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Actually thinking about this I reckon you tend to orientate your movements to the screen, I find it a bit strange at first if I try and play laid back on the sofa looking sideways.

Goddamn this game is nuts and polished to a fine sheen; absolutely lush, if I could see what was going on. Technology has never looked so sexy.

Like I say, I couldn't get on with it at all. I wanted to (The pad wasn't cheap, and d-pad aside, was very, very comfortable) But fundametnally, up, despite being oriented with your hand, was no longer up.

Just played Vanquish for the first time and yes.. it's awesome!

It's a fast Gears of War which is good in my eyes so I'm off to preorder it!

Zavvi have it for £28.99 at the moment!

Aye, and if you spend another £21.02, you can get a fiver off using code "Zavvifive".

I'm considering just buying two copies of Vanquish (at £26.49 each) and splitting with a friend.

Edit: Details and other cheap things Zavvi are selling here:
http://savygamer.co.uk/2010/09/08/5-of- ... -at-zavvi/

This is out in a couple of weeks time, but also an even better deal (although still at Zavvi) has popped up.

Looks like we should be able to get it for £23.67 delivered.

I can't wait.

This is out tomorrow.. I have it on order but I haven't had the dispatch email yet.

I hope it comes. I'm leaving work at lunch time and I want something to play!

Yeah I'll be getting this at some point, Eurogamer have given it a 9/10 and whilst they aren't perfect i think all things told I've been led astray by them fewer times than I have by bummage on here.

You must be thinking of someone elses recommendations.

I only harp on about classics like Bayonetta, Halo Reach and Space Invades for the MAME challenge.

I was totally underwhelmed by the demo and watching video reviews and gameplay footage leaves me cold. Don't think I'll bother, not really my cup of tea. Plus, the EG review was by Simon Parkin who bums anything remotely Japanese. He also gave Monday Night Combat 9/10 despite it being basically shit.

Yeah it gave a good first impression. Then it becomes shit. Certainly not 9/10. Also, please don't dig up old quotes, it makes me feel like some sort of politician . I'm giving my opinion about games, they can change. Anyway, I only said it was "decent", now I'm saying it's basically shit.

edit: I now realise I didn't document my realisation of its shitness on here. However, I do recall arguing with people about it on Eurogamer - I assumed I'd said similar here, but it turns out the above was the first and last time I mentioned it more or less.

Mmm. Not even gems like this?

Hey waitaminute!

I was only kidding above. I'm sure you'll change your mind about Vanquish when it gets a public bumming on here.

I don't mind supporting Platinum Games at all given the quality of their output (including the collective heritage of the staff and previous company difficulties) which put most other developers to shame even if they don't always hit the mark. I think it's released tomorrow by the way kids.

I had completely forgotten about this.

So now it's shit then, eh?

No it's getting great reviews, I just didn't like the demo and I don't think it's my cup of tea. Also, the guy who reviewed it on Eurogamer is a plonker.

I like Simon Parkin's writing.

No. It's going to be awesome!

I don't think there's anything wrong with his writing, it's his opinions that are wrong.

Just played the demo. Bum explodingly awesome. Where's it cheapest? I want to buy it on pay day.

~£27 at Zavvi/The Hut using one of these coupons is the best price.

Shopto have it for the same price and since I ordered it in September from Zavvi, and it STILL isn't here... I'd order it from them.

That's a good point actually. It's like 70p, but they are vaguely competent.

Yeah, in a fit of rage I ordered it from Shopto on Thursday night around 10:30 and the game was here Saturday.

I canceled my order with Zavvi but they reckon they've sent it already. Lord knows which carrier pigeon it is that's bringing it though as it still hasn't turned up.

Cheers. I think Shopto have given me 2 quid of credit too. Lovely.

Zavvi have frozen my account and their Fraud Administrator threw a hissy fit at me.

They have also cancelled some of my orders, but I don't know which ones because I can't log in, but I don't think they cancelled my Vanquish one. Not got it yet though.

They did cancel my cheap Team ICO collection and New Vegas.

What now? More details please (is this the ICO and SOTC PS3 HD release) and a link including a release date SVP.

Also, the hologram Vanquish box is lovely but made my eyes water staring at it. Either that, or some kind of emotion caused by the looking in my empty wallet and deciding I couldn't get it this month.

This will have to wait until it's £15. Which judging by how Bayonetta did, won't be too long after release.

I bought* it at full retail release price even though I won't be playing it for ages as I got Bayonetta on the cheap so I reckon Platinum deserve my cahs monies for being so ace.

I've played the first couple of levels (one of which is the demo level) and it seems brilliant. Must finish Dead Rising 2 and play Fallout Vegas 1st though like.

* used the last of my trade-in credit and have no more super secret free money-o-tron to spend so that's my game 'purchasing' done for a while although I do have White Elephant for 360 on pre-order which I wouldn't have bought had it cost me actual money and may yet have to ebay depending on the job situation.

Yep. Both ICO and SOTC, enhanced and on one disc.

Out early next year for ~£25-30. Supporting 3D, have trophies, 720p, improved framerate and certain assets redone/touched up. Possible move support (who gives a fuck about that though).

I hope they bring out a PS3 bundle with those and The Last Guardian. I'll defo crumble if they do.

Well, after deleting my account and telling me all my orders were cancelled, because I run SavyGamer, zavvi have now "shipped" me a copy of vanquish.

Lets see if it actually turns up.

This is receiving astonishing reviews. http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360 ... ic-reviews

Just like Bayonetta.

But in the end it didn't get the love it deserved...

I might have to add this to my Want list. I liked the demo even if I found it a bit difficult — by difficult I mean I couldn't kill that enormoboss in one go.

Took me about 5 attempts to down the boss in the demo on normal. And that was with a friend 'spotting' (which helped a lot). But it was awesome difficulty rather than shitty difficulty and seemed to be always my fault.

So it seems I suck at it. But yet want the game hard.

Emperor's New Shooter.

Or maybe I'm just being cynical. Demo was balls. (IMHO LOLFAG)

Also, for those who are interested, the new EDGE gave it an 8. Didn't they give Bayonetta a 10? Therefore, it's not as good as Bayonetta, as I noticed in the demo what I didn't like. I'm eagerly awaiting some Bezzie impressions. Does anyone have it yet?

Well, nothing is.

I have it and its great. You basically shoot a load of robots, then watch a cut scene (where you're shooting robots) then you shoot some more robots.

It barely let's up for a second! I like it.

Well bought this. £25 from shopto with my discount.

Based on Bayonetta, platinum deserve their games to be bought new at launch by me rather than when they get discounted.

Bugged to fuck New Vegas can wait (if it even ever get it).

So the problem with Vanquish is that it's just a game about shooting robots?

I don't see that as a problem at all!

Here's referencing this video about God Hand, which the developers of Vanquish made previously (when called Clover).

So I'm on mission 2 of this and loving it. It's wonderful.

I am also on mission two, and loving it.

Did you see that you can shoot out grenades? If you throw a grenade, then shoot it out of the air, the amount of damage/range of splash damage increases. You also feel like a badass.

Edit: It's a bit cutsceney for my liking, but I intend to finish it over next few days, trade it in at a profit and then probably pick it up again later down the line if I get an inkling to play it again.

I feel I should comment on this, but am perhaps not best placed to do so.

I'd like to hear it all the same.

You've got the belm thread open and ready in another tab, haven't you?

I completed this last night. It was ace from start to finish.

Love it!

The combat and game mechanics are so refined that I genuinely think it may become a score attack leaderboard game for me. Especially as they've angled it hard towards that. I also want to play the challenge mode, and play the harder difficulties.

This is unlike me.

But I'll hold my views on that till I get further through the game.

Didn't know about grenade thing. Awesome.