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I think it depends on the type of game. Story led games tend to have more disappointing sequels (although there are high-profile exceptions, Fallout 3, Silent Hill 2 etc) whereas games based more around the game mechanic just tend to get better (bust a move 2, Ridge Racer 4, Ms. Pacman). Generally, with the amount of time and effort thrown at big name games like Bioshock, you have to wonder whether in all that development time, they've probably already used all of the ideas that were any good. I can't imagine what they'd pull out for a sequel. Most of the time it's just 'the same but bigger' and that's never good (Halo 2's one player campaign for instance).

I've stopped collecting pretty much completely. I just buy what I want to play now. I've spent way too much hoarding stuff over the years, without any clear idea of why I was doing it. After all, the net worth of it all wasn't worth the effort and it's unlikely that anyone else would be impressed with it all. As Jerome K Jerome so rightly wrote, "Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need — a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing."

Maybe it's just me but I don't know why anyone with a standard def. TV would buy a PS3. I love mine, but most of the benefits it offers over last gen consoles really require a hi-def display.

Robotron plays very well on that compilation. Lent it to a PS3 owning friend who'd never heard of Robotron to show him what all the fuss was about. He thought it was hard and unfair. I tried to explain that that was the point. Ah well.

To play Gamecube games, you'll also need a gamecube memory card. The Wii doesn't save GC game data internally. Oh, and Excite Truck doesn't really work well with the wheel thingy. Reason being, you hold the remote with the buttons facing up in this game, rather than towards you, as in Mario Kart. Still, Excite Truck is still, and will probably always be, the Wii's best racer.

I've got 'em all too. That said, I got 'em for free having done the labels. Still, I'd have happily bought every one. Superb games and every one of them better than the original arcade game.

There are hundreds of games worse than ET. ET just couldn't live up to the name and the hype. Compared to most, it was a pretty good game, I thought.

Well, the guide says it can also be caused by a faulty AV cable. Might be worth trying out another cable in there before you send it back. Damn it, I still would really like to get a 360 (only machine I don't have and there's lots I'd like to play) but I cannot part with money for such an unreliable machine. Anyway, off topic. Sorry. So Fallout 3. I must admit, I haven't been keeping up to date. I've seen the ads and it looks decent. I'm currently playing another Bethesda game, Oblivion and loving it. Not having played any previous Fallout games, is this a pure FPS or are there rollplayer elements a la Elder Scrolls?

Orta rules. Not as much as Saga, but then that also goes for any other game ever As for worst game ever. Damn, there are just SO MANY! I mean, there were Spectrum games that didn't even work, loads of games on many platforms that couldn't even be completed. My worst game of all time TODAY is Mirrors Edge, but only because the demo was an exercise in utter futility. But at least it loads and looks pretty.

There's something very weird about the camera in this game. The view swings all over the place. The only reason I mention it is that it's the only game that has actually made me sick.

Thrill Kill was a superb game. I must dig that out again. So funny.

I have absolutely nothing against the good people of the US. Simply trying to make him see that what he fears/hates isn't all in some far off country that can be conveniently wiped out. And anyone who would advocate such action against millions of innocent people IS beneath contempt. Damn pity about LBP though. I really want to play it before it turns into some kind of platforming Facebook.

Shut up you tard. I'm all against religious fundamentalism. But not everyone living in the middle east is one. And, for that matter, there are a hell of a lot of Christian religious fundamentalists in the US. Fancy armageddon too?

Maybe she's just pointing out something that didn't occur to him. I often sometimes nearly do or buy something goofy when, at the last minute, some words of wisdom from my frankly better half brings me to my senses. As for Silent Hill. I loved the original and that one with the floating dead (was it Silent Hill 4?) was interesting. Not paid much attention to this. Is it good? I liked the originality of the games I just listed but I've been noticing a lot of the same undead nurses in screenshots (and the film). Are we getting the same Silent Hill standards again or is there something new in the mix?

I'd agree with most of them but Crash Bandicoot? Bloody awful exercise in repetitive frustration. And I do hope history doesn't mark Crash as the Playstation's mascot. It's clear they were so desperate to make it so, but Lara Croft clinched that title (even though she first appeared on the Saturn).

Absolutely agree. Even though I already own it, I'm still jealous that the Japanese PS3 owner can download Xenogears for practically nothing.

I guess if more people downloaded the PS1 games, they'd put more up. They clearly don't. The japanese love them so they get lots. Market forces, innit?

Not holding out much hope for this new game. Looks to be geared up too much like a movie. Always a mistake, the best you can hope for is something along the lines of Force Unleashed or, god forbid, Enter the Matrix. The moment they announced that your Proton Pack gun thing would have multiple functions, I knew they'd missed the point my a mile and a half.

Nintendo in replacing old console with new at end of life cycle shocker!!!

Well done. From what little I managed to play, it seemed to me to be an application program for automatically handing me my ass.

IMHO, not anything like as much fun as PSO. Just loads of drawn out boss battles against fairly similar big creatures. That Wii game (when you look past the obvious FMV) doesn't really look too hot either, certainly nothing that you couldn't have done on a PS2.

In the future there will be only one console manufacturer. It will be Dell. We will be sad. Seriously, I don't see the status-quo changing any time soon. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have spent a crazy amount of time and money embedding themselves in the gaming infrastructure. I really don't see Apple joining the fray to any great degree. If nothing else, Steve Jobs isn't interested in games and Apple is a company who's entire product line is based around the personal whims of one man. That's not a bad thing, it's given us the most focussed and well designed gear in computing history, but it won't be bringing us a game console any time soon - and you can quote me on that

I think, in all fairness, we're only beginning to see how big a leap over the last gen, the current gen is. Early PS3 games were just fancy PS2 games, for instance, but there are some crazy advances being made now (Little Big Planet is an obvious candidate). On handhelds, I think the decreasing cost of small, high quality screen technology has made handhelds more popular than they ever were. However, there are a lot of game types that just don't work as well on handhelds (cinematic games, like Bioshock and Racing games like Motorstorm). You need a big-ass screen to really get into those. And, alongside the rise of handhelds, we're seeing the rise of bigger and bigger TV's. People are always going to want big screen gaming. Handheld consoles will always be really popular, but they're always going to play second fiddle to the TV based systems.

Maybe it's only in widescreen. An increasing amount of games are, particularly the more cinematic ones.

I've played it a few times. I'm a big fan of arcade racers but I'm not feeling it with Motorstorm (or, so far, it's sequel). Still seems to me to be a tech demo in search of a game. There's just something missing. No heart, no identity. I'm liking the Pure demo a hell of a lot more. Maybe not graphically as technically superior, but there's a lot more imagination with the track design. And, on the subject of track design, I'll take Wipeout HD over either.