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[tHomBleached]

Mass effect 'expert' recants

She seems to of realised she's a tool

[Halcyon]

^ I don't call that much of an apology to be honest.

Even in a statement reversing her position, she still manages to call the game a joke.  One gets the feeling she's only doing it because her book publisher has advised her to due to the shit slinging on her amazon book page.

[t8yman]

exactly, the whole shitty episode has basically affected her saleability as a talking head, she had no option but to do a u-turn. I have read many forum posts offering congratulations for her having "the balls to admit she was wrong" - utter shite, it had nothing to do with balls, nor her journalistic integrity, it was all about damage limitation on her career.

[Purple Monkey]

Money talks.

Stupid, stupid woman.

[Leprekorn]

Not sure if anyones interested but The Orange Box is on Shop To for 19.99 on the 360 at the mo.

[windy_miller]

http://kotaku.com/34...nds-mass-effect

Not sure how real that is

[Purple Monkey]

More bad news for HD-DVD:

Woolworths stops stocking of HD-DVD.

http://www.eurogamer...rticle_id=91595

Dropping like flies.

Also, in Mass Effect, I now have my intimidation skill at 10, maxed out. I understand I can use it to get the resolve an impossible situation achievement? If so, which planet is it on so that I know when to expect it? Do I need specific characters to be with me? I heard it had something to do with Wrex.

I have clearred Noveria and the mine planet now I'm just wanderring around the galaxy doing oddjobs before Feros. I've been told to go to Virmire but I guess that leads to the end somehow which I don't want to do just yet. I'm currently on our moon smashing robots to bits, it's brilliant! The amount of cool shit hidden in these side missions is fantastic.

Edited by Purple Monkey, 29 January 2008 - 02:03 PM.

[tHomBleached]

Purple Monkey, on Jan 29 2008, 01:58 PM, said:

Also, in Mass Effect, I now have my intimidation skill at 10, maxed out. I understand I can use it to get the resolve an impossible situation achievement? If so, which planet is it on so that I know when to expect it? Do I need specific characters to be with me? I heard it had something to do with Wrex.

It's on the last planet, before you go back to the citadel. You don't need any specific characters with you, as you don't have anyone in your group when the "impossible situation" happens. Yes it has something to do with wrex...

[berk]

i ended up with over 50 hours on the in game timer when i finished it. I was also on level 49 so just missed out on that achievement.
I was a bit pissed off too as on the last planet a side mission popped up and i thought it would be on that planet so went down. it wasn't so it ended up being the only side mission i didn't do.
definitely a game i'm gonna come back to for another play through in a few months so i'll be more careful then

[dakyras]

How much can you complete Mass Effect, without actually completing all of it, if anyone gets what I mean?

[t8yman]

any of you other geekaloids getting REZ-HD today?

I personally cant wait to get home and crank up the ol' 5.1

woohoo!

[Purple Monkey]

t8yman, on Jan 30 2008, 10:08 AM, said:

any of you other geekaloids getting REZ-HD today?

I personally cant wait to get home and crank up the ol' 5.1

woohoo!

Rez-HD? Holy shit count me in!

Clearred Feros on Mass Effect last night. My team seems rather unstoppable on this run. Their armour regenerates health at a ridiculous rate, we can raise our shields mid battle, on top of moves like Immunity and Barrier. If there's Geth Tali can Hack into the most powerful enemy in the room so most fights with Geth are rather awesome.

There's a bit where a huge Geth Destroyer came into a room, looking all ominous and evil, it got it's own cutscene, I thought I was gonna get f*cked. As soon as the fight started I made Tali hack it and then lifted and trapped the others in force fields with Singularity and Lift or knocked em down with Throw and just watched the Destroyer blow all his mates up. When it was just him left I vaporised him with one shot of my sniper rifle with Assassination and loaded with fire rounds.   Brilliant.

This game rules.

Oh and I ran over the monkeys. Had to.

Edited by Purple Monkey, 30 January 2008 - 10:22 AM.

[modey]

Picked up rainbow six vegas  the other day cause it was cheap and have read a ,lot of good reviews about it , decent enough game but my god what an awful save system it has on it.

You can spend about 10 minutes clearing a street of enemies only to be shot once by one you didn't spot and then you have to go right back to the start of that section.

very frustrating when you do it a couple of times  

[t8yman]

but it does make the game more challenging modey!

I really enjoyed the game after I got over my frustration. I actually left the game untouched for months after one particularly frustrating bit, but on returning to it, and playing will a little caution, I really enjoyed it.

make sure you play "terrorist hunt" as well, thats a great game mode. there are some map packs for it too, one free, one paid (I think)
you basically just spawn on the map, and have to take down "x" number of targets without dying, its quite addictive. one of the maps - college library I think its called is ace, and very frustrating. you can play it online co op too.

[modey]

yeah i suppose i've got to stick with it but i just got annoyed last night and turned it off in the end, i must have been doing the same section about 7 times, getting really far through it only to die

[luckysalt]

smash bros is released in japan this week and the net is full of spoilers, loads of unannounced characters and stages, I cannot wait for this game!

[t8yman]

REZ HD is the daddy, only played it for 10 minutes, but the old magic was still there!

check it out 360 peeps!

[luckysalt]

Smash Bros character select screen



Thats the 100% official select screen, with hidden characters included except one being Wolf [Fox from Starfox's enemy] he isn't unlocked on that screen, but he is in it, here is the full roster select screen, just found it...



video footage

Snake VS. Sonic VS. Dedede VS. MetaKnight on Shadow Moses.



Zero Suit Samus VS. Sheik on the F-Zero GX Port Town Stage.


Wolf VS. Pokemon Trainer VS. Metaknight VS. Pit random online battle

Edited by luckysalt, 30 January 2008 - 07:49 PM.

[luckysalt]

How dumb is the Deal or No Deal game on the DS

I swear the offers made by the banker are just completely random

I just played a game, I had an offer of £20,000, I turned it down played next round and cleared 3 blues and my next offer was £18,000, how the hell does that make sense?
Thats not the best though, I got to the end of the game, and my two boxes left were £35,000 & £50,000, so what was the bankers offer? £61,000!

I can't believe this game was let out on the market! f**king lazy assed programming, shocking...

[Halcyon]

jesus christ.... how good does smash look!  That F-Zero stage is absolutely gorgeous.