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PUBLIC HOLIDAY \o/
which still means work, but MONEY \o/
OOOOHHHH i broke in new TAY… i think that’s a first ever for me, even after 3 years \o/
now to say something meaningful…
…
Nah i got nothing!
Haha – it seems everyone else is still in bed.
I suspect so /o\
i might just have a nap under my desk, no one else is here anyway XD
I am here. I’m always here *heavy breathing*
Well, not always, just sometimes.
screepy
I learnt it from you =P
*Looks over shoulder*
Are… are you stalking me?
oh, one of those part-time stalking things… that’s cool 😛
Oh I’m not stalking you, just Laika and Odin.
I wouldn’t do that, unless you want to get attacked by licking puppies XD
edit – I don’t know if you saw my tweet last night, but apparently i’m not needed anymore
Who says that wasn’t my plan all along?
LAIKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@dc
Did i miss something? 😛
EDIT – Aside from Laika also being the name of the first dog in space (We knew that when we chose the name :P)
@pixel_the_ferret_viking the other day, @dc dressed up as a dog and got shot into space in a hastily built ramshackle soviet satellite
@aliasalpha
That’s our @dc
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*canned laughter*
I’m browsing TAY in bed. That’s dedication!
DediTAYtion?
DeTAYcation?
Got Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity from EB because it was $47 pre-owned.
It’s interesting so far, but it’s too early for me to tell whether I like it or not.
I’d like to know whether it lives up to Explorers of Darkness and Time. All signs point to no.
Why the hell does my gym have to be open for a half day just when I have an appointment? It’s a conspiracy damnit!
Morning everyone.
Hope all are swell 🙂
I had a great week 😀
I didn’t get nearly as much study done as I’d hoped, but I’m not even mad 😛
I have a new found resolve to get a nice body and (possible overshare, but I don’t care, I’m in a good mood :D) a nice booty, so am going to gym it up 5 times a week (gotta do them squats :P).
I also spent a fair amount of time on the weekend flirting, haha! :S
It’s not gonna go anywhere (mutual conclusion), but it was fun regardless! 😀
I think that’s what’s put me in a good mood :S
I still got it ;D
Exam week next week, meaning I’m gonna feel the stress,at some point this week, but that’s,what exams do, and I’m sure I can pass them all 🙂
Oh, and I officially got confirmation of me TAYbie status, so that’s put me in a good mood too, cause who wouldn’t want to be a member of this lovely bunch! ;D
Anyway, hope everyone is great! 😀
Have fun on your long weekend you Eastern TAYbies 😀
Liondrive living the good life,
Glad you’re in a good mood buddy 😀
Exams always suck, but eh, life moves on after them (that’s always been my attitude anyway XD)
Yeah, I always get stressed right before then, then during them, then as soon as they’re over I’m like “I don’t know what I was stressed about”, haha!
It seems you might be having a bad morning, in which case I hope your day gets better, pal 🙂
Well my morning has consisted of TAY, Porridge (with banana and honey, YUM!) and Coffee so aside from having to get out of bed, not being in my pjs and leaving my missus at home, it’s not been too bad a morning actually XD
Good thing about working public holidays is that because no one is in, unles something breaks, i really don’t have to do much aside from monitoring things every once in a while 😛
IT \o/ we work hard… when things break!
I’d recommend the leg press at the gym, it always manages to make my arse hurt (as well as my legs) if I do a lot of reps
I do that, but I think I’m coasting at low weights (for what I should be doing), so I’m gonna up all my weights today 😀
Wish me luck! 😀
I’mma be so ripped 😛
Also, don’t underestimate the weighted step. Grab some weights and a bench/surface you can step up on. Remember to really squeeze those glutes like you’re thrusting, when you step (the entire point of the exercise, right?). A few sets each leg and you’ll be feeling it, but you’ll get some bonus work on yourhammies, and quads, and if you rise tip-toe on every step, hit your calves as well. And don’t forget your lunges.
I like how people are helping me get a booty, haha!
You guys are alright ;D
Thanks for the advice! 🙂
Well my record is 4 reps at 503kg, as long as you have that target to aim for you always have an objective!
Sit to stands are another good exercise for the arse, by which I mean it hurts like mad the next day when I do a lot of them. Holding a 20kg disc in front of you as you do it makes it harder which is apparently a good thing (personal trainers are wired wrong in the brain I think)
I don’t think I’ll ever get that high, haha!
I do around 100 reps (50 at a time, broken into sets of 10) at 115kg, so I’m a long way off, haha!
I don’t want like, huge bulging muscles though, just to be toned 😀
And have pecs and a nice caboose ;P
I seem to be getting visible muscles lately, I was drying my hair a few weeks & had both hands above my head and suddenly noticed I have rather well defined biceps & shoulder muscles. I’m kind of ripped but only from the armpits up, the rest still needs a lot of work, rather odd
Good work! 😀
I’m always like, “Oh my god, I have abs! Oh wait, never mind, just ribs”.
Then the next day, “Oh my god, abs! Nope, still ribs”, haha!
Leg press always drains ALL the blood out of my body into my legs. My brain really misses that blood. It wants it back.
One of the guys at the gym last week was practicing headstands, that seems like a fast way to get the blood back up there.
Unless you’re talking about your other brain in which case porn might be the answer.
It’s always the answer.
That’ll make my exams easy.
I’ll just write “porn” for every answer 😛
*blink blink* Who’s making all this noise out here? Can’t you see I’m sleeping in?? Sheesh!
I think we’re having a family cooking day today. Cakes, bread, slow cook stew, and a rather delightful pumpkin soup I’ve been aiming to brew once it was winter-y enough (which it now appears to be today).
In between sessions there shall be much 4 player Mario Kart, yes indeed!
…Pumpkin Soup?
What time shall i come over? 😀
You can have the pumpkin soup, I’ll have the cakes and bread.
So yeah, what time should we come over @gemini? 😀
And should we bring snacks?
Booze. Lots and lots of booze.
What sort of cake?
Our oldest suddenly “remembered” he has assignments due tomorrow, therefore the cake making was sacrificed. We only just finished the last cake I made (caramel banana) last night anyway, so maybe that’s a good thing. 🙂
The soup is good though. Not the usual pumpkin variety I would normally work with, but when it comes fresh from Dad’s garden you can’t go wrong.
Fresh pumpkin is so good. I have a friend who grows the tiny golden nugget pumpkins. Very yum .
Anyone watching Microsoft’s or EA’s press conference live?
Those are the two I care the least about so thankfully their during sleepytimes. I’ll try to catch Ubisoft if I can but Sony and Nintendo are the highest on my list.
WOOOO!
When does it start?
Microsoft’s is at 4am tomorrow, and EA’s is at 7am.
Then there’s more through the day, with Ubisofts at 8 or something and Sony’s at 1pm.
I think they’re roughly the right times. Kotaku had an article earlier about it.
I think your times are off :P. I’ve just been going by this http://au.ign.com/wikis/e3/E3_2014_Press_Conferences_AU_Times
More reasonable in Perth times though (@phlanispo)
I’d been going off this: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/heres-a-complete-schedule-of-e3-2014-press-conferences/
I got 1/4, but I remembered the end times and not the start times…
Phew! Good thing we corrected that 😀
EA has the potential to have good things like Star Wars Battlefront 3! =DDD
Also Microsoft might have some info about the new Fable game which could be interesting … Maybe?
Fable, Halo, Sunset Overdrive, and a heap of unannounced games that I hope aren’t Kinect games 😛
Also, they might show off some Below there too, maybe?
Maybe I should wake up for it…
I’d be keen for a Master Chief edition!
I’m hoping they’ll release that rumoured collection for PC also. I CAN DREAM, OKAY? 😛
That’ll be even better for me! Less motivation to get an Xbox One 😛
They could make a master chief helmet themed XB1, the disc slot could be in his visor.
If they did redesign the machine to be more vertical than horizontal and made unusual versions like that, I might be a bit more interested in it from an aesthetic perspective (still needs games I want though)
Vertical console, ew.
Sif. Both my Wii and Wii U live veritcally, and it’s rad. Kinda miss the slant stand that the Wii had though, that was cool.
I’m looking forward to seeing more of Quantum Break.
Oh yeah! Battlefront!!!!!!!!!
Mirror’s Edge! 😀
I have found lately (in my new found old-man’s cynicism) that i couldn’t 2 flying fornications about those Press Conferences. I feel like they just use them as a way of telling people how superior they’re going to be, and it’s usually a let down…
Except for Nintendo, i feel like they don’t bullshit around because you kinda know what to expect from them, they mention a “new” title and you pretty much know what the deal is and it’s going to be amazing 😛
I couldn’t be bothered getting up to watch the MS one live. But I’ll probably be up for EA as it’s not too early in the morning. Keen to hear about their Star Wars games and Mirror’s Edge 😀
WOO WOO! ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN!!
Ohhh yeah, new Mirror’s Edge would be interesting.
Not live, no.
The exam break is over. Back to school. The exams are still going on for Year 11’s, so for the one class I have that is a Year 11/12 mixed class is going to be interesting, because only 3 Year 12s go to that class.
Yep, that made sense. Yep.
How do year 11s & 12s share a class? What witchcraft is this??? Is it some kind of esoteric subject that doesn’t have the required numbers if its only one year doing it?
Business Management. Because of half-year cohort stuff, my year group has always been half the size of the others. Last year, back when I was a Year 11, I took Business Management and there were only 5 Year 11s in the class.
Oh yeah, that makes sense. We had a similar thing like that in TAFE when I was doing the CertIV where we had diploma guys in with us because they needed to do a specialised subject that we were also doing
Last night I met Stan and threatened to punch him right in the sternum and steal his shoes!
I’m so glad you linked to the profile, otherwise i would automatically have assumed you threatened to punch Stan Lee… which you are not allowed to do, unless i’m there because i want to see it XD
I at first thought he was talking about this guy: http://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/files/costumes/60/11794/230968-stan_large.jpg
Man i would totally do a Stan cosplay costume if i could find a way to do his jacket so that the pattern moved (or lack there of) like in game XD
Is he tall? Is his name Brad? Is he a Quizmaster?
Stan. STAN. He’s two metres tall with an axe!
I was thinking this Stan.
Goddammit, I’m having an allergic reaction to nothing. My nose is itching and I’m sneezing painful sneezes constantly, the back of my throat is itchy and I can’t scratch it, and my back is very itchy and I think there’s a rash on it.
Gotta soldier through and get myself to school, I’m probably not contagious.
Also, my neck’s itchy and I think it has a rash, but I can’t tell because there’s facial hair in the way. DAMN YOU NECKBEARD!
This might sound silly, but does your house get dusted often?
When i lived in Wagga (so much dust!) if we didn’t do it every few days i’d wake up with similar symptoms as you, and i don’t even have any allergies 😛
Were you here when we had lovely clay dust storms that turned the entire sky a terracotta colour? That was quite nice until you had to go out in it or clean up afterwards.
Was that in 09-10’ish? Because my car looked like this
http://imgur.com/gMSZzcb
back then 😛
Yeah that was it, I do have a few photos of the sky but they’re on google plus and are stupid to share. Can’t just link to the fucking picture can I?
Yeah it’s a bit… clunky XD
Yes i remember that storm well, it was pretty insane… that entire year was insane weather… The hailstorms as well :\
You got any antihistamines? Sounds like a job for telfast
So i was playing SWTOR yesterday (my first MMO i’ve actually payed a subscription for and quite enjoying it)
But i ended up doing a flashpoint with some randoms, and friendly as i am just started talking random crap.
One of the other guys joined in and we cracked some jokes and it was all merry…
The only problem was that even when we were done with the flashpoint he constantly send me direct messages, and constantly waffling on about what he was up to.
I started out thinking “alright, he’s friendly enough i’ll just reply with the usual “lol” and stuff”
After some time it just became tenacious, and 2 hours into it he started constantly sending me group invites… i ended up blocking him, felt really bad for doing it, but he was ruining my game experience, and didn’t think it was entirely fair (i had told him that it wasn’t necessary to constantly tell me how he just killed this dude, and was now force choking that dude etc.etc.)
Anyway, this turned into a longer rant then i thought, but it started a thinking process.
I can sometimes barge into conversations, but this experience has kinda left me thinking that i really, REALLY hope no one sees me like that (intruding, tenacious, annoying) and they just want me to go away… if you do, please inform me, before i become that… i really don’t want to be that kind of guy 😛
…
So, vidya gaemz ey? they’re pretty great
Nah man! You’re one of my favs 😀
naw thanks man :), it’s just one of those annoying insecurities i have… I don’t want to annoy people, and i constantly worry that i am 😛
I know it’s stupid, but i’ve been in that position before (in my teenagehood) where i really wasn’t welcome but people tolerated it out of politeness…
Nah man! You’re one of my favs 😀
naw thanks man :), it’s just one of those annoying insecurities i have… I don’t want to annoy people, and i constantly worry that i am 😛
… Waaiit a second!
Nah man! You’re one of my favs 😀
naw thanks man :), it’s just one of those annoying insecurities i have… I don’t want to annoy people, an-
… Now hang on just a minute!
We all barge into conversations here. That’s what TAY is all about. 😛
I guess that’s true, but there’s barging into conversations having something clever/witty to add and barging in just being annoying… i’d hate to be the latter 😛
Pretty sure if you were being annoying by doing that someone would say so. We’re a pretty honest bunch.
What I do find annoying though, is all you guys thinking you’re annoying when you’re not. 😛
see? OH GOD I’M BEING ANNOYING
*runs off crying*
😛
CANNONBALL
*splashes everyone poolside*
@virus__ Are you still in Launceston? If you are, do you want to have a meat? I don’t even know if you’ll get this, but there’s no reason not to try.
FIRST EVER TAS MEAT!? OMG!
@benj get in on that!
We should all catch the Spirit of Tasmania one day and to to tassi to visit @ontargett!
Well when the money allows XD
I’ve always wanted to catch it and coordinating that with a meat would be amazing…
Plus we can all be seasick together \o/
Sea sickness is the worst. I almost threw up on the way to Liberty Island. XD
It really is 😛
I don’t usually get seasick but man i remember that one time that i did… it lasted for hours after we left the ferry!
Funnily enough, Mum and I were discussing going to tassie if we get a new car
Well i’ve wanted to go to Tasmania for a while (never been) and the more i think of it, the more it seems like a good idea to coordinate it like a meat if people are up for it XD
How long is the ferry trip? 10 hours or something?
Yeah, it’s about 10 hours. They show two movies in the theatre as well, so that helps pass the time.
You should visit Stan too!
9 hours or 11 hours.
I wanna take Sid!
Can you take pets? cause that’d be amazing!
Yep, you can take pets. I don’t know whether it costs extra or not. (I’ve never actually paid to go across on the Spirit).
Dogs are allowed but they have to be treated for a special type of tape worm. Sentinel spectrum deals with it, so Sid is safe. It’s $22 for kennel hire a trip.
@scree @ontargett
Excellent, we already use Sentinel Spectrum on both dogs so they should be OK \o/
alright i need to stop before i get ahead of myself and order tickets without actually having the money XD
At least you know what you need to.
Also, pet friendly accommodation
I’d be keen!
The more we talk about it, the more my mind convinces me that this is an amazing idea XD
i just need to save up some bloody money then i’d be totally keen to do that!
Let me know when you come up with a date so I can put in for some time off.
Yeah man, i’ll go over things come tax return and stuff, but i really want to organise this 😀
Mrs. Monkey would be very keen on this, she’s always wanted to go to Tassie.
Edit: Don’t make it for school holidays, because I’m not allowed to take time off during those periods.
@evilmonkey
EEwww oh god no, i try to do all my holidaying outside of peak periods
Yeah, let me know as well if you decide to do it. I grew up in Tasmania and really want to go back.
Yaaay i love how a random brain fart is now turning into a thing \o/
I can’t believe that my first ever meat is possibly going to be a freakin’ trip to Tasmania.
Let me know when you guys all go so I can steal stuff from your houses!
*GASP*
@dc coming to Melbourne confirmed! you read it here first folks!!!
He’s coming back home!
I’d be all for that. As long as I have enough rum 😀
Nah was in Hobart only got back to Launie bout 6 last night and then got on the turps so I was good and hungover for my 9am flight to Melbourne haha. I feel so fucking seedy currently.
Sydney people!
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @morkai @mrtaco @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Last minute reminder that we’re meeting up in Kino today at 12 if you’re interested!
I’ll pop in for a few hours. But then I must away. For that is life.
Sorry. I’m in Shanghai.
Argh! I forgot to check my notifications and didn’t get an email *sadface*
Oh, and @scree! I sent you that code for the Tomodachi Life demo via Twitter DM!
Oh Thank you! I’ll grab it when I do some knitting, it’ll be my reward
Oh right. Monday.
Previously on TAY:
So yeah, just a normal installation, changed it from C to D drive (HDD instead of SSD), then as I hit Next I see the icons on the desktop disappear and just think it’s that weird desktop refresh thing, but then get a popup saying D can’t be found. Then I start panicking and check System Restore, see a point for just a few minutes before and use that one, but once it all restarts nothing’s changed. So I went to bed to leave it til other people were awake. And now I’m back to shitting myself again.
So that’s both computers that have crapped themselves within a week and now I’m down to using my phone for Internet and I am scared.
I’m no expert, but I hope you’ve got everything backed up, because it sounds like you might need to format and reinstall everything.
The whole point of what I was doing was to backup the OTHER machine which was threatening to die >_<
God dammit Murphy and your stupid laws!
Check cables
Check power saving settings
if the SSD is in anything other than the first 2 SATA ports, change it to one of the first 2.
I had a 2tb drive I bought late last year randomly disconnect on a semi regular basis, crashing whatever game was running from it. Turns out it was in SATA 5 which ran off the southbridge chipset (it’s pretty common for only 0 & 1 to run on the northbridge) and somehow kept going into a low power state despite my telling it not to (might have been the chipset itself since I just told the drive ports to stay active and if the chipset went to sleep nothing was passed through). Swapped it to SATA1 and the problem seems to have been resolved forever.
It lead me to a new rule of system building, the more system critical the drive, the closer to SATA0 it should be.
I’ve got the SSD in SATA3_0 down on the bottom part of the board where the five SATA2 ports are, then the HDD and disc drive are in SATA3_A0 and SATA3_A1 respectively which are on the top of the board closer to where they both sit. It still seems to be running, I can feel it vibrating when the machine’s on. Just doesn’t show up at all :/
Does it show in POST/BIOS?
If not, disconnect everything but the boot drive and plug the SSD in right next to it and see if that changes
Uh… how do I check that again? I don’t see any post on startup (that’s the white text on black screen, right?) and can’t remember/figure out how to get to bios. The starting screen lists F2/del for UEFI, but couldn’t seem to find anything about drives in that, then it was… F6 for instant flash, didn’t touch that, F11 for boot menu, and I forget the fourth. But yeah, couldn’t find and can’t remember anything from setting it all up.
Usually F2 or delete, assuming it’s an Award BIOS (most are) it’ll have something called standard cmos features, HDDs are listed in there by model number, if you unplug everything but the boot drive and SSD and it picks up 2 things, that means the drive is working and it’s a software issue
I posted this yesterday, but I don’t think there were many TAYbies around, so I’ll post it again (slightly edited).
Anyone heard of/played Lifeless Planet? Was browsing Steam and came across it, looks intriguing.
Haven’t played it yet, but I’ll start it up in the next hour or so and let you guys know what I think. Also, got a coupon after purchasing that and Toki Tori 2 for 50% off SpaceChem, which apparently I already own, so if anyone wants to trade, let me know.
I had a bit of a look at it, but the negative reviews made me reckon I’ll wait for a sale.
Not that the game mostly gets negative reviews, just that negative reviews are where I look to for the points of truth that enthusiastic fans won’t tell you about.
A lot of them have some pretty heavy spoilers in them though (which I don’t care about but you might), so I would say… the negative side seems to be that the ‘puzzles’ are overly simple, the exploration is limited to moderly-well-hidden corridors, the first act is amazing but also happened to coincidentally be the Early Access Beta for kickstarter backers, and the second act peters out into uninspired blandness with nowhere to go. Movement can feel too slow when you want to move on from areas which purely exist for eye-candy which isn’t doing its job, and according to some the plot doesn’t really reach a resolution.
Which is kinda why I always read negative reviews before buying anything. You know there’s no sugar-coating, and you can usually tell from the language when someone just has an axe to grind and is really beating up minor points. Plus you can ignore all the, “Game is complete shit, can’t get it to run, bullshit devs won’t acknowledge the problem,” reviews. EVERY game has those.
That’s the negatives. If that shit doesn’t turn you off immediately, you should go read the positive reviews about what you would really enjoy. Seems to be some inspiring art, a pretty cool story concept, and the price isn’t terrible.
Whoa… The Witcher 3’s price on Steam just jumped by $20 overnight :/
Good thing Cake bought it for me yesterday!
What a jerk. Stupid jerk. Handsome jerk.
Man what a guy!
the best thing is he only expects some sexual favours in return!
And yet surely by now he knows that he gets those for free.
And people are always nervous about getting stuff from people from the internet.
SEE GUYS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT! just a damn generous guy who expects nothing out of the ordinary in return!
Far out! If you want to get the Witcher I would suggest getting from GOG because you get a couple of bonus’ from there for the same price. Plus the money goes straight to the devs!
Thramsay Week….
I… I think I’m done. There is no joy left in this world.
I don’t know what it is, but it sounds disappointing
Theon and Ramsay…
Internet fan fiction…
One solid week…
*shudder*
right!
Why is is Thramsay and not Ramon?
Wow…that’s a thing?
Mornin’ All.
Had a good weekend. Went and saw How to Train Your Dragon 2, it was pretty cool, animation was great, had a pretty cool fight scene (even if nobody seemed to understand basic DRAGON TACTICS!), and it didn’t pull punches at some important moments, which was nice to see in a kid’s movie. So I give it a thumbs up.
Afterwards I went and ate some horrendously overpriced churros that were delicious.
Speaking of overpriced, I’m going to buy Wicked Tickets this Friday for Saturday the 18th of October. Kind of short warning for people but shmeh. Tickets are going to cost $122, which is a lot, but hopefully totally worth it. So, as last time, people interested in seeing Wicked who feel like throwing money at me, can you send me an email please?
Obviously, not a lot of warning, and I doubt that Nova (and plus one), CJ, and a few others would be able to pay me now, so if you could reply here, or send me an email, and on Friday I’ll buy as many spare tickets as I can reasonably manage, since I’m sure I’ll be able to offload them at some point. Hopefully.
Hey Balge, do you want to actually tell people your email address?
Nah. They’ll work it out, it’s fine.
I always just figured if I wrote “Blaghman” on an envelope and posted it, they would know what to do with it.
You need to go “Blaghman, Canberra.” Once it gets here there’s only 2 dozen houses, so they can work out which is mine fairly quickly.
I just put “Blaghs” on all the presents I send to @blaghman. I assume he has got them all.
Ohh I wouldn’t mind seeing this again, where is it playing at?
Capitol Theatre.
Coolio, if you don’t mind me tagging along I’d like to join you all.
I can pay you now, just send either bank details or your preferred method of payment to my email
hugo(dot)barbarian(@)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
The more the merrier!
I will send an email later today, assuming I remember. >.>
Well, I was worried this morning that I wouldn’t be able to go to school on account of sickness, and I was dead right. Blergh.
Hey, that means I can play Timeshift! Yay!
Ya know, most teenagers would be celebrating about not having to go to school.
Odd fellow you are. Odd, productive fellow.
Since being made redundant at work I have had no luck with finding work so I decided I should apply for uni studies except I literally have no idea what to apply for. I did a couple of years of study for Engineering before being made redundant but not sure if I should complete this or start on something else. Anyone know what the current demand in job market is?
To be related to the boss I think
#EveryPageIsPage6
You seem to think I’m joking…
Then again, I suppose you’re not looking for work in wagga…
No, I don’t think you’re joking just that there is no degree called “Becoming related to your Boss”. =P
Or not to work in the Public Sector, I know that one for sure. =P
You should study modern dance!
Dual Degree! Photography and Dance! \o/
Selfies while pulling amazing moves? 😛
*vomits*
If you have already done some Engineering I’d stick with that.
Imo, sciences/engineering/doctoring/law are probably the only worthwhile things studying at uni, as they will most likely lead to a job somewhere.
Engineering is always in demand.
… Said by the guy who couldn’t get anything back home and somehow landed a job on the other side of the world.
That said, what @aliasalpha said is somewhat true. In the business I’m in, it seems like it’s more who you know rather than what you know.
Can you take a degree in nepotism? I should go back to uni and study that
“Hey did you know 0.5% of people are descended from Ghenghis Kahn? That means we’re basically brothers!
…job plz”
Are you willing to move interstate for work?
Sure, you’re offering work? =P
Um, if my sewing business ever comes about, you’ll be the first person I employ.
Bartending Friday night led to being sick Saturday and Sunday, that wasn’t fun, and I haven’t been paid yet either.
Are you sure that the sickness wasn’t payment? It’d be pretty bad compensation but technically you got something in exchange for work.
Got the .NET framework installed, just had a go at Transistor.
It’s pretty damn good so far.
Such an awesome game.
Why couldn’t i have been sick tomorrow instead of today? I could have spent the day reading E3 news!
LIONDRIVES NEW AND IMPROVED WORKOUT ROUTINE
– 50 chest pushes at 65kg
– 50 leg curls at 85kg
– 50 pulldowns at 75kg
– 50 seated leg presses at 115kg
– ^^repeat^^
– 100 situps
– 5 minutes on stair master
I was coasting too much, so increased all my weights by 20kg instead of 10kg.
We’ll find out tomorrow morning if that was a good idea :S
Pixel’s NEW AND IMPROVED WORKOUT ROUTINE
– 2 cups of coffee, one for each hand 100 reps
– 10 spins on the chair, or whenever i start feeling sick
…
That looks intense compared to what i can achieve though, good on ya!!!
Yeah, I’m dead, haha!
And I stink :'(
I need to remember to take roll-on deodorant to the gym next time, haha!
I swear my body can’t put on muscle though :S
I went to the gym nearly every day last year and there was no physical change other than a bit of weight loss :S
I need to eat more meat me thinks :S
That and if you look every day, you tend to not notice the physical change and always want more… Plus i’ve heard (and i could be wrong) that if you push yourself too much too often, you actually start breaking down muscle rather then build it… at least that’s what my trainer told me, which is why they said 3 times a week was a good number
I see @dc liked this.
Are you doing any home workouts DC? You can do stuff like situps, pushups, squats, and jogging at home, plus many other muscle building exercises ;P
(caus you liked going to the gym, but your membership expired :'( )
I have a set of Dumbbells ($20 or something) and this website… it’s amazing what you can achieve in terms of workout just with dumbbells
EDIT – GAH, link has decided to crap itself 😐
http://www.dumbbell-exercises.com/
I think it’s best I don’t mention how many times I tried clicking on that link…
That’s half the exercise right? clicking persistently right? *nervous laugh*
Dumbells are really effective and you can up the weight and reps quite quickly. Also good are kettlebells. Always used to groan when the PT got out the 12kg kettlebell!
But nowadays I lift my 15kg+ preschooler all the time.
I can do 7 reps of a 2kg dumbbell. That’s just as good, right?
I’ll have to take you to my gym sometime.
Get some muscles on those bones, make all the ladies swoon 😉
I swear I’ve lost strength in the last five years (and put on a bit of weight). I’d say that I’m the weakest I’ve ever been in my adult life at this point, and I’ve never been all that strong to begin with.
Old CRT monitors make good weights, if you’ve got a small one knocking about laying back and just using that like a weight over your chest is good. Well unless you drop it, I’d recommend not doing that.
Work status update:
Work is intense today man! i’ve spent the last 2 hours playing Minecraft with a co-worker… don’t know how i’ll get through the day XD
You poor thing. DON’T WORK YOURSELF TOO HARD!
Maybe you should take a break and do some paperwork or something? =P
I know right? i need another coffee!
Can I have your job?
I played Morrowind for two hours. In that two hours I went plant hunting. And did a lot of walking. And didn’t find the plants that I needed. And did more walking. I killed a cliff racer at some point. That’s something right? I celebrated by doing some walking.
I still have nightmares about those damn never-ending cliff racers.
Hrm. Think the disc drive on my PS3 has died. Could be problematic.
Thankfully nobody plays last gen games anymore, or has any need for the systems, thanks to the wide proliferation of new gen systems and their vast libraries of games.
Thankfully the PC master race is superior in every way to the scum of the consoles. Therefore you done need your console.
#mastarace #PC4LYF #PleaseKillMe
A Computer Has Passed The Turing Test For The First Time
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/06/this-is-the-first-computer-in-history-to-have-passed-the-turing-test/
I for one welcome our new computer overlords.
I like that a computer only needs to get 30% to pass the Turing test.
Also I’m pretty sure people in the past have failed the test. It’s a pretty rad test.
It’s all fun and games until more computers pass the test then humans 😛
then humans what?
Me fail English, that’s unpossible 😛
It’s kind of amusing. How would we test sentience in a machine that claimed to possess it? Take it on faith? In which case, it should be a simple test to program a machine that can convince people it’s sentient, even if it isn’t.
If it bleeds, we can kill it… oops wrong test… maybe.
*watches computer suspiciously*
Tell it to be creative, you could well argue that it’s the true measure of intelligence
I always get confused by this talk of the Turing test because I’m fairly sure that back in uni we learnt that the Turing test was what determined whether a problem was computable or not. Or something like that. That a Turing machine, which could be thought of as an infinite roll of paper and a head that could write or remove a 1 to the paper, could be used to run any program, and if it could not complete on that then it is not computable. Or something like that. It was a long time ago, but definitely had nothing to do with AI 😛
Choc ice cream, waffle cone, maple syrup…
*drool*
I feel like ice cream too, good idea crazy dude!
Butterscotch and gingerbread mmmmm
Last night, when I logged on to Origin, a messaged popped up asking me to rate how likely I was to recommend Origin to a friend. I selected 3/10 and explained why:
The problems with Origin that discourage me from recommending it to a friend are innumerable.
Origin has a bad interface. Origin tries too hard to get users to buy DLC for their games. Origin’s chat fills only the basic definition for a chat service, as it lacks timestamps or any reliable way of telling the user when they have recieved a message.
The friends list needs to be reworked.
Origin does not let you cancel and resume the download at a later date. This is irksome when downloading large games.
The only reason to use Origin is because you are forced to. Several games are only accessible via Origin. This is the only reason anyone uses Origin, and the only reason anyone would have to recommend it to a friend.
There are better options for buying games digitally with competitors such as Steam and GOG.com.
I hope my feedback was useful. Origin does some things right, (such as its consumer-friendly refund policy) and I hope this leads to Origin improving and becoming a worthy addition to PC gaming as a whole.
I resisted the urge to say “Origin sucks it sucks it sucks!”
Reading you reply I am not sure you resisted saying that 😉
Hola Tay
How has your long weekend been so far?
I went to the ancestral home with some friends for a weekend of boardgaming and wineries. Bought a couple of bottles for the cellar* and generally ate and drank. Lady Friend came up last night and things… progressed.
A monday morning question: What would you call your videogame themed wine?
*Laundry cupboard
Grape Crush Saga
MoscaT-AY?
Red Dead Riesling.
I feel like you’re trying to skip over the lady part of your story though, so let’s talk about that instead ;P
Spill! 😀
They held hands? =O
=P
I hope they used protection, don’t they know that’s how babies are made!
It’s one of the risks when living the crazy hand holding lifestyle that Red lives.
Uhhh… Scotch Pilgrim? Wait, that’s comics…
Painkiller. (Type of rum cocktail says Wikipedia) I didn’t even need to change the name!
Kazuo Shiraz.
Well it is kinda like monday morning right now
The flying duck and on the back of the bottle subtly in the label I would have arsehole dog
L.A. Pinot Noir/e.
So I think I’ll have a cosplay for Supanova this weekend all finished with days to spare. Just a little bit of sewing to do, my wig is ready and I have thrifted some fab accessories. I just have to decide on shoes, and this will depend on how my banged-up ankle feels on the day. Just praying now that the weather isn’t 10deg and raining!
What’s the cosplay?
A rockabilly version of Madame Hydra/Viper.
I’ve sewn a green twirly dress with a snakeskin detail on the front and back, and I have green hair and some snake themed bling. Should be fun!
So, Mirror’s Edge 2 has pretty much been confirmed for E3.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/in-case-you-were-wondering-if-mirrors-edge-2-will-be-making-an-appearance-at-e3-2014-heres-some-c/
Considering going to bed early so I can get up at 5am and watch the livestream.
I’ve recently started watching (and loving) John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight.
Is this kind of show similar in format to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report? I’ve never really watched them but if they’re similar to Last Week Tonight then oh mannnn… I’ve missed out on some good TV! D:
It’s pretty a different format but I would say it’s worth watching Colbert and Daily Show just to see what you think.
New episode on Comedy Channel tonight.
MGSV E3 Trailer leak!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnkXACgXAug
EDIT: linked one has been removed. Pretty cool trailer but the last one was better IMO
Any Linux folk here? I’m trying to work out if the Trickle bandwidth shaper can be configured to activate different limits at certain times of day, I want to run youtube uploads during the day at low speed and then unshackle them at night when I’m in bed. Anyone know a way to do it? If not with trickle then some other free analogous program
I have no idea about it but I imagine that it’s probably got a config file it reads its settings from, and if so worst case you could set up a cron job that at specific times of the day invokes a batch script that replaces the config with the appropriate one for the next period and then if necessary stops and restarts the service so I can pick up a new config. Would require the machine to be on 24/7 but sounds like that’s already your plan.
Further research makes me think trickle isn’t going to be the thing I need, there’s been several references to not being able to alter speed dynamically and since you have to use it to launch the application, any attempt to change it would kill the browser and the upload which doesn’t resume.
Suppose I need to hunt for another more sophisticated bandwidth manager
I love that this (and the preceding conversation with @liondrive, Hellscream, Fled and Freeze) was my 6000th tweet;
http://imgur.com/jM6lFyg
PSA: Final Fantasy Type-0 Fan Translation has been released! Right before E3 too, so there’s an outside chance that Squenix will take the opportunity to scuttle all that hard work by announcing an official localization because they’re complete bastards like that.
Anyway, you can get it here:
http://www.skybladecloud.net/projects/final-fantasy-type-0-psp-english-translation/
Apparently requires a ‘PRO’ Custom Firmware because it needs the Inferno loader, which supports ISOs > 2gb (Type-0 was one of the few games along with Trails in the Sky SC and I think all the Kiseki games after it that were on two UMDs due to breaking the 2gb UMD size limit). Apparently also works in current nightly builds of the PPSSPP emulator.
I wasn’t expecting this until August (they originally said early August) so I haven’t grabbed a copy of the game yet. Did get my PSP out of storage yesterday in preparation but that was because I was thinking I might give Valkyria 3 a spin. Which I also don’t own yet. But just ordered copies of both so soon I will!
Ended up taking my computer around to my uncle’s place for him to check it out. And things were… weird. The hard drive that disappeared last night wouldn’t show up at all on whatever computer he plugged it into. But in various tools and stuff for looking at the partitions, they showed up. Just with no file system. On another tool, it said that there was 240GB of used space on there, and the files could be viewed. But nothing done with them. Ended up doing a fast copy onto a 500GB drive he had free (good thing I’m no good at using up space on mine), and once that was done it was pretty easily fixed, and all the files were there and the drive useable. Plugged that one back into my machine and it all booted up properly, icons reappeared on the screen. The lot. So with all the data recovered, he started looking for what was wrong with the original and how to fix it. And… couldn’t. It was weird. In one of the tools, there was a thing about Partition Type ID or something. The new drive came up as 0x7. The screwed one was 0x83, something that just wasn’t recognised. Absolutely no fucking idea how something like that got screwed up by attempting to install a new program, but there you go. Couldn’t figure out how to fix it at all, so he just copied all the copied data back over to it, and it seems to be ok now.
With that one done it was on to the other machine. At first the boot disc got put in the wrong drive, so it just booted normally. Made the same awful sound that stopped me from using it for the past week. But then after shutting it off I went to take the hard drive out of the caddy to look at it and… it got stuck. Which was weird. Eventually got it out, and a screw fell to the floor. Even weirder. Looks like it was the wrong size and never actually held the drive in place. And after putting the drive back in the machine and starting it… the horrible sound was gone. It just came from a loose screw?? Ran a backup of it anyway, although once the other one was finished it shut down, and my uncle accidentally tapped on the wrong keyboard and seems to have cancelled this one too. Just as it was nearing completion. So guess I gotta run that one again.
In conclusion, everything is stupid. Also I am looking at a whole pile of dust bunnies in the space where my computer was previously sitting. Except I don’t think they’re bunnies any more. They’re more like… bears. I’d better not make them angry.
That’s PC repair for you.
Master race?
Nope.
There’s always one thing you have to find after you’ve stuffed through other stuff.
Stuff that.
First thing sounds like a file system corruption issue. It’s rare and shouldn’t happen but it absolutely can happen when you’re installing a program or doing any other write to the disk. Probably there’s a bad cluster on there. Chkdisk could probably tell you for sure. I wouldn’t trust the disk, get your shit backed up.
Alternatively it could be that you disabled the drive and Windows didn’t know to re-mount it. Sometimes it can do that, especially if you re-attached the drive to a different port to where it had been before.
Loose screw could absolutely make some terrible noises. Hard drives vibrate quite a bit, and a loose screw against one could vibrate and if the screw was loose against the metal of the case itself it could make some terrifyingly loud grinding sounds. This is one reason why most low-noise cases come with silicone or rubber grommets you screw onto the drives and then attach into the case so the vibrations are dampened. Same for fans.
Yeah, badcore corruption. Chkdisk didn’t come up with any errors I don’t think, although something about a bunch of files in recycle bin (something I deleted shortly before the crash) came up in some kind of scan/check though. Also there shouldn’t have been any disabling or re-mounting of the drive, it’s the one inside the machine. Never gets touched.
You can also try a tool called HDTune, which can do a scan of the actual platters of the drive or just an overall “health” scan of the drive.
http://www.hdtune.com/
It’s not free, but there is a free trial I believe.
Time for bed.
Well this is shit news and no mistake
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/comedy-news/10887182/Rik-Mayall-dies-aged-56.html
🙁 really bad news. Dude was a legend.
Bleeeeeerrrrrgh. So bleary eyed and disorientated.
The last 20 Episodes of Arrow in a day.
Now I have no more Arrow and Season 3 doesn’t start till end of year. This is how cities get burned.
I still haven’t started season 2…
Long weekend is over.
Fortunately, its final gift will be delivered in a few days – a shorter work week!
Had a pretty good weekend, played lots of Mario Kart (almost got my 3 star rating). Got to the end of Pikmin 3 and stalled because I don’t want it to end and went exploring for all the things. Also played lots of Watch Dogs, dabbled in the online stuff a bit and it’s pretty good fun sneaking into people’s games and spying on them, had some hilarious online hacks, one I invaded a dude’s game hid behind his car and when he jumped out of his car and started searching for me I hopped into his car and he didn’t find me, another I was in the open and had one railway bridge supporting column to hide behind, I spent the whole hack running around and around the column to keep outta sight he came so close to me like 10 times but I managed to stay out of sight, the guy sent me a message calling me a bastard then congratulated me on my sneakyness. How were your weekends? Good I hope :D.
MORNING ALL!
I’m very pleased to announce that the Australian Amazon store is the first place in the world to be offering The Game for sale. The print version should be on sale later today, when the rest of the world finally realises what the correct date is.
http://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Shane-W-Smith-ebook/dp/B00KC61YLQ/
How long has the Australian Amazon Store been around? Didn’t even know it existed.
It’s just a Kindle store, and it’s been around since November.
You learn something new everyday.
So I’ve woken up today morning after sleeping away most of yesterday to a hangover to a pleasant surprise…. E3!! Yay! Now to spend the morning drinking coffee and reading up on all the new games I’ll be throwing money at!
How am I supposed to get any work done, there is far too much gaming news to keep up with.
Good morning all. I hope you all had an awesome long weekend. I did stuff and it was fun (aka RPGs but more on that later). Now to sit back and consume all of the E3 news.
How’d you go against the Baneblade??? Did my awesome throw planes at the tank tactic work?!
Turns out I was slightly wrong in my assumption that the Baneblade would arrive for the most recent session. It’s still got a few weeks (of in game time and real time) before it rocks up to the hive city and we have to fight it. So no explosions or throwing planes at it yet. 😛
Plenty of time to get more planes to throw at it! 😀
Mine the roads! =p Don’t you guys have artillery? I distinctly remember the Imperial Guard having artillery…
Oh don’t worry. I’m pretty sure a million gallons of promethium will melt the support struts for the road (the entire surrounding area is basically a rust desert on top of the decaying husks of flattened hive cities and sub-strata living).
Small update for those who don’t tweet! My mum is finally out of her coma! She woke up yesterday, and we went to see her. She’s not in a real good way, but it’s nice to see her awake and talking (albeit, very absent mindedly). She must have been having some weird dreams. She kept telling my sister she’d missed her wedding, which was over 6 years ago! Hopefully she’ll only improve from this point!
Since my work is a bit shite, and treat me like dirt, I decided to tell them she only woke up this morning, so I now have an extra long weekend! w00t!
Hope the recovery will go smoothly, buddy! Glad she’s awake! 🙂
Rise of the Tomb Raider! Temple of Osiris! Dragon Age: Inquisition! Mirror’s Edge 2!
Yeah, there’s some hype a-brewin’ slowly but surely…
This is my third e3 as a TAYbie. First I was so psyched for Beyond: Two Souls and wouldn’t stop talking about it to Shane and Strange.
Just watched Ubi’s with Rainbow Six Siege… i for a little while thought it was going to be a new SWAT game… looks good, colour me entrigued…
Yeah, even though I’m not a fan of multiplayer that gameplay lends itself to a cool SWAT like campaign in single player. My sister will be psyched. She loves the Rainbow Six games…
I miss old school rainbow six (ROGUE SPEAR \o/)
I hope they bring something like that back at some point
It seems that every reference makes your sister sound like a badass.
I honestly thought the same thing. It did have a very SWAT like vibe to it.
Which is not a bad thing… a Rainbow Six SWAT edition would be pretty freaking sweet XD… i also think this will be great to co op, if it plays anything like SWAT
So I have been picking up XCOM:EU again and I’m having a much stronger run this time (Also due to playing on Easy this time around xD). So far I think my sniper is on a 100+ kill streak with his broken squad vision. It’s a lot of fun, when they don’t decide to bumrush me with 10+ enemies at once. Once I finish the game I’ll play it again on Normal with Enemy Within installed.
Morning TAY!
Hope everybody had a fine weekend. I spent some of mine playing Mortal Kombat on PS3. Its taking me a bit of time to adjust to the play style, since Tekken has been my main fighter over the years. But I’m enjoying it, the cheesy nonsensical story makes me laugh (Hey you! Yeah you! Let’s fight because stuff!).
Started watching Doctor Who In the mornings before work, a great way to get the brain cogs cranking so early 🙂
Hey Rye-Rye. (New nickname for you! You’re welcome!)
I like it. The guy so nice they named him twice (not true I’m an ass).
On the topic of names my login is being scewy. My gravitar is gone and my previous posts are under ‘guest’, anyone else seeing that?
How far through Doctor Who?
In the last few months I’ve gone from never watched anything through to the start of season six, slowly catching up to where it’s currently at.
Still early first season for me 😛
Same with me! My room mates started showing me their favourite episodes over the seasons. The first I saw was ‘Blink’ and I loved it. The eeriness of something so simple as a statue. Watching Tennant’s DVD transcript to Sally I could see how invested he was in the character and the fact the Doctor isn’t in that episode so much created a bunch of interest around the character.
I’ve got a lot of catching up to do 🙂
I know when you say series 6 you really mean series 32 but the real series 6 was pretty awesome too and the most intact of Troughton’s era
Actually, series are the new ones, seasons were the old ones. So series 6 is season 32.
I have to get round to watching the old ones, I bought all of the old ones (save for the TV movie) online for $80 last year, haven’t even gotten through Marco Polo yet 🙁
When you say ‘bought’, was this off the back of a ship in a bay with a skull and crossbones flag?
Nah. $80. Actually.
That said, I’m fairly sure the person selling them pitated them and the $80 is the price of burning them onto a DVD.
They’re not the official ones you see, they’re just the video files.
Also, I’m fairly sure he didn’t send them the first time, and it was only afeyt I complained that he actually sent them.
So yeah, really dodgy.
Oh so probably the same ones I got from the aforementioned boaty flaggy store
Finally starting to get my head around how Pikmin 3 plays… can’t say i enjoy the time pressure (i always hated stuff on a timer because i like taking my time and explorer all the nooks and crannies) but aside from the pretty great game… and the environment is impossibly pretty, i really like that!
What controls you using, buddy? Wiimote are the most precise! Also don’t get too stressed about time. As long as you never waste a day then you’re good. (And that can include prep work too. Knocking down wall/building bridges/etc for subsequent days.) It’s pretty forgiving as long as you’re pressing on.
Yeah definitely Wiimote + nunchuk combo, i can’t see anything else being anywhere near as good… plus i’m kinda enjoying using that control scheme again because it is quite comfortable XD… my main concern is wasting days and run out of juice… aside from that it’s a great game and really enjoying it though
I finished downloading Pikmin yesterday, might be time for me to give it a try.
What’s the issue with the gamepad?
I just think, because of the way you have to do the aiming, you’re better off with the Wiimote… The gamepad makes a great map though, very well implemented combo
EDIT – mind you this is all personal opinion, i’ve heard some people prefer the gamepad, or even the pro controller so i guess it boils down to preference
Yeah, sometimes you’ve got to react quick in a boss fights, etc.
That sounds like the gamepad would be a clear winner for accuracy at speed compared to the Wiimote. Guess I’ll give both a try and find out.
Pikmin’s one of the few games where pointing with motion controls actually works. But yeah, lots of gameplay modes so you’ll find one that suits you.
something is just off with the gamepad, I use the Wiimote & nunchuck but have the pa next to me to issue commands and check the map.
Seriously, don’t worry about the time limit in Pikmin 3 (maybe a bit at the start). By the end of the game you’ll have juice coming out the wazoo.
Grossest scene in the whole game.
Well i am only a little bit into the game, but only have 4 juices left… i’m super paranoid XD
I think I had like 50+ juices at the end of the game 😛
Don’t worry, I’m on day 28 with 48 juice left and I’ve got 2 more areas to clear. Once you know what you’re doing you’ll be getting like 3 or 4 pieces of fruit on an average day. Like dc said, just make sure you achieve something every day and you’ll have all the time in the world, I was worried about time but now I’m running out of content and have plenty of time to spare.
If you run out, you can always reload an earlier day 😉
Last time I tried playing it, I got too stressed at the time pressure and went and did my tax return instead as a more relaxing activity.
It’s super pretty and fun. I kind of played half half with the wiimote vs the gamepad depending what fine control I needed vs other things…
I honestly can’t get over how pretty it is, the art style just… works!
This is why i like Nintendo so damn much, their art style is leaps and bounds ahead of “realistic” looking games… i’d take style over realism any day
SEQUEL!
SEQUEL!
SEQUEL!
REMAKE!
SEQUEL!
REMAKE!
SEQUEL!
GET HYPE AS HERES A REMAKE OF A SEQUEL!
HOLY SNAPPING DUCKSHIT HERES A REMAKE SEQUEL OF A REMAKE!
All E3 has done this year so far is make me realise I’m almost done with gaming.
But… but… that’s like abandoning going to the movies after seeing the trailers before a movie. There’s still plenty of original stuff coming out that doesn’t get attention. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Valiant Hearts, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, The Witness, Alien Isolation to name a few…
DON’T GO. I’LL MISS YOU. :'(
I don’t think i’ll ever be done with gaming… But what this does is make me happy that i am able to go back and reply some of my favourite games, because I don’t need to buy new stuff \o/
There’s a few new things in there that look promising (though most we’ve seen before), as well as some remakes having the potential to be fantastic (Mirror’s Edge). I reckon you’ll find something new that’ll renew your interests.
Sunset Overdrive, The Division, Inside, Scalebound, The Crew, Project Spark, Valiant Hearts, all the other indies Micro*dollarsign*oft showed, new IP announcement from Bioware, and whatever else I’ve forgotten thus far.
It’s really not so bad.
Not all sequels and remakes are bad things (Wolfenstein for example is excellent), but I hear you. It’d be nice to see a bit more risks being taken.
But that said, there were some new IPs being shown at MS’s conference (Evolve, for example), there’s heaps of innovation in the Indie space, and two of the highest profile releases in 2014 will be Watch Dogs (which hasn’t gone down that well, but it was new) and Destiny.
I hit a similar sort of ennui with AAA stuff a year or two ago. Best thing to do is just get off the release cycle treadmill for a bit. Double down on games you really like regardless of how old they are, or go replay a game you enjoyed a lot.
I think you’re right. I’ve been buying every major release as it comes out and just hating it. Going back and just playing all my favourites again for a while actually sounds pretty great.
It’ll also save some cash since you can get games that you’ve been curious about but not enough to be “got to have it nooooow” for $5 on steam in a year
It’s the same with movies, just take a look at this list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_in_film
I counted at least 30 Sequels/Remakes/Reboots/Spin-offs. And it’s just as bad next year, with more still to be announced, more than likely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_film
I feel like this is the point at which we realise we are getting old 😛
Morning, TAY!
I really should have taken today off work. I had to stand in Central station this morning while it bucketed down because I stupidly left my only umbrella at work on Friday night 😛 Also E3.
The weekend was pretty fun though! Started playing The Wonderful 101, which is pretty great. Set up very similarly to Bayonetta. Very funny too! Also started playing Tomodachi Life, as people who follow me on Twitter no doubt know. It’s like a cross between Animal Crossing and The Sims, with extra whacky scenarios. Seems like most of the appeal in the game is setting up these scenarios, taking a screenshot and sharing it with your friends. They make it very easy to do!
Also bummed around shops for a while with Pants and Flu yesterday. Them’s some cool guys.
Dear @powalen,
My sincerest apologies for not being able to make it to the TAY meet up yesterday, I didn’t end up rolling out of bed till about 1pm >.< These post break up weekends have been fairly challenging hence a big night out on Sunday seemed like an optimal option at the time! (didn't seem so much the morning after).
Best Regards,
puppet!
Attempting to apply the @tigerion method for Pile of Shame reduction, wherein one makes a shortlist of approx 15 games out of the pile of shame and the desire to play any new purchase must be greater than the desire to play anything in the pile, or a game needs to be finished from the pile beforehand.
My pile of shame shortlist made in about 3 minutes so possibly missing some stuff came in at 32 games so I decided to assign them a priority level between 1 and 5, and then sort based off that and cut off anything below a 3, which knocks it down to 15:
– Nier (360)
– Final Fantasy Type-0 (PSP)
– Ys VI (PC)
– Drakengard 3 (PS3)
– Infamous Second Son (PS4)
– Demon Gaze (Vita)
– Tales of Vesperia (360)
– Valkyria Chronicles 3 (PSP)
– The Wolf Among Us (PC)
– Ar Tonelico 3 (PS3)
– Danganronpa (Vita)
– Atelier Arland Series (Vita)
– Gravity Rush (Vita)
– Monster Monpiece (Vita)
– Bravely Default (3DS)
This is probably not ordered particularly accurately in terms of what I’ll actually end up playing. Of those, I’m actually part of the way into several so I’ll probably continue into them. I’m currently playing Nier so it’s at the top. Some of them are games I started ages ago and will probably restart. Also the terrible downside of thresholding the list in such a way is that I ended up dropping several recent Vita purchases into the second half of the list.
Anyway it seems like a good method for managing the queue. No new games unless they’re things I want to play more than something in the list (so Destiny, Tales of Xillia 2, Tales of Hearts & Dragon Age Inquisition are basically it for 2014 I think) and I guess if a slot opens up that isn’t taken up by a new release, I pull in something from lower down the priority list. EDIT: Oh, and Trails in the Sky SC will definitely be straight onto my play list when it drops
Monster Monpiece, huh? Heh… heh…
That’s the sort of game you pretend you don’t own.
I haven’t actually tried it yet but I’m told that if you get past the obvious parts of it the actual gameplay is fairly fun. The boobs are a bonus. And also not going to lie: I don’t mind looking at them periodically.
I’M STILL ALIVE
I’M STILL ALIVE
I CANNOT APOLOGISE, NO
That’s not good enough, I demand at least one apology each day you’re still alive.
SO SILENT
NO VIOLENCE
BUT INSIDE MY HEAD
SO LOUD AND CLEAR
I’m not being silent, and you’re the one who’s yelling.
Don’t make me smack you UPside the head.
And now it’s in everyone’s head. Here’s a quick link since you know you’re going there any ways.
Am I the only one who cannot fucking stand the vocal version of that song? It’s such an incredibly powerful piece of music and the vocals are terrible, off-pitch and shrill and significantly detract from the main piece of music.
I dig it, but you’re right… the music behind the lyrics is where it’s at. 😀
You’re alone from where I stand. I think they’re both good but distinctly remember the vocal version with far more clarity than the instrumental. Specifically, the first time I heard it. Shivers.
Aw man, that bit at the end of the game on the roof when it kicks in at full volume.
So good.
Pretty sure I was on borderline tears at that point, so friggin’ amazing.
That was my impression when I first saw the game in trailers. Where they used the vastly superior instrumental version. I never finished the game so never heard the vocal version in context but I purchased the entire soundtrack on the strength of the instrumental and then had to delete that horrible vocal track. It’s not just that the vocals are bad, it’s that they don’t gel with the rest of the soundtrack. They feel like they were tacked on after the fact by a marketing department.
Booo hisss! I love both the instrumental AND the vocals, and the variations on the theme, like the lower-key main-menu music. But mostly the vocal version. I totally bought that sucker stand-alone on iTunes. Me. Buying music. Yeah.
I can’t remember the prize, but there was a competition when Mirror’s Edge was new to remix that song. Had a friend enter it who did a pretty good job but unfortunately didn’t win.
I am such a fool for that song that I really want to hear any good remix people can come up with. 🙂
this is what I think of when I hear the words “Still Alive”.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/8/5791164/republique-episode-1-free-june-12
Republique’s first ep is currently free on iTunes.
I still haven’t bothered to replace my ipad after ditching it due to non-usage, but the list of things that are convincing me I might want a replacement soon? Building up. That’s one of the things that would add to tipping the scales.
Will be master racing it up later this year too, so you’re covered buddy!
*double air-fist* WOO!
I am sitting here refreshing origin in the vain hopes that I got into the battlefield beta. I also have it on the PS4 and I can absolutely say it’s same old battlefield. Which isn’t too bad and not entirely unexpected, but eh.
One step closer to battlefield being an annual release, maybe?
so you have it on PS4? Are you hoping to get into the PC version as well? I must say I love Battlefield but don’t like the sounds of the next one Cops vs Robbers, haven’t looked into it much but is that a mode or the whole package? Will there be tanks, apcs, choppers, jets or any of the vehicles that make Battlefield so much fun?
I got into PS4 because, well, there was a lot less issues than dealing with numerous issues getting a PC code, but i’d still like to play it on PC. Mouse and Keyboard, maybe play with some others.
I honestly don’t know about the scale of this game. An armored vehicle or two, a fair amount of cars, and a chopper was available (and motorcycles! can’t forget about em) but the whole “cops vs robbers” thing restricts any heavy military stuff, methinks. 😛 The maps have a fair amount of scale to them, though, and a lot of vertical space not being used (so there’ll be more usage of grappling hooks and ziplines?)
It’s certainly not a full-blown sequel, or even a full-blown expansion. More like a custom mod. 😛
okay, after seeing that trailer I’m a little excited.
In the end it’s still fun.
as long as we get more traditional ones again I’ll be happy
As a repost from yesterday, my friends, I’m going to buy Wicked Tickets this Friday for Saturday the 18th of October (For the Matinee). Kind of short warning for people but shmeh. Tickets are going to cost $122, which is a lot, but hopefully totally worth it. So, as last time, people interested in seeing Wicked who feel like throwing money at me, can you send me an email please (Which this time I’ll remember to actually put here, as forgetting to tell people that it’s blaghman(at)gmail(dot)com is a tad embarrassing)?
Obviously, this ain’t a huge amount of warning, so if you want a ticket but can’t commit/pay me by Friday, reply here or send me an email, and I’ll look at buying as many spares as I can.
And I totally haven’t forgotten you, Hugo, I’ve just, uhhh, HEY LOOK OVER THERE!
SO CLOSE TO PAX so i cant really swing another interstate trip this year. Stupid saving for moving.
Yeah, fair enough.
Monster. 😛
Remind me to throw money at you tomorrow!
Pretty sure Ash and I can still come. She’s still overseas, but I will check with her by email. I should be able to throw money at you in a few weeks now that I’m back at work tomorrow. I’ll let you know what’s happening.
WHAT! WHERE!?!
*starts chasing after stick/ball*
In the midst of all the E3 hype, big blob of sadness: Rik Mayall died.
Doc Watt linked to a video of him reading George’s Marvellous Medicine (which happens to be a book I’m currently reading in instalments to my eldest). It’s pretty great, though of course, now tinged with sadness.
And now for something completely different…
Yeah, somehow appropriate that we’re getting a remake of Grim Fandango when Rik is starting his own journey of the dead. Hopefully he gets a ticket on the No. 9
Melbourne TAY + visiting interstaters
Having a bit of a get together to celebrate our imminent arrival.
Rapidly approaching parenthood celebration
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/baby-on-board_zpse9cc9e79.png
14th of June in South Melbourne from around 2pm – 6pm
Wood n Chimney on Clarendon St
Friends and family welcome so obviously you guys are invited.
Finger food will be provided, the venue will also be available to order food and drink
Kids, Babies and Bumps welcome
Currently those who have expressed interest are listed blow, could you please confirm if you can so we can let the venue know and order the fud. Also if you are bring anybody else and if they are of the large or small variety (or both \o/)
@tech_knight
@inquisitorsz
@coldcamv (+1)
@negativezero
@pixel_the_ferret_viking (+1 ?)
@quiz_b
@wizz-fizz (+1)
@smurfydog
Me +1 confirmed :o)
Looking forward to my first TAY meet-up
I think Stan… uh… @quiz_b said on Sunday that he was hoping to make it, but sounds like his schedule is all kinds of tight getting back to Tas.
but…but….I wanna see the axe
So turns out that’s the day mum has planned stuff for dad’s birthday.
I’m going to have to bail, sorry. Thanks for the invite though.
Sorry Tigs can’t go, work related issues 🙁
I’m still iffy if I can or not
If i come, i might just show up, don’t worry about ordering food or anything for me… The whole grandfather situation has taken a turn for the worse again so we don’t know how that’s going to turn out :\
I’m most probably there, only tricky thing will be actually getting to the venue.
Not sure if you are allowed to park at work but the 112 tram from Collins st goes right past the venue. Otherwise if you want to drive all the way in then there is parking around the town hall or plenty along Cecil St if you can’t find anything out the front
We’ll be there, add 2 to the list 🙂
Oh that’s this Saturday. Duh. Ummm – I’d love to, but I really shouldn’t. I’m pretty swamped with assignments for another two or three weeks 🙁
Isn’t the Sony conference at 11:00AM?
All aboard the Sony hype train.
Hoping to see something on Uncharted 4. What about you guys?
Some next-gen Quantic Dream would be great.
You’re alright BDKIAF, if that is your real name.
Everyone here uses their real names, you know that. Everyone except me, that is.
I would love to see something Quantic Dream related but Beyond: Two Souls hasn’t been out for that long. (Despite the fact they had two games in development at the time.) I would love to see a release date for Rime and The Witness though. Hoping to be surprised otherwise.
PROJECT BBBBBBEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSTTTTTTT!!!
I want to see some more details about this back catalogue thing they announced last year!
Edit: and Project Beast, of course!
Oh, and for a super slim, no chance, something from Rockstar.
a Red Dead sequel would be great, heck even another Canis Canem Edit would be refreshing.
Agent. Remember Agent? What if it’s real!
…
:'(
Oh yeeeaaaaaahhhh! Maybe.
It’s possible, according to Wikipedia TakeTwo registered two trademarks for it in July last year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_(video_game)
I want confirmation that The Last Guardian still exists,
Or atleast some Last Guardian/Beyond Good & Evil hybrid mutant!
why won’t they give us more Beyond Good and Evil *sobs*
Didn’t Sony kinda confirm it the other day when it very quickly denied that it had been cancelled after that IGN article?
Project Beast!!!!!!!
also, something concrete about their last-gen streaming service.
umm… just… please, no more Killzones.
Edit : also, no Last Guardian. that horse is dead.
something new from thatgamecompany would be great.
also….. I dunno. lotsa stuff. maybe a PS4 price drop to compete with the Xbone drop? probably too soon for that.
Edit #2 : probably wont be at the sony thing, but Dragon’s Dogma 2 would be rad. that Deep Down game just don’t sit well with me.
also, something new from Ninja Theory. Heavenly Sword 2? prefer a new IP though.
Rise of Killzone: Rising confirmed.
Edit: At this point, it honestly would be for the best if Sony just came out and cancelled The Last Guardian. There’s no way it could ever live up to expectations now.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/vonsack/
I swear this guy used to exist! Was he deleted from the timeline? D:
Who?
D:
I MUST GO BACK… TO THE FUTURE!
GREAT SCOTT!!!!
Heavy.
There’s that word again, “Heavy”. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?
As I understand it, Earth’s spin is accelerating ever so slightly so in the future gravity will be a teeny bit stronger
what?
That’s me!
Having some technical difficulties at the moment ever since I changed my accounts email address. I replied to your comment above asking if everything looked okay but my comments are being moderated.
Good pickup D.C.!
Yeah, I just noticed their most recent post was as a guest. Surely we weren’t imagining them?! 😛
I have a notification of his reply linked to this page. I wonder if accounts can be deleted?
Good weekend was good. Minimal gaming was done though.
Friday – We had our end of month work meeting and I won employee of the month because I’m awesome. So I ended up getting very, very drunk.
Saturday – Relaxed (see: hungover). Watched a couple of movies. Made a thing that randomly selects a movie from my collection because I couldn’t decide what to watch.
Sunday – Slept in. Went around to a mates place late afternoon and had some awesome food, some beers and watched some movies and played some Cards Against Humanity.
Monday – Crashed at my friends place and met up with more people for brunch. Played more Cards Against Humanity (it’s always funny to see people’s reactions when they see the cards for the first time) and then watched a couple of movies.
My favourite reaction ever is when my friend saw the card “dick fingers’
he was like ” THIS CARD BEATS EVERYTHING IN ALL SITUATIONS”
The best thing for me was that the people I was playing with had all never played it before and they are all people I work with.
Annnd they all have just as sick sense of humour as me.
Q: A romantic candlit dinner would be incomplete without?
A: Multiple stab wounds
@mythamphetamine @popdart5 @novacascade @blaghman @tech_knight @mawt
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
You’ve defeated a vicious cragworm, and are approaching the field of towers. What do?
TOMORROW 7:30 SA TIME
I’m back in the country, but as I’ve spent most of the past week coughing my lungs up, I have next to no voice. Might have to give this session a miss. Need to upgrade my character too
We kill more cragworms? 😛
We’ll need to go back and make another one of those liquid grenades with the spare jar, that worked a treat on that beasty!
Also kinda torn between upgrading to tier 2 or keeping 4 rerolls :/
Far Cry 4 Win suit confirmed *froths at mouth, throws money at screen*
A win suit sounds like it’d take the challenge out of the game
ha, that would be weird, not editing cause funny 😛
I want tea but the kettle is over there and I am over here. Do you understand my dilemma?
Yes. Yes I do.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pnTNysLgaFk/Tk7Brr92VjI/AAAAAAAAZ_E/sGl-GYfmd_8/s1600/tumblr_lpgyb0i61l1qfnac5o1_500.gif
Get up and make your darn tea!
Sony E3 thoughts!
Destiny trailer looks meh.
Orgn pbzvat bhg ba CF4 svefg, vagrerfgvat…
Nycun bhg Guhefqnl HF gvzr.
Juvgr Qrfgval 500TO CF4 + Qrfgval & QhnyFubpx 4.
Gur beqre ybbxf perrcl va n tbbq jnl…
Gbb znal DGRf….
Ybbxf yvxr vagryyvtrag NV…
Ragjvarq…
Ybbxf yvxr n qhny fgvpx irefvba bs Serdhrapl…
Vg’f nyernql bhg gbavtug ba CF4 va gur HF….
Vasnzbhf QYP jba’g arrq lbh gb nyernql bja gur tnzr….
YVGGYROVTCYNARG 3!!!!! \b/
Ba CF4 . /b\
Damn, now I really want a PS4…
Bloodborne…. hmmmm…looks good.
Fuck yeah, FarCry 4 looks sick! Pb-Bc pbasvezrq. \o/
Aba-SP4 bjaref pna cynl jvgu bjaref va zhygvcynlre ba CF3 & CF4.
Qrnq Vfynaq 2?!
Zntvpxn 2!
Apparently all user created levels from LBP and LBP2 will work in LBP3… now i’m starting to want one XD, but Halo!… gah! i can’t decide 😛
Hi.
Weekend was good. I needed that nice and relaxing long weekend. As usual, it was rainy weather so couldn’t really go out and mountain bike etc.
I finished Knack on Sunday. Great game. Played co-op with a friend on Beginner and it was intense. No idea how single-players on Hard are supposed to finish it, it’s a brutal game.
Also took advantage of EB sale and MS releasing drivers for Xbone controller to pick one up. I’m still not sure if it was a mistake. I have 360 wireless dongle already, so they work fine.. I’ll allow myself more time with the controller, but I’m gonna cautiously throw out “it’s a fucking failure”. The bumper buttons are inaccessible due to a stupid design decision to flatten out part where your hand grips. This means that you need to stretch your pointer and index finger to massive extremes (think peace sign) to even get close to the bumper buttons. I also have large hands, so theoretically this should be easier for me to do than other people. But alas, I can barely touch the slanted surface of bumper buttons, so it’s very unconfortable to use when I was just toying with it.
The triggers, joystick and d-pad are all good though. Not sure if I like the sharp-angled triggers yet. Either way, the controller worked great when I put on Dirt3 on my SteamBox. Haven’t played that game in almost 2 years, and it was a blast to play it in full glory.
Hope everyone else had a good long weekend, and that we get some good news from E3 huh.
Popdart5’s weekend RPG recap, this time with 40K Only War (Imperial Guard for the Emperor):
P.S Wall of text so my apologies. If only spoiler tags were working.
So the Baneblade and the horde of Khorne marauders are slowly approaching the ruined hive city on this post-Exterminatus Forge World (set several millenia after Exterminatus and not everything was destroyed by the assault). We, as a recon/task force of Guardsmen under the special command of an Inquisitor, are given the order to defend the hive city for use as a forward base for reconquering the planet. As part of that, we are to work with the local trade lord who is the son of a Rogue Trader that crashed on the planet.
We received information that a local mercenary group had received payments from an ally of the marauders to basically disable the defences and open the gates of the hive city when the army arrived. We had narrowed down the mercenary groups to two different possibilities, a human pseudo-military outfit called the Creed and a group of various xenos called the Cabal. The Creed sounded nicer and probably more likely to not be the bad guys so we went and checked them out first. First mistake check.
We rocked up in our motorcade of a Chimera and outside bikes and approached the headquarters of the Creed that had been built into the remnants of what was an Arbites barracks. We tried to discuss things with them but they were not open to talk and unleashed a trap on us. A Krak rocket barely missed the Chimera and myself (a Stormtrooper sergeant), our Techpriest, our Tanith scout, and our Tau (yes we have a Tau in a stealth battlesuit, although the stealth generator was irreparable) were pinned by heavy stubber and autogun fire. Our sniper had stayed back on the Chimera fearing there was a trap and immediately sniped the rocket launcher guy although she got counter-sniped which took out all of her wounds and inflicted 1 critical damage in one shot. She decided to slide into the Chimera and man the multi-laser to great effect.
Our Tanith scout grapnel from the ground onto the fourth floor of the building and scared the bejeesus out of the sniper who ran while she chased twirling a power sword and a power chainsword. The Techpriest picked up a piece of the terrain (which happened to be a table) with his servo-claw and proceeded to beat up the Creed troops who we had tried to talk with before he threw the table at another window with such force that it collapsed the masonry. I copped a frag grenade before we managed to drive them back and approach the building, with the Tau jetpacking up to the second floor for additional firepower.
Meanwhile the Chimera was trapped as the Creed had activated a minefield that trapped it and it could not manoeuvre. An assault squad of Creed troops emerged from another building across the street from the HQ and a guy threw a detonation charge at the Chimera and knocked a solid chunk out of it. Another Creed troop advanced with a heavy flamer although our sniper with the multi-laser turret sure put paid to that idea.
The Tanith scout found the sniper but he got a shot off first that tore a chunk out of her leg and also wiped out her wounds and inflicted 1 critical damage. It didn’t help him though as she ran and tore him a new one with her power weaponry before limping back to the Chimera where our medic was. Meanwhile, the Tau was reconnoitring the second floor and managed to find the main entry way was bristling with heavy weapons and preparing for the eventual assault. She (the Tau was a she, don’t question it) voxed with the Techpriest and me as we prepared to storm the building. The Techpriest started plasma cutting the door, which was already open, as the Tau prepared a photon flash grenade. The Tau threw the grenade in and blinded a good half dozen Creed troops including their man on the heavy bolter. The Techpriest then used his servo-claw to wrench off the door and throw it at the cluster of Creed troops and succeeded in decapitating two of them while I sprayed suppressive fire. The Creed commander rallied his men and fired back as his last gambit arrived.
An Ogryn wielding a Shock Maul charged into the room and started dueling with the Techpriest, using the maul’s power field to shatter one of the Techpriest’s mechadendrite. I continued firing at the clusters of Creed troops while the Tau jetpacked towards their communications hub where they were trying to message for help, flaming people as she went. The Creed commander continued rallying his men so I decided to try and take him out but he had a deflector shield active. I then tried to charge at him and punch but his deflector shield activated again and repulsed my strike. The commander then pulled out his plasma pistol and shot my comrade and I once each. Things were looking grim when our sniper moved into position and shot him through the eye, killing him instantly.
Meanwhile the Ogryn bashed up the Techpriest and smashed through his power armour and knocked him out cold, inflicting 7 critical damage. Our Scout had recovered and charged at the Ogryn and hacked him to pieces. Now that their two biggest players were dead, the rest of the Creed surrendered and we confirmed that they were paid off to sabotage the hive city’s defences and open the way for the Khornate horde of marauders. We now need to recover from our wounds in time for the final showdown.
Yikes, tough break on finding allies :/. So were the Creed basically independant from the Imperium or were they actually heretics too?
Pretty much the entire planet is independent from the Imperium with only small bastions here and there. The Creed were composed of a whole bunch of different people including former Guard, pirates, scavengers, etc, but they all had some degree of military training. The commander and a lot of the higher ups were formerly part of a Chaos warband though so we did our duty by wiping them out.
Out of curiosity, I know you’ve expressed interest in 40K RPGs before but if you had the choice, which system/play style would you prefer to play under:
– Dark Heresy
– Rogue Trader
– Deathwatch
– Black Crusade
– Only War
Also I can’t remember but did you end up joining a 40K RPG campaign?
It’s still up in the air at the moment (Rogue Trader) still unknown whether or not it’ll actually start, and given I haven’t actually played a 40K RPG before (Seriously my only experience is watching RollPlay Dark Heresy and I enjoyed every bit of that series), I can’t really decide on a style I’d prefer, but I would love to try pretty much all of them at some point. I love the 40K universe, despite that I don’t know that much.
I’m in the same boat re the universe as I enjoy the crap out of it but I’m not as well versed as a few of my friends. I would love to play/run a game of one of the systems myself but between my online and offline campaigns I’m a little stretched for time.
I’d enjoy doing a 40K TAY campaign but that would have to be in the far flung future once you guys reach a sort of checkpoint for Pathfinder. Or I could just be crazy and do another campaign once a fortnight but that depends on who would be interested. 😛
I’d be interested in a 40K campaign! In the far flung future that is =D
One could almost say in the grimdark future. 😛
I will keep both you and @tech_knight in mind if things pan out and I have time to run a campaign. Emperor willing, I’ll have time.
I should warn you… I’d have to be Tau… this is non-negotiable. You may burn me as an alien after the campaign =p
@pupp3tmast3r I can give you the option of being a Kroot however Tau is a little hard to implement because of the Imperial-centric nature of the systems. Kroot mercenaries can work and can even be corrupted.
I’d have to think of stuff but at this very, very early stage I would have to rule Tau out pending further work.
@popdart5 Couldn’t I be a disillusioned commander tired from many campaigns now resorting to mercenary work *makes puppy dog eyes* Kroot got no fire caste gear!! =@ WHAY?! I’ll even settle for a lowly captured foot soldier who now has stockholms syndrome! 0,0
Ok fine I’ll settle for a character who shares their military ideaology, most probably a sniper. (can i appropriate fire caste gear? =P) I just want a damn pulse rifle!!!
@pupp3mast3r The main problem with trying to incorporate Tau is that there are no established rules for Tau characters and, depending on what other players choose to play, it would be very difficult trying to incorporate them into a campaign that did not specifically call for the Tau. Heck, in all of the universe lore there is only one known case of Tau seceding from the Enclaves (see Commander Farsight) and Tau are generally never heard of siding with the Imperium on a long-term basis (almost always to deal with an immediate threat). Also a plasma gun is basically a pulse rifle, just more explodey. 😛
Again, this is just conjecture at the moment. I will consider how I could potentially run things and see what people’s schedules are and if I have time to run another weeknight RPG session. I would need to look at rules systems and stuff like that to see what would be most appropriate as well eg. there is a HUGE difference between the 40K RPGs in terms of focus and the type of stories that can be told.
Ah crap, missed the tag. See the post above @pupp3tmast3r
Sounds good to me, don’t push yourself too hard 🙂
@popdart5 Well that was an interesting read (on commander farsight that is). I’d heard of him and was going to grab his model when I had polished my modelling and painting skills enough but loving his back story (very reminiscent of Caesar and Roman History). But I see what you mean, the Tau like many of the 40k universe are extremists who devote their lives to the bigger picture; so unless the back story called for a Tau soldier to sacrifice his loyalties for what he believed was the greater good for his people he wouldn’t join any other races. Also they’re a fairly new race but man… out of all the other races they’re the ones I like the most >.< Stupid Tau *grumble*.
Also what Tech Knight said don't strain yourself on our account man cos it sounds like you've got quite a bit on your plate! And I'm mostly a massive 40k nerd in terms of models and the tabletop game, I'd need to get up to speed on the RPG aspect (any suggestions on where to start?) Also how can you compare a plasma gun to a plasma rifle! That's like saying the bazooka is the same as a springfield! Blasphemy!! =p
@pupp3tmast3r In getting used to the 40K style of RPGs, the Youtube series Rollplay Dark Heresy is a good place to start to get an idea of the mechanics. Roleplaying is something that mostly comes naturally anyway so you play what feels most “in character” and the mechanics are something that you get used to over time. Once I get around to getting the ball rolling, I’ll run a more in-depth system and character introduction for the 40K RPGs than I did for TAY Pathfinder as 40K RPGs are very heavy on mechanics and rules.
You charged at and tried to punch the commander?… And you thought my plane idea lacked merit…
Well I thought a punch would be able to bypass the force field. I was wrong but my follow up to that move was pulling out my own Hellpistol and preparing to blast him. I also had an Exterminator flamer round prepped and ready to go to take him down.
In hindsight, yeah probably not the smartest idea.
I’d open with the Exterminator flamer if ever given a choice between punching a commander or using the flamer =p Unless of course you had a Power Fist equipped…
Unfortunately I was kinda stuck and had to cross a fair amount of open ground to close into melee combat with him and I could only do that on a charge attack. I realise now that I could have gotten into range for the Exterminator flamer however I had no way of getting around that dang force field.
Funny you mention a Power Fist because I used to have one. Then it got eaten/ripped to pieces by a Tyranid Warrior Prime. I almost died. \o/ 😀
See this is where you’re messing up pop! Punching when you should be flaming =p Next time bbq the bugs and you might’ve had the power fist to punch the commander xD
SACKBOY HAS A PUPPY
GOTY
GAME OF ALL THE YEARS
COD DOG GOT NOTHIN’ ON THIS!
So I kinda started a podcast over the weekend, in which I get to bitch about videogames (except Nintendo, because clearly they can do no wrong).
Also we make wild guesses about E3 that show we obviously haven’t been paying attention to most of the pre-e3 annoucenments and were way off the mark.
http://tim-bro.podomatic.com/entry/2014-06-09T05_01_07-07_00
Just finished hooking the old computer back up. Damn thing’s got a million cables running into it, and now my hamstrings are dying from leaning over so far for so long.
Any other PS4 users with surround sound home theatre? @dc mentioned inFamous on twitter, which made me remember I played Killzone on the weekend. It’s got the same audio issues as inFamous. Anyone else experience it on one/both of the games?
I’ve got a 7.2 system and never noticed anything?
Audio on the two games is ‘wafty’. Dialogue from centre speaker is uneasy and doesn’t stay there unless looking right at people. Dialogue in general goes to low volume a lot of the time. Gunshots get muffled from centre speaker pretty much all the time and aren’t ‘punchy’. Hard to describe I guess, but it looks like audio engine is just freaking out and unsure what to process.
Edit: like I’d have volume turned up nice and loud, background music is loud. Anything interactive sounds OK for a while, but then gets muffled so much that dialogue for example is super-hard to hear. I’ve experienced similar thing on Skyrim PC, which is a known bug.
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I’m convinced there’s nothing wrong with my amp/speakers, and it’s only been in those two games so far. :S
Huh, I thought Dying Light would be Dead Island’s replacement, that trailer was actually pretty funny even though all the concepts were “borrowed”
Edit: a get.. aww boo
Dead Island always do great trailers. I love watching them, even if I’ll probably never pick up the games.
yeah, I was expecting that add to be for Dying light especially since the guy was running. Caught me off guard, struggled to hold back laughter in the office (I’m sneakily watching the stream)
I like how it was pretty much the complete opposite to the original Dead Islands reverse time slow mode trailer.
So do you have to play this new Assassin’s Creed game co-op? Or is that some extra mode? Because if I have to play the whole game co-op or it’s been designed with that as an assumption and you’ll have to deal with idiot bumbling AIs standing in for players or something then it will be the first mainly Assassin’s Creed game that I completely skip.
Felt like everything at the MS conference was multiplayer.
Did you play Dead Space 3 at all? I felt for a game that was designed and intended to be played co-op that seemed to do a single player version pretty well. Unlike Resident Evil 5 and 6 *grumble grumble*.
I didn’t make it that far into the franchise, got stuck on DS1 and never moved to 2 despite owning it.
I really liked the first game, the whole style and atmosphere and the amazing sound design and everything, but too stressful to play for long periods.
Credit where credit’s due, I was pretty wrung out when I finished that. I looked up the achievements and realized I had one left to go for the full set – complete it on Hard. Yeah… screw that.
It’s the sound design mainly. Probably the best sound work of any games of that generation.
I agree the sounds are amazing, but for me Alan Wake still takes the cake for best sounds XD
Alan Wake was awesome too. Also better use of music and a vastly more interesting story.
But in terms of pure sound, Dead Space has it. The instant you step out into a vacuum and the only sounds you hear are vibrations coming through the steel of the hull of the ship through your feet it took that crown.
It was the little things in DS3 that made coop nicer though, having to defend your teammate while they do stuff rathe than you doing stuff and then having to defend yourself once you finished, it made it feel like someone was depending on you.
Also lots of fun in Awakened. Now that I think of it, I’ll have to go through that solo and see how it works, the story was very coop-centred it’ll be interesting to see what happens when you’re by yourself
From the article. Ok from the site, looks like they are additional game mode with a bunch of co-op missions
I bet that means that the map is littered with stuff you have to go online for and find co-op partners to play so you constantly feel like you’re missing out on half the experience. Because that would be super crappy and also sounds exactly like the way Ubisoft would implement it based off the way they’ve done ‘connected’ stuff in Watch Dogs and AC4.
Based on the video it looks like you see optional missions as you move through town and some of them are coop, ignore or accept at your own volition. Seems like a neat way to integrate them into the game without making them feel mandatory or punishing for refusing to do them.
For me, AssCreed is all about being OCD and completing everything I can see, so that actually would make them feel mandatory and punishing for refusing to do them unless I can turn them off completely.
I think I’m out.
Why not play with friends? There are bound to be TAYbies playing it after all
PC version.
Uplay friends list lol.
Hahahahaha only just tried turning the old computer on with the hard drive removed – the new weird horrible sound is just the fan at the back of it being noisy! WHY DIDN’T I TRY THIS SOONER. Dumb.
….and then out of nowhere it stops.
STOP TAUNTING ME
@DC are you watching the Sony stream? No reason.
GRIM FANDANGO FOR PS4 OH SHIT
Well that’s settles it, imma getting a PS4
EDIT – Seriously, that’s all it needed to tide it over… FUCK YEEAAAH!
Imagine if they also announced Psychonauts 2.
That would explode the internet.
I probably will get a PS4. Not for that alone but, well, I wound up buying a PS3 despite doing 99% of my gaming on the 360. The Playstation certainly has way more going for it this gen despite me still generally preferring the Xbox.
Well i seem to “skip” generations with consoles:
-Had a PS2, not a Xbox
-had the 360, not a PS3
-will probably get a PS4 and skip Xbone
and so on, it seems to work rather well 😛
Plus yes the PS4 definitely has more stuff going for it, and no amount of Halo can make up for that
Wat.
I’ve never played it, but even I’m hype about it enough for it to make my decision for me! 😛
Is it a remake or a new one? I can’t tell over all the screaming on Twitter 😛
Remaster. So updated visuals.
If that’s all they’re doing then you can count me out. That game needed some major gameplay reworking. It’s a clunky piece of arse to actually go through the mechanics of playing. An amazing game trapped inside the gameplay of a bad one.
And that’s the impression that the me that played it in 1999 or so had of it, so I can’t imagine the clunky gameplay has gotten better in the last fifteen years.
I’ve never played it so I can’t comment. But Zelda Wind Waker Wii U edition got some very slight gameplay adjustments, so it’s not totally out of the question.
I’m guessing this is one to check out? I’ve never played it. May grab for Vita.
YES
IT’S THE BEST
GRIM FANDANGO. DOUBLE FINE. PS4.
:’)
I think i just blacked out a little
so far really great stream, so many things I want, and now it’s dropped out, stupid unreliable work internet.
Ehhh, I think you saw the best bits.
Is season 3 of Arrow out yet? I know it wasn’t when I checked this morning but I thought I’d check if it has now.
How about now?
Now?
Dammit. I haven’t got so wrapped up in a show for a long time. Season 1 was a bit uneven and left me a bit unsure but season 2 was sublime. Seriously digging the increased DC presence in this season and its more grounded interpretations of it.
Some random spoilery thoughts:
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Really looking forward to season 3 and now even more hype for The Flash series they kicked off in Arrow.
@redartifice @tech_knight @beeawwb Tagging you guys because you’ve all seemed to express interest in the Rollplay series. The latest season is Numenera and I must say it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. I do think Steven made a mistake in trying to equate a bunch of stuff to D&D terms and other pop culture stuff. Yes you could totally make Magneto or a barbarian in Numenera but I feel like that kinda defeats the point of the setting.
I have interest in it as a concept, but I have no interest in watching others roleplay, generally speaking. Why watch it when you can play it, amiright?
True that, although I find it interesting to see how other people react to a system and how other GMs handle it (Steven is very good at the whole storytelling aspect whereas Neil is a bit more of the technical and rules GM). Ideally I’d play RPGs as much as I can however organising and coordinating schedules is like wrangling tigers and Rollplay gives me a good fix. 😛
I just personally watch them to see other people’s mindsets in the game, and also to further discover what kind of things happen within the world to better prepare myself in making more in-depth characters in the future, knowing what kind of things to look out for, etc.
Oh machine spirit, Jesse Cox is on this one? This could only go so well xD
Sony seems to be presenting a lot more that piqued my interest.
Have to admit though the amount of cussing in Serrels’ live blog is throwing me a bit.
I don’t know the dude much, but that’s the most amunt of cuss words I’ve ever seen in any article on Kotaku.
He’s been working since 1:30am. Couple that with Scottish, and I expect plenty of cussing.
FREE TO PLAY 🙁
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Grim Fandango, Shane. GRIM FANDANGO.
It’s pretty great, but honestly, the only thing that could have made me step up my console buying plans (current plan is to hold off indefinitely) was PS Now, and that’s been shown to be basically irrelevant for us for the near-to-mid-term.
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Grim Fandango, Shane. GRIM FANDANGO.
We’ll talk again when that game comes out.
I’m absolutely sold on PS4 over Xbone, but timing. Timing is still up in the air.
Silent treatment, eh? *folds arms*
Fuck Yeah, Mortal Kombat X! \o/
Ratchet & Clank Trailer! \o/
Mario Kart 10? So soon?
I’m unreasonably excited about that game, but I did lose my shit over the last one, it looks so good.
OHHHHHh Uncharted 4
I had very weird dreams last night.
Dream One
First I dreamt that I was on some reality show thing with a bunch of kids. I suppose the reality show was in the vein of Survivor. I had to scale a small mountain called ‘The Orc.’ It was some kind of competition. When everyone was arrived at the top of the mountain, we were all asked by an incredibly enthusiastic presenter host thing what type of sandwich we had for lunch. All the competitors who answered incorrectly were rounded up and shot. I somehow remembered that I had a baguette with chicken and lettuce, and was allowed to progress to the next round. Also, Miley Cyrus was there. I don’t think she got shot, sadly.
Dream Two
The second dream followed even less logic. I was playing Dishonoured, except I was Scooby Doo in first person. I took an elevator down. I arrived in a facility that looked suspiciously like my grandparent’s basement. And then I wasn’t Scooby Doo anymore, I was just some random guy in first person. Some young woman named Laura ran up and hugged me, saying that it had been so long since I’d seen her. I walked up to some old guy who could only have been her father. I greeted him by saying “Hey Buford, it’s been so long!” He replied by saying that his name was Sam. A short awkward conversation followed. I noticed his eyes didn’t have any pupils. And then his eyes did have pupils. And then one eye had pupils, but the other didn’t. Then his eyes rapidly switched between having pupils and not having pupils on and off like someone was obnoxiously flicking a light switch on and off. Creeped out, I walked away. I walked through a door.
Suddenly the scene changed, and I was Agent 47 from Hitman in third person. I was in a room, and two when were coming at me with those fire-stroker metal rod things. I did some ninja skills and got myself into a vent. I ninja-crawled through the vent at approximately 20km/h somehow and opened another vent door. I crawled out, and found out I was in the same smal room with the same two people. I think there was a car or something in the room, and jumped behind it. I did some super-acrobatic moves, and stole one of the guy’s fire-stroker things. I put the fire-stroker behind a panel of glass that apparently I could open but the bad guys couldn’t. I did the same to the other guy, utilising my best acrobatic ninja skills.
Then one of the bad guys tried to attack me with a knife. Why he didn’t use the knife first, I shall never know. I used the car as some kind of vaulting tool, and stole the knife. I did some ninja acrobatic moves around the guys for a few minutes, dodging their fists or whatever. The bad guys insulted Agent 47’s voice, claiming he had an Italian accent. How Agent 47’s Batman-esque voice sounds remotely Italian, I’ll never know.
I decided to put my knife to use, and did a handstand maneuver on the car. I then attacked one of the bad guys with the knife, stabbing him in the back of his hand. The other guy ceased to exist from that point on, I guess. I had won, and walked out the door.
I arrived in my grandparent’s property. I noticed a bad guy in a brown and yellow tee shirt patrolling in a circle around my grandmother’s clothesline. In was one of those old-fashioned clotheslines that you can swing on. Obviously, the smartest way to take this guy out was by swinging on the clothesline, and kick him in the back.
My attempts to knock him out were at first unsuccessful. I climbed onto the clothesline without him noticing me, and tried to swing fast enough to knock him out. But no matter how fast I swung, couldn’t swing any faster than he was patrolling in a circle. I suppose the guard was deaf, blind, and in a walking comatose state, because he never noticed me. I was struggling to get enough momentum, but then I remembered my training.
I pointed at a nearby wall, and Spider-Man webbing came from my fingers. It attached to the wall, and gave me enough momentum to knock the guy out.
I had a flashback to my training. I was staring at a computer screen, and on that computer screen was a 2D flash game about Spider-Man. An unknown woman’s voice said
“He learnt by playing shitty Spider-Man flash games on Kongregate.”
Except the game was on Newgrounds instead of Kongregate. PLOT TWIST!
And then I woke up. Hi, internet!
E3 sure has been crappy if you were hoping on buying some new games in 2014. So it’s going to take another 18-24 months for them to get around to making games for platforms announced 18 months ago?
True enough, man. But hasn’t E3 always been about what’s coming in the next 12-18 months? Last E3 featured most of the games being released around now…
They usually actually announce some stuff for the current year as well. Or they already have done it beforehand. All we’re getting this year is remakes of shit that if you care about you already own it and played it.
I’m seriously having strong doubts why I bothered buying a PS4. So far I have one game for it. By the end of 2014 I think I might have two. By the end of 2015 based on what’s been announced and shown, that might balloon to four.
Well, if you ever change your mind about wanting a PS4, I might be looking to buy one in the mid-distant-future…
I thought E3 was a way to promote some awesome new shit, then release them far enough down the track that everyone forgets and isn’t depressed so much when it arrives in a steaming pile?
Hardware and software wise I don’t think they were ready. Everything about both the consoles seem unfinished. I don’t think either were ready to be released but time, money and investor demands probably forced everything further forward than it should have been.
TINFOIL HAT: I keep tellin’ anyone who will listen and even those who dunwanna! The consoles were meant to be launched Thanksgiving/Christmas 2014! SuperDAE ruined everything by revealing that the project existed, and industrial espionage version of chinese whispers set Sony and MS scurrying to trump the other so neither would be the loser in a repeat of what happened with 360 vs PS3. That’s why no next-gen games, day one massive updates, shithouse PR mixed messaging, lack of features/underwhelming specs. It’s a conspiraceeee I’m telling youshe!
Might have been the case for Microsoft but definitely wasn’t the case for Sony.
Ahh, I dunno about that… Their hardware was smoother, but there was still a shitty number of launch titles, the only ‘next-gen’ seems like Infamous, which was notoriously short. Both sides were definitely padding out their, “There’ll be stacks of games at launch!” claims by including low-fi indie titles, and HD ports.
Sony was probably farther along in firming up specs and definitely got a LOT of (I suspect accidental) PR mileage out of not actually having a roadmap for doing something different (“It just plays games like your other one!”). They had probably been stressing about that prior to E3, and seeing MS get so badly burned on future visions probably came as a huge relief that they didn’t have to come up with anything other than the status quo and slightly (but noticeably) better specs to ‘win’ as the default choice for the ‘exclusivity is way too expensive now’ cross-platform future.
Last-minute buying of Titanfall probably narrowed some Sony eyes, but that was probably just stealing the cherry on their i-win cake. I don’t know how much of a jump they were planning on getting over MS (though I reckon they totally were – reversing the roles of 360 and PS3), but I don’t think it was the full year. I like the idea that the Sony headstart is what kicked off the paniclaunch.
Sony platforms are always shit at launch. In fact, platform launches are almost always shit. There’s very few counter-examples. The launches were also made doubly crap by the fact that PS4 was supposed to have Drive Club, Infamous and Watch Dogs all at launch and all three games slipped. That wasn’t the fault of the hardware.
Launches are the worst. They’re always terrible. Anyone who worked on a launch game for a big platform deserves a medal for the work that’s involved.
Devs had initial PS4 hardware quite a while before the system was announced. They had final kits at least 6-9 months beforehand, the specs were finalized not long after the initial announcement. Also if they had been designing them to come out a year later, both systems would use a different CPU/GPU combo. The AMD GPU on board is already quite old, had they been designing it with a 2014 launch in mind they’d have gone for a newer generation because by 2014 there would have been a die shrink available.
Also the Xbox 360 hardware was ten years old at the Xbone launch, and the PS3 is nine (talking hardware age, not gap between launch). It was past time.
The reason MS was appearing so scatterbrained isn’t because of a conspiracy, it’s because the whole company was unstable through 2012 and 2013. Windows 8 was a flop and the autocratic approach the Windows team had taken with how they were positioning the ‘enhancements’ to the UI was reflected in a lot of other areas. Ballmer was getting ready to retire, he’d been unpopular with shareholders for a while, and at the same time was spearheading a re-positioning toward being a devices-focused company. There was blood in the water and all the upper management guys knew that there were really only a few possible candidates for CEO, and you saw some high-profile departures. Mattrick disappeared off just after the Xbone reveal but he’s a weird one to begin with. Described as living like a Saudi prince, would fly into Redmond from his enormous mansion in Canada via a private jet and stuff. I reckon a lot of the missteps they made with Xbox One was because of Mattrick. And then with him gone, they didn’t do the obvious thing and put Spencer in, they moved someone over from the Windows team to hold things together because at the time they were knee deep in a search for the new CEO. Now they have a new CEO (and a good choice) and they have the best possible guy in charge of the Xbox division, and suddenly things are looking much better over there.
Solid reasoning, but I still prefer my tinfoil hat ‘Burn After Reading’ comedy of errors. 🙂
this…
You started out remotely sane and now you’re increasingly reminding me ofYessssssssss!
I actually like the @transientmind theory that both were due for launch at this E3 but got scared that the other was launching a year earlier and both rushed them out the door.
Which he probably hear from his best girl
She hates games. 🙁
But looks up stuff to tell me anyway. <3
Hahahha, I love the deep irony of the music “I’m not like everyone else” when focusing on Nathan Drake’s face, considering just how many game characters Nolan North has voiced 😛
What was that game that had both him and Troy Baker in it? It might also have had Laura Bailey aka most female video game characters.
She was in both Arkham Origins & The Last of Us (though as very small roles from the looks of things).
Edit: Ooh, now that I think about it, she was Serah in FFXIII, which had the other two (though again, Noley boy was just additional people).
They all voiced the SAME character in SR IV
That’s it. There’s a bit of overlap in a bunch of other games but nothing really that had all of them at the same time as different characters (unless you count one of the Lego games).
might be the only one here feeling this way, but…. e3 has been a tad underwhelming so far.
anything hype worthy is so far off its hard to get proper hyped about. everything is ‘coming 2015’
pretty much everything else was a port of a 360/PS3 game to the new gen consoles.
like, I’m really keen on Mortal Kombat X, No Man’s Sky, Arkham Knight, & Bloodborne, but shit…. they’re so far away. & there’s inevitably gonna be delays. so were looking at 2016 before anything comes of e3.
E3 for me was about confirming which next-gen console to get. Decision made: PS4.
In terms of timing, though, nothing I saw made me really want to bump my plans up from, “Ehhhh, not for another xx months/years.”
oh I’ve been in the PS4 camp for ages. I’m just waiting for there to actually be some decent exclusives to justify buying one.
but noting until next year.
e3 2014 has no immediacy. that’s the problem. if Ubi had left the announcement of FC4 til today, they could’ve gone HEY BITCHES, HERES FAR CRY 4. COMING OUT IN LIKE 10 WEEKS. GET ON THAT SHIT.
but now even the most hype worthy announcement is so far off, its not worth getting hype yet. too much stuff that can go wrong in the next 12 months.
I remember when a company did that once. HEY GUYS HERE’S THIS RAD THING IT’S ON SALE TOMORROW.
The company’s name was Sega and the product was the Saturn and it was one of the worst-managed console launches ever.
that was a tad silly, but seriously… FC4 was announced last week (or something) for a November release. why waste that announcement? it was e3 worthy.
a few shitty peripherals for the ps4 that nobody will ever use are not e3 worthy.
Dude, if you want to talk about not being E3-worthy, then fucking remakes of PS3 games are not E3-worthy. Neither is some new TV series.
have you been reading my twitter account? coz I was ranting about that during the presentation :p
Same for me man. Part of my issue is as a PC gamer most E3 stuff these days is “check out our console exclusives!” so other than some specific stuff I always miss out 😛
yeah, I’m mainly a pc gamer, so it’s gotta be a damn good exclusive to get me on a console.
PC’s have pretty much been completely ignored so far, which is shit.
but yeah… the only games I’m keen on now are…. Dragon Age 3. that’s about it. & that’ll be a PC buy for me.
I’m a PC gamer as well, and I have specific tastes in terms of what will really get me excited to play. I don’t expect those to be catered to most of the time, but right now if Destiny had a PC port I would sell my PS4 and possibly not re-buy one.
I said this on twitter, but I do hope that shooting stuff isn’t the only form of interaction with the world in No Man’s Sky. Such pretty worlds and space, yet if all I can do to those worlds is shoot them I’ll be very disappointed.
Going by the trailer, there’s also exploration – species identification and world discovery! \o/
But – at the risk of sounding elitist or something – it’s a small procedural indie title, and I wouldn’t expect too much from it.
I know it’s indie, but so is Minecraft.
Some exploration stuff, some building, some mining, just stuff to break it up
What are you, some sort of hippie?
Shave those sideburns!
But the treeeeeeees, man, I just want to look at and climb trees and mine stuff
And your spaceship?
I think that might harm the trees ever so slightly 😛
For my best friends birthday i decided to make a pokemon ROM hack of his hometown. Its not to hard honestly to change the map and insert pokemon and or attacks, but scripting NPC’s is a nightmare. I hoped to put his mum and dad in the game as gym leaders but i think i might be in a little over my head. Still its a nice fun challenge. I enjoy doing stuff like this, looking up guides and figuring stuff out and slowly seeing the results. It makes me eager to attempt a full ROM hack with a new pokedex of FAKEmon.
Should call it Rokemon!
Rocket Monsters
Did anyone catch what was talked about in regards to PS4 camera? The live-blog I saw mentioned something like “Sony talking about a new PS4 camera”. Googling it doesn’t reveal anything.
That was pretty much it. They mentioned the PS camera, and then talked about Morpheus, and I think the two were related somehow? I’m not really sure; I’d sort of zoned out at that point.
Hm, ok. A recap I found said something like “Sony is gonna increase stock levels, since PS4 camera is sold out everywhere due to Twitch stream popularity”. Not the case in Aus!
What’s with the massive excitement for GTAV on PS4/XBone? It will look slightly nicer and be the exact same game but people are acting like it’s the second coming of Christ. Is a few extra pixels really that important?
The only part of that I was really impressed by was when they said that they’d allows 360 GTA Online character progress to be imported to the PS4.
But by the time this game comes out, the original will have been out for a year. Everyone who wanted to play it will have played it.
I’d be frankly astonished if the remake gets a whole lot of sales traction unless it includes a whole swag of exclusive content… although I guess even a small percentage of second-sales on a billion dollar game will probably translate into profits.
I’m annoyed with GTAV. On one hand there’s still tons of stuff to do and it was a good game. but I feel they so heavily pushed a lot of the “liberty” based content into stuff you’d do with your own character online that there’s no point in playing as Michael, Franklin or Trevor anymore. Since I don’t have XBL Gold anymore (I just leech my wife’s on Xbone, I don’t play anything online on the 360) I can’t periodically dip my toes into GTA Online to see if it’s fun. I already reupped once for the launch which I was sorely disappointed in and they STILL haven’t released the heists.
So like, if I could play the online without paying extra for gold, I would. And I can now do that, IF I buy the whole game again.
The whole situation pissed me off (unreasonably, I admit) so I’m just inclined to wash my hands of the whole situation and not give it any real thought.
I got done with it pretty quickly. Didn’t even get through the post-credits endgame story content. GTA Online annoyed me far more than it entertained me. I’m more than happy to stay done with it – won’t be ‘upgrading’.
No man, it’s all in the frames per second.
You gotta get the frames. All the frames.
Gotta experience all that goodness that you can’t even perceive.
You sound sarcastic here. Not sure why. Humans can definitely perceive a difference between 30fps and 60fps.
Bish always gives that impression. He’s a grumpy old man.
Looks about 5 in his profile pic. D:
Yep. Apparently it renders at 720p on previous-gen. Then it’s got poor draw distance. And quite blurry textures. I’m glad we got GTA5 when we did, but next-gen and PC is where it needs to be to take in the full glory.
Edit: More importantly, it’s coming to PC. Which means mods. Which is what everyone has been waiting for.
Also:
Considering that’s the whole point of video markets – to expand on this – yes, more pixels is good. PS4/Xbone were pushing for 1080p. TV’s are pushing for 4K. Cinema and bluray have been pushing 1080p since forever. More detail is one of the main goals of the industry.
I completely and sincerely hope this isn’t true.
Sure, greater graphical fidelity is a good thing, but to my mind, all that delicious next-gen processing power could be used to far greater effect if it was used to calculate more complex AI, or a greater number of sprites on-screen at a time, or pre-load nearby environments to prevent loading screens, or to accommodate a greater range of activities/options available to a player, or etc etc.
Yup, that’d be great. But GTA5 has been built already, so just releasing it with adequate visuals is easy to do. GTA6 will be the one with the other improvements.
You can see some of the improvements already. More max players on BF4. Better load times. Decent sprite/animation counts. It’s all coming, slowly. The problem is that devs are having a hard time getting 1080p let alone anything else.
I think what Freeze means is “is this change necessary for GTA/is is worth a repurchase?”. I don’t think it is.
Just like with Tomb Raider – if you already own it or have played it, no it’s not worth a re-purchase. But for everyone else, it’s the ‘definitive edition’ and a worthy upgrade at that.
Sure, but it comes back to the original question: what’s with the excessive excitement from the general populous? It’s not a new game, it’s an updated one.
Yes, but it’s updated to a level that is expected. Most of us have big 1080p TVs, and as great as GTA5 is it’s a bit of a blur-fest on anything bigger than 32in. And you have no idea the amount of hype that PC players have for it, in itself! 😛
Personally, we own 2x copies of it just to play multiplayer. I’ll pick up either PS4 or PC version so we can finally play the campaign.
Funnily enough I am a PC player, and (mentioned this on twitter earlier) can’t seem to care about the announcement of it coming to PC. I used to be keen on the idea, but now I’m just “eh, I have other stuff I want to play”.
Yeah, fair enough. I probably won’t get it for more than $25, I’m not too fussed to play ASAP.
porn
Ehh, people got really excited for Tomb Raider Malibu Stacey Edition. Gotta get da best grafix
They were only excited because there was nothing to play otherwise, I suspect.
yeah I was happy to pay the $15 to upgrade some games from PS3 to PS4. Without substantial additional content I really couldn’t justify buying the same game twice on 2 consecutive console generations, I’m even a bit iffy with HD remakes unless they’re like 10+ years old, it makes sense if I missed a game to go and get a HD remaster but beyond that I can’t justify it. I have a friend who has outright refused to get a PS4 until GTAV gets released on it so I guess it’ll keep him happy, still find it weird.
It’s quite an impressive racket they’ve set up though. A lot of people are going to buy the game twice. And it’s already made billions of dollars.
Win98 backup done! Finally.
And now copying it over to the new computer. Backup creation was wavering at 15-25MB/s. This one’s flying at 75-80! USB3 is rad 😛
Also, package delivery this morning!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Purchase140610.jpg~original
Bigger than I was expecting. Looks pretty cool though.
You got a big package?
Guess that explains a bit…
Does Mrs Pixel know how you feel about this sort of thing?
YOU CAN APPRECIATE ART @SHANE! 😛
Phew, now that all that E3 disappointment is over and done with, here’s something guaranteed not to disappoint.
This is The Game you want from 2014. http://www.bookdepository.com/Game-Shane-Smith/9780992520908
SEQUEL!
This one is an interquel, actually, and therefore is entirely different.
Ah, Like Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel
Is this stand alone, or is it related to Lesser Evil and Peaceful Tomorrows?
Both, in a sense. I’ve tried to make all three books work independently of each other. This one takes place in between TLE and PT, but I’m pretty confident that it works on its own.
The Big Question: which one’s your personal favourite of the three? 😀
The Game. By a huge long way. It’s the best of the lot, hands-down.
And that’s not just hyperbole (it is hyperbole, of course, but not just hyperbole). @alexpants has verified this independently.
The Game by Shane
I can piggyback off that guy’s mega-fame.
So, what’s this all about? E3 is awesome and you all like new games? Bah, I say!
Bah!
I’m channeling @shane here and giving away loads of pre-loved games and movies. There’s some good stuff in here! I’m only offloading it because I’ve played it to 100% and am unlikely to play it again, or have somehow ended up with multiple copies. I just want to see them going to good homes!
Easiest way is probably to say what you want in here, and send me an email your mailing details at batguy.kotaku@gmail.com, with your handle in the subject line?
Standard rules apply – first in best dressed, but only one thing per person (at least initially), don’t dare give me any money for them, etc. I’ll keep bumping it over the next few days.
PS3
– Deus Ex: HR
Xbox 360
– Assassin’s Creed II
– AC: Brotherhood
– AC: Revelations
– Beautiful Katamari
– Bioshock 2shane– Bully
– FIFA 08
– Gears of War
– Gears of War 2 (DL code, actually have a few available)
– Prince of Persia 2008
– Ricky Ponting Cricket 2007
– Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper
– Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
– Tomb Raider 2013
– Tomb Raider Legend
– Tomb Raider Anniversary
– Tomb Raider Underworld
– Viva Pinata/Forza 2stickmanBlu-ray
– Inglourious BasterdsontargettDVD
– Batman Begins
– Enter the Dragon
– Jurassic Park
– Kill Bill vol 2
– Rocky
– Sweeney Todd
– Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition
HE’S A MADMAN
…who bought in on Blu-ray in 3D… and then gave away the 3D version as well because he doesn’t have a 3D TV 🙂
Also, does this mean you want it? I think the way this works is that I’m meant to send it to you now even if it was just a joke.
Haha, no that’s okay. I literally have 4 copies of that movie 😛
OK, fiiiiiiiine. You’re bad at this game.
Some cool games in that list! Reminded me that I need to stage a giveaway of my own, and soon!
PS: If anyone hasn’t played Bully, get on that.
PPS: Despite having given it away in two separate TAYgiveaways, I never actually played Bioshock 2. Is it worth a look, in your opinion?
It’s a better version of Bioshock. The dual-wielding make a big difference and the Big Sisters are freaky.
If it’s been a while since you played number 1 and you have fond memories, it’s worth it.
Hmmm. It hasn’t actually been that long since I played Bioshock. In fact, I first experienced it shortly before picking up Dark Souls 2 😛
But if no one else wants to claim it, and you’re sure you don’t mind, I wouldn’t mind checking it out. Thanks!
As long as you actually play it, and don’t just turn around and give it away straight away, then of course I don’t mind!
Though we do have to do *something* to keep Australia Post in business. Maybe pointlessly shipping games across the country without playing them is just what they need!
As my wife’s aunt is a manager in the Aus Post parcel division and her salary is paying for the house my wife will mostly inherit, yes pls.
I would love to see Rockstar do a new Bully game. Bonus points if they replace the boys school setting with a girls’ school setting so it’s basically Mean Girls: The Game.
I’d like to piggyback on this as I accidentally bought Shaun of the Dead on blu-ray twice. My real life friends either already have it or don’t have blu-ray players, so I’ve thus far been unable to give it away.
Haha, I’ll take that if you like! Let’s see if I can turn this giveaway into a net profit 😉
Sure thing, DM me your address on Twitter and I’ll try and get it posted off this week. (You are on Twitter right? And I follow you? I just assume. It’s so hard to keep track these days).
@shane you should get the Deus Ex: HR much hype, many fun!
I already played it on 360! I own two copies of it, actually 😛
Best stealth game I ever played, actually.
😛i seem to be… not very good at stealth games XD
I wouldn’t mind trying out Viva Pinata. Heard it’s good. Is this a dual-disc case or something?
If I could grab that, would you want anything in return? I have some stuffs too.
Indeed, it’s a combo pack of the two. I think they’re on two separate discs, but I’m not gonna play Forza anyway, so I might as well send them out together.
Stuff is always good, but there’s so much stuff to choose from. I’d say I’m good for the moment, except in the unlikely case that said stuff includes something from my current “must buy eventually” list of Beyond: Two Souls, South Park and the Stick of Truth or Dark Souls II 🙂
I have none of those. 🙁
No need to frown. I said it was unlikely!!
Could I possibly please have Inglourious Basterds if no-one’s claimed it?
Nobody has. It’s yours!
Thanks mate. Email sent.
No one wants to talk Arrow with me.
*weeps*
You’re all awful awful people. Like possibly child molesters. Who knows? I don’t know what to think any more.
I’ve been in meetings all day.
ARROW!
I’m genuinely shocked at how good it got in the second season. Once it stopped trying to emulate other shows and found its own identity it really took off.
The wider DC stuff is great
I’d love to talk Arrow with you, but all the comicbook references go right over my head. I will say that Felicity is awesome, though. But if they keep having her make stupid moony eyes over Oliver I’ll be sending the writers a stinkbomb in the mail. 😛
Edit: Not entirely sure if spoiler or not.
Left arrows are pretty cool! <~~
Left arrows? Good god. Who are you? Hitler?
I’m impressed by that ladder climb he does with a stick. Katie Cassidy is gorgeous.
SALMON LADDER
the underappreciated sidekick.*
*the underappreciated sidekick that’s not Diggle.
There’s one episode where he is doing horizontal pull ups on the ceiling. Like, how did he get up there?
But yeah, I’ve only seen the pilot so, apologies – I can’t really converse with you beyond that.
I saw a bit of a free-running workout thing the actor for the Arrow does. Nuts. He is nuts.
Oh Cadbury Brunch Mixed Berry Bar, why do you disappoint me so? Your brethren, the other Cadbury Brunch bars, are some of the most heavenly candy bars manufactured by man, but you sir, you are awful.
Cadbury Brunch Mixed Berry Bar, be forever condemned to the River Styx.
I don’t like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_Co0gfj18
My accurate reaction to the conker reveal at the microsoft conference.
Also, i’ve determined i’m the only person super happy that the Vita tv is coming to the west.
but eh, i’m mostly hyped for nintendo’s presentation tonight, all they need to do is show a sliver of smash bros and i’d be happy.
EDIT: Also, Kamiya is already at it, i was waiting for this http://imgur.com/rnxRsWm
Did someone screw up a pageget comment?
YOU HAD ONE JOB
(to get the page)
i added a second link and now it’s under moderation…
I’M SORRY ITS BEEN A WHILE
I had wrote out a super witty satirical reply that was no joke the funniest comment this site has ever seen. Not a person alive would have avoided rolling on the floor.
Unfortunately it seems to have gotten eaten by the ether so y’all just gonna have to take my word for it and trust me.
Very clever freeze… very clever indeed =p You could be a politician xD
I too could visit the great land of
CanadiaCanada.Forgot to mention I played a little more Dark Souls on the weekend. Realised I had missed a ladder I can kick down to my bonfire in Undead Burg back to the bridge with the dragon on it, which makes the game slightly less of a pain in the arse to traverse.
Still haven’t made a great deal of progress though. It seems all the directions I can now go in have real mofos standing in my way. Which I guess is the point, but I’m now trying to figure out which of those mofos is the lesser mofo that I am meant to get past and which ones I come back to later.
So I gave up and played Saints row IV instead.
there’s a bit in SRIV that annoyed me so much I gave up, curious to know if I just had bad luck or just awful game design. Pretty much any description I could give about said event is a spoiler so not gonna ask in case you’re not there yet. How far in are you?
Edit: it sucks I loved SR2 and 3 and played them till there was nothing more I could do, why won’t you let me love you SRIV?
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DIRK SERRELS
How much fun is SRIV!
Did you finish it? I was enjoying it.
Still playing it, have taken a break because new computer means I can finally play the Witcher 2
I just ordered new PC parts. Witcher 2, here I come.
Seriously, I was doubtful about it after SRIII and the fact that the superpowers make cars kind of redundant, but I’m loving it. They also so shamelessly cribbed ideas to satire from other games that it’s like an homage to every game ever, with a smattering of sci-fi and movie references thrown in.
The cars are so redundant.
The running and jumping, though, is so much fun. I just really want to unlock a better melee power so I can really feel like Superman
I still like grabbing cars to pimp out but once you unlock unlimited sprint, there’s no need for them whatsoever, especially with you jumping around on rooftops to collect data clusters. I feel bad about that but it’s still too much fun to care.
I like pegging cars at dudes.
Teehee.
Pegging.
#preteen4lyf
Is this some slang term that the kids use?
To peg something was always to throw it in the local argot.
Pegging is when a chick buttloves a dude with a strap on.
The more you learn.
These kids.
Also, I’ll change it to “I love using telekinesis to toss dudes”
#MUCHBETTER #CAN’TBEMISCONSTRUED
Wait, really? I thought it was a piratey term for fitting a peg leg to someone who lost a leg?
I’m really in the mood for another flight sim…
Shame that there aren’t too many of them being released nowadays…
War Thunder?
I still gotta try that out…
DCS World? Plenty of content in that bastard.
Arma 3 if you want a slightly less insane level of detail
There’s a new IL2 coming and IL2 Cliffs Of Dover has been patched/modded by teamfusion to be actually worth playing from what I’ve been told (a far cry from the state it was in when released)
I prefer the original IL2 1946, that’s why I got it off GOG.
It always amuses me a bit that one of the best WW2-era flight sims is named after one of the most average to mediocre aircraft of the era. Don’t tell any Russians I said that though, apparently they’re convinced that the IL-2 was the best aircraft ever made except all the other Russian ones that were even more amazing.
Well it was a tough bastard that held the line when it counted. The russians probably have a similar view of it to the one I have of the Hurricane, not as flash as the others that came after but it did everything asked of it and then some and without it the war would have looked a fuck of a lot different.
They were cheap and easy to produce (between it and the IL-10 they made something like 40,000 of them) and didn’t require much training to learn to fly, so basically they’re the AK-47 of WW2 aircraft.
They were apparently complete bricks to fly but fairly effective against German armor (but then, any attack aircraft is going to face off well against a tank) but they were innacurate, their heavy armor meant they weighed too much to carry heavy loads and their only real advantage was numbers. Compared to other attack aircraft (eg the Thunderbolt or the Typhoon) they were woefully outclassed. Dedicated fighters would knock them out easily, though some of the German attack aircraft would struggle against them simply because their armor was so thick their gun caliber wasn’t enough to do any damage.
If you play War Thunder though you’ll quickly learn that the devs have an enormous raging hard-on for the Il-2 as well as the LaGG-3 and La-7 and they’re basically easy mode aircraft. That’s despite the LaGG being completely outclassed by the Bf-109 and the pilots of it all hating the aircraft, the La-7 being inferior to most of the top-end German fighters (the Fw-190 was faster and better armed). The performance of the top-end aircraft in the game generally greatly favours the Russians and the other countries aircraft that should be at least as capable if not more so (like the N1K Shiden-Kai or the F8F Bearcat) are simply not there.
Trying to sort this out: this new Halo remake bundle thing for Xbone, does it include the multiplayer modes, quirks and all, of *all* the Halo games in the package? Or just the MP from Halo 2?
I always found Halo 2’s multiplayer to be terrible, mainly because everyone starts with the stupid SMG. Halo 1 and Halo 3 both had vastly superior MP. That said I’d take Halo 2’s over Halo 4’s without hesitation.
Mainly curious because Halo 1 no-shields pistols-only CTF on Hang ’em High is very special to me and I’d love to relive it properly.
From the article linked in the MS roundup:
Each game will run on its own engine, meaning you’ll get to play all those multiplayer experiences pretty much as they were when they released, but under a higher fidelity and optimization.
Sounds like it’s everything from all the games
Pretty sure at the conference they said each game will have it’s own multiplayer.
So Halo 1 multiplayer returns D:
Pistols errryday.
\o/
XENOBLADEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
U
I have been kind of disappointed overall by Microsoft and Sony. Nintendo is my only hope!
We’d better get some concrete details on X. Like, maybe a title. And whether it’s a Multiplayer game or not. I will buy a Wii U just to play a proper single-player follow-up to Xenoblade.
It’s supposed to be out this year. Iwata said so on two different occasions.
Nintendo is your only hope? Are you feeling okay? 😀
A bit depressed actually.
But nothing Xenublade and about $400 for a new system I don’t want won’t fix.
@Benny sent me learning materials! Benny, you’re great. Everyone, tell Benny how great he is!
I gave you learning materials, where’s my praise =P
Scree gave me links to learning materials and suggestions on how to… acquire them! This is almost as good as delivering the real thing! 🙂 Praise her too! But not as much as Benny.
Haha, just remember though – I’m a little rusty. So if you end up learning the ‘Engrish’ version of Japanese I guess it’s completely my fault! Or is it the Japanese version of Engrish..?
Me-ru-bon sen-chu-ra-ru Or in english, Melbourne Central =P
[crickets]
Bernyy is great!
One of my favs.
I was actually thinking of writing “one of my favourite Bens!”, but most Bens are alright.
GAWSH, I’M NOT MYSELF WHEN I’M TIRED!
Ugh. Tired Greenius’ are the worst.
ily2
Well since gaming as a hobby seems to be a bit dry this year, what can people recommend in the way of books?
I’m a fan of thick tomes in the fantasy/sci-fi genres but generally find stuff set in the modern day/real world desperately boring, though alternate reality style (Dresden Files, Harry potter) can be good.
Anyone have any recommendations? Favourites?
Metro 7 by Matthew J Hellscream is a pretty awesome read.
Don’t forget Shane’s books!
I like Neal Stephenson’s work, so I’d recommend Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. He has plenty of other books which are supposed to be good but I haven’t gotten to them yet. If you’ve got a real boner for dense reads his baroque cycle trilogy (Quicksilver, The Confusion, System of the World) might be for you and is sort of a prequel to Cryptonomicon.
Another author I like is Timothy Zahn. His Conqueror trilogy is quite good but if you’d prefer a one-shot then I highly recommend The Icarus Hunt.
If we’re talking Stephenson, Anathem is where it’s at.
Haha, I have just been working on Neal Stephenson’s stuff actually.
Snow Crash was good but found some of Cryptonomicon a bit dull and Quicksilver is failing to hold my interest.
Shall check out Zahn though.
I loved Crypto and still found Quicksilver a bitch to read so I don’t blame you. I still need to check out Anathem, Diamond Age and Reamde.
My favourite book once upon a time was Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn aka Gillian Rubinstein. It’s pretty rad, spawned four sequels and for a while there were even talks of a feature film.
It only just hit the Apple store the other week, so good timing!
Shall check it out, cheers.
I don’t read as much as I used to, so this list may contain books for a younger audience. Sorry about that.
Inheritance Cyle (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance) – Christopher Paolini
It’s Star Wars in a fantasy setting. Right down to the slightest plot point. But it’s still good fun. Jedi and lightsabres have been replaced by Dragon Riders and dragons. Although the overall narrative is cookie-cutter, it is helped by good writing and good world-building. The races in the book have some real history to them and the way the races treat each other is really cool.
By far the strongest part of this series is the science of magic. It’s incredibly in-depth. Eldest, the second book, is almost entirely devoted to the science of magic, and that’s why it’s the best in the series.
However, the weakest book is by far Eragon, the first one. It can be a slog at times. I suppose you can feel free to skip the first one, you won’t miss too much story. Really, it’s all worth it just so you can read Eldest.
Dead Space Martyr – Brian K. Evenson (Under the pseudonym of B.K. Evenson for some reason)
A must-read for fans of Dead Space. It follows the story of Micheal Altman, the founder of the Unitology cult. I’d recommend it to fans of Dead Space, but not to newcomers to the series, as the drive for reading this story is to learn more about the lore.
This book is true to the series, and it’s depiction of The Marker is spot on. I think Brian Evenson is the perfect author to write about the formation of a religion, as he was entrapped in the Mormon Church for a while.
However, there is one caveat; it freaking drags on in the middle. Like a Toyota Prius with a parachute attached. Some good writing, some good horror.
Skullduggerry Pleasant – Derek Landy
Kinda like Harry Potter. Kinda not. A reanimated magical skeleton solves mysteries with his teenage girl sidekick. The teenage girl sidekick is the main character, in case you were wondering. Pretty funny writer. The later books involve a pair of zombies traveling Ireland searching for a cure to zombie-ism, which is always a fun time.
Like most book series, the first book struggles to find an identity and has a lot of half-formed ideas. As each book is a year-ish, it’s cool to see the teenage sidekick turn from a useless addition into a certified badass.
Around Book 5, there is a horrible story arc that is basically Twilight. With she pick the smoking hot vampire boy that has no personality or the actually likeable boy with teleportation powers that we spent two books getting to know and love? Ubarfgyl, gur bayl tbbq cneg nobhg gung fgbel nep vf gung lbh trg gb frr gur inzcver fuvg qvr n ubeevoyr qrngu.
Still a good series. Fun but flawed. I’ve been meaning to grab the latest book in the series. Thanks for reminding me!
Mickey Zucker Reichert’s Renshai Chronicles are some of my most favourite books. Also, have you read any Jennifer Fallon or Sara Douglass? I’m trying to stay away from the super-popular books as you’ve most likely already read them.
The Axis series are certainly tome like. And awesome
I like Sara Douglass – I was just reading through her book list and realised I’ve read almost all of them at some point.
I vaguely remember not liking one of Douglass’s books but can’t remember it so maybe I’ll give her another go.
Don’t think I have read any of Jennifer Fallon’s stuff so shall check it out.
Cheers.
Black jewel series – Anne Bishop
I always find Anne Bishop a slog to read. Her writing style just doesn’t gel with me. It’s a shame, because I like her stories.
Thou hast not known a great story handicapped by slogish writing until you have read the Malazan Book of the Fallen.
One of the best, and worst series I have ever read.
Favorites are the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and the Empire Trilogy by Feist and Wurts.
Although you’ve probably read them. I’m not super adventurous with my reading material.
Indeed I have, but you have good taste.
I HAVE A NEW BOOK OUT TODAY!
Also, I’m currently re-reading Asimov’s Foundation series. The dude is without peers in science fiction, in my humble opinion.
Also, Stephen Donaldson’s The Gap series is very compelling space opera, though it’s pretty self-indulgent in a few places… and the entire first book, though interesting, has a completely different style from the other four books.
Azimov is indeed the bomb.
Ah The Gap Cycle! I had forgotten about that and will indeed get onto it.
Cheers.
I bought it! Supporting TAYbies and doing my bit. Not sure when I’ll get around to reading it however..
Naww <3
Oh, I also have a soft spot for Traci Harding’s Ancient Future trilogy from reading it as a kid but I’m hesitant to recommend it as it strays a bit into late teen girls fantasy.
Also I’m sure you’ve read The Belgariad/Mallorean and Elenium by Eddings…right?
I believe I have read the Ancient Future stuff.
But not Eddings actually. I think that shall go to the top of my list.
I had a list, which I believe Eddings was on, but lost it a while back and have meandered literarily ever since.
Cheers.
How about this leaflet, “Famous Jewish Sports Legends?”
Have you done any of Sanderson’s stuff? It’s not quite as amazing as some people make out but some of his works are pretty good and he has an engaging writing style.
Anything by Alastair Reynolds. Super epic space opera. There is the Revelation Space books (less a series and more a collection of stories in the same universe) and a bunch of standalone stories and even some short stories.
Alright, I’m going to play Battlefield 3. This will be my first Battlefield game. Wish me luck!
1942 is better! 😛
I got distracted by recommending books to Jocon. To Battlefield!
Shanghai is awesome. I regret only deciding to stay 3 nights. It’s a bitch to type in TAY on my iPhone (which now automatically capitalises TAY) so I’ll be brief with two points.
I got offered sexual/sensual/happ ending massages 6 times in half an hour. 3 of them on one 30m stretch of road. The. Later on 4 times in 2minutes. I sent one ay away and another saw this and walked over. Also no I don’t want a watch, see I have a nice real one. “Oh you want new fake one?” NO HOW THE HELL DOES THAT EVEN LOGIC.
2nd I think Nintendo made the tourist part of the Shanghai World Finance Centre. It just felt so Nintendo like. Hell you get off on the 94th floor into a rainbow road. Still being 100 floors up with nothing but buildings in ever direction was amazing. Little less so when an unfinished building is being built next to it that’s already taller then the 2009 world record holder. Still well worth the $30 AUD I paid.
YOU GUYS I’M GOING TO SHANGHAI WHO’S COMING WITH? 😀
Thanks for buying my ticket!
Ticket? I was hoping someone had a spare junk laying about. In their shed or something. Whilst everyone is busy trying to get IN TO Australia, we’ll head out unseen!
@benny can alternate between shanghai and Hong Kong. Hong Kong free visa for a month. So you go there to get new china visa. Get teaching job 11,000RMB a month more thn enough. Both Shanghai and Hong Kong have many “massage” places. ( sometimes they are legit)
Haha. Another lifetime ago, I had a Chinese girlfriend who was an exchange student. Always promised her I’d come visit her when her studies were over and she went back. I never once did.
Would still love to visit one day though – Hong Kong seems like a fantastic place to stop over.
Hong Kong is the tits man. It’s an awesome city and I’m so excited I get another three days there in a few weeks.
Six times in 30 minutes?
Your stamina is impressive.
Staying power not so much.
I don’t understand how people can be disappointed by all the E3 stuffs. There’s so much pretty! All these things (apart from the driving – car games suck) seem like stuff I’m totally going to buy and/or play!
Also, I am amused by how divorced from each other those two actions are. In a NORMAL universe, you would assume the two to be implicitly related, with one almost always occurring after the other. Madness.
…
Grim Fandango!
wers my fukin pc copy tim
JEEZ GUYS, READ HIS TWEET!
I wanted all the games (except the driving ones because no Luigi Death Stare)
I’m on the Hype train for Grim Fandango, New AssCreed, Uncharted, No Man’s Sky, LBP 3, and whatever else Paradox is working on for PS4 or PC.
HYPE, GET YER HYPE HERE
Not sure if I would say disappointed, there’s certainly some interesting stuff floating around.
I think gaming in general is in a bit of a miasma since the next gen consoles have launched, as there has been a definitive lack of quality in next gen titles. I’ve had some thoughts rumbling around inside my head this week but they’ve yet to become concrete enough to really expand upon, so If I wonder off on a tangent my apologies.
When I’ve been glancing at E3 news I think it’s perhaps more striking what we haven’t seen as opposed to what we have. On the back of doing some reading around Watch Dogs and its issues, I think we’re crossing into a new era of industrialisation in games development.
I think the next year will see the emergence of more studios doing prefabricated, reusable work, inside games. Not games studios per se, but more coding factories developing/implementing/selling API’s, AI Subroutines, or Texture based effects. A sort of corporatized outsourcing. This could be of concern if you’re worried about homogenisation in gaming. Alternatively, if this outsourcing occurs it may bring costs down and improve the quality of work done by smaller studios. so the juries out but as a gamer its concerning.
I also haven’t seen a lot of cross pollination incorporating multiple platforms and gaming modes into a single title. Watch Dogs and GTA have touched on what could be a pot of gold, but it suggests a lot of rigidity when so few titles are mentioning it. if the prevailing outlook is making companies risk averse the future could be slim pickings for more ambitious titles.
That said it’ll only take 1 title “that’s outside the square” and successful to spur the gaming industry to greater heights. Looks like I’ll be cheering on “No Mans Sky”
🙂
We saw that middleware trend happening in the previous gen, but toward the end of it the licensing costs for stuff like Unreal made companies move back to building their own in-house engines instead. Not sure that’ll go away fro big AAA development. Maybe smaller-scale stuff though, it’s basically what Unity’s been doing already (you can buy everything from code plug-ins to assets for very reasonable prices)
I agree with the Unity aspect, although I feel the jury is still out on Unity. With Watch Dogs being a Triple A title though I keep seeing basic flaws with the AI, the lazy rendering, and it makes me realise how much traction you could get by offering some of that pre-packaged. It’d reduce risk, improve quality and decrease time to revenue.
Those are compelling points for any publisher. What we may have seen in the last phase was just an initial attempt to gain traction. like anything new it can take time to find your feet and the rushed nature of next gen titles can certainly give rise to such an idea.
We all knew going in that only rubbish titles would be released early on, so how far ahead as a fledgling studio would you need to be to have some of this pre-packaged? Games released early always sell well as they are the only titles available. If part of my work was licenced across 10 titles I think there would be revenue there.
I guess we’ll see, for a purist though it will pay to watch.
In Watch Dogs case, it’s all built off Assassin’s Creed tech so they probably feel they are reusing those things and don’t need to buy them.
Anybody want a copy of Tom Clancy’s HAWX for PS3?
My urge to get an Xbox One has increased a lil with some of the E3 announcements of exclusive stuffs
At the moment it’s just Scalebound, Sunset Overdrive and Halos but neither of them scream MUST HAVE at me. It’s good to know that there’ll be things on it I’m interested in though so I’ll just have to wait for some reviews first. Pretty keen on anything Platinum though!
Quantum Breeeeeak!
WHAT! I didn’t even know this was a thing :D. Just watched last year’s trailer and oooo! (did they have a new one today?)
Nah, nothing new today!
From watching the trailer all I can tell is that Scalebound is How to Train your Dragon in non-cartoon style.
Got a Monster Hunter vibe too!
How to Train your Monster Hunter
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Hi everyone.
So I probably need a new liver after the last 5 days of being in Tassie. Best time away down there. Melbourne was pretty rad too, I mean I did go and have a giant beer. Also catching up with Neg, Beavwa & meeting Tig & Jordi was great!
But Tassie was just awesome, especially out in Kingston Beach where we stayed for the weekend for my friends birthday.
Loved the cold of Tassie too, it was a nice refreshing change from the humid warmth that I was experiencing up home before I left. I’m thinking of taking my friends offer up of coming back down during the summer.
Went out Friday night for my friends birthday in Launie, we hit up almost every club I think apart from Club 54 or something I think Helen said, I dunno it was a bit of a blur to me in the end, since all of her friends were really nice to me and wanted to get to know me so they kept buying me booze. Along with all the fun & games I was sadly denied entry to two places, apparently steel cap boots aren’t allowed 😛 Before going out I didn’t think of it twice honestly, plus before I got to Melbourne I only had the boots so yeah.. I did buy some sweet ass Vans at a DFO kinda store near my hotel.
I was a bit bummed one of the few things I wanted to go to in Hobart was not open though, that being the Lark Distillery, I also wanted to go to Matthew Evan’s (he presents the show Gourmet Farmer on SBS) shop A Common Ground in Salamanca, but I got a bit too distracted at the Irish pub having an Irish breakfast which was sampling some Whisky’s, one was a Lark, which I found to be quite awesome, I think i’ll have to order a bottle even if it is $180…
Really loved Tasmania, sampled some amazing cheeses, seafood, other miscellaneous foods, ciders, whiskys, liqueurs & made some new friends who’re just lovely people.
The only real downside to Tasmania was Sam could not come due to her recent pregnancy has made her too crook.
But it is nice to be home, I get to see my dog along with mum & dad and I get to sleep in my own bed, which is better than a trundle bed 😛
So how’re y’all?
Oh I also tried some un-aged Jack Daniels Tennessee Rye (HI @DC!) Whiskey cause I saw the pub Helen’s mate runs had it on the shelf, god damn, that stuff is potent.. Had never seen it anywhere before, all I can say is i’ve had home distillate that was not as rough.. Saying that I guess it’s a bit like shine being un-aged and all that jazz, even though it was made from a Rye mash and not Corn mash..
I’m only here for a few days. I don’t have time to waste
Reply fail. @freezespreston also this bar I go to has 18 different beers on tap plus more on bottle including a banana bread flavoured one. It’s awesome.
Yeah you can’t waste time doing other stuff when there is important things like beer tastings!
That’s the spirit. Or beer rather.
Well you can distill beer down into spirits if you like… My mate was saying he’s gonna do that if his next homebrew doesn’t turn out right. I think he just wants a reason to use his new still he got 😛
I’m on my second free beer tonight. Both different. Both really good.
Free beer is the best sort of beer I swear.
I clicked on Battlefied 3 on Origin, and it took me a webpage. Say what?
I guess it won’t let me proceed until I’ve paid for Battlefield: Cawps?
I need to connect my Gravatar account? I need to install a browser plugin? What is going on?
Okay, I shut the tab down, and clicked on Battlefield 3 again. It took me to the same damn website!
It’s damn annoying isn’t it? from memory you need to setup your battlelog or some such thing. Heaven forbid you just wanted to pickup and play 🙂
When I saw you were gonna play for the first time I was gonna say something, but then I would’ve missed out on all this. 🙂
The newer Battlefield games run through the Battlelog website in your browser.
Handy if you play Multiplayer a lot but but so much for just pick-up-and-play.
Bump for the evening crowd. It’s hard trying to give stuff away!! Don’t be shy!!
—
I’m channeling @shane here and giving away loads of pre-loved games and movies. There’s some good stuff in here! I’m only offloading it because I’ve played it to 100% and am unlikely to play it again, or have somehow ended up with multiple copies. I just want to see them going to good homes!
Easiest way is probably to say what you want in here, and send me an email your mailing details at batguy.kotaku@gmail.com, with your handle in the subject line?
Standard rules apply – first in best dressed, but only one thing per person (at least initially), don’t dare give me any money for them, etc. I’ll keep bumping it over the next few days.
PS3
– Deus Ex: HR
Xbox 360
– Assassin’s Creed II
– AC: Brotherhood
– AC: Revelationspixel_the_ferret_viking– Beautiful Katamari
– Bioshock 2shane– Bully
– FIFA 08
– Gears of War
– Gears of War 2 (DL code, actually have a few available)
– Prince of Persia 2008
– Ricky Ponting Cricket 2007
– Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper
– Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
– Tomb Raider 2013
– Tomb Raider Legend
– Tomb Raider Anniversary
– Tomb Raider Underworld
– Viva Pinata/Forza 2stickmanBlu-ray
– Inglourious BasterdsontargettDVD
– Batman Begins
– Enter the Dragon
– Jurassic Parktigerion– Kill Bill vol 2
– Rocky
– Sweeney Todd
– Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition
But Shane has crazy acronyms!
You are probably the only person who misses SDOGLIGGI.
I’ll admit that Terminator 2 and Batman Begins DVDs are very tempting. But I swore an oath not to take stuff from TAYbies. Too shy!
Seriously, please take. I don’t need doubles of DVDs in the house!
What kind of rubbish oath is that? You should be vowing to take more stuff, not less!
Don’t just upvote @phlanispo, send me your address!
Same goes for you, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @benny, @greenius. Pick something already!!
I pick de Blob 2! 😛
(that’s the game I saw you giving away when I first joined TAY :D)
I hate you.
I have half a mind to go buy it again and send it to you out of spite.
I love you and your kindness! 😛
You helped get me some Club Ninty codes when I first joined TAY 😀
Man i’ve received way to many games from you guys as it is, i’d feel terrible claiming yet another to add to the collection
Ugh, I wouldn’t be offering if I didn’t want to give them away.
If you don’t want a game, then take a movie. Sweeney Todd is surprisingly good for a musical about a murderous barber.
but but…. I guess i never did end up picking up AssCreed Rev…
FINE, now that you’re twisting my arm, i can take AssCreed Rev off your hands 😛
BF3 multiplayer is launched through the browser. At first I was reluctant. But it actually worked on. You just need the plugin then pick a server. You don’t need to gravitar it to play so do t worry just get the plugin.
@phlanispo
So, in case you missed it I have a blog now. A sewing blog. It’s my first step to making all this my job so I want to make sure I update it regularly. If you ever chance to look at it and notice it hasn’t been updated in a while, feel free to harass me about it. 😛
It’s also where I’ll eventually be posting TAYquilt stuff, so keep an eye out for TAYquilt Tuesdays!
http://strangestitches.blogspot.com.au/
I love it!
Thanks! 🙂
Me too!
Please don’t hurt me ily your gravatar is a reference to Coneheads yeah?
D:
Too much?
D: D: D:
Umm…no. Eww. You’re on a roll tonight, Benny! 😀
It’s actually my face on an egg. It’s a Twitter avatar @effluvium_boy did for me. The egg used to have an awesome drawn face. When I changed my avatar from the old egg to a creepy stare-face picture of me he then put my creepy face on the egg. I love it to bits.
Err, @effluvium-boy. I’m having a bad night now and it’s all your fault, @benny! 😛
You know I’m just going for laughs, right. I hope you’re not really having a bad night because that was not my intention.
I’m not having a bad night at all. 🙂
Haha! Good times! Flu’s a rascal! A rapscallion!
A scamp!
A doofus!
…
A jerk?
I think the term you’re looking for is “hero”. 😀
… of our time?
OF ANOTHER TIME?
The implications of that is staggering. I will ponder this some.
@strange Ssshh.
Strangest itches? 😛 Well, there was this one time..
All the colours of the rainbow…
That can’t be unseen. XD
SUSANALBUMPARTY
ANUSTART
EXPERTSEXCHANGE
D:
Dammit, it’s way too late to change. 🙁
Doesn’t need to be changed. It’s a good name, even read that way. 🙂
It’s funny cause of your twitter handle though. XD
GODDAMMIT! 😛
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/08/06
It happens to the best. 🙂
Sorry. I thought I remember everyone discussing name ideas here previously, sughly someone would have pointed this one out before you settled?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz8aYiH_nRg – Analrapist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxnuOdWUmA – Therapists.
Just a minor comment- the purple text on the datestamps for the entries are a little hard to read
Well, so’s your emotional state! *pushes Red into a locker*
😛
You’re so mean to me, @DC.
Yeah, that purple text was an accident I haven’t gotten around to fixing yet. It doesn’t even match anything else on the page! 😛
I imagine a lot of things will change on there over the next few months as I figure out how the hell it all works. 😀
I keep refreshing but I guess there is still 30 minutes for you to get a TAYquilt post up
Funny thing is, I almost TAYQuilt Tuesday’d today, but I thought today was Monday. 😛
NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo so close but so far
Never mind, decided to watch some Blu-rays instead.
What is this E3 thing!? (just kidding, but…)
SUPANOVA HYPE!
My sewing is done. Now to go embarrass myself in public!
https://twitter.com/CookingMamaAUS/status/476325384854568961/photo/1
Looks awesome, but I don’t know the reference. (Which makes me think Japanese game/tv show/movie? I’m not well versed in that. :D)
I was thinking Princess Snake so I Google image searched it forgetting SafeSearch is off by default.
It’s not Princess Snake and I’m never going near Google again.
It’s Madame Hydra/Viper, but a rockabilly version because no one wants to see me in green lycra or pvc. There will be green hair and some skull+snake bling.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Madame_Hydra_Viper.JPG
Oh coooool! 😀 Still don’t know the reference though! XD
She’s a Marvel Supervillian. She was in The Wolverine, but from what I’ve read about her, that version wasn’t terribly faithful to the comics. I wanted to do a comic book character that wasn’t wonder woman (yawn). After all, it’s Supanova and Stan Lee will be there ^_^
Viper in The Wolverine.
That’s pretty rad. Got some green makeup to go with it?
Not doing face or body paint if that’s what you mean, but yes, there will be plenty of make up and green nail polish.
Thinking of printing this out and putting on a stick as a prop 🙂
http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-calm-and-hail-hydra-2/
Your new here right?
Hehehee. 😀
No, just a lurker. 😉 I’m Mrs Batguy.
Ohhhh. Cool.
I spy with my little eye
Something lurking beginning with M.
Maltese Falcon!
Molobus monkeys
Mxenoblade!
Sentient mandolins?
Mmmmmm
BF3 First Impressions
Ehh… I’m sorta mixed. I both love and hate the shooting. I played two matches, one in one this big field with nothing in it, and one in a small bazaar. You know, for a series focused on large scale combat, DICE thought it would be a good idea to put a map in a small bazaar for some inexplicable reason. It turned into a worse Call of Duty.
Back to the shooting. I have been spoiled by the shooting in Unreal Tournament and Titanfall, so this was a real kick in the teeth. In close combat, you basically have to run from cover to cover. Not all that fun. In large scale combat, you shoot at tiny dots with text above them telling you they are an enemy. Not all that fun. Yet successfully killing a player is satisfying.
So far, none of the maps have made me go ‘huh, that’s really well designed.’ I’ve heard people say that BF3 has bad map design, and they aren’t entrely wrong.
I jumped in a jet. Then I realised I didn’t know the controls. I tried to check them. but someone shot me. I panicked a pressed down on the shift key. I drove the jet into the ocean.
I’ll need to play more to see if I like it. I always instantly hate multiplayer fps’es when I play them for the first time.
No native X360 controller support for PC. Did not like.
I’ll echo a lot of that, although the bazaar bit made me think they were going for a counterstrike equivalent. I never really bothered with multiplayer but am keen to give it a go with someone who isn’t 13 so give me a shout next time you’re online
Man i’ve owned BF3 for more then a year now and still haven’t played it XD… played every other game prior to it though (Vietnam is still the best though… dat Huey…)
I should probably give it a bash sometime
Heh maybe avoid Arma then, that’s standard engagement range and you don’t get anything as wimpy as text telling you who’s an enemy, your only clue at that range is one tracer for every 5 incoming rounds (each of which can be lethal by themselves)
LOL NOOB JETS ARENT FOR YOU. WAY TO WASTE ASSESTS. BIZZARE OS FO PROS ONLY LTP SCRUB.
It takes a few games to get into it. Friends help. But if you don’t like it you not like it. I had a a lot of fun and time with BF3 but BC2 and 2142 stand above it.
The close-quarters stuff was a free DLC pack actually, and the whole point was to shove people on tiny maps a la COD.
What it felt like in Sydney:
I have a confession to make.
I’m actually really interested in World of Warships. Even though I know it’ll be a crappy pay to win game that’s basically just World of Tanks with a reskin. I knew I was in a lot of trouble when I watched a trailer and then started pausing and going frame-by-frame to identify which ships they were showing. 🙁
Is there a support group I can join to cure me of this?
How many of the ships were cute anime girls 😉
None of them.
You don’t understand, the reason KanColle got me was that it was Warships and Anime Girls. I’ve been interested in WW1 and WW2 naval stuff ever since I was a kid. My Granddad was a radar operator on the HMS Rodney and several other ships of the Royal Navy and he used to talk about bits and pieces of it, but not very much (didn’t like to think about it) and the bits and pieces he would talk about were just enough to be a tease enough that I looked into a lot of it myself and then things snowballed a bit.
To the point that I can tell you that if you watch the E3 cinematic trailer for the game in question, the aircraft carrier looks like it’s probably Zuikaku or Shoukaku (they’re largely identical) but may be Hiryuu (the Shoukaku-class were a scaled-up Hiryuu), the US battleship you see looks to be an Iowa-class and the Japanese battleship that takes a torpedo salvo from one of the US Destroyers is either Ise or Hyuuga, you can tell from the aft flight deck. Based off the combo it’s probably a skirmish based off part of the Leyte Gulf campaign so the carrier is likely Zuikaku (which sank during the engagement) and the American battleship is probably Iowa, New Jersey or Massachusetts.
I knew you love you ship porn. I didn’t see the trailer so I was asking if it was the IJN in the clip or not
Amazing. A review of Final Fantasy VII on Steam.
I don’t think this guy has played a game recently…
I miss the spoiler tag.
So turns out Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum is extremely good, to the point where I was solely responsible for drinking 3/4 of the bottle last night. It got worse when Mizzi pointed out that it takes like vanilla coke when mixed with coke..
I think I need to go to the bottle shop tomorrow.
BWS has it for $35 and you get a free 1.25L coke with it.. Not sure if that’s a nationwide special or just a Tassie special though.
Captain Morgan is responsible for many hangover.
I’m all caught up on E3 now! Watched all the pressers.
I gotta say, I’m impressed! I’m really liking how many stylised/cartoony games both Microsoft and Sony showed off. Cynical old me expected another year of grey military stuff, so I’m pleasantly surprised. Overall very happy with what they both showed.
Really enjoyed Microsoft’s conference. I’m actually considering getting an Xbone now… something that I didn’t think would happen at all! (The 360 never made me go ‘I want this’)
Highlights for me are ABZU, No Mans Sky, Ori, Sunset Overdrive, Halo Collection (never played 3 and 4, so this is perfect) and Lara Croft Temple of Osiris.
Fingers crossed Nintendo can keep it going!
Enthusiasm has no place in E3. Only jaded cynicism will be accepted. Get out.
You want jaded criticism!? Fine! When the Uncharted 4 mini trailer finished, I let out a soft “ugh” 😛
There! Look what you’ve turned me into, Shane D:
CHOO CHOO
“When asked for comment, script author David Callahan made the sound of a Choo-Choo Train, suggesting that all present quote “Get Aboard.””
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/12/08
What’s the difference between a poorly dressed man on a tricycle and a well dressed man on a bicycle?
Attire.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
Is it bad that every now and then at work when I see a teenager / some kid in a 2014 leavers jumper walking around I have the urge to shout out “HEY PHLANISPO!” just to see if it is @phlanispo, and to see if they turn around?
You may have guessed my work is really boring, haha! 😀
You forgot to tap your fingers menacingly! =p
They still haven’t given us our leaver’s jumpers yet. >:(
You kids and your jumpers, never got them when I was in school!
Or when I was leaving school either before you bring that point up.
You kids and your logic…
Hah, this reminds me of our final year at high school… The school didn’t want to offer jerseys or photo books or anything, so the students decided to organise books themselves.
So it goes, someone was appointed to collect the money, and start organising the whole process… 3 months later, we had no books, and the person responsible had a nice set of shiny 20″ wheels on their car… Coincidence?
Hmm. Apparently Time magazine accidentally put up a story early which has now been taken down, and they revealed Nintendo’s E3 lineup. Take it with a grain of salt I guess, but if in fear of spoilers of tonight LOOK OUT FOR THE INTERNET! cc @greenius, @powalen, @idk…
Man, I hate leaks. The worst thing about Twitter is how fast news/spoilers can spread.
Can’t they just keep their traps shut for a few more hours? 😛
Me and Sugs already spoiled ourselves :'(
Yeah, I saw them too. Only the big one and a couple of codenames though, so hopefully there’s a couple more surprises.
I only saw one title so everything should be business as usual! First time streaming from YouTube though so no idea how that’ll go.
Thanks for the heads up though @mrtaco! JOIN US FOR LIVE TW… TAY HYPE!
Twitch for me!
Don’t worry I’ll be here 😛
…maybe. Actually I’ll probably have the video running on this computer, and be skyping with the otherfolk on the other machine.
ONE MINUTE!
Where is Mark’s liveblog? 😛
remember the days when you got your E3 coverage from monthly magazines? Ah the days before the internet and social networks
Were the leaks accurate?
Dunno, only vaguely scanned over mention of it. The main part of it was teased though.
Pretty sure I’m all caught up on all the E3 stuff so far now.
I think some of the hype is lost if you’re not watching it live, cause I seriously have no actual hype for anything so far :\
Like, yeah, stuff looks good, but I wouldn’t say anything looks particularly amazing.
That No Man’s Sky trailer didn’t blow my mind like it did others, there wasn’t any big surprise announcements that grabbed me (too young for old game remakes to have an impact, ala Grim Fandango, too jaded to have sequel announcements be cause for hype, ala LBP3), and the “surprises” really weren’t surprises (we all knew Project Beast (which looks meh) and Uncharted 4 were going to be shown).
I don’t expect to be blown away by Nintendo either to be honest (new to the Nintendo scene, so I have no love for Zelda, Kid Icarus Metroid, or anything other than Pokemon, as I’ve never played any of them before :3).
I’m looking forward to TGS though. That’s hopefully where the games that I am hyped for (Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy XV) will be shown.
I’m glad others thought that some / most of the announcements so far have been good though 🙂
It’s good to see people around here pumped up about games, haha!
Makes me happy seeing you guys happy 🙂
I’m too young to be this cynical about games though :S
BEAST LOOKS MEH?
Get. Out.
It did only look meh!
You can be pumped for it though, but I need to see more of it before I make my mind up about it 😛
XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BAYONETTA INCLUDED!!!!!! I WAS HOPING THEY’D DO THIS!!!!!! TAKE ALL MY MONEY PLATINUM!!!!!!
OTHER STUFF
Wait, Bayonetta 1 is included? Nice!
Definitive edition: Nintendo costumes!
HOLY SHIT
REGGIE VS IWATA
NEW FUCKING COLLECTIBLES
YARN YOSHI ACTUALLY LOOKS MORE NEW YOSHI’S ISLAND THAN NEW YOSHI’S ISLAND. AND DOESN’T SOUND LIKE SHIT!
CAPTAIN TOAD GAME!
ZELDA! THAT HUGE AREA! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
SUPER BAYONETTA ULTIMATE EDITION FEAT. NINTENDO DRESSUPS
HYRULE WARRIORS AND THE PROMISE OF MANY CHARACTERS! I DEMAND LINEBECK AND TINGLE!
NEW KIRBY CANVAS CURSE!
XENOBLADE!
MARIO MAKER IS REAL
NEW IP SPLATOON! DE BLOB LIVES ON!
PALUTENA FOR SMASH!
STAR FOX TEASE!
ALL OF MY MONEY!
Ha ha, I thought of De Blob too as soon as I saw Splatoon. Wish it was a singleplayer game but it looks cool regardless
ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN WHOO WHOO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgYBVdIHDPo
Doom teaser. Think I got hype.
WANT!
http://abload.de/img/wiiu_zelda_scrn01_e3wsf6u.png
Full screenshot of that Zelda scene. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan,
Looks like they’ve sort of gone half Ocarina of Time half Wind Waker graphic style… i really hope so, i like the stylised graphics of Wind Waker…
by which of course i mean ZOMG SO PURDY!
Funny, I thought it looked more Skyward Sword 😛
But then I haven’t actually gotten around to playing that yet. I remember feeling like in earlier trailers it looked more bright and watercolour and pretty but then a year or so later when it was shown off again it suddenly lost a lot of the vibrancy and just became kind of dull in comparison.
New work wallpaper? Why yes, I think so…
@alexpants 你好盆友。wigga I’m so pumped for AC5 I’m afraid. All dem French mofos shanking dem other mofos. Damn son I had to get a change of pants* dat new parkour dem animations. Mmmmhmmmm.
*not really.
TREEHOUSE LIVE BEGINS
Bed can wait.
Man, I read that the Treehouse didn’t start until 6:30, so I went to bed! D:
Oh well, I got up in time to see Xenoblade at least.
Someone else told me 5:30. But then it ended up starting at 4:30 and I got caught up in it.
Everyone is bad at times. Why can’t they just GMT 😛
They’re looking at Captain Toad now. He is the best.
#E3pagesix
Splatoooon!
HOT! NEW! IP!
It’s Sunset Overcoat 😛
Miyamoto on stage now! First some talk of the Quick Start update, then the Pikmin patch, and now GIANT ROBOT!
Looks like a really cool idea. ROCK ‘EM SOCK ‘EM POWER RANGERS!
Another new thing! Project Guard! Who says Nintendo doesn’t do new IPs, there’s like three of them. Hell you could probably almost squeeze Captain Toad into it too.
Grand Theft Auto IV complete edition is $6 on steam at the moment.
Wait, what?! http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/final-fantasy-type-0-gets-a-western-release-on-ps4-and-xbox-one/
E3, you’re a pretty cool guy. 😀
Yeah, I’m now regretting buying the PSP release to play the fan translation. Would have liked it for Vita but I guess this is fine too. Probably better than fine honestly. Just hope we’re not waiting until 2015 for it.
I’ve waited this long, what’s a little more? 😛
Well yeah, except you could play it right now if you wanted.
Mario Maker actually looks pretty great! I didn’t really have high hopes but it looks super simple to use but quite powerful. I hope the price is right!
So one of my dogs (the kings charles cavalier) is sick. She’s had problems breathing the last few days and has been rather lethargic (she spent most of yesterday asleep on my bed). My mum took her to the vet last night and it turns out it’s pretty bad. Her lungs are full of fluid, her organs are enlarged and her heart’s struggling to keep up with it all. We took her back again this morning and now she’s spending the day there having all sorts of tests run on her so they can figure out exactly what’s wrong with her.
I’m rather upset. We got her about 5 years ago during a time when I was really struggling with depression and her companionship is a large part of why I was able to get out of it and keep going. She’s my best friend and I don’t know what I’m going to do if I lose her.
hugs?
I wish you and puppy all the best, that truly sucks
*hugasaurus*
So frustrating when you feel so powerless to help. 🙁
🙁 , that really sux. I hope it all works out.
Tales of Hearts R on Vita will have Japanese dialogue \o/ At least the EU version will. Sounds like it might be JP-only. I’m completely okay with this.
Wow, Nintendo, that’s the most impressed I’ve been with them in years (since early Wii days) it’s like they actually listened to what people want. Really looking forward to a lot of Wii U games.
Really happy with all three this year! Lots of good stuff coming.
yeah, wasn’t expecting much from Nintendo, really happy with what they had to show.
I’m almost there but not completely sold on XenobladeX. It looks rad and we now know it’s a single-player JRPG again, or at least it has that as a component. But you can completely customize the main character and I’m really not sure how I feel about that. It’s something I associate with western RPGs, not Japanese ones.
Also not completely sold on Zelda yet. It looks super rad but open world? I like the tight structure of a good Zelda, the last thing I want is Legend of the Elder Scrolls.
That said I’ll probably buy a Wii U for those two. If Nintendo sweetened the pot with a Fire Emblem or a Metroid I’d be all the way there (not interested in anything else they showed or that is currently on the system).
Are you interested in SMT x Fire Emblem? (not that we know anything about it, but it’s in the works)
No, it’s being developed by Atlus so it’ll be a Shin Megami Tensei game, not a Fire Emblem game, and I find SMT dreadfully bland.
Ah well. I’ve never played an SMT before so I’m going in blind. As long as the SMT part doesn’t bring down the Fire Emblem part I’ll be happy.
What I’ve been assuming is that it will be a Shin Megami Tensei game except instead of summoning demons to fight for you you’ll be summoning Fire Emblem characters. Or that it’ll be Fire Emblem characters summoning demons. Either/or.
If it was being developed by the Fire Emblem guys I’d be really interested. Atlus, not so much. If it was Persona x Fire Emblem it’d be different.
Forgive me if i’m wrong, but hasn’t every Zelda since Ocarina of Time been open world?
Yes it’s “go here and do this” style gameplay but you were always free to give where you wanted… isn’t that the definition of Open world? or have i missed something? (genuine question)
I’ve always seen Zelda games as contained levels connected by a hub world.
Yeah i guess that’s true,
So I haven’t actually read the press release for the new game,
Does that mean that they have gotten rid of dungeons all together or?
I’m just trying to get my head around what’s different with the whole excitement about Open World 😛
They made a point of saying the whole ‘if you can see it you can go there’ thing, which definitely hasn’t been true before now. Also the fact that you can enter places from any point (so I guess that means being able to break into a dungeon from any point?)
I dunno, we’ll have to wait and see!
Ah right, that makes more sense then…
I’m now interested to see how they’re going to pull it off without losing “dat Zelda feel” 😛
Like Dark Souls!
They have an overworld, but they are not an open world. You transition to each dungeon (which you tackle in a specific order and gain abilities in each one to allow you to open up new areas in the overworld and in subsequent dungeons) via that overworld, but it is not an open world design.
Open World implies you can fuck around and do whatever. GTA or Skyrim or similar. I find open world games utterly and completely lifeless and boring, I need the structure of a properly designed experience.
Yeah that does sound… odd… for a Zelda game…
I’m still interested to see what they’re going to do with it but yeah
I dunno, I think they’re probably going for more of a Link Between Worlds type of open world – the dungeons are all out there waiting for you to find them, and in whatever order you choose or happen to come across them in. I can’t remember if you could do the same in the first Zelda, but I think it was similar.
LBW was freakin rad so I’m all aboard.
I’ll have to give them the benefit of the doubt. I have Link Between Worlds (it was given to me for Christmas) but I haven’t touched it yet. And my first Zelda was Ocarina (which I played emulated on a PC. Ever wondered if there was a way to control Zelda that would feel worse than a N64 controller? There is. It’s called a keyboard), I never played the older ones as I didn’t grow up with Nintendo, the first actual Nintendo systems I owned were a DS and a Gamecube.
@popdart5 Ok so I’m tired of going back to the older page and replying there =p I have decided! I’ll be a Necron (since you shattered my dreams of being a Tau). Though I’m not really sure how you’d work a Necron into a team given their whole “kill everything living” vibe. But hey you asked me to pick a different option! (I hate the human factions, don’t want em!! They’re the worst =@)
Edit: WHOOOOO Page 7, my first page post evaaaarrrr!! I have now taken the first steps in becoming a TAY Knight of the Republic.
I went and looked at how the various races interact with the system and things like that and I discovered that Tau is actually a workable option. So disregard my previous comments as, depending on the system, Tau can be done.
Necron could also be done but it could be a bit interesting to say the least and require a bit of working around the rules (definitely possible although tricky). Tell you what, send me an email to popdart10 at gmail dot com and I’ll put some details together and email you and tech_knight to see what you guys want to do. I’ll keep it small to start off with and then expand it out when I have a firmer idea of the sort of game we’ll be playing.
That’s right. It is happening.
Herp derp. @tech_knight
Lol, I’d be a Necron but I thought that was impossible in the game’s setting. I’m in the same boat as @pupp3tmast3r, not wanting to be a human if I can help it (Hence why I’m an Elf in Pathfinder, Elf is my go-to race in those RPGs). Hell I’d even try to be a renegade Eldar, which I guess is more a Dark Eldar.
Definitely looking forward to the email discussion 🙂
It would require some working around to be other races but I reckon I could swing something. Renegade Eldar could encompass a bunch of different things such as Maiden World Eldar (Wild Elves/Wood Elves), Dark Eldar, Eldar Rangers, Eldar Corsairs, etc.
The problem with the 40K RPGs is that humans are the standard because apparently SPESH MEREENS and THE EMPRAH are the best or something. We’ll hash out some details by email to see what everyone wants and I reckon I’d be able to work stuff out. It will take time but I’m happy to work on this as I can always bring it across to other games in the future.
We all know that Orks are the best.
*is da best
Heh, I always try and avoid humans when playing RPGs. Soooo boring
An Ulthwe Psyker would be pretty rad.
@popdart5 is Warlock a class?
It would require reworking of the standard Psyker and combining elements of the Dark Eldar Archon but I reckon it’s doable.
Also, did I miss a signup to another RPG session?
High five! o/
Team Never-There-At-The-Right-Time!
o/
Clearly I’m in the right team.
\o
This bandying around for ideas only really started yesterday so you’re not late. \o/
Alright. Fort those who are interested in a 40K RPG, send me an email to popdart10 at gmail dot com and we can start up a group conversation. It is likely that I’ll try and organise a Google Hangout at some stage to get everyone’s ideas on what you want to play but in your email just send through a brief description of the type of character that you want to play, including the race and potentially the specific defining trait of that character ie. for Eldar it would be what Craftworld you hail from, or for Tau what Sept are you from. That will help me in trying to formalise the rules and get things down pat.
Needless to say, this will take time depending on everyone’s choices and I’ll work through the mechanics of the game before organising the actual session planning and times and stuff. It is likely to be another weeknight type of campaign so keep that in mind. I’m also going to have to put a hard-cap on the numbers of players at 5 and also there will be limitations on race depending on everyone’s choices (for instance, if everyone else chooses Eldar and you want to be a Necron, there is no way that will work).
Tagging @pupp3tmast3r @tech_knight @freezespreston @rize @sernobulus
Do we need a lot of knowledge about the lore to join in? Because I know almost nothing about the Warhammer lore. XD
My lore knowledge is almost entirely from the wikis so maybe refer to those to get a better idea of a character/race to play as. There are a huge number of variations available and the story idea I currently have will change but custom planets and scenarios will not require too much background.
In other words, Orks can be like “Wot is hiss torey? Can I smash it?”
Ork Psyker seems awesome. Although I have a feeling in the first session I will get a bad roll followed by “Your head explodes”.
The Weirdboyz have a tendency to have that happen.
WAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!! *pop*
Yeah, I think I should maybe stick to a non-head exploding race/tribe thingie. =P
@sernobulus
Because the Eldar psykers are do powerful they tend to attract and become possessed by demons which proceed to rip apart their squads…
Yeah Weirdboyz controlling the will of Gork & Mork is unpredictable to say the least.
For example, you have a 10% chance every time you call upon your psykic powers as a Weirdboy of exploding your head. You have a 20% chance of chaining green lightning to everyone within a short distance of you.
I’m going to step in and say play a Weirdboy at your own peril for you will not live very long.
Start of by looking at the races and see if they represent a combat and philosophy you can resonate with. Now keep in mind most races have factions within them that deviate from the standard philosophy (e.g. Blood Ravens in the Space Marines have a higher than normal rate of soldiers with psychic ability making other squads believe that they are tainted in some way).
But the general gist of it is as follows :- Space Marines think right arm of the Emperor, heavily armored, trained elite units sent in to do the impossible. Imperial Guard aka Astra Militarum the meat and potatoes of the Imperiums army, your regular soldiers (most human representation of the Imperium I reckon). There are a few more Imperium factions (ugh Sisters of Battle and Grey Knights) that you should look into if you’re interested. But basically to summarize the Human factions they’re highly intolerant of anything different from them and they’ll kill their own for exhibiting views that say otherwise.
Tau are precision fighters believing in well aimed strikes and their social mentality is to the greater good of their people, no Tau soldier thinks for their own well-being at the cost of their faction (think Japanese samurai). Necrons are an all conquering ancient force with a simple philosophy that they should rule everything and organic life sucks. Tyranids well think Zerg from Starcraft but way worse. Orks are about war and glory and always follow the strongest amongst them, they hit hard and fast but are reckless and disorganized (I also believe they’re all meant to have some level of latent psychic ability). Don’t really know too much about the Eldar and Dark Eldar but they’re the token magical/psychic faction in Warhammer 40k (I also believe they have an ancient vendetta with the Necrons?) I think that just leaves Chaos, basically space marines/humans turned into demon or as warhammer calls them daemon worshippers. Their philosophies are usually representative of the Chaos entity they serve (big 3 being Khorne, Nurlge and Slaanesh). They are fanatical and I doubt pop could get them into the RPG unless we were all Chaos maybe Chaos and Dark Eldar?
dammit forgot to tag nob @sernobulus for above post
Also I feel like I need to go an Ork Nob.
Orks like to smash thing. I think I am going to go an Ork. =P
Alright I’ll drop an email to you tonight 🙂
Can you be a Tyranid Zoanthrope?
I’m going to rule out Tyranids because they are the ultimate horde race and there is very, very little chance of doing any sort of roleplaying with them aside from eating and killing. In any case, that would be an inherently timed campaign due to the fact that everyone would get consumed by the Hive Fleet.
Cultists?
“Don’t mind me. I’m just an average everyday person going about my business and not here to seed this world at all.” *forcibly impregnates @tech_knight*
Oh, techy.
I think I am quickly becoming the “Yamcha” of our RPGs 😛
Looks like you have hit your player cap already?
Yeah sorry Jo. Simple case of trying to limit the amount of work I need to do as this looks like ballooning into quite a detailed and extensive custom campaign. Also trying to keep everyone’s various characters together and providing a semblance of balance will be tricky enough as it is with 5 people.
In any case, I don’t see this happening for at least a month at the earliest so this is very, very early days. Again, I’m sorry to exclude you and anyone else who was interested but I had to have a smaller limit for what this is likely to turn into.
YESSSSS!! Best news ever!! =D Can I build models to represent our characters? 😛 I am totally going to modify one of my still in box Fire Team Tau models with a custom paint job and weapon set for this =p I’m thinking something along the lines of a red and white color scheme with red being the base and white for the lines between armor segments and now I just need to pick a color to highlight random extremities like an antenna or a segment of the pulse rifle….
And I was going to say when you compare the Tau to the other races in the 40k universe they’re actually one of the few races that could align themselves with the human factions. From a story perspective the Tau and the Eldar/Dark Eldar are the only two races I can imagine forming an alliance with humans however temporary it may be. Orks, Chaos, Tyranids and Necrons tend to be singular in their will and rarely give in to other points of view (well good luck talking to a Tyranid).
You know if Tech Knight wants to be a Necron there is some possibility there, he could be a Necron that the team came across from a previous campaign involving a long dormant Tomb. Since there is precedence for these guys malfunctioning or going mad over millenia a freak accident could have left one Necron automaton physically broken (i.e. it’s self destruct or teleportation when damaged tech is no longer working) and mentally free of it’s original conquer everything programming (yes I know I’m doing the whole seven of nine from Voyager spiel here but bear with me). We re-purpose the machine and it regains free will and sentience from it’s long lost organic origins and decides to join us! It could work pop… c’mon!
Also if we can’t work Tau in my races in order of preference – Tau, Necrons, Eldar and if I really have to Chaos (Khorne not Nurgle or Slaanesh =,=).
P.S. On what fricking planet are the space marines the best =,= They’re like the vanilla ice-cream of the Warhammer universe, your go to staple when you can’t find another faction that better reflects your play style. That said until I found the Tau I’d go to the Space Marines as well, none of the others really clicked for me. Also you could be a renegade Eldar, tech, doesn’t automatically transform you into a Dark Eldar, there’s plenty of instances where the Eldar ally themselves with the Imperium especially when the Necrons or Orks are involved. Backstory could involve something along the lines of a radical Eldar commander who’s fallen out of favor with his troops or faction given his unorthodox methods and more accepting views of the lesser factions out there. He now roams the galaxies getting involved in conflicts where he believes he could make a difference against his ancient foes (take your pick).
@popdart5 @tech_knight
Regarding the composition of the party/squad, I’ll be referring to the Allies chart in the 7th edition codex for ideas on what will and will not work. Once I get everyone’s ideas on characters and stuff then I can rule if that combination will work (apparently there are Necron willingly aligning themselves with other races to tackle a bigger threat, mostly Chaos and Tyranids).
Owks jus wonna WAAAAAAAGH!
That was sort of the idea I had. A good example of the character I’m thinking of, Ronahn from Dawn of War 2 Retribution, who’s called a deserter by the Seers of his Craftworld yet stayed true to it himself but in his own way. Kind of the way I want my Eldar to go, still a good guy, but not as deeply bound to the Seer Council/Farseer as the others are due to many disagreements on key decisions in the past.
However if there is a possiblity I could do a Necron, I will, just need to read up on which Tomb World that would make sense.
Probably have to be one of the Fringeworlds. Crown and Coreworlds are defined by their fanatical loyalty and the Necrons have a complete fear of Psykers so they’d need a damn good reason to be working with some.
Speaking on the lore side of things.
Yeah Necrons and Eldar go together like Space Marines and Chaos Marines =D That said I thought my Necron spiel had promise! A unit broken off from its original programming!
Yeah it’ll be much safer if I stick to my Eldar idea
But talking about your Page Get nullifies your application to become a TAY knight. 😛
Fine then! Screw you TAY Knights I’m spinning off and starting a TAY Empire…. Our one true goal will be to get page first of every TAY page and then boast about it!
Didn’t know there was such a thing, I thought there was only just me being the only Knight around here 😉
Resident Warhammer buff reporting in. Apparently I missed a massive conversation?
The Smash Bros WiiU Invitational tournament is on now if you’re interested! Best chance we have to see the game in action. http://www.twitch.tv/nintendo
They’ve been hinting ‘special surprises’ too so I’m expecting a new fighter reveal at some point too.
Have they revealed Captain Falcon yet? If not, I bet you he’ll be shown either today or sometime in show.
Not yet! No doubt he’ll be in there though.
I’m expecting either a BIG announcement (like Ridley) or a completely off-the-wall one that nobody expected (like… I dunno. Monita from Nintendoland or something :P)
Professor Sycamore.
Final Smash: Dat French ass.
Professor Sycamore.
Final Smash: Your mother.
Hah! I forgot Monita was a thing
Man, Zero Suit Samus completely dominated that last round.
Yup. That’s what happens when only one person gets 4 smash orbs.
Nooooo, not Marth, I wanna see IKE!
What da faq? That Wii Fit trainer smash.
Ohhhh, Megaman! Can’t wait to see how he plays.
Ive been saying to some mates that Monita would be a pretty trippy idea. That hollow serial killer voice.
I shouldn’t have googled her without the safe search.
I’m curious to see the Mii Fighter, they have the potential to be super OP. =P
This is so great!
Wish I could play Smash that well 😛
Omg guys, I am SO hype for Nintendo!
So so so SO glad I own a Wii U.
I may have got a little excited during the new Zelda announcement!
Also, Midna in Hyrule Warriors!? YES PLEASE!
Why can’t I upvote this more then once!
I’M JUST SO EXCITED FOR EVERYTHING!
Even Xenoblade?!
Checking it out now
SO PURDY! seriously loving the art direction… i’ve said that like 5 times already but yeah XD
I love cel shaded stuff, so I’m glad. Also, I loved how expressive Link was in windwaker
So much good stuff coming 😀
My Wii U is going to get a work out when all of this stuff hits!
:O, I thought you didn’t own a Wii U & that’s why no Mario Kart, can you just not afford the game? We need to crowd fund you a copy 😛
THAT’S WHAT I SAID 😛
I’ll take that as your pledge, shall I put you down for $50?
😛
Erhm
*stares down at the 90c noodle pack for lunch*
SURE! 😀
Do you accept 5c coins?
I have a wiiU, I just can’t afford the game ^^;;
aww, at least you have a Wii U.
Another thing I keep meaning to ask you, what’s the best Harvest Moon on the PS3? My sister loves Harvest Moon games and recently got a PS3.
Rune factory. It’s harvest moon +
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/rune-factory-oceans-move-compatible-game-ps3
Or tides of destiny
She’s not into the Rune factory games, too much fighty stuff for her liking, she’s more into the farming and cooking etc. than the dungeon crawling.
So, I’ll say this…
If Nintendo makes good on its E3 hype?
2015 might be the first time in over twenty years that I buy a Nintendo console.
Weighty stuff.
DOOOO EEEEEETTT! (if they make good on what they promise)
Join Uuusss… i say that as a fellow master race :P, the Nintendo at least offer unique and charming exclusives! my PC + Wii U combo is amazing!
Xenoblade buddy!
Most realistic CG face!
http://www.shockmansion.com/2014/06/11/video-holy-smokes-thats-realistic-insanely-real-looking-computer-generated-face-has-perfectly-formed-wrinkles-with-each-expression/
So @scree told me apparently this is a thing…
I am also pretty sure that this means we will have to have a Melbourne Meat soon that swings us past there… because it looks pretty freaking amazing!
Gonna eat there today! Gonna force mum to play Space invaders!
I expect a full omnoms-report afterwards!
Also Space Invaders is awesome so there should be no issues convincing her to play XD
We didn’t play it because it was pretty full and we were trying to get seats. I got a Samus placard instead of a number \o/
We shared an 8BitDog, onion rings and a drink. Came up to $12.50
Mum didn’t like the soft bun of the 8Bit dog, but I freaking loved it so she got the onion rings and I ate the dog.
The hot dog had Pickle relish, mustard, ketchup, cooked onions and a plain sausage. I didn’t mind the soft bun and I loved the tangy taste of the ketchup, mustard and pickle relish. The onion rings were huge.
Pretty much, we both liked what we had, with Mum being disappointed in the soft bun.
https://twitter.com/scree06/status/476554368162881537/photo/1
As for the restaurant…We could easily fill it with Taybies.
That seriously looks like all kinds of tasty!!! i think we should absolutely fill it with Taybies XD
there’s like enough room for 20 people
Sold at Peanut Butter Milkshake.
And Cheese and Bacon fries.
Dammit, now I’m so hungry for junk food! :’O
So what i’m hearing is that you’re going to join us for a meat at 8bit? 😛
If I thought people wanted to meet me I might consider it ;P
Probably a good idea to scope out the city I want to move to after all 😀
I always think Melbourne people are always keen for a meat 😛
Might actually give me a chance to get out of my hidey hole and *shudder* socialise 😛
I’m not even 100% sure on who the Melbourne TAYbies are, haha!
Might be something to look into for my uni break though ;P
Well i totally risk missing someone so i don’t really want to start tagging people because then i will be a terrible person for missing them…
But i’m a Melbourne Taybie XD
I am a Melbourne Taybie!
I figured / remembered that 😛
I’m a Victorian TAYbie by blood (born in Victoria), if that means anything 😀
Remind me that that exists when I’m in Melbourne next.
Will do good sir! soo… see you this weekend? 😛
I’m really happy with this year’s E3 :D. I’ve seen all the main conferences except EA (which I’ll watch later) and so far there hasn’t been any duds and each of them have had plenty of awesome games AND surprises too!
I was really impressed with Microsoft’s one and the shift they took this year. No Kinect, no TV, no other stuff, just games. I also keep thinking back to one of @mawt’s Tweets that said Phil was really humble about everything, he didn’t diss the others and even gave them a friendly mention. Whatta guy!
Only thing that sucks is that everything is months away from launching so now I have to sit here like a chump and play older games. Yuck!
I’ve only watched the MS and EA keynotes in their entirety so far, so there’s still a bit to go for me.
MS was a very solid presentation, even if it didn’t convince me to want an XB1 yet. (8/10)
EA was relatively lackluster (unless you like sports!), but I think Sims 4 and Battlefield Cops vs Robbers was enough to save them from bombing out completely. (5/10)
I really liked that Phil was polite, and all the bits inbetween trailers with people talking about their first/favourite games. It all really put the focus back on games. Basically a 180 turnaround on their 2013 show.
Trying to stick to show order, so I’ll try and watch Ubisoft tonight, I managed to catch a few bits and pieces yesterday during the stream (The Crew actually looks like a driving game that I might play). Then Sony and Nintendo tomorrow.
EA’s wasn’t that great, unless you’re really into sports games. Hardly any Mirror’s Edge info 🙁
I don’t think anything blew me away this year. I’m not into any of the console news (which I don’t think has been super interesting).
GTAV on PC is nice but not unexpected. Already looking forward to things like the Division. Not excited for any rehashes (I’m looking at you BF Hardline).
New rainbow six was the only surprise but I’m very cautious about it. looks too much like CoD/CS
Phil is the best possible person to be leading the Xbox group. He should have been given the position when Peter Moore left.
I wish I hadn’t looked at that Lifehacker McMuffin comparison thing. Now I’m scrounging around in my freezer to see if I have any muffins. Spoiler: I don’t. 🙁
Dammit, we need that spoiler tag back.
Test
Now I have to go look, although I don’t have any muffins either, just crumpets. BUT tomorrow is groceries day.
Aww man, now I’m craving crumpets!
Hmm, I have a recipe for crumpets….
It’d probably be less work to just go buy some, though. 😛
I am yet to make crumpets, but it’s on the list of Things To Try.
Anyone want to buy me a Wii U? Pretty please? I’ll be your friend forever and ever …
Make it your weight loss reward
I’d been thinking of that.
Everyone missed out on the $214 elites. 🙁 Man, I consider myself so lucky. But I’d say a price drop should be coming soon … right… right Nintendo… that’d be logical.
Honestly, after that E3 and the last few months of Wii U news, if that price came up again, I would be seriously considering it.
There will be toy sales soon. You may be able to get an awesome bundle
Is there a place or career where I don’t have to put up with other people’s bull$hit?
I’m so sick of everyone making their problems my own.
Lighthouse keeper.
But don’t I have to put up with sea traffic and regulations…. Anyway most lighthouses are automated now.
Ranger on FireWatch in national park> WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
http://www.firewatchgame.com/
As long as that damn bear doesn’t forget to stop, drop and roll
Recluse billionaire hermit.
This one I could live with…. any tips?
Step 1. Decide to do it.
Step 2. ????
Step 3. SUCCESS \o/
I can think of a place. Six feet under.
That’s show’s finished, man. Nearly ten years ago. The sets don’t even exist anymore.
There was a show? About morgue management? Was it any good?
It was OK, but no The Wire
Best. Show. Ever.
It’s my favourite show ever. So amazing.
Yeah, it exists. In a way, my current workplace is rad.
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How are you?
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Ok, Zelda does look really pretty (I’m a sucker for a great art style).
I need to know something though. Is there a place to start playing Zelda from, or is each iteration separate from the last / next?
Don’t judge me, but I’ve never played a Zelda game before, so have no idea if I need to play some previous games before this launches in order to understand anything or if I can just jump straight in to a new one :3
Wind Waker HD is pretty fun! That’s all I have to say on this matter!
*folds arms stubbornly*
On another matter? How purdy does the new Zelda look, huh?
It does look pretty, hence the interest, but you didn’t even remotely answer my question, haha!
Thuper helpful DC! ;P
Probably my most hyped game from E3 at the moment just from the art style alone. I love interesting /pretty art styles :3
I’m the wrong guy to ask. I’m not really a Zelda fan, but the new game does look nice.
WIND WAKER >:|
Amazing 75% of the time, Completely terrible 25% of the time! 😀
Yeah but we don’t talk about those 25%
EDIT – plus the ocean theme… OCEAN THEME
Sounds like you’re interested in it for the same reasons I am, aka, pretty styling, haha! 😀
Honestly, it wouldn’t hurt if you played a few of them in the lead-up. Ocarina of Time is a good place to start, and it should be on the Ninty eshop for a few bucks. I hear Wind Waker is also pretty good. Skyward Sword split Zelda fans down the middle, but it might be good to get a taste for some of the innovation they’re obviously trying to bring to new Zelda games.
But you don’t need to. They’re almost always entirely standalone.
Hmm, the only Zelda I’ve looked at that caught my eye (other than this one) was one on the Wii, with a wolf I think on the front of it?
That looked pretty (from the cover)!
I looked at Wind Waker HD, and while the colouring is beautiful, the character models were slightly, gross *dodges tomatoes*.
That kinda put me off it to be honest :S
If I can just jump in to a new one I might just do that instead. Thanks! 😀
Twilight Princess is the wolf one. It was okay. Very stock-standard-Zelda-by-formula.
Oh! I forgot about the SNES and 3DS Zeldas: Link to the Past is excellent, as is Link’s Awakening and Link Between Worlds. In that order.
I’d start with playing The Secret of Monkey Island.
I’ll get around to it on uni break (hopefully)! 😛
I’m making a list dubbed “Games I Should Attempt to Maybe Play if I can be Bothered at Some Stage Perhaps?”
Mainly older games only 😛
Yeah Wind Wanker HD is a great place to start… i’ve only really dabbled in them before, but Wind waker is the first one i completed fully… such a great game!
Zelda games are all self-contained. A while back they published a sort of official continuity that shows that there is a sequence to them, but aside from the fact that Wind Waker has direct call-outs to parts of Ocarina of Time and Phantom Hourglass is a straight up sequel to Wind Waker, there’s really no connections.
There is no bad spot to start, but be aware that generally speaking, your first Zelda will be your favourite.
By the way, the official timeline is that Skyward Sword is the earliest one, then the Minish Cap and Four Swords followed by Ocarina of Time. Ocarina splits the timeline in three as there are three possible outcomes. The first outcome is that Link as an Adult defeats Ganon, which is sort of the ‘official’ timeline, and Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks follow from that split. The second outcome is that Link defeats Ganon as a child, and that’s the timeline that A Link to the Past, Oracle of Ages / Seasons, Link’s Awakening, The Legend of Zelda and The Adventure of Link belongs to. The third timeline is one where Link fails to defeat Ganon in Ocarina of Time, and the games that follow out of that are Majora’s Mask and Twilight Princess.
I’ve been playing Zelda games all my life, and that timeline confuses the hell out of me.
It’s not really that complicated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda#Fictional_chronology
But at the same time it’s something that they came up with after the Wind Waker in order to formalize the timeline, and so the games were never designed with it in mind, it’s something that was imposed on the games to put them into some semblance of order after the fact.
I am so confused :S
I think it may be a bit too late for me to jump in to the lore and stuff behind it :S
I’ll just start with the new one and ogle at the pretty colours I think, haha! 😀
The best of them are Wind Waker and Ocarina IMO, but I’ve only played the 3D ones (and haven’t played Majora’s Mask which is a polarizing one). I really liked Twilight Princess but apparently everyone hated that (I suspect they played the shitty Wii version rather than the quality Gamecube version though).
I played Twilight on Wii and still loved it.
I only spent significant time with it on Gamecube (I bought my Gamecube primarily to play it, along with Tales of Symphonia, Metroid Prime and Wind Waker). All I remember about the Wii port was that they flipped everything around into a bizarro Mirror-World because they didn’t want Link to be left-handed, and that you had to waggle. Gamecube was proper controls and proper Link and that made a massive difference to me.
I couldn’t play Skyward Sword because of the waggle. Physically felt incapable of playing it properly.
The waggle wasn’t bad in Twiwii. Basically replaced A with a wrist flick. Worked pretty well.
I hated Skyward Sword with a passion.
Honestly, the lore is entirely optional. ENTIRELY optional. Each game is internally complete, and will explain what you need to know as you play through it.
@liondrive: this. As I said as well, each game is entirely self-contained.
They all have the exact same plot too. Link is a dude that has to beat a bad guy called Ganon and to do so he’ll usually have to assemble the pieces of the Triforce and get the Master Sword. And at some point he’ll meet Princess Zelda who will help him out in some way. That’s basically the plot for all of them.
The tale of swords and souls, endlessly retold.
That’s right, The Legend of Zelda is actually just part of the Soul Calibur mythos.
Well Link was a beast in Soul Caliber, he could totally take over their universe 😛
remember how OP link was in Soul Caliber 2. His grab was just like an “I win” button, I’ll just grab you and throw you off the level.
Yeah. I seem to recall that SC2 had some kind of unlocks for finishing story mode a certain number of times? I just used Link to chuck everyone off the stage to breeze through it on repeat.
I always think of Zelda games as being like parallel universes – all similar, but at the same time self contained and unique.
Generally, you can jump into any one by itself.
A few are sequels but even then they don’t really reference the previous ones
Wow! The Nintendo presentation sure was exciting! It was the only presentation I watched simply because I only have the Wii U console but wow! Just wow! Good thing the games are all predicted for 2015 release as it gives me time to save my pennies to purchase them all!
Yoshi’s Wooley World looks like Little Big Planet for Nintendo – not a bad thing! Zelda looks amazing, as always – definitely my highlight of the show. I loved Pokemon Y so I’ll likely pick up Omega Ruby. Bayonetta 2! They throw in the first game as well! I now have no reason not to pick this one up. Hyperule Warriors! So awesome. (Scree’s name, not mine – she gets credit here). Even Xenoblade Chronicles X looks great – which just means I’m going to have to play the first game at some stage, sooner or later. Mario Maker! How cool is that idea! Not sure about replay-ability, personally. Super Smash Bros was never my thing though, so there’s that.
Suddenly, owning a Wii U is definitely looking on the up!
Captain Toad’s Treasure Tracker! How did I forget that one?
OMG YES PLAY XENOBLADE! I TOLD YOU THAT AGES AGO
Haha, it’s all you talk about really.
Been going Mario Kart 8 crazy the last week or so. What an awesome game. I could play this thing forever. I am at the point where I am trying to beat all of the ghost times AND WILL NOT STOP UNTIL I DO! This game just demands perfection.
I’d also say that this is probably my favourite soundtrack in a really long time. I hope they win some awards for it because it really should be acknowledged more.
Holy crapsticks, apparently they have a dev build of Alien: Isolation at E3 running on an Oculus Rift. That game already looks terrifying, putting it on Oculus would be insane.
Ah, I want to play Isolation AND try Oculus. This would be the perfect one-two hit. (Until I get too frightened. :'()
it better come with a poop sack for all the shitting my pants I’ll be doing.
I saw mention of that in a backer e-mail the other day, totally took me by surprise.
I’m already crapping my pants.
You know that error where the user profile breaks and becomes a mess of links? Well, standard kotaku articles look like that for me now. It’s awful.
Check you’re not browsing over HTTPS.
I won a Mario Kart race last night and my self-esteem tells me that every one conspired to go easy on me.
You guys are jerks. I’m not paranoid! >:|
You clearly won because i wasn’t there…
yep, definitely
That’s because we did do that.
Your self-esteem and I need to have a little talk =P Jokes aside it sounds like it’d be way too much effort to conspire and let you win! Better of just trying to win and seeing what happens =D
aww. there was Kart last night, I checked on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, no one was there 🙁
Was from midnight onwards before Nintendo live show.
oh, secret Kart. I see how it is.
Twitter organized, alas. 😛
Whaaaaat! That would have been perfect timing for me to join in!
Forever alone in WA :'(
Hacker! I got pretty close towards the end though but I was trailing behind in 2nd for most of the race, you genuinely did well!
Do I have to promote D.C. as a rival now? >:(
From what I’ve seen of those games, if they really were trying to take it easy on you it would have backfired and they would have thoroughly thrashed you. 😛
@tech_knight @sernobulus @rize @popdart5 @freezespreston
http://pinsofwar.com/a-first-look-at-the-new-warhammer-40k-7th-edition-allies-chart/
If this link is to be believed Necrons and Tau can now be Allies of convenience?! and the Eldar and Dark Eldar have become battle brothers?! Since when!! But it seems the Tau can ally themselves with Eldar or the Necrons. So Tech’s choice and mine has synergy! =D
“Necrons and Tau can now be allies of convenience”
“Eldar and Dark Eldar do something together”
What.
What.
What.
What?
What.
My same reaction I don’t get either of them. I thought at most Eldar and Dark Eldar could be allies of convenience but due to their differences they’ll never be “Battle Brothers”
Yep, exactly this. I’m confused even further by the Tau stuff.
I think the Eldar/Dark Eldar stuff relies more heavily on the relationship with the Harlequins than anything else. 7th edition condensed a lot of the allied factions rather than splitting them up like 6th.
The thing is, Eldar and Dark Eldar can actually make sense in that both are all for the preservation of the Eldar race at all costs. They just happen to have radically different approaches to that ideal.
Seriously, I’m struggling to understand how killing everything ever would be for the Greater Good.
If everyone was dead, there’d be no one left to worry about?
The Eldar have a similar philosophy to the Tau but not as grounded into their own faction so I could see those two allying. Even Tau and the Imperium I could see given that both factions can be reasoned with depending on the circumstances, they’re likely to put down their weapons against each other and turn them on an invading Hive Fleet or an incursion of Orks.
What I can’t understand is how in the hell did the Tau and the Nekron armies decide they have similarities… Like what the hell, the Nekrons are meant to be this force of death that does not negotiate.
Maybe it’s one-way, similar to how Eldar can “Trick” Orks into fighting a common threat to the Eldar without the Orks even realising using their own ways to the Eldar’s master plan. Tau could be using the Necrons to try and lure them to worlds that threaten both the safety and the influence of “The Greater Good”
Edit: The threat of the Necrons will always be there, but an Imperium world/sector that’s been a thorn in a Tau commander’s side? That could be dealt with quite permanently using this kind of tactic and they wouldn’t risk a single man of their own.
Surely allowing the Necrons to spread would far outweigh the potential good…
“for the greater good”, not “the greater intelligence”? 😛
Mayhaps that is in direct relation to recent Tau fights with the Tyranids and how the Necrons abhor the relentless consumption of the galaxy by the Tyranids. That is the only situation where I could see Tau and Necrons join forces.
I think it stems from the Necron hatred of all that reminds them of the Warp and Chaos. Tau as a race have a ridiculously low presence in the Warp due to their lack of a “soul”. Hence why mutations, Chaos, and other stuff is barely known in the Tau Empire (even then it is only known to a select few). Maybe that is how GW justified the fact that Necrons would consider the Tau to be less evil than every other sentient race and may potentially ally with them.
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Greater_Good
Seems the Tau have humans living amongst them as well? Possible story arc should anyone wish to be a soldier from the Imperial Guard?
I think it’s the latest Tau codex has them giving Orks auxiliary status within the Tau Empire. That will be handy should anyone choose to be an Ork.
Hullo! =P
Don’t blow your head off nob! =p Goddammit if I die early on I’ll be so pissed off =@ Working on my soldier’s backstory so far *sniff* he’s led such a difficult life :'(
@pupp3tmast3r
Hehe, don’t worry. I’m just going to go a good ol’ fashioned Ork. No weirdboyz here.
You want to see what the most stupid part of that chart is? Necrons and Chaos Space Marines can become allies of convenience.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope.
All because of retconning the “chaos android” from Space Crusade I reckon
I don’t understand any of that. =D
From that list all I can tell is that Eldar and Chaos Space Marines are the least racist out of all the factions.
@negativezero The URL at the top of the page does not have http OR https. It just says http://www.kotaku.com.au/warghebleaah for some weird reason.
Chrome? It hides the protocol, you have to explicitly add it if you want to change it. You’re probably on HTTP though.
wait, wait, wait, so we’re getting translations of Fantasy Life for the 3ds AND Type-0 for PS4?!
Beautiful. Just.. beautiful.
Now we just need Sega to come to the party with a PS4 port of the Valkyria Chronicles games including VC3.
WHERE IS THE VITA PORT
IT IS A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY TYPE-0 ISNT GETTING A VITA PORT
Oh gods, he lost his shit
Haven’t you heard? BlueMaxima has moved on from Shakespeare, the Vita is now a western drama. “The Assassination of the Playstation Vita by the Coward Sony”.
I’m a bit sad it’s not getting a Vita port too. But what I want is a release date. If it’s not going to be out until 2015 or something then Squenix can fuck right off, I’ll play the fan translation. But if we’re talking August or September I’ll wait.
Hyperbole, thy name is…
Honestly it is a little poo but his 40 tweets about it made me not care pretty quickly.
I wanna be on his side, but he makes it so hard to agree with him.
Its the reason i unfollowed him to start with he is just really rude and overbearing.
He baits and trolls himself.
I honestly wouldn’t otherwise care about what games are or aren’t coming to the VITA. (I have one, somewhere. I played Persona 4 on it. And not much else.) He’s going to give himself an aneurysm.
Dota 2’s compendium has a daily hero challenge. Every 22 hours you can roll a hero to play, if you win as them during the following 22 hour period, you get POINTS!
The odd thing about this is that everyone values points enough that we’re seeing people jump on and play just a game or two of Dota.
Sometimes it’s easy to get POINTS! Yesterday, pretty much the entire enemy team disconnected and we got a default win.
Oddly enough, the game has been rather generous with the people I should get points with. I’ve had some of the strongest heroes in the game, my personal favourite hero and a handful of others that I’m not completely terrible with.
Blaghs, on the other hand, has been getting pretty terrible rolls. I think it’s because he has more points than me.
I still just can’t bring myself to reinstalling it at the moment, I’m still kinda sour about the game itself 🙁
Sounds like that’s a pretty cool way to try and master a hero you wouldn’t normally look at though.
A handful of games is definitely not mastery.
Well “to become familiar with” then 😛
Hey,
How is everybody today?
Another day, another bunch of frustration at work, im working on becoming calmer because im sure i get worked up about nothing a lot of the time. The good part is i dont seem to bring my worry home any more. I can leave it at work .
Bravo. The key to a longer, happier life. 🙂 Notoriously difficult to pull off.
“This deck of cards is a little frayed around the edges. Then again so am I, and I’ve got fewer suits.”
Some new DA:I gameplay (contains some story spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fYCYGnUWww
I was a little underwhelmed with the DA:I video shown at the Microsoft and EA conferences, but this has got me all hyped up again. The game looks really fun.
Yeah that looks awesome.
So Atlus are doing a special release for Persona Q (which probably will be irrelevant to us in dirty PAL-land since Atlus hate us with the fury of a thousand suns) and one of the pack-ins with their CE and Day-1 editions will be a set of 11 Persona-themed Tarot cards.
That sounds cool, but… 11 cards? The Major Arcana in a Tarot set is 22 cards, 11 is exactly half a set. Who the hell wants half a deck of cards?
I have Tarot cards from when I bought Dishonoured.
I don’t even know what to do with them.
Do I burn them to release evil voodoo spirits? That’s how they work right?
You put on your robe and wizard hat and then get people to draw random cards and make vague assertions about the fact that OH MY GOD THE HANGED MAN IS INVERTED and use that to make vague predictions about that person’s future that are probably going to be true anyway.
I got an app once (it was free, don’t judge me) and basically you pull out a bunch of different cards and it vaguely tells you what to do (so one’s about how you’re feeling, one’s about an important decision, one’s about your love life etc).
Or something. I used it twice.
I believe you need to get their other game (Persona 3 Arena Super-Ultra-Mega-BAM-POW-BLAMO-MOREWORDSGOHERE-Suplex Edition)
You need to buy the second installment in the only PS3 game to ever be region locked? :\
@mrtaco Dude, Climb Fit was nuts on Sunday.
People lining up for 30+ mins to get harnesses. Kids and bigs.
Swarming.
Heh, can’t say I’ve ever been in on a Sunday before. Last night was pretty busy too, though not quite as bad as Sunday sounds.
Later on in the afternoon it chilled out a bit.
When I arrived, around 2, it was chaos.
Megaman Battle Network is coming to the eShop! \o/ 😀
This day just keeps getting better and better! (I’m just so psyched because that game is super rare to find these days (legally anyway) and they’re bringing back 1, 2 and 3!) I love it so much that I use the menu theme as my ringtone!
Wow, tough crowd. I’m guessing no-one here’s played Battle Network?
It’s a really fun isometric RPG in the vein of Pokemon.
I have, Benny!
I think I played at least 3 of them on an emulator back in the day :D. Good fun!
@negativezero Everything is still broken after switching to Firefox. I blame the new CloudFlare anit-DDos system more than anything else.
Speaking of Persona, I’ve put P3 music on my phone and been listening to it and it’s awesome and then I’m like naq gura lbh qvr ng gur raq
Bu, V znqr zlfrys fnq.
ONOL ONOL ONOL ONOL ONOL
V ungrq naq ybirq gung lbh qvrq ng gur raq ng gur fnzr gvzr. fhpu n svggvat raqvat, ohg fgvyy fb fnq. Nygubhtu Crefban 4 (naq Neran) obgu fnl gung Ryvmnorgu vf gelvat gb svaq n jnl gb oevat gur C3 Znva Punenpgre onpx, fb znlor va Crefban 4 Neran 3 jr zvtug frr gur c3 ZP cynlnoyr 🙂
well….. with Dragon Age 3 & Far Cry 4 coming out shortly, I’m thinking its time to upgrade my PC.
so… PC people. I’ve not looked into it for ages & I’m out of touch, so a little advice would be appreciated…
Current Key Specs :
CPU : Intel i7 2600K
GPU : Sapphire HD6990
RAM : 16GB Corsair CMP8GX3M2A1600C9 (4x4GB)
MoBo : Gigabyte G1-SNIPER2
thinking that a GPU update would be the first priority. any advice as to what I should be looking to upgrade to would be appreciated.
I also need to get more hard drive space, but that’s not an issue. also some case fans. umm…. noob-ish question regarding fans…. are they universal? I mean will a 150mm fan fit in any case in a 150mm slot? or do I have to track down the exact fan? or is close enough good enough? I hope so, coz I don’t think the case I have in in production anymore….
Lol that’s pretty much the same as my specs XD
And with the case fans, most fans will be universal, i’ve seen very few proprietory ones…
In terms of actually upgrading i can’t really help you, because i’m quite out of touch as well XD…
But in all honesty i haven’t felt a need to upgrade at all, haven’t met a single roadblock with those specs… maybe X-fire your GPU with another card?
thanks man. I think the first step will be fans & a new hard drive.
as for Xfire, the 6990 is pretty much two 6970’s stapled together & jammed into one slot, so its already xfired… with all the non-support that brings :p
I was thinking of going for an R9 290x – single card that’s got quite decent performance & is currently at a ok price (~$500)
Yeah i was looking at that too 😛
I hadn’t looked into if it’s with Xfiring the HD6990’s at all but yeah XD
I like the look of the R9, and heard some quite decent opinions of them…
Do you have an SSD? that’s the only thing i’m thinking about doing to my build at the moment
oh yeah, do it. i’ve got a 120GB SSD for my OS. don’t think i’ll ever be able to go back to mechanical now. such quick boot times 😀
the only catch is 120GB will fill up quick, so a bigger one would be better.
true, but yeah i’m only aiming at keeping my OS on it, so that’s probably all i’d need too…
I think the only thing that has remotely slowed down this build was Crysis 2 with all it’s bells and whistles, but as far as i understand that game is literally built to push PCs to the limit and they encourage top end or SLI/Xfire setups 😛
Witcher 2 made my rig lag, also AC4 & Far Cry 3… pretty much anything that isn’t Unreal Engine 3 will have to be on Medium settings…
but given that DA:I, Witcher 3 & FC4 are such pretty looking games, I think I wanna have them shining.
Really? that interesting, i haven’t lagged in any of those games with essentially the same build? that really odd!
But yes i agree with all the shinies!
Regarding fans:
Unless the case location specifies ‘slim’ fan, all fans are usually in the same form factor.
Yeah, CPU upgrade would give you the biggest bang for the buck there. Also SSD if you don’t have one is great for reducing load times and boot times, especially when running Win 8+. GPU should still be pretty competent I think.
Fans are usually universal, if they’re built to fit a certain size they’ll fit that size. Sometimes it might depend on the amount of clearance you’ve got around the mount but they’re usually about the same thickness.
Unfortunately for you to upgrade to a current Haswell CPU you’ll also need a new Motherboard, as the Haswell is an LGA1150 socket but the Sandy and Ivy bridges were LGA1155. 🙁 You probably wouldn’t get enough of a performance boost to justify upgrading to an Ivy Bridge CPU from what you have, you’d really want to grab a Haswell chip. Depending on how much you’re willing to spend the best upgrade right now is the i7 4790K, which released last week. It’s one of two new refreshed CPUs that has improved heat transfer materials, as one of the big issues that the initial Haswells had was that the thermal paste they used between the actual chip and the heat spreader inside the CPU wasn’t very good and that limited the ability to overclock the CPU as high as you could with an Ivy Bridge. They’re not available in Australia yet AFAIK, probably a few weeks away.
As far as motherboards go, you could probably just get the Z97-series version of the one you have, or you could look at other options if you’re not using all the features it has. I’ve been very happy with the MSI G45 I used for my current build but I have fairly low requirements.
Noob question (never built a PC before)
Isn’t the CPU glued onto the motherboard? How do you take it off?
Most of the time for desktops, no it’s not. The CPU is generally a little square about 3cm by 3cm with a whole pile of pins sticking out, and you simply spot the CPU into a cage on the motherboard, lower it into place and pull down a little lever to lock it there. Then you put the cooler over the top.
Upgrade not that necessary with those specs!
Maybe a new GPU and an SSD if you really want. CPU is still fine (I have that exact one) and RAM is definitely still fine. But yeah, like Neg says, if you decide to upgrade CPU pretty much everything may need to be replaced also (mobo, maybe RAM, CPU) and a new motherboard means a fair bit of work.
I’d go new graphics, SSD if you wish, new TB HDD for some extra storage and all up those parts shouldn’t cost you the earth.
also @negativezero
based on that, i think I’ll go for a new GPU & some extra storage space in the next few weeks & start putting monies aside for a new rig sometime next year.
cheers guys 😀
RAM wouldn’t need an upgrade now. But if you wait for long enough for Broadwell to hit, then you’ll get a much bigger CPU power jump and most likely the move to faster DDR4 memory.
If you want to upgrade one thing right now to give a noticeable performance improvement to your PC, then a Solid State drive would be the best bet. Your GPU is still very capable.
EDIT: Actually checked benchmarks and a GPU upgrade would be a good bet.
already got a SSD, so its time my GPU gets an upgrade.
The sad thing is, whatever you paid for your HD6990, a $140 Geforce GTX 750 will perform about the same now, and both are still very decent cards.
Edited because I mis-read. You already have an SSD.
@35: assuming you upgrade GPU, steer away from Radeon cards at the moment. A 770 OC will smoke your current card and is fairly close to a 780 in power and they’re around $400-450 so if you want bang for the buck that’s a good spot.
Perfect suggestion. I was looking up current GPU pricing just then and to be honest, $400-450 is a small price to pay for such a huge upgrade. @35, your GPU will go from being a top 50 GPU to being top 10.
Don’t upgrade anything.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
Your card is one step below R9 290X. It’s recommended (for the sake of $$ efficiency) to upgrade to a card 3 tiers higher. Which would be the dual-GPU card from AMD or Nvidia, or a Titan Z. None of which make any sort of financial sense in Australia.
Your CPU isn’t a problem. If you overclock it to 3.5GHz+, it won’t bottleneck 99% of games. Check CPU benches – you’ll be GPU bound before CPU @ 3.5. My first-gen i7 still doesn’t bottleneck and isn’t worth an upgrade.
16GB RAM is plenty for gaming. No bottleneck here.
So, what’s your resolution? 2560×1600, IIRC? Tbh it doesn’t really matter, due to the above points. There’s nothing to upgrade.
Also, Haswell-E CPU’s are coming out very soon, so I’d wait for that. And a die shrink on GPU’s should be in 2015 release, meaning larger performance gains – perhaps upgrade then. Not now.
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At the end of the day – don’t upgrade anything.
Also a perfect suggestion. God, there’s so many variables with PC building.
now that really surprises me.
HD 6990 is a 3 year old card & its still in the top 15 or so on the market?
well shit. my machine doesn’t have an excuse to not be running stuff well, but yeah… it still does have trouble on some things.
maybe its time for a format & stuff. eurgh. fun times ahead.
HD6990 is top 50.
6990 is roughly 2x 6970’s. 6970 is roughly a 7950. 7950 is roughly a R9 280 (or 270X). Two of those, slightly nerfed due to Xfire, and you have something catching up to R9 290X.
Your money dude, but it’s pretty crazy to ‘waste’ money on something at this point in time.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+6990
Haha. Good call.
Many enthusiast forums (myself included) dismiss PassMark results. It’s purely synthetic and a loud of bull. Cos totally, a 660Ti blows a 6990 out of the water ….
Edit: look at it. A 6970 beats a 6990. Hah.
Here’s a cool guide that I use.
6990 loses to a 6970. You can’t take PassMark seriously.
I don’t mind it.
6990 is comprised of two slightly-underclocked 6970 GPUs. A single 6970 beats the 6990. How. Only if I inhale magic mushrooms does that make sense.
Haha, nothing’s perfect I guess. I myself personally wouldn’t have the time or money to purchase and test every video card on that list for a comparison – so there’s that. It’s just a handy guide to me.
@benny I’d strongly suggest you revert to the Toms Hardware link I put above. Those ranks are made up of all the real-world testing they’ve done and updated monthly.
Hey that’s pretty cool, my 570 is still right up there. What’s the relevance of the tiers, though? I’m assuming each new row is a new tier..
@benny Yeah, each different coloured row is a new tier. Basically the tiers group up GPU’s that perform similarly to each other, within a certain margin. If another GPU performs a lot better/worse, it’ll go in the next tier.
I’ve been looking at those tiers for a long time, and they are pretty damn spot on. It helps that they’re real-world results, and averaged out over a longer time to filter out anomalies.
It’s funny how tech changes so quickly. I remember I really wanted a 8800GTS back in the day. It was like $800. I never bought one, but fark, what a useless piece of (expensive) junk it would be to me now if I did!
@benny Yep lol. My PC came with GTX295. Best card in the world (for a while). I’m glad I got it – could max any game no problems, everything played 60fps+, was a dream. But now, it’s got no DX11 support and it’s sitting in a box. 😛
What’s it got trouble running? If you are indeed 2560×1600 resolution, you’re probably running into VRAM limit as you’ve only got 2GB per GPU.
@35 one thing to try if you’re running stuff with MSAA on at that resolution is simply turning that off. If your drivers support it, you can instead insert a post-processing feature like FXAA even if the game doesn’t explicitly implement it.
The cost for MSAA at 2560×1600 is pretty big. 4xMSAA means you’re effectively rendering the frame at 10240×6400 and then shrinking it. And honestly once you’re getting above 1920×1200 the effect of aliasing is less apparent anyway.
I’m only running at 1080. usually run AA at the highest, but f that’s causing low frames, I dial it back til its smooth.
but yeah… I dunno. so much conflicting advice.
not gonna upgrade anything other than HDD at the moment…
What you running CPU at? Do you have AHCI enabled in BIOS and OS? Is GPU running in PCIe v2 mode at least? Background tasks? Temps?
Run some benchmarks and compare them to websites. There’s gotta be a reason why you’re having some problems. 1080p shouldn’t be giving you problems.
I’d also start with a clean install of drivers. Remove them completely, then install fresh ones.
@35 also, which operating system?
Also http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/AMD+Radeon+HD+6990/compare
So a stock 770 is less of an upgrade than I thought. However bear in mind that the factory-overclocked 670 and 770 are quite close – within 5% usually – of a 680 and 780.
The other thing is that AMD’s drivers are a bit on the shit side.
I have a factory-overclocked 670 and can still max out all the settings on everything so far.
So @35 your card should have no issues for the mean time.
You should totally think about getting a self-contained liquid coolant kit. Cheapish like the Corsair h80i for $135’ish most places, means you don’t have to worry about thermal paste on your CPU to glue a heat-sink, but let the coolant plate do the job instead. Still needs a fan mount in your case, but the overall cooling improvement should really extend the life of your CPU/prevent internal safety speed-reductions when it gets too hot.
Hey, cool idea. I didn’t know that about the thermal paste substitute. Handy.
Oh, like @stickman said – it’s not a substitute, it’s just that it comes pre-applied so you don’t have to slather it yourself and worry about air-pockets and edging and crap.
What I was mostly getting at is the removal of the heat-sink, which requires kinda frequent’ish cleaning to remain effective, whereas you won’t have to get your toothbrush out so much for the liquid-cooled radiator (which is stuck on with paste).
I see, yes the pre-applied stuff is usually OK.
Ah, gotcha.
+1 for selfcontained liquid coolant… i picked up the H60? when it was going out and the temperature dropped by 20 degrees without any tinkering \o/
seriously love that cooling unit
Wait what. You still need thermal paste on closed-loop water cooling kits dude. Or am I misunderstanding something you said ….
Actually if you look at real-world benchmarks you’ll find that the cooling performance of those closed-loop kits isn’t much better to a good quality heatsink and fans, and is often noisier as well.
I did a lot of research on this when I built my system last year because I was set on getting a Corsair H80i or H100 for it, but it turns out I was able to get better performance, less noise and pay marginally less for the privilege by grabbing a Noctua NH-U14S. The only issue is it’s quite big.
Yep, I have a $85 Noctua air cooler that gives $150 closed-loops a run for their money in terms of temps.
Got another Noctua for my HTPC. On quiet mode I can’t hear it unless I put ear hairs to the fan.
I’m in much the same boat at the moment, though the core of my system is almost 6 years old.
Core i7 920 @ 2.6Ghz
Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 mobo
Asus 6950 1Gb
6GB DDR3 RAM
Seeing as I now have a 27″ monitor capable of 2560×1440 res, I’d like upgrade to a point where I can run games at that res as high and as smooth as possible, so I was considering the following;
Core i5 4670 (or maybe the 4690 refresh that’s coming soon.)
MSI Z97M mATX mobo (I’m going micro-atx so I can have a smaller case… plus I love MSI’s black and red colour scheme.)
Kingston 8GB DDR3 kit
I’m also considering a 780TI for the GPU, just so I can run games at the higher res.
Bump time for the AINACATSS (Apparently I Need A Catchy Acronym To Shift Stuff) giveaway!
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I’m channeling Shane here and giving away loads of pre-loved games and movies. There’s some good stuff in here! I’m only offloading it because I’ve played it to 100% and am unlikely to play it again, or have somehow ended up with multiple copies. I just want to see them going to good homes!
Easiest way is probably to say what you want in here, and send me an email your mailing details at batguy.kotaku@gmail.com, with your handle in the subject line?
Standard rules apply – first in best dressed, but only one thing per person (at least initially), don’t dare give me any money for them, etc. I’ll keep bumping it over the next few days.
PS3
– Deus Ex: HR
Xbox 360
– Assassin’s Creed II
– AC: Brotherhood
– AC: Revelationspixel_the_ferret_viking– Beautiful Katamaristrange– Bioshock 2shane– Bully
– FIFA 08
– Gears of War
– Gears of War 2 (DL code, actually have a few available)
– Prince of Persia 2008
– Ricky Ponting Cricket 2007
– Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripperscree– Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
– Tomb Raider 2013
– Tomb Raider Legend
– Tomb Raider Anniversary
– Tomb Raider Underworld
– Viva Pinata/Forza 2stickmanBlu-ray
– Inglourious BasterdsontargettDVD
– Batman Beginsphlanispo– Enter the Dragon
– Jurassic Parktigerion– Kill Bill vol 2
– Rocky
– Sweeney Todd
– Terminator 2 Ultimate EditionphlanispoCatchy acronym!
I actually wouldn’t mind Beautiful Katamari.
Then it’s yours! Email me your address please.
NA NAAAAAAAA
What’s the Sherlock homes game like?
Not amazing but a fun enough adventure game that I persisted to 1000/1000 gamer score. Definitely worth playing for free.
I think my Mum may like it, that’s why I ask. Any hidden object stuff?
Don’t think so. It’s also not for the squeamish, as it *is* about Jack the Ripper. From IGN’s review:
But if your Mum is tough, she should still like it!
Mum loves that stuff. =P I think I’ll take if no one else wants it
No worries. I’m packing stuff up right now, so I’ll get it in the mail tomorrow if you send me your address.
Okay, I’ve cracked. FREE STUFF! Plus, I don’t feel as terrible and greedy taking things from a TAYbie I don’t know too well.
How does this thing work? How are things like postage fees dealt with?
You send me your address. I send you stuff. The end. Pretty simple.
What’s the catch you say? Nothing is ever free! Well, I *do* store your details away and use them to send you direct marketing for my surefire money-making scheme.
But otherwise, the only catch is that you should consider giving stuff away in the future – like I’m doing now! I’ve picked up games, and art books, and Club Nintendo codes, and stuff I don’t even remember from the guys round here. They’re pretty swell. And they deserve your stuff.
I don’t have anything the Taybies want. That’s why I make stuff for them.
Sent off the email. Thank you thank you thank you.
Woohoo! Decluttering!
Got the Xperia Z2. Haven’t actually used it yet but just looking at it is giving me a massive panic attack on the verge of tears. The fuck is wrong with me?
Get a case / cover for it!
Biggest regret I did with my phone is not put a case on it!
It’s super pretty to look at (pretty sure yours looks the same as mine (I have Z1)), but the back of it scratches super easy!
Congrats on the new phone anyway! 😀
An “oh god why did I buy this?” panic attack or an “oh god it’s so awesome I don’t want to touch it in case I break it” panic attack?
First one. My old phone is so broken and near unusable but still super hesitant.
Probably doesn’t help last attempt at switching phones ended in disaster.
You mean that’s not a normal reaction?
As someone who doesn’t use a screen protector or case and tosses the iPhone 4S around like a frisbee, with more than a couple drops (no cracking, thank god), I simply cannot relate. 😛
Me too. Except replace iPhone with “eternal Nokia user” 😛
(though that said I try to be super careful with my 808 because that thing is my precious baby and I want to keep it working forever >.>)
Just got a call from my mum, who just got a call from the vet. Jessie (our dog) has lung cancer. Nothing they can do. We can take her home for a bit, but they’ll eventually have to put her down.
I’m feeling at a cross between being dead inside, and being on the verge of a complete breakdown. My sister’s crying her eyes out and talking about how she doesn’t want to put her down, and my brain’s sort of rationalising it all that that would be the kindest thing for her so she’s not in pain, and I’m calmly talking to my sister about it and trying to support her, but my body won’t stop shaking and I just don’t know. Part of me feels it isn’t real. I want time to freeze completely so she never dies. I want it to be last week when she was acting happy and fine. I just can’t see my life continuing on after this.
I am so sorry to hear that man!
We lost a dog 2 years ago to liver cancer and it really is the worst feeling!
There’s nothing i can say or do other then offer my condolences…
and hugs… lots and lots of hugs…
You know TAY is here for you, so feel free to dump anything and everything on us!
Aw man.
I lost my dog a few years ago. She’d been having bad days every now and then (dunno the reason) and then just had a really bad day, very sudden.
I’d been home on the Wednesday night, said goodbye to her on the Thursday morning, then she was gone on the Friday.
My sincere condolences, because it sucks so much. esp for a creature that doesn’t understand what’s wrong with them.
God dammit i’m tearing up now
It is very hard when you lose a dog. They are not just a pet but part of your family and they are always gone too soon.
My condolences for your loss but you need to put your personal feelings aside and think about what’s best for her. Also, go with your dog when you put them down. You won’t regret it. They know you love them and it’s only natural for you to feel like you want to hold onto them forever.
It’s okay to feel the way you do and don’t hold it in. It is a very sad time.
Damn you E3!!! so much want!
My PS4 choice has been clearly justified. Everything i have an interest in is on PS4. Definitely want to grab an xbone at some point but can probably hold out till it hits the $350ish mark, considering there isnt much im looking forward to on the horizon…
my list of must haves:
GTA V – PS4 – honestly jumped on kotaku expecting this to have been announced… looking forward to grabbing this on PS4. It was great on 360 but it was held back in so many ways by hardware. also GTA ONLINE!!!! THAT DOESNT FREEZE YOUR CONSOLE EVERY 10-30mins! (Hopefully)… still have my 360 hooked up for this very reason…
BloodBorne – PS4
No Mans Sky – PS4
Mortal Kombat X – PS4
Batman Arkham Knight – PS4
Mirrors Edge 2 – PS4
Masterchief Collection – XBO – I dont have an xbo through so i need more to win me over… there honestly wasnt anything else that caught my eye on the MS reveal.
And the game the single-handedly won e3 in my opinion???
GRIMM-F%^$ING-FANDANGO!!!!! \o/
cue fireworks!!!
Sackdog wins E3 this year and every year forever.
It turns out that the Aussie guy in Orange is the New Black isn’t really Australian, although he’s done stuff over here.
Anyone have any experiences with flashing android phones to manufacturers firmware? This thing is just filled with Telstra advertising and bloatware. Like insane amounts.
If you go to settings, application manager, select the all apps list, you can disable/uninstall the apps you don’t want to use. It’s really handy and I tend to head there first whenever I get a new Android smartphone. It’s easier than flashing firmware.
I don’t personally but I considered it briefly when choosing a new phone. Everyone seems to recommend this site http://www.xda-developers.com/ and they supposedly have in-depth guides for each version of a phone (including carrier specific)
+1 for XDA.
1. Make sure you read guides 3x.
2. Do every single step. If you get stuck, re-read. If still stuck, ask.
3. If you don’t do the above, you can destroy your device.
Aaaaand sticking with iPhone. It might be a dumb device that locks me out of the features but at least I won’t turn it into a $800 paperweight.
Granted, neither will Android. If you don’t poke it. 😛
If you buy Nexus (or Google-edition) devices, there’s usually not much need to root/flash your phone for the regular user.
Yes, but it was a while ago (Galaxy S2).
You probably want the latest version of Odin and a bit of a read up on the XDA forums (http://forum.xda-developers.com/) since there’s usually some variation between devices/current firmware/etc.
No, but that would be because I have a lovely clean Nexus 4.
Hey mate,
yeah its actually really easy to do… Download a program called Odin3 then search for the
latest official firmware for the phone and download it from the internet.
afterwards, hook up your phone to your pc with Odin running, switch it off and turn it back on in download mode (you hold either volume up or volume down when booting it up)once in that mode, select the firmware in Odin3 and start flashing. usually takes about 5 minutes…
Xenoblade Chronicles X!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGHJvkDw1Ys
Just watched the 40 minute gameplay demo and it’s looking great. It’s more a spiritual successor to Xenoblade than a straight sequel but the gameplay looks to be very similar and that’s a good thing. The scale of it is huge too and I can’t wait to explore it! 😀
@dc – exploration! :DDDD
@BENNY I TALK ABOUT OTHER THINGS TOO!
(like my distaste for Bens)
I watched a bit of it and the whole development saga with this game has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me.
It looks like a new Xenoblade! \o/
But it looks like a multiplayer game /o\
But it’s got awesome mechs and it plays like Xenoblade \o/
But it still looks like it’s got multiplayer everywhere and where is the story? /o\
Oh wait, here’s a story trailer at E3! Turns out it’s a new Xenoblade for sure \o/
But the protagonist is silent and player created and the game is an open world /o\
I’m still no closer to knowing if I want to play this game. I don’t know what it is. Is it a follow-up to the best single-player JRPG of the last generation or not? Silent protagonists in JRPGs past the 16-bit era just suck. They feel completely disconnected, because everyone is talking and they aren’t. The blank slate means they never feel connected to what’s going on. The most important element of the JRPG is the party and the interactions of the characters in the party, but if your characters can’t even refer to the protagonist by name, then you can have the most amazing supporting cast ever but the actual player character will not feel important or relevant. Even Bioware recognized this, which is why from Mass Effect onward, their protagonist has a generic name and can actually have natural conversations with the group. When I play a JRPG I don’t want to personally be a character in that story.
So what I’m left with in the end is this feeling like they’ve taken everything I want in a JRPG and everything I categorically don’t want in a JRPG and put them together.
But the thing is, the whole setup is great. The characters shown seem interesting, the plot as shown is cool, the opening cinematic is straight out of Macross down to the Itano Circus. It’s doing so many things right and has so much stuff that appeals to me that I can’t just dismiss the game as not being for me. It’s immensely frustrating, I don’t know if I should be super hyped or not. If it wasn’t for this stupid player-created protagonist shit I’d be hyped beyond belief and would be heading out to buy a Wii U this weekend. But right now, I just don’t know if I can enjoy playing it.
You should really reserve judgement until it’s out and can hear some first hand opinions. From what I’ve seen, it looks and plays just like Xenoblade. I’ll definitely get it ASAP so can post some more in-depth opinions for you, but if you enjoyed Xenoblade then I see no reason why you wouldn’t enjoy this. Whether it’s worth getting a Wii U for? That’s up to you, but there’s plenty of other Wii U games that interest me.
As for the silent guy – I agree that silent protagonists are terrible in this day and age and I have no idea whether other characters referred to them by name (ala Mass Effect) since the demo was in Japanese. I remember reading somewhere that the customisation of that character included things such as the tone of their voice. Hopefully this is their actual voice and not just their battle grunts, but we’ll see! The 40 minute demo focused solely on singleplayer (it was just the first 40 minutes of the game) and I’m assuming co-op multiplayer will be secondary to the experience.
Get hype if you want, or don’t but I wouldn’t totally dismiss it yet. Remember, you weren’t too keen on Xenoblade at first either!
During character creation you set the character’s name. So no, the other party members won’t talk to them by name. :\
I’m going to go the easy route and dismiss it for now until I’m shown to be wrong, because to do otherwise is hurting too much. I can’t get hyped about it and let down repeatedly.
Not necessarily, wasn’t Mass Effect the same? (been a while since I’ve played them). It could just be a first name or codename and the main character can still be referred to as “Shepard”
Unlikely though 😛
Aren’t you still getting Xillia 2 though?
I’ve got the exact same issues with Xillia 2, but that’s a direct continuation, has a bunch of characters I actually care about rather than a brand new set and isn’t going to cost me $300+ to play. I’m interested in playing Xillia 2 but the barrier to entry is much lower and my expectations are already calibrated, I know what the game actually is.
Wii U is still what, $250? Plus cost of the game. I was asking myself this morning whether it was time to get one after I saw the XXenoblade trailer from the Direct and realized it’d have a single-player story and not be a MP-focused game (that was my big worry) and I still can’t justify it. If I owned one, what would I buy? XXenoblade and probably that new Zelda unless they fuck it up with Waggle controls again. They’d both be great experiences but there’s nothing else on the platform for me and there’s no third party stuff either. At least the Wii had a Tales game and Muramasa and a few more niche games like A Boy and His Blob and Fragile and The Last Story and stuff, in addition to a few Nintendo games I actually wanted to play (esp. Metroid Prime 3). Even if they weren’t games I ended up playing a huge amount of, they were interesting enough to justify the system. Wii U just has nothing of that caliber if Red-clad plumbers aren’t your thing.
I already feel really burned by the 3DS lineup. I haven’t turned that system on all year and I think there’s only one game this year on it that I want.
I probably need one more high-profile thing to push me over the edge. Fire Emblem would do it. Metroid would probably do it unless it was another Other M. That rumor about the Metroid Prime dudes doing a reboot of Star Tropics would get me there easily. Throw me another good JRPG and I’d probably swing for it. I’ve been constantly watching, hoping they’d sell me on the system but Nintendo have consistently failed to do so. I don’t think I’m that hard a sell.
The silent player created character is what ruined White Knight Chronicles for me.
I spent nearly an hour perfecting my character when suddenly it tells me the game is the story of Leonard. Who the fuck is Leonard and why should I care?
I didn’t play WKC (really wanted too but the huge delay of our local release killed all my hype), but wasn’t the player made character just some other party member you could use in singleplayer or the character you used in multi?
Seems like in X the created character is the main character and the story is centred more around the world and the supporting characters around them. Still early days though
So much this! I was looking forward to that game forever but when they ask you to create a character, and then you find out you could only use that character in multi, and instead had to be some bland nufticle (it’s a word if I say it is :P) it ruins it.
I think that’s what I liked about Dragon’s Dogma. Not only could you create your main character, but you could create your Pawn as well.
I should really continue (and probably finish) Xenoblade one day.
:’) this sentence pleases me!
“Should” and “will” are two different things though 😛
Shhh 😛
I have the urge to play Wonderful 101 now after all that awesome Platinum news (Scalebound, Bayonetta 2 including the first!)
Me too! I tried to play it on Wii U the other week but it was throwing tantrums at me and I didn’t have much time to figure out what was going wrong so I just turned it off.
Same here
I love you all!
I haven’t had a chance to watch the full 40 min video yet, but from the 2 minute trailer I watched…. it really didn’t look like Xenoblade at all. It reminded me more of the over the top trailers that Square Enix have done for the last couple of Final Fantasy’s. Hopefully the gameplay demo will alleviate my concerns
Gameplay definitely looks like Xenoblade, don’t worry. I’m sure you could cherry-pick 2 mins worth of cutscene content out of Xenoblade and make it look like a crazy OTT mecha action game too.
Yeah, the footage from previous directs was very different but this gameplay demo is from the start of the game and it looks very much Xenoblade-y
I’m watching a bit more of it and I’m not sure but it sounds like Elma is voiced by Houko Kuwashima. That suggests that they’ve got a bigger budget for the game this time. Xenoblade’s Japanese cast was all relatively unknown people, but Kuwashima is a high-profile veteran and if you’ve ever watched anime in Japanese there’s a good chance you’ve heard her in something. That’s assuming I’m right, the treehouse guys won’t shut the fuck up long enough for me to really make out the dialogue. But I’m pretty sure it’s her.
Couldn’t figure out who they had narrating the opening bit but I doubt anyone cares. Sounded familiar though.
The main character does seem to have a voice in that he calls out his attacks in the usual Japanese style.
Main character is definitely 100% silent in the dialogue. At 11:27 Elma asks him a question and you pick between two answers.
Holy shit, 14:00. Is the world you’ve crash-landed on actually the world from the end of Xenoblade? That looks like Bionis Leg!
Fuck, I’m going to buy this in the end despite my misgivings and probably enjoy the shit out of it in spite of the crappy protagonist issue.
Noooo Neg, don’t get too hyped! 😀
The story and characters were just a small part of what made Xenoblade great for me. I loved the gameplay and exploration and that seems to be intact.
Choo choo?
The story was what made it for me. The world had some interesting places to explore and I kind of enjoyed questing there, but if it was just that then it would have felt like an MMO without the people.
The fact that both the starter characters begin with firearms worries me a little. I hope that doesn’t mean a departure from fantasy weapons and stuff. Dunban was one of my favourite characters in Xenoblade because the whole one-armed swordsman thing was badass and his sword attacks were cool and had cool names and overall he felt like a heavily anime-ified version of a character from an Akira Kurosawa film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYQFy4flXfU
A NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHES!
I mean it was obviously going to happen, and couldn’t NOT happen. And I’m kinda disappointed they didn’t put it in as an announcement last night, I absolutely destroyed my pants when Mega Man got announced last year. But I’m glad to see it finally confirmed!
I love these reveals 😀
Hah! I was expecting something a little outrageous but I honestly didn’t expect this character. So hype!
Edit: So we’ve got Namco, Sega, and Capcom represented in SSB WiiU and we had Konami/Kojima represented by Snake in Brawl. I wonder who will be the next Japanese company to get in on Smash.
Haha, really? As soon as it was announced that the game is co-developed by Namco, it was a shoe-in for me. There was no way they wouldn’t have one of their characters in there, and really who else are they gonna put in? Yoshimitsu? 😛
Edit: What we’re missing is Konami sending in Simon Belmont.
I haven’t been keeping up to date on a huge amount of SSB news so I didn’t realise Namco were co-developing the game. If I had known I would have guessed that there would have been a Soul Calibur character come over but I guess that would be pretty stupid to cross-over two different fighting games.
Dang, why is there no Castlevania love in SSB? It would fit really easily too.
The strange thing is that it’s being developed by Namco, by a bunch of current and former Tales studio guys, yet they’re not sticking some Tales characters in there. Perhaps because they’re also on Sony platforms? I dunno. But you’d think it would be obvious. Some of them would be a nice counter to the Fire Emblem guys as well (and also, why aren’t any characters from Fire Emblem Awakening in it yet, when it was by far the best-selling Fire Emblem game ever?)
The problem with trying to get in characters from Awakening is the fact that the only ones that really stand out are already too similar to Marth and the main character is too generic to really introduce as a separate character.
I don’t know why there are no Tales characters in SSB but it might have been part of the contract with Nintendo. Maybe the same thing that got offered to the other Japanese developers where they were only allowed to pick one character to include while Nintendo got the lion’s share.
I don’t know, they could have easily added Lucina to the game.
EDIT: Would have given the game a female sword user, which the game is lacking.
With Miis you can have ALL the female sword users!
I hope that Kellam reps Awakening; and they don’t give him a reveal video.
Definitely agree on the need for a Castlevania rep. I guess Vampire Killer is too close to the power whip so a Belmont would seem like a clone of Samus; and Sakurai said “no clones allowed!”
Surprised that there’s no Bayonetta or Wonder Red repping Platinum.
The fact that Lucina is a girl isn’t enough to differentiate her from Marth?
If you look at the popularity lists for Awakening you could easily find some characters that would slot into the game well but be quite well differentiated from the existing set. Cordelia (Tiamo in JP) for example is consistently popular. Spear fighter, pop her on a Pegasus. Done. Tharja was very popular as well, and she’d play significantly differently as a magic user. Tiki comes up pretty high on popularity polls and she’s been in multiple games, and she turns into a dragon.
And failing all those, you could always add Anna. She’s a Fire Emblem staple, has been in every game and as a rogue and merchant she should fight differently enough – at least be more differentiated than Ike is from Marth.
I’d say it’s more that they’re trying to keep it limited to Nintendo, but with some special guests. You wouldn’t really want to flood the roster with multiple representatives from outside companies, otherwise it’s Nintendo vs [Company]. And honestly, I wouldn’t have any idea who anyone from the Tales series is, they’re nobody 😛 While Pac, Sonic and Mega Man… they’re all huge icons.
He was in SFxT as well.
thank you, I was racking my brain trying to think of what fighting game he was in, that was a really weird choice, especially since they had to put him in a mini mech so he was tall enough to not be a Gon or Dr B type annoying character. Seems more suited to smash bros, That’s pretty cool though, Sonic, Mario, Megaman and Pac Man all in one game, kid me would never have believed that in a million years.
I decided to check the benchmarks of my PC gfx card because @welbot built it for me a while ago.
GTX 570’s are still really great apparently. I dont have to upgrade for a while WOOOO
Also SSD are the radest thing ever. Boot times are sooo quick.
You’re the raddest thing ever.
You’re both wrong. It was proven in 1993 that Ninja Turtles wearing board shorts are the raddest thing ever. Honestly you’re just kidding yourselves with this bullshit.
Oh you and your accurate and nice comments.
GTX 580 here, they’re a good series 🙂
Hell yeah. 400 series blew people away with the performance, but the power and heat was insane lol. 500 series was the nice and mature version. 🙂
Yeeee SSD’s. 😀 I’m on the bandwagon since late 2009. Paid $250 for my 60GB SSD lol. Best upgrade for my rig evar.
I just have the OS on my 60GB one. For everything else i really think a normal SATA drive is plenty quick enough.
OS and productivity stuff here. Adobe, Office, browsers, etc. I hope you do too? Things OPEN quicker than the maximise animation lol. Still got 10% free space, too. Games and the rest of programs belong on WD Blacks. 😛
AS LONG AS ALL THE WD GREEN DRIVES GET THROWN IN A FIRE
I bought 500GB SSD for SteamBox just to get OS and games off the 2TB Green lol. Still got a 1TB Green in a box and 2TB green for backup purposes only.
Actually, I used to be pretty crazy and I ran a RAID0 array on 2x 1TB Greens. Shit was crazy lol. I actually got awesome performance out of it somehow. 😀
Seriously, you are totally younger me! 570 and an SSD? I totally bought those 3 years ago!
Thats when i got mine too 🙂 2011
What SSD do you have?
🙂 Glad to know you’re still happy! I am running a GTX580 myself, and I don’t plan to upgrade it in a hurry. First in line is getting a new mobo and CPU. Without those, any further upgrades to my machine would be fairly useless, as my mobo only supports PCI-e 2.0 and SATA2 :\
Perhaps after I go down that path I’ll investigate graphics upgrades, but until then, there’s still not much that makes my card struggle
Whereas I look at my 580 and go “yup, I need to upgrade.”
I have a problem.
A huge problem.
An amazing problem.
Witcher 3 Hype!
Dear TAY,
Welcome to *DRUMROLL* the Acronym Laden Liberation Of Fully Three Historical Entertaining Games And Modern Extra Stuff
That’s right: ALLOFTHEGAMES
Up for grabs today are the following titles:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox)
TES3: Morrowind (Xbox)– @crazyguy1990Super Smash Bros Melee (GC)– @bennyEnslaved Odyssey to the West (360)– @screePrototype (360)
You know the drill. You want it, sing out. First in, best dressed. Games must go to people who will play them, rather than people who are looking to obtain rare titles (though I have no way to polic this, so it’s on the honour system).
With creative acronyms like that have you ever looked into doing writing? =P
Nah.
Melee?
You got it!
Edit: also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Melee
Sweet! Thank you! Actually I was waiting for you to say, ‘that’s the rare one – pick again’, haha but yeah, I guess with Melee I’ll find out if I like it and whether or not I plan to get the Wii-U version.
Oh right, now that you mention it, I guess it is pretty rare… what’s it worth to you?
Actually, Shane I can’t take it.
I just looked it up on ebay – you could easily score $50 for that copy you really shouldn’t just give it away for nothing. And I don’t do sexual favours so I can’t take it.
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft, just take it would you please.
*looks up Benny’s address, posts game while Benny pontificates*
Mmm I dunno..
Just buy some of his new books. 😀
He already did \o/
Pretty sure @benny was the first person in the entire world to buy a copy of The Game.
😀
Could I please have Morrowind?
NO!
…
Yes.
Great game. Have fun.
Tip: Always have Restoration as a primary skill.
Another Tip: Don’t run everywhere. Endurance determines accuracy, and you have an 80% chance to miss with weapons at the start.
I don’t know how you do it, I’m such a hoarder of games, so many games that I’m sure I’ll never play again but just can’t part with, I still have an Atari FFS. (I did destroy my N64 and PS1 collections from being poor for ages and having new game lust though, which I had huge regrets over so it just worsened my hoarding Issue)
Edit: I did play the last game you sent me though so that’s good 😀 thanks again.
I can’t throw out my games. I haven’t been able to play a lot of the games Shane has given me, but that’s because atm I don’t have the time and I’ve only just got myself a TV
Enslaved? But didn’t you just buy it?
Yep! Played it, finished it, enjoyed it, moving on!
I almost bought it for $20 at BigW the other day
It’s $13.50 at EB these days… or you could just have this copy. Want it?
If no one else wants it
No! i’m not taking another game from anyone this week XD
Stop being so god damn generous people!!!!!
Calm down, Pixel. Here, have a game. It might help.
@mythamphetamine @popdart5 @novacascade @blaghman @tech_knight @mawt
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
You’ve defeated a vicious cragworm, and are approaching the field of towers. What do?
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
Definitely going to have to bail on tonight, sorry guys. Can barely talk and still getting coughing fits. Maybe @popdart5 can weave it into his recaps.
“After disappearing for a week, Nova returns having been struck down by a mysterious plague. Has he put the entire party in jeopardy? Is this the first sign of the Insidious Choir?”
*takes a deep breath* OK! I’ve finished all my compulsory reading in relation to creating a backstory… And now to write the backstory =p There’s so much flipping reading material in regards to the Tau and they’re one of the newer races, good luck to those of you who wanted an older race >.<
Just letting you know that I saw that this handy book has just been released. I’m grabbing it because it will give me ideas and I’ll probably end up basing everyone’s classes on the Rogue Trader system as it’s a nice balance between weakness and overpowered.
Is there a place I can pick this up in person? Perhaps Games Workshop?
I think it’s download only at the moment, considering it only came out last week. All of these books are written and published by Fantasy Flight Games so maybe they are sold a GW stores. As it’s so new though you’re probably going to have trouble finding one.
I always liked the Tau but don’t want to do the whole Greater Good stuff in an RPG, just as a personal choice.
I have no idea which race I’m going to play. Looking at Eldar, and Space Marines, and Imps, and….. 😛
The only races that I’m going to flat rule out are Tyranids and other exotic xenos. Any of the other core races will be available however some of them will require additional work to make them fit with the rest of the party (Chaos and Necron in particular).
I think if at least one person is not going Chaos, it’d be pretty hard to fit one in.
And if more than one person goes Chaos we might as well use the Black Crusade rulebook. It all depends on what everyone wants to play.
Well my Tau character is one that’s disillusioned with the Tau belief of Greater Good and is kind of discovering what kind of difference he can make by himself…
Edit: I guess it really comes down to the backstory you want to have for your character…
Eldar was always my preferred race in 40k.
An Avatar of Khaine is a valid choice right @popdart5?
If you ever become an Avatar of Khaine, you better have a backup character. Sacrifice is a one-way street. 😛
Okay, how about my character is pretty much dead and interred inside a sarcophagus which happens to be inside a Dreadnaught?
Is he still Eldar? Then no.
Otherwise you’re going to have a bit of trouble explaining why a Dreadnought just up and left the Imperium. One would almost call that treason.
I’m laughing at how much we’re trying to break this in terms of characters and we’ve barely even started xD
I’m going to be honest: this is actually quite tame in comparison to some stuff that I’ve experienced over the years. You would not believe the lengths to which some people try and break a RPG system.
Edit: I should also mention that I, as GM, will be using the critical damage rules. You boys are going to need those fate points. >:D
“The blast shot off half of your brain, you’re stunned for 3 rounds” 😛
Man what the hell’s going on here?! Freeze is going to be an Avatar of Khaine??? Screw this I’m coming to this party in a Riptide suit =,=!!!
@pupp3tmast3r
An Avatar of Khaine piloting a Phantom Titan.
@freezespreston Fine then! I’ll be a Riptide Suit riding a Necron Monolith =,=
*sigh* fine. He has no body and his consciousness is inside a spirit stone set into a Wraith Lord.
I just started reading some other races and I really want to be an Eldar Warp Spider now.
Harlequins have the same monofilament weapon but in a punching glove instead. Made to inject it into armour and turn it into an aerosol can.
what the hell is a Harlequin? XD
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Harlequin
I think nobulus just had his mind blown =p
They don’t wear giant armour and teleport everywhere D=
Warp Spiders are very squishy nob, you gotta be careful if you’re going to be one. They’re more for hit and run tactics really…
But teleport! telepoooooooort. (Also, by the sounds of it isn’t a Harlequin even more squishy?)
@sernobulus I recall Harlequin’s being exceptionally…. let’s say hard to kill. They’re quite agile.
Harlequin was on my short list from the start. Still is 😀
I played a game today for the first time in ages. And I actually feel like continuing to play. \o/
I started Fallout:New Vegas for the first time.
I’d never gotten around to playing it before because I’d bought it for Mr. Strange and watched him play it first, so I was all Fallout’d out. But now it’s been years, so I can’t remember much of the story anymore.
Of course, this probably means my work will stop and I’ll have nothing to blog about. Hmm, maybe I’ll have to blog about F:NV instead of about sewing. 😛
Aint that a kick in the head.
Would you say you have the strangest itch to keep playing?
ARGHHHH! 😛
Someone gifted me new vegas a while back. I haven’t touched it yet. Keep putting it off due to the shitty time I had trying to get in to Fallout 3. I’m sure if I could push through the initial difficulty barrier I’d be ok, but I had much the same thing happen in Mass Effect. Got to a certain point not long after the beginning, where I kept dying cos my aim was too shit, so I just gave up 😉
One of these days I’ll go back to it though. Perhaps even soon.
I’m almost done with Castlevania: Lords of Shadow now, so I’ll no doubt want something epic to delve in to once it’s all said and done.
I like the Fallout games because the VATS means I don’t have to worry about aiming often.
Gods yes. All VATS, all the time
I haven’t really properly played a Fallout game since 2! That was back in the days when it was all isometric view. Loved those games to bits. Just couldn’t find that edge in 3 when I first played. As I said though, I will one day push through and finish the new one/s.
I almost had one of those quit moments when I started playing Castlevania. Got to one of the bosses with QTE’s and I came so close to rage quitting. I managed to get past it though, and glad I did, cos the QTE’s after that one fight, have actually been quite easy and bearable to play, so it hasn’t felt like a chore since then, and luckily, there’s some great levels and bosses that made it totally worth playing on! Hopefully Fallout will be much the same when I get around to it 🙂
You powered through. You are a stronger man than I.
I usually wouldn’t cos I despise QTE’s. Thankfully though, the QTE’s after the first couple of battles are much easier. Usually it’s just press any button as one circle goes inside another, and occasionally, they’ll make you mash one specific button. I can live with that. It’s the sequence ones that shit me.. like “press x – wiggle stick – press y – press x – press y – press b rapidly – press y” and then to piss you off even more, once you fail to match their exact combo, they go and change it for your next attempt “Press y – press x – wiggle stick – press x – press R – press b”
If I come across QTE’s like that, INSTANT BIN! Never to be attempted again!
Hype. Hype? Hype hype, hype hype hype hype hype.
Hype!
Choo choo!
GRIM FANDANGO!
There’s a train in Grim Fandango! A hype train? PROBABLY!
Number Nine to Hypeville!
HHHYYYYPPPPPPEEEEE!!!!!! *hyperventilates and passes out*
This is Rupture Farms
Bone production doooooooooooooown
*fart* hehehe
Yeah, I’ll admit I’m pretty hyped.
Prior to this week I was considering turfing my Wii-U. Now, I’ll never let it go! 😀
About Bloodborne? Yeah it looks pretty good.
Oh yeah. There’s the point I’ll be wanting to own a PS4.
Did they announce it as PS4 exclusive?
Yep
@novacascade are you back at work this week or not until next week?
Started back today
@transientmind Curious what exactly about Nintendo’s showing has swayed you towards the Wii U, especially since you mentioned that there’s no nostalgia or attachment to the various IPs to help drive that decision.
Why, I’m glad you asked! Critical mass, mostly. I’d been interested in the Wii for a little while but not quite enough to buy one. Then the U comes out and looks like it may be doomed. Now… not so much? Nintendo’s trying it’s little heart out with what looks like a shitload of 1st party releases, and while only 3-4 of those may actually hit the mark for me, I’m wondering if it’ll be enough to entice a few good 3rd-party RPGs there. A new Xenoblade and a new Zelda make a persuasive argument.
Essentially:
1) Wii + WiiU catalogue of things I wanted to try but not enough to buy the console.
And my understanding is that it has backwards compatibility – so that urge for Wii stuff just gets to be added to the U stuff. If that’s not right, then no, my urge goes down.
But the ‘backlog of stuff I’m interested in’ List’ish goes: Wonderful 101, Pikmin, Zelda games, Paper Mario, Kirby games, Harvest Moon, Symphonia, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, ZombiU, MAYBE Mario 3D world (but probably not – don’t give a shit about platformers, though I might make an exception for that new Yoshi yarn game and I always have time for Kirby), plus the RPGs like Last Story, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter Tri, Rune Factory, and a bunch of PS2 ports I read about (http://www.listal.com/list/wii-rpgs).
2) New stuff:
Xenoblade Chronicles duh, though I should probably do the original first.
Zelda – seems like a good point to get back into it. Because at this point it basically looks… well. Badass. Not ‘for a nintendo game’, just independently badass.
Star Fox I will admit does actually make an exception to the nostalgia thing, that’s PURE nostalgia.
Splatoon looks legitimately fascinating for the TF2 curiosity fix.
I actually love the Dynasty Warriors franchise and spin-offs so I would be interested in Hyrule Warriors even if Link was the ONLY character. (Which to all intents and purposes he may as well be, I have no fucking clue who all those others are. I know Zelda. That’s it.)
The above ‘new stuff’ might not have been new to E3, but now’s the first time I’m seeing it. And that’s why I’m figuring 2015. Most of that shit that seems like the tipping point for me won’t land til next year.
I’m fully expecting a Zelda bundle. That’ll probably be my launch point.
Is indeed correct! Respectable list you’ve got built up there. Although if you’re talking MHTri for Wii then there’s not much point, since they’ve killed the online for that. Better to get MH3 Ultimate, although I’m hanging out for MH4 on 3DS. Kinda wish it had a Wii U release though, but I guess that’s possible for something down the pipeline.
Good news!
WiiU is backwards compatible!
I could lend you a shit ton of games for the wii. Accept my cult classic thingys!
Oh man, if a Zelda bundle was announced locally, let’s just say I’d be buying a second Wii-U.
Dog update. We’ve brought her back from the vet. Looking at her, it’s hard to imagine she has cancer. Her breathing is off, and she’s lethargic, but she’s still her normal self. Greeted us wagging her tail; barked at the possumes making noises in the roof.
They gave us some stuff to help slow the cancer. Thing is she also has a heart problem, and cancer slowing stuff will make more issues with her heart, so it’s tough to get the right balance in medication.
Grief wise I’m doing better. After crying a lot, wandering around and staring off into the distance and hopping in bed, pulling a blanket over my head and being all depressed for a few hours I’m feeling okay. Still feel really nauseous though. I’m a bit nervous about it all though, because I don’t know if I’m feeling okay because of acceptance, or whether I’m in denial or still holding out hope. I couldn’t help but ask about chemo, and the vet said it’s a possibility and we can ask another vet about it when we take her in for a checkup in two days. I really want to be doing something; fighting it somehow, but then I tell myself I shouldn’t think like that because there’s pretty much no chance that she can recover. So I’m worried that no matter how much I tell myself that I’ve accepted it and that I can deal with it, I’m eventually going to crash and start crying and being an emotional wreck all over again.
I just responded to your comment up above.
When I lost my first dog, I cried for a week. It is a completely normal reaction.
Thanks for your words. I agree. I was gonna say, I’ve lost pets before, but never a dog, and it really is different because she’s a part of the family.
Please, please, please, make sure the entire family stays if you do decide to put your dog down. If you leave, the dog looks for you. My dog managed to wag his tail one last time. It’s a comfort for you both. Also, I’ve read stories where people have regretted not staying with their dog.
It is most certainly different! i took 5 days off from work and spent most the time in tears after Zaeke died… and even thinking back now, as grateful i am to have had her as part of the family, spill puts a lump in my throat… Dogs can never be replaced, that is one thing i’ve learned…
damn dood 🙁 Sorry to hear that 🙁 I lost a dog to cancer a while back, and it was pretty rough. Ours didn’t have long left when they found it, so we opted for the less suffering option. Did they say how long she’s likely to live with no treatment?
Nope, but it’s spread through most of her lungs, so I can’t imagine it’s long.
Sucks man 🙁 *hugs*
I hope this won’t come across as harsh, but just wanted to say that when it comes to a terminally ill pet, there’s a point where you must make that decision, and when you’re making it you need to keep the interests of the animal ahead of your own, as hard as that is to do. Dogs especially are extremely stoic animals and they will put up with a lot of pain and hardship in order to continue to be a companion for you.
As long as she’s still enjoying life, it’s fine. But you don’t want your final memories of your pet to be them lingering around in pain or anything.
We lost both our pets in 2012. The cat had been sick for a long time, she had a thyroid condition and was deaf, and then she got sick for a bit and recovered before finally getting some form of bone cancer in her jaw. I selfishly put off having her put down for an extra couple of days so I could have the weekend with her but I regretted that immensely as she faded very quickly. Needed to do it much quicker. My final memories of that cat are not pleasant.
In contrast, our dog, who at the time was 15, so well beyond the normal age for his breed picked up a mouth cancer and we made the decision fairly quickly. He was getting very old, had arthritis, had survived a previous cancer (one that could be removed, thankfully). It was actually the third time he’d gotten very sick as when he was a puppy he caught amoebic meningitis which took a long time to diagnose and we thought he’d have to be put down back then. But this time we knew, he wasn’t enjoying life as much any more, even going for a walk lacked the fun for him that it used to. But because we made the decision swiftly we were able to enjoy the final day with him, took him for a big long walk as a family to a park we used to go to when he was a puppy and then took him in. As a result, the final memories we have of him are much more positive. I think it was better for him as well – he somehow knew he was done, but he got one last awesome moment.
IMO the absolute worst thing you can do is let the animal linger to the point that having them put down is the only option. Just to keep it in mind. It’s a decision you will have to make eventually, just make sure that if you put it off, you’re doing it for the right reasons.
Also it’s perfectly normal to be upset about it. I still get a bit teary thinking about those two and it’s been about two years, and they weren’t even my first pets. I’m only just getting to the point now that I can seriously consider getting another cat.
Really sorry to hear this buddy. I had a cat diagnosed with liver cancer a few years ago, and we decided that the best thing to do would be to put her down. It is a very hard decision, and I’m not trying to sway you either way, but I think it was the right one. It feels terrible, and saying goodbye is always awful. There’s no shame in being emotional over it, it just means you really, really care for them. But you always keep the memories of the good times.
Actually, I’d just joined TAY around that time, and everyone was quick to offer kind words. You’re in good hands here. We’re all thinking of you man.
New & Tasty!!!
That Doom ad is pantshittingly good!
anyone who’s installed and used it, is Steam OS worth downloading atm? Is there a noticeable improvement in game performance or is it too much hassle?
Last I tried it’s just Debian with Steam pre-installed. Don’t touch, and IMO don’t touch it in the next 4 years either. Needs 80%+ of the games you wanna play to be native on it.
that’s what I thought. Ah well, it was a nice pipedream but getting games to play on a major console is bad enough for a developer so I’m not sure how they’re planning to make thousands of games each optimised for a whole different OS on top of that.
As a repost from yesterday and the day before, my friends, I’m going to buy Wicked Tickets this Friday for Saturday the 18th of October (For the Matinee). Kind of short warning for people but shmeh. Tickets are going to cost $122, which is a lot, but hopefully totally worth it. So, as last time, people interested in seeing Wicked who feel like throwing money at me, can you send me an email please (Which this time I’ll remember to actually put here, as forgetting to tell people that it’s blaghman(at)gmail(dot)com is a tad embarrassing)?
Obviously, this ain’t a huge amount of warning, so if you want a ticket but can’t commit/pay me by Friday, reply here or send me an email, and I’ll look at buying as many spares as I can.
Maybe I should tag some of the people who showed interest in this when I’ve brought it up in the past?
Haha, nah, don’t be silly.
“The stupid Adventures of Blaghs”
So I was sitting there at work, not really working, when my mother notices that I’m on my phone, and says “I can see you’re working very hard, Sean.” Being the intelligent, good looking, and quick witted man that I am, I responded by panicking, dropping my phone on the floor, and staring back at her with a look of consternation for a few seconds.
Smooth as sandpaper, Blaghs. Cool as the sun.
As long as you are ok with Ash and I paying you back down the line, we’d both love to come. Finally got an email back from her
So you guys remember how I wanted to make a custom controller for my wii U?
I was thinking of it saying “Join the boy in green on a new adventure” “What will the winds of change bring?” in Hylian.
Does that sound okay?
Green 😀
That doesn’t help!
It sounds good!
Better? 😛
Yes, thank you. Now can you help me translate it
http://www.kasuto.net/language.php?main=language/language.html
??
It’s a direct translation from Japanese the windwaker one. But all I know is green (midori) and wind (kaze)
I’m by no means an expert here and most of my knowledge is via osmosis and my grammar is crap but here’s best effort:
‘ao’ can also mean green or blue, unfortunately. In terms of talking about something being green-colored with a emerald / forest sort of connotation I think you probably want midoriiro (みどりいろ / 緑色). Japanese is quite explicit so I think you need to call out that he wears green clothing (midoriiro no fuku) and probably explicity need a ‘wearing’ verb which in this case I think is kiru (着る). You’ll probably need to conjugate that verb correctly though.
‘Adventure’ is bouken / 冒険 (ぼうけん). I think in the case of Legend of Zelda you might even want a daibouken, a great adventure. 🙂 ‘New’ in this case would be ‘atarashii’, so you’re going to have an ‘atarashii daibouken’ in there. Boy is ‘shounen’.
Changing the sentence a bit such that it’s easier to translate, to “Join the boy who wears green clothes on a new adventure” and running that through Google Translate gives “新しい冒険に緑色の服を着ている少年に参加” – Atarashī bōken ni midoriiro no fuku o kite iru shōnen ni sanka. That sounds roughly correct to me (‘sanka’ is ‘to participate’, I found out). Bing Translate gives almost the same thing, but ends it in shimasu to be more polite. It sounds a bit awkward though. I think you could probably drop out the ‘no fuku’ bit again (only needed that to get the translation to attach to the words correctly otherwise it would think you meant you needed to accompany the boy to green and then go on an adventure. 😛 I’d deffo want a native speaker to look at it regardless.
Second sentence is easier. ‘kaze’ is wind, ‘henka’ is change, so a ‘wind of change’ in direct translation would be a ‘henka no kaze’. ‘What’ is ‘nan’ (very common word) and a quick flick through some dictionaries suggests that the verb ‘to bring about’ is ‘motarasu’.
Google translate and bing translate both give exactly the same thing,
変化の風は何をもたらすのだろうか?, Henka no kaze wa nani o motarasu nodarou ka? I suspect there might be a more flowery term for a ‘wind of change’ but it conveys the meaning about right and I’m pretty sure this one is roughly correct. Reading it back I’d translate it as “I wonder what the wind of change will bring about” (or more literally, ‘the wind of change will what bring about I wonder’ but if you take Japanese and keep the term order then like yoda you sound)
Yeah, it’s order is rather confusing.
Thanks Neg, I will probably use what you’ve given me. I am starting to work on the controller design now =D
Also, I know no native speakers. D=
Crystal Green, Corbin my man!
Hey Mario Kart people!
I’ve changed the tournament details for Mario Kart 8. The TAY Kart tournament now runs only on Monday nights between 7:30-11:30. Spread the word!
Obviously you can still play outside of this time, I’m just trying to group everyone together now that the “let’s play every day” hype is fading. Hoping we can keep it up as a regular once a week thing!
Now you can resume eating my dust. Thanks!
I’m up for this!!!
I’ll remember not to have dinner on Mondays then.
I can usually do Mondays 🙂
I’ll hopefully see you there next Monday then! 😀
I cant do it Monday 😛
NUMENERA
Stream in 45 minutes: https://plus.google.com/events/csu1bj3vcavr8o3cn667017dq18
People! Don’t have a pax ticket? Here’s a solution
http://aus.paxsite.com/EnforceAus/
The closer it gets to PAX, the more bummed out I am that I can’t / couldn’t make it :'(
Hopefully next PAX though 😀
Here is your chance!
I’d rather go to one for realsies first before being an enforcer at one (never been to a gaming convention).
It’s a good idea though! 🙂
Come for the meat then!
Hmmm, when is this anyway?
Pax Saturday
What date is PAX Saturday, haha!
I haven’t been keeping track of PAX dates cause I’m not going to PAX, haha! 😛
Saturday the 1st of November
Oh, that’s a bit harder with uni :S
Study is quite important.
I’ll give it a look though! 😀
I’m going to be there and probably going to spend the night getting drunk.
Way to rub it in >:'(
I want to go to a gaming convention then get drunk afterwards too! :'(
I’m hoping this time I will be in my own place within range of decent public transport so I can join you and not go home at 9pm like some old fart.
South East represent.
You’re not even going to PAX though are you?
Nope :P. But I meant last time when we lived away from everyone and everything and had to leave early.
Yeah but that was largely because I was being an old fogey and you were catching a ride with me. 😛
Watch Dogs players
Anyone else find the whole online invading / hacking / tailing stuff a little creepy? It’s weird & it works well with the hacking & privacy invasion themes of the game but I can’t help but feel a little uneasy when you realize that car over there acting suspiciously is in fact another human roaming around in my game. Even as the one tailing a target it’s weird because if you do it perfectly they never even knew you were there, I wonder how many people have stalked me without me even knowing. I know you can just go offline but as I said it fits the game and I’m at two minds with the whole thing, it’s like a weird social experiment or something.
chicken-wuss
FF8 reference! 😀
totally 😀
Booya!
I understand the feeling exactly, and I think it’s brilliantly done.
yeah I think it’s well done. Still a bit creepy. Had some truly hilarious moments though when you and another player have that moment where you realize they’re a person and they realize that you’ve noticed and try act casual or go all erratic and try to escape.
Haven’t played for about a week, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got that option turned off. Probably should switch it on to get the full experience, but I’m worried that it’ll just take me away from progressing in the game, by having to deal with invaders.
they don’t flood you with them, I seem to find they increase when I start invading other people’s games, it fits with the game really well, I would recommend at least trying it, I think my fondest memories from the game so far have been from silly mishaps in invasions. Had my sister almost rolling on the floor laughing watching me run circles around a pillar keeping out of a dude’s line of sight during an invasion, I actually succeeded to. Beware though cause you’ll be chasing people around you’ll probably wreck your Karma rating, I have killed so many innocent people trying to catch invaders
Sounds like a bit of fun, but to be honest I kinda just want to play through the story and then switch it on to mop up the last of the achievements. I can’t really afford to spend too long on any one game, with my pile of shame growing bigger all the time.
And with all the new games coming out starting from September, and the fact that (hopefully) between now and then I’ll be picking up a Wii U and a PS4, I just don’t have the time.
I’m doing bits of everything as I play through so I don’t have to do all of one thing at once or it could get repetitive. Didn’t want to have to do all the online stuff in one hit as there is a little bit of luck involved and failing too many times in a row would be frustrating. I just keep dabbling in it and slowly progressing. Yeah time pressure is never good, it can make things take longer, like when you go to do a story mission but when you click it the icon turns purple and says “unavailable” then you realize it’s because someone is stalking you and get sidetracked while you search for them,
Without having actually experienced it, the whole thing seems to me like it’s taking cues from Dark Souls’ invasion systems… just quieter.
yeah, had that thought, I guess the difference is that combat is the last thing you want, all you do is try and hide from each other.
Just watched the gameplay trailer for MKX and YES!
I’m pretty excited, looks awesome, so much interaction with the environment, even seemed to be X-ray moves with bits of the background. Some of the new moves look awesome, miss with an ice clone? Pick him up and toss ’em at your enemies.
I like those two new characters too.
The X-rays look better!
Evil Within is looking good!
I am so looking forward to that.
I was cautiously optimistic before but after a good walkthrough I’m way more convinced.
Is on the list with Dragon Age and Metal Gear now!
New phone has native support for a PS3 controller.
It also has a Snes emulator.
*O_o
/o/
Apparently the PPSSPP emulator (for PSP games) works quite well on Xperia phones too.
See you never.
So while I was supposed to be listening to Numenera (my net was refusing to let me play), I decided to draw something that was discussed on TS earlier.
So I present, a poorly drawn impression of what I hope to see from the Samus figurine interacting with Captain Toad’s rad adventure of coolsies: http://i.imgur.com/znMndpi.png
DRAWING WITHOUT ME?
:'(
NOT DRAWING WITH ME?
:'(
ME DRAW NOTHING?
😀
I miss those whacky Nintendo LetterBox Jimu drawings :'(
Does this call for Friday Night Drawing? We can get Jimu, and uhhh… That other person that expressed interest. And we can try and peer pressure D.C. or something, then maybe Sughly will draw one thing in like 2 minutes that makes us both feel bad.
Sounds like fun!
I don’t even. Where’s the chest armour?
HE’S STILL MOSTLY CAPTAIN TOAD RADNESS. LOOK AT THAT MUSCULAR ARM. DOES THAT LOOK LIKE THE ARM OF SOMEONE IN A POWER SUIT? NAY. THAT IS THE ARM OF AN ADVENTURER!
Let it go, let it go,
Give all my money to Nintendo,
Let it go, let it go,
Buy all of the amiibos!
And it will seem, miis are to stay,
With E3 won, who needs money anyway?
Latest Game of Thrones episode is a bit of a drag.
The whole season so far seems like it has taken a downward turn overall, to me anyway. It doesn’t seem as focused as the earlier seasons were, and just feels a little bit lacking in general. I guess it’s hard to make it fleshed out in such a limited amount of episodes, but they’d managed to do it a lot better in the previous seasons.
“Rcvfbqr 09 – Gur Zbhagnva naq gur Ivcre” fcbvyref
Vg’f nyfb tbggra n ovg gbb tencuvp ng gvzrf sbe zl yvxvat. Znvayl jura Crqeb Cnfpny tbg uvf urnq pehfurq ol gur Zbhagnvaf unaqf. V qvqa’g arrq gb frr gung :F
Gung jnf n ovg gbb sne sbe zl gnfgrf crefbanyyl.
V’z svar jvgu ahqvgl naq jung abg (nygubhtu gur znyr gb srznyr anxrqarff engvb vf frireryl ynpxvat, whfg fnlvat :C), naq ivbyrapr sbe gung znggre, ohg gung jnf n cbvag jurer V sryg vg jnf whfg orvat tbel sbe gur fnxr bs orvat tbel.
“Rcvfbr 10 – Gur Jngpuref ba gur Jnyy” fcbvyref
V ernyyl yvxr Neln naq gur Ubhaqf eryngvbafuvc gubhtu, gung unf orra zl snibhevgr cneg bs gur frnfba fb sne, naq V ernyyl yvxr Vatevq naq Wbua (uhoon uhoon :Q), ohg bs pbhefr V yvxrq ure, fb fur qvrq :F
Guvf jnf bar bs zl snibhevgr rcvfbqrf npghnyyl, rira gubhtu bar bs zl snivrf qvrq :'(
Still a great show, but I much prefer the other seasons myself.
Juvyr V nterr gung gur Borela urnq-fznfuvat guvat jnf bireyl tencuvp naq njshy, vg jnf fhccbfrq gb or. V qba’g ernyyl guvax vg jnf qbar sbe ngebpvgl’f fnxr be nalguvat. V npghnyyl guvax guvf unf cebonoyl orra bar bs gur orfg frnfbaf gubhtu birenyy rira gur jrnxrfg frnfba bhgfgevcf zbfg bgure guvatf ba GI.
V’z fybttvat guebhtu obbx sbhe ng gur zbzrag naq V’yy or vagrerfgrq gb frr ubj gurl xrrc gur zbzraghz tbvat sbe gur fubj. Fvapr 4 & 5 unccra ng gur gvzr gvzr V nffhzr gurl’yy whfg pbzovar gurz naq znxr gur aneengvir zber pburerag.
Played FF Type-0 Naughty version.
Seems good, will buy.
PS4 HD version?
Yeah, unless they change brains and do a Vita.
At least I can remote on the crapper.
Blitzpoop
If they came up with the idea of blitzball by looking at two freshly dropped turds floating in a shitter I wouldn’t be remotely surprised, because that’s an accurate description of playing that minigame.
Fire in the Disco!
I have that entire album, it’s great. So completely stupid. Feels like they had heaps of fun making it.
I saw these guys perform live at Stonefest 2005 in Canberra. I’d never heard of them before, but it was a pretty great set they played.
DANGER! DANGER!
So much bass in their tracks.
The party have headed towards the mysterious Spinneret, where @mythamphetamine got up close and very personal with a slime monster. What is waiting within the weblike walls of the tower?
Tune in on the 25th of June for more TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
Thanks for playing!
cc @mawt @popdart5 @tech_knight
Next time @blaghman @novacascade
By the way, I’m assuming that I participated in all of those recovery rolls, rolled sixes on all of them, and am now on full pools.
>.>
Ayup.
Thoughts on mechanical keyboards and using them for gaming? Anyone have the Logitech G710+?
My current keyboard is a Logitech G15 V2 but recently the spacebar has been having issues and just doesn’t pop back up half the time. I hear mechanical keyboards are kewl so just wanted to get some opinions first.
Cheerio
I just bought the g710+ and i love the absolute crap out of it!
it’s my first mechanical so i don’t have a lot to compare with, but typing is so god damn easy with these switches (cherry brown i think) and it’s built as well as you would expect from a Logitech keyboard… apparently it’s on the more expensive side of mechanical keyboards but i got it for $136 at CPL in the city
Most gaming keyboards with mechanical keys use Cherry MX Blue switches. I’ve been using a Ducky keyboard with those switches for over 3 years now and have absolutely zero issues with it.
Definitely worth switching from a rubber dome keyboard to a mechanical one. Although getting your hands on one first would be a good idea. One of the things you need to get used to is that you don’t have to bottom them out to activate the keys. Part of what makes them better but also part of what feels weird for new users. Also the cause of all the damned noise. Not bottoming out keys means you make much, much less noise.
Annnnnnnd bought 😛
Damnit guys!
\o/ well done 😛
I’m blaming you if I have any regrets!
Well i want from a G15 V1 to G710+ and i regret nothing…
So clearly i have exquisite taste and have nothing to worry about!
*shifts nervously*
I went from a Razer Blackwidow to the G710+ and it’s the best decision I ever made.
I really want a mechanical keyboard. But finding and choosing one is a whole lot of time, money and effort. So it can stay a dream for now 😛
Can’t argue about money, but I literally Googled “best gaming keyboards” and saw the G710+ pop up a few times then bought it shortly after. I don’t usually impulse buy stuff but ehhhh 😛
Haha, I’m less inclined to go for a “gaming keyboard” because most of the ones I’ve seen are chunky, ugly, and have pointless extras that I don’t need 😛 Would rather something plain, simple and understated. The Dell keyboard I’m typing on right now (nfi where it came from) is pretty good, only has a frame of about 2mm extending around the outside of the keys, takes up minimal space. And then would also want to try out all the different types of keys too…
Managed to stumble across the Mortal Kombat Motion Picture Soundtrack on iTunes. Of course I brought it. It so damn 90’s it hurts.
I found it in a Salvos store a few years ago for 2 bucks, remember finding a disc version of Mad Dog McCree at the same time.
MOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRTAAAAAAAALLL KOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMBBBAAAAAAAAAAATTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I successfully completed the Papa Westray to Westray flight in a Bell 206B JetRanger in Flight Simulator X!
First time I’ve ever landed a helicopter! \o/
Man haven’t played FSX in so long… i miss my 727
Aww, Eric Hill died 🙁
Yes, sad news 🙁
I just realised it’s now only one month until Redeemer of Souls hits.
TOO MUCH HYPE FOR ONE DAY!
I got up at 7am. I am not used to this.
Whoo got a Battlefield beta code, now to judge it harshly because it’s different :P. Now I’m hoping to get a Destiny Alpha code, *refreshes e-mail inbox* nope not yet. *refreshes inbox* nope *refreshes inbox* nope …. etc.
Is this the new Hardline game?
yeah, I has pretty much no interest in it but the trailers do look kinda cool, I’m gonna check it out, could be fun.
I keep lowering my expectations with EA games (except for the BioWare ones) because EA shows a great game but rarely delivers one… Let me know how the Beta is though! The trailer they showed at E3 had that one guy staying alive for way too long to be an accurate representation of a BF game.
haha, yeah I find Battlefield games are a mess at launch but usually improve like 500% after about 6 months. Hated both Battlefield 3 & 4 at launch but they improved a lot after like 6 months
I’ve been a BF fan ever since 1942 and this is the first time ever I’ve been more interested in COD than BF. Hardline looks like a shitty spin off and coming after BF4 it doesn’t bode well for me..
It’s a weird decision to go with for sure. I mean Battlefield has always been about big maps and lots of vehicles, hopefully they’ll develop some good ways to move around like the grappling and zip lining and just incorporate them into their “proper” games later. Still looking forward to it more than CoD after their last few entries were just terrible, especially Ghosts it’s the first CoD I couldn’t be bothered to finish.
What’s making me feel really sceptical about the game is the level of organization it seems to require? You can’t create large scale online shooters and expect people to work together in an organized manner. Even in BF you would just kind of run with the bulk of your team and kind of hope for the best! Hardline seems to require more co-operation but then again I could wrong given the last Battlefield I sunk time into was 3.
yeah, I think I’ve been lucky with who I play with, we are pretty organised, probably why I’m not as skeptical. You are probably right though if there are too many objectives and things to actually achieve matches might be less fun. Although online communities often surprise me so I guess I’ll judge it after I have a go.
@FreezeSPreston how are you finding Android?
It’s different. I’m not disliking it but still kind of struggling around the interface. Some things are like wow why could I never do that before and others are irritating me a bit (like not being able to tap the top of the screen to return to top of page, can’t open new tab in chrome without being at top). Can’t use the phone fully just yet as I need a different sim.
Currently my ranking after using them all is:
1. iOS
2. Android
3. Late 90’s nokia
4. Cups and string
5. Waiting to see the person face to face
6. Becoming a communicationless hermit
7. Suicide
8. Suicide by a brass bull
9. Watching helplessly as my loved ones are tortured to death in front of me then having the same done to me last
10. Windows Phone 8
The top of the screen thing is annoying me too :(. It’s weird cause HTC’s Blinkfeed has it but Chrome and everything else doesn’t :/
Go to Chrome settings, set “new tab opens in: background”.
If you’re brave/impatient you can probably cut your SIM. Assuming it’s standard down to micro size, not the other way.
Brass… bull? I really don’t want to visit Urbandictionary again. The internet is corrupting me far too routinely.
Chrome mobile is terrible, obtain Opera.
Question to Wii U owners, Should I get one? I have noticed that the 8 GB is falling off the market and fast, should I wait? does anyone think a bigger (64 or 128gb will come?)
The interesting pitch at the moment is Mario Kart 8 and a free download before 30 june of one of 8 top titles
18 months on how does the Wii U stack up? Whats some of the top games for it?
is it worth the $430(RRP)?
keep in mind that I have both ps3 ps4 and a strong gaming pc
I don’t have a Wii U, but on the back of their e3 thing, I’m thinking of getting one at some point soon-ish.
one of the benefits a Wii U would be that Ninty do proper exclusives. I mean, you’re not likely to get Zelda or Mario or whatever turning up on the PS4 or PC 12 months down the track. Unlike other ‘exclusives’ like Dead Rising 3, which is making its way to PC at some point.
this list is also a reason I’m considering a Wii U….
Mario Kart, Wind Waker, a few Mario games, Monster hunter, Pikmin 3 etc….
*cough* Xenoblade >:|
I’m always happy to see some Monster Hunter love too 😀
CHILL GREEN MAN. I HAVENT PLAYED THE FIRST ONE. I DONT KNOW IF I’M HYPE FOR THE SEQUEL YET.
EVERYONE MUST LOVE EVERYTHING I LOVE!
😛
WiiU will always get a variety of games that aren’t going to really appear on other consoles.
I have a huge list of games I need to buy, but because I’m out of money atm, I can’t afford to get any of them.
It’s great for party games and two player games too.
Also, I have a rule, I don’t buy a console unless there is at least 5 games I want on it. This does not include multiplayer games if I already have a system to play them on.
As a non owner but someone who will get one in the next few months i would say it depends.
Nintendo systems have always been about the exclusive games. The WiiU slowly started trickiling games through until now it has a decent catalogue of stuff currently out and coming out. So i guess the question is “how much do you want a machine to play Super Smash Bros, Zelda and MK8?
Look out for deals, I got one about 2 weeks ago, Premium Black for $364 from EB of all places. Being a new owner I haven’t tried many games yet but Mario Kart is fantastic, especially if you have friends for multiplayer (local and online are excellent). I got Pikmin 3 as my free game and really enjoyed that too. Looks like it’ll be a great year for the Wii U judging by their E3 announcements.
I guess check out the games that are on the system and future releases to see if there are enough that you’d be interested in playing, I was holding out because there wasn’t enough I was interested in until Mario Kart released. Really happy with the purchase so far.
I bought a Wii U a year ago and I love it. The VC might be lacking, but I’ve played through and completed Super Metroid, Zelda ALTTP and I’m getting stuck into Minnish Cap now. Not to mention how outrageously fun the new Mario games have been, Donkey Kong is one of the best platformers I’ve played since the ones on the SNES and Mario Kart 8 is amazing.
Ho do you find the Store online and acess to the older games?
Also do you know how much the install base is for a basic Wii U or Wii game?
As Australia doesnt have the worlds fastest internet i dont want to be downloading over and over again (yes I know I can add USB’s and hdd to the side but I dont want to stack my living room with a load of extra shit my partners cats can eat)
example the before I even turned on my ps3 or PS4 I loaded them up with (1TB-ps3 and a 1.5Tb in the ps4)
What I don’t like about the wii is the lack of size and I keep hearing about long loading times, how do you find the game loading times?
I know you didn’t ask me but…
I haven’t bothered with the eShop because Nintendo doesn’t have a formal account system where purchases are linked. The Australian tax prices are pretty absurd too.
The loading times have definitely improved since launch and in the games that I’ve played, I haven’t noticed anything bad. I hear ZombiU and LEGO have pretty long load times but I haven’t played either of them.
I’m going to wait until they do another one of the special edition/decal versions of the WiiU. I missed out on getting a fancy themed 3DS so I don’t want to make the same mistake twice.
Hopefully they’ll release a nice bundle with Smash Bros that has some cool console art.
If you have any interest in Nintendo or its exclusives then yeah definitely!
Like the others have said, the only reason you’d really consider a Wii U are for its exclusives. I know the Wii U has been out longer, but I’ve barely played my PS4 compared to it since most of the big “next-gen” titles are multiplatform anyway, so I can just get them on PC. Nintendo stuff is highly unlikely to ever appear on other platforms which makes it easier to justify buying them.
Nearly all of my Wii U games are exclusives and the exclusive ones are: Super Mario 3D World, Wind Waker HD, Mario Kart 8, Pikmin 3, New Super Mario/Luigi Bros U, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Wonderful 101, Nintendo Land and ZombiU. That’s a good list of solid exclusives!
I’m also looking to get LEGO City Undercover and there’s plenty of more games on the horizon too such as Pullblox World, Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2, Super Smash Brothers, Zelda and most importantly XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X!
I’d get a Wii U ASAP (or at least MK8) because first party Nintendo games rarely drop in price and you’ll be getting two of them for around $60. That’s one of the few downsides, Wii U games can be expensive especially when compared to all the insane sales on the other platforms (especially PC). The Wii U can be found for a lot cheaper than $430 and a non-deluxe one wouldn’t be out of the question since I believe you can just stick in a USB or portable harddrive as storage. Easy peasy!
XENOBLADE!
A price decrease should happen soon. It’s already $00 when you can get $480 Xbone/PS4. Also, there will be price reduction from PS4 sometime due to kinect-less xbone coming.
But, it’s nintendo, and they are fucking retarded. So take a gamble.
Entering its second day… the Acronym Laden Liberation Of Fully Three Historical Entertaining Games And Modern Extra Stuff
That’s right: ALLOFTHEGAMES
Up for grabs today are the following titles:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox)
TES3: Morrowind (Xbox)– @crazyguy1990Super Smash Bros Melee (GC)– @bennyEnslaved Odyssey to the West (360)– @screePrototype (360)
You know the drill. You want it, sing out. First in, best dressed. Games must go to people who will play them, rather than people who are looking to obtain rare titles (though I have no way to polic this, so it’s on the honour system).
I’d like to take @shane delivered to my front door.
Preferably in an Under Siege cake type scenario.
TAYlist requests are now open. Send me some songs!
Spanish Moon – Arc Angels
My Way Home – Mama’s Boys
Black Keys – Howlin for you
Any Beatles song!
Paperback writer, pls
Seconded
Twist the Knife- Napalm Death
The times they are-a changin’ – Bob Dylan
Push It To the Limit – Paul Engemann
Stuck In The Middle With You – Stealers Wheel
Sweet Child Of Mine – Guns and Roses
Wait!
Coconut – Harry Nilsson
Yeah, definitely that one.
Little Green Bag
K-B-I-L-L-Y. Home of rock.
Are ya gonna bark all day.. little doggy.. or are ya gonna bite?
Such a classic film.
Len – Steal My Sunshine
Garbage – When I Grow up
Yer Blues – The Jeff Healey Band
Or
Psychobilly Freakout – The Reverend Horton Heat
A Forest- The Cure
HIPSTER REQUEST :
Corpus – Divine Divinity
SERIOUS REQUEST :
Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
Unlikely request
Change Your Life – Iggy Azalea ft. T.I.
Likely request
Naive – the Kooks
Requests closed, thanks everybody
Hello everyone!! I miss you all dearly!!
AHH!
Yes! I spooked someone!! Miss you Rize!
Back for good or just swinging past to say hi?
Sadly more than likely that second one
Also, do we have our own subreddit? Because we totally should!
Problem with that is a bunch of us get on TAY while at work and (speaking personally) can’t really access Reddit.
I think a bunch of us get on TAY exclusively at work =p
Yep. I’m never really here in the evenings or on weekends.
I actually can’t access Reddit on my work computer (stuck with the organisations “white list” for having a super high Internet usage and it messing with my performance) but I love the Baconit app on my Windows Phone where I could Reddit from!
Back in the mid 2000s I was reprimanded at more than one workplace for my internet usage.
Even more embarassing was that it was because of Gaia Online.
Why would we need a crappy place like reddit full of terrible people when we have an awesome place filled with awesome people already?
Cus I can’t access this easily on my phone or at all from work and I MISS YOU ALL!!
I need a TAY app !!
Man I hope Microsoft brings out one of these collectible figurine Skylanders knockoff games with all their iconic characters like Master Chief and… uh… that guy from the…
Hmm.
I’m irritatingly keen for the Nintendo stuff.
I’m going to spend way more money than is good for me.
Yeah same. Oh well, I didn’t need money anyway.
Same here, I even warned Mum who yelled at me.
Cortana! 😀
There’s an app for that! (on windows phone 🙁 )
The executive series.
Satya Nadella, B. Kevin Turner, Amy Hood etc
Classic series- Don Mattrik, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates.
The kids will love it.
I would totally buy action figures of Bill and Steve.
Viva Pinata! That was an exclusive game right?
I’ll take an Alan Wake one, pls.
I keep forgetting Alan Wake was an “exclusive” because so many Xbox games are also on PC.
Microsoft-owned characters off the top of my head:
– That chick from Kameo
– That chick from Perfect Dark
– Master Chief
– The bald dude with the angry voice from Gears of War
– Conker
– Blinx the Time Detective (?)
– Stuff from Banjo-Kazooie
– FUDGEHOG
AH! Link and Samus amiibos! Do want!
DIDDY!
I’ll always remember him as Puff Daddy.
Though, on subject, I will say that Diddy’s Kong Quest was one of the most influential titles of my childhood gaming past. So many great memories shared with family on that one.
And that’s why you’re okay, Benny. You’re okay!
There was a “leaked” (ie. possibly fake) DLC character list for Mario Kart 8 that included Diddy!
Depending on price I might get him with $7 Mario Kart credit. XD
Link and Fox, everyone else is secondary for me.
I’m just thinking that Fox only, Final Destination, no items, will be even more intense with Amiibos now.
I’m mostly thinking that I’ll take the fight outside of the game and my wife and I will just be hurling Amiibos at each other.
They better bring out a Pit figure!
Looks like your prayers have been answered. No info on whether he’ll release at launch, or early next year.
I feel I should apologise for bombarding TAY over the past few weeks with all of my RPG talk, particularly as it has been quite lengthy and spoiler tags weren’t working to hide the size of it. I shall try and be more succinct in the future and not takeover sections of the pages as much.
Nah, never change! NEVER! >:|
We all have subjects we love to talk about and there’s always someone receptive to that subject matter too. You don’t need to worry.
I’m just thinking back to when someone was able to get statistics on the average word count per TAY post and my one was pretty ridiculous considering I’m still a relative young ‘un on TAY. I haven’t really dialled things back since spoiler tags are broken so I felt I should apologise in case anyone was getting annoyed at having to scroll past my massive walls of text.
I ended up hating that word count, and post count thing because it made people paranoid they were posting too much and they started stressing.
Just post what you like, if you don’t get any real downvotes, then obviously nobody’s bothered by it. 🙂
But, RPG talks are fun! D=
Out of curiosity, did you get my email last night? I wasn’t sure if I sent it to the right address.
I did! \o/
I wouldn’t stress. There’s always something taking over TAY that is relatively niche. LoL, DOTA, Dark Souls, your RPG stuff, all the Nintendo stuff now (personal. I don’t care for Nintendo much).
People like what they like. Don’t be afraid to show it.
Thanks Freeze. I wasn’t sure if people were getting annoyed or not by my constant RPG talk (I realise that’s about 90% of what I talk about on TAY). I’ll still try and tone it down a bit and not be so “RPG ALL THE TIME”.
Yeah, I think that’s the only potential problem. If someone’s just talking about a specific subject all the time and doesn’t join in on anything else it can be a bit weird.
Hell, I keep trying to make erotic slash a thing but no one seems to want to take it up. #michaelangelosinnerwalls
Freeze looked longingly at @Popdart5
“Popdart, will you show me your warhammer? I’m feeling positively barbaric“
Never apologise.
Never back down.
Figures. I mention Mikey’s inner walls and less than a minute later you pop up.
😛
Ahhhhhhhh! 🙁
Like this song will illustrate pop never stop being yourself! If you hadn’t we wouldn’t be having this epic Warhammer RPG coming out in a months time =p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FrqwZyKw&feature=kp
If you have clicked on this link and have now come back to throw something at me, I would like you to know I have already won. =p
Thanks for the sentiment but I can only give you a sidevote. That song *shudder*.
I don’t care for Dark Souls but have no issue with people going rabid over it on here. Same deal with RPG talk – some people might not be interested, and they’re free to not read it.
You can’t stop now! Neg loves it!
Huh?
I’m just assuming you enjoy Poppy’s RPG talk; you both always seem to reply each other.
Agh dang I forgot to email you about the 40K RPG >.< sorry! I gotta keep reminding myself to do that tonight.
All good Techie. Hence why I sent you guys the email allowing for a final date before characters are locked in.
Alright cool!
I don’t think I got any email from you yet about this :/
I sent it last night after Numenera to the same account you used to send me your Pathfinder character sheet. Double check that one otherwise I may have accidentally sent it to someone else by mistake.
Oh lol it somehow hit my junkmail filter. Okay I’ve marked it out into my normal inbox and will look at it tonight. Thanks!
Ah that might have been the link I threw in. My bad.
Considering the number of times I’ve spammed TAY about shit that actually no one is interested in besides me, I think you’re fine since the RPG stuff generally might be interesting to someone somewhere.
I read the things!
I like the variety on offer and enthusiastic/well-informed (sometimes both) people talking about the things. It keeps me mildly informed as to what people do.
Favourite game with a protagonist of the opposite sex?
I would probably say The Longest Journey or Beyond Good & Evil.
Beyond: Two Souls maybe?
Ooooh, yeah man. Jodie was a great character.
I also liked Grace in the Gabriel Knight games and the contrast between her chapters and Gabriels.
The extremely underrated Remember Me.
How good was that game, it had its issues, but it was like Catwoman in Future France.
QUICKTIME BOSS KILLS SUCK BALLS THOUGH, ESPECIALLY WITH SHITTY CONSOLE CONTROLS THAT DONT TRANSLATE TO PC.
MIRROR’S EDGE
THIS
Or Tomb Raider.
Tomb raider is mine either that or any of the Altier chronicles
Does Zelda count?
No? Okay, Super Metroid, then.
I’m guessing it only counts if the game had a female protagonist by design and not if I played as a female in Mass Effect, Fallout or Saint’s Row? 😛
I’d go with Tomb Raider 2013, despite some of the needless torture-porn death animations. It was an excellent game, Lara was an excellent character, and I am eagerly awaiting the sequel. I liked Beyond Good & Evil but I’ve only played a couple of hours of it so I’m not really in the meat of the story yet.
I think FemShep potentially counts. By all accounts lots and lots of people preferred Jennifer Hale’s take on the character to Mark Meer. Carried herself pretty differently too. I guess it’s dangerous territory to include her though cause that opens up every RPG with a character creator. XD
Lollipop Chainsaw or Bayonetta.
Hahaha! I knew you’d say Lollipop Chainsaw. I knew it. I laughed in advance! Never change! 😀
It may be one of my favourite games of the generation. It’s just bonkers.
Lollipop Chainsaw is an excellent answer. People dismiss it because they see Juliet as an exploited/sexualised cheesecake character but I think her decision to deliberately act that way is an extremely subtle facet of her personality. She’s a sometimes ditzy cheesecake character, yes, but she has complete agency over this.
Also you fight Johnny Urine in a junkyard while he literally tries to hurt you with words. I mean come the fuck on.
And considering the male lead and love interest spends the whole time whining and scared and is literally useless outside of being used….
Nico from Broken Sword.
Tomb Raider ’13
I can’t pick a definite first place, but Mirror’s Edge, Tomb Raider (2013) and Remember Me are at the top.
Ive only played two games this year
Transistor and Child of Light
Both fantastic, both female leads.
Not my favourite game, but my favourite female protagonist of any game do far is Nariko from Heavenly Sword.
Otherwise it would have to probably be Final Fantasy XIII.
Oh, Nariko from Heavenly Sword is Olivia from Fringe. ANNA TORV!
I don’t recall seeing her in anything else, which is a shame, cause she’s a really good actress.
I really loved her in Heavenly Sword.
She fit the part so perfectly and did a stunning performance, even if the game doesn’t hold up particularly well.
You know what, I actually spent time thinking about this and came to the realisation that my favourite games have a protagonist of unclear/undecided or female gender. Portal, The Sims (shut up), Pikmin, Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
And that is why, dear marketers, you’d sell more games if you let me choose a female character.
I genuinely enjoy playing games through lots of different perspectives too. I liked in Heavy Rain jumping between characters with different stories and points of views. I think they’re doing a disservice to guys too thinking we won’t play games with people in different circumstances. :S
Portal is a pretty rad game.
It sure is! Also has one of the best female villains as well as protagonist! 😀
Okami. Amaterasu is brilliant.
also, Beyond Good & Evil. & Oni. & Tomb Raider 2013.
+1 for Okami
Ms. Splosion man was a cracker!
Ubisoft’s treatment of that whole issue is silly. I don’t know why they’re so scared a lady protagonist will make people not buy their games. Isn’t Tomb Raider one of the highest selling series’ ever? Not to mention that a majority of people chose FemShep in Mass Effect.
There’s so many more interesting story options that open up when you have different races and genders’ stories to tell.
How do boobs not sell games? 😛
When they’re talking.
HIYO!
Because usually the character you control is facing away from the camera, so you don’t even get to see them? 😛
Actually I think the stats were overwhelmingly for default manshep in Mass Effect. 🙁
The strangest (hi @strange) thing about the whole issue is that it’s Ubisoft. They already had an Assassin’s Creed game (granted, not a particularly good one) that starred a female Assassin. And she was black as well. So they’re not afraid of diversity until suddenly they are?
See, the incongruity of it is what makes me think their reputedly ‘bullshit’ excuse actually has some legs.
(Although, I thought the majority femshep thing was the other way around… seems like everyone TALKED about femshep most and she was most obviously the best-acted, but most silent majority players were going broshep, according to Bioware stats. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/1-of-5-mass-effect-3-gamers-play-as-a-woman/ – “Dear 82 percent of Mass Effect gamers, I’m tempted to tell you that you’re doing it wrong.”)
We take Ubisoft, who just released a stand-alone (increased exposure, generous move, not chaining it to the base game) DLC expansion for AC4 with a black anti-slaver protagonist, made their handheld game use a black female protagonist. You could argue that it’s minority characters for minority titles/platforms, maybe? But it shows they’re not THAT shy of the idea.
The AC series is on one hell of a deadline if it aims to be annual. And it’s not like AC5 is just AC4’s Brotherhood, either, reusing all the same maps, models, and textures. It’s a completely new area with new stories, casting, mechanics, etc. We’re GOING to be seeing new stuff in here, new stuff that all got hammered out pretty damn fast by AAA standards. If they said stuff got cut for time constraints, this is the one franchise where I’m inclined to believe it.
I find it very difficult to believe based on their critical Aveline/Adewale successes that it’s, “OMG we can’t risk it,” as much as… ‘If we’re going to do this… we need to do it right.’ And while that’s weaksauce on its own, when you take it as a given that the scripts for these have been hammered out AGES in advance (likely before the critical success), I’m guessing that a female co-op partner was one of the ‘nice to haves’ rather than plot-centric must-haves, and when you crunch, the nice-to-haves go first.
Did you unlock that Abstergo recording of the guy who talked about being Aveline in the animus and how different it was to being male? A lot of attention paid to the physicality of it… I think this is something they put a lot of thought into and want to do well. These could be the enthusiastic, heartfelt and emotive writings/acting of caged creatives dominating the only influence they do have in the face of The Men Upstairs’ bigotry, but also remember that the managing director (Jade Raymond) for so many top-tier Ubi titles has been a very well-spoken proponent of feminine perspective and presence in the studios.
I’ve seen people saying, “Well I’m an animator and I say, ‘days’ not weeks/months,” which… yeah. Sure. For the animation. When you have entire teams devoted to HAIR on a AAA title for months, it’s a different ballpark. Especially since even if you’re going to duplicate a man’s wardrobe, you still have to fit it to the female model. And by fit, I mean re-model and re-texture. Casting, voicing, scripting, at least DOUBLE the QA testing (because everything you tested as a male PC now has to be tested female), and that’s even if you have one, solid, first-time-pass consensus on the art direction and final concept, which… when the hell has that ever happened, especially in AAA? Laymen underestimate the amount of time involved in ANY major corporate project as a matter of routine.
Summary:
It would probably take a flowchart to back up what sounds like a flimsy excuse, but even with the broad strokes that I know, I really wouldn’t rule it out as being plausible. They have no motive for bigotry given their past successes with minority characters, they have a powerful female presence they’re proud of in their development teams, and they have renown in the industry for their manufacturing line deadlines, while doing something new – again – instead of having the luxury of breathing space that comes with recycling. The worst-case-scenario that everyone’s accusing just doesn’t add up for me.
Aw what, nobody else has said Perfect Dark yet?
After a significant amount of thought: Oni.
Not only was Konoko a badass, but the game was totally ahead of its time as a damn near fighting game worth of combo attacks and freedom of movement around a level, with weapons and shit as extra options. (Also, Konoko in civvies is basically a copy of the girl who got me onto cigars and whisky and really bad habits.)
Ha, my sister just sent me a link to a picture of Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell) from Game of Thrones in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was so young.
Oh, he was in Buffy? Who’d he play?
According to imdb, a one-shot character called Eddie in one of the college episodes (season 4?).
yep. that’s him.
You might be interested to hear that Chris Pine (Capt Kirk) played one of Nate’s high school buddies in Six Feet Under.
Isn’t he way too young?
Oh, of course! 😀
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-11-steam-summer-sale-2014-starts-19th-june
Can someone please verify this? Ta.
I think I just heard my wallet cry out.
“I’M HUNGRY” ?
Ask me in a week 😛
Sounds accurate.
The GMG sale this year started slightly earlier than the usual date for the Steam one so that sounds about right.
Freeze gave me EB credit for my birthday back in January cause he’s an awesome guy. I got Steam credit with that EB credit. I put Steam credit on and am saving it for sale. Freeze is going to be responsible for awesome gaming next week. 😀 😀 😀 THANKS FREEEEEEZE!
He-hello? Is this thing on?
Can I post again or am I still being moderated for EVERYTHING?!
I just saw some Shadow of Mordor gameplay and… WHOA! it looks great :D. Looking forward to this one now.
I also didn’t know who the developers were (Monolith) but Google tells me they were behind some good games. I only found out about No One Lives Forever recently and would be eager to try it out. Hopefully they get re-released!
The demo seemed crazy good, if it works as intended i can see myself enjoying it quite a bit. I would love a Batman game with the nemsis system, I think it would suit a Batman game super well.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of Lord of the Rings at all, but this looks pretty great!
No One Lives Forever is rumoured to be getting a re-release from people who got System Shock 2 on GOG.
Yeah, the rumours of that is what bought it to my attention 😀
Someone wrote into the Giant bombcast and revealed that they’d been told (so obviously this is a complete rumor and may not be true) that the game actually started life as a tie-in with The Dark Knight Rises but then Warner decided to pull out on that and so rather than scrap everything they decided to rework it into another IP.
This is why the game has so many bits that look like the Batman Arkham games, down to the melee combat looking like a straight up copy.
People who have toyed with Xbone controllers, get in here!
I haz a problem. I bought one recently, and I haven’t played with it much yet. But I immediately see a problem with the shoulder buttons.
Below is a picture. It shows hand placement, and (from left) index finger, middle finger, ‘ring’ finger.
http://imgur.com/P3sJYIy
The little bit where ring finger wraps around controller is flatter than X360 controller, meaning there’s isn’t as much room to cradle finger in there. That’s fine, for now. Then, I place my middle finger comfortably on the triggers (even though I’m still not used to the sharp curve on the triggers).
Now, here’s the problem. My index finger hardly touches the shoulder button when it needs to be used. On the attached pic is a blue line showing the angle. I feel this angle is massive, and a lot more than on x360, PS3, or PS4 controllers. I also have large hands, so I feel if this angle is bothering me it must be bothering other people too?
I haven’t played a game with shoulder buttons yet, but I feel I’ll have problems. Holding controller normally (using face buttons, joystick and triggers) my index finger has to stretch out the angle just to touch the bottom curved bit on the shoulder button. I can’t even comfortably reach the main face of the button. :\
What’s your experience?
My only problem with the Xbone controller was that it felt lighter and “cheaper” than my 360 controllers. Over time I’ve gotten used to it.
I had zero issues with button/trigger placement. The thumbsticks are superior to the 360.
how’s the D-pad on the xbone controller?
really not a fan of the 360 one. rubbish for fighting games.
It’s clicky. Finally. Functionality-wise, it’s actually usable (and good) now. Just very clicky, some people may not like that.
Dude is that your hand? You should probably see a doctor for that.
#helping
They don’t call me Stick Man for no reason.
I haven’t played with one yet, only held one that wasn’t on. I thought it felt like a step backwards from the X360 controller in basically every way. Light and flimsy like a Sixaxis, felt like I was going to snap it in half like paper. Triggers felt bad, shoulder buttons oddly placed, face buttons didn’t feel like they were oriented correctly and didn’t like the sticks.
It was actually something that pushed me toward the PS4 in the end, as the Dual Shock 4 feels really nice in the hands and feels like a decent step forward from the X360.
Hey guys, quick update on Mrs. Pixel’s grandfather; on my way to work tomorrow this morning she called me and told me he passed away peacefully this morning… I turned the car around and went home… She’s dealing with it okay but is naturally sad
Very sorry to hear that, man. But at least it was peaceful.
Yeah as sad as it is, it was good that he just kind of went in his sleep… We knew it was going to happen and the last few weeks have just been a waiting game
🙁 Sorry to hear that, man.
My condolences friend, losing loved ones is never easy.
My condolences to Mrs. Pixel and her family.
I’m sorry to hear that man 🙁 atleast he went peacefully which is a silving lining to a bleak outcome
My condolences to you, Ms Pixel, and the family.
SNACKTAKU: DARE (Day-After-Regret Edition)
Eating salad for lunch today because for lunch yesterday I ate three burgers and two lots of fries from McD’s. Tempted to chuck this rabbit food and do the same thing again.
It’s like all of Shane’s arteries cried out in Terror and were suddenly silenced.
Good. Let the grease flow through you.
The Grease must flow
Grease is the word!
Lunch lady Shane, have ya got any grease?
Yes. Yes I do.
Well then GREASE ME UP WOMAN!
Okey dokey.
The heart attack is strong with this one.
Yesterday we had a pub lunch my boss paid for and I had a chicken schnitzel with chips and salad. I don’t know how many calories it was but I assume it was too many.
For lunch today I am having tea.
Multiple burgers is where it’s at – Love me some 2$ chicken ‘n’ mayo burgers.
I went to McDonalds for lunch the other day and asked for a Cheesy BBQ burger meal. They said they don’t do Cheesy BBQ meals. So I asked for a Cheesy BBQ burger, some fries and a drink. I can’t believe they made me say so many words. 😛
lol I’m the opposite, I never actually say a meal… ever, even if the stuff I pick resembles a meal. The main reason why is that I always get worried they’ll give me a coke (Like the picture always shows) instead of a milkshake and it stuck on me ever since xD
@sernobulus and possible @beeawwb Up for some Wildstar adventures and dungeons this Saturday? Alternatively I’m also up for some Payday 2 but it’s been a long time since I jumped into that game!
Sure! I hit the trial account level cap on my warrior so i will probably end up buying a copy today or tomorrow.
@beeawwb
Haha I was editing my original comment to see which one was right xD
If you end up on Payday 2 and are looking for a fourth, give me a shout.
Won’t be home this weekend, sorry. 🙁
I’ve been smashing payday 2 since the weekend, still holds up can’t wait for the new heists later in the year
@bdkiaf @quiz_b EA Sports UFC is out in a week!!!!! Seriously looking forward to playing it. Haven’t played the demo, so I’m going in blind, but can’t wait to get into the Octagon.
The demo is great. It obviously has a whole heap of stuff stripped out so I can’t wait to get my hands on the full game. I’m more excited about this than just about any other game at the moment.
Yeah, I’m really glad that it’s coming out on pay week. I think I’ve paid about half of my preorder, and I’ll pay the rest as I collect it. I’m really looking forward to fighting as Bruce Lee, but if they don’t have yellow trunks with a black stripe down the middle, I will be very disappointed.
the demo has told me I probably shouldn’t get the game, I’m disgustingly terrible at it, I either win matches in like 4 seconds flat or lost in about 10 seconds. Just can’t seem to get the hang of it (I played a small amount on the ps3 and I swear I wasn’t this hopeless.)
I know what will save tons of time in storytelling, animation, marketing, debates, etc.
Every character in a video game from now on will be a mirror-finish ball.
Not enough sparkles! >:|
Particle effects will be nice and sparkly from the mirror finish!
AINACATSS update: @pixel_the_ferret_viking @strange @shane @scree @stickman (if that is your real name) @ontargett @phlanispo @tigerion – your items are on their way.
Still plenty of stuff for others, though. Get while the getting’s good!
—
I’m channeling Shane here and giving away loads of pre-loved games and movies. There’s some good stuff in here! I’m only offloading it because I’ve played it to 100% and am unlikely to play it again, or have somehow ended up with multiple copies. I just want to see them going to good homes!
Easiest way is probably to say what you want in here, and send me an email your mailing details at batguy.kotaku@gmail.com, with your handle in the subject line?
Standard rules apply – first in best dressed, but only one thing per person (at least initially), don’t dare give me any money for them, etc. I’ll keep bumping it over the next few days.
PS3
– Deus Ex: HR
Xbox 360
– Assassin’s Creed II
– AC: Brotherhood
– Bully
– FIFA 08
– Gears of War
– Gears of War 2 (DL code that I can send you immediately, actually have a few available)
– The Gunstringer / Fruit Ninja Kinect (DL code that I can send you immediately, actually have a few available)
– Prince of Persia 2008
– Ricky Ponting Cricket 2007evilmonkey– Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
– Tomb Raider 2013
– Tomb Raider Legend
– Tomb Raider Anniversary
– Tomb Raider Underworld
DVD
– Enter the Dragon
– Kill Bill vol 2
– Rocky
– Sweeney Todd
I have it, so don’t want it, but I recommend Day of Sex: Human Resource Manager to anyone and everyone.
Can’t say I’ve ever played that one. What’s the gameplay like?
WHATEVER YOU WANT
That’s the thing. You can be sneaky non-lethal bastard and go through vents, or you can blast the front door. It’s grand.
Euphemisms?
Best stealth mechanics I’ve ever played in a game.
Have you played Mark of the Ninja?
I knew I shouldn’t have made that claim!
I’m basically comparing it to Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell Convictions, and one or two forced stealth sections in other games.
No, I haven’t played Mark of the Ninja.
Deus Ex definitely had the best stealth in any 3D environment. Mark of the Ninja is the best in the 2D platformer environment and I’ve give it the edge overall.
You should play mark of the ninja – GOTY
I’ll keep an eye out for XBox Live sales!
I haven’t actually played the PS3 one, because I bought it on Wii U instead… and still haven’t played that either 😛
I think I shall put it on the top of the “to play” stack!
Thanks very much!
I might take Ricky Ponting Cricket 2007 and or Star Wars: The Force Unleashed if that’s ok. If not, it’s totally cool.
Will email you my deets tonight.
Will put you down for one, and will remember the other.
Completely understand, shouldn’t have been greedy and asked for two. Thanks heaps man.
Dammit! Replyfail @batguy
Thanks, man! Much appreciated.
Thanks mate. I’ve been meaning to watch Inglourious Basterds for ages, but never gotten around to it. I’ve even come close to buying it a couple of times.
It’s great. I saw it at the cinema, watched it on blu-ray, then bought a really cheap Tarantino Blu-ray collection that had it again. Hence the giveaway!
Thank you thank you thank you!
Thanks.
Dinosaurs \o/
@popdart5
I’ve been reading through the stuff you sent through last night. I’ve noticed that it constantly refers to the player as being a human (part of the Imperium). Do we have to be humans or can we be whatever?
EDIT: Nevermind! I just read through the actual email. How much info do we need down by this Sunday?
I should get my act together and start making decisions on character.
Yeah, same. I’m conflicted on whether I should be an Ork or a Eldar Harlequin.
Harlequin because they seem like a cool class and Ork because … dey be da best!
We’re just going to have a squad of Harlequins aren’t we?
If we have enough people we could put on performances!
Or a squad of Eldar 😛
Nooooo I’ve already done the backstory for my Tau Commander!! =p You’ll be Harlequins + 1 Tau =p
I just need you guys to give me an idea of the type of character that you want to play. So for instance you can say something like an Ork Mekboy, an Eldar Corsair, or a Tau Fire Warrior. That gives me an idea of the type of character that I will need to work into the system.
FYI, there are actually legit rules for playing a Weirdboy. There is a 25% chance of somthing bad happening and a 25% of something worse which is appropriately titled “‘eadsplode” (which, funnily enough, is not limited to simple ‘headsplosions).
Yeah I’m going to avoid the Weirdboy. I enjoy having a head.
Can I pick Nurgle as a PC?
Considering other people are looking at Eldar, no.
There is a completely separate rule system for Chaos-focused RPGs which I can run for you guys but that has the same sort of restrictions as it only allows Humans. That would be only case where I would allow a Nurgle or Chaos anything character.
A Nurgle character? No no. You’re confused. I meant Nurgle AS a character.
Yes, I will grant you the powers of a Chaos god. Now go beat up the Emperor. *sarcasm mode off*
Now there’s an idea for a campaign. A troupe of Eldar Harlequins on a quest to give the Emperor a wedgie.
Pop I love how you assume freeze is asking you a legitimate question each time….
How could you balance a Farseer enough that we couldn’t just look into the future all the time? Or would it just be something like “Warp says no” ?
I’d scale it back to saying that you are on the Path of the Seer. Eventually you’d become a Farseer but that would be later on.
Well given that time is an incredibly elusive concept by knowing the future you’ve already changed it. So even if we avoided walking into an immediate ambush we might inadvertently set off a different chain of events even more disastrous than the original. (anyone else watch that two part story in Voyager?)
Or despite all your efforts, you end up causing exactly what you were trying to prevent.
Predicting the future is always a dangerous game.
Lol with everyone going Eldar I think I’ll just go a human Tech Priest :), man and machine in one!
Anyone here use Microsoft Virtual Academy or Microsoft IT Academy much? Mostly wondering if IT Academy has any major benefits over MVA.
I haven’t yet because they keep screwing up our logins. If you have any specific Q’s I can check it out ..?
I’m mostly wondering if the IT academy is really worth it if I’m already using MVA.
Can’t comment, sorry.
@shane
Do I need to send you my address?
Yes, please, man. Saves me going back through old emails. (cc @scree @benny, you too if you don’t mind, please)
shane at shanewsmith.com
Done and sent. 🙂
You don’t store everyone’s addresses in a secure location for future
stalkinguse?I might be trying to throw people off the scent. If they discover the truth, I’m finished.
DC does it. He has lists.
DC doesn’t know the truth! No-one knows!
*looks around frantically, panics, dives out window*
Did @strange and you guys ever find out his address and send him presents? 😛
I didn’t. Forever sadface. I had to content myself with sending digital gifts to his email address.
I know I live within 10 minutes (by car) from him, but that’s as far as I’ve narrowed the search. Will continue patrolling the streets in the hopes of finding him one day 😛
@gutsoup, make sure you check out DC’s blog for potential landmarks that might narrow the search!
No way, man. Cough, $50, cough. Remember our talk.
FINE. I’ll look it up. Thanks for making it just that little bit harder to be nice. >:(
People who’ve had wisdom teeth out, assemble and help me please!
Mr. Strange is getting all four out today so I would love some ideas of what kinds of foodstuffs to plan for. What was your favourite things to eat after your operations?
Also, to take his mind of his impending operation this morning, and to give him something to do while recuperating I bullied him into starting Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He seems to like it so far, hopefully he’ll be able to get immersed in it properly to help take his mind off his pain and discomfort.
Soup is gonna be the thing for a little while (but not too hot).
For me, it was soup, mashed potatoes and apple sauce. I was genuinely sad when I could eat solids again.
Edit: Dr internet has some more high-brow suggestions: http://www.buzzfeed.com/tashweenali/foods-to-eat-after-getting-your-wisdom-teeth-out
Yeah, I’ve planned for soup. Luckily he loves soup. What can he have for snacks or breakfast though? I’m guessing yoghurt, maybe jelly?
Anything soft that is easy to eat and not too hot- but not too liquidy because straws are actually a nono (sucking can dislodge the blood clots and cause problems). Things like yoghurt, custard, mashed potato, baby food, refried beans (good source of protein for healing!). Instant porridge would be good for breakfast, soft scrambled eggs, cottage or ricotta cheese. I found i got sick of sweet food really quickly.
Good timing, really.
first day or so, nothing :p
Smoothies & yoghurt after that. maybe weet-bix (crunched up, milk & honey added, then heated in the microwave for a minute)?
Jelly is good. Mashed potato is also good. Anything soft that doesn’t have to be chewed too much. Also avoid making the food too hot (temperature). If he eats icecream, be careful as the coldness of the icecream can hurt a lot.
Garlic mash!
Rice congee!
Polenta!
Minestrone, if overboil everything so that it’s nice and soft.
Soup! Pumpkin, carrot ginger, potato leek, what have you!
Refried beans!
@dc recommended KFC’s Potato & Gravy so I ate that and yeah… nah :P. So much regret!
The thing for me was creamy pasta. So good to just slurp it down.
Also I’m sure you’re probably already aware of this but get him to rinse his mouth out every so often with some warm salt water. It helps to clean out his mouth and reduce the risk of food getting trapped in the gaps.
If you go the soup route, make sure it’s blended to smooth. No pieces of anything in it.
I had a horrible moment after having mine out where I’d had a weird taste in my mouth for two days and then eventually realized I had a piece of carrot from some veggie soup lodged in one of the sockets. 🙁
Also, your dentist / oral surgeon will probably recommend this anyway, but go out to a pharmacist and buy yourself some of the colgate mouthwash that has chlorhexadine in it. It used to be called Savacol I think, but they might have changed the name? I’m not talking about the crap alcohol-based Plax stuff you can get in supermarkets.
Chlorhexadine is an extremely powerful antiseptic.. When I had my wisdom teeth out I was told to swish it 3-4 times a day for a week or two and it does wonders for helping keep things from getting infected and actually will help the healing process along. Also pretty effective on mouth ulcers if you ever have issues with that, usually after a couple of rinses in a day most ulcers will be gone.
All right, I now a pretty good idea of what to plan for. Thanks, everyone!
I’ll post here cause not helpful but funny. My girlfriend hated me so much when I had mine out, she suffered for ages with pain and trouble eating. I had mine done in the morning, was eating solids by the night time, on the 3rd morning I woke up to my stitches just sorta sitting loosely in my mouth, they fell out in my sleep and was pretty much back to normal by that night.
I really hope Mr. Strange is like you were! He’s impossible to live with when he’s in pain, he doesn’t cope well at all. These next few days are going to be a nightmare for the whole family. 😛
oh dear, that doesn’t sound pleasant at all, I hope for you and your families sake’s that he’s not too bad. If not use the Scottish “cure all” remedy. Whiskey and lots of it, my grandparents were full blooded Scotts and they gave me Whiskey for tooth aches and minor aches and if it was cold or if I had a cold or if I grazed my knee or that time a catfish poked a hole through my grandad’s foot, now that I think about it maybe they were just alcoholics 😛
Just more evidence that you must have part of Wolverine’s regenerative powers in your DNA.
I really need to test that one day *eyes up little toe*
Yeah, main thing is to follow the post-op instructions to the letter!
Juice to drink is good as well
So late to the party on this. I had all four out at once when I was a teen, and I was miserable for bloody weeks. So yeah, sympathies to you and Mr Strange.
When it comes to food, it was mostly ultra-blended coke spiders and similar. Loads of ice-cream and other soft-sugary junk until I couldn’t stand it any more and NEEDED MEAT! At which point the best I could reasonably do was soup with plenty of meat stock. Those stitches were pretty damn precarious for a couple weeks.
Emotional rollercoaster.
So this new 3DS game that Intelligent Systems (Fire Emblem) are working on sounded kind of cool. Steampunk. Good dev team. Then they started talking about the gameplay and it sounded like Valkyria Chronicles.
Then I saw screenshots. The art style is fucking terrible 🙁 Skipping 🙁
Me and @sughly were talking about the generic-y art style too (we expected more) but it’s definitely not game breaking for me 😛
There are screenshots!?
http://www.vooks.net/e3-2014-code-name-s-t-e-a-m-officially-revealed-for-3ds/
I’m not used to a steampunk game being that colourful.
nor am I, but I’m gonna keep an eye on that one. looks pretty ok.
I kinda like it. Reminds me of EBA.
But mostly though, I’m just glad to find out that this new 3DS game isn’t Majora’s Mask. That was a close one.
You mean the game that was completely different and when they ported it to the US they ripped out all the art and music and replaced basically the entire game?
EBA was okay but Ouendan was super rad and one of the best justifications for why the DS shouldn’t be region locked. EBA wouldn’t even have existed had Ouendan not had a massive cult following among people importing it.
I love all three games, and am gutted that EBA2 never came to be.
Agreed on region locking, curse the digital age. Probably could have scraped by without it if the eShop never became a thing.
Aw man, saaame. Wouldve absolutely loved an EBA2 T_T
http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/150
I’m confused by this “Is Link now a girl?” thing. What difference does it make to the game itself, if it still plays like a Legend of Zelda game? Why am I supposed to care?
Wondering the same thing myself
The thing that’s exciting people is not that it would open up new options or anything, it’s just that it would suggest that Nintendo is finally interested in trying new things, taking some risks and shaking up the formula they’ve stuck rigidly to since the 80s.
You mean Link never was? Now I don’t know what to think…
…
Oh god. So much shame suddenly remembered D:
It’s just an assumption that someone made which led to a realisation that we don’t know who exactly that character featured in the preview is, hence mystery, further skewed by the words of Aonuma pretty much announcing it’s not Link, followed by a outburst of excitement from everyone else yada yada I have no idea how to wrap this up.
I think it’s just been strapped on to the AC5 female protagonist debate because why not.
#YOLO
#SWAG
#YOLOSWAG
Not at all. It had nothing to do with that, it was originally just an observation that the character in the new Zelda game, that people assumed was Link, actually had a very feminine look which led to speculation on whether it was a girl or not, and if that was bad or not. That’s all it was, speculation.
Edit: And yes, I’m aware that you likely only made this comment so you could say “strapped on”. 😛
They should make him a black Jewish lesbian trans woman from the Middle East in a wheelchair.
I would totally play that.
You know me. Darn it, you really do 😛
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/shooter/far-cry-3-deluxe-edition/
Far Cry 3: Deluxe Edition is $9.99 on Green Man Gaming!
Great guy. 1990. 😀
Ok seriously what the hell is with all these new comers as soon as we there’s articles surrounding female protagnists?? I didn’t even realize this was such an inflammatory topic.
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion and preferences but some of those comments are just idiotic and go out of their way to be inflammatory. Trolls?
Edit: Another pageget victory for the TAY Empire…. You shall regret sending me away TAY Knights!
How dare there be boobs?
I know, right?!
But….but….
Butts, too.
There’s never enough boobs. Enough boobs isn’t a concept that exists.
More than 2 per person is a bit odd though
It’s hard enough to focus during firefights without them jiggling everywhere
It’s not trolling in the “lulz, I’ll get people mad” sense.
It’s people who listen to the tribalism in games too much getting the idea that “this is an attack by FEMINISTS on MAH GAEMS”
When, of course, it’s nothing of the sort.
Given that Ubisoft’s public statement has been pretty universally derided, it’ll hopefully send the message home.
(Upvote for your edit) 😛
Some of those comments were so bad I hope it was trolling and not so much stupidity.
“She’s got… Hiiiigh hopes,
She’s got, hiiiigh hopes”
😛
A reverse Hanlon’s Razor?
I ate some Blair’s Ancho Chili Cheeseburger chips for lunch. I had them for breakfast, too.
Yes, they taste awesome but I really need to go shop for food, I think. 😛
Hehe – sounds like it! My grocery shop is tomorrow and tonight I will be dining on fish fingers with Mr 3, or “fish cookies” as we call them. But your chips sound tasty. Might make cheeseburgers for dinner on the weekend.
if one wanted to get said chips in Australia?
I’m unsure. Mr. Strange had a business trip to Sydney this week and brought them back for me. He found them in a convenience store similar to a 7/11.
Hah, we don’t even have 7/11s!
(there are other convenience stores, but we have good servos too)
What what what? You don’t have 7/11 in Adelaide?
Nope. Other convenience stores on the market, low density city, and lots of On the Run in the suburbs.
Actually I am pretty sure I have seen one, somewhere.
It looked so… out of place.
The true best game reveal from E3 happened today.
Sekai Project are translating the visual novel PacaPlus. You will be able to date all the alpacas.
And they’ll spit in your face to show affection OR hatred OR indifference!
Anybody here know of a good website that prints custom pictures onto shirts?
Preferably local ones if they’re reliable.
Depends on if you are after bulk quantity or individual
There are some cheaper local companies but you will be looking at a print run of at least 100 from memory. haven’t looked in a while.
If you are just wanting to get your own design on shirts for yourself then you may have to go for something like redbubble. Set up your own store and set it to $0 comission to get as cheap as possible
Yeah individual. I might look into redbubble then. Thanks Tig!
I went to a nintendo-sponsored event today to try out the new Smash Bros for both 3ds and Wii U.
It was pretty damn cool.
I played as Mega Man for 2 5-minute matches. I captured every single smash ball but *missed* with every one.
Except the last.
And then when I got *everybody* in my final smash, I yelled out “SUPER FIGHTING ROBOT MEGAMAN” during the cinematic. I won.
Also, 57 streetpasses.
So much hat.
I also got free ninty swag. I’m never going to do anything with them but free is free.
How many little kids did you yell at?
Just the one I was up against. I’m afraid the rest of the people I squared off against were people I consider acquaintances, god forbid.
Hahaha wow, a tweet a friend made (“Nintendo’s treating these third party characters better than the publishers that bloody own them”) has taken right off. And even made it into Patricia’s Internet Reacts article. He’s got it made 😛
Spotted that. Tell him to ride the wave of fame into retirement!
An opportunity not nearly enough Twitter users take advantage of!
That was my favourite one!
If anyone was still after the Link figma that was released a while back, they’re doing another production run and giving him a re-release in October. Samus as well.
HobbySearch are taking preorders on both:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10189772 Link
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10174272 Samus
Generally much cheaper to buy from Japanese retailers like this and then ship them here than to try and buy locally. Also I can vouch for HS, I’ve been buying figures from them roughly every month for about 4-5 years.
… I’m tempted to get both of them.
…same.
EDIT: For the price, I really can’t get over how amazing that Samus one looks.
Figma are pretty nice action figures generally. Also Samus has the benefit of already being kind of machiney so the joints and stuff being visible isn’t as much of an issue.
I never got too into the Figma collecting scene as I was too invested into Nendoroid and, at the time, proper-sized figures (haven’t puchased a new figure since about 18 months ago, just Nendos) but they can be really nice. Some of the anime stuff doesn’t transfer very well to the format though, the proportions are kind of fixed and that can get weird, plus some art styles just look wrong.
Their Link and Samus are really high quality though.
I don’t even collect figures, and I want them.
I want to get the link one for my friends birthday, is it hard to ship them here??
Nope, they’re got full pricing estimates for shipping to Australia.
Not at all. You pay them and they ship it to you via SAL (7-21 days, no tracking) or EMS (3-5 days, tracked, insured – handled by AusPost as an express post parcel once it enters the country so it’ll be carded if you’re not there to pick it up).
I imagine shipping EMS will be about 1500 yen and SAL is probably 700-800. SAL is much cheaper to a point, but at about the 1kg mark EMS becomes better value and honestly, the insurance and tracking and faster shipping is often worth it anyway.
Is the friend you?
My birthday is in October. I assume it’s me.
(meanwhile, I’m ordering Super Kitakami-sama)
Remind me in about a month when I get my first paycheck 😀
I’ll try and remember but with a lot of these sorts of things you need to be in pretty early.
However bear in mind these don’t release until November and HobbySearch don’t charge you until they ship. You will need to pay a restocking fee if you cancel more than 30 days after placing a preorder though.
No biggie if you forget though, they’d just sit there collecting dust :P. How much would they be with shipping? They seem good for $30 but I probably won’t bite at $50
Depends on speed, if you got both I’d expect it to be about 1000 yen total for SAL, probably 1700-1800 for EMS.
…I should get around to selling my extras. The site I bought the first reissue from had a limit of 6 per customer, so I figured why not 😛
HOLY SHIT GUYS YOU HAVE TO CHECK THIS OUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07qM4X15sMY
E3 HAS BEEN WON
I’m not sure what I just watched.
Why so confused? It’s clearly a contemporary racing game with a fossil-blasting minigame and a focus on exploding dinosaurs who can be collected and fight each other in the wild and in arenas. Sheesh!
ha, i read your post and thought, that makes me wish there was another Fossil Fighters game. Then I clicked the link, I’m actually hyped for that, me and my sister sunk a lot of hours into the first 2 games. They were actually really fun games.
Hell Yes!! I loved the first games. Pokesaurs Whoo
I just informed my sister and she’s going to get a 3DS asap.
HAHAHAWHAT.
did no one here play the first ones?
I didn’t even know it was a series until I read that video’s comments :O
Nope.
I would be more inclined to ask “did anyone play the first ones?”
To me they looked like the kind of thing that was purely made for 5 year olds 😛
there was a surprising amount of challenge and depth to them, the fossil cleaning mechanic was addictive and one of the best uses of the touch screen and mic I’ve seen. You had to carefully drill your fossils out of rocks in pieces i.e: head, legs, feat, tail and depending on how well you dug them out it would affect their stats you also had to blow dust using the mic, as you drilled your vision was obscured by dust. Oh you also had to go out and find the fossils and there were rare ones with an extra 25% stat boost per piece and combat was pretty much pokemon but with a 3 vs 3 dino team.
Anyhoo, defending it cause IT’S NOT JUST FOR 5 YEAR OLDS D:
Edit: I’d like to see the 5 year old with the dexterity to clean some of the late game fossils, was challenging as hell.
Whatever you say, kid *ruffles hair*
ooooooh, you’re lucky I’m over here.
😛
Also, since you have – are they all like that? Do they all have terrible Saturday Morning-esque theme songs?
I don’t recall the music being terrible but I don’t really remember it so it couldn’t have been that great.
I have never heard of it. It doesn’t really look like my thing, but I can definitely see why it appeals! 🙂
I’m sorry but I have to disagree with you, because this also was announced and is a thing that exists:
I have to disagree because to me that’s just standard Japanese business as usual 😛
Happy page 11 all. It’s the Acronym Laden Liberation Of Fully Three Historical Entertaining Games And Modern Extra Stuff
That’s right: ALLOFTHEGAMES
Up for grabs today are the following titles:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox)
TES3: Morrowind (Xbox)– crazyguy1990Super Smash Bros Melee (GC)– bennyEnslaved Odyssey to the West (360)– screePrototype (360)
You know the drill. You want it, sing out. First in, best dressed. Games must go to people who will play them, rather than people who are looking to obtain rare titles (though I have no way to polic this, so it’s on the honour system).
Come on – it’s KOTOR.
K O T O R
Hey Shane! How’s things? Impending arrival soonish, huh? Looking forward to the leave?
Could be any day!
Yes, totally looking forward to it. I’m just phoning it in at work right now, and I think it’s starting to show 😛
Exciting times! 😀
As compared to….?
Fair point. This feels like next-level inactivity, though 😛
I tried to give away codes for Arkham Asylum and City on here once, no one jumped. I told myself everyone either already had them or were too shy to speak up. I’m pretty sure it was mostly the latter.
Also, I still have them.
I own both games, sadly.
KOTOR is great, but I a) have it and b) don’t have an XBOX.
But I wholeheartedly endorse this initiative.
KotOR is a thing of freaking beauty. I love it so much. It got me into Star Wars and I stand by the fact that to me atleast, this is the greatest piece of the franchise. (Including the movies.)
KOTOR is awesome! If I hadn’t already played it, I’d gladly give it a whirl! Someone take the man up on his offer! He’s good for it! 🙂
I’m not going to claim psychic powers, but I am going to claim all of the credit for the Grim Fandango HD update: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/03/a-grim-fans-fandango-while-were-all-waiting-for-tim-schafer-to-finally-get-back-the-rights-to-gri/comment-page-1/#comment-2439965
I helped! \o/
I need to find that pic from PAX of your Calavera cosplay.
Before I even knew you were on TAY!
My clever disguise fooled you all!
TAYlist for the 12th of June 2014 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by page get requests
Black Sorrows – Stir It Up
Len – Steal My Sunshine (Requested by @crazyguy1990)
Paul McCartney & Wings – Coming Up
Cheap Trick – The Flame
Angus & Julia Stone – Big Jet Plane
Beatles – Baby It’s You (Requested by @scree, who wanted me to play the Beatles)
Stealer’s Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You (Requested by @bdkiaf)
Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
Tommy Trash – Need Me To Stay
John Farnham – You’re The Voice
Garbage – When I Grow Up (Requested by @kermitron)
Guns ‘N’ Roses – Sweet Child Of Mine (Requested by @ontargett)
1200 Techniques – Karma
Green Day – American Idiot
Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A Changin’ (Requested by @pupp3tmast3r)
Mental As Anything – He’s Just No Good To You
Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger (Requested by @35)
Screaming Jets – Stop The World
I haven’t heard Karma in years. Nice one.
Big Jet Plane is the worst.
Other than that, good list!
Aw, you didn’t play my suggestion. The Sound of Silence. I thought the lack of reply to the post was obvious, man. OBVIOUS. *sigh* 😛
Hello darkness my old friend…
DAMMIT, RED! 😀
Hello, my old friend.
I roll my eyes at you. 😛
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write; will you take a look?
Send me a copy, and i’d even read it on air.
Edit: shit, you’re quoting paperback writer, aren’t you.
It’s a thousand pages, give or take a few. I’ll be writing more in a week or two. I can make it longer if you like the style. I can change it round and I want to be a paperback writer.
Edit: was that a serious offer?
Semi-serious, I doubt the radio admin would allow it though.
Trade offer:
My 360 copy of GTA V for a 360 copy of Batman Arkham Origins? (Would also consider offers to trade for ACIV: Black Flag, but that doesn’t seem fair)
Any takers?
I’ve already got GTA V, but I can lend you Black Flag if you want.
Thanks, that’s really cool of you to offer. Can I interest you in a copy of Prototype or KOTOR, or a loan from the TAYnames list?
No worries man. If it’s alright, I wouldn’t mind loaning Deus Ex: HR.
Just email me your deets, and I’ll drop it in the post tomorrow.
d4rk_kn1ght (at) live (dot) com (dot) au
@tech_knight apparently in the latest TFS Movie the voice of D.V.E.D (service robot) is Lee Rastus which could or could not be a pseudonym of David Eddings voice of Claptrap, which is why he sounds EXACTLY THE FREAKING SAME 😛
TFS has not yet really commented on this, but everything points towards it is David Eddings
Yeah I thought as much. Did you enjoy it at least? 🙂
It was every bit as funny as it should have been 😀
I might have to re-watch it just because 😛
I love the First Cooler as well.
“Somebody better pick up that phone”
“Why?”
“CUZ I F@#KING CALLED IT!”
‘He keeps kicking me in the d**k… Why? WHY DOES HE KEEP KICKING ME IN THE D**K?
Oh that was so good!
GRAAAAAAAAAAAH! *Rushes in*
*smack and Vegeta flies back into the distance*
GRAAAAAAAAAAAH! *Rushes in*
*smack and Vegeta flies back into the distance again*
GRAAAAAAAAAAAH! *Rushes in*
*smack and Vegeta flies back into the distance again*
“He’s quite persistent isn’t he?”
“Okay so i can take the 500 on the left, and you can take the 500 on the right”
“F**K YOU I’M TAKING 501!”
“That’s the spirit”
“EEP!”…
@tech_knight
“This is it! IT’S KRILLIN TIM-“*Smack*
“It’s never going to happen is it?”
There’s some modulation on the voice so it might be relatively easy for someone to imitate it.
A half-decent voice actor can do a spot on imitation of C-3PO with just a porcelain mug.
Yeah true, but if so, they have certainly found a most talented guy to hit the exact same pitch and personality of Claptrap…
No one can really find any information on the Lee Rastus guy, but people have found references to a Lee Rastus Eddings that died more then 60 years ago 😛
CONSPIRACIES \o/
Plus it is very, VERY convincing 😛
Just trying to stop you from getting too hyped.
I had to check to see if it was the same dude when I heard it too :p
Lol in the end it doesn’t really matter whether it is or isn’t him… it sounds like Claptrap even if it isn’t David Eddings, they did an amazing job at replicating the character 😛
Sometimes I just don’t understand human behaviour.
The ‘Freeza already did it gag’ so was so good.
‘KILL THE BALD ONE!’
‘Freeza did it!’
Uh, any doctors in the TAY house? I have this condition..
It’s only cropped up in the last week or so but it’s essentially this sudden, random feeling of warmth in my chest, namely around my heart area (not a euphemism). It has probably happened around twenty times or so and feels similar to the effects of when you rub deep heat into your muscles.
It feels good, but it’s probably not good. Anyone heard of this before I Google?
That’s love, Benny.
Uh, it might be but Google tells me to get my arse to a doctor. Like a real one. And pronto.
Just to be safe, take the rest of yourself with you.
These sorts of questions, I give the same answer that Dr Karl does on Twitter:
See your GP.
EDIT: I should add, doing this is never a waste of money cause it can buy you peace of mind.
Especially if you can bulk-bill!
Edit: but totally worth doing in any case. Just in case you thought I was advocating cheapskate behaviour over medical surety.
I live with a doctor and she tells me to go to a GP when I’m feeling crook.
Edit: she also calls me a wuss.
Can I just point out that most of your “feeling crook” is you being whiney, and the rest of the time, you shouldn’t see a doctor that has an emotional attachment to you.
Emotional attachment? THINGS ARE GETTING SERIOUS! 😛
Sometimes we even hold hands!
Ewwww.
Trjn and Freya sitting in a tree..
If you fall see a GP
Sending it to my 6th year medical student buddy.
Many thanks.
It only lasts about 5 or so seconds each time. I’ll be asking my GP-brother-in-law when I can as well but he works in urology so I’m not sure he’ll have any concrete advice. Aside from ‘look after your balls or I’ll be seeing you.’
“Does he have palpitation (awareness of heart beating) or any other symptoms when this warmth occurs”
?
I told him about the 5 sec at a time
Not that I am aware of but I will definitely double-check for that next time it occurs. No other symptoms either.
He says to go GP, not much to go on.
“The doctor would probably check that he doesn’t have an arrhythmia (irregular heart beat) and if it was worrying perform an ECG (electrocardiograph) which is measuring the hearts electrical activity and if it was even more worrying that would arrange a holter monitor which is like an ECG but measure it for 24hrs.
That’s if it’s heart problem, but could be anything! Need history.”
Gl buddy, hope it’s nothing much.
Thanks mate.
Sounds similar to a thing I’d get in my honours year.
I put it down to stress at the time, which was also responsible for pretty much all of my health woes during the second half of that year. Hasn’t come back since.
Stress-related makes me feel less anxious. Nice to know, thanks.
There’s lots of representation arguments going around today, and I’m in a procrastinating mood, so I’ve been running through games making them “stereotypical gay” represented for fun.
Assassins Creed:
Whenever you assassinate someone, instead of running back to your hideout, you instead have to run to the cleaners to get the blood out of your white cashmere robes before they get stained.
Call of Duty:
When you pass by a reflective surface (water, glass, shiny metal, etc) your accuracy decreases as you’re too tempted to check your hair in the reflection.
The legend of Zelda:
Basically everything is the same, but Link gets super bummed out at the end of the game because there was no mention of Zelda being a “princess”, and you thought Zelda was a dude, cause Zelda is totally a dudes name.
Mario Kart:
Every track is Rainbow Road.
Also Banana peels are removed cause throwing banana peels on the ground is gross.
inFamous:
You have the power of being fabulous, and shoot rainbows out of your hands that fix people’s hair and colour coordinates their outfits.
Pretty sure inFamous Second Son had that last power.
Whaaaaaaaat!!!
I need to play that game! 😀
You better not be lying to me DC!
Well neon is close enough, it was awfully colourful
So…. Do I just put my money into my DVD drive or …?
Not going to lie, I’d play the shit out of that.
Maybe I should pitch it to Sucker Punch, hahaha! 😀
Guitar Hero: Every track is by Kylie Minogue.
So, Singstar?
Noooooooo, what did you say, haha!
I’m poking fun at myself pretty much here, so feel free to say anything.
I won’t get offended, I’ll probably find it funny, haha!
You’re gay. You’re not allowed to make fun of gay people. Straight people fighting for gay rights will get mad.
*Insert pitchfork crowd here*
Dammit, I forgot about the straight guys that get mad when gay guys tease gay stereotypes :'(
Still on pretty Zelda wallpapers, a friend linked this copy of the Hyrule Warriors boxart background image, sans logo and such.
http://i.imgur.com/07JgEL2.jpg
Don’t.Persue.Ga.Non
Pretty! Who’s book lady on the right?
That’s Book Lady.
She’s alright.
I asked the same thing. Was answered with “boobs attached to some character” “looks like a generic Dynasty Warriors character imo” “…er, what [first guy] said.”
I’ve been critical of Nintendo in the past, but it’s shit like this that I wish they’d been doing for the last decade. Looks very cool
So is every playable character announced so far aside from Link a girl? They announced Impa, Zelda and Midna, and then there’s Book Lady here…
Link is a girl now too, remember?
#progressive
Team Ninja are working on the game so I guess it should be expected.
Master Race Represent!
Saw this on Gizmodo… pretty damned great XD
WESTERN RPGS!
I’ve been really slack with them 😛
I’ve wanted to play The Witchers and Dragon Age for a few years now, but didn’t have a PC that could handle them. I’ve also had a friend’s copy of Fallout: New Vegas sitting on my shelf unplayed for years but I picked up that and Fallout 3’s “DLC” edition on Steam but haven’t played them yet. I’m also waiting for another price drop of Skyrim’s “DLC” edition so I can re-buy that on PC. I’m still holding out for a trilogy DLC edition of Mass Effect so I can play them and carry my choices over. I finished the first but it was years since I played the 2nd so I forgot my choices and went with the default ones (regret!). I played the first two on Xbox and have 3 on PS3 (through PS+) so my choices will be even more disconnected. I may also need to look into Reaper of Souls at some point!
There’s probably other ones I’m forgetting or just haven’t got on my radar >_>
Looks like there’s a lot of really good ones coming out soon (specifically The Witcher 3) which has got me motivated to play through some of the backlog. I’ve been playing The Witcher this past week and it’s great. Definitely feels a bit dated though and it’s odd pretending there’s more than like 5 NPC types that all look and sound the same :P. The Witcher 2 and Dragon Age: Origins are probably at the top of my list but it seems unlikely that EA would release their trilogy DLC edition of Mass Effect (which I’d buy in a heartbeat) since I assume the overpriced DLC gets them plenty of money :(. Sadness.
Western RPGs
*pictures 2 cowboys having a duel with Rocket Launchers*
Yep definitely must be what he means.
Rocket propelled griddle
South Western RPGS
Witcher 3 HYPE! \o/
I look at it in my steam library every day and sigh to myself.
I’m playing Witcher 2
It’s great. Not too far through though
Choices man. CD Projekt do really well with moral dilemmas.
I wish other developers would learn from them. So many games are just “Do you want to donate all your money to charity? or burn down this child and puppy orphanage?”
Dunno, the deep moral choice at the start of Saint Row IV was pretty good.
“Punch a Dick in the Head” or “Punch a Dickhead”
Even Bioware go that way in the end. It’s one of the reasons I consider Knights of the Old Republic II to be the better of those games, Obsidian write moral grey areas much more convincingly. There were various spots you could, if you wanted, be an evil psychopath, but the game would actively chide you for doing so. However if you went around being a saint, it did the same.
What makes the choices in The Witcher so good is that there’s never a good or evil choice, you’re always picking between equally bad things. Every choice turns out to have consequences and often they’re not consequences you could have expected. The entire second act of The Witcher 2 will change depending on a choice you make in the first act. It makes the choices in other games look as hollow as they really are.
Kreia was the best character ever put in an rpg
Witcher 2 is so much of a step from the first game it’s amazing.
Despite its issues, Dragon Age 2 is worth a play, and honestly I’d probably suggest going Dragon Age Origins and its expansion before doing The Witcher, because it’d be good to get all of Dragon Age out of the way before October or so when Inquisition releases, whereas Witcher 3 isn’t until February next year so you’ve got a lot more time.
That said, Witcher 2 is the best of all the games you mentioned except maybe Mass Effect 1&2.
I won’t be getting DA:I or Witcher 3 at launch (although that may change for Witcher :P), so I have plenty of time.
We’ve been gorging ourselves on Orange is the New Black. It’s a totally rad show. So far we’re about halfway through season 2.
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Nyfb Wnfba Ovttf’f punenpgre vf gur yrnfg vagrerfgvat guvat nobhg gur fubj. Sbe gur svefg unys bs gur fubj ur jnf whfg gurer sbe znfgheongvba wbxrf. Abj ur’f whfg gurer gb tvir zr gur fuvgf.
Finished season two this afternoon. Amazing season. So, so good.
Please, please, please tell me that fbzrbar funaxf Irr naq be Wnfba Ovttf.
Savour all these eps while you have them. It’s a long wait for season three. 😀
It’s putting me in the mood to watch The Wire again, so at least there’s that.
When you walk through the garden…
OMAR COMIN’ YO
Hows everyone going, been really busy and am now just catching up on E3 news as best as I can. Probably will watch all the conferences this weekend. From what I can see I may soon have to buy a ps4 for uncharted 4 to go along with the xbox one I already own. Am really happy with the master chief collection. Also love the wii u announcements and will probably HAVE to buy one of those. Add into this that I want to build a gaming pc soonish (probably tax time) and it looks like I have a lot of expenditure happening over the next 12 months.
Most excited for things from e3:
uncharted 4, ac unity, master chief collection, little big planet 3, evolve, zelda.
EDIT: actually the more I watch, the more I am interested in nearly everything. I am pretty excited for the start of this next generation and what the future holds.
What are you most excited about? Doesn’t even have to be about e3.
Play Xenoblade so you can be even more hyped for Xenoblade Chronicles X!
I haven’t even had a chance to get my wii out. I will make it a priority. Getting a job really takes away your time. Who would of thought.
Grim Fandango. Zelda. Uncharted 4. Batman: Arkham Knight.
From E3 I’m most excited about Zelda, which looks stunningly beautiful.
The games I’m most excited about though are still Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy XV.
Hopefully they’ll be at TGS 😀
@negativezero
Fairly confidant I hate you for showing me Hobby Search…I mean, my bank account certainly does.
My work here is done.
They’re my go-to store for most of my Nerdery needs. Sometimes I order figures from the manufacturer instead but usually because of extra bonuses. They also stock a decent range of JP books and magazines and a shitton of mecha stuff, gundam models, transformers masterpieces (I have the MP Wheeljack ordered at the moment because Wheeljack was the best character in the cartoon by far) and a bunch of other stuff. Want pervy hug pillows that guarantee your eternal virginity? They even have those.
Seriously though, this stuff is way cheaper than any other place I’ve seen. Cheers for the heads up.
The corner of an empty cardboard box fell on my head. I’m pretty dizzy for some reason. I’m still dizzy 5 minutes after it fell on me, and that’s pretty worrisome.
Oof. The pain is rising over time rather than decreasing.
How heavy was it? Is it a localized pain or a general one?
Also you should be aware that if you got a concussion from an empty box we would probably tease you a bit.
It’s localised pain for sure.
EDIT: I checked the cardboard box, and subtracted the net weight from the gross weight. I was hit by a 620g box. That hurts my ego.
That’s love, Phlanispo.
Holy shit DC, I just almost shot water out of my nose!
That may also be love, red
Ahahaha, brilliant!
I’m so glad I clicked back on Page 11! Would’ve missed this gem otherwise 😀
Hmm, the pain is still there. I have some Panadol in my bag. I wonder whether I should take it. If an empty cardboard box somehow caused a head injury, I don’t see how Panadol could help.
Took the Panadol. Here’s hoping it doesn’t make things worse.
If you get an injury from a Panadol hitting the bottom of your stomach there’s something seriously wrong with you…
You made me laugh and that made my head hurt. You are just the worst 😛
I’m as bad as a cardboard box…
Snake would know exactly what to do with that empty cardboard box.
!
@transientmind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
It;s from Ancient Greece. History is fun.
Is it bad that I already know about that from Saw?
Not clicking link. NOT CLICKING. I want good sleep tonight!
Oh BLISS!!!!!!!!!
I FINALLY fixed the sodding touchpad gesture crap on my laptop so it stopped opening that fucking windows 8 charm bar every time my finger moved slightly to the left when scrolling!! Who on earth thought that was a good design idea? I get the point that it was trying to replicate the touchscreen functionality but not to make it something you can deactivate in windows and just assume the touchpad driver control panel will support it, especially when synaptics roll a die each time they build a new driver version and see how shit they make things? Madness…
Yeah, I have a Win8 laptop and the first thing I did upon getting it is turn off all the crazy shit they added to the touchpad. I just want to be able to do simple shit like tap on it with one finger for a left click and two fingers for a right click. I don’t want scroll areas, strange gestures, hot corners and whatever the fuck else they crammed onto there.
Also the fact that the scroll direction is reversed from normal absolutely shits me. Yes, that’s the direction it should scroll if you were touching the screen and physically moving the screen up and down. Hint: THAT IS NOT WHAT I’M DOING ON A TOUCHPAD.
I’m installing Win8 as we speak, wish me luck!
Win8 is really good once you tame the bastard but it takes a while
Make sure the first thing you do is hit the store and get the 8.1 update.
Then windows update yourself to 8.1 update 1. So many UI fixes between those two. Update 2 will bring back the start menu too.
started with 8.1, updating EVERYTHING
The worst part is that’s what I did too, synaptics recent driver update apparently rolled a 1 on features and removed the option to disable gestures so I was stuck with that shit for hours this morning before I found an old registry hack that I had to further modify to get working (and add back the middle click).
I read the reddit thingey by one of the UX designers of Win8 who explained that their reasoning behind metro and all its ‘casual-friendly’ design decisions was to avoid alienating the purely content-consumer users, at the cost of alienating power-users who would probably figure out and customize shit on their own anyway.
Which, while seemingly reasonable, is a bone-headed move from a sales stand-point (which is now being borne out). I say this because if they’d catered to power-users up-front with some multi-tasking that made actual fucking sense for people who like to move data around instead of replicating an iphone one-page-at-a-time (UGH), then sure… maybe they’d have alienated the casual users who wouldn’t have a clue what’s going on with all these features they wouldn’t use. But between alienating power users and casual users, which demographic do you think is most savvy about purchasing and switching between OSes? Bingo. Aaaand, here we are.
The worst part is, all of the negativity could have been avoided with a single question up front:
Describe your level of computer expertise
Give descriptions for total newbie, casual user & power user and have the OS tailor default settings accordingly based on what one the user clicks. Detect shit like touchscreens to enable or disable certain touchy feely features and automate the installation to best suit the user’s category. Everyone gets what they say they need and if they find out they need something different or want to try something they missed out on, they can just install it manually. Job done, everyone happy. Win8 deserves a fuck of a lot better rep than it has because underneath the layer of shite it’s a fantastically fast and efficient OS… Just such a shame about the excrement frosting
There’s a reason why Sinofsky isn’t at the company any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtBjc1dz7w&list=PLFWHlH4koGZAeH9x2wWeTB32VCESjRI51
Dont let @blaghman watch this!
@jocon, after 20 seconds of use Opera is already so much better than Chrome. Cheers for that.
Monster Hunter people, question.
What is your weapon of choice?
I wanted to go Lance, but it’s too slow and pokey-pokey (not a large hitbox).
I’m currently going with the Duel Blades, cause they’re super fast, and can dish out a fair bit of damage 🙂
I might look into the GunLance a bit further down the line though when I understand the mechanics a bit more 🙂
Last I played I believe I was using the switch-axe. I think before that I was a great sword guy. Pooooossibly hammer.
I love dual blades, but slowly moving towards great sword, i just need to be able to craft a good enough one that i want to use 😛
Switch Axe <3
I used the Long Sword when derping around online too. Just use whatever you like, they're all good for different reasons :-). You may struggle with the ranged stuff when soloing monsters though.
Switch axe. All the way.
Also had a recent addition of a dual blader in our house, but after a while she wanted something that does a bit more damage and started having lots of fun with the switch axe. I’m a terrible influence though.
One of us, one of us.
Long Sword.
Nice and quick compared to the greatsword but maintaining a big damage potential (especially with the combo).
Apparently my sister’s decided to take the uni offer she got, which means two and a half years of studying in Brisbane 😮
House is gonna be pretty quiet.
Oooooh, which uni? Between all the Brisbane TAYBIES we’ve got all of them covered.
Not sure. University of Queensland? If that’s a thing. She was looking at doing a prosthetics course in Melbourne this year, but it’s the only one in the country and was a masters course that only offers as many places for outside students as there were dropouts from the starter course there. So this year they only had four places, and she missed nabbing one of them (totally thought she’d be in for sure). So now she’s going into podiatry instead.
UQ! It’s a thing! Just like PAX North!
Arch rival of QUT, my alum mater!
PAX North is not a thing.
Come to real pax you jerk 😛
As long as it’s real in my heart, it’s real…
:’)
Join usssss
just consider it a giant meat! with @mrtaco and Red!
Yes, @mrtaco, this one choice makes your dear sibling our bitter rival, sworn enemy.
Rasserfrassin’ UQ with the thinking they’re ‘all that’ with their stupid money and older campus and traditions, and their US-style residential colleges and stuffs… Hmph. QUT is for students who want to LEARN! Very specific niche trades.
Good. GOOD.
She is mine so she should be yours as well. Can’t have it being the other way around 😛
(unless I’ve gone and got the uni wrong…)
Awh. 🙁 But I’m great friends with my brothers, we’re on Team Family, go sibling powah, go!
Go sibling rivalry go!
So Kerrang got a bunch of “bands” together to cover Green Day’s album American Idiot.. It’s pretty bad in my opinion, I found 5 decent covers on the album, and 2 were not even from American Idiot, they were from Dookie…
Some dude kindly put up all the covers on his YouTube.
9 hours until the World Cup kicks off!
Brazil vs who again?
Croatia.
Should be interesting.
Who cares pretty sure they’ve won it before it’s started 😛
Brazil haven’t won one since 2002.
Italy! Just because I like their blue shirts
Maaaan, fucking Italy. I’ve hated them since they got a bullshit penalty off Australia and knocked them out of the 2006 World Cup.
nice start, 11 minutes in own goal, so glad they turned it around.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Fourteenth Session Recap (14th May 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness.
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
The party was trapped on their fast moving transport as they were assailed from within and without by strange, humanoid monstrosities. To make matters worse, the carriage began accelerating and racing along the tracks as Scrappa and Russef braced against the sudden change in velocity. The creatures on the roof had no trouble keeping their balance while the creature inside the carriage stared at Blaghs, Nova, Ranger, and Phetys with its distorted and melted face, its long tongue licking its pale lips. Nova slowly levels his crossbow at it, waiting for it to make the first move.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Slowly reinstalling Far Cry 3, I am really keen for Far Cry 4 so I figured a reinstall was in order, especially resetting the enemy bases, or even restarting all together
I was surprised how much I enjoyed Far Cry 3- won it from a Kotaku comp.
I loved two and three was just a further step forward
Currently downloading it as we speak.
Picked it up cheap from Green Man Gaming.
The video posted here today is what got me to re download and re install
Hey guys, I know I never really give away games being a collector and all, but I think that I should start up a lending system. I have a lot of games that just sit there.
Anyone interested?
I think I’ve probably got all of them already 😛
But everyone else should be!
On Wii?
My GCN, Wii and DS collections are all pretty well saturated. Still got a few left that I’ve been interested in, but there isn’t a whole lot.
Everyone needs two Xenoblades in their collection! (out of curiosity, what else are you after?)
Ummmmm. Hard to think, the only ones that immediately spring to mind are a couple of import titles that I haven’t got around to getting yet, like Excitebots and Dementium 2.
Was extremely surprised to recently find that Moon got a PC port, and Dementium recently got one as well.
Still yet to play it, since I don’t want to shell out $80 for it at eb
Isn’t this your solution then?
But if he’s playing your copy how will you play your copy! Logistics!
Am I missing much by not playing it? *world begins getting engulfed by green*
@greenius
I won’t be able to play it for a while with all the cosplay stuff.
@coldcamv
I didn’t play too much because it made me feel ill. I need to use a bigger screen
@coldcamv it’s the best JRPG of the last generation!
360 and PS3?
Only got a 360, though with surprisingly more titles for it than I ever would have expected 😛
Got a much higher unplayed rate than any of my other consoles though >_>
Yes! I tried to set up the TAYLEND system a while back, but to be honest, I kind of forgot about it. But I’m in favour. I’m also happy to lend.
There might even still be a sheet in the Taynames spreadsheet for this. Unless someone cleared it away.
Edit: yep, it’s still there: http://tinyurl.com/taynames/
If I can ever be bothered I’ll put in the names of some games I own
Nope, it’s still there.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=9
Just out of curiosity, can anyone add info to TAynames?
Noticed I’m not on there, and I might put up a list of games I’m willing to lend.
I think it’s an open document. Just start editing it, see what happens.
Cheers, I’ll give it a go tomorrow, time to hit the sack.
Wow, dude, too much information :S
😛
The great thing about PMD: Gates to Infinity is the sense of teamwork.
In the earlier games I’d just be a loner with my companion, not having anyone else.
In this game, it actually feels like a proper team, where the characters have personalities (because the ones you start off with do, but I’m not sure about the ones you recruit in dungeons).
It probably also helps that the team members are many levels higher than me 😛
That’s interesting. In the previous games, non-partner companions were just meatshields that occassionally attacked sleeping Pokemon that you were trying to avoid.
@mrtaco Found it!
http://imgur.com/ri5xjP0
Who is that handsome fellow? 😛
I wish I could remember that one. I have vague recollections of a few photo requests (particularly @mawt who was the only one to pick me out as being from TAY), but can’t piece that one together from the background.
I ambushed you out near the paintball on the first day.
Wow. It’s so HD!
Last song played game time!!
Look Around by Red Hot Chilli Peppers!
I’VE MISSED YOU
Exile Vilify – The National
I missed you more!
Secrets – The Pants Collective
Kingswood – Yeah Go Die
Paper Boats – Transistor OST (Darren Korb, Ashley Barret)
Replay – Zendaya
Are You Lonesome Tonight – Elvis
Franz Joseph Haydn – Surprise (Symphony no. 94)
Man, Haydn was a total troll. He deliberately made the song ultra quiet at the start so he could suddenly turn up the volume and frighten the shit out of audience members that had fallen asleep. It’s true, a YouTube comment told me so!
Tightrope – Illy
Garbage – Untouchable
Rebellion – Linkin Park (first playthrough of their new album.)
WOO! Just won a complete set of 100 Super Mario Bros Movie cards. Five dorra fiddy 😛
That was just the warm-up act though, the main event was their complete Animal Crossing e-reader card set. Been ages since I’ve seen one of those come up, and they were always 300+. Not this one though – uncontested for a hundie!
I am happy.
CONSPIRACY HAT TIME
So a couple of years back, we got Kirby’s Epic Yarn. Now the tech’s being used to create a Yoshi game with the same kind of yarn-based aesthetic. And now, we’ve got a new Kirby game incoming, this time sporting a plasticine/claymation look.
So could we take this to be another experiment which will lead to a future game sporting the same kind of style? WILL THAT GAME BE UNIRALLY?
I sure freakin’ hope so.
or Clayfighter 63 & ⅓?
Edit: EARTHWORM JIM CONFIRMED FOR SMASH!
remember how Santa’s belly attack looked like a huge wang? That’s my main memory from 63 1/3
………………………..I just suddenly realised that my brain is stupid and while a claymation Unirally would be great, the game I actually meant all along was Stunt Race FX >_<
Claymates!
Nier’s boss designs feel very Dark Soulsian. Or maybe it’s the other way around? Not the design of the encounters (Nier’s are much easier), just talking the visual look and feel. Especially the one with the shark face and the pile of dangling tits.
Something something dangling tits.
I don’t know how else to describe the thing. It’s got a shark’s head, four human arms and an udder of pendulous boob-like protrusions on its chin.
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120408064002/nier/images/7/75/BossMonsterJump.jpg
LOL
It’s raining…heavily… can’t sleep… 🙁
@dc?
I should be sleeping actually.
Gotta drive down to Wollongong tomorrow. Weekend with Sketchbook, Pillowmaker, Wingman and the rest of the gang 😮
…all of them?
Drink plenty of fluids!
I had a minor win this week, in that I finally got my tax return from last year!
I’m contemplating doing something for myself, and buying Mario Kart 8! Am I crazy, or would I be better off getting 3d mario world? I’m almost positive I’ll get more fun out of mario world, but at the same time, I don’t want to miss out on an opportunity for a free game!!! WHAT DO?!
You could get New Super Mario Bros U as the free game, and kind of have a foot in both camps… 🙂
I have mario bros U already. It’s the only wiiu game I do have! I’m really tempted by all the suits and stuff in the 3d world one though! Most likely will go for MK8 though. As much as I wanna get in to some great hardcore platforming action, it’s hard to say no to a free game! I’m already 90% sure I’d get Pikmin 3, but mostly due to not knowing what all the options are. The only other one I was aware of prior to your post, was Wonderful 101. Tough choice to pick between pikmin 3 and W101 though. Being so similar in style… has anyone played both?
I’d say go for Mario Kart only because of the promotion. We all know how first party Nintendo games rarely drop in price 🙁
I managed to get myself a copy of Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition on steam using my credits from selling trading cards the other day, so I now have a copy of MK9 on 360 that I no longer need! Any interested parties?
I see your upvote there @shane! I almost tagged you in the original post to see if you wanted it, since the last game I received from someone, was GTA4 from you!
Thanks, man. I have no interest in it, though. Appreciated!
@scree @benny @crazyguy1990 your games are in the post today! \o/
@evilmonkey I have your game here at work with me today, just need to know where to send it.
Morning all. How the heck are ya?
Cheers man. You did send me Wind Waker a while ago, but I replied to your email with my deets anyway.
This is irrevocable proof that shane does not store your addresses =p
…or that I’m bad at searching my email history.
But whatever helps you sleep better 😛
*carefully files away information*
Just a quick question about the lending page on TAYnames, can we put PC games on there, or is it console only?
The only rule is that there are no rules.
…wait, that’s a rule.
The only rule is that there’s only one rule. And that rule is that there’s only one rule.
Why would we limit it? I don’t see the point =P
The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.
Thanks, Shane.
Cheers, mate. 🙂
Destiny alpha code came through this morning. This may be the longest day of work ever. Being an adult sucks.
*waves hand in a mystical way* You are now sick with food poisoning.
oh snap, me too. Dammit this is going to be a long day.
Edit: You on PS4? I’ll be playing that a bit this weekend.
It’s only on PS4 isn’t it?
Anyway, yes. Pretty sure there will be a whole bunch of us online over the weekend. I’ll be on as soon as I get home this afternoon.
Yes only PS4, can you guys let me know your impressions? Most importantly the feel of the guns and how they impact on enemies! I’m holding off on touching the Alpha or Beta access to the game so that I don’t have any expectations going into it in a few months
I have a code too. If anyone desperately wants it though, I can give.
I went to apply during E3 but the site wasn’t up yet. Then I kind of forgot and only realised this morning but it’s since been closed 😛
Oh well!
See above. 😛
I saw but I’m not super hyped for it or anything so I’m sure it can go to someone better 🙂 (but I guess if there’s no takers after a while I might as well). Thanks!
I wish Dick Smith had Wii U Pro controllers on sale though 😛 (just saw your OzB post)
u jelly of mah $10 controllahs? 😀
$10? Shit…
I was expecting like $35 :P. ControllerS aye? Sharing is caring 🙂
I got my first Pro for $35 (half price DSE sale). Another time we went in and all Nintendo stuff in a pile, so we said “$5 each?” for wiimote and pro. They said $10ea, so we took em. :p
Got no spare ones sorry. 🙁 Probably should have stocked up.
Jellyyyy
Also got my code this morning.
Twice.
I signed up for it on both my US and AU accounts.
So I have a spare AU code should anyone have missed out that owns a PS4 and wants to try the Alpha…
Also Alpha TAYbies, we should play together maybe. My US account is atomiclemon. Some of you may only have my AU account (atomicstrawberry) but I only use that for a few PS3 games now, US is primary for PS4 and Vita.
There’s something missing from the World Cup this year. Hmm.. what could it be..?
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Gameshows?
Spoiler: I haven’t watched any.
Haven’t they got those silly maracca-type things that people shake around? Not nearly as obnoxious but still just as stupid.
also banned 😛 if you mean caxirolas
Need to look into it but after the last one they said they were going to ban them, might have happened, didn’t hear a single one all match.
Edit: Yep, they got banned from matches.
double edit: and the caxirola got banned too
So the first World Cup match has already got a few people in a bind because of the refereeing. I hope this doesn’t crop up too much, although with Brazil as the host and FIFA’s track record with this sort of thing, it could be possible.
It wasn’t great, but it certainly wasn’t any worse than the usual. A player took a dive and the ref called a penalty. It happens all the time.
Yep that sounds like the World Cup alright!
at least they solidified the victory, even without the bad call goal they still would have won. Would have been pretty bad if they hadn’t I reckon.
It was more than dubious, a country in unrest only drawing in their first World Cup game… Love it though, can’t wait for the next three weeks of games!
I went to a friends end of semester party last night and had a suprising amount of fun. Played singstar and Cards against Humanity. BUT
One of the people invited was a bigger cunt then i have ever met before. I mean im not the most charming individual but this particular person had zero social skills and was really mean. I was shocked that this girl existed. I mean how do you make your way through the world with no social graces. She also had a boyfriend who was by all accounts a lovely dude and she was a dick to him too. I don’t understand the world sometimes.
Was she pretty? Pretty people can absolutely get away with that bullshit.
THAT WAS THE STRANGEST THING
i mean she wasn’t unattractive but at a party full of girls she was the least attractive.
I’ve come across girls like that before. I don’t really want to speak ill of people like that but it’s probably a case of her “being available” that has enabled her to get by despite being a nasty person.
Dude you can say
She banged for friends and favors
Do you not?
That’s why we are friends.
There’s a few possible explanations, if she’s relatively young she might’ve lived in a pretty bubble in high school where she was one of the school kids. Second option her boyfriend worships the ground she walks on which in turn can make her personality the way it is (always the case when you surround yourself with people who never disagree with you). Other option is she’s got emotional scars and lashing out at the world is her way of dealing.
Or it might be a brain tumour. Or she might have just been having one really bad day.
judging a person by one interaction on one day is probably a little narrow minded of me.
OR she could be a super villain who’s really bad at hiding her true self.
OR a superhero who’s really good at hiding. 😛
OR she could just be a horrible person.
IT’S NOT A TOOMA!!!!
Looked up the results of the Brazil vs Croatia match. I won’t spoil anything, but I’m honestly not surprised at Croatia’s fouls total.
EDIT: Bu, naq V ynhturq cerggl uneq nobhg Oenmvy bcravat guvatf jvgu na BT.
How do you concede 21 fouls, what were they doing just kicking dicks instead of the ball???
Dicks, balls, it’s easy to get confused in the heat of the moment.
Maybe they just had a lot of Hand balls 😛
And they are so close together
OH COME ON THAT APPLIES HERE
SPORTSBALL \o/
Why do they keep kickin’ me innn thedick?
They played veeery physical football. Good to watch and to an extent, Brazil could have been considered lucky.
Brazil are master divers though, I reckon only like half of them were legit. (I am a Brazil supporter but still recognize that they can be real douche bags with their diving. Some of their efforts in the last world cup were truly cringe worthy)
OK guys, I’ve added a whole bunch of games to the Game lending project page of TAYnames. Have a browse, and let me know if there’s anything you’d like to borrow.
It’s mostly 360 and Xbone but there are a few PS3/Wii etc games in there. I will be adding PC games too at some point (when I can be bothered digging them all out).
That’s awesome @evilmonkey, where is TAYnames link? I can’t seem to see it!
tinyurl.com/taynames
Thanks @shane!
Nice! Might want to repost so it’s not lost in the previous page void.
Vic aye? Attending PAX or any meats?
Yeah, will repost on the next page as well.
What day(s) are you guys going to PAX, and how much are tickets? And where’s everybody staying?
As I live about 3 hours drive from Melbourne it kinda makes it hard to attend meats, unless I stay the night.
No idea about PAX, I’m not going this year 😛
Worth reposting about that too and some of the interstaters will be able to tell you where they’re staying.
Of course it goes without saying that I expect my games to be taken care of, and will only lend out one game per person at a time.
Noted. I’ll cancel the plans for the game-case skating rink.
I have a doctor’s appointment today. It’s mostly a checkup, but I will find out the results of the blood test and also discuss the thyroid issues with him. I’m hoping it all goes smoothly.
EDIT: And of course, it’s a pageget.
Good luck buddy Fingers crossed everything turns out okay.
You are now an apprentice of the TAY Empire… Welcome =D
P.S. hope the results aren’t anything serious!
Hope the results are good.
Mrs Shane has an appointment with the midwives in ten minutes. Sparing you the gory details, they’ll be doing something that might encourage labour to begin.
Sitting at work now, but could be a daddy again in the next day or two.
#MEDICALPAGE13
Cheerleading squad hey?
GIVE ME A “B”
GIVE ME A “A”
GIVE ME A “B”
GIVE ME A “B”
GIVE ME A “E”
GIVE ME A “H”
What does it spell?
LABOUR! \o/… wait
Good luck, hope it all goes well!
Good luck!
How are the older two taking all this?
It’s kind of not really real for them yet.
We’ve prepped them as best we can, and I think they’ll be great, but I think they need to see the baby before they reach the next stage of understanding.
Just put a cute little lion mane hoodie on the baby when it comes come and say “surprise kids! We have a baby lion!”
That would confuse them so much.
…might be fun.
I’ve been enjoying (from a distance) watching my niece’s behaviour from when her little brother was born a couple of months ago. It sure looks……fun 😀
So, when’s your second one coming? 😛
Good luck, if she asks for your hand during it make sure it is you non dominant one that she squeezes
Hahaha, I learned that lesson last time, but thanks for the reminder 🙂
Wait… do you mean writing hand, sports hand, or me-time hand?
Don’t you use the same one. So yes
No, they vary by activity! Crazy people…
Wait is sports your other hand. Or me time. Right handed people who bat,bowl,hit left handed worry me.
I tend to alternate a bit, depending on mood and/or situation. Typically any task requiring more fine control I do with the left. Strength and power, I lean toward right. So writing is usually left, sports usually right. But can change between then in a pinch, such as when needing to act immediately without time to swap hands or in the case of injury. Semi-ambidextrous, I guess. Or ambidextrous with preferences.
It’s kind of funny… when I was a kid, whenever we visited the grandparents, Grandad was utterly fascinated by the concept. He’d sneakily try to test me all the time. The first time I noticed what he was doing was when he’d set the table with left/right configurations of cutlery and then last minute, make me switch and watch to see if I’d swap the knife and fork. “You! Why didn’t you swap your knife? You’re left-handed aren’t you?”
At any rate given the strength of preference for writing, and the fact that left-handlers have a higher incidence of GENIUS, I usually just identify as left-handed.
Apparently Netflix has ordered a rebooted version of the Magic School Bus.
Colour me intrigued.
Live action gritty immersive reboot?
Moral ambiguity and anti-heroes!
What’s kind of depressing is that while you intended to lampoon the cliche, those buzzwords are like catnip to me and I immediately thought, “COOL.”
Crime procedural in the CSI universe. Amazing detective kids travel on the bus to murder scenes and solves them.
Theme song is Magic Bus by The Who.
Loved that show as a kid!
Is… is Liz wearing pilot shades? The lizard is wearing pilot shades.
…
Well, I’m in.
Repost from previous page so it doesn’t get buried.
OK guys, I’ve added a whole bunch of games to the Game lending project page of TAYnames. Have a browse, and let me know if there’s anything you’d like to borrow.
It’s mostly 360 and Xbone but there are a few PS3/Wii etc games in there. I will be adding PC games too at some point (when I can be bothered digging them all out).
Being the cheapskate that I am, I really hope this lending thing takes off. Either way, though, I will be asking to borrow at least one more title from you in the future. \o/
I’d be so nervous with the whole lending thing on the basis that i take months and months to complete some games XD
I’m all for the idea, and i’d be happy to lend some games, but i wouldn’t do well as the lendee(?) because i would feel like i needed to rush to finish the game 😛
Hey, don’t worry about it man, take your time and enjoy them, we know they’d be in safe hands.
If I send out a game for lending, I don’t intend to play it for ages. Doesn’t bother me, as long as I get it back before I die of old age. The spreadsheet keeps track of things so we don’t forget.
No worries buddy, which game was it that you wanted next? I’ll reserve it for ya for when you’ve finished with Black Flag.
I kind of want to try Watch Dogs… but I’m not in any serious hurry for it. I think a game needs to be a few months old and declining in value before I’ll feel comfortable borrowing it (just my idiosyncratic threshold).
Cool, let me know when you’ve finished with Black Flag and I’ll send it on to you. Or I could send you Watch Dogs first, take your pick.
Much appreciated, man. I edited my comment above, but to summarise: would probably prefer to get Black Flag first, please.
Meh, don’t bother me none, I bought it on both Xbone and 360, so the 360 copy is just sitting there gathering dust.
Thanks to @greenius, I now have questions about PAX.
What day(s) is errbody going? How much are tickets? and where’s errbody staying?
What day(s) is errbody going? None unfortunately (though i will be at the meat!)
How much are tickets? $55 i think
and where’s errbody staying? i will be staying at my house XD
EDIT – Because while i can house a few people if necessary, i can’t fit all the lovely taybies in my house sorry guys 😛
Thanks for the accommodation Pixel!
Oh crap just realised what i have done………. i’m pre-coffee leave me alone XD
You’re just lucky I don’t know where you live :p
Under a rock, beneath the Westgate bridge… internet is pretty crap but phone reception is amazing
Fri + Sat. I’ll be there all week until Sun morning. Sat tickets are now sold out, so either get Fri + Sun; or 3-day; orrrr @sccree saw something about volunteering to help out or something.
I’ll be staying at ‘Tune’ hotel I think. Haven’t booked yet.
A few of us were talking on TS last night about potentially sharing a studio apartment – would you be interested in sharing something like this?
Perhaps. Keep me in the loop please. I’ll have to see what our schedule is, since we’ll be holiday-ing the week before and not sure where staying.
I’m in Melbourne from the 28th Oct through to the 5th. At this stage I was thinking of just staying somewhere in the city for the nights after PAX and at my families or friends place for the few nights around it. I’m still unsure though.
Edit: I meant staying in town during PAX, and elsewhere before/after.
Yeah, would be a ton cheaper. Well you let me know, and I’ll let you know – of my plans. 😛
Going all three days
I’m there all three days, and last night finally booked accommodation, so I’m at the Budget Ibis on Elizabeth Street.
Most hotels are pretty close to each other in the CBD so it’s mostly a case of finding one that covers your days and is in your budget.
Umm… Umm… what is PAX?
Gaming culture expo thingy.
http://aus.paxsite.com/what-is-pax
Just had a look, and it’s sold out on the Saturday, also the three day passes are sold out.
Definitely considering going, but I won’t be able to afford it for probably two weeks.
Thanks for the info @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @stickman, @redartifice, and @rize
Sorry, should have mentioned, the three day passes sold out in…well, about 3 days from when they started selling them. Which was several months ago 😐
They put them up for sale like the week after Christmas or something. Assholes.
I’m going to try and set some cash aside assuming they’ll do the same thing this year for 2015.
Day(s) – 3 day pass, 3 month old, you do the maths
Tickets: $55 a day
Staying: At home, Sleeping: Not really
All three days + extra meats probably. If the show floor is as boring as last year I’ll do what I did last time and spend the entire time in the tabletop area playing board games and it will be glorious. I intend to bring some of mine this time. Maybe I can find some victims that aren’t too ashamed to be seen playing Barbarossa in public.
Hopefully this time will attend more than one panel but it’s impossible to plan ahead for sure since it seemed like panels would be pretty doable last year but it turned out you were going to miss out unless you queued up 2 hours beforehand. The theaters are bigger this time around but the crowd will be larger too.
I’ll be there for as many days and for as many Meats as I can physically and mentally stand!
Hopefully I’ll also be doing that PAX Gym Leader thing too!
Gotta say, I think the whole “Digital Event” thing Nintendo did this year worked really, really well. Much better than just the Direct last year.
The Treehouse Live @ E3 thing is so great. It’s nice to get an insight into the localisation team (and occasionally some developers). They seem really genuine as well. It’s pretty obvious they’re just going through the steps of what they need to show off, but it’s full of little localisation stories and things and it feels really natural. I hope they do it again.
I just wish it was on at a better time for us so I could watch more of it 😛
Only disappointment was no Majora’s Mask 3DS announcement. =(
EDIT: Still, every Nintendo game during the event was extremely interesting and even if they were working on MM remake I can understand why they wouldn’t want to announce a remake during their conference.
Yeah, if it is coming I think it’d be better to show it off during a normal Direct. They probably wanted Smash and their new stuff to be the stars at E3. People always latch onto Zelda stuff!
Also, the Smash Bros Invitational was a really good watch! If the real tournaments are like that I could see myself getting into it a bit more.
A few people I know were complaining that the final devolved into a camp fest but that’s what happens when you get a pro-level Kirby in a tournament.
My favourite part was when the rumoured MM3D announcement turned out to not be and was Codename:STEAM instead.
Codename STEAM looks fantastic though so I can’t complain!
I’ve only seen the Hyrule Warriors treehouse video but everyone got really into it and it was nice and informal but als packed full of detail at the same time.
The Mario Maker demo was fantastic. They just played through a bunch of levels that the localisation team had made with the japanese developers. Was good! Loved the banter on that one (and on all of them really)
I disagree.
Iwata is absolutely soporific to listen to, and their directs just feel like any old video, there’s no hype or buzz or anything. The great thing about the E3 press events from the other big companies is that you have an audience there. There’s cheers and stuff, it just feels more involved and exciting.
The Treehouse stuff is okay but I wish they would shut the fuck up periodically and not fill in every second with them chattering. I want to see and hear the game, not be yakked at about how amazing the game is. Also the video quality could be a lot better and the way they show off 3DS stuff is really bad, give me some close ups on the top screen.
Ehh, I felt like Microsofts and Playstation did way too much patting on there back. “Look at this game play exclusively on our console” or “Play it first, on the better console” and my god did the other conferences have so much padding. Ninty’s was an intro and here are the games.
EDIT: Also, everyone (on my Twitter feed atleast) was way more hyped for the nintendo announcements. They just seemed to continue chaining the hype together.
Of course they did, those are the games that will sell the systems for them. 90% of stuff is on every platform, they need to justify why you should buy it on theirs instead of the competition’s.
Also the MS conference was exactly as you describe. An intro and then GAMES GAMES GAMES. Non-stop. Very condensed.
Also Phil Spencer doesn’t make me want to go to sleep when he talks which is a bonus. Guy seems to be genuinely a pretty decent bloke.
Apparently you can still get Destiny PS4 beta codes via FB.
https://twitter.com/playstationau/status/477228884169981952
@greenius
It’s a competition though (so not guaranteed) and it’s through Facebook. Thanks anyway!
I only applied for the Alpha code yesterday, got it this morning,
games r kewl!
I dunno mannn, all this E3 stuff has got me all excited for new games and happy that games are a thing. WOOOOOOOO
SPLATOON… seriously, i didn’t think much of the game when i first saw it… but the more i see of it, the more i want it to be a thing right now! and everyone on TAY should get on it!
Only if we never choose the team with green ink.
Yeah man! I really like the character designs too for some odd reason. They’re half squid!
I just hope there’s enough single player content so it won’t die when online gets less active.
I dunno… Looks pretty multiplayer focused to me! Maybe some mini-games or something? Can’t see them giving it an adventure mode!
In an IGN live demo thingy they said they’d do singleplayer and local multi as well. So who knows!
Man local multi would be so freaking fun! add alcohol and an awesome night is guaranteed 😛
Oh really? Interesting!
Maybe like a Mario Sunshine type platforming/painting thing?
de Blob?
Da Best
Local multi? 😮
Man what I’m really hoping for is LAN mode. One room, eight players, two TVs. It’d be the best. I don’t know why they keep squashing LAN play, but it’s something I’ve wanted ever since it was announced that the Wii would be wireless (since being wireless is what let DS multiplayer take right off – no more link cables necessary).
You’re so 2000 and late.
*tends to e-reader cards*
Or decent bots.
You mean decent blots!
You know! Because ink! Ink blots!
Ah forget it.
I sniggered!
It’s hilarious when someone tries to describe it to you, it can really sound dirty…
Hellz yeah! you don’t even have to put in any effort because it’s a game about squirting stuff… and you can only move on the stuff that you squirted… and you kill others by squirting on them… 10/10 game \o/
Yeah, I was really impressed with E3 this year, can’t wait for all those cool games to come out.
Every company had a decent showing! It was great.
This Xbox One hype is weirdddd
GAEMS! \o/
Woooooo! Not as much Wii U doom and gloom as those investor meetings earlier this year. More games! Enough games to choose ones you like, instead of ‘well, here’s a good game for this 2-3 month period, if you don’t like it, guess you’ve got a while to wait until the next one’
Looking forward to some of those Wii U releases.
Sadly no Monster Hunter news like a release date.
i am excited for games that will make me want to by a next gen console!
Were there any games that did that? 😀
I already have a Wii U and PS4 and it looks like there’s plenty of new games for them. I’m also now considering an Xbox One!
I’d probably get a PS4, because Uncharted 4 (so predictable), I’m also intrigued by Bloodborne and the Grim Fandango remake.
@hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian
I may have nearly died 3 times, relocated camps twice and setup 10 traps which all got sprung and killed 50 trees, BUT I FINALLY COMPLETED THE FREAKING COTTAGE
man i spent waaay too long achieving that 😛
Niiiice!
I remember when I made mine, sheer nightmare as it is only supposed to take maybe 24 logs, but it actually takes like 83! So much logging.
Very cool once done though, time to make a whole fort!
@sernobulus Up for a bit of Wildstar tonight? Maybe an hour or two? What level’s your warrior btw?
Level 20, I just checked the morning and my trial account is up. =(
I’ll buy the game sometime today.
Does anyone want my spare Destiny alpha code? I have two.
Yes please. I was interested but held out on taking @stickman’s spare but I’ll at least feel less bad now that there’s still another on offer if another TAYbie is interested 😛
Sent you the code via twitter DM.
Thanks mate! I’ll redeem it now 😀
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Who told this guy about rot13, again? 😀
It is called long term memory & it is because some of it may spoil the game
What game, though? I have to rot13 to find out. Wait, is the game called Long Term Memory? I’m just confusing myself here.
Yah dude, don’t rot13 what you’re talking about, cos then they may as well not rot13 anything!
He nearly spoiled a game for me once D:
Identify what you’re talking about, THEN rot13:
Hyrule Warriors:
Tnaba jvyy cebonoyl or va vg
Seriously, you’ve been told this so many times.
That was me. 🙁
I don’t think you really need any crazy fanfic theories to say that Ganon will be in Hyrule Warriors. That’s kind of obvious, isn’t it?
I have some inside info that Link may also be in the game.
Because the developer like a FANFIC page on Facebook where princess Zelda was body swapped with Gannon and link tried to have sex with the body swapped Zelda. This shows that the developer loves The character “Link” and will want them to replay this scenario in the game.
Hyrule Warriors is non-canon, they can basically do whatever they want with it and it won’t explain anything.
BEWBS
BEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWBS
*swoons*
I read the latest Dr Nerdlove, cos they are always interesting. The last story reminded me for some reason of my first time at nightclubs.
I was 19.5, never been to club. Relationship-wise I had no experience. Was never really a big drinker in early years. Was with friend for his 18th, and a bunch of other people. So we end up at a nightclub, everything is new, so I ask some of the older dudes there what the social standards are, etc. “You pretty much just dance around, then with someone, then ask them for a drink and move on from there.” This ‘advice’ came from a semi-drunk seedy-ish dude so I knew to take it with some salt, but whatever.
So I dance around, next to this chick. We giving each other some eyes (not much). I gather up the strength to ask her “hey, wanna grab a drink?”
“No thanks.”
ಥ_ಥ
I take pride in myself for laughing it off and continuing to dance & drink the night away. Many good times occurred.
“Would you like to dance?”
“NO!”
“What? what did you think i said? i said you look fat in those pants”
*moonwalks away*
#ladiesman #ihaventactuallydonethis
Like you can talk to women in English and they can understand you.
It’s part of my charm, chicks dig that!
*thumbs up, teeth gleam”
Men do too.
*swoon*
You just like me for my Swedish Chef impersonation
I like you for many things. The Swedish Chef thing just happens to be 99% of that.
I vaguely remember my friend and I drunkenly ‘hitting on’ people but not speaking english. The difference is, I can actually talk non-english lol. Results were semi-funny, but not so much.
Hey, I speak fluent Drunkenese too, as does @liondrive.
“I only speak 2 languages;
English and Bad English”
Okay that’s not true for me, but i felt it needed to be said for the love of the Fifth Element 😛
Ugh dance floor game is the worst >.< Great my comment disappeared =@ Maybe I'm getting old but I prefer engaging a girl in a moderately mature conversation and then asking her out for a drink these days =\
I would have absolutely no clue on how to engage a girl now-a-days… haven’t done it since i was 16… Is asking to swap pokemon cards still a good opener?
Yeah, you don’t really find people to date at nightclubs, more just people to take home / go home with.
I wouldn’t try and find a proper relationship partner at a nightclub, haha!
I might be entering the gaming arena soon! Still very unlikely, but I might actually be able to game for the first time in six years! MightyApe here in NZ are running an awesome competition to win a superb gaming rig and I’m fairly certain I’ve got everything right. Fingers crossed. Will still need to buy a monitor et al though, but it’s a start!
Huzzah, I can post again!
So….uhhh.
*runs away*
Hooray!
Wasn’t there a discussion recently about what happen to @vonsack ?
About who?
What?
A Scottish Doctor!
I saw 🙂
Something went wrong when I changed the email address notifications are sent to. All my previous comments were wiped and I was stuck in moderation limbo the rest of the week.
Worst timing with E3 this week.
Far Cry 4!
Bloodborne!
No Man’s Sky, Dead Island 2, all teh gaemz \o/
…I totally didn’t even know that e-mail notifications were a thing.
XENOBLADEUUUUU
OI! GET BACK HERE! *shakes fist*
Greetings newcomer. Welcome to TAY.
😛
\o/
I’m still trying to decide If I want to get a Samsung Galaxy 5 or a HTC one… I’m leaning towards the galaxy at the moment because it’s supposed to be water resistant so I figure it’s more likely to survive if I get caught in a rain storm on my motorbike and it’s in my pocket. It’s a little bit more expensive though ($4 a month).
HTC feels premium. I don’t personally like some small design changes they made though. But dem stereo speakers.
I went with the HTC One after all my weighing up (I was comparing it with the Galaxy 4 though, no idea about the 5)
The Galaxy seemed to be pricier simply due to a huge amount of special features that sounded entirely useless to me (like that air-swiping to turn a page thing :P).
Main down side of the HTC One is no way to shove in your own SD card for more disk space. I like my choice though.
Actually the HTC One M8 (which I assume @gorzilla is talking about) has that feature.
Ugh 😛 So useless!
Hopefully that doesn’t mean you get more pre-installed apps that you can’t remove. That was one of the things I loved about the original HTC One! Not even any pre-installed Telstra stuff!
I got mine unlocked from Dick Smith and there’s none of that :D. You can also hide apps in the app drawer too so that’s almost as good as uninstalling them.
Sorry, I should have said, It is the M8 I was referring to.
If you’re talking about the M8…
I got my HTC One M8 a couple of months ago and love it. My dad has an S4 and I considered the S5 as well but ended up with the HTC.
In terms of UI, I prefer Sense over TouchWiz and I think everything runs a whole lot quicker on the M8 (I’ve seen a couple of S5 comparison videos). The M8 is also surprisingly water resistant too, but I wouldn’t try it :P. The front facing speakers are amazing and I don’t think I can go back to any mono ones on future mobile devices.
The camera is a bit dated though and the duo camera is really gimmicky. I believe the S5 can do 4K so it definitely wins in that department. I can’t really talk about the S5 much as I’ve never used one but I’ve seen a few reviews and the water and dust proof features and heart rate monitor are nifty.
If you were talking about the normal HTC One – it doesn’t have expandable storage (like the M8 and S5) but the front facing speakers are still a step ahead of the competitors. I hear Sense 5 isn’t as great as 6 but the update should be coming out soon.
Casewise a lot of people seem to like the HTC Dotview case which is a bit of an evolution of Samsung’s Smartview but I’m not a fan of those flappy cover cases. If you plan on going “naked” the HTC One M8 is super awkward to hold with one hand and it’s slippery because of the metal.
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JGS indeed.
Dude, we have no idea what you are talking about if you don’t identify it in normalspeak first. THEN you ROT13 the spoiler but this…isn’t even a spoiler.
Hey guys, Payday 2 has just been announced for Xbone and PS4.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/payday-2-coming-to-xbox-one-ps4/
slowpoke.jpg
Haven’t played Payday 2, but I think that spotlight is long gone. Maybe if it’s $10-15 digital download and $25 physical …
The PC community is still going strong but they have seriously dropped the ball on the previous gen console version. I can’t imagine the PS4/XB1 being any better in terms of ongoing support.
Yah, existing communities still going strong. But no newcomers AFAIK.
IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!
SO DO YOU!
Harrison Ford?
What a piece of junk!
Fuck. So the instant I cancel my FFXIV subscription they announce that the next big patch will add the Rogue class & Ninja job which seem like a perfect fit for what I enjoyed the most in the game originally (I played a Monk almost to level cap).
Seriously considering going back again. Dammit.
I’m tempted by the Ninja class, but having a kid sure helps you in sticking to a budget and I don’t have time for an extra MMO at the moment.
Pawn the kid…. seems like the proper thing to do
You’re not keeping the long-term picture in mind.
He needs to start training the kid to farm materials for him while he’s at work. Get them started early enough and their hand/eye coordination and apms will be through the roof so they can smoothly transition into professional dota. Then you just need to wait until that sweet sweet prize money starts coming in and you can retire.
Plan is foolproof.
… blind mown!
That’s genius!
@Rize, GET ON IT!
“Dad i wanna go outside and play sports!”
“Not until you practise last hitting for another 2 hours!”
Okay son, if you get my 20 gold by the time I’m home, I’ll get you a pizza for dinner!
50 gold, pizza with stuffed crust and cheesy garlic bread!
80 gold, all the above with ice cream for dessert later! 😛
1 gold, NO DINNER FOR YOU!
Food comes from farming.
Not until Patch 2.4 and 2.3 isn’t out yet so there’s a while to wait.
Too lazy to find my thing, so pshh: Reminder, last chance to express interest for super fucking manly times on October the 18th, seeing Wicked at the Capitol theatre in Sydney.
And by express interest I mean “OH GOD I’M SO POOR NOW, PLEASE SEND ME MONEY.”
Reminder for @powalen since I forgot to yesterday; @novacascade that’s totes cool, just pay me when you can; @alexpants, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, are any of you interested? Yay? Nay? May(be)?
*Shoots a hole in wall*
*Waddles away through the door next to the hole*
Oh!
Thanks for the reminder Blaghface! I’ll send you my dosh when I get home.
If I remember.
With trying to organise PAX flights and hotels and Supanova this week I’m afraid I probably don’t the spare moolah for this one, much fun as it would be. Sorry, poor Blaghs D:
All good, frond. I’ll be buying spares, so hopefully I can just peer pressure you into buying one closer to the date. 😛
Oh, you!
Oh yeah…flights…
HAH! can just imagine @cakesmith on the day of PAX
“Right got my tickets, everything is taken care of, WOOO PAX \o/…
… wait, i’m still in Sydney… FARK!” 😛
Paging @rocketman…
Also, something vaguely related that @dc et al. may be interested in, The Broadway cast recording of Aladdin was released like 2 weeks ago.
I’m only at the very start, but it appears to be up here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdB5MLq0qIpKOjAtv-32qS5_R_78KF-YI
Wikipedia says the Regent Theatre was demolished in 1988.
Yeah, the Regent’s in Melbourne, I’m an idiot. Capitol theatre.
So we’re not seeing Wicked in the decaying ruins of a demolished theatre? Slightly disappointed.
WE’LL PUT ON OUR OWN PRODUCTION!
That would be the blackest most metal performance ever.
Relationship update.
Things are getting better, more progress has been made on the house, and we’ve actually been talking instead of arguing. I was just really frustrated and in a bad mood.
Sorry about my rant a few weeks ago, but I felt like I needed to. You have no idea how much better I felt just talking about it, and I really appreciate the fact that you guys all cared enough to listen.
Thanks heaps guys.
This is one of the things TAY does best my friend…
I’m glad you’re working through the issues though!
Good news, phew!
So… not-so-evil monkey now?
I find that once i have written it down on TAY to explain my situation, i end up explaining to myself why i am frustrated and that helps a great deal for trying to fix my problems 🙂
Also, I was reading about this earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalgesic_effect_of_swearing
Swearing (especially if you don’t do it often) actually relieves pain. Would make sense if it relieves frustration – god knows I feel the urge pretty often to just vent some random crap that isn’t actually useful to anyone and doesn’t require anyone’s input, just to get it out there as an expression of my rage. (Mercifully infrequent for everyone else’s sake.)
Stands to reason it’d work for things besides rage.
That’s really great, man. Very happy to read that update! \o/
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus
I thought I’d put it here what you guys have tentatively chosen for your character idea for the 40K RPG.
Freeze as an Eldar
SeerWarlock (eventually)Dark Reaper Aspect WarriorRize as an Eldar something (maybe?)
Tech as a Human Techpriest
Puppet as a Tau Fire warrior
Ser Nob as an
Ork something (maybe?)Eldar Striking Scorpion Aspect WarriorIn any case, I’ll start working and developing any customisation that is required for your characters next week once I’ve received everyone’s final character choices by Sunday. I’ve also been studying up on the Rogue Trader rulebook and things are looking pretty swell. If you guys have any questions about anything, ask me and you shall receive. 🙂
I’m fairly confident I’m going to be an Eldar, still playing around with specific class (or base). Got some definite ideas so I’ll have something set by Sunday.
All good. I’m working on prototype rules for Eldar so whatever you choose should be workable.
For your reference, I’m going to be incorporating/modifying some of the Dark Eldar reference material in the Soul Reaver rulebook. You should be able to find it and [REDACT] it if you want to.
Cool lineup, only one human in the whole bunch and it’s the robot of TAY xD
Edit: Also bloody hell it’s a lot to read :/. I’m going to have a very busy weekend!
Heh, tell me about it. Rogue Trader is probably the most complex system out of all of the 40K RPGs simply because it has the most options in terms of characters and storyline (the only other one that’s a bit more free in choice is Black Crusade). Spacefaring is also a bit fiddly but we can all work through that together.
Now I just need to come up with a story reason why all of these myriad races are together and not actually killing each other.
Well I’m just taking care of the ship in the name of the Holy Omnissiah! \o/
Tau, Humans and Eldar could face any number of enemies really, also with my character’s background he’s a bit of a vigilante but has a massive vendetta against the Tyranids. So really you could pit us against any of the other crazy evil factions out there =p I’ll put some time aside tonight to work through the reading material!
With nob being the Ork…. maybe Freeze has mind tricked him into supporting us? :p
At this point you can pretty much make me and/or the Tau prisoners of the Eldar and we both have our uses as to why we’re bought along for the ride. Me for my technical skill so I can keep their (Possibly stolen from the imperium) ship in working order and Puppet for his superior shooting skill.
Shoot to kill! Also I have a pet shield drone 0,0
If it hasn’t got a name I’m going to be grumpy with you 😛
Freeze as an Eldar
SeerWarlock.For balance reasons I can’t really have you starting out as a Warlock as you would be a bit too powerful compared to everyone else. You will certainly be able to build into a Warlock with the right skills and talents later on but you just won’t be able to start as one.
Alternatively you can start out as an Eldar Aspect Warrior and go into a Warlock from that angle (which keeps more in line with the lore). If you go from a Seer, you go from like a Psyker background to dabbling in martial abilities while the Aspect Warrior will be the opposite.
In any case, we can talk about this and see if we can work something out as the rules for Eldar characters don’t technically exist.
Hrmmm. Dark Reaper leading into a Warlock sounds mighty tempting.
That is definitely doable. I’ll see what I can do.
I thought Freeze was going to be Nurgle….
Shhhh. Go be a Tau Fire warrior and play quietly over there. There we go.
Oi stop demoting me! I’m supposed to be a Tau Fire Team Commander!
I can’t have you being a Commander level of badass for the same reason I can’t have Freeze start out as a Warlock = too powerful. In any case, Tau starting equipment is really, really nice considering what standard Humans can get so I don’t think you’ll miss the fact that you basically have selective amnesia and lost some of your martial skills.
I’m sorry but I need to try and balance the fact that a Techpriest, a Tau, and multiple Eldar are going to be running around and all need to be on a similar power scale.
@popdart5 but but but but…. I want my bonding knife :'( Well dammit how can I be held responsible for the death of my squad if I’m not leading them D= Can’t you just give me warrior stats but a field commission? :p
Also don’t forget the ork!
Edit: Ok there is no ork 🙁
I’ll review the Tau character rules because I think you might actually start with a mono-knife (not a bonding knife though). I’m pretty sure the rules imply that you are a generic Fire warrior but there’s nothing to say that you aren’t actually like a squad leader or captain or something like that. If you were going to be a Commander level then you would have a battlesuit and I’ve already decided against that (they are way too powerful for a starting character).
You won’t have an Ork to start with (as Nob has chosen to be an Eldar) but that doesn’t stop you from taking a few comrades/Boyz in the future as mercenaries or what not. 😛
@popdart5 Oh yeah that’s what I meant! I wanted to be a Fire Team Squad leader! Screw having a battlesuit if I wanted that I would’ve said I wanted to be in a crisis suit =p I’m happy with the Fire warrior gear with a few variations here and there ^^
I’m going an Eldar Striking Shadow. Doing up a quick character card sheet now.
Character card sheet? I’m unfamiliar with what you’re filling out but I await to see what it is.
Edit: Also are you referring to a Striking Scorpion? Just checking to make sure I’m not confused. Also still send me an email with any other stuff just so that we can refer back to it a bit more easily than a TAY discussion.
Yeah, that’s the one. Sorry got the name mixed up, definitely the Striking Scorpion. I’m gonna cut some things up with a Chainsword!
EDIT: Also, in regards to the character card sheet all it is, is some quick info about my character. Backstory, Personality, etc, but mostly in bullet point form.
EDIT2: FFS nob! IT’S STRIKING SCORPION! NOT SHADOW! SCOR-PI-ON!
All good. You guys will all have time to work on your characters while I play around with the rules to get something up and running. Plenty of time to flesh things out.
That’s cool, once you get a brief intro to where we will all start I can adapt that to my character’s story.
Can’t really afford it, but I’m sooooo tempted to buy the Mario Kart 8 console bundle right now.
https://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-800095-Wii-U-Premium–Mario-Kart-8–2-games-Wii-U
Want to get in on some of that online action before you guys all stop playing.
I don’t see MK8 stop being a thing… it’ll die down, but then someone is going to say “HEY MARIO KART IS PRETTY GREAT” and then everyone will jump back in XD
If you can afford it, do it because 2 games is great.
If not, hold off until it becomes a bit cheaper 😛
…
by means of course i mean DOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEET!
It’s a pretty good deal, Nintendoland, MK8, NSMBU, and the free downloadable game. So essentially 3 bonus games for the regular price.
I know I probably shouldn’t get it right now, but I really want to.
I can’t comment on your money situation (unless you give me your full credit card details, address details and birth certificate, i’ll be happy to… assess… it for you)
But that does look like a decent deal…
I picked up the Wii U Deluxe for $350 from JB with Nintendoland back in the day… so add the 3 other games and yeah definitely a good deal…
Just don’t put yourself in debt doing it XD
EDIT – EB doesn’t layby do they? is there any other store’s maybe that layby? at least that way you don’t take the full hit straight away and could have it in a few weeks? I’M JUST THINKING OUT LOUD 😛
I can do it, but if I do I’ll have to be really strict on myself, and not spend any money on anything except essentials (and maybe PAX tickets) until Destiny comes out in September.
Edit: Yeah, pretty sure they do layby on consoles, but I want it noooow.
Sounds to me like you’ve pretty much already handed over the money! XD
Just don’t do something you’re going to regret because rent/mortgage/bills/foodstuffs… that’d suck balls!
He’ll have a WiiU though.
We’ve got no rent/mortgage, and we’ve got our food for the fortnight, and I’ll be able to pay my bills, but it’s money I should be putting into renovations. One week won’t hurt though… will it?
… just do it! XD you want it, you’re not going to put yourself on the proverbial shitter, and it’s hopefully not going to get you in trouble? plus the Wii U is clearly a vital part to any renovation work? how otherwise is your entertainment setup be complete?
How short are you of being able to do it comfortably?
@evilmonkey
Yeah! What he said! Me and the gang were playing Mario Kart 7 every now and then for quite some time 😀
See? i’m smart!
*eats a crayon*
Dunno why TAY kart is down to 1 day a week so early. I only played an hour, once, with 2 people. I’d like to play again with more people this weekend …
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/148583
I’m not sure how this works out in terms of cost with extra games and such, but it sounds pretty good at a glance.
According to Vooks on Twitter Big W also have the Mario Kart bundle for $378
Big W.
$200 Basic Wii U bundle with some skylanders shit. EDIT: And it has Nintendoland in the bundle too.
Pick up a copy of Mario Kart 8 at full price and you’ve still saved like $150+.
The Skylanders bundle looks like a great deal – it’s almost what I paid for my basic Wii-U during the Dick Smith clearance. Then, just stick in a 32GB+ USB flash drive or HDD and you’re all set!
Dragon Age and Witcher 3 out within the next twelve months or so.
What a time to be alive.
Let’s not forget Shadow of Mordor.
Eh, that one doesn’t really grab me.
This one got me pretty into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTxAbObqmY
Seemed like a few additional layers of complexity/sandboxery compared to the AC series it’s obviously stealing the engine from.
Red I believe Shadows of Mordor has potential with the nemesis system!
Unlike Red, I am totally grabbed by that one.
I have a question, my question is: I am considering building a gaming PC (as you do, because I have heard it’s a very rewarding, satisfying thing to do, and a good project), and I have looked at information online except there is an absolutely ABUNDANCE of information online that is kind of like too much information.
And I have no idea where to start.
So my question is, do you have anything (links, etc) you would recommend an absolute useless noob to read first to help a) understand what everything is/does/is needed for, b) how to know what I’d need for the kind of gaming I intend on doing (aka I’d like to have a machine capable of running mods that make games that look okay on my PS3 look super pretty & mod extra stuff in etc), and c) where to start?
It’s probably not a project I am going to be able to get underway with for a couple of months since I have a expenses what with going to SDCC next month, but I want to get started with reading and learning what things are/do/etc and start planning at least.
Talk to @benny @negativezero @transientmind @aliasalpha.
They know stuff.
http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc
There’s some shit in there, as with everything, but there’s some quality advice too.
Whirlpool is also fairly non-terrible for advice.
It’s weird to see Whirlpool linked, because I usually only ever think of it in terms of complaints about telcos and not the knowledgebase. Thank you!
I check Whirlpool a lot for random info on things. There’s a surprising amount of not terrible information there!
Whirlpool is an odd site. If you ever dig around, there’s a shitload of really useful information buried in there. Mostly the problem is that it’s the only Australian site like it, which means that the people who know what the hell is going on have to try and shout over the teeming masses of people wanting to know why the Vodafone network is down again.
I would say first things first, what’s your budget?
Understand your budget and you can optimise a PC from there.
As for parts, asking around on a few forums (or here, there’s plenty of people on here that knows this stuff) and compare notes to get the best bang for your buck…
In terms of building, any beginners guide is good (google is your friend) or again, ask us, we’re pretty great 😛
Also when doing your budget take into consideration of do you need KB, mouse, monitor(s)?
Future proofing (do you want something that can play stuff on max now? or on max for the next few years)
Thanks, these are good things to think about, because yeah, I’d need to get all the accompanying hardware too, not just the box and it’s insides.
Budget: I kind of have no idea, because I don’t really know where to start. I can afford more than an budget machine, so probably something mid-range, which seems to be like $700-$1000. And then plus other hardware.
I’d definitely be looking at something I can continue to upgrade as needed into the future as an investment and not just something that is immediately perfect now, and I’ve heard that it’s better to look at it like that anyway, because you can sometimes get away with maybe not having the best of everything, and still upgrade in the future as funds/etc allows?
Yeah definitely, if you’re looking at a decent platform for upgrading you’d tend to focus on the core components that can’t nearly as easily be changed without a full change over.
So i’d look at stuff like a solid Motherboard, CPU and PSU to power it all… things like GPU, RAM, HDD can more easily be upgraded later…
I think I’d be able to put a budget machine together for $1000 which would run pretty much everything, but it would be cutting some corners…
I built my machine about 3 years ago for $1200 (minus keyboard, mouse and monitors) and it’s still running everything i can throw at it…
@welbot seems to be the resident hardware guru, i haven’t been keeping up to date with what the good stuff is at the moment, but yeah, research, read up and when the time comes, give us your budget and everyone can pitch in for a parts list 🙂
I’m happy to give advice/information if you need. Do you have steam or skype? Add me to one of those, and we can chat about what you want to do, and how to achieve said outcomes!
I’m going to do some research for now, get some idea what all the words mean and the parts do, can I take you up on this when I am ready to get stuck into it after July?
yeah no probs. Just tag me if you have any q’s and I’ll get to them 🙂
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AvaYhPmP5kwadHZsOW9QVFRkZEpzcUplak5zZFUyYnc&output=html
These are always great builds and are a fantastic starting point. The prices are in USD so add around 10-15% to the total for AU pricing.
PC Case Gear are the best online retailer for parts that I’ve found overall.
As for actually putting the stuff together, it’s not something you can find a one-size-fits-all guide for but generally it’s not that hard as long as you take your time.
Generally the steps are:
1. if necessary, attach standoffs to the case for your motherboard
2. slot CPU into the motherboard according to the directions provided with the CPU & Motherboard
3. attach cooler to the CPU socket according to the directions
4. slot RAM into the motherboard
5. screw motherboard into case
6. screw power supply into case
7. screw hard drives, optical drives into case
8. run power supply cables to the motherboard according to the directions
9. attach power and data cables for the optical drives & hard drives
10. slot in the graphics card and if necessary, plug in power
11. attach any extra headers you need (this is often the hardest bit, got to find the case’s USB, front audio cables, power switch cables etc. then find the appropriate set of pins to wire them to on the motherboard)
12. power everything up, check it all runs, check your fans spin etc. then close the case and install an operating system (should be easy).
First time it’s daunting. The more often you do it the easier it will get. Nowadays part compatibility is pretty good, the sockets are designed to be easy to attach and as long as you take your time it’s not that much different to putting together a complicated lego set or something.
If it’s too much for you most part shops (and I know PCCG do this) will offer a service where you can pay a small fee to have them put all the bits together for you. Still cheaper than buying an off-the-shelf system and you know exactly what went into it.
The motherboard’s manual should have reasonably in depth instructions and the rest of putting things together is really a case of finding out what fits where. I’ve put together IKEA furniture that was more complicated than my current PC.
You just hate IKEA furniture.
He’s not alone!
Excellent, thank you.
I thought I also heard that PC Case Gear is good because they have info on the compatibility of parts, too?
I think I would have getting a parts shop to do it as the absolute last resort, because I always did like playing lego, and my friend who actually got me onto the idea of building my own PC says if I can use a screwdriver (I can) I can put together a PC.
Yup, entirely accurate, and once you get your head around what components make up a computer (don’t know your knowledge level) it’s almost criminally easy assembling it!
PC Case Gear’s pretty decent. Until I had recommendations to use them, I was using umart online. At any rate, PCCG had good pricing and express delivery options. I JUST received a package of upgrade parts this afternoon from them.
They have simplified categories for things like motherboards, so that if you’re getting for example an 1150 intel CPU, you can search for 1150-compatible motherboards.
Yeah, it’s basically that easy. The fiddliest bit as I mentioned is connecting the header wires. Things like the LEDs on your case for the power light and the power switch itself and so on, inside the case those are wires that end in little jumpers that have to fit onto the correct pins on the motherboard. Stuff like USB or the headphone jack on your case will generally end in plastic piece that’s comprised of 7-9 tiny holes (in two rows, with one of them solid so that there’s only one way to connect it) that fit onto a corresponding cluster of pins. But the activity lights and the switches and stuff often will be one-pin sockets so you have to put it on the exact right pin in order to work.
That’s seriously usually the hardest thing to do. The only other time it might get tricky is if your cables are short.
This is assuming a standard Desktop – It’s a bit different if you start out by building a small form factor PC, just because of the much smaller tolerance you have for all the bits and the preponderance of small parts and sharp bits of metal everywhere that your hands will be much closer to.
But seriously, you just need a decent screwdriver set and some patience.
Those aren’t really gaming orientated. It’s up to @renne if they want a general machine that can play games, or they want to maximise gaming performance for their dollar.
Yeah they are. What would making them ‘gaming’ oriented? More chrome, fins and blue LEDs? Those builds are designed for bang-for-buck gaming quality.
No they aren’t. They pair an unlocked i5 component (with optional i7) with an underpowered graphics card. And instead have 250GB SSD’s for no reason. In order to make a proper ‘gaming rig’ on a budget, you gotta choose parts carefully to get the max gaming goodness out of them. I saw a $1000-ish sum floating around, which isn’t much already, and it can’t accommodate useless luxury which won’t benefit gaming.
Definitely looking to maximise gaming performance. $1000 was just a vague kind of idea from what I’d gleaned from a bit of poking around, I’m willing to go higher if needed for a good gaming machine without being multiple $k excessive.
If the amount of online reading makes you nauseous, my best recommendation would be to get your hands on an old machine, if possible and just have some fun pulling parts out and putting them back in.
Then, Google said parts and learn their purpose/importance. Go over howto guides when ready on each of the parts for correct installation/dis-assembly methods and when you can put it all back together correctly and have it power/boot to OS correctly – you will be ready to take the step of purchasing parts of your desire and building your first custom PC.
It’s much more hands on (and quite fun) as well as being a great way to learn at your own pace. I first started messing around with (building) PCs this way.
There should be more than a few PCs at your disposal to salvage (perhaps see family or friends) – now that support for Windows XP has ended.
Happy hunting!
This is a very good suggestion, thank you!
I’m pretty sure my mum might even still have my old PC from years ago, which yeah, it might be ancient, but like you said, it’ll be good for investigating and getting an idea on pulling apart and putting together & learning about the whole point of the different bits.
Which is part of the thing I am having difficulties with anyway, wrapping my head around what each part is for (and what the strings of letters and numbers tend to mean).
If you are going to pull apart and put together PCs, do NOT do it on carpet and do NOT use the vacuum cleaner.
http://www.staticice.com.au/ use this for price comparisons. If you’re lucky and live around a bunch of local PC stores then you can pick and choose from those with the best prices 😀
Budget is #1 priority. Is that for tower only?
This is pretty good from the looks of it:
http://lifehacker.com/5828747/how-to-build-a-computer-from-scratch-the-complete-guide
Come back when you have an idea of price, and when you’ve read ‘video game benchmarks’ to see roughly what level of video card you’ll need. Or, you can leave that last step to us if you describe the games very well.
Thank you for the link & advice, and yeah, budget is for tower only.
Do you have any parts that you can recycle from your current computer? Mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc or would you want everything new from scratch? Things like monitors would drive the price up especially if you want a big and good one. The biggest single expense would be video card followed by CPU & motherboard. CPU & mobo are things you shouldn’t skimp on since they’re the most complicated and expensive to upgrade later. Things like video cards or extra ram, more HDDs etc can be slotted in whenever you want.
Actual assembly of a system is pretty idiot proof nowdays, everything is slotted so it can only go in one way, SATA cables have a little L shaped notch, RAM has a notch 2/5ths of the way down, PCIe cards have a notch a short way in and even stuff like the motherboard headers that @negativezero mentioned are commonly colour coded now so something like the reset switch plug will often be orange and the section on the motherboard pin array will be orange so the worst thing you can do is plug them in backwards. Ultimately when assembling a PC, if you ever think “what I really need is a hammer”, you’re doing something wrong.
Hmm, there’s a thought, I have a Gigabyte GeForce GTX480 I was planning to put on ebay sometime next week for 80 bucks plus postage, not exactly top of the line but it was able to run skyrim at full quality and might be a cheap way to get a system started on the cheap if you’re interested.
I’m going to be starting from scratch as I got rid of my PC a good eight years ago and have been working off a laptop since. I love my console gaming, but there’s a lot of stuff you just can’t do or play on a console which I’d like to have a bash at.
Idiot proof is handy, although I know I won’t be as slowpoke as I feel like I am right now, it’s just the being new at everything part.
And I appreciate the offer, and no doubt I will regret this later, but I’ll pass on the video card, since I am probably not going to be able to start putting any money into this until after July/tax. But thanks for the offer, it’s much appreciated.
So… Tip for 3DS users – if you delete your NNID, it will wipe your extra streetpass plaza games as well. I wasn’t expecting that.
Rang Nintendo yesterday, customer service guy said too bad, nothing can be done. I busted out my standard customer service spellbook, invoked the terms ‘escalate to manager’ and ‘raise a formal complaint’, they took my details, and called back today to say they’d be restoring them.
Funny, my friend just did that the other day. She created one and then forgot about it when getting the Wii U, so deleted the first one to replace it with the current one. Same thing.
Will pass on your experience 😛
Yeah, I deleted the 3DS one that I’d never used to make a purchase to get it lined up with the Wii U one. Still not 100% on how I ended up with two different ones.
Never used to make a purchase? But you got the extra streetpass games?
Edit: Oh wait I get it. Purchase on the console account, then the NNID absorbed that.
Yeah, never purchased anything post NNID, never purchased anything on the eShop, forgot all about the in game streetpass plaza purchase.
Also nice to know I’m not the only one – helps justify my expectation that it’s up to Nintendo to rectify the problem.
The moral of the story… don’t f@#k with Beavwa 😛
Moral of the story, don’t be afraid to push for what you expect as a customer.
Just as well you can back that data up to the clo–oh
Well, at least you can copy them to your Wii U–oh
I guess you could always back the data up to your SD memory, I’m sure that won’t be encrypted to the sys–oh 🙁
Fuck Nintendo.
It’s encrypted to the system? Seriously?
Oh heck yeah. Basically if there was any decision they could make about anything in their system software, Nintendo chose in the way that made it less functional, useful or user-friendly.
Re-repost from previous two pages.
OK guys, I’ve added a whole bunch of games to the Game lending project page of TAYnames. Have a browse, and let me know if there’s anything you’d like to borrow.
It’s mostly 360 and Xbone but there are a few PS3/Wii etc games in there. I will be adding PC games too at some point (when I can be bothered digging them all out).
Surely someone other than @shane wants to borrow something.
MORE FOR ME
I’ll be heading down to the Post Office on my way to work shortly to post Asspirates.
Thanks, man. Yours went out just before lunchtime today!
OK then, fine. I’d like to borrow South Park, please.
Happy now, Mr Generous?
Yes, yes I am.
Email me your deets and I’ll post it to you Monday.
@shane, yours has been sent.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @trjn @rize
Got me keyboard today and I’m testing it out now. Not sure if mechanical keyboards are a huge improvement over the other ones (or the G15) but so far it’s good! No Gob “I’ve made a huge mistakes”. The keys do seem a lot closer together though so typos galore! (for now)
According to typeracer I was hitting like 110wpm on average but when I go into “beast mode” I was hitting 150+. Who knows if that will improve but we’ll find out soon :P. It doesn’t seem to be one of those clicky ones Trjn loves so much but I don’t know if more or less noise is better.
Typity type type. Shoutout to LogitechShop though! I ordered it at like 9pm on Wednesday, shipped out yesterday and I received it today 😀
EDIT: I think I may miss that useless little G15 LCD a bit 😛
Wipe the Dorito crumbs off it and show me a picture!
I’ve used an Apple keyboard for years because I like how flat they are 😛
I have an Apple keyboard as my backup. I also spend a lot of time using an Apple laptop. For a non-mechanical keyboard, they’re kind of not shit.
Of what? The crumbs? 😛
(old or new keyboard?)
nice \o/
The thing that i found nice was that the actuation point for the keys are somewhere near the middle rather then all the way at the bottom so it’s makes typing a hell of a lot faster (once you get used to it)
I never used the LCD, at all when i had my G15.
And i like the dicky little thing of being able to make WASD brighter then the other keys XD
I didn’t use the LCD for years (because I didn’t install the software) but after I did it was just used to show the date and time :P. I thought it might be useful in some games but in every compatible one I played it did nothing :/. In Borderlands 2 it literally just showed the logo “Borderlands 2”. Thanks LCD!
I was nearly blinded by how bright the backlights were! Wowies!
I hate all the extra shiny shit you get on keyboards. Freya’s has an LCD that shows stuff based on the game too (it might be a G15). In League of Legends, it shows stats. What I want to know is who does Logitech think their customers are? Who looks at their keyboard these days, especially in the middle of a game?
I have an old logitech G15 with the greyscale LCD. There were a few games that actually did put useful information on the screens, but most of the time, I used it with custom apps and things to show stuff like CPU%, free ram etc. They’re not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but they certainly come in handy sometimes 🙂
Not having to bottom out keys is kind of the whole point :p
Doesn’t different mechanical switches have different actuation points?
IE red has to be pushed all the way down etc.etc?
(Can’t remember the details but that was my understanding)
Pretty much. I think all Cherry MX switches have a 2mm actuation point and bottom out at double that. It’s really the amount of force required to activate it that’s the difference.
aahh right, that makes more sense then! right, ignore me XD
NO! I’ll read your comments if I want to >:|
I SAID… IGNORE.ME >:|
There are other differences too. Lots of good information over here.
One of the nice things about the G710+ is that it’s not a noisy keyboard, compared to other mechanicals.
Beast Mode? So are you a Maximal or a Predacon?
Maximal!
Damn you quick.
I’m known for my q… no.
@dc :Q
I think we have the same keyboard. I changed from a G19 the only thing I don’t like is I can’t make the backlight green to match my mouse like I use to.
Green 😀
You’re alright, CJ!
Greenius mentioned Typeracer so now Freya and I are doing many a race.
I forgot how badly odd punctuation and American spelling throws me off. Only averaging around 80wpm 🙁
I really abhor the American spelling of words. It just strikes me as really lazy to drop letters here and there and change s to z so that it’s spelt more phonetically. Yes it makes sense in a way but I don’t want to see a world where people spell “something” as “somethink” because they’ve heard it mispronounced a lot.
AL-ooo-MIN-UM 🙁
That one’s annoying because they actually changed the spelling to match their mispronunciation
Nothing is as bad as lazer.
IT’S A GOD DAMN ACRONYM YOU CAN’T CHANGE IT’S SPELLING
They already did when first naming it, the technique is light oscillation, not light amplification, but L.O.S.E.R didn’t quite have the same ring to it for some reason.
The other thing that trips me up is when the punctuation or syntax is a bit different than what I’m used to. I start writing how I think it should be instead of doing it rote.
That and it sometimes takes me a few words to realise that I’ve done it, which drops my speed by a lot.
In the case of words like colour/honour/whatever, blame the French for ruining British English.
In theory, Latin based words should have “or” at the end, while French based should be “our”
The fact that French is an offshoot of Latin (arguably in a less diluted form than English) is a point for another day.
As it stands, the argument for correct spelling in those cases was going on long after (and long before) the US independence, so they simply chose one way of spelling over another.
Huh, I did not know that there was actually a linguistic basis for the lack of/addition of the “u” rather than just removing it because of laziness.
Thanks for educating me. \o/
YOU JUST GOT BLAGH’D!
No problem, hope I didn’t come off as too much of a jerk. There’s a lot of really interesting linguistic stuff, like there’s a few differences that rather than being a disputed matter, were simply changed by the English in the nineteenth century or so. Also, Shakespearean English probably sounded closer to a Southern US accent than a “High English” accent of today.
But saying all this in regards to the changes: I still get uppity over shit US spelling all the time, because I’m an inconsistent wanker.
Nah you weren’t being a jerk at all 🙂 #goodguyblaghman
Gimme deeets! Let’s race 😀
*flex*
Wow’d the office not long ago when we had to do mandatory testing. Got a pretty high score and while everyone was enthusing about my speed and 99.9% accuracy, I was cursing the fact that the typing test we used? Didn’t accept double-space after a period. SO frustrating. (Also, probably could’ve gone faster if I hadn’t been consciously trying to catch it.)
Well maybe you should just learned to not double-space after a period. Because that’s wrong. You might as well kick puppies for a living if you’re going to insist on double-spacing after a period.
PISTOLS AT DAWN, SIR.
What? So you can shoot a puppy instead of just kick it?
Er… no, I was kind of thinking we could shoot each other? Or AT each other at least. Over how wrong you are. It’s a duelling thing, see…
…It sounds a little silly when put like that, though.
Time is running out for AINACATSS!!!* You know you want this stuff!
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I’m channeling Shane here and giving away loads of pre-loved games and movies. There’s some good stuff in here! I’m only offloading it because I’ve played it to 100% and am unlikely to play it again, or have somehow ended up with multiple copies. I just want to see them going to good homes!
Easiest way is probably to say what you want in here, and send me an email your mailing details at batguy.kotaku@gmail.com, with your handle in the subject line?
Standard rules apply – first in best dressed, but only one thing per person (at least initially), don’t dare give me any money for them, etc. I’ll keep bumping it over the next few days.
PS3
– Deus Ex: HR
Xbox 360
– Assassin’s Creed II
– AC: Brotherhood
– Bully
– FIFA 08rize– Gears of War
– Gears of War 2 (DL code that I can send you immediately, actually have a few available)
– The Gunstringer / Fruit Ninja Kinect (DL code that I can send you immediately, actually have a few available)
– Prince of Persia 2008
– Ricky Ponting Cricket 2007evilmonkey– Star Wars: The Force Unleashedkermitron– Tomb Raider 2013
– Tomb Raider Legend
– Tomb Raider Anniversary
– Tomb Raider Underworld
DVD
– Enter the Dragon
– Kill Bill vol 2
– Rocky
– Sweeney Todd
*time is not actually running out
What the hell, I’ll take FIFA 08 if it’s available.
Exemplary manners 😛
(by checking to see if it’s available, I mean)
World cup hype train woo woo! I approve!
Yep, that’s half the reason 😀
I also used to play a heap of FIFA/PES on PS1 with my brother back in the day. Nostalgia-but-not-really time!
I’m tempted to take Star Wars TFU off your hands if no one else wants it. I rented it years ago and started it but the story never really grabbed me. I know the sequel was dog shit but I guess I could take another crack at the original if only because it’s technically already on my pile of shame.
If no one has claimed it by the time my copy of Shaun of the Dead reaches you (which I finally express posted this afternoon), feel free to send it to my return address. 😛
I quite liked TFU1. I was on the hype train big time for the sequel and massively let down.
It was great fun on the Wii. I got rid of my copy cause I didn’t see myself replaying it much but it’s worth at least one run.
TFU is a really good Star Wars story mired by some really shit gameplay bits. Some parts of the game that should have been incredible simply were not (gurl znantrq gb znxr fbzrguvat nf enq nf chyyvat n shpxvat Fgne Qrfgeblre bhg bs beovg jvgu gur sbepr vagb n ubeevoyr tnzrcynl frdhrapr), and there were some battles that got extremely annoying due to certain enemy types. Apparently before Episode IV started the Empire got rid of all its weirdo Stormtrooper varieties. Or maybe as a result of those games you killed them all and only the normal dudes were left.
What they all said. I enjoyed it enough to play through once, but not enough to go looking for every single collectible. You do get pretty badass by the time you level everything up. So I will indeed send it to you when I get your address.
Apparently I need a catchy acronym to… I forgot the rest :'(
NOT CATCHY ENOUGH. NO DEAL.
Who could forget CATSS
How are you gentelemen
I had to look through previous pages but… SHIFT STUFF! Oooooooooh. I thought of “sell shit” for some reason but I knew that’s wrong because you’re refusing to accept payment and it’s hardly poopy!
I just used a heat gun on my pants.
It didnt help dry them that much :/
#Ohrocketman
… but now you’ve got a heat gun in your pants?
I feel like I haven’t posted anything in TAY in a while and I find that unacceptable!
So umm.. Here I am posting 😀
I ended up buying a copy of Wildstar. So now I actually have full access to the game! \o/
Don’t go past level 21!
I’ve actually been leveling an Engineer. I’m really liking it so far, the artillery bot is adorable.
EDIT: http://i.imgur.com/BWtbBRv.jpg
Aren’t you levelling an engineer in real life?
Seriously Carbine are idiots, this is the second week they’ve decided to do maintenance on a fricking Friday evening =@ do it on a Tuesday or Wednesday :@
…Ratchet is that you?
Dammit soon after I posted my last comment I realized there was something I wanted to ask! :@
Anyone got any multiplayer sessions going on over the weekend for PC games?
Yes.
No.
Crossing William Jolly bridge, see a grown man skipping like a schoolgirl. Thumbs up.
Hear a mother on the bus telling her crying child, “Are you really going to throw a tantrum over food? Really? I’m sorry, little girls who throw tantrums don’t get treats. Nope, I’m telling you crying won’t work so you might as well stop being a little drama queen right now.” THUMBS UP.
(She apologized, I was like, “Oh please, no… Huge respect to you for not caving. Good for you!”)
For a second I thought that ‘Crossing William Jolly bridge’ might be a reference to you pirating something.
Better than being mistaken for a sex act!
Thank god it’s not called the Rolf Harris Jolly Bridge! 😉
It was certainly my first thought.
You mean it isn’t? I don’t know what to think now.
Okay, so Tales of Hearts R on Vita seems like it will be a sub-only release, with the dialogue only in Japanese, at least for Europe.
The thing that’s really puzzling me about this is that they decided to change the name of the protagonist in the localization. Actually three of the characters have been renamed from the Japanese. Changing Kohak back to Kohaku (which is how it was said in Japanese, but not the official romanization) is a non-change, Kohak looked like something eskimos would ferment up inside a whale carcass.
Changing Hisui’s name to Jadeite is pretty strange, though. Presumably they were going for a reference to the bad guy from the first season of Sailor Moon or something. It just seems odd. But at least there’s somewhat of a connection there (‘hisui’ is the Japanese term for jade, but there’s already a Jade in Tales of the Abyss, so Jadeite works I guess), and at least it’s consistent since the other characters have gem names (Kunzite & Beryl, also Kohaku is the Japanese term for amber).
But the one that seems the strangest for me is that they changed the protagonist’s name from the frankly kind of stupid original (Shing Meteoryte) to something that’s not in theme, not understandable and which looks even more stupid, Kor Meteor. Kor blimey.
The oddest thing though is why they felt they needed to do this at all. The game’s going to have all its dialogue in Japanese. Every time anyone talks to the protagonist, you’re going to hear them call him Shing, but you’re going to read something else in the subtitles.
Granted, it’s not the first time there’s been changes to characters names. Tales of Symphonia for example, since that’s now available with dual audio if you listen closely you’ll notice that Raine’s name in Japanese was Refil. And Genus was Genius (no really, his name was Genius Sage :P). But the thing is, those changes were made to a game that was dubbed. Even in the case of some of the utterly strange decisions to change names in other games (Xenoblade for example changed Carna to Sharla and Fiorung to Fiora) but generally if they’re changing names it’s to something that sounds and looks similar and it’s for a game that most players will play dubbed. It’s distractingly annoying when it happens in a game you’re playing in Japanese, but at least it’s understandable because I’m choosing to play it an alternative way (though this was one of the reasons Ni no Kuni annoyed the shit out of me, I played it in Japanese and that game is heavily over-localized and the subs are dubtitles). Seems like a very odd decision to make here.
Fiorung is a pretty fugly name though :P. I can see the issues when playing in Japanese though!
I usually play dubbed but I don’t mind sub-only. If that means more Tales games, then bring it on 😀
The g is nearly silent, it comes out sounding like Fiorun, which is fine, and the difference was hardly noticeable. In this case it will be noticeable.
Won’t stop me buying the game though. They also said there’s a chance they’ll bring over Innocence R if Hearts R does well too.
Ok repost from this morning. I have a copy of Mortal Kombat for Xbox360 to gift away to some lucky morbid soul! Who wants it?! Totally free! Yours to keep or pass on once you’re done with it!
Before going to work today, I had to go to the doctor to discuss issues with stomach pain that I’ve had for most of 2014. Mum is now convinced that my problem are caused by an undiagnosed gluten allergy. I don’t think I agree with that view.
The doctor started talking about potential problems and potential solutions. I might have to get a biopsy – which is apparently a double-ended colonoscopy. Dear god that sounds unpleasant.
The possible existence of irritable bowel syndrome makes sense. Gluten intolerance really doesn’t. Gluten intolerance builds up over time and isn’t apparent for years, but it seems too late for symptoms to occur. Symptoms occur at around 13 or whatever, but not 17.
The box that fell on me yesterday was not discussed.
This stuff is pretty heavy.
They just cut a little bit away from you, that’s all. I’ve seen it on House MD all the time.
[runs away screaming]
Yeah, a Colonoscopy is when they stick a camera up your butt :3
A double Colonoscopy is when they stick one up your butt and one down your throat :3
Have fun with that Phlanispo! 😀
To be honest, the whole ‘don’t eat anything for x days beforehand’ thing seems more intimidating.
That would be the worst thing, but it’s only usually for between 1 – 3 days before hand.
Colonoscopies aren’t that bad.
The camera down the throat might be a bit weird though :S
You’ll be fine, and soon after it will be nothing more than a repressed memory 😀
Edit: I am also well aware of the irony of a gay guy talking about a Colonoscopy by the way, in case any of you JAGS were thinking of jokes to make >:P
You speak from experience?
I’ve had one. Severe stomach infection that almost killed me (apparently :S).
Doctor couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me so did like every test imaginable.
I didn’t get the throat one though 😛 I’d close my eyes for that one if I were you 😉
It’s not bad. Obviously it’s not great, hahaha, but it’s nowhere near as bad as it sounds 😛
JAGS?
Why is everybody so out of touch with the lingo, haha?!
I was only joking, but it means something along the lines of “socially inept” 😛
I was kidding, I swear! :’O
I remembered it from Parks and Recreation 😛
Kind of like being flossed with stumpcam?
Don’t traumatize the poor boy, haha! 😛
But yes, pretty much just like that!
You would know about it if you had gluten intolerance. It’s not just a tummyache.
Suggest you ask to get tested for fructose malabsorption. In more minor cases it will cause intestinal bloating and that results in crampy pains.
One of the primary symptoms of gluten intolerance is rashes, and I’ve only been getting them in the past week. They’re almost gone now. The rashes are more likely to be due to a plant that is releasing pollen or spores everywhere more than gluten intolerance.
Sounds like you’ve done your research, but don’t rule out late symptoms. It’s a weird and wild world out there. Had a friend develop a nasty allergy to peanuts at age 26, which sucked for her because she LOVED them prior to that.
That’s not what a biopsy is- Biopsy is a tissue sample.
You can use an endoscope or a colonoscope to do a biopsy though.
Hmm, the doctor must have misspoke.
Having both performed and had an endoscopy, they aren’t that bad. Usually they’re performed under light sedation or an anaesthetic (I would recommend sedation over an anaesthetic though just due to risk/benefit ratios).
It’s possible that you could have some level of gluten intolerance, even at your age.
Mrs Tigs has a range of dietary issues and if one thing I have learned over the years about allergies and intolerances is that there is no set timing or reactions. They come and go through the years, you can have no problems and then grow into one or you can become more tolerant as the years pass.
Don’t discount something because it doesn’t line up as normal.
My brother was diagnosed with Celiac disease at 27 so that’s not necessarily true.
Going gluten free isn’t heard these days so you could always do it for a couple of weeks and see how you go.
Also you might want to look at the low fodmap diet which is meant to help with IBS issues.
My doctor has me doing it because of my stomach issues and it seems to be helping.
http://www.med.monash.edu/cecs/gastro/fodmap/
Damn just read that Alice Cooper has parted ways with his lead guitarist Orianthi, which is a real shame since she’s possibly by far the best guitarist the band has seen in a long time. But saying that, her talents were sort of going to waste being in Alice’s band, sure it’s good exposure & you’re playing in a band with a legend and the father of the look ‘Shock Rock’, but for someone who’s more suited to playing with Steve Vai & Carlos Santana I can see it being a real limit playing in a rock band like that. Saying that I guess the split was inevitable since her & Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) have been touring together better part of 7 months now and are gonna record an album, which should be awesome considering how well they worked live at Soundwave, something I wasn’t sure on but was sold afterwards.
But hey the new Alestorm song is pretty neat news to come home to! It has drinking, pirates, banjo, mandolin, ukulele AND violin, so pretty sweet if you ask me!
Hey hey Wii U peeps.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/148636
Brain Training is free on the eShop for a limited time! I’ll probably never play it but… freeeeeeeee~~
I need brain training, I think my brain keeps dying =P
It’s too late for my braa-blehhhhhhhhhh
It is worth it for the Sudoku game alone.
@negativezero and other Star Wars TFU peeps:
Way back in 2010 I wrote this huge diatribe about the Star Destroyer fight in The Force Unleashed. I haven’t got it published anywhere anymore, but I kept it, and have ROT13’d it for your inconvenience
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Va 2007, gur ubgyl nagvpvcngrq Fgne Jnef ivqrb tnzr Gur Sbepr Hayrnfurq qrohgrq vgf rcvp genvyre ng gung lrne’f R3 pbairagvba. Guvf genvyre’f zbfg abgnoyr srngher jnf gur nznmvat naq qenzngvp sbbgntr bs na nabalzbhf Sbepr-jvryqvat punenpgre oevatvat n uhtr Fgne Qrfgeblre penfuvat gb gur tebhaq hfvat bayl gur Sbepr.
Vg qrsvavgryl vzcerffrq zr, naq V znqr n zragny abgr gung V jnf tbvat gb cynl guvf tnzr.
V erpragyl unq n punapr gb cynl n irefvba bs guvf tnzr gung vapyhqrq guvf zvffvba (cerivbhfyl, V unq cynlrq gur Jvv irefvba, juvpu jnf pbby orpnhfr lbh tbg gb jnir gur jnaq yvxr n yvtugfnore naq guvatf yvxr Sbepr Chfu npghnyyl erdhverq n chfu npgvba, ohg gur Fgne Qrfgeblre onggyr jnf bzvggrq), naq sbhaq zlfrys vzzrqvngryl va gjb zvaqf nobhg vg.
Juvyr V qba’g guvax guvf onggyr jnf gur hazvgvtngrq qvfnfgre gung fb znal crbcyr ba gur vagrearg frrz gb unir jevggra vg bss nf, vg jnfa’g gur wnj-qebccvat grrgu-pyrapuvat njr-vafcvevat yvsr-qrsvavat onggyr vg unq orra ohvyg hc nf. Urer ner n srj ernfbaf jul.
HAYRNFUVAT GUR SBEPR…NAQ GURA EHAAVAT NJNL
Guvf vf gur pbaprcg neg sbe gur frdhrapr. Abgvpr gur pbasvqrapr bs gur Fvgu Ybeq va gur cvpgher.
[cvpgherzvffvat:fjgsh_fgneqrfgeblre_pbaprcg]
Erzrzore gur genvyre. Ur qvqa’g eha. Ur jnf va nofbyhgr pbageby bs gur fvghngvba, juvpu jnf nyy fbegf bs vaperqvoyr pbby gung unq Fgne Jnef trrxf naq npgvba tnzref nyvxr sbnzvat ng gur zbhgu.
Abj jngpu jung unccraf va gur KObk 360 naq CF3 irefvbaf bs gur tnzr:
uggcf://jjj.lbhghor.pbz/jngpu?i=CrL06Odff2D&srngher=cynlre_rzorqqrq
Juvyr oevatvat qbja n Fgne Qrfgeblre jvgu whfg lbhe zvaq vf haqbhogrqyl pbby, ehaavat njnl sebz vg nf vg penfurf (juvyr nqzvggrqyl zber ernyvfgvp) qbrf abg dhvgr fznpx bs gur vaivapvoyr-qnex-fvqr-tbq-bs-jne-glcr nqiragher gur genvyre cebzvfrq.
Lbh nyzbfg trg gur vzcerffvba gung gheavat gb gur yvtug fvqr unf znqr gur Ncceragvpr n pbzcyrgr jhff… juvpu vf xvaq bs gur bccbfvgr ernpgvba gb jung jnf ubcrq sbe.
Sbe gubfr jvgu gur Jvv irefvba be CF2 irefvba bs gur tnzr, ubjrire, lbh qba’g trg gb qb gur onggyr, ohg lbh qb trg gb cergraq lbhe punenpgre vf n ybg pbbyre:
uggcf://jjj.lbhghor.pbz/jngpu?i=DoIkwWOGZWf&srngher=cynlre_rzorqqrq
V jbaqre jul gung vf. Ehaavat njnl (be abg) pyrneyl unf abguvat gb qb jvgu gur znva punenpgre’f qrirybczrag, nf gur fgbel vf rffragvnyyl gur fnzr va nyy tnzr irefvbaf.
V pna’g uryc ohg jbaqre vs vg’f n qvt ng gur cynlre: lbh’er abg nf pbby nf lbhe ningne vf. Naq, gehr rabhtu, gur qnex fvqr ncceragvpr qbrf zbfg bs uvf zber njrfbzr zbirf jura gur vachg sebz gur tnzre vf zvavzny… be mreb.
Rvgure jnl, guvf vf ernfba bar gung gur Fgne Qrfgeblre frdhrapr qvqa’g dhvgr zrnfher hc gb rkcrpgngvbaf.
HAYRNFUVAT GUR SBEPR… NAQ GJVQQYVAT LBHE GUHZOF
Gur Fgne Qrfgeblre vf gur ovttrfg obff va gur ragver uvfgbel bs Fgne Jnef tnzrf (hayrff lbh vapyhqr gur K-Jvat i Gvr Svtugre rkcnafvba, juvpu srngherq n Fhcre Fgne Qrfgeblre). Vg zvtug rira or gur ynetrfg rarzl rire snprq va na npgvba ivqrb tnzr rire.
Arrqyrff gb fnl, tnzref jrer rkcrpgvat na rcvp onggyr.
Guvf negvpyr (uggc://vafvqretnzrefybbc.pbz/?c=884) (naq gur sbyybjvat pbzzragf) pbagnvaf fbzr vagrerfgvat cbvagf ba jul gur tnzrcynl bs guvf onggyr qvqa’g zrnfher hc gb rkcrpgngvbaf. Fbzr bs gur sbyybjvat vqrnf jrer qrirybcrq sebz guvf negvpyr.
Gur ragvergl bs gur frdhrapr vaibyirf qrnyvat jvgu crevbqvp jnirf bs fvk GVR svtugref nf gurl ynfu gur aneebj oevqtr lbh’er fgnaqvat ba, naq gura hfvat Sbepr Tevc ba gur Fgne Qrfgeblre gb znabrhier vg vagb cevzr cbfvgvba sbe n gnxr-qbja. Gb qb guvf, lbh ebgngr gur guhzofgvpxf nppbeqvat gb bafperra cebzcgf.
Gurer ner n srj ovmneer guvatf nobhg guvf onggyr gung V jbhyq yvxr gb tb vagb oevrsyl.
1. Abg birejuryzvat – cerqvpgnoyr cnggrea obffrf
Vg xvaq bs inthryl znqr frafr va gur bevtvany Fgne Jnef jura gur Rzcver bayl frag sbhe GVR svtugref nsgre gur Zvyyravhz Snypba: gurl jnagrq gb svaq gur Erory onfr. Bxnl, svar. Ohg n Fgne Qrfgeblre unf, pyrneyl, uhaqerqf bs GVRf ng vgf qvfcbfny. Jul bayl fraq fvk bhg ng n gvzr? Jul abg hayrnfu rirelguvat lbh unir ntnvafg guvf qnatrebhf rarzl nyy ng bapr, birejuryzvat uvz engure guna naablvat uvz?
Obffrf gung zbir gb cerqvpgnoyr cnggreaf ner cerinyrag va ivqrb tnzrf sbe gjb ernfbaf. Bar vf gung gurl ner rnfvre gb cebtenz, naq gung’f na vzcbegnag nfcrpg bs nal tnzr gung’f ba n gvzrsenzr/ohqtrg. Gur frpbaq vf gung gur obff arrqf gb or orngnoyr, naq guvf vf gur zbfg boivbhf Npuvyyrf’ Urry.
Abg bayl qbrf gur Fgne Qrfgeblre fraq bhg fvk (ab zber, ab yrff) svtugref ng n gvzr gb qrny jvgu na vapernfvatyl crfxl rarzl, ohg gubfr svtugref npghnyyl jrnir n pbafvfgrag naq cerqvpgnoyr svther rvtug cnggrea va sebag bs gur punenpgre. Arire qb gurl syl bireurnq. Arire qb gurl tb oruvaq uvz be fheebhaq uvz. Ab, gurl whfg jrnir n avpr svther rvtug naq yrg gurzfryirf or rnfvyl oybja bhg bs gur fxl. Rira gur fvkgu cvybg gb qvr pbagvahrf uvf avpr rnfl jrnivat cnggrea, nccneragyl abg ng nyy pbaprearq gung guvf cerqvpgnovyvgl unf pbfg uvf jvatzngrf gurve yvirf.
2. Abg qnatrebhf – vzcbgrag obff
Vg’f abg hahfhny sbe obff svtugf gb srngher raqyrffyl fcnjavat zvavbaf. Guvf vf rfcrpvnyyl gur pnfr va ECTf yvxr gur Svany Snagnfl tnzrf, naq vf zber bsgra guna abg na negvsvpvny jnl gb rkgraq gur yratgu bs n onggyr. Na boivbhf nggrzcg gb znxr vg srry zber rcvp.
Ohg va gurfr onggyrf, gur zvavbaf ner glcvpnyyl naablnaprf, juvyr gur obff uvzfrys vf fgvyy gur zbfg qnatrebhf sbr.
Bar jbhyq guvax gung n Fgne Qrfgeblre jbhyq, jvgu nal bar bs vgf znal znal znffvir thaf, or noyr gb hayrnfu ryrpgevp uryy ba nal aneebj cyngsbez, yrg nybar gur Fvgu uvzfrys. Ohg jura V onggyrq guvf Fgne Qrfgeblre, vg yrg ybbfr n fvatyr ynfre obyg rirel srj frpbaqf, ohg arire rira pnzr pybfr gb uvggvat gur jnyxjnl, yrg nybar zl punenpgre. Pyrneyl na vzcbgrag yvtug fubj.
Guhf, jura lbh svanyyl oevat vg penfuvat qbja gb gur tebhaq, lbh pna’g uryc ohg jbaqre vs vg jbhyq/pbhyq unir qbar nal qnzntr unq lbh yrsg vg hc gurer vaqrsvavgryl. Vg qbrf gnxr njnl dhvgr n ybg sebz gur nppbzcyvfuzrag jura vg jnf arire noyr gb uheg lbh naljnl.
3. Fgenvtug bire gur cyngr
Gur fgenatrfg naq zbfg-jvqryl-ungrq ryrzrag bs guvf onggyr jnf gur svqqyl angher bs nyvtavat gur Fgne Qrfgeblre cresrpgyl orsber lbh pbhyq chyy vg qbja. Vavgvnyyl fvqr-ba gb gur Ncceragvpr, ur arrqrq gb trg vg snpvat uvz orsber ur pbhyq chyy vg qbja.
Ohg jul?
Ntnva, guvf fznpxf bs negvsvpvny onggyr-yratguravat. Nf bar bs gur pbzzragref ba gur nobir-yvaxrq negvpyr nfghgryl zragvbarq:
“Jul pbhyqa’g gurl unir whfg yrg lbh chyy gur fghcvq guvat bhg bs gur fxl jvgubhg trggvat vg va gur evtug bevragngvba? Vs V pbhyq chyy n 1000 zrgre ybat bowrpg BHG BS GUR SEVTTVA FXL … V qb abg guvax V jbhyq jbeel nobhg jung jnl vg jnf snpvat.”
Vg’f n inyvq cbvag.
4. N punatr bs cnpr
Gur Sbepr Hayrnfurq vf n snfg-cnprq tnzr. Lbh qba’g arrq pbire (zbfgyl); va snpg, vs lbh eha shyy-gvyg gbjneqf lbhe rarzl, guebjvat Sbepr cbjre nsgre Sbepr cbjre ng gurz, lbh’yy zber guna yvxryl cerinvy. Svarffr naq qryvpngr pbagebyf ner abg ryrzragf bs pbzong va guvf tnzr.
Naq lrg, jura snprq jvgu n Fgne Qrfgeblre, gur fvatyr ynetrfg sbr bs gur tnzr, va n fvghngvba jurer cher fyrqtrunzzre ivbyrapr, oyhag sbepr genhzn, vf arrqrq, gur tnzr qrznaqf lbh ratntr va n svqqyl bevragngvba zvavtnzr.
Na vaperqvoyl pbhagre-vaghvgvir guvat, naq V qba’g guvax vg ernyyl jbexrq vqrnyyl.
HAYRNFUVAT GUR SBEPR
Na rcvp onggyr vf n uneq guvat gb chg gbtrgure. Qrfvtavat gur frg sbe guvf onggyr jbhyq unir orra vaperqvoyl vagvzvqngvat, rfcrpvnyyl tvira gur vaperqvoyr rkcrpgngvbaf fheebhaqvat vg.
Naq gurl qvqa’g qb n greevoyr wbo. Vg whfg qvqa’g zrrg gur (cbffvoyl vzcbffvoyr) fgnaqneqf frg ol gur njrfbzr genvyre.
ZL FHTTRFGVBA #1
Ohg gung fnvq, V jbhyq unir yvxrq n ovg zber qnatre sebz gur Fgne Qrfgeblre. V jbhyq unir yvxrq gb unir orra noyr gb hfr gur Sbepr gb jryq fuhg vgf unatne onl qbbef fb vg pbhyqa’g fraq svtugref nsgre zr, naq gura V jbhyq unir yvxrq gb unir evccrq bss rirel bar bs vgf thaf naq fuvryq trarengbef. Qvfnoyrq vgf rfpncr cbqf. Frag gur ernpgbe vagb bireqevir. Naq GURA oebhtug vg penfuvat qbja.
Nyfb, gubhtu bppnfvbanyyl bssrevat n gnfgr bs gur ivfpreny rkpvgrzrag bs chyyvat n uhtr bowrpg sebz gur fxl guebhtu fuevrxvat zrgny fbhaqf naq pbagebyyre ivoengvba, gur npghny pbageby znavchyngvba erdhverq vf irel qryvpngr, naq chyyf ntnvafg gur fyrqtrunzzre angher bs gur onggyr. V jbhyq zhpu engure gur pbagebyf qrznaq ubyqvat qbja svir be fvk ohggbaf ng bapr sbe gur npghny chyy-qbja.
Nyfb, V jnag gb or jvpxrq qvssvphyg, yvxr vg fubhyq or. Chyyvat qbja n Fgne Qrfgeblre fubhyq trg gur Rzcver gb fraq rirelguvat vg unf zl jnl, ba ynaq, frn naq nve, va n qrfcrengr nggrzcg gb birejuryz zr orsber V qrfgebl n uhtr nffrg yvxr gung.
ZL FHTTRFGVBA #2
Be, unir na ba-sbbg zvffvba ba obneq n Fgne Qrfgeblre, va juvpu lbh pyrne vg bs rarzl gebbcf. Vzzrqvngryl sbyybjvat guvf vf nabgure ba-sbbg zvffvba ba gur cynarg gur FQ jnf beovgvat, naq n frdhrapr jurer lbh oevat gur nonaqbarq Fgne Qrfgeblre qbja hcba na Vzcrevny pvgl, pnhfvat znffvir pneantr gung jnl.
Whfg yvxr va gur pbaprcg neg.
Gurer jbhyq or n pnfr sbe svqqyl nyvtazrag gurer, naq gur onggyr pbhyq or nppbzcnavrq ol jnirf bs rarzvrf punetvat ng lbh npebff gur tebhaq.
Guvf jbhyq or gehyl rcvp qrfgehpgvba, naq jbhyq ernyyl srry nf vs gur Sbepr unq orra hayrnfurq.
That is a long post. A long, long post.
I miss spoiler tags 🙁
Agree with just abotu everything.
I hated that battle. It was boring and somehwat more difficult than it needed to be. Your idea pf going on board was appealing.
…And now I want to play star wars games again.
“The Star Destroyer is the biggest boss in the entire history of Star Wars games”
Untrue! X-Wing and X-Wing Alliance both had final levels where you took down a Death Star.
Also an Imperial-class Star Destroyer only carries a complement of 48 TIE Fighters, not hundreds. 😛
Personally I found that fight frustratingly difficult because the enemies came too fast. I wasn’t able to consistently knock them out because the lock-on wasn’t fast enough to consistently get them, and then when I did the fucking orientation mini-game took forever and gave you no obvious feedback to show if you were moving it toward or away from the right orientation, and by the time you started to get it right and pull, the next wave arrived and you had to stop and fuck around with them again. And in the intervening period it would have turned back away from the correct orientation again.
Seriously, that should have been the best moment in the entire game, but the pure mechanics of it made it memorable as being one of the absolute low-points.
CPU, motherboard, coolant, and video card have arrived. There has been too much console-peasant-gaming of late. This shall be my redemption.
*snaps rubber glove* Time… for an overhaul.
*remembers about static and removes rubber glove*
*removes all clothes as well*
http://megatokyo.com/strip/70
Pics or it didn’t happen(…?)
omg! what a way to start the weekend!!!
Should’ve started the weekend with a nap. Am quite light-headed at the moment for some reason. Quite possibly due to <3hrs sleep per day this week. Which… seems obvious in retrospect.
Actually, yeah. I think sleep is in order at the moment. *thud*
Megatokyo is blocked in china apparently. Maybe I hold try shitty inferior to china tokyo.
Wait now it works. Probably tank mans fault. Internet has been shiet here for two weeks now.
@sernobulus I’ll get on wildstar in an hour, dungeon?
Sure! Also, what’s your character’s name? I should probably add them to my Engineer’s friend list.
Everytime I read wild star I get excited cause it sounds like a western. Then I remember it’s not.
Chyrone!
I sent you a friend request on my engi.
I’m trying to decide on a new ringtone for the new phone and I can’t decide between:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVPYOy9OsGk
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU7gPxDsFjE&feature=kp
Help me Taybiewan Kenobi. You’er my only hope.
From a practical perspective, Mortal Kombat. Far punchier so you’re less likely to miss calls.
I have mine set as this mostly so I can hear it when I am out in crowds lol.
I would go with the Doom one
This one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4iUt2IXOc
Failing that, the Mortal Kombat one.
Anyone here on iinet/netspace? If so, can you check to see if you can load greenmangaming? For some reason I’m getting constant 403 errors even after refreshing my IP address and I’m suspecting this is an ISP issue since GMG themselves seem to think nothing is going wrong.
I can load it, so I don’t know what the issue is
Okay, this is weird then… thanks for checking.
All good here on iinet
On iinet, and I can load it fine.
God damn it. Got GTAIV on Steam but turns out it requires LIVE which won’t work for me. I tried redownloading LIVE, it brought up the client, downloaded all the files, took me to a sign in and won’t let me sign in because I’m not connected to the internet which it knows because it consulted troubleshooting database ON THE INTERNET!!!!
God damn it.
is LIVE the same as Games For Windows Live..? Cause didn’t MS kill GFWL off? and if so puzzles the fuck out of me why Rockstar didn’t just move GTA IV to only using the Social Club :/
They are killing it off on first of July this year I believe. Games that run on it will not work after that date, but there is a list of games that’s getting patched with steamworks to make them work again. Not sure on the details though
Latest news apparently is that it’s been given an indefinite reprieve.
I see :/ God that sounds stupid.. “Oh you bought this game but it needs GFWL which is gonna be turned off and we’re doing dick about it, sorry about that I guess?”
Sounds about right. I had a shitload of drama with it when I got it, and that was within the first months of it coming to PC. Can’t remember the solution, but I believe it involved manual installs or updates for GFWL.
If you’re running win8 (which I think you are from memory) set the properties of the gfwl setup to run as administrator, and in compatibility mode.
Is this where you got the latest gfwl files? http://www.xbox.com/en-US/LIVE/PC/DownloadClient
I’d also set the gta exe’s to run as admin and compatibility mode too.
Well that achieved precisely dick…
bummer 🙁 did anything different happen at all, or do you still get the message saying you’re not connected to the net? If so, it could be an anti-virus/firewall related issue
So after starting up Orange is the New Black again since there’s the new season and all, and I’m only halfway through the first, I’ve hit upon a problem.
I can only remember the names of two characters. There’s Pornstache, and Red. Everyone else I’m just like “Guy from that shitty movie” or “Donna from That 70s Show” (which I would like to point out I didn’t even watch, and only know about the connection thanks to Penny Arcade). Doesn’t matter how many times they say names, it’s just in one ear and out the other.
It’s weird, because I’m usually pretty good at names in big ensemble things, and I can remember all the stories and details and stuff, just not names at all this time.
Taystee?
Only one solution.
REWATCH IT ALL FROM THE BEGINNING! 😀
It’s the only thing that can be done.
While a good idea, it won’t help. Even while watching the show initially I couldn’t do people’s names. It’s like me in real life.
Well then just keep watching it over and over until you’ve memorized the characters names, and forgotten your family members names.
Orange is the New Black is more important 😀
Oh god. 🙁
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2014/06/13/nendoroid-ooi/
My wallet can’t handle this. Two in one month, and got to order from GSC to get the extras (I made the mistake of not doing this for Shimakaze, Akagi and Kongou and regret it)
Full moon looks awesome here tonight. Caught it hanging just above a 18th century Portuguese church. It’s a shane China’s government outlord stars from appearing in the night sky.
God how I wish I was back here, was so nice I didn’t want to leave, plus I had NBN!
@virus__ Have you heard Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators’s new song World on Fire yet? It’s brilliant. As good as any of the songs from Apocalyptic Love.
EDIT: Two pagegets in a day? Inconceivable!!!!!
YESSS
Well I heard the teaser posted the other day, the US got the single today but nothing on our iTunes store yet 🙁
Did you watch the making of videos that I think Ernie Ball filmed with Slash & co when they were in the studio? Shit sounded so cash!
Edit: ooh Slash put it up on YouTube, score!
Haven’t seen the making of videos, but the single was posted on Slash’s Facebook page.
EDIT: Upvote for beating me to it.
I’m a bit of a Myles/Slash fanboy, i’ve seriously loved everything those two have done together. But this is pretty rad.
Yeah. Dat guitar solo …
Not Slash’s best, but it’s good. I’m actually genuinely amazed how much bass is in the mix, makes me all excited.
Really digging Todd’s backing vocals in the chorus I must say, I kind of hope he’s singing lead on a song on the album!
Have you heard his leads on Dr Alibi and You’re Crazy? He’s pretty good.
Yeah he’s really good, he does a good version of Welcome To The Jungle as well.
His other band ‘Sin City Sinners’ is pretty rad, that was first time I ever heard him sing, and he was damn impressive then!
*emerges from the guts of PC, cackling and covered in dust and small cuts*
MY CREATION IS COMPLETE! Flick the switch so that she may LIIIIIIIVE! BWUAHAHAHAHAaahhmmm…
*poke half-spun fan*
Why doesn’t it… And what’s that noise? Why is my PSU doing that?
*Internet research*
*Deep denial isolation testing*
Ah, my PSU is fried. Excellent.
*head-desk*
Mmmaster raaaa… Sigh.
You see what happens when you commit sacrilege and swim within the console waters. You are reduced to their level, abandoned by the elder gods
doh! that blows! If you need a hand with anything, gimme a holler and I’ll be happy to help!
Here’s a weird one.
Just found out that THQ isn’t dead, apparently Nordic Games (the company that bought the Darksiders, MX Vs. ATV, and Red Faction I.P.’s) has actually bought the THQ name itself, and plan on using it to publish said games.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18432-Nordic-Games-Acquires-THQ-Name.html
Reminds me of the Black Isle situation.
I wouldn’t say they’re not dead… I’d say someone is performing macabre pantomime with the corpse.
(Edit: Interesting, though.)
Sort of reminiscent of what happened to Atari over the years.
Better example is Atari. The Atari of now is an entirely different company to the one that fucked itself over in the 80s. And yet, ironically, just as fucked.
So this’ll be the… third time they’ve changed names? First they were Jowood, then they were Nordic, now they are THQ?
Nobody knew who Deep Silver were until they bought THQ properties. Now Deep Silver is an established brand. Nordic should have stuck to their name. I don’t think the THQ name holds as much weight as it used to.
I think they’re still Nordic, but they’re just gonna use the THQ name to publish any new games in the franchises they bought from THQ.
Destiny is pretty rad. Wish the Alpha had more story content but I’m kind of okay with it being limited. There’s still the beta to come, and also with this sort of game, probably don’t want too much at once.
I think the Alpha was an inspired move. They’ve done such a piss poor job explaining what the game is and why you’ll want to play it up until now, but the best way to explain it is to put bums on seats infront of it and let them play.
Definitely has the ‘just one more quest’ feeling that you get from a good MMO. Played an hour longer than I intended. Guns feel great, gear is decent. Haven’t done any group stuff yet but I think that’ll be rad. Would be up for a TAY group session if anyone else is in the Alpha and interested.
The one issue I can see so far is that public quest stuff didn’t seem to attract a lot of players. I hit two of them and both I was the only player for the duration. Not possible to beat them solo, at least not with my level and gear. I suspect most of the people playing were doing Strikes and the Competitive Multiplayer stuff (which makes sense since the game feels like the PvP would be pretty good, but I’m not good enough to enjoy competitive multi due to being old) and not many in the free roam areas. I’m also not sure how they’re sharding that. Came upon players a few times but once we parted far enough from each other I never saw them again, so I assume it’s some Journey-style system in the background. I’d think for a public event that it’d join you with as many people as possible, so the fact I was solo says a lot.
Hopefully that’ll be less of an issue come launch, especially since the game should be cross-platform. Right now I think that it being PS4-only and by invite, they’re not getting everyone they could.
The only other minor thing that annoyed me is that the game doesn’t surface the recommended level for the missions it gives out. Some of them take you to areas full of level 8-10 enemies, others it’s like level 2-3. I was level 5 at the time so both directions weren’t fantastic, I’d have liked to be pushed more toward content appropriate to my level.
I’d really wasn’t interested in Destiny because it was always marketed as a multiplayer game, so I thought the story would be sub-par.
Last night I watched the Sony Conference, and the story looked pretty good.
Thanks for the thoughts!
There’s only one story mission in the Alpha. I expect there will be heaps more come the release, this is probably not representative; the goal of the Alpha is to make sure their servers don’t fall over. Probably also don’t want to spoil the game.
I was interested in hearing other people’s thoughts. I just assumed it would be a Bungie Borderlands and so far it’s kind of true but I’m not having as much fun as I did in Borderlands. I’ve only played about an hour or so but I can’t say I’m sold yet :(. Still have no idea how the multiplayer stuff works but I had one of those situations where a public boss thing dropped out of nowhere and I was the only one there. It might be better when playing with friends (like Borderlands) but who knows. I’m just about to give it another go so hopefully it’ll “click”.
What class are you playing as? I picked the um… first class and then made another character who’s the second class (with their OP ability). I still haven’t played the third one yet and probably won’t during the Alpha.
I’ll wait for reviews around launch before I decide to get it or not. I’m sure it’ll turn out awesome though :D, it just might not be for me.
(Thanks for the code though!)
I rolled a Titan and I’ve been playing mainly with a scout rifle (which is basically the DMR from Halo Reach, powerful semi-automatic single-shot mid-range rifle). I was thinking of giving the Warlock a go at some point too.
It clicked!
Just did the Strike mission (with two other players) and even though I was a bit underlevelled it was fun. Definitely one of those games where it’s just better playing with people and you’d be missing out otherwise. I know it’s just an Alpha but some backstory or context would be good, as well as some sort of brief explanations/tutorial :P.
Does the Alpha only have that story mission, Strike, Free-Roam thing and PvP?
Yeah, pretty limited amount of content.
I think this is basically an E3 demo.
had a lot of fun with it, I went with Warlock class, pretty awesome, you have an ability to hover jump, I was floating my way around everywhere. Some of the ship models look pretty cool too and I liked how your gear changes appearance. My dude looks like a human jawa, made him have glowing red/yellow eyes and dark face paint around them and white skin. Keen to get my hands on the full game.
Wait how do I download it for PS4 i’ve registered my code and all…
It should have started immediately once you redeemed the alpha code in the store.
If you’re meaning the beta code you got for preordering the game, the beta isn’t until July 17th.
Yeeah I had no idea I needed an alpha code 😛 I’ll just wait till beta I guess haha.
Beta will probably be better anyway, there will be multiple platforms and it’ll last for longer and be more people.
Friggen China! I’ve gone from complete dateless in Australia to having 3-4 girls to choose from and I don’t know what to do as I’m only here for a few more days. Do I pick one and spend a few days with her. One day with each or pick no one and do nothing. Like the one I was with tonight/met tonight wouldn’t look at me as we said goodbye cause she knew I was leaving and didn’t want to remember my face. But she wants to see me again before I leave.
I just. I dunno. Help?!
This is where you do something hopelessly romantic like decide to stay where you are.
aaaand then
*credits roll*
Get a number from each and make them swear they’ll never change it so that if the winds of fate ever turn, they’ll know their mysterious stranger can reach them.
Also, if you’re not sticking around or going to make these girls long-term prospects, then go for more variety – shorter, more intense time for each, says I. You’ll be thankful for those bite-sized memory banks later.
Help? You guys! I’m going to Shanghai who’s coming with? 😀
Me! Remember you’re paying for all my expenses? 😀
Oh yeah! This is going to be a great trip, I can’t wait.
I’m back in Ningbo now. But it’s still cool.
I think the best thing for you to do is to go and buy Freya and me a shiny new tea set.
My bags are full enough as it is without needing to worry about a fragile tea set. But that said I do owe you guys 4 cups that I broke.
TTEEEEEEEAAAAA!
Why is it so difficult to find DVD storage with doors?
I dislike dust on my games, am I so weird?
Probably. You post here. 🙂
I actually found that ikea draws work really well, I can fit 2 dvds deep, something like 200 games per draw. Very easy to access games.
hm, my currect DVD storage only allows 250 games.
Oh! I could have a nintendo draw and an xbox draw and a Playstation one! =D
Yeah. Just double check measurements of course. It works really well for me. I think I can fit something like 500-600 games in the 3 draw system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBFUnm1hYU
Bloodborne leaked gameplay… HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
Right!? I saw that before, so amazing looking!
Oh my god it’s a next-gen dark souls.
Whelp. If that turns up on the PS4 and I still don’t have one by then, I won’t be left with any choice but to go on a vigilante spree collecting kneecaps and (other)criminal wallets to buy one.
(I mean… I can afford one and don’t need to go to those extremes, but every major purchase is better with a story behind it.)
Wow. Looks like Dark Souls but FAR faster and more fluid.
Looks decent.
I’m still reserving judgement till I’ve seen more to be honest.
The styling looks a lot more like DS 1, which I dig cause it was super dark, and fascinating, and unique, but after being disappointed by DS 2 I definitely need to see more of it.
Indeed but unlike Demon’s and Dark, DS 2 was not directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki.
DS2 was made by a mostly unrelated team at From, and it kinda shows. While in the meantime Miyazaki was working on Bloodborne.
In Miyazaki we trust.
Yeah, you can tell that DS2 was directed by someone else. All the styling was different (far worse), gameplay was too different, and it felt like it lost the feel of what made the Souls games so fun.
Bloodborne is looking more along the lines of DemSouls and DarSouls, but DarSouls 2 left a bad taste in my mouth, and I’m not quick to forgive 😛
I’ve watched through all the media E3 conferences now.
Now to just write it up for the blog!
*Looks at 15 pages of notes*
…”later”
Doing that now. So far watched Microsoft and EA. Now onto Ubisoft then probably going to move onto Sony and Nintendo later today. Really liking things so far.
The Xenoblade Chronicles X trailer in the Nintendo conference wasn’t that great but there’s a lot of really in-depth Nintendo stuff during their live demos in the treehouse, so be sure to check them out!
http://www.vooks.net/e3-2014-nintendos-e3-treehouse-available-to-rewatch-again-and-again/
Yeah, I was watching the trailer for that and was all like meh…
It could be good, but it’s not my game.
Then the Xenoblade X logo appeared and I thought “people like this stuff?”
It’s not my game, but I didn’t think it would be as popular as it appears
Umm my post was more along the lines of if you didn’t like that trailer check out the Xenoblade X gameplay demo! :D. The trailers in previous directs were amazing though.
XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X IS AMAZING AND YOU WILL LEARN TO LOVE IT!
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves there. It looks okay but a heck of a lot more generic western RPG than it used to be.
Have now watched all the conferences besides sony. Loved Nintendo, a lot of awesome stuff to look forward to. Toad and Yoshi games look similar to mario style games and its great that they are spreading the characters around. Still would love a new mario galaxy type game however. Xenoblade looked ok, will have to play the first one soon enough. Getting the wii out of the cupboard is on the to-do list.
I saw all the conferences except for EA and they were all good. Lots of awesome games shown 😀
5 things from nintendo I have learnt so far in e3
5. Everything is better withs mechas ie bayonetta 2 & possibly star fox wii u
4. Super combo: new metroid games are going to be split into 2: 2d and 3d, thus both fangroups have something forward to look to
3. Super combo: more mega evolutions
2. Mega combo: 3 amazing new smash bros characters
1. ULTRA COMBO: a hole in space/time in hyrule warriors may let you play all your favourite zelda characters
It’s Saturday! I am gunna bum around the houe and then drive to Merrylands, and then late drive back
Ugh, already anxious about getting lost 🙁
I sort of like getting lost. You discover new places and learn your way around. GPS will get you back home.
Huh, what? I think PlayStation is just sending out Destiny Alpha codes now because I didn’t sign up (it was closed by the time I realised) but I just checked my email and seem to have got a code.
I’ve already claimed the Alpha from a spare code from NegativeZero, so if anyone wants to play the Alpha this code is all theirs! It’s pretty fun 😀
Coupla questions. How long does it run, how big is the download, and I guess can I get it?
I think it’s just over the weekend (US time). Beta starts mid-July though for people who pre-ordered Destiny.
~6GB.
Yes you can! (sent a Twitter DM)
My downloads are going to regret this.
Edit: Oh, and thanks Greenmang! You’re a champ. Well, maybe you’re alright.
Less bad than I sometimes suggest, perhaps. 😛
I’m pretty okay.
heh I applied and they didn’t send me one. Must be a PS+ thing
Yeah, you’ll need PS+ to play it.
Presumably they excluded non plussies from the invitation so they didn’t have to deal with a barrage of bitching
I just got another US code from Amazon because I preordered it with them too. If anyone wants it, let me know.
Wahhhhht! There’s a bear, lion and tiger that are buddies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWviAjowmmc
Kewl.
Oh my!
*Clicks Buy button on Ticketmaster*
*Stares at bank account balance and cries*
Only a few more day ’til steam sales =D
Ha, joke’s on Steam, I’m too broke to afford anything!
Don’t worry, they will find some way to get money out of you.
@freezespreston today is world Gin day, just thought i’d let you know 😛
@beeawb has given me a few ideas on that front.
God dammit Bob.
@beeawwb
Heh heh heh. I apologise for nothing.
On a related note, my Four Pillars “Barrel Aged” gin should arrive in the post today. Check them out at http://www.fourpillarsgin.com.au/
Oh nice. So not just gin & tonics? 😛
..aaand like I needed another excuse, really. Brb.
I’d celebrate, but I think my liver is still recovering from the 5 day-ish bender I went on in Tassie 😛
You know, when I read that first sentence of your write-up, my heart skipped a beat.
For a second there I thought you literally needed a new liver.
LOL.. I felt like I did on Thursday, I think I consumed about 4 bottles of spirits in total over the 3 nights we drank :/
This was our selection for ‘pre-drinks’ last Friday night between I think 5 of us… Most of that did not see Saturday morning. That Fireball whisky is so damn good, tastes like cinnamon doughnuts!
I almost did that to myself with a paracetamol overdose (no self-harm intended, just couldn’t get to a chemist to get anything strong enough to tackle a migraine and fucking weaksauce panadol just wasn’t having enough effect, so I kept taking more).
When I started feeling nauseous and realized in a pain-haze that I’d taken like… an entire packet, I went straight to hospital. Which was a good idea. Because apparently you can die that way. A slow, painful death, because the stuff can’t be flushed out after a certain point, it just sits in your liver, killing it over time, with nothing you can do about it except die in pain over several days, regretting your decision. (Except a transplant. Which I don’t think they give priority for self-inflicted cases.)
Scary stuff. I treat my liver with a lot more respect these days.
Yeah it’s scary shit man how easily you can potentially ruin your liver D=
I hear ya there about respectin’ your liver.. It deals with a lot of shit 😛
It’s world gin day and I’m all outta gin. I do have pimms, though. It will have to do.
Pre ordered GTA V for PS4 apparently there’s no collectors editions this time around 🙁
But saying that I got 50 bucks from NFS Rivals trade in towards it already. Which was cool.
Finally connected my PC to my TV.
It is now running four screens, the fourth will serve as the main monitor for Le Mans tonight! \o/
Mmm.. PC on TV.. so pretty..
Better for watching things than for playing games, though.
Setting the refresh rate on it is a pain. :\
So I finally managed to record what happens when everything goes wrong in Watch Dogs.
It’s pretty great.
I was driving around in Watch_Dogs, then I hit a wooden fence and my car appeared completely perpendicular to the ground and then I died.
Huzzah!
Don’t hack and drive, kids.
I like that the lady in red is just like “Floating car debris? Whatever mang, I got places to be, hurry up and float out of my way!”
Haha, me too. I assumed it was a slow-motion vid until that happened.
I was going to say exactly this.
Pretty great @blaghman, pretty bloody great. 🙂
So I went and bought myself that Mario Kart Wii U bundle. Can’t wait to get stuck into it.
Is TAYkart still on for Monday night? Is it ok for me to join in?
Anyone is free to join! I’m not sure on the details exactly but I’m sure @dc or @powalen can post the tournament details!
Cheers man, so excited, haven’t played Mario Kart for ages.
6219-0979-9527, Monday 7:30pm to 11:30pm.
I went to get MK8 from my local BigW yesterday and they were sold out. 6 Copies at the EB next door, but at their prices, I’m not surprised they still had stock 😉
I got it for $59 from EB. You just need to ask.
EB should price match.
everytime I ask if they price match, they say it has to be in stock at the store the price comes from. I’ve come across this from time to time. I think it’s just the dicks who work at that shop.
Yeah, they do that at some EBs.
JB Hi-Fi priced matched the game for me in that case, maybe try there and hope for the best?
Yeah, go to a different EB. Preferably a really successful one, like in the city, where the pressures on them aren’t so bad. Not hitting your targets can have an effect. 😛
hahah city store. it’d cost me more to go to the city and get it than it would to just pay the extra at my local 😉
Heh. True. Well… nearest major store whenever you happen to be in the area?
Tsk. I’m going to miss living in the city. (Dunno how I’ll cope living next door to the Lutwyche busway terminal.)
lol that’s not so far! You’ll be close to beardy too!
Word of advice: Get some practice in first 😛
Or don’t and give us free wins 😀
EDIT: but more seriously… try not to feel discouraged if you come last a lot or do badly! TAY people are pretty good and a lot of Mario Kart can be luck based.
Yeah, I fully expect that. Played every Mario Kart since the first one (except the handhelds).
I plan to, won’t have a hell of a lot of time with it today and tomorrow because of work, but I’ll be playing all day Monday
A Link Between Worlds completed 😀 (excluding Hero mode) Pile of Shame you are going down! (Slowly.)
Ravio! :O
STUPID BASEBALL MINIGAME!!!!
Dude. that was the best!
@benny Xenoblade next pls
Continuing the TAY Shameless Self Promotion tradition, don’t forget to check out my latest blog post, about my Gloryhammer quilt, part two.
I’m interested in this open beta for PS Now.
It’s for the US and Canada only, but I don’t see how it could be region-blocked.
It sounds like if you have a US or Canadian PSN account, you’d get access to PS Now.
Also, this was from an article saying whether you could access it from other countries (actual SONY representative)
So theoretically, we could get it outside of the US and Canada!
Yeah, I think Luke Plunkett got into it (though he may have done it via a press pass), haven’t seen anything about performance for Aussies though, but I’d assume it would be pretty bad.
You get to relive the glory days of Crash Bandicoot in majestic 350ms and radical 20 frames per second!
20 fps? On my connection it’d be like 12 fps at 160i.
MYSTERY QUESTION FUN TIME
T or S?
T for mystery dungeon explorers of Time!
Alas, it cannot be. The situation may change, but for now the cartridge is lost.
@jajabinks2 Timeshift it is.
What was the other option?
(I think I played Timeshift once with a friend, and it was pretty good. So good choice)
Skullgirls was the other option. Timeshift is a blast, although there are a few flaws that you must overlook. I am thoroughly surprised by by how much fun this game is, as the game got middling reviews. I remember playing the demo on Xbox 360, and not thinking it was too flash. So I think the game may have had a bad console port. The extensive options menu make it clear that this is a PC game.
Ugh, so my computer is being a dick. Whenever I play Left 4 dead 2 and other games, my frame rate will randomly drop to single digits.
I have tried fixing it by updating the drivers for both video and sound. No dice. It’s something with the computer because it’s occurring in single player
Maybe the processor or some piece of hardware is dying. I hope not.
Wouldn’t that make the whole computer fail or something though?
Nah. Hardware typically compensates for failure to keep running instead of crashing, wherever possible. Show-stoppers are more obvious, but you can have a motherboard or PSU slowly kill a CPU with overheating and unless you’re paying attention to performance or one of those (typically considered bloatware) system monitors, you probably won’t notice it til it’s practically burned out. Many modern systems will detect heat and slow your system down to reduce the load to avoid overheating.
could be a few things, but judging by your description, I’d say it’s some processes running in the background. Scanned your pc for malware recently? I’d give it a once over with malwarebytes at a minimum. If there is nothing, and your cpu useage isn’t spiking every so often in task manager, you could try defragging your harddrive.
I have 8.1
Also, did Malwarebytes and it only found one thing.
well that’s one less at least 🙂 Any other odd behaviours emitted when surfing the net or anything?
And by 8.1 I assume you mean windows?
Best that you take a look in task manager (press ctrl+alt+del) and have a look at the processor usage %. See if it jumps up a lot, or stays high for long periods. You may be able to see which process it is by one of the columns which will tell you how much of the total % of the usage is being used by that process. Can provide screenies if you’re not sure, but worth a look in there at least
It seems to spike when I first start start up task manager, but then it goes down
mm well if you’re not running an ssd, defrag the hdd that the game sits on, and if that doesn’t fix it, try re-installing the game. Backup your saves first unless you have em in the cloud
It’s happening with multiple games, so I don’t think it’s L4D2
Okay, if it’s happening in single player that limits the odds of it being a networking issue (doesn’t eliminate it but limits it dramatically)
Does the hard drive make any odd or loud noises, clicks, grinding etc? One of mine in my media PC does occasionally sound like it gets caught and clicks before spinning back up, videos kind of stall and then come back fast to catch up. It’s definitely on the way out and needs replacement within the next few months to be on the safe side. If I was running a game off it that’s the kind of result I’d expect to see.
It might be a heat issue but they tend to involve shutdowns rather than slowdowns
You’ve updated video and sound drivers, how long has it been since you updated motherboard drivers? Those tend to be easy to forget but are just as important since they control the whole shebang.
Not that long ago but no weird noises
You mentioned Left For Dead 2, is it common with that game? As in would it make a good test? Maybe it’d be an idea to get the game to re-detect your graphics settings and see if that helps.
Especially if you’re using an NVidia card, that GeForce experience stuff might have downloaded new profiles for the game and realised it could make things 2% shinier when there’s orange light in a scene at the expense of making things 90% less efficient because it didn’t take something into account. You might also benefit from looking through the list and letting it try to optimise games you’re having trouble with, the worst that can happen is that it might make them randomly drop to single digit framerate for no discernible reason…
My graphics card doesn’t allow for re-optimisation. Apparently it’s too old. I should probably upgrade
Too old for that? What have you got at the moment, a GeForce 2?
Anyone staying up for Le Mans?
The tricolor drops at 11pm EST.
Live Timing:
http://en.lemanslive.com/Evenements/2014-Le-Mans-24-Hours#ong_live_ranking_3843
Radio:
“radiolemans’dot’com” (Replace ‘dot’ with “.”)
Live Stream:
Go to “24h-lemans’dot’com” (Replace ‘dot’ with “.”)
Ah shit! Is that tonight?
Just got home from work, and I’ve never actually watched it before, but I can’t because I have stupid work in the morning.
I got an email telling me that Microsoft’s ToS is changing. Am I being cynical if I see this as a bad thing.
Wait, I actually read the email. The bullet points about the changes to the ToS are actually removing stuff that caused privacy concerns. Yay!
Although I’m a bit annoyed that Microsof twas doing that stuff to begin with. They were using things people said in Skype for targeted advertising? How does that even work?
EDIT: I accidentally forgot a few words in my original post.
If they could just stop that stupid ad loading in a Skype chat window from stealing focus and removing the cursor so I type 2/3 of a sentence before I notice the cursor isn’t in the sodding input box I’ll be happy.
It may well have been text chat for the targeted advertising crap. I don’t mind that to be honest, I think it’s time we all learned a lesson about lightspeed brand briefs…
Aggggggg
Stephen King’s The Stand superflu is here, and it’s taking my family first. Save yourselves. Lock the doors and windows. Trust no one!
*gurgle/drown*
#TenDaysAndCounting
Edit: Community Safety Announcement Page Get!
Just don’t spread your nasty virus all over my game, ‘kay :p
I can’t promise to try… but I’ll try to try!
Lol, seriously though, I hope you and your family feel better soon.
Everyone in my house has it too! TWINS!
Oh god, the GOG summer sales have started. Be very afraid.
Hahahahahaa, #masterraceproblems #smugconsolepeasants
Edit: Good luck, everyone. Sincerely. If you survive, we’ll reconvene here for Shameless Pineapple Month.
I honestly don’t think that there’s anything worthwhile in that list, I’m afraid…
$2 King’s Bounty is pretty tempting.
I remember playing that on the old MS:DOS. Goooood times. I also have a Sega Megadrive re-release of the game.
Well, I was referring to King’s Bounty: The Legend, which is the remake that is considered by all to be better than the original.
Yeah, they’re pretty good. I beat the first one but never really got around to playing the others.
Also, nothing can ever beat the classic King’s Bounty game! WHAT!? NO I WANT TAKE OFF MY ROSE TINTED GLASSES *runs off*
Just registered my copy of Mario Kart 8, now to pick my free game download, but which one should I choose.
Wind Waker HD (got the Gamecube version thanks to @shane)
Game & Wario
Pikmin 3
Wonderful 101 or
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate.
Help! *toddles off to watch some gameplay videos*
I would say Wind Waker HD because it’s sooooo pretty! but seeing as you already have it on Gamecube it might be worth getting another. I would say either Pikmin 3 or Wonderful 101. Watch some Lets Play vids.
Yeah, they’re the two I was leaning towards.
Edit: Too late to decide right now, think I’ll sleep on it.
Wind Waker HD is… Wind Waker. So it’s great but you’re better off getting something else since S-DOG hooked you up with the goods.
I don’t own Game & Wario but I’ve played a bit of it at PAX and it’s pretty basic and it’s more of a party game than anything else. I think D.C. picked that as his game and wasn’t too pleased with it, so I’d advise getting anything but that 😛
Out of the remaining 3 I haven’t played Wonderful 101 but I know Platinum Games make solid games so you can’t go wrong there :D. But with Pikmin 3 and Monster Hunter, if you’ve enjoyed previous entries in those series then I think those two are the best of their franchises (that is available to us). Monster Hunter is so awesomes, but it’s a huge time sink and not for everyone, whereas Pikmin 3 is pretty easy for anyone to pick up and enjoy 😀
So my answer is…
BUY ALL #Helpius
Also, it’s probably worth noting that Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is out soonish and not many people play Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate anymore. I would probably avoid grabbing it unless you are a fan of the series.
Or have buddies to play with.
We gonna MH4U it up so much? 😀
Can’t wait for more Monster Hunter shenanigans!
Think I’ll go for Pikmin 3, thanks for your input man, you too @sernobulus.
Let us know what you think 😀 (it’s over too quickly though 🙁 )
Game & Wario makes it sound like you’re getting 2 things. No idea if either of them are good since this is the first I’ve ever heard of it but it sounds like better value
Game & Wario is just a pack of minigames that usually feature Wario. Similar to the Wario Ware games you can get on Handhelds.
I understood about 4 of those words
Still awake…
I feel like I should go to sleep, but I don’t want to miss any of the action at Le Mans…
Watch one lap, assume basically the same thing happens each time, watch the last lap. Job done.
Hmm, there appear to be user profile issues. The user profile is telling me I have two comments replies that I have not read. One appears to be from @shane, and the other from @crazyguy1990. When I click on the notification, it takes me to the top of page 15. I search and I search, but I can’t find the replies. I even checked the timestamps on the notifications, but comments with those timestamps don’t seem to exist. So I go to shane’s user profile, and see that he indeed has made a comment on that exact time. But that comment cannot be found on that page.
I had a similar incident a week ago where I was told I have recieved a reply from a random Kotaku commenter on some random article. I click the notification, and it showed the comment that I had made earlier, but there were no replies. I found out that commenter hadn’t even made a post for several days.
Help? And yes, before anyone asks, I have refreshed multiple times and clicked on the notifications several times.
UPDATE: The notifications still take me to page 15, but I have located the comments. They are on page 16.
I’ve had that a few times, I suspect it’s something to do with a combination of pagegets & comment moderation making links a little screwy.
Hell, mentions in the email alerts still don’t work, haven’t for months
Contact @benwhite, he’ll be able to sort it out.
I can feel my eyeballs without touching them…
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The problem with living with your best friend is that when said best friend goes home for a week you find yourself so bored and lost of anything to do :/ I genuinely don’t know what I’m meant to do by myself anymore to keep entertained. That’s probably kinda sad 😛
Saying that studying for exams is definitely benefiting. Also started Assassins Creed 3 which is actually an okay game IMO. I got Wind Waker with Mario Kart and I really really wanna play that but I know that if I start it I’ll have a hard time pulling myself away from it whilst I should be studying. So next week it will be Zelda playing week! (Wind Waker is the only Zelda game I’ve never played)
So yeah. Life’s little dilemmas 😛 I haven’t been round here much lately. Mostly because the site is royally fucked in Firefox on my PC and I don’t wanna switch browsers cos I have a weird attachment to my Firefox theme…
I was like that too, but then I switched and I’m pretty happy with chrome
That’s the problem with AC3: it’s just okay. But then! eight hours in, it’s still just okay.
Which equates to shithouse, for me.
Hooray! SSFIV on steam now no longer uses LIVE! It actually runs and I can play it!
Not so good is the 360 controller is effin awful to play fighters with. Like really really bad.
My friend learned to play with a 360 controller and we’re fairly evenly matched. I cannot play that game without an arcade stick.
I’m waiting for Ultra to drop on PC before getting back into things. It looks pretty damned rad.
So I went back to my local EB this morning, and different guy working. Asked about price match, and he gave me the usual “Only if it’s in stock” and asked where I got the price from “BigW or JB”.
I knew BigW didn’t have stock, and so did he (cos they’re right next door), so I said JB, and he said “I’m pretty sure they’ll have stock”.
He then proceeded to look up the advertised price on his phone, confirmed, and BAM! MK8 for $69! BOOYEAH!
If you have a deluxe Wii U and a Club Nintendo account linked, the free eShop game that comes through the promotion should also get you $7 in eShop credit :D. Mario Kart for $62!
for reals?! How do I find that out? I didn’t see any mention of $7 credit when I started downloading Pikmin…
https://p.nintendo.net/deluxe/
Me and a few others have confirmed that it works (Pow and Beav got the discounts, Blaghs forgot to link his accounts so didn’t get anything… CLASSIC BLAGHS!)
mm well I dunno yet.. I did eventually find that site, but I went to sign in, and it says I’m not eligible. Possibly cos I have to wait 24 hours after my first “purchase” from the e-store. Not terribly fussed if I do miss out. Best not to get my hopes up 😉
Only thing I can see that’s even close to it is if you own or buy super mario kart, you get $10 off mk8. 🙁
When is the Destiny alpha (alpaca, cc @stickman) open till, does anyone know?
If it’s not for long, if anyone wants a code then just let me know, cause I have one but probably won’t be able to use it :S
Thought it’s for the American weekend only (so, ends tomorrow?)
Ah, fair enough. I didn’t apply for an alpaca code, so didn’t check, but it looks like they sent them out to everyone, haha!
Oh you needed an ALPACA code! I applied for an alpha code… no wonder I didn’t get in! Rookie mistake.
Haha, it was an autocorrect mistake StickMan made on Twitter, so I was just poking fun at him (hence why I cc’d him in above :P)
Just the weekend. Then beta commences on July 17th.
A friend who played it more (on my console lol) says that it’s done, but Bungie is throwing a last massive multiplayer mission tonight at 6pm. Everyone supposed to gather at the social area. I’ll Tweet you when I have more deets tonight.
Oh god Mum’s making me go through a gluten-free diet. She’s being all positive, listing things that I can have, but all I see is a gigantic list of things I can’t have. I can have some things, but only if I use gluten free bread and gluten free mayonnaise and gluten free sausages and gluten free pig arses. I’m having a panic attack. By Arceus I hope I don’t have Celiac disease. Before I could have any food I want, but now I’m limited to gluten free everything. And we know that gluten free products never taste as good.
Oh god and I’m going to have a double colonoscopy soon. I’d rather just wallow in sickness; I’ve done it all year, I’m almost used to it.
This situation sucks.
All year?
Maybe you’re becoming a Great Unclean One! Praise to all-father Nurgle!
Gluten free’s not actually that bad. It’s a bit silly if your Mum’s making you go gluten-free before your doctor’s confirmed you need to, but you’ll certainly survive. I’m not sure about how it is in your state, but my local Woolworths even bake their own gluten-free bread now. Gluten doesn’t actually add any flavour so it’s not like gluten-free things taste bad. Gluten is just one of the proteins in wheat, it’s useful for making your doughs strong and stretchy for bread but not much else.
If you do think you have health problems related to dietary things, have one week where you eat no bread, fruit, sugar, dairy or anything else you’re worried about, and if you feel better after that(the week you cut everything will be bad,as you detox), then add them back into your diet one at a time. If you don’t feel any better, your problems may be different.
Wait till the diagnosis, because you need to be consuming gluten for them to tell if it’s really the problem.
Mark Webber is currently running 2nd overall at Le Mans.
And there’s 7 hours remaining!
Let’s hope it doesn’t end like this again for him…
You can’t buy a Nintendo in China. But you can still get Super Mario 3D World toys in a Happy Meal.
Traded in a bunch of games today, got back most of the money I spent on them too, which shocked me. Then again I did buy them pre owned already I guess.. Which paid off GTA V & The Last of Us Remastered so yay!
I was shocked how much trade in I got for some games today. Completely paid off the Witcher 3 CE, threw down 50 for Bayonetta and had a bit more left to spread around on the pokeymans.
I almost got back as much as I paid for NFS Rivals on PS4?! Goes to show that sometimes EB are very generous.. They also honoured EB World cards so I got an extra 10% on top of it all too which was sweet.
I feel like Le Mans has lost it’s lustre….
Or maybe that’s just me… 🙁
It’s cool in theory and might be interesting to keep on in the background and glance at occasionally throughout the day.
But I dunno how anybody could sit there and watch it though. Not enough happens.
Finished A Dance with Dragons.
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Ohg lrnu, V gbgnyyl nterr, ab jnl ur’f qrnq.
With SOIAF books, the last 80 pages are the glossary so you probably only have about one page to go. 😛
Yup. But I don’t use bookmarks, so I have no idea where I was actually up to, and it’s always a pain trying to remember things after a year, so I should probably re-read the whole thing, but blergh, effort.
Just do what I did and wait for the show to catch up. 😛
I started at Feast so it was the only one I had to reread as the show is almost up to there in general.
Good guy Strange doesn’t capitalise names! 😀
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Gur frevrf vf nyy nobhg gurjnyy naq ur’f cerggl zhpu gurjnyy fb ur’yy cebonoyl erghea nf xvat bs gur juvgrjnyxref. :C
Frevbhfyl gubhtu, vg’f n tbbq gurbel,naq V’ir nyjnlf gubhtug vg jnf cerggl pyrne gung wbafabj vf gur fba bs eunrtnegnetnelra naq ylnaanfgnex.
I keep compulsively checking to see if spotlight has added material to their website because the one near me has run out of the two colours I need.
I just bought great fabric from The Remnant Warehouse (google them). Great prices and very helpful.
Unfortunately I bought some of it from spotlight and I need more
If you know exactly what you’re after, then go to the store and ask. If they don’t have it, they can ring around and see if there is some at another store and if they can hold it for you
Skullgirls has some pretty interesting background characters. Many of them appear to be references to other media. I think I found Nui Harime from Kill la Kill.
And, if I’m not mistaken, in the foreground are Matt & Woolie from Two Best Friends Play…
My family watches The Voice together. Thanks to this I’ve now been subjected to ‘Let It Go’ after having successfully avoided it for so long. Urk. I don’t understand why people think it’s so epic, seems just like any old pop song, really.
Absolutely this. I think it’s a complete mess of a song. It’s performed with great gusto and passion and talent, but the song itself is so very very sub-par.
The thing I liked about it was less the actual song, and more of the context in which it is sung in the movie. That’s what got me. There are better songs, but that whole scene just got me. It’s more of a package deal kinda thing in my opinion, but that is why that song is imprinted on me (not to the extent it is on others though :P).
I’ve never heard it. Goes to show I really do avoid contact with the mainstream.. Wow that was so hipster…
Then ruin the song:
You must be so old if that’s what you call a pop song 😛
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I’M ONLY JOKING, PLEASE DON’T DAMAGE MY PRETTY FACE :’O
No, no, you’ve got to commit to calling Strange old.
It’s okay though, her memory’s a little fuzzy, so she tends to forget why she was angry at you, so you just give her a hug and a smile and she assumes that it was unimportant.
Poor @Strange, alzheimer’s is so sad :'(
So, Webber’s team is out, looks like Audi will win. 🙁
God damn it :/
TOM KRISTENSEN! Shame about Porsche, and shame it’s not car 1 on top of that podium, but it was still a fantastic race! Now to catch up on sleep XD
Le Mans 2014:
Podiums:
Overall:
1st. Audi Sport Team Joest – #2 – TRÉLUYER B.
2nd. Audi Sport Team Joest – #1 – KRISTENSEN T.
3rd. Toyota Racing – #8 – DAVIDSON A.
LMP1:
1st7. Audi Sport Team Joest – #2 – TRÉLUYER B.
2nd. Audi Sport Team Joest – #1 – KRISTENSEN T.
3rd. Toyota Racing – #8 – DAVIDSON A.
LMP2:
1st. Jota Sport -#38 – TURVEY O.
2nd. Thiriet By TDS Racing – #46 – BADEY L.
3rd. Signatech Alpine – #36 – PANCIATICI N.
GTE Pro:
1st. AF Corse – #51 – BRUNI G.
2nd. Corvette Racing – #73 – GARCIA A.
3rd. Porsche Team Manthey – #92 – MAKOWIECKI F.
GTE Amateur:
1st. Aston Martin Racing – #95 – POULSEN K.
2nd. Proton Competition – #88 – BACHLER K.
3rd. AF Corse – #61 – PEREZ-COMPANC L.
Thanks again to all of the TAYbies who put up with my annual obsession, and I can’t wait to do it again in 2015!
I usually don’t post about it but my brother in law and i don’t move for 24 hours straight once a year XD… It really is a fantastic race
See you all in new TAY!
Not if I die before then! HA I WIN.