You know they changed how you get Gil in order to make it more realistic, right? (well, as realistic as FF can get). You cut down enemies and gain stuff that you can sell- you get used to it pretty quickly. So far FFXII made it to my second favorite FF; my favorite being VI- so it's totally worth every moment.

I'm dying to try a copy of Okami, but I've not found a used copy that I've been willing to buy (that and I've been too wrapped up in the Wild Arms series to play anything else >.> ), but I'm glad it's as awesome as it seemed it would be.

Currently I'm playing FFX with the determination that I'll actually finish it this time and not just run off to start another game >.o

Yeah, I kinda figured it out, the realistic thing, but it annoys me to have to decide if I want a very useful magick spell or equally useful technick. However, I suppose if that's the biggest annoyance of my day, I should count myself lucky.

Final Fantasy X is worth a play through. The story is a bit overly melodramatic, but the graphics are great and the battle system is fantastic. I'd also reccomend Final Fantasy X-2, but it seems that I'm about the only person on earth who likes it, so... take that as you will.

I'd reccomend Okami. Worth the thirty (?) bucks I paid for it, but then again, I'm also a Clover fanboy.

I also just bought a DS from a friend of mine. It's coming with New Super Mario Bros. and Mario Kart DS, so I'm kinda psyched, and I figure I'll be playing that a lot (when not playing FFXII, of course.)

Just hack and slash a lot and buy both? =P

I also really like X-2, just not as a continuation to a FF game


Though I tried to escape it's grip for as long as I could I just bought guitar hero 2 from a friend.....somehow I knew I'd end up either getting that or DDR. Knowing me I'll probably eventually get both ;

Ah yes, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, and Guitar Hero III are among the last games I'll be purchasing for my PS2. I look forward to having them, but not so much with the buying of them.

Has anyone else been looking at the upcoming Rock Band? My god, that looks like so much fun! Damned expensive with all the kit unfortunately, but by the time you can play the drums on the expert setting... Well, you can play the drums!

Heh. I read that article, too Mata.

But yeah, I'm super stoked for Rock Band. It's a bit of a curse, though... now whenever I listen to non classical music I think to myself "How would this be in Rock Band?" It's pathetic.

On topic... I just bought a copy of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. I also got my DS today and played through the first two and a half worlds of New Super Mario Bros.

It's awesome.

I've been playing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the PS3. Partly because I get it through work, partly because I will probably be working on the sequel. It's pretty good actually, but there are a hell of a lot of rough edges left on it. If I do get on the sequel then I'll have my work cut out for me!

Oh, and I've been playing Burnout Paradise too

I've entered hour sixty on Final Fantasy XII. I'm worried I shan't finish it before I go back to university and thus I will have to wait until Christmas time to finally sink my teeth into Zelda: Twilight Princess.

I also picked up a copy of Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble for the DS, but my energies are focused on New Super Mario Bros. and my L and R buttons are broked so I haven't broken it out quite yet.

It's not too bad. Whenever I listen to anything remotely electronic, I think about how it could be turned into a DDR song. It's the worst with Mushroomhead (download "Bwomp" and see what I mean).

Rock Band is looking cool. A few of my boys and I were talking about it recently. My brother and his friends are waiting with baited breath to get theit hands on it.

ANyhow, I got DDR Universe for the Xbox 360 and I'm having tons of fun with it. I'm saving up for a pair of trips over the next few months and now who has time to go out and spend money when you can stay inside and play DDR?

World of Warcraft...

I've recently joined a new guild after being in one for about a year on my L70 warrior (Kilrogg Alliance, called Asmoriar). Just started an arena team, our first night we won 6 lost 7 bouts which isnt too shabby at all for a team that had been formed less than an hour. Levelling my belf mage (Kilrogg Horde, called Amithrar). L67 at the mo. Nearly there. So yeah say hi if you are on Kilrogg.

Other than that, mostly playing Wii. Resi 4 and Zelda own.

I was playing GTA:SA on my pc and have been taking a little break as my bro got me sims 2 for pc!!
I've been getting into that, i made a man who is now married and has a teenage daughter!!!! <
Anyone else play sims2?

I briefly had a stalker who created a sim-version of me, with whom sim-him had a large and complicated family, but I don't play myself.

I've been playing Katamari on the Wii! It is dangerously cute. In-between I play the Matrix game to remind myself of how tough and hard and badass I am. Yay rolling up giant balls and then kicking people in the balls!

I bought a nintendo 64 recently. With super mario 64 and ocarina of time. Both great games! Also, I discovered the minus world on super mario bros. for my game boy advance.

"Get The Items On The Shopping List Before Your Opponent" in Sainsburys, with walkie talkies! Having a little brother to make Saturday night shopping fun with is FTW!

Also, a game called Tangle which is incredibly addictive and frustrating. I'm still on Level 7. For the last couple of days. *twitch*

Alas, no more WoW as I don't think having an active subscription and starting college again will be conducive to achieving anything on my course. Apart from maybe dribble collected during playtime. It could be art....

I'm a bore with nothing to play, but I'm waiting on a game called Flyff to download, it was recommended to me by Irish Guy. Who doesn't live in Ireland, but I do

Quite a bit of Bioshock.

Far too much of The Simpsons Game, but that counts as work (whoo, it's been announced, I can finally say what I've been working on for the last 10 months or so). >_>

Also a lot of Goldeneye, Blast Corps and Pilotwings on the N64, and then even more of the above at work since we're at the point in the project where most days involve a lot of sitting around doing nothing and waiting for someone to find a bug. 4 player Goldeneye still rocks!


Everyone I know who's worked on one or more of the Potter games ended up seriously hating it. Hopefully you won't have the same experience. (Admittedly one guy used to animate Lara Croft a few years back for Tomb Raider and ended up animating plates falling off a shelf for Order of the Phoenix!)

The Simpsons!!! I haven't played that in ages, now you have given me a craving to play it, dam you!!! Only messing, love you really

Kasbah.

The one moop is talking about isn't being released until the beginning of November, I think (he works as a video game developer, in case that wasn't obvious). Which of the other squillion and five Simpsons games were you talking about? My personal favorite was always Bart vs. The Space Mutants on the NES. I think we have it floating around somewhere, but I haven't played it since I was a kid.

Lately, thanks to Frog, I've been playing Tangle (for Macs). This has led to a LOT of swearing at my computer. It's so simple, yet SO infuriating!

I know he is, I noticed all the signs, I wasn't talking about any in particular. Just generally Simpsons games, they are all good.

Kasbah.

I remembered Populous: The Beginning yesterday, and spent a while digging through my cupboards to find the CD for it.

Oh it is still so awesome. Plug in the cheats and Volcano your opponents to death. The fun!

While looking for it, I also found CDs for Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper, Baldur's Gate, Rebel Assault 2, Planescape: Torment and many many more to keep me amused between calling job agencies.

Silly buggers.

I just saw the title of the thread and it popped in my head. Last game I bought was the new Guild Wars expansion, other than that, I've been pottering about in WoW still while waiting for the next part of half life 2 and portals, that's so going to kill my PC.

Edit: Good luck getting the old school games to run on XP, theme hospital always went tits up on me....I never bothered to see if there was a patch or anything...

Sadest game on earth...runescape

also will be playin halo3 in a few days at mates house, (cause im retarded enough to forget to preorder it >.<)

and my xbox live ran out and my dad wont renew it >.<

Nothing. =[

Played bioshock. Good game, origional storyline but one major flaw. It is too short. Might get mysims for the wii, maybe super paper mario. Defenately getting more controllers for the n64. Also getting goldeneye.

Can't wait for Nintendo to get its online arse into gear.

I got bored of BioShock and ended up installing about 3/4 of the way through. The repetitive to and fro'ing to fetch random items started to get frustrating and boring.

I seem to be back in a gaming mood though, having not played much for a while. I completed Super Paper Mario last weekend. It's mostly a great game and the dialogue and sense of humour make up for the occasionaly really frustrating or dull parts. It could have done with twice as many worlds though, especially considering how huge Super Mario World on the SNES was. I liked the 'flipping to 3D' concept but occasionally it felt as if using it made the puzzles too easy, I guess the game just had a very 'casual gamer' level of difficulty.

I got the Half-Life 2 Orange Box last week and so several hours were spent playing Portal. Unfortunately just several hours, it's not a very long game, but it is very cool and who can say no to psychotic computers, violating the rules of physics and cake. I've also been playing back through Half-Life 2 since I never got around to completing it but would like to before playing Episodes 1 and 2.

I've been playing Halo 3 at lunchtimes (work has a comfy room with a projector - it's nice to play 4 player split screen where your portion of the screen is still the size of a 37" TV ). I'm still not really getting into it though -and I don't understand why it's getting so much praise, 4 player Goldeneye beats it in terms of fun.

I'm looking at the super smash bros. brawl websie now and I can't wait!

Cool! I've spent several lunchimes this week playing Smash Bros and Mario Kart on the N64 (US versions, a few people insist that there is a difference, possibly just PAL slowdown). I found Smash Brothers hard to get into but good fun once the controls start to make sense.

I think I still prefer the SNES Mario Kart, the tracks are less convoluted and it's not possible to skip 90% of the track with well timed jumps. If only the SNES supported 4 player.

I'm thinking of getting smash bros on n64, but I have no money.

I've been playing Super Mario on the DS, and competing against my siblings in getting high scores on the rec room games. I quite like the bomb sorting one, though my sister beat my score of 158 with 181. I think she was on the caffine. >_>


Also been playing card games, snap, cheat, gin rummy, blackjack and Chinese patience.

I'm playing The Orange Box, which is utterly superb. I also spent a couple of hours on the Flash version of Portal http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/ . It's really very good indeed.

Just listened to the music for brawl. Now I truly cannot wait.

Played the flash portal game, wow!

Oh my God theres a stage builder!

link

Playing phantom hourglass, a lot! It's brilliant!

I got, and have been playing alot of Fable: The Lost Chapters, on xbox. I really like it. It's so fun to be able to build a character however you want and such.

Funnily enough, I've been playing Fable as well, but it's research for a possible job. Now I've got my head back around the ridiculous control scheme (hold right trigger, press Y twice, then press B to cast a Heal Spell. Come on, that's just daft!) I'm really enjoying it.

That portal flash game is asking me for a password!

try typing in, 'Mata made me'

Did anyone used to play donkey kong on the NES or at the arcades?

http://www.smashbros.com/en_uk/music/music15.html

I played through Super Mario Galaxy a few weeks ago and it's awesome. The physics of jumping between tiny planets which somehow have enough gravity to hold you on is really fun to play around with and the puzzles use it well. The nice thing is the game should appeal to both casual and hardcore gamers as only 50 or so of the 120 power stars you have to collect are needed to fight the final boss so you can play only the levels which suit you in terms of difficulty and finish the game. Currently I have 90 or so power stars and will probably go back some time to finish it off.

I've been temporarily trading Wii games with people from work a lot recently. First off was Mercury Meltdown Revolution which was cool but seemed a bit limited and Kororinpa is simpler and more fun, despite being essentially the same concept.

I've also borrowed SSX Blur which has made its way onto my Christmas list now. It took a bit of getting used to and is definitely at the harder end of the scale but once you understand the controls, which are nearly all motion controlled, it's great fun and flows really well.

Finally, Guitar Hero III, also for the Wii, arrived on Friday and since then nothing else has had a look in as both me and Cand are hopelessly addicted. Currently I've plowed through it on easy and medium but hard is still giving me a kicking. There were a lot of complaints because despite having a Dolby surround sound logo on the box it only actually outputs mono sound - I haven't really noticed it though, not being a complete audiophile, and it doesn't detract from the gameplay at all.

I like the way the Guitar plugs into the Wii remote in the same way as the nunchuck so motion sensing (for star power) comes for free as does the wirelessness and the ability to play random notes through the wiimote speaker when you mess up.

Handy tip: I found it on Amazon.co.uk for £60 which is £15 less than it seems to sell for in the shops though when I ordered it I may have ganked the last in stock.

I'll stop waffling now.

So I brought my PS2 to college only to forget my damn power adaptor. I was pissed when I realized this.

Anyway, I tried out Mario Galaxy today and now I can't wait for my brother to get his Wii for Christmas. It's a great game.

I've also been playing a lot of Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES on this dandy website. It's great fun, but damned if it isn't hard! I've been playing for about two weeks (I don't close the screen) and am only on World Six! But I swear to God it won't beat me!

... My boyfriend got me back on Wow.

I'm slightly ashamed of this.

It's just so addicting!

Cool site. I've been playing lots of tremulous.

Supeer Mariiooo Galaaxxxyyyyyyyyy!!!

I spent 5 quid on Sid Miers Railroads (I like management games) and UFO: Aftershock few weeks ago. I regret buying neither and they've kept me going for weeks. Budget PC games are great.

Aftershock is approaching the greatness of the original XCom - UFO defense from 1995. It's in close competition with Laser Squad Nemesis but wins because of the better tactical controls and the strategic mode which gives it more variety. Aftershock crashes a lot though.

Another minor criticism is that the tech tree is too convoluted. You usually have to find an alien or old world item (like an AR15 rifle) and research it. This will give you a new concept to research like 'assault rifles'. Then you have to draft blueprints for each individual item you want to be able to build. Finally once that's done you can manufacture them. It's not a game ruiner but annoying at the start of the game because it takes a long time before you can manufacture anything.

Railroads is good fun if you like management games. But it has limited scope in terms of missions, which seem to go from really easy to impossible with no in between. I can't really complain for a quid though.

Cheap vintage games are definitely one of the great things about PCs, but I've not been very comfortable playing on a PC for years so I stick to my consoles.

I'm back onto the Prince Of Persia series at the moment (playing on PS3 emulating the PS2). Currently I'm playing the third one, 'The Two Thrones'. The first one has the best story, but the third one has a nice sense of grandeur and a really fantastic last ten minutes of play - which tops off the previous ten-ish hours of great level design very nicely. Hooray for revisiting old favourites!

Rayman raving rabbids 2. It can get boring in single player. The musical rounds are the best. I'm still on an adrenaline rush from it. It'll be great at the party i'm going to tommorrow.

^ Zomg! Rayman was my childhood! I almost forgot.

I'm still content with a very old disc with about 50 games which were already old at the time. Things like Jill of the Jungle, Hugo 1, 2 and 3, Pickle Wars, Bats, Aquanoid...

Hugo! Blimey, that's a blast from the past.

Aquanoid is a new one on me. Is it a rip off of Arkanoid? That was a game where you had to bounce a ball into a wall of bricks to make them disappear.

Currently I'm playing Assassin's Creed on PS3. I've been going for about four or five hours and I'm really enjoying it. There are aspects that I would have done differently, such as the guards in the rural areas being ridiculously sensitive to your presence except if you are going at the s-l-o-w-e-s-t pace possible, but mostly it's been a lot of fun.

I was playing Resident Evil 4 on the Wii which is possibly one of the best games I know, I love the way it actually takes skill aiming at zombies heads to blow them to bits. Also World in Conflict for the PC is quite a good game, USA vs USSR if fictional invasion of America. =]

I've just got a PSP, well Paul got it for me with his discount and my money and I'm not going to get it until Friday but technically I have one.

I think he got me Sonic Rivals 2, Tomb Raider Legends and The Sims 2 Pets. Anyone got any advice for good games?