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Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49233

Unless you really need a sodding huge zoom for the price.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Skate, Xbox 360 - £13.71 delivered
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, PC - £13.71 delivered
Tom Clancys: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - Legacy Edition, Xbox 360 - £10.99 delivered

Xbox 360 Premium Console with 60GB HDD - £179.99 delivered49.html]No More Heroes, Wii[/url] - £14.49 delivered

Runcle · **Posted:** Mon Aug 11, 2008 23:54

today I have been buying more dvds I dont need or will watch but they were bargains is my excuse I think its an addiction though.

anyway amazon have got a sale.

I bought 4 film bowsext of Ingmar Bergman films for £8.97
and also Woody Allen Collection 1 for £10.97 which contains, Bananas/Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask/Sleeper/Love And Death/Annie Hall.

theres also another 3 woody allen sets like that for the same price but I really am not that daft and havent got that much money.

tossrStu · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1326

LewieP wrote:

Xbox 360 Premium Console with 60GB HDD

Also £180 at Amazon, although unfortunately the usual bundle offers (Halo 3 for £10, GTA4 for £20, one game from an increasingly-crap selection for £20, etc.) don't seem to work.

Runcle · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2008 14:14

http://www.dvd.co.uk/Games/Saints-Row-2-XBox-360/TQ06764/product.htm?PURL=dvddeals.at/hotukdeals&P36=9EQRWG&CID=0&CTY=8

saints row 2 pre-order fo 32 smackers. Im tempted but Im not sure Ill have the money and may have to use me long kept hmv vouchers and buy an overpriced one.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8650

Argos seem to have added a few more games to their 2 for £45 selection.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8650

Joans wrote:

I've taken the plunge on the Twin Peaks boxset, so I'll be able to answer any questions when it turns up.

CUS, from what I can find out about it, it's only the writing on the back of the box that's not in English, and everything else is indistinguishable from a UK release (if there was one).
At a glance, the extras seem to tie up with the Region 1 edition, but I haven't compared them in detail.

Lace, even if there isn't a stereo English option, I think the English 5.1 would still sound ok. Have you got any dvds that you can try out and set the audio track to 5.1 and see if they still sound alright?

This has turned up today if anyone is interested, although it's now gone up to £29.99.

Everything on the outside of the box is in English apart from the classification details on the bottom of the box, and there's a description on the back of the box that takes up about the top third that is only in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish (possibly the languages aren't called this, but you know what I mean).

The main description of what you actually get on the dvds is all in English.

There's some more Scandinavian cert stuff on the discs (as well as what looks like some Spanish?), but the desctiptions of what's on each disc is in English.

I'll update when I actually get round to watching one of the discs.

Update!

You put a disc in and it asks you what language you want, the default is English, so you just have to hammer the button. Then you get your typical Play All, Choose Episose, setup type stuff.
Audio options are English 5.1, English 2.0, German, Italian, Spanish
Subs are in English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish or Swedish.

That is all.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Speed Racer, Wii - £12 delivered
Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga, PS3 - £16 delivered
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Wii - £9.99 delivered
Soul Calibur IV, Xbox 360 - £32.99 delivered
We Love Golf, Wii - £19.99 delivered
Condemned 2, PS3 - £17.99 delivered

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Xbox 360 Premium 20gb - £159.99 delivered

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

The World Ends With You, DS - £17.99 - delivered

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

WarTech: Senko No Ronde, Xbox 360 - £5 delivered

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1879

LewieP wrote:

WarTech: Senko No Ronde, Xbox 360 - £5 delivered

eesh!

I paid £50 for that lemon when it came out.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Is it worth £5?

I think CUSUC said nice things about it.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

For anyone who missed out on the £8 deal -

Lost Odyssey, Xbox 360 - £9.79 delivered

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:07

Still waiting for Gaming Extreme to ship that to me. Almost a month now.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

I'd give up if I were you, powerplaydirect are way reliable, and for £1.79 more it's worth it. Just cancel the GE order.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49233

I eagerly await a retoon of Lost Odyssey.

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1879

Dudley wrote:

Is it worth £5?

maybe...

but three of us at Peoww bought it and all three of us hated it. My issues were the confusing graphics, horribly slidey controls, the amount of damage each player could take (far too much, like Powerstone meets Gears of War) and the repetitive gameplay.

I really really hate the game!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Aug 15, 2008 13:07

Craster wrote:

I eagerly await a retoon of Lost Odyssey.

I prefer "scrawlview"

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49233

I just really want to know how far through the dreams you get before the need to kill takes you.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Aug 15, 2008 14:51

Which one? The one where Julian Clary was having miles of sharp wire inserted into his rectum on national television to revive his career, or the one about Richard Gaywood the paedophile politician?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Aug 15, 2008 15:04

Well I done gone and sent an email to Game Extreme to cancel their slow as shit order for Lost Odyssey, ordered with Powerplay and have just received dispatch confirmation from them. Powerplay super plus good.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Few...it's gone out of stock at Powerplay now...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49233

Dimrill wrote:

Which one? The one where Julian Clary was having miles of sharp wire inserted into his rectum on national television to revive his career, or the one about Richard Gaywood the paedophile politician?

Lost Odyssey's dreams are worse than Dimrill dreams. It's true.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Spore, PC/Mac - £24.99 delivered

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Sony PS3 40gb - £259.99 delivered

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Superbike 08 (360) - http://www.simplygames.com/info/16099 - £24

tossrStu · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1326

Rock Band game and instruments -- £130.99 from Dixons.

http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/d ... oid=-28623

BUT! If you buy a 60GB 360 at the same time (£180) you can use voucher code XPLAY25 to knock 25% off the price of accessories -- which, awesomely, includes the Rock Band bundle meaning you get the whole lot for the princely sum of £276.73. However the voucher expires at midnight tomorrow and it's apparently limited to the first 60 so better get your skates on if you want to take advantage.

Myfinger · **Joined:** 18th Aug, 2008 **Posts:** 370

Hello all from the new guy.

I'm looking for a new laptop as I have finally found a reason to change my Compaq Presario 2100 2.0ghz celery (circa 2003 vintage). It's Eve Online.

Anyway. Laptop deals. Anyone seen any recently? I've seen the ones on HUKD but wondered if anyone had seen any others.

Ta

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

You see Comical, THAT'S an angry avatar.

An Angratar if you will.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2008 21:47

How has myfinger detached itself from myhand and created its own user account? I'll have to have words. I know nothing about laptop prices, sorry.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Bottles of Pepsi, 2 for 1 in Lidl.

Went in to buy in bulk and ended up saving about 20 quid. That said it was £1.45 a bottle which seemed steep, but when you take the BOGOF into account it's more reasonable.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Myfinger wrote:

Hello all from the new guy.

I'm looking for a new laptop as I have finally found a reason to change my Compaq Presario 2100 2.0ghz celery (circa 2003 vintage). It's Eve Online.

Anyway. Laptop deals. Anyone seen any recently? I've seen the ones on HUKD but wondered if anyone had seen any others.

Ta

A refurb Macbook Pro beyond your budget? They run Windows as sweet as a nut and you'll be pushed to find a better Dell/Acer etc. Check out the tiny tiny link in the Apple store through to the refurb section.

If money is tight Acer do decent models. You'll want to make sure that the laptop has a proper GPU though rather than some integrated tat.

Myfinger · **Joined:** 18th Aug, 2008 **Posts:** 370

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Myfinger wrote:

Hello all from the new guy.

I'm looking for a new laptop as I have finally found a reason to change my Compaq Presario 2100 2.0ghz celery (circa 2003 vintage). It's Eve Online.

Anyway. Laptop deals. Anyone seen any recently? I've seen the ones on HUKD but wondered if anyone had seen any others.

Ta

A refurb Macbook Pro beyond your budget? They run Windows as sweet as a nut and you'll be pushed to find a better Dell/Acer etc. Check out the tiny tiny link in the Apple store through to the refurb section.

Erm... In a word, yes! I'm really looking south of £500, even the refurbed "bargain" Macs are wielding four figure prices at me menacingly!

chinnyhill10 wrote:

If money is tight Acer do decent models. You'll want to make sure that the laptop has a proper GPU though rather than some integrated tat.

I have it in my mind that Acers aren't good buys due to poor quality, but given I haven't bought a laptop in ages perhaps I am out of date on this?

I've seen Mr Gaywood's Dell XPS which looks sweet, but I think he had a mega deal on that which I can't expect to replicate.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Myfinger wrote:

I have it in my mind that Acers aren't good buys due to poor quality, but given I haven't bought a laptop in ages perhaps I am out of date on this?

I've seen Mr Gaywood's Dell XPS which looks sweet, but I think he had a mega deal on that which I can't expect to replicate.

I just sold my 18 month old mid-range Acer and it was lovely. Barring the naff integrated graphics card (my own fault because a full GPU option was available). Yes the build quality can't touch the Mac but what do you expect for a third of the price? I will say that the Acer did feel a tad flimsy but it really wasn't a problem. Nothing every broke or snapped off and the screen never broke in two.

That said the PSU did blow up 20 minutes before the Ebay auction was due to end, but that was branded Lite-On and a replacement was easy to get hold of and didn't break the bank. But likewise I've seen PSU's go on all sorts of laptops.

Malc · **Posted:** Sat Aug 23, 2008 0:05

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Bottles of Pepsi, 2 for 1 in Lidl.

Went in to buy in bulk and ended up saving about 20 quid. That said it was £1.45 a bottle which seemed steep, but when you take the BOGOF into account it's more reasonable.

somerfield has it for 72p for 2l

Malc

Runcle · **Posted:** Sat Aug 23, 2008 0:07

we arent going to start fucking mumbling over pennies again over pepsi again are we? its rubbish anyway.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Spinglo Sponglo! wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Bottles of Pepsi, 2 for 1 in Lidl.

Went in to buy in bulk and ended up saving about 20 quid. That said it was £1.45 a bottle which seemed steep, but when you take the BOGOF into account it's more reasonable.

somerfield has it for 72p for 2l

Malc

No Somerfield anywhere near here

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32621

Dudley wrote:

You see Comical, THAT'S an angry avatar.

An Angratar if you will.

This is not MyFinger being angry. This is MyFinger exhibiting the quality he is most known for -- the sleek, dazzling veneer of the 1980s.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:09

I don't know much about vodka prices but this might be of use to someone.

http://www.thresher.co.uk/campaigns/BHO ... mail2.html

tossrStu · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1326

This weekend's deal on Steam is Audiosurf for $5 (+ VAT):

http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?are ... ppId=12900

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:42

chinnyhill10 wrote:

A refurb Macbook Pro beyond your budget? They run Windows as sweet as a nut and you'll be pushed to find a better Dell/Acer etc. Check out the tiny tiny link in the Apple store through to the refurb section.

If money is tight Acer do decent models. You'll want to make sure that the laptop has a proper GPU though rather than some integrated tat.

God you're such a Steve Jobs fanboy!

Acer are ok too I think. My housemate has one that's been going for years now. I agree about graphics up to a point- I was surprised that my little intel GMA950 based netbook could run world of warcraft, but proper is better. I wouldn't buy Asus, though, and I would look for Core 2 Duo based intel rather than AMD, but that's just me.

Ramsea · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 963

Lenovo seem to make some pretty good budget laptops too and may be worth a look at.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

AceAceBaby wrote:

God you're such a Steve Jobs fanboy!

Acer are ok too I think. My housemate has one that's been going for years now. I agree about graphics up to a point- I was surprised that my little intel GMA950 based netbook could run world of warcraft, but proper is better. I wouldn't buy Asus, though, and I would look for Core 2 Duo based intel rather than AMD, but that's just me.

The Intel chips run cooler and faster. As pointed out elsewhere on the forum today, AMD are so far behind since the advert of dual core that they aren't worth bothering with. Cheap and cheerful.

Proper GPU is better as more and more apps use the GPU. Depends on what you are doing. Certainly with my apps I hit a brick wall with renders taking several hours due to the lack of GPU. But for standard stuff integrated is OK.

As for a Steve Jobs fanboy, can't stand the man. However the Pro models are the one thing that Apple have got right, although the Macbook Pro is overpriced by about 300 quid. It is however design perfection and I had a load of Windows fanboys wetting themselves when I showed them Parallels run XP on the OSX desktop in the week.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Aug 24, 2008 22:34

Fantimans is 2 for £1.50 in Tesco's at the moment.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:51

chinnyhill10 wrote:

As for a Steve Jobs fanboy, can't stand the man.

Your irony filter seems to be borken. :attitude:

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

It was probably made by Apple.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 17:15

PGR4 £12.93 at Asda. A really good game that seems to have been overlooked by my excellent chums here (so much so that I traded it in after I'd had enough of the single player as no one else had it). More bargs on the site include Saints Row for £9.73 and Beautiful Katamari for £14.73.

They also have Call of Duty 2 for £9.73, so if you're a fan of CoD4 and don't have this, I think it's a must.

tossrStu · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1326

myoptika wrote:

PGR4 £12.93 at Asda.

£9.93 at The Hut (same company that does Asda's online service in fact).

myp · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:35

There's no excuse at under a tenner. In fact, I may buy it again.

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