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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90 responses to “Ask Me Stuff”
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Trjn
Did you watch MLG Providence and if you did, were there any games other than Halo that caught your attention? Apparently both SC2 and LoL managed to get ridiculous amounts of views, which was particularly amazing for LoL which is new to the MLG scene with a reasonably small field of competition.
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Mark Serrels
For the first time ever, I didn’t watch it. I have no idea why — probably a combination of Skyrim, Skyrim and Skyrim.
Shame, I should have made time to watch the finals at least. I love MLG.
I think it’s great that MLG has embraced competitive PC gaming. It’s a great organisation that understands competitiveness and understands its audience.
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Trjn
Following up, are you planning on watching anything from Dreamhack this weekend?
Also, do you know whatever happened to my Kudos prizes? I wondering if my neighbours have a hankering for tortoise soup, there’s good eating on one of those.
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Shane
Based on what you know/have read…
1) Is Hideo Kojima making Metal Gear Solid 5?
1) a) Another ‘in-the-past’ game or is Solid Snake suiting up for one last sneaking mission?2) A pre-order collector’s edition that will only be available until two months BEFORE a game’s release. Is it a strategy to encourage fencesitters to fork out their money now rather than waiting until reviews come out? If so, does that bode well for the publisher’s confidence in the quality of the game?
2) a) Did you get that I’m talking about Max Payne 3?3) Should I try to 100% Arkham City or is that an errand for someone with more time than I?
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Bryce
I hear if you get a 100%, they tell you how Riddler got all that fluro green paint without anyone raising an eyebrow.
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Mark Serrels
I’m not in high school anymore so I don’t have time to 100% Limbo, let alone Arkham City. Good luck if you can!
Re: MGS5. That whole thing was just a bloody ruse to sell magazines! I was quite pissy about it. Kojima doesn’t even know what MGS5 is going to be like. They could take it in any direction really… I’d like another MGS3 style game, something a bit more standalone so it doesn’t have to worry about answering crazy convoluted plot questions!
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Glenn
Are you playing in The Old Republic stress test beta this weekend?
I’ve been selected for it along with everyone else and judging on the gameplay videos I’ve been watching I might need to pre-order this game!
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DRS
Shh! First rule of SWTOR beta is that you can’t talk about SWTOR Beta!
(I’ll see you in there…)
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oggob
For some bizarre reason it was delayed on PAL PSN territories, there was no date mentioned yet, but it was pushed into November, I’m banking on it popping up tomorow! (hopefully)! 🙂
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GentlemanJ
Thoughts on Rayman?
Wasn’t going to get it but after the demo might have to.Also, Hendo V Shogun – fight of the year?
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Mark Serrels
This release schedule is so packed I haven’t played it yet.
Looks great though.
And yeah — fight of the forever. I’m just gutted Shogun didn’t get the draw he deserved.
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DG
Did you used to watch that show spellbinder?
I did when i was young and am re-watching it on youTube ^_^-
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oggob
Yeah… The main guy from the first series was a whiney tool though… Love a powersuit and go all dragonball against everyone! :p
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Strange
How come RockPaperShotgun have done a thing about Sughly’s game, Egress but you guys haven’t?!
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Mark Serrels
We’re doing something on Egress. I’ve been busy, so didn’t even know it was out or existed.
I have the most love for Sughly. Inappropriate love. So I will be alerting everyone to his game!
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Trjn
The Yogscast guys apparently acted rather diva like at the convention, Notch was not happy. Drama ensued.
That’s all I know and to be honest, that’s all I feel like knowing.
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Mark Serrels
I didn’t cover it because it was all a bit gossipy and stuff.
I think it’s probably worth waiting for their statement, but Notch seems like a trustworthy guy. Most likely they acted a bit like dicks.
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Angered Catfish
Are you excited for the Playstation Vita? Do you think it will be a success? I hope they make PS2 classics compatible with it!
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Mark Serrels
I’m excited for it, but worried it will just be a port machine. The only game I really loved for the original PSP was Loco Roco. Sony need to make more proper handheld games.
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Jason
Will Max Payne 3 have equal parts in Noir America and Sao Paolo or mainly Sao Paolo over America, being a fan of the original Max Payne 1 & 2 i want it to return to its Noir routes.
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Mark Serrels
I’m not sure about the percentages… but I know it’s linear storytelling. Past to present. No flashbacks.
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Bryce
Did you ever play “To the moon”
Did you cry? (Also, can ‘Scottish’ people actually cry?)
RPS wouldn’t shut up about it, so I gave it a go and felt a little sick by the end of it, but not sad.
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Mark Serrels
Scottish people can cry — haven’t you ever seen Austin Powers?
I loved the To The Moon trailer. Have to get round to playing it for sure.
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Strange
Remember when ‘Ask Me Stuff’ used to pretty much be ‘Ask Blaghman Stuff” because he’d answer first? I miss that. *sniffle*
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Mark Serrels
I miss that. Mostly because I could just write ‘what blaghman said’ in every question.
Where is that guy…?
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Woodze
Where did the lunchtime waster posts go? Since the end of September I’ve just being working through and i’m told that’s not healthy! Waste my lunchtimes!
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Mark Serrels
I stopped them and did Remember this every day, because it was far more popular.
I’m totally flexible though — if I get enough people interested I’ll do them again!
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jbm
Afternnon Mark,
Have really enjoyed the recent articles looking into the issues surrounding grey imports. Is there any chance that you could get the opinions/situations of other smaller independent game stores that have been using grey imports as a key component of their business models?
I was thinking about Dungeon Crawl in Melbourne and wouldn’t mind hearing about their thoughts on the situation and weather they are experiencing the same issues with Nintendo that Game Traders are?
Thanks.
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Aidan
Pokemon or Digimon?
More seriously, where do you see game prices heading in Australia in the next year or so? Is there enough pressure on publishers and distributors to lower them significantly?
I vaguely remember an economist or something quoted in a Kotakau article suggesting that prices would naturally fall.
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Mark Serrels
The MDs of Activision and Ubi both said to me they think there may be a correction. I spoke to an economist a long time ago about it as well who said the same thing…
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Edward
Is traditional RTS (Age of Empires, Empire Earth etc) dead? There are very few base building/economy/combat games left outside of starcraft…
Is this due to the slow paced nature of the genre?
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James Mac
I’d say it’s more to do with the complete dominance of Starcraft, and the lack of money going into pc development these days.
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Fenixius
Will The Old Republic require Origin (and therefore agreeing to their abominable TOS)? The upcoming beta weekend does not, so I have a faint glimmer of hope; please crush that with some cold hard facts.
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Mark Serrels
Cold hard crushing facts: you need Origin to play SWTOR.
Heard that from the horses mouth. Sorry.
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masha2932
Do you think the egg-citing and egg-cellent news on the return of Dizzy is a yolk?
Just kidding that’s not my question. My question is how many egg related puns can you make Mr. Serrels?
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Mark Serrels
Omelette you finish, but are your brains scrambled? I’m the most egg-citing, egg-cellent egg pun maker of all time.
My favourite movie is hard boiled, Codemasters poached the idea of dizzy from me, and I cracked it.
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Braaains
What’s the story with the mobile version of kotaku? The embedded videos finally seem to be working as of today (or at least appearing – I haven’t tried playing one of them), but now some of the links seem to be broken so I can’t view comments or get past the first page of articles. This is on my Android phone, don’t know if it’s similar for iPhone or others.
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Mark Serrels
Very good question. We’re working on updating a lot of stuff. We have top men working on it. TOP MEN.
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Braaains
Why do I get the feeling that my concerns about Kotaku’s mobile site just got put into a wooden crate which was then nailed shut and stored away in the deepest recesses of a giant warehouse full of other identical wooden crates?
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Garuman
Any idea as to when the 360 version of Jurassic Park: The Game will be released in Australia?
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Fenixius
Actually, better question: Why was War in the North delayed in Australia but not anywhere else? Was it a logistical issue with physical copies, or a localisation issue, or a marketing implosion, or something else entirely? The date went from 3rd Nov to 16th Nov to 23rd Nov! Also, why is it releasing on a Wednesday?
What a weird, messed up release :S
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James Mac
I don’t know about the additional week, but the universally agreed upon decision was that they were avoiding the Skyrim bloodbath.
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D.C.
What’s the earliest time frame Arkham City for PC will be patched? Seems to be a lot of heart broken gamers out there…
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D.C.
http://community.batmanarkhamcity.com/forums/showthread.php/10585-PC-DirectX-11-Issues-Please-Read — seems it’s being worked on now, that’ll ease the pain a little while I stare longingly at the box. :p
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D.C.
http://community.batmanarkhamcity.com/forums/showthread.php/10585-PC-DirectX-11-Issues-Please-Read — seems it’s being worked on now, that’ll ease the pain a little while I stare longingly at the box. :p
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D.C.
http://community.batmanarkhamcity.com/forums/showthread.php/10585-PC-DirectX-11-Issues-Please-Read — seems it’s being worked on now, that’ll ease the pain a little while I stare longingly at the box. :p
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Angered Catfish
Near future sounds like a few days at least, I’m sure the game will still look great on DirectX 9 at least, is it not working for you at all or are you waiitng to get all the bells and whistles before playing it?
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D.C.
I have this odd lip sync issue too on DX9, characters will talk and their lips keep moving long after the dialogue finishes — like 5 to 10 second delay. Could probably press on if I compelled myself, but you only get to play it for the first time once. Might wait for the fix. Updated all the drivers, codecs and the like, no dice. Same computer I’m playing Skyrim on Ultra with too. :S
Anyway, I’ve destroyed Page 2 enough so that’s my last post for the day. haha.
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Bish
Holy beans, double posts are rare enough, but triples…
It… it’s so beautiful.
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D.C.
It’s what I do. I join an online community and quickly become the pariah. 😉 Move along nothing to see here.
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Woods
The site is broken in mobile. Can’t view comments and the mobile theme button is screwed. Anyone else get this? It’s making my days at work boring 🙁
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Marathon
A bit late I know but it just replaced the executable to force it to run through Steam on every open. Stops people from editing the executable file which apparently has already pissed off some of the modding community because some of their ‘tweaks’ to make the game look better etc were changing code in the app itself.
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AerintheADEQUATE
Yeah, I know that at least one or two of the ‘Large Address Aware’ patches no longer work. I think the ones that force more Post-processing effects were hit as well.
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