Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[Keef]

Friend got me Crash & the Titans for Wii for my birthday. Have yet to play, but hear it's very good.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Just played N+ on the DS, now I want to find the dev team and ram a thousand DS sound chips down their ears. What a waste, great game, rubbish/non existent sound track.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Potentially fun, or reinventing pen and paper? ::o

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Never, ever coming to the UK, but can be imported ^^ If you like old school pixel crushing violence this may be your ticket to de-stressing your way through a bus journey...

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=3bBdKLvO5zw&eurl=http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=105551

Damn, even the dudes strut is badass!

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Now this is a rare occasion, a game worth looking forward to!

http://www.gamekyo.com/newsen29074_level-5-making-a-nintendo-ds-game-with-studio-ghibli.html

No news yet on a localised version, but considering the amount of cash spent on it, there is hope. Sad though, how around 80% of the best games on the DS will never be translated, its like being back in the Superfamicom days! :(

[mockney piers]

Looks great, but no speak the Japanese me.

Am playing DQIV at the moment, which is quite fun. I see Secret of Mana is out which would be a good blast from the past.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I quite fancy that DQ when you are finished Piers, should it be lendable..

Anyone fancy Turning your DS into a heavy synth?

[mockney piers]

yep, no problemo. I'm coming up to the final chapter, just need to find 6 suits of armour and 5 steel broadswords (why oh why did I sell them for cash earlier?!?)

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Heh, did you play / griiind your way through the first 3 which came out on the GBA (or was it the GBC???) some years back? Don't really have patience for the "rogue" or grinding rpgs anymore myself, but may well play through the DS incarnation of FFIV as imho, the Superfamicom version was one of the best rpgs ever.

Secret of mana (or Seiken Densetsu for its proper name) was a wonderful rpg, and had a wonderfully bittersweet ending, though sadly most people have never played the first one (the Superfamicom one was actually the second in the series).

More on that Ghibli rpg http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/09/24/level-5-has-big-plans-for-ds-enlists-aid-of-studio-ghibli/

Dragon Ball DS is looking fine...

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/09/19/ds-fanboy-hands-on-dragon-ball-origins/

More from the popular Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright here):

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20080922/kenji.htm

Plus some teaser scans from Famitsu et al.

http://wiieveryday.blogspot.com/2008/09/famitsu-20080926.html

[mockney piers]

They weren't particularly grindy, nothing compared to level 50-60 on WoW (I dread to think what 60-70, or now 70-80(?) must be like) but it has got a bit farmy of late.

Ghibli, is that a phonetic spelling of fish?

[MelbourneGr]

Levels 60-70 in WoW were repetitive and long - put me off WoW for life :-S. Probably a good thing though.

[Keef]

Anyone played the new starwars game? Have heard interesting things about it.

[mockney piers]

Force thingy? It looks the part, you get to be Vader for a bit, and the dark story line has had some good plaudits, but apparently a bit rubbish, repetitive, veers between pointlessly easy and punishingly hard and 15 second unskippable death scene EVERY time you die.

So will probably give it a miss.

[Keef]

Hmm, sounds a bit dodgy, one for the real SW fans. I think George Lucas had something to do with the story line though, it's set between episodes 3 and 4. I think the unskippable cut scene is the nail in the coffin for me, I hate when they do that!

Hadn't touched my wii for ages, but a couple of weeks ago I took a sicky one day, and finished No more heroes. Really really enjoyed it, very bizarre, and some great fights towards the end!

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

New DS out soon, already asked relations to send me one as soon as it hits the shops!

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/conference2008fall/mov/ds.html?n10

[mockney piers]

Typical, I've only just got the current one to replace the old one stolen by my niece-in-law!!!

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

OMFG first Flynt uses a lookalike in his latest porno, now this stupid cow invades pixel territory, what next?

http://www.pwnordie.com/blog/posts/3828

Also overblown game plots cut down to size:

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/epic-game-plots-made-simple/a-2008100212493709011

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

New images of the latest vampire killer romp to drool(blood) over here..

http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/dracula_ds3/gallery/illust.html

http://www.gpara.com/article/cms_show.php?c_id=8737&c_num=14

Never coming to these shores, but the Japanese are getting a limited edition with a leather notebook and OST...It will be mine, all......MINE!

http://www.gpara.com/article/cms_show.php?c_id=8985&c_num=14

For those not into hunting 1000 year old vampires, this link may be of use if you need inspiration or a memory kick when wondering what to boot up in your emulator of choice...

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

Don't have a 360 (prefer consoles that actually work, thanks), but this looks awesome, I still play Galaga '88 every now and again too...

http://galagalegions.namco-ch.net/index.html

[mockney piers]

Ah yes, played the demo, looks very nice, but wasn't sold on it. Geometry Wars 2 was better.

And so far my 360 has only died the once :-/

[SeanMacGabhann]

any recent 360 is as robust as any other console so I wouldn't worry unduly Shu

I was very excited by the Galaga update not just because I loved the original at the time but the update was being done by the same team who updated Pacman so fantastically a year or so back (and I wasn't a fan of the original Pacman - but this latest version is stunningly addictive)

Shame then that the new Galaga was so ... wooly. It looks gorgeous but lacks any real tension

Shu - please get a 360 (less than a hundred quid in Sainsbo's) just so teh Geometry Wars 2 competition hots up... ;-)

[mockney piers]

OI!!!!!!...I'll get there; like the Project Gotham 3 competition was so seat of the pants ;-P

[SeanMacGabhann]

it was PGR4 I believe! - and I do not do well at driving games. They take up so much tiiiiiime!

Apart from that - it's a fair cop

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Heh, well I could easily get one free (was in the games biz for ten years, and owed a lot of favours..) but

I hardly have the time to play the DS, let alone the Wii which hasn't been played much at all, will sell it soon I think.

I also have a Japanese edition of the Virtua Fighter 5 Stick for PS3, which I picked up last year for shmups on mame/finalburn etc but sits un-touched.

I just hardly ever have the time for gaming, which, given things I'm involved in, but can't mention here

is pretty sad :(

I guess my main focus when I have spare time is watching Japanese drama, photography and sorting the house out. Been meaning to start a blog for 10 years now, but something always seems to get in the way, and anyhow, there's already 10k other blogs by other jaded freaks out there.

Much as I try to get into modern games, I guess I just love 2d too much, kind of ironic that my DS phat just got crushed and the one guy that could have sorted me out with a new one, gratis (am flat broke!) moved to Australia two weeks ago!

The 360 actually outsold the PS3 two months in a row in Japan, whilst the PSP has been outselling the DS there, funny old market lately...

Speaking of Puckman, the Namco Gallery for DS had that Gamecube multiplayer version included in it ; )

[SeanMacGabhann]

And the very different and brilliant DulwichMum of course!

Shu - I worry if you ever come to a forum drinks that you, Mockney and me will form some kind of uber-geek-culture-black-hole... interesting post there

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Heh, well, despite my build (think a cross between Hokuto no ken http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Hokuto_no_Ken_tankobon.jpg and Anpan man http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b98/kyoto_ben/anpanman.jpg ) I'm kind of shy :-$

Very messy post, sorry about that!

Haven't seen Dulwichmum on here lately, makes more sense getting paid by the word I guess!

Actually, fook it, sometime this week I will start a blog :)) , probably using TPB's service, as Google hand over private data all too easily these days.

Now if you'll excuse me, I must search youtube for a tutorial on watermarking images in Photoshop!

Haven't seen them mentioned here, and far less prolific than before, but always worth a look:

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/