Be Excellent To Each Other

What, after they've been used to touch that dead rat today? EURRRGH!

Besides, I don't think I should get it as she will be home and should be worrying about finding a new job, not ensuring that her fudgehegs (sic) have a nice fence around their house.

two copies of Viva Pinata have been posted to me today - one from Game and one from Play. Posted at midday and 3pm. I am crossing my fingers that one of them might arrive a day early!

Now here's a dilemma: do you play VP2 on Friday or go on a treasure hunt?

I got the game! Yay!

But no free cards, as promised by Game. Boo!

No free cards?

COMPLAIN!

I have!

One of the copies I ordered was from Game, I will be on my complain-a-thon if they don't contain them. Let us (me) know what Game say, in case they are shipping them out late, or something

PS - I am playing Viva Pinata Pocket Paradise - well, I have just started it up, anyway. So far it is joyous - the music, the snoring horstachio... Ahhhhhhh

Game say -



Let's see how long it takes!

My copy of Viva Pinata from Game was waiting in the mail box and I can confirm that no cards were present.

<grumble grumble grumble...>

Will we be able to drag you away from this for long enough to play poker tonight?

hehe, yeah, I'll be at Poker - I thought maybe it would arrive a day early when it said it was posted yesterday, but I'll drag myself away.

I love game manuals. When Craig and I used to pick games up from Gamestation and there was a bus ride home I'd always want to read the manual on the bus, but Craig would always tell me to wait until we got home. Oh, I tell you this because I am reading, it's not just another piece of useless info. Oh, well, yes, it is, but you know what I mean.

Viva Pinat, lots of fun, LOTS OF FUN, Viva Pinata, come on and join the fun... Da da da da da!

I did think it would keep her quite.....

God games such as Railroad Tycoon and Civ 1 came with a lot of non-game-control related background articles which was a good way to while away spare hours.

I took a photo in my garden

here it is!

Link doesn't work!

Reply from Game.

Oh, I must have done it wrong

Here's the picture

Edit: Hmmm - thanks for the update Rev Owen, I shall be following this up.

Do I see.... snow?

I haven't told my wife this has arrived yet, because she's expecting it tomorrow. Instead I've wrapped it and will give it to her as a present when I get home this evening.

Nrrrp nrrrp nrrrp nrrrp nrrrp! Perfect husband alert! Nrrrp nrrp nrrp nrrp!

I have just tried Pinata vision, and shock upon shock it actually seems to work!

Ignore the thing about setting the focus ring of the camera to fully anti-clockwise and focus it manually on an abject about six inches from the lens before you start.

Mimi's tip 'o' the day!

I have bought this, I'm hoping it come tomorrow.

A few pictures from my blossoming garden, inexpertly trimmed down to size as they upload HUGE

Mine was only sent yesterday by Play, so I should get it October some time.

First impressions:

Viva Pinata: Director's Cut rather than Viva Pinata 2.

,-- Can we get the hat poppin' version made official?

Also, I don't have anything to play this game on

I can't remember which thread I posted the hat popping Dimlie in, actually Seems ages ago now.

The game changes more the further you get in, Rev Owen. I know 'cos I have been playing it ALL DAY LONG.

My eyes are now rectangular. Or, as my nan would say 'oblong'.

Isn't 'oblong' just the best word ever?

She is wrong about 'mauve' though - ugly word. Only for use by old ladies. Purple slurple - much much better.

I prefer froth or shlong, but not shlong froth.

I don't think it is supposed to froth unless it's in a vacuum.

I bet Heston Blumenthal has tried.

No, stop, my mind is telling me off. Don't make me think such things Dimrill!

Delicious hot spotted dick pudding, complete with creme angleise and lashings of shlong froth.

Oh my...

Is that Heston walking away from the window? Wow. Regaine must really work.

I must think of the cute things...

Whats the difference between this and the first one?

Is it just the addition of desert and winter gardens? Have they streamlined the interface and that? I'm not being a dick, it's just some games are worth playing in order and some just are the same game improved so it's worth getting the latest. I assume this falls into the latter?

If you haven't played the first I recommend going straight to the second. It's like the first game but with twice the content - they seem to have added the second game onto the first, if you can understand what I am so poorly explaining. It's like a whole new game but the whole first game is also present in the playing of it...

I have only been playing it a day* though, bare in mind.



*A whole day, though

If you go straight to the second you can come and visit my garden via eggbox alive, too!

Cheers, I won't be picking it up for *ages* though. But good to know. I won't bother with my scratched to bejesus original copy then. It didn't work properly anyhow.

Your reward:



This is a wiki, I'm putting this here so I don't lose it, when I dig this thread up in about 3 months

Ah, how cute - definitely adding that little chappy tomorrow!

You can get scratched disks resurfaced for a couple of pounds at Gamestation, you know? Even if it's just to pass to a friend or young sibling, if someone can make use of it, it'd be worth that little outlay so it was usable.

OOOOoooooh yeah. Hadn't thought of that. OK I may be playing the first as all you cool kids work through the second. Cheers.

I scanned that card off of teh laptop screen. As proof, here he is splashing around my pinata garden in his wellies!


So yes, you can scan images off screen fine, too!

OK, this game is joyous!

So joyous that it is 2am and I am still Pinata-ing after a hard day of Pinata-ing, and I have to get up in the morning.

Must go to bed now!

There are some interesting-looking cards over at that pinataisland.info...

http://pinataisland.info/viva/Image:Monsieur_Quiqui.jpg

http://pinataisland.info/viva/Image:CouponPV.jpg

http://pinataisland.info/viva/Image:PesterPV.jpg

http://pinataisland.info/viva/Image:Pester2PV.jpg

And does anyone want to see if this is a valid card?

http://pinataisland.info/viva/Image:Vptrouble_10.jpg

Well, yes. Recently, in the Namco thread, I made the point about DLC being content that was planned for the original, but there wasn't enough time for it, which would usually end up as the basis for a sequel. And remember how adamant rare were that they weren't going to do any DLC for VP1. That'd be because they were using what could've been DLC in the sequel instead.

Much of the stuff in VP2 is stuff that was half done for VP1 (the multiplayer, for example). It's a sequel in the same way Doom2 was.

Mercs 2 and VP2 today. Summer drought = over.

Quite looking forward to this. Think I'll try to play it without an FAQ this time.

It doesn't exactly throw Achievements at you, does it?

Early stages of my garden. Filenames seem to be the wrong way round. Well done, me.

I want the accessories shop to open, please!

is it any bigger? can I put more stuff in my garden? can I make a road layout using paving, just because I want to?

Blimey, it looks exactly the same! Apart from that ladybug thing in the bottom left.

Can you terraform the ground a bit better? Do you have to suffer the patronising, agonisingly slow tutorial bit?

CAN YOU IMPORT YOUR OLD GARDEN?

In all honesty, I'm a bit put off... having to slog my way through worms and snakes and mice again before I start to get at the good stuff (all with Leafos being condescending and snooty in my ear, I bet) will drive me nuts. It'll be like when you get a new GTA game, and have to fart around in a bunch of pathetic early missions waiting for the game to open the spray shops/gun shops/etc etc.

The water sparkles more, too!



Terraforming seems exactly the same so far, but with a bit more control on pond size.

The tutorial is different and set up as a series of three challenges. It goes on a while and is quite annoying, but also quite useful, as it shows you how to do the new stuff.



Unless it's an option that unlocks later on, no.

At least the new pinatas aren't just high level ones - you see new ones the moment you start playing.

So it's essentially an expansion pack?

Tempting, I guess.

Though I will be driven NUCKING FUTS like everyone else here, waiting impatiently for the accessories shop and general store and such to open.

There should have been a 'I know what I'm fucking doing' option to do that.

Yes, no, no, no, yes.

Changing the ground is different. Firstly you have the option of (actually, maybe spoilers here)



Also, making a water pondsis different - you seem to be able to dig them deeper, but you can also set corner flags and auto dig a pond to that shape - like setting corner points in photoshop, or something.

The garden is bigger, there is a megaton more stuff yu can do/put in it, you don't have to do the tutorial (I am 90% sure). You can't import your garden (I think)

Also, MetalA you don't have to slog your way through the whirlms, etc - you actually go straight through to some larger animals in the first five minutes - I think it knows that you don't want to start attracting whirlms again like the first one, it starts you off with some larger, brand new pinata. My garden attracted a moose in the first 15 minutes of play, also.

There is a 'for fun' mode where EVERYTHING is unlocked, if that suits you better.