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Probably not, I think it's actually compelled, but anyway, this word describes a rare feeling in gaming terms. It's when there is something which you just must do, not through necessity, but through curiosity or addiction. My current phase is addiction, I am sadly and wholely addicted to my PS2. (Thanks SR for sending me many free games recently :D)......
First game to grab me by the testicles and not let me go was GTA3. All I heard for ages was people moaning about how they finished the missions and found and did everything possible in a few days, all I can say to these people is that they missed an experience. I can do the missions in this game without being distracted by a new and funny way to maim and kill rival gangs, or pedestrians, This game just makes me laugh so much. I don't find wars with the police, FBI or the army any fun without trying to steal their cars, or tanks, and go on rampages through the gang members. There are just certain places in Liberty City a guy can't go these days without being reduced to a pile of soggy jelly.
And life was good, but could it get better??
Well, Pro Evo dropped through my mailbox, and life got better, as the days draw darker......
Living in Scotland, we're lucky to get 6 hours of daylight to see us through the winter chill, so we need sustinance and entertainment within our centrally heated homes. Pro Evo is the best football game ever. It just makes you grab a hold of the pad and begs you to beat it again and again, and then your mates for a while, then the PS2 again and again. Life is good, until Simo does another 40 yards sprint and hits the back of the net in the Master League, then life is better :D.
Right, so for the poor PS2 games line-up to keep my attention for that short period of a few weeks is good. These two games would easily see me through the Winter. But I'm, a greedy begger, and Tony Hawks 3 dropped through my mailbox soon after (courtesy of the GADsters once again :D). And to date, I haven't even finished levels one and two. This game is being kept secretly locked away until I get my PS2 cable modem, and then I will truely discover the delights of online gameing, console styleee (damn dirty DMC, but we'll get to that soon :D). This game is great, gorgeous and most importantly fast. Next gen games all deserve to be running at 60fps, any less and they just don't cut the mustard, GTA3 only gets away with it because it's such a damn good game. If you were to go back and play the old ones, I bet they'd be slow as hell, but anyway, this rocks, and I've yet to even play much of it........
Then yesterday morning came, and so did Devil May Cry. I was content for Pro Evo to be my favourite PS2 game this year, and it was, until yesterday that is. This game just oozes class. From the moment the camera pans up the face of the castle, you know you are watching a masterpiece and landmark game unfold. Typically there are the classic Ps2 problems so very much present. Very low resolution and vary badly aliased models, but this game runs at 60fps, all the time, even when you are faced with 8 baddies on the screen at any given moment. Oh yes, you do wish you were as cool as Dante. This guy can take a big assed sword through the chest, get hit by lightening get throuwn half way across the room, and still get up jump, and unload double pistol shots into some spirit contolled spirit entity. Fair enough if that was a description of a cut scene, but it isn't, thats a description of gameplay, and yes, the controls are so easy, anyone could whip some evil backside and walk away with a grin on there face.
So, that should be it all for this year then?? Well, not really, being as compelled to play my PS2 as I am, Baldur's Gate should be flying through my door within the next 7 days, and WRC will be mine come Christmas Day, damn I'm spoiling myself, but I love it :D
First game to grab me by the testicles and not let me go was GTA3. All I heard for ages was people moaning about how they finished the missions and found and did everything possible in a few days, all I can say to these people is that they missed an experience. I can do the missions in this game without being distracted by a new and funny way to maim and kill rival gangs, or pedestrians, This game just makes me laugh so much. I don't find wars with the police, FBI or the army any fun without trying to steal their cars, or tanks, and go on rampages through the gang members. There are just certain places in Liberty City a guy can't go these days without being reduced to a pile of soggy jelly.
And life was good, but could it get better??
Well, Pro Evo dropped through my mailbox, and life got better, as the days draw darker......
Living in Scotland, we're lucky to get 6 hours of daylight to see us through the winter chill, so we need sustinance and entertainment within our centrally heated homes. Pro Evo is the best football game ever. It just makes you grab a hold of the pad and begs you to beat it again and again, and then your mates for a while, then the PS2 again and again. Life is good, until Simo does another 40 yards sprint and hits the back of the net in the Master League, then life is better :D.
Right, so for the poor PS2 games line-up to keep my attention for that short period of a few weeks is good. These two games would easily see me through the Winter. But I'm, a greedy begger, and Tony Hawks 3 dropped through my mailbox soon after (courtesy of the GADsters once again :D). And to date, I haven't even finished levels one and two. This game is being kept secretly locked away until I get my PS2 cable modem, and then I will truely discover the delights of online gameing, console styleee (damn dirty DMC, but we'll get to that soon :D). This game is great, gorgeous and most importantly fast. Next gen games all deserve to be running at 60fps, any less and they just don't cut the mustard, GTA3 only gets away with it because it's such a damn good game. If you were to go back and play the old ones, I bet they'd be slow as hell, but anyway, this rocks, and I've yet to even play much of it........
Then yesterday morning came, and so did Devil May Cry. I was content for Pro Evo to be my favourite PS2 game this year, and it was, until yesterday that is. This game just oozes class. From the moment the camera pans up the face of the castle, you know you are watching a masterpiece and landmark game unfold. Typically there are the classic Ps2 problems so very much present. Very low resolution and vary badly aliased models, but this game runs at 60fps, all the time, even when you are faced with 8 baddies on the screen at any given moment. Oh yes, you do wish you were as cool as Dante. This guy can take a big assed sword through the chest, get hit by lightening get throuwn half way across the room, and still get up jump, and unload double pistol shots into some spirit contolled spirit entity. Fair enough if that was a description of a cut scene, but it isn't, thats a description of gameplay, and yes, the controls are so easy, anyone could whip some evil backside and walk away with a grin on there face.
So, that should be it all for this year then?? Well, not really, being as compelled to play my PS2 as I am, Baldur's Gate should be flying through my door within the next 7 days, and WRC will be mine come Christmas Day, damn I'm spoiling myself, but I love it :D
I reckon they'll iron out the main bug which freezes the game on Level 3, but I think the rest of the slowdown glitches will be left un altered.
Now really, do you really expect them to tweak the game for us Europeon gamers?!
Well, if they do I will eat my hat.
*just to further emphasise how strongly he feels on this, Ortega points out that he aint wearing a hat*
Well, if they do I will eat my hat.
*just to further emphasise how strongly he feels on this, Ortega points out that he aint wearing a hat*
Or†ega wrote:
> Apart from the frame rate dropping in places, Rogue leader is also supposed to
> have a few bugs that makes the game freeze in places.
I'm sure factor 5 would
> have made a better game if it wasnt for Nintendo insisting it came out for
> launch. It is a rushed game, and suffers for it.
Not rushed just wasn't ironed to remove all creases, it will all be sorted for European launch me hopes.
> Apart from the frame rate dropping in places, Rogue leader is also supposed to
> have a few bugs that makes the game freeze in places.
I'm sure factor 5 would
> have made a better game if it wasnt for Nintendo insisting it came out for
> launch. It is a rushed game, and suffers for it.
Not rushed just wasn't ironed to remove all creases, it will all be sorted for European launch me hopes.
Hopefully, it'll be nice and tweaked by Spring time...
It had better be...
It had better be...
Apart from the frame rate dropping in places, Rogue leader is also supposed to have a few bugs that makes the game freeze in places.
I'm sure factor 5 would have made a better game if it wasnt for Nintendo insisting it came out for launch. It is a rushed game, and suffers for it.
I'm sure factor 5 would have made a better game if it wasnt for Nintendo insisting it came out for launch. It is a rushed game, and suffers for it.
I think that Bonus' real point is about framerate, and I agree with him on that one.
Perfect Dark was ruined by slowdown.
I'd rather have basic graphics than sluggish sharp beautiful graphics.
Reports show that Rogue Leader slows down in places.
That's disappointing as I'd hoped that with the Gamecube's powerful and develloper friendly hardware, smooth games wouldn't be an issue.
Perhaps devellopers should include "Super Smooth" mode where the graphics are made more basic in order to make sure that the framerate NEVER drops below 60fps.
That way, they can enjoy the game's eye candy until the need to do something hard (that the slowdown hinders) or want a major multiplayer battle or something else that would normally slow it down a bit and sacrfice the polygon count in order to keep the game fast, furious, fun and most of all, slowdown free.
Roll on framerate optimisation!
Perfect Dark was ruined by slowdown.
I'd rather have basic graphics than sluggish sharp beautiful graphics.
Reports show that Rogue Leader slows down in places.
That's disappointing as I'd hoped that with the Gamecube's powerful and develloper friendly hardware, smooth games wouldn't be an issue.
Perhaps devellopers should include "Super Smooth" mode where the graphics are made more basic in order to make sure that the framerate NEVER drops below 60fps.
That way, they can enjoy the game's eye candy until the need to do something hard (that the slowdown hinders) or want a major multiplayer battle or something else that would normally slow it down a bit and sacrfice the polygon count in order to keep the game fast, furious, fun and most of all, slowdown free.
Roll on framerate optimisation!
Compulsion.
Why you gotta take my line?
Anyway PC gaming, now that's fun and immortal to boot. Just recently they re-released Sam And Max along with Day Of The Tentacle in one pack for cheap price. I still have the originals.
It's been surprisingly dry here and even warm on occasion, makes you worry about global warming. Well not really because summer had a tendency to be more wet and cold than usual so really it's just climate change isn't it, which is normal. Mind you the ice age was climate change, or else caused by the crashing of a giant spaceship on which the stuff we grew out of was stored. Yes.
Return To Castle Wolfenstein. Go. Now I mean it. What do you mean you can't? Didn't you read my review? Buy it, buy a PC if you have to just ensure that you can play it.
Why you gotta take my line?
Anyway PC gaming, now that's fun and immortal to boot. Just recently they re-released Sam And Max along with Day Of The Tentacle in one pack for cheap price. I still have the originals.
It's been surprisingly dry here and even warm on occasion, makes you worry about global warming. Well not really because summer had a tendency to be more wet and cold than usual so really it's just climate change isn't it, which is normal. Mind you the ice age was climate change, or else caused by the crashing of a giant spaceship on which the stuff we grew out of was stored. Yes.
Return To Castle Wolfenstein. Go. Now I mean it. What do you mean you can't? Didn't you read my review? Buy it, buy a PC if you have to just ensure that you can play it.
Compulsion.
Anyway, monkey boy, my collection is better.
My favourite game at the mo would have to be SSX Tricky... maybe i'm easily pleased, but this game rocks. It may only be half a game, but to someone who didn't and hasn't got the first one, it's a game and a half... its actually quite big, loads to do.
I agree with you on Pro Evo, although they could have used words like 'Kit' instead of 'Uniform' and 'Substitution' instead of 'Member Change'... but still, like you said, it rocks...
I've got GTA3 too, and it is good, but a two-player mode would have made the game 'heaven'. Co-Op and Vs Missions would have ruled...
I don't think the PAL THPS3 has any on-line functions... I may be wrong, but SR or Gamespot, I think, said that it was exactly the same game but there were no on-line functions...
What else have I got... ah... Jak and Daxter... what a game! For those of you who don't know... it is the PERFECT platform game... and the best one available. I can't even describe it's greatness.
I also have The Simpsons Road Rage... but i've sent that back, because it was crap... I'm getting Wipeout instead... damn dirty second party titles! But still it looks better than GT3 - "a mon avis"!
I want to get Agent Under Fire, State of Emergency, Wipeout and MGS2 to complete my collection... after that, who knows... I might well trade it in for GameCube stuff... I might not.
Game
Anyway, monkey boy, my collection is better.
My favourite game at the mo would have to be SSX Tricky... maybe i'm easily pleased, but this game rocks. It may only be half a game, but to someone who didn't and hasn't got the first one, it's a game and a half... its actually quite big, loads to do.
I agree with you on Pro Evo, although they could have used words like 'Kit' instead of 'Uniform' and 'Substitution' instead of 'Member Change'... but still, like you said, it rocks...
I've got GTA3 too, and it is good, but a two-player mode would have made the game 'heaven'. Co-Op and Vs Missions would have ruled...
I don't think the PAL THPS3 has any on-line functions... I may be wrong, but SR or Gamespot, I think, said that it was exactly the same game but there were no on-line functions...
What else have I got... ah... Jak and Daxter... what a game! For those of you who don't know... it is the PERFECT platform game... and the best one available. I can't even describe it's greatness.
I also have The Simpsons Road Rage... but i've sent that back, because it was crap... I'm getting Wipeout instead... damn dirty second party titles! But still it looks better than GT3 - "a mon avis"!
I want to get Agent Under Fire, State of Emergency, Wipeout and MGS2 to complete my collection... after that, who knows... I might well trade it in for GameCube stuff... I might not.
Game
Probably not, I think it's actually compelled, but anyway, this word describes a rare feeling in gaming terms. It's when there is something which you just must do, not through necessity, but through curiosity or addiction. My current phase is addiction, I am sadly and wholely addicted to my PS2. (Thanks SR for sending me many free games recently :D)......
First game to grab me by the testicles and not let me go was GTA3. All I heard for ages was people moaning about how they finished the missions and found and did everything possible in a few days, all I can say to these people is that they missed an experience. I can do the missions in this game without being distracted by a new and funny way to maim and kill rival gangs, or pedestrians, This game just makes me laugh so much. I don't find wars with the police, FBI or the army any fun without trying to steal their cars, or tanks, and go on rampages through the gang members. There are just certain places in Liberty City a guy can't go these days without being reduced to a pile of soggy jelly.
And life was good, but could it get better??
Well, Pro Evo dropped through my mailbox, and life got better, as the days draw darker......
Living in Scotland, we're lucky to get 6 hours of daylight to see us through the winter chill, so we need sustinance and entertainment within our centrally heated homes. Pro Evo is the best football game ever. It just makes you grab a hold of the pad and begs you to beat it again and again, and then your mates for a while, then the PS2 again and again. Life is good, until Simo does another 40 yards sprint and hits the back of the net in the Master League, then life is better :D.
Right, so for the poor PS2 games line-up to keep my attention for that short period of a few weeks is good. These two games would easily see me through the Winter. But I'm, a greedy begger, and Tony Hawks 3 dropped through my mailbox soon after (courtesy of the GADsters once again :D). And to date, I haven't even finished levels one and two. This game is being kept secretly locked away until I get my PS2 cable modem, and then I will truely discover the delights of online gameing, console styleee (damn dirty DMC, but we'll get to that soon :D). This game is great, gorgeous and most importantly fast. Next gen games all deserve to be running at 60fps, any less and they just don't cut the mustard, GTA3 only gets away with it because it's such a damn good game. If you were to go back and play the old ones, I bet they'd be slow as hell, but anyway, this rocks, and I've yet to even play much of it........
Then yesterday morning came, and so did Devil May Cry. I was content for Pro Evo to be my favourite PS2 game this year, and it was, until yesterday that is. This game just oozes class. From the moment the camera pans up the face of the castle, you know you are watching a masterpiece and landmark game unfold. Typically there are the classic Ps2 problems so very much present. Very low resolution and vary badly aliased models, but this game runs at 60fps, all the time, even when you are faced with 8 baddies on the screen at any given moment. Oh yes, you do wish you were as cool as Dante. This guy can take a big assed sword through the chest, get hit by lightening get throuwn half way across the room, and still get up jump, and unload double pistol shots into some spirit contolled spirit entity. Fair enough if that was a description of a cut scene, but it isn't, thats a description of gameplay, and yes, the controls are so easy, anyone could whip some evil backside and walk away with a grin on there face.
So, that should be it all for this year then?? Well, not really, being as compelled to play my PS2 as I am, Baldur's Gate should be flying through my door within the next 7 days, and WRC will be mine come Christmas Day, damn I'm spoiling myself, but I love it :D
First game to grab me by the testicles and not let me go was GTA3. All I heard for ages was people moaning about how they finished the missions and found and did everything possible in a few days, all I can say to these people is that they missed an experience. I can do the missions in this game without being distracted by a new and funny way to maim and kill rival gangs, or pedestrians, This game just makes me laugh so much. I don't find wars with the police, FBI or the army any fun without trying to steal their cars, or tanks, and go on rampages through the gang members. There are just certain places in Liberty City a guy can't go these days without being reduced to a pile of soggy jelly.
And life was good, but could it get better??
Well, Pro Evo dropped through my mailbox, and life got better, as the days draw darker......
Living in Scotland, we're lucky to get 6 hours of daylight to see us through the winter chill, so we need sustinance and entertainment within our centrally heated homes. Pro Evo is the best football game ever. It just makes you grab a hold of the pad and begs you to beat it again and again, and then your mates for a while, then the PS2 again and again. Life is good, until Simo does another 40 yards sprint and hits the back of the net in the Master League, then life is better :D.
Right, so for the poor PS2 games line-up to keep my attention for that short period of a few weeks is good. These two games would easily see me through the Winter. But I'm, a greedy begger, and Tony Hawks 3 dropped through my mailbox soon after (courtesy of the GADsters once again :D). And to date, I haven't even finished levels one and two. This game is being kept secretly locked away until I get my PS2 cable modem, and then I will truely discover the delights of online gameing, console styleee (damn dirty DMC, but we'll get to that soon :D). This game is great, gorgeous and most importantly fast. Next gen games all deserve to be running at 60fps, any less and they just don't cut the mustard, GTA3 only gets away with it because it's such a damn good game. If you were to go back and play the old ones, I bet they'd be slow as hell, but anyway, this rocks, and I've yet to even play much of it........
Then yesterday morning came, and so did Devil May Cry. I was content for Pro Evo to be my favourite PS2 game this year, and it was, until yesterday that is. This game just oozes class. From the moment the camera pans up the face of the castle, you know you are watching a masterpiece and landmark game unfold. Typically there are the classic Ps2 problems so very much present. Very low resolution and vary badly aliased models, but this game runs at 60fps, all the time, even when you are faced with 8 baddies on the screen at any given moment. Oh yes, you do wish you were as cool as Dante. This guy can take a big assed sword through the chest, get hit by lightening get throuwn half way across the room, and still get up jump, and unload double pistol shots into some spirit contolled spirit entity. Fair enough if that was a description of a cut scene, but it isn't, thats a description of gameplay, and yes, the controls are so easy, anyone could whip some evil backside and walk away with a grin on there face.
So, that should be it all for this year then?? Well, not really, being as compelled to play my PS2 as I am, Baldur's Gate should be flying through my door within the next 7 days, and WRC will be mine come Christmas Day, damn I'm spoiling myself, but I love it :D