Originally Posted by mr dave (Post 891693)

as odd as this sounds. try loading a save just before that cutscene and drop ALL options to minimum, both graphics and audio. i've seen more than a few WTF bugs directly related to sound in the past where the error message offered no indication to the issue. once you're past that scene save again and bump up the settings again.

it's lame but it should get you through.

Originally Posted by tore (Post 891406)

My favourite Sim game is Transport Tycoon Deluxe (kept alive and well today by the OpenTTD project). The playing field is an isometric view landscape with towns and various industries like farms and factories. You make money by taking care of transport and thus supply and demand. For example you build airports and send planes between the cities and make money from travelers or you build an oil tanker to bring oil from an oil rig to a refinery or build a train to bring coal from a mine to a powerplant.

What I like about it a bit hard to say though :p: I think it basically boils down to a little feeling of happiness when I see my trains tooting along, making me money. Building my transport empire is satisfying in itself even if I've bought up all my competitors and technically have complete monopoly.

Originally Posted by mr dave (Post 891845)

whatever works haha congrats on getting the win.

i was recently playing through Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2. gotta love having to abandon the game at the final boss fight (the 4 on 1 that happens once you beat the 1 on 1) because the only way to defeat the final challenge according to every single walkthrough on the net is to use an exploit.

Originally Posted by Unchained Ballad (Post 892044)

That must be bloody frustrating.
And you just reminded me I have Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Hehe.

Originally Posted by mr dave (Post 892198)

i've had worse haha

my real question now though, where The Phantom Menace was a piss poor film, does this mean the video game adaptation is actually decent?

Originally Posted by mr dave (Post 892216)

hahah yeah, games based on movies are NEVER well rated, same as movies based on games. there are very rare exceptions (the original Mortal Kombat movie, and the Dune games) but that's about it. for the most part they're horrible tie-ins from either direction.

Originally Posted by AleG (Post 891691)

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/9487/...ngcoverart.png

Digimon Racing

It's not a terrible game, but is nothing compared to Crash Team Racing (wish I knew were to find that, for an emulator).

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 892222)

I thought Silent Hill was actually a pretty decent game-to-movie accomplishment. The acting sucked, but other than that, it was surprisingly well matched.

Originally Posted by mr dave (Post 892245)

i heard the opposite from most people but i didn't play the games enough either. i also thoroughly enjoyed the Resident Evil movies, but then again having Milla Jovovich running around in less and less clothes for 90 minutes is about the greatest recipe for awesome i've ever read.

Originally Posted by Sljslj (Post 892228)

Digimon racing was okay, but this game...
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...mble-Arena.jpg
...was freakin' awesome.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 892250)

The best part of the Silent Hill movie was the atmosphere, which really captured the atmosphere of the game(s). Even had the same music. The monsters were done very well, the FX one-up'ed the games, and the story line tied all the games together.
I used to love the Silent Hill games, so that probably has a lot to do with it, but I thought they did very well with it.

I like the Resident Evil franchise as well, but I think Silent Hill payed more attention to detail with their movie.

Originally Posted by crash_override (Post 892307)

Still can't play the second game if I'm alone in the dark.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 892313)

Definitely. They really kinda expanded and capitalized on creepiness in video games to me.. I think my first seed of creepiness in video games was "Uninvited" for the Nintendo when it came out. Set the stage. Then years later when Resident Evil was doing its thing, it helped things along. (Especially the first time you meet the first zombie in the first game. It was pretty dramatic at the time.
But when I started playing the Silent Hill games, the terror was so much more psychological and subtle. They did fear better than Resident Evil, in my opinion.

Originally Posted by noise (Post 892869)

i just found a place where i can download complete packs of roms from all the old console systems - Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Atari, Coleco, Commodore... tens of thousands of old school games.

each ROM is compressed (7zip), and the packs can be plugged into a GUI where i can launch them with my favorite emulator without having to uncompress them.

now i never have to leave the house again :D

Originally Posted by noise (Post 892869)

i just found a place where i can download complete packs of roms from all the old console systems - Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Atari, Coleco, Commodore... tens of thousands of old school games.

each ROM is compressed (7zip), and the packs can be plugged into a GUI where i can launch them with my favorite emulator without having to uncompress them.

now i never have to leave the house again :D

Originally Posted by Sljslj (Post 893360)

Frogger
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Love this game.

Originally Posted by Sljslj (Post 898111)

http://www.jogos-ps3.com/games/image...y-City-ps3.jpg
Can't really get into The Ballad Of Gay Tony, but The Lost & The Damned is great.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 898219)

One is riding a bike and the other driving a car, shouldn`t be that great a difference.

Originally Posted by dreadnaught (Post 899442)

I've taken a whip crack at Star Craft at the suggestion of my boyfriend, which was probably to justify the fact that I won't see him for weeks on end when the sequel comes out.

Originally Posted by Sljslj (Post 894847)

OMG. This game is so AWESOME. Anyone else have this game?
[LITTLEBIGPLANET]

Originally Posted by Alfred (Post 899511)

Yeah, I have it. Awesome game.

Originally Posted by Sljslj (Post 899347)

They're different stories, though, and that's a big part of games (especially GTA) for me.
Finally got the oppurtunity to try GTA online and it's great. I love Free Mode, especially when you get 10+ people in there with friendly fire off and cops on, so much fun.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 899742)

Lost and the Damned is probably the better story but the Ballad of *** Tony has some great missions and is probably more in line with the traditional GTA series.

Originally Posted by Connair (Post 900537)

Ah man has anyone tried Red Dead Redemption yet? I got this game a couple of weeks ago and its pretty damn awesome. I would highly suggest it yes yes.