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Sony have shot themselves in the arse, I'm afraid. The price is too much, the controller is a rip-off, and once more they have failed to show any games of any note.
Microsoft have announced about seven million peripherals, and told everybody how much fun gaming on Live is. It is fun, but perhaps showing people might have benfited?
Nintendo, meantime, stuck some guys on the stage, and had them waving their Wiimote's around to some tennis game. Everybody who has seen it agrees that this looks fantastic.
Round 1 is Nintendo's. Will there even be a round 2? Is there even a need? The sheer size of the list of games to be released for the DS shows that the immediate future is N-shaped.
XBox Live on the 360 is the way online gaming should be done. Microsoft really should be applauded for it, because it has a hell of a lot of things going for it. Such as 'achievments'. These are superb, because they can make you replay games, or make you push yourself against your friend.
So, with that in mind, I look at the achievments when playing a game. Geometry Wars : Retro Evolved has one that seems interesting - 'Pacifism'. Survive the first 60 seconds without firing. Seems simple enough, but you soon realise just how tricky it is. In fact, it took me a fair few tries.
Now, I get myself a nice 10 points for that.
FTW? 10 MEASLY POINTS?
The XBox 360 is a gorgeous piece of kit. No question. However, it is also quite possibly the single most frustratingest machine ever invented.
When mankind finally destroys itself, the reason will be because Microsoft made us do it, I swear.
So, I went to reclaim my old gamertag, CheekyLee. Turns out I needed certain information that no longer exists. Like, the last 4 digits of a card that expired a year ago, which was attached to a bank account I closed 2 years ago. In order to get this information, I had to set up the old machine, and ... too much effort. I called customer support. They told me I had to call billing. CALL billing, he couldn't put me through directly.
Now that I have a GeForce 6 in my spanky new PC (3.2GHz P4, 512mb RAM, 160mb HD), I finally was able to play the Darwinia demo I donwloaded via Steam. (Yeah, yeah, I know, Steam am the Devil's bidniss! Oh well, it was there, I was bored ...) Well, I could already play the demo, provided I was happy with 2 frames per second. Suffice it to say I was not.
The XBox 360 is on it's way to my house! Along with Burnout Revenge, Ghost Recon 3 : Advanced Warfighter, and Tomb Raider Legend. (The latter is not my choice, I gave up on Lara long ago, but the woman still has a soft spot for her, I'm afraid.)
Strangest choice is GRAW, since I have long since held a dislike for stealth combat games. However, playing it at a friend's house over the weekend convinced me to give it a go. The graphics are quite simply astonishing. Putting myself into the mindset to step, look around, step, look around, lather, rinse, repeat is going to be a challenge, but I'm sure I'll be able to step up to it.
Oh, and you know that Geometry Wars : Retro Evolved will be my first download!
Honest Gamers is not exactly a HUGE site, as these things go. It's a great site, and I would love for it to get bigger, but at the same time I do enjoy the small community aspect we have here.
Anyway, to my point. This small community has put four of its' collective heads together, and come up with a blueprint for the most fantastic MMO I have ever heard of!
Of course, I am open to the idea that maybe BECAUSE we are such a small community, and because we are all clearly people of a similar mindset, then perhaps that is why we are agreeing on ideas so quickly. A bigger community may well have extra ideas, but also have extra negativity.
Kudos due to Pup for the find. I downloaded DUO from Underdogs, and just spent the last 34 minutes playing it. I now have a mild dizziness of the eyes, and a thumping tune pumping through my head. I shall be seeing balls all night long.
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