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Monkey Island. I grew up playing all sorts of graphic adventures (hell, text adventures too), and the MI series is still my favourite, in all their non-talkie glory. They didn't need any fancy pants voice acting to be great!

I don't think so. Surely we would have heard - it would have been pretty big news. The last I heard, a Bio rep (on the official forums) said something to the effect that there was no port underway at the moment and no current plans for one in the future. That doesn't necessarily mean there won't be one eventually though; it's just a reiteration of the game's current exclusivity on the 360. If it does happen though, I'd imagine the wait for a ME port will be as long or longer than the wait for Jade Empire PC was.

He knows I'm going to deny him his romance sub-plot, so he's gone all sulky on me. He's such a whiner

Started a new character in Mass Effect: 100% lesbiotic? I do believe that she is.

Are you playing just the original game or with the hell expansion pack as well? I loved Overlord, and I've been considering getting the expansion ever since it was announced. As for the clunky interface, I have to imagine it was designed as a console game first and foremost. Even so, I found the controls a little clunky on the 360 with a gamepad anyway, so they're presumably worse on the PC. The humour and light hearted, cartoon style evil atmosphere made wresting with the controls well worth it, either way.

I found the game was only really hard up to a point. Early on, my adept was having a lot of trouble keeping up with large groups of mercs, since the slow recharge time on my biotic powers (not to mention a smaller selection of them) relegated me to a playing the role of a really bad soldier, constantly pinned down behind cover. I quickly hit a turning point though (thanks to class investments and cooldown enhancing armour mods) where my powers seemed to be almost always available when I needed them, and the difficulty took a dive. Perpetual barrier didn't hurt either. The ridiculously strong weapons my companions were carrying around by then almost made even that a moot point though, since they were taking down most minor enemies before I had a chance to unleash my biotic storm anyway. I'm hoping my current hardcore engineer run maintains the difficulty level even later in the game though. Not being able to stasis bosses and chip away at their health with no fear of recourse (bastion specialisation for the win!) should keep key battles a little more challenging, I think. Unless, of course, engineers become walking balls of death and destruction later in the game too.

There was an easter egg in Sparta? That was one of the earlier system that I explored, and I don't remember anything. What was it, and where in particular? I want to go back and pay closer attention this time (or possible in my next hardcore engineer playthrough).

Here's a shot of Mass Effect featuring Commander Nathan Shepard. There is some dialogue from an early side quest I just completed though, so anyone paranoid about any and all ME spoilers, cover your eyes

Honestly, I wouldn't mind the inventory system at all if it had one simple addition: a damn sort button. Sort by name, sort by type, sort by anything. Wading through an unsorted list of equipment when trying to decide what to sell is a massive pain in the ass. I wonder what the chances of getting inventory sorting patch are. Probably not good, but here's hoping, since it's my biggest complaint in an otherwise awesome game.

The water flow hacking mini-game in Bioshock was a hell of a lot better than the silly button mashing hacking in Mass Effect though. I hate quick time events with a passion.

The hanar vocals remind me of Ignignokt from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I keep expecting one of those freaky jellyfish to say something like: "Commander, this one finds your innuendo distasteful." Then Err to pop out of nowhere and be all: "Yeah! Up YOUR endo, man. Ha HA!"

Mass Effect was supposed to arrive today, but instead of actually being delivered, it just sat at the station all day long doing absolutely nothing. Go go Canada Post. It should still arrive tomorrow, but I won't have another day off to play it much until the middle of next week. Oh well. Anyway, to fill the gaming gap left by Mass Effect's absence, I reinstalled NWN2 and ordered the downloadable version of Mask of the Betrayer from Atari. So far, my favourite part of the game: CHO-CO-LOT!

Bioshock arrived in the mail today, so I'll likely get myself all strung out on plasmids later tonight.

You can kill the jester? Ha! That's great. I'd never bothered wailing on him long enough to find out. I always stopped at "I hurt, I huuuuuurt!" It's cool to know it can be done, at least.

I'm still playing Overlord in a 100% curruption run, and loving it. There are too many damn glitches in the game though (I'm playing the Xbox 360 version), and unlike the PC version, the 360 one is still unpatched. I'm getting tired of hearing Gnarl tell me that "Velvet isn't a lady to be kept waiting." Stupid minion! Did you not feel the tower a' rockin'!? I've already taken care of business, you ugly little bastard!

I just started Overlord. I seem to be the bane of peasants the world over. I might start leaving a scant few alive here and there soon though, so they can cower and beg for their lives. An offering or two to their new dark lord would be nice too.

Vampire needs more votes! And agreed on the anti-MMO sentiment. I'd want vampire multiplayer to be small scale coop, if anything.

I managed to grab both Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isle cheap, so I'll likely reinstall Oblivion and do some more aimless wandering around Cyrodill until boredom sets in again, but for the moment, I'm playing Prince of Persia Classic on Xbox Live. The controls are just about as frustrating as I remember them being, but it's good fun once you get a feel for the prince's movement / reaction timing again. Those two should keep me busy until Overlord comes out next week, at the very least.

Going by the demo, the gameplay seems a little simplistic, but fun nonetheless. I imagine things will get more interesting when you have all four minion types to play with. Gameplay aside though, the spot on humour of the story/setting coupled with what appears to be great voice acting should be worth the price of admission alone. I'll be picking it up as soon as it comes out.

Quick time events are retarded, no matter how well (or badly, as the case may be) they're ported. My survival depending on how quickly I can mash a random button that doesn't actually correlate with the standard controls in any sensible way isn't my idea of a good time. I wish devs would stop using this game mechanic altogether.

For such a seemingly simple game, I'm having a lot of fun with N so far. With the physics acting on exploded body parts, dying can be hilarious and almost as much fun as playing well, it seems

I scan through them until I hit upon a game that gets a reaction of some sort. Like "N" on Deraldin's list--wtf is that anyway? I've never even heard of that game, and I can at least recognise most of the games on these lists, but even with the help of google, I can only come up with a neat little flash based game with cool physics.

Since the majority of my games catalogue is of the PC persuasion, I'll list my meagre collection of Xbox 360 games first (about half of which were bought merely because they were dirt cheap... I'm looking at you, Tomb Raider), since it's easier to remember everything. Xbox 360 Amped 3 Dead Rising Enchanted Arms Gears of War Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Kameo NHL 2K7 Tomb Raider Legend Top Spin 2 Viva Pinata I've held on to some other old games for the previous consoles I've owned over the years too (Guardian Heroes, Nights, most of the JRPGs translated by Working Designs, etc), but I can't be bothered to go find them now to make a list. As for the PC games I have, making a full list is going to be an exercise in futility, since I can't remember where I've stored them all (although a good portion of them should be boxed up in my closet). Here's what I currently have sitting on my shelf though. PC RPG Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Diablo Diablo II Fable: The Lost Chapters Fallout Fallout 2 Knight of the Old Republic Knight of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Neverwinter Nights Neverwinter Nights 2 Planescape Torment The Elder Scrolls: Arena The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Ultima VII Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines Graphic Adventure Discworld Discworld II: Mortality Bytes Dragon Lore (it's what happens when Myst goes bad... really, REALLY bad... ugh) Full Throttle Grim Fandango Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Leisure Suit Larry 1-7 Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle Monkey Island Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3) Escape From Monkey Island (Monkey Island 4) Sam & Max: Hit the Road The Dig The Longest Journey Dreamfall (The Longest Journey 2) Action / Adventure Bioforge Blood Blood II: The Chosen Dark Forces Jedi Knight (Dark Forces II) Doom, The Ultimate Doom II Doom, Final Drakan: The Order of the Flame (why the hell I had to play the sequel on my PS2 is beyond me... damnable console whore dev studios) Ecstatica (screw you polygons! Ellipsoid gaming 4 life, yo!) Ecstatica II Gex: Enter the Gecko Half-Life Half-Life 2 Heretic II Magic Carpet MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries Quake Quake II Quake III: Arena Shadows of the Empire System Shock System Shock 2 Recoil Tribes 2 Turok Unreal Strategy Afterlife Starcraft Theme Hospital WarCraft: Orcs and Humans WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos Driving \ Racing Hi-Octane (an object lesson in why tying game speed to CPU speed is a terrible idea) Interstate '76 San Fransisco Rush: The Rock Sports NFL Blitz Flight / Space / FMV Travesties Of Gaming That Involve Flying But Only Mildly Resemble Gaming Of Any Sort Otherwise (Usually Sold With The MPEG-2 Hardware That Was All The Rage Way Back When) Rebel Assault (FMV Travesty) Tie Fighter Tomcat Alley (FMV Travesty) Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom

The goofy PotC title / header aside, the video itself seems pretty good, seeing as info on the PS3 / 360 Riddick is so sparse, at this point. I couldn't tell whether the gameplay clips sprinkled in with the dev interview were from the remake or the original Butcher Bay, though.

I've been playing a lot of Dead Rising lately, and I'm fully convinced that killing zombies is what I was born to do. It's glorious.