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Hmm this doesnt sound very promising.. Then again anything commercial seems to be under critical scrutiny around here... 

Although technical problems IS worrying.

I'll be definetely trying the demo before buying it.

I thought Casino Royale was boring and I didn't like it apart from the chase scene at the beginning.

I just came home from watching Quantum of Solace with a friend (His suggestion) and I did enjoy it, although I too was confused trying to remember what happened in the last film. My friend said it right: "It's good as an action film, but just not good as a Bond film." before moaning about the Bond shooting with blood in a scope thing being at the end of the film and not at the beginning and the lack of gadgets.

And I STILL don't know what Quantum of Solace means...

I have plenty of old albums on cd but only two actual records in my house.

At least the old DS looks a bit sturdier, I guess. Although both suffer from potential Hingitis, a disease which cracks the hinge until it snaps if you don't treat it nicely enough. I suspect the DSi is also susceptible to this disease. Bah. Although it's never happened to me, I've seen it happen to others quite a lot. (Working at Game World and all. Hey yes of course I'm going to talk about my shop again, it's relevant!  )

Oh yeah Limpy, I forgot about that. Down from 19 hours of battery life to 9, isn't it?

Boyd, yeah sure, if I had a gameboy. But I'm talking about if someone was to trade in their DS Lite for a DSi, which is probably what Nintendo would want us to do, so more money for them. But it's clearly not justifiable. I've never been interested in owning a gameboy, but it was a neat feature when I bought my DS Lite. It's true though, when people would come to my store and moan that the 40/80gb ps3 isnt backwards compatible like the 60gb model, I'd say "why not just keep your ps2? Arent you buying a ps3 to play next generation games after all?" There was a time when backwards-compatibility ready consoles didnt exist.. we're spoilt!

First there was the Nintendo DS. Then came the sleeker DS Lite. And now, it's the DSi! It's been selling like hotcakes with gold on them in Japan, and I've only just heard about it! I thought to myself, oh no, they're going to make my DS seem crap like the old style, arent they?


Looks a bit 1980's now.

Looks nice!

Another DS Lite. Oh, wait.. that's the new one. My bad.

Well.. lets see now. It now comes with a camera. Great, just what I always wanted. My phone's camera has 3.2 megapixels. The DSi has a whopping 0.3 megapixels! That's incredible! Wait.. 0.3.. that must be a bit shit then. Well can't complain, it's a nice little extra. But theres a catch! In order to fit the camera into the device (Apparently), they removed the GameBoy advance cartridge slot! So chuck all those old games away folks, and look to the future, because Nintendo said so.

It also comes with a slot for an SD card so you can play music and save your photos onto one. Yeah great, I have an mp3 player for that, thanks.

ooh, a bigger screen. A bit. That's actually good, but not worth trading in my old DS Lite for, especially as I'd lose my gameboy compatibility, and I already have a camera on my phone, and I already have a good quality mp3 player.

So will the DSi sell amazingly well over here? Probably, although tons of people werent happy with the PS3's lack of a ps2 hardware chip, so I do wonder. (In the UK, it was removed from the PS3)

If I had one device that was a phone, mp3 player, gaming system and camera in one, that does sound pretty funky, but I'd have to charge it up every bloody day, wouldn't I? And then the battery won't last very long. So I think I'll stick to having seperate devices! Plus if I lose it, I've lost them all!

Yes I can see why Nintendo have done this; it's obviously to compete with some other device out there, like an Apple device or something.

Your thoughts?

Stupot, in leicester, a fair few years back, this videogame shop manager actually got fined over a grand for mistakenly selling an 18 rated game to someone under 18.

So I have to be very careful!

Second piece of advice: Get some I.D! You don't just instantly look older now! I get people who come into my shop to buy an 18 rated game and act surprised that I'm asking for I.D since they turned 18 last week, and  clearly look like an adult now.

There are times when you might not want the text to be skipped, if say timing of the cutscene is crucial.

I love Snarky's idea, I never thought of that before, and I've sometimes skipped dialogue by mis-timing my click at the last second.

How do you make a character in that game that doesn't look like Michael J Fox? All the defaults seem to have those weird eyes.

Ah, I missed the whole thing. Oh well.

I boycotted Nestle myself, personally.

If I boycotted everything that had hurt/harmed/annoyed nature/animals/people in any way whatsoever either now or in the past, I'd probably have to sit in a cardboard box on the street. Oh wait.. sit naked on the street with no cardboard box. Am I right people? Oh wait, hover in the air, naked on the street with no box. There we go.

Writing music (Link in my sig), and I can draw cartoons but I don't bother anymore.

I shook hands with a man. Does this mean I'm gay?

Limited number of saves? Ah like in the Resident Evil games. I always hated that, the game rewards you for being skillful enough to not rely too much on saving. But then is it also expecting you to quit your job, divorce your wife and put your kids to sleep with drugs so you can play on in longer periods of time without needing to stop playing, too? 

I've hated this about many RPG games too, I've played some RPGs that didn't let me save the game for periods of 1 or 2 hours. This is just annoying. I once left a game paused and came back home a few hours later so I didn't have to replay 45 minutes of the game if I turned it off.

Well, we could just leave it to the creator, and if they want help on creating easy to spot leaf piles, they can just ask!

(Like.. maybe less red leaves...)

Anyway, it's the characters I like the most. 

Prog, would putting in 2 save slots in your own game really bother you that much? It's hardly like people would be asking you to change your main character into Guybrush Threepwood or something. When I was in my last relationship, me and my partner would have our own save files on my DS games, including Tunguska. I dunno, I just took your point as like saying "My game will have the arrow keys the wrong way round in function, and that's my choice." Haha! Seems more like practicality and function over style and substance.

A work a around, if you cared that is, would be to have seperate file saves to choose from at the start, and they can only use one save file. If someone else wants to play, they choose new game, create a second save file, and they only use that. You get me?

But I took Anteater's question as to reflecting any adventure game, be it commercial or not.

I loved it! I was dying for more!

My only gripe was that the male voice wasnt as natural sounding as the female's. As in it didnt sound like an actor playing the part, but well, you doing it yourself? 

Very important if more than one person wants to play the game in shared intervals.

Also nice incase a one in a million chance the file gets corrupted, then one has a back up.

Last reason I can think of, is if there are multiple endings through choices made, and the player regrets a decision he made and wishes to reload to an earlier point, or he wants to see all endings without going through the whole game each time. This of course negates the feeling of making decisions if they can just reload till they get the desired effect, but I digress.

Play Shadow of Rome on hard mode! (ps2) go on, I dare you! I got about 6 hours in before I just was incapable of getting any further. Started the game again on "Normal" mode, which was also very hard, but I managed to complete it.


oof.

I could guess, but do tell me as to why it was a steaming turd so bad the flys were throwing up at the stench of it.

Maybe the Pizza was exported. Anyway, what pizza? The garbage on the floor? If so, you question the odds on pizza being in china but not the fact they'd eat it off the floor? 

I think they're piles of leaves, and that person over there is sweeping them into said piles.

Uh anyway, I like the charm these simple graphics have. It reminds me of Another World.