NEXT GEN CONSOLES

[modey]

just get rid of one of them!

no need to get drastic...

Edited February 25, 2011 by modey

[Greeny_Musicchild]

If the games are good easily £200. Maybe more. Sell it locally and you'll make more money.

[G-Stud]

yeah i had thought of getting rid of just one and it looks like it's going to be the ps3, i only really use the blu ray player on it so i think i'll just sell that and get a decent blu ray player

so what do people think i'll get for a fat ps3 with a hdd upgraded to 320gb and 15 games?

edit: where's my gamer card gone??

[Jackmypie]

Is anyone else raging for Elder Scrolls 5 to come out as much as I am??

This is the only game where Dungeons and Dragons are cool/

[Paul ™]

So got Killzone 3 and the Move Sharp Shooter yesterday.

Had a quick shot last night, seems good so far. Bit fiddly to begin with, to find your settings such as the deadzone, crosshair speed, move speed.. but once that's all done it feels really easy to use.

[Lithium05]

Is anyone else raging for Elder Scrolls 5 to come out as much as I am??

This is the only game where Dungeons and Dragons are cool/

[Leprekorn]

Finished Mass Effect 2 yesterday one of the best games I have ever played. So much so that I have ordered 1 to play through and use that character in a play through of 2 again.

[minute5072]

Is anyone else raging for Elder Scrolls 5 to come out as much as I am??

This is the only game where Dungeons and Dragons are cool/

[Halcyon]

So much so that I have ordered ME1 to play through and use that character in a play through of 2 again.

Edited March 1, 2011 by Halcyon

[minute5072]

Also, got borderlands from lovefilm today. Gonna give it a wee shot after the football tonight.

How big is the single player? It's selling pretty cheap, so if I like it I might pick it up on the cheap.

[Uncle Liam]

Also, got borderlands from lovefilm today. Gonna give it a wee shot after the football tonight.

How big is the single player? It's selling pretty cheap, so if I like it I might pick it up on the cheap.

[Halcyon]

Not sure if this has been posted yet... but always worth posting again:

Story

* Skyrim will take place 200 years after Oblivion and isn’t a direct sequel in the traditional sense of things – from a story perspective.

* You take the role of one of the supposed last remaining Dragonborn, a true dragon hunter, and will no doubt be tasked to stop the huge dragon God, Alduin, also known as the World Eater.

* Esbern, your in-game mentor of sorts, is one of the last surviving Blades and will be voiced by Max Von Sydow (Minority Report, etc)

* Your hero will be tasked with walking 7,000 steps to the high retreat of High Hrothgar to get dragon slaying training from a group of mysterious old men that reside there called the Greybeards.

Game World

* There are said to be “six or seven really different environment looks” in Skyrim, says Bethesda's Todd Howard.

* There are 5 massive cities to explore. Yes, you can fast travel to previously explored places.

* There are 10 races in Skyrim.

* There are a variety of tasks to do in Skyrim as well, including crafting new weapons at the forge, creating poisons and potions through alchemy and you can enchant items with magical powers.

* You can also get involved in mundane tasks if you wish, like farming, woodcutting, mining and even cooking.

* Dropping weapons in the street can end in different outcomes; for instance, it could remain there forgotten, it could be picked up by a small boy and returned to you, or two men could fight over its ownership.

* The game world is said to be much more alive and detailed than in Oblivion, and boast incredible draw distances. Everything is said to be traversable.

* The game world is populated with a variety of animals from saber-tooth cats to woolly mammoths.

* Lesser dragons roam the game world, meaning they will play a far more significant part this time around. They are a big part of Skyrim and won’t be held back until the end.

Missions

* Thanks to something Bethesda are calling the Radiant story system, the game’s lesser missions will react to who you are and where you are, and present you with quests that are “flavoured dynamically.”

* That’ll take into account where you’ve been, who you’ve killed, what skills you’ve upgraded, who are your friends and who are your enemies. For instance, a magic user may give a fellow magic user a quest, but not someone who levelled up their weapon skill.

* If you kill a shopkeeper that was going to give you a quest, his sister will inherit the store and may give you the quest out of anger or frustration instead.

* The ability to duel in the streets is mentioned.

* Through missions, the game will encourage players to go places they’ve never visited. For instance, a woman might ask you to save her kidnapped offspring and the game will send you to a dungeon you’ve never been before. It’ll then set enemies that are appropriately matched to your strengths and weaknesses.

NPCs

* Faces have been dramatically overhauled, giving them more emotion and making them as realistic as they ever have been in a Bethesda game.

* Conversations are revamped and no longer zoom in on a rigid character. Instead, characters will often get on with what they are doing with the occasional glances at the player character, for instance.

* Characters can overhear details from other people’s conversations that they can do with as they see fit, from hearing about missing items or unusual situations. All of which are stored in a log.

Combat

* Skyrim welcomes the two hands/two options approach, enabling players to mix and match what each hand holds, whether it’s a spell/weapon combo, a weapon/weapon combo, a spell/spell combo or a weapon/shield combo. Whatever you want is possible.

* You can setup loadouts and change them in combat with only a momentary pause.

* There are finishing moves now that are weapon and opponent specific.

* Bows take longer to draw back this time, but are much more powerful.

* There are only 5 schools of magic in Skyrim – there was 6 in Oblivion – with Mysticism being cut. Howard insisted that with them jiggling stuff around, it became redundant.

* Bethesda has slowed down how fast you move backwards too, so you can’t just backpedal in combat. Apparently being able to move as fast backwards as you can forwards made your character look ridiculous in third-person view.

* Enemies don’t necessarily charge at the player when they see him this time and some will have unique patterns and tendencies.

* Players can learn unique abilities called “dragon shouts” by absorbing the souls of dragons – one of the benefits of the dragonborn - of which there are over 20 in the game and each is formed from three words of power. They can push enemies away, slow down time, transport you and even summon a dragon, amongst other things.

Levelling Up

* There is no class system per se in Skyrim and how a player plays depends on what skills the character gains. Use a one-handed weapon, watch that skill increase, etc. You get experience for everything.

* Skill increases contribute to your overall level growth. Each level gives you a boost in health and a chance to boost health, magika or stamina.

* There are 18 separate skills in Skyrim, including such things like Illusion, Destruction, Restoration, Enchanting, etc.

* It seems like there are 50 main levels, with Howard mentioning levelling up to 50 is roughly the same time as it would be to level an Oblivion or Fallout character to 25.

* You can level up past 50, but it’s a dramatically slower increase than before once you get past that threshold.

* Todd Howard confirms that Skyrim will use the perk system that they used in Fallout 3, noting that there was an automated perk system in place in Oblivion, but in Skyrim, the user has control over it. There are dozens of perks to choose from, that may increase dagger damage during stealth attacks and may mean your mace attack may ignore your foe’s armour skills.

* On the official forums, Bethesda responded to questions about the game’s scaling system that many didn’t like in the original. “All our games have had some amount of randomness/levelling based on player level. Skyrim's is similar to Fallout 3's, not Oblivion's,” said Bethesda’s Senior Community Manager on the forums.

General

* You can play Skyrim HUD free.

* The third person perspective is said to be improved.

* Characters can now sprint, using up stamina from their stamina supply.

[Jackmypie]

@Halcyon you're making me excited

[Purple Monkey]

I am very excited by Battlefield 3. Yes, its anther grey war shooter but it seems like it could be the best shooter since COD4.

I love the analogy that COD is more like cock-rock whereas Battlefield is like a real song.

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/5262/battlefield-3-a-game-for-grown-ups

And, it looks like I'll have a game to play on my PC. At f**king last.

[Jackmypie]

I am very excited by Battlefield 3. Yes, its anther grey war shooter but it seems like it could be the best shooter since COD4.

I love the analogy that COD is more like cock-rock whereas Battlefield is like a real song.

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/5262/battlefield-3-a-game-for-grown-ups

And, it looks like I'll have a game to play on my PC. At f**king last.

[WS_Jack_III]

Some of you may have noticed I don't come on here as much as I used to ( mostly because I didn't get a glasto ticket)

But also because for the last five month I have had a Broken ps3. Now because it broke with a game in it my brother couldn't bare to be without we opened up the ps3 and the disk case and got the game out, breaking the disk holding clips in the process.

We didn't realise that until after fixing the system, so it would boot up without yold but wouldn't hold disks.

This week I got a 2nd yold ps3 and swapped the drives. Now I can get the disks into my ps3 and eject them but it won't read anything. DVD, BR,CD nothing. But it does make the loading clock spin when I put a disk in.

anyway we are going to reflow the other ps3 and swap drives back and put my hard drive in and hope that works. If not then I'm as good as done with serious gaming for a little while I think.

[Benj]

Some of you may have noticed I don't come on here as much as I used to ( mostly because I didn't get a glasto ticket)

But also because for the last five month I have had a Broken ps3. Now because it broke with a game in it my brother couldn't bare to be without we opened up the ps3 and the disk case and got the game out, breaking the disk holding clips in the process.

We didn't realise that until after fixing the system, so it would boot up without yold but wouldn't hold disks.

This week I got a 2nd yold ps3 and swapped the drives. Now I can get the disks into my ps3 and eject them but it won't read anything. DVD, BR,CD nothing. But it does make the loading clock spin when I put a disk in.

anyway we are going to reflow the other ps3 and swap drives back and put my hard drive in and hope that works. If not then I'm as good as done with serious gaming for a little while I think.

[WS_Jack_III]

Didn' tyou switch from Xbox to PS3 as they were so unreliable?!

(or was that someone else?)

[Jackmypie]

Well I finally gave in... And bought... World of Warcraft. I know it's pretty old now but what the hell only £6 on amazon. Well be something to pass the time till summer

[dan666]

Well I finally gave in... And bought... World of Warcraft. I know it's pretty old now but what the hell only £6 on amazon. Well be something to pass the time till summer

[smog]

Battlefield 3 looks like a cracker

Also whoever mentioned not buying BC2 because its old get it anyway. Still a lot of people playing online and the singleplayer is great. Twice the game COD will ever be. BOPS wasnt even a game - its just a movie

[Jackmypie]

You buy the first one or Cataclysm?

Edited March 4, 2011 by Jackmypie

[Halcyon]

First, should I get cataclysm?

Edited March 4, 2011 by Halcyon

[dan666]

First, should I get cataclysm?

[modey]

My xbox 360 slim is now not working I keep getting an open tray error when i put a game in, anyone know what the turnaround is now for repairs from microsoft