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I found the film slow and boring if I'm honest and turned it off after 40 minutes. I'll need to make a point of watching this again as the majority of you seem to be raving about it.

Try paying it for it next time - you might feel more 'invested' in the experience. heh.

I read this book as a teen back when I thought the idea of moving cities was cool and new.

It's quite steampunky which I guess is fashionable at the moment (thanks, Doctorow, you endlessly cockish fashionista), but it was an ok read. Hopefully the movie will end up more City Of Lost Children than City Of Ember...

Assuming you're going to buy it back in the same play session .. doesn't the buy back clear when you quit out?

http://www.codemasters.com/emails/ofpdr/mi..._uk-online.html

Unlock 2 extra missions if you can pass the tests.

I failed.

It's a fun game, but you can get all the bonuses anyway with a bit of URL hacking if you manage to pass one. they're not trying to make this hard to achieve, but it's a diversion, I guess.

Sounds like an Italian crime syndicate.

My main problem with 2 is how they took out all of the "rappel down onto the partially built roof of a hell-themed hotel and fight your way onto Freemont st in a haze of neon" to "watch out for that terrorist behind that barbeque there! Oh no the climbing hall of the school gym is overrun!"

the gfx were never that hot, to be fair. As you say, though, quite the fun co-op experience.

Don't forget there's a couple of DLC packs for V1 out there - should be free, I think.

I'll be up for a co-op TH sometime on either 1 or 2, though 1 is best imho

When it comes to co-op, you could be seeing no-one OL because your level is too low or high - there's a 10 level +/- cap on co-oping so as you dont back and help guys out on the early bosses with your super-powers (I guess).

I thought the game was low in population when I was hanging around to help out with some Tower Knight fights and got nowhere.

This is all worth bearing in mind if you plan to co-op with a regular party - stay within limits and find a nice private spot to drop your blue-eye.

I thought fuck this shit. This isn't some kind of PvP server where I ask for a duel. I feel violated when these cheeky cads invade, since I'm trying to stay alive without outside hindrance. If you're going to pull that then you're going to get magicked in the face. No bowing.

You did that right - you know the second you start your emote he's going to tan your hide.

Another more cowardly tactic is just to hide until they get bored and disappear - equip the thief ring and remove any buffs that give you a glowing aura (as this appears depite being hidden) and sit them out.

As an invading black phantom yourself, remember if you die in someone else's wolrd you will lose some stat points and therefore soul level. There was some confusion as to whether this happened only when falling off something or having another accident, but I am reading it also applies if you're taken out by the "host"

I am in. Currently playing a lev49 ish Royal (fun) and a lev 23 Knight (sucks).

The royal is good for 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-1, 3-2, 4-1, 5-1

If anyone needs a ghost helper for Flamelurker or the like I can be reasonably handy with a Soul Arrow. Add me on PSN

Tooled on 2-2 while in a rush to retreive my own body and souls by the forking damned bloody asswipe exploding mine carts. Hot piss, 5000 souls down the drain and although it's only really 1 stat point it still stings like a motherbitch.

Don't believe in spoilers tags for most thing in this game - any help is gonna pay off!

Keep your shield UP!

If it's any consolation, that's still less than I paid

If I lived in HK I'd be getting rich off this game, but seeing as I'm the dumbwad who pays their prices I guess I'll have to be happy playing it instead!

The game is listed at YesAsia and NCSX, but each time I checked it was out of stock for at least a month.

I went with an ebay seller and paid a bit more to get it in a week from Hong Kong. Price for the game is about right but they sting you on the postage...

Having said that, it does say restocking at NCSX : NCSX

I got a copy from Hong Kong this week as I'm a FROM fan too.

Initial thoughts are positive : nice functional graphics, not showy or full of effects, just solid with good animations. Tutorial level can show you just how tough it can be, though. As the chap above says, the first enemies can clock you for big damage from the get go, so it's obviously a game of defend/slash/counter. Not "ninja gaiden" hard, but a lot more slow and heay hitting.

You pick from one of a list of about 10 character classes, which aren't restrictive as far as I can see, merely a starting point for your stats and equipment to begin with. I went with a Thief guy, and again as has been mentioned, had my ass handed to me by the tutorial boss. According to the demon souls wiki/youtube you can beat the boss if you're quick enough (ditch your armour for the fight) and you get a load of loot and a nice preview of things to come ...

At the end of the day, I took a punt on it from reading threads like these and am not disappointed so far.

So, best to start with Abnett's Horus novels and kinda stop afterwards? I used to be a massive 40K fan back in the days of Rogue Trader and the Realms of Chaos expansion - I wonder, how much changed is the back story in the more recent editions?

My gameplay order had been pushed back a week, as has the Amazon release date.

Too much competition this week from ... um, FEAR2?

Tried online?

Your comment is a lot more encouraging than I expected. Something about the low-key release of this one suggested some pretty crippling gameplay issues over the usual "RTS on console" control issues.

Thanks.

I don't know, the Warhmmer fan in me fancies the idea of a 360 RTS, rough edges or not.

Has anyone picked this up on 360? Another mid-60s Metacritic rated stealth release slips out...

Not sure what the unlabelled YT links are pointing to (blocked), but the correct answer is of course the MechWarrior 2 intro movie.

25th Sept

Bloody ra!

Speaking of co-op, I cant seem to able to search for, or quick join, any co-op games at all. The filter screen pops up to find a game but nothing happens when I push A to search. Same on the quick join option from the multiplayer menu.

Apologies if this has been covered in the thread, but has anyone else experienced this?

I was so disappointed with Long Way Down that I began to doubt if I should believe the content in Long Way Round, which is a shame as that series was grand. What kind of quality failure causes people to revise their opinions on a format originator?

Anyway, Boorman's new show seems a lot more about the fun than the hard graft. I shall carry on watching.

How's his Dakar dvd?

Not just the number, I would suggest.

Yeah, West Wing is good, but it's no Wire. trufax

32 Emmys can't be wrong.

See, now you've done it. You've strayed from opinion into why one show is statisically better than the other.