Medievil and Wipeout:Pure on the PSP.

Waiting for my birthday for Battlefront 2

I also hide in the locker, but I am killed when I try to fix the turrets...

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Originally posted by Bravus:

Was in Compusmart, and one of the reasons I didn't buy it right then was the sales guy. I knew exactly what I wanted, but he came and hung out near me anyway, mused about some other completely irrelevant game that happened to be close, then had the gall to hand me his card so I could tell them at the checkout he'd 'helped' me and get him a commission. All he'd done was made me uncomfortable and given me less chance to read and think.

Nasty, Bravus - that sounds even worse than a Future Shop experience. Their sales staff (FS) can get pretty pushy about buying the extended warranty for some tech toy (on which they no doubt receive a commission as well), but I've never had one be quite so overtly (attempting to be) ingratiating or "helpful", what have you.

Will probably check out Q4 eventually. The big game for me will be UT2007, but that's at least a year away.

UT2004's Onslaught mode is super sweet - very challenging, for me - and all the more fun because of it.

Wipeout. Ah. That game, years ago, caused some severe urges to blast my way among the other cars on the clogged avenues of this city. 'Where's the shockwave button?' : )

A couple days ago saw a young man with a PSP on the subway; he was trying not to flaunt it too much. Boy, that thing is tiny. I'm afraid I'd need bifocals to play it.

"Nasty, Bravus - that sounds even worse than a Future Shop experience. Their sales staff (FS) can get pretty pushy about buying the extended warranty for some tech toy (on which they no doubt receive a commission as well), but I've never had one be quite so overtly (attempting to be) ingratiating or "helpful", what have you."

This is why I shop online - no commission sales staff harassing you and you get time to research what you are buying before committing the funds.

Scrabble

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Originally posted by boogerhead:
Scrabble

online?

Finished Thief 3 - now playing the (astonishing) Fan Missions (i.e. made by sole fans or teams of fans at home, for nothing but the approbation of their peers) for Thief 2.

Also we bought Fable: The Lost Chapters for PC last night - Suzie has wanted it for a while, and we're just about up to the final climactic battle in Dungeon Siege 2.

And then, just for those times when I'm feeling violent, I plan to re-start Doom 3, complete it and then buy Quake 4.

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Originally posted by Gray Shiro:

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Originally posted by boogerhead:
Scrabble

online?

no...the only games I own are chess, scrabble, cranium and a deck of cards.

oh yeah....I have a Go program on my cpu, too.

I've never played Go but it seems to me that part of the appeal of the game is the physical part, beauty of the gridded wood board and holding the stones and all. Do you play much?

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Originally posted by synch:
My main problem for playing it a lot at one time is that I tend to get basically motion-sick from playing FPS's more than 2 hours or so at once.

HL2 is the first game where I've felt motion sickness. I read that for some people it had something to do with the FOV setting.

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Originally posted by Gray Shiro:
I've never played Go but it seems to me that part of the appeal of the game is the physical part, beauty of the gridded wood board and holding the stones and all. Do you play much?

Yeah, the stones and wood are a big part of the aesthetic, but the game can be played easily without them. Especially considering the graphics capabilities of the modern PC.

I have been playing for about six months, and have lost something like 150-200 games. I won one, against someone who'd never played before.

Go? What a beautifully minimal, yet complex, game that is. The rules can be explained in less than three minutes, but the finer points of strategy can take a lifetime. I find it takes patience to learn/teach, but once they get over the hump, you can learn a lot about someone from their Go game. For years I played with a small circle of self-taught friends. Fun, but we all got schooled by this guy we met who used to work security on the graveyard shift at some plant in China. Apparently, all they did on the job was play Go. Very instructive, getting your ass whupped by a master; his Go was a whole different ballgame.

Sounds like you're playing against a wide-variety of (good) opponents, boog. That's the best way to learn - multiple parents, like in a kibbutz.

yeah, it is one of the only board games that has driven people completly, legally insane. I love it!

It's very counter-intuitive, compared to chess.

It wouldn't be so hard (on people's egos) to learn if they'd just accept a few "penalty" stones. No one likes the sound of that.

I used to be a sort of Pente master. Which is unfortunate, because it really, really handicaps you trying to learn Go! Pente is all about the blitz...

I was going to say, "Go is all about the grand coup", but after that security guard, I don't think I'm qualified to say what Go is all about.

I like the nicknames for the game, e.g., "rotten axe" (for the woodsmen who gets lost in a game). I think there are better ones, too ...hmm.

You gotta love any game where the first lesson in one of humility.

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Originally posted by boogerhead:
You gotta love any game where the first lesson in one of humility.

And the second,

And the third,

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