Yes. It's basically Ocarina of Time with a remote and added sucky bits (Ocarina of Time, of course, being more or less a port of A Link to the Past, but in 3D). It could easily have been the best game ever if they'd been a bit more original (as they tried to do with Majora's Mask), but it's more or less the same game that I played back on the N64 (well, strictly speaking, on the Gamecube on the collectors' disc). Let's run through why it sucks:

- Storyline is exactly the same. Evil's coming to take over the world. We need to find three things (here we've got bits of fused shadow, cf. pendants, random gems), get new pointy sword, oh dear, we can't go to the final castle so we've got to go to several more different places to unlock it, then we go and kill Ganon. Oh wow.

- Temples are unoriginal. Foresty thing early on? Check. Firey thing after that? Check. Really annoying retarded water dungeon? Check. Icy place with sliding block puzzles? Check. Rehashing old bosses? Check.

- New items are next to useless. I can think of maybe two places where I used the spinner after the dungeon I found it in, both of which were mandatory. I can think of one place that I used the ball and chain, again it was mandatory (although even that shouldn't count as it's in the Zant fight in the exact same dungeon again). After opening up the seventh dungeon the dominion rod was useless. Getting the horse call after we've opened up enough warp points to make the horse superfluous is stupid (I think I used the horse post-Master Sword once, in the final boss fight). Hawkeye is pointless, would only ever be useful in the hidden village if there were more things to kill. I never collected bomblings once.

- Wolf form, and particularly collecting tears of light, sucks.

- Rupees are next to worthless. I could have gone the whole game without collecting the large wallet (and only got that to get the magic armor, which I never used).

- Game is too easy. The only difficulties were working out how to kill things, once that was obvious, things were cake. The hidden skills make every single potentially tough enemy a breeze. I had four fairies on standby for the Ganon fight and never got near to using one.

- Z-targeting is frequently glitchy. The level 7 boss fight took about ten minutes longer than it should have, purely because in the second stage of the fight, the camera kept fucking up, causing me to target the peahat I'd just grappled away from, sending me right back into some fire or something. The dual darknuts in Hyrule Castle are a pain, not because they're difficult (which they're not, back slice/helm splitter pwns easily), but because I continually locked onto the wrong one, causing possible massive damage.

Having said that, it's still worth playing (mainly because the majority of boss fights are awesome, if a piece of piss, that was seriously the worst Ganon fight ever) mainly because OoT pwns.

lol gamefaqs, final match of their character battle is Link v Cloud v Solid Snake v L-Block. Only one thing needs to be done. Vote L-Block tomorrow while playing this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEkuv4J cchk

http://www.digg.com/security/Major_Onl ine_Poker_Room_Caught_Cheating_2

Digg it, this is the biggest thing to happen to online poker in years and people need to know. More diggs is always good. If by any chance you play on Absolute (or Ultimate Bet, which Absolute owns), pull your money out ASAP.

Wins until epic seventh title: 0

Ortiz > Lackey
Manny > Rodriguez
Everyone in the eighth > whoever the Angels had on the mound
BB's with bases loaded > Sabathia

Up around $250. Distinctly horribly disgustingly meh.

Thought it'd be interesting to post what I've got in my bookmarks folder. I'll obviously omit multiple links to the same site (e.g. I have links to various mod hacks on multiple sites, several topics here, etc.) and just go with what I've got.

Newgrounds - taken as read

GameFAQs (www.gamefaqs.com) - possibly one of the most useful sites on the internets, as many people know. Obviously I visit there a lot for mod purposes, but the forums are usually moderately interesting if you look in the right places. Sure, there's a great deal of idiots there, but it's the same with any forum and there's gold if you can hunt it out.

Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) - just have the RSS feed, I don't tend to check there unless I see something of immediate interest, time is limited, especially given that I have three rather time intensive online things to do, so I can't spend forever there reading shit.

Fark (www.fark.com) - RSS feed again, see above. Time, not enough of it. Same reason why I haven't read Usenet for ages, more or less since 2003 when I left Warwick and was using Pine and a decent news server for a large amount of time.

Hattrick (www.hattrick.org) - online football management game. Pretty low maintenance, you could easily get by playing it on less than an hour a week. Been playing it since 2005, finally starting to get somewhere after being stuck in a bastard division for several seasons. Would have been Project Rockstar (www.projectrockstar.com) here but they failed to develop the game well enough, had far too many game resets and it's full of bloody kids.

Two Plus Two Forums (www.twoplustwo.com) - if you play poker in the slightest, this is a must visit. It's probably the best strategy discussion site on the internet, and the forums are a massive mix of crazy surreal humour which is laden with huge amounts of in jokes and MS Paint hilarity, and has many sub forums on lots of useful topics. Many of the best single threads I've read have been from here, even if it's not the first place I visit.

Facebook (www.facebook.com) - I've been at uni in the past few years, shoot me

A World Of Poker (www.aworldofpoker.com) - another poker forum. Not brilliant, but it's fairly UK-centric, they sponsored our society at Sheffield for a bit and I get numerous perks from them, so it's all gravy.

UK Net Guide (www.uknetguide.co.uk) - the link I have just goes directly to the TV guide.

Battrick (www.battrick.org) - a cricket offshoot of Battrick which is younger and evolving quicker. Probably a bit more fun as well, makes many a Friday more interesting.

YTMND (www.ytmnd.com) - I have a specific link to one that relieves poker tilt brilliantly, I don't have the plug-in on Firefox that allows viewing for most of them. Incidentally I'd download the complete soundtrack but not only are no bastards seeding the torrent, µTorrent has been massively unresponsive of recent.

Cold Storage (www.coldstorage.org.uk) - the guy that did the soundtrack to WipeOut, possibly the best video game soundtrack ever behind Mega Man 2, and he has it available to download.

Full Tilt Poker (www.fulltiltpoker.com) - my primary site, link is there because it goes directly to the sit and go leaderboard which I'm usually doing OK on.

Red Hot Pawn (www.redhotpawn.com) - turn-based chess, has a decent enough interface and userbase.

Conquer Club (www.conquerclub.com) - basically Risk online. Has some absolute fucktards on there, but it's mostly OK if you can avoid n00bs who continually miss turns and the more exotic game settings.

Super Page 58 (www.btinternet.com/~moononastick/sp58 /Index.html) - Digitiser archive. Completely irrelevant to non-UK users of a certain age, but those that remember its brilliance will love this site.

That's about it. LOL RANDOM IMAGE

This:

Didn't want to post so soon after posting a news post, but this warranted it, please check the previous post as it's much more interesting

Not entirely sure what inspired this (I'd guess a ban, but the guy that gave him a 30 left the username in the ban, so w/e), but I really think that some people need to think about best to flame people. This is an example of the "falcon punch" school of flaming - if you don't see it coming, it's really quite effective, but everyone does, it got old before the OP was out of diapers, isn't the slightest bit interesting or original and shows a complete lack of effort. I seriously wonder why people like this bother to breathe in and out, let alone try to send PM's and expect anything else apart from ridicule.

Addendum: I'm mildly surprised he could spell "you're"

+$780 from STT's
+$1800 from donkaments
+$170 from rakeback/miscellaneous bonii

Spent:

-$800 on mod meat 08 flights
-$420 on Wii+TP (yes, we get raped on prices here, I know)
-$300 on 22" widescreen LCD monitor

I'm also one of the top 50 low limit STT players on Full Tilt, apparently. Go me.

More importantly, I have a job interview on Friday which, if landed, will give me pretty much everything I want in terms of work, i.e. location, hours, money, responsibility. Let me land this one time please god or I will incinerate something in some kind of grease fire. ONE TIME.

Just got back from town now with one. Zelda had better kick as much massive ass as everyone says it does. Will likely buy a classic controller at some point and download Super Metroid (LDO) and Mario 64, I missed that generation of Nintendo's hardware and never played it.

Also cocks.