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very popular then! did it look fun?

Yeah but annoyingly a lot of people bottled it at the top. So wasted our time!

oh man, that mustve sucked! I'd have loved to do it. Bet it was well fun

the very first guy, who must have been waiting from at least 7:30am, bottled it.

the very first guy, who must have been waiting from at least 7:30am, bottled it.

Bahahaha deserves a medal for being moist as fuck.

Downloaded Swocery for the iPad. Basically a hipster Zelda. Attracted to the visuals, and great audio too. Would be a great game, but ruined by all the dialogue like "We defeated the monster! We're awesome".

It wasn't though, really. I preferred 1 to cataclysm, but 2 to the both of them. The awesome whiteout explosions were only part of it. Countless hours sunk into both of them though, a total I unfortunately can't increase.

OK, I admit i never put that much time into 2, but there was just a certain magic that Homeworld had for me that it's sequels lacked. Maybe something to do with imagination filling in for the limits of the original's technology, then in the sequels they filled in the blanks a bit more, but in ways that didn't live up to my hopes.

But also it's down to details like the way the maps worked. The original's limited map screen constantly pushed you back into a ship-bound view of the action and hid the map's edges, making the ships and the space feel huge. In the sequels the map screen gained a lot of obvious functionality, and suffered for it as the game became a battle played-out between icons on a cramped board with obvious boundaries. Suddenly everything felt small.

One of the best mods for the original gave you a ship's eye view (just a camera mode). Rather than getting more god-like and detached, they should have gone in that direction: modelled the ship's bridges and let you stand on them and made you view the map from their nav-screens. (But maybe that's just me - ever since the battlezone remake i've had a real lust for good first-person RTSs.)

Another major gripe was the way formations and tactics changed. The original's system was complex and clunky, but powerful once you'd got the hang of setting up number-key groups and building micro-formations and chains of follow orders. The sequels just seemed to dumb it all down.

Did you ever play 1 online? The fighter tactics proved to have a lot of depth, most of which seemed lost or over-simplified in the sequels. (I assume you know about death-balls, crazy scouts, and how to hyperspace fighters and corvettes?)

Homeworld 1 seemed a little cautious of using the 3rd dimension too much, and i hoped the sequels would polish up the interface a bit and make more of it, but again they went the other way.

Jet Set Radio is now on Steam. Fuck Yeah.

yay getting a free copy of borderlands 2 for PS3.... not from 2K games though!

Sarah @ Rocksteady is awesome!

AHH MAN! thats very sick. Im tempted to get it for the 360, but i think i want fifa more

#thirdworlddecisions

Jet Set Radio is now on Steam. Fuck Yeah.

For mac? I fucking loved that game. Although there was one level which was impossible to complete.

the china town one with loads of wires all going towards a center point?
I've started playing guild wars 2. It's good.

XCOM demo available on Steam. Downloaded it, played it, not sure it's for me.

Sumo, what's your chat name ? I'm kirth.1785 ...

Any of you lot coming to Eurogamer then ? I'll be mainly in the Indie section (Spilt Milk Studios) but also floating around at some of the dev sessions

PartyWolf.3540

XCOM demo available on Steam

fuck and busy for the next fee days! fuuuckkk

Has anyone been playing on that Dust-514 beta?

I really like the idea of futuristic FPS but I can't help feeling let down every time I play one, Killzone came close but was just slightly lacking.

I'm getting a bit fed up with CoD - has anyone got any good replacement suggestions (not Battlefield) (I'm on PS3)?

I was in the Dust alpha, but stopped playing as I'm terrible at FPS.

I know that's 0 help

You're right - thanks.

I'll just have to push on with CoD, best to keep the skills at a decent level so I don't get too frustrated when the new one comes out.

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/8nsLx-A02d0/the-first-look-at-total-war-rome-ii-s-gameplay-has-freakin-battle-elephants

I'm back on Company of Heroes having been thwarted in my attempts to run Homeworld. Enjoying it greatly.

Do you reckon it's bigger on the inside?

this probably is