Have to say, one thing that I love about this game is that the fighting system doesn't seem to have any funny bugs or flaws in comparison to its rivals like Mortal Kombat, Virtua Fighter or Tekken. I'm still unsure as I find Soul Calibur IV to be quite good as well but there are some funny things about it like being able to do Mitsurugi's shoryuken style slash when the opponent is knocked down without the other player being able to retaliate or avoid it.

Also, the great thing about most of the street fighter games is that all characters are great if used properly. Obviously, the Shotokan fighters are much easier to get used to than say Honda, Zangief or Blanka but I've found, after some practice, if used properly, they can be devastating.

I've unlocked everyone up to Akuma so only have Gouken and Seth left to unlock. I've fought against Gouken in Time Attack and Survival, he seems to be REALLY really good, well, at least, potentially anyway, CPU is too easy .

So, who is your favourite and best character?

Oh don't worry, I'm 5th in the rankings now so have bought most of the car packs, got the Nurburgring and the short and long tracks.

Its ok actually, I mustn't have been looking properly. I calculated that I actually have 63 to select and 50 in the folder. I'm assuming that the remaining 13 are part of the actual OS. The PGR4 logo still isn't available so I'll try and save up my kudos to see if I get it.

1,000,000 Kudos here I come!

Well, the thought that I may have to have the game associated with the profile pics did cross my mind (i.e.: have to own Halo to unlock the Halo profile pics) but I'm not entirely sure on this one either because I have PGR4 and I noticed that there is a PGR4 profile pic (which is simply just a 4) and I wasn't able to select but then again, I'm thinking that it could be the million kudos profile pic which I haven't achieved.

If any of you guys have achieved the million kudos, can you tell me if the PGR4 "4" becomes available.

If it is related to some sort of unlocking system, then, all I can say to Microsoft is to Grow Up!

@Dajmin: whats this about public and personal profile pics?

Hi all. I've found something strange about the X360. I had a look in the memory section of the dashboard to have a look to see whats on the HDD.

Anyway, I had a look in the Gamer Profile pics folder and found quite a lot more icons than to what is available to me when selecting one for my profile. Its no biggie really, I don't really care what logo I have but this just seemed strange.

K, thanks for that

Hi all. Just wanted to ask about HDD space on the X360. I'm aware that the OS and arcade games and demos take up some space and some savegames but would it really take 12 GBs?

Its ok, did it . After tons of persistence and lucking the buffer technique with the Focus Attack, I finally did it. Did Challenge 5 too :P

Hope you get ****ed you ****in ****ed up ****er. ****ety **** ****.

Man! I'm so glad you wrote that message Kev. You're a rebel and I like rebels so thank you for giving me the courage to ****in curse all the ****in way through this ****in post

the sky must be clear cuz I can see a lot of stars there :P

Hi all. Can anyone tell me how to do this or are Capcom are just the craziest b*stards. I've got to the bit of the Med. Shoryuken only twice. First time, instead of the Shinryuken, I did an EX Shoryuken by mistake but I persevered until today, I did everything right and did the Shinryuken as soon as I could but thanks to Capcom's awkward juggling system, it didn't connect so can anyone help me? My patience is just wearing so thin now. They're just sadists!

Sorry to cause any more bother but I'm hoping to refresh this topic. Unfortunately, I lost that bid on eBay as my fellow bidder seemed to be able splash as much cash as he'd like so couldn't top his bid. Anyway, I read on the Minichamps website that they're meant to be acquiring it this month but just found that they've changed it to October 2009 which isn't ideal as this gift was meant to be a birthday present for a friend and its 4 months late. So, would anyone please tell me where I could find this model now? It would have to be brand new or excellent condition (car has to be in perfect condition, and case in great condition). Thank you.

Quote from marzman :

You bring in the argument about slow development again, but give strange examples. Forza 2 is updated much less then LFS is and GT5P is a preview version of a game that hasn't got a launch date yet but will probably take at least a year from now to be finished. So it's kind of comparable with LFS besides you have to buy the full version again with GT5.

When i bought LFS i took it as is and only enjoyed it was still onder active development. Most games are not, they just let you buy a new version every year. In LFS people that bougt S1 six year ago still get free physic and video upgrades.

sorry, I wasn't clear when I said that GT5P and Forza 2 are good alternatives. I meant good alternatives as in they offer different things to LFS. All 3 are aiming to be as realistic as possible but while LES only offers 19 cars, Forza offers 200+ and GT5P offers 60+. LES may have more tracks but Forza and GT5P has real tracks (like the Nordschleife, Suzuka and Silverstone)

of course, my essentials to a sim may be different to many. I used to think that LFS was the best sim out there, simply because I felt that it had the most realistic feel to it but when I played Forza, my mind instantly switched.

The one thing that I greatly admired LFS for in the first place was its physics but can its physics still be defined as realistic, I very much doubt that. All you need to do is watch some WRs to realise that most of those guys aren't great drivers, they're just great exploiters of a false representation of reality and I admit, I've had a few under my name and after I did it, I realised how silly it was.

That said, I can't say the same about Forza or GT5P because I don't have broadband to watch what they look like but for now, I prefer Forza over LFS in all areas (Physics, cars, tracks, sounds, graphics). I'll still keep up to date with LFS and its developments because it was so good when it first came out and its ok now so its bound to have tons of potential to be the ultimate sim once again but until then, I'll be enjoying thrashing my Enzo GT round the Nurburgring

Well, I would do that but well, all my friends live even further away from town so they definitely don't have broadband. Damn you Eircom and your bullsh*t systems!

Well, having lived there for 9 years, I wouldn't really be concerned. Although, I may be half Egyptian, I'm considered as a complete foreigner, because of my Irish side.

Strange as it may sound, I'm personally concerned about going back there. I wouldn't define Egypt as a danger zone compared to its neigbouring countries. Its a much more serene place.

If there was one thing that I would warn you about, it would be prejudice. A lot of people there like to generalise, linking nationalities with governments (like an American could be talked to badly and disrespectfully, simply because of Bush's cock up, it may be similar with the British as well since our old friend Tony joined in on the party). That said, there is also the other, more pleasant side which is defined in Arabic as, in phonetic English, "Okdat el Aganeb" which literally translates as "Foreigner Complex". Basically, its exactly like Yellow Fever except with Europeans. I can tell you, if you meet any people like that, they'll most likely cling to you and want to be best friends.

Finally, in terms of transport, don't let them taxi drivers over charge you! I once knew a guy who spent 120 EGP on a journey which only costs 20-25 EGP (from Madinat Nasr (or Nasr City) to Medan Tahrir (Tahrir Square).

Hi all. I was hoping if someone could help me with a problem. Unfortunately, the idiotic local broadband providers have stated that it isn't possible to get broadband when in fact, we had people living in my house who had it.

Anyway, thats a separate issue, point is, I don't have broadband, meaning I can't access the PSN to download new updates and content.

I've read that the new GT5P patch (which includes the Citroën GT, Ferrari California and the Lotus Evora) is currently free so no piracy issues there. So, ultimately, what I wanted to ask, does anyone here know of an alternative method of getting the patch? Like download it from a PC then put it on a flash drive and update the game that way? Thanks

Well, I'm not interested in the aesthetics of the pad, just the button layout. Of course, if its going to sell for a crazy price, I wouldn't be interested.

Yeah, I saw the arcade stick. As I mentioned in my initial post, I'm not really interested in arcade sticks because I wasn't really part of the arcade scene in the early 90s so have much more experience with d-pad use from my mega drive days but mainly because of the price to which I could buy 3 or 4 games for that kind of money.

About that FightPad though, I've looked on amazon but they haven't got it yet? Is it actually released in Europe or only US? And if it is released in EU, best place to buy one for price? The US amazon site have it selling there for $105

Eh eh eh? . Cool! Thanks . I'll search for that.

Well, personally, I haven't played LFS in over six months but I do miss it. I've played GT5P and Forza 2 which are great alternatives.

Obviously, the slow rate of development is quite frustrating but the thing that perhaps is most frustrating is the fact that they're keeping it a 3 man team. No doubt, its amazing how good it is when teams of 50 or more guys couldn't do better but although, they keep amazing us with new developments and features, its only once in a while because it takes ages to develop with such a small team.

I think that they should consider bringing in more people. I'm not really bothered if they were to boost up the price a bit (maybe make it like £15 or £18 per licence) that would allow for quicker development and new ideas.

Hi all. I have a small problem with the official pad and it seems to be quite common which is the d-pad.

Its fine for most of my games but I recently got Street Fighter IV and I found it terrible in trying to initiate charging characters supers and ultras. Also, something which bothers me in the design is the left and right bumpers (used for light punch/kick) which makes a bit awkward to do combos (e.g.: Akuma's jump fierce kick, down medium kick, weak tatsumaki combo) so would there be an alternative layout that would be similair to that of the original xbox pad (bulky one) with the black and white buttons positioned similairly to the six-button pad of the Mega Drive/Genesis.

The button layout isn't too crucial as it just takes some getting used to but the d-pad bit is quite frustrating. I know some of may think that to just get an arcade stick but to be honest, I actually prefer the d-pad setup.

I'd be looking for a bigger and softer d-pad to make it easier to do the quarter-forward/back attacks during combos.

Thanks for the help

Hi all. I know this is quite a strange and trivial question but it just dug my head in that there is no mechanism to taking the ryu and c.viper character models out of the plastic packaging so can anyone tell me how to remove them without damaging the packaging. Thanks.

Hi all. I just bought Metal Gear Solid 4 but unfortunately, I'm new to the series. I played the first game and 2: Substance very briefly so I don't really know anything about the storyline.

I know it seems maybe sad to care about the storyline of a game but I heard that its meant to be really good. An obvious solution could always be just to get the first 3 games, finish them and I'll be up to speed but it would take quite some time to do, not to mention cost a fair amount of money in the process so what I wanted ask does anyone know where I can find some written documents with the storyline from the first game to the third. Thanks.

Hi all. Please forgive me if this has already been mentioned but just wanted to ask something about the bundle.

I noticed that GTR:Evo comes bundled with Race07. The problem is, I already have Race07 so I would waste money if I were to get the bundle so what I wanted to ask, does anyone know where I could buy GTR:Evo without Race? Or, if someone could tell me if there is any difference between race07(single version) and the bundle version (like more cars, tracks, etc.) so that I could sell my copy of Race and just buy the bundle version. Thanks

I called Sony yesterday and as originally mentioned by my brother, they told me that its a normal thing as over time it would take longer to shut down. Oddly enough though, I turned it off once yesterday and it turned off in about 3 seconds so strange . Ah! but screw it, as long as its normal, I'm enjoying challenging myself with the Ford GT LM round Suzuka in Professional

Nah, if its normal, I'm fine with it. Just concerned if it isn't, meaning there is something wrong with it = games won't run properly. I'm gonna give sony a call tomorrow and see what they say about it. Its only a month old so if there is something wrong with it then can get it replaced.