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had a blast on street fighter 4 for a change. still good.

It's still great cheers.

(let's not start all that ME3 business again though)

Its addictive but if you mess up its almost impossible to claw it back to a respectable position

forgot how good it was.

Also picked up Vanquish finally. Mental stuff. No idea what's going on half the time.

All this after promising myself I wouldn't buy any more games..

F1 2012 - pretty solid but difficulty levels are nicely customisable. Reckon I'll have worked out best one for me after a couple more races and it'll be a decent but not impossible challenge

Farcry 3 - really enjoying it though it's getting a little bit repetitive. Not sure whether I should bash on with the story a bit to avoid this, doing a lot of bases, hunting etc missions at the moemnt

Walking Dead Episode 2 - enjoying it but need to be in the right mood to watch loads of cut scenes. Intrigued find out what's going down with those crazy bastards on the dairy farm...

some friends released this recently

http://warpingwarpig.com/

its a really cool little game. get it on your iPh,ne for Free

Did you do the good ending or the bad ending

I did bad because she was really annoying, but this is apparently a bad thing to do? I thought the whole storyline was based around your transformation to rakyat don? Seemed a bit of a non sequiter

realised that i've played it so little i'm still only at rank 1. also realised that rush is still incredible.

Also apparently Battlefield 4 is coming out before bad company 3. That's lame, BC2 was great.

I guess that stopping *anyone* from playing gives it stability of some sorts. It's not really what I'd normally call stability though.

Fucking hell it's taking a ridiculously long time to redownload my digital purchases, dlc and that's before we get to the game updates - speaking of which, why can't PSN downloads be updated to include the latest game update rather than wait ages to download and install then have to wait ages again to update it?

This is conclusive prrof that digital only console gaming will piss me right off.

Just got Playstation Plus too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9HM3-5rWYo

Completed Year Walk on iPad. Nearly missed the 'true' ending but realised right as I was about to quit out of the journal it wasn't *quite* all over. Very much enjoyed it. A few real 'ahhhhhh clever girl' moments. Great sound effects throughout.

Not much news.

Dead Space 3 rumoured to be end of the series and canned by EA Videogamer say. EA say thats bollocks and sues them. Oo-er.

Tomb Raider on sale a day early and under RRP in TEsco. Companies investigate. Supermarkets also start lopping £50 off the Wii U price to shift a few. Nintendo investigate.

Lego City on Wii U is getting pretty rave previews from people. Not sure it overly floats my boat but apparently it's the antidote to these serious, action games that are 2 a penny right now.

Assassins Creed 4 will be largely played out on boats and due in November.

Rumours on a few sites that the Retro game being worked on for Nintendo is a Metroid game. Nothing to really back that up though from what I can see.

The back log of games that I've still yet to get my monies worth out of is steadily growing. I really really wish I'd have waited until TR came out rather than get MGR last weekend. I traided in 3 games for MGR....wish I'd have done it for TR instead.

Given up on MGR. The parry system doesnt work.

so I'll probably be playing those at some point increasingly tempted by euro truck simulator II, even though it looks like I might need to invest in a decent graphics card to play it.

:'(

Fucking hell.

Was alright, kinda fun to play like most GTAs. Story and friends where kind of emo/annoying which brought it down a lot though. Plus it seems like a step back from San Andreas since there is so little to do and its so much smaller. No idea why they couldn't have brought a lot of that stuff into the next gen and made it even better instead of goign real small again. Got Red Dead Redemption cos it looks more fun but still pretty simular.

Grabbed UFC 3 real cheap as well, its a load of fun and really satisfying to kick peoples heads in. Getting my head around the controls which are almost on a first stepping into a NBA 2k13 level of complicated in my brain at at the mo and genraly taking in what the hell MMA is cos I'm a noob isn't stopping the funness of it so yeah wicked.

http://segabits.com/blog/2013/03/01/infographic-segas-outstanding-history-of-racing-arcade-games/

Remember lots of these...

I decided against getting it so far due to this always online requirement, and the social functions. Will wait it out to see if it's any good.

For the moment playing the Stainless Steel mod for Medieval Total War 2.

I'll prob never play it tho, cos I don't have a laptop quick enough to play even number 4 that fast last time I tryed. So maybe I'll play it in 2067 if the servers are still up haha.

Its really odd the always online thing. NBA 2K13 has a simular thing in the single player career mode so you can use VC a curency system to buy stats, clothes etc for your player to progress. But if the server goes down during a game or whatever it doesn't save your progress and you have to do it again. What the fuck is that all about. Its pretty much just there so you can buy VC with real cash and spend it on the player to cheat a bit. There is an offline mode too but it aint as slick and I don't think you get as much VC or whatever they call the offline currency. When the game first came out the servers went down a lot, I've not had any trouble for a while on it but it did currupt my first go at a career for no apparent reason cos the serveres where down. Whats the point in a single player mode/game? It just adds problems.

Have just finished the Dead Space port, which was enjoyable if a bit shallow and short, which has awakened me to the possibility of having a few more fun things for it.

Was thinking about Civilization and Sim City... Reports/opinions?

Quite want to give my new PC a spin on something strategy based.

Bar the Wii which rarely gets played these days (apart from when vamos reminds me I've not completed DKCR) it's the first console I've had since getting rid of my PS2 ten years ago. I'm proper excited.

I'm enjoying Night Sky and Solar 2 immensely.

Pretty fun so far.

We do not condone illegal whaling, just as we don't condone a pirate lifestyle.

So I guess the drm is doing a good job so far

and I'm simultaneously replaying Grim Fandango (such a classic). It's fair to say I'm probably going to pre-order Bioshock Infinite today, too (can't decide whether the premium edition's gonna be worth it).

just bought Far Cry 3, have I made a good purchase? Needed a reason to switch the PS3 on.

seems pretty good so far. the island is Mediterranean and it is beautiful. You can also scuba.

http://www.jonathancresswell.co.uk/2013/03/review-simcity/

with Masters of Orion 2. Only had a few hours on a tutorial level but it seems pretty decent. GOG.com has Ishar 1 through 4 for about a fiver. Might use that to fill the 6 nations void after next weekend.

Started off thinking it was too similar to 1 and might be a bit of a slog, but loved almost every minute of it in the end.

Started on 3. Not sure about the extended cast, hope it gets back to basics eventually...

and I enjoyed it.

That's all I've got.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-08-this-replica-of-skyward-sword-locales-made-out-of-cake-is-no-lie

Some folks have just found out that there is the ENTIRE arcade version of it hidden in the coding. Nintendo do baffle me. Why include an amazing game within an amazing game but then never promote it or allow access...?

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/395032/full-f-zero-ax-arcade-game-discovered-in-gamecube-version/

Release issues (e.g. server capacity/availability, an annoying material recycling bug) aside.

Perhaps if it was called 'SimRegion' people would see past the individual 'City' size issues.

I was reminded of a game the other day that was ace. Point and click PC game I think I must have downloaded for free off The Underdogs website on a long since broken computer. It was a murder mystery set on a boat, perhaps in Victorian times, where time would tick on if you went in certain rooms or discovered certain scenarios. Might be wrong but I think you could control different characters? (Might be confusing it with Maniac Mansion in this respect so could be a red herring). Really want to play it again but can't remember what it was called!

For half price on Steam. If anyone is intereste in such things...

hideously overpriced and underpowered. Avoid at all costs appears to be the general consensus

Any questions?

Some facts:

In that hour, I did not fire a gun, save for at games at a fair (you know, shoot targets and that).

I didn't get quite as far as meeting up with Elizabeth. But from speaking to Ken Levine (for the next games column) and seeing footage online, the amount of work Irrational has put into her AI is off the chart.

The world of Columbia looks so, so, so good. You wanna look at everything and try to interact with it. And with a lot of it, you can.

Should I feel bad for taking money out of a church? Whenever I saw coins, they were mine.

There are plasmids, but they're not called plasmids. I got one, which enabled me to hack machinery and gain entry to a sold-out raffle (the robot-man on the door was a lot like the taxi driver in Total Recall).

I saw what I assume the equivalent of the Big Daddy is, on show at the fair - he didn't seem happy to be there.

When there's a new objective, the audio cue is the same as the original Bioshock. Nice touch.

I WANT THIS GAME NOW PLEASE.

What games should I definitely get? I've never had a non-Nintendo console, so I've not really played most of the big multiformat games. I'd prefer relatively short games, as I don't have the time for MASSIVE games like Skyrim. I'll probably get Ni No Kuni eventually though.

ALSO should I get one of the slim PS3s? I'll be buying new I think (console-wise).

the Mass Effect 3 DLC actually sounds really fun and goofy, might pick it up

Sleeping Dogs and Deus Ex Human Revolution are both £8.99 (good price for SD but DE:HR is only £4 in CEX) plus all the DLC for all their games are half price. Got one of the mission packs for Sleeping Dogs for 200 points, enjoying it so far and its nice to have stuff to do on that game again.