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Re: '4Towers: Onslaught' Review - Tower Defense, with Combo-Towers

Graeme — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:30:08 -0000

Looks good, been searching for a great tower defence game for my iPad since I completed PvZ... What do people recommend?

Re: '4Towers: Onslaught' Review - Tower Defense, with Combo-Towers

Graeme — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:23:48 -0000

Thanks for the list Bob, I'll certainly try a couple of those, although I've never gotten on with 3D TD games. One you should add to your list if you haven't already played it is Defender Chronicles - probably the best TD game I've played on iOS!

Re: October 31, 2011: wallet threat level green

Graeme — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:28:51 -0000

Hmmmnn... I was all set to get Uncharted 3 on Wednesday, when do we get your review? Also didn't realise Sonic was out this week!
I don't think I want to live in a world where the decision between the latest Uncharted and a new Sonic game is actually a difficult choice! My world is turning upside down!!

Re: TVQuesting: DS9 is the Best Star Trek

Graeme — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:56:53 -0000

Still Voyager for me. It was my first Star Trek, and it will always be the best! Maybe I should give DS9 another go though, I watched it straight after completing Voyager (and have since watched all of the Star Treks) and probably spent too much of it wishing that Sisko was Janeway and not actually enjoying the show.
That said, Garak is one of the best characters in all of sci-fi... After Daniel Jackson, of course... ;)

Re: The top ten games of 2011

Graeme — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:53:56 -0000

The sewers in inFamous were great, I've heard some people say that they were some of the best bits in the game.
That said, I'm with you, Dead Island is one of my favourite games of the year despite some of the flaws in it...

Re: TVQuesting: Battlestar Galactica is Pretty Awesome, Guys

Graeme — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:16:13 -0000

Regarding your last point, do I remember correctly that Battlestar Galactica had a "population count" at the start of each episode? Or am I getting my sic-fi wires crossed...

Re: New Trailer for 'Defender Chronicles II', Releasing May 24th

Graeme — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:44:38 -0000

I often get impatient waiting for PS3/360 games that I'm particularly looking forward to... This may be the first time I've had that giddy excitement about an iOS game, much as I love gaming on the iPad.

Re: What is the best Game of the Generation?

Graeme — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:41:09 -0000

Having completed it twice on the PS3, with most of the DLC, and having just started on the GotY edition on the xBox, I think Borderlands would probably get my vote. With Fallout 3, Bioshock, and the various Half Life instalments in an unordered 2nd place...

Re: Carb Your Enthusiasm Carbonara - In Pictures 300ml... | Go Cook Yourself

Graeme — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:50:52 -0000

Needs an egg and a sliced leek, but looks delicious regardless...

Re: Puzzle Craft really knows how to waste your time

Graeme — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:10:26 -0000

It's a fun diversion, but has been plagued with irritating bugs since launch, with each newupdate fixing the last batch and bringing in new ones. The latest update may have finally fixed everything, haven't tried it yet. Once you get near "the end" you will never need to make any tools as you get insane amounts of them from the various buildings you make...

Re: The gun makes the man in Gearbox’s brilliant Borderlands 2

Graeme — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:50:58 -0000

Very well summed up. While I can spend an age comparing stats before I visit a shop to unload my unwanteds (a friend I was playing co-op with even got a calculator out for his compare-a-thon), I have been known to sacrifice a fair chunk of extra damage for a gun that looks the tits...
Which character are you using?

Re: Tastefully Offensive: Costumes

Graeme — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:44:13 -0000

...based on the fantastic downloadable game: Costume Quest...

Re: The gun makes the man in Gearbox’s brilliant Borderlands 2

Graeme — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:57:26 -0000

I took both Zero and Axton for a spin at first for a few hours each, unable to decide between them, happily set on Zero and his awesome ninja skills to play with full time. Fortuitously, Gaige was released on the day I finished my first play through with Zero so I could jump straight in with her racking up the Anarchy stacks.

I've taken each of the characters as far as Sanctuary, starting afresh with friends as they get the game, and have to say that Gaige is my favourite. She will accompany me to visit Captain Scarlet later on today and will be my character of choice for TVHM.

Good to hear you're in the "Tiny Tina's great" camp, there seems to be a fair bit of hate thrown her way around the internet!

Re: Comments

Graeme — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:44:20 -0000

Nice. Though that link should preferably point to redbarrels.net :)

Re: Most Wanted is the best thing to happen to Need for Speed since Shift

Graeme — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:43:47 -0000

Very similar to my thoughts; I enjoyed Hot Pursuit, but not enough to make any real progression in the game. The multiplayer in Most Wanted seems like it will have the same long lasting appeal that Burnout Paradise's did, though I'm stuck with driving with strangers at the moment until a few of my friends get around to picking the game up!

Re: A lot can happen in ten years of Halo

Graeme — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:11:29 -0000

Good first point. Insomniac learnt that the hard way in Resistance 2 when they introduced the 2 weapon limit, thankfully they admitted their mistake and reintroduced the radial selection wheel for Resistance 3.

Re: Looking back at Street Fighter 2

Graeme — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:30:55 -0000

Fond memories of spamming Blanka's Electric Thunder attack as a child, my brother had no idea how to counter it!

Re: QatQi throws Scrabble into a dungeon

Graeme — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:24:00 -0000

I was playing this on my iPhone last night, a clever twist for a genre that's slowly going stale. iPad version looks even better, would much rather they let us buy the game outright for a couple of quid though...

Re: Death by muscle memory in Far Cry 3

Graeme — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:12:27 -0000

Hah! There's a power brake button? I've barely done any driving in the game, tried but kept having to get out every 10 seconds to open a crate... Walking is where it's at, though I do wish there were a fitness reward for traipsing everywhere.

Re: A Far Cry From Racism

Graeme — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:35:21 -0000

Very well said, great article. Racism, sexism and homophobia are thrown as accusation against games whenever they can be these days, ignoring the fact that most games have straight, white, male characters who are absolute arses.

Re: Is Zombie U the best multiplayer game of the year?

Graeme — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:56:43 -0000

So you'll leave the "4" in Left 4 Dead, but you won't take the "e" out of Zombie? ;) I prefer to pronounce it as a single word, the i is barely pronounced, it almost sounds French when you say it out loud...

This is the one game that really makes me wish I could afford a Wii U. What are you're thoughts on the MiiVerse? I've read nothing but bizarrely over-positive things about it...

Re: Is Zombie U the best multiplayer game of the year?

Graeme — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:03:25 -0000

Having places you've been to featured in a game is a great thing, I think one of the reasons that Assassin's Creed 2 is my favourite in the franchise is because I've been to Venice, especially so when it's such a faithful recreation...

Re: Is Zombie U the best multiplayer game of the year?

Graeme — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:05:02 -0000

It's about the content, yes, but the Miis are the delivery system for that content.

Re: Is Zombie U the best multiplayer game of the year?

Graeme — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:07:41 -0000

Given your contempt for console based avatars, shall we assume that you simply accepted the first randomised character you were given? Or did you spend the best part of an hour making him pixel perfect like the rest of us that don't really care either? ;)

Re: Most disappointing games of 2012

Graeme — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:37:54 -0000

Have only played three of the above games, and loved them all! Lego The Lord of the Rings is the best Lego game yet, Kingdoms of the Alamo was my surprise hit of the year, and Far Cry 3, well, we disagree in so many ways :)

My biggest disappointment of 2012 has to be Darksiders 2, the first game is a often forgotten gem of this generation; fantastic setting and level design, great fluid combat, memorable story. And while number 2 made a few good additions, it really didn't come close to the original. It's still collecting dust on my shelf, unfinished and unloved...