you might enjoy it more if you weren't forcing your way through it like it was a second job or something?
I'm not forcing my way through it, so that doesn't really make any sense.
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