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You need to buy a kipper, invite him over for dinner, then smack him in the face with said kipper while it's wet.

Bobby Kotick called, he was wondering if he could persuade you to just give him money instead?

Recorded Mission to Mars on Sky+ yesterday and watched it this morning. A little slow but thoroughly enjoyable. Spent ages trying to figure out where I've seen the actress that played Terri Fisher before; apparently she was a guest Detective on Law & Order: SVU a while back.

When I was younger I used to love reading through the big thick manuals that games used to come with. I think the one I remember most fondly was the one that came with Star Wars Force Commander. These days though the manuals are more or less leaflets filled with disclaimers; so more often than not I ignore them completely. I do really enjoy being able to just jump into a game though, provided you're not thrown straight into combat, I like that sort of awakening feeling you can get. Leaving the sewer system for the first time at the start of Oblivion for example. On the same page though, I hate when certain features aren't very well explained and it takes repeated failures to pick it up. Such as the lock-picking in Oblivion.

Is fifteen minutes long enough to create a Stargate network?

I bought one of these in November last year for Uni, love it to bits. Only thing I dislike is having to have it plugged in almost constantly.

First I saw of him was also Jurassic Park as well, second time I saw him was in Bicentennial Man. That was probably the creepiest part of the entire film.

A Blueberry Muffin & an apple.

If I'd watched it at 15 I'd probably have shit my pants. Totally worth a re-watch I think. I'm quite fond of the effects and physical models in Sci-Fi from the 80s/90s. Looks far better than all this CGI crap.

Watched Event Horizon this morning. Pretty decent piece of Sci-Fi, really nice sets. Although for something supposedly terrifying, it's scares were rather lacking.

Very nice list of fixes, pleased to see he's sought to resolve a lot of the bugs before pushing more new features again. I am disappointed about adding rain sounds to fast graphics though. I've been switching to fast graphics when it rains to avoid the rain sound, it drives me absolutely bonkers. Guess I'll have to look at replacing the sound file within the .jar with white noise.

Salutations fellow organism.

For a split second I was interested, but I haven't played Oblivion for a while because I can't be bothered fiddling around with the discs (base game, KoTN, Isles) & having to reinstall when nuking windows. I'd rather get a copy on Steam than have more Oblivion discs. :/

Aloha.

Ooh, a Stargate thread. I'm a total Stargate nerd. I'm in the process of re-watching all the way through SG-1 on DVD, which I started in January and have reached the first few episodes of Season 10. My plan is then to watch through SG:A before picking up SG:U on DVD and doing the same. I've only seen a handful of SG:U Season 1 via iTunes - so I'm wagering on a double box set of the two seasons.

Nice, that hadn't occurred to me at all.

It wasn't awful, but it wasn't great. The pace I thought was quite bad, seemed to be quite a slow film. Having said that, the sequences designed for 3D certainly made it seem a lot slower on DVD, as the slow motion in almost every action sequence was completely pointless.

The game generally saves before you start talking to someone or if you enter a location with some you can talk to. If you screw up a line of questioning, you can dashboard and load back in often right before the conversation or a few minutes away from it. (Providing you didn't leave the location the conversation took place in, thus triggering a save). Feels like cheating, but it's a lot less hassle than having to go through entire cases & non-skipable sequences all over again for a single mistake. I really dislike that if you choose doubt and it's the wrong option, the characters can sometimes give you more information anyway. It can even be information that is helpful, but the game acts as if you were never given it in the first place.

I hate the emote system in Fable 3.

What platform are you playing on? If a 360, which model? The first time I played through The Arrival was on my circa 2005 20GB 360. When I replayed it to mop up the chevos I was on a 360S after the other one finally RRoDed. The first play-through I had sound drop outs like mad; certain areas would be completely devoid of audio channels. The second time, I experienced no issues what so ever. I'm curious as to how well, if at all, the content was actually tested on older hardware.

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I'm a bit more attached to my 360 experience than I am the PS3 one, so 360 was the choice of console for me hands down. Only thing my PS3 gets used for these days is watching DVDs and the PS3 exclusive titles. Really impressed with that side by side though, that's the first example I've seen where there is that level of similarity across the two platforms.

I had to google what they were actually for, I didn't get it at all. Slightly disappointed it's a collection quest rather than some kind of gameplay based challenge. I'm not a fan of collecting stuff in games. Seriously considering buying a frame to put them in though, they're awesome little things.

I finally got around to beating Arkham Asylum, Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, Just Cause 2 & Singularity in the past few weeks in an attempt to get 30k Gamerscore before L.A Noire came out. Time I probably should've spent studying. >.> I still have not managed to finish that. I've had it since launch and according to the in-game statistics I'm only 32% done. Originally I had a computer die on my mid-play-through and I never got around to it. I picked the DA:O Ultimate in the Steam EA specials but I just can't seem to really get back into it.

Probably ST:Voyager Elite Force (RPG-X Mod). I've got 436 hours recorded on XFire, but that's only a fraction of what I imagine the number actually is. Team Fortress 2 (172hrs on XFire), Oblivion & Fallout 3 are likely all contenders for second most played - but I've rarely been logged into XFire while playing those.