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Happy E3 week everyone!
To you as well, sir. I’m quietly hoping that all the pre-E3 announcements are not designed just to be glossed over during the big pressers and there’s more to come. 17 hours until Xbox kicks off!
Bethesda in just a few hours. Excited for that.
*Bethesda rep walks out on stage*
“Hello everyone. Fallout 4 will be out on Friday.” *drops mic and walks off stage*
*crowd goes wild*
There’s no way they do a Sega Saturn for Fallout.
There was only about a two year gap between the release of 3 and New Vegas, and it’s been almost 5 years since New Vegas released, so it’s entirely possible that it’s finished and ready for sale. Although both 3 and NV were released in October. We don’t have long to wait to find out.
Oh, they may release (hell, I hope they release) in October. There’s no way they release this Friday (run straight into the batman machine, the rest of E3 hype, inevitable comparisons to The Witcher, get retailers offside, no market penetration to the casual gamer, etc.)
Well … turns out you weren’t far off! November is certainly a lot closer than I thought it’d be.
Morning all! Hope your weekends were spectacular.
Mine was pretty good. Did some house painting, then had a joint early birthday party for my soon-to-be one year old and soon-to-be three year old (I ate SO MUCH cake), and then went to the movies with my brother and saw Fury Road. That movie holds up very well for a repeat viewing, and I loved every minute of it.
PREVIOUSLY, ON HOME AND A-TAY
~
Having formed indie darling band Lifehackerz, Rocketman, Pants, Cake and Blaghman perform their #1 hit single ‘Bread in the Microwave’ for the Battle of the Bands regional finals. The song plays over the rest of these scenes, but I’m too lazy to write the lyrics, so invent your own for added fun.
~
Freeze and Nobs are sitting on a couch, apparently not speaking to each other.
Nobs: I should leave then.
He gets up to leave. A hand tugs at his shirt.
Freeze: No. Please stay.
~
Rize playing the triangle in a jazz ensemble, to thunderous applause.
~
Jane, in full detective get-up, has gathered TAYbies in the reading room of Baron Blaghman’s second holiday villa.
Jane: All the evidence points to but one conclusion. The identity of the killer…
Quick shots of various nervous TAYbies, Strange reaching for a knife in her shoe, Rize brandishing a pipe, Trjn sipping tea.
Jane: …is me.
Several people gasp. Blaghman faints.
~
More TAYbies are gathered in a different room of the holiday villa, standing beneath a large INTERVENTION banner, while Beavwa sits on a couch facing them, but keeping his eyes on his 3DS.
Scree: This has gone on too long, Beavwa.
Beavwa: I can give up any time I want to.
Prolonged silence.
Beavwa: I just don’t want to.
Cuts to whole group violently trying to tear the 3DS from Beavwa’s firm grasp.
Beavwa: No! They’re my shinies! You can’t have them!
~
Everyone having a sick dance party. Sometimes things are just fun. But then…
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Pants and Red have cornered NegativeZero in an abandoned building, guns drawn.
Red: Alright, we know you’re not the real NegativeZero. Tell us who you are.
???: Very well, you’ve forced my hand. I am not NegativeZero. I…am his evil twin.
Red: Gasp!
Pants: You can’t mean…PositiveZero?!
PositiveZero: The very same.
~
Tigerion running out of a kitchen covered in flames, his chef’s hat burning away.
Tigerion: The souflee is ruined! RUINED!
~
Liondrive stands before a group of TAYbies at some backyard party.
Liondrive: So you see, the reason you couldn’t get the BBQ to work is because it wasn’t a BBQ at all. It was –
He pulls a sheet off a figure beside him.
All: Old man Jimu?!
~
On the bank of a river made of lava, CookingMama stands before Shane. He has lost both legs and one of his arms, and is slowly burning, too close to the lava river.
CookingMama: You were the chosen one!
Shane hisses and spits.
Shane: I hate you!
~
AND NOW, THE THRILLING CONTINUATION
Ayyyyyyyy
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYakQzVyWug
Nooooooo, not my souflee
Do you come up with all of this each monday morning, or do you spend the remainder of the week jotting down ideas for each scenario?
I start writing them over the week, then I get to Monday and panic because it’s not finished. That’s why the same people show up most of the time. 😛
Positive Zero! That dastard! He doesn’t like Anime at all and scoffs at Nendoroids!
Also, Jazz Triangle sounds amazing and awful at the same time.
MINE! MY SHINIES!
shinies, precious.
Who told you about my hidden knife?!!
I have eyes and ears everywhere! The Varys of the real world!
BETHESDA DAY \O/ Doom AND Fallout 4 😀 loading of the excitement is over normal limits
DOOM 😀
Anyone doing the trading card thing for steam sale?
I have a spare Blitzkrieg, and looking to trade for Bob, Dominic, Dansky or Dire Frog.
If anybody wants to trade, send me request!
If you need a crusta-sean let me know, I have them up the wahoo
Nah got one of them. Just realized I have 2 Sigmund too, so anyone needs that and has one of the ones I listed above, gimme a holler!
Trade request sent 😉
Cheers man!
I need a Dominic, Cerulean Carmouth, and Z-Lo.
I have doubles (and triples) of everything else.
Man, those steam cards… I looked at my inventory a few weeks back and saw I had a few hundred of them sitting around doing nothing… I’ve actually spent the last few days using Idle Master to generate my remaining cards, and selling them all on the market as they come in, I’ve actually made enough to cover my first few sale purchases 😀
I’ve so far received nothing but 3 Danskys but I can’t trade because Steam refused to accept my password forcing me to reset it, which has locked me out of selling for a week.
I was going to but every time I went to start it I got an error message saying it wasn’t working
I think they fixed that issue a little while in to the first day. I heard lots of people were having issues with it, but first time i tried late in to the first day, it worked fine
I was trying midday yesterday and still couldn’t play it
bummer 🙁
If anybody needs a Gold Helm, I just got a second one!
Morning TAY
How was everyone’s weekend?
So a mate and I decided to try out ARK (http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/) and much hilarity ensued.
I have to say, it looks gorgeous, and plays really well too.
On a side note:
Has anyone from the Hayao Miyazaki comp received anything yet? (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/winners-the-collected-works-of-hayao-miyazaki-and-other-studio-ghibli-stuff/)
So I heard a rumour that Batman might have broken street date. Just a heads up.
Anyways, for this weeks adventure in D&D (last week didn’t happen), the dwarf king tried to convince everyone to go to war with a nation for someone they didn’t know dying. They told him to go get his Moradin axe.
One player who had been taken away by some evil wizards was lead to the bad guys lair where they recruited him and he ended up ‘sleeping’ with a drow priestess. Then he drank all remaining chaos magic he had and blew up the whole place.
The rest of the party saved a half-orc from some bandits, then the next morning when I tried to stop her praying to Gruumsh she took a swing at me and the bard shot her in the head. The dwarf king who saved her just shrugged (some paladin).
Then we met a genasi fighting a chain demon who turned out to be the wizard in our group who we never saw without his cloak. Even though he established who he was, the bard snuck up on him and stabbed him in the neck. He cast hold person on him, which rolled on the chaos table, causing him to get attacked by lightning. Since he was paralyzed it was a critical hit, so he took a 120 d10 damage roll with only 38 max hit points. Causing him to red mist the entire area. So the wizard spent his last drop of chaos magic to cast reincarnate and turned the half-elf into a gnome.
Never seen a game break release date almost 10 days before launch before. Probably just people trying to trick stores into breaking street date when they more than likely haven’t even received their stock anyway.
Could be an online leak instead of breaking street date, would make more sense this far out.
Nintendo World Championships are on now live on youtube.com/e3 if anyone was interested, before Bethesda kicks off at 12pm Melbourne time.
11.45 I think it ‘starts’ so tune in early
Also my recommendation of best deal of Steam Sale today is Prison Architect – 85% off, $4.49 USD
Good morning 🙂 I did a cumulative 2.5 hours of Zumba on the weekend and my legs hurt.
Hey chums,
Sense8 is a cool guy, it’s a slow burn @o give it a chance.
Bloodborne bosses are my bane, I’m pretty ok at navigating the streets to get there(slowly but surely) but I’m the opposite of gud when the big guys pop out.
Latest guy
The poison, every time, the goddam poison. I notice it & have died a few times administering the antidote.I’m too slow. I miss the slow Mo battles of Souls.
Oh God, I want this so much. I’m gonna buy him, build him, and sit him on my computer desk.
http://lego.gizmodo.com/the-first-images-of-legos-upcoming-wall-e-set-are-unbel-1710898212
Edit: Now all we need is for them to announce a Lego Eve set.
OH GOD. That looks so so so good. 😀 😀 😀
*throws wallet at screen*
Must. Have.
GoT Season Finale. I am expecting so much. They wouldn’t include Benjen, therefore reminding us who he is in the “previously on” that got leaked for episode 10, over the weekend.
So much Hype.
For any GoT can we please have spoiler tags? I haven’t seen any episode this season except episode 1…
For all I know, I have no idea of what role he’s playing in this episode. The clip is something we’ve already seen in Season 1, so no spoiler there for you mate.
EDIT: On top of that, there’s a Chrome Plugin (Early stages of development) to block out Potential Spoilers on Facebook, Twitter, Google News and Reddit. Here, kind souls – you’re welcome.
http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/39ukhm/no_spoilersever_again_i_humbly_present_game_of/
Yeah, but
he’s been missing since Season 1, and even knowing he’ll be in an episode would be enough to be considered a spoiler for some peopleFor the sake of others, we don’t even know if he IS in the episode. There are multitudes of ways that can go from bringing him back in for the “Previously On” or not even include him at all. Nothing Major & minor or spoilerish there at all.I see your point, and ultimately it’s up to you how you use tags.
But a request was made for any GoT commentary to be placed into spoiler tags, a request which I seconded. As it doesn’t cost anything, and as people have different thresholds at which they consider themselves ‘spoiled’, it might just be easier to go along with it and get this comment thread back on topic, rather than trying to fight against the request, whether or not you feel the caution is unreasonable…
What shane and edc have already said; I haven’t seen any S5 myself and a spoiler with a headline on what it’s about would save the trouble for many others I’m sure.
While you might not consider what you’ve posted to be spoilerish as someone who hasn’t watched any of S5 knowing that there’s a possibility a character might appear serves to dilute the experience.
This, please! I haven’t seen any S5 yet.
This please. I don’t watch the show and only read the books whenever GRRM stops sucking down glazed hams and procrastinating long enough to write them.
Good morning everyone.
I wasn’t really enjoying fallout until I dropped the difficultly. I need to keep working on cosplay but I want to play fallout New vegas. D=
Oooh my goodness. My boyfriend – fiancé, I guess, haha, oh boy – got given the most amazing vest based on Fallout New Vegas. His best friend is suuuper clever and good with a sewing machine, and whipped up this badass denim vest and added all this awesome NV accoutrement. I should see if I can post some photos, it’s so so cool.
Part of the wedding gift my wife gave me was a NV courier pack for our honeymoon. It was full of nuka-cola, bottle caps, whiskey, and some other odds and ends.
Idea for your wedding? 😛
Reception is held in a locked vault, and the evening is divided up into a range of increasingly humiliating social experiments.
All guests are coincidentally named ‘Gary’.
All of them.
I swear that vault was the single most terrifying thing I’ve encountered in a Fallout game.
I still remember it so clearly.
Spoilered for those who haven’t had the honour of Gary yet:
“Gary”Cool your name is Gary, oh you’re attacking me, ok. Gary. Bye Bye Gary.
“Gary”
…what? Ok, bye bye Gary 2.
“Gary”
…uhhh
“Gary” “Gary” “Gary”
…uhmmm
GARYGARYGARYGARYGARYGARY
…oh shit what have I stumbled on…
Fallout 3/New Vegas are perfectly enjoyable on casual difficulty, the combat is really a minor part of the game (though admittedly playing it on easy does make it feel less like you’re struggling to survive). Much more important is finding a stray eyeball and looting the corpse it used to be part of.
ALL VATS ALL THE TIME
Just like God intended
I often forget I have vats. I am the worst
The non-vats shooting in Fallout 3 and New Vegas was a bit lacklustre
I’ve only ever played on easy.
not in it for the challenge at all.
& I still die often enough
Me too, Jimu, me too.
G’morning! I have such a headache and flu D: Maybe some sort of Med-X would help 😀
We saw Jurassic Park on Friday. And then again on Sunday. I would not recommend doing that.
How was it the first time, worth it?
Do you like DINOSAURS!!!? If you love DINOSAURS!!! and the previous Jurassic Park films, then this film does exactly what it says on the tin.
Just don’t get too upset with the genetic handwaving and the non-feathery outsized ‘raptors. They do sort of explain away the lack of feathers. Sort of. *scowl*
Just enjoy the DINOSAURS!!! eating people (oops, spoiler alert sorry) and running amok!
Morning.
I am fearful of my wallet this week, between E3 and the Steam sale…
I watched orange is the new black all weekend, that australian chick they cast ruins every scene she is in. She’s worse than neighbours/home and away level acting how the hell did she get a role on a show this big?!??!
Which Australian chick? Does she appear specifically in season 3? I’ve only gotten up to episode 4.
I don’t know her name but she looks like Justin Bieber and for some reason always has impeccable make up and hair where as everyone else looks like a real prisoner (which is one thing I thought the show did well up until now). Just jarring how she looks and acts, it’s one of those moments where you realise how good a job the other characters do and how hard it is to actually act with out it seeming terribly fake. She does get her clothes off though so maybe that’s how she got the role, that and catering to the new Australian netflix users maybe?
I just googled and apparently she shows up about halfway through the season so I guess I haven’t seen her yet.
she’s pretty bad. Over all the season was good though, it’s really been a show that surprised me as I went in to season one expecting it to be bad but liked it and it’s kept the quality up.
Yeah, I expected it to be interesting/watchable but it really surprised me. Every time I thought I wasn’t going to like a story/character change, it only made the show better. Really impressed with it.
You have to ignore logic though at times when it comes to the way the prison is run and the things they get away with but at the end of the day it’s not trying to be Oz.
Ruby rose? Yeah shes pretty bad at alot of the things she does, only “dj” ive seen have a line waiting outside a club to see her only to have everyone leave the dance floor when she comes up to perform
Can somebody give me a run down on what the Alien: Isolation season pass is and i it is worth getting?
cc myself so that I can see this answer later 😛
Bear in mind that I haven’t played the main game either. It is a purchase I’m considering
You get the Survivor Mode stuff which is basically just challenge maps where you get from A to B as fast as possible without getting eaten.
So it a speed run for a game all about tense atmosphere? That doesn’t sound good
I had a super productive weekend! Steam decided to start selling Lego Jurassic World even though it’s not supposed to be available in Australia til the 17th. So I went to see the movie on Saturday morning, then came home and played the game all weekend.
A weekend well wasted ^_^
Jealous! I am super excited to play the game – get the taste of the movie out of my mouth 😉
You didn’t like it? I thought it was fun. Not as great/iconic as the first, but better than the other sequels.
I was wondering this, is it it’s own film in terms of back story or is it linked to the previous Jurassic Park movies?
Yes, it is linked to the previous films. There are a bunch of really cool nods to them throughout the film. That said, I liked it, but not as much as I thought I would. Might go and see it again at some point this week, hopefully it’ll be better the second time around.
It completely dismisses everything after Jurassic Park – the writer/director said as much, which made me cross.
There were also SOOOO many references to JP in this film – like, to the point of irritating distraction. One or two would have been a great nod to the audience, but this was pretty much saying, “You know what? Maybe just go watch Jurassic Park instead.”
I must be pretty dense. I didn’t notice all that many references. At least, not enough to irritate me. Although…
the whole Raptor training/communicating with the Indominus Rex thing had me rolling my eyes in an “I can’t believe they put that in the movie” kind of way.I MADE YOU A LIST.
References to Jurassic Park in Jurassic World (not in order, and not including the obvious ones)
– Ian Malcolm’s book (read by Zara on monorail, on Lowery’s desk in control room).
– Clare tying her shirt off at the front, trying to cop Ellie’s hot look from JP.
– Clare saying, “Welcome to Jurassic World” (Hammond saying, “Welcome to JP”).
– Jeep 29 (the one the kids fix) is the one John Hammond arrived in in JP.
– The night-vision goggles in the garage.
– The way Clare says, “Control room” (one of Ellie’s lines from JP).
– ‘10,000 volts’ sign is by a fence in the jungle, overgrown.
– Malcolm’s chaos theory – when the blood drops down on the ACU leader’s wrist when they go hunting the dino. One drop goes left, the other goes right.
– Clare yelling, “RUN” the same way Ellie did in JP.
– The old ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth’ banner and skeleton (this is what the older brother uses for a torch).
– Clare saying that Lowery’s workstation was a mess (nod to Nedry’s filthy station in JP)
Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. There were so many more.
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/609895657948622848
PREACH
ALSO. Okay, the dude who wrote/directed was an otherwise small-time indie kinda dude. And now, he’s all but sold out to making Jurassic World. He of all people, doesn’t get to be all high and mighty about product placement and selling out.
I didn’t 🙁 It was better than the third, but not the first two.
And the first two were the ones with Jeff Goldblum.
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT
THIS GUY GETS IT!
His performance is, as ever, Goldbluminous.
Also, you must read this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/keelyflaherty/life-uh-finds-a-way?utm_term=.ja51RPvvJ even though @jimu wouldn’t on twitter the other day.
I scared
@jimu RTFA.
So is Geoff Goldbum in Cretacious World or not?
For me, the second one gets plummeted to the bottom for that terrible gymnastics kick the Raptor out the window scene.
Me and my friends contemplated a political party that would run solely on the anti-raptor platform. One of our key platforms was to be compulsory gymnastics training for children and government issued tire irons for self defence.
Odd, I loved it. Swings and roundabouts I guess, there were a few corny bits in it – but was really cool.
Loved the fact they built on the first island and even ‘mini-explored’ the original building. Disappointed that they only had 4 Raptors on the island…I’ve been playing ARK: Survival Evolved to quench my Dino thirst.
Yeah, pretty sweet huh? I bought my key from Green Man Gaming, I received it Friday night, between work and waiting for it to download, I didn’t get to play it till yesterday morning.
Still, It’s cool being able to play it now. With any luck I’ll have it finished before it even releases here.
I’ll be close to finishing it. Finished the story mode for all four movies, now I’m just doing the “run around and collect everything” part.
DINOSAURS!!!
Just as a heads up, anyone who’s signed up with Greenmangaming will be able to get 40% off Batman Arkham Knight which brings the price down to $36
http://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/
Even if it turns out a bit crap, it’ll be bargain crap
Is there a reason we’re expecting a “bit crap?”
I’m super excited for it.
From what I’ve seen, there’s a bit of trepidation regarding how much of the story will be locked behind DLC paywalls. I’m unaware of any other specific issues or worries.
I’ll buy the season pass, I’m sure. Rocksteady have a pretty solid bank of goodwill they’d have to burn through before I considered otherwise.
Did someone say Arkham knight will be a bit crap?!?! =O…… Just don’t tell red.
I KID! =POh no, no reason at all to think it will be beyond the usual “Hmm, I’m buying a game that hasn’t even been reviewed yet” risk. I’d not have bought it even at that price if I suspected it really would be crap, Rocksteady haven’t done a bad batman game yet after all.
That said, they never specifically agreed to my suggestion that they make a voice replacement DLC pack with Adam West…
But Kevin Conroy is the Batman.
No matter how truly excellent he is, he’s always going to be the OTHER Batman, Adam West is THE Batman
I want an Adam West Batman level pack, that includes running a bomb from one end of the level to the other.
Hell yes, with a hundred different locations you’re supposed to take the bomb to dispose of it only to have something in the way
Well, because City wasn’t as good as Asylum, and Origins was mediocre. The things that Batman did really well have been replicated as well in other games now. The addition of the Batmobile seems incredibly unnecessary and sounds like it’s shoehorned in a lot and you have no choice but to use it. Also I feel like I’m kind of over those Batman games still. City became a slog toward the end.
But I’ve got it preordered and will play it when it releases.
I don’t think that people are expecting it to be crap so much as that it feels like it’s coming out with a bit of a whimper and I think people are scared it’ll be mediocre again.
Rocksteady didn’t make Origins though.
And I loved City.
Yes, but a lot of people don’t realize that Origins wasn’t their thing.
I liked City a lot, but I found it to be a bit of a chore at the end. You started getting a mix of annoying enemies like the fucktards with the knives, it’d stop letting you have fun in the stealth bits and generally ramped the difficulty up just past the point it was challenging into being just frustrating for me.
Also the open world didn’t do them any favours. Asylum was better than City, IMO, and a lot of that was because the more constrained world made it feel more Metroidvania-like.
That’s cool, but I liked it a lot. One of the only times last gen I did a new game+ and got all the collectables.
I don’t expect Arkham Knight to be different in this respect.
Hola Tayberinos
Had a weekend. Friday night got back into Crusader Kings after buying the Charlemagne dlc. Flash forward 6 hours and I’ve conquered France, it’s 2am, and I think I can hear colours.
Saturday gave plasma then went out to lunch with the parents and some family friends, then Saturday night was cajoled by some friends into a “Masquerade” themed Avcon event. For those interstate, Avcon is an Anime/Game convention that’s been running in Adelaide forever, which I’ve never been to because I’m not that into anime. I have friends who have gone regularly, I just haven’t. Besides, I’ve got PAX.
Interesting room. Lots of nerds, not all the good kind. I was there with friends and saw one guy try his absolute A-game… which apparently came from the Barney Stinson school. Anyway, we had fun, DJ was pretty good, and we left at the right time. Not sure I’d do it again.
Sunday played a bunch of Witcher 3. Resolved the Bloody Baron questline:
Call me prejudiced, but there was no way I was trusting a talking tumour under a tree just on its say so. In the end, turned the botchling into a spirit, and the Baron got to take his wife, alive, to convalesce. I’m sure the fact that the Crones are still alive is gonna bite me laterA monday morning question: I mentioned up the top about hearing colours. Would you rather see sounds or hear colours? Explain your reasoning.
Get out of my head, Red! I was thinking about seeing sounds / hearing colours this weekend. Mainly about meeting aliens who evolved on a sunless planet and had no concept of our light based vision, but were able to sense vibrations which were then mapped to something analogous to our visual cortex. So when we spoke they wouldn’t “hear” us, but instead “see” our words change their visual landscape.
Which would I rather…. Probably seeing sounds. Our hearing, as neat as it is, isn’t that precise. It’d be cool to pinpoint the direction a sound was coming from by seeing it originate from a source. I think that’d be much more useful.
There’s a really good Green Lantern short by Alan Moore where they send a rookie out to do some new recruits into the Corp. They send the rookie to a sunless area of space where the ring cannot translate certain words due to them having no meaning to a blind species.
The rookie has to come up with a new litany because that whole “In Blackest Day, in Darkest Night” thing has no meaning.
Really clever & wel thought out little tale. Alan Moore at his best using his brain to break things down & build them back up again (as opposed to his claims these days that everything sucks a big one).
Tasting colours. That way everyone would walk around licking everything all the time. Super gross, but we’d probably have some industrial grade immune systems after a while.
But we already have Skittles.
Apparently Froot Loops are all the same flavour
Seeing, without question. Maybe it’s just me being a visual person, but I find vision to be a lot more precise and easier to block things out.
Re: Witcher 3 spoilers:
I went much the same way, but mostly because I’ve been reading all the in-game books and I’m very confident that the spirit of the tree is actually the mother of the crones, gone mad.Oh yeah, I was sure it was her. Although… the oak tree in that mission isn’t the biggest one. I saw something in the distance and went for a ride late last night- there’s a fucking massive one on top of a mountain to the south of the swamp, and the mountain is swarming with basilisks that are way too tough for me atm otherwise I would have had a look. The books talk about a giant old tree- what if it’s a double bluff?SPOILERS:
Not going to go full detail, but that tree gets its moment, you’ll see. And yeah, I tried getting up there a few times too, got driven off by fuck-off powerful monsters every time.I’d love to see sounds. Mosquitoes could no longer hide in the darkness.
Although there needs to be some way to filter it… Can you imagine walking down the main street of any busy CBD? You’d be blinded by a sea of sound.
LIFE WITH SUBTITLES WOULD BE SO CONVENIENT. And also much more like a graphic novel. I’ll take that, thank you.
See sounds.
Because I’m deaf.
The world is a noisy enough place as it is. I’d rather see sounds than hear colours.
Now seeing smells, that would be good. I imagine this is how dogs live.
Ever played Discworld Noir? Seeing smells was a core part of the werewolf mechanic in the game
Both smell & sound options would have benefits & detriments.
Seeing sound would be handy for triangulation of noise but have the down side of even more visual information and distraction, with the possibility of doing something like triggering epilepsy or motion induced nausea.
Hearing colour would be handy for identifying what exactly was making a noise; say you’ve got a repetitive noise that you can’t pin down, being able to tell what colour it was would make it a lot easier to figure out the source. Of course the negative would be stuff like not being able to ignore that irritating beige that sounds like the high pitched whine of a vacuum cleaner motor.
Not quite answering the question, but…
I taste notes.
Seriously, like literally. Tastes translate to music in my mind. I’ve trained my wife into understanding it.
“This soup needs more bass notes”
“Ah, ok, I’ll add some beef stock”
“Hmmm, now it needs staccato in the top”
“Alright, some chilli”
Etc.
Sure you don’t have synesthesia?
Never really thought about it, to be honest. Might look into it.
At least this is kinda a positive health issue…
*Hits up webMD*
I reckon E3 will be good this year but i can’t see myself skipping work just for the conferences guess ill watch em after work!. One i am looking forward to is the xbox one.
Man so I started up Witcher 3 yesterday and was appalled to find it recommending low to medium settings.
I was sure my 670 would be good for a bit longer.
So now I’m considering spending way too much money on a 980 ti and a 1440p moniter.
Someone please convince me this is a bad plan.
Oh. No, don’t do that Jo. How terrible it would be to see one of the prettiest games yet at its prettiest.
Sounds awful.
#helping
I have a 2560×1440 monitor, and I love it. Takes a noticeable amount of extra grunt to push 2560 over 1920 though. 980Ti should be great, but you’ll still definitely be able to find it’s limits at 2560. I was able to make SLI Titans start to choke at that resolution.
EDIT: Currently using an overclocked 290X to drive my 2560 and it actually does a pretty decent job.
Stick with a 1080p, imo – maybe get a newer 1080p*. 980TI might be overkill, but nice as well if you’re prepping yourself for newer games. The Witcher 3 is INCREDIBLY optimized however, play with the settings and see what works for you. I’ve got a 760 and I’m running around 40fps, Hairworks on Monsters and medium-high settings (minus some Sharpening, Blur, Bloom, Shadows on low, unlimited FPS) and it is brilliant.
*This ASUS monitor, just bought one myself and it’s brilliant:
https://www.asus.com/nz/Monitors/VG248QE/
Yeah I’ve got plans to build a new comp later this year and restart the Witcher 3 on my PC. The PS4 wheezes and struggles to play the game; long load times, textures can’t keep up when you’re on horseback, graphical glitches just about everywhere. While I absolutely love the game I definitely picked the wrong platform to play it on =[
No, that’s a good plan and you should do it.
However, I’m getting really solid framerate with my 670 OC on IIRC Medium to High detail. Just had to turn their hairworks bullshit off (it was dropping me from >30fps to ~20fps). Looks fantastic. And that’s playing at 2560×1440 as well.
I don’t think that even the highest-end card can push the game to max settings and maintain a playable framerate yet. Maybe 2-3 980 Tis in SLI.
Yeah ill do some tinkering with the settings.
Will hold off on.the upgrade, at least until I know what amd’s offering is. Tho not an amd fan.
I have Intel Core i5 and a Geforce 570 and i can run witcher 3 on high.
Be excellent to each other.
I like this philosophy.
Yeah, is solid.
Pretty good weekend. Played some more Witcher 3, making use of the console-command mod to aid my second playthrough. (Unexpected gems like, ‘Mark all question marks on the map’, for more comprehensive exploration.) Still good. Especially with advance knowledge of how things work out.
Had another crack at Max Payne 3. For some reason I’m much, much better at it this time around than the last time I played. Blasting through the story and picking up more details, the gunplay as an afterthought. Maybe I was trying to play on Hard mode to unlock ultra or something, last time? Either way, this is better. The game nails the atmosphere, characterisation of Max and his evolution, and all the fantastic colourful metaphors and similies. Soundtrack is amazing, too. I can’t believe anyone ever thought there was ever anything to criticize about it.
Wasn’t the biggest criticism essentially just “It’s not Max Payne 1 or 2”?
I still haven’t brought myself to play it though, being a big big fan of 1 and 2. Still don’t trust them after that abomination of a movie.
I liked it. I played the entire trilogy through back-to-back, and the third title did represent a bit of a mood shift. But I think it worked, and worked really well. I think it was a truly great game.
Well, unlike Max Payne 2, he got older and a bit heavier. Happens, with age. And the comic-book panels with voice-over are replaced by cut panels of in-game cinematics. Now, to my mind they carry the same tone, the same feel as what the original was going for, but there’s a lot more that they’re able to carry over. There’s a lot of deliberate ‘glitch’ screen effects going on, several frames of fucked-up contrast and camera wobble… I suspect a lot of people probably hated that, but to my mind it is perfect for conveying the world through the eyes of a hardcore pickled-liver drunk. Max himself staggers or wobbles when half (or fully)-cut, and the camera effects occur frequently enough to capture that feeling of the world spinning and viewed through a fog, while still being discernible and playable when it needs to not get in your way. I think it’s fantastic.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if there’s a full run-through let’s play that’s totally worth watching, stripped of any ‘player sucks ass’ moments or brief detours for hunting collectibles. Most of the ‘collectibles’ get their own wry and colourfully-worded observation from Max anyway, so there’s not as much break in flow as some games do with the whole ‘being a game’ thing. In those terms too, it’s a much smoother experience than many – it’s practically all narrative, the combat seeming to exist to underscore it, provide some meat as a base for that story soup. And the fighting is usually cinematic enough to be worth including, especially with Max narrating over the top of it half the time. The voice-actor did a great job.
Max Payne 3 is really good plot-wise, but it’s not Max Payne. The film noir styling and the graphic novel presentation and everything goes and gets replaced by the plot of Man on Fire, in the usual Rockstar fashion.
There’s something intangible and very special about the way that Remedy do their games. I can’t tell you what exactly it is that makes them so good, but Rockstar doesn’t do it.
That said, Max Payne 3 is still an excellent game. Would have been more excellent if it had fucking worked properly on my machine and if it wasn’t saddled with horrible limited online activations DRM.
The only thing I know about Max Payne 3 is references to dick punching
You guys, I know that the final episode of Game of Thrones season 5 isn’t out yet but I just couldn’t resist spoiling my special fans @powalen and @jimu to give you all the big news just a little early.
Stannis is taken aback when Melisandre reveals there is no Rh’llor and he is not really Azor Ahai reborn as she has been saying for the last 4 years. When he confronts her about her deception she confesses she wanted to tell him sooner but stringing him along was “really, really funny”.
Jamie tricks a powerful genie into releasing him from the cave of wonders, then wishes to become a prince so he will be eligible to marry Princess Myrcella. Myrcella objects to being treated like some kind of prize. This leads to a crazy adventure which mostly happens off-screen. Ultimately Jamie is revealed as a phony and Myrcella rejects him because honestly how can you trust someone who’d lie to get you into bed? She’s not being a classist snob, it’s the principle. Jamie is devastated. Bronn wishes for a big sandwich.
Brienne and Podrick share a strange dream about a hound climbing a mountain. The local druids interpret this as a dire omen about the coming winter. Podrick points out that all their predictions are about a dire winter, to which the druids respond “well it’s bleedin’ cold, innit?” and call him a wanker. Brienne is convinced of the druid’s visionary powers, conceding that Podrick does, in fact, masturbate a lot.
Jorah returns to Mereen with Daenerys. Drogon isn’t happy that Jorah has been un-exiled again but is surprisingly taken with his new wife. Jorah readily agrees to an open arrangement, and the bear seems happy even if it isn’t really keeping up with the delicate interplay of emotions and personal motivations. In a bid to refocus attention on herself, Daenerys stops meticulously removing all her body hair.
Tired of Margaery and Cersei’s constant bickering, Tommen tries to implement “Trial by bikini mud wrestling”. Several days later, the Maesters update the royal records to reflect that “Tommen the Pig” died from his wounds suffered when he was inexplicably hit squarely in the testicles by a runaway carriage. In his locked bedroom. At the top of the east tower.
Jon Snow is dismayed when tattoos fall out of fashion and no one pays attention to him anymore. He tries to start a new trend but his only options are flared jeans and yo-yos. Out of desperation he combines the two, which results in women in a 100-mile radius reporting the exact opposite of sexual arousal. The phrase “alarmingly arid” is used several times in correspondence. On the upside, a potential famine a generation from now is completely averted.
Tyrion follows a series of clues in the ransom note and finds Varys in a dark cellar, held at knifepoint by Arya. Arya explains a completely contrived set of circumstances that led to this being her plan all along, ever since she saw them in the audience of her opening night and saw the tension between them. She knew it was her destiny to be a drunken marriage counselor. Tyrion proclaims that this makes no sense whatsoever. Arya stabs him a little, and Tyrion concedes it sort of makes sense. Varys and Tyrion are both embarassed when they realise neither of them have the money to pay for the counselling session. Arya quips “well this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into”.
Pack it up, we’re done for page-gets this week.
Also, you and @alexpants need to announce a collaboration of some sort post-haste.
Without new episodes of Game of Thrones to recap I have no idea what I’d write about.
So… Smash tonight?
Hell yes.
What time?
I’m free after 8pm, so… 8pm?
How does online smash perform in the evening in this post Netflix Australian internet apocalypse?
Can’t be worse than Dota and I’ve been playing that almost daily.
Incoming Ryu v Ryu v Ryu v Ryu
Looking forward to the tournament function in August.
Hell no, Roy’s my boy! (After Link, of course.)
I’m up for this!
So I’ve been misquoting Liquid Snake for the last 15 or so years. Apparently it’s not “Have at thee, Snake” but something similar & far more forgettable.
Liquid remains the better Snake though (Big Boss is pretty cool, Solidus is the turdbaby).
Also, MGS4 spoilers
the idea that Liquid didn’t possess Ocelot by way of hand & that it was hypnotherapy may be 0.1% Mrs believable (& entirely pointless) was the absolute low point for me.I don’t need believability in my MGS, it never had it before & still doesn’t now.
MGS is as believable as Superman’s powers from our yellow sun & Peter Parker being bitten by a radioactive spider. I’m very ok with this.
That’s what I liked about MGS as a series. It was super ridiculous when you thought too much about it but, like a lot of good action/espionage movies and games, it was still fun and a spectacle. The fact that they tried to explain anything more than what they needed just made things convoluted and curtailed the suspension of disbelief.
It’s a series with walking tanks that fire nukes. Why kill that with super-dense discussion of the appropriateness of nuclear weapons and genome therapy?
Oh no, I liked *that* stuff, I’m keen on messages, even if they get preachy.
I just want the silly parts to remain silly.
MGS is insane, I just thought in 4 they retconned one piece of insanity with another, worse, different piece of insanity.
Yeah, it’s a bit like that. I preferred the old insanity in this instance though.
MGS is anime as fuck. Seriously.
I have no frickin’ idea what the deal is with ‘multiple snakes’ or whatever.
As far as I’m concerned, Metal Gear Solid is a series about a badass with a headband and stubble and eventually an eyepatch and wrinkles. Snaaaaaaake.
They cloned him
(Serious)
Aren’t there like 3 snakes? solid liquid and gas or vapour or something?
Solid, Liquid, Solidus & the guy they were cloned from.
Also, Raiden uses the name in the intro of MGS2.
Weekend was pretty great. Stocked up on some man-dolly paints (Warhammer specifically) but didn’t get a chance to paint much as I had a friend’s birthday. Vapiano’s in the CBD is a really nice Italian restaurant but it was ridiculously busy for a Saturday night.
Sunday was RPG time and it was more SPAYCE MAUREEN 40K RPG.
The squad was joined by a new player who took the form of another War Dog/formerly in-stasis World Eater who, similarly to me, managed to survive mostly intact for the last 10,000 years. Unluckily for him though, he had suffered a bit of head trauma and was suffering from amnesia. So yeah, the squad was now two assault marines, two techmarines, and a tactical marine. For this mission we were also assigned a superior officer under the name Lance Kevian who was a dedicated scout veteran.The squad was deployed to the world of Kiln which was a sun-baked and horrendously hot planet. A deployment of Imperial Guard had come under attack and we had to go and save them. We rocked up to find that cultists and mutants were charging up towards a barren mesa that the IG had fortified and that foul sorcerers were leading them. Cue the Stormraven doing an orbital insertion with rocket pods and twin-linked lascannons firing into the masses of enemies. That stalled the assault while the squad redeployed to the surface and reinforced the Guard.
The next assault began and myself and the other assault marine took to the skies in our jump packs while the rest of the laid in with heavy ordinance and other weapon emplacements. The other assault marine, a Blood Raven, picked out the primary sorcerers which he jetted towards and shot at with his plasma pistol while the tactical marine was sniping targets. I flew straight towards the lead sorcerer and charged him with a chain axe.
Right as I was about to impact, the sorcerer tried to project Warp lightning towards and, funnily enough, triggered Perils of the Warp. And summoned a Warp portal where a Tzeentchian Lord of Change (one of the biggest of the greater daemons) attempted to enter realspace as the sorcerer began to be ripped in half by the Warp energy. The portal was not enough for the Lord of Change to fully get through as it struggled to keep the portal open for its minions that started to pool behind it.
As a result of this, the entire Imperial Guard, the other cultists, and the majority of the squad said “Screw it” and began to retreat from the danger. Only the two assault marines (including me) and the tactical remained behind to deal with the threat. I broke my arm trying to shoulder-charge the Lord of Change back through the portal while the other assault marine planted a melta bomb on it. The tactical was sniping at its limbs to try and make it lose its grip on reality which was starting to have effect. Things escalated a bit when the veteran scout recovered his nerve and ran forward to toss two satchel charges of demolitions at the Lord of Change. Little did we know that these satchel charges had been super-packed with explosives by the IG and had an explosive radius of 50 metres. Too bad my assault marine was in the midst of a blood frenzy and did not understand the blast radius of these explosives. Fortunately the Lord of Change had a keener survival instinct and was able to create telekinetic barriers which shield himself from the blast which also saved me considering I was in close proximity to it.
The Lord of Change realised that things were going sideways and pushed itself fully through the portal and abandoned its teeming minions behind it as the portal closed. It then took off into the air and sought out sanctuary on this planet. Cue the Stormraven returning as the two techmarines had recovered from their psychic terror and blasted it with the firepower of twin-linked lascannons and Hellfire missiles. The Lord of Change was blasted back into the Warp and things were mostly okay. Next mission promises a scouring of this planet and the deaths of many cultists.
Morning errbody hows every little thing? My weekend was going good but had speed bumps oh so many speed bumps.
Friday I had a job interview it went well fingers crossed I hear back from them. Had to work the rest of the day because money and afterwards had to bring cathryns little brother back home with me for the weekend. I made cookies and @evilmonkey gave me homeworld the generous bastard!
Saturday cathryn left to go spend the night at her cousins for her 8th birthday so I spent the day watching Suits and being called shit by Cathryn’s younger brother for any games I played. He spent the entire saturday and majority of sunday playing non stop Super Smash bros on the Wii U and everytime I played against him I would go random (I barely ever play the game so dont have a fave) while he would pick his character and it was always a character he was good with be it Shulk or palatina or jigglypuff. Eventually I got bored of it so turned on destiny, played that found a second treasure key now I just need to find 2 people to run PoE with.
Sunday consisted of more of me getting my ass kicked in Super Smash, me being told im shit at destiny PvP because I use shit guns and have terrible sensitivity setting from someone whos never played the game and only knows about it from his friend in high school who brags hes the best destiny player with the best guns. Shrugging that off I beat the battlefield Hardline story mode which was fun and also got told I was shit at that too and that I shouldn’t play FPS games because I cant aim for shit. Safe to say I was happy when he left.
Cathryn got home and basically bombed after dinner which was fettuccine cabonara. So I stayed up and finished season 1 of Suits.
A monday morning question, whats your biggest annoyance moment caused by a backseat gamers?
I’d say the main reason I never got past the first level of Crysis 2 was because my wife was watching and telling me how she did everything each step of the way instead of letting me play it my own way (something the game is flexible about) and figure it out. I said I’d come back to it later when I “have more time” (i.e.: when I could just spend some time with it by myself) and never got around to it.
That said, I have a low tolerance for time wasted so I fully appreciate she was only trying to help to avoid me making a mistake and losing progress, but on this occasion it just rubbed me the wrong way.
Good buddy of mine was absolutely disgusted by the Wind Wakers “bad graphics” which would be fine, whatever. But every time he entered the room he *had* to comment.
Even straight up telling him to shut up & Piss off didn’t stop the whining.
Confession: I was the backseat gamer and got very fucking frustrated
Back at uni I lived in a little unit on campus for a bit, 6 of us, total nerd flat. One of the people in the unit had invited someone to play Wind Waker on our TV on her gamecube. Watching this man play Wind Waker was abject torture.
Her: Press the button
Him: Which button.
Her: The one on your right as you came in the room
Her: The other right
Her: No, your other right
Her: Right
Him: This one
Her: The one I’m pointing at
Him: This One?
Her: No…
15 minutes of this later…
Me: OH MY GOD YOU ARE THE WORST AT THIS FUCKING GAME
I have a directionally challenged friend I play games with. Breaking Point – PvP heavy, high tension zombie survival FPS:
-‘DUDE, GUY COMING FROM YOUR RIGHT!’ He turns left, confused. ‘No, right!’ he turns further left.
-‘Pretty sure that chopper came from the North.’ He heads West, despite having a compass.
‘Guy running across the field, 10 o’clock, bout 300 metres out, heading west.’ He turns to like 7-8 o’clock.
I love the guy, and he’s amazing in a firefight, but I swear by my (deity of choice) he just couldn’t find his way out of a square room with one door.
A friend who used to insist on taking the piss out of every second line of dialogue in some games I played. Sure, some video game dialogue is some of the most laughable shit you’ll come across, but other times it was just grating. While enjoying a story, and trying to immerse yourself, nothing ruins it quicker than someone mocking it at every step.
Got to a point where I pointed out how irritating it was and politely requested they stop, and they subsequently got offended and retorted I was being too sensitive. Kinda stopped shortly after though, so mission accomplished, I guess.
I’ve always been a solo gamer. Not a fan of having an audience at all.
But recently, my kids love watching me play Mario Kart… but they get a bit too excited sometimes and start jumping on me during the race 😛
Best groupies!
Oh man, I’ve completed many a game tag team with a friend.
@gutsoup & I completed heaps together like Ocarina of Time & Majoras Mask.
As well as playing at the same time so you can compare notes (which never happens anymore because “adults”)
Actually, I remember being the brains of Super Mario World while a friend was the braun. I didn’t own my own console but was pretty good at figuring stuff out while the kid I played with owned & was good at controller wrangling but couldn’t think outside the box.
We unlocked that entire hidden star world together.
Ask my sister. I am the backseat gamer 😛
Main part I can recall is watching her play Perfect Dark I think, and it was totally frustrating watching as she was wandering around looking for something or other which she went right past several times and even went right through the bottom corner of the screen and I couldn’t not try and just make the torture end and she yelled at me saying this is why she never plays games, or something along those lines. I had to remove myself from the room.
Did anyone else notice that the Japanese players in splatoon were walled off on Saturday? I went from playing no one but Japanese players since release day, to not seeing a single one on the weekend.
Now my lobbies are full of Europeans, the lags just as bad, but at least I understand the names!
I don’t recall noticing at all. Though I think Japan had their first Splatfest over the weekend, so they might have been busy doing that instead?
Oh, that would explain why they weren’t in the global matchmaking pool!
I thought it was because there’s now like 250k of them, so Nintendo could start being more aggressive with matchmaking than ” anyone, anywhere”.
I’ve honestly had a better time against overseas people than some of my local friends. Two guys who are in Sydney (come to think of it, pretty sure both of them are over on the north shore) with awful, *awful* lag. Like after killing them it would take a good three seconds for them to die. Worse than any European I’ve played.
Oh, every match I’m in is like that! I’ll die several seconds after the fact, even through the entire duration of a bubble shield.
Most matches have a spike of not updating my ink after about thirty seconds, dead people will be shooting ink out of their corpse puddles, it’s impossible to jump a roller because of the lag, etc… It’s by far the laggiest game I’ve ever seen (seriously, I’ve died ten seconds after a confrontation on multiple occasions).
This is across two different consoles, at three different locations, on two different isps. The consoles were always in the network DMZ.
The first two testfire events were largely flawless, so I’m not going to point the finger at iinet.
That sounds beyond horrid. Whereabouts are you playing from?
Brisbane, inner suburb, 800m from the exchange.
I wish I still had a capture card, it’s truly spectacular!
Twitters doing that thing were my feed is full of live tweets that make no sense without context.
I get why it’s happening & it’s no fault of the individuals but its a mess of gibberish on my end.
I’m going to guess this is Game of Thrones related. If you’ve read my recap you should already be across the deets.
Nah, Ninty Championship.
I actually had to get explained to me that it wasn’t them rereleasing Super Metroid & Mario Kart 8 at e3, but them doing their own thing.
It’s e3 time, I don’t even…
Anyway, now people are giving live commentary & only sometimes mention the game.
& then jokes, that I think must be funny in context…maybe?
Mine’s the same. Something about Mario Maker that I don’t get and can’t Google. The rest of my feed seems to be half-veiled Game of Thrones commentary. So I’ll be staying off Twitter for a few days, I think.
According to the showrunners the season finale of GoT will “break the internet”, but I didn’t see a single reference to Kim Kardashian’s ass, so I really don’t know what they’re on about.
Big part of why I couldn’t be bothered logging in most of the time. I don’t get onto it often enough to be up to speed, so every session I log in ends up with a half-hour of homework. 😛
All or nothing, really.
@jocon @liondrive Guys sorry I disappeared this weekend, my Friday night cost me =[ I was somewhat functional Saturday morning and then got slammed with back to back migraines resulting in me having a Harry Potter marathon in bed and playing some XCOM when the drugs kicked in.
On a separate note Dishonored 2! Great another game I have to replay before the sequel comes out =@
Dishonored 2? \o/
No worries man, mostly chucked Destiny on the cbf pile anyway.
Fun morning.
They took 5 vials of blood out of me, got given a referral to get spit roasted by cameras, given stronger anti depressants and a stronger drug for reflux.
Hurray for getting old!
🙁
*hug*
Sounds like a jolly old time.
If it helps, you’re not the only one with a lot of medical stuff going on, I’ve got an appointment tomorrow to get a holter monitor stuck on me for a full day of monitoring my heart for arrhythmia that may well be caused by the drugs I’m on to counter the effects of the other drugs I’m on to counter the effects of wanting to die all the time…
Good luck!
In solidarity for medical things, I had my first MRI last week. It was a freaky experience, and the prep for it was awful. (Not the same level as you guys, but it’s the best solidarity I can do at the moment, sorry!)
Sorry to hear, man – I hope it all gets sorted quickly.
Bugger 🙁
Well, harder but better than just ignoring it. Even if it’s not a pleasant process.
I had an endoscopy around DC’s birthday… that was fun. I’ve never been put under General before, really was just a case of closing eyes, then opening them, like waking up.
Bastards didn’t find anything.
You should totally make them try again. And keep trying until they find something!
“We’ve been able to identify some slight scarring on the esophageal tissue.”
“AHA! So how do we fix it?”
“It appears to have been caused by weekly endoscopies. The solution is probably to stop having endoscopies.”
“But we should monitor your progress with regular endoscopies…”
“That’ll be $600, thank you.”
…
Thanks for coming, man. I would have more than understood if you couldn’t. 🙂
I had a good time! I mostly ate and drank OK too! It was within the allowed time, but they did warn me to be unusually tired.
We bought a crappy all-in-one computer for the kids yesterday. My day today was going to be all about setting it up and seeing if it runs Pillars Of Eternity…but the little man is home from school sick. Guess I may have to just join the E3 hypetrain instead. 😀
Zesty Tales on PS3/PS4 Oct 15, and digital PC on Oct 20! How great is that? Choice of English or Japanese audio and many flavours of subtitles! Even Russian!
*tumbleweed rolls through*
…anyone?
I’m kind of tempted to buy it, despite having never played a Tales game. Glad to see it coming to PC, too. Will wait for reviews to see whether I buy it or not, though.
It’s really confused me.
I thought that Vesperia would be the last gasp of the PS3 for me, now that Persona 5 is PS4-bound. But now… it looks like Trails of Cold Steel will be the last PS3 game I buy and I’ll be getting Vesperia for PC or PS4. Probably PC but I don’t know.
Hey guys! I finally watched this Mad Max thing you’ve all been raving about.
Welcome to another episode of Bish hates fun!
Why do people love this so much.
The story is dumb.
The gender reversal is kind of funny about how out of place it is.
The chase/action scenes are pretty sub par.
You know what though, he may be a total jerkwad, but Mel Gibson was a pretty spunky looking dude all those years ago.
I had a lot of fun with it. I don’t quite entirely understand people losing their collective minds over it the way they did, but I’ll definitely buy a copy on BD. Loved Nicholas Hoult though, he was fantastic.
Agreed on Mel Gibson too. I’m still always wary on the media demonising celebrities though. I’m sure he’s done some crazy/dumb shit, but I take anything the media tells me about celebrities with several large grains of salt.
Maybe it makes me the devil incarnate but the fact Mel Gibson exposed himself as a blazing sexist anti-semite in recent years will never take away how much I loved watching his movies. I mean, Tom Cruise might be a lunatic scientologist but his acting is amazing.
I feel the same way about Tom Cruise. I couldn’t give a shit whether he jumps on furniture when excited or practices Scientology – I love most of his films. I have friends who can’t stand him because they’ve jumped on the world-loves-to-hate-Tom-Cruise wagon. Doesn’t make sense.
I get this, and I feel the same way… most of the time. But sometimes I can’t divorce the experience of watching from my knowledge about the creative forces behind it, and the experience is ruined.
Case in point: every time I think about rewatching Firefly or Serenity (once an all-consuming obsession for me), I can’t help but think about what a bully Adam Baldwin is, and I get turned off the idea and watch something else instead.
I have to confess the Adam Baldwin thing has affected Firefly for me as well.
I’ve hated Tom Cruise since Cocktail when all my friends were going barf-worthily googly eyed over him. The fact that he’s a nutcase only serves to prove to me I was right to hate him. 😛
For me it wasn’t the Scientology or couch-jumping or messy divorces or any of that… it was his smarmy shit-eating grin, and the stories from cast and crew on his films about how he’s a dick to everyone on set and has to have things his way, and how he negotiates for directors to shoot to make him look tall. I’ve mostly only appreciated his acting in things where he basically plays a jerk, like War of the Worlds or Last Samurai or Edge of Tomorrow.
The biggest appeal of Edge of Tomorrow is that you get to see Tom Cruise die repeatedly.
I loved Last Samurai. Ken Watanabe is just the best.
One more thing about my weekend. I bought Mum 5 hidden object games. Couldn’t even bring myself to buy a $3 one for myself. *sigh*
So the weekend was ok
Played quite a bit of Ass creed:Rev, getting close to the end I feel. Didn’t play much else, a little Nidhogg which I got on sale and a few other distractions. Bought a number of games in the steam sale but nothing much, at about $50 spent so far.
Saturday I had a conference call for work while I was watching Tiglet. She fell and bumped her head and now I am getting shit for beating up on my daughter. Mrs Tigs went to VSK fashion sale thingy and bought a number of things,
Sunday morning was fairly casual, did a bit of work and bummed around. Then went to the in-laws for joint birthday. Then Mrs Tigs was out for a Mummy’s group dinenr so I cooked up a big batch of sausages, chips (potato and sweet potato) and grilled zuchinni. https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/610017706419458048
Was rather tasty but not sure if it was that, being alone with Daddy or the change to her routine but we were up half the night trying to get Tiglet to sleep. Was just a happy, bouncy, smiley girl at 10pm as long as she wasn’t anywhere near her cot
Friendly warning to GoT fans to boycott the internet in it’s entirety until you’re up to speed with today’s episode finale. My internet blackout commences in about 30 mins.
If I internet blackout I won’t be able to Fallout 4.
DILEMMA
Continue Fallout:NV Gump run until you’re able to watch GoT. Watch GoT, then Fallout 4.
I’m at work. Also, I’m not super spoiler averse.
Saturday’s attempt to make a dent in my backlog was *drumroll* Transistor! (got about 3/4 through it before some computer troubles so need to finish it during the week) – really loving it; the unique semi-turn-based approach reminds me a bit of Grandia II but in reverse, and the aesthetic is a sweet blend of 50’s cyberpunk Matrix with the clean isometric perspectives of Bastion… actually makes me think a bit of Tezuka’s reimagining of Metropolis which I should maybe rewatch after this. Of course then I had to work out budgeting for both Steam and GOG sales since I’ve been knocking off wishlist items for both this week.
Sunday was Jurassic World round 2 (saw on Thursday with dad, saw this time with someone a bit more excitable who cringed when people got eviscerated) – I think it’s fantastic that this generation has some good role models now with the likes of Chris Pratt (and the other Marvel-affiliated Chrises), who tries to be as awesome off-screen as on – much better than so many past leading men who turned out to be dickish or abusive outside of their acting personas.
Hey gang, please help me pick my next game to play.
Metal Gear GZ (PS+ this month) (2 votes)
Wolfenstein New Order (PS4) (5 votes)
Tomb Raider replay (PS4)
Uncharted trilogy replay (PS3)
Dark Souls 2 SOTFS (PS4) (1 vote)
ICO/Shadow of the Colossus (PS3) (3 votes)
Watch Dogs (PS4) (1 vote)
GAMES FINISHED THIS YEAR
[*]Diablo III[*]The Last of Us Remastered
[*]Swapper
[*]Octodad: Dadliest Catch
[*]Infamous: Second Son
[*]Infamous: First Light
[*]Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
[*]Game of Thrones: Iron from Ice
[*]Game of Thrones: The Lost Lords
[*]Rogue Legacy
[*]Tales of the Borderlands 1
[*]Thomas Was Alone
[*]Transistor
[*]Uncharted: Golden Abyss
[*]Kick and Fennick
[*]The Walking Dead Season 1 (PLAT)
[*]Beyond Two Souls (PLAT)
[*]Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate
[*]The Walking Dead: 400 Days
[*]The Walking Dead Season 2
[*]Tales of the Borderlands 2
[*]Proteus
[*]Game of Thrones #3
[*]Bloodborne (PLAT)
[*]Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
[*]Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All
[*]Game of Thrones #4
[*]Murdered Soul Suspect
[*]Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
Wolfenstein New Order due to raisins
GZ you can polish off in one or two sittings (for the main story mission, there’s other bits and pieces). My replay last week was 45 minutes for the GZ mission, but I knew where I was going and sprinted the last bit.
Wolfenstein \o/
!
SotC
This.
Watch Dogs. It’s not as bad as people say it is. It’s not as good as it could/should be. Try not to get completionist, just do the story.
I really need to take my own advice on this one.
(I recommend playing Wolfenstein after that one. It’s a delicious palate-cleanser, a real treat.)
I need to take this advice with Far Cry 4.
Sunk something like 45 hours and only just opened up the northern part of the map… =|
Oh god, me too. I loved every minute getting there, but I started to run out of enthusiasm by that point.
Dark Souls 2!
Wolfenstein. very good game.
Anti vote for Watch Dogs. That game was horrendous.
Wolfenstein New Order or Ico/Shadow of the Colossus.
If you’ve never played Ico and/or SotC those should be priority.
I’ve played SotC before, but didn’t get all that far (about up to #10) because it was a rental game.
Considering they’re going to re-reveal The Last Guardian for a holiday 2015 release at E3 (BELIEVE !) it’s past time for you to play both of those games.
Oh… well, if it’s past time, I guess there’s nothing I can do about it… :\
😛I’m with freeze and against transient; +1 Wolfenstein -1 Watchdogs.
EEEE watching the Doom Livestream…. =O how cool do the guns look!?
Edit: The guns appear to feel solid, that said the game doesn’t look like anything new? That said I’m glad to see the presence of health bars as opposed to the regenerate health crap that plagues most new FPS’s.
TAY RPG Pathfinder on tonight at 7:30pm ACST and 8pm AEST. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @negativezero @beeawwb
You scared off the Troglodytes but there are a number of other rooms in this hidden chamber of the necromancer. What do you do?
Notkill the troglodytes!So. Found out elite isn’t really mmo as tagged in steam.
Well, it actually is and isn’t at the same time.
It has an entirely solo playthrough, or, you can choose to have other players active in your game.
By other players, only a handful. Read max 32 on some forum, because I could not find anyone. Couldn’t even play with a friend.
So games is coming
What a weekend. Got some Witchering done on Saturday and Sunday – now up to a little over 50 hours, and I think I’ve concluded the Novigrad main quest. Annoyed that doing so failed a sidequest that I was apparently supposed to do first, but oh well – live and learn.
Managed to fit in the first two Rurouken movies somehow – sooo good! Can’t wait to see the last one.
Also spent evenings in Destiny – had a hell of a slog through the “second half” of the 35 prison last night. Got invited at the start of round 4 around 7:30pm and spent a little while looking for a third (thanks, @liondrive!), then got through rounds 4 and 5 without too much trouble… then we hit Skolas. We got him down once around 9:30-10 but died to the mines (but we each scored an Elder Cipher, tho one person’s was bugged, unfortunately), so two of us headed to Variks to start that bounty and grab some heavy synths. Finally got Skolas back down a little after midnight, this time with everyone alive, so we danced our hearts out while dismantling those mines. Scored the emblem, ship and shader, and the Queen’s Cipher! Queenbreaker’s Bow, here I come! \o/
Dishonored 2 looks pretty cool… and Fallout 4 actually looks more interesting than I thought. May have to give the franchise another try…
F**k. Skolas.
I actually kind of enjoyed it though, haha!
It was fun just hanging out 🙂
He does need to get nerved super badly though 😮
I think it’s a bit like Qodron pre-nerf, only moreso – it’s a neat encounter with a cool mechanic that requires full team coordination, but it’s ruined by the sheer number of adds and somewhat unpredictable boss pathing.
… Scratch that. It’s exactly like Qodron. 😛 I don’t want Skolas to be nerfed quite that much… just tweaked so that playing to the mechanics becomes the optimal way to beat him – I think the most fun I had last night were the times we failed to kill him and were just killing time for synths. That mad-dash poison transfer/revive management 😀
Yeah, just make it more manageable, kinda thing.
I think they have it right with taking away solar burn, and have the add waves at regular health intervals, rather than get flooded by them.
It was the adds that killed us more than Skolas last night, after all :\
And yeah, those time killing matches were the best 🙂
I actually don’t like how everything devolves into just pure Gjallahorn-ing, so those rounds were great!
Skolas is getting nerfed for next week.
The solar/void/arc burns are gone, and in return his health is being lowered.
Cool Dishonored 2’s got a main female protaganist and she actually looks like an assassin as opposed to eye candy.
Yeah, she looked pretty awesome.
Wasn’t the protagonist of the first game female? The Heart? I’m pretty sure the entire story of Dishonoured is about a woman twisted into a strange state of being, getting carried around by a bland, faceless man as she uncovers the dark secrets within every single person in the city. 🙂
So let me get this straight. I have a weekend hanging with a lot of you at PAX, then a week to catch up with the family, then a month or two of not talking to anybody and barely showering?
Fallout 4. 10/11/2015. 119 Days to go.
I’mma gonna start a @shane esque countdown.
119 days! And Fallout Shelter tonight/now!
HYPE!
One Fallout 4 with the lot thanks.
Working Pipboy.
WORKING PIPBOY.
WORKING. PIP. BOY.
One Collectors Edition shipment. No, not one edition. The shipment. Thanks. You take payments in internal organs right? Most are my own.
Yeah, I think unless it’s a billion dollarydoos that’s happening,
I’ll take just a fallout 4, please 🙁
Pre-orders were already down, EB Games contacted with explicit instructions to upgrade both to pipboy editions asap 😀
Once it’s on their site, I’ll be looking verrrrrry intently
I had intentions of watching the Bethesda conference, but my best friend called me up and we ended up talking for 3 fucking hours, so I missed the whole thing.
So, what did I miss?
Of course that had to be a page get /o\
FALLOUT 4
DISHONORED
FALLOUT SHELTER
Also battleborn and doom and a card game.
FALLOUT 4 AND DISHONORED THOUGH
Fuck, it’s Battlecry from Bethesda not Battleborn. Dammit Gearbox, one of you is gonna have to change titles and I think Bethesda got in first (Well, EA did with Battlefield, but y’know what I mean)
It’s easy to remember, because Battlecry is coming from the devs at…
Battlecry.
I hope for their sake they never release any other games, because they’ll look mighty foolish (though Bish suggested that they could Crytek their games, and have like BattleBlood and Cry-something-or-other).
Battletoads
Battlelore, Battleworld, World of Battles, Jedi Power Battles…
Kingdoms of Bananrama…
My potty mouth friend called Jedi Power Battles , Jedi Power Bullshitters which I loved because it sounds like the stories Jedi made up about how great they were.
I could just imagine Mace Windu sitting around telling tall tales about how many mutha fuckas he took out.
Damn! Dishonored 2. Only got through the prologue of the first one before stopping (can’t remember why). I must get back to it.
Definitive edition coming soon, the DLC is supposed to be really good.
Dishonored is a really cool sneaky bastard game. The alternate ways to complete each mission were fantastic
Fallout 4 delayed to June 2016. TES Online cancelled. Dishonored 2, through a partnership with Activision, is now a Call of Duty expansion pack. Doom looks alright tho.
A flaming mass of emotional outburst pouring in waves of positive & negative as those who believed got HYPE & those who did not spread HATE.
Sometimes there was confusion as both were tactically spit at once in shallow attempts to hide the hate behind thinly veiled masks of “I’m not a fan” & “I’m not hating but…”s.
Overall an exciting yet confusing time where people not unlike myself tried to piece together the truth from random tweets & hastily pasted together ‘articles’.
The good news is, games is coming & whether they are for you personally or not, E3 is not over & surely by week’s end you will find what you were anticipating. Or better yet, a pleasant suprise when something new & unheard of is announced.
Yea, sing it from the mountain!
Games is coming!
You know, one of the strangest but oddly positive things are people trying their best to calmly explain what could be fun to those that don’t know or don’t care to know. A lovely effort to try and spread awareness in an attempt to put out the fires of rabid hate the internet so freely shares.
– Doom looking like a rad oldschool FPS like Doom should.
– Battlecry looking exactly like what you’d expect it to look if you know what it is
– Dishonored 2 announced and it seems like more of the same (which apparently is a good thing)
– Some crappy Hearthstone knockoff
– Bethesda are making their version of uplay
– Some free Fallout thing on iOS out right now
– Everyone lost their shit over Fallout 4 for some reason that I think I will never understand. The CE has a ‘working’ pipboy and will be eleventy billion dollars at EB where it will be exclusive.
Yeah, Bethesda’s still getting at least 2, probably 3 purchases from me. And a Fallout Shelter d’load.
And I know that I’ll enjoy it all
Dishonored and Fallout 4 are both very “red” games.
I thought fallout was all brown???
#Confused
Well, 3 was grey and green, NV was brown on brown (though had red bits).
I’m just shooting for a colour palette, y’know? other than Mirror’s Edge we don’t get many red games.
Don’t forget Takedown: Red Sabre 😉
The Blaghman Bethesda Bokeh… Broundup (no). Brotacular? Brutiny? Bevaluation?
Whatever.
Spoilered in case people want to see the show themselves later or whatever and have been avoiding the internet:
Strong start, well implemented DoF with strong Bokeh elements in Doom, particularly obvious when changing weapons. Will need closer analysis to tell if it has the usual artefacts.Pre-rendered stuff doesn’t count, so Dishonored 2 gets nothing (It did have a rather boring but entirely functional and correct circular Bokeh though, for clarity’s sake). I think I fell asleep during the Battlecry and Fallout Online stuff, so they don’t get a ranking.
Fallout 4 continues to only feature a boring gaussian blur, so far as I can tell. It does also seem to be missing some other effects I’d expect (noticeably, SSAO or more hopefully an HBAO equivalent), so there’s still hope for it (let’s be honest, I don’t play Beth games for graphics, and this is all just facetious fun).
Bish’s Boiled down Brief of Blaghman’s Bethesda Bokeh Brotacular Butinous Bevaluation:
Yeah looks a’ight.
Bro’tastic by-line, Bish-bra’, begging bountiful, beneficent bragging.
So I ended up watching the Bethesda thing for some reason.
Man, that Doom. I’m paraphrasing a bit, but I think Jim summed it up pretty well – “I dunno what everyone was applauding there. It looked like Master Chief just Crysis’d up his suit and Call of Duty’d his way through Metroid. [Generic/Derivative] as shit.”
And like, Modern Warfare gave us set pieces, Alien Isolation gave us an atmosphere, Far Cry gave us space, Doom 4… repeats its stand and shoot stuff policy.
I’m not trying to poop on anyone’s excitement here, but it just feels like old design. For some, visceral gameplay can only keep interest for so long.
Stop pooping on my excitement.
In fact, do up your trousers & use the toilet like a civilised human being!
Excitement is cool too.
Lots of people in the conference seemed to really enjoy it judging by their shout outs.
Some people are into scat, & that’s fine. I just don’t wanna be a part of it.
Except it doesn’t even feel like the old design. Nothing I saw there seemed to particularly feel like Doom. It’s in some weird limbo where it’s not a retro throwback, but it’s not quite a reboot either.
As someone who has never played a Doom before, I am all for using the same stand and shoot policy it usually goes with.
Boooooooo
Kids just don’t understand games these days.
It kinda has the right to look generic, tho – it’s a franchise that was copied ad nauseum for two decades, looking like it’s (somewhat) going back to its roots. Gunplay looks like fun, even if pickup animations seem to border a little on the fetishist end of the spectrum…
Are you kidding? Only thing off is the speed of your character. Up that by ~50% and with the amount and types of enemies and type of projectiles and attacks they have they’ve nailed the flow of the game. Only thing in doubt is level design and layout.
Red, yellow & blue
I dunno, I just wasn’t really feeling it. Seemed more like someone’s interpretation of what they heard a friend once say Doom is kind of like. Except they’d only played Doom 3.
I wanted to be hyped, after everyone came out of the Quakecon screening with smiles on their faces and everything. And that teaser looked cool. But watching it in action now, it just seemed severely underwhelming.
I didn’t watch it, but it seems kind of … I dunno … silly to describe Doom as derivative, given what the FPS genre owes to it…
Doom struck me as a game that’s sticking to its roots. No regeneration; solid weaponry, dodging projectiles against a few enemies and I’m curious enough to find out whats the deal with the cyborg limbs.
Very classic doom with hopefully a twist in there somewhere. If done right (and so far Bethesda’s track record with single player FPS’s is golden in my book aka Wolfenstein) I’m cautiously optimistic about the game =]
So… Fallout… Is now part minecraft-part tower defense-part simcity-part fallout-part sims pets.
ALL PARTS AWESOME.
Combine Civ & Total War in there and I won’t need another game ever again
I also noticed something… the guns seem to have better feedback and response as opposed to the last set of fallout games. They look/feel more doom’y? Looking forward to this; also have to download the app when I get home =P
With Witcher 3-style environmental storytelling.
(Edit: Any other year before 2015, I would’ve said ‘mass effect style storytelling’. The bar… it has been raised.)
It finally feels like we’re now ‘next gen’. Only took a couple of years.
Everyone else at E3 has a massive massive task to follow up.
PC user, we’re always current gen.
Always.
I need to beef my PC up considerably for Fallout 4. It’s going to take a backburner to a new TV though and then the PC gets some love for (hopefully) 4k Fallout 4 mods.
I have a PC, and it can’t run recent games. It feels like it was never current gen. NEVER.
You’re PC’ing wrong. =P
Edit: Instructions on how to PC below –
Step 1 – Build a new computer and spend about 50% over what you originally estimated for your budget
Step 2 – Spend about a month putting it together just perfectly and shopping for each individual part
Step 3 – Stand back and just stand in awe of your work of art
Step 4 – Watch next year’s E3 and realize you aren’t going to be able to play 1 game at ultra settings
Step 5 – Restart from Step 1.
Step 3.5 – Swear as various hardware conflicts cause random games to stop working and attempting to fix it merely causes different games to crash.
Yeah, I have experience with this step.
Step 4 – wife divorces you for wasting mortgage money
She takes half of your PC
& all your dignity!
Holy T. rex on steroids! Jurassic World just made $500m worldwide over the weekend! :O
Twenty dollars of that was mine 😀 and yes, I loved the film.
Right, here’s my first draft roleplaying rules for Fallout 4
THE TONY STARK RUN
High Intelligence, High Charisma. Low Endurance- dude’s got a heart condition, dontcha know?
– Build every weapon you use (IN A CAVE! FROM A BOX OF SCRAPS!)
– Be a charming dick
– Sleep with every female character you can
– prioritise the building of POWER ARMOUR above all else. Especially jetpacks.
– Basebuilding: As much like Avengers Tower as possible
– Sidekicks: Have to look like Gwyneth Paltrow or Don Cheadle, need their own sets of armour
Coming November
#redinthebostonwasteland #StarkRun
Happy would also be a sidekick.
& technically you’d get away with hanging out with Thors & Caps
Or you could start a civilised war with CAP!
Happy? He dead.
;_;
Retcon
That death was genuinely emotional, I’ll not retcon that.
Story set back when he was still alive or in an alternate universe.
(I’ve never read it, it was?)
Also, given time, someone will
Happy died around Dark Reign, he’s still dead.
It was that recent?
So fraction wrote it?
@jimu little earlier, was at the tail end of Civil War.
I thought he started around then.
What about his charming butler Jarvis?! Does he get power armor too?
The butler is already a flying metal robot, sort of counts.
I have to see who the companions are first. On my gump run Cass is the most fitting, I just need to fix up her quests so she’s not marked for death half the time
When I first saw #StarkRun, I just jumped to thinking it was a GoT reference. #redinthebostonwasteland took on a whole different meaning before I realised you were talking about Iron Man.
The House Stark run is when you try to be a nice guy with zero charisma and fuck it up majorly and Megaton gets nuked.
High Int, High charisma, low endurance (dude has a heart condition)
Craft everything (In a CAVE! From a BOX of SCRAPS!)
Get power armour with jetpack ASAP
Drink a lot of booze
sleep with as many women as possible
Be a dick when I can
Have a sidekick that looks like Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts or Rhodey.
SUPANOVA! A lot of joy. Anyone else going?
Yes. I’ll be exhibiting and selling books!
HISTORY LESSON TIME
Breath of Fire II. Released on SNES about 20 years ago.
Late in the game you got to build your own town. You got to choose the NPCs to populate it and open stores. There was a guy who was all like “WHOOAAA. I WANT TO SELL FISH” and I told him to come to my village and then he was one of my vendors and he sold fish.
Then, if you did things right even later on (including very tricky boss battle clear requirements), you could power the engine under your town AND MAKE YOUR TOWN FLY AROUND THE MAP.
This shit blew my mind when I was about 12 years old.
Fallout 4, I am ready to feel like I’m 12 again.
This shit is blowing my mind now when I’m 33 years old. How had I never played this one?
Clearly because you were busy training to be a spy in your early childhood. Now now transient don’t deny it.
…Well. I can neither confirm, nor deny.
No one did.
That’s why Breath of Fire 6 is a fucking Android game 🙁
There was even a GBA re-release…
Mastah race, bro
I remember being about the same age playing BOF II – Accidentally finding the first shaman combination which changed the appearance of monkey (genie thing?) blew my mind. My cousin and I then stayed up till the wee hours of the morning trying to find others.
Pow’s Definitive Guide to His Likes and Dislikes of Jurassic World! (Major spoilers for the whole movie, obviously. Don’t read if you haven’t seen!)
TL;DR: He liked it, but…
[begin long post from Armchair Director Pow who tells movie people what they should do even though he has no idea what he is doing]
(I do point out a lot of dislikes, but know that I did actually like the movie 😛 – just sharing some thoughts. Don’t confuse it for hate!)
SERIOUSLY, SPOILERS
LIKED: The music! Was done so well I didn’t even notice the composer was different. Used a lot of the same instruments and sounds to re-create the same sound as the first movie. Fit in perfectly and I loved it.
DISLIKED: Angsty teenage kid character. Ugh. It is my least favourite character type of all time. Just, the worst. No redeeming qualities. Don’t understand how that type of character keeps getting used in film/TV.
LIKED: The dynamic created by having tonnes of people in the park. I just wish they had went further with this. The Pteranodon/Dimorphodon attack scene was fantastic. I wanted more like that but it never really happened, unfortunately. These sort of scenes are perfect for showing off the smaller dinos. Would’ve loved to see some Dilophosaurus or a massive swarm of Compy’s in another huge mayhem scene. Oh well, I still enjoyed what was there.
DISLIKED: The time gap. This movie was meant to be a sequel to the first movie (I think they said 2 and 3 were still canon, just that they wouldn’t be referenced), which it was, but I just had this strange feeling that I’d missed a HUGE amount of story in-between the first movie and World. I couldn’t help but feel like Jurassic World would’ve been better served being centred around the Opening Day of the new park, rather than X successful years afterwards. I dunno. I just felt like there was a disconnect between the cinema audience being eager to see dinosaurs after so many years (ie. me :P) and the in-universe audience being bored of the same-old dinosaurs. There wasn’t as much wonder as I would’ve liked, but that’s just me.
LIKED: The throwbacks. It was added as pure nostalgia-bait, but I lapped it up anyway 😛 Loved seeing ruined versions of some key areas from the first movie. Not much more to say here. I fell for it and I loved it. Mr DNA, the goggles, the original building, Henry Wu, everything.
DISLIKED: Indominus Rex was too much of a monster. I know that was kinda the point and was thoroughly explained in the movie, so I won’t go on too long about it, but I dunno. It was kinda bordering on monster-movie territory for me. The star dinos in the past always felt like animals doing their thing with humans thrown in to the mix. This one was a touch too murderous for me.
LIKED: The Mosasaurus. Man, the MOSASAURUS! So cool and ties in with the Telltale game perfectly, it was great.
LIKED/DISLIKED (combo!): A couple of the death scenes. The assistant Zara’s death scene during the Pteranadon attack was perfect. Just enough “will she make it? No? Yes! No? No…” before the final chomp. The only issue I had with this is… I felt she didn’t deserve it. Save the cool deaths for the people I’m meant to hate, not the people I sympathise with because they’re just doing their job 😛 She didn’t get enough screen time to invest me in a cool death.
Conversely, the big-bad dude had THE WORST death scene ever. He’s the dude they set up everybody to hate and his death is literally “Oh, a Raptor came around the corner unannounced. Dead. The rest of the characters in the room run away.” No running or anything. I kinda wish they’d swapped Zara and the evil dude’s deaths. Have Zara push one of the kids out of the way of the Raptor or something. Would’ve been amazing.
LIKED: The raptors. It makes sense to me that they would be able to “tame” the raptors after such a long time with them considering their intelligence. Then I liked them even more when they grouped with the Indonimus, because hey, instinct. They just met the biggest Raptor ever. Cool. (Didn’t like that they then teamed up with the humans again after that, especially the whole personified nod one of them did, but hey, can’t complain about everything)
There’s more, but I’ve already rambled on far too long. Long story short, I will be watching it again and getting the Blu Ray when it comes out 😛
I really enjoyed the Indominus revelation. I had read a rumour online beforehand
that it was actually part human,so when the reveal came it was actual a nice surprise. And it really made a lot of sense, too.*Edited to remove the actual reveal. Spoiler buttons are so fun to click!
Michael Giacchino is the best.
Can always trust @dc for an upvote on a Giacchino comment.
I did wonder why the Raptors were segregated, and not for public viewing on the island? Not cool enough? Or was it that they were simply busy under instruction?
Anyone got a good link to a E3 Bethesda conference video. IGN start was choppy and cutting out, Gamespot had no sound.
If this still works, this is what I watched live. Had no issues streaming.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2KApp699WdE
Looks like Pip editions of Fallout 4 are available to pre-order. This thing will probably go for $750 on eBay in six months time, so it might be a good investment. Good luck, all!
Just got my confirmation email.
The price really isn’t as bad as what I thought.
NegativeZero’s Brief KanColle Update:
– While doing daily quests this morning, on a whim I decided to do a quick minimum-resource Large Shop Construction. Noshiro popped out. Holy crap. I’ve been hunting for her for months. This game knows just how to dole out the stuff to keep me hooked. Taigei last week too.
– Last Friday’s update added Kako Kai-2. She’s got a big art upgrade, but I don’t see a good reason to concentrate on her yet.
– Maya up to 59 now. That’s roughly halfway to the 75 she needs for her upgraded form – the amount of XP per level starts to ramp up significantly now. Probably another week or so to go.
– Fusou up to 73. Seven more to go, so she’ll probably hit Kai-2 about the same point as Maya.
– Got Nagato to 70 which was my first goal level. Swapped her out for Mutsu and am going to get Mutsu to similar level. Makes them both more available for events where I need slow battleships & can’t afford to run Yamato.
– Jintsuu sitting at 59, very close to her goal level of 65. Probably will be the next one to make it to that level. Once she’s done, my intention is to work on one of Bismarck, Littorio or Unryuu, or maybe another heavy cruiser like Prinz Eugen or one of the other Myoukous.
– Cleared World 5-2. Looking at having a go at 5-3 tonight. Also managed to get to the boss once on 3-5 but can’t clear it regularly. Need to figure out a better way to do it. 4-5 was added to the game in last update. Haven’t looked at it yet, but it might be easier than 3-5.
– Current missing ships list:
> Taihou (LSC-only)
> Musashi (LSC-only)
> Roma (unobtainable)
> Sakawa (6-2 drop)
> Asagumo (1-6 drop)
> Asashimo (4-5 drop)
> Nowaki (4-5 drop)
> Isokaze (unobtainable)
> Takanami (unobtainable)
I saw your tweet. Is Noshiro like a *twitch* shiny Pokémon?
Since I don’t play Pokemon I don’t know.
At some point they had an idea of ‘rarity’ in the game. The commons have a blueish back, uncommon are silver, rare are gold, and super-rare have a sort of holographic effect. It used to reflect their actual rarity, eg with the launch lineup, the Sendai cruisers were common, except Sendai herself who is uncommon (silver back). IIRC the only ones with super rare holo-style backing were Akagi, Hiryuu, Nagato, Yukikaze and Shimakaze.
Then you have the ‘kai’ thing. When they reach a certain level (pre-defined per character) you can remodel them (adds ‘kai’ to the name) and when you do that, their backing color will bump up one rarity level, so eg Sendai starts out silver, but at Kai she gets a gold backing. This is the case for second remodels as well – Sendai has a Kai-2 remodel at level 65 or so, which bumps her into the holo effect. I guess you could consider the remodel thing a bit like the evolution stuff in Pokemon? Though in most cases they stay the same name and class and just get better art, in a few cases they go through multiple versions which may change their name or class (eg Chitose & Chiyoda start as seaplane tenders, become sub tenders, then become aircraft carriers. Hibiki changes name to Verniy. Taigei starts as a sub tender and becomes light carrier Ryuuhou). Some jump through multiple rarity classes when you get them to Kai-2 as well. Fubuki for example is super common, goes to uncommon at Kai, and then goes straight to Holo at Kai-2 skipping over Gold.
Of course, nowadays the whole rarity thing is out the window because it really comes down to where and how they are constructed or drop rates in areas they drop. Some ships are drop-only, some are construction-only. Some are constructable but only via the super expensive Large Ship Construction (eg this is the only way now to get Yamato or Musashi, who were event rewards during the first year of the game).
Also bear in mind that rarity hasn’t got a lot to do with performance or power. Some of the rarest ships are the destroyers like Isokaze. She has only ever dropped on the hardest event maps, on high difficulties, but is a bog-standard destroyer, albeit one with really good art and highly sought after because she’s voiced by Ayako Kawasumi.
Noshiro was one of the three Agano-class cruisers added to the game in the same event that added Yamato and I-19. This happened right when I was first playing the game, and I could only clear the first map at the time. Clearing all maps got you Yamato. Agano and Noshiro were event rewards on the way, and Yahagi was a random drop.
Subsequently they added the LSC mechanic. If you put in minimum resources, there’s a chance at a bunch of rarer ships. Most of the time you get Fusou, Ise or Kongo-class battleships, but there’s around a 6% chance of Mutsu, 3% for Nagato, and 2-3% chance for the rare Mogami and Agano cruisers. Agano is over 3%, Noshiro about 2%, and Yahagi about 1.5% chance. Sakawa, the last of the Aganos, is drop-only and not constructable.
However, Agano and Yahagi are also both obtainable in a lot of events as drops (especially Agano) and also can be obtained through normal map drops. Noshiro has been a rare drop on some event maps but never a normal map drop. So as LSC-only, she’s been the hardest of the four to get. I’ve tried to farm her on multiple event maps without success. Have had about ten Aganos and three Yahagis so far, never Noshiro until now.
So… not a Shiny, but fairly rare. Not the rarest, but not easy to obtain.
The funniest thing though is that I’ll probably never use her. The Agano class cruisers stat-wise aren’t really any better than the Kumas or the Nagaras but they have much higher fuel and ammo consumption. They’re prestige cruisers right now.
Easiest way to translate – drop only, chances measured with average farming runs in the hundreds to thousands to get one to drop.
Sounds like I’d gauge these more at rare monster hunter drops as a similar equivalence to my own familiar activities.
Yeah, except she’s only via construction which is where you spend an amount of resources for a randomized drop. I don’t think MH has anything like that.
I’m flat out justifying buying a game for $70.
But the Fallout CE got me like:
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Can you go in store and pre-order there? I just hate the feeling of waiting for something to be delivered, I want to go into the store where I am in control of when I can go and pick it up, and not wait 3 days for a delivery when I am most hype.
I would also like to take a moment to say I don’t have a control problem.
*Hugs security blanky tightly*You can pre-order online and assign it to “pick up in store”. Means you get to pick it up on launch day from the store without having to go there now.
Awesome, I got a little nervous when they asked me for my postcode.
I ended up buying it on my phone and the option to pick up instore was there 😀
Doom Talk
Does this game avoid being banned in Australia due to the violence being towards demons and not humans? I cannot really remember anymore how these things are viewed.
If it’s not sexual violence or drug use it won’t be a problem.
I thought this was the case, but then remembered something about Hotline Miami 2 being banned, and hatred not coming out here. I can’t remember if those were just not released here or had some of the stuff you mentioned. I kind of got over all the banning things argument because we have an R rating here. So I stopped paying attention. Anyway, Doom looks pretty cool and I am little hyped for it. SnapMap looks unbelievably easy.
Hotline Miami was implied sexual violence from memory.
Hotline Miami 2 had a ‘rape scene’ (I put the apostrophes there as it is a set piece, and does not actually occur in the gane) which I recall being one of a handful of reasons why it was banned. The hatred wasn’t as bad here I suppose as the developers said to pirate the game, there was some kerfuffle though at the time.
*Adjusts monocle and refills tobacco pipe*
A scene which doesn’t actually happen (it is implied that it is about to), is fictional within the world (it’s part of a film shoot), is not playable, occurs right at the start of the game, and is skippable.
They got such a raw deal on that. It was a bullshit banning.
I still can’t get my head around how fiction within fiction is more fictional than fiction
Either way, I’ve seen some ducked up shit in movies & the fact that it was a cut scene shows how badly that was handled.
I saw irreversible in the cinema.
Hotline Miami ain’t nothin
Well, the classification board has to assess the ‘impact’ of the matter. And the impact of it depends a lot on the context that it appears in. The way something is treated is often as important as what the material is. It’s about the author / director’s intent in showing that material as well. Sexual assault added to a game or movie for the purpose of titillation is going to be assessed as being much higher impact than if it were in there to criticize or vilify the act or because the material hinges on the emotional outcome of the act, or because it’s a based on historically documented events or whatever.
EDIT: I agree with you though. I’ve played that scene in Hotline Miami and of all the things to complain about in that game, it was weird to single it out. They could have done the same scene with real actors in a film and staged it exactly the same way and I’d be surprised if it went above MA.
Hatred never got submitted for classification. Devs played on our censorship outrage like they did everything marketing their game.
Thanks for all the clarification. Hope it goes through classification easy enough and we get the full version.
One of the other big things they used to get antsy about is post-mortem violence on humanoids. If you can take a chainsaw to a corpse and cut its arms and legs off, then that will get into shit as well.
The was the main one that syndicate ran foul of wasn’t it
That and possibly the suicide thing.
I think SoF2 got the banhammer for dismemberment, but that was pre R18+ so who knows these days.
FALLOUT 4.
Goddamn that was awesome. I am so happy they didnt go with F4LLOUT.
Game of Thrones.
MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR S5E10:
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Well spoilered good sir!
Edit: Or should that read, well unspoiled?
I dont know. I just didnt want anybody clicking on the button & then being pissed off at the magnitude of the spoilers contained therein.
Thanks. I clicked out of habit and was very grateful to have not been spoiled. So your precaution was a well-taken one.
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59.6GB….
O_O
Took me 3 days to download on ADSL 2+.
@Saturday
Hey mate, just wanted to check in with you and see if your package has arrived yet? I sent one to my buddy in the U.S the same time as you and she got it about 3 weeks ago, and am just scared you haven’t got it yet!
I’m afraid it hasn’t.
That sucke, I’ll get the tracking number and see where your tim tam box is.
Why do I want the pip-boy edition when I have only played fallout New vegas?
Don’t worry, I would’ve played less Fallout than you and I want one.
It seems like fans aren’t interested and newcomers are like ZOMG
Because it’s a cool tchotchke.
And pip-boys are cool
I love Fallout and am so damn excited about new game, but have no desire for the pip-boy edition. I’M A MONSTER.
I wanted it when I heard about it, less so when I saw it.
@dc, saw you bought Lego Jurassic World. Just a heads up, after a few levels on the way to the next level the game just crashed to the desktop every time. Did a little searching and the only thing I could find was to go into options and change it from DirectX 11 to DirectX 9 and restart the game. It took longer to load and when I tried to load my save it said it was corrupt, so I had to start a new game, but I eventually got back to that part and it let me proceed with no problems. So, I don’t know, it might be an idea just to change that setting before you even start.
Thanks buddy! 🙂
Okay, so FFVII remake is really happening???
@negativezero @sughly @strange @freezespreston
http://mobile.siliconera.com/all/2015-06-15-final-fantasy-vii-remake-is-coming-to-playstation-4#1
Suuuure it is.
Idiot fanboys. You don’t want them to remake that game. There’s literally no way they can have a good outcome.
The game itself is a fucking mess. The graphical presentation is all over the place. The story is a poorly-translated hodge-podge of ideas. There’s shit in there that would never be in a modern video game. Sneaking into Don Corneo’s mansion, for example. It’s tonally all over the shop as well. There’s large bits of the game which are utterly irrelevant to how things progress, or are just straight up stupid. It’s really obviously developed by a team that had experience in 8 and 16-bit games, getting their feet wet in 3D for the first time. They had no proper toolchain, no experience, no real idea what they could or couldn’t do, and it shows.
To succeed as a modern game in or after 2015, Final Fantasy 7 needs to be reworked significantly.
There’s only two ways they can go: they either keep stuff as-is, random bullshit intact, in which cases there’s going to be so many rough edges, incongruent bits and elements that just don’t make sense that it’ll feel like they didn’t know what they were doing. Or alternatively, they’ll fix all those problems and suck the soul out of the game in the process, leaving people to complain about how they cut all those things people liked.
And when you boil it down, people don’t really want a remake. They want to re-experience the game the way they experienced it back then. In 1997, it was new and unique. The fans of it now were all teenagers or pre-teens. They will never be a 90s teenager again, never able to recapture that feeling again. No matter how much you try, how much you want it to happen, it just can’t. The time has passed. There’s no way to actually give people what they really want.
Leave FF7 alone. If you’re going to HD-ify a PS1-era FF, it should be VIII or IX. Fresh coat of paint is all they need.
I also would like it left alone.
But man, that is suuuuuuper negative
It’s true though. There’s an outside chance they could do right by it, but given that it’s current Squenix and not 90s Squaresoft I’m not sure I rate their chances highly. Not when they haven’t managed to get mainline Final Fantasy right arguably since FFIX or FFX.
Can you tone it down for me at all, please?
What, you want me to be all OMG HYPE HYPE rather than be realistic about it?
It would be rad if they pulled it off. Astronomically big if.
“Tone it down” does not mean “Change your opinion”
Just asking, feel free to do as you will.
C’mon, read his username, the man has standards to maintain!
It is, but the man is right.
Yeah, ok, so let’s shit on it. Cool!
Let’s wait until it has actual information.
Games have moved a long way since 1997. I’m with neg on this, in that I think this would necessitate more than just a graphical update, and that the backlash would be inevitable.
I don’t disagree with what’s being said, it’s the utter lack of respect he has for a classic & the way he feels the need to totally rip into it.
He knows full well how much I love the PSX final fantasies, we’ve had extensive conversation about them.
A little tact when replying to me would be great.
It’s like I was saying on Twitter, there’s plenty of games & games related stuff I think is crap, but I hold my tongue because I know someone holds them dear to their heart & they don’t want to read me shitting on them.
The Times I have felt the need to comment, I’ve tried my hardest not be a complete arse of myself (& yes, I’m fully aware, I often and constantly make an arse of myself).
Wait, hold on. You know that FF7 is one of my favourite games ever, right? I’m not shitting on FF7. The bits I’m saying are a mess are all fairly explainable or acceptable given when the game came out and how it was developed.
But it is a mess – tone, writing, artwork are incredibly inconsistent and the localization is bad – it was done by one guy in a really short timeframe with no tools or support and on a tiny budget. These are known issues. The game was developed on multiple hardware platforms, at a time before 3D RPGs had proliferated, before Square had any development toolchain, and before they really knew what they could or couldn’t do with the hardware. The plot is a mish-mash of ideas. The core of it is great, but there’s stuff you do along the way that isn’t relevant. The sequence with the submarine for example. Don Corneo’s mansion is a PR nightmare waiting to happen if it was depicted more realistically.
There’s also no consistency in the graphical presentation – characters in exploration don’t look like the battle system, models aren’t consistent in the cutscenes. Additionally, next to nothing is salvageable. It all needs to be re-created, from scratch. Even the music – it doesn’t need recomposition, but it does need reorchestration so it doesn’t sound like late 90s MIDI.
They will have to remake everything. And I just don’t have any faith they can do that without ruining a game that’s extremely special to me.
Hey man, I haven’t said anything negative all day. I’ve had a long standing disagreement with remaking FFVII though. It’s one of those impossible dreams that would never work in practice. I’d be okay with VII-2 however, be able to make a new updated game without all the baggage the original brings.
I agree
I’m hyped for it, Jim-Jim.
I don’t care if it’s done right, done wrong, or what have you.
I never got the chance to sit down and play it, so a remake would be great for me, as it would be for those of us who did miss the opportunity to play it.
Yes, I know, you can buy it now on PSN and whatever, but I’ve grown accustomed to a certain graphical quality.
If you don’t want it remade, then simple, don’t play it (cc @negativezero)
I couldn’t resist playing it. 🙁
My best guess as to how this works seeing as expectations are so stupidly unrealistically did I mention stupidly high for this:
“We want FFVII remade!!! It deserves to be remade because it’s amazing and omg I want it”
Comes out: “This isn’t the perfect exact vision that I’ve been meticulously crafting in my head for the past 10 years OMFG SQUARE ENIX YOU FUCKING RUINED IT I KNEW YOU WOULD YOU’RE A PILE OF SHIT WHO CAN’T GET ANYTHING RIGHT I’M DONE WITH GAMING 4EVA YOU RUINED MY CHILDHOOD”
Just leave it alone and make something new. There’s no way in hell they’ll please people.
that article was pretty thin gruel.
Ayup
Haha, aww, so much vitriol haha. I mean… hmmm… pretty interesting points made in all these replies and stuff. Personally, I played the game too late, after FF8 and 9, so it never worked on me, BUT that’s exactly why I would love for this to eventually happen, so I can give it another go with graphics that dont look like lego (sad as it is to say, it was a big part of why I couldnt get into it I believe).
And imo, lots of very very good films I absolutely love are essentially messes made up of bits and pieces, sometimes that element of fiction can work in its favour, which is what I believe it did for FF7. But yeah like I said, it was graphics that distanced me from it all.
So in other words, going by negs points, I would really love for them to make it as faithful as possible, just with an all new look.
i like vivi
Saaaaaame
Squall is my bro 5eva
Oh nice! That would be so awesome.
I know it could fail but I think I am actually going to wait until some kind of details about it comes out before jumping up and down and calling it shit.
Yeah, I know that despite all misgivings, I’ll be first in line to buy it when it releases. 🙁
@negativezero
I enjoy our conversations.
I know I’m being a test, but the reason I ask is because I would like to continue having them.
You’ve taught me things I never could have learned without your inside perspective. And helped me to realise there’s more out there than I knew.
I appreciate that.
I’m just a touchy-feely, overly sensitive hippy type (with an offensive mouth).
🙂
I was trying to write twat but test is close enough to testicle for a pass
In today’s episode of Negative Jimu…
I’m an emotional rollercoaster tonight, apologies all, particularly @negativezero
Damn it Jimu… Now this is stuck in my head.
I can’t thank you enough.
I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO
I need TP for my bunghole.
Thankfully that didn’t work 😀
Snow stuff is expensive 🙁
Is it cheaper in other states/mountains? Cheaper in other countries?
I’m guessing if I go this time and get hooked (I’d be doing mad SSX style moves in no time!) I should probably buy my own gear, but it seems like I’d still have to spend the big bucks on entry and lift passes 🙁
Pro tips on saving money on snow trips? Better to go for a longer period than weekends at a time?
TAY snow trip please? :P. I can please be a part of your crazy snow family @blaghman ?
Maaaan, way expensive no matter what you do I think.
But I guess in other countries at least you would get better slopes for your ton of moneys.
I read a while ago that if you can snag cheap flights it’s actually cheaper (and better) to goto New Zealand.
Haven’t been in years.. but I do love skiing.
I’m thinking next Japan trip with the wife we’ll go in January and head north. Or maybe just head over with my dad as it’s the only place he’ll go overseas (he’s turning into a grumpy country bumpkin). He won’t ski but he’ll sit in a bar all day sinking tasty Japanese beer and sake without a problem while I hit the slopes.
For me, Aus skiing is still the cheapest, but I live relatively close to the slopes. Actually, that might not be true anymore, since we sold our cabin in Jindabyne.
Long trips are definitely cheaper. A lot of places will have a pass that’s like “9/10 days” which I really like, because as much as I like skiing, having a day off mid trip will do wonders. Never been there, but NZ should be a bit cheaper, downsides are that it does have the occasional rubbish season (typically when Aus has a good season, so about once every five years at recent rates), and so far as I’m aware there’s no on snow accommodation. Japan and Canada are both decently cheaper in terms of accommodation, lift passes were a bit cheaper in glorious Nippon, significantly cheaper in Canada.
From memory the on snow stuff was also a lot cheaper in Italy and Switzerland, but it’s been a while. Downside to all of the above is that you’re still looking at a lot of cash to get there, and despite what Aussies think, they can still have bad seasons (their bad seasons are better than ours, admittedly, but having experienced one of the worst weeks in recent Zermatt history, and one of the worst in Big White’s, they can still be a bit shit.
The snow is definitely better in NZ than here- the aussie ski season can be pretty flakey. Queenstown is also a fantastic place, so much adventure tourism there.
So much amazing food.
I want another FergBurger. So badly.
New Zealand has vastly better snow fields to anything in Australia and it’d probably cost you about as much to get there.
Yeah, I’ve seen flights to NZ cheaper than what this 2 day snow trip will cost me :/
How about the ski lift passes/entry/gear hire etc. in New Zealand? Comparable?
(@cookingmama @freezespreston)
https://www.nzski.com/queenstown/passes-packages/first-timers
http://www.thredbo.com.au/passes-rentals/winter-passes/lift-rental/
Pretty much the same.Pretty much twice the price here (Didn’t notice the add rental below on the Thredbo one). Food, drink and accomodation is much cheaper in NZ however.Urgh, moderation.
Thredbo is AU$231 for 1 day with pass, lesson and rental. NZ is NZ$145 (AU$130) for one day pass, two lessons and rental.
https://www.nzski.com/queenstown/passes-packages/first-timers
http://www.thredbo.com.au/passes-rentals/winter-passes/lift-rental/
Hngh!
Also Thredbo is shit. Falls Creek is okay. Buller and Hotham are terrible.
Whereas if you go to Central Otago you can get to like four top-shelf fields (Cardrona, The Remarkables, Treble Cone and Coronet Peak). They’re all within range of Queenstown or Wanaka (which are about 40 mins apart IIRC).
Back when I was a kid, in terms of everything it used to be Cardrona >> Coronet Peak > Remarkables > Treble Cone, but things may have changed. That was also for us going as a family at sort of intermediate level. I have a poor view of the Remarkables as I had a few memorable accidents there (don’t ever get on a T-bar lift with my mum…)
You can stay multiple places around the Queenstown – Wanaka area and be in range of the fields. Queenstown is very commercialized. Wanaka is a bit more laid-back and classier, but it’s also very cold there (icy wind often blows right across the lake from the mountains). If you’ve got lots of money or family connections to get you a holiday place, Arrowtown is really nice, but that’s more where I’d go if I was planning a honeymoon or something. It’s about 20 mins from Queenstown and probably about as long from Wanaka.
In the summer we used to stay in Bannockburn, which is a bit out of Cromwell which is another reasonable-sized (by NZ standards) town in central. It used to be very hot there in the summer for the latitude as the heat would get trapped there by the mountains. Not as much now that Lake Dunstan’s there, it stabilizes the climate. But last few times we’ve stayed in the area, we actually stayed in Cromwell instead of Queenstown or Wanaka and it was pretty nice. Quiet and laid-back.
Thredbo isn’t shit. In a good season it’s Australia’s best resort, no question. Perisher wins most years because it has easily the most mountain, and so is more likely to have some good runs open, but when you can cruise from the top to bottom of Thredbo making fresh tracks the whole way? Glorious.
And Flat Creek lives up to its moniker.
Sydney! I will be visiting you this weekend for Supanova!
I don’t think I’ll be free for meats (my whole family is coming up, and there are two kiddie birthdays taking place while we’re there), but I will be standing like a lampshade at a table all weekend. So if you’re around, I hope you’ll come and say hi.
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Also, bring money. 😛
Why u do dis the weekend I move out of home Shane.
WHY.
Shane will help you move!
It’s why he brought the whole family!
So. Damn. Considerate.
Explains where he’ll be getting the lampshade outfit.
I would’ve! But the same excuse as Pants 😛 Plus I am drained of money for the moment.
If it makes you feel any better I’m also missing the first Splatoon online event that day, so, you know, double sad.
Oh, I’d forgotten that it was this weekend.
If SyFy are doing the 360 camera thing again I am *there*.
Don’t think I’m going, but I told Wingman she should stop by. Think she usually checks out all the booths and stuff so she probably would have anyway, but still 😛
Make sure she introduces herself as Wingman, or I’ll have no way of knowing! 🙂
Weekends. More like work ends.
I’ll be there.
Unfortunately I am not able to make it!
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another week.
The group made a friend in Grem the Minotaur. Needs more cowbell.
Thanks for playing guys. @redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @negativezero @beeawwb
BORN FREE! AS FREE AS THE WIND BLOWS
alternatively:
Then grease me up woman
Greasing the minotaur really does sound like a euphemism for a fairly vile sex act.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/15/8782241/rock-band-4-release-date-price-full-band-guitar-bundle holy crap. Maybe I’ll keep my x360 instruments after all.
If you filled that same suitcase space with amiibo and sold them over there, it’d easily cover the new bundle…
Goddamn! So local retailers will probably be charging $400AUD for the full band kit (if they even bother stocking it at all).
A whole bunch of news dropped overnight. Here’s what interested me.
* New Tomb Raider looks like an ice game.
* Telltale’s next Walking Dead is a miniseries starring Michonne, and telling her story between issues 126-129 of the comics. Yeah. I don’t know how I feel about this. If it’s accessible to non-comic-followers, I’ll give it a look I guess. https://www.telltalegames.com/blog/discussion/96344/telltale-and-skybound-announce-the-walking-dead-michonne-a-telltale-games-mini-series
* Dark Souls III confirmed with pretty CG trailer. Shut up and take my money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C5lklWVcl1Y
* Xbox One is getting some (limited) backwards compatibility. This strikes me as awesome news, and a step in the right direction!
Dark Souls
Hm. Started promising. Talk about only embers left and showing what looked very much like Kiln of the First Flame made me think that was your character from the first game after linking the fire and taking Gwyn’s place made me a little excited. Then they show Dark Souls 2’s giant… fuck. All the possible designs or crazy monsters they could have shown and they went with humanoid with an oversized weapon. Suddenly not feeling so confident in Miyazaki’s involvement. Not his style. Just look at Demons, Dark and Bloodborne trailers.But clearly
the fire particle effect showed it was in the process of transforming into a much more interesting enemy 😛I’m happy to wait for more info. The giant thing is established now in the DS universe, so I guess they need to at least acknowledge it. We’ll see how the product as a whole turns out.Either way, my money is theirs. DS2 wasn’t as good as DS1, but it was still damn great.
@freezespreston
The presence of the crowns seems to be saying that it could be related to the story stuff in the Dark Souls 2 DLC. Which I haven’t played.Edit, might as well spoiler that. Also, have I thanked everyone here enough for not spoiling the Dark Souls 1 DLC? Because, wow, thank you, best surprise ever. Best thing in best game ever.
Why choose surprise was that?
The summon.
Y’know.
Final boss. Summon.
Best fanservice EVER.
@freezespreston OOH, NEW BRAIN THEORY
What if it’s not the ‘link the fires’ ending from 1, but rather the dark age one… No bonfires, only embers remain.And since there’s no bonfires, all the undead bosses are burning their own undead essence to resurrect (which causes the whole overheat / transformation thing)
Oh, and Metal Gear Solid V trailer was pretty damn slick!
WOWZERS! I wonder when we will know more about which Titles have backwards compatibility.
I will be SO HAPPY if Mass Effect 3 and The Stick of Truth have backwards compatibility… Red Dead Redemption hype also 😀
I love Telltale’s Walking Dead but the show is so stop/start that I’ve never bothered to keep up with it and haven’t read the comics. I don’t think I’m interested in a game that features an established character.
I’m much the same, but my intention is to give them the benefit of the doubt on this because I’ve loved everything else they’ve done with the series.
Was there more info on back compat I didn’t see yet? Conference implied it was native I.e. They should be able to support most of everything and it was properly integrated with the xbone UI.
From what I understand, they’re actually developing ports for each game (hence potential for ‘limited’).
You put the disc in, the ported game downloads to the console.
Edit: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/06/how-xbox-ones-backwards-compatibility-will-work/
Ah so just like Xbox back compat on 360 then.
AN ICE GAME. I GET JOKES
Thank you! I’m glad someone commented! 🙂
Man, I never thought I’d feel like I need to play through Hoth again. But Battlefront looks pretty damn awesome.
Watching the Xbox Conference. Was amazing, nailed everything up until EA stepped on the stage.
Holy crap, MIRROR’S EDGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsDX_LiJT7E
More Mass Effect, too. Stop, my wallet can’t take it anymore.
My wallet won’t take it either, oh lawd.
I gotta say, I don’t remember having this kind of hype last time. But there are so many amazing games to see this year. NEXT GEN HAS FINALLY ARRIVED.
NO GUNS!
This is what will make or break that game for me. I want the Test of Faith to be in this one too!
One of my proudest XBox achievements is “Test Of Faith” “Complete the game without shooting an enemy”.
Mine too! I like this just as much as my Dark Souls platinum! 🙂
For some reason, I thought it’d be a good idea to go for that on my first playthrough.
Holy shit was the game easier when I went back and finished it again a few months later.
I did it on my first play through. Then I started a speed run, but never finished it.
I’ve never fired a gun in Mirror’s Edge! \o/
And I hope I never do.
It’s a fundamentally different game when you do. There are some levels that are much simpler and less frustrating when you can shoot your way through. Those exact same levels are significantly more gratifying when you get through unarmed (I’m looking at you, server room).
I got that one on a mate’s 360, might have to get it on my PS3 before the new one
I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t an alternate achievement for murdering everyone who it is possible to murder.
I really hope it’s available on 360. I don’t wanna have to buy an xbone
Sadly, I wouldn’t bet on it.
I was gonna say it’ll more than likely be on PC, but it’s EA, so you’ll have to go through Origin, eeeuurrgghhh.
I’m more likely to get sim sick on pc
Doubt it. 360 (and PS3) couldn’t handle the engine.
NEW SOUTH PARK GAME HYYYYYPPPPEEE
#HYPEPage4
WAIT… WHAT… WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?
SWEET!
I found it on the South Park Facebook page: South Park: The Fractured but Whole 😛
Hahaha, love the title.
Wait… Xbone announced backwards compatibility? That’s amazing news! Wow! I wish the PS4 did the same thing.
Sony’s been pushing the Remastered Editions so hard… sadly, I wouldn’t expect a BC announcement from them.
Yeah, not holding out any hopes. It’s just a really useful feature for me!
(Though I would be a little miffed because I bought a PS3 to play my backlog and then they go and announce backwards compatibility at the next E3 :P)
Yeah, but now Microsoft’s announced it, I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony announce it too, and get to work on it straight away.
Either way I’m expecting Sony to announce something that’ll kick Microsoft in the guts. That’s the advantage they have of going on after them, they get to see all of Microsoft’s cards before they play their hand.
Yes… but they only have around six hours to revise their planned and choreographed presentation… 😛
They need something crazy, Sega style.
They did that last year.
For existing games or only new IP?
Dunno! I haven’t actually watched the conference yet. Just read Shane’s post up there.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/06/soon-youll-be-able-to-play-xbox-360-games-on-xbox-one/ cc @Powalen
Cheers maynnnn!
Sony are pushing Now as their backwards compatibility solution unfortunately
Imagine if they came out and said it was free for PSPlus members…
I’M STILL ALIVE, STILL ALIVE, I CANNOT APOLOGISE NO OH OH
I haven’t watched any of Microsoft’s conference, but some of the announcements have me a bit excited. Backwards compatibility is awesome (although, I’m wondering how limited is “limited”), Forza 6 (more car porn, yes please), and that Rare Replay (FUCK YES!!!).
Kinda sucks though, because now I have to buy another Xbone, probably shouldn’t have sold my launch one. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. At least this time I can get one without a Kinect and with double the hard drive space of the launch console.
Watching it now, they said 100 titles by release (which is the holidays) and then 100s more in the months to follow. So far a great presser. New controller looks great, will work on both Xbox One and Windows 10. A couple of nice looking new IPs that hopefully perform.
Did they say anything at all about Quantum Break?
Yes. They said they’re saving it for games on in a few months
So… there’s a chance I’ll see Conkers Bad Fur Day one Xbone One again? :O
The old version will be on the rare replay disk. Hopefully this means they consider bringing out new games with some of these characters in the future.
Yes. Apparently there will be 30 games and Conker will be one of them. Also, it’s gonna have 10,000 Gamerscore.
Here’s a full list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Replay
And also a trailer
https://youtu.be/AaieVt3M72c
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
You’re going to buy an Xbone to play a limited number of 360 games? Why not just buy a 360 and play all of them for 1/4 of the price?
I’ve got two 360’s, one with a non-functioning disc drive and one with a bung hard drive. My main excitement though is for Forza 6 and Rare Replay. Although, if they decided to release them on Steam, like they did with Ryse and Dead Rising I’d happily buy them that way and not bother buying another Xbone.
Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. Awww yeeeeah.
https://youtu.be/9_0gZFfqK3w
My son is gonna lose his shit.
I gotta get to EB or JB and get the awesome Xbox 360 pre-owned games now there will be backwards compatibility and everyone buys up the good stuff!!!!!!
I’ve still got roughly 60 titles on my shelf. The second hand market is gonna explode.
Except that the titles announced aren’t any you’d want to actually play. Except Viva Pinata.
I have a pretty big collection of 360 games, many of which I haven’t gotten to yet. Being able to play ports on the Xbox One without rebuying is a godsend.
E3 prediction for Square
Lights go dark.
Staring silent Final Fantasy’s Prelude starts rising in.
Flashes of the FFVII PS4 Tech demo race across the screen.
Voice over “We joked last time with the PC version being ported,but…”
More flashes
Music reaches its crescendo
“this is it”
Crowds on its feet
“what you’ve all been waiting for”
Screen goes blank
Sound cuts out
Lights all come on
“The original PSOne version ported to PS4!”
Kaz rides into stage with his flaming mini bounce pony with the Benny Hill theme playing.
“That’s right, Square execs couldn’t even be bothered showing up themselves, see you later folks, that’s all we’ve got! “
E3 prediction for Square:
Dude comes out on stage in a Cloud costume. It’s incredible. Stitch perfect.
Square Enix Exec kicks him in the nuts. Hard.
Turns to camera:
“It’s not fucking happening. Now look at the stuff we’ve done in, y’know, the last 15 years”
Make sure the dude in the outfit is Kitase and the Square exec is Nomura.
Be perfect.
I like Freeze’s idea of VII-2, that would be rad. A totally new story, with all the old characters minus you know who of course, set against beautiful current gen visuals, perhaps even with a special return to an original town or two. It would solve everyone’s dilemmas – you don’t have to like it and it wouldn’t desecrate the original.
Microsoft Hololens Minecraft blew me away. Looked amazing.
A shame it looks absolutley nothing like that through the hololens though 🙁
For Honor looks pretty cool though. Seems like the latest hot genre is 4v4 online multiplayer. Splatoon, now For Honor. Who’s next!
4 vs 4 Hearthstone esque card game. It’s only a matter of time.
Anyone actually watching the Ubisoft conference? I can’t be bothered, I get the feeling it’s just gonna be Assassin’s Creed with smatterings of The Division and Rainbow Six: Siege.
Edit: Whoops, I think it’s over already.
There was also Jason Derulo singing poorly and Aisha making jokes about memes.
Goddammit! Sony conference starts in roughly an hour and a half, and I have to be at work in half an hour.
I always find myself torn by Ubisoft conferences. They show a bunch of cool trailers and get my hyped for their games, but then I have to remind myself how formulaic Ubisoft is in making their games and how all their open world games tend to feel the exact same.
My gaming slate for the next 9 months is full to the brim:
the rest of Witcher 3
Batman
Metal Gear
4llout
Tides of Numenera
Mirror’s Edge
And we’re on day ONE of E3.
Hooray!
Psssst. Uncharted collection!
No sony conference yet! I want to know where to slot in Uncharted 4!
Also, Deus Ex, and maybe if Dissidia gets a PS4 release!
My gaming slate for the next 9 months
Rest of Witcher 3
Seriously, I’ve played about 80 hours now and barely feel like I’ve advanced the story at all. I’m only level 22 (side quests are damn stingy with the XP) and I’ve got level 45 quests and gear I can’t use. Feel like I’ll be playing this for the rest of my life.
Well, if you’re busy, I’m sure there’s others here which will take that Fallout 4 collectors edition off your hands.
I think I’ve accidentally ended up with two of them ordered….
Hahaha, how did you manage that?
Those wondering about Xbone “backwards compatibility”… here’s something for you: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/06/how-xbox-ones-backwards-compatibility-will-work/
Does anyone know if Star Wars Battlefront supports split screen?
I was thinking about picking up an XB1 and Halo5 bundle, but since the news it has no split-screen mode, I’ve gone off it completely, and am thinking about PS4 with SW Battlefront if splitscreen is a thing.
My guess is it won’t.
Noooooooo!
Watching the Microsoft conference at the moment. Their showing looks way better than I expected! It’s funny how last gen Microsoft didn’t really release much that appealed to me but it seems like they’re trying something different with the Xbone and I’m liking it. Might have to grab an Xbone eventually after all.
The indies in particular looked great. Especially Cuphead. Wow!
Keep up the cartoony games and I’ll have no choice left! Hopefully Sony has some too.
This Cartoony pirate gameSea of Thieves looks great as well!Just you wait until the SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS sections.
…Cartoony sports?
New Mutant League Hockey?
Brutal Sports Football!!
Well, Tony Hawk’s is supposed to be returning…
Playing Xbone games with backwards compatibility:
I need to download Mass Effect 3 on my 500kb/s connection, 50gig/month limit? No chance :'(
The digital future!
God I have the quite the catch up on E3 news to do today morning =S I’ll have to boycott Kotaku until I’ve finished! D=
So far though Halo Guardians… making it very tempting to consider getting an Xbone, and very curious to see how recore works out as well in gameplay elements =O
Edit: Also this backward compatibility thing is way better than what Sony have planned with the whole play via cloud crap. Could this be the year I get my second current gen console =S *Looks at wallet pleadingly*
I haven’t even looked at that yet… I feel like a 4 year old kid on Christmas morning, so many presents but no idea what to look at first :O
HOLY SHIT! Did you see that new exclusive announced for the Dreamcast 3? Amazing!
#ParallelUniverseHype
Does Nintendo make games for Sega in this parallel universe?
No, Nintendo are the THQ of this universe.
Pffft the Dreamcast 3 shopping place has always been lacklustre compared to the Atari 128,000 super shop!
#Fanboyism
#ParrallelUniverseHype
They’re all terrible. Pippin 20 is the true master race platform.
How are people all getting excited for Rare Replay yet not a single mention of Jet Force Gemini, one of their best N64 games aside from Goldeneye?
I totally forgot that game, I remember hiring it with my best mate and we played for ages in the co-op section.
I was too busy wondering which version of Battletoads was on there. Looked like it might be the PC Engine one, or one of those more obscure platforms that I can’t actually remember what it was.
GTA V at 87% downloaded…
Four hours is so damn long to wait… 🙁
Four hours seems like a heavenly wait for me :*(
Surely it’s faster for someone to dump the files onto a few 16/32GB flashdrives and post it?
Then have Steam scan the folder and just grab any little bits it needs?
Redacted; I forgot Crazy is dling via Steam!
I was thinking about my Xbox One feels.
Wait, is it E3 already?
Just woke up?
I suppose I’m so used to E3 magically aligning with a public holiday the last few years. I suppose my thought process was “it can’t be E3, because I am working today!”
Oooh. This Ancestors game has caught my interest. Will wait for more!
Hngh. Star Wars Battlefront. *runs around room swearing at plants and kicking doorknobs*
SEE MY HYPE TRAIN BUILD MOMENTUM. MARVEL AT IT’S PURITY OF PURPOSE. IT’S ELEGANCE.
DOOM. FALLOUT 4. SW BATTLEFRONT. MGSV POOPER PAIN.
EDIT: Oh, and Game of Thrones.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.Holy shit. They did it.
HOLY. SHIT. LAST. GUARDIAN.
GIANT BIRD PUPPY
POST APOCALYPTIC URBAN DECAY!!!!!!!!!
Holy hell that looks good. Horizon.
Dinobot hunting
Keen for Ronin, the rest of the devolver stuff is meh for me
Oh god, this guy is such a bro
This so isn’t targeted to me but, a bit wanky to me
Edit: Yep, looks like everything I dis-like in an FPS game
New Deus Ex?
They really think they should be getting massive cheers for timed exclusives, it’s odd
Big finish time
Gah, I want to take control, don’t leave it hanging there
Oops, technical errors. Damn, they should have just left it and said something like “What will you do now” or “Take control OCt 2015”
@dc be all over this.
Holy crap, this looks all kinds of rad.
Edit: Horizon is what I’m talking about. Or was it? Dino hunting one. GOD DAMN CUSTOMERS LEAVE ME ALONE AND LET ME GET ALL THE DETAILS!
@dc is going to be a mass of hype right now
*flails arms for four hours*
Very Enslaved: Odyssey to the West-like.
Yeah, looks really cool. Wonder how much you get to explore the cities
Hopefully a lot!
Horizon looks great. Robot dinosaurs!
I’m about twenty minutes behind in the Sony stream, so you may all laugh at my late hype.
HOLY SHIT THE LAST GUARDIAN.
I’m more hype for the next trailer you will see
Hey, that’s what I said. 😛
Not sure about Horizon. Will keep an eye on it…
BUT FIREWATCH! OMG. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
PET TURTLE YOU CAN CARRY! GOTY!
I’m not even joking. Friggen turtles. Awesome.
The hype never ends, Shane. We’re all right there with you!
FFVII REMAKE. I’m disappointed… by how bad I want it.
SHENMUE, SHENMUE, SHENMUE
O_O
I think Shenmue wast the Grim Fandango moment of this years show.
AHHHHHHHHHHHH UNCHARTED 4
New game! With PS exclusives!
New game! With PS exclusives!
New game! With PS exclusives!
New game! With PS exclusives!
Fuck I hate console exclusives. From either camp. Seriously.
Be nice if Assassins Creed actually played like that.
After AC trailer: OMG SO GOD DAMN CUTE!
Good god. They friggen did that as well. FFVII remake? Didn’t want it but I’m hyperventilating. What’s wrong with me?
No. Please god no. Don’t do it.
EDIT: They did it. Fucking maniacs. FFVII Remake. =(
=((((((((((
Also completely disgusted with myself I’ll end up playing it regardless. I mean, as much as the concept offends me, how can I not?
*dives in front of a train*
I totally get you man. No, don’t do it you scream as you buy it day one if not order some fancy collectors edition, every fibre of your being screaming at you, trying to stop you.
I’ll fight it to the very end. Then buy it day one and squeee like a little girl when I fire it up for the first time. I wish they hadn’t put me in this position. *flails ineffectually*
It was easy to take the moral high ground on a hypothetical but damnit I’m so weak.
It will never be the same but it could be decent.
I’ll readily admit this is one of my biggest fears.
Oh dear. @jimu @negativezero
The Oracle has spoken.
*bows down*
PS: If they fuck it up I’m going to be so pissed… that game encapsulates my first independent video game experience – I bought that console, a TV and that game with my own goddamn money from countless hours of chores around the house.It won’t live up to expectations. It’ll never have the power it once had.
Should be fun though & an absolute eyegasm!
This. It could never even equal, let alone surpass the original. I’ll try to view it as a pretty way to replay the original.
I think @jimu and I were in agreement that we didn’t want it to happen but would buy it anyway…
Oh, I want it to happen, I just don’t think it’ll be exactly what I want it to be.
I don’t even care. After finally getting a chance to actually watch the trailer (I was having my eyes looked at when it happened) I’m hyped.
🙁
“I’m hyped :(”
Cheers up, emo kid (says the hypocrite)
Immersion
Visceral
Gritty
Remake!
*takes drink*
I think Shenmue broke Kickstarter. Site wont load, just times out.’
No point even backing it for me 😛 Guaranteed to get fully funded.
I got through on my phone, pretty slow though.
I missed the FFVII announcement, was there footage? *dies*
*Edit: I’ve found the video. OMFG. *dies again*
Sony. Stahp. Plz. I can’t take anymore hype.
Oooh, Uncharted 4 enemies look less bullet spongey.
How many lives has Nathan taken in his life now? How does he manage to sleep?
HOLY SHIT SHENMUE ALREADY HAS OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS PLEDGED!
WHOA! They’re going to need eleventy billion stretch goals because I think this will hit over $10 million easily.
Ok serious question.
I had almost no hype from E3 last year. Or the year before, if I remember correctly. Only No Man’s Sky and Batman. That was it.
So…is it just me, or is this E3 really kicking the whole videogame thing out of the ballpark? I am very excited about a lot. A LOT. LOT. of things.
EDIT: So the real question should be: Is it just me, or is this being a really good E3?
Has been pretty great. Fallout and The Last Guardian alone have ensured good feelings a-plenty. 😀
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING.
My hype levels were pretty subpar for 2013 and 2014. This year has me more excited than usual.
I’d say it was a better showing this year from both Microsoft and Sony. Moreso Microsoft for me, but that’s personal preference.
If Nintendo has as good a show as they had last year then this E3 would be much better than last year!
The Last Guardian! <3
Horizon! <3
Firewatch! <3
Uncharted 4 <3
My arms are sore from excessive flailing.
Fallout 4! <3
No Man’s Sky! <3
Final Fantasy VII Remake! Not sure if love heart, but will end up playing it.
Right there with you buddy. Haven’t been this excited for gaming in a long time.
*Opens door to TAY*
*EVERYONE IS YELLING LIKE IT A FOOTBALL MATCH*
*closes door and backs away slowly*
Sony: ‘I’m sorry, PlayStation… Vi….ta… was it? What the hell is that?’
EDIT: Fuck ’em. I’m happy with it being a niche platform like it’s big brother anyway.
It was mentioned in that weird final fantasy thing. Don’t you go all Bluemaxima on us.
IT’S A FUCKING TRADEGY OF SHAKESPEAREAN PROPORTIONS!
I was so unpleasantly unsurprised when that guy went gormergoof
Offended you’d even suggest that. Just a little disappointed there was no news is all. Not ready for a YouTube rant detailing the earth shattering betrayal by Sony for only mentioning it 6 times.
I never even engaged with the dude’s YouTube channel.
Didn’t own a Vita, so couldn’t see the point.
Me either, but I was told of the legendary rant and had to see for myself. Was as amazing as I was told.
I value my time and don’t hate myself that much, so I didn’t see the point.
That’s because Sony stopped caring a while back. But luckily we have rad third parties like XSeed to keep us going. This year they’ll be releasing Trails in the Sky SC (PSP, Vita-compat), Trails of Cold Steel, Senran Kagura Estival Versus, Corpse Party: Blood Drive and Earth Defense Force 2 all for Vita. Other companies like NISA, IFI and Koei-Tecmo are similarly giving it a lot of support. So for me at least, the Vita’s easily the best system out there for the sorts of games I want to play.
I think this gen is now beating the last two gens.
I haven’t been this interested in so many games in such close proximity since PSX & N64.
I really thought I’d never see the day again. Sure, I knew things move in cycles & stuff I loved would make a comeback.
But gee whiz, holly, gosh darn FUCK!
So much high quality stuff in my areas of interest.
Wow!
I feel like after such a slow start this gen has really begun to get going.
Well, they fucking nailed that. I love that they gave so much time to non face shooty stuff- I mean, c’mon, Media Molecule? Firewatch? Last Guardian? Awesome.
Of course, UNCHARTED YEAH
Looks like I need a second job to fund my new game buying habit.
Have you considered writing? It doesn’t pay well but I think you’ve got the talent for it.
Nah. Not really my thing.
I was thinking I could be a CEO of some multinational corporation. That seems like an okay-paying job. Might even be able to afford a house in Sydney then 😛
Yeah, I can see the constant self-promotion being a huge hindrance.
From Jim Sterling’s Twitter
On the weekend I went to a West Australian Football League (WAFL) match. East Fremantle vs Swan Districts. It was actually pretty fun. It’s cool to follow the crowd and cheer when they cheer. There’s this sense of a time capsule about the place. The WAFL hasn’t been relevant since 1986, but the people there don’t care. The decor of the stadium and its facilities clearly hasn’t been changed since the 80’s. the game itself was very close, decided by less than a goal.
So I thought, why not have a meat here? It could be something of a follow-up to the movie meat, with more talking than watching a movie, but less talking than something like a dinner.
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
Just throwing this idea out there. Glancing at the fixture maybe we could meat at East Fremantle vs Claremont, Saturday 27? I’m only suggesting an East Freo game because I just went to one and have learned how to navigate the stadium.
Again, just throwing the idea out there. Now I’m making myself self-conscious that no-one will want to go. :/
EDIT: OH GOD THE LINK WAS BROKEN FOR HOURS AND I DIDN’T KNOW
I’ll have to let you know a little closer to the date, unfortunately. Remind me on next week.
Reminder
Looks like I’ve got family friends visiting over the weekend. Sorry buddy!
It’s okay. I hit my head quite badly earlier today and I couldn’t drive anyway. I didn’t think it was happening since no one had responded with a ‘yes’ to my invitation, and for some reason I was too embarrassed all week to bring it up again.
Dude, you okay? Head bumps can be quite nasty – if it was bad, get it checked.
I’m not free on the 27th unfortunately (LAN/bucks party to attend), but sportsball can be quite entertaining at times. A good suggestion 🙂
Sorry about the late reply. I would go but with the baby money is really tight right now.
Sorry but i wont be able to make it
HISTORY PAGE SIX
Do you know where the Magna Carta was signed?
At the Bottom. #Actuallydadjokepagesix #hi@strange #Isummonthee@haggisMy copy of the game wasn’t signed at all. 🙁
…Why am I looking up reddit comments on Gillian Triggs and Bronwyn Bishop?
Oh, right… because Bishop is an amoral excuse for a speaker.
Bring on 2016, I say.
I need to get around to nominating Gillian Triggs for Australian of the Year. That woman deserves a medal for the shit she’s had to put up with from this government.
The thing about this e3 that’s exciting is usually we see all these spectacular games and we’re told to wait years for them. This year they gave us Fallout straight away with the release date in sight. It feels like sustainable hype. 😛
There’s a lot of stuff in the next few months. Destiny DLC! Metal Gear! Tides of Numenera!
Crusader Kings II Horse Lords!
The fact that a lot of stuff is less up-in-the-air than previous years helps a lot. Heck, Last Guardian alone has resurfaced from development hell and a lot of the stuff shown is coming by the end of the year. That immediacy has helped hype along so much.
I hope it becomes the new thing to do in gaming. Announce something relatively late instead of right when pre-production begins.
Yeah, I cannot sustain multi-year hype, I end up entirely ambivalent toward what are probably fantastic games. For example, Witcher 3 hype didn’t land for me until about one month before release. It’s probably going to be my GOTY 2015, even beating Fallout for the way that it does its storytelling.
Good lord, CoD doesn’t look half bad… I think I’m hallucinating. It’s the only rational explanation – Bungie announced Illidan was moonlighting as Oryx, and Platinum’s working on a G1 Transformers game.
All the mandatory CoD-hate aside, it looks really good. I actually really enjoyed the Black Ops 1/2 single player campaign. Had a fantastic story that linked 1 and 2. Interesting, intrigue, suspense, etc. Treyarch has always done better CoDs than IW. (CoD4 excluded)
The setting/premise looks interesting. The special abilities, hacking and wall-running look promising. The rest… CoD gunplay looks as terrible as ever – no recoil on anything, even the rocket launcher. Will probably continue to stay away from the franchise, tho – the way they do view-bobbing (weapon moves as you run, but camera doesn’t) tends to give me motion sickness, which is only exacerbated by the low fov.
So after ignoring the OS notifications and SMSs from Telstra I’ve discovered Youtube has a ‘save mobile data’ option that forces stream to SD. 2.5GB later…
Welp.
Hopefully late this year/early next enough time will have passed that my wife will have forgotten the monstrosity of a bill and understand that a PS4 bundle will be good value.
That or I’ll need a second job packing shelves or doing a paper run…
Bartending. Good excuse to be out late at night and come home smelling of cigarette smoke and booze.
Just to let you know, nowadays every 1GB you go over on data you get charged at $10 extra. Only found this the other day after I realized I was paying $15 a month for a GB that I don’t always use.
So, someone explain to me: What is a Shenmue and why should I care? Is this someone else’s Grim Fandango?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenmue
I own a copy of Shenmue 2 for the original Xbox. It (apparently, because I haven’t played it) was always planned to be an ongoing series, and #2 ended on a cliffhanger/unresolved plot point.
It’s a series that despite critical acclaim, was a horrendous money-sink. Development was incredibly expensive, and it was profoundly unprofitable. The series was therefore cancelled.
That was fourteen years ago.
Memory has it that the original Shenmue was the most expensive game to ever be made for a long time until the PS2 era at least. The development of Shenmue also, in some ways, contributed to the downfall of Sega as it cost so much money when Sega really couldn’t afford to spend it.
As for the cliffhanger, it is the most hangiest of cliffs I have ever seen in a video game. Shenmue was always intended as a trilogy and, unlike most trilogies, each game is not really standalone in its own right. The fact that Shemue 3 is now being made, holy crap that is awesome.
Gameplay wise it was pretty great at the time as it was one of the first games (this is going back to the Dreamcast era) that was dedicated to QTEs. Make of that what you will.
Sega sank $47 million into the first Shenmue. In 1998. About the equivalent of $65 million in 2015 money.
I think it’s basically this weird adventure game/action game/rpg game hybrid thing. Big world with lots of things to do, people to talk to, mini-games a-plenty. Quick time events. I’ve… never played it. Looked crazy intriguing back in the day, though. 😛
Shenmue,which debuted on the Dreamcast, was an adventure/RPG where you played as Ryo Hazuki (a character from the virtual fighter franchise) on a quest to avenge his dead father. I only played a small amount Shenmue II, which was an Xbox exclusive. You walk around performing errands, trying to find people who might have information and learning better martial arts. All the fights are in this odd hybrid of Virtua Fighter and RPG, but that’s ok, because you will spend more time driving forklifts and carrying books to make money to pay for your motel room and buy capsule toys.
Honestly the characters and world are really nicely realised and it had an engaging story, sort of, but I never really got the hype. It’s a bit like people still clamouring for another season of Firefly.
I also found it slightly racist that the game is set in Hong Kong and all the Chinese NPCs are all really ugly with wrinkles and pockmarks but the two Japanese characters are etherically beautiful.
its mainly us dreamcasters that would care about the series….
shenmue 1 was on the dreamcast. 2 was released just as the dreamcast was discontinued, and so was re released on xbox. was alway planned as a trilogy saga but the 3rd was never made. after sega went all haywire.
incredible games… highly recommend them, they still hold till this day. quite unique.
For the time, Shenmue was utterly amazing. Remembering that this was early in the Dreamcast’s life. It was actually originally conceived as being a Virtua Fighter RPG. It’s not an RPG though, it’s more like a sandbox adventure game. The plot’s fairly simple – dude killed your Dad and fucked off to China and you need to chase him there but have no money to pay your way. Stuffed with mini-games. You could look after a kitten, collect capsule toys, go into the arcade and play Space Harrier, beat up on people… Very heavy on QTEs (we get the term QTE from Shenmue) and basically popularized that as a mechanic though obviously it originates in much earlier games.
But Sega bet the farm on it pretty hard. It’s one of the contributing factors to the end of the Dreamcast. $47 million budget.
They made a sequel on Dreamcast but it only ever came out in English in PAL. US never got it. Subsequently got an Xbox port (since Sega were chummy with Microsoft and had moved development of several of their DC games to it eg Jet Set Radio, Gunvalkyrie, Panzer Dragoon Orta) but it never set the world on fire. Shenmue II ends on a cliffhanger. The third and final part of the trilogy was never green-lit. Yu Suzuki has been trying for close to fifteen years to get it made.
Truth bomb: Shenmue’s not that great. It was amazing at the time, but it’s dated badly. Other games have done what it pioneered and done it better. Ryu ga Gotoku / Yakuza is basically Sega’s do-over of Shenmue. A lot of the elements of Yakuza’s gameplay with all the minigames and stuff are a natural evolution of it.
I backed it in a heartbeat though. I still have my copy of the game on Dreamcast and Xbox and wish I had puchased the DC version of Shenmue 2 back in the day. I was on the verge of it a few times and never bit. Copies of that version are stupidly rare and highly sought-after because they used the excellent Japanese dialogue version instead of the godawful awkward English dub.
*Seeing everybody going all hype for E3 conferences live while I’m just sitting here working*
…*cries*
I’m sorry man, when you get home you’ll be hype too! \o/
Stuff I’m hyped for:
– Unravel
– The Last Guardian
– Night in the Woods (I know it wasn’t shown, but shuddup!)
– Final Fantasy VII
Cautiously optimistic for Horizon, but I’m having mixed feelings about playing as a character who has dreadlocks…
I think I know why I’m less hyped for other games. Lots of stuff is looking very “same-sies”. Shoot stuff here, shoot stuff there, yadda yadda yadda. Not that they don’t look good and all, I just find it hard to get that hyped for something I feel like I’ve played before.
Oh, and to anyone b*tching about the FFVII remake. Don’t.
Lots of us have never played the original, and if you’re “offended” by a remake, then don’t play it, or at least don’t criticise it for potentially not living up to your expectations.
Hey, YOU try living in a post-shampoo society and not having dreadlocks!
I’d be bald.
If it were dreadlocks or bald, I’d be bald.
…Yeah, me too.
Yeah, those top three in particular all have stunning art directions. (Firewatch too.) Can’t wait to go exploring in these beautiful worlds.
A good art direction will always get me, haha!
Firewatch is on my radar, but I think I missed that hype train 😛
Looks super pretty though, and it is certainly intriguing.
It’s by most of the core devs who worked on The Walking Dead season one. They all left Telltale after that season to start their own studio. This is their first game. 🙂
A good art direction will always get me too. So much moseying and looking at stuff.
Remember how like 15 mins ago Shenmue had raised a half million.
It’s about to pass a million now.
Getting a shout-out at E3 guaranteed its success. Now it’s just a question of how long the E3-spike is gonna last for.
Crazy thing is only 10 000 backers. Average of $100 each.
Someone put in $10k for the official jacket worn at announcement for Shenmue 14 years ago.
3 people paid $10k for dinner with Suzuki.
Long enough, for sure. They only asked for $2mil and they’ll probably get it within 24 hours.
Hell I only played like 2 hours of Shenmue II and didn’t really get into it, but I’m tempted to check $30 at the KS for a digital edition since I’ll probably have a PS4 by then.
Those cheap digital editions for consoles really help make Kickstarter games more appealing. I’m not a huge Castlevania fan and I’m not really confident in Yooka-Laylee, but with a low price digital option it was easy to justify the cost.
The only thing stopping me with Shenmue is that I haven’t played the first two and I’m pretty sure the first is dated beyond repair. Did they port it to the Vita at any point? Seems like a good match.
Pretty sure Shenmue is only playable on the Dreamcast, and Shenmue II was an Xbox exclusive. On the upside Shenmue II is compatible with the 360 and you can probably find it at EB for ~$10. Some versions even come with a DVD that recaps the Shenmue story for you.
I’m a little iffy about a kickstarter campaign getting it’s own little segment :S
Seems a little… unfair?
Yeah, seemed a bit odd to me too, but people clearly want it and I’m curious to play so I guess everyone knows what they’re doing. 😀
It seemed to me like Sony tried to save themselves some money by not publishing it themselves :\
Like, “Hey, here’s a game that we know lots of you want, so here it is! Provided that you fund it yourselves, because we’re not going to”.
Just doesn’t sit well with me…
It’s going to take a LOT more than 2 million to fund the game. Publishers use Kickstarter as a way to gauge interest in games nowadays. If they can get people to put up 2 million up front it tells them the game is going to be worth the investment to them. Bloodstained did the same thing. Already had a publisher willing to fund it but went to kickstarter to prove interest.
As Freeze said, $2m is just the tip of the iceberg. The first Shenmue game (Dreamcast era) cost an unprecedented $70m to develop.
And let’s not forget that a certain percentage of money pledged to Kickstarter goes towards filling pledges and paying fees. Of that two million, there’s probably going to be less than a million left over for actual development costs, which is chump change.
You can bet Sony is fronting a boatload of cash behind the scenes.
Nah, it is marketing and a way to test the water to see if people are actually willing to pay for Shenmue. If they are, Sony and Sega will have to put up the extra $50 million or so to get the game made.
I thought it was … out of place. Using a multimillion dollar press conference to ask for game funding is … apparently really effective, if more than a little ironic.
It just got the extra $90,000 it needed to cross the one million.
Fastest million in Kickstarter history?
Never realised Kickstarter backer figures were live updated. Crazy watching the numbers tick over so fast.
Pretty sure then never used to be
Only a bit over twelve and a half hours to go until my real E3 begins!
It’s either going to be packed with new titles or incredibly empty. No in-between this year with Nintendo 😛 They’ve already either revealed stuff (smash DLC, couple of smaller games) or said things aren’t going to be there (Zelda, NX) so it’s all or nothing.
Can’t wait!
If they announce a new Endless Ocean (extremely unlikely :P) I will literally be dead. Literally. If you don’t hear from me tomorrow, they announced Endless Ocean.HYPE! LOYALTIES AND PLATFORM OF CHOICE BE DAMNED! VIDJA GAEMS!
Yeah, I am mostly waiting for Nintendo and AMD news.
I have no idea what they’ll announce besides some more amiibo.
Fingers crossed for PALICO MONSTER ANIMAL HUNTER CROSSING SOULS
aka Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Palico Village DX
aka Cat Souls
So I’m clearly behind the curve; just finished EA’s stream and I’ve got to say I’m quite underwhelmed. If not for Star Wars Battlefront there was very little in there I thought was a must-buy.
UNRAVEL
Yeah for me Unravel; Mirror’s Edge, Mass Effect and Star Wars Old Republic’s expansion are filed under the curious category =\ I’m willing to see more; but nothing’s quite sold me on any of them. Especially after DA:I I’m a lot more cautious around BioWare games now.
I think aside from Battlefront the big hype is Mirror’s Edge. I’m personally more interested in Mass Effect but I’ll need to know more about it. Since it’s set in the future of the Shepherd story rather than being a continuation they’ve got their work cut out for them making us want to invest in their world again.
Someone check Puppets pulse and make sure he’s still alive 😛
Did you know that you can’t run through a camp site
You can only ran, because it is past tentsI really liked Obsidian’s South Park: The Stick of Truth. Cautiously optimistic about this sequel, but also wary of new dev. Here’s hoping it lives up to the first!
I reckon that Ubisoft will be fine to make it. Considering that the South Park writers will be plotting and writing the story, that’s going to be enough to avoid Ubi’s at times bland writing.
If THQ still existed (RIP), I reckon Obsidian would have gotten the nod again. Ubisoft seems to like controlling everything they publish and I imagine they got the full rights to the South Park games after buying Stick of Truth.
I’m very hype for the game, I loved the first one because it was self aware but not sickeningly so in my opinion, and I liked the story lol.
Yeah, one of the funniest games I’ve played in ages. Made me laugh out loud heaps.
I reckon they don’t need Obsidian this time. They can use the same engine and tools and it’ll be written by the South Park guys again, plus it’s not satirizing the RPG stuff that Obsidian are known for.
Yeah, to be honest I forgot that the South Park guys wrote the first one. 😀
Damn E3 talk… damn work! Stupid meetings! I’m missing everything!
I left my phone in a cab this morning and I didn’t even realize until now, that’s how busy.
This just means when you eventually get home there’s going to be quite a few surprises waiting for you to watch =p
The worst thing is that when Haggis steps up to the plate, I won’t be able to torture my friends and family with the best of them via SMS.
@haggis ! Oi! get in here!
Ladies and gentlemen, a word to you about fun fact page six.
I will not be doing it today, as today is quiz day and I have to prepare for the quiz tonight.
It will be coming tomorrow.
It will be very creepy.
Until then…your main act, ladies and gentlemen!
*replaces mic, exits stage left, waits for @haggis*
My time to shine!
The poison dart frog, known to reside in the Amazonian jungle and other areas of South and Central America, is one of the most poisonous creatures known to humanity. It secretes this poison through skin glands in a similar fashion to cane toads. But, when the creatures are kept in captivity, their skin glands do not produce the same levels of toxic poison as in the wild.
The reason is as a result of the poison dart frog’s diet. Bugs, insects, and other small creatures are its primary prey when dwelling in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. When it consumes these creatures, its body digests and absorbs the many natural and much less dangerous toxins that are present in its prey. These toxins are combined into a deadly cocktail which is then secreted through the skin glands so as to act as a natural deterrent to larger predators. Due to being kept in captivity, poison dart frogs are not exposed to the same variety of toxins and poisons as they would in nature and so do not secret the deadly poison for which they are named.
I’m man enough to admit when I was wrong:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-332/comment-page-4/#comment-3350008
Here, I was wrong. I mean, someone could still get knackered on the square enix stage, but for other reasons.
They could get someone dressed as old blocky Cloud to be narded by someone dressed as sexy new HD Cloud?
Only 12 hours till AMD’s announcements. Really hope they can shake the crap out of the graphics card market. It has been sooooo long.
What’s old, wrinkly, and hangs out your undies?
Your Grandma!Ewww… Why is your grandma stuffed into your undies?
I think he means “hangs up”; the wordplay suits the joke though =p
A little while ago I ended what I think was about a 12 hour Skype call. A bunch of us watching and talking about the various E3 conferences together. I am pretty gosh darn tired right now.
But geez. Microsoft seemed pretty happy with theirs. EA was mostly meh. Ubisoft was surprisingly strong. And holy shit Sony wtf are you doing???
So Nintendo’s got an uphill battle ahead of them, hey 😛 Not sure even Mother 3 could save them now.
Thank you! SEE EA WAS MOSTLY MEH! =P
I have to disagree on the Ubisoft front though; the only ones that piqued my interest were For Honour (yes there’s a U in there) and that weird Cartel game at the end (which felt very very Watchdog’y so I’m very skeptical). Looks like another open world Ubisoft game.
Wait there is actually a U in the title or are you just getting hung up on the spelling adn it isn’t actually in the title?
…….. SHUT UP! It’s meant to be spelt that way! =@
Well I don’t have much interest in most of the games anyone’s showing. But in terms of presentation Ubi did quite well I think, the only sour patch during that was the Just Dance segment. Otherwise most of the games looked pretty good and they kept trucking on at a good pace (see: EA getting bogged down with Pele :P).
Can anyone tell me what the hell that was? And was Jason Derulo drunk or high during that performance?
So is Final Fantasy a good game?
I had a go of Crystal Chronicles once so I think I can decisively say “nah”.
Which one?
You’ll find, even here, variance in opinions.
I liked 8, 9, 10 and 12. Of those, probably 9 and 10 are the consensus “good” ones (and even then it’s open to debate).
If I was to start anywhere, start with the 10 HD remaster.
9 has a really pleasant learning curve too, I found. Wasn’t easy, but was the cruisiest FF i can remember. Also, the profound urge to just give Vivi a huge hug at every opportunity.
Vivi is toes adorbs.
Except for its card game. A decade and a half later I still have no idea how it works.
Don’t listen to Red, he’s wrong like he said up early. Always wrong.
12 was awful.
6 – 10 are amazing. Everything after was poo except 14 which was surprisingly fun for a MMO.
Anyone who says otherwise is wrong and has a butt for a face.
12 had Balthier, so your argument, thin as it is, is invalid.
And Basch!
12 was incredible. Possibly the most underrated FF in the series. Combat was pretty ace, and the character lineup was one of the strongest in recent memory.
Combat felt very hands off I found. And after 40 hours I couldn’t tell you why anyone was doing anything. Story seemed very vague.
Great thing about FF is everyone has different opinions and almost none will be the same. Something for everyone.
Except for the FFVII remake. That’s going to be terrible.
*shifty eyes*
Right? RIGHT>!??!!?!?!!!q111
Don’t trust Freeze, this is like one of those paradox puzzles where one statue always tells the truth and the other one always lies and Freeze is the one which lies by telling half-truths.
12 was the bees knees, but the beginning of the end as far as mechanics goes. 10 had better combat/levelling, but its characters alternated between being badass and kewl (Auron) and the most annoying fuckers in the world (Tidus). And the annoying overwhelmed the kewl.
+1 for 12 props.
12 was amazing for its time in terms of graphics, I mean holy shit those cinematics on a PLAYSTATION 2 of all consoles! One thing that always drived me up the wall as the dialect used in the game was hard to follow.
I really should try finishing that game though
Tales was a better JRPG series.
(Serious) :p
VII and VIII are my favourites.
*For context, they are the only two that I have finished. Others played include V, IX, X, XII, XIII. Crisis Core is also a pretty cool guy. As are the cut scenes in Dirge of Cerberus. Speaking of one long cut scene, Advent Children complete is awesome.
FFVII is a good game like Woodstock was a good music festival. A terrible, out of control, massive, mess of a thing that doesn’t make any sense and can’t hold a candle to technically superior games yet somehow still 100% deserves it’s place in the history books. It’s a masterpiece that doesn’t excel at anything in particular and has room for improvement in almost every possible category, but it is still undeniably a masterpiece.
It’s the perfect game for that time period but outside of that time period it makes no sense. If you can somehow travel back in time to be 13-35 years old, unemployed, with a basic internet connection in 1997-98 FFVII will make perfect sense. It’s like video games grunge phase.
Not really. Only for historical value. Final Fantasy II and then III improved on it drastically and there’s no reason to go back to it.
😛
6-10 are the ‘golden age’ for the franchise, and the PS1 era FF is very special to anyone who lived through that period. Which of them is the ‘best’ often just comes down to which was the first experienced. Personally I think 8’s the best of them, but 9 is great and 7 was groundbreaking and is probably my favourite. It completely changed my expectations of what games could or couldn’t do. It had never occurred to me that you could tell a story like that, in that way, in a game. It was also my first JRPG. A remake is a tremendously big deal. Squenix will print money with it like you would not believe.
Dear Firewatch,
Why you so purdy? <3
Your pal,
DC.
I love the art, I love the playful banter, I love the fact that your character is probably completely insane. It needs to hurry up and be released.
But not too hurriedly, don’t want to rush.
Still not a fan of the chunky character hands, but holy damn… so pretty. The skies!
WHO’S IN YOUR HUT?An EXCELLENT moment, though one I’d probably like to have experienced in game. Oh well. 😛They had to give some sort of plot point, otherwise people seeing it for the first time wouldn’t have a clue what the game is about.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was the bit where I sat up and went oh, shit, that’s a hell of a plot hook.
Exactly.
Even knowing about the general plot already, without that part of the trailer the game would have been left looking pretty ambiguous.
All I know is you’re a dude in a tower and someone’s messing with your shit.
SPECULATION
You’re going insane, as the radio voice alluded to. And the voice is in your head.Yeah for sure! I know why it’s there but I feel I violated my media blackout, but was a crazy clever hook! Was an excellent trailer and everything they needed it to be. 🙂
I think that’s going to be a minor moment compared to what’s in store. I HOPE.
Yeah and it’s intrigued me all the more. Really cool. I’m just riled up at myself every time I learn something new because of my supposed media blackout. 😛
DID YOU KNOW FIREWATCH IS A VIDEOGAME!?
I prefer the term turtle holding simulator.
HOLY SHIT MOTHERFUCKING TURTLES YOU CAN CARRY AROUND AND TALK TO HOLY SHIT WHAT!
I keep getting Firewatch and The Flame in the Flood mixed up.
I was thinking of you yesterday when I saw this <3
So managed to watch the Ubisoft E3 over my lunch break…. For Honour had me skeptical when I saw the cinematic and the first 10 seconds of the game where it looked a lot like Dynasty Warriors but then the duels! I’m actually quite keen to try those out =O
Aside from that The Division has actually got me less hyped for the game to the point where I’m probably going to avoid it unless a group of people from TAY have a daily group going. The whole friendly fire thing really put me off it; and killing the teammates they were running the trailer with was really not a good end to the game =\
Edit: Sea of Thieves also looked quite interesting =O That was EA wasn’t it?
WATCH SONY PRESSER
SHHHH I’m leaving what appears to be the best for last! =P
Sea of Thieves is Rare. I’m not sure what’s happening behind the scenes, but it seems like Microsoft is taking another shot at jumpstarting the corpse of Rare.
Division had me really interested from its E3 walkthrough, but every video since has contained hints that there won’t actually be a rich co-op story going on, and that they’re going to rely very heavily on repetitive or territory-control PVP to create ’emergent gameplay’ instead of designing actual content.
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How great was the guy presenting For Honor? They should’ve had him presenting all the games, he was cool 😛
E3?
Never heard of it.
Also, my plan for tonight is 6 hours of GTA V on PC, with maybe a little Smash on Wii U thrown in.
Orange is the New Black season 03 spoilers:
That was just brutal seeing Doggett being raped in her flashback, only to see her get raped again in the present a few minutes later :'(My poor Doggett :’O
They’re making it worse in the next episode!It wasn’t your fault Doggett! :’O
My poor poor Doggett!!! :’O :’O :’O
I have no idea why a few seconds of someone holding a turtle instantly made a game a must buy for me.
I’m either completely nuts or I’ve overdosed on hype.
Doesn’t matter, he’s HOLDING a TURTLE!
Looked like an Ornate Box Turtle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornate_box_turtle
You don’t suppose this is going to be a Ninja Turtle origin story!
No, I don’t suppose that.
Origin of the Discworld, more like.
It’s a story of the biblical apocalypse and you are playing as Michael and the only thing worth saving on the whole miserable planet is that turtle.
Michael likes turtles.
The Turtle Moves
But did you look at it?
It was so cute.
So, so cute.
I want one.
Please get me one.
This new Walking Dead mini-series is apparently set during the comics, does anyone know if the show has caught up with those events yet? (I don’t want to investigate further and risk spoilers! D:)
The show and the comics are divergent.
Oh really? I thought the show was loosely following comic events? I know they’re considered separate canon…
I don’t follow the show, but they’re separate. If you want to read the comic, the compendium was part of a humble bundle a time ago, I could flick you a link.
Nah, I just wanted to make sure future plot points wouldn’t be spoiled. 🙂
Nah, they’re pretty darn different.
Ah! Good! Good! 🙂
Yeah, some of the overarching venues are similar, but the cast of characters in attendance for almost every event is very, very different. Here’s one example of a huge difference (comic spoilers):
In the comic, when the Governor launched his attack on the prison, Lori and the baby were both killed at that time. In the show, Lori was already dead, and the baby survived IIRC. And Daryl isn’t in the comics at all.There are heaps of others, but that’s the one that springs to mind.
I see. I’m pretty excited to see the mini-series take on Michonne!
Was anyone else hoping the Star Wars announcement in Sony’s presser going to be a new Kotor or that 1313 was being revived? With everything up to that point I was ready to believe.
Star Wars. Disappointing everybody for 10 years.
I couldn’t see EA keeping a lid on that one. Star Wars is a jewel in the crown for them.
I dunno, man. They totally announced the Star Wars game mobile players have been waiting for, alright.
I was certain someone would show a new Star Wars game. What is that EA team that hired Amy Hennig working on?
Hype for No Man’s Sky, but it pisses me off that it was shown at E3 last year and we still don’t even know a release date 12 months later.
This so much. I can’t understand how they think it is good for business to drag things out this long. 12 months and the game still feels like it isn’t within reach of something like the PS4.
Said this to monkey on twitter, but: Hello games isn’t a big studio. It’s 12 people. Given the sheer scope of what they’re trying to do. I’m prepared to wait.
Not to mention the fact that their studio flooded and they had to move offices and all that stuff.
And even then, they’re largely self funded http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/world-without-end-raffi-khatchadourian
Oh shit, I didn’t know that. That’s a pretty good reason to not have any info on a release window.
That was late 2013 though, so before last years e3. 😛
I can understand that it’s taking them a while because they’re not a big team, but they shouldn’t really announce things if they can’t get it to a finished state within 12 months. I mean, I’d prefer them to take their time and not release a crappy, buggy as hell game, but it’s really frustrating not even knowing a release month 12 months later. Same with Firewatch.
Yeah I understand that, however I wish it wasn’t in our faces. I can’t handle the wait. I am impatient. I understand they need time and help, they have Sony on their side, it seems like it will just annoy people if they have to wait 3 or 4 years for this game. I don’t see how it is good for a business plan. Like I said though I am very excited.
Well, we’re talking about both of those games right now, so that can’t hurt.
My E3 Summary and Opinions – SPOILERED for Length.
Bethesda – Fantastic conference.
Doom – Awesome, gore was great, day one buy.
Dishonored 2 – Didn’t play 1, looks good, but not excited
Fallout 4 – Couldn’t of done more to impress me. Everything about it looks amazing. Day one.
Microsoft – Pretty Good
Halo 5 – Please don’t fuck it up like Master Chief collection.
Recore – looking forward to see more of it in the future, intriguing.
Forza Motorsport – Have liked the series, not sure I will buy though.
Rare Replay – Very excited, mostly for the N64 games side of things. Hope this pushes them to do more in the future.
Rare Pirate Game – Looks good, need to see more.
Tomb Raider – Looks good, will pick up in bargain sales same as Tomb Raider.
Indies – A lot of good, and some I am not excited about. Cuphead easily my favorite.
HoloLens – blew me away. Amazing if it works like that. Seems very conceptual at this stage but my god this would be an amazing piece of technology if they got it to work.
Backwards Compatibility – looks the goods, I hope they really push for as many games as possible. I don’t think the way this works will be as bad as others think. 100 games by Christmas, plus 100’s more in the next few months.
Mods – Exciting stuff for the future, don’t fuck it up like Steam did with Paid Mods.
Xbox Preview – I hope they get it right, with structure and pricing. I have yet to be burnt though with Steam. Everything I have got has been value for money so far. If this helps get rid of the fact games don’t work Day 1 of a full release than I am all for it.
Gears of War – Really excited, loved this franchise as a teenager. Cannot wait for the remaster and GOW 4.
Xbox Elite Controller – Looks amazing, will kill the wallet.
Fable Legends – Still not sure what to think, don’t know if this will be good or not.
Dark Souls 3 – Makes a lot of people happy.
EA – Disliked this one.
Mass Effect – Never really got into it. Does look good though.
Need For Speed – Looks good, just hope it doesn’t disappoint. Memories of old are very hard to surpass.
Star Wars The Old Republic – Looks good, but don’t think I will get into it.
Unravel – Looks really cool, just seems like a cool indie game.
PvZ Garden Warfare 2 – First one didn’t catch me, doubt this one will.
Sports Games – Couldn’t care about any outside of Fifa
Mobile – Once again, couldn’t really care about these.
Mirrors Edge – Didn’t play the first, probably wont play this.
Star Wars Battlefront – Very excited for this.
Ubisoft – Cannot stand Aisha Tyler. Didn’t enjoy all of what they showed, could be because it is all so far away.
South Park – Didn’t even play the first for some reason, but am excited, must play stick of truth though.
For Honor – not sure what to think. Need to see more.
The Division – The wait is now so long since the initial announcement that I am not sure I will bother picking it up unless it reviews really well.
Rainbow 6 Siege – I like the look of it but not sure if I will pick it up (is it all just co-op/multiplayer)
Trackmania – I like the look of the random track creation. Looks almost like a car racing version of trials in some ways.
Assassins Creed – Black Flag was amazing, I played to like 98 or 99% just didn’t finish a few things. Didn’t care for Unity especially after all the issues, if it works day one fine then I may pick it up as I do enjoy the game play to some extent. Undecided.
Ghost Recon – Loved the series, but it seems like it is a few steps away from that. Looks more like a Mercenaries type game and I am alright with that.
Anno 2205 – Will probably play this. Looks good.
Sony – Don’t own a ps4, that may soon change.
Last Guardian – Have never built up excitement for this, and still haven’t. Could be the worst person on earth though. Similar to The Division. I feel that these games take too long and the build up only destroys them. I hope it works out though for all the fans.
Horizon – Looks amazing. This gets me close to buying a PS4. Best demo of all games seen up until now.
Hitman – Yes, next best thing seeing as I didn’t get the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell I wanted.
Street Fighter – Don’t really care for Fighters outside of Streets of Rage/NES Kung-Fu type games.
No Mans Sky – I feel as if this thing is too good to be true. This exclusive with Horizon would force me to buy a PS4.
Dreams – Looks cool, but not for me I think.
Firewatch – Looks like a lot of survival games on PC with what looks like an awesome story. Really like this. PS4 being bought at this rate.
Destiny – I haven’t got back into this since hitting a wall grinding at the start. Didn’t really have anyone to play with, not excited, but could easily be swayed to catching up if reviews continue to get better.
Final Fantasy VII – I rented this from the video store when I was young and played it for an entire weekend, couldn’t even count the hours. That is my only experience with Final Fantasy, it was so good. I am not sure I ever want to touch this game because of how good that memory is. I even left my PlayStation on over night so I wouldn’t lose my spot because I didn’t have room on my memory card. This remake does look amazing though, I think I might actually pick it up.
Devolver Digital Games – Great trailers, Mother Russia Bleeds looks exactly like the type of fighter I enjoy.
Shenmue – Not my type of game again. Kickstarter has been an amazing success already.
Morpheus – Absolutely no feelings about this atm.
Playstation Vue – I wish this stuff would come to Australia, where we could just subscribe to certain channels. Fuck Foxtel.
Call of Duty Black Ops 3 – Call of Duty multiplayer is always fun. I do enjoy them, I am apart of the problem. Didn’t enjoy Advanced Warfare though.
Disney Infinity 3 – Haven’t gotten into any of these games, seem like massive money pits. Where I will struggle to buy all these other games after spending it all on Disney, Skylanders and Lego toys.
Uncharted 4 – I only played the first 2. Loved them, not sure why I didn’t play 3. Will have to do some day. Looks awesome. Once these games are out I will more than likely be buying a PS4. Amazing selection of games.
Overall Great 2 days at E3 – Will probably buy Halo 5, GOW Remastered, GOW 4, Fallout 4, Doom, PS4 with Horizon, No Mans Sky, Firewatch, Uncharted 4.
SO MANY FOURS!!!!
Anyone besides @powalen staying up till 2am to watch the Nintendo conference?
I can’t be bothered, I’ll just get all the news in the morning. Interested to see what they’re gonna show this year. Probably Star Fox and maybe Zelda.
*crosses fingers for Diddy Kong Racing 2 announcement*
A small group of us are. We’ll all be in a group chat in Steam if anybody else wants to join in.
Yeah. My sleep schedule is pretty all over the place right now. Will probably be up watching it.
Not that I’m holding my breath for anything the slightest bit exciting… but still. We’ll see. Feel free Nintendo to show Metroid. If MS mention Metroid and Nintendo doesn’t something’s gone wrong somewhere.
I may as well. Had my last exam for the semester this morning and have 0 plans for tomorrow.
@transientmind
I still need your address buddy or I can’t send you the bookmarks!
Most interesting man on TAY
PO Box 369, Awesometown
Sughly’s game has a Steam page now. Exciting stuff! 😀
Can’t buy yet, alas. http://store.steampowered.com/app/327220/
O_O
Daedalic as in Deponia Daedalic?!
I’m sold!
Already wishlisted. Will be insta-buying.
Man, I haven’t watched A Night At The Roxbury in such a long time. Reckon I’ll have to watch it tonight.
Love that movie…
Can always garner an eyeroll from my wife when I do the sideways head bob whilst holding my air-ghetto-blaster.
EMILIOOOOOO!
Whelp, Shenmue is at $1.8 million.
Will be well funded by morning.
Yooka Laylee is about to hit 2 million pounds too. (Took a bit longer though. :P)
Don’t forget Pounds are worth more than dollars. Still, The speed that Shenmue has reached that point is just mind blowing.
Oh yeah, I felt like I had no money after converting my Australian dollars into pounds back when I lived in London. XD
Lol, I remember when I went to Bali about 15 years ago and converted about $400AUD into Rupiah, ended up being like 1 and a half million, had fat stacks yo, made me feel like I was rich.
Check out the Dong.
That link is safe. 😉
I remember when @redartifice’s twitter feed was full of pictures of his dong.
And you loved it.
Two-point-five Dollars to the Pound when I was last there, and a lot of stuff cost about 80% in pounds what it would cost in AUD. That was brutal to the famfam’s wallet.
Did I say by morning?
Probably next 15-30 mins. Only $35,000 left to go.
I woke up just after it hit, so it was morning for me 😛
Keep watching Uncharted 4 trailer…
Everything and more I’ve come to expect from the series. Naughty Dog are seriously talented.
The crash was a bit cringe worthy for those guys, but they made up for it by far. 😀
Hey, at least it proved that it was live.
Unless… *puts on tin foil hat*
It’s not a Sony E3 presentation without a technical hiccup.
Possible MGS V spoiler based on trailer
can I say out loud that child Liquid is confirmed?Yeah,
Les Enfants Terrible were specially mentioned. I think it’s a lock that child Solid and child Liquid will be characters. \o/\o/
I wanted that so much! 😀
I feel like there has been some confusion about Xbox One backwards compatibility. Thought this article and video should help clear the air. It is actually an emulator and not all these games being ported. I think the reason they are leaving it up to the developers is just in case any of them are releasing or planning to release HD remakes which are ever so popular now. Also they are saying they want clearances from any licenses that have changed to other companies over the years.
http://tinyurl.com/ntzl6vu
It’ll be an emulator running in a VM since all the games run in a Hyper-V style sandbox. That should mean they’re emulating the environment, so just like with the Xbox back-compat on 360.
Except with one major difference, from what I’ve heard about the Xbone backwards-comopatibility after you put in the disc it forces you to download the whole game, but with the 360 you just put in an original XBox disc and played it.
I doubt that’s how it works. You’ll probably be downloading an executable to run it, or downloading a tailored VM for running it. Not the whole game. That’d be a colossal waste of bandwidth. They’d need to charge for it.
According to this it sounds like that’s exactly how it works.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/06/how-xbox-ones-backwards-compatibility-will-work/
Yeah, you’re downloading something. I’d expect it’s an executable or a VM environment you’re downloading though. Not the whole game. Otherwise what happens with some MS-published games that are huge, like Lost Odyssey for example? Four discs and the vast majority of the data needed for playing, the cutscenes and whatnot, are on the disc and shouldn’t need to be downloaded again.
Interesting, I just found this and it says that games are installed, so maybe Kotaku got it slightly wrong.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-21424-Xbox-One-Backward-Compatibility-FAQ.html
So, going by that you’ll only need the disc and you won’t have to download anything as it will install the game on the hdd from the disc, but
So basically it’s the “check-in” thing they were trying to force on us that was originally built into the console for it to continue to work but got patched out due to consumer uproar.
Knew they’d find some way to implement it eventually. Just a matter of time now before it’s required of Xbone games and then the console itself as originally planned.
Was seriously thinking about getting another Xbone to play some of the exclusive titles, but if this is their agenda, then I’m out.
I don’t think I’ll make it to 2am, but I’m actually excited about the Nintendo E3 presentation this year, if only to find out what the boy and I will be playing at PAX this year ^_^
… Pokémon?
There’s gym leaders you can challenge … and win badges from … and stuff
… I guess, if that’s your thing…
Oh, we’ll definitely be doing that. I’m thinking more of what fun things we can play at the Nintendo booth. We spent a lot of time in the nintendo booth. Last year it was all about Splatoon.
And Captain Toad!
BAM!
Shenmue 3 is funded and happening. $2 million in 8.5 hours.
Finally been able to watch the Sony E3 conference.
Some impressive announcements, but what a generally poor conference. Poorly run and so much junk in there. Microsoft might not have had big crowd-pleasers, but their conference was vastly better run.
Also, what actually is Sony’s 2015 lineup? Why do I want a Playstation 4 this year? Last Guardian is 2016, Shenmue is 2017, FFVII is god knows when, Horizon looks rad but they didn’t give it a date, Uncharted 4 is 2016… What am I getting this year?
Microsoft meanwhile have a really great exclusive lineup this year. They had a strong, clear message and I reckon made a vastly more compelling case for owning their console in 2015.
Honestly Microsoft has yet to give me a reason to want their console at all. A few things that I think look kind of cool but nothing that I feel I must have that isn’t multiplatform. Been several times I’ve had the money to get one and decided to get a new set of headphones or something instead.
For me, Halo & Tomb Raider are good reasons this year to have the system. Gears 4 looks great as well. But I was primarily an Xbox 360 gamer for a long time and so I kind of like those sorts of games.
I have yet to have a game on the PS4 which I feel like has justified my purchase of the system. I like the hardware, but I have barely played any games on it. Everything that comes out is third-party and I get it on PC. Was hoping that I’d get something for PS4 announced that will make 2015 be the year my PS4 feels like it was worth it, but it’s not happening. Even the JRPGs are getting Steam ports now.
In 2014, they were all 2015 will be the year for the exclusives on PS4. Now it’s 2015 and it looks like 2016 is the year. Everything at Sony’s conference that grabbed my interest at all (and there was multiple times I utterly zoned out because who the fuck cares about Codblops any more?) are all 2016+. It’s kind of disappointing.
Also god damn, that Uncharted 4 gameplay turned me off. That’s going to be an utterly horrible sequence when you actually play it. All those goddamn turns you’re expected to take at high speed and you just know that the instant you fuck it up you’re going to explode and start from a checkpoint and momentum of the whole thing will be ruined. Looks like the enemies are still bullet sponges that take a million shots to kill and like to spam grenades all over the place. At least they didn’t respawn in two waves I guess, but this was the stuff that killed Uncharted 3 for me, made it one of the most frustrating, rage-inducing disappointments I’ve ever purchased. Will probably still buy it though.
Yeah, what I learned from E3 so far was that as someone who stuck with the Xbox this gen (after only playing around 5 games on my PS3) I can wait another year or two before hopping on the PS4 wagon.
While I wouldn’t call it a poor conference (I thought it was pretty exciting), I do agree that if I was looking to buy a console this year it would probably be an Xbone due to the exclusives (which is funny to say because the 360 was in a firm last place for me last gen – didn’t think MS could win me over)
That said I probably won’t buy either of them until a hardware revision is out (maybe next year?) The amount of stuff launching on PC these days really helps me be patient.
Yeah, with the trends around even the Japanese JRPG developers starting to get their games to PC, consoles increasingly feel irrelevant.
I don’t have either. Xbox One has the vastly superior controller (IMO) and Forza.
The PS4 on the other hand has a Ratchet and Clank game coming and the fact that I feel like I made the wrong choice going with the 360 over ps3 last gen going for it…
I’ll get one of them eventually, but I’m not convinced either way yet 😛
Perso a 5 because fuck buying it on PS3.
Also, Bloodborne was this year, no?
Yes, in like March.
JIMU I FOUND A VICAR AMELIA AND IT HATES ME
I got up to the poisonous wolf after machine gun man. & am now sick (yes again), so taking easy watching Sense8, which is awesome & GoT which is confusing & delighting me because I read the books.
I ordered the first Witcher book from the library but can’t pick it up til I’m better next week.
Where did my N go?
Persona 5 won’t be out in English this year.
I’m remaining glass half full
You may be rewarded for your faith:
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/17/persona-5-still-coming-to-america-in-2015-says-atlus/
Yeah saw that, fingers crossed! 😀
@pupp3tmast3r
You ready/keen to try 32+ PoE this week? Also Osiris on the weekend?
*shudders* PvP D=
Yeah I’m down for some PoE at some point this week; probably Friday eve’s the only moderately free day the way my week’s looking? @liondrive interested good sir?
Yeah, I’m keen 🙂
I’m happy to help with anything, haha!
Just let me know when 🙂
Friday whenever you guys can jump on in the evening =] @jocon I’ll be sober this time as I’ve got drinks on Saturday instead xD
@liondrive
Yeah I’ll jump on at the reset, or earlier if that’s when you want to start.
Let’s do reset; I’ll probably jump on earlier but I can’t say when depending on how work goes and if I have time to squeeze in a quick swim. I’ll defs be on by 7PM NSW time, 5PM for mr lion?
Lost amongst all the other news, and not that anyone else cares, but:
Namco Bandai registered a trademark on God Eater Resurrection. Do Namco have a press conference or anything at E3? It’s way past time for them to announce a localization of God Eater 2 for Vita & PS4.
Gust filed for Atelier Sophie and ‘The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book’. Atelier Shallie should have been the last ‘dusk’ game (Ayesha / Escha & Logy / Shallie) so that should involve a new setting and probably a new artist and I’d expect to be bound for PS4.
God Eater? I’m gonna burst!
EMOTIONS
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/06/16/heavy-rain-and-beyond-two-souls-are-coming-to-ps4/?emcid=social_20150616_47606526&adbid=610780131993387008&adbpl=tw&adbpr=36969785
Yessss. I’m not one to buy remasters but I had a few exceptions. Uncharted/The Last of Us/Heavy Rain/Beyond: Two Souls. Now I’ll get all of them? CRAAAAZY!
I got The Last of Us… but only because it was included with my PS$. still, might replay it, and I never played the DLC, so I’ll finally get to do that.
The DLC might actually be a better balanced game than the original The Last of Us. I definitely recommend playing it. Beautiful character story and new, interesting gameplay mechanics.
It’s better except the intro. Everything else is better.
If I get a PS4 anytime soon it’ll be for remastered Naughty Dog and Quantic games. I never got around to Beyond: Two Souls on PS3, and only played Uncharted 1 – I regret not getting around to 2 and 3.
I’m seriously tempted, say early next year, to get a PS4 just so I can play Uncharted 1-3, The Last of Us, Heavy Rain and Two Souls – all games I could play on my PS3 if I could be bothered to dust it off.
Cool, I might actually get to finish Heavy Rain now.
I TOLD YOU ALL!
Cc @shane (cause I remember you were interested too)
Yeah! Thanks for the heads-up!
Also, @pupp3tmast3r, Page 7 on a Tuesday. I hope you’re happy.
Hate to piss on the parade, but after seeing the AC stuff in the Sony presentation – they haven’t figured out how to animate females yet.
That just looked like the ‘standard’ assassin that they jammed the new character skin over.
I’ve been playing Power Diggerz on an emulator….
It’s so… Japanese…
And now I’m going to bed.
Goodnight.
Who would’ve thought that Microsoft would have my favourite conference this year? 😛
Nintendo’s one wasn’t earth-shattering. Totally fun to watch but not as many new announcements as I would’ve liked. Ah well.
Microsoft didn’t have them ost exciting news (except BC prospects) but what they gave us was clear and present – it’s near-future. Stuff that we’ll get to play before next year’s E3.
HOLY SHIT GUYS THERE’S A NEW NIER GAME FROM PLATINUM GAMES COMING OMG ITS LIKE EVERY CHRISTMAS HAS COME AT ONCE OMFG
100% WORTHY PAGE GET
Directed by Yoko Taro too so it’s a proper one. not just them digging the IP out of the trash.
STAR FOX
STAR FOOOOOOOOOOX!
Also holy crap Platinum are working on like a million games. Roughly.
Also also, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE SQUARE ENIX CONFERENCE. WOW. Conference of the show. Amazing.
@strange, just in case you missed it: go to around the 30 minute mark in Square Enix’s presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQwlJzROy38&feature=youtu.be
If you just want to know what’s up, here’s what’s up:
There’s a new Nier game in development.Spoiler, while well intentioned, may be pointless when you look to the top of the page.
I haven’t looked anywhere but this comment. Phew! 😀
Thanks! I haven’t watched yet. Only just finished the Sony one just then. Cranky with myself for not watching these live, it’s so hard to not be spoilered. I would have LOST MY MIND watching the Sony one if I hadn’t already been spoilerised!
Oh no, I accidentally tagged you in a conference spoilery article. I did it before reading this. So sorry, Strange. 🙁
Nova tagged me on Twitter talking about it a split second after I got up to that bit in the video. Just made it! 😀
😀 Phew. So relieved. It’s always good when the best surprises are preserved.
So awesome.
It’s like everyone at E3 knew I was in a gaming limbo and pulled out all my favourites to captivate me with gaming again. The winner of E3 is me. 😀
I sat down last night and watched all the videos I missed over the last couple days.
Yes. Yes, a real winner is me. So much win. 2015 and 2016 are going to be very close competitors for which sees the best releases.
Huh. Squeenix are still porting the PC version of FFVII as well. INTERESTING.
FFVII remake is probably years and years away.
So glad I didn’t stay up for the Nintendo conference. Only quickly skimmed over the news so far, but it doesn’t look like they announced much that was exciting. Only things I might be even mildly interested in is Kingdom Hearts III and Star Fox.
Edit: Whoops, Kingdom Hearts would’ve been in the Squeenix conference not Nintendo, duh. I’m still pre-coffee, so I have an excuse.
So yeah maybe interested in Star Fox and that’s it.
*writes on blackboard*
No, I will not spend $180 on a game.No, I will not spend $180 on a game.No, I will not spend $180 on a game.No, I will not spend $180 on a game.No, I will not spend $180 on- FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4
You want that Pip-Boy dontcha?
… NOOOOOOO!
yesDon’t spend 180!
…
Spend 190!
DAMMIT 😛
I ordered it, and I’m damn hype for the game, but on the fence about the CE. At least with the order in now I can make my mind up in November – it’s not like you’re committed to it now.
Totally not helping, am I?
Didn’t help me I burned my last $50 on that CE no way was I risking it being sold out
Going to get one Pip-Boy edition and probably a second copy of the game just so we don’t have to share. It’s really the only way I’ll get to put in any serious play time before my wife is done.
Yeah, I’m getting one of those stupid, ridiculous gimmicky CE toys for my wrist.
And I will look like a giant fucking dork using it.
The happiest fucking dork in the world.
Holy shit! Just Cause 3 delayed till December. Guess they didn’t want to go up against Mad Max and Metal Gear.
That day is going to be hell in our house 😀
One Kingdom Hearts 3 pls
The stock market reacts. Amazing. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/06/the-internet-reacts-to-the-final-fantasy-vii-remake/
Oh for fuck’s sake! Was up to 480/498 unlocks in AdVenture Capitalist, I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, then I launch the game today and it’s been updated and now there’s 626 unlocks to get the last achievement.
I’m never going to finish this game, am I?
*cries*
I lost all interest once I realised my wealth doesn’t carry over to the moon and I’d basically be playing two copies of the game at once, with at least one more location to be unlocked. Those last few achievements just aren’t worth it.
*checks mobile version*
492/498…
*checks App store*
No updates.
Woohoo!
SHUTUP!
So all that’s left now is the PC show. I wonder what they’ll show there. A lot of indie stuff, I imagine.
Hello taybes! I’m still wiped out with the flu, and between that, and the sheer amount of game information, I feel like my head and my heart might explode. Because nobody asked for it, here’s my thoughts on a few things I’ve seen:
• Uncharted 4: oh good god, I love it so much. And there’s motorcycles 😀
• Firewatch: aw god, that turtle. Also, yeah, totally called it on PS4 😀
• Mass Effect Andromeda: I immediately thought of Zoidberg from Futurama saying, “…two gangster planets and a cowboy world!”
• The Last Guardian: that kitty-chicken-lizard-baby monster is absolutely going to die at some stage in the game and destroy your heart. Sign me up.
• No Man’s Sky: I am far too dumb to comprehend the scale of this game, but yes please.
Also, yay, my fiancé (ew that word… can someone think of something better?) is bringing home Lego Jurassic Park tonight 😀 😀 😀
Been playing Lego Jurassic World on Steam and it’s extremely buggy, I’m assuming you’re getting it on PS4, I hope for your sake it’s better than the PC version. Other than the bugs though it’s a typical Lego game and is fun to play.
Also, only 16 weeks till the Nathan Drake Collection, Whoooo!
Ohh really? That’s such a bummer! I hope it’s better on PS4 too. The only Lego game I remember being particularly bad was the Indiana Jones was on DS, and I think that was because it was rushed to release alongside the Crystal Skull.
And yes! Oh lord, playing those again on PS4 😀 😀 😀 Uncharted 2 is one of my all time favourite games ever. I’m rather hoping they’ll have reconfigured the control scheme in 3, since it was different to the first two, and not very fluid.
The only thing that would make me doubt the puppybudgiekitty is going to die is Shadow of the Colossus
Because Ueda pulled that exact trick with your horseThat’s a good point.
Except the horse didn’t actually die IIRC. It comes hobbling back in the final cutscene.I know, but would you expect puppybudgiekitty to stay dead too?Yes. If it happened, yes.
That’s what he wants us to think. That it’ll come back after appearing to die. Only it will really die. And we’ll spend the whole time hoping right up to the credits and then we will see some kind of homage or memorial cementing the finality of its death and we will cry again.
BUT PUPPYBUDGIEKITTY! NOOOOOOOOOO
I’m noticing that you didn’t mention Unravel…
Tell me Jane, what’s it like not to have a soul?
😛
I missed this! I was half-asleep/sick whilst watching the vids yesterday, but I did see a screenshot of someone holding this little red fella. I’ll watch it tonight! 😀
Does anyone have the Xbox Preview Program? If so have you tested out any of the new features?
@fatshadylive does, he posted pics on Twitter of him downloading the ports of Super Meat Boy and Toy Soldiers. I assume they work.
Yep, works great. Selection of games is obviously poor because preview/beta but really solid. meat boy worked perfect. It’s actually a full on emulator within the X1, not a port. It loads with the original 360 logo. When i logged in, the 360 notification bar came up saying I was loggin into XBL.
Short answer is that it was seamless and easy. I had a list of about 5 games ready to install and once that was done away i went. Didn’t play with sceren caps or recording but that would all work as expected.
EDIT: If anyone wants an invite to the preview program let me know. send me a message/friend request and I’ll invite you.
@DC
YOU GUYS, THE FIREWATCH TURTLE 😀 😀 😀
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CHp6wJ4WsAEQr3I.mp4
I really want to click on that but I think I’ve had enough sweary hyperventilation fits about that turtle for 24 hours.
Do it! It’s 12 seconds of adorableness; the animator posted it on his twitter.
I suspect this guy’s behind the entire mystery!
Hahahahahah turtley mastermind.
I wonder if you can do a playthrough with him as your little buddy the whole way. Put him in your backpack when you need to use other tools.
*put him on your head
I think Turtle Holding Simulator has to be the best E3 nickname we’ve collectively come up with.
An entire new genre is about to sweep the world. The age of holding turtles is upon us.
The best simulators, in no particular order:
Turtle Holding Simulator
Surgeon Simulator
Goat Simulator
Flight Simulator
Euro Truck Simulator
Farm Simulator
Tabletop Simulator
I think we need Simulator Simulator.
I have heard Crusader Kings dubbed “Infanticide and incest Simulator”
And if you type it that many times the word Simulator begins to lose all meaning.
“Then who’s in your hut?”
*camera cuts to Turtle in the hut, claws clasped in front of it Mr Burns style*
Goddammit, I just choked because I was silently wheeze-laughing at this so hard and it turned into a coughing fit.
I love you idiots.
Nintendo is that wife you’ve been married to for 25 years that you no longer have anything in common with and fallen out of love with, nothing to talk about but the good times you used have while fruitlessly trying to recreate them.
Agreed. I Think the Wii U is dead in the water and they know it. Star Fox is basically its last hurrah before it fizzles out and dies.
They need to pull out all the stops with the NX at next years show or they’ll lose a lot of fans (myself included).
I still believe that the new Zelda game has been delayed till next year so it can be an NX launch title.
Nah, Wii U isn’t dead. Just my relationship with it. Still plenty of folks who love it.
Nintendo’s puppet thing cemented for me that I do not get Nintendo.
Really unbelievable they haven’t done more. I read a great comparison somewhere. This year was not a Mario Galaxy year it was a Wii Music year. Only thing I am excited for is Yoshi’s Wooly world.
I believe it was @markserrels that said that.
I don’t really care because Nintendo don’t really like to announce anything unless it’s about to be released. I’m still fairly happy and to be honest, i don’t care too much about E3, weirdly.
It was too, I have read that much stuff about E3 that it is all blending into one. Mark nailed it on the head IMO.
Can’t have a good year every year. I’m enjoying Splatoon and stuff.
totally called the Shenmue 3 announcement!!! now i just need the rest of the Shenmue rumor mill to be realized… ive heard of a HD upscaled (NOT a HD remake, just upscaled with improved lighting) of Shenmue 1 & 2 for PC/PS4, digital only.
Isn’t that one of their stretch goals? Could be wrong, haven’t really looked into it. Just vaguely considering putting $29 for a copy of the game since I’ll probably have a PS4 by 2017.
Nope i think you are thinking of the Shenmue 1 & 2 Cinema shorts at 2.5 million…
thats just basically the fmv’s from the first two game being stringed together. a bit like what they did with the xbox release of shenmue 2; how it came with a seperate movie dvd with the shorts from Shenmue 1
Ah, righto.
If thats the case I might look into it never played the first 2 so that part of the conference meant nothing to me. I just lost my shit over the FFVII remake trailer and suprisingly the guerrilla games new IP
They’re going to have to do that because IIRC the only way to re-play the first two parts of the trilogy are to own a Dreamcast and an Xbox.
spot on… Shenmue 2 also came out on dreamcast (smack bang at the end of its life cycle). I have the European version with Jap audio and english Subs. As far as im aware they never release it in North America because Microsoft acquired exclusive rights to a north american release as well as any english dub. hence why the european version has no english audio…
Yeah, I know. I’m still angry I missed buying the Dreamcast version of 2!
What the hell is going on with this E3? What else is going to get an unexpected sequel / remake announced?
I reckon at the Apogee conference tomorrow we might finally get a Major Stryker 2.
Or a new Commander Keen…
This would be the best thing ever. Commander Keen was one of my first game experiences as a kid.
No joke, I’d buy the crap out of a Commander Keen reboot.
Honestly it’s the kind of thing that is actually suited to Kickstarter. Platformers aren’t expensive to make compared with pretty much anything else.
Well, we’re getting a new Tony Hawk…
They should do a Tony Hawks Pro Skater where it’s the English comedian trying to do skateboard stuff
I forgot page 6 in all the E3 excitement. Ah well…
#EveryDayIsPage6IfYouBelieve
I’ve been asked to write a feature on the pros and cons of the iPhone versus a packet of Jaffa Cakes. But I said this was pointless as it was like comparing apples with oranges!
A man said to me: ‘I’m going to attack you with the neck of a guitar.’
I said: ‘Is that a fret?’
A woman was in front of a judge for killing her husband with his guitar collection.
The judge enquired if she was a first offender.
To which she replied “No your honour, First a Gibson then a Fender”
And this was the point of open laughing.
So this one struck a chord with you?
Nah, just the point wh— oh. NICE.
I only cook with Truss tomatoes. I don’t Truss any others.
Nuclear scientists have developed french fries that cook outside a Microwave, they are called “Fission Chips”
My 5-year-old blames me when things go wrong and takes all the credit when they go right. She’ll be a CEO someday.
I ordered a vault and speakers to be delivered at my home yesterday. They arrived safe and sound.
When I got home last night my wife demanded I take her somewhere expensive.
So I took her to a petrol station.
I watched the Nintendo conference last night. Was fairly terrible, but it reinforced my excitement for Yoshi’s Woolly World. Who else is on this bandwagon? It’s strange that my two most anticipated games of next week are a gritty Batman game and then a bright and shiny Yoshi game. (With Tales from the Borderlands in the mix too.)
Can’t wait for Yoshi’s wooly world. So excited.
Those Amiibos look pretty great too and I’m a guy who doesn’t even collect them. XD
I should’ve bought the blue one as well, oh well.
I reckon the blue one might just be the cutest. 😀
BATMAN!
nanananananananananana BATMAN
Oh man, so excited but it’s controlled excitement this time due to all the issues Arkham City PC had on release day. D: Some of my formative TAY posts were coming here and bitching about the PC release. Shane offered to send me his Xbox 360 version. WHAT A GUY. 😛
Doesn’t sound like something I would do. I prefer the image I have of myself as a blackheart.
Oh so THAT’s why you were wearing an eyepatch and had texta tattoos that time I met you.
I preordered the PS4 version! Hopefully jb sends it out this week!
LEADER!
May seriously buy a Wii U just for Yoshi. Excitement is building, if it reviews well then I will be forced into it.
It’s almost sickeningly cute. My cold, black heart won’t know what to do with it! 😛
Hopefully it’s as good as this.
I never played Yoshi’s Story, but Yoshi’s Island is one of my all-time favourites.
You missed out man, definitely one of my favourite N64 games, along with Mario, Banjo-Kazooie and Blast Corps.
Oh, and Diddy Kong Racing. Can’t believe I almost forgot that one.
I wasn’t going to get Batmang but I recently ordered a new graphics card which comes with a copy of the game so . Yay? I’m pretty hyped for Yoshi wooly world too. I AM STILL YET TO FINISH WITCHER 3! TOO MANY GAEMS!
… Talk about first world problems.
Same, I’m so excited for both of them, I’ve pre-ordered the games and all 3 Amiibo’s. And I’ve got 2 weeks of leave starting tomorrow \o/
@redartifice what’s with the torrent of retweets and favourites on your Amelia question? How many trigger words did you use?
I have no fucking idea, it was weird to me too. Maybe bloodborne is that popular? (Previous all time trigger word tweet was “Justin Bieber playing Starcraft”)
Remake
noun
1. something that is made again, esp a new version of an old film
2. the act of making again or anew
Collins English Dictionary
It’s been less than 24 hours and I’ve been doing some pondering about the FFVII news yesterday.
It’s quite clearly going to be something new and not a simple ‘remastered’ or ‘HD’ job.
I think it’d be fair to say that the level of emotion and nostalgia attached to this game is incredibly high. I just worry about how much the ‘vocal’ emotion and nostalgia is going to get in the way of making a solid remake of the game.
I want Square to be bold and confident with the remake but also want them to balance that with the quirks that are endearing to the FFVII brand. Crazy translations made the game fun, Corneo’s club was a real WTF moment as a 12 year old – but can it fit in a remade version of the game? But how do you take it out? For me it was one of the early early points in the game where I felt that I was doing the right thing by going through the crazy sequence of events to ‘save’ Tifa.
So with that small example, I pose some questions for the FFVII fans;
What needs to stay? What needs to go? What would break the ‘remake’? What needs to stay but be changed? How is it changed?
Also, if it’s big plot stuff spoiler tag it for those who haven’t yet experienced the joy of exploring the lands and cities of Gaia or meeting the charming denzins of Midgar, Gold Saucer and Costa Del Sol (and so many more places).
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/610786497118105600?s=09
Oh Jesus… I’d forgotten that bit…
I dunno… but honestly, I think they have to go big with the changes. Hopefully the story remains untouched, but I’m not willing to bet money on it. The kooky crazy bits are gonna look flat-out weird with realistic sprites.
For the purists who want things untouched, they’re porting the PC version over for folks who want to retain the original-ish experience on current-gen.
My ideal would be something like the Monkey Island remakes, which are shot-for-shot identical, and you can switch between the graphical outputs at the press of a button. This would mean leaving everything else as is… though this is incredibly unlikely, given the fact that the remake will almost certainly be fully-voiced.
It’ll be using FF15’s combat system apparantly.
I doubt that’s a detail that would have been released. Waaay to early. Sounds more like a shit stirring rumour.
Going back to FFVII combat can be boring so I hope they change the combat (maybe make it similar to Crysis Core?). I just hope the story is left as is and if it is changed they just make some of the sequence/act transitions a bit better. I love FFVII story to bits but it is sometimes hard to know what to do next / where to go if you haven’t played it before.
Also, where’s my Crysis Core for Vita/PS4? /o\
Well, I mean, they could change a little bit.
Like, remove Yuffie from the game.
I won’t mind Yuffie. Give me a choice to kick Cait Sith out of the party though.
You shut your filthy mouth. >:( FF7 combat was absolutely fine and if they fiddle with it by trying to ‘modernize’ it the way they fucked up every single FF game from 12 onward, then it will result in the game being an instant no-purchase for me.
They could make all of the characters, like, mercenaries for a school called Balamb Garden and change the main dude’s name to Squall. I’d like that.
I’ll pay that. Even though Cloud IS kinda Squall anyway.
You take that back! Ugh. Cloud’s a git.
Well, to be fair… so’s Squall. I guess your choice of git boils down to whether you prefer sullen, silent brooding or melodramatic whining. 🙂
You take that back again! 😛
Any one know if Dontnod was at Square Enix’s presentation? Life is Strange is easily my favourite game of 2015 so far. Very interested to see what they’ll do next. (Lead dev hinted that they might make a second season of Life is Strange in an article a whiles back.) I assume it’s too early for any announcements though since they’ve still got two eps left. Would check myself but don’t want to risk stumbling upon Deus Ex spoilers in the write-ups. MEDIA BLACKOUT. XD
I don’t think so, man. I didn’t see anything about them when I watched.
Thanks bud. 🙂
They did say something along the lines of “We’re happy with them doing what they do”, when talking about Life is Strange.
RECOGNITION! AT LAST!
Good to hear. 😛
There was an audible silence in the group chat last night during the Nintendo conference when I revealed I’ve never had a 3DS. I like to think they all gasped in real life.
I’ve only got one because I got Cake’s old one!
I played pokeymans and bravely default! I’ve finished neither!
I wasn’t expecting to love my 3DS as much as I do. (Disclaimer: mine was a gift from mythamphetamine)
But Ace Attorney, Ghost Trick, and Theatrhythm are all among the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had, and there are plenty of other titles which are pretty decent too.
Making it DS-backwards compatible is the best decision they made.
Errr… the point is, you should think about getting one.
I don’t even remember you saying that 😛
Maybe it was more dramatic in my head. 😛
But yeah, it would’ve been way worse if I wasn’t talking with you guys at the same time.
Do you want one?
I have 2 and have been wondering what to do with my old one.
Thanks bud, but that’s alright.
I think if I REALLY wanted one by now I probably would’ve gotten one somehow. 🙂
Also last thing I need is another console to have to buy games on. 😛
But on the other hand, free 3DS…
Seriously, it’s not even worth trading in with the amount you get for them these days.
I’d still feel weird and moochy. Haha! Thanks though! 🙂
I hope you know that I’ve been trying to offload my spare 3DS to him for aaaaages.
I’m a difficult, difficult person. 😛
Surely if I just post it to
DC
Brisbane
it will find him right?
I believe Super Detective @Shane managed to crack the DC code and discover an address 😛
This might be true. I probably shouldn’t share it, though.
But I am happy to be a mail forwarder. @blaghmanI have 4 rattling around. I’ll just sneak one into his pocket next time I see him.
Technically speaking there was an audible silence during ALL of the group chat since we were all just typing.
So what the hell happened to the E3 PC stream?
Starts at 11
Computer crash caused by hardware conflicts. They’re preparing us in advance.
Serrels posted it too early, had his times wrong.
Starts in 36 or so minutes.
The advertised time (24 minutes ago) was apparently when they started letting people in, not the actual presentation start.
Ah, cheers. Also thanks to @powalen, @shane and @redartifice.
AMD just showcased it’s latest line up of gpus. Dual Fiji on a single pcb!!!!!! Plus the fury nano looks pretty good as well can’t wait for reviews!
Damn! After weeks of putting up with slow Steam downloads (max speed of about 300kb/s) it’s now finally back to normal (around 1mb/s).
About friggin’ time.
So now that E3 is essentially over, what was your Game of the Show?
For me it was Cuphead. Damn that game looks brilliant. Cannot wait for it to come out.
Fallout 4.
There’s lots of games I’m really looking forward to, but think I might focus my hype on this exclusively for now because it’s so damn close. 😀
My Hype
Batman Next Week
Metal Gear in September
Fallout 4 in November
Mirror’s Edge in February
Amplitude and Tides of Numenera in there somewhere.
Anything outside of that time range I will re-hype myself for later on.
The Last Guardian and Firewatch and Fallout and…
It was a great e3, okay? 😀
Really intrigued by Horizon too. That world and lore captured my imagination, but would like to see a bit more gameplay. Robot dinosaurs are cool.
I’m going to keep an eye on it too, but I’m not sold yet.
Yes! I was wondering why everyone wasn’t raving about this. Looks all kinds of awesome. Except too much shooting, not enough exploration. 😛
Looked a lot like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. (A good thing! :D)
Looks really cool, just it’s kinda ephemeral atm (beyond “Cavemen vs Robot Dinosaurs”)
I’ll wait until after the Master Race show
Paradox to announce Crusader Kings III
Things like Fallout, Doom and such are a no brainer and we knew they were coming. FFVII Remake and Last Guardian we eventually knew were going to happen.
So I’m going with Horizon. New, unexpected and looks amazing.
Hggghhnnnnn, I dunno. So many to choose from.
I’m gonna list the ones I remember getting excited about to see if there’s a standout:
* MGSV
* Dark Souls 3
* FFVII remake
* Firewatch
* Mirror’s Edge
* Deus Ex: MD
* Just Cause 3
* Uncharted 4
* The Last Guardian
* Rise of Tomb Raider
* New Mass Effect
You know what? I can’t do it. I can’t. These titles are all must-plays for me.
The biggest surprise of the show was Shenmue III, though Last Guardian came a close second there.
The biggest disappointment was no mention of the Great Ace Attorney localisation.
But the game-of-show… I can’t decide. So much hype!
1. Fallout 4
2. Fallout 4
3. Fallout 4
4. Final Fantasy VII Remake
5. Fallout 4
FFVII remake. And Last Guardian. And Hitman. And Uncharted 4. And Doom. 😀
Unravel.
Hands down.
I like the cute, quaint charm to it 🙂
Now, there were a lot of great games out there, and my favourite thing about E3 was not actually the best game, but the way it was announced.
Fallout Shelter, announced the same day it became available. THAT was one of the best things Bethesda has done in a while.
I think Fallout 4 wins for my most anticipated game, but since that was announced before E3….. best newly announced E3 game? Probably FFVII Remake or Horizon. I love Guerrilla’s work, and the premise of Horizon is intriguing. FFVII doesn’t require much else explanation. I have my reservations, but damn if I’m not excited regardless.
I don’t own (recent) consoles, so I bookmarked:
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
For Honor
Horizon: Zero Dawn does look interesting though.
Uh, am I getting confused in the E3 jumble or is Nier 2 being made by Platinum? Because, not sure about that. I mean, Nier was balls out crazy but was a sedate sort of crazy. The crazy was just there, part of the world. Platinum crazy is more loud explosion of violence, sex and cursing, which is still awesome but much different.
Is Platinum making everything now?
I’d love to see a Platinum developed Animal Crossing now they’re Nintendo.
You’re not confused. This is what is happening.
I don’t think the Platinum “feeling” will be too much in the atmosphere of the game, more in the combat. But that in itself has me worried as I’m extremely bad at playing Platinum games….
I wonder how much of a Master Race wank-fest this will be.
“Yeah, well sony might have Call of Duty, but will it run at 1000Hz Eleventybillion ps? I DON’T THINK SO, AMIRITE PC GAMING AUDIENCE?”
It’s just this but with Gaben on the backdrop.
http://tinyurl.com/q5j4oa6
Star Citizen really likes to push the Master Race is so great, send me for of that high fidelity monies.
And now we get AMD for the hardware porn
I like PC gaming but I feel completely detached from this conference at the moment, like I’m not part of the gang. Haha!
This is all for you @blaghman
I saw the word “Bokeh” during the Deus Ex thing, and I’ve been in a fugue state since, elevated to a plane of beautifully rendered DoF, unshackled from the pain of life.
@NotoriousR
I’m a bit over the TW franchise right now
Although this could get me back into it
Damn, wanted a trailer or at least gameplay footage
Oh GoW on PC, very nice
Ahhh the VR talk. Intersting. Ahhhh CCP
Does look cool, could be close to the perfect VR starter game
@redartifice called it
To be fair, that was pretty low-hanging fruit. Having Paradox and Obsidian at the same time means only one game they’re talking about.
And my stream has gone to hell
No idea who this guy is but looks nervous as hell
Guild wars 2: heart of thorns looks fairly epic but it’s still an MMO
Ooohh one that will fit in my system
What is that, ooohhh wanties
Now that is a steam box I would be happy to have in my lounge room
This is sounding intriguing, senses more than just sight in a video game
Stream died again, I’m out. Back to work time
No reason you can’t take some pride in being better than everyone else.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/80/9e/25/809e25dc2f75283a40f1b2cba741b9fb.jpg
It’s pronounced pi-say.
I love this comment
Can we stop with the gifs? Some of us use phones.
Watching the E3 PC stream. They were talking about a game called “Day-us Ex”. Never heard of it before.
After a while I worked out that they were talking about Deus Ex (I pronounce it like “juice”). *facepalm*
DAY SEX! \o/
Yes please.
Agh, damn page refreshes, you beat me to it
FWIW, they’re pronouncing it correctly.
As Day of Sex
Latin!
From Deus Ex Machina (God from the Machine, though the origin of the term is Grecian), wherein a problem is solved in a contrived and unexpected matter at the last minute, typically through the introduction of a character or object that magics away the problem.
From the theatre!
(And they didn’t just mean ‘mechanic’ as a metaphor. In my of the plays, the prop God who solves everything was literally a hand-operated machine.)
So now they’ve got the head of XBox on the PC stream. WTF!
Head of Xbox and Microsoft Studios, meaning he’s reponsible for Windows gaming too.
Fair enough. I only heard them say “head of XBox”.
American Truck Simulator. Whoo!
New Rollercoaster Tycoon! 😀
Kinda.
Looked kinda cool, that CEO guy was super awkward though.
Poor guy.
So I had a quick run through the list of 151 pokemon. The only real qualification for me to make a pokemon into a bookmark is to have more then one colour. Here is a list of pokemon I can’t make into bookmarks.
Metapod
Kakuna
Ninetails
Geodude
Graveler
Dewgong
Haunter
Gengar
Onix
Ditto
Mew.
They all have 1 colour with no real secondary colour.
What?! Gengar has white,red and black! =P And yellow in his mega-evolution which is really the one people want!
I’m not including expressions, so no eyes, noses or mouths
The signature design for ditto is just the eyes and mouth rather than the outline, maybe that could still work.
Haven’t ruled out Trubbish! \o/
Only went through the first 151
Confirmed no guns for Faith in Mirror’s Edge: http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/16/8791399/mirrors-edge-catalyst-no-guns-ea-electronic-arts
I’m super happy about that. I’m in fact super happy about most things I’ve seen about it (only bum note for me is they’ve perhaps skirted a little too close to science fiction for my taste in the first trailer)
One of the things I loved doing in Mirror’s Edge was disarming people and then making the choice to throw the gun away, so I’m a bit disappointed I won’t be able to do that anymore.
Man, I accidentally some words there.
I imagine disarms will still be in
Beyond Eyes looks super pretty as well. Definitely going to try it.
Definitely. I am intrigued.
Unravel.
That is all.
Looks like a colourful Limbo. I’m excited.
Shrug. Looks like a platformer, and platformers suck. 😉
Them’s fightin’ words, Transient!
*television news broadcast music*
In other news today a young man in WA was mysteriously shot by what police believe to have been a high-caliber sniper round. They have yet to find any evidence of the weapon or the bullet that ended this poor individual’s life. Witnesses are encouraged to come forward or contact Crime stoppers at 1300 *** ***
Now on to the weather!
*weather news broadcast music*
Please. The most interesting man on tay would never kill someone in such a mundane fashion.
It’d be a knife duel at dawn over a shark patch in the bermuda triangle.
As if he’d sully his hands doing something as base as physical contact. He has a legion of adoring fans willing to die for him that he’d send in to murder suicide dyslexic Stuart.
Meanwhile he’s on a beach in Brazil with several of his best girls, his phone rings. He answers with “Is it done?” he then hangs up, takes a sip of his drink and stares out across the ocean with a small nod and slight curve on one side of his mouth.
Can it be one of those knife duals where our left hands are tied together?
I want a challenge 😉
That negates the reason for the sharks, the idea is your blood whips them into a churning frenzy and the loser falls in.
I thought they were just there for aesthetic purposes 😛
I’m always on board with sharks for aesthetic purposes.
Finally, something we agree on! 😛
I agree with Transient here. Looks like something I’d play for half hour then promptly forget existed.
But what happens when he unravels fully! TEARS! D:
In the sequel you play as a cat that re-ravels him! It’s called Reravel. Yes this is a real game. No don’t check that.
I would play that also.
Anything that had you playing as a cat, I’m there.
Cc. Night in the Woods
So you play as a cat in this ‘Night in the Woods’ thing, eh? Sounds interesting Liondrive. I have not heard of this rich storytelling adventure game, Liondrive… pray tell us more, good sir! I know we are all connoisseurs of fine adventure gaming.
It’s a young person thing.
You old guys wouldn’t understand 😉
I go to all the trouble of a set-up and this is how you repay me?!
That’s it. I’m feeling positively brutish.
A man shall attend to your residence shortly; I recommend you greet him cordially for he is most unpleasantly skilled in the less-cordial. He will sail you to an unnamed island off the coast of Thailand where you will meet me in Roanapur harbour under the gibbet, at dawn three days hence.
My associates shall have the sharks, spiked-pontoons and a selection of weapons awaiting our matter of honour, and a selection of seasonal refreshments.
I would extend an optional invitation to @Strange on Cloud/Squall-related disputes as a matter of convenience, and in deference to her ladyship, I shall don formal-wear and offer the use of my personal valet. He has expressed an eagerness to fit her Strangeness an experimental commission from Galliano’s return to Margiela… unless the lady would prefer something more practical and combat-ready customized from Ma Ke’s mixmind.
Upvote for the Black Lagoon reference. 😀
I don’t understand this, so I’mma say it’s dementia, old man 😉
@popdart5: Black Lagoon was actually partially biographical. The bit where they manage to torpedo a helicopter? Guess where they got that idea.
…Unfortunate. An underling with a billy-club upside the skull at an as-yet-undetermined point in future and feeding to the pigs, it is.
Presentation of the show. That guy was just so… well, this.
Also relevant: https://41.media.tumblr.com/55164b46dcfdd38c35ac02e6eae5cea5/tumblr_nq2dxzzXc01uxbq3mo1_1280.png
If there’s anyone who hasn’t yet seen Game of Thrones Season 5, here’s a good opportunity to see it for free: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/198828
Productive reset last night. Three nightfalls, a 32 Prison and a 34 Prison. Ugh, that 34… it wasn’t too bad when it was a 32, but juggler really kicked my arse. The centurions seems a lot more aggressive than they did that first week, too… But got through it, and bought the Six Dreg Pride! Such an awesome gun. And Variks summoned me to continue with my Warlock’s Elder Cipher – time to kill some bosses.
Going through some of the Taken King footage/discussion… looks pretty interesting. Love some of the neat little additions they’ve quietly added – primarily bounty progress tracking in the Ghost HUD, and skippable cutscenes (finally).
Cool to see more Cabal bosses, too – Valus Tra’uarn looks like an interesting fight.Woo, gaems. Really hope to be able to get a team together for proper PoE soon.
Taken King does look shiny and I do like sith lightning.
Will reserve judgement till more solid info is about tho.
It says something about my week that I forgot to watch Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma until just then. I wish I could restrain myself, and watch the whole season at the end though because it sure does love its cliffhanger episode endings, huh?
Also,
MAGICAL CABBAGE! 😀I like that it’s being pretty fair with the whole foodgasm/food nirvana thing. Was not expecting Magical Cabbage Pink to be the big, intimidating hotel manager so that was a surprise. But yeah, so many cliffhangers so far in Food Wars. At least the pacing is good and it doesn’t feel like they’re cutting things short to fit the anime format.Every episode seems to go by in a flash for me. It’s just so fun! I kind of want to see a prequel with those alumni now, too.To be fair, the good fansubs of the latest episode only just came out overnight…
I usually watch it on Crunchyroll on Sundays, or Monday mornings.
Just watched the Planet Coaster trailer. Genuine smiles and laughs from me, absolutely loved it. 10/10, would watch again, would put on my radar.
The music seemed a bit off tone for a brutal mass-murder simulator.
Seriously though, this is a genre that should not have died.
I can’t explain why it brought a tear to my eye, but it did. Haha!
So managed to properly watch all 4 E3 conferences from yesterday with the mrs at home. My god I’m going to be broke in the next FY.
Microsoft are definitely making getting an xbone more tempting… that backward compatibility if announced at console launch would’ve seen me using their console now instead of Sony’s. Halo looked halo’y, I think Rare’s pirate game was the only other thing there that piqued my interest (is that an xbone exclusive?)
EA’s was well… in the words of my mrs “This one feels very commercial doesn’t it? and wtf is Pele doing on there? God I hope they paid him a lot”. On a games note as mentioned yesterday nothing really had me psyched aside from Battlefront (I AM SO PRE-ORDERING THIS); cautious about every other interesting game they had because well it’s EA.
Ubisoft could be summed up with the following from the mrs “Oh god is that Jason Derulo?? OMG I want to see his performance!” 10 seconds later “Oh god please skip this it’s embarrassing to watch”. On a games note typical Ubi; as mrtaco mentioned previously that dude present For Honour (YES THERE’S A U IN THERE) for awesome to watch xD He should replace Aysha? Tyler? Tailor? Taylor? Something along those lines anyways. Aside from that brawler though everything was pretty much typical Ubi; another AC game (couldn’t you recruit help in Brotherhood?), a new IP that after watching properly looks like it has a lot of the same animations and so called “open world” options as Watch Dogs did. If they gave you the ability to scan people’s faces it’d basically be Watchdogs in South America. And Division was a dissappointment *shakes fist at Ubisoft’s idiot creative director who decided to make it a free for all*
And finally there came Sony… and holy fuck there came Sony 0,0 FF7 (I hate that Squeenix can capitalize on my nostalgia so easily =@), Hitman, Last Guardian, Horizon, Firewatch and Uncharted! More games I’m excited about than Bethesda showed off =O
Sounds like you didn’t watch the S-E one. It really would have been a great one to end on 😛
Nintendo and SQUEE are on the to watch list tonight =p
Rare’s pirates game looks absolutely rad.
Was having problems with Lego Worlds and Lego Jurassic World on PC with the camera constantly rotating. I thought it was a bug with the Lego games, but I just re-downloaded Batman: Arkham Asylum, started it up and it does it on that too.
So, obviously it’s the controller. Looks like I’m going to have to go out and buy a new controller tomorrow.
You don’t have any other controllers connected, like a flight stick? I know if I leave my X55 Rhino or my Logitech Flight Stick plugged in when playing something like Battlefield, the controllers go nuts. Like I spin on the spot shooting, etc. Unplug flight stick, all is well.
Nope, it’s my laptop and it’s the only thing connected other than a wireless mouse.
I ended up taking it apart, kind of broke the back part of the casing a little getting it off, pulled the board out and the thumbstick off, everything looked ok, so I plugged it back in and it seemed to be fine. So I put the thumbstick back on, screwed the casing back on (which now won’t go on properly), plugged it back in and it was worse than ever. Then I very vigorously moved the thumbstick around for a bit and now it seems to be working. Looks pretty crappy though.
It’ll do me for today, but as soon as I get a new one tomorrow this piece of shite is going in the bin.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/dwayne-johnson-hits-parked-truck-responds-awesomely-course-150710852.html
So, uh, is this just me or was his awesome response just saying he was The Rock and not paying?
To be fair, he did make what sounds like a genuine attempt to pay. I’m not sure what’s awesome about the story though…
His response seemed regular, not awesome. He turned around and went to exchange details with the guy. Who refused because he’s The Rock. 😛
He did give the guy 15 minutes of fame by naming him and thanking him though, if that’s what they’re considering awesome?
I think it might be a cultural difference at work here. From the way the story is written it sounds like most people would just ignore the fact they hit the other car and high tail it before anybody saw
From prior experience (being on the receiving end, not the giving end, of someone smashing mirrors off with shit driving) that’s absolutely the case. 🙁
George R. R. Martin, please write, and write faster
You’re not going to get any younger, you know
Winter is coming, I’m growing impatient
And you’ve still got two more damn books left to go
So write, George, write like the wind!
Give me that guitar.
I had never seen that, That’s amazing!
Full link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5vw9RTVky4
George is not our bitchHahaha amazing!
This is going to be an unpopular opinion but from everything I’m seeing of Microsoft’s first volley into the VR battle I’m actually a lot more optimistic for the gaming potential of their AR approach. The ability to integrate your reality with a game? Wizard’s chess anyone? Limitless gaming potential without cutting you off from the world around you like VR.
I could see myself using the Hololens more then oculus that’s for sure… Mainly something something motion sickness something… But also looks cooler XD
Also I know AR vs VR but to my knowledge the Hololens should do both to some extend yeah?
AR theoretically should scan your surrounding and display on a suitable surface, VR is in a sense a step back as it only displays an image directly on to your face. While it’s possible having AR means VR should also be included I have feeling they would be two sets of hardware until technology develops further.
They were very quiet about the fact that hololens has a very narrow field of view. To the point one journalist who used it pointed out that a virtual 80″ TV could only have just over half of it visible at once.
Looked impressive as a possibility but it’s nowhere near that at the moment.
Heard that’s a prototype thing though (and mainly on the untethered prototype)
Current prototype, yeah. Bit disingenuous to present what they did as what they have currently when they haven’t got near that yet.
They’ll get there but a while off yet.
Also, I find this much more interesting than VR. I do really want this to work.
I’d much rather AR than VR, though I’m not particularly keen for either all that much, to be honest.
I don’t get the interest in using stuff like Morpheus for watching TV or Movies, or even playing games.
I get the whole “immersion” argument, but strapping a screen to your face almost seems counter to immersed…
I don’t like the idea of not being aware of what’s around me either…
At least with AR I can see what’s around me, I guess.
What ever happend to that projection system AR that was shown a while ago? I think it was a Sony product?
It will revolutionise porn though.
Unrelated, anyone willing to lend me an Oculus for 20mins?
Honey, have you seen the amount of gay hookup apps available?
Who needs porn? ;P
DISCLAIMER:STEWIE AIN’T NO SLUT
I’ve been married 10 years.
Is that a yes or a no =P
I’m not hearing a no….
He cares deeply about each and every one of his hookups 😉
How many of those apps let you replace the face you’re seeing with your biggest crush during the act?
This. Just slapping the screen right up against your face isn’t the same as drawing you into a fleshed out world. Being able to bob your head around is a neat trick but I feel like it’s going to land in this worst-of-both-worlds middle ground between using an avatar and being the avatar. I want VR to enable me to walk around a Final Fantasy style beach setting, but that experience is so much more than camera placement.
AR would definitely have it’s pros over VR but would be pretty limited in what you can do with it game wise as it relies on real physical space. No whole other worlds, just skins for reality really.
I’d see it being more useful as a tool for digital creation/showcasing. An alternative to hologram displays.
Like a designer could make a 3d concept of a car, using AR, then show it off to a boardroom of execs, also using AR. Or an architect could do the same with a house. Or an interior designer could use it in people’s homes to show what it would look like with their decor.
Hell, a woodworker could create a wireframe of a sculpture, overlay it in the same space as a block of wood and just cut and sand till it matches – 3D stenciling.
I actually see it being huge for gaming… any game that doesn’t require any physical movement on your part could be part of AR. Like racing games? Sit back in your computer chair, let the AR calibrate to your room’s measurements and overlay it with a racetrack. Like Total War games? The battles could take place on a tabletop of your choosing! Like Warhammer 40k models? Scan your army and play out a virtual battle with dice rolls and animations on a blank table! Like Trading card games?? Yu-gi-oh! in real life people! Scan your physical cards into 3d animations! Let’s not even get started on Pokemon battles!
Like Civilization games? Great a boardgame get together and sync a group of AR headsets on your friends so you can carry out all your turns together! Anything and everything that has a top down view has the potential to be part of your world now. If this technology is properly looked after and catered to.
Edit: The racing car thing was a bad example as you could do that with VR and probably better too. But think of playing a turn based RPG where you’re the hero and the battles took place in your living room! Imagine a game where you could have lightsaber duels while keeping an eye on the dinner you’re making!
Ehhh tabletop stuff sure, tho that ties into my point of it being an alternative to holo displays.
But as for everything else? The whole “In your own living room!” pitch does not sell a thing to me. Sounds like the kinda gimmick that could be fun for a thow-away party game but for anything with more depth it just would not work.
One room is a very limited space, with stuff everywhere. Virtually projecting stuff on your walls is still only gonna give you a cluttered rooms worth of game space to play in.
I’d be sold on animated W40k battles =O OMG I’d probably quit all other forms of gaming and dedicate my life to painting models and scanning them into battles 0,0
I think you’re hung up too much on the gimmicky version they’ll try and sell on the back of the box. The whole ‘now your lounge room is Narnia!’ fantasy version of the tech isn’t that great for gaming unless you’ve got a genius AI building the game on the fly tailored to your lounge room. Like the Rumble Pack it’ll try and sell itself as putting you into the game when really it’s just another handy tool for interacting with the player. Instead picture something like Screamride as a hybrid board game/video game that can be played on any surface (it doesn’t have to be clutter free, it’s an AR overlay). Picture Mass Effect with a wrist mounted omni-tool. Picture Deus Ex with physical puzzles representing the hacking. It’s not stuff that will change everything forever it’s stuff that will simply expand on what we have already.
Also if the 3DS has taught us anything it’s that 3DS overlay UIs are sweet. AR should do some nice stuff there. God, I’d love to have anime with AR subtitles…
Yeah, even back before the VR thing was a thing again, I’ve been of that opinion too. Also thought that Kinect was a dead-end technology that would only be useful as a way of enabling AR to work.
Eventually we’ll realize that Denno Coil was prophetic.
I definitely don’t care about Oculus or Morpheus but Hololens has my attention. Maybe I’m just an xbox fanboy.
Even though it was competing with Nintendo for worst conference/presentation/thing, the fourteen hour long PC Gamer thing had a slide dedicated entirely to the DoF / Bokeh in Deus Ex: Spider Jensen 2. For this reason alone, it has won E3.
No, but to be completely serious, this is my most anticipated title ever. It looks like everything I want from a video game. One of the shots seems to just be a character staring in shock at her breasts. 10/10.
I am not sure what I just watched.
Definitely Japanese tho.
It’s the Megaten / Fire Emblem crossover. Based on this and the other trailer, it seems to star Pop Idol / High School Student / Arena Fighter / World Savers who can summon in people (who I’m assuming are Fire Emblem peeps, since one’s called Chrom and has the same Japanese VA as Chrom), and presumably must SAVE THE WORLD WHILE DISCOVERING THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP (or something).
But can they make babbies with their summoned Fire Emblem Friends?
There must be something about my name that people can’t seem to remember. I have been called, at different times by different people: Blair, Mike, Jake, Wayne, Black, Wade, and probably a few more that I can’t remember.
My actual name is Blake for those who are curious.
That’s just silly, I have no idea how they keep getting your name wrong, Fred.
Right? It’s not that hard to remember the name Jerry.
Real name alert! Real name alert!
Imma call you Blane.
Yeah, Bob, how dare we reveal real names here! @shane, come agree with me!
Just wait until
@dcDudley Chesterson hears about this.*sigh*
That name’s never going away. 😛
Not as long as I yet draw breath.
…
An idea is forming!
Please DC you wouldn’t hurt a flesh eating demon! *scoffs* harmless I tell you!
We’re going to need a shed, a hobo and a broken sternum.
Do the voice! Do the voice!
Hi Blair! Wait… which one is it again?
It could be weirder. Whenever people get my name wrong they always call me Steve. Always. Ten completely different scenarios, dressed completely different, different facial hair, different haircut, all Steve. Always said with total confidence that they know my name. It’s really unsettling.
Somehow managed to sleep through my alarm this morning, totally missed the PC conference thing. STREAK RUINED!
Although apparently it was pretty meh, so I guess that’s a good thing. It was the first time I’ve ever watched any conferences that weren’t Nintendo’s, so it was an interesting experience. Found it really weird how things kept popping up again in different shows, and how the announcement of something in an earlier show totally undermined its announcement in another one – especially when the latter had the better and more informative presentation.
Presenter of the show: the For Honour guy
Outfit of the show: that guy with the beard in the pink shirt and hat during Ubi’s thing I think
Presentation of the show: Unraveled, the guy was just so god damn adorable
Conference of the show: Square-Enix. 100% pure entertainment, it was a shame I’d already scoffed most of my popcorn during the showing of Star Fox
Looking at some pics from Destiny’s E3 build… Whoa…
Some interesting gear perks there – “Armour +1 for Void builds,” “Agility +3 for 5sec after Arc Double kill,” “Void burn is 2x instead of 3x”… Weapon perks look interesting, too – “Kills grant enhanced motion tracker resolution for a short time”… Not sure what to make of the weapons indicating light levels, considering there’s a separate “Damage types” display mode… light-level requirements? Weapon damage scaling based on player level? Dunno…“Artifacts are available at level 30”? I wonder…And the “progress” tab, with 32 quest slots?! Looks like the missions area is getting repurposed, and quests will be separated from bounties. \o/ Hmm… I wonder if exotic bounties will become quests in the future… I’m kinda hyped to see what kinds of quests they’re gonna fill all that space with…
Holy crap, page 10 by Wednesday? @liondrive might see his long awaited page 18 this week 😛
I wonder if that Rift mode is capture the flag
Kinda. From what I remember of Halo CTF (you steal an enemy team’s flag and take it to your capture point? It’s been a while), this looks more like basketball – one “flag” spawns in the centre of the map, and each team has to take it and get it into the enemy team’s “rift” to score a point. Looked to be first with a 9(?) point advantage, or most points after a set time, wins.
Thinking of Assault – the plant the bomb mode.
Loved that.
Also, they should make ffa king-of-the-hill version of that Mayhem mode.
That would be fun.
Looks like light level will be replacing the attack/defense stats on gear/guns.Makes sense, would make it clearer on if it is effective against X level dudes.
Also upping the number of perks on the new gear: I’d say that means current stuff won’t be upgradable (tho maybe Exotics) but you’d be better of with the new stuff.
I’m ok with that.
I wonder if the artifacts thing will tie into the mentioned void modifiers and your selected sub-class to create the mentioned “builds”. Like stacking void damage/resistance bonuses as a Voidwalker, including doing bonus void damage with weapons.
Also, nice range of cool new ship designs.
Also also, yeah you notice how it shows light level and regular level both on player nameplates? I reckon that means a base level cap increase is in order.
I’m not 100% on that – there are people saying it’s a new level restriction. Plus, we don’t know how different the “Show Damage Types” screen will be – it may be that both damage values and elements are confined to that screen.Re: artefacts – it could. I’m wondering how it will recognise a “void build”… maybe just the right subclass, maybe a specific artefact for each elemental build. Sounds like new class items will be getting their own perk trees, too…And re: level/light-level difference being distinctly visible. There are screenshots of the new XP bar, showing someone with light level 26 gaining XP, and the IGN multiplayer videos show people with LL45 on XP level 30. That being said, it also showed a titan who was XP level 20 with LL50, and one of the devs has said there are some “aberrations” in the E3 build’s light levelling system, so I wouldn’t call the XP20/LL50 thing reliable. Doesn’t preclude XP30/LL50, tho 😛Whelp, if you didn’t get your Pip Boy edition of Fallout 4 it’s too late now. Sold out completely.
Got mine and my missus’ 😀
Don’t worry, eBay’s got your back!
For a 4000% markup.
I did not want to believe it to be true, but it’s only EB in Australia who have this deal. 🙁 (Apparently Amazon also sold out earlier.)
I should’ve but I relented. Didn’t feel I was enough of a fan to warrant buying it
Was waiting till I got paid to pre-order as I had no money. Now it’s too late.
*sigh*
A long island iced tea before Jurassic World? Why yes I will thank you.
Oh god.
What if they decide to ‘modernize’ Final Fantasy VII’s battle system? 🙁 I haven’t enjoyed the combat in those games since X. 🙁 I don’t care about other changes as much, but if it’s no longer ATB based I’m fairly sure don’t want it. Same if they fiddle with Materia.
Hopefully with the guys who made it originally they won’t, but then again the director is doing FFXV. I’m stikl excited as anything, but I really don’t want a real time battle system with ai team mates and no real time to choose tactics
No he isn’t. Nomura’s Kingdom Hearts and he was Versus XIII back in the day, but since the guy is utterly incapable of actually getting stuff out in a timely manner they pulled him off it and replaced him with Hajime Tabata and renamed it to FF XV.
Ah, my mistake, I thought he was still working on it. Fingers still crossed though for atb
Aye this x100; if Square change the battle system I’m not touching FF-7. Or the cross-dressing scene. If that’s not in the game I’m not touching FF-7. If I was on twitter I would start something called #nottouchingff7
I’ll shout and scream and say it’s the worst thing ever and I’m not getting it as I’m driving home after picking it up.
So weak. So very very weak.
I’m the same about anything but if they fuck with the combat too much.
I absolutely, categorically will not play an FF7 where I only control 1 character at a time, have to set gambits or other AI bullshit, or where it plays like a clunky action game.
It must be turn-based. I need to be inputting my commands and then watching them execute. Cloud has to be able to omnislash shit and there needs to be an elaborate and out of the way sidequest sequence to unlock Aerith’s stupidly OP level 4 limit break before she dies.
(Also if they have a way of resurrecting her I will immediately travel to Japan so that I can swear at the entire development team in person)
Just to throw my unpopular opinion in …
I just can’t stand turn based RPG’s. 90% of the game combat is just:
*Battle Starts*
Step 1) Press A
Step 2) Repeat steps 1 & 2
*Battle Ends*
That being said I do like boss battles in turn based RPGs as they require some actual skill and good timing. Also I agree about the Materia system, they can leave that the hell alone.
I think the PC version port is the one that you’ll probably want to get instead. I’m expecting significant changes in the remake.
No. No it’s not. If I wanted to replay the old one, it’d be the PS1 version. The PC version’s music is all fucked up.
But I don’t want to play that. I want to try this remake. I just don’t want an utter shitshow like FF12-15’s combat shoved in.
While it’s true they should be free to try new things, they also need to pay respect to the game they’re remaking. If they’re going to rewrite the plot and fundamentally change the systems, they might as well just make FFVII-2 instead.
I hope it ends up being what you want from it, man!
You can fix the PC’s music, just requires replacing the midis with MP3s of what the midis sounded like on the PS1, that said, it has a different translation to the PS1 release, so the, errr, “charm” of the original’s isn’t there.
There’s also some mods to make it slightly less ugly in areas, which elevates it all the way to “oh god my eyes, please dear god why.”
Sorry to be “that guy”, but I won’t be getting the FF: VII remake, or any other FF game for that matter. After my short time with X I can safely say that I do not like Final Fantasy at all.
I have my reservations as well, but have decided to not worry about any of it until we know more.
Could be amazing, could be a steaming turd. Won’t know for a long while yet. Just going to be happy about more FFVII and leave it at that for now.
So how bout that E3 huh?
Have to say the thing I’m most interested for is Firewatch. It looked like a really interesting concept and I could see the story pulling a few twists on you. Especially if the woman on the radio thinks the isolation is getting to you more than there being any shenanigans going on. The setting looks ripe for exploration too and I love that sort of thing.
I actually got attached to that lady on the radio over that short trailer! I was like I wana take you out to coffee sometime!
Get in line DC =p
I didn’t pay too much attention to Sony’s showing (not owning a PlayStation), but I just watched the trailer again. I’m intrigued. The gameplay footage looks pretty cool (https://youtu.be/_5lyHZIzW8A) and I like the art style, plus it’s coming out on PC too. Might add it to my bookmarked games from E3.
Yeah I don’t have a PS4 either so looking for the PC release. Definitely one I’m keeping an eye on
Why the hell is this thing even being played in Victoria?
We’re neither Queensland, nor New South Wales, so can we please not associate with this abomination of a sporting event?
No keep it. Melbourne keeps throwing money at Queensland for players for their team because no one from there is talented enough 😀
Remember when Melbourne didn’t even have a team?
I miss those days.
Avert your eyes, children. I am about to consume a pizza that has pineapple on it.
I’d say send me a slice but I’m cooking Nasi Goreng.
With pineapple in it?
Why not? There’s nothing pineapple doesn’t go with.
Is this like part of your bucket list before you fly away into the alternate reality that is the states? Because outside of that pineapple is not acceptable on savoury foods =p
Why is it called Hawaiian then, huh? >:(
YOU CAN STILL TAKE THE PINEAPPLE OFF WITH YOUR HANDS IT’S NOT WORTH PUTTING THAT IN YOUR MOUTH!
I did more things
http://imgur.com/a/MxBWL
Wow, that Moltres one looks amazing scree. The others are pretty good too. Though I spent too much time on the second picture in the gallery trying figure out which Pokemon it was before realising it was a grass type symbol 🙂
Sorry. It’s the front and then the back. I was considering putting them together instead
These are cool! They remind me of the minimalist wallpapers (http://pldh.net/gallery/the493)
Oooh. I just saw the Mass Effect Andromeda trailer. I’d forgotten just how damn much I love those games. Seeing that reignited everything.
Adding Cash over that was just cream. Everything needs more Cash. All the time.
That is pretty sweet.
Not sold on the Cash tho, lacks the Space Opera vibe.
Space Western.
Calling it now (speculation, but I’ll spoiler it anyway, just in case):
You play as another sentinel or a high up law enforcement agent and you’re tasked with tracking down high alert intergalactic criminals, hence the bounty hunter feel and the flipping through locations in the trailer.WHERE IN THE GALAXY IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?
My money is it would be more a frontier exploratory thing. Remember the entirety of Mass Effect wasn’t a universe, it was our galaxy and Andromeda is the closest neighbouring galaxy.
Maybe! Maybe it’s about hunting criminals who have fled to Andromeda!
In all honesty I only played the first and second games, and didn’t finish either 😛
Each dragged on a little too much for me 😮
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/ars-sits-down-with-with-bioware-to-talk-about-mass-effect-andromeda/
I take this to mean you’re a small crew that’s traveled to Andromeda, and you explore a few star systems around where you arrive. Think Stargate: Atlantis.
I think you’re probably right, but the attempt at a western trailer would indicate that there’s a lot more than just a small expedition in Andromeda. I’m guessing Andromeda has plenty of colonies by the time you arrive and probably some locals, they’re just lacking the direct Council/Alliance oversight and they’re relatively cut off from the Milky Way (and probably each other due to the Mass Relays either never being there or only recently being repaired).
Apparently the guy in the trailer isn’t the player character, so if I had to guess I’d say the main character is a Spectre tracking down a missing/rogue N7 operative in a galaxy that’s ready to fall into a Civil War in order to break off from it’s Milky Way roots.
I was pretty excited by the idea of going back for more of that – especially if exploration with the Mako is a big thing – but I thought that the music was an incredibly poor choice, didn’t fit the feel at all. If that’s indicative of where they’re going to go musically then I’ll be super disappointed.
Actually the biggest thing for me is getting the star map music again. If that’s not in there game is dead to me.
This looks like it may just be everything I wanted Prey 2 to be, plus some more.
So I just realised that Netflix basically uses the obligatory Piper scenes as a pseudo ad break.
C’mon, Piper has her moments.
She’s not that bad.
Like (season 2 minor spoiler)…
When she tried to sell Soso for a blanket.I have moved on from thinking it’s a show about her though. It’s definitely a show about everyone there.They’ve admitted that the show was only about her so that they could get it on the air. As soon as it was successful, Piper became less and less of the focus.
I just found how they’ve used her in season 3 to be pretty funny.
When does FMA: Brotherhood get good? Everyone keeps raving about it but I’m around 6 or 7 episodes in and so far I’m feeling nothing. It’s missing something. I don’t care about any of the characters at all and they all look slightly off, and uglier than in the series I saw previously. I’m kind of wishing I hadn’t started watching it because it’s ruining my fond memories and feels.
As an occasional reader of the Manga: It is better from the moment it starts.
IT MUST BE PURE!
(Seriously though, the original made a big deal of setting up certain characters who had comparatively bit parts in the manga, and so they feel far less fleshed out in Brotherhood which is a tad unsettling. It moves at a way quicker pace though, and its ending -while still horrifically dumb- is way less dumb than the original’s, and I vastly prefer it overall, so like, give it until episode ten, and if you’re still a monster who doesn’t like it at that point then throw it in the bin, I guess? I can’t really remember when it really starts to diverge, but it doesn’t take too long.)
… Dammit Strange, now I realise I haven’t seen the original since ’06 or something. I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO!
Ok, no I don’t.
Have you seen the original FMA? Brotherhood I found started quite slow because of how similar it was to begin with. It starts to get moving around episode 10
with the unexpected death of one of the secondary charactersand from that point it picks up a head of steam. WhenGreedturns up in ep 13 things have hit high pace as more of the Sins are revealed and then I think it went beyond good into complete excellence at ep 19. By that point it’s completely diverged from the plot of the original show.EDIT: Also once it gets moving it has a vastly better written plot, better detailed and realized characters and an ending that is leagues ahead of the old FMA. The way it comes together and concludes makes sense in a way that original FMA didn’t.
If you have seen the original show:
Things progress largely the same up until after Greed’s appearance, when the Fuhrer is revealed to be a homunculus as he kills the chick hiding in Al’s armor. Things get way different after that – the true villain is different, the homunculi are different, major new characters turn up, several other major characters eg Ed & Al’s Dad are massively different. And different in a good way. It certainly ruined the reverence I had for the old adaption.I’m definitely worried about it completely ruining my memories of the first show, but if you think it’s worth it, then I’ll take the chance.
The biggest disappointment for me early on was that they changed some of the cast. Mustang’s voice was the biggest difference.
As I understand it, when the original anime was being made, the manga was only up to the point that Greed and the Homunculus known as Pride in the original anime and Wrath in the Manga/Brotherhood were was first revealed to be what they are. So that’s about ep 14 or so in Bros. After that they diverge further and further apart.
Also, if you cast your mind back, you’ll remember that the first one was all over the place until
they killed off Hughes, same as Brotherhood.Yeah, I’ve seen the original. That was part of the problem. Funny thing is I was further along in Brotherhood than I thought, and was actually up to episode 10, which I watched last night. So I’ll give it a few more episodes.
Gotta confess, I didn’t watch Brotherhood, only the original series. It’s been on my bucket list because everyone who talks about FMA seems to prefer Brotherhood, but finally… a dissenting voice!
I watched the original FMA and loved it – but I watched the first 5 or so episodes of Brotherhood and was thrown out by all the excessive typical anime ‘pull silly faces and makes silly noises a lot’ and it totally threw me off. Couldn’t get into it, because it got serious and then something silly would happen, then get serious again. Was quite jarring.
But then my housemate watched Brotherhood, and she’s an FMA nut, and she said what NegZer said – it takes a little to get momentum, but once it does it apparently surpasses the original in a lot of ways. Heard it from several other people as well. I’m fully intending to watch Brotherhood now, just need to find time.
Brotherhood takes a while to get some steam because it treats you like a fresh entry into FMA and goes over Edward/Elric’s backstory before re-focussing back on the current story (which is like 100x more interesting). If you watched the original FMA skip all the re-cap episodes (I think they’re like first 5-8?) except for episode one which sets a good base for what you can expect from Brotherhood as a whole. Once it gets started however you won’t want to stop =o Definitely the better version of the FMA story between the two options available to watch.
Favourite thing in Far Cry 4 – stealth kills, another guard finds the body, looks around and says “Keep your head on a swivel.” promptly followed by “We’re hunting nothing but ghosts”
Yes. Ghosts that shoot arrows in your heads.
So with the uni semester being over I have decided to attempt to play some games. I buy games. I don’t play games. This summer sale I have bought even more games. I have a problem.
Day 1: Success! Managed 4 hours of Darksiders.
Just took out Tiamat and gained the ability to goSuper SaiyanChaos Form!(do these count as spoilers for a game that was released in 2010?)
I played it for like an hour when I first got it back in 2010 and I’m glad I picked it to start my holidays.
Darksiders is an awesome game. So happy to hear there will be a third installment.
Are they? Cool. Even more reason to play through the first and second games then.
Just remember going into Darksiders II that it’s quite a different game. First one is basically the most competent 3D Legend of Zelda game I can think of outside of Okami, where the second one is more action RPG. Still has lots of great puzzle platforming and everything, but it also has more combat sequences and has a loot system and stat building and stuff.
I loved them both, personally, and was really bummed when THQ folded and no one wanted to buy Vigil and they shut down and split up.
I just took a look at Rare Replay in the store. Damn. Blast Corps, Jet Force Gemini, Banjo, Kameo. 30 games and 10,000gs worth of achievements. I’ll admit I’ll probably never touch any of the pre-N64 stuff, but that’s still a ton of good stuff. Can’t wait to play Blast Corps with a real controller. =D
From IGA:
1. Jetpac (released in 1983, 1-2 players) – Single-screen shooter where Jetman must reassemble and fuel his rocket while fending off alien hordes.2. Atic Atac (released in 1983, 1 player) – Top-down adventure with increased replayability thanks to randomized object locations and three different character classes.
3. Lunar Jetman (released in 1983, 1-2 players) – A return to the Jetpac side-scrolling formula, but with a scrolling, randomly generated landscape and much more to do.
4. Sabre Wulf (released in 1984, 1-2 players) – Classic jungle maze game and the first appearance of explorer Sabreman, tackling dangers including the vicious ’Wulf itself.
5. Underwurlde (released in 1984, 1 player) – Rare’s first true platform game. Help Sabreman survive the perils of the Underwurlde and escape through one of three exits.
6. Knight Lore (released in 1984, 1 player) – Introduction of Ultimate’s groundbreaking isometric Filmation engine. Sabreman must scour the castle for items to cure his werewolf curse.
7. Gunfright (released in 1986, 1-2 players) – A Wild West spin on the isometric style, with an improved engine and new first-person target-shooting sections.
8. Slalom (released in 1987, 1-2 players) – Rare’s first console game. Make it to the bottom of each course before time runs out while avoiding trees, sledders, snowmen and other skiers.
9. R.C. Pro-Am (released in 1988, 1 player) – Responsive racing game that inspired elements of Rare’s future racers, including speed boosts, upgrades and collectible power-ups littered around the track.
10. Cobra Triangle (released in 1989, 1 player) – Hop into a boat and power through a branching game world, completing challenges such as shooting targets, disposing of mines and defeating leviathans.
11. Snake Rattle N Roll (released in 1990, 1-2 players) – A fast-paced isometric adventure. Rattle and Roll must eat Nibbley-Pibbleys until they’re heavy enough to ring a bell and open the exit.
12. Digger T. Rock (released in 1990, 1-2 players) – 2D platformer in which Digger must find an exit switch, stand on it, then make it to the exit in 60 seconds.
13. Solar Jetman (released in 1990, 1 player) – A game built around exploration and physics; Jetman has to tow fuel and other items to his mothership.
14. Battletoads (released in 1991, 1-2 players) – Skill and perseverance required as the ’Toads take on multiple game styles to rescue Pimple and Princess Angelica from the Dark Queen.
15. R.C. Pro-Am II (released in 1992, 1-4 players) – Sequel to R.C. Pro-Am with a wider variety of environments, more car customization options and bonus games.
16. Battletoads Arcade (released in 1994) – First “Battletoads” game to allow all three ‘Toads to play simultaneously. Has never had a home release before “Rare Replay”!
17. Killer Instinct Gold (released in 1996, 1-2 players) – Home version of Killer Instinct 2 with several multiplayer modes (including tournament mode) and a training dojo.
18. Blast Corps (released in 1997, 1 player) – Cult classic with a fleet of destructive vehicles (from bulldozers to robots) used to clear the path for a runaway nuclear missile carrier.
19. Banjo-Kazooie (released in 1998, 1 player) – 3D platformer adventure where Banjo and Kazooie must take on the evil witch Gruntilda, who’s kidnapped Banjo’s sister Tooty and plans to steal her beauty for herself.
20. Jet Force Gemini (released in 1999, 1-4 players) – Interstellar action adventure that mixes third-person exploration and alien-blasting action as the last three JFG members go up against Mizar.
21. Perfect Dark (relased in 2000, 1-4 players) – A stealth shooter set in the year 2023. Players lead secret agent Joanna Dark against the dataDyne corporation as they uncover an alien conspiracy that takes her around the world.
22. Banjo-Tooie (released in 2000, 1-4 players) – Builds on Banjo-Kazooie with larger worlds, separately controllable characters, multiplayer modes and many more moves to learn.
23. Conker’s Bad Fur Day (released in 2001, 1-4 players) – Beloved comedy adventure that mixes up genres (platformer, third-person shooting, racing) with mature humor, pop culture references and parodies.
24. Grabbed by the Ghoulies (released in 2003, 1 player) – Rare’s first Xbox game. A comic book beat-’em-up set in a haunted house filled with breakable scenery and Ghoulies of all kinds.
25. Perfect Dark Zero (released in 2005, 1-4 players locally, up to 32 players online) – A prequel to Perfect Dark that delves into Joanna’s origins and fuses first-person shooting with third-person, cover-based combat.
26. Kameo: Elements of Power (released in 2005, 1-2 players locally or online) – A fantasy adventure focused on combat and exploration, with Kameo able to transform into ten different Elemental Warriors.
27. Viva Piñata (released in 2006, 1-2 players locally) – A magical gardening/life sim in which the player can cultivate a garden paradise, attract different Piñatas and keep them safe from Professor Pester and his Ruffians.
28. Jetpac Refuelled (released in 2007, 1-2 players locally or online) – A modern update to Jetpac. Assemble and fuel your rocket before blasting off to the next of 128 challenging stages.
29. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (released in 2008, 1-2 players locally, up to 4 players online) – A more open-ended, customizable approach to the series with vehicle-based challenges set by L.O.G. (the Lord of Games).
30. Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (released in 2008, 1-2 players locally or online) – Features new species and Piñata Central challenges, plus desert and arctic regions to visit and catch native Piñatas
Saw Chris Pratt And The Dino Pals tonight.
Pretty good!
So I posted on Twitter earlier that my housemate spent $217 on a single 750ml bottle of beer from… Russia? I think it was. Could have been Japan. That was the distributor’s price apparently. He’s insane. Like, wtf? It’s just beer.
Anyways I just bought a Motorola Moto G 2nd gen for $200 from Dick Smith on Ebay.
My new phone cost less than a bottle of beer.
Seriously.
Seriously.
Wtf?
But woo giving up on Windows Phone after 4 years of holding out hope that it’ll get great! I feel that as far as ‘giving it a fair chance’ goes I’ve got that pretty well covered, but it still think it just isn’t where it needs to be, so I don’t think it deserves any more of a chance from me unfortunately.
Not done it myself but have seen plenty of 750ml bottles of beer running up near $150 that I’ve been sorely tempted to buy… Guess it boils down to how deep your pockets are for your hobby/passion and how much enjoyment and satisfaction you get from spending that money
You do a double take at a $217 bottle of beer, someone else would do a double take at $180 on a collectors edition of a game.
That being said… all of those prices are crazy for me when bills suck away 75% of my pay 24hrs after it hits my account.
The batmobile edition of arkham knight has been cancelled…1 week out from shipping…cheers Warner
How can anyone find butts offensive, I mean they’re just so cheeky…
Maybe it’s not the butts themselves, but what they have to say…
https://twitter.com/Nintendo_World/status/611172259168849920
HOLY **** WHY DON’T I KNOW ANYONE IN NEW YORK
I need that Star Fox pin ;_;
Don’t worry someone will be kind enough to sell it on eBay … for $200
If I could eliminate one thing from existence it would probably be eBay. Pretty much ruins any kind of giveaway or deal or anything good.
If it didn’t exist, scalpers would create it themselves.
You cannot fight the evil which lurks in men’s hearts. Not without donning a cape and punching people at night.
Of course, there’s always been ways of selling things and people have always done this kind of thing. But it’s just gotten… well, too mainstream I guess 😛
At least eBay puts them all in one place so they’re forced to compete with each other on price. In the olden days you had to track this stuff down and then pay whatever number popped in the scalpers head when they saw you coming.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-17-batman-arkham-knight-batmobile-edition-has-been-cancelled
One of the reasons I’m wary of this game. Something about WB I really don’t trust. Added in there’s several pieces of story DLC at launch means it seems like it will be very much worth waiting g for the inevitable GOTY re-release.
As a huge fan of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City that did not touch Arkham Origins, I was always going to wait.
Warner used to be pretty okay but ever since they started being successful, something about how they run things just seemed off. Fortunately, waiting is almost always a good option when it comes to games. Especially if you can wait for a Steam sale (or these days a GOG/Humble Store sale).
I only played abnout half of Asylum and City because both times I lost my save and had to start over – by the time I caught up to where I was, I was sick of the game. I never got Origins at all because I didn’t consider it important to play it since it came from a different dev.
I was considering Knight, but certainly not at launch. Like Freeze said, it seems that a GotY edition on sale a year from now is probably the ticket, assuming I play it at all.
Kotaku just logged me out as I posted my comment, long story short, pissed off, getting full refund, wait for goty edition in sale, screw Warner Bros
I remember thinking the whole two separate CEs thing was a bit iffy since they’re just cannibalising the same set of fans from one to the other.
Now they’ve burned the ones that wanted to spend *more*… I would have thought they’d at least offer a second manufacturing run of the lesser CE to those orders, but looks like they’re just leaving it to the retailers to deal with damage control.
Guys! Guys! Dota 2! It has a shiny new client!
SOURCE MOTHERFUCKING 2!
I’m excite.
The beta is out now and I’ll report back on just how broken it is. If it has the in-client streaming that they promised, I’m sold. Twitch is complete ass and I need an alternative. Youtube is a nice start but if we can start seeing Dota 2 tournaments in client with the between games stuff, then I’ll be a happy bun.
Maybe they will leave this beta just intime for the next one!
Going to see Pixar’s Inside Out tonight. So psyched! 😀
I really need to drag myself to the movies to watch that!
Trying to decide whether to see Inside Out or Minions this weekend… First outing to the movies with daughter so it’ll be interesting!
She’ll probably be blown away either way. 😀
Ah, I forgot about that! That’s my evening sorted then 😀
Edit: Oh no! I temporarily forgot that I’m working tonight 🙁 Well, now I have plans for tomorrow night instead.
Wife and son have already seen it, so I’ll have to take him again so I can watch it. We’re going to watch Minions tomorrow night though.
Prepare yourself for serious feels
New controller purchased, old shitty controller in the bin, start of two weeks leave today.
Everything’s coming up monkey.
http://imgur.com/r/gifs/u5OYeGe
Right now I’m imagining someone sitting in an office somewhere, stacked floor to ceiling and surrounded by defective Batmobile models, head in hands, wondering what the hell they are going to do with them all.
Have a demolition derby with them.
Smash ’em up good.
I sense youtube videos incoming.
Mandatory ‘What happens when we microwave an Arkham Knight CE Batmobile’ videos.
But, will it blend?
Put them on eBay as “limited edition, no more like these will ever be made”
Problem solvered!
OR… *dons tinfoil hat* the batmobiles were too good and they’ll start selling them separately for more profit in a few months…
Really should finish Steps of Faith and the last couple of quests in the in FFXIV:ARR main story before Heavensward drops tomorrow. But busy playing the crap out of Payday 2 again. Needs more time. Work. The best way to ruin my spare time.
Also sad I’m on call this weekend. New rifle is still sitting there untouched, hanging to get out to the range and give it a go. Also the cost of .308 Winchester is just driving home how much I need to get into handloading. $44 for a box of 20 cartridges is just crazy.
Juxtaposition of these two statements… are you actually a hitman or something?
Business is slow! *fidgets*
Who wants a copy of Dino D-Day?
Got two copies to give away.
A page get, and my 6666th Kotaku comment /o\
Thanks man! Dinos? With guns? I dub this the unofficial Kung Fury game!
Except Kung Fury was good
Anybody that says that Mark Hamill isn’t the best Joker voice actor that ever was or will be is clearly an idiot.
You say that like it’s contentious.
He is, but you have to say that Troy Baker did an amazing job emulating him for Origins.
This. Mark Hamill is the best yet, but doesn’t mean someone couldn’t be just as amazing – either emulating him or doing their own thing.
I’m partly glad he stopped doing it, though. It really sounded like it was permanently damaging his throat.
People who have seen Jurassic World…a question for you guys.
Bearing in mind he’s seen and not been traumatised by all the other Jurassic movies, is this new one still suitable for my 6yo? We’re thinking of seeing it as a family on the weekend.
The deaths I felt were fairly less gory than they’ve done it in the past movies, so I think it’ll be fine.
Edit: To put your mind further at ease, my memory banks are horrible at wiping out traumatising scary data from existence, and it’s not hard to traumatise me through videos so I never watch any horror ever, just seeing a zombie attacking (Biting and tearing someone apart for instance) can give me nightmares for weeks. There was one small bit where I got jump scared but nothing there was even close to getting on that level of traumatising.
Thanks o shiny Knight of Techness. 🙂
Hard to say…
I would think he’d be okay if the other movies weren’t a problem, but in the session I was in a parent did have to take their crying kid out, so… I dunno 😛
The only thing that’s different in this one is there is more panic. Deaths aren’t really any more graphic or anything.
My kid’s usually the one comforting me, and telling me it’s not real. 😛 Oh, and I should mention, if a cute dinosaur gets hurt, that’s probably the only thing that might make him cry….
Minor spoiler:
There’s a scene with a dying cute dinosaur. Made me sad. 🙁Otherwise I think it’ll be fine. 🙂
Well they’re kinda less so compared to the ones before, I mean you look back to the first three there have been:
Severed limbs found by othersOne guy literally getting torn in half like a loaf of bread
Suddenly rotting skeleton
Guy getting his neck snapped while within a dino’s maw.
We decided not to take our 7 year old and walked out feeling like it was the right decision.
But then she’s a sook. But then again she does like the first one. No real gore or over the top violence but a lot of “monster” moments of darkness, sharp teeth and loud noise.
I think it was less scary than the original one. I just saw it today, and there’s definitely some jumpy moments, but a lot less of the quiet tension that made the original movie scary.
The pteranodons were actually pretty horribleMy Mr 4 caught the first bit of the first movie when it was on tv a few weeks back. We got as far as *the goat* getting eaten, and there were tears and a quick exit from the pub! I don’t think he’ll be watching it again for a while 🙂
Woke up at 6am, nose was dripping like a tap.
Had some nasal spray and two Codral.
Still in bed, but now have dog and Max keeping me company.
Man, this divide between people who don’t want FFVII to change in the slightest and those who want it to be FFVII in name only.
At least we now know who the real monsters are.
The people who don’t take a side, that’s who!
So which side are you on pow?….
There is only one right answerThe side that doesn’t take a side.
And that is: the side I’m on. Or will be, once I pick one.Not seeing much wiggle room between your definitions there. 🙂
There’s right and wrong in this case. All the shades of grey are wrong.
Let me guess… you happen to be in the ‘right’ camp? 😉
Naturally.
Honestly, I’ll be happy with whatever I’m given, since there’s no nostalgia from me 😛
If they want to change it, they should of done VII -2
To clarify, I expect certain tweaks & modifications. I know bits will be missing, but ‘adding’ to the story is a no no.
What about fleshing it out or making it more coherent?
That would fit under tweaks & modification.
I really don’t understand the opinion that JRPGs are hard to understand though. The underlying plots are standard fare with some interesting or different concepts thrown in.
FF VII was massive, I expect to see more cuts than anything. In my mind, adding stuff is a waste of resources. All it needs is a massive graphical upgrade.
I’m the type to happily replay games that the majority claim are so dated they’re unplayable. This isn’t made for me.
I’ll take what I get & see how I feel later.
I’m fully aware that if I were to direct a game it would bomb horribibblly
@negativezero did you see the article about how they’re moving the game system forward for FF-7? I’m not touching this remake if anything in the gameplay seems like they’re trying to make it more “dynamic”.
Heh. I’ve bought FF13 twice and I hate it. I’m getting FF7 at least once no matter how much it violates my precious memories.
I am what’s wrong with the industry.
It’s all your fault then.
I bought FFXIII and FFXIII-2 3 times 🙁
I’m in the weird camp that dropped 150 odd hours into FFXIII quite happily. There was so much wrong with it, (That fucking story man, and the characters? Worst lineup in an FF title ever) but I still enjoyed playing it, and paradigms were a strangely satisfying form of combat. Not saying it’s as good as ATB or any of the other systems, just that i inexplicably had fun with it. *shrugs* Same with FFXII. I like them attempting innovations and trying to move forward. Most people would just have ATB until the end of days. I love it, but man you gotta try new stuff. Even if it sucks.
For me, the hate was firmly locked-in when – instead of saying, “Fair cop, that was a shitty FF, let’s try something different next time,” they instead decided to keep announcing new FF13 spin-offs.
Why couldn’t they have done that for 9 or 12? *shakes fist*
FFXIII-2 was actually pretty decent – a marked improvement over FFXIII. Although I thought Lightning Returns was going a little far. I own it but still haven’t played it. heard it was pretty brutal and the game had a timer? Like it ended after a certain period regardless of what you’ve done.
EDIT: Much love for 9 and 12. 12 was so underrated, imo.
FFXIII-2 was an awesome game. One of my favourites.
ATB or gtfo
Or if they need to evolve on ATB, steal the combat from Grandia.
Gtfo! :p
Grandia 2 is funGrandia took ATB and evolved it.
FFXII took ATB and shat on it.
I liked XII but it was atb in name only.
Spent the morning just sitting out in the sun reading. I think I needed that. I’m reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Absolutely loving it so far. It’s been raining all week in Brisbane, so I’ve been waiting for a clear day to do this. XD
Is that the one that they made into a movie a few years back? Man i miss reading outside
Yeah, the movie’s on Netflix too, but by all accounts the book is where it’s at! 🙂
Didn’t you say you were going to read the book before watching the movie?
Don’t know what the book’s like, but the movie is seriously good.
Oh yeah, I haven’t seen the movie but just people told me book was better. Then again, people ALWAYS say that. But I’ll watch movie after, though.
I’d say they’re companion pieces. The visual design of the film is incredible, and the actors are perfect, but you lose McCarthy’s lyricism a bit, although a lot of it is in voice-over
Seriously man, watch the movie. It’s so good.
Great book.
I leave you guys alone for a day, a DAY, and you’re on Page 11?
Jeebus.
No fun fact right now, bit too busy (sorry guys, I think I’ll make it fun fact Fridays from now on!).
Bought ONE game this Steam Sale. Sunless Sea.
I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but by the sweet halls of any god you believe in, I love story driven lovecraftian worlds/games/books so so much.
The music is beyond beautiful. I want to buy the soundtrack. It is so eery, yet beautiful, yet atmospheric, yet amazing.
I cannot sing the praises of this game enough.
Also: cancelled my pre-order of Batman. My Spider senses are tingling on this one.
Also: Didn’t get to order Pip-Boy edition.
Also: Bring on tax time. I’ve spent three weeks with $20 in my account and really need a cash injection.
Also: Yay for Anna’s Quest!
Also: I now want a pet turtle. Just to hold, mind you. And walk around a bit.
Call it blind Rocksteady fanboy faith, but I think Batman’s gonna be great and I’ll be getting it on launch. Let’s see if this is a cautionary tale later. 😛
I am also psyched for Anna’s Quest and Yoshi’s Woolly World. XD
We need someone to be the Guinea pig.
Although I don’t think you’ve ever disliked a game before. Except Dark Souls because you hate me.
Haha! And even then I think it’s my state of mind that’s the problem for Dark Souls and not so much the game itself.
You and I are gonna be flitting around Gotham being the god-damn Batman while everyone here is going “but titles on release are-” and we’ll be saying “I AM THE NIGHT”
You’ll say “I am the…” and the game will direct you to the store where you can buy the night dialogue pack for $12.95.
I bought Sunless Sea awhile back when it was still in early access (is it still? I don’t know) and really want to spend more time with it. I should really give it another go because I start looking at titles like Windward which appear to be the same thing only set in the bright sunny caribbean instead of fallen london.
Sat through the Ninty direct again last night, got to watch the hope and excitement at a Wii U Animal Crossing game and then the exact moment it dissipated to be replaced with crushing despair.
Poor Pip 😛
What happened? I haven’t seen any of the ninty stuff
In the Nintendo Conference they opened on a pretty HD Animal Crossing town with animals walking. Everybody went nuts assuming it was a new Animal Crossing WiiU game.
Video continues. Camera moves to reveal the animals aren’t in a town, they’re in a Mario Party-style boardgame game with an Animal Crossing town skin.
😛
eeewwww, I can see people hating that
I’m a monster because I actually kind of want it
I don’t think it is the game that is the issue, rather that it was presented as if it was something else first
It’s a creeping realisation that leads to a sudden transition from excitement to despair. Having experienced it myself, it was very interesting to watch the same extreme change happen to someone else.
I’m not that much of a psycho, honest!
Just got back from Big W expedition. Went alrightish. First store, found a copy of South Park came up as $3, so grabbed that. Tomb Raider did the same, never played any in the series but I was curious enough to check it out. A few other games I’d heard scanned up cheap didn’t, so on I went to the next one. They had a few things I’d heard were coming up cheap, including some of the first release 3DS XLs, but everything came up full price except for Batman Blackgate. But they couldn’t find the cart for it, bah. Next store I checked I’d heard had been cleared out yesterday already, but they had some things there. Saw a chat pad for the 360 controller, couldn’t remember if it was supposed to work with PC or not but for $3 I figured eh why not. Also grabbed DoA Dimensions just because it was there. Saw some guy score a white DS Lite and a pink DSi for $3 each, lucky bastard 😛 Next store I went to was also one I’d heard was cleared out, but as I went in I saw guys coming out with bags full of stuff. That could have been me if there weren’t so many godawful slow people on the roads! Especially that jerk going 15km/h through the entire carpark all the way to the exit including the stretch to the GREEN TRAFFIC LIGHT WHY ARE YOU GOING SO SLOW BAH IT’S CHANGED NOW THANKS. The next store had two copies of Blackgate, woo! But then it was also missing when they went to the drawer. I hate everything. On to another store, they didn’t have much but there was a $2 copy of Dance Central there and figured hey why not, something to go with that cheap Kinect that’s sitting around. Final store, went and searched through their stuff which was all laid out in a large tray type stand, faces up. I’m going through turning them spine-up as I check each one, both to create space to make it easier to get through as well as to make it easier for the next guy who comes along. One of the staff asked me if I work there 😛 No, I’m just OCD. Found Hitman Absolution and Resi Evil 6, so grabbed those out of morbid curiosity.
So yeah, got a bunch of stuff which I mostly didn’t really want. Was really hoping to be able to find Blackgate or Injustice, also Mario & Luigi Dream Team. No luck.
I need to get a Kickstarter going for my robotic-traffic-stomping(/avoidingifyou’reawuss)-spider-legs car-attachment. And someone to actually design/build it. …And like, a dozen lawyers/deals with countries who don’t have extradition treaties.
#mostinterestingmanontay
This fire sale is insane.
My most rational theory is that it’s a pre-EOFY clearance of anything outside an age threshold, maybe 12 months, to just get rid of it all, or they throw it out at the end of the month and write it off regardless. It will no longer be stock next financial year one way or another. Probably gets triggered every 3 or 5 years given that it’s 2015 now.
I only just learnt about this sale over lunch. Was excited, then realised that the article I was reading was 24 hours old. Now I’m sad because all the 2DS consoles are on ebay at basically RRP. Why can’t they share in the savings?? Offer them for $100, everybody’s a winner!
$3 DSs, whaaaa?
Wow, I tired myself out just reading that! I can’t imagine how you must feel?! DUDE.
DUDE! Steam sales! I picked up Ground Zeroes this morning for $5, 75% off, and you can too. I literally lifted a finger and clicked on Pay from my mobile phone. Way less tiring, trust me.
Way less fun, too 😛
Main tiredness comes from waking up after only 3.5 hours sleep or so.
Got up from my desk and noticed a cool, breezy sensation from the back of my pants. The breeze, while pleasant, albeit a little unexpected – was cause for concern. On closer inspection, a gigantic hole was revealed. I am now wearing my hoodie tied around my waist like some sort of deranged and misguided attempt to rekindle my glory days of the 1990s.
One time when I was working in a warehouse loading a shipping container with boxes of shampo I was taking a breather sitting on some boxes when the warehouse manager came by to check on us. He remarked that because I was sitting with my knees apart in an elevated position it was like I was presenting my crotch to him. So of course I responded by urging my knees further apart to thrust my crotch at him pseudo-menacingly, at which point the seams in my cargo shorts completely gave way. Thankfully I was wearing underwear, but that didn’t stop him from laughing so hard he nearly had a goddamn heart attack.
On the upside, I got to get home early that day.
There’s always wisdom in wearing underwear. Don’t let the commandos of the world tell you otherwise.
I’m tagging @liondrive in this because he was so *cough* helpful when I did that to my pants too.
Yeah.
Helpful.
Hey, I saved you a lot of embarrassment.
You’re welcome.
I know, I’m taking the piss but you eventually did become a massive help.
Not sure if I ever said thank you so – Thank you tonnes @liondrive, you did help.
I tried to find a picture of a 90’s grunge kid for reinforcement purposes but all I can find is modern hipsters asserting their skinny jeans and flannel shirts are grunge.
There were no skinny jeans in the 90s. I distinctly remember baggy jeans, flares and straight cut with lots of rips.
Cargo pants.
Baggy ripped jeans, shirt two sizes too big, backwards cap and skate shoes was my high school go to.
Baggy stuff was the skater fashion. Grunge was more straight jeans, flannel overshirts and simple striped T-shirts over long-sleeve shirts.
I was a fan of the wide legged jeans and a midriff top. When I was young and had a skinny waist…
Wife just got promoted. She’s now the south east Queensland regional manager of her company. They’re flying her down to Melbourne on Monday for two weeks training.
She called me in tears having a freak out as she’s never been away from the kids for more than a day. Plus I’m now solely responsible for them. Should be an interesting fortnight.
Hells yeah! Be sure to congratulate her for me! That’s amazing! 😀
With South East Queensland Regional Manager money to play with she should just commute every day.
“Babe? Relax. You’ll be fine. We’ll be fine. I’m perfectly capab–ohshitwhoops” *crash* *tinkle* “Dammit ow. Shhhhjeez. Woof. Hm? Nothing! Nothing I’m fine! Perfectly fine. Nothing… huh. Oooooh, one sec. I’m’a… I’m’a siddown a minute. Sorry, what were you saying? Pick up more coke on the way home? And dinner for five. You me, and the three kids. What? I’m fine!”
I think the biggest question there she’d have is the third kid.
Surprise!
Hasn’t quite been long enough since Japan yet to officially announce that…
I was thinking about going with one, but that could just be memory-loss… 3? Much more interesting.
He followed you home? We will call him Carlos.
CongratuTAYtions! That’s awesome news. The promotion bit. Not the freak-out-crying bit.
Taking bets on how long before the house descends in to madness with only Freeze in charge ala “$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)”?
Pie crust, cloves, Tom Collins mix…
The only monster here is the
gamblingSouth East Queensland Regional Manager monster that has enslaved your mother! I call himGamblorSEQRMlor, and it’s time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!Big congrats on the promotion.
Take it from somebody who looks after a kid full time.
Kid not on fire? You’re winning.
Everything else is gravy.
Nice! Good to see Mrs Freeze getting some recognition after being screwed around where she used to work! Congrats!
Freeze S Preston: Trophy Husband
I’m pretty and I do stuff.
Congratulations to Mrs Freeze! As long as you remember to skype every night at bedtime, everything will be fine 🙂
You need to setup a few of these http://cdn.themetapicture.com/pic/images/2014/10/16/funny-father-daughter-driving-car.jpg
Congrats to Mrs Freeze
I get it.
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/funny-father-daughter-driving-car_zpsxabobj1g.jpg
Congrats!
Title has ‘region’ and ‘manager’ in it… so you get to retire right?
Do school drop off/pick up, meals, keep house tidy… Then just relax with a scotch at midday and play games?
Ha I wish. Still have a 60 hour a week job to do.
Congratulations to Mrs. Freeze. Hopefully the house won’t be burned down when she gets back 😛
That remake article explains so much of why gamers shouldn’t have a say in what gets remade.
I mean, not one mention of Wonderboy. What is wrong with people?
Alex Kidd
Reading the episode capsule for Simpsons episode 1F08, I think I’ve found the unforeseen circumstances that caused the Arkham Knight CE cancellation.
We’re through the looking-glass here people.
Just saw Jurasic World and my thoughts?
Eh, it was pretty good, nothing great though.
Hurray! I’m not alone on this.
No you’re not. I thought it was pretty average too.
Unfortunately agreed. The more I think about it the less I like it 😛
Still enjoyable enough though. And I know I’ll be getting the Blu Ray regardless.
We’re less than two weeks away from Shameless Gaming Month.
With that in mind, what’s one game you’d like to complete by July 31st?
For me, Sam and Max Season 2 Episode 5.
Witcher 3 but at this rate I doubt it.
Darksiders 2
My handhelds are my biggest shame at the moment.
3DS: Zelda Link Between Worlds, SMT4, Paper Mario Sticker Star, Luigi’s Mansion, and a bunch of others.
Vita: Soul Sacrifice Delta, Danganronpa/Danganronpa 2, MGS3HD, and loads more.
Only playing Destiny and Payday 2 on PS4, so don’t count them as ‘finishable’ games.
PC is always ‘unfinishable’ stuff like Breaking Point, GW2, FFXIV, etc.
I won’t have Internet at home for the next week and a half, so that’s my backlog time!
No Netflix or Splatoon for a week… I am going to die.
EDIT: That said, yesterday I bought and then downloaded Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Transistor, so… Probably not going to even touch my backlog anyway…
Ethan Carter is very good, enjoyed it a lot bit it’s not very long. Don’t think Transistor is either.
Uni is over so I’ve already started with Darksiders, but checking Steam I’ve spent… 36 hours playing the first Assassin’s Creed. Still yet to finish it. So it’s definitely on my list.
If I’m going to attempt anything, it’ll be Ni No Kuni.
That’s my one gaming shame :'(
I grew pretty disenchanted with the ‘whimsy’ of it. So cloying, so saccharine. Children. Ugh.
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It’s pretty shit
I’ve got a ton of things on my pile of shame but now that I’ve got a brand new laptop I really want to have a decent crack at Dark Souls. Really commit to it and see how far I can get.
If that doesn’t work I’ve got plenty of things that can take over: Arkham City, Link Between Worlds, DX:HR, Antichamber, Aquaria, Borderlands 2, Dishonored, Tomb Raider, Walking Dead S2, Remember Me, Specs Ops…. and thats just the tip of the iceberg. I am the worst at games
The three things that are on my list to get done are Atelier Ayesha (right close to endgame), Witcher 3 (heaps to go) and Tales of Hearts (close to end).
Also wanted to get to Ar nosurge, but it’s getting a Vita release so I might just wait for that.
Infamous Second Son
Maybe The Order
Perhaps my New Vegas Gump Run?
The Witcher 3.
Fallout Shelter is killing me right now though, I can’t play anything else.
So @evilmonkey, how is that, I’m done buying things in the steam sale thing going for you
Yeah, I got paid again /o\
Stop buying games that are <75% off and not on daily deal.
A) It delays buying until you are sure you want it
b) if it comes on sale you get it cheaper which means you can buy more for less
https://vine.co/v/MgZ3l1AtnOm
I got linked to this and must have watched it at least 20 times now. Seems to get funnier and funnier every time 😛
They’re all like,
It’s only a cat, fuck it.While that was pretty damn funny to watch,
in reality hitting the door that hard probably snapped the cat’s neck.I may be selling all my non-exclusive PS4 games and Amiibo’s to help fund a PC build. Just thinking about it at the moment. If I actually decide to do it you guys will get first dibs.
Finally made it out of bed, in spite of a bad cold!
Progress! \o/
TAYlist for the 18th of June 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by a month long break from doing thisCars – Shake It Up
Euphoria – One In A Million
Dragon – Young Years
Savage Garden – Two Beds And A Coffee Machine
Texas – I Don’t Want A Lover
Ellie Goulding – Lights
Whitlams – Charlie No. 2
Sixpence None The Richer – There She Goes
Miami Horror – Make You Mine
Eurythmics – Would I Lie To You?
Rob Thomas – Something To Be
Dane Rumble – Always Be Here
Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don’t Care
Naked & Famous – No Way
Silverchair – Mind Reader
Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out loud
Tone Loc – Wild Thing
B+, good bordering on great. The + is for Charlie No. 2
My personal preference is Louis Burdett for a Whitlams theme song, but yeah. Feels.
All my friends are fuck-ups!
Lol.
Wait.
…
Hey!
Awwww, that’s cute. You think we’re friends.
Loverrrrrrrrrrrrrr. 😉I thought this was a more casual arrangement?
You would think that.
:'(
@beeawwb this is why we should be friends first and lovers second. Less complicated.
@lucifer9783 saw this coming with the 5th song in the TAYlist.
Watched the MS E3 presentation last night. Anyone else think that the Gears of War demo gave off a kind of RE4 style change-up vibe?
A little bit. I thought Gears 4 looked rad personally and was surprised at the amount of hate and apathy it got.
It interested me a bit more than the first 3 as it wasn’t just a series of chest high walls.
Sorry guys. I’m not really hyped for anything just mild interest. I was more interested in nintendo then anything else as I don’t have the other consoles. The animal crossing stuff sound like stuff I could play with mum and I would like to use Mario maker too. But yeah, not really hype.
Other news, new Harvest moon for 3ds in 2 days!
The Lost Valley? I’m torn. On one hand, it’s Harvest Moon. On the other hand, it’s not from Marvelous so I don’t know whether to consider it canon. Part of me would prefer Story of Seasons.
I’ll probably buy it anyway.
It’s not Harvest Moon, it’s a clone by a different company published under the same name. Story of Seasons is the real Harvest Moon.
Though that’s not confirmed for AU yet ;(
Story of seasons hasn’t been confirmed right?
I think they’ve hinted at it but I get the impression publishing those games in Europe is really complicated.
Exactly.
Bloody Natsume difficulties. It took that long just to get Rune Factory 4, I don’t want to think how long we’ll be waiting for Story of Seasons. 🙁
I figured as much, but it’ll tide me over while I hope for story of seasons
UNRAVEL.
Christ could there be more pictures and gifs in that SMTxFire Emblem article? Had to close it shortly after opening it and scrolling down cos I’m at work =@
ALL THE GIFS ALL THE TIME! THIS IS THE FUTURE!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So, Elite: Dangerous huh?
I can see why everyone loves to be a space trucker in this game – the combat is a little bit balls.
I WANT MY JOYSTICK BAAAAAAAACK!
*starts sobbing*
Combat’s great, git gud etc 😛
Haha. Probably.
What kind of problems are you having with it so far?
Hmm, so is there a way to decouple your orientation from your thrust? As in be travelling 200 in one direction, then flip 180 and continue travelling 200 in.that direction but backwards. More like a zero-g ship and less fighter plane.
Can’t figure out how, or what flight assist affects exactly.
Turn off flight assist and thrusters – you’ll maintain your momentum, and be able to rotate freely. It will take getting used to, tho – getting your orientation stabilised can be… tricky.
By turn off thrusters do you mean throttle back/ quick-set to zero or is there a way to kill them?
Set them to zero (to remove the thrust from the back of your ship while you rotate, else you’ll be altering your trajectory as you turn round) for the “fly at high speed backwards” manoeuvre (alternatively, you could probably turn FA off, zero the forward thrusters, flip to point the other way, then put thrusters in full reverse to continue accelerating in that direction – not sure, but you may be able to turn FA back on at that point to help stabilise your rotation).
Been a while since I last played, but pretty sure you can turn them off completely – core concept for silent running – but it’s not really necessary for manoeuvres. It’s more for when you want to hide your heat signature to avoid pursuers or sneak up on someone… As a trader, I din’t bother turning them off, unless I really needed to worry about fuel conservation.
FA essentially dampens your rotational acceleration, from what I can tell (can’t remember if it affects lat/vert/straight thrusters), so each time you give a burst to your (eg) pitch, you’ll pitch a bit and the FA will provide an opposing burst when you finish to stop you from spinning endlessly in that direction. With FA off, you’ll need to self-correct for rotation – provide the opposing rotational burst manually to stabilise your orientation – I always had trouble getting the angle right, personally.
@os42
Cool thanks man, very helpful.
The quickest way to do that is to hit Boost, pull your throttle back to zero, switch Flight Assist off and then… well, the description gets tricky here. The boost speeds up your turning ability for a short time, you can find this by just boosting forward (without turning FA off) and pulling up, and watching for when your pitch returns to normal speed. So if you pull up at some point after the boost has accelerated you to max speed (/finished the main part of the sound effect I think?) but before it has stopped boosting your rotational speed, you can flip around to face backwards really fast.
The only problem with this is you’ll have to manually correct your orientation which can be difficult with FA off. But if you turn it back on again, your reversing speed will be massively reduced, you can’t go backwards as fast with FA on as you can with FA off.
Tangential but related, I learnt a really good technique for doing a quick u-turn which I don’t think a lot of people know about, rather than using the boost turn. With your throttle still at max, turn FA off, toggle Reverse Throttle Direction, and pull up while thrusting… crap, I can’t remember now. You need to vertically thrust in the opposite direction I think? So if pulling up then thrust down, and vice versa. Unless it’s the opposite of that 😛 Works really well for getting on the tail of someone flying at you.
Ahh yeah, I think I get what you mean – trying to flick the back out basically.
Any general tips for dogfighting?
Blue zone and power management, they’re the main ones. Go for the power plant, on the bigger ships. Although I think I read they changed that recently, possibly? Wait no, maybe that’s the FSD I’m thinking of. Both used to be an insta-kill, but I think it’s the FSD that isn’t any more. Ship orientation is another to keep in mind, if you’re in something small and are getting pummelled with your shields stripped, turn your cockpit away while you’re trying to get away, save it from being cracked open. Chaff is helpful, especially since lots of ships tend to use gimbals or turrets. They’re the main things that come to mind.
Mmm, that would only really be applicable against large ships tho? Smaller ones like I have fought so far are difficult enough to see/shoot at all, let alone try to make out specific parts.
Blue Zone?
Also, is there a indicator that your target is in range of your guns at all?
The blue zone for your throttle, at 50% your ship is at its most manoeuvrable and will turn fastest.
Subsystem targeting will put a reticule on the location of whatever system you want to target, you can pick it from the Subsystem tab of your left hand panel, or use the Cycle Next/Previous Subsystem keybinds to find the one you want. But yeah, generally would save targeting the powerplant for ships larger than a Cobra. Although you may want to target the cargo hatch on smaller ones (it’ll malfunction and possibly release cargo at… several increments beginning at 70%. And will stop working entirely at 0, so don’t destroy it too quickly if you want to maximise loot).
The heat bar dealie on the side of your canopy HUD where it displays the weapon name and ammo, it’ll read “out of range” when your targeted ship is out of range of your weapons. I know fixed beams have a range of 3km, not sure about any others. Also I’m not sure if it only says out of range in terms of distance, or if it also does it in regards to the firing arc of gimballed and turreted weapons.
@mrtaco
Coo cool. Well, sounds like something to sink my teeth into indeed.
I have broken 4 hand sewing needles sewing the Elsa cosplay
Anyone else getting Rare Replay?
I thought it was just like a highlight title from each series (e.g. Banjo Kazooie) and was hoping they would at least have any relevant sequels but I definitely did not expect them to include any 360 games and that made me very happy!
The price is more than reasonable too 😀 ($30 USD/$50 AUD)
Is there a Wii U version?
Nope. 🙁
Ha!
I don’t have any nostalgia for any of the games in the collection except for Viva Pinata.
But I might see if I can snag a copy at work.
I would if I owned a bone
I will be doing this, PERFECT DARK COME AT MEH
I love Netflix.
I love that this is just a stand-alone statement, apropos to nothing 😀
I learned a new word today!
Inside Out was just amazing. Clever and heartfelt and beautiful. Up there with the best Pixars.
Yay, even more excited to see it tomorrow now \o/
@DC! Were you at the Chermside session last night?
…
I was. D:
I thought I saw you in the lobby. And then my fiancé and I were sitting behind you in the theatre. I wanted to say hello, but I didn’t want to scare you!
Haha! Oh man! North side bros!
High-five! Did you get mad that Lava was based entirely on a stupid pun? I sure as hell did, haha.
I let my surly adult guard down when I watch Pixar shorts, I loved it! 😛
Stalkkkkeeerrrssss
I really wasn’t fit for public consumption last night anyways, it was one of those days where I just put on any thing, said screw it and just left the house without looking in the mirror. 😛
You looked fine! Also, if you heard sniffling behind you, I have a cold. And I was totally crying.
I had my hands in front of my mouth all lost in swoon for a good chunk of the movie. My pupils dilated. 😛
Don’t do it DC, leaving your house and saying ‘screw it’ is a sign for The Universe to thrust someone you know into your day, with all of your track pants and unshoven face.
For example, the hot P.E teacher from my school was at my supermarket last night. I nearly talked myself out of going, but I went in with my torn at the butt soccer shorts and and smelly soccer jersey after two games of futsal. Such a bad idea :'(
My version of unfit for public means I’m more likely clean shaven.
Well I’m sure PE teacher appreciated the view. (Oh god, that was creepy. :P)
How good was it!! I mean it was emotionally shattering, but sooo good.
Minor spoiler, nothing story related
Did you notice what the main emotion was inside each of the parents headquarters?So good and pretty education in a weird way, giving a crash course into the mind. Mixed emotions. Subconscious mind. Arrrrgh. Loved it. Loved the credit scenes too with insight into the mind of dogs and cats. 😀My boss said it’s a bad movie because it’s all about depression. I’ve seen the trailer and it doesn’t look like that at all. Will be checking it out for myself.
I suspect your boss is dead inside. It has themes related to that, but it’s still a Pixar movie which means… awesomeness. 😀
Yeah, he certainly has some “interesting” opinions.
I wouldnt say it’s about depression, though I could see how someone with depression might see some parallels
Toybox Turbos is so much fun.
Too bad that the online is completely barren. 🙁
EDIT:
Also, I wish that this rain would piss off.
It’s making it difficult for me to get to sleep.
Q & Gay was great!
That part where Fred Nile told a room full of LGBTI people that homosexuals need to be tolerant?
F*cking. Priceless.
It was actually really great though, and I would recommend viewing it if you get the chance to.
I MISSED IT OH GOD. I really wanted to see how Tom Ballard would go as host.
What did they chat about? I imagine it’s on ABC iView?
Yeah, it’s on ABC iView 🙂
There was quite a bit of discussion about a range of stuff.
Marriage equality, homophobia in schools, transphobia, reasons why Fred Nile is the worst.
Really good episode! Lots of civil discussion about important subjects.
Hello
Is it me you’re looking for?
Quite
Good mooooorning TAYBES. I’m going to a hen’s party tomorrow, which might actually be my first, but is for my best friend who is a lady marrying another lady, and I’m pretty sure we’re going to end up at a strip club at some point, so I’m not sure how I feel about that.
I’m sure you will work out how to ‘feel’ once you get there
Have fun and remember that whatever you do to her will come back larger to you when you have yours 😉
Haha ooooh no, I am not a hen’s night kinda gal. None of that business for me, thank you!
I think a hen’s night where you motorcycle atmospherically by yourself could be cool!
Sometimes the hen doesn’t get a choice… what you think is lunch with a friend rapidly turns into pink sashes, penis straws, cowboy hats and diamante studded tiaras.
I think the appropriate thing to do would be to invent cool backstories for the strippers!
Some friends of my wife and I are getting married in October and the respective hen’s/stag night are on consecutive weekends. My wife and I plan to be each other’s designated drivers.
Both halves of the married-couple-to-be are rather conservative types who’ve both strictly imposed a “no strippers” rule, but (as someone with no particular interest in strippers myself) I’m interested to see what a few drinks and the realisation that it’s probably a last-chance sort of thing will do for their convictions.
“last-chance sort of thing”? If you like strippers (said as somebody who doesn’t. I have the Internet.) and you’re marrying somebody who either doesn’t want to go see strippers with you or at the very least can’t approve of you liking strippers, you’re doing it wrong.
Like I said, they’re both very conservative “no strippers” kind of people and despite being 27 and 32, have never had a serious relationship before. I feel like there might be some last-minute interest in misbehaviour on the part of one or both parties.
Hens nights = lots of silly names cocktails. Everything else is fun when you are drinking cocktails.
Well I think I’m pretty much done for the steam sale
Hit my budget of twice my budget so that should be it. Still a little in my wallet so I’ll probably spend that on some little things I want. Looking through my wishlist I don’t see anything really jumping out that will cause me to add extra funds.
Really happy with what I got though, the 3 ones I wanted at the start of the sale I got.
Probably go for another couple o f levels of the sale badge, so if anybody wants to trade a Z-Lo they want to trade for a Crusta-Sean let me know
How much longer is the sale running? We’re watching Dark Souls 2 for a daily deal but will otherwise probably take the 50% off on the last day.
Runs to the 22nd but not sure if that means it’s all over on the 22nd or you have all day of the 22nd to do it. Check on Sunday and it should have the hour countdown in hours for how long it will still be on sale for.
I assume that the real sales will run to the 21st and the 22nd will be an encore day for a second chance at select/popular deals.
Me buying the David Cage Gold Signature Collection on PS4 is totally dependant on the cover.
Also, WHERES MY FAHRENHEIT/INDIGO PROPHESY??!!!
Different publisher for Fahrenheit, alas. They released a remastered PC version earlier this year, though. Definitely getting the Quantic collection too. 😀
Yeah, I know about the master race version 🙁
So, is this confirmation of a good cover!? :p
It’s confirmed Quantic Dream games. That’s enough for me! 😛
If it were new sure. But I only just bought & played both within the last 6 months or so.
I traded my Beyond Two Thousand in recently because even though I had fun, I didn’t see myself replaying. Now I wish I traded The Marsupalami Killer in because I grabbed the greatest hits version for the on disc dlc & it looks crap (big red borders).
But yeah, Heavy Wayne is a good’n.
Yeah, that’s understandable. 😀 We’ve all got our fanboy leanings and QD is mine. How many times will they make me buy it and how many times will I do it willingly? D: There’s cool features, though. Like the ability to play Beyond’s story in chronological order.
Oh cool, hadn’t heard that, anything else?
Yeah, I’ll be buying the FF VII remake (in ten years when it actually comes out) even though I know I can’t remove the nostalgia goggles, so it will never be as good as it is.
I think they’d be 1080p 60fps too, but don’t know if there’s other in-game stuff. 🙂
I may have just convinced my family to upgrade our internet to a 25mb/s connection and 300gb dl limit..
Hooray for Netflix and lagless gaemes XD
You’ve done well, friend. How’s the new job going, btw?
His negotiation skills have definitely improved!
I have put forth a proposal where I pay for 65% of the cost and my sister and folks share the rest between them.
I can’t say my negotiation skills have improved but as a generous son and brother I am doing my bit for the proletariat 😛
That goodwill will make them susceptible for a future guilt trip!
So you’re paying the majority so you get admin rights on router right?
Time to set up some good QoS rules. 🙂
QoS rules? Your ideas are interesting and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Quality of Service… basically sets the router up to prioritise certain traffic over others, set limits on bandwidth machines on network can use (can also manage quota, but bandwidth is more important).
So you find out what port your games use to ‘talk’ to their server and then you set up a rule saying that at a minimum amount of bandwidth is set aside for that port when in use.
Also handy if you have someone that torrents alot – just cap bandwidth on their machine so everyone else can use the net at the same time.
It’s going swell, my boss found out I am a bit of a chocolate addict. So she baked some brownies with three different kinds of chocolate in them to welcome me. I think I’m going to like it here!
You don’t suspect one is poisoned though, right? TO KEEP YOU ON YOUR TOES!
Good to hear the job’s going goooood!
HI TAY.
I’m feeling sick & emotionally / mentally drained. and yet, i was dumb enough to come in to work today.
spent most of yesterday sitting on the couch at home drinking tea & watching films. that was a good decision. really didnt have the energy to deal with the world yesterday.
so hows things with you lot?
Much the same actually, pain in the back from asthma so I went to the doc & GoT the week off.
I dunno if it’s being sick, but I’ve been emotionally out of whack since last week.
Time at home’s been good.
“GoT the week off”
I like that.
Yeah, back pain & have a crappy cold & I’m going through relationship stuff. Recipe for me wanting to tune out for a while. Unfortunately, I cant right now.
Still… I’ll survive.
Hope your week improves, Jimmy.
Ha! That was unintentionally autocorrected.
But true, was also a Sense8 & Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace week.
Take care of yourselves and your (mental) health, both you @35 <3
Nearly over the flu, the sun is shining, the roads are finally dry enough to ride on, so life is swell 😀
Feeling chipper, if not a tiny bit tired. On call this weekend and next week, so at least I don’t have to go into the office, so there’s that.
Tax time soon though, and my place of employ decided to gift it’s employees with a small cash bonus for picking us up out of a rut last year. Nice to get a thank you from a company that historically says ‘Fuck you, just do better.’ Amazing what a little positive reinforcement can do.
Also, FRIDAY. FFXIV Heavensward drops today, but I’ll be torn because I’ve got too many other games to play.
Holy shit I’m well caffeinated this morning.
*vibrating intensifies*
Well, I’m 20 mins late for work as I’ve been sitting in my car going on a half hour long unbroken cursing streak. This will be the fourth week straight of me running a two man shop by myself because the same two people keep calling in sick. Seriously, once or twice a week for both of them every single week. It’s been two years since my last sick day when I broke my ankle. How the hell do these shit heels keep getting away with it?
You’re looking a little off today, Freeze. Should probs take a sick day.
Only reason I didn’t is I couldn’t find the acting RMs phone number. A good thing in the end. Probably would have said a few things I would have regretted.
Or as my psychologist would call it: “Sanity Check Day”
That’s shithouse. There’s no other way of putting it. And it’s when you want to take a day off or are feeling sick you aren’t able too. My girlfriend is in a situation in which her boss rides her when she wants to take a day off because she’s the reliable one.
It’ll take a change of management I think for those two guys to see their come uppance, but make sure you take time out to look after yourself.
Luckily that’s about to happen. A guy from Head Office in Sydney is moving up and has franchised most of the shops on the Gold Coast. He came around last week to have a chat and see if I would be happy working for him instead of the company.
Whether it ends up being a good thing or not remains to be seen but he seems straightforward and decent enough of a guy from first impressions. Doubt he’d put up with too much when it’s his own money on the line either.
Fuck. Yeah,
You should start a sick-day rotation roster going; so you can get some time-off, every Thursday you call in sick =p
@haggis, because I don’t think you’re on twitter: Geralt made a dad joke in the Witcher 3!
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/611507853799505920/photo/1
He makes a few actually!
On the werewolf curse quest in Skellige he gets a little dad joke comeptition going with yennefer!Ugh, Ori and the Blind Forest AND Life is Strange on sale?? How am I supposed to resist that Gabe? YOU TELL ME HOW!!!
*buy*
Oh, one game I desperately want to play and one game I absolutely love and would call my GOTY. *flails arms*
I’ve actually been really good this year for the steam sales; too many prospective games to keep my money for and not enough decent discounts to give into spending just yet =\
I haven’t gone too bad either. Only got these two and If My Heart Had Wings which was a flash deal earlier. Been restricting myself to games that are on my Wishlist, and even then I’ve let a few pass. I think I’m getting to the point where I’m realising that I have a stupid amount of games unplayed that there’s no point buying more
Aye at this point the only game on there really tempting me is Xenonauts…. Everything I’ve read about this game makes me want to get it =p
Oh steam sale, why must you come at the end of my pay month? Life, indeed, Is Strange.
Ugh, welp, guess I’m buying Ori.
And Life is Strange is fantastic. It’s in my top three so far this year (with Witcherooni and Bloodborne).
Yeah I’m really looking forward to Life Is Strange. I think I’m going to alternate it with Dark Souls
I’ve purchased exactly one game on sale, The Gods Will Be Watching and even on the easy setting the very first scene is brutal. Haven’t got past it yet.
Not that I’ve touched it since the patch, bit I’d recommend switching it to the non-random mode if you haven’t already. Keep meaning to go back, now that I can actually learn from my mistakes rather than be punished by a dice roll wang-to-the-face.
It’s random? That would explain why I couldn’t work out the trigger for the guards storming the room.
Yarp. There’s one section that was apparently impossible on one run for a reviewer.
I was tossing up but bought hand of fate rather than Ori
I liked the look of Hand of Fate at PAX, but isn’t it still in Early Access? Or have they done a full release on it now?
It’s been a full release for… Hm, a few months now. Way more polished than when I first played it, though it’s still a bit janky at times.
I played a bit of Banished this morning. It’s pretty good and only $5 (75% off).
yeah, that was one of the ones I grabbed. Had a city builder urge a while ago so I figured I would grab that for next time the fancy takes me
Life is Strange is on sale? Welp, that’s the one I was waiting for. *buys*
Concurrent play through? Give DC a chance to flail more and tell us how much of a monster we are
Woah woah woah, slow down there buddy. I didn’t say anything about playing it, just buying it. You’re not supposed to play the games you buy on Steam. Right? RIGHT?!
Oh god I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time!! Why didn’t anyone tell me /o\
*flails arms* MONSTER!
You know that we’re the real monsters right?
For killing our tree with love. Poor tree.I was waiting on that too, and 20% off is a good deal. Not sure if I’m $20 invested in it though given I’m yet to play half the other episodically-released games in my library. I feel like anything above 70% off is a must-buy, anything else can wait until I’m ready to actually play it. I’m keen to play Life is Strange but the reality is it might be months before I actually get to it.
Well, the Treehouse E3 stream this morning has convinced me to try the new Fatal Frame when it comes out.
I don’t do well with horror games… This could be a bad idea…
I CAN’T WAIT!
You should live stream. =P
Nobody wants to see a live stream of an empty couch as I whimper behind it, occasionally poking my head up to see if the ghosts are still there.
*raises hand* uh, I do
Seconded
Pewdepie has made a career out of it
Repost from twitter coz this is important.
Plays on Linux too! Sold. Was eyeing this off a while back and held off because I couldn’t find a lot of info on it at the time.
never been into roguelikes much, but I can get into this one coz even if you get dealt a shitty hand, the combat is still real-time, so you can counter the RNG with a bit of skill. so if you screw up, its not just bad luck.
Really good game to play in short bursts. each ‘level’ / hand usually lasts 15-30 mins.
Was one of the games I was waiting for a daily sale otherwise was going to grab it at the end of the sale
Additional tidbit; it’s made by an aussie company so support the industry peeps! =]
@jocon @liondrive Destiny shindigs later tonight? 7PM SYD?
Dunno what that equates to so I’ll be on by reset – a convenient timer.understood by all.
Yes it’s the reset time =p
Max seems to like being my bed-warmer of a morning.
Also, she really likes my lap.
What did the Frenchman say when he sat on an egg?
œuf.Only about 6 hours till we head off to watch Minions. Should be pretty good, although I’m not sure if it’ll just feel weird without Gru and Dr. Nefario.
You’ve all gone quiet.
A FRIDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
I’m a bit sick of first person shooting as a game mechanic. What else do you think games should try and do in first person?
Street Fighter in first person would be a trip.
MKX in first person on the Occulus would be freaking fucked. Utter nightmare fuel.
Especially if there’s a fatality performed on you…
Church: Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, pulled Jimmy’s skull right out of his head, and beat him to death with it.
Tucker: Wait a second.. how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn’t seem physically possible.
Church: That’s exactly what Jimmy kept screaming.
Cut to Tex hitting Jimmy with his skull.
Jimmy: This doesn’t seem physically possible!
Oh jesus, I just ran through that in my head. No thanks.
Yep. Pretty much. I regret thinking about it, too.
Given I’ve already been sent to moderation hell this week, I should probably avoid trolling everyone by saying Real Time Strategy.
…
RTS!
Muahahaha (but seriously, C&C… Renegade? Had its moments, and polished up I think the pseudo moba feel could work quite well)!
Wasnt there an RTS that did that? You could play as different heroes across the ages and lead their armies in either RTS or FPS mode? It would be quite a few years old by now though and I can’t recall the name >.
Savage?
Nah; just found it with a bit of searching; rise and fall civilizations at war –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Fall:_Civilizations_at_War
Edit: Seems I remembere’d wrong it’s third person with RTS, no FPS mechanics aside from the archery if I recall correctly
@pupp3tmast3r Battalion Wars! Well, it was third person I guess (although I feel like maybe you could aim in first person? It’s been a while), but still. RTS played out solely from the viewpoint of individual units.
I’m so badly hoping for BW3 on Wii U, especially after how amazing Pikmin was with the gamepad.
A first-person platformer would be interesting.
First person platforming has always been a bit dicky. Mirror’s Edge is probably the closest it’s gotten to working
+1 for usage of ‘dicky’. Doesn’t see enough airtime these days.
Good ol’ Turok.
I’ve had this idea rattling around in my head for ages for a new type of game where you’re a special forces type soldier that goes around shooting bad guys. Just to mix things up a bit, you might even throw in vehicles and drivey-shootey, or even leaping out of planes for fliey-shootey.
It will be called ‘Summons of Partial Obligation’.
Is your avatar Canoe Reeves?
Oh gee, I sure hope so!
-closes eyes tight, hopes-
I want to do a first person horror/exploration game
Project zero/fatal frame actually had a 1st person option which was meant to be more terrifying
Have you played Gone Home?
SPOILERS ONLY READ IF YOU’VE PLAYED NO-ONE CLICK IF YOU HAVEN’T JUST PLAY IT IT’S SUPER GREAT AND CHEAP
That game skeeved the fuck out of me for the first half before I realised it was heading in an entirely other directionI think I played a little bit,
Me too. I was playing so cautiously, constantly expecting something to jump out at me. Sound design in that game was really goodYou might be interested in SOMA.
Also The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. One of my favourite games from last year.
http://dcpresents.tumblr.com/post/108634879124/the-vanishing-of-ethan-carter
I have it. just no time to play =(
Oh man, that game is gonna be so much nope if it has Vive/Oculus/Morpheus support.
All it takes is for one mean housemate/friend/family member to tap you on the shoulder during a particularly scary part and then you’d jump out of your skin and they’d have to deal with this skeleton of their own creation! D:
It looks interesting. I would have to wait. Amnesia set off my anxiety. I love horror but if it gets to the point that I can’t cope, it’s hard to play.
Caffeine might interest you, when it comes out. More atmospheric/psych-horror than survival-horror, from the demo I played a while back.
Looks interesting but I couldn’t watch it for long as the person kept flinging the camera back and forth
Yo, yo, yo.
That Metal Gear’s gon’ be tight, ya heard?
Righteous.
Love,
Dan
Nah.
Die Sean, Die.
https://translate.google.com.au/#auto/en/die%20sean%20die
In all seriousness though, in not really an MGS person, but it looks fucking mental, in the best possible way.
Gonna cover that desert in horse poo.
I watched the trailer and just had a complete WTF moment…
I mean comon’ Snake’s got a chunk of growing meteorite making new face holes.
I’m actually all kind of excited for Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5! I have fond memories of 3 and 4 and I would love to see the foundry level included!
What are people’s favourite levels?
The big indoor skatepark in 2 was really cool. In 3, I liked Airport
Man I forgot about Airport. I also like London in 4 and Alcatraz
London was sweet, though it’s been a while since I played anything from 4. Canada in 3 was also a great level
Oh man, haven’t had time to check out the trailer.
Just did and my word I am excited. I have no idea how I’m gonna buy all these games, though.
I vaguely remember one that took place in a neighbourhood street and you could skate into backyards/on roofs/fences/powerlines. I liked that one. No idea which game it was from though. Or if it was even real.
It was Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. It was called suburbia and was based in Munich, Germany (other sources claim Jackson, Mississippi)
Warehouse is the only correct answer 😛
Seriously though, I think I’ve imbibed too much caffeine. If I spontaneously transform into some sort of self sustaining time and space anomaly of great and terrible power, just leave me a blanket or some shit. I’ll come good. Eventually.
That’s why you don’t do a line of coffee granules when you wake up.
Really enjoying Guacamelee, but I’ve hit a slight hurdle.
They just introduced the shield mechanic, where enemies can have one of five different coloured shields.
The problem is, I can’t tell the green and yellow shields apart, leading to a bit of frustrating gameplay :'(
Stoopid colourblindness! :’O
Is there a colourblind vision mode?
They tend to be for the more common forms of colour blindness, being red-green and blue-yellow.
Mine’s this weird rare version, so colour blind modes tend to mess it up a little further for me 🙁
I just realized the pranking material this has in Destiny…. =P
Don’t even get me started.
I can’t tell the difference between dropped rare and legendary engrams :'(
I can see it now…
“Holy crap dude you just got 3 legendaries!”
10 minutes of loading screens later at the reef – “GUYS what the hell! They’re all blues!! =@”
Edit: *cue sitcom laughter*
This is me without the colour blindness 😛
For those of you who didn’t read “Pants & Powalen, Rent Detectives No.1: Mystery of the Car in the Garage,” I’ll bring you up to speed.
There’s a mystery car in our garage.
The Property Manager suggested we put up a sign telling the owner to move their stuff. So I’ve spent the last half hour trying to re-word this notice to not sound passive-aggressive, which totally didn’t work. So now our neighbours first impression of us is going to be this horrible note. Hooray!
You could cut the “passive” out of “passive aggressive” and get the car towed instead.
I would just put a lock on the garage. 😛 (With the car inside, if need be.)
That’s the mystery, it has a lock. And was locked!
If it didn’t it would’ve been a pretty boring novel.
Get the lock changed!
If it’s locked then it may not be your neighbour since they shouldn’t have a key.
Someone that does have a key may be using the spot for long term storage. Does it seem recently driven? Dusty?
Still got a rego sticker – how recently was it re-registered or has it expired?
You may have to put this on the real estate to organise for it to be towed away (and to cover the necessary costs)
I’d also be requesting a change of locks since obviously they can’t account for them all. Make sure you put this request in writing as that starts the clock ticking on their obligations.
Thanks. Yup, already got a lot of that in progress. Real Estate said we have to give them a chance to move it themselves first and if it’s not gone within a few days they will take care of it.
Regardless I will be asking for the lock to be changed after it’s all out 😛
Note to self, don’t cross Liondrive or DC.
” Move your car or it will get *insert picture of Toad*”…
Better?
PUN!
The worst thing any one can possibly do! That’s how they know Pow’s serious!
That comment didn’t even need to be edited! >:P
Alternately, breaking into/hotwiring cars isn’t too difficult (assuming you have the time to take it slow), so hey, free car!
There was also a baby car seat in the garage.
Free baby!
This how babby is formed?
How girl get pregnant?
*puts locksmith nerd hat on* If it’s anything post 1998 model you need the correct transponder chip coded to the car as well as the correct tools to remove the ignition housing that’s wrapped around the steering column to withdraw the steering lock pin, which a lot of them require a working key to turn the ignition to even start to remove it. 90% of car thefts are idiots leaving keys in the car while at the beach or from home burglaries. Other 10% are tow trucks taking off with the car.
Huh, so this is what it feels like to be @cakesmith…
Fun, isn’t it?
Just put a photo of the garage with 1 week written under it an equal sign then a picture of a sad man with two broken legs.
My sister has a theory.
The previous tenant was there for 25 (seriously wtf). Why would they leave after 25 years? Unless they died.
HAUNTED APARTMENT PARTY.
Oh my god.
I didn’t even think of that.
Maybe that’s why my wardrobe didn’t get painted along with everything else…
Pants & Powalen, Rent Detectives No.2 is going to write itself.
This is what happens when you don’t copyright something, you get cheap knockoffs. I knew I should have copyrighted Inspector Nob.
Help Negs part with his crap, Part the Third.
Started sorting through the huge pile of anime figures I’ve accumulated that I need to sell.
The list so far is mainly stuff that’s still boxed up:
Figma stuff:
– Max Factory Figma #110 Kaname Madoka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Max Factory Figma #115 Akemi Homura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Max Factory Figma #116 Black Rock Shooter 2032 (Black Rock Shooter – The Game) (unopened in box)
– Max Factory Figma #118 Tomoe Mami (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Max Factory Figma #124 Miki Sayaka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Max Factory Figma #128 Sakura Kyouko (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Max Factory Figma #168 Black Gold Saw (Black Rock Shooter) (unopened in box)
– Max Factory Figma #EX-009 Akemi Homura School Uniform Ver. (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Max Factory Figma #SP-033 White Rock Shooter (Black Rock Shooter – The Game) (unopened in box – LE with the PSP game)
– Max Factory Figma #SP-040 BRSB (Black Rock Shooter) (unopened in box – came with Huke’s ‘BLK’ artbook which I’m heeping)
Scale Figures:
– Good Smile Company 1/8 Yuzuriha Inori (Guilty Crown) (unopened in box)
– Good Smile Company 1/8 Akemi Homura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Good Smile Company 1/8 Tomoe Mami (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Good Smile Company 1/8 Miki Sayaka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Good Smile Company 1/8 Sakura Kyouko (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
– Good Smile Company 1/8 Kaname Madoka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box)
Nendoroid Petit:
– Good Smile Company Nendoroid Petit Touhou Project Set #1 (Reimu, Suika, Aya) (Touhou) (unopened in box)
– Good Smile Company Nendoroid Petit Touhou Project Set #2 (Marisa, Patchouli, Alice) (Touhou) (unopened in box)
– Good Smile Company Nendoroid Petit BGM Festival Set (Uesugi Kenshin/Sengoku Rance, Asakura Otome/Da Capo II, Asuka Watarai/Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai, Miyamura Miyako/ef, Shiino Kirari/Kirakira) (unopened in box)
– Good Smile Company Nendoroid Petit Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Set (Fate/Hollow Ataraxia) (unopened in box – blind boxes, box of 12, should contain full set of 11 figures + secret)
– Good Smile Company Nendoroid Petit Type Moon Set (Tsukihime, Fate, Mahoutsukai no Yoru, Melty Blood, Carnival Phantasm) (unopened in box – blind boxes, box of 12, should contain full set of 11 figures + secret)
– Good Smile Company Nendoroid Petit Madoka Magica Set (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box – blind boxes, box of 12, should contain full set of 11 figures + secret)
– Good Smile Company Nendoroid Petit Madoka Magica Extension Set 01 (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) (unopened in box) (contains Charlotte, the ‘dessert’ witch)
For the boxed stuff, I’m hoping to get reasonable amounts but not excessive. Probably $25-30 for the standard releases (which I should point out are all out of print) but for the SP and EX ones I know they were quite limited and hard to get – especially White Rock Shooter since she’s also super rad – so I’d be looking to get a reasonable amount for them. Hoping to get a reasonable amount for the scale figures as well, since they’re as new, still boxed up (by the time I got them I’d run out of space for them and then when the opportunity to open them presented itself, I’d gone off the series and the only one I wanted out on display was Ultimate Madoka)
Also loose old trading figures:
– Set of seven Aria figures (Akari, Alicia, Akira, Alice, Athena and 2x Aika, one with original long braids and the other with short hair post-barbecuing accident in season 2)
– Set of six from Maria-sama ga Miteru (basically the core first season characters minus Yoshino for some reason – designed to be displayed in pairs)
– Set of Goodsmile Fate/Stay Night Trading Figures (including the variations on Rider – blindfold on/off – and Ilya – coat on/off – and the secret saber pajamas figure)
– Set of Alter Type-Moon figures (Arcueid, Ciel and Aoko from Tsukihime, Rin & Saber from Fate, Shiki from Kara no Kyoukai, plus a couple spares) – these ones are way nicer than normal trading figures and would be quite valuable, if they were new.
– (most of?) a Nendoroid Petit Lucky Star set, 2 versions of each all four of the main characters, plus I think I have a couple more in a box somewhere.
Can provide photos if required. Most reasonable offers accepted. Especially for the trading figure sets.
I have a ton of loose scale figures that I need to be rid of as well, and these I’ll be selling for pretty low prices. With most of these, if I don’t sell them they’ll get given away or I’ll have to throw them away. I’ll be compiling a list of these over the weekend. There’s possibly a few I’ll hang onto. Those that have been to my place: anything that I had on display is a keeper at this point, though I can be persuaded to part with the Goodsmile Nanoha or Fate from StrikerS. I love both of those figures but they’re enormous and very hard to transport because of that hair so fairly sure they’re going to get smashed moving them to the US.
Note: still have a lot of games and anime to get rid of as well. Once I’ve compiled the figures list I will re-post those lists as well. Giving TAY first go at a lot of this stuff before I ebay / gumtree stuff.
I love figures!
I don’t know what any of those are.
Luckily they are very googlable!
Good Smile Co run an english site:
http://www.goodsmile.info/en
Which has listings of all the scale figures, nendoroids and figmas they’ve handled, which is mainly their own brand, Phat, ThreeA, Max Factory and I think Aquamarine. The vast bulk of my stuff is from GSC, Max Factory, Alter or Kotobukiya.
Figma are posable action figures, along the same lines as Revoltech, Play Arts Kai or several others. Mainly anime figures, some games stuff (eg they did an amazing Link a while back) and a few that are just straight up weird – there was a Thriller-style Michael Jackson a while back, for example, and right now you can preorder figmas of The Thinker and Venus de Milo. Series is above 200. Normally numbered ones are standard releases, SPs are special, usually pack-ins with limited edition releases, and EX are only available at conventions or via mail order or retailer-exclusive.
Nendoroid are about 12cm tall super-deformed extremely cute figures with big heads. I am addicted to collecting them and not selling any of my full-sized ones. The Nendoroid Petits have the same proportions but are about 6cm tall, and there’s been petits made that never got full sized releases. For a while they were common pack-ins with limited edition game releases or magazines, but their popularity seems to have fallen back a lot and I don’t think GSC have released any Petits in 2015.
Have you decided how much moneys I need to give you for Ni No Kuni?
It’s close enough to the wedding now for me to be financially irresponsible but not have to deal with the consequences until a few weeks after the honeymoon.
Make me a (reasonable) offer? I see them on Ebay a fair bit but don’t know if they’re actually selling, and also my CE was opened and I don’t have the outer box.
I’m in it primarily for the wizard’s companion.
Last I checked (quite a while ago) the book alone was going for around 120, but a quick search of eBay now shows a scant few CE sets around the 200 mark, but that’s also O/S only and partially due to the crappy exchange rate.
So, how does 150 sound with the plush?
Sounds more than reasonable. Want the game too? 😛
Don’t mind about the game, aside from the part where I already have a copy, isn’t it now or recently or about to be PS+?
And cool. Thanks for the deal.
Now I just gotta come up with 150 bucks. I’ll figure something out. How soon would you like it?
Whenever. It’s looking like I’ll be moving around late august to early september. Would have been earlier but I have to have eye surgery.
Thanks for buying the game off me 😛
When do you want some money for the Hyperdimension games? Also, how?
I’ll need to do some quick guestimates for shipping it (probably around $5-10 I’d expect, the games should fit into a satchel).
Paypal or bank transfer, probably.
I’ll put a hand up for the Nendoroid Petite Type Moon Set.
When you get a chance you can send payment details to sunsoar77 at google mails and let me know what postage is to Brisbane (4170) and how to organise the transfer of $’s
Now to fix the snapped head stick on my Saber Nendoroid…. 🙁
Oh, you need me to send you a spare flesh-colored Nendoroid joint? I’ve got tons.
Which Saber? I’ll try and find one that matches the color.
It’s #121 Stay/Night Super Moveable Edition just last weekend went to swap expression over and bottom half of the neck joint stayed in the body leaving just the ‘ball’ bit of the joint showing from base of head.
Doesn’t look hard to fix but it’s only Nendoroid I’ve got and the only spare neck joints are currently attached to the other 2 expressions.
Oooh. Yeah that’s a pain. Luckily GSC have a guide for fixing this!
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2011/03/25/diy-figure-repairs-part-1-broken-joints/
I have paid moneys to go out and be lectured tonight. Not something I ever thought I’d say.
Well, I asked my Mum to pay for me to be lectured for my birthday. 😛
It’s a quilt lecture, by a guy who’s a Big Deal, like the forefather of modern quilting kind of Big Deal. And people I know from Instagram will be there and might recognise me. Eek!
This calls for a disguise? 😀
It sounds awesome! Have fun!
You can go as me in disguise if you like? You said you looked strange today…. 😛
Strange Stitches? No, not me, I’m Strangest Itches, you’re thinking of someone else.
A top hat and monocle can never fail!
I’m sorry, but I just have to say how much I love the combination that you love to quilt AND go to heavy metal concerts.
Sometimes I even quilt AT heavy metal concerts! 😀
You just keep finding ways to get even better! 😀
That sounds like fun! I’m sure you’re going to come home overflowing with ideas 🙂
I probably won’t be able to sleep! Tomorrow was probably not the best morning to plan taking the kids out for a special breakfast. 😛
Next week you can pay me to lecture you if you’d like. I offer a lot of courses.
QLT201: “A beginners guide to advanced Quilting”
QLT202: “Top ten shocking quilting techniques. You won’t believe number 4!”
QLT203: “How can quilts be real if our eyes aren’t real?”
And more!
Fantastic.
This new learning amazes me.
Explain again how quilts might be employed to prevent earthquakes?
I’m sorry but the Elders of the Quilt don’t allow me to divulge information without upfront payment. I accept credit cards.
Is this related to the retreaty thing that was in Sydney(?) last weekend?
Because apparently that was good.
So, have fun!
Thanks! And yes, yes it is related. The whole thing’s happening again in Brisbane this weekend. Same guy. Everyone I’ve spoken to about the Sydney weekend says their minds were blown. 😀
I looked at some photos from the Sydney one, and my Mum was doing her best “me at my first meat” impression. There’s plenty of shots of her hair, and little else. It’s an amazing family skill.
Did the PoE Lv 35 Skolas fight last night.
It’s sooooooo much better now that he’s been nerfed! Still challenging, but so much more manageable! Doesn’t hit as hard, far less ads, and actually fun!
Have you given it a shot yet, @os42?
I’d be keen to try it out if you want and need a third!
Or any Destiny peeps even!
Not yet, but would love to try out the new Skolas fight! Looks like it could be fun.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/18/fire-emblem-fates-will-have-marriage-and-children/
SOLD!
Ssssssssssssssspreadsheet tiem!
This time there’s two games with diverging plots and different characters on each side so I wonder if there’s restrictions on who can be paired with who? I mean presumably the options for the opposite factions to come together are limited.
If the options are there for cross faction pairing, I’ll be setting up every single one I can.
For my own story reasons. Yes. Story.
Double sold!
Also half the characters on each side are directly related to your character, so this could get
funweird.Sexy weird B-)
It’s Nintendo though so I bet they’ll disallow any pairings which might only be acceptable to Rednecks and Tasmanians.
Babby making simulator 2000-whatever-year-the-game-is-coming-out
It’s out NEXT WEEK in Japan and 2016 for us that don’t speak the moon language.
Moreso than sleep patterns, E3 (and staying up to watch it all) seems to have disrupted my sense of time. This week feels like it was about two weeks long.
Today’s Penny Arcade strip would make @haggis proud
FIgured I’d throw this up here. A few friends of mine have launched a Kickstarter for a board game called Tavern Fame. I encourage you to check it out as it is a pretty charming little game.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allofthed/tavern-fame?ref=hero_thanks
Looks cool, reminds me a bit of “Gauntlet of fools” in premise, but looks a bit more streamlined. Gonna keep an eye on it
Just got back from seeing Inside Out. Great film. So, so good.
Take her to the moon for me, okay? #manlytearsSo good. Glad you enjoyed it, bud. 😀
Had two bottles of homebrew.
I’m all giddy.
😀
Thanks for the help in Destiny tonight, @brodiek! It was much appreciated! 🙂
Also, I’m keen to do a Lv 35 tomorrow at some stage, @os42, but have a 34 I might be helping out with also, but I’ll see which comes along first 🙂
@mrtaco
Colour lock in splatoon is to help people with colour blindness.
This comment confuses me because it feels like it refers back to something I can’t remember 😛
Googled for stuff on here about colour lock but couldn’t turn up anything that gave a hint.
I think i said I wanted to always have my colour as purple or aqua and you said to try colour lock. I tried it and I’m now explaining what it is for! It was on a Splatoon article
Ah, the only discussion I could remember having about it was with some other friends that mentioned it, where I was pondering whether it was an actual colourblind mode where it changes the palette of the whole game or not. And was pretty sure the convo took place on Skype and not here, thus getting super confused 😛
So does it let you just permanently choose the one colour? Or reduce the available colours to a particular subset? Something else?
It makes it so that the colour are complimentary to each other. Red and Green never appear, but rather they end up being Blue and orange, yellow and purple. So they oppose each other on the colour wheel. As red and green is the most common form, it’s excluded from the colour choice. It’s still a roulette though.
Splatoon TAYbies, Blue Fin Depot is available!
“Tonight” Pacific time, at 7pm. It’s currently about 7:20pm there. So it should be available now?
If anyone’s thinking of getting Batman: Arkham Knight on PC the best price I can find is $29.99AUD at Ozgameshop.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/batman-arkham-knight-cd-key-download-for-steam-with-harley-quinn-pre-order-dlc
If they don’t randomly fucking cancel your preorder on you, sure. :\
Received my key last night, so I’m pretty happy with that.
Not that it matters though, my laptop can’t run it.
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*runs and hides*
It’s been like two years or something now, but I’m still playing Kantai Collection.
Last night noticed I had Jintsuu at 61 so thought I might just spend an hour or two listening to music and idly grinding to get her all the way to 65. Worth it. Holy crap, that art upgrade. She’s a ninja or something now. Didn’t come with any particularly cool gear though which is why I worked on Sendai and Naka first. Now I’m trying to figure out which cruiser to level next, and leaning toward the Noshiro I picked up last week.
Still working on Maya and Fusou as well. Looks like at the rate I’m going, Fusou will hit 80 well before Maya gets to 75. Was thinking that once Fusou’s done with for a bit, I might work Bismarck to 75 or consider getting Littorio to 50 so she can become the less fascist Italia. But then I decided to have a large ship construction go today. Musashi. ‘Looks like I kept you waiting’ she says? Too fucking right you did. I still prefer Yamato, but Musashi’s an amazing get. She talks like a Samurai which is kind of endearing. And with her obtained, the only constructable ship I need is Taihou. Time to stock up on bauxite. And also pay them the 1000 yen or so I need to sacrifice to get some more ship slots. Bastards. 🙁
I’ve got a bow tie on and I’m going to this thing and being social and I dun wanna, pls send help thx
Look for the guy in the corner wearing a monocle. The password is “thetribehasspoken”. He will get you out of there. I can’t say any more…
Is it a wedding? Weddings are fun. Drink all the drinks and do the macarena!
Work function!
*shudder*
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/19/heres-the-english-version-of-fatal-frame-maiden-of-black-water/
I forgot this was being localized. Maybe I should keep my Wii U.
That actually looks pretty damn cool. Haven’t played a Fatal Frame game before.
They do tension quite well and the story behind it is always interesting. It’s one of my favourite game series. I prefer the first one, but most people love the second. I’m also hoping that maybe, maybe Nintendo might give us a digital version of FF4, as it’s the only one I haven’t played. It wasn’t localised.
Think I’ll be able to jump right in with this Wii U one?
They’re self-contained. Creepy as fuck too. I really liked Project Zero II (note: Fatal Frame is the US title, PAL and JP is Project Zero) but it freaked the shit out of me and I couldn’t finish. II is super creepy though, you’re a little girl and your twin sister’s gone missing in a creepy abandoned Japanese village. This one looks like it has a bit more jump scares and stuff.
They did a port of Project Zero II to Wii but I never tried it. I had the ‘Director’s Cut’ release on Xbox which was sort of the definitive edition at the time.
But the way they’re using the Wii U gamepad in 5 is pretty interesting. Great idea really. Might be the only game outside the launch games that actually uses the gamepad in a novel way.
Oh the remake on wii was even worse! If you ewent to reach for anything, Mio did it real slowly and they’d tweaked it so that occasionally, something would frighten you.
Each game is self contained as Negative Zero said. The protagonist is the daughter of Miku who was the protagonist of the first game and a secondary protagonist of the 3rd game. That’s like the only connection.
If you’re interested in the other games, avoid the first on PS2, play it on the xbox or the xbox version as they fixed up some of the bugs. The second one should be played on wii and the third on PS2
Thanks guys! I might just start here on the Wii U!
I would say that’s best. The only one that is related to the others in terms of story is 3.
Sorry about my gushing/rambling
We’ve all got games we’re crazy enthusiastic about. It’s a good thing. 😀
I am now at rank A-minus.
And have a million squidbucks.
Did they send you a survey too?
…they? Survey?
Nintendo. They sent me an email to do a splatoon survey
Oic. I don’t check that e-mail so often, only once a week and usually I end up forgetting.
*puts on panhandlers hat*
If anyone has a spare copy of Dansky, Blitzkreig or Crusta-Sean I wouldn’t mind them to make the badge.
Nooooooo! I wish you told me this earlier since I was selling all my stupid cards and made a measly dollar 🙁
I’ve just sent you Dansky. 😀
It’s been a while since I’ve used MightyApe (AU) but has anyone used them recently? I’m thinking of pre-ordering something and just wanted to know how they are.
Do new releases/pre-orders arrive within a reasonable amount of time? (within a week or two)
@evilmonkey @shane I think you guys used them recently?
Yeah, we both used them for Bloodborne. From memory it took a week or so to arrive, which for a major new release is unacceptable.
I got my copy of Bloodborne within three days of release IIRC. I saved like $40 on the RRP, so I was okay with that.
@mrtaco
I can confirm the last boss in Splatoon is indeed as awesome as everyone says it is!
Why can’t the other bosses be on that level as well 🙁
The other ones were pretty good too.
But a bit too easy 🙁
Games finished in 2015:
• January
1. The Wolf Among Us (Episode 3-5)
2. Halo 3
• February
3. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
4. Captain Toad
• March
5. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
• May
6. Broken Age
• June
7. Splatoon
Bloodborne has been half unplayed for ages. I was enjoying it too but maybe not as much as Dark Souls since I didn’t have the time to play it for hours on end. And also because it was kinda free (you kinda care less about the game when you don’t really pay for it :P). I started Wolfenstein on PC a while ago but I think by the time I get Bloodborne done it’ll be time for Anna’s Quest which will be my main PC game 😀Ohhhh I wasn’t planning on getting Woolly World but it’s so kyooooot! Didn’t realise it was next week as well D:. Not sure why PAL is getting first and even more confused as to why it’s on Thursday for Australia :/
Might just spend the extra $ for a Yoshi amiibo desk decoration 😀
Captain Toad: Treasure TrackerThe Swapper
Grim Fandango Remastered
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
The Order: 1886
CounterSpy
New ‘n’ Tasty: Abe’s Oddysee
Cities: Skylines
Pillars of Eternity
Broken Age
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Life is Strange
Upcoming games I’ll be playing: Yoshi’s Woolly World, Batman: Arkham Knight and Anna’s Quest.
Dammit! I forgot I’ll have Arkham Knight too, but at least that’s in the “kinda free” category too (PRAISE STEAM SHARING!). I still haven’t played Origins though but I know I probably won’t ever go back to that if I played Knight first.
And all the Fallout 4 stuff makes me want to play New Vegas! One day I’ll finally play you, NV 😛
Is Monster Hunter 4 any good? I bought a New 3DS last weekend, and I want moar games for it.
YES! So good. Find some buddies to play multi with too
I wanna play stuff, but I don’t know what to play…
Play the don’t know what to play game!
I’ve been playing that for three hours and I don’t like it at all!
D:
I know. I finished LEGO Jurassic World this afternoon and since then I’ve just been drawing a blank. I want to play something, I’ve got a ton of games I could start up and do something in but nothing is standing out.