Sony playstation2 - who picked up Coded Arms ?

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who picked up Coded Arms ?

lonesw0rdsman

2005-07-09, 3:30 am

How is it ? I might get this tomorrow. I have a $10 gift card at CC ive
been wanting to use

Blig Merk

2005-07-09, 3:30 am

lonesw0rdsman wrote:

quote:

> How is it ? I might get this tomorrow. I have a $10 gift card at CC ive
> been wanting to use

I will probably be picking it up tomorrow. There is a thread over at
PSP-Vault and initial impressions are very good:

http://www.psp-vault.com/index.php?...tart=0#pid14830

On other topics, there have been a whole bunch of hacks the past few
weeks, working up to firmware 1.5 and some reports of them working up
to firmware 1.51. There was a memory stick swap exploit a few weeks ago
for firmware 1.5 that allowed a ton of homebrew to run off memory
stick, then that turned into a single stick swap to a no-swap now. So,
there are now GBA, SNES, N64 and about a dozen other emulators, there
is a Doom port, multiple music generator homebrew, chess, on and on.
Now, there is news that a group has come up with a prototype interface
for the memory stick slot to allow multiple types of memory cards and
possibly hard drives to be used. And the big news is Lumines and a
couple of other games are running from the memory stick, first
requiring any UMD disk to be in the drive, now with no UMD disk needed.

Paul C.

2005-07-09, 8:30 pm

"lonesw0rdsman" <ga@lone.com> wrote in news:j1Jze.3828$Ll6.1287@trnddc06:

quote:

> How is it ? I might get this tomorrow. I have a $10 gift card at CC ive
> been wanting to use
>
>

Very mixed reviews according to gamerankings.com, average of the ratings is
57%.

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920834.asp

Mattinglyfan

2005-07-09, 8:30 pm

"Paul C." <Paul_C_NB@yahoo.canospam> wrote in message
news:MgPze.58862$Ph4.1727888@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...

quote:

> "lonesw0rdsman" <ga@lone.com> wrote in news:j1Jze.3828$Ll6.1287@trnddc06:
>
>
> Very mixed reviews according to gamerankings.com, average of the ratings
> is
> 57%.
>
> http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920834.asp
>

But those are the critics rankings. Over at IGN and a couple of sites that
calculate user ranking, it is above 80% which would indicate that it is
fairly popular.

MS#1Fanboy-JoJo

2005-07-09, 8:30 pm

In article <j1Jze.3828$Ll6.1287@trnddc06>, ga@lone.com says...

quote:

>
>How is it ? I might get this tomorrow. I have a $10 gift card at CC ive
>been wanting to use
>
>

Its gotten so-so reviews from IGN and Gamespot. I think I'm just gonna rent it
from Blockbuster.

MS#1Fanboy-JoJo

2005-07-09, 8:30 pm

In article <Samdndnn5PU_flLfRVn-rQ@comcast.com>, nyyankees@comcast.net says...

quote:

>
>
>"Paul C." <Paul_C_NB@yahoo.canospam> wrote in message
>news:MgPze.58862$Ph4.1727888@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>
>But those are the critics rankings. Over at IGN and a couple of sites that
>calculate user ranking, it is above 80% which would indicate that it is
>fairly popular.
>
>

Between IGN and Gamespot its score is around 65% to 70% which isn't terrible
and means its well worth at least a rental. I was hoping for much better
reviews though. Oh well...whens the next fps coming?

usenet.lloydgm@choicemail1.com

2005-07-10, 8:31 pm

In a word - mediocre. Coded Arms has the advantage of being the first
FPS for the PSP, as well as one of few games that people have NOT
played, so it will do well. The three things that have impressed me
the most are the interface, graphics and the ability to properly
stand-by as opposed to having to save and shutdown (some PSP games HAVE
to be shutoff, like Wipeout, otherwise they lock when you return). The
enimies are few and stupid. Controls are stiff but work, but that's
the same on any console FPS. I can't play the game for more than 30
mins before I get bored. Every room is square thus far, and it's easy
to get lost. The mapping system is similar to the GC Metroid series,
however I get turned around in the Metroid series as well, so mileage
may vary.

If you want something new as PSP games are still few and far between,
and you like FPSes, $39.99 may be worth the price.

If I had a to rate the game - 7/10.

lonesw0rdsman wrote:

quote:

> How is it ? I might get this tomorrow. I have a $10 gift card at CC ive
> been wanting to use

Blig Merk

2005-07-12, 12:31 am

Zackcrybabybitch wrote:

quote:

> Yeah right. Everybody knows you don't actually play games, because all your
> time is taken up trolling for anti-MS news.

Everybody meaning YOU, you pompous little psycho-schizo XXXXX?
Actually, I bought and played Cold Winter, Medal of Honor European
Assualt, and playing around with Destroy All Humans. On the PSP, been
playing ATV Off Road Fury, even played it online over my wireless
network on DSL. And that is just on the consoles. Oh wait, have to stop
using those big words, you are too stupid to know what they mean.

quote:

> It's cute how you state this so matter-of-factly, when if it was the Xbox

Only a school girl or a faggot would use the word cute in this context.

quote:

> that was hacked so that you could download and play games on an unmodified

I could give a rat's XXX about the XFLop, it is a dead console.

quote:

> console, you'd be so excited your ejaculate would shoot all the way from

Again, you little queer, fantasizing about my ejaculate. You really are
a twisted little faggot, always going on about other guy's penises and
ejaculates, and not just mine, there are plenty of examples where you
do this with lots of other guys. Fickle little queer, aren't you? I
don't know how many times I have told you that I am straight, I like
women unlike you, never fantasize and dream about other guy's genitals,
and the thought of some little homo faggot like you dreaming about my
penis is more than a little disturbing and disgusting.

quote:

> Kennewick to, well, whatever the next hick town over is.

I laugh every time you bring this one up, you stupid phukking idiot. If
you only knew how far off you were, you would turn red in shame, but
then, you have no shame. I thought you were ABSOLUTELY convinced along
with your handjob mate Disgustingly Fat Skank Hank that I am a 13-year
old living in a trailer park in Kennewick ? The only thing that you do
know is that you don't know your XXX from a hole in the ground, you
phuking idiot. Just for the record, I live near Seattle and work for a
game development company in the area, just so you two morons finally
get that through your maggot infested shriveled organs you call your
brains.

quote:

>
> When 2 GB memory sticks become cheap and commonplace, even casual users will
> be able to keep a library of downloaded full version PSP games on their hard
> drive and copy the ones they want to play to the stick. I know I won't be
> updating my firmware again.

There is a way to downgrade the firmware, phukwad. Plus, try to stop
being so stupid, even though it is not possible. The ISOs on the stick
aren't running perfectly and it is going to be a couple years before
2GB memory sticks are cheap. Wait, you were the moron that used to go
on about how memory stick would never catch on. You have never been
right about anything though, so why break your perfect record,
dumbphuk.

quote:

>
> -Z-

Zackman

2005-07-12, 6:30 am

BligflopXFLboxpoxzorz 1.5 Full Circle 180 69 42 hut hut hut! wrote:

quote:

> Everybody meaning YOU, you pompous little psycho-schizo XXXXX?

What's even funnier than what you just said is that you genuinely don't see
the irony in it.

quote:

> On the PSP, been
> playing ATV Off Road Fury, even played it online over my wireless
> network on DSL.

You've played one PSP game? The single most revolutionary game device of the
past four years, and you've played one game on it? And not even a good one?
Not even the best infrastructure mode game?

Wait a minute, you have a *wiresless network* and *DSL*? Wow, that's sooooo
cutting edge and high tech! Hahahaha. Well, I guess you're probably the only
one in the trailer park who has it, so maybe that's why it seems like a big
deal to you.

quote:

> And that is just on the consoles. Oh wait, have to
> stop using those big words, you are too stupid to know what they mean.

Wow, when you get all screechy and upset, you make even less sense than
usual. That might have been at least a third grade level dig if you could
have come up with an actual big word.

quote:

> Only a school girl or a faggot would use the word cute in this
> context.

And only a deeply closeted homosexual would constantly use the word faggot
in his diatribes. Or are you just an old redneck?

quote:

> I could give a rat's XXX about the XFLop, it is a dead console.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Is THAT why you endlessly troll the Xbox newsgroup
with your Xbox posts? XXXX you're pathetic. Or are we to assume that the
Xbox 360 is now the focus of your obsession? Geez Blig, if the
XFL-FLOP-POX-BOX-HOX "died" just as you "predicted" it would, why are you
so worried about the Xbox 360? I can't imagine what it's like to be afraid
of a game console. Can you explain it?

quote:

> Again, you little queer

Dark in that closet?

quote:

> You really
> are a twisted little faggot

Musty in that closet?

quote:

> Fickle little
> queer, aren't you?

Lonely and confusing in that closet?

quote:

> I don't know how many times I have told you that
> I am straight

Methinks you doth protest too much.

quote:

> I like women

Ever been with one you didn't pay for or weren't related to?

quote:

> little homo
> faggot

Geez, how much rope do you need to hang yourself with, you repressed,
self-loathing shitbag hick?

quote:

> I laugh every time you bring this one up, you stupid phukking

Phukking? Is that how the kids are spelling it now? That's so L33T and
R4DZ0RZ.

quote:

> I am a
> 13-year old living in a trailer park in Kennewick ?

Of course not. We determied you're actually over 50, which makes it just
that much more pathetic. No 13-year-old would reference the Lawrence Welk
Show and Hootenany, gramps.

quote:

>you phuking idiot.

Is it phukking or phuking? Pick a spelling. Or you could just say XXXXING.
But that offends your old man sensibilities, doesn't it?

quote:

> Just for the record, I live near Seattle

I guess you could call 200 miles near. I'm in Seattle on a pretty regular
basis. When can we meet?

quote:

> and work for a game development company in the area

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. As a janitor?

quote:

> There is a way to downgrade the firmware, phukwad.

Yes, retard, but there's no reason to update it any further, so why would I
just so I'd have to go kludge it back? Unless Sony starts releasing games
that update the firmware automatically. Oh well, the PSP haxor scene is
thriving so heartily that anything Sony does to try and secure the PSP will
be hacked in short order. The barn door is wide open.

quote:

> Wait, you were the moron that used to go
> on about how memory stick would never catch on.

Memory sticks will never "catch on" in anything but the devices that Sony
forces consumers to buy them for. Hey, news flash: The PSP is exactly such a
device, DUH. Jesus.

quote:

> You have never been
> right about anything though

BilgeXXXX, I've been right literally 10 times more often than you have, and
I invite you to prove otherwise. Hey, how's that Xbox emulator working on
your PC? The one you promised would blow the Xbox wide open FOUR YEARS AGO?
HAHAHAHAHA! Bark, little puppy! Roo-roo-roo!

-Z-

Zackman

2005-07-14, 12:30 am

lonesw0rdsman wrote:

quote:

> How is it ? I might get this tomorrow. I have a $10 gift card at CC
> ive been wanting to use

I got Dead to Rights to tide me over in the meantime. It's actually fun (and
way way easier than the console versions) but holy crap is it short.

-Z-

Zackman

2005-07-14, 12:30 am

Blig Merk wrote:

quote:

> I will probably be picking it up tomorrow

Yeah right. Everybody knows you don't actually play games, because all your
time is taken up trolling for anti-MS news.

quote:

> And the big news is Lumines and a
> couple of other games are running from the memory stick, first
> requiring any UMD disk to be in the drive, now with no UMD disk
> needed.

It's cute how you state this so matter-of-factly, when if it was the Xbox
that was hacked so that you could download and play games on an unmodified
console, you'd be so excited your ejaculate would shoot all the way from
Kennewick to, well, whatever the next hick town over is.

When 2 GB memory sticks become cheap and commonplace, even casual users will
be able to keep a library of downloaded full version PSP games on their hard
drive and copy the ones they want to play to the stick. I know I won't be
updating my firmware again.

-Z-

MS#1Fanboy-JoJo

2005-07-17, 8:30 pm

In article <ifGdnfO8cv3c6E7fRVn-hw@giganews.com>,
zackman@SPAMISEVILearthling.net says...

quote:

>
>BligflopXFLboxpoxzorz 1.5 Full Circle 180 69 42 hut hut hut! wrote:
>
>
>What's even funnier than what you just said is that you genuinely don't see
>the irony in it.
>
>
>You've played one PSP game? The single most revolutionary game device of the
>past four years, and you've played one game on it? And not even a good one?
>Not even the best infrastructure mode game?
>
>Wait a minute, you have a *wiresless network* and *DSL*? Wow, that's sooooo
>cutting edge and high tech! Hahahaha. Well, I guess you're probably the only
>one in the trailer park who has it, so maybe that's why it seems like a big
>deal to you.
>

LMAO!!! I've always called Bliggety a fanboy but after this last exchange I'm
having second thoughts. How could a Sony fanboy go out and buy a PSP and then
buy one of the worst games for it and then spout off about it? I realize how
this happened. He's so busy reading crap about Xbox games that he forgot to
read the reviews for PSP games. What an idiot!

quote:

>
>Wow, when you get all screechy and upset, you make even less sense than
>usual. That might have been at least a third grade level dig if you could
>have come up with an actual big word.
>
>
>And only a deeply closeted homosexual would constantly use the word faggot
>in his diatribes. Or are you just an old redneck?
>

Now that was cute!

quote:

>
>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Is THAT why you endlessly troll the Xbox newsgroup
>with your Xbox posts? XXXX you're pathetic. Or are we to assume that the
>Xbox 360 is now the focus of your obsession? Geez Blig, if the
>XFL-FLOP-POX-BOX-HOX "died" just as you "predicted" it would, why are you
>so worried about the Xbox 360? I can't imagine what it's like to be afraid
>of a game console. Can you explain it?
>

LMAO!!! Dead console with over 100 games coming out in the next five months. I
guess the PSP and PS2 are already dead by those standards.

quote:

>
>Dark in that closet?
>

I bet it sure is dark in that basement room at his moms house.

quote:

>
>Musty in that closet?
>
>
>Lonely and confusing in that closet?
>
>
>Methinks you doth protest too much.
>
>
>Ever been with one you didn't pay for or weren't related to?
>

Nothing wrong with a little sister luvin....if shes hot.

quote:

>
>Geez, how much rope do you need to hang yourself with, you repressed,
>self-loathing shitbag hick?
>
>
>Phukking? Is that how the kids are spelling it now? That's so L33T and
>R4DZ0RZ.
>
>
>Of course not. We determied you're actually over 50, which makes it just
>that much more pathetic. No 13-year-old would reference the Lawrence Welk
>Show and Hootenany, gramps.
>
>
>Is it phukking or phuking? Pick a spelling. Or you could just say XXXXING.
>But that offends your old man sensibilities, doesn't it?
>
>
>I guess you could call 200 miles near. I'm in Seattle on a pretty regular
>basis. When can we meet?
>
>
>HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. As a janitor?
>

LOL!! Now we know why he hates MS. Nothing like getting fired from a janitors
job before he had his chance to make his big break into software engineering.

quote:

>
>Yes, retard, but there's no reason to update it any further, so why would I
>just so I'd have to go kludge it back? Unless Sony starts releasing games
>that update the firmware automatically. Oh well, the PSP haxor scene is
>thriving so heartily that anything Sony does to try and secure the PSP will
>be hacked in short order. The barn door is wide open.
>
>
>Memory sticks will never "catch on" in anything but the devices that Sony
>forces consumers to buy them for. Hey, news flash: The PSP is exactly such a
>device, DUH. Jesus.
>
>
>BilgeXXXX, I've been right literally 10 times more often than you have, and
>I invite you to prove otherwise. Hey, how's that Xbox emulator working on
>your PC? The one you promised would blow the Xbox wide open FOUR YEARS AGO?
>HAHAHAHAHA! Bark, little puppy! Roo-roo-roo!
>
>-Z-
>
>

LMAO!! I would be watching over my shoulder if I were you Zackman(for a snot
nosed 50 year old with a hammer and axe). Hes gotta be foaming at the mouth
after this exchange.

richardhutnik@hotmail.com

2005-07-19, 8:36 pm

lones, I found it a decent FPS. The controls have some getting used to
though. it isn't great, but a pretty good choice for a first PSP FPS.
Besides, I am a fan of hacking themes in games, so I found I like the
theme. I also like computer generated maps in games. Lumines tends to
get the predominate play on my PSP though.

- Richard Hutnik

Mattinglyfan

2005-07-20, 12:33 am

<richardhutnik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121807300.820638.291860@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

quote:

> lones, I found it a decent FPS. The controls have some getting used to
> though. it isn't great, but a pretty good choice for a first PSP FPS.
> Besides, I am a fan of hacking themes in games, so I found I like the
> theme. I also like computer generated maps in games. Lumines tends to
> get the predominate play on my PSP though.
>
> - Richard Hutnik
>

Are you one of those people who can top 500,000 on Lumines? I've played my
wife's copy 2 or 3 times and I don't get it. Never been a puzzler.

richardhutnik@hotmail.com

2005-07-20, 3:32 am

Mattingly I am not even close to that I don't think. For me, it is the
zen experience of puzzle games, which I like, and the music and visual
effects that hooks me (Tetris meets Dance Dance Revolution). I also
try to unlock more levels. I get up to a few levels past the dance
levels, and get stuck. I think a bit past "Dark side of the River".
For me, it is an experience to waste time with, more than showing
mastery of it. Although I do get better, and breakthroughs come in
bursts. Like, I occationally get past the rat, to get to the vampire
in the vs CPU game.

Anyhow, the puzzle games are really old school single screen action
titles pretending to be puzzlers. To keep the genre alive, they named
them puzzlers.

- Richard Hutnik

Mattinglyfan

2005-07-20, 3:32 am

<richardhutnik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121834349.697143.233640@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

quote:

> Mattingly I am not even close to that I don't think. For me, it is the
> zen experience of puzzle games, which I like, and the music and visual
> effects that hooks me (Tetris meets Dance Dance Revolution). I also
> try to unlock more levels. I get up to a few levels past the dance
> levels, and get stuck. I think a bit past "Dark side of the River".
> For me, it is an experience to waste time with, more than showing
> mastery of it. Although I do get better, and breakthroughs come in
> bursts. Like, I occationally get past the rat, to get to the vampire
> in the vs CPU game.
>
> Anyhow, the puzzle games are really old school single screen action
> titles pretending to be puzzlers. To keep the genre alive, they named
> them puzzlers.
>

Well damn, I used to be good at those. Why do I suck so bad at Lumines?
Remember Qix (sp?), that was my favorite single screen game.

quote:

> - Richard Hutnik
>

richardhutnik@hotmail.com

2005-07-20, 8:39 pm

Mattingly, I will also add this regarding the puzzlers. They have also
been "brain" beefed up a bit, so they are bit more puzzle like. They
are still action titles mostly. Of course, there are likes of
bejeweled, which is more puzzle like, but Lumines ends up being need to
react quickly. Maybe it could be that rotation and spacial perception
aren't your strongest suites, however. Also, Lumines isn't the easiest
game to play. It is different. I find it does, however, boil down to
forming set patterns below to capitalize on future shapes that will
fall. I don't even look really to the upcoming blocks. Maybe I do an
occational peak to see if a jeweled piece is falling, but not for
planning otherwise.

- Richard Hutnik