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Someone else should get Culdcept Saga so I have someone to play against in the future. That game is more fun than I thought it'd be.

Cozen, you could try this.

http://www.team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47293

thanks jim

I did the towel trick and its back again, but for how long...

folx: I played some crackdown w. jimd recently and kicked his ass (tho the 2nd time ws an accident, sorry!!). tht game is funnnnnnn!!

Ha, yeah. I actually quite enjoyed spectating while coz picked up, threw around and generally ABUSED my corpse!

oh god ikaruga tomorrow

A vertical shooter remade for widescreen TVs! Not sure I see the point in that myself. Surely it's going to mean 70% wasted space.

There's a vertical mode, aka turn your TV 90 degrees, or lie down on the couch as I did with Triggerheart Exelica = huge game space!

I was really looking forward to this game :(

was? ? ? ? ?
what happened?

dead 360

ok downloaded ikaruga

I will complete this!!

you can play online coop right?

can you ever

i will have this tonight, i reckon.

got a bit dispirited watching the replay of the top ranked player on xbla

nice feature being able to download replays but, as I said, dispiriting

I know next to nothing about Ikrauga, save reviews of this rerelease. How difficult and costly would it be to track down a GameCube copy, and would the hours and dollars combined exceed ten bucks?

Garrett - I was just looking into that yesterday myself. In the US, it looks like the cheapest used copies are going for around 40 bucks, with "new" copies fetching a whopping 120+

Plenty of copies to be found on amazon or ebay, etc...

it si very much a collector's game these days, and that's just the GC version forget about the DC version!

ikaruga. fucking hard.

srsly the rotating bullet showers in level 2 just before the boss kill me every fucking time. what is teh knak?

forget it, i got to level three and it's even harder ;_;

i know it's only five levels, so if it weren't tough you'd feel cheated, but there's no sense of progress, just of crushing futility.

^co-sign

With the 360 version I thought you could download other people's runs, so maybe watching those will help you out. Or go cry in a corner some more.

I've just given Microsoft 99 US dollars to fix my console - hopefully a decision I won't come to regret. I want to play more N+

I'm kind of liking this viking game. It's sooo dumb though.

Anyone tried the Codemasters Racedriver Grid demo? It's been a long time since I played a trad racer (the original Gran Turismo so like ten years) but this looks like a lot of fun, racing with realistic damage (try maintaining your lead after you've smashed into a wall and the steering is pulling heavily to the left), and I'm particularly loving the drift mode, makes me feel like I'm in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (embarrassed cough)

I forgot about MSR, I played that quite extensively. But have tried Project Gotham (3) and it didn't appeal.

I've tried the GRID demo but it hasn't sold me on the game. First the graphics are kind of ugly (compared to GT5, Forza 2 or PGR 3&4). Second, I don't really like drifting (so that kills off 1/3 of the game right there for me). Third, the camera (just like in DIRT, which uses the same engine) kind of annoys me - I like a first person cam when racing, but they only give you the bumper view (too low) or the hood view (too much real-estate taken up by the reflecting hood). I also noticed the other day that the way they've placed the speedometer stuff at the edges of the screen, instead of in the center, makes it harder to see. Finally, when I tried to race online it crashed my system, and I had to do a hard restart (scary). I think I liked DIRT more, because it was a different experience than you could find in other racers, while this game travels over the same ground as other games that I think do a better job. It does have a good damadge engine, like you say (same as DIRT), but maybe it's too easy to smash up your car - kind of frustrating (never tried the rewind feature).

You should try more of the rewinding as I think it's one of the main "points" of the game that makes it "fun." But I couldn't get into it for the same reasons as you (but I haven't dug a non-arcade racer since Gran Turismo 2, except for a very slight love affair with my free copy of Forza 2)

guys, when we play gta IV it says something along the lines of 'you cant do online stuff because your user id doesnt have the correct access/permissions'

is this about the silver/gold memberships?

You have to have a gold membership to play 360 games online - yes. I think each copy of GTA IV came with a one free month of live card though - you may want to dig that out.

okay. i was saving that for the mystery exclusive content. what else can you do online with the game besides multiplayer

"the game" being gta IV

Nothing yet, but they've promised downloadable content (which I expect will just mean extra missions) in the future. I expect you'll be able to get that whether you're a gold or silver member though - Gold memberships are usually just for actual online play.

ahh...gotcha. Thanks!

oh, one other thing. is a wireless broadband connection good enough for playing online or do you really need to be plugged in?

I've been using xbox live wirelessly and it's been fine, no noticeable problems (I have dsl).

Wireless works great for me, and my xbox is quite a long way from our router too. (xp)

What's your gamertag Sunny?

i THINK its rabbitwithfangs1

ill check tonight

Jim, its just plain old rabbitwithfangs

Am I right in thinking there hasn't been a single interesting arcade release since ikaruga months ago?

I'd say that was pretty accurate, yeah. I wanted something to play a few weeks ago, so I got Lumines Live - played the first one loads on the PSP, and loved it, so I figured it'd be worth buying again if only so I could play the Heavenly Star stage. But OMG! Why didn't anybody warn me that Lumines Live is a huge fat LIE? You buy what you think is the whole game, then it turns out you've only actually bought challange mode, and any other modes need to be paid for separately! Such a piss take. I decided never to buy another Miziguchi game, by way of protest.

And to rub salt in the wound, Heavenly Star wasn't even included. Apparently that was a separate add-on too. And the worst thing? It was FREE but I missed it, it's been removed from Live Marketplace now.

Seriously, huge amounts of bullshit related to this game.

I think I have Heavenly Star, I will see if there's a way to send you an "invitation" to download it or something since they don't remove things, just delist them...

That would make me VERY happy. :)

Am I on your friend list? I'm Jimdoo.

Will - how have you completed so many N+ single player episodes? I'm loving the game but getting so stuck. Have you been using multiple players to complete the single player stuff - cause that seems like the only way to beat some of that stuff...

multiple players? how do you mean?

i just played that game for HOURS for a while... pretty much the only game i played from... whenever it came out, until ikaruga or gta IV or something. what level(s) are you stuck on?

TECH QUESTION: having played my brother's 360 for six months, i now own my own. is there any way to transfer my saved games between machines?

Will - by multiple players, I meant, I fooled around with some of the single player levels at a friend's house a while back, and you can play through them with multiple people - which sort of breaks the hard levels or at least makes 'em more possible to beat (for instance, one guy does a suicide attack clearing out a lot of the red mines, making it possible for another guy to easily reach the switch, while player three stands at the exit ready to tap A) - I wasn't sure if it actually saved your times when played that way though or not (I thought maybe not).

stevie - it looks like you can transfer your saves with this http://assets.xbox.com/en-us/support/na-memoryunit.pdf

thanks jeff!

This is one of the levels that has been driving me crazy in N+...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qhuWWtkyAg

now that I've given in and watched some videos of people doing it I imagine I can beat it

fuck yeah i spent a lot of time on that level, but once i figured out a strategy i managed to beat it in about an hour or two. that guy is jumping over only one set every jump, but you can definitely do two. Other than that It's just a matter of getting over the guys, even if it means you won't make progress for another ~6 seconds.

jeff: swos?