Resident Evil 6 was announced last night for release on November 20, along with a sexy looking trailer. It's being produced by the same guy that did Res 4, can't wait for this one.

Excellent. Res 4 was always my favourite.

I bought Risk Factions from XBLA last night, very good twist on the original game into a campaign mode with some beautiful animation and strategy. You can also play the classic game which was what I primarily got it for. Anyone else have it and would be interested in a game over Live sometime?

Looks good. Looking at some of the trailer they have mixed several elements in there from GOW style gameplay, sytle from the previous RE4 and RE5 games (on your own and with a partner).

Capcom knew they had to "reboot" the franchise this could be it. I see they have included Chris Redfield and Leon in (yet they changed leon face "AGAIN") cant they just decide on one from RE4 to the Capcom Resident Evil Film now Re6. But still should be good. Tallking of Reboot's Opperation Racoon City is due out soon the character is apparently able to run and shoot this time is a completely different style of play compared to the RE4 and 5 "apparently". some.

Also since we are on the topic of survival horrors any idea when that new tomb raider game is out. Thats another game that been revamped and looked fantastic in the clip shown a year ago

Got it a while ago, but not played yet, which is surprising as I love the boardgame. My gametag is sethh1970 if you want to add me.

Cool, I'll add you later. My tag is MMetzner. I'll give you a game of classic sometime and if we can't get another 1 or 2 people from here we'll just throw in a couple of AI players. Anyone else interested in playing?

Just to throw my hat in the ring here.... I recently bought myself an Xbox 360s, the last console I owned (or even played on) was the PS2 when it first came out, so I'm sure you guys can appreciate how much of a difference it was for me. Very impressed to say the least.

Anyhow, my Gamertag is SugarRayTaylor, if anyone fancies a game of Fight Night Champion.

Been playing Fable III recently. For such a beautiful looking game, with a decent main story, the side missions are repetative and boring as fuck. I have lost all desire to do any of those now. I'm also experiencing the stutter bug which is really annoying. It's not quite game breaking (unlike Fable II which didn't allow to enter certain areas) so I do intend to finish it.

I think there should also be some kind of explanation as to why people in certain areas hate me, and how to make them feel otherwise. Everyone (including my 11 kids) in Bowerstone Market & Brightwall hate me. I got so fed up of my kids telling me to go away and that they hate me that I shipped them off to the orphanage. Some people.

Are you charging higher rents on your properties in those places? That'll make people dislike you. Are you choosing the evil options fairly regularly in missions? As doing that will make people dislike you as well, including your family.

I have only ever done good (apart from once when I killed a villager, which was part of a mission so I was conned into that). I put all property rents up to the highest for a period of time so I can finance the treasury myself, but I dropped all the rents to free for about the same period of time.

I found Fable 3 to be more of a chore than a game. Really dissapointed with it.

It's not a difficult game in the grand scheme of things. My lad finished it in 2 days by purely just playing the storyline. I think you should only be allowed to progress once you've reached a certain 'Hero' level. Varying side missions would help appease the tediousness.

As an RPG it's very basic. It can be fun at times, and as I said the main story is pretty good. What baffled me to begin with is you can choose to be good or evil, yet if you chose the evil route it would make no sense to the story. It's only until much later in the game the two paths make more sense.

News on the Xbox 720



from IGN and contains all sorts of terms i cant even begin to understand but take of it what you will

Do graphics really need to evolve anymore look at Forza 4 its fecking beautiful.

UFC 3 the graphics are top notch on there. Graphics are processor power is not a major issue in gaming its good storytelling and great gameplay which seems to be hole in games now a days. Games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid 1, Super Mario 64 etc... Id rather see games like this come out than play another Call Of Duty/Battlefield/Sonic/Final Fantasy/Tekken/MGS etc...

Theres only a few games in today's world that put gameplay first such as Batman AC or AA, Portal or the Uncharted Series.

But fuck it.

Art style always means MUCH more than the technical side of graphics for me, and it's something which is lacking in this day an age. Everything is either too realistic or has a shitty brown hue, thank god Nintendo is still around with games like Mario Galaxy and Kirbys Epic Yarn.

Has anyone played Scarygirl yet on XBLA? I'm tempted to buy some points as it looks gorgeous and we seem to have had quite a few decent platformers recently and would hope that this follows suit.

Until you legitimately can't tell if you're watching a movie or a game, there's always somewhere to go.

What about disc capacity? Surely Sony won't allow Microsoft to use the Blu-Ray format? Unless it's download only games.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/121/1217257p1.html Heres an interesting read about Xbox 3/720.

The problem I see here with the xbox possibly wanting used game causes a whole lot of issues.

1. Shops such as Gamestation and Game depend on used game sales. These sales are the biggest source of income for shops as Gamestation and Game make very little on new releases.
2. If the content is only downloadable only. MS are going to have to release a massive HDD with the console. Plus not to mention the bandwidth people have, some ISP's go nuts if you break the limit by the tiniest of megabytes. Not the mention if it is DL only the price MS would charge would be ecstatic, they still think they can get £40 for some games or £20 for some really old titles.
3. The amount of people playing these games would decrease.

I don't know what is wrong with used games, do they hate shops selling games. The companies already made there money from the original sale. I can not find WHY a valid excuse for code on pre-owned games. The only reason I can put behind it is to do with people who play pirated games? MS know that pirated game will be played if MS like it or not but a way to make some money off these people with the online pass. MS cant prove if its an illegal copy or a pre-owned copy the publishers of these games just want an excuse behind it.

As for a online pass code I bought a pre-owned copy of Fight Night Champion on the PS3 for £11 the other week and the code had never been used so I used it for myself. Situations like that happen. Theres a billion and one scenarios which could be played out and MS and possibly Sony are looking at only time will tell. Maybe MS are trying to bring a method like Steam have. Smeg knows.

That doesn't bother me. I've completely gone off online gaming now.

Just thinking of a way round the downloading of games and disc capacity issues, what about games on a specifically made high capacity memory stick? Plenty of space, less packaging and you can potentially plug in 2, 3 or 4 at one time so you don't have to keep changing discs over to play different games. This would make more sense to me.

Sounds like a return to the cartridge, high capacity memory cards within them like on the 3DS but of course bigger.

It's a disc format, Sony couldn't stop Microsoft any more than they can stop rival studios selling their movies on Blu-Ray. Microsoft however might not want their new console to in some small way help Sony's profit margin by licensing the tech, so may decide to develop something proprietary themselves or outsource it to another company. Given that Sony is working on a new laser to increase Blu-Ray capacity to a potential 1TB it makes business sense to use it, especially if it wants a long console cycle like this one has been.

Actually no. Very few AAA titles put gameplay first, but then most AAA movies aren't concered with plot intricacies or oscar winning performances. Look lower down, in the Live Arcade, in the indie developer scene, and you'll find plenty of quality titles providing hours of phenomenal value for money.

You also address the issue of 'not making games like they used to' such as Metal Gear Solid, Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64. These were all groundbreaking steps forward in their genre, but they were also the first in their series (in Zelda and Mario's case the first in the transition to 3D) in a real change period for gaming. They are still producing good and great Zelda, Mario and to a lesser extent MGS games, but it's hard to innovate in the way these originals do.

Anyway, I'm going to go back to silently wetting myself in anticipation for Syndicate.

Just download the original from GOG.com, the new on looks like it's going to be balls.

No used games on next Xbox.

That's a deal breaker. I rely on used games due to the cost of new ones. So basically, if you're poor, tough shit.

I hope the next PS3 doesn't go down the same route.

I bought two used out of print 360 games today, how the fuck will i play games that go OOP on the new console unless EVERY game released is made downloadable?

Less than a month to the new Alan Wake XBL title cant wait for it myself seeing as I enjoyed the first so much

Thanks to Batman and its DLC plus MW3 and its DLC, I've only put about 5 hours into Skyrim which is a shame but its also good to be spoiled with some great games at the moment

Jesus Christ. Ok.



Now, I know you read the last thread about this, so I'm probably repeating myself here, but the reason you can't think of a valid excuse for limiting used games is because you're fucking thick, not because there isn't one.

In very simple terms - games cost a LOT of money to make. The number of people who only really buy second-hand copies is surprisingly high. The developer gets NO money from the sale of a 2nd hand game, meaning that for online games in particular a whole load of their users (supported with expensive servers and the like) haven't paid them any money.

It's not like games get a 2nd life, as films do on DVD. What you make in the first 6 months is 95% of all your sales. Games companies and publishers think that it's fair for people to pay something for the experience. They can't outlaw the selling of 2nd hand gamers per se, but they can limit what you actually get from that.



Interestingly, the Vita is going back to cartridges, rather than anything like the UMD, so there's life in the old dog yet! Nintendo are sitcking with proprietary disks though, the fuckers.




I wouldn't hold your breath...

Vita is using a new proprietary solid state memory card format (the next gen of the pro-duo 2 cards that the PSP used) rather than cartridges although I guess you could say that cartridges were the forerunner to that. Although limited to 32gb at the moment (not that it's much of a limit), I think the manufacturing costs against the cost of a disc stop them being used for home consoles (where the physical size of the format doesn't matter as much) to see them take over again.

As for Syndicate, the studio making it has a great pedigree and it's getting positive previews on the gaming sites, so my breath is definitely held!

The thing with Syndicate is that it doesn't remind me of Syndicate in the slightest, pretty much looks like Deus Ex: In all but name edition. While that isn't really a bad thing as i bloody loved Deus Ex it's still a kick in the balls for fans of the original.

According to IGN Battlefield 3 online is having a few issues from the Super Shotgun (USAS 12 with Frag Bullets) people using the EOD Bot (or whatever it is) to get to stupid places they shouldnt be going. Cheating and other issues.Apparently they have employed staff to take part in these games and find out who is cheating and ban them from the game. & lower the power of the USAS 12.
Its a shame since I just sold my copy too due the poor online feature.

While I'm on the top of EA has anyone been having issues with Online Game with use the EA Servers its just ive been having issues with all my EA games online of late from BFBC2, BF3, FIFA, NBA, NHL. Its just EA games other games like UFC, Rainbow 6 etc... work perfect.

Also Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is out Friday which contains MGS 2, 3 and Peace Walker should keep me entertained for weeks on end.

Hyped for Resident Evil 6, and not just because the 6 looks a bit like a giraffe getting a blowjob.



I have a terrible habit of not finishing games, but I've seen every Resi and Silent Hill through the end because I do love them so.

In other news, I've been playing a fair bit of Quarrel over the past couple of days. It plays like an extremely basic version of Risk combined with Scrabble. Pretty good for 400MSP, but it seems very unstable during online games and has been crashing from time to time.

It's also hampered by Microsoft's list of words that can't be transmitted over Xbox Live, which is a killer for a word game. It'd be fine if it was just expletives/racial slurs etc. but some of the words on the list seem completely arbitrary and very difficult to explain. It wouldn't let me have "basic" earlier, which was baffling. Another player wasn't allowed "genocide", and although that is admittedly an unpleasant word (understatements!), it's ludicrous to filter it out. That one was made all the more annoying by the fact that the in-game dictionary said "the longest available word was Genocide" when the round ended after refusing to let him enter it.

It's still fun because both of these problems stay just the right side of being game breaking, but it could have been so much better without the silly restrictions.

I wonder who decides which words to filter out in games. Is there a standard list for all games, or is it a case-by-case thing? The WWE games have absurd language filters. A lot of common wrestling words and even names of wrestlers in the game don't pass the censors.

I didn't notice that about the giraffe that's made my day. Im not far off completing all the resi evils games, just the new resident evil on the 3ds (cos I don't own one) outbreak 1 and 2 and the umbrella & dark side chronicals but the not a fan of the wii remote to complete it. Am I missing anything by completing these games.

That is a QA job, depends on what is happening at the time, the age it's aimed at, if kids will buy it etc.

Yeah, I was getting that the other night, my whole team were camped out just outside the limits of the world at the top of Tehran highway. Also many, many snipers now sitting in balconies behind invisible cover. Hope they all get banned from Live.



BF3 has the greatest online play I've ever seen. I'm impressed that the developers are constantly tweaking as well, changing how various modes work in response to obvious imbalances or chokepoints.

I have to say though that I can't find a medium-long range assault rifle that I like - something with a 3-burst fire mode and decent stopping power. I actually find it easier to kill people at distance with a F2000 with iron sight than most of the sighted assault rifles. Maybe that's just me. Are there any websites that show which upgrades work best for which weapons?

the online gameplay just came across as one big fault, it flat like I was playing MW 3 which doesnt interest me. I think its a game that not for me, but I have gone back to playing COD4 (on ps3) it seems the EA and IW are trying to take the market by storm like COD4 did but unsuccessfully so far.

My hat does go off to EA that they are fixing these faults unlike IW who refuse to fix the hacking on the MW series on the 360.

Does anyone know of some good online CO-OP games I have L4D 1 and 2. Rainbow 6 vegas 1 & 2 but need some more

The Simpsons arcade game is coming to X box live and PSN next week.

Is this the original arcade one from 1992 i think or the iphone version?

Original.

Great co-op game just like the Turtles game.

Is it me or have Konami fucked up the intro for snake eater it doesn't sync up well compared to its ps2 counterpart?

I just got it through from lovefilm yesterday, I'll have a look later.

I just finished Rage. It was undeniably cool as fuck and looks pretty, but didn't seem to go anywhere. A lot of style over substance. Anyone else played it?

My mate got te Metal Gear Solid collection yesterday and we've been playing through 2. While the graphics no doubt look infinitely better, the gameplay is still shoddy, almost uncontrollable and shit. I honestly see no appeal these games are meant to have.
They handle like shit, have a cutscene:game ratio of about 10:1 and the dialogue is confusing and awful. Not to mention that the already poor "slowly release fire not to shoot" mechanics are game-breaking on the Xbox because there's no measure of sensitivity on the Xbox pad so you will shoot every single time.

In short, Metal Gear Solid as a series is terrible, and no amount of polish to the graphics will make this mess playable.

Yeah, I'd say the same. Looks gorgeous, lovely mechanics, no depth. Contains some traces of Goodman, but woefully less than it should.

Metal Gear is as near a marmite series as you can get in gaming and I totally understand the criticisms of it, but I've always totally adored it. It feels so odd to play on Xbox though, I need to get the Ps3 version. Although you are correct with the lack of pressure sensitive buttons, you can just click the left stick to lower your weapon in this version.

Metal Gear Solid 2 is such a brilliant game until you are forced to shoot things (ie boss battles and forced shoot-outs with terrorists). When you are just sneaking around and collecting dog-tags then I still find it great to play to this day.

Fecking love MGS 3 only completed it 3 times since friday got 4 achievements left on snake eater. All Fruit/Plants/Animals, all face paint, all camo and all R1 scenes without R1 being indicated. Then off the MGS2 to catch Snake jerking one off (yes thats an actual achievement).

Love the first 3 MGS games, MGS 4 was just awkward still got Peace Walker to play.

I skip all the cut scenes ive seen them before so just skip them to get to the "game" part of MGS

Peace Walker if superb and is especially fun to play co-op.

Snake Eater is probably my favourite in the series and to be honest MGS4 was a massive let down for me.

Gears Of War 3 is £9.99 now in the Blockbuster sale. It's pre-owned in store only but it makes no difference as it doesn't require an online code to play. Cannot say no at that price.

A great game, best 360 multi-player IMHO. Just completed Saints Row 3. Whored Mode was fun, can't believe you have to pay to play online though! Is a bag of dicks.