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i can't think of one but i feel like it must have been done well at least once

that would be a quicktime event in a good game.

getting quite obsessed with driving all the roads, smashing all the barriers, finding the barns, etc in the same was as I did in Burnout Paradise.

Only done a small chunk of the actual races so far as I've spent a fair bit of time exploring and doing the random challenges.

Great game which probably in some ways hasn't been helped by carrying the Forza brand, I think they could have done a better job of identifying this as a complimentary parallel series to Motorsport.

what should I get? basically, I only have three games for my 360, to summarise

GTA4 (really liked - fairly simple to play, lots of action, pretty fast paced)
Red Dead Redemption (as above)
Fallout New Vegas (didn't like, too complex, really easy to die)

I think because I missed about three generations of consoles I can't really cope with big modern games. RECOMMEND ME SOMETHING or I'll just go buy LA Noire b/c I feel pretty safe with Rockstar stuff but I hear that isn't that good.

(Oh and I already have the RDR/GTA4 expansions)

I'm not sure there's examples of 'oh man, that QT was amazing' but there's certainly a few out there which are perfectly suitable and not hate-inducing that serve the game pretty well.

though I might be imagining that...

buy rayman origins.
just buy it.
right now.

it's also very cheap

like in God of War or the new Castlevania. But the whole press X not to die quicktimes (like Resi 4) are well annoying.

I believe you unlock better guns as the game progresses. Have you tried bumping the difficulty up a notch? I believe you can do that mid-game. Thinking of doing that myself.

I’m really enjoying it personally. Though it does feel like two games: the sandbox and the main quest. The former of which is much, much better than the latter. I love scoping out command posts and coming up with plans of attack, preferably involving as much fire, bear/tiger and ill-advised hang glider action as possible.

Either give me a cutscene or let me play. The bullshit half way house that is the QTE is no fun for anybody.

If you don't know they're coming they can be a great mechanic for generating that little bit of extra panic and nervousness to add to the overall atmosphere.

The problem is that they've become far too commonplace and massively overused both in games in general and in individual titles.

I've sold a few on ebay recently but they won't let me put any more up for another month.

From what i can remember, I've got:
- F1 2010
- Bioshock
- Fallout 3
- Arkham Asylum
- Orange Box (Half Life 2, Portal etc)
- Fable 2
- GTA 4
- Modern Warfare 1 and 2

£8 including postage will make me happy. PM me to let the bidding war begin!

I think there is a difficulty spike at the ganja mission, overall though it's not insanely hard. I'm happy with that.

All about hang gliders.

like Just Cause 2 or Sleeping Dogs or Saints Row might work?

Or just get Batman. You can probably get Asylum and City for pretty cheap. Both are great and neither is too complicated.

just about to do the prison break in. I could do with it being just a bit more tricky: though I'm planning these assaults I'm fairly confident I can take on anything with a shitload of health syringes and a fully loaded shotgun.

I only paid money for said shotgun and the flamethrower. Because I really wanted a flamethrower.

Actiony, stealthy, puzzly, goody.

Saw it for £42 in town! £42! Madness.

just out of curiosity, what's the lowest player rating you've seen on FM?
Chelsea beat Fulham 9-0 in the league cup on my FM12 game, and one of the Fulham CB's had a 3.6 (didn't get subbed until, like, 80 mins!) and i though woah that's low.

I can't remember if that was in a released version or in the dev cycle though

that's even lower!!!

Amazing game.

I've been taking more of the out posts when I'm playing it. I've been a bit distracted by Skyrim the last few days though.

Don't buy it if you want any semblance of 'challenge' to remain in the game. Major design flaw with the launcher is that enemies tend to reinforce in packed out boats and jeeps which are conveniently easy to hit with explosives.
Also explosions set things on fire :D

finally got it, not got this attached to game characters for a long time. When Abel Xaviers blonde barnet hit the floor last night i nearly cried.

I sucked hard at the start but am slowly getting my footing, not had too much time to get that far unfortunately

Fingers crossed for Farcry 3 to see some nice Christmas sales action

I've bookmarked this for when I go out shopping after my exams :)

You like Total War? You like Warhammer?

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I've got to go and change my pants now.

because they're taking their damn time.

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Top tip

has the best use of QTEs ever.

it's good, not sure if it's better than blood money though, it looks better, and the walking animations are a load better, but there's some annoying linear bits, and the story seems a bit pointless, it doesn't need a story, just send me to cool places to dress up as something silly and have someone killed in an elaborate accident, we don't need a story to go with it. There's still plenty of the dressing up and elaborate accidents though, so it's fine. The gameplay is good, all the stealthy stuff feels very natural and the cover system is good, instinct works well, and is optional/nerfable, and the disguises don't work so flawlessly anymore, which is nice, (security guards will see through your security guard disguise, instinct can prevent it) but can get annoying. Not tried contracts mode yet, gonna give it a whirl tomorrow.

the main thing was though that i found the locales it took you to to be quite good. Anywhere with crowds was always cool.

The disguises were sometimes annoying, like if you dress as a street vendor suddenly every street vendor in the area knows you're an imposter, i get why its like that, just felt kind of annoying. It is quite excint though walking straight in the front door of places in disguise and using instinct to just walk past everyone hoping it lasts enough time so you can find some cover.

The main thing i felt though is its a game you can get get more out of the more you put in. Like you could just take the easy option every mission but if you look for the really complex assassinations or escape/entrance routes there was a lot more satisfaction.

that's my week off sorted

it's a bit like Alpha cCnturi I suppose except predominantly set in space, started off as quite complex but after setting up a couple of colonies I'm getting quite into it. I still need to find a way to deal with my AI opponents defender ships though.

I'd already got the latter and now I've picked up the former. Between these and Far Cry I've got a busy weekend ahead.

Oh no, wait, my girlfriend is coming up tomorrow. Fucksticks.

FUS RO DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I've never played a strategy game before, massive noob...
Has anyone got any advice for the settings I should use to best enjoy it. Have heard lots bandied about with terms like 'ironman' but have no idea what it all means...

so if someone dies, they stay dead. This will be traumatic, but it's sorta meant to be. But it's optional.

Even as a strategy noob Normal shouldn't be too tricky for you. You may lose a few countries on the way but you'll get the hang of it. And you can always start over on easy if you're struggling.

will give it a go on normal!

arkham asylum or city

probs start with asylum as it'll be well cheap by now

this christmas im going to give it some proper attention, hopefully get a mission to jool completed,
how are you finding the space-station stuff btw?, i havent tried that yet

http://kotaku.com/5966500/ive-played-4-12-hours-of-bioshock-infinite-im-no-longer-worried-about-this-game

but I'm not a big fan of fantasy and I was worried it'd be crazy complex and I'd have to learn to make swords and worry about levelling up and learning skills and shit

so buying that

It's been gushed over pretty much ever week.... and speaking of which

FUCKKKKKk :( my A Squad just got taken out after 15hours of play... time to restart again.

ironman makes the game way way way more tense

and the disguises are a trade off, it'd be far too easy if they didn't recognise you, there are a few disguises with only 1 or 2 of them in the level though, so you're sorted if you find a good one of them (judge, mascot, agency scientist). A map of the levels would be nice too, I usually find myself wandering through the first playthrough of a level shooting everyone I can see and working out where things are before restarting.

So, that's my weekend planned.

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http://www.skrillexquest.com/

if you have the specs

I picked up F1 2011, Brave, UFC trainer and Rugby World Cup 2011 on Xbox and Cars 2 and Rugby World Cup 2011 on PS3 for 98p each. I don't even have a PS3 but figure I can get a fair bit more than that trading them in or selling them on eBay. Madness

makes interplanetary missions easier too, since you can assemble larger ships in orbit. Only issue I have with it is that docking is fiddly, and you almost are required to have SAS on any ship you're trying to dock. But that's to be expected I guess.

I've got a very lovely space station coming together now.

currently being designed as a living room pc solution

Picked up Sleeping dogs and a couple of blu rays and I'll keep F1 2011 on xbox. As long as I can sell RWC on Xbox on eBay for more than £5.88 I'm in profit too

It'll piss you off.

games are more like 'platforms' these days, the foundations for a series of games. Borderlands has really got it down to a fine art but Skyrim has been pretty shit at it

..they were called add-on packs. Dragonborn is like 30 hours, I don't spending 15 quid on 30 hours of game play.

Flipping well addictive game. Some of the default assumptions are pretty funny though. Like Newcastle being the best team.

It's not much more difficult but it's challenging enough to feel satisfying again. And the wildlife (tigers in particular) take off a lot more damage, meaning the jungle is a bit more intimidating a place. As it should be.

And would fuck the Skyrim disc if the hole were bigger
And love DLC extras

But I have a PS3. BETHESDA HATES MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

definitely definitely didn't enjoy the missions as much as the majority of the main quests.

I didn't realise that this looks so good - also didn't realise that it was made by Bethesda..

Worth playing though.

as in, it's not anywhere near as easy as Oblivion to break the game in

it's mega-awesome though

alternatively: just play more Sim City 4

After suffering through hours of hack-n-slash in Warrior Within, the devs added a sensible way to use the dagger to make a lot of the combat faster, if you were sneaky and quick on the draw. The trick was that each kill included up to 5 or 6 timed presses so you still felt in control.
Unfortunately, this extended to the boss fights as well, making a few of them really formulaic and boring (not all - some were still quite intense, including the final one).

or at least Ultimate Team definitely is. EA trying to cover it up but it's so obvious.