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Post by hisroyalgingerness » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:37 am

Am tempted to do that Sky Player offer. bit more flexible for me than signing up to sky proper. Anyone do it?
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Post by Bruno » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:38 am

I'm setting it up later using my Mums Sky subscription
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Post by boltonboris » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:08 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:Am tempted to do that Sky Player offer. bit more flexible for me than signing up to sky proper. Anyone do it?
What's all this then?
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Post by Bruno » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:24 pm

About a tenner a month to watch Sky through your Xbox, you need a Gold Account on the 360 (about forty quid a year).
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Post by General Mannerheim » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:33 pm

is there any point in it if you already have sky?

or is it similar to the bbc iplayer, where you can download prgrommes you have missed?
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Post by boltonboris » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:35 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:is there any point in it if you already have sky?

or is it similar to the bbc iplayer, where you can download prgrommes you have missed?
I suppose the benefit for me would be that I could watch it upstairs while the missus has corrie on. It's cheaper than multi-room too!
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Post by Bruno » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:38 pm

boltonboris wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:is there any point in it if you already have sky?

or is it similar to the bbc iplayer, where you can download prgrommes you have missed?
I suppose the benefit for me would be that I could watch it upstairs while the missus has corrie on. It's cheaper than multi-room too!

I think this is the main benefit
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Post by General Mannerheim » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:40 pm

my xbox lives in the lounge, on the big screen!

and we already have multiroom, so she can watch corrie upstairs while im slaying zombies!
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Post by boltonboris » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:43 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:my xbox lives in the lounge, on the big screen!
Mine lives upstairs - with one of the bigscreens :mrgreen:
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Post by hisroyalgingerness » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:50 pm

See I'm considering subscribing as a way of getting Sky, I'd watch online or thru the Xbox. Costs are similar, but you're only tied into a month by month deal. If I'll watch it, then I'll prob commit to proper Sky
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Post by FD » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:43 am

You really don't want skyplayer on a 360 for your main sky, it's shit quality and is streaming.

It's also the same price as a multiroom subscription, with the added bonus of sounding like an aircraft carrier.
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Post by General Mannerheim » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:11 pm

Ballad of Gay Tony is fooking MEGA!!!

Never played a game where im sat there laughing so much!

10 times more enjoybale than lost & damned! Crackin soundtrack too!!!
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Post by jaffka » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:18 pm

Anyone remember the Baldurs Gate series?

Well in 4 days time (at the time of posting!) Dragon Age: Origins will be released.

I am looking forward to this :D

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonAge
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Post by hisroyalgingerness » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:26 pm

I've just discovered you can download an old Atari ST game in the community games - Onslaught. It's shit, but a shit game I spent weeks on as a kid, that'll be me tomorrow
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Post by Worthy4England » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:42 am

jaffka wrote:Anyone remember the Baldurs Gate series?

Well in 4 days time (at the time of posting!) Dragon Age: Origins will be released.

I am looking forward to this :D

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonAge
Yer - played them all. Only got naffed off when they went to NWN (which I thought was poor fare compared to the BG Series). Thanks for pointing this one out to me, will go have a look see. :-)
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Post by americantrotter » Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:47 pm

jaffka wrote:Anyone remember the Baldurs Gate series?

Well in 4 days time (at the time of posting!) Dragon Age: Origins will be released.

I am looking forward to this :D

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonAge
Yeah it was on my list. I'm excited about it. Just picked up GTA IV finally, so I might be slow in picking Dragon Age up. I loved Baldur's Gate and the Norrath series.
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Post by Worthy4England » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:26 pm

americantrotter wrote:
jaffka wrote:Anyone remember the Baldurs Gate series?

Well in 4 days time (at the time of posting!) Dragon Age: Origins will be released.

I am looking forward to this :D

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonAge
Yeah it was on my list. I'm excited about it. Just picked up GTA IV finally, so I might be slow in picking Dragon Age up. I loved Baldur's Gate and the Norrath series.
hmmm thought Norrath was Everquest?
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Post by americantrotter » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:35 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
americantrotter wrote:
jaffka wrote:Anyone remember the Baldurs Gate series?

Well in 4 days time (at the time of posting!) Dragon Age: Origins will be released.

I am looking forward to this :D

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonAge
Yeah it was on my list. I'm excited about it. Just picked up GTA IV finally, so I might be slow in picking Dragon Age up. I loved Baldur's Gate and the Norrath series.
hmmm thought Norrath was Everquest?
It was but they had 2 really cool PS2 games from the company that did the original Baldur's Gate on PS2.
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Post by clapton is god » Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:00 pm

jaffka wrote: Well in 4 days time (at the time of posting!) Dragon Age: Origins will be released.
Courtesy of Amazon this arrived in the post this afternoon.

It's in the post back to them tomorrow morning!

First time in the machine and the disc is scratched to buggery! The game never even tried to play and just reported the disc was unreadable! First time this has ever happened with my xBox which is and always has been in the horizontal position. Yes, I've read about the 'toothpaste method' but its going back to Amazon.
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Post by General Mannerheim » Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:08 pm

http://www.oxm.co.uk/article.php?id=14971
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