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Maybe you're just not too keen on dialogue-heavy RPGs, legov? For me it's probably the original Deus Ex. I tried repeatedly to get into it, both at the time it was released and then years later, but I could never play the opening Statue of Liberty bit without getting too bored and irritated to continue.

For me it probably represents the best buy for a tenner on Steam atm. All the positive hype was what brought me to it as well, as a relative latecomer, but at first I thought I'd been sold a pup. I didn't like the character design and the humour initially struck me as being tiresome childish wackiness. I stuck with it and became totally engrossed within the day. Now it's at a stage where, despite not completing it for a couple of years, memories of it keep popping back into my head, calling me to play again. Gameplay is fairly basic platforming-plus-special-abilities but it's the environments and ideas which make it a classic. It probably calls for a gamepad but I managed okay with a keyboard and mouse. I remember it being available for download on the Xbox Marketplace but I just read on Wiki that it was taken down. Hopefully they'll put it up again because I'd prefer to play a platformer on a console. If not though I'm sure it'll still be great on Steam. I've only ever played one Tim Schafer game, Stacking. It was good, quirky and clever and a bit different, but I got a little bored of it. I just remembered and should add that Psychonauts can be got from GOG.com as well as Steam, for those who don't like Steam or DRM. It's actually the only Double Fine game I've played (apart from Schafer's little browser game about collecting jokes). Brutal Legend didn't appeal to me. Stacking and Costume Quest passed me by completely although I saw they were positively received, in the main. I'm hoping that the game they just funded on Kickstarter will be a little higher profile.

Some good chances for both teams in the Bayern game but how Basel aren't ahead I have no idea. One incredible save from Neuer and another rocketed into the crossbar.

For me it probably represents the best buy for a tenner on Steam atm. All the positive hype was what brought me to it as well, as a relative latecomer, but at first I thought I'd been sold a pup. I didn't like the character design and the humour initially struck me as being tiresome childish wackiness. I stuck with it and became totally engrossed within the day. Now it's at a stage where, despite not completing it for a couple of years, memories of it keep popping back into my head, calling me to play again. Gameplay is fairly basic platforming-plus-special-abilities but it's the environments and ideas which make it a classic. It probably calls for a gamepad but I managed okay with a keyboard and mouse.

Apparently he's going to pay someone to genetically engineer a winged, golden horse for him to fly around on. What a **** prick.

Mark Lawrenson was the same on the commentary in Ireland here tonight as well. Everything good that Napoli did was put down to Chelsea's neglect, and when he was forced to praise Napoli he grudgingly acknowledged they had "two or three really good players".

I thought they looked just as good again, except they stretched themselves out to attack more. Defensively they were uncertain, but were it not for a ridiculous bobble they still would have kept a clean sheet. At the same time, the Lavezzi/Cavani partnership was lethal tonight and they look competent - at the very least - all over the pitch, except occasionally in their 6 yard box.

I managed to get Grim Fandango working again, so I'm playing that. Fantastic, classic game, but you have to enjoy adventure games and smashing your head against obtuse puzzles. It's given me the appetite to maybe play through Psychonauts for the third time afterwards. I can't recommend Psychonauts enough, especially for any fans of Zelda-ish RPG-platformers (or indeed for those who like Double Fine's humour as exemplified in Grim Fandango). I've been trying to play F1 2011 off and on, but pretty much just can't get into it. Way too hard with a pad. I must have sunk about 10 hours into it but haven't completed a single race - most of it was just reattempting practice and qualifying. The only achievement I have is the 'Have you tried Dirt 3?' achievement for skidding all over the track. Don't think it's for me. EDIT: And I'm playing through Zelda: Wind Waker on emulator. Knew I'd forget one. I was loving it, but increasingly frequent game crashes have sucked the momentum out of my play through.

Agreed, he's impressed me every time I've seen him. A player like him would solve a bucketload of problems with our current Villa squad.

Well, isn't the second point exactly the same as the one you're questioning? If Randy's managerial appointments had been at the same level as MON, we would not have sunk nearly so far.

Edit: bugger, I tried to link to an old HTML walkthrough I used to use, but noticed afterwards that one of the page links is dead. It's the walkthrough I always used to turn to when I had the game. The colour coding, hyperlinks and easy-on-the-eye colour scheme all elevated it above the other guides for me. PM me if you're interested (goes for anyone) and I'll zip it up and upload it somewhere.

No, that's just a myth. Nonsense. UpTheVilla26 has an excellent posting mentality. He loves to make excellent posts.I have a PM from the mods of another forum, congratulating us for having UpTheVilla26 posting here. I have that message in a save file, and I treasure it.

That was because we were trailing 0-1, as we had been for the previous twenty minutes without fightback. The gameplan up until you scored certainly seemed to be 'wait for the whistle' since it carried on the same way well past the point when we went a goal down. Also it's generous to say that it was the last '10 minutes'. The couple of corners and the goalmouth scramble that were all we achieved, all seemed to happen in the last 5 minutes, inclusive of 3 minutes injury time, to my reckoning.

You're still getting 'defend deep and attack on the break' mixed up with 'defend deep and wait for the final whistle'.

Within 10 minutes, even the commentators had already identified how different our performance was from that of Everton. Not all defensive tactics are alike.

Yep, I just saw that. 'I thought the gameplan today was excellent and we were very unlucky.' Delusional man who is at this point dangerous to the club. Fair play to Dwight Yorke for calling him out on talking shit, albeit in very careful words.

Boring, shit game that we didn't bother to play properly. We only began to attack when Ireland and Zog came on - their absence from the starting line up, and the rumoured reason for it, says everything that needs to be said about McLeish's management. As Neville said, "Why wait until the 90th minute to put 4 players in the box?. Incredible." Spot on. No criticism of the defence this week, not even Hutton or Collins, since when you take the calculated decision to suffer that much pressure without attacking, it's inevitable that mistakes will be made. Cuellar MOTM for being full of fight all the way through, getting in some nice interceptions and tackles and even looking good attacking down a flank he can barely cross from.

As Neville said, "Why wait until the 90th minute to put 4 players in the box? Incredible, really."

Lucky not to have a pen against for Hutton's handball then. Forgot your lessons about tucking them behind your back that time, big Al.

Wish they'd stop blathering on about **** Tevez. That pathetic, arrogant publicity-hound's career should be over.

Never then.

I don't think it's a long term or even medium term solution at all. Cuellar is doing well because he's a gritty defender who reads stuff well, but with any kind of structured attack down that side (which we haven't yet seen) he'll have trouble sorting his feet out and timing his challenge. He's also even less confident attacking down the left than he is down the right. If anything it shows what a laughable signing Hutton was, when he, an attacking FB who can supposedly play on both sides, is still a poorer choice for LB than a non-natural RB who was originally converted from CB.

Cuellar's intercepting like a champ.

Young is in the crowd. The less they have to talk about the more bollocks they talk. Neville basically directly contradicted himself with that - started out by saying that the crowd would be happy to get behind the football if we had started the game like Everton, then switched to blaming the home crowd for poor home performances.

In fairness it's been mostly dogshit from both sides so far.