You guys have any burning questions? About anything? This is Ask Me Stuff, which does exactly what it says on the tin. Leave me a question in the comments below and I’ll endeavour to answer it before the day is out.
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This is why I’m banned from the Sydney Heritage Fleet 🙁
HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW? THE NAME IS VERY MISLEADING.
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All it takes is one misplaced toilet break, and people think you’re a lunatic.
You should ask Ben!
Ben White! Where are you!??!?!
Do you think it’s odd that L.A. Noire is being made for PC and Red Dead Redemption isn’t? L.A. Noire has had a bit of a mixed reception, and everyone seems to think that Red Dead Redemption is a great game. You think rockstar would want red dead to be made for PC cause they’re likely to get more money from it than from noire.
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It might be to recoup costs. Rockstar probably poured a lot of money into this development.
Why won’t Milla tweet Tad?
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Pretty much this.
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But if I reply, then he will stop tweeting me and I cannot live without them now.
Milla. x
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That seems fair.
🙂
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I honestly, truly believed she would have done it by now.
Thoughts on all these games going free to play?
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Not really free to play if microtransactions are involved, if you ask me (which you should, because I’m very clever).
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I think it’s smart business, and we’ll see more of it.
That said, consumers will only spend their money and invest in so many shooters. I think there’s only room for a certain amount.
Diablo III release date
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When it’s done
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Is that you 3D Realms?
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I’m just giving the same answer Jay Wilson has given whenever he wants to dodge that question
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Yeah sorry! What Andrew said!
Any good at playing the Ocarina?
The one I got from EB sounds like poo when I play it.
(Though that’s more a reflection on my musical ability, not the build quality of the thing. It’s actually quite nice. :P)
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I’m decent on the iPhone app!
What was the first person dungeon game on PS1 that had the really slow clunky controls and the big floating heads that let out acid clouds?
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Man, I thought you were talking about that early platform game, whatsitsname…. I have no idea…
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All good, I found it finally. Shadow Tower…that thing was like an old school Demon Souls.
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Any idea on the release date of SW: Old republic?
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As above 🙂
Is it true that the bear in the trailer for the upcoming Pixar film Brave is based on a Mr Mark Serrels when he once ran out of Irn Bru back in Scotland?
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Is there a chair aswell?
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Hahahahaha!
Rumour and speculation.
SPACE MARINE!?!?
SPACE MARINE SPACE MARINE?!?!?
SPAAAAAACCEEEE MAAARRRINNNEEEEE!!!!!!
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Is that a Metal Gear: Space Marine reference?
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I do believe it is a Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine reference?
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Yes, Aaron – you are correct.
The fan-boy within me is hurling obscenities awaiting the release.. sort of like Transformers: WFC and Dead Rising 2…
Can you guys believe i actually got the figurine edition?
Man he is rad!
it’s like a Barbie, only more BRRAINNNSSS!!!
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…I don’t know whether i should waste the energy glaring at you, or just shoot you where you stand…
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I too am excited for Gears of Warhammer.
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*twitch*
I don’t even need to THINK about what i’ll do to you
I’m REALLY tempted to go on a rare rant right now, but all i will say is the ONLY similarity Space Marine has to Gears of War is that it’s in the 3rd person perspective… *twitch twitch*
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What about guns? Does it have guns, too? If it’s got guns then it might as well just be a DLC map pack for Gears of War, right?
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well sell the game then, as I’ve simply dismissed it just as another drab dudebro shooter, that is similar to Gears because the characters have tree trunks for legs, etc…
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Warhammer space marines had tree trunks for legs long before anyone else thought of it!
Their basic design hasn’t changed much since the start in 1987.
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And the chain-sword… which is a total rip off the Lancer anyway.
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Oh, I forgot the blue armour… blatantly stolen from Starcraft.
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What is the meaning of life?
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42.
You’re welcome.
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It ends!
*BANG*/end Judge Dredd movie reference
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I nominate you for community kudos for not only quoting the Judge Dredd film, but admitting publically that you’ve watched it.
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I can probably quote half of the movie off the top of my head too!
Your new friends? They’re cannibals!
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May have been mentioned before but does Kotaku have an advertising deal with GAME? They have been popping up quite a bit recently and just wanted to check.
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Not really sure that this is Mark’s area, Allure seems to negotiate its advertising deals in another department or something.
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How often do you see it?
I think I only saw it on Sunday, and it was for GAME TV which was pretty funny considering a few days beforehand we were all slamming the GAME TV episodes for being absolutely bollocks.-
Just saw a few tweets as well promoting their stock. I’m not worried just curious is all.
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Oh 🙁 overlooked for an answe. I hope I did not offend.
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Do you think that Metal Gear Solid Rising has been canned. Nothing to show at this year’s E3?
Also those wireless adaptors for 360 controllers (to PC) do they work? I’m considering getting one – as much as I love TF2 on the PC – I can’t get used to WASD control
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Try harder… Your FPS skills will thank you in the long run
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I recently bought one of these and yes they do. EB have one that is ‘xbox 360 controller for windows’ which includes the controller and the PC peripheral in one red package. I already have 3 controllers so instead I looked around for the wireless receiver by itself. Ended up finding one at a computer market, looked like it had come from Hong Kong but it only cost me $20.
Plugged it in and tried to load the drivers but had some trouble as I’m running Windows 7 64 bit. Got the updated drivers off the net and it now works fine. The only downside is that apparently the EB package comes with some kind of software which gives you better control for mapping keys.
For instance I opened up Just Cause 2 (a game I much prefer the controller for) and it immediately had an option in the controls for ‘xbox 360’ and I could easily set up the mapping.
Then just for fun I opened up CS and went to the keyboard controls. Most of the buttons where there as options so I could put shoot on the trigger and change weapons on the face buttons, I even got walking one the right thumbstick and turning on the left. The only thing that didn’t work was the look up and look down, though I could put the option in, it didn’t do anything.
I think this would be an isolated case though as it is quite an old game, something like TF2 I think you would be fine with though you might want to check online first.
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Unless you play all your games with aim-assist off, you’re much better off just getting used to the KB+M.
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Get yourself a Razer Onza 😛
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Hmmm. Dunno. I think it may be getting reworked into Kojima’s new engine?
I couldn’t say for sure, but something dramatic is going on with that game I think…
Why do we have audio in the adds? pretty sure it’s the child of Eden one. Means I can’t look at kotaku at work and it’s pointless trying to watch videos in the articles when some stupid music keeps cutting over it.
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Advertisements that have sound are truly the worst things on the Internet! They make me ever so angry.
Since my headphones are usually plugged in (but not actually on my head), I don’t realise it is happening until it is too late… for example, I have a million tabs and want to watch a video. Good articles are lost, as I frantically close any tab which may be the offending party.
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I’ll look into this…
Are you or anyone having trouble with the latest Graphics Drivers from Nvidia? Any news what’s going on with this? Seems a little wide spread.
Crysis and Witcher games just crash at the moment after a few minutes.
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Which version are you on? 275.33?
This may explain why L4D2 likes to freeze on me every so often.
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I had problems with the latest driver when it first came out and rolled back to the old one but then had problems last night with the old one so updated again to the latest and now things are running smooth :S
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275.50 was released on the 20th. Still no help. Will probably have to roll back to 270 driver series. Or whatever was most stable.
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Should I get a 3DS or a PSVita?
Also, why do you hat me?
And is it a top or a bowler?
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I love hats.
Except for beanies because they make me look like a criminal.
Probably go the Vita. Awesome feature set, plus.
Dat OLED.
Do you expect Playsation and Xbox to both have a touch screen interface as a central component of their next generation controllers? Can they afford not to? It looks like a good idea from a design point of view. At its most basic functionality, being able to have map data, inventory, statistics, objectives, etc at your fingertips (not hidden behind sometimes clunky menus) is an attractive proposition. No/Yes?
The first example I can think of is Fallout: how good would it be to actually have the Pip-Boy interface on the controller – no break in gameplay, using the interface exactly as you would in the game world?
LA Noire? Flip through and add to Cole Phelps’ notebook via touchscreen controls.
The game world is all you see on your big screen television and all administration/menu/maintenance tasks are delegated to the less intrusive, easily accessible touch screen? That makes perfect sense, right? And that’s really the most basic application of the technology.
A greater level of player immersion by the better implementation and structure of all the very things that take the user – step by step – further away from the intended experience.
i think it adds up,
Plainview.
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I’d argue from a design point of view it’s a bad idea – people aren’t great at attending to two points of information simultaneously, hence why we’re finding video-game style HUD’s creeping into other technologies. I think the long-goal of mobile phones is augmented reality glasses for just that reason.
From an immersion point of view, its hard to say – it would be realistic in the sense that using the PipBoy would be distracting, so you’d have to choose your moments, but I think this will probably just be too hard for most people, so they’ll make the games slower as a trade off.
Personally, I thought the map systems in the DS work quite well, but swapping out items (like in Phantom Hourglass) was really tough.
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If the Wii U is any guide, it looks like a horrible idea ergonomically, too – just too big
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On a vaguely related note, I would buy a special Fallout/Pip-Boy themed controller in an instant if that were the case
SOMEONE MAKE IT HAPPEN! D:
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Every single control innovation Nintendo has made has been copied by the competition, I see no reason why this will be any different.
Depends on how successful the whole thing is TBH.
Also – I think Microsoft are quite convinced with the Kinect tech, so they might choose to focus on that instead.
Any chance you’re able to find out if Australia gets the Skyrim preorder bonus of the sweet map?
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THIS.
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I’m happy to report that the answer to this question is YES!
Just got word from the local distributor.
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You sir, are a saint. Thank you so much 😀
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Any upcoming news about EB Games and RE:Mercenaries 3DS? Supposedly they are boycotting it due to the non-erasable save issue.
Palstran
June 29, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Did the X-men mutant power contest ever get decided? Did I miss it?
Maybe that should have been my mutant power, not missing any interesting posts on Kotaku.
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Thank you Grimlock. It seems those elocution lessons have paid off very well.
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Will put it up tomorrow.
What are your favourite 3 beers?
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3. Last beer.
2. Next beer.
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I don’t drink believe it or not!
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But… what? no!!!!
Not even with Pepsi Max?
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A disgrace to your heritage and a disgrace to this country!
Shame on you, sir. Shame on you!
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We’ll get your deportation notice to you shortly Mr Serrels…
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Huh…well there you go.
Okay, well if you DID drink what would be your 3 beers of choice? Kind of a moot point. Ah well..uhh…
Okay, what are you 3 favourite types of juice?
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Where are you, Marky Mark?
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*sob*
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I’m here!
Mark,
In your opinion, will the Capcom undeleteable saves be a retracted feature in game updates (do the current gen of cart games have periodic updates like console games? I don’t know – make this a sidebar q, please), or is it here to stay?
I don’t own any of these games, or intend to, but I’m fascinated by the precedent.
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I don’t think this will ever happen again. Big mistake by Capcom.
Another related question, are there any laws that make undeleteable saves a violation of consumer rights?
When I was a kid, my bro and I shared a Game Boy (temporarily), and had to work with tandem save games. If this hadn’t been an option, sales=lost.
Thoughts?
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This is something I’d like to investigate actually.
Any news on a PAl release of the Oblivion 5th Anniversary thingie?
errr, for 360.
I posted this in the Team Bondi work conditions thread, but just as valid here, in case it gets missed there:
How many hours do you work, Mark (if you don’t mind me asking)? You’re the only person I know with an enviable job, so sorry to pry, but I’m curious. Seems you’re always in pretty early, and often quite late in the evening too… weekends? Work from home? Unpaid overtime?
Don’t need to know salary, but does it adequately compensate for these conditions?
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I work hard.
Typically 815 till 545pm. Go home, approve comments at home, sometimes push through US content. I typically do this on weekends as well.
Sometimes I’ll write content at home if I’m working on a feature I’m passionate about.
Hey, not sure if this is the best place to post this, if a person, sick of the local price mark-up, were to buy a 3DS from the US, keeping in mind the region-lock, would that 3DS be able to access the US Virtual Console store or would the VC functionality be rendered useless?
lost the last post about APB. Did you get around to it?
also, whats happening with “I am alive” by Ubisoft, i haven’t heard or seen much about it for a long time.
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Now there’s a well-timed question.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-28-i-am-alive-release-imminent
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Funnily enough the game received an Aussie classification recently. Hopefully it’ll be out this year.
How do see all these companies jumping onto the Free-to-Play bandwagon of late with major franchises (TF2, Tribes, Battlefield, Ghost Recon) do you think this will be a boon to the PC gaming industry or ultimately a money-pit?
With the American summer being a period of limited gaming news are their plans for more original features from Kotaku?User content maybe? Original videos?
This would be better instead of “puff” pieces common during this period.
Hey,
replacing my 4x 1gb sticks of ddr2 ram to 4x 2gb ddr2 ram.
is that worth it? will i see a reasonable difference?
thanks
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I highly doubt you’re going to see much of a difference if you use your machine for gaming.
You may be better off buying higher-specced DDR2 RAM (if you are intent on a RAM upgrade), but even then the improvement will not really be noticeable.
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Make sure you’re using a 64-bit OS.
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4x 2Gb DDR2 is a waste of money nowadays.
Get 2x 4Gb make sure it’s good specced DDR3 and obviously be running a 64bit OS.
This will leave you in the best position to upgrade further down the track.
I’m finally at the point where I have a TV nice enough that I’d consider gaming on it.
Which console should I get? Xbox/PS3? I’ll probably end up getting a Wii anyway…
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Do you have a PC that can play games?
If so get a PS3, if not go with the one that has more of your fave exclusives.
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I have a gaming PC, yes.
So go with a PS3 then?
The only thing I’d possibly want that is Xbox exclusive is Halo…but I think I can probably live without it.
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thanks mark!
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