Recent content by Mr pokey lope

  1. Mr pokey lope

    Xbox is dead, share your console death stories

    My younger brother is one of those people who pretend that the controller is a steering wheel when playing driving games. While taking a hard corner in NFS he yanked it out of its crappy vertical stand by the controller cable and smashed up the disk drive against the floor. After 6 years I still...
  2. Mr pokey lope

    Poll: food: how expired is too expired?

    I've eaten many things that have expired well over a year ago. Tinned, dried, frozen, vacuum packed, salted and UHT products pretty much never go off. The only problem is, things that manage to make it that long without being eaten are always disgusting to begin with. I've a five year old...
  3. Mr pokey lope

    Poll: Are you excited for the next gen consoles ?

    The graphics and the controllers of the PS3 and Xbox 360 are already great IMO. I just don't see what else they can add other than pointless gimmicks that will actively make the consoles worse. There's not much to go on yet and hopefully I will be surprised and there will be real innovation, but...
  4. Mr pokey lope

    What have you been playing lately?

    Ico, shadow of the colosus (got the HD collection for crimbo), Beyond good and evil. And I'm starting a 5th play through of XCOM: EU.
  5. Mr pokey lope

    Leftovers

    There is no such thing as left over bacon... or too many olives. The best is cold haggis and gravy.
  6. Mr pokey lope

    Zero Punctuation: Psychonauts

    I did play it. But it was a pre owned copy, so I guess I deserved the pencil thing.