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Avid gamer since the commodore 64 days, my favourite game back then was pyjamarama, hence the name. I also loved the text adventure games as I also love to read and that was a great way to read interactively.
i haven't really had a strong allegiance to any particular console manufacturer.
I had a Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum 48K, Amiga 500, Sega Megadrive (Genesis), Saturn, Nintendo 64, Playstation, PS2 and now I have an Xbox 360, PSP, DS and have a few iphone games.
I guess gaming has been a huge part of my life for so long, I can't imagine a day that I am not excited about games.
My Favourite genres include, RPG's, Survival Horror, FPS, Puzzlers, action adventure.
I have a huge fondness for retro games & still play them regularly.
Still actually have in my possession a C64 and amiga 500 which have thought about getting rid of due to lack of space but can't seem to do it.
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Added by PyjamaRama on Nov. 11, 2008
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Fable II
So I am all done with Fable II, I have mixed feelings about it now that i have completed the main story line, which I have to say had the lamest ending in an R.P.G that I have ever seen.
I think it was a good pick up and play R.P.G especially maybe for people who are new to the genre or don't want anything too involved. No amour pick ups or very many weapons to chose from makes it simple if not a little boring.
I liked the feel of the areas and towns though the game had some frustrations that were hard to overlook, the inventory system and maps being the main ones.
So I came away feeling that it was a good but nowhere near great game and it was reasonably short even with the side quests. The graphics were okay, again nothing outstanding.
The going back to visit family didn't really get me excited in any way, it was more a chore than something I ever really felt any desire to do.
The thing I enjoyed the most was having the dog, I grew quite attached to it and it has made me want a real dog even more than ever, though I can't have one in my apartment block!
I think with a bit more polish and work into the inventory system and maps it could of made the game a little more enjoyable.
I found a few glitches too, one was very annoying, if I pressed the A button on my wardrobe in my house it suddenly jumped me over a chair and trapped me in between the wardrobe and the chair and I had to use the menu to fast travel to get out of there.
So overall I would say 3.5 out of 5..........
On to Gears 2.
Added by PyjamaRama on Nov. 1, 2008
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I have played a few hours of Fable II now and I am enjoying it quite a bit. It is pretty simplistic as far as R.P.G's go but is enjoyable. I don't want to do a in depth post about it until I have sunk a lot more hours into it but I can run down my plus and minuses that I have found so far.
Pluses:
1) Being able to chose to be a female.
2) Getting any points back that you sunk into spells that turned out to be useless.
3) The Dog being useful and not just a novelty.
4) Simplistic but satisfying combat.
5) When you die you lose experience but come back exactly where you were up to in the game/quest which makes it less frustrating but still punishes you for dying.
Minuses:
1) Only being able to buy one of each item from a vendor, this is annoying as most food makes your character put on weight and the "fat reducing food" Celery you can only get one stick at a time until they restock the following day. My character looks like a Sumo wrestler at the moment from eating pies and drinking beer.
2) How stupid your character looks when overweight. My character looks like a sumo wrestler with big sausage looking fingers and no amount of running, fighting or any other things you can think of to lose weight work, you have to buy celery from a vendor which takes your weight down a little at a time, they only stock 1 celery stick a day so it is a long painful process if you accidently put a bit of weight on.
3) Repetitive voice acting.
4) Not being able to easily compare equipped weapons with ones from traders.
5) Bad Inventory design and useless mapping system particularly in towns.
i have had 3 husbands so far, 2 which are dead, murdered, yes by me, but they were very very annoying! I can't say that element of the game really interests me that much I would much rather be exploring with my faithful dog than dancing like an idiot to try and make my baby like me after I haven't been home in ages.
Ah well at least I can shoot them when the nagging gets too much ;)
Added by PyjamaRama on Oct. 1, 2008
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So after not being able to get the pub games before the game launches because nobody in Australian Game shops knows anything about it, Fable 2 is shipping with no online Co-op out of the box and the latest development is that the collectors Edition has been stripped bare and is hardly any different from the normal game.
Lionhead Studios have announced on their
Official Blog that no longer is Fable 2 Collectors Edition coming in a premium box, nor with 5 fate Cards, nor with a Hobbe figure.
Seriously a couple of weeks before it is due to ship they let everyone know this, okay they dropped the price of it by $10 US but really this is unbelievable.
I have never before ordered a Collectors Edition of any game so was pretty excited to get my pre order done and for once get the special edition but looks like I am getting a slightly different normal edition with extra things that I don't even want. Luckily there was a special deal on at the time where the collectors Edition was the same price as the normal one so at least I will not be paying any extra for this really crap collectors Edition.
Added by PyjamaRama on Sept. 26, 2008
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Just heard that yet again a game has been banned in Australia and will be delayed until if and when they modify it to be allocated a lower rating
Yet again it begs the question of why on earth we don't have a rating suitable for games like this in Australia.
The highest film rating is 18+ but any game that is higher than a MA15+ rating is refused classification.
The highest game rating MA15+ basically means that anyone under 15 has to be accompanied by an adult when buying such material.
When is this ever going to be dealt with?
Fallout 3, Dark Sector are other games that were delayed while they were modified to enable them to get a rating.
We pay over the odds for games, wait a long time for games as in the case of Rock Band which is finally coming to Australia in November as everyone is excited about Rock Band 2 and then to top it off have to go through this crap.
Guess I will import it and the Australian game retailers will have to lose out on a sale.
Added by PyjamaRama on Sept. 11, 2008
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I bought a few new word games after researching them to find the best reviewed and most appealing to me personally.
The two i settled on were Imangi and Wurdle.
Imangi is a great word game but very challenging it is a mixture of word finding and logic, you get a grid of 8x6 letters in which you have to make as many words as possible to try and cover as much of the board as possible. Using the all the red letters earns you a 10,000 point bonus with a penalty of 250 points for each red letter not used. You can move each column vertically and horizontally, you get bonus multipliers which are greater the longer the word. It is a very unique game and a huge challenge to get a high score. My highest score so far is 21,000, the highest on their website is 58,000 so I need a bit more practice. There are 4 levels of difficulty thoughI will probably only ever need the easiest. As you make new words you often mess up the ones you already made so a lot of strategy is needed.
Imangi Grid
Wurdle is very similar to boggle in which you have a board from 5x5 to 8x8 and you find as many words as possible in a choice of 1, 2 or 3 minutes. Wordbble is also a boggle clone but to get anywhere on the high score boards you have to sink hours into trying to solve the puzzle which can get to be a drag on a daily basis. Wurdle allows you to play the same sort of game in short bursts which is much more suitable for the iphone. They have a leader board too and I can't see how you would be able to cheat like on Wordabble. Forgetting the built in list that I have moaned on and on about in Wordabble, there are plenty of anagram sites, boggle solving programmes that allow people to cheat and get n the leader board. Wurdle combats this problem by not letting you pause. Meaning you can't pause write all the letters down then pretend you are smart and enter lots of words. Also they have the longest word/highest scoring word leader board so I guess this fulfills my competitive word playing needs without the huge daily commitment and cheating.
I have to say the interface is really clear too with lots of options to change tile colours, grid size and game time.
Wurdle Grid
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Conan is in someways satisfying and in other ways very disappointing. A positive is definitely the many different ways to gruesomely kill enemies. Slicing enemies arms and heads off or skewering the enemy onto a fence is very satisfying. Also the environments, especially the beach areas I really liked the feel of. The negatives for me were the voice acting, boss fights, camera issues, lack of atmosphere and length of the game. I managed to finish it in just under 6 and a half hours and with no multiplayer or online play it was over all too quickly. For me there was just something missing, the boss fights seemed anti-climatic and the story line wasn't really hooking me in. I would say an good rather than great game, worth a hire as you can easily finish it over a weekend but overall a bit disappointing.
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After being a huge fan of the PS2 and PSP katamari games I was really hoping for something of at least the same quality as those. Unfortunately Beautiful katamari does not quite live up to its predecessors. On the plus side you get to roll the hugest katamari yet, rolling up stars and such like in space. It is all over far too quickly though, the content is sparse compared to other katamari games, yes you can download more challenges over XBL but at a cost. I feel that the downloadable levels are not extra content but rather left out content that should of been included in the game. This may have been a budget priced game in some countries, but in Australia where it is still selling for over $100 in some places, it is not worth the money.
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This game has similarities to sudoku in that every puzzle is solvable with a little forward thinking & logic. It is nicely presented and very easy to learn how to do the puzzles with the straightforward tutorial.
It requires using the stylus which works really well, the boxes you have to touch are a decent size so you never find yourself tapping the wrong one.
If you connect to nintendo wi-fi there you can play against other people and will also find access to additional puzzle packs to donwload which adds more play time to this already great game.
I found once i started playing it was hard to stop and reccommend it to anyone who enjoys sudoku or logic problems in general.
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