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The last episode shown was awesome, my wife and I are itching to see the finale. I have been following the comics for years and I am glad they have moved away from the books with the storyline so there are some surprises.
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Dude the season finale was last night. S 2 starts next week
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Dude, a lot of people watch/stream the american version. Season 2 ENDS next week.
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Ah. they are watching it illegally. I see. who would have thought
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I find it more illegal to screen the first series as a big premier here when it is so old and you have to pay for the privilege to see it.
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What game sequel/remake are you secretly (or not so secretly) wishing would be developed?
(I honestly can’t remember if I have asked a similar question in the past, so disregard this question if it looks familiar)
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TIE Fighter.
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Or SW Battlefront.
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Airborne Ranger
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Do you and/or any of the other Kotaku staffers get really… “annoyed” (there’s a polite word for it) with some of the comments people put on articles bagging out the author of said article? Do you ever feel like going to their place of work and heckling them, Seinfeld-style? Or is the customer always right, even when it’s a non-paying customer?
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Hi my name is ‘name’ and I’m going to post “i hate you luke” on every Luke article!
What an idiot :P…
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It is even worse when they actually like the article and instead of saying so they just insult him still.
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I reckon it’s incredibly disrespectful… It’s fun to have a polite gibe at someone for posting an article with more words in the headline than the body, but some of the comments are just really uncalled for.
The one reason I will stop reading Kotaku one day is because the quality of the comments will go so far down into the gutter that it will practically become like news.com.au
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That’s my concern, too. Overall the Kotaku AU community has been by far one of the better ones around in the gaming world. But in recent times the tone has seemed to start changing a bit, and these posts are one of the most prominent symptoms of that.
Constructive criticism is one thing, but a lot of these posts certainly aren’t that.
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Yeah Luke’s posts bother me sometimes, but I feel like people just jump on the hate bandwagon and abuse him for every post he makes.
With stuff like that on there I am not surprised if he does not read any of the comments.-
YES this is bothering me too.
NOT ALL OF LUKE’S ARTICLES ARE BAD. He often does decent thought out ones that don’t deserve hate.
I wish people would at least spice it up a little. What’s that, you hate the article? But WHY do you hate the article? What’s wrong with it in particular? Uncited sources? Intentionally inflammitory opinions? Important questions not asked?
“I hate you Luke” isn’t good enough!-
Funny that people hate on Luke for not elaborating enough in his articles by leaving comments with no elaboration as to why they are dissatisfied with his writing.
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Haha, oh wow. That is funny!
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The problem is the majority of them are bad.
Not ‘your opinion is stupid and you should stop using words” bad, but bad in a way that I sometimes wonder if he’s not some sort of robot that regurgitates tibbits on information from other sites.
I chime in on some of his articles every now and then (No, I dont know why) but I’d like to think I give a reason for my disdain. Its because his articles just aren’t up to the same standard as Serrels, Lien and the rest. I don’t learn anything. I don’t get another insight onto something. I get maybe a paragraph of pointless speculation at best and at worst a vaguely inflamatory headline that is probably designed to grab hits more then anything.
Its not so much a bandwagon as a camp. The bandwagon is going somewhere (or claims it is), the camp just sits around and mutters to one another about how much they dislike something.
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So you think the most constructive way to diarrhoea out a basic abortion of a thought process such as yours is to just repeatedly comment on a journalists’ articles that you don’t like his work?
If you don’t like his work, don’t read it. If you really hate it, you can always contact someone higher up and make a complaint, but slamming someone who is doing their job on a public forum is poor form, and the fact that you take advantage of the anonymity of the internet makes it cowardly as well.
Do you want me coming into the McDonalds you work at and slapping the mop out of your hand telling you you’re ‘doing it wrong’ every time? Who the hell are you to make comments passing judgement. This probably seems really aggressive but I don’t like bad manners, and what you do is the worst kind. I would and have posted comments on articles I disagree with, but at least I have respect enough for someone doing their job to discuss the article and not someone’s qualifications for writing it in a public forum.
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I’d say what “name” does is the worst kind, actually.
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Oh, for the benefit of those who never watched Seinfeld and didn’t get what I was referring to above, there was an episode where Jerry was getting heckled by some annoying woman in the audience during while he was doing his stand-up comedy act. So Jerry found out where she worked and went along to her office and heckled her while she was trying to do her job. Wish-fulfilment fantasy at its finest.
Who you trying to score with: Ashley, Kaiden, Liara, Miranda, Jacob, Jack, Cortez, Legion, etc…?
Miranda for me. Gave Liara the berries for not sticking by my side in ME2 hahaha.
Why haven’t you added me as a 3DS friend yet, I have asked twice. I shall not ask a third.
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Good luck with that, I’ve been waiting about a year for him to add me as a PSN friend. He used to say it was because he hadn’t been online with his PS3 for ages because he didn’t want to do the firmware update.
But now I KNOW he’s been online because he’s played Journey, and still my friend requests sits there unanswered. I’ve come to the conclusion that he just doesn’t like me. *wipes tear*
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God, he’s such a mean!
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Someone’s probably asked this before, but I’m curious. Was game journalism always a thing you wanted to do? Or did you kinda fall into it?
Question from last week (although after getting a Vita I think I know the answer already).
With the Vita I heard that there weren’t supposed to be “regions” for PSN network games, so in theory we could get Japanese games, US could get EU games, etc.
If true, does that mean things like PSOne classics in Japan would be available here? I’d love to get IQ Final on my Vita (hoping with all appendages crossed)
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PS Vita can only have one PSN account attached to it at any given time. But yes, you can buy stuff from other regions. I have a US PSN account on mine because the PAL PSN has a terrible, overpriced PSP selection for example.
I got Uncharted 2 for 10 bucks. I haven’t played 1 and can’t find a cheap copy anywhere. Should I hold out until I get 1 or just play 2?
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I skipped the first game and thoroughly enjoyed the second one. I don’t think it’s necessary to track down Uncharted. Uncharted 2 is a good enough game to stand on it’s own.
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The first one is a good game but Uncharted 2 tops it in every way. You miss a tiny bit of backstory etc but you can skip it without much of a problem. Only issue is that you’ll struggle to go back and play it after finishing 2 because 2 is so good.
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Sweet I had a feeling this may be the case. Just worried as some series go to balls after the first game. I love Mass Effect 1 way more than 2 so just wanted to get some perspective on this series.
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Agreed! Uncharted 2 was such a big leap, for me, in terms of enjoying a game so much it gets finished really quickly because I don’t want to stop! Found it hard to go back to #1, it’s not that it’s bad, but #2 is so good!
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I’d love to know when the Playstation Plus minis will work on my goddamn Vita.
Something I’ve been thinking about lately:
If a Kotaku reader were to write up their own article filled with research and whatnot, a thousand words or two on whatever game related topic, or even well written opinion piece, would you publish it on this here site?
It’s just I’m thinking maybe something like this would be a good way to contribute to a community they love.
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Adam Ruch has submitted a few articles like that. Zorine “Harli” Te has done a handful of writeups about LAN events. Raygun Brown has submitted the odd rant. I’ve written a retrospective review and started up the whole Shameless Gaming Month thing last year (which included a blog post or two of mine being posted here).
Then there are reader reviews.
So I think it’s safe to say that it is definitely something people can do.
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Sweet. I should write up that love letter to DKC2.
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I wrote one about Demon’s Souls, but Mark found a better one about Dark Souls somewhere else, so it didn’t get published. 🙁
Also, you can submit reader reviews for anything, old or new.
Mark, will you be playing MGS3D? Or not interested after indulging the HD version.
With Double Fine’s Adventure! and now inXile pushing Wasteland 2, what game would you pay money dollars for someone (someone who knows/understands/loves the source material) to make a sequel/spiritual successor?
Planescape: Torment would come in high on my wishlist. Also, I’d love someone to “de-make” FFVII with beautiful HD 2D sprites (basically a SNES style FFVII). It’s not so much that the game is important to me, but I’d love to play it again and I can’t ever get past those clunky, “ambitious 3D” graphics. And keeping to the Adventure game/long time coming sequel theme of Adventure & Wasteland, I’d love to play the two proposed games that followed Loom.
Pants?
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No pants. Just feels like one of those days.
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Actually, for a completely unrelated question:
I know it’s a long shot, but would any of the staff want to come to a Meat in Canberra in late June?
Hi Mark,
I recently tried to purchase NBA JAM: ON FIRE EDITION for my PS3.
I did the usual things like research my favourite gaming shops and found out this game is either out of stock (all uk suppliers providing the game really cheap, ozgameshop at $27) or wildly overpriced (jb hi-fi at $50 was the cheapest). Then I did something really intriguing, i looked on the PSN store online and found the game for sale at $19AUD.
Ok now here’s where my problems began to occur. My only reliable internet is via a little wireless dongle i own or the temporary borrowing of next doors wireless internet (which is incredibly jumpy) and my ps3 will only connect for like 2 minutes and then time out.
I decided that I would purchase it online and then download it to a drive and voila, I would transfer it onto my PS3. Then when I actually got around to trying to find it to download I realised there was a problem, and here is my question to you mark.
how do you download games you have purchased and transfer them to your ps3?
Is it even possible?
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I’m not Mark (I don’t have his awesome good word skills), but I can tell you that what you want is not possible – you can only download it directly through the Playstation.
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The only solution is to confront your neighbours and demand they upgrade their internet/wireless network because their poor quality service is unacceptable.
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I would also like to point out that the On Fire Edition of the game is actually a little different, the game has updated rosters and a few more features (mainly the Tag option which was never implemented into the retail build).
The On Fire Edition is the superior option.
Of note, even though I have the digital version, I still want to pick up the retail version myself, but as you mentioned I am looking for somewhere that has it for $20 before biting!
How do I add an avatar to my account?
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Thanks!
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Here’s a question for ya! DO I have the most awesome umbrella or what?!
http://t.co/QtRkQ7UK Jealous much? :0
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RASENGAN!
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That is pretty damn awesome.
Did you know that Bioware fans have seemingly hated the ME3 ending so much, they’re actually donating to a charity in protest?
http://retakemasseffect.chipin.com/retake-mass-effect-childs-play
Has a game ending received this much backlash before? Apparently people werne’t too fond of FF7’s when it came out, but now it’s seen as a classic. I’m interested to see how this whole ME3 thing will develop either way.
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I’m impressed by how calmly, and how well they have stated their intentions.
But… What? I mean, really? It’s just a game. And I say this as someone who loves video games.
Oh well, at least they gave money to charity.
Who are some of your favourite journalists from KotakUS?
Are we able to have an “List of Evil Companies”?
Where by each game company is ranked on level of evilness. This list will be updated frequently.
Companies rank up or down depending on certain actions.
Some I can think of:
EVIL
-DRM
-Rip off DLCs
-Greedy policies
-support SOPA
-unfulfilled promises
GOOD
-Freebies (DLC, content, giveaways)
-selfless policies
I just think that “evil” and greedy deeds by companies need to be highlighted
Good one Serrels! Just ignore page 2 why don’t you? Where’s the love? /me runs away crying!
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