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• Nintendo breaks US sales records

• dk_rare 17/01/2009

  Sales aren't boring. Nintendo is king again, and remains king month after month and year after year.
  
  Nintendo breaking sales records may not be "news", because we all know Nintendo is the leader now, but for someone waking up from a 6 year coma it really would be big news ^_^
  
  So save a thought for all those Sony fanboys waking up from comas right now. Reply 0

• Chrono Trigger

• dk_rare 30/11/2008

  One of the most moving reviews I have ever read. Chrono Trigger is our masterpiece, many will agree when I say that Chrono Trigger far surpasses anything the movie industry has ever come up with and it is right up there with the best of them such as Michelangelo in terms of human achievement.
  
  Sure some people might not understand Chrono Trigger, but it seems fairly clear to me that for a work of art to be truly perfect that some people HAVE to not understand it.
  
  And to think, some people are young or foolish enough to say that Halo is the best game ever, or that Citizen Kane is somehow the best story ever told (I did enjoy Kane, but nothing will ever immerse you and no story will hold you like Chrono Trigger did the first time you play it. Reply +1

• Banjo-Kazooie

• dk_rare 25/11/2008

  Collecting IS fun and rewarding, I don't know why people would think otherwise. Sure some games have given collecting a bad name, but when it comes down to it there is nothing else that is a truly pure gaming experience.
  
  Also Eurogamer, you forget to mention a classic gaming past time that died at the end of the 90s. I am of course talking about "clocking" games, which is to say finishing them as quick as you can while collecting as much as you can. The leaderboards for this game justify your clocking and you can see how good you are compared to your friends or on a world wide ranking.
  
  And finally this is a piece of gaming history, you would be insane not to own it (though the price is a little insane too, considering that the people most likely to buy this will already have a copy of it in their closet).
  
  The only fault is that I am a big boy now. When I first played it the worlds seemed HUGE and collecting everything on even a single level was a monumental task. But now that I have grown up the big boy toilet doesn't seem as big anymore. Wait, I mean the levels seem tiny in real life compared to how I saw them all those years ago.
  
  And Eurogamer, why did you not mention the fantastic music? By far the best rendition of Teddy Bears Picnic ever created, and the seamless theme changes to the song as you walk around is something so simple and clever that you wonder why almost no other game has done it since.
  
  I'd say this game deserves a 8/10 for the fans, 7/10 for everyone else and a 4/10 for the hyperactive tossers who masturbate over Halo and think that the story line in Halo was too cerebral for them to understand. Reply +2

• Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

• dk_rare 27/10/2008

  I enjoyed it. Bought it at 20 percent off and I feel that I have gotten my moneys worth. Reply 0

• Fable II

• dk_rare 22/10/2008

  trebell, you don't care enough about them that you are willing to ignore all their posts, yet at the same time you do care enough about them to TALK about them. It's kind of like blocking lemonparty.org but then visiting it every now and then and telling people how gross it is. Reply 0

• BioShock

• dk_rare 18/10/2008

  PS3 owners don't have a lot of shooters (let alone good shooters) to choose from, so I guess compared to the rest of the PS3 games this is easily a 10/10. Reply 0

• dk_rare 17/10/2008

  Is it still worth a 10/10 on PS3 even when you can buy it for a 5th of the price on Xbox 360 these days? Is it still worth 10/10 on PS3 if you own it/can get it on other platforms?
  
  Or is this 10/10 only for readers who do not own a computer or Xbox 360 and only have a PS3 in their house? Reply 0

• Knowingly Undersold

• dk_rare 06/10/2008

  In my household people are always enthused to play Wii, especially when larger groups are involved. Maybe people who say they never play it anymore are just depressed and have forgotten how much fun it is, or don't have any friends to have fun with them? Reply 0

• New DS will only have one touch screen

• dk_rare 03/10/2008

  Kotaku, you lied to me again! Reply 0

• New DS to hit Japan on November 1st

• dk_rare 02/10/2008

  What's with not mentioning that it has two touch screens this time, EG, huh, well, what's going on?!?
  
  Nah, EG you're cool, old buddy, pal, matey. Reply 0

• Family Trainer

• dk_rare 02/10/2008

  The visuals do look nice, but that mat looks naff. Why not just make it compatible with the balance board, eh? If this game was good enough I would even buy a second balance board for it. But big plastic mats? I have enough of those thank you very much. Reply 0

• Animal Crossing for Wii this Christmas

• dk_rare 27/09/2008

  I think you guys are missing the point, which is that you can now have Animal Crossing running all the time in your living rooms or bedrooms running in real time. And that people can walk in and you can talk to them, while laying in bed or eating weetabix in your underwear. Or even nude if you like, you can finally talk online and be completely nude without needing to wear a headset. Reply 0

• dk_rare 25/09/2008

  "City folk" sounds like something a redneck would say, and tbh I think Australians might be a bit turned off by that.
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• Red Alert 3 to use "more lenient" DRM

• dk_rare 11/09/2008

  I would have assumed that an online strategy game would already have the best inbuilt DRM, being that when you play online your online profile links to your copy of the game.
  
  Which leads me to the conclusion that EA wants to stop people from trading in their games, forcing them to buy new ones.
  
  To summarize this is not about protection from piracy, this is about protection from after market sales. Reply 0

• Rhythm Tengoku Gold

• dk_rare 27/08/2008

  I bought the GBA game after reading the review for it on eurogamer and it was one of the best games I have ever owned in my life. The fact that it is in Japanese makes it even more quirky, makes the whole game more fun to play really when you have to discover things by exploration.
  
  Will definitely be ordering the DS version when my next pay cheque comes in Reply 0

• Epic "defrauded" industry, alleges Dyack

• dk_rare 19/08/2008

  Smelly thinks that other people are not entitled to express an opinion freely. That just happens to be smelly's opinion, which he feels he should be able to express freely. Reply 0

• dk_rare 19/08/2008

  In any case, here's to hoping that Too Human isn't really a C- game. Also hasn't it been in development for longer than 4 years? It has spanned 3 console lifetimes after all. Reply 0

• MS on why FFXIII is coming to 360

• dk_rare 10/08/2008

  MS is wrong, most people are actually playing Wiis, not 360s. Or would MS rather we all forget that cold hard fact? Reply 0

• Gran Turismo TV cheap for two weeks

• dk_rare 31/07/2008

  By "USD 0.99 (GBP 0.50)" Rob did of course mean to say "USD 0.99 (GBP 1.50)". Now that Rock Band has proven that we are all idiots who don't being being financially raped the true value of a British Gaming Pound we can be charged whatever we like. And we will pay it, for some reason. Reply 0

• Saints Row 2 "very differentiated"

• dk_rare 19/06/2008

  I think that they want to make SR2 more like San Andreas, rather than the GTA IV. Which is good, I wasn't a fan of GTA IV. I enjoyed flying the planes, finding out that I could ride quad bikes, all that shit. GTA IV robbed me of what I liked best about the progressing GTA series. Reply 0

• DS is no competition for PSP, says Sony

• dk_rare 17/06/2008

  "DS is no competition for PSP, says Sony "
  
  "Sales record disagrees, says the sales record" Reply 0

• PS3 outsells Xbox 360 in the US

• dk_rare 13/06/2008

  lol, Wii more than triples PS3 in America in the month before MGS4 launch, Wii more than doubles total PS3 sales in America all up. Not bad considering the PS3 was released before the Wii over there. Nintendo back as market leader, who woulda thunked it. Reply 0

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

• dk_rare 11/06/2008

  No more or less ace than the other games were though, which means if you are a little tired of the other ones then probably less ace. And that includes MGS2, I liked that one. Eye candy such as Raiden should always be welcome in modern gaming ^_^ Reply 0

• dk_rare 11/06/2008

  Most epic thread ever, I actually thought it said 244 posts at first, because it couldn't possibly say 2044, right!?!
  
  Anyway, apparently this game is just a giant Sony advertisement with 90 minute cutscenes and 5 separate installations which take on average 3 minutes each to complete and over 5 minutes for the first one. FIVE separate installations!?! If Blu Ray on PS3 has to do five lengthy installations, doesn't that sort of make it even more cumbersome and more annoying than having to "insert disc" 4 times!?! It takes me about 5 seconds to change a disc, but it takes the PS3 5 minutes to install each "chapter"!?!
  
  After all this hoopla I would honestly not be surprised if MGS4 featured giant battling crabs with weak points you hit for massive damage :S Reply 0

• Work on Red Alert PS3 officially halted

• dk_rare 06/06/2008

  I predict that the game wont sell well based on the screenshots, that EA will blame it on piracy and that EA should instead just cancel it now to save us all a whole lot of trouble. Reply 0