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  • #2192
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,996 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    CMpunked wrote: »
    I loved GTA4 because it tried something different with it being that little bit more real. I know some people hated that and thats fair, but i wasnt too pushed.

    For me, comparing it to SR2, which went the other extreme in terms of it being mindless and senseless fun, meant I just never got into GTAIV as much :/

    As for RDR, I started it and ended up abandoning it when I hit the city. I could get what they were going for, but I just never quite gelled with the game :/


  • #2193
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    I HATED Mafia II with a passion I bought it full price and couldn't get past a part where you have to drive around and drop off stuff at multible locations in the map. Keep a eye out on Sleeping Dogs it was going to be released last year but Square enix have picked it up now, some good ideas in it.


  • #2194
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,014 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    gnfnrhead wrote: »
    What's RDR like?

    Red Dead? It's fantastic! I wrote up a review for boards a while ago on it. My mate didn't like the open areas, he just saw empty while I saw a beautiful untouched vistas unlike almost all other games we see today. The game had everything; so much so I've no idea what they'd do with a sequel.

    The Saboteur looked alright, it got unanimously average-to-decent reviews, not enough for me to part with the cash. It's a lot smaller scope than GTA, like it's not a sandbox, there just wasn't a hook for me to buy it.

    In other news, went into Game/GameStop/HMV, no liquidation or other sale lol.


  • #2195
    Charlie Haughy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭Charlie Haughy


    GTR63 wrote: »
    I HATED Mafia II with a passion I bought it full price and couldn't get past a part where you have to drive around and drop off stuff at multible locations in the map. Keep a eye out on Sleeping Dogs it was going to be released last year but Square enix have picked it up now, some good ideas in it.
    I liked it anyways, not amazing, but still a good solid game. Well I paid like 10 quid for it a few months back, so was worth it.


    Also, Max Payne 3 is out in may which should be super.

    gfnrhead, are you looking for advice on games in the 3rd person genre as a whole, or 3rd person games with free roam and the GTA mission and side mission structure?


  • #2196
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    Doesn't the Saboteur have a lead character with a crap irish accent, it has a nice look though. The big mistake for me in Red Dead was that you are a cowboy and there is no real Cowboy vs Indians clash. That'd be a great concept for a sequel if a little cliched.
    Watching Liverpool vs Sunderland is a real chore,about as exciting as brushing your teeth.


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  • #2197
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I loved RDR I have to say. That and Fallout 3 are my favourite games of the last few years.

    I presume if you're on PS3 you have already played the Uncharted trilogy? 3 fantastic games.

    I haven't played it but Infamous is supposed to be good. Its a sandbox game and you have electric powers.


  • #2198
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Charlie Haughy wrote: »

    gfnrhead, are you looking for advice on games in the 3rd person genre as a whole, or 3rd person games with free roam and the GTA mission and side mission structure?

    I'd much rather it have some sort of free roam and non main story missions. Like Vice City or San Andreas, loads of (fun, none of this shooting 200 pigeons for 2% crap) things to keep you busy aside from the main story. Not essential, but that would be my preference.


  • #2199
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    jaykhunter wrote: »
    In other news, went into Game/GameStop/HMV, no liquidation or other sale lol.

    Its a online sale only for GAME. Part of me will miss game and another won't I think if they close it'll be even harder to find a bargain cause shops will be less competitive, Mass Effect 3 apparently is worth €55, tell me another. I remember getting Red Dead and Alan Wake for €40 on their release dates FFS. I won't miss the awkward silence when I ask do they have a copy of Ghost Trick, Phoenix Wright or Okamiden in stock and the look i'd get like I was asking for a 5:1 Scale Drawing of a genuine Flux Capacitor.


  • #2200
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I liked Mafia II. Playboy pictures instead of hidden packages (GTA), CD's (Saints row 2) etc was genius :D


  • #2201
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    Will this season just end already losing to a just plain terrible Sunderland team and making no chances continuing to playing truly awful players like Adam, Spearing, Kuyt, Henderson. Then we brought on £55m of utter garbage to try and totally fail to change it. Can't wait to see what we'll do to make it even worse in the summer, probably buy british cause that has really helped us.


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  • #2202
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,014 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    hey i'm finding skyrim a bit too big scope/i've no idea what i'm doing so looking for a smaller rpg to play. Anyway try out Witcher 2? Need something to play on my new pc


  • #2203
    CMpunked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,600 ✭✭✭✭CMpunked


    gnfnrhead wrote: »
    I'd much rather it have some sort of free roam and non main story missions. Like Vice City or San Andreas, loads of (fun, none of this shooting 200 pigeons for 2% crap) things to keep you busy aside from the main story. Not essential, but that would be my preference.

    Have you played the AC series yet?


  • #2204
    Reganio 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭Reganio 2


    Interestingly I played RDR, and totally lost interest, I gave it as much time as I could possibly put up with it and it bored me to tears. Really hated the game. It was an interesting idea and I was looking forward to it, but it just didn't work for me. Bought Max Payne 2 on the PS2 the other day in preperation for 3 :D.

    Just to go off on another tangent, I am looking to get a wrestling shirt. Wondering is their anywhere in Dublin that does them cheap enough or would online be the best bet?


  • #2205
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭cena


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  • #2206
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    That's a lot of Batman stuff I think


  • #2207
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    That's a lot of Batman stuff I think

    it sure is. forgot add the very limited batman one of 5000.


  • #2208
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    It logs me out of yahoo mail when I click on them. You up to something cena?


  • #2209
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    It logs me out of yahoo mail when I click on them. You up to something cena?

    sorry i have set it to friends only. going to change it


  • #2210
    CMpunked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,600 ✭✭✭✭CMpunked


    Anyone have a mechanical mind about them?

    Driving home about an hour or so and i pressed down on my clutch to go into a low gear so i could turn onto a road. The clutch like snapped or something?
    Basically my clutch pedal doesnt do anything now. When you apply force to it there is nothing.
    Can clutch cables snap?


  • #2211
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭cena


    CMpunked wrote: »
    Anyone have a mechanical mind about them?

    Driving home about an hour or so and i pressed down on my clutch to go into a low gear so i could turn onto a road. The clutch like snapped or something?
    Basically my clutch pedal doesnt do anything now. When you apply force to it there is nothing.
    Can clutch cables snap?

    I was going to say the cable snapped. But it could of slipped out of place. Have a look in the morning and see if there is a cable loose under the car.

    Does it not go into gear at all


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  • #2212
    CMpunked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,600 ✭✭✭✭CMpunked


    cena wrote: »
    I was going to say the cable snapped. But it could of slipped out of place. Have a look in the morning and see if there is a cable loose under the car.

    Does it not go into gear at all

    Nope. It stays up as normal, but putting even a slight amount of weight on it pushes it all the way down.
    I feel like such a muppet, im after searching around and seen that its exactly what happened going by other stories ive found round the interwebs. The question "Can clutch cables snap?" seems so stupid now. :o


  • #2213
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    Pretty cool Batman pics Cena, never had Batman stuff myself had Turtles, Spiderman, Biker Mice from Mars and of course Wrestlers. I only still have the latter, you never know some day a collection of The Brood, a Droz, a Dr.Death and a Steve Blackman might be worth something
    ;-)


  • #2214
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Out drinking until 4am, home, bed, sleep. Wide awake since 7am, could not get back to sleep :(


  • #2215
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭cena


    GTR63 wrote: »
    Pretty cool Batman pics Cena, never had Batman stuff myself had Turtles, Spiderman, Biker Mice from Mars and of course Wrestlers. I only still have the latter, you never know some day a collection of The Brood, a Droz, a Dr.Death and a Steve Blackman might be worth something
    ;-)

    We also had Turtles but for some reason we have lost them. I think the brother has them in his house.


  • #2216
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,014 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    gnfnrhead wrote: »
    Out drinking until 4am, home, bed, sleep. Wide awake since 7am, could not get back to sleep :(

    Put on old wrestling, like bad wrestling from the attitude era; road dogg vs bossman etc. knocks me right out! Or listening to a podcast


  • #2217
    Charisteas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,888 ✭✭✭Charisteas


    jaykhunter wrote: »
    Put on old wrestling, like bad wrestling from the attitude era; road dogg vs bossman etc. knocks me right out! Or listening to a podcast

    There is no such thing as bad wrestling from the attitude era :cool:


  • #2218
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,996 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Best weekend for a United fan in a long time :D


  • #2219
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    Teamshadowclan wrote: »
    Best weekend for a United fan in a long time :D

    Milan won and Juve drew again so not a bad way to end the weekend for me, pity Liverpool have still plenty of games cause the rest of the season is utterly pointless for us. Mancini is so gone if he doesn't win the League he'll pay for having the likes of Savic & Barry around.


  • #2220
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Here GTR start going to Galway matches. They're not that bad, I promise!


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  • #2221
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    Here GTR start going to Galway matches. They're not that bad, I promise!

    We dominated Meath by the look of it, 1-12 to 1-11. Pity we lost to Tipp, did Lar Corbett turn up to watch. Too busy for hurling but has the time to sell Lidl Hurleys.


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