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I spent many an hour looking for one in Kingston but I couldn't find oneJames Howlett wrote: »Does anyone know of any decent places to hunt for retro games in London? I'm heading over there for a weekend soon and would like to see if there are any places like the Rage that anyone knows of.
Your best bet is to go to one of the monster carboot sales in Apps Court or Hounslow, but if you've got the time, I went to one in Essex (can't remember where abouts but I'm sure a Google search wouldn't put you too far off it) which must have had in excess of 1500 stalls.
Last but not least there are these 2nd hand electronics stores littered all over the place, they're all painted red and games in there can be from 25p to £4; I spent £2 on getting Command and Conquer and Command and Conquer Red Alert, mint quality.0 -
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Just imagine all the attics all over the country, where kids were emptied into cardboard boxes...
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Speaking of which I finished Halo ODST yesterday. It was a bit of a stinker. Not Killzone 2 bad but bad all the same. A real low point for the series.
Started a bit of Halo Reach....
and it's actually very good so far after 3 chapters. It's pretty much what Halo has been trying to be for 10 years. So far all the levels have been open expanses where Halo excels, none of those corridors made of reused assets (so reports say that the reuse of assets for these corridors had a traumatic experience on some people and their memories of them became 'circular'. The new super fast Elites and Jackals are more a pain in the ass than a threat but I like them. I still don't think the AI is much better than other games in the genre, it's good but not head and shoulders above everything else, seen a few enemies stuck in scenery, the enemies still don't work all that much (the AI working together is mostly an illusion just like in the original Half-Life) and the ally AI can be really stupid at times. The soundtrack is a bit crap though and the story is spectacularly mediocre and doesn't even have the awful dialogue of ODST to make it unintentionally funny, it's a bit more subdued like Bungie know their limits now.
Anyway that's just nitpicking, if it keeps up like it is it will be one of the better shooters I've played recently.
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I didn't mind Halo 3. Some boring levels but at least it was open for the most part. The flood level at the end was an absolute disgrace though.
Reach though is definitely a high point in the series.
I agree though that it's a lot more difficult than previous games which I could breeze through on normal and heroic, this one is giving me trouble.
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Don't know how you liked Halo ODST, however you do like Halo 2 which says a lot :P
I paid 12 euro for ODST used. Bit cheaper online used, think amazon have a few copies.
Reach I paid 20 for which looks like too much. It's 9.95 sterling new on Zavvi.
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That review just infuriates me. Is Halo immune to criticism from Edge? Firstly the AI in vehicles is rightly criticised but is their memory that short that they don't remember it being just as god awful in Halo 2 and Halo 3? They also praise the narrative which is terrible.I wonder if Edge can employ anyone that wasn't bowled over by Halo, but then again the reviews are 'the voice of the magazine' so they are probably contractually obliged to not say a negative thing about Halo. I don't mind the rest of the review but somethings like the story in this game are undefendable by anyone with a bit of intelligence and taste.
However going by metacritic I'm the odd one out, although by the same token if I look at metacritic I'm also the odd one out in thinking the first assassin's creed was fairly ****, which I'm pretty sure I'm not wrong about.
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The big swinging mickey was that it looked beautiful, and Jade Raymond was demoing it. It was also advertised and demo-ed as Hitman in the middle east.
What we got was a collectathon worse than any of the sins Rare commited on the N64 and some terrible assassination missions that were all scripted meaning there was only one way to finish them unlike what was advertised.
Thankfully Assassins Creed 2 was a hell of a lot better.
I saw Rayman Origins in a Gamestop the other week. It really does look beautiful.
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1800-deGradius
*ring ring*
Click! *phone picks up, sounds of some raspy old woman from Phibsborough on 60 Johnnie Blue a day scrambling to put the receiver to her ear*
*me twiddling the phone cord impatiently*
Old woman: *cough! hack! splutter!* Hi... My name is Vic.....Vic Viper.... But you can call me............Vic......
*uneasy silence*
Old woman: ..........PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW!.......
*line goes dead*
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Why is it that everytime I turn my PS3 on and try to get online I have to go to the options and set up the network settings for it to work. The strange thing is I set up the exact same network settings as I had the previous day when it worked and are saved to the system but they decide not to work unless I re enter them now. Now my PS3 is saying that the router password I gave it is wrong despite (a) I haven't changed the router password (b) I haven't changed it on the PS3 and (c) if the password I'm using is wrong then you seeing this post is an impossibility becasue I've rechecked and my laptop that I'm posting this from is using the same password. :rolleyes:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrnoR9cBP3o
:D;):D;):D 
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