mac1

If anyone here has a UK Gamecube and wants to play US and Japanese games, then now you can. Datel have just released their Freeloader import disc. You put the disc in and it unlocks your Cube so it will play import games, which is very cool. I am currently playing through a US copy of Metroid, which is great, and am eagerly awaiting the release of Zelda in the States. For years UK gamers have got the short straw when it comes to releases, now at least for Gamecube owners, it no longer matters.

brian

Yeah - I just get so annoyed with the notion of having to download patches.

You buy a game - two weeks later the first patch comes out that fixes an annoying bug you found - but then affects gameplay.

One great thing about Operation Flashpoint is creating your own missions - and a terrible thing about it is that with almost every patch missions made on older versions refuse to work properly. So I've downgraded to a nice level and stuck my fingers up at the whole upgrade/patch concept. Shame, as I used to admin on a flashpoint site as well.

Really, I was always gagging to use a sword instead of a M16, tho'...

mac1

Uber-Important Gamecube News

Does anyone want a US copy of Ura-Zelda. It will work on a UK Gamecube with the Freeloader. I have been desperately searching for a copy for a month a finally found one. [url=http://www.kingcube.co.uk/news.asp?id=49]The "Link" you thought you'd never find[/url ] I just bought a copy for £30.98 inc. p+p. quite alot for a "free" disc I know, but anyone in the UK who has tryed to get one will know just how rare this is. At the time of writing there were 8 copies out of 25 left. I don't know if anyone on here will actually care about this, but I thought I had better mention it, because I know if I'd missed it I certainly wouldn't have been happy. Anyway, its there now if you want it, but dont expect it to stay there for very long !!! ;D I'm delighted, I got a copy after looking everywhere for a fortnight.

mac1

I messed up that named "Link". Here it is the way I know how to do it ;D

http://www.kingcube.co.uk/news.asp?id=49

brian

You've got an extra space in the last bracket - [/url ] - get rid of that last space and the link will work wonderfully!

mac1

ZELDA, ZELDA, ZELDA

My Ura-Zelda disc came yesterday - It is great. A rerelease of the greatest game ever made (in my humble opinion of course), what more could a Zelda fan possible want?? ;D

The answer is of course

THIS

Only a week left till Wind Waker gets release (in the states). I can't wait, I haven't been this excited about the release of a game in years!

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D - Oh The Delight ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

And to make things better, Link has been confirmed as a secret character in Soul Caliber II. Not only this, but you can also unlock Gannondorf, and even a Wind Waker-esque Cel-Shaded Link.

And as if that wasn't enough Zelda for you the SNES version of Zelda III is about to be released on the Gameboy Advance.

Thats a lot of Zelda ;D

Am I obssessing again - lol ;D

brian

Well, it sounds quite wonderful! Assuming you're into Zelda that it! Sounds like quite a game, actually.

mac1

Well I got my US Zelda: Wind Waker today. Yipee! It is great. I can only describe it as an interactive cartoon, I have only put in about 4 hours, but so far it has been superb. Don't expect me to post very much for the next month! lol! ;D

clareabella

You just can't beet the Amiga for RPG games. For years I was lost in a haze of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2, Indianna Jones and the fate of atlantis, Beneath a steel sky. Ah, no wonder I had no friends when i was growing up! Discworld games were bloody hard and involved passing around prunes to obsure people, i never did work it out.
I did love Utopia, and Dune which both involved building hospitals and shops etc. to keep the people happy and enevatably running out of money when i needed to build a generator. oh the fun!
Hero's of might and magic is quite good too, that's on the pc. I did like Knightmare on the Amiga, which was nothing like the TV programme.

As for Zelda, my only experience is the game on the gameboy. although i did cheat a bit with that one. i had horrid dreams where i could eternally hear him jump or fall down holes. Great! The only decent gameboy game in my oppinion!

brian

I remember the prunes bit! Only played a little of Discworld 1 - but the prunes involved taking them to someone on the toilet - who I think gave you an octopus in return! (Hey, don't ask me - I didn't write the game!)

mac1

Yeah those were the days - spent (wasted?) a lot of my youth playing Dune and Utopia on my first PC - a 386sx33! I never did finish Dune, that was one tough game. I never played the sequel they released a few years back, can't remember the name either (Dune 2000 perhaps?), might have to check it out sometime (after Zelda of course).

clareabella

I was better at Utopia, sort of. Dune involved a lot of Spice collecting I seam to remember. I got pretty far, and then one level i couldn't handle!

As for Discworld: It has the solution to the 1st game on the back of the cd for the second game, which i prefered!

chronicles

Ah - now that sounds more cunning than actually buying the help book. Some of those puzzles were just monstrously lateral.

mac1

Anybody played any of the Lord of the Rings games on the Gamecube, PS2 or XBox? Anyone know if they are any good? I saw a trailer for the PS2 Return of the King and Two Towers games on the Two Towers DVD and it looked quite impressive, anybody played either of them?

I, Brian

I was actually thinking of startnig a thread on the same subject - I've not played either, but the graphics look very good. Would be interesting to see how the gameplay is, and whether badly bugged issues were released in a rush.

Any takers?