[The video game thread]

Notabot · Post by **Notabot** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:55 am

Nice! The accordion is one of those instruments that you just have to be either totally awesome or totally horrible at to be cool. There's a big donut hole in the middle. Mediocre accordionists are just awful.

I don't play ukulele, but I respect those who do. I'm starting to dabble in guitar, but I'm pretty bad so far. My son (age 8) taught himself several Zelda and Metroid songs on his violin and piano. He's so good!

electro girl · Post by **electro girl** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:04 am

Notabot wrote:Nice! The accordion is one of those instruments that you just have to be either totally awesome or totally horrible at to be cool. There's a big donut hole in the middle. Mediocre accordionists are just awful.

I don't play ukulele, but I respect those who do. I'm starting to dabble in guitar, but I'm pretty bad so far. My son (age 8) taught himself several Zelda and Metroid songs on his violin and piano. He's so good!

Young age multi instrumentalists are the future! If not profesionally then for attracting ladies lol.

There is a pawn shop near me that sells accordions fairly cheap but as you say you are either good or just plain bad so I'm put off in favour of a stylaphone or something similar.

I've had my ukulele since the christmas before last but didnb't get properly into it until I started university in september and joined the uke orchestra there. It's loads of fun though.

Selkadoom · Post by **Selkadoom** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:01 am

Awwww no one carfs for Elder Scrolls :,(

Iron Warrior · Post by **Iron Warrior** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:33 pm

Gonna be Pokemon Black for me on friday. Been looking forward to this for a While now.

ganon578 · Post by **ganon578** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:56 pm

Selkadoom wrote:Awwww no one carfs for Elder Scrolls :,(

That's not true, I carf for Elder Scrolls. I picked it up a few weeks back but haven't been able to delve into it yet since I'm trying to tackle my other games that aren't so demanding. What I have played of it, I have thoroughly enjoyed. Looking forward to this one when I get back to it!

That said, I just finished Batman: Arkham Asylum this past weekend. Phenomenal game, though I imagined the final battle would be harder than it was. I'm not disappointed, just surprised.

I've started in on Halo 3 now. Pretty decent game, and I'm not too far in. Hasn't quite hooked me yet, but hopefully that will come in time. After that I'll be working on Resident Evil 5. Then I can turn my attention to Oblivion...

Selkadoom · Post by **Selkadoom** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:08 am

Kay,.... Whats your Oblivion set up

(Race,Birthsign,Class)

electro girl · Post by **electro girl** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:58 am

I'm just inserting Pokemon Black into my DS right now.

Chip1123 · Post by **Chip1123** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:43 pm

Dragon Age 2 next week... looking forward to it!

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:32 pm

http://www.coleofduty.com/

Paul053 · Post by **Paul053** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:38 pm

I know this has been released long but I just got some time now. PS3 Batman: Arkham Asylum. Is it really that good? I'm thinking about getting it in the next few weeks.

ganon578 · Post by **ganon578** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:41 pm

Selkadoom wrote:Kay,.... Whats your Oblivion set up

(Race,Birthsign,Class)

I'll check for sure later tonight when I'm home (haven't played in about a month, only played a couple hours) but I believe this is what I had going:

Race: Nord (switched from Dunmer before leaving the sewer)
Birthsign: The Mage
Class: Spellsword

You?

Selkadoom · Post by **Selkadoom** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:03 pm

Race Argonian

Birthsign The Thief

Class (Shroud) custom

Lvl 21 in one week

HeavyArms · Post by **HeavyArms** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:50 am

Traded in my limited edition Dead Space 2 for the collector's edition on PS2 and also got Bulletstorm for X360.

Sixswitch · Post by **Sixswitch** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:32 pm

Paul053 wrote:I know this has been released long but I just got some time now. PS3 Batman: Arkham Asylum. Is it really that good? I'm thinking about getting it in the next few weeks.

Yes, yes and yes again. It is brilliant.

-Ss

HeavyArms · Post by **HeavyArms** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:26 am

Grabbed Pokemon White on Wednesday.

dEcEpTiCoN MEGAtron · Post by **dEcEpTiCoN MEGAtron** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:58 pm

Just picked up Homefront on release day. Multiplayer is great so far as it mixes vehicles in with the gameplay. Reminds me of Battlefield.

The single player campaign has some pretty serious and crazy elements that occur within the story. Some of it will make you cringe.

ganon578 · Post by **ganon578** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:10 pm

Paul053 wrote:I know this has been released long but I just got some time now. PS3 Batman: Arkham Asylum. Is it really that good? I'm thinking about getting it in the next few weeks.

Definitely. I have it for the 360 and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Also, I picked up Super Mario All-Stars for the Wii since they did a second run of it and was lucky enough to have preordered it. Nice little set, though I'm a bit bummed that Nintendo did NOTHING with the game outside of port it directly from the Super Nintendo. There's got to be a veritable crap-ton of space left on that disc that they could have put to good use. The included soundtrack CD is nice, but 10 of the 20 songs are sound effects, and there is a bunch of great Mario music that could have gone on that thing.

Especially since the runtime is only ~30 minutes. Again, wasted disc space. Thankfully it's only $30, but I would have felt better about it at $20.

The only redeeming quality is that it contains 4 of the best platformers ever made.

Paul053 · Post by **Paul053** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:44 pm

Sixswitch wrote:Yes, yes and yes again. It is brilliant.

ganon578 wrote:Definitely. I have it for the 360 and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thanks for the advice. I will definitely give it a try when I have time. Wife and kids trip through Japan has been postponed (actually feel relax about this), so I have couple more months to wait to play it.

ganon578 · Post by **ganon578** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:37 pm

A buddy of mine at work gave me a copy of PGR4 for the 360 since he doesn't have an Xbox. Looking forward to taking it for a spin tonight after work. He also gave me a mic headset and chatpad keyboard for the controller. Not too shabby...

electro girl · Post by **electro girl** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:50 pm

Today I got a Playstation for £3