What gaming goodies did you get...

Chris F wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:57:48 -0000, "Beck" <beck@none> wrote:
>
>> "Chris Stevens" <news.RemoveThis@thestevensfamily.plus.com> wrote in message
>> news:6rv5fvF3gi9pU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> Beck wrote:
>>>> What did you all get for crimbo? (for those that celebrate it)
>>> The only thing that somebody else actually bought for me was Mirror's
>>> Edge. It's very, very good. I'm less interested in the story than the time
>>> trials so far, but it appears I must complete more chapters to unlock more
>>> time trial courses. Fair enough, I suppose. One thing that disappoints is
>>> that very few people on my friends list have set any times to aim for.
>>> There were a few on the first few levels, but I'm guessing they weren't
>>> very serious attempts given the ease with which they were beaten...
>>>
>>> My cheap Midnight Club arrived on Christmas Eve, so that *felt* like a
>>> Christmas present. Having played it, I'd say if it were a Christmas
>>> present it would be a pair of gaudy socks. It's no Crash Time, that's for
>>> sure.
>>>
>>> I did get a Game voucher as well, with which I went into town this morning
>>> and acquired Civ:Rev (which is utterly, utterly great) and Mercenaries 2
>>> (which I haven't played yet). I also spent some cash I received on Prince
>>> of Persia from Play, which hasn't arrived yet.
>>>
>>> Finally, I treated myself to some MS Points and bought Puzzle Arcade.
>>> Perfect stress-free gaming - there's a lot there for the money, too.
>>>
>>> I *definitely* need to cancel my rental account for a few months now.
>> I couldn't get into Mirror's Edge at all. It just left me cold.
>
> yeah, but haven't you complained about FPS games giving you motion
> sickness in the past?
>
> i mean if a standard fps makes you queasy, ME will have you chundering
> all over the TV

One of these days I'm going to buy you a shift key :p

On 2008-12-30 20:08:01 +0000, DBSnappa
<davidjREMOVEMEboughton.RemoveThis@REMOVEMEhotmail.com> said:

> Chris Whitworth wrote:
>> On 2008-12-30, Beck <beck@none> wrote:
>>> What did you all get for crimbo? (for those that celebrate it)
>>
>> I got a grow-your-own-chilli-plant kit - well, two packets of chilli seeds and
>> a trowel, anyway.
>>
>> Got nothing gaming-present-wise, but I bought myself a PS3, which I remain
>> quite unimpressed by, despite LBP being Eurogamer's Readers Game of the Year.
>> The Blu-ray and DVD upscaling bits are lovely, though.
>>
> Ratchet & Clank:TOD
> Uncharted: Drakes Fortune
> Resistance: FOM
>
>
> All good games and dirt cheap.

And Heavenly Sword. Although I seem to be alone on that one.

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"Chris Stevens" <news.DeleteThis@thestevensfamily.plus.com> wrote in message
news:6rv5fvF3gi9pU1@mid.individual.net...
> Beck wrote:
> >
> > What did you all get for crimbo? (for those that celebrate it)
>
> The only thing that somebody else actually bought for me was Mirror's
Edge.
> It's very, very good. I'm less interested in the story than the time
trials
> so far, but it appears I must complete more chapters to unlock more time
> trial courses. Fair enough, I suppose. One thing that disappoints is that
> very few people on my friends list have set any times to aim for. There
were
> a few on the first few levels, but I'm guessing they weren't very serious
> attempts given the ease with which they were beaten...

If it goes down to £10 I'll buy it. In the meantime I'm struggling along on
Pure. Have we done any races yet? I'd like to give that a go.


> I did get a Game voucher as well, with which I went into town this morning
> and acquired Civ:Rev (which is utterly, utterly great) and Mercenaries 2
> (which I haven't played yet). I also spent some cash I received on Prince
of
> Persia from Play, which hasn't arrived yet.

I had mixed feelings about PoP - played it on the PS3 and it was
staggeringly beautiful and yet prosaic. It's also a mixture of nice and
easy controls yet the boss fights could overwhelm or bore to tears the
casual player.

>
> Finally, I treated myself to some MS Points and bought Puzzle Arcade.
> Perfect stress-free gaming - there's a lot there for the money, too.

I bought this too. It's awesome. I haven't done jigsaws for years and I
can honestly say this has kept me going through Christmas.

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:14:19 +0000, Toby Newman <google.TakeThisOut@asktoby.com>
wrote:

>On 2008-12-30, Beck <beck@none> wrote:
>>
>> "Luke Curtis" <luke.TakeThisOut@NOSPAM.whofan.plus.com> wrote in message
>> news:er9kl4hk5k42e7srdrlur81fohmdoo0n68@4ax.com...
>>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:37:33 -0000, "Beck" <beck@none> wrote:
>>>
>>>>For Christmas?
>>>>
>>>>Due to various circumstances our family didn't buy each other anything
>>>>this
>>>>year for the first time ever.
>>>>
>>>>So I bought myself a DS lite (red) with Professor Layton then out here on
>>>>holiday looking through the fake Game store I spotted Zelda Phantom
>>>>Hourglass so I got that aswell.
>>>>
>>>>What did you all get for crimbo? (for those that celebrate it)
>>
>>> nothing gameing wise, the closest I got was buying a wired PS3
>>> controller from Wollies - £2.50!
>>
>> Bargain! I never realised Woolies had bargains.
>
>I managed to get two (awful, cheap) USB keyboards for my Wii and 360
>from there for £2.50 apiece.


Actually I did also get a truly horrible PC gamepad as well, terribly
overpriced even at the 25p I paid for it!
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Beck wrote:

>
> "deKay" <andyk RemoveThis @nospam.lofi-gaming.invalid.org.nospam.uk.invalid>
> wrote in message news:p0fq26-1h8.ln1@dekay.sytes.net...
> > Beck wrote:
> > > For Christmas?
> >
> > Lego Indiana Jones, Professor Layton, and two copies of Shiren
> > Mystery Dungeon.
> >
> > AND A BABY.
>
> Of course! the best present in the world

ACESEXBEST

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Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> -KKC, fixing Ubuntu installations. Hooray, grub!

Can you fix mine? I have a Heron install that won't boot and an Intrepid
LiveCD that I can't get to boot either!

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Those that understand binary, and those that don't."

In article <6s11n3F3oigsU1 RemoveThis @mid.individual.net>,
James Luff <lufferov RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>> -KKC, fixing Ubuntu installations. Hooray, grub!
>
>Can you fix mine? I have a Heron install that won't boot and an Intrepid
>LiveCD that I can't get to boot either!

It was actually a Heron install that I was troubleshooting. For some
reason, that release is more picky about what hardware it wants to run on.
I was trying to get it to go in the Connectix/MS Virtual Server
environment, but I had to add a 'noreplace-paravirt' parameter to the end
of one of the boot lines in order to make it go. Then I came to my senses
and installed a VMWare viewer instead. If you're running Heron on real
hardware instead of a VM, my fix won't help you.

Intrepid was broken for the first month after it was released. How old is
your Live CD image? I wouldn't burn one that was authored before 10
December.

-KKC, dragging UGVM off topic since 2006.
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Beck wrote:
> For Christmas?
>
> Due to various circumstances our family didn't buy each other anything
> this year for the first time ever.
>
> So I bought myself a DS lite (red) with Professor Layton then out here
> on holiday looking through the fake Game store I spotted Zelda Phantom
> Hourglass so I got that aswell.
>
> What did you all get for crimbo? (for those that celebrate it)

GH:WT Guitar edition (360).

It's quite moral killing when you get to the end of a song absolutely
breathless thinking you are a rock god for getting 95% and realise you
are only playing on easy.

Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> In article <6s11n3F3oigsU1.TakeThisOut@mid.individual.net>,
> James Luff <lufferov.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>>> -KKC, fixing Ubuntu installations. Hooray, grub!
>> Can you fix mine? I have a Heron install that won't boot and an Intrepid
>> LiveCD that I can't get to boot either!
>
> It was actually a Heron install that I was troubleshooting. For some
> reason, that release is more picky about what hardware it wants to run on.
> I was trying to get it to go in the Connectix/MS Virtual Server
> environment, but I had to add a 'noreplace-paravirt' parameter to the end
> of one of the boot lines in order to make it go. Then I came to my senses
> and installed a VMWare viewer instead. If you're running Heron on real
> hardware instead of a VM, my fix won't help you.
>
> Intrepid was broken for the first month after it was released. How old is
> your Live CD image? I wouldn't burn one that was authored before 10
> December.
>
> -KKC, dragging UGVM off topic since 2006.

I just downloaded it the other day, and it's an install on my laptop
dual booting with Vista.

I had Gutsy running fine for a couple of months and then the Heron
upgrade killed it and it would never boot. Being someone who knows
nothing about Ubuntu but just wanted to play around with it, I gave up
because I didn't know what to do and it's been like that for a good six
months. Then the other day someone said I should try Intrepid so I
downloaded the LiveCD, but I can't get that to boot either. So I'm
pretty stuck, I'd like to give it another go but I don't know what I'm
doing and I don't know anyone who can help me.

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Those that understand binary, and those that don't."

In article <6s16nqF3o7cnU1 DeleteThis @mid.individual.net>,
James Luff <lufferov DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I had Gutsy running fine for a couple of months and then the Heron
>upgrade killed it and it would never boot. Being someone who knows
>nothing about Ubuntu but just wanted to play around with it, I gave up
>because I didn't know what to do and it's been like that for a good six
>months.

Does it report an error, or does it just hang on a black screen? We maybe
should take the discussion to e-mail at this point, but a screen shot of
the grub boot options would be helpful. If you get far enough to get an
ESC prompt before Ubuntu tries to boot, hit it and we can look at your
/boot/grub/menu.lst option settings as a starting point. If you can't even
get that far, then there's no fixing it without mounting your drive to
another working Linux machine and viewing the file system directly.

>Then the other day someone said I should try Intrepid so I
>downloaded the LiveCD, but I can't get that to boot either. So I'm
>pretty stuck, I'd like to give it another go but I don't know what I'm
>doing and I don't know anyone who can help me.

You try the Alternate CD yet? Intrepid had problems with some graphics
cards that made the Live CD hard to use on a handful of laptops. The
Alternate CD is all text-based and takes four times as long to install,
but the benefit is that you get to see what packages are actually being
installed. You'll need a torrent client to get it from here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#alternate

-KKC, installing every roguelike that will fit on his Eee.
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Chris F wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:53:05 -0000, "Chris Stevens"
> <news.RemoveThis@thestevensfamily.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> Beck wrote:
>>>
>>> What did you all get for crimbo? (for those that celebrate it)
>>
>> The only thing that somebody else actually bought for me was
>> Mirror's Edge. It's very, very good. I'm less interested in the
>> story than the time trials so far, but it appears I must complete
>> more chapters to unlock more time trial courses. Fair enough, I
>> suppose. One thing that disappoints is that very few people on my
>> friends list have set any times to aim for. There were a few on the
>> first few levels, but I'm guessing they weren't very serious
>> attempts given the ease with which they were beaten...
>
> ive only done the first couple really, not sure if i'm on your list,
> but i got a semi-decent time on thr very first run iirc.

Yep, you are on my list, and your time on that first level was comfortably
the best out of any of my friends on any of the levels. Still only took me a
few gos to beat it though. :p

> it is a great game, just sadly there are far too many great games to
> be played atm

Tell me about it. With Civ: Rev games taking several hours a go, and the
bloody time consuming jigsaw game, I'm struggling to fit anything else in
right now. Still not even looked at Mercs 2.

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Deano wrote:
>>>
>>> What did you all get for crimbo? (for those that celebrate it)
>>
>> The only thing that somebody else actually bought for me was
>> Mirror's Edge. It's very, very good. I'm less interested in the
>> story than the time trials so far, but it appears I must complete
>> more chapters to unlock more time trial courses. Fair enough, I
>> suppose. One thing that disappoints is that very few people on my
>> friends list have set any times to aim for. There were a few on the
>> first few levels, but I'm guessing they weren't very serious
>> attempts given the ease with which they were beaten...
>
> If it goes down to £10 I'll buy it.

£15.71 instore at Tesco. Close enough, I'd say. It's *well* worth at
least double that...

> In the meantime I'm struggling
> along on Pure. Have we done any races yet? I'd like to give that a
> go.

Unfortnuately I traded my copy a while back. Online seemed pretty good, from
what little I played.

>> Finally, I treated myself to some MS Points and bought Puzzle Arcade.
>> Perfect stress-free gaming - there's a lot there for the money, too.
>
> I bought this too. It's awesome. I haven't done jigsaws for years
> and I can honestly say this has kept me going through Christmas.

Have you tried any of the puzzles in 'fractal' mode? Make sure you set aside
a good couple of hours before you do!

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Toby Newman wrote:
> On 2008-12-30, Chris Stevens <news DeleteThis @thestevensfamily.plus.com> wrote:
>> Beck wrote:
>>>
>>> What did you all get for crimbo? (for those that celebrate it)
>>
>> The only thing that somebody else actually bought for me was
>> Mirror's Edge. It's very, very good. I'm less interested in the
>> story than the time trials so far, but it appears I must complete
>> more chapters to unlock more time trial courses. Fair enough, I
>> suppose. One thing that disappoints is that very few people on my
>> friends list have set any times to aim for. There were a few on the
>> first few levels, but I'm guessing they weren't very serious
>> attempts given the ease with which they were beaten...
>
> Don't worry. I *will* be getting this in a week or so, so you'll have
> someone to play against!

Excellent. I look forward to doing leaderboard battle with you.

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