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Rudderless

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Me And My Katamari, which has to be the most finger-crippling handheld game I've ever played. A ten minute sesh can literally leave my hands throbbing.

For all the PSP's swish looks, it's not easy to play on for any length of time, but MAMK has to be the worst offender I've encountered so far.

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Sprite Machine

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Not much use if I want to play something else though it is?

True, but would you really be switching games anyway? After periods of less than 20 minutes? :lol:

Still, in that case, use the star coins to save. It's not ideal, but you certainly don't have play for 20 minutes every time.

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Halo (XBox)

Finishing it on Legendary today. Just noticed that 'Keyes' is essentially 'Truth & Reconciliation' with a makeover from the Flood.

Advance Wars 2 (GBA)

Finished it but I can't stay away from the War Room nor the hard campaign.

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True, but would you really be switching games anyway? After periods of less than 20 minutes? :o

Still, in that case, use the star coins to save. It's not ideal, but you certainly don't have play for 20 minutes every time.

It doesn't have to be 20 minutes, does it? You cant save whenever you want. That's the problem, I dont get why people are being such apologists over what is clearly a fucking ridiculously bad save system.

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I finished NSMB two days ago and decided to dig out Super Mario All Stars on the SNES - I'd forgotten Super Mario Brothers 3 is so much fun! And you can save anywhere :lol:

Is Red Dead Revolver on Xbox worth sticking with? I fired it up for the first time in a year or more last night and had a bit of fun with the first few levels but if all it is for the rest of the game is 'duck behind wagon, shoot guy, duck behind wagon, shoot guy' then I can't be arsed.

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Played an hour or so of Batallion Wars last night - it's looking quite fun. The controls are starting to make sense now, but it's a bit annoying that you can't direct troops via the map, you have to physically get the enemy in your sights, then tell your troops to go get em.

Graphics are nice and chunky, and the vehicles look cool. Looking forward to playing more.

While the missus continues to watch the hateful freakfest that is Big Brother, I'm on Metroid Fusion still. It's great. That and Zero Mission are possibly my fave GBA games - they're perfect for the format.

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It doesn't have to be 20 minutes, does it? You cant save whenever you want. That's the problem, I dont get why people are being such apologists over what is clearly a fucking ridiculously bad save system.

I'm not apologising for it, just trying to help you get around it.

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Currently that would be...

COD2 (360)

Battlefied 2: MC (360)

PGR3 (360)

Full Auto (360)

FFXI (360)

(mostly the last one!)

On PS2 it is pretty much...

Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (Japanese version)

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Nate Dogg III

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SFIII: 3rd Strike

Same. Was working my way up through the difficulty levels one star at a time, Pro Evo-style, only upping the difficulty when it became too easy.

Had been playing on five for a while, realised I knew the AI routines backwards and could see everything the CPU was going to do a couple of seconds early and thought, fuck it. Eight stars, best of five rounds. And my oh my if it isn't the ONLY way to play this game in single-player. Fantastic.

I am absolutely head over fucking heels in love with it.

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Same. Was working my way up through the difficulty levels one star at a time, Pro Evo-style, only upping the difficulty when it became too easy.

Had been playing on five for a while, realised I knew the AI routines backwards and could see everything the CPU was going to do a couple of seconds early and thought, fuck it. Eight stars, best of five rounds. And my oh my if it isn't the ONLY way to play this game in single-player. Fantastic.

I am absolutely head over fucking heels in love with it.

Yeah, I've been doing the same, I'm up to about 5 now. The annoying thing is, I can beat everybody quite comfortably, but Gill ALWAYS plays cuntish and makes me use about 10 continues. I've stuck with Ken so far, none of the other characters have gelled with me. Really need to try and get it on Xbox for some Live play.

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My current 3S options are at eight-star difficulty. I don't have Live or nearby arcades so I don't have easy access to human competition. :( This makes the desire for a challenge even greater. In essence, my transition was a lot like Nate's: get bored of default difficulty, think "fuck it", and ramp it up to eight. The funny thing was, I didn't get completely destroyed: the CPU was just making me work harder, forcing me to use the techniques I never really had to use on the default difficulty.

However, my current habit is still NSMB.

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Splendid

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Psychonauts, Flashpoint Elite and sigh Warrior Within.

I now have 73 Xbox games. Christ knows why.

Flashpoint Elite is hell of ugly after being 360 spoiled. I didn't realise graflolzx were ever that bad. I see that Bohemia really hasn't sorted the framerate either. Psychonauts is pretty, but I really don't need another platformer in my life.

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Don't get me wrong, it's a Schafer classic terms of concept and style, but it is another collect-a-thon. I mean Emotional Baggage and tags, Figments, Arrowheads, Psychic Arrowheads, Scavenger Hunt Items, Power Ups, Psychic Cards and Centres, plus all the associated health and energy items, is all that really all necessary?

Edit: It's what Burnout 3 would be if it were a platformer: Giving you something, anything, at every step of the way. I've picked up so many items unintentionally, I'm starting to think that I'm psychic.

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Well, I've been playing Chibi Robo (GC) for a few weeks now and I'm finding it to be utterly hillarious and charming. The gameplay is nothing special (clean up, find items, run errands), but the characters are really well done and it's great fun interacting with them. You can set up the days to run for either 5, 10 or 15 minutes which makes it a great game to dip in and out of.

Bought Tony Hawk: AS (DS) when I got my DSlite and I've pretty much finished the one player now - very impressive stuff and probably the best Tony Hawks since THPS2. The areas link together really well yet are just small enough to make you feel bothered enough to learn the ins and outs and the "tricks lines".

Also playing Flatout (Xbox) which is actually a bit dull. The physics are pretty impressive but so much stuff lacks weight - smashing through stuff often feels like smashing through cardboard cutouts. The impassible objects like the lamposts that cause you to crash are infuriating. The track design is woeful - about 30 of them that feel more like 4 tracks with tweaks. Still, there are incredible moments of absolute mayhem (not the same as the controlled mayhem of Burnout 3) and because of this unprediactability races are either completely straight, boring driving or a constant dodge-em-up of the on-track debris. Definately comes into its own online and much fun can be had just messing around trying to do massive jumps into the air.

Finally, picked up Half Life 2 (PC) on the weekend after downloading the demo and being gobsmacked that it run on my PC (Athlon 2200, Geforce MX 440). Really enjoying this already and love that its retained all of the things I loved about the original. There is always a great sense of scale and you always feel as if you are travelling great distances due to the great way its put together. Even though I exited the city through the sewers - looking up and seeing all the high rise buildings - I feel I know the city. Also been popping online trying out Counterstrike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source.

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