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November 24, 2009
8:56 PM
Montag commented on:
14 console and PC mods you'll wish you owned
Back in blighty I have a few modded consoles. Believe it or not an overclocked Megadrive and my Biohazard Dreamcast with a laser cut insert in the lid, oh happy days have gone.

I remember windowing my first PC and adding lights, cutting edge back in the day!!

I love my dremel
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November 21, 2009
2:55 AM
Montag commented on:
Modern Warfare 2's glaring plot holes exposed!
Submarines smell bad as well.

Which game doesn't have a fault? I actually have a sneaking theory that great gameplay and great narrative/story while not being totally incompatible are actually opposed. What makes a great story would often be fairly shite to play.

If you think about great fiction or great films, they are not often exciting. Exciting films are usually pretty limp on story. I think this is because the excitement is based on unreality. How many soldiers have such an unrelenting exciting time? The SAS might have 10 minutes extreme action and 3 months training. So to keep the action going the narrative is a conglomerate of multiple persons stories, which is an extremely hard technique.

Just accept that the moments playing the game are just ace and be happy
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November 18, 2009
10:32 PM
Montag commented on:
Fanboys: 8 reasons why they deserve some respect
You are all talking shite

The last great console was the Vectrex

PS3, ok I suppose for simple point and click adventures, not really a true gamers machine

360, Excellent for keeping coffee warm and having a nice red glow in your living room

Wii...Huh what is it good for? Absolutely nothing... Say it again

PC, I'll just say Myst shall I?

Vectrex, proper analogue control, dedicated screen, pin sharp graphics, no jaggies, real 3D goggles and even has a small footprint on your desk.

So good I've got 2
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November 17, 2009
9:10 PM
Montag commented on:
Fanboys: 8 reasons why they deserve some respect
You forgot the best!

Fanboy baiting. Not just fanboy on fanboy arguments but deliberate and calculated wind ups.

I have passed many an fine hour logging on to forums and managed to remove the control rods from a FB, leading to explosion. True baiting involves comments that are just enough to sow a seed of anger without being inflammatory. The rest is like FB fishing, reel them in watch them explode.

Ah the memories
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October 14, 2009
8:23 PM
Montag commented on:
FIFA 10 (Wii): FIFA Soccer 10
Frankly I rarely say this but can you sack Paul Sturrock?

Sounds more like footie games of old.. sensible soccer anyone?
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October 01, 2009
12:08 AM
Montag commented on:
Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD (Xbox 360): Serious Sam HD - hands-on
Serious Sam for the 360!!!!!
If you don't know you ain't played!
Most bad guys on screen at any time. Literally swarms like the headless bombers. Even my gaming PC (uber fast at the time) slowed down when all the bulls charged.

Really looking forward to this.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarggggggh BANG
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September 24, 2009
9:47 PM
Montag commented on:
Need for Speed: Nitro (Wii): Need for Speed: Nitro – hands-on
Frankly I rarely say this but I also stroke herons
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September 18, 2009
4:16 AM
Montag commented on:
QOTW: What's the first game you bought on your own?
Picking plums when I was a kid over the summer holidays, I bought 3d deathchase for the speccie. Nearest thing to a speeder bike chase. Pretty sure I also bought blade alley, a buck rogers clone at the same time
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July 23, 2009
11:44 PM
Montag commented on:
Max Payne 3 (Xbox 360): Max Payne 3
I really liked the first 2 MPs, I liked the style, the easter eggs and even the story.

This looks like it will be GTA with a constipated hero..

Not a happy bunny me
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July 22, 2009
3:38 PM
Montag commented on:
Span Smasher (Wii): Span Smasher - hands on
Frankly I rarely stoop this
low!!

Exploit! Exploit!

Sounds like Boomblox, a game I really like
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July 11, 2009
12:55 AM
Montag commented on:
QOTW: What is your all-time favorite console?
Probably the Atari 2600. Not because it was great or the games were unbelievable but because every time you plugged a cart in at the time you were playing games at the cutting edge.

You youngsters have grown up from birth with video games and you'll never know the unadulterated awe the first time you played Tank against your brother on the TV.

Seriously you didn't judge it on its graphics, gameplay or sound. You judged it on the fact that there was nothing in the world like it.

For a true games console my favourite all time has to be Dreamcast. A console ahead of its time but let down by gamers.
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July 01, 2009
10:46 PM
Montag commented on:
QOTW: What dead company or franchise do you miss the most?
Oh and also Interstate 76. Genius gameplay, funky seventies poetry button, muscle cars with machine guns and Rpg elements in your car!! Acevand still plays well
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10:19 PM
Montag commented on:
QOTW: What dead company or franchise do you miss the most?
Jet Set Willy/Manic Miner. Am I the only person who thinks a marioesque version would be the dogs nads?
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June 30, 2009
2:07 AM
Montag commented on:
The 12 greatest arcade machines of all time
Double dragon was era defining
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June 29, 2009
10:17 PM
Montag commented on:
The Top 7 bitchin' fireworks displays
Penetrator on the speccie!! Scramble clone which had fireworks when you died. Also had the best keyboard layout (which I still use) of QAOP and space bar!!!!!
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June 25, 2009
9:23 PM
Montag commented on:
QOTW: What overused gameplay element are you terribly sick of?
Boss fights out of context! You fight your way through hordes of bad guys, all with reasonable levels of ability. Suddenly boss dude. 100 times tougher, oh and you have to shoot his belt buckle on tuesdays! Is it just me or does it just seem stupid. I think this is why CoD is so good. The boss battles becomes an epic battle so it is in context, and doesn't grate.

I have always wanted the final battle to be won with a single bullet!
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June 12, 2009
8:29 PM
Montag commented on:
QOTW: What's the angriest you've been at a game?
Tomb Raider anniversary on wii, training with grapple! Do they tell you to run and jump? And to add injury to insult, crushed finger on coffee table as well!

Other is daikatana first level. Who, by all that is frigging holy, decided killer green frog things in a jungle? Twisted
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June 08, 2009
8:34 PM
Montag commented on:
E3 09: Top 10 things you need to know about today - Wednesday edition
Borderands is the only thing here really floating my boatl
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May 28, 2009
11:15 PM
Montag commented on:
QOTW: What big reveal do you most want to see at E3?
deus ex 3, I'd even trade in my 360 and wii combined if it was ps3 exclusive.
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May 08, 2009
10:39 PM
Montag commented on:
Why BioShock 2 is a TERRIBLE IDEA
I'm with you on this. Even though SS2 was a sequel of sorts it was really its own game. The game was awesome. You experienced it. A sequel would have been SS light really. In SS2 everything felt new and original and that made it great, a sequel would have been a poor copy.

I feel the same way about BioShock. A sequel in 10 years might be ok but a sequel now would be poor.

I am sure it will be a great game, but am not sure it will be a great BioShock game.

For me only Half Life had the gonads to make a better sequel, but in that case the story needed more to be complete.

Have to say tho stylistically the franchise has legs!
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12:54 AM
Montag commented on:
Totally '80s box art!
Larry Bird looks like he is sitting on a single gigantic man-spud
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12:42 AM
Montag commented on:
QOTW: What's your biggest hobby aside from gaming?
Mine is like a grown up video game. I drive!!

Not just getting from 1 place to another but right proper hooligan off road driving.

When I moved to Peru I bought a 1966 convertible 5 litre V8 Mustang as my toy, but the police kept stopping me for bribes (seriously) so decided to keep play time off road.

I have just restored a 1960 swb land rover to original (the best one in Peru!!!) which I use for going into the mountains and general rugged naughtiness.

For the sand I have a Baja Bug. Was going to full tubular/sand rail but had a chance at a sand spec fibreglass tub for a good price.

The weird thing is how playing games has effected my driving. If you don't know proper off road driving is very technical and actually quite slow. For very steep or really uneven ground you might be moving at walking pace from rock to rock. Very precise driving. I used to drive like this when I played mainly FPS on my pc back in the UK.

Since going console I play many more driving games. Now all discipline goes out of the window. Big hill? Fast as possible, forget the brakes, straight line..... Trouble is this way is normally followed by reverse down slowly, trying to miss the big rock that hit your differential at 50mph!

In my buggy I just have to drift. Again the proper way to drive is rolling over the sand, very steady and smooth... now wheels spin, sideways and a tow out!

Have to say though.. the game way is more exciting, if less effective.

Have to get me a motorbike next!
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May 06, 2009
7:41 PM
Montag commented on:
Gamings most memorable epidemics
art really does imitate life
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April 30, 2009
9:02 PM
Montag commented on:
6 ways to save Six Days in Fallujah
Hey I'm nearly a Gloucestershire boy, from Evesham.... could blow the living shite out of that!!

Wouldn't take 6 days tho'

Seriously tho' I actually want a game where you shoot chavs, could this be one? Some estates look like war zones, change the skin to burberry, bloody easy

charges gobbled.... now that sounds rude
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April 18, 2009
12:05 AM
Montag commented on:
How Hollywood will ruin your favourite games
I actually look more like Gordon Freeman than Gordon Freeman himself. I've looked this way for over 20 years!! hehe


recaptcha:

Alamogordo ... wtf??

The fat Tree??
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April 06, 2009
11:49 PM
Montag commented on:
The Top 7... Most embarrassing live-action game scenes
I love my Sega CD mk1 and mk2. I even have a multimega which I love. I even really love my 32x (with original cables and boxed no less)but I have just 2 words for you.......

Criss Cross

Nuf said, if you know your know and suffered the Damage
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11:44 PM
Montag commented on:
Yu Suzuki's five finest moments
I have always told people Virtua Racing is one of the best drivers out there!!! The first game where you could drift, loved it in the arcade, loved in on the Megadrive and outrageous on the Saturn!

Still to this day the only fighter I have ever really played is Virtua Fighter. Bet you didn't know it even appeared on the Master System.

I was a sega bod, never a nintendo
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March 26, 2009
9:43 PM
Montag commented on:
The games we hate to love
Roadkill..... pah ...... Play Interstate 76, very fine. And any game with a poetry button has got to be worth a blast as well.

Also Stage Amor, I like that
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1:57 AM
Montag commented on:
Beloved games we hate
GTA... with you there matey.

I just don't get it, I've tried and tried and tried really.

I live in Lima, Peru and to me GTA just feels like a daily commute except my car handles well. It is just too realistic, but with unrealistic handling cars. I even had a real 66 mustang convertible and that handled better than most of the cars in these games.

Drive, drive, drive shoot drive... aargh

The original 2d was the bolloxs tho'

COD4 is amazing but I see your point. The original COD had lots of really epic battles, while COD has lots of epic skirmishes.

Halo 3... again I can see why it is amazing for a console, but I was really a PC gamer for many years and it always felt a but watered down, even Halo itself.

Sims... F**K me I emigrated to change my life, why oh why do you want to live a virtual life.
It beats me but I can understand Sim City because I will never design a city but virtually doing stuff I do anyway, wtf. I like to bump uglies with real girls I am afraid, not try and patch a pixel snatch.

The Sega/Nintendo fanboy stuff also rings true. Super Mario World didn't float my boat at all but the original Sonic just killed my sleep.

Grand Turdismo is the also horrific. Take away the shiny bits and you have an average at best racer.

I like this sort of article, hit the spot again. Lots of intelligent discussion and a turbo nuke flame war possible!! Like it

That's my 2 pennies worth
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March 20, 2009
8:41 PM
Montag commented on:
What lifestyle gaming pics looked like in the 70s
I remember looking like that!!

Anyway I remember having my first woody (Hehe) atari. Weirdly my whole family did sit round it grinning like loons. Either the magic of games or we were inbred freaks with too small a genetic pool!

reCaptcha: Coats $3 Million
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March 17, 2009
9:19 PM
Montag commented on:
The Top 7 games you either love or hate
Obvious old farts like myself are endangered here. Jeff Minter is a legend and naming a game after a Giraffe is actually quite tame for him.

Mutant Llamas... now they rock.

I had a ZX81 when it was new and JM was a bit of a gaming legend even then.
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March 16, 2009
10:07 PM
Montag commented on:
The Top 7 games you either love or hate
Dead Rising just does it for me. I can see why it could be stunning, but the little niggles move it from near perfect to near shite for me.

I really hate it when a game so good makes itself unplayable.

Oh and people who say first really need to get a real girlfriend
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March 12, 2009
12:10 AM
Montag commented on:
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (Xbox 360): Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
Does nobody at the play test and focus group time not say that a game is a let down? It seems that the number of people who let it pass must be enormous but nobody has the nads to say "I dunno bit boring innit"
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March 11, 2009
9:21 PM
Montag commented on:
Mecha-Men we want to fight
..... oh that was all satire. Please, please, please Bill don't call for the death of all gamers as we are obviously evil and un-american liberals who want to take money from hard working Joe the Collonic Irrigationists types.

Seriously, Fox news might hate games now!
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9:19 PM
Montag commented on:
Mecha-Men we want to fight
Bill O'reilly.. Long live the NeoCon-Mecha-Freak

Go on destroy all who need universal healthcare, eliminate those who dare to earn less than $100000 per year.

Burn the wife child and family of all who regard having a social conscience as the defining part of all humanity.

Defile anybody who is a LIBERAL (capital letters should be associated with excessive drooling and spitting)

Scary, scary man

Oh what a buffoon
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March 09, 2009
10:46 PM
Montag now wants Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC).
March 07, 2009
12:36 AM
Montag is now playing LEGO Batman: The Videogame (PC).
February 28, 2009
12:11 AM
Montag commented on:
Amazing game peripherals from the stupid ages
..... must admit tho' I love cheesy peripherals, especially in boxes with their polystyrene... ooooo suit you sir!

I also own 2 vectrex... would that be a brace of vectrii?
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February 27, 2009
11:53 PM
Montag commented on:
Amazing game peripherals from the stupid ages
You may laugh, but there isn't anything there I wouldn't maim a fluffy kitten for, if only I could have it in my collection.

If you want uber shizter then my PS1 fighting stage should be up there. Also how about an article about how modern peripherals are all just rip offs of ye olde days stuff
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February 23, 2009
10:50 PM
Montag commented on:
Things gamers would never have believed 20 years ago
I'm actually quite glad I'm not the only one to flick one off while waiting for games to load on my speccy. To be fair I used to regard it as training for DTs decathalon on my kempston stick. Did get listers on my palm tho'
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February 12, 2009
6:04 PM
Montag commented on:
Bizarre size screw-ups in games
I've got a girlfriend so I don't have to shout first!!

Seriously I thought that about Far Cry 2, it bugged me for ages
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February 04, 2009
12:39 AM
Montag commented on:
The sneaky history of stealth games
No System Shock 2?

Good call on Deus Ex tho..... Stealth if you like, not because you have to... nice
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January 14, 2009
2:48 PM
Montag commented on:
100 Most Anticipated Games of 2009
The game of the year......(I hope) Deus Ex 3

I suppose most console bods have only played part 2 (Good but not great). Do yourself a favour, find the original, fire up your PC and experience one of the greatest games ever. RPG, FPS, Conspiracy theories, ED209 clones, lazer swords, bio mods, hacking, booby traps, sniper rifle, sunglasses, great locations..... bestest. Graphics look a bit dated but runs on any PC. Up there with System Shock 2. Learning curve steep but just survive the first level and you will be hooked.

If you are really L33T (hehe) try playing with no fatalities except the few essentials.
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December 24, 2008
7:06 PM
Montag commented on:
The evolution of Santa Claus
ZX Spectrum.... console... heretic

Home computer and my 2nd computer

Yes Sir Clive is Jesus's lovechild
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December 20, 2008
7:18 PM
Montag commented on:
What's in a Tag?
Mine means I can read.. you know proper books with words
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7:16 PM
Montag commented on:
FUEL (Xbox 360): FUEL
Hopefully will be like an open world Powerslide... woefully forgotten game IMHO
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December 15, 2008
1:21 AM
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