Hah, hah I love Pandemic, I’ve been playing it for ages!
I’m not very good at it but it’s a fun way to pass the time.
I am definately a fan of the Sims 
The game is just so addictive
SpicySalsa: Have you got the latest, Sims 3? A lot of my friends are buying it.
mo: Pandemic 2 is difficult! I figured out the strategy, but it’s such a P.I.A. to have to infect every freakin’ continent! 
No… I just now bought the Sims 2 University, like last week ago. The same day The Sims 3 came out! ^^;
I want the Sims 3, so bad! This graphics look amazing and you can customize anything! The bad thing was, it was 50$ dollars at Walmart vs. other Sims 2 expansion packs that were 20 dollars per piece, so what the heck? Plus, they had no more of Sims 3 
Surely, there’s some way you can download it for free off the internet… but, that’d be a horrible thing to do. (stealing is wrong ) I’d rather save up and buy the game. I’m mean hey, it’s worth it!
Eeeep. I’ve got so many games on the go right now.
O_O
-Fallout 3
-inFAMOUS (almost done. =D)
-Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
-Patapon (1+2)
-Uncharted
-Strong Bad (episode 1)
-Sims 3
-Resident Evil
-Resident Evil Code Veronica X
I went to buy The Sims 3 yesterday and the shop had sold out! And at £35, it’s definitely a pricey game. Hopefully it’s worth it, though I’ve heard from a lot of people that it’s full of glitches at the moment and you need a really top-spec computer to run it well, which is annoying.
Well, I have been playing around with Garry’s Mod. It’s not so much a game as a sandbox physics simulator. It lets you use stuff from games that run off the Source engine (Half-Life 2, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike: Source etc.) and do what you wish with them. You can make lots of contraptions if you know what your doing.
This ‘mod’ (I use the term lightly as you have to pay $10 for the latest version that is officially supported by Valve, which updates itself) has the rare distinction that it is a mod that has mods. That is, people have made mods for it, such as wiremod that allow you to make working computers to help you control your contraptions and make more autonomous machines, like autoturrets and large mechs.
You can also download custom NPC’s and ragdolls, so you can mess about with master chief and kirby and whatever the internet decides to make.
Since I only got Garry’s Mod from a friend a few days ago, I haven’t really learn’t how to do much with it. The first thing that actually looked half real was an accident. I can’t post it here on account of it being of an… *ahem …adult variety.
It’s a very expansive game/mod, and I can see myself having alot of fun with it in the next few weeks at least.
Here is an example of something someone made in Garry’s Mod.
youtube.com/watch?v=YQ5n9ZrYuHs
I love GMod. I’ve had it for about a year, and it’s pretty much a game with endless replay value. It’s a lot of fun to just mess around in multiplayer (especially in RP modes). My only problem with it is that is takes 5 to 10 minutes for a server to load for me.
Like every other Sims fanatic, I got The Sims 3 a few days ago (on preorder), and I can-absolutely-not stop playing it! It’s faster, it’s better, and it’s actually more elegant.
Thinking of buying the Up game when it makes a Aust release.
Phileas- Is The Sims 3 any good for control freaks? 
By the sounds of things it’s much more realistic but at the same time I really enjoyed making my Sims do exactly what I wanted when I wanted, and I never gave them any free will. But now it sounds like you can just sort of leave them to it.
lizardgirl -Free Will can still be turned off, and actually you’ve got to make sure you control your Sims carefully (due to the new moodlet system), so being a control freak, that may work to your advantage! The free will is now “adjustable” with levels - there’s “basic needs free will”, there’s “original Sims free will”, and no free will. Currently I have it on no free will, and it’s quite a handful… although I do fine with just a single/couple Sim household.
After a year and a half wait Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is finally going to be released in western markets, 23rd of july in America and 26th in the UK. I’m so excited!
Speaking of games, how about board games? How about video games that feature board games? Are the plastic counters we once love replaceable by cool XBox 360 controllers?
Check this video to find out:
collegehumor.com/video:1912399
My twin brother is a tennis nut. He loves the game. Just recently, he got “VirtuaTennis 2009” and has been playing it non stop. I worry about his health though.
For my birthday I got The Sims 3 for PC and Punch-Out for the Wii. TS3 just barely works on my computer but it’s definitely an improvement over Sims 2. It’s a lot more fun now that you can easily leave your house. As for Punch-Out, it’s very good, but as far as I can see they don’t have left handed options for the Wii remote + nunchuk controls, so I have to use the Wii remote sideways instead. Other than that it’s great.
I normally wouldn’t post a lot of Bleep Bloop vids due to its quantity, but this one featured a game that is rather interesting and worth checking out, Flower on PS3.
Also on the vid is Bit. Trip Beep and Noby Noby Boy, of which the latter is also on PS3. Rated PG-13 for some mature language.
Am I the only person who still plays older games? I’m playing through Super Mario 64 right now, and honestly I can’t find many games nowdays that are just that good. xD
that actually sounds brilliant!
You know, I’ve been thinking that I’ve been watching too much TV, so, I thought I might as well try some video games based on my favorite TV shows at the local video store. Yes, try before buy.
One of them is Lost: Via Domus (“The Way Home” in Latin, even though I had thought it was Latin for “Go screw yourself” 
). The thing about the Lost game is that it doesn’t focus on any of the characters we know and love because they are so tightly integrated into the existing plot. Instead, we get this new guy whose name I didn’t even bother to learn. This game seems like a no-brainer because if you do a van diagram of people who watch Lost and people who play video games, you will get a very high crossover there till the point where you wouldn’t even see the diagram - it will just be like a circle where the overlap is 100%.
So, we get to a point in video games where a button is “Examine the plane seat,” the button Y. The game gets me hitting the button in a different way - ‘Y’ the heck does it exists?
You can choose what to say, but it never works in a video game. It feels like it is just those set of ‘type adventures’ where you write “F-you” and the other guy just says, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.”
Of course, since it’s a Lost game, it still has to work in flashbacks. The show has some exciting scenes of explosions, but the meat of the show are the mystery and the characters, which seems like a very difficult thing to adapt into a video game.
The most awkward aspect of this game is probably the “Try to remember” button. Press ‘B’ to try to remember! You’re remembering! 
Overall, this game is so bad even if my intention was to kill time, I wouldn’t play it.
Next, we have Hell’s Kitchen for the Wii starring a virtual Gordan Ramsay. Even though the game is also based on the TV show, it requires a lot of reading, which is the ultimate irony.
I would like to explain this game to a nation suffering famine. “Yeah, we have so much food that we have games for cooking pretend food.”
Another aspect of this game is that you just click on the food and it just automatically cooks it for you. Yeah, that’s very realistic. I had low hope for this game, but I thought I would be able to, at least, handle the spatula and stuff, especially since it’s a Wii-consoled game. This is not cooking.
Okay, at least this is recognizable game unlike the Lost game, at least there are somethings to do here. But, I was not having fun. It’s like a very stressful activity Overall, this is like all the fun of cooking with none of the eating.
Finally, we have the Pimp My Ride game starring Xzibit. One of the game hints… oh, wait, I mean ‘Pimp Hints’ go, “Earn cash by cruising past groups of people to show them your pimping skills.” That’s like doing nothing, just driving the car.
Also, Pimp Hint? They’re using ‘Pimp’ in every possible verb form. Let’s move on.
Obviously, there is driving around in a video game called Pimp My Ride. I like how when you hit a car, coins come out, something like Sonic The Hedgehog. Never thought I would write this, but I don’t want to drive around really fast in this game; I just want to get under the hood. It was a little bit disappointing. As boring as working out your car is, that’s what I expected from this game. This game should be titled Ride Your Pimped Ride. Probably one of the worse ‘Pimp’ games I’ve ever played.
Basically, this game is like Grand Theft Auto if there was no damage, people, or anything to do.
The worse aspect? The dance sequence.
In conclusion, there’s so little do to in all three of these games that it blows my mind, especially when they are rather decent TV shows, with the first one being the deepest hardcore drama displayed on TV. But, as video games, they suck.
One rule in video games: Don’t trust it if its an adaption of something else
The possible exceptions are a few comic book based games. I enjoyed the Ironman PSP game, and Marvel vs. Capcom is love. Period. Idk I noticed that most of those seem to turn out decent.