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  1. Demon's Souls

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    ^^ how much did you get it from EBay? a new copy am assuming...can you post the link for the Ebay guy?

     

    I have ordered one from PA, should be arriving by 1st/2nd of June. and co-op should be great! Co-op is two player or more?

     

    So its you, me, skeptical devil, KC and maybe reaper also if he has ordered it...

  4. Ask The Experts

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    Posted · Edited by blackheart2925

    Posted this on the Ninty thread but nobody even saw it i think...that section has no visitors huh?

     

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    I have been seeing people talking about the DS for quite sometime now and have slowly gotten interested in this device.

    So i got a few questions

     

    1. Any idea where i can buy it in Chennai and what would be the cost? And is it available from the grey market or white? Does Landmark or something else sells the DS? If it's got to be grey only, any idea where i can buy in Chennai(currently staying) or Kolkata(home base) or Delhi(visit at times for work) or maybe Bangalore (next door, i can drive down on a weekend or catch a train)?

     

    2. Support - does Nintendo provide support for DS in India? Official like Sony, MS etc...And is it region specific warranty etc. If grey buy then if stops working, do i have to throw it in the trashcan? how rugged is it?

     

    3. What models are available currrently and any recommendations on which to buy? I saw a couple of threads back people talking about DS, DSi and DSLite...whats the difference? and whats that R4 thing i heard of? does any of the variety has Wifi support?

     

    4. Games - officially available or all imports? and whats the cost like? again from where i can buy or ship within India? I wanna play RPG's DS is supposed to be the best for that...so any DSi software will run on DS Lite and DS and vice versa?

     

    5. Does some kind of region-restriction exist? hardware/software

     

    5. Modding - is it required?

     

    6. What are common problems which people face with the DS? like screen not very robust/ dead pixels/hinge problems etc

     

    7.games - is it some kind of a mini cd or UMD or flash drive or some other device?

     

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    answers would be really appreciated

  5. **The Food Thread**

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    Posted · Edited by blackheart2925

    :paagaldance:

     

    Don't diss Skippy just because you don't like peanut butter. That's like a gay man saying Jessica Alba isn't sexy. :paagaldance:

    peace

    bond is gay???? Alba not sexy?????????????? :wOOtjumpy:

     

    btw peanut butter you can spread it on bread...my favourite sandwich is like this -

     

    1. one slice - spread the peanut butter (chunky preferably nahi to smooth chalega) on slice

    2. other slice - spread a good quality sugar free preserve (not Kissan jam crap, preserves have more of real fruit and less sugar and synthetic and is also preservative free) but those imported french ones...my fave is Raspberry or Blueberry or the Golden Peach flavours

    3. bring the two bread slices together and you have a awesome combo!

     

    additionally you can put a cheese slice in between the bread pieces and pop it in the toaster for a couple of minutes for a melt-in-your mouth combo...

     

    P.S. - peanut butter can also be used in place of peanut paste in Thai/Malay cooking but you need to keep an eye on the salt content of the dish

     

    P.P.S. - please dont use the maida bread crap (white bread) but go for a decent brown bread

  8. Demon's Souls

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    Posted · Edited by blackheart2925

    here's the Eurogamer review - though its old it makes for a stunning read. It's a pretty long one so am just posting the first page, more info at the link

     

    From Software is a strange and fascinating developer. Mention the name and Armoured Core is what usually springs to mind, or occasionally Otogi, but when it's not making mech games From's output encompasses a vast range of extremes - cutesy co-op platformer Cookies and Cream, Tenchu, card-battler Lost Kingdoms, horror adventure Echo Night, broken, miserablist cult series King's Field. And this, the most interesting PlayStation 3 exclusive I've ever played.

     

    Demon's Souls is a brutal, bleak action combat RPG that pits your lone character against a universe full of violent demons. They range from former human soldiers to agile, double scimitar-wielding skeletons, pouncing flame-creatures, octopus-headed guards, embryonic plague-carrying monstrosities, even Death himself. The game's five worlds - all massive - are split into four different sections, each guarded by a horribly large and hardcore boss monster. Everything in the entire world is designed to kill you, quickly and often without warning.

     

    The only safe place is the Nexus, a haven for tormented souls. It acts as a hub from which you can access the five worlds, or buy and upgrade your character's weapons and abilities to give them a slightly better chance of survival. It is one of the most difficult modern videogames in existence, refusing to make even the slightest concession to your happiness or mental well-being. For this reason, developing a devotion to Demon's Souls has been the gaming equivalent of falling in love with an emotionally stunted, occasionally violent sociopath.

     

    It's not a hack-and-slasher, though Demon's Souls incorporates the best elements of that genre into its accomplished weapons combat. The pace is slower, and you can learn to use magic, miracles, ranged attacks, scavenged items and enchanted equipment to give you a wealth of alternatives to slicing things up with a sword.

    'Demon's Souls' Screenshot 1

     

    This will kill you by cleaving you in half with an axe.

     

    Demon's Souls is deeply tactical, preferring to pit you one-on-one against vicious and high-level enemies that can use the same tactics, weapons and magic as you rather than drowning you in a sea of lesser foes. You slowly build up a large inventory of vastly differing equipment and skills for yourself as you inch your way through the levels, finding treasure, killing demons and using the souls you get from them to buy a tiny bit more health, strength, magic power, carry weight or life-saving equipment.

     

    What you fight with is entirely up to you. Any character can scavenge, buy and use any weapon. Go with a sword and shield and you can parry enemies' attacks with the latter before stabbing them through the heart in slow motion, if your timing's good enough (mistime your parry, and you'll probably die). Choose a dagger and light armour and you can roll and dart around before stabbing demons in the back for a similar, satisfyingly gory critical hit.

     

    Using a bow lets you stalk enemies in first-person from a distant turret. Find a wand, and you can cast magic; find a talisman, you can heal yourself with miracles. The closest comparison is Monster Hunter, but Demon's Souls' combat controls are more precise; the weapons feel realistic rather than comically extreme. Fighting is physical, violent and cathartic, and you find yourself forming genuine attachments to favourite weapons.

    'Demon's Souls' Screenshot 2

     

    This, meanwhile, will kill you by shooting a metal bolt three times your own width through your chest from the sky.

     

    There's unrestricted scope for developing your character in different directions. You can play it as a nimble magic user with an assassin's dagger, or hide behind a heavy shield and two-inch-thick body armour whilst skewering things in the dark with a lance, and you can switch between these two strategies at will by changing your equipment.

     

    That flexibility prevents the game from ever getting stale and equally prevents you from falling into easy habits or closing off interesting options from yourself through your choice of class. You're constantly forced to change your approach, if not by choice then by the sheer variety of aggressive enemies that the game throws at you. No one strategy works against all of them.

     

    When you die in Demon's Souls - and you will die, a lot - you lose your physical body, becoming a soul with half a health bar (although in practice it's more like a three quarters, as there's a ring in the very first world that lets you cling a little closer to life). The only way to get it back is to kill a boss monster.

     

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  11. Demon's Souls

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    ok...i ordered the game from PA...and used the 5$ off coupon which came with my Eternal Sonata (which arrived in 9 days flat! WOW)!

     

    Hope the stock lasts till the time they process my order...its only today they changed the stock status...i was checking it everyday!

     

    Now i will wait for it come and then i will use the US$5 coupon to order Sacred 2: Fallen Angel

  23. **The Food Thread**

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    planning to make dinner...

     

    my menu -

     

    1. aloo beans (skinned potatoes and french beans, steamed and lightly fried in garlic flavoured olive oil with a dash

    of fresh ground black pepper and pinch of turmeric and and dash of lemon juice)

     

    2. yellow masoor dal (dal pressure cooked to smoothy consistency with a tadka of fried-onions-and-tomatoes-paste

    for taste and fragnance and dash of turmeric for the yellow colour)

     

    3. brown eggs (2 eggs) omlette (eggs directly dropped into the pan with a dash o olive oil and slow cooked to a rich

    white-and-yellow perfection)

     

    4. steamed rice

  25. What you bought this week

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    Nice stuff mainhost :lol:

    Heck, I rem how much money me n my flatmates earned when we sold off a year's worth of beer bottles...close to 3k bucks I guess. Bough more booze with it ;) ;)

     

    how much does a beer bottle cost outside...say Re. 1? that would mean 3000 bottles of beer??? thats more than 200 beers a month and 50 beers a week i.e. 7 beers a day for a 7 day week...WOW!!! :(

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