NEXT GEN CONSOLES

[5co77ie]

Is this new Wii Mini any good? Worth getting for £99 with some games? Does it play old Wii games too?

Windy - I saw some stuff on Tearaway in Spain last week it looks really slick.

Edited November 5, 2013 by 5co77ie

[Spindles]

UK price is £89.99 :/

[t8yman]

Decided to order COD last night on Amazon. Got a dispatch email at 9 in the morning today saying it was dispatched so was expecting it to arrive tomorrow but it came in the post today.

Anyway just got started online, so far it's alrite. I'm not a fan of the whole character thing, it means that each character has their own perks that you can not change. Also each character starts at rank zero which is a pain in the ass. Why don't they just have 1 overall rank and use it for all your characters?

you can, you have to deselect the ones that are active, you also need enough squad points to buy the others, and have reached the level to unlock them.

Ive spent most of the afternoon on ghosts for the 360 and I like it less than any cod game since cod2. i hated waw, but it was better than this.

the maps are awful imho, too big, and some of them are far too "corridory" just played the one in the factory/lab, and it was awful, zero sight lines and no idea where everyone is. I'm also sick of being shot inh the back.

I think I might trade it tomorrow and jump into bf4 before its too late. the reviews for that are better, I just held off because up until today I was getting a ps4.

[t8yman]

Having slept on it, my desire to boot up ghosts today is absolute zero. I've bought BF4 for the 360, and will wrap up Ghosts for the lad for xmas (he had it on his list anyway, and he wont even notice its not sealed) after telling him I traded it for BF4.

[jump]

Is this new Wii Mini any good? Worth getting for £99 with some games? Does it play old Wii games too?

Windy - I saw some stuff on Tearaway in Spain last week it looks really slick.

It's basically a Wii so yeah Wii games work on it.

[t8yman]

Is this new Wii Mini any good? Worth getting for £99 with some games? Does it play old Wii games too?

Windy - I saw some stuff on Tearaway in Spain last week it looks really slick.

I would read eurogamers review of it before you take the plunge scottie

"This is a savagely compromised version of the original hardware that we can only recommend to the least discerning of gamers."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-nintendo-wii-mini-review

[jump]

EA has now won the worst company in America award 2 years running.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/4/5065480/ea-still-working-to-overcome-worst-company-in-america-awards-says-ceo

[t8yman]

I think I've said it before on here, but when EA win this award over companies like Halliburton, Nestle, and Monsanto - there is something seriously wrong with the world.

They make shitty decisions about marketing shitty video games (in the most part). No one is dying as a result of their operations.

[kaosmark2]

They're supposedly pretty terrible to work for, but yeah, I do agree.

[5co77ie]

I would read eurogamers review of it before you take the plunge scottie

"This is a savagely compromised version of the original hardware that we can only recommend to the least discerning of gamers."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-nintendo-wii-mini-review

thanks for the heads up

[Spindles]

I've been checking out the SP of COD:ghosts and it is really quite entertaining.

[jump]

I think I've said it before on here, but when EA win this award over companies like Halliburton, Nestle, and Monsanto - there is something seriously wrong with the world.

They make shitty decisions about marketing shitty video games (in the most part). No one is dying as a result of their operations.

I actually had a job interview with Nestle once and in the interview they mentioned about all their ethical and charity work Monsanto are just fucking evil, seriously why does a company that grow plants need their own private army?

[windy_miller]

I would read eurogamers review of it before you take the plunge scottie

"This is a savagely compromised version of the original hardware that we can only recommend to the least discerning of gamers."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-nintendo-wii-mini-review

Removing all network support is just baffling!

[t8yman]

Jesus Christ, bf4 mp is brutal

[t8yman]

Jesus Christ, bf4 mp is brutal

[modey]

Jesus Christ, bf4 mp is brutal

In waht way? Hard to get into?

I Haven't bothered with cod yet, first time i've never bought it on launch too but i'm reading quite a few reviews that are giving it a right slating

[t8yman]

Yeah sorry, was typing that on my phone in lobby during matches then went out for the night.

Its the same old battlefield - which is great. Its just that the learning curve is very steep, and you don't get breathing space to feel comfy. The only way you are ever going to get into it is to spend (I would estimate) 8 or so hours just getting a feel for the game environment. The maps as always are huge, and very daunting, and its impossible to tell where the enemy are for the first couple of matches (apart from the killcam). I genuinely didnt fire a shot in my first game, didnt get a kill till my 3rd game. But once you acclimatise to the frantic pace, start to familiarize yourself with the spawn system and its strengths, you will start to feel as if you are contributing.

For "contributing" do not read "doing well". Mercifully, the lobbies I were in were full of people with similarly bad k/d ratios.

You can then start to understand the maps, how they flow and the best routes from a to b.

I'm at the "contributing stage". From previous experience, the road ahead is gonna be a lot of fun.

and people dont "tag" the enemy enough. especially the recon guys who just fucking camp out of the way, but thats just noobs who should pick it up soon

Edited November 7, 2013 by t8yman

[windy_miller]

Well I'm glad I didn't pay £10 for Limbo. It is a beautifully made game, but its so short it is not worth £10. I completed it in a couple of hours.

[Jackmypie]

I've put my copy of cod on ebay starting at 99p if anyone is interested.

It's a brilliant game.

[luckysalt]

Well I'm glad I didn't pay £10 for Limbo. It is a beautifully made game, but its so short it is not worth £10. I completed it in a couple of hours.

Did you do the secret dark tunnel? Ive completed it also but not the dark tunnel

[Jackmypie]

I'm thinking of getting Battlefield for my PC instead of xbox now. A lot of people are saying the graphics are shite on 360..

Never gamed on my PC (apart from football manager) do you guys think I'd be able to run it properly without lag?

3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5 Processor

8GB Memory

1TB Hard Drive

2GB AMD Radeon HD 7730M Graphics Card

15.6" High Definition WLED with TrueLife (1366 X 768)

[kaosmark2]

Yes. You could do with a bigger screen though.

[windy_miller]

Did you do the secret dark tunnel? Ive completed it also but not the dark tunnel

I did find the dark bit by myself, but there was a door in the way. I think you have to have found all the eggs before it will open.

I'm thinking of getting Battlefield for my PC instead of xbox now. A lot of people are saying the graphics are shite on 360..

I haven't played it but a lot of that video looks like nit-picking to me. If you were actually running around playing the game, rather than deliberately trying to find bad textures etc, you wouldn't notice half of it.

[Spindles]

Has anyone played The Stanley Parable? I played the demo and it was really interesting, but don't have the dollar to buy it (and am avoiding youtube or the original mod to prevent spoilers).

http://www.stanleyparable.com/

[kaosmark2]

I've spent far too much of my time lately on the AOE2 remake. Still holds up as a fantastic game.