Way of the Rodent

I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that it will just be an announcement along with some fud to try and take some attention away from the WiiU and rumoured next-box announcement.

"The next generation doesn't start until we've put together a pre-rendered video showing what it might look like!"

The PS3 was announced at E3 2005 and launched in 2007 (it was delayed). The 360 was officially announced a few days before E3 2005 (to steal Sony's thunder) and launched that same year.

I reckon we'll hear something after Destination Playstation in Feb. That's an invite-only event for sales & media execs. It's bound to be announced there 'behind closed doors' so Walmart and Tesco can get excited and I'm sure details will leak afterwards. Some recently-promoted junior exec will sneak in a camera phone or something.

They never did make that duck game.

Yeah, as Rocky pointed out at the time it's quite like Flicky. But with the tactics and humour removed.

matt said:

Yeah, as Rocky pointed out at the time it's quite like Flicky. But with the tactics and humour removed.

That's a bit unfair - tactically, if you wanted to get a decent score at least, it was great. Good risk/reward balance I thought - you either edged around the course picking up what you could or tried to hare around at speed jumping over the bad guys. For my money, the controls let it down massively (the throw your controller up to jump thing should be taken out and shot) but the core game was lovely.

Just noticed ICO and SotC HD remakes support 3D too. ICO is the perfect game for 3D, I think I might start again so I can see it all in 3D :)

Rimmed the sky yet?

Resistance 3 is a good place to start.

Thank fuck for that.

@Gorilla_Biscuit - I spent most of my school years in Lowestoft. Crap town to live in but it does have 2 piers, both with arcades on. The South Pier (which, ironically, was the northernmost of the two) was tatty and crap but always open and had 2 decent pool tables at the rear which were only 20p a game and me and my best friend could often be found there on a Saturday afternoon. There was also a Pac-land machine (the Pac-man based platformer), which is surely one of the most sadistic gits of a game ever invented. And Wonder Boy, although it seemed to be set so fast that death was always 10 seconds away. And Tetris. When my sister was old enough to be exposed to the arcade I used to drag her into town with me with the sole intention of getting her to put all her money into 2-player Tetris.

There was also a Golden Shot fruit machine that was 2p a play and we used to regularly rinse it of the £1.50 jackpot. Which we'd immediately pump into Tetris again.

Claremont Pier was the shinier of the two, with proper carpet and all the latest big new cabs. Everything was double the price of South Pier, but there was a good chippy nearby and it was warmer and less smelly. They had a Marble Madness for years but I think the last time I went it had gone. I remember being in awe of Space Harrier, with its huge moving cab and deafening sounds.

There was an indie disco every other Friday in the nightclub on the first floor and my mate and I used to go early and spend an hour on House of the Dead 2, Virtua Cop and Puzzle Bobble before going in the club and getting wankered on lemon Hooch.

I wonder what's in those piers now?

(Sorry to go so wildly off topic... eeeeh nostalgia).

Cock all in Blackpool. I found a Silent Scope game, but the sniper scope was fucked. 20 years on and plus ca change.

You still see the peripheral cabs - racers, DDR-alikes and such. And, of course, Silent Scope falls under that I suppose. Wouldn't expect owt with a joystick mind.

Nothing like a good dose of reality to keep nostalgia in check.

Case in point: yesterday I pottered off to a little musical gathering featuring one of my guilty pleasures, Hall & Oates. And I expected big things, as sad as that may seem to you MOR-haters ;) But at the end of the day, Daryl Hall is 65 years old... so those (once-)smooth vocals are bound to be shit, right? And, despite having a massive band to carry the two sexagenarians (John Oates is 62), they... well, they just couldn't manage to be convincing. Watching them, I suddenly realised that there's a huge number of things that I hold in high esteem through nostalgia that I cannot really see in the same way anymore.

Then again, local Aussie band Icehouse (fronted by Iva Davies, in his late fifties) kicked major arse. Go figure.

Yeah, I'd have said they were dead years ago.

Too much sex and drugs and rock and roll for Hall & Oates I reckon. Still love them, though.

Hall knows he can't hold the high notes anymore, and attempts to compensate by pitching a lot of vocals down and/or scatting (scat singing, you sick fucks) his lyrics.

Oates still knows how to harmonise, though.

YES!

Don't you mean the Sony Entertainment Network?

Also, great news, I'm all over at least a couple of them.

Ooh, controversial.

Think I predicted this very move a few years ago IIRC...

Should have had a bet on it.

That's contradicts your earlier statement.

I put it to you, therefore, that you are an unreliable witness sir.

Chad_Sexington said:

That's contradicts your earlier statement.

I put it to you, therefore, that you are an unreliable witness sir.

What is mine is the Fredsters and vice versa. My case stands.

Well sir. I just checked the PS3 and NO SIGN of what you promised.

What a cock.