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Oh man… first?
GOOD MORNING TAYBES <3
Mornin!
Mornin’!
Morning, I wish it wasn’t but I really need more sleep
Tell me about it. I finally fell asleep around 3am, got up at 5:30am. Boooo.
Yeah, I managed 6am-8:15am. It’s not enough. At all. 😛
Tiglet let me sleep in. The only positive of her having a cold
good morning! *falls back asleep*
Good Morning!
Metal Gear.
V has come to.
Oh boy.
I am excited.
Metal Gear?
Good… Morning… Those words don’t go together!
Well now… GOOD AFTERNOON! 😀
Top of the morning to ye.
Greetings!
Need coffee. Donations accepted.
Here! Catch! *throws coffee* =P
Had a pretty good weekend. On Saturday I went to the footy with my Uncle and got to see a cousin who I don’t see often, plus two of his kids. The Hawks won, which made it even better. I’ve been to all 4 games at Aurora Stadium this year and not had to pay for any of them.
Yesterday I went to church as per usual, but after church, some of us hung around and played games for a while. We played The Resistance and Saboteur. I’d played Saboteur before, but not The Resistance. The Resistance is pretty easy to pick up though. We played 4 games of it, and I was a Spy the first 3 times. My team won 3 out of 4 of the games. Definitely want to play again.
Saboteur was fun, I was one of 3 Saboteurs in the second round and we played with the Expansion which made it even more interesting. After that I went home and watched Semi Pro and John Wick. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed John Wick, given that I’m not a huge fan of Keanu. It was definitely worth watching.
Been playing MGS: Peace Walker since it’s the only official MGS I haven’t played. Don’t know what to think. Normally MGS always stretched the suspension of disbelief but PW goes a bit too far. It’s the 70s and I’m fighting hovercrafts controlled by advanced AI. I do like how they wrote Snake this time around. Normally Snake is just one note, but in this game they’ve allowed him to joke around and stuff.
Decided to go back to D&D and found out everybody died. They’ve also decided to move on to Shadowrun. The issue now is that the problem player is the GM, so we can expect the story to be completely morbid. For the trial game we had to get used to the system, some very disturbing things happened including
a baby getting stuck under the accelerator of a carI’m going to give it a shot, but the dice system is really complicated and annoying.My tip, keep a list of the stuff you’re likely to do a lot. So, Perception checks (I think) are Intuition & Perception/Awareness, so I have a roll of 6. Standard shots from my rifle are 14, or 20 if I edge it. My sneaking is 8, I think, stuff like that. Does get a bit more complicated if you’re using magic to buff stuff, but it’s not too bad really. Is a pain if someone’s slowing down the whole group though.
I don’t like the amount of dice need for rolls. I just wanna know if I succeeded or not, why do I have to waste my time picking out the 1s and 6s.
Has mgs broken street date yet?? A man can dream…
MGSMGSMGSMGSMGSMGSMGS
*vibrating intensifies*
Reaction gif time!
http://imgur.com/gallery/l9WpWqH
Best reaction. I am a grown man and not even remotely ashamed this is exactly what I am doing.
I figured as much. =P It’s how I will be when Project Zero 5 comes out
Fun Fact: EB have had their MGSV stock since Saturday. It’s all just sitting there, ready, waiting, unplayable.
Except for that one staff member who brought a copy from eb and took their copy home on Saturday to play.
And thats true, my friends friend works at rb and did exactly that
IM GONNA SPEND A PHILOSOPHERS LEGACY ON THIS BAD BOY!!!
I’m actually sort of nervous about tomorrow; this is the last time where I’m going to be blissfully ignorant about Quiet. I want to trust Kojima, but I’m so worried about what her story is, and why she’s being presented the way she is.
Aliens.
Some people know the answer. They said it’s a Kojima reason, but it’s still not enough to justify it.
Personally I would change it to my head canon. Remove her stockings, make her bald, suggest she was experimented on to create light bending skin. I’ll even show this by having her veins always showing. She’s bald all over her body because hair doesn’t disappear. Her clothing will be camo coloured to be easier to hide. Then I’ll give her a cloak to wear when she’s not on missions.
I’m also pretty concerned about whether they’ll give some context to what happened to Paz in Ground Zeroes. Not that it’ll make what happened any more palatable, but it’s certainly better than
her getting repeatedly raped and tortured purely due to her being a woman and because they needed someone to fridge in order to put Snake in a coma.Dearest TAY,
On the weekend I finished my second play through of Until Dawn. I really dug that game. Far from perfect, but pretty great all the same. On Friday I went into the city to take photos with my DSLR. Was a good day, but I made the mistake of wearing new shoes and walked ages and now have blisters a-plenty. Hooray. On Saturday I was going to attempt to get out of my comfort zone and go meet new people, but ended up being super hermit-y. Didn’t leave the house. :'(
I did set up a dating profile thing, though. 😛
Oktoberfest Brisbane is only 39 days away!
Your pal,
DC.
Dating profile! Yeah, go DC!
Also did any one get the extended edition of Until Dawn? What was the extra scene like?
I tried to pick it up at EB Games but they said they’d sold out. I then picked it up for $20 cheaper at JB Hi-fi although without the steelbook case and the extra scene. I’ve heard the extra scene is not really that important in the scheme of things.
I hear it’s an Emily and Matt one?
Here it is in Italian.
https://youtu.be/GlOiJ_k–AA
Thanks bud! <3
I please to aim.
Is ‘dating profile’ code for naked rugby man scrum?
OKTOBERFESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST!!!
I paid real monies and picked up a copy of devil’s third. I was at the coast all weekend, so I still have no idea of where it lies on the “broken to monster hunter” continuum with the critics.
I’m a fan of vanquish, online shooters, no more heroes, ninja gaiden, and old Japanese developers who exclusively wear sunglasses and have beautiful hair. I’m cautiously optimistic for incoming fun!
I’m a fan of a scale with monster hunter at the top!
Splatfest was on Sunday. I reached level 20. =D
Sid was bitten on Friday, but it was his own fault. He stole someone else’s toy and wouldn’t give it back. The dog seemed sorry after it did bite him and I think it was accidental. She just wanted her ball back.
First splatfest I’ve missed, and I haven’t had a go of the new weapons yet. Were you all singing or all dancing?
Singing. I like both but prefer singing.
I’m not too fond of the snipers. I seem to switch and change often though
Morning.
Went to Watsons Bay yesterday for a day out with the family. Nice sunny day for a walk around the beaches and up to the lighthouse, with lunch at the beach club.
Played Spaced Hulk with my daughter. It was the first mission where you need to get the heavy flamer terminator to the control room. He made it almost all the way there before being cut down from behind by a genestealer. My daughter was disappointed.
Getting places in The Witcher 3. I’ve just passed the ‘point of no return’ and it’s starting to ramp up now. A certain battle was pretty fun and chaotic. Now we are on the offensive, and, I presume, the home stretch.
Picked up Until Dawn and will play with mates on Friday night. Looking forward to it 🙂
Morning all! Hope your weekend was awesome. I’m at a conference this week, so not much chance for gaming, but in reality uni work is my new game. Each day studying gives me a “high score” of a word count at the end of the day!
That said, I did manage to get back into Destiny to get to level 30, actually quite keen for the Taken King now.
Dropped Max off at the vet to get desexed.
Also, I can’t stop farting because of jalapenos.
And I’ll be picking up MGS V on Friday! \o/
That was a rollercoaster from start to finish. =P
OMG, I had beans last night, got the same farting issue.
Oh, and picking up MGSV on Wednesday.
Howdy fronds!
I hope everyone’s weekend was grand!
I had a pretty stressful week last week. I was in a car crash on Wednesday. No one was hurt thankfully and I’ve finally finished up chasing insurance so now they can handle the rest. Also, my Grandmother was admitted to hospital because she was struggling to breath. She caught pneumonia which is pretty bad for older people. Although she has been released back home and everything seems to be good now. Also, I seem to have picked up this darn cough I can’t seem to shake.
That said though, this week is a new week! Hopefully things will be better this time around!
Oh man, sounds like you had a tough week, buddy. All the best!
Here’s to a better week mate.
*arches eyebrow, concentrating intently*
*good juju beam engaged*
Your week will be awesome. I have willed it.
That cough is the worst. Mine has been hanging around for a month. But I’d rather deal with the perpetual cough, rather than the influenza b that my friends have.
Car crash. I’m sorry to hear that but I’m glad you’re okay.
Grandmother. As long as they catch it early, she should be fine. Dealing with these things early is the key.
Cough. Tell me about it. I get rid of one cold, I pick up another.
Bleh. Weekend wasn’t quite as good as I hoped as I struggled with a cold. Still kinda off today but almost over it. I went out to dinner on Saturday night with family which was nice but my taste buds weren’t really wowed with the food. It wasn’t bad but nothing fantastic either.
Also played some 40K RPG, this time with more space marines. We killed an Ork Warboss with a melta bomb to the chest. Also lots of fire. It was good.
I have 1 chapter to go in Until Dawn. I am either the worst at this game, or the best. Depending on how you look at it.
Damn teenagers
Getting fibre: take 2 on Friday. Although I’m not sure the problem has been solved on the nbn side. Our isp seems to think it’s all fixed now so hopefully they are right. $500 phone/internet bills per month are getting painful 6 months in. If you take what we should be paying for 100/40 fibre according to our isp thats $600 instead of $3000. I could have built an acceptable pc for $2400 or bought a 4k tv.
Rant over, I’ll update on Friday after the appointment.
Oh, Mad Max is out this week on PS4 and Xbone. Are we prepared for the mediocrity? Honestly though I hope this game will be good but in reality it will probably be mediocre.
I’m semi-keen, but it’s going to have to wait for me until after Metal Gear. I’m sure it’ll be decent at least.
Okay, so this is something that’s been making me curious as I have no understanding of the motivation behind these things but in regards to the whole Ashley Madison thing
having a read through of the AM Fembots article on Gizmodo and the “Affair Guarantee” costs $300? And all that gives you is a bunch of extra messages to send? Question is if you were that desperate for extra marital sex wouldn’t it be a whole lot easier just to hire an escort? Curiosity got the better of me and having a look at some listings $300 will get you a pretty high class escort. Seems like it would remove a lot of the mess out of it all and be a simple transaction with the same result but with an actual guarantee. Or is looking at this from a cost/benefit side a dumb way to see it? As I said, I don’t understand the motivations here beyond base need.Like most scams, rational thought rarely enters the equation.
I imagine for a lot of those men (let’s face it; it was all bloody men in that site anyways) it’s about developing a mutual attraction outside of their existing relationship. An escort as you say simplifies the equation but also means the attraction isn’t mutual; it’s more akin to a business transaction. I guess the Madison website greyed that distinction enough to make the concept more appealing?
That said I don’t understand the concept of extra-marital affairs at all; if you’re attracted to or want to be attracted to someone else why are you wasting yours and your partners time?
There are a couple of brothels near my place that are like $170 an hour and include a massage, I could stop at a nice restaurant on the way home after and still have change out of my $300 if all I wanted was a quick meaningless lay.
I feel like the “affair guarantee” pricing is just bloody stupid but I guess the whole site was built around the thrill of the hunt or whatever. As someone who’s never contemplated infidelity (refusing to inherit the sins of my father, I suppose), I guess I’ll never really understand the mindset.
I don’t think brothels take out late-night TV ads, either.
…Hope Mrs Freeze isn’t looking at your browsing history. 🙂
I have some local adult services in my browsing history but I shared the results with my wife out of morbid curiousity about otherwise innocuous looking business parks that always seemed to leave their signage on at night. A week or so previously we’d gotten lost in Parramatta and inadvertently wound up in a nest of what appears to be small offices around 11:30pm, except they all had “open” signs and literally red lights illuminating the buildings from the eaves. It was kind of hilarious how clichéd it was.
Our local one is just above the tyre shop down the road. Classy.
Well part of it is the “I don’t pay for sex” thing. Paying for sex is something for losers, I’m using a service just in case but it isn’t paying for sex, just privacy.
There is also a disrespect of sex workers and the concept that they are dirty and the like. Finding another married woman (or man but less common) she is going to be more normal and have had less partners which some men worry about.
We all pay for sex……………………ultimately.
😉
Hi TAY
Went and visited the ol’ family this weekend. Caught up with a couple of friends from back home that I haven’t seen in months. Spent my 5 hours on the train furiously breeding Pokemon. Had breakfast with the grandparents. Ate fancy Peach French Toast. Got told I looked like Where’s Wally. Ran home to fit in as much Splatfest time as possible. Everybody is terrible but me.
Pretty good weekend except way too short.
Also I signed up to GoGet this morning because they have a deal running. Look out, world. Pow got wheels again.
How progresses your *ahem* furious breeding?
I’m up to batch 600-700 on my main project on OR, and I thought I’d race a side project on Y to see which is easier / faster. I have concluded that XY is still far better for breeding even though eggs / loop / IV check is 3 different locations instead of one. Mostly because the ORAS bike seems to be a lot slower.
Didn’t help that the side project came through after 50 eggs while the main project ground its way to 600 with no result.
Basically done! I’ve got 5 out of 6 bred and ready for training. Working on the last one tonight (probably would’ve been finished already but only realised the ability I wanted was a hidden ability just before I started :P) – things go so fast when you don’t have to worry about Egg moves (surprisingly none of the team need any)
Had to boot up X for the first time in ages to try and nab a hidden ability from a horde. Which was put on hold for half an hour or so because the route I needed to farm on was raining 😛 So glad they got rid of Sweet Scent not working in the rain in ORAS.
Have heaps and heaps of breeding rejects if you ever want any. Probably just going to Wonder Trade the 2/3IV stuff. Keep a couple of the 4/5IV in case people want them.
EDIT: Yeah, the bike feels a little faster in XY (silly question, but you are using the Mach Bike in ORAS, right?). Dunno if it’s just an illusion though. ORAS still takes it for me just because everything is in the one place. So convenient. I hope they have a similar thing in all games in the future.
Yup, Mach bike.
I rate the difference around 80 eggs in ORAS VS 100 eggs in XY.
Plus, the infinite hatch loop in XY can be resumed with a tap of the D pad, whereas the ORAS one gets broken by an egg hatching and needs lots of manual intervention (not to mention the damn sandpits)
Hopefully the next game can combine the two.
Actually, cut out one of the steps and have an IV check straight on the stats screen. Even if it’s just a little icon next to the stat that indicates how strong it is.
Thing is, they want to keep that sort of stuff hidden from the average player, since they don’t need to know that to just play the game for fun. I don’t think that’ll drastically change.
Yeah I know. They’ve been making big convenience changes in the last few games for the competitive scene though so it wouldn’t surprise me if we saw something like that eventually. Even if it is just as subtle as the light red/blue colour of the stats affected by Nature.
It could be a Bank enhancement to help justify the cost vs functionality provided…
I picked up another shiny while farming for a horde HA mon too.
But yeah, sometimes genderless breeding is so much easier – don’t have to worry about the ball, male/female rates, egg moves, just crack out a 6 and then start churning the eggs.
Good morning friends! As many of you have seen already, I have bought a PS4 after trading in my Wii U and a bunch of Wii U+Xbox One games. I also put a $10 deposit on a Game of Thrones Edition of Risk, which I’m pretty pumped for.
Thanks @dc, @redartifice & @jocon for adding me so far! My PSN is highperforma89 for anyone else who feels to play with me!
So far I’ve got Batman, GTA 5 (Part of the bundle), The Order: 1886, The Last of Us and ?Killzone Shadowfall (3 for $75). Did I do good?
All that missing is to download Rocket League…
I left it downloading before I left the house this morning 😛
Nice. 😀
And Bloodborne, you cannot miss that experience.
I had it in my hand on the way up to the counter, but I thought it would seem a bit ridiculous of me to have all of those games so I wanted to put one back :*(
I only have The Last of Us out of that lot and it’s an amazing game. I have it on PS3 too. I’d love to get GTAV, but the games I have at the moment are keeping me busy. I keep saying I’ll get it, but then another game comes up. It’ll be in the $5 bargain bin by the time I get around to playing it haha
Killzone looks interesting and hopefully it comes to PS+ one day, same with The Order. You have a nice lot of games there that will keep you going for a while. Check out Rocket League when you get the chance 😉
I hope so! I was partway through Batman on Xbone, so I have decided to start again on PS4 to pay homage to a very good game! I do have a lot there, I have GTA on Xbox so I’ll try trade it in I think.
I’ll add you too! sibalicious
Add me add me add me. Same as here. 🙂
Trikeabout is your psn?
It’s my everything. Passport, driver’s licence. Like Sting or Madonna.
Actually, just my PSN.
Good morning!
I had a good weekend. Did some running, got a bit faster 🙂
And I just looked through the photos of cosplay from PAX Prime and I’m getting all excited/inspired for PAX AUS! \o/
Flew to Coffs Harbour for work on Friday, it was about as exciting about getting on a bus except that I got to the bus stop about an hour earlier than I needed to and almost completely drained my phone battery by 7am out of sheer boredom. Thankfully the Domestic Terminal offered free wi-fi or I’d have drained all my data too.
After a very short presentation and an extensive walk-around of the best-maintained shopping centre I’ve ever visited, I got very drunk then got back on my flying sky bus to return to Sydney.
Spent all weekend playing Destiny. Like, all of it. Cleared multiple raids, did Prison of Elders level 32 on all three characters (a first) and level 34 on one character. Thankfully after getting an etheric light and each of the helmets on offer from Variks this weekend, I can hit 34 on all three characters. \o/
Going to try and take a run at Skolas tonight since the modifiers are fairly good and next week (with as yet unknown modifiers) is the final week to score the year 1 triumph. Maybe @miketarno can sherpa me and the wife since he seems to have already smashed it? 😛
I need the boots on all 3 characters to hit 34 for each. Hopefully this week Variks will have them, if not I’ll have to earn and burn some etheric lights.
On PS4 me and a few mates are going to try finish the raids on hard and Skolas this weekend to finalise that Year 1 triumph as well!
The one and only time I did Iron Banner, which was the first after House of Wolves dropped, I got to rep 5 on all three characters and bought the greaves and gauntlets, plus a total of 6 etheric light. With that light, I was able to get my hunter and titan to 34 as long as they each used an exotic helmet. My Warlock languished in level 33 misery until I scored another etheric light. Having the helmets already at max light gives me more options to be a 34, such as my titan wearing something other than Helm of Inmost Light or Saint-14… I can’t imagine why I ever would, but the option is there.
Gotta roll with exotic helmets for the Titan! Saint-14 especially is a life saver for the fire team on the tough gigs.
Apparently Dancing All Night is going to be $60 from EB in Australia, and about $68 in Canada bucks.
Games in Australia are actually cheaper than somewhere else in the world? What is happening!
At this rate, I’d be better off flying back to Australia, buying games then flying back. Outrageous.
Yeah and right now that’s like $5 USD
*Hugs Everyone*
No thanks.
Ok you’re excepted
*throws a hamburger into the deal*
*hug*
Can’t…breathe…*hurk*
Hola Tay
Quiet weekend. Played board games sat night at a friend’s house, which was fun. Her husband and another mate were out at a bucks show, so a couple of us went there to keep her and their 3 month old company…along with her cousin, who is a special individual whom I wasn’t going to try and introduce anything more complex than Carcassonne to, having heard horror stories of other people trying to teach her Munchkin (Yes, I know, Munchkin, but the issue was with the student, not what was being taught). Worked out well in the end though, and I think I’ve sold probably my 5th copy of Hanabi
Spent all yesterday with a rotten headache. Went back into Ground Zeroes to clear my PS4 run, got a rank S on the heli extraction which was nice
The one where you rescue Kojima, which is such a Kojima thing to doand missed one bloody XOF patch which if the full game isn’t here tonight I’ll go back for. Also watched the Magic: The Gathering stream from PAX in the US which inspired me to crack a pack while I was out doing groceries, jagged a fetch-land which is like a $25 card, so wooo! Played a bit of Magic: Duels on PC which is actually a pretty decent implementation, might have to grab it on PS4 when it comes out so I can play 2 headed giant with friends.Played Rocket League last night, well done to @cakesmith and @rhynn, thrashed us in 2 out of 3 games. The second game was a nailbiter, going into overtime, but they managed to prevail, so me and @tigerion are now 1 and 1 in the season so far.
A Monday Morning Question: What game, board or video, would you like to teach someone? I’d love to teach someone Crusader Kings 2 if only to have someone to commiserate with when the bloody English won’t stay out of French ports
I did ask you once.
Yeah, I think we were looking for a time with a couple of people so people could ask questions as we went
RIsk: G.O.T edition: Also, I’d like them to teach me how to play as well 😛
Edit: Also, I’m a fool for not putting in OP but Europa Universalis IV. If more people played this game, they would be enlightened.
I must get back to my game where I’ve created South East Asian Empire Japan.
Problem is, the second I westernised the Portuguese were like WE HATE YOU NOW
I always intend to do that playthrough and then end up playing as a German OPM lol. Is it difficult forming Japan?
Not initially, though there’s still a group that tries to break away every now and then.
I still feel guilty about culturally converting the Ainu in game though, it’s a real issue of ethnic tension in Japan today and I did it in game without a second thought.
I’ve been trying to get all the cassette tapes.
Some of them are freaking Dark Souls level obtuse.
I’ve got the one in the garbage, but that’s about it.
Can’t wait to needlessly trawl through every garbage bin in Afghanistan!
Hanging out with mah buddy D-Dog, marking all the enemies yeah
I’d grab that last patch, and play and complete the mission it unlocks, before getting into Phantom Pain. Not only is the mission pretty nifty, but it’ll unlock something for you in Phantom Pain.
I’ve played it on PS3, just not PS4.
Got really annoyed though, I’d grabbed it but some checkpoint snafu meant it didn’t save.
Man, that’s rough. I got lucky on both my GZ playthoughs (Xbone, and then PS4 when I decided I had to play Phantom Pain on it) and managed to avoid any major issues.
If you’ve already gone through and gotten everything on the PS3 version, you could always just upload that save file and have it work on the PS4 version of Phantom Pain. All you need to do is download the new Ground Zeroes patch that went up today and select the new Save Data Upload option. Either version of Phantom Pain will look for that file, rather than just reading the save file on your console/in your cloud saves.
Nice. Might just give it a quick run tonight anyway, I know which patch it is.
Village with the Inn and Port expansions.
I end up teaching most games that I play anyhow, so you’re basically asking me what I want to play. Although it would be interesting to try and teach someone how to Spelunk.
Oh yes, Team Singing won the Splatfest.
I’m 4/4 in Splatfest results so far. My luck has to run out one of these days.
Also, whom among you added me on FB last night? saw the mutual friends but I’m not connecting the lack of face to a handle. Initials CF
That would be me! Was going to post about that today. There isn’t a face? I thought there was a face… although if there was, it would be from before I had a beard.
Logging in to the FB more after seeing more notifications from friends, and it came up with a boat-load of recommendations for TAY friends. Which is some next-level creepy/impressive, given that I don’t think I had actually even visited anyone’s FB page… so how did it know? So I fired off everyone that I recognized.
I assume that it will perform some more internet wizardry and make more recommendations soon.
Ah, no profile picture viewable to public, so for me it was a grey silhouette. Added!
I had no idea who it was but Freeze accepted and so did Bob, so I trust them.
I’d be guessing something along the lines of you might have Kotaku AU liked on FB and they do as well. Facebook is hella creepy with how it recommends people imo. Like it’s recommended people to me before that have my phone number in their phone yet we have no mutual friends 😐
That was probably it. I accessed it from my phone for some reason and it must’ve connected phone numbers to the profiles of folks I have in my phone.
Yeah sounds like that would do it. I think it’s kinda shitty Facebook thinks it’s allowed your number just because you access it via your phone.
I keep meaning to do that at some stage
Just a case of matching names to handles, avoiding the random spam bots and bullies from high school I have no interest in seeing
I believe you’re the first TAYbie to track me down on the book of faces. So I don’t know how you managed that.
FB recommended a one-night-stand to me once.
No mutual friends or anything.
It was kind of really freaky :S
Does your junk have wifi?
I wish.
It’d be the most popular junk ever!
Carl Fredricksen.
Sup?
*half-nod* Yo.
*gang sign*
Straight chillin’, ‘chu?
Sittin’ around listening to Till Lindemann’s new solo album, it’s pretty awesome, even if the songs are kinda creepy. I should go do stuff though.
Weekend was boss. Knocked off work early on Friday, picked up mate from work and spent the rest of the day tinkering with new Diablo 3 patch, buying presents for my 3yo nephew’s birthday, going to Bunnings and buying stuff and making things, then buying far too much deli goods and spending the evening eating it whilst watching the Entourage movie.
Saturday was range day. It was 10 degrees, raining and blowing a gale and I was out at Little River freezing my arse off. Stretched out further to 400m, and was fairly reliably slapping my 6″ gong, but the wind and rain was making it hard to stay consistent. Still, all in all a really good day. Feel like I’m learning a lot and moving forward. Range only goes out to 500m, so will have to find somewhere new before long. Managing the .308 a lot better these days – recoil, and breathing/trigger discipline is becoming more natural as well.
Spent the evening at my mum’s place and hanging out with my nephew, which was a bit of fun. He dug my presents and was super happy and co-operative, after being a foul mood when I arrived unannounced. Earnt some brownie points for inadvertently cheering him up, I think.
Sunday was chill out day. Much WoW and general lazing about ensued.
Now, Monday.
Stupid question, but how do you get an avatar going on your profile?
I keep getting redirected to a “Gravitar” page when editing, not sure if that is what is supposed to happen.
https://en.gravatar.com/
Set up an avatar there, with the same email address you use to login to Kotaku and post comments with. It does the rest automagically.
Also you may need to change the rating of said avatar to G/PG so it’ll actually show on Kotaku IIRC.
Thanks all 🙂
Hope that’s all you’ll need to no longer be “just another fancily written ‘K’…” 🙂
No more fancy K !
I love it!
Hi all! Hope everyone had a great weekend. Spent most of mine split between Diablo and Until Dawn.
Finally getting my gear together for the meteor build I’m after – picked up a third and fourth Tal Rasha piece and Nilfur’s Boast (unfortuantely no more illusory boots, which are so useful… at least until I can get another Tasker and Theo and swap out my Kanai’s armour buff). Got through a rank 20 Grift (13 seconds to spare), so currently just farming T4 Nephalim rifts.
And Until Dawn… holy crap, that game is way better than it has any right to be.
Aside from the fact that “disgusting” isn’t the same as “scary”… I ended up with gore, rats and… clowns (clowns aren’t scary at all, but zombies don’t exist, and scarecrows are inanimate, so… kinda killed the mood in some scenes :P).Made it to Dawn with only two casualties (well, three, if you count “cliché creepy and kinda badass stranger who tries to help”). Josh died because I missed a clue which would have identified Hannah (in time to save him, I guess?), and Ash died because I’m a moron and the devs played a cruel trick on me. :’3 They showed me Jess somehow survived the fall, then taunted Ashley with her cries for help; Ash investigated (against all logic, in hindsight – Jess clearly knew staying quiet was the best bet for her survival) and got her head ripped off. The only character I found kinda likeable, dammit.Until Dawn stuff:
I fucked up bad. The good news is that Josh recognised Hannah, which I think is the signifier for his special ending thing, didn’t really help though. But my corpse list was long. Matt died first, after trying to help Em he was caught and killed. Chris died (in front of Ash. Brutal) because I ducked up a QTE. Luckily that pain was short lived because Ash died a bit later in the tunnels because she totally did the thing, as I screamed at her to not do the thing (while controlling her and making her do the thing. Horror movies are fun). And Mike died at the very end because I thought he was safe so after some hiding I ran and… kaboom. Also, I lost Mike’s furry friend, which I am very sad about.I lost Matt the same way it sounds you did. Josh saw the tattoo and an image of Hannah popped up but his head popped anyway. I also jumped the gun and ran at the end and both Mike and Ashley died there. Felt terrible about that one.Okay, well Josh reappeared for me in the post-credit scene. And he was alive. He was just also a Wendigo. *shrug* Good enough!Ah, I was wondering how that could have happened. Saw Josh as a wendigo in a totem, but he died before it came to pass.You got Mr Woofles killed? You monster!😛 Also, how…? I followed the totem’s advice and made friends with him, threw him a bone, but don’t recall any options after that… What got him killed?Yea… I quite liked how the game made you think certain characters were dead for, in one case, a good four or five chapters. My Matt tried at first to help Em, but I figured (a) he’d not reach, and (b) I found a totem earlier that said he’d fall to his death at some point; so I jumped, intending to get to her from the more stable surface… which didn’t go as I’d hoped. And Ash… in hindsight, investigating that cry was a moronic thing to do… but I was completely unprepared for how sudden and brutal her death was. Had to pause the game, put the controller down, and just stop for a minute to process it.From what I can tell, when Mike returns to the Asylum, the final time you have a choice to either barricade or run, and I chose run. I think if you barricade it Woofles lives, and if you don’t he’ll sit at the top, not willing to jump down, and he gets killed.Hmm… I barricaded… but at the end of that sequence Woofles still didn’t jump down with Mike. I got the trophy saying he survived, tho… That is to say, I never saw him die, so I assume he made it out before I blew the place up. :’3Yeah, if you barricade you’re left to assume he survived, if you ran… he died. There’s no ambiguity there, it’s brutal.Anyone here listened to Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann’s new solo album ‘Skills In Pills’? It’s pretty awesome. Even if the songs have some disturbing lyrics & imagery. Also it’s in English, so it’s a nice change from Rammstein.
Was that unexpected at all?
50/50 😛
Wow. Okay. Just watched Praise Abort. Fucking dark.
Yeah. They’re all pretty dark. But I think Praise Abort is the darkest on the album.
@gingerchris86 Microscope?
@anyoneelse who wants to try a world building game? @shane?
yep I’m keen. what nights are good?
Thur/Fri?
Thursday might be best for me, I’m assuming I’m booked on Friday
Right, we’ll go for Thurs. Now to recruit some
victimsother players. book says 3-4 is bestI’m not sure how this ended up as a response here.
Oh well, let’s not waste it. I’ll give it a go!
Excellent! This is it here, so have a look at the premise: http://www.lamemage.com/microscope/ but you won’t need to read the rules
Wait, the Dragon Age Inquisition DLC is out on September 8th. That’s barely enough time to finish my current playthough. D=
Actually, truth be told I could probably finish it with how I am currently going.
My weekend:
Saturday:
Warm up 10 mins
Continues shuttle run 2 mins
Squats continues 2 mins
Push-ups continues 45 secs
Sit-ups continues 1 min
Lunges continues 45 secs
Plank 30 second hold
Rest 1 min
Continues shuttle run 2 mins
Squats continues 2 mins
Push-ups continues 45 secs
Sit-ups continues 1 min
Lunges continues 45 secs
Plank 30 second hold
Rest 1 min
Continues shuttle run 2 mins
Squats continues 2 mins
Push-ups continues 45 secs
Sit-ups continues 1 min
Lunges continues 45 secs
Plank 30 second hold
Cool down/stretches 5 mins
Sunday:
5 km recovery walk
Monday
Warm up 10 mins
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Recovery walk 40m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Recovery walk 40m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Recovery walk 40m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Recovery walk 40m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Recovery walk 40m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Recovery walk 40m
Shuttle Run 2 x 20m
Cool down/stretches 5 mins
…
FUCK SHUTTLE RUNS 😛
How is everyone else doing?
Just that took you all weekend? You need to improve your speed
Well i was working 8 hours both days as well, but didn’t think that was worth mentioning 😛
Fuck planks. 30 second has never felt so long.
Damn kids and there planking
My weekend:
Sat – 48hrs
Where’s Elite? Also you may have eaten and possibly slept…
I feel this list is not a list of your weekend, just a list of you running back-and-forth-and-back-and-forth…
Shuttle Runs / Beep Test was invented by a PE Teacher that had an intense dislike of all humans and especially children.
Officially, I ran a 37min parkrun, but I think it was 38. Still about a minute faster than last week, so the c25k is working. My PB is just over 36, touch wood I might get a new PB soon. I’m also going to be doing the 9km bridge run in sep and a 10km run in october, which I’d like to do in less than 1h 20!
In short, shuttle runs/intervals suck but they’re good for you. LIke eating kale.
I ran the Perth City to Surf marathon yesterday. I am struggling to walk. But I beat last years time, so kinda winning.
Yo, Musical friends… Is that a thing? … @cakesmith @alexpants @cj @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @novacascade I don’t know who else… Whatever, everyone’s invited.
CATS is running in Sydney later this year (Capitol theatre, tickets around $100) and I wanted to know if anybody wanted to see it. Cake said he was keen, Pow was a jerk and very reasonably said he wasn’t interested.
I said November on Twitter, but I think it’s running until January, and it should be fun, even if Delta probably won’t be a great Grizabella. Anyway, I digress, I haven’t seen the revival, but it’s a fun show, so, anyone interested?
“Screw you and your interests!” – Powalen
CATS?
Taking a break from ensuring they have ownership of all your bases?
The alternate title was JERKS but it didn’t test quite as well as they hoped.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
Maybe
Jellicles do, and Jellicles would. Jellicles would and Jellicles can. Jellicles can and Jellicles do.
Still in.
This may just end up as a very expensive man date. Which I’m okay with.
Danny Elfman tickets cost more.
Well I could always go for nice tickets…
Just a heads up, @blaghman will be there.
I need to rethink every choice I’ve ever made that has led me to this moment.
In less flippant responses, if I wasn’t fucking off to Amerikkka I’d possibly go and take my sister. We saw it way back when she was about 7-8 years old and she was obsessed with the music in it. Still is a big fan I think.
I miiiight pass on this one. I’ve met my musical quota for the year, and between PAX and the Pokemans Symphony that’s a busy period already. But thank ye for thinking of me!
This hurts me a lot, but fair enough. If I shifted it into January of next year would you be more likely to go? 😛
Oooh getting me on a technicality. Clever Blaghs…
In all seriousness, I was considering pushing it later to make it easier for people, but if nobody’s keen (aside from Cake) it won’t make a big difference anyway.
Don’t delay on my part. I’ll always be indecisive on spending money. I’m more trouble than I’m worth!
No! Delay on his part!
Hey, this movie looks like it might actually be good. Nice to see something that doesn’t replace fear and tension with gore and jump scares. At least it seems like it doesn’t.
It’s meant to be great. I’m really looking forward to it.
So there’s an unexplainable copy of Black Ops 3 for Xbone fully paid off on my EB World account on the app. It was preordered at my local store and all by one of the guys I used to work with there. But it doesn’t show up on my account in the system. Which no one can explain, this shit even happened to the manager and he has no idea. So apparently I don’t get a free copy of Black Ops 3 =( I was hoping to get a refund and put the money on to my other preorders damn it 😛
That’s very strange, I was told I had a pre-ordered copy at EB on Saturday as well. I don’t remember if I pre-ordered it because Zombies or not :S
It’s happened before too, heh. Who knows maybe come release i’ll have a shiny copy of Black Ops 3..
Ah, I just realised it’s my 9th wedding anniversary next week. Gotta organise something and get her a nice present. I thought I had more time 🙁 Stupid stupid stupid.
Put a bow on your junk, moonwalk out of there
#Freezestylesuggestion
Fuck oath.
But then what would distinguish it from any other night to mark it as special?
Rose between your teeth.
TEETH. Not between anything else. I guess unless @freezespreston removes the thorns first, but be careful, there can be some tiny ones your eye might miss that feel a lot larger than sight would indicate.
The wise voice of experience
Strip down, and tie a bow around your penis.
Somebody has to offer the “Uncle Freeze” advice if you’re not going to.
ahahahahahaha
If there’s any year that you can get away with ‘brain injury’ as an excuse for forgetting…
What about you being alive still? Seems like a good anniversary present to me. I’m such a cheapskate 😛
See bow tie+penis combo deal. Point made.
Good point. Maybe some googly eyes too just for lols?
‘Look! He’s happy to see you!’
Jeez man, don’t have a stroke about it.
Stumbled upon a post about Secret of Mana on my morning interwebs jog.
Got me thinking about some of the most pivotal games in my life, some linked to life events some that were just awesome because they were.
I’d love to hear if anyone has any that truly touched them and stand out as a very strong memory. New or old doesn’t matter. I’ve had consoles since the speccy back in the day but these are the big gaming moments for me:
Wonderboy (SMS): (my first Sega Game): My brother and I played this soooo much, not bad for a watered down arcade port, so many fun and frustrating nights.
WOW (PC): I know, I know … But it completely took over my life for a long while, was a raid leader and made some friends that I still hang out with even to this day. Major life impact that one.
Street Fighter 2 (Arcade): Not much to say here, completely dominated my arcade life
Illusion of Time (SNES): Was the last SNES game I played whilst transitioning into a young adult, still so young and immature yet thought I was growned up, have fond memories of this.
Super Metroid (SNES): My god, this game, my brother and I would drop hours into this re-running over and over trying to get Samus to strip, we were sure there was a full nudie one if we did it quick enough.
Wonderboy III The Dragons Trap (SMS): This is my favourite game of all time, and I still get it out of my massive retro collection to play pretty regularly. Played it at a time when my parents were splitting up, my dad played it with me initially then he disappeared for pretty much forever, seen him once since(All good though he wasn’t a very nice person). So I was determined to complete it, it gave me comfort during a crappy time. Took me ages (I was very young) and I still remember the feeling when I did it, so melancholy, so weird, but damn was I proud 🙂
Sonic (Megadrive): Mum bought me this bundle first xmas after the divorce, I’m not sure I even went outside that xmas holidays. To this day Sonic is the only thing I can draw that resembles what it should look like, my kids today still ask me for drawings of Sonic to put on their books and stuff. I was a god at this game, still am….
*wow that was a long post, for anyone who actually got through this, don’t be afraid to share a story or two 🙂
Cheers
Rivv
Also, I highly recommend checking out those games in the list (Bar WOW, don’t do it too yourself) if you’ve never played them, especially Wonderboy 3…
People give Warcraft a lot of crap for being anti-social, but honestly raiding hardcore was one of the most social things I’ve ever done. You can’t hang out with people working together like that 10 hours a week (minimum) without making a friend or two.
Did you ever play Maximo on the PS2 (or the PS3 port)? It’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins inspired but it always makes me remember Wonderboy.
Hmmm no I havn’t, pretty sure I have it in my ps2 collection though, will bust it out on Friday night 🙂
And yeah you’re right about WOW, it’s not anti social, it just takes alot of work and dedication which people see as a negative when its a video game and they aren’t real educated on it. Not their fault, just the way it is.
Agreed. Some fantastic memories.
I found the secret to WoW is to bail on it periodically. You know, deep down when you’ve had enough – just bail, give it a few months or more, then drop back in after the next expansion or major patch. I’ve played for almost ten years – but quit for a total of 4-5 years all up of that time.
Don’t ever let become a job or an obligation. When it’s not fun anymore, stop playing.
I also have a group of two or three friends who do the same – come and go. Helps keep it interesting. We also make sure that when we’re all on at the same, to do a fun group activity like BGs or somesuch. Makes it a lot more fun. Don’t spend your days grinding rep or farming, that murders it fast.
Greetings, TAY. I spent over three hours on Sunday in the waiting room for a job interview. I didn’t get it in the end. But it’s okay, I found a shop on the way home that sells super-cheap chips for only $2.00.
On another topic, I’ve spent far too much of my life listening to Miracle of Sound’s song about Mad Max Fury Road.
In the end it’s a numbers game, just keep applying and going to interviews and you will land one
Good luck
So I have a job interview with EB Games. @freezespreston you might be seeing more of me soon 😛
@freezespreston should totally go to EB Games with a bow on his junk and threaten to make repeated appearances until they give you the job! =P Alternatively you could just outsource @liondrive’s WiFi junk and bribe them for the job with free WiFi!
Just because it worked to get a mate a job that one time doesn’t mean it’s worth getting banned from all those restaurants.
Funny story, Freezes work is literally out front of the EB Games i’m applying for and he is well known at that store too 😛
Also the manager I used to work under at my local EB used to manage that store at one point too, and knew Freeze too. Small world, heh.
Break a leg.
Not your own.
The other candidate’s.
Always the plan 😛
Hm. Struggling to think what even happened on Friday. Seems to have just disappeared.
Saturday, went up the coast to go to a farewell for my cousin and his girlfriend, held at her parents’ place. They’re about to head off to England for a year or something, going over there to study at Oxford I think. It was kinda hilarious actually – the house itself was basically identical to my sister’s boyfriend’s house, so we were all weirded out about how familiar it was yet with slight subtle changes here and there.
Worst bit was when we got to the point of speeches. With [the girlfriend’s] dad going on about how proud he was of her, and rattling off all the stuff she’s achieved and everything… and then going on to talk about her brother too, who had just the other day finished a masters of engineering or something and done a bunch of other stuff… ugh. Barely need any help feeling like I’ve wasted my life, thanks. So I just stood there and shrunk into the corner.
Second worst was afterwards when they got the brother to jump on the piano. Which led to me being sent over to play too. “Do a duet!” Um… it doesn’t work that way, I can’t just- “go on, duet!” WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT HE’S JUST MAKING UP THINGS AS HE’S GOING ALONG NEITHER OF US KNOWS ANY OF THE SONGS THE OTHER DOES. Also I haven’t even touched the thing in ages and am back to being badly out of practise, so I didn’t really want to anyway. Eventually had a go of playing my own stuff, it was horrible. But everyone was impressed anyway for some reason. So yay? Also, the paranoid side of me (ha, like there’s any other) felt like I kept catching glances from the girlfriend’s cousin. But I was in super introvert mode so barely even talked to anyone from their family 😛
Yesterday was pretty much dedicated to Splatfest. And things were going great. For a while. Then at about 5/6pm, it was like all the good players disappeared. I went from a heat rating of 19.0 and plummeted all the way down to 2.0, just loss after loss after loss, WHY IS EVERYONE SO USELESS? Even as a sniper, I was earning over 1000 points on a loss, I’d get to parts where I’d wipe out the entire other team and STILL my team mates couldn’t do anything to be useful. Was just about ready to hurl the gamepad out the window, with how shit everyone was being. No wonder we ended up losing. Whodathunk team dance would be so uncoordinated?
Did you at least earn the title Dancing Queen?
Of course 😛
I unfortunately had the much less amazing title of Singing King.
I was surprised they didn’t go with the Super/Charismatic/Eternal set for this one. At least until I realised I was going to end up the Dancing Queen, then it all made sense.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but I just had an update to MGS:GZ earlier today which added an option to upload save data. I checked it out and apparently your save data is used in MGSV. I haven’t heard anything about it, but I uploaded it anyway.
The update was on PS4, but I’m sure the same will happen with PC and other consoles.
Yeah, you’re supposed to get:
the Ground Zeroes sneaking suit for finishing the Ground Zeroes mission, a Solid Snake costume for finishing the Deja Vu mission, and any of the POWs and unique characters (The Eye and The Finger in ‘Eliminate the Renegade Threat’, the undercover agent who tells you about the fake tape and the bald guy with the real one in ‘Classified Intel Acquisition’, and Prisoner 12282 in ‘Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements’) you’ve rescued as Mother Base staff (regular soldiers don’t count towards anything). There’s mention of Cyborg Ninja and Raiden costumes as well, so it might be worth completing Jamais Vu.Cool, thanks for that.
Is there any way to check which ones of those you’ve done? I know I’ve beaten those missions but I’m not sure if I ever extracted those guys specifically.
Nope, sorry. You can find a short guide here though: http://i.imgur.com/GUy4PGC.jpg?1 . Note that the cages to the East is where you find Chico, and the tents to the west is to the left of where you start the Ground Zeroes mission.
Thanks. I know I got most of them but I might need to redo Classified Intel Acquisition. Then it’s just a matter of waiting until the servers connect.
There’s actually a little trick to that mission where you don’t end up having to go all the way to the top of the map to get Baldy, which makes extracting him much easier. If you use the watchtower’s light to attract the Undercover Agent, interrogate him and knock him out, and then move a distance away, he’ll revive and then go to meet with Baldy just up the road where the three long buildings with the sloped roofs are. You’ll get a bit of hidden story as you listen to their conversation as to why the Agent planted a fake tape, and you’ll be pretty close to a chopper landing point, making getting those two a breeze. Don’t forget to hold up Baldy for the tape though; I’ve made that mistake before.
Oh yeah, game stuff. Yesterday marked 3 months since Splatoon came out (is that all it’s been? Could’ve sworn it was longer). Decided to check out my play time before firing up for Splatfest, since it’s been a while since I last did that. 68 plays, Just over 250.5 hours played. Not bad 😛
Also, the other night I decided with all this time I’m wasting I should make a start on the Rock Band 3 experiment – can the game along with the Mustang controller be used to actually learn guitar? I mean I picked them up when I saw them on the cheap specifically because I was curious about this, so it’s about time I actually went to test it out 😛
Tell you what though, I don’t at all understand how guitar is so popular an instrument. That shit is just… arcane. Of all the instruments I’ve played/had a go (however brief) at, I’d probably rate the difficulties in the order of something like… piano < clarinet < piano-accordion < flute < oboe (that damn reed just tickles my entire mouth and nose :P) < drums < trumpet < guitar. I mean I know it’s only been a few nights so far and it’ll take some getting used to, but still. God damn. Especially barre chords, they’re the worst 😛 Mad respect to all you guitarists out there.
That Play-Asia coupon’s still available too, if anyone needs it. Expires today.
Speaking of expiring today coupons, I still have one shiny Rayquaza code left if anyone wants it…
It’s a bad sign there’s no Mad Max reviews, right?
Probably!
You’re a film nerd though, just because something has a release date-ish embargo on reviews doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad.
I mean, a way higher chance, sure, but it could surprise us!
I’m hoping that it’s decent, and I doubt it will hit straight up bad, so I’m confident that my lofty goals might be met.
Probably
Think it will struggle against the movie hype. I’ll play it, it’s my kinda game, check the things off the map, explore and shoot people in the face. Will be interested to see how Just cause in the wasteland it is
Phew, didn’t get the job!
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It’s harder to hermit when you have to leave the house 😛
You know what? Being a hermit is over rated!
I want to be where the people are! *cue Little Mermaid musical number*
He says as I’m sitting at home by myself feeling rejected.
Sssssh. Just wasn’t in the right head space today, Freezey. 🙂
He means where the cool people are.
Explains why he’s so far from Perth then.
Hey, it’s not me, it’s the rest of WA…
*dies alone*
What job was it, international man of mystery?
Rides operator at Luna Park. With a really weird group interview.
So you would’ve been responsible for peoples lives, neat.
Also how weird was it?
I did my best Magikarp impersonation, flopping around on the floor like a fish out of water.
Brilliant 😛
TAY JEOPARDY!
Answer
Question:
What is Gooky’s best sex move?
So, I’m going to be in Melbourne from the 11th to the 16th of November. I know it’s still 2 months away, but I’m hoping to be able to arrange a meat on Friday (the 13th) or Saturday (14th). Any suggestions for possible venues/activities?
Do you know where you’ll be staying?
Haven’t booked accommodation yet, but planning to stay in the CBD if I can.
Well typical successful Melbourne meat has involved:
– Meet up at Beer Deluxe, Fed Square
– Walk in a giant mass toward some place and eat food
– Walk in a giant mass toward Fed square
– Find a bar to sit in and talk about nerdery
One time we sat outside and nerded there instead. It was a nice day though.
Just ask @mythamphetamine, it wasn’t cold at all
Yeah but they were the one wearing super light clothing IIRC. That’s asking for trouble in Melbourne.
What are you after?
Catch-up with food and drink. Going to see a movie and doing stuff. A tourist trip around Melbourne.
At the moment I’m not even really sure what I’m after. I’m only in the preliminary stages of planning at the moment.
Figured I should play Ground Zeros at least once. Snake sounds all kinds of wrong. Hard to reconcile.
I got as far as moving forward about 10m before getting spotted and into a full on firefight. Apparently my Metal Gear skills need some work.
git gud scrub
Watch out for that spotlight (you can see the path its moving in) and make sure to mark every soldier you see. Makes it easier to track where they are and how close you are to being seen.
Yeah, marking is really handy since you can effectively use it to see the enemies through walls. Night Vision is good for doing quick sweeps of the area to mark all the guards and vehicles.
I find the voice really off putting every time I play it, but after about an hour I’m fine with it. Although I guess a big part of that is that he doesn’t talk much outside the main mission.
Vidya Games.
So I made the mistake of getting excited about a new game coming out. Big mistake. Never ends well. I don’t think any game I’ve been anticipating in the last decade has been anything but disappointment. Anyway, Senran Kagura 2 was supposed to be out on the eShop on Thursday but that actually meant Friday because the eShop is run by shitheads. So I finally got it on Friday and had been intending to play, only stress-induced exhaustion meant I crawled into bed around 9pm and slept for 12 hours instead.
Finally got to it on Saturday night. Holy shit. For reference, I enjoyed SK Burst on 3DS and absolutely loved Shinovi Versus on Vita – only game I’ve ever platinumed. They weren’t hugely deep games, and SV was probably a little on the easy side with some characters, plus maybe a little easy to exploit. Burst was kind of mindless side-scrolling beat-em-up stuff and that was fun for a bit but it got repetitive so I never finished it. Just re-treading the plot of the game anyway.
I was pretty excited for SK2 because they’d overhauled the system from the first game & Burst. Generally people were saying it’s the best game so far, with a really good 3D combat system more in line with the Vita spinoffs. So I was excited.
Those people are smoking crack.
So the second level in the game has you taking control of Ikaruga. I was okay with her in the previous games. Nodachi-user that does that typical anime fast-draw and a ton of slashes then back into the sheath thing. Run through the level wiping the mobs on the way out easily. Played this all before. Just starting to enjoy it and then suddenly boss fight! Yomi’s Ikaruga’s standard rival so nothing that unexpected. She’s slow but has a massive sword that can hit quite hard. Or at least, that’s how it used to work. Get into the fight and I start doing some attacks and the boss just fucking ignores damage that would have normally stunned or something, then unleashes a single combo on me. Down to half health. Before I can go ‘what the fuck’? it stunlocks me and does it again. Have barely landed a hit and I’m already dead. There’s no checkpointing either, so if you fail on a boss you fail the level and have to do all the annoying trash over from the beginning. Also as a failure you only get a tiny amount of XP.
So I guess they’ve made the game harder. Need to pay more attention. Try again. Get to the boss. This time I start spamming strong attacks. This seems to be a bit more effective but barely touches her health. Boss still can stun-lock like crazy. Circle pad sucks for the precision you need. I did better second time, got her down to 3/4 health before dying. This is like fucking Ninja Gaiden or something. Took until my 4th attempt to down her, and it was by pushing her into a corner and unloading heavy stun attacks until I got enough energy for a super. Felt wrong. Exploitative. That’s not very fun. But maybe I just need a bit more time.
Then it threw me into the next level, which required using Katsuragi. I hated fighting with her in general, but holy shit they’ve made this insane. She animation locks into specific directions, can’t turn around and just goes powering straight ahead. You go flying off in the opposite direction of where you want to go and Enemies (esp. ranged) will hit you from off screen, in the back, constantly. And of course, this also ended in a boss fight that was ridiculously difficult. The bosses are massive damage sponges, the game explains nothing about how to effectively beat them and so far I’ve managed to brute force my way through.
Managed to beat that boss, then do the same with Yagyu fairly effectively, but then I hit what seems like an insurmountable roadblock. Hibari is absolutely the worst character. Hate her design, hate her voice, hate her shitty shitty fighting style. She’s shit at everything and I could barely touch the boss. Can’t figure it out. Massively disappointed. They’ve made the game ridiculously difficult compared to the previous ones and basically ruined any chance I have of getting solid enjoyment out of it. My eyesight and reflexes are just not good enough. Plus I hate using the 3DS. Argh.
So anyway, I went and played Kantai Collection, and that’s not really doing it for me recently either. I finally pushed my way through the penultimate event map on Medium difficulty. Not hugely difficult, and now I’ve got a special catapult to use in a few weeks to upgrade Shoukaku. But now I’m looking at the last map and it’s an absolute shitshow, with random branching, a stupid mechanic where you have to kill some sub-bosses every day before you can hurt the boss, and generally looks to be a frustrating time sink. Nothing I want is available as a drop, the only thing I’d get as a reward if I can clear the map in the next week or so is Teruzuki. She’s kind of cute, but as an Akizuki-class Destroyer, she’s awful at absolutely everything but Anti-Air. I already have Akizuki herself (who is several times cuter due to Ari Ozawa) so not a great incentive. But the only other option would be to try grinding some earlier maps for rare drops, and we’re talking stuff with 1-2% drop rates that are just as annoying to get to. So I don’t know what to do. Am very tempted to go back to E3. Mizuho would be a nice drop (would allow me to ditch my spare Chitose as I’d have two dedicated seaplane tenders for expeditions) and I have a chance at Isokaze at the difficulty I cleared it. First time I’ve ever had a sniff at her. Just not sure what to do there. Basically none of the rewards for the event have been worth the amount of time it’s consumed. The new ships are all utility ships or unneeded Destroyers, and the best thing I’ve obtained was probably the Murata squadron Tenzan-M12.
Thinking that unless I can figure out a way to be more effective, Senran Kagura 2 is going on the shit pile. I’m also seriously considering a break for a bit from KanColle. Maybe it’s time to fire up something from my PC or Vita collection. Have a big stockpile of things I wanted to get to eventually. Time to start onto that, I think. At least until something else interesting comes out. We’re about to enter a period with a huge number of releases I’m interested in anyway.
I don’t know what it is, but I have little-to-no desire to play any more of Bloodborne.
I’m not finding it super difficult or anything. Challenging yeah, but not difficult, but I dunno.
There just doesn’t seem to be anything making me want to keep playing.
Might be that there doesn’t appear to be much story (there probably is, but it’s not as evident as the Souls games).
Recently defeated those witch people, currently going in to the forbidden woods.
I have a few areas that I can explore at the moment (Forbidden Woods, Yhargul, Nightmare), but I dunno. Don’t feel like i 😛
I got my hunter looking pretty, I don’t see myself moving away from the threaded cain any time soon, and I don’t feel like I need to keep playing…
It’s not a bad game, I just don’t feel that engaged.
I played through about 3/5ths of the game and then stopped for like 3 months and then went back to it recently and finished it 😛
Not sure why I stopped 😀
#HELPING
I hit that point with Dark Souls II. I didn’t hate it but I just stopped caring about it. I think what sparked it was that I got good enough at the game that I was satisfied with my skill level and that made it feel like I was always just waiting for higher stats. A lot of the difficulty was just in always paying complete attention at all times so once I got to the point where the only things that would kill me between bosses were due to me not paying attention it started to feel difficult in a sort of naggy and demanding sense that doesn’t leave me feeling very accomplished.
Plus I’m not a huge fan of fantasy worlds (especially gritty fantasy) so beyond getting better at the game there wasn’t really much in there that appealed to me.
I can see why people enjoy it but I think you really need to get yourself into that pushing yourself forward mindset and stay there or else you end up questioning why you’re doing anything (unless you’re really into the lore).
I don’t mean to sound boast-y, but I’m pretty good at the Souls games, Bloodborne included.
It’s challenging, but not too difficult or anything.
I dunno, there just isn’t enough variation at the moment to keep me interested.
Been using the same gear now for ages, the lore isn’t that interesting, and i dunno, just can’t seem to keep interested.
Might have to go back to it a bit down the line.
I think gear was an issue for me, too. I’d find a new set and get all excited about it only to compare it against my current set and discover it was raw shit.
Or I’d find a weapon that I was hopeful and excited about and go look at the wiki to see what its stat levels would be in comparison to my current one, only to find out that this badass late-game weapon I’ve acquired scales like shit compared to my current one.
I’ve basically played through the game in one set of armour with one weapon. It sucks all the excitement out of finding new things.
I think part of the problem I’ve always had with the souls games is I’d get sucked in for a week and then I would just lose motivation to get it up and running again. Like transient’s said there’s no joy in getting new gear as the gear you’ve levelled is probably better in stats and also mechanically since you’ll be used to how your current weapon moves and strikes; there’s also no storyline to keep you wanting to explore whats around the corner. That’s not to say I didn’t love the atmosphere of Bloodborne but after I found Darkbeast Paarl I just kind of stopped and never went back =S
It’s odd cos it’s not like I didn’t enjoy the game; I just need to put aside the time/motivation to get drawn into it again?
Full disclosure – I love this game, best game I’ve played in years, so I’m a little (greatly) biased.
Where you are right now is the tipping point of the game, and it essentially changes completely, not sure if you’ve read up on the lore and already know what is coming but I implore you to keep at it. At least till you’ve done the woods (the longest most boring part imo, besides Chalice Grinds) the next area though called “Byrgenwerth” really changes everything. Keep at it!
As for the lore\story, it really is massive and indepth and most importantly open for debate, I’d suggest reading “The Paleblood Hunt” by dcmredgrave, its an awesome read in its own right, but it will open you up to spoilers story wise, doesn’t affect gameplay and imo makes the game even better when you can get a grip with what is going on. But I agree the story is hard to piece together on first playthrough which got to me aswell.
That document is a great companion piece to the game.
It gets wayyyyyyyy better trust me, also maybe switch up the weapon, cane gets old with the limited moveset, I personall like Ludwigs Holy Blade and Hunters Axe, a bit boring too to some people but I love the movesets and difference in the xform modes.
Interestingly though, I am having the exact same feelings about DS2 Scholar, craving more BBish gaming I bought it and put in quite a bit of time so far, but too am finding a feeling of just not being interested.
So I feel where you’re coming from, but just try and stick it out a little while longer.
Also always up for co-op if you need help or just want some company, hit me up here if you want.
The powered up swing on those axes is a great attack against some of those later enemies, and it looks great when prefectly timed.
Spin2win 🙂
So that girl at climbing who liked the mohawk came from where she was sitting over to next to me and started chatting again. I don’t even… no. This cannot be a thing. I refuse to even entertain the idea because it is absurd.
Also in unrelated news, we lost the last of my Nanna’s siblings yesterday. Guess that’s another funeral to go to soon.
Also also, according to my calculations I think I may have come within two or three km of running out of petrol on the way home. Oops >.>
Sorry for the loss.
Also, ask out the climber. Quickly, before she takes your lack of demonstrated interest as lack of interest.
Next time you’re chatting, when she’s taking a breath while talking just interrupt at a good moment to ask if she’s free for a drinks date sometime this week. “Here’s my phone, put your number in so we can hash out the details later. Great. So anyway, you were saying?”At one point the topic of top-roping came up and she was mentioned how she’d like to do that more, I said that I’ve always got my harness there with me if she ever wants to go do ropes, and she said she’d take me up on that offer. So… something??
That does not count as a date! But, good job, I guess.
(Take her out someplace!)
I don’t know. I mean honestly I’m in a pretty bad funk atm (I think the whole beard thing was meant to be some kind of attempt at a repellent to keep people away, although it doesn’t seem to have worked out very well). But yeah, I dunno. Zero confidence in anything, even talk there at climbing feels like a struggle, with me mostly just staring ahead at the wall trying to ignore the elephant of silence. Was kinda lucky last night, a friend’s boyfriend was there being talkative and kept things going along here and there.
1) The quiet, contemplative man who has intense, silent, internal feels is not the turn-off you might think it is.
2) You may find that having an admirer is an amazing boost of confidence.
3) I’m going to choose to ignore your implication that a beard is a repellant instead of a sex symbol.
But you do you, man. Comfort is important too, I guess.
Well I guess it more applied when the rest of my head was getting unruly as well, maybe not so much since I shaved all that off 😛
And true on #2, I was feeling a lot better last night.
Oh actually – considering you’re one of the biggest beard advocates around these parts and therefore must be the resident expert… how much beard is too much beard? Is there even such thing?
There is certainly a school of those who belong to the Brotherhood of Big, believing ‘bushranger style’ to be perfectly acceptable, but those people are elder gods who earned it, bikers, or hipsters. And as I fit into none of those categories, I opt for a relatively short, neatly-trimmed half-inch to inch or so of length to keep from hiding too much of my attractive jaw line.
@transientmind
So modest 😛I am a young god, instead. And I sure as hell didn’t earn it.
She likes your growing mark serrels back muscles obvi
Sorry for the loss dude, hope your family especially your nanna is doing alright.
Well we lost Nanna two years ago, so hopefully she’s doing ok 😛
Oh..well yeah shes probably doing alright, telling the whippersnappers to get off her cloud and whatnot
Commiserations on your first point, I hope you’re Nan is OK (We weren’t just talking about your Nan a couple of days ago were we? Apologies if I’ve mixed this up).
I agree with Transients advice, if you like this girl and the thought of being with her some more makes you happy then go for it. If you invite her to do ropes and she says yes, then it’s popcorn time.
On a serious note though, you should definitely take her up on taking her to do ropesIt seems too absurd though. Like… she’s legit gotta be one of the top three most attractive girls I’ve ever seen at the gym in all the nearly 6 years I’ve been going there, so all I can think is “Nup. Waaaaaay out of my league”. But by all accounts she’s absolutely lovely – actually even from my sister. I was talking to her about the whole mohawk thing the other day when I’d shaved it off, and how it got strangers talking to me. “No, girls too. [Girl at climbing] came up and told me she liked it!” “[Girl]? Oh man she is *gorgeous*. And such a lovely person. You should keep talking to her. I mean, you’d be fighting the rest of the gym for her, but you should.” Or something along those lines. Rarely have conversations like that with my sister, but then they do happen they’re kind of hilarious 😛
But yeah I dunno. See what happens or something.
Hot rock climber? Yeah I’m jelly, I’m living vicariously through you friend. I look forward to more iterations!
And then nothing happened again, ever 😛
(also a dentist!)
Alright now you’re just showing off. *sniff*
Dammit I said right at the start I wasn’t going to buy into any of this. What are you guys doing to me!
Today @shane, we’re either validated or destroyed.
Praise Kojima.
My excitement for this video game is worrying my girlfriend.
I am ready.
But I’ll never stop believing. If nothing else, there will be a hidden Hayter voice track to unlock, and I’m prepared to devote the remainder of my life’s gaming time to finding it.
Will probably be picking up my copy today. Though I’m still playing through the original MGS, and currently intend to go through the entire series before playing MGSTPP
Come on, you’ve played them before, can you wait that long?
Yes. It’s been at least half a decade since I’ve played any of these games. I badly need a refresher.
And I haven’t played Peace Walker at all before. Or GZ.
(I own them all [most on multiple systems], so I should justify the purchase by playing them!)
I’ve played them all (Yes, even Ac!d and Ac!d 2), and crazy as it sounds – PW might actually be my favorite. Was mind-bending at the time how much they’d shoehorned into a PSP title, and it was fun as hell to boot. Mother base and Fulton Recovery were some of the best mechanics introduced – and honestly one of the biggest things I’m excited about for TPP.
EDIT: If anyone’s into turn based strategy games, MG Ac!d and MG Ac!d 2 were actually an amazing amount of fun. Second is styled very differently to the first, but both very very enjoyable.
I’m really looking forward to it. Can’t decide whether to play the 360 version I already own, or splash out some more cash to play it on my Vita. I’m thinking the latter, as stupid as that is.
I was always unsure how a console HD PW remake would feel. Probably biased because I smashed it so hard on PSP – but I wondered if some of the awesomeness would be lost because it wouldn’t feel so impressive on a console as it did on a handheld. Shame PW HD didn’t get a Vita release, but you can still play PW PSP on it. Highly recommended – and it’s also the direct prequel to TPP. Would be beneficial to play it through and get in the mood, or up to speed with the story.
I played it on both PSP and PS3.
I abandoned it on PSP because I was wrestling too much with the controls. As long as you don’t go in expecting anything more than an upscaled PSP title, it’s fine on console.
And it’s still an insane amount of stuff
Do what I did last night and just speed run Ground Zeroes, collecting all the XOF patches. It unlocks all missions and you can upload the save file for use with Phantom Pain.
Took me about two hours.
I haven’t played GZ yet, so I’ll play it through once ‘properly’ before I do a collectibles run. Thanks for the tip, though!
She’s probably scared your gonna commit seppuku if ita shite
Or if Hayter isn’t in it.
Hayter be hayting
More like Mental Gear Solid
AM I RIGHT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Well your not wrong, unless its a gas
This may finally get me to put down Bloodborne, I too am excited, in a very nerdy way.
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!!!
*sigh*
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-new-deus-ex-may-get-an-early-release-but-only-if-enough-people-pre-order/
That is never a reason to release early, the only reason you should release early is if it breaks street date not because people preordered it
The article is too charitable.
Oh? I can.
If I ever meet one of the donkey-fuckers behind this kind of bullshit, I shall glare at them with the stony silence of obvious disapproval.
Blame Valve. They proved that you can get people to buy things in the interest of an insane system to unlock Portal 2 ten hours early.
Blame Capcom, who’ve been doing this sort of Pre-order thing for years on Steam, albeit with typically slightly more substantial rewards.
Blame the standard release schedule, which says that games should be released on a Tuesday (or a Thursday in AU, which is why plenty of ours are delayed by what is essentially a day), meaning that a game will be sitting in the back room for days, waiting for the arbitrary release date.
Oh, I blame them all. The fuckery is ubiquitous.
Yeah.
Still going to preorder it regardless though. DX:HR was fucking awesome.
I can too, but I don’t think it’ll play out that way.
Here’s how I see it happening.
The pre-order progress bar will incrementally approach its target. If the sales aren’t enough to do this, it’ll be because of moving goalposts. Why? Because the appearance of success begets real success. If people see pre-order numbers rising to (what seem to be) high levels, they’ll
ponysheep up to the local EB and plonk down some cash.I’m thinking about ordering it too, but that’s nothing to do with this so-called incentive.
Oh, it’ll absolutely reach success.
And this was absolutely a no-brainer pre-order for me, too. But I’m less favourably-inclined towards it after seeing their gross manipulation.
Update from last week: the Vita has a pretty well-hidden option to customise controls for PSX emulated games. Hold down the PS button while in-game, and there you have it. It makes an insane amount of difference to be able to switch off the rear touchpad \o/
Metal Gear Solid is soooooo good.
It’s held up remarkably well in almost all respects. I remember now why I was so obsessed with it, and why MGS2 was the first game I ever pre-ordered at full price (cost me $130 in 2002).
I think 3 is the only one i bought at release- 1, 2 and 4 came out before i had their respective consoles
I played 1 and 2 on PC.
The PS exclusive release of Snake Eater is what convinced me to finally splash out for a PS2.
2 was on pc?
It sure was!
MGS3 was my first preorder and I’ve preordered all of them since.
Even the AC!Dss’s’s’s’s’s’s’s
Ac!ds were soooo gud.
I’ve never been able to find a copy when I’ve been looking, and I cbf ebaying.
They can be difficult to find – not rare, just uncommon. They usually pop up on eBay for pretty cheap, that’s where I got my copy of Ac!d 2. Was only like $15 or something too.
Should’ve pre ordered.
Didn’t even own a PSP when either of them came out
I didn’t own a PS2 when Sons of Liberty came out.
I had to Inception my friend so he’d let me come over and play it on his one weekend.
Gooooooood times.
I think it was about the third game I bought- got OG Burnout with the console, then FFX and a memory card, then MGS2
@redartifice
That’s a goddam holy trinity of video games.
@dkzeitgeist My PS3 first couple were Assassins Creed 2, Arkham Asylum, and MGS4. For PS4, I’ve had Witcher 3, Bloodborne, Arkham City, and soon MGS V.
I’ve done well.
You can also get them on emulator if you wanted to have a crack.
If Konami were smart they’d port them to mobile.
Yeah, amazed they’ve never made it to tablet, seems like a gimme.
Of course, they’d be microtransactioned out the wazoo, but I’d still play it, sheep that I am
Sooo.. what time does Phantom Pain unlock for PC again? 19 hours! What the hell?
About 3AM tomorrow morning, assuming Steam’s at all accurate with its guess.
9am on the 1st of September… in London. :\
Ah, 9am. So that’s what that weird timing is – I assumed midnight.
That was just a guess based on the fact it was 17 hours away at 10am or so this morning and that some Japanese companies are so geographically challenged (see also: Nintendo) that they think Australia is in Europe.
Note: I don’t care for MGSV at all. I just happened to get a free copy on Steam as a result of a promotion that nVIDIA were running.
Can you gift it? 😛
Nope, it was redeemed directly into my account and I didn’t get to see a key for it that I could have passed to another person. Which is a shame because I probably won’t ever play it as I don’t really like MGS. Will give it a go though.
All these people carrying on about Metal Gear, and I’m just sitting here enjoying the fact that I can play The Witcher 3 properly again… 😛
Based on what I’ve seen online, long-time fans of the series are going to be pretty happy with it. It almost makes me wish I actually got into it back in the day.
In other news, Xbox One controllers work wonderfully on PC via the Play and Charge kit. It also made me fob a bunch of Rocket League matches while I got used to the feel of the new analogue sticks. They’re so much smoother and less resistive than the 360 controller which translates into “way better, but for now you’re going to oversteer/spin hilarious amounts”.
I played MGS1 and 2 but as I’ve said before, because I liked MGS2 I don’t deserve to have an opinion according to the “hardcore” fans.
I LOVED MGS2. I think it’s probably the smartest of all the games. I read a thesis that deconstructed all its meanings, and I just have an insane amount of appreciation for it now.
I think all the MG games (that I’ve played) excel above the others in the series in at least one respect:
MGS: Most exciting
MGS2: Most cerebral
MGS3: Most emotional
MGS4: Most epic
That’s how I see it, anyway.
Neh, MGS2 was great. I never liked Raiden, but that’s just me. The game itself was awesome.
Hardcore fans can suck my nano machine.
METAL GEAR IS LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE!!!
MGS2 is a very, very smart game that’s written very, very stupidly.
I actually really liked the Raiden fake-out and seeing snake work from the outside.
Also, I feel like I should be finishing off some of my pile of shame … but at the same time, Dragon Age: Inquisition
At this point, even with DLC, Dragon Age can probably be considered shameworthy.
Speaking of, I still need to knock the story off in it…
Alright, I’ll use an Xbox One controller. FUCK!
Xbox One controllers work wonderfully on PC via a bog-standard USB cable like you’d use to charge a phone. No need for a play & charge kit. 🙂
Sure, but then you don’t have a rechargeable battery. And with a different of $5 between a controller and a controller plus the kit, why wouldn’t you?
If it’s plugged in over USB it doesn’t touch the batteries.
Source: I have had the same Xbox One controller hooked up to my PC since December, bog standard AA batteries in it, never replaced. Used that controller to play through all of several games including >100 hours of The Witcher 3.
EDIT: The reason I wouldn’t is simply that I got two controllers with my Xbone as part of a staff-only bundle deal. And also I’m wary about it because the X360 play & charge kits were awful, the battery packs lost power and completely packed up after about 6 months.
Welp, guess you saved $5 then.
Yes the Xbox one controller works a treat on PC, Windows 10 even has native drivers, so not installs required. 😀
It’s amazing what you can do these days. Just the other day i was using Steam in-home streaming to stream Rocket League from my PC, to my 13″ Macbook in bed, with two XBONE controllers plugged in, playing it with my wife. All of that was on a 5Ghz wifi network, no network cables at all..
http://www.gog.com/game/stasis
New adventure game called Stasis was released today. It’s all isometric. I LOVE isometric adventure games. Definite Sanitarium vibes coming from this. 🙂
http://store.steampowered.com/app/380150/
On Steam too. Been getting so me excellent reviews.
I wishlisted it when I saw it turn up, then immediately started second-guessing myself.
If I had read the same game description, but for first-person perspective, I would’ve yawned and clicked ‘not interested’. So many of those damn ‘horror/adventure’ first-person-jump-scare-generator-clones hoping a popular YouTuber will play them for reaction shots and make them famous that I’ve mentally written them all off. All of them. ALL OF THEM.
But there’s something about the isometric view which instantly made me more forgiving. I don’t know why.
Difference between third and first person is that you can dissociate yourself from the events. It’s not you that’s the utter moron doing stupid things that anyone can tell will get you murdered, it’s some stupid idiot you’re controlling.
Also first person horror is generally scarier. VR horror apparently is incredibly intense.
I think the main reason is it can’t rely purely on jump scares, they are far less effective in 3rd person. So there is a greater chance at a ‘real’ game there
For the people who haven’t seen it, you should probably check out Necropolis by Harebrained Schemes, if only for the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmc8jlpvsEw&feature=youtu.be
Finished Until Dawn last night.
Man, what a game. Once you get past the first maybe 3 chapters and the story gets going it’s excellent. I actually ended up liking almost everyone by the end of the game. At the start I was just like “you’re going to die, and you’re going to die. You annoy me, you can die too”. And then I accidentally saved everyone.
The game really plays to the horror tropes about seeing people die on screen. I also got the secret ending with Josh, which I already knew about and approximately how to get (involving clues for The Twins).Yeah, such a great surprise. I’ve been following it for a while, but didn’t expect it to be as great as it was. Now I’ve played through it twice and have 70% of the achievements. Part of me wants to press on and get them all, but I don’t want to overplay it. Up there with my favourite games of the year. 🙂 Also, still recommending Life is Strange if you want another interactive drama fix.
I think I could platinum it with a second run where everything just goes horribly wrong.
But yeah, I’ve got a bunch of other games to play (Gears Ultimate, The Witcher 3 for starters) that I’m going to hold off. And @alexpants wants to borrow it.
Yessss, I would really like to see the no one survives ending, assuming it’s a thing. 😀
It’s funny, because yeah, I had no interest in it until the reviews started coming out and now I’m seriously considering going back and finding all the items etc, seeing different endings and what not.
Kind of takes the sting away from Mad Max not living up to expectations too, when a game like this blows them away.
Have Mad Max reviews come out yet? I haven’t looked.
I feel like Fury Road being so good pushed the expectations for Mad Max into unobtainable territory.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/mad_max/b/playstation4/archive/2015/08/31/desert-sessions-in-repetition.aspx
Doesn’t sound awful.
Yeah, reviews are coming down firmly in the MEDIOCRE category, though as @redartifice says, this is clearly a plot to fill the internet with Immortan Joe gifs.
I’ve pre-ordered it, so I’ll be playing it soon. Even if it’s shit, I’ll be happy because it comes with FURY ROAD. WITNESS! o/
Gonna kill me some teenagers.
Then play Until Dawn. Heyyooooo.
Ugh, people keep saying good things about this game, but I have zero tolerance for the torture/gore porn that apparently passes for modern ‘horror’, so have incredible resistance to even acknowledging Until Dawn’s existence. It’s as much a presence on my gaming radar as whatever number sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s is up to.
The fact that you can accidentally save everyone is something I wasn’t expecting and likely the only reason I might even look at it one day.
I imagine that people have seen so many horror movies where the fear of the unknown masked killer is no longer a thing.
People do now I think confuse horror and repulsion and consider the same thing with movies like the Human Centipede and Saw, rather than the classic jump scare Scream and Nightmare series.
Greetings TAY,
Hope you all are doing well 🙂
I could use some advice from the tabletop rrpg crowd here. I am wanting to set up a rpg for some of my longtime friends and I to play. The assistance I need is that I am looking to make it as simple as possible due to some of these friends having never played one before and therefore if it is too daunting they won’t take to it. The other factor is I want it to be something that we can play and be done with over the course of a few hours. We are all oldies and have family/social commitments so I am thinking of something that could be played over about 5/6 hours on Sunday arvo. If need be I was going to frankenstein something up, however I would gladly welcome any suggestions.
Can any of you help? Thanks in advance 🙂
Update:-If this helps at all, we used to play the Pallidium, Heroes & Villians and Rift RPG’s (I did say I was old). So this is something along the lines of what I am looking at? Though other boardgames suggestions are still very welcome.
Fiasco?
I hadn’t heard of that one, will be checking it out for sure after googling it. Thanks.
inb4 @highperformance Risk GoT edition =P
Game of Thrones: Ris-
Oh. :'(
Look at one-session RPGs that need no prep.
Fiasco, of course, but there’s also stuff like Lasers & Feelings: http://onesevendesign.com/lasers_and_feelings_rpg.pdf
Here’s a Fiasco session we did a while back, including setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKX5Q9pcGF8
My advice with shorter sessions/one shots is go as mechanically light as possible, so you can fit more story in.
Failing that, boardgames like the Pathfinder Adventure card game or Descent are designed to do some of that RPG stuff
Thank you, Fiasco is definitely looking like an option. Lasers & Feelings looks like a lot of fun.
These suggestions also reinforce that I should be thinking outside the box. Very much appreciated all round 🙂
I can’t really link to anything from work sorry but here’s a few silly and very basic games.
Actual Cannibal Shia La Beouf is a short and stupid game where you have to escape Actual Cannibal Shia La Beouf and survive the night. Horror cliches and tropes are encouraged.
All Outta Bubblegum is another silly game where you run around as action heroes in everyday life. The twist is that you have a limited supply of bubblegum and, once you run out, you can’t do anything but kick ass all the time.
Paranoia is perfect for a one-shot if you don’t mind being mutant communist traitors. Full of stupid amounts of betrayal and conflicting mission objectives and security clearances. The fun is trying to balance your mission goals, your loyalty to Friend Computer, your duty as a secret agent, and your life.
I like insane fun so those 3 you suggested will definitely be checked out. Thanks! 🙂
You could look into some board games instead of traditional pen & paper stuff, though it depends what you want.
Mansions of Madness is an interesting choice. One player is the GM, the rest are players exploring a mansion filled with lovecraftian horrors. Great miniatures. The maps are semi-randomized and there’s a sort of scenario that’s set up for the game, where the group needs to do a series of things to win. Setup is fiddly but it’s not too hard to play. Just be warned that being a Fantasy Flight game, the rule book is fucking awful and makes things seem much more complicated than they need to be.
Another option if you’re looking for a D&D-style dungeon crawl with minis would be the D&D adventure games. Castle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon or Legend of Drizzt. They’re okay games but not role-playing. Each player controls a character and there’s no GM. As you reach the edge of a tile you draw a new dungeon tile at random and place it, and then draw items and monsters for that tile. You control the monsters that spawned on the tiles you revealed and they move according to set rules. It’s fun and fairly quick to play through but it’s a bit lacking in depth and progression.
Other dungeon crawler options would be Descent (games are probably too long, but it has much more depth and a proper campaign system for tracking character progression over games etc) or Super Dungeon Explore, which is sort of in the middle. More depth than the D&D ones, less neckbeardy than Descent. The Forgotten King expansion which just released recently streamlined a lot of the rules and added a way to play it without needing a GM which improved the game a lot. Plus it’s got a sort of 16-bit RPG aesthetic that I quite like. Expansion coming soon will add a persistent campaign setting too.
You could also try the Pathfinder card game. You can play through a module of the game in about 30-40 minutes. Each player has a fixed deck and can customize it based on cards acquired by the party as you play, and the deck counts as your HP as well as your skill sets and so on. It’s fairly simple but fairly fun co-op and you can see how the Pathfinder rules have transitioned into it. Only issue is it gets quite expensive especially if you want to sleeve everything, and setup takes some time so you ideally want to do longer sessions and do two or three parts of a campaign at once. Also no role-playing involved.
For actual Pen & Paper stuff, there’s a few other options you could try.
For pure role-playing, one option might be to look into GURPS Lite. It’ll require you to do a bit of prep as GM, but the rules are very simple. The entire rulebook is 32 pages and it’s available for free. Basically it’s a distillation of the core rules from the GURPS system. GURPS can get a bit neckbeardy at times but it is very role-play heavy. I don’t really
The other two that I’d suggest looking at are ones I know of but have never actually tried.
The first one that always comes up when people are asking about simple Pen & Paper RPGs that are good for beginners is FATE Accelerated. It’s a distillation of the FATE system, designed to be quick to set up with minimal prep and simple enough to play with children or role-playing beginners without being boring for adults. As I understand it the biggest difference between it and the ‘Core’ FATE system is that your characters pick an approach to a situation (Careful, or Flashy) rather than picking a skill to roll against. So that streamlines things quite a bit. It’s cheap to get hold of too, IIRC PDF is pay-what-you-think-is-reasonable.
The other one is Dungeon World. It’s an interesting approach. Basically it’s a generic fantasy setting but as GM, you don’t put too much detail in. Instead, the detail of the world and everything else is filled in by the GM and players as they go. Players make moves and depending on the outcome or the move taken, the GM may also make moves. Each player has multiple ‘bonds’ with the other players characters that can be added or resolved. Each session you add some more and maybe resolve some at the end for XP. Things like ‘X saved me from that trap, I owe them a favor’ or ‘I have to beat Y by killing more orcs than them next fight’ and so on. Everything is designed to be fairly collaborative and very much designed so that the GM provides some generic details and the players and GM together fill that in. They encourage making maps with blank spaces and so on. It’s a system I’d really like to try some time personally.
Wow, lots more to look into here now as well. Thanks for the comprehensive reply NegativeZero, I really appreciate you taking the time to give me this. Dungeon World does sound very similar to the idea I had in my head, an RPG-esque adventure that isn’t too daunting for someone new, doesn’t require much prep and can be fluid with rules etc when required.
I don’t have anything to say on the matter, but your username is rad.
Thank you very muchly! 🙂
Apparently the PC version of Metal Gear Solid 5 contains the Steam installer…
…and that’s it.
PC Master Race!
Who’s buying hard copy PC games these days? If anything I’m tempted to grab it on PS3 so I can play it tonight, get some trade-in value back when I’m done and then eventually pick it up on Steam
at bargain price.That comment seems to come off as a fark you to all involved in the game. Not intended. I’m just slightly annoyed by the timing of the releases, that’s all – as much as a synchronised September 1st launch was meant, there’s still people that end up getting it before others.
And a Steam preload would have been nice. Ugh, then again the PC version was originally going to be released Sept 15 so I should probably just be grateful and shut up now.
You make me want to ask the question Benny, I’ll credit you with my next TAY musing 😛
Uncharted 4 release date! Woo woo woo March 18 <3
Well, I know what I’m buying me for my birthday next year.
I hope it’s a really tasty cheesecake.
I know what i’m asking my Wife for my birthday next year… Might be a big ask considering i don’t yet have a PS4. Hehe
Although that’s terrifyingly close to the Dark Souls 3 window, I’m confirmed off work all through March and April next year, so this still strikes me as excellent timing. HYYYYYYYPPPPPPPPE
March and April? That’s quite some annual leave you have racked up there. ?
My wife’s giving birth to our fourth kid at the end of Feb, and I’ve been saving leave for a while anyway! 🙂
Four? Well done, I’m only up to two, second one this month actually, and wonder where all my time disappears to.
So, probably going to get married in the afternoon/early evening, and I’m sort of considering a (wedding) dress with either feathers or sequins – you know, tasteful ones.
A+ 10/10, or F——- tacky bad no good?
Something like this?
Would certainly be memorable.
In all seriousness, I was going to make a comment about going as kitschy as possible (because I have a stipulation in my contract to never be helpful), but I couldn’t remember how to spell kitsch and I ended up with Quiche at first and man am I hungry.
Good talk? Good talk.
Third note, as I derail this train harder than a sideswiping elephant, I was very confused by the notification replying to myself gave me, because I couldn’t work out where I’d been on-screen when it disappeared, so I was desperately searching for any signs of validation when the website had just decided to reinforce my loneliness.
Brrrrrrrrazilan wedding!
Cosplay wedding. 😉
I misread this and thought this meant you were getting married this afternoon.
Pretty casual about the whole thing, nbd.
Same here.
So did I.
I would like to think I’m quite aesthetically inclined that said I know next to nothing about wedding dresses! I imagine sequins/feathers used sparsely could lift a wedding dress from elegance to graceful however it’s implementation in the outfit would be key. Probably a fine line between elegant and tacky depending on how the designer has interpreted the vision; I would think you would also want the dress to age well so that when you look at wedding photographs 3-5-10 years from now you’ll still want to hang up wedding photographs around the house =]
I know next to nothing about wedding dresses, either! Haha, all I know is that I would not suit a traditional dress, nor would our wedding. We’re not doing anything weird or wacky, but it’s going to be a casual garden wedding, probs with a taco truck, you know? If I went that way, it’d be subtle, but noticeable. These are ruffles, rather than feathers, but I’m rather taken by this – http://au.watters.com/image.php?width=440ℑ=/styles/5080B/1.jpg
Link doesn’t work! =O
And I think I see what you’re trying to get at; you want something that fits within the tropes of a wedding dress however you don’t want to be over-dressed given the atmosphere you’re aiming for with the wedding. Probably something that’s easy for you to move in while maintaining a degree of elegance and agelessness. If you’re looking to add feathers and/or sequins to the mix definitely stick to K-I-S-S; more to add a degree of flair to a simple canvas. It should be enough to get people to notice the effect they have on your outfit but also subtle enough that it becomes less noticeable as the event/day roll on? Am I getting warmer/colder?
The thing to remember about wedding dresses is that like all things, if you put the word “wedding” in front, then you can quadruple the price and convince someone that if they don’t buy it then they are Going To Ruin Everything.
If you have a style of dress that you like to wear, and it doesn’t matter what – short and boxy, loose and flowing, fun and foofy – pick something that you like, and then get it made in the colour you want.
Also, just changing the length of a dress makes a huge difference – a tea-length (mid-calf) or knee length dress looks much less formal, but still gorgeous. Also, easier to wear and everyone can see your pretty shoes 😉
Why not feathers and sequins?
What if a Witcher arrows you thinkin’ you’re a harpie, Jane? WHAT IF?
This is a daily concern.
I know it keeps me awake at night!
Or what if someone with poor eye-sight, is cosplaying as Geralt and mistakes the sequins as scales and thinks you’re a Siren and does many spinning strikes with a plastic sword, leaving little to no noticeable marks or bruises??! This is the definition of FEAR..
Maybe just add some hidden armor plating just to be safe.
If there’s anything I’ve learned from going to the gym, it’s that wedding dresses are rarely a thing where you focus on one style and get what you first envisaged.
Elegant feathers and/or sequins are totally a thing, but usually trying something on to see how you actually look, instead of seeing how you vaguely hope it looks is the way to go. Keep an open mind and you’ll definitely come across something you’ll love.
Doesn’t matter if it has sequins or feathers; there are terrible dresses with and without both. Just shop around with tonnes of time before the date so you have plenty of time to think. It’ll help reduces the stress of it all, too.
wear this dress! complete with hot sauce house! http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-Hot-Sale-RainBow-Wedding-Dress-Custom-Make-A-Line-Long-Wedding-Dress-Sweetheart-Neck-Colorful/32374226991.html
Postmodern Jukebox are in town for a show this weekend, you should step up the date to coincide and have them play your gig. Then the feathers will be tasteful. EVERYTHING had feathers in the 20s!
I’m sure that would be affordable, right?
A friend of mine actually got married in a rainbow chevron vintage dress. She looked incredible!
Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to @freya
Easier solution: Forget worries about the dress and have a nudist wedding.
But nudist with or without accessories? Because feathers and sequins could still be an option.
My wedding dress had glitter (cheaper than sequins, haha) but really, wear whatever the heck you want. It’s your wedding! Got any pics of what you have in mind?
Ripped jeans and a motorbike jacket it is
Having just looked at some of the outfits from the VMAs this week (and now needing brain bleach), I would say that jeans and a motorbike jacket are perfectly fine to get married in.
Oh dude, yes. I am getting a really, really gorgeous new custom-made leather moto jacket next month.
Thanks, lady. I actually really, really, really like this – https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1b/23/9f/1b239f3d4b24f701164718b0292ebf7f.jpg
it’s the picture I tried to post earlier that didn’t work ( @pupp3tmast3r )
Also, you guys are all the best <3
That’s lovely 🙂
Do you Pinterest? I wish I’d had it when I was planning my wedding.
WHAT??? NO, I LIKE MOTORBIKES AND VIDEO GAMES itotallyhaveasecretpinterestweddingboard AND METAL GEAR SOLID BUTTS
My pinterest is full of PAX cosplay at the moment 😀
Hey where’s the feathers?!
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/38/c0/4e/38c04e13512344de8126a116163c2769.jpg
ooo very nice; could work in white! They’re small and subtle enough to look more like a texture effect than individual feathers.
I turned 35 today….
I don’t feel any different to when I was 18, but I am now way more aware of my age.
Suddenly superannuation is a very important thing to me. It’s all downhill from here.
On a positive note got some cool gifts (including a book on the history of video game art) and hopefully I’ll be booting up MGS tonight, so not all bad I suppose 🙂
Happy birthday, friend!
On the note of superannuation; best thing you can do river is keep an eye on it at least monthly or quarterly. I run my own fund so I look at it daily but I can safely say it is the single most valuable investment vehicle available to every single Australian out there and you want to make sure the industry fund you’re with is looking after your nest egg.
Edit: Also Happy birthday! (thanks DC xD); also welcome to TAY! I see you’ve migrated from a guest account to an actual account!
Double Edit: Reading blaghsy’s post I should also mention you can probably book in a free meeting to meet with a financial planner within your industry fund to get some idea on how to structure your super (that said it’ll also be coupled with a lot of internal PR for whichever fund you’re with).
As a 24 year old (who doesn’t work very much and thus has next to nothing in his super), I spent last night tweaking how it all works in the hope that I can have any money whatsoever. Curious to give it a couple of years with my earnings split evenly between a higher risk/reward system and a normal one to see what the real difference is.
Also, Hippies Bertday.
Happy Birthday!
Dude, you’ve still got 5 more years before you’re middle aged. Forget about your future and enjoy your youth.
I’ve done that for the first 35 years!!
Worked out ok so far 🙂
But I do need to sort a few things …
Damn adulthood
Thanks for the wishes 🙂
@pupp3tmast3r yeah you’re right about the super stuff, I will take all that on board.
I’m gonna get it sorted shortly and start keeping a closer eye on it, it’s only the last 12months or so I’ve really realised how important it will be, gotta get a handle on it.
What people forget is that superannuation once in the pension phase (i.e. once you can transition to retirement) with current legislation is tax free (i.e. any asset you have within super won’t pay CGT once in retirement). There is no other investment entity that can provide that level of growth benefit out there.
While superannuation reform is long overdue I imagine the most we’ll see is the lowest tax bracket being applied to capital growth realized in the pension phase.
I should also note that most industry funds prefer to run their investment mandates without any scrutiny; you might find upon review that your funds are better stored in another industry fund once you take into account historical performance, admin/management fees (usually 0.6-1.8% of FUM) and transparency on how your investments are being managed.
Super is a long game; the earlier you start the better your end balance will be (this is speaking from experience with clients who only end up looking at their super 5-10 years away from retirement and start panicking; at this point its too late to effectively put together a retirement plan). Also worth noting is that your super fund can pay for life insurance cover. A couple of things to bear in mind when looking at super – how much do you think you need to live (per week/per year) on once you retire; how many years of retirement do you expect to have; adjust all these values for CPI (i.e. 2-3% p.a.) and you’ll come to a figure you need in your retirement fund. Once you’ve reached that figure you can put together a contributions plan on how best to meet it over the next 20-30 years.
Disclaimer gibberish – This is not financial advice; you should seek out a financial adviser/planner to best put together a retirement/superannuation plan that suits your individual needs.
I think maybe you and I need to have a one on one. 😛
Haha hit me up with any general questions you might have =] Or if you prefer we can e-mail; at the very least I can give you info on things to look for when it comes to superannuation!
Like how to get monies?
For super that’s easy! Just get a job and 9.5% of your pay goes to super =P See you don’t even have to do anything!
But ezy 200k pls? 😛
You wouldn’t be able to retire on 200k high =P Given our age and CPI factored in we’re probably looking for an amount closer to $4-6 million for a comfortable 20 year retirement; i.e. moderate cost of living + 1-2 holiday/trips a year.
4 TO SIX MILLION? FUCK I MIGHT HAVE ! MIL IF I’M LUCKY HOLY FUCK
Like Freeze was saying when we were chatting a few weeks back… you might not feel any different to when you were younger, but go have a conversation with a teenager/20yr old and you’ll suddenly realize just how different you are. 🙂
Happy birthday for yesterday! What’s the art book called?
What’s the cheapest price around for Metal Gear? I’m looking to get a copy for my brother’s birthday. Heard mumbling mentions of Target but not confirmed them.
Dinner for two at Target.
..I mean 69. Dollars.
$69 at Target according to their catalog I see reddit and OzBargain are saying.
$69 at Target is cheapest. It’s in their catalogue (source: I’ve got a copy in my hand right now).
EB is price matching (or at least, they did for me)
Thanks, thinktank!
So weekend! Christ I’ve had a weekend I can tell you that! My back/hip started getting pulsing pains on Friday to the point I only felt safe staying in bed on Saturday with a hot water bottle. Went to the doc’s yesterday and he reckons it might be a slipped disc or a pinched nerve possible aggravated from a back/hip injury I suffered from a fall a few years ago. Been banned from going to the gym and asked to do an MRI :O D= :'( I hate not being able to gym but I’m also quite freaked out that it could be bad; from everything I’ve seen online there isn’t really a cure/treatment for pinched nerves or slipped discs 🙁 Anyone else had any experience in the matter?
Also thanks to inspiration from @shane I traded in some games over the weekend and got Fire Emblem, Batman Collectors edition (preowned and $80) and pre-ordered Mad Max! So far I’m sucked into Fire Emblem and doubt I’ll be playing anything else for the next 3 weeks >.< !
I have had issues with a slipped disc but try not to stress, it can be fixed to a degree but once you have one, you are always at risk of it happening again. I’ve had it happen 4 times to me since the first time it happened 15 years ago and it hurts like a mofo!
You will probably need to go to a physio and get treated and then they will put you on a program to build up the muscles and relieve the swelling around the area and gradually you can build up the muscles and it will be OK again. You will always need to keep active and build core strength though as there is a greater risk if you don’t and it will increase the chance of it happening again. I haven’t had a issue in the last 2 years *touch wood* and I hope to keep it that way!
Thanks Haggis; hopefully physio will fix this and I can get back to my gym sessions; my mental state tends to deteriorate if I can’t keep physically active frequently =\
That said looks like I can still swim with relative safety from what I’ve read online so I’ll just have to do that while I get my back checked out.
You will probably have to have a modified gym program to make sure that you’re doing exercises that are not going to put undue stress on your back. Swimming might be a good option, especially now it’s getting warmer again.
*sigh* and that’s what I’m afraid of 🙁 What if I can’t gym properly in the future without risk of further injury :'(
@highperformance has some great advice below – rest now, and if the MRI gets you the all-clear then you can get a physio and a trainer to help you work on making the right muscles strong so that you can go on being active and hopefully never have to deal with this again. Remember that there are gym programs even for people who are in wheelchairs or elderly ladies with osetoporosis.
In the meantime, try some meditation or yoga breathing outdoors to help refresh your mind.
There are some exercises which can aggravate the pinched nerves, particularly excessive flexion and rotational movements of the hip.
Many people have a slipped disc or pinched nerve and achieve plenty in the gym, some even play team sports regularly with no noticeable change to their activity levels. As @cookingmama & @haggis say, to keep up a large physical activity regime it’d be worthwhile looking into reformer pilates and other exercise programs that add value to your deep lying core muscles which will assist with making you strong and not relying on ‘power muscles’ to undertake ‘stability’ movements.
The only hip related workouts I have are squats and lunges and I hate doing them so I’m happy to phase them out xD I’m just hoping I can get back to my usual routine soon; this inactivity is making me restless and irritable =@
Good, be careful with deadlifts ESPECIALLY. Also if you’re doing some Woodchoppers, standing chest press that can put pressure on your lower back too!
Most of my routine takes pressure off my back as I’m pretty pedantic in making sure I have some form of back support even for bicep curls. I’m also incredibly careful and slow when it comes to lat pulldowns and back raises over an exercise ball; that said all these routines workout my upper back and I guess in retrospect I’ve neglected my lower back muscles as there isn’t really an effective workout for them that I’ve come across. I guess I should just wait and see post MRI and organize a physio to tweak my existing routine before re-commencing my gym sessions.
Hello all
Would anyone be interested in Joining @redartifice @freezespreston and I for a game called microscope on Thursday night?
Its a Game where we basically create a world and the history for that world, its sortof like an RPG but more like Fiasco.
Let us know if you feel up for it 🙂
http://www.lamemage.com/microscope/
I might be up for this.
In order to prepare for MGSV I decided to play the one official MGS game I’ve never played. The 360 version of Peace Walker.
and whoof, what the hell happened? I can ignore the obvious PSP limitations, but the story sucks. I played up to the first credits and I know there’s more story afterwards, but I’m talking about the main story.
My first problem was having A.I controlled vehicles dwarfing Metal Gear in size and capabilities. Now the first Metal Gear doesn’t seem so important. Oh, a walking tank? I’ve taken out a building Metal Gear!The story also revolves around The Boss from MGS3. Even though that story was wrapped up nicely, Kojima decided to go back and retcon a few things. It also destroys her story somewhat by having her innocence proven.
At the end Kojima decided that the whole world will be saved… by singing. Ergh.
Agreed, I thought MGS2 was weird (love it but it is weird) and then that one just had me shaking my head thinking, he’s finally done it, he has lost his mind…
Pretty excited for today though, fingers crossed it is decent.
Maybe spoiler tag this because at least one person here is playing it for the first time before The Phantom Pain
Like minds think alike!
PS: Thanks @neo_kaiser 🙂
I didn’t really spoil anything.
I have never been able to play more than a few hours of that one – on multiple platforms also – it just doesn’t hook me like the others.
Sorry, I know this game’s a few years old, but would you mind spoiler tagging this? I haven’t played PW yet, and intend to before I tackle TPP
Edit: THANK YOU! 🙂
I have a question for everyone.
How would you feel if Pax meat was opened to all of Kotaku AU instead of just Taybies? We have room for at least 80 people.
Well to be fair, a good chunk of people going don’t come to TAY any more as it is. My worry would be that if you open it to all and sundry, you’ll get too many people turning up.
Yeah, Techie is worried about that
I think it’s probably safer to keep it to TAY, but make it an open thing. TAY lurkers welcome, friends welcome etc. Should stop it from going out of proportion the way that having Mark post it on the front page might, for example.
I think I need to tell people via twitter and facebook too.
I guess so? Don’t have many Taybies on facebook (in fact, as of yesterday I went from 0 to 2!) so don’t know how active that avenue is, but twitter definitely.
There’s quite a few. I mostly want to cover all avenues.
How do I pay monies for attending?
@highperformance @tech_knight
You can pay via paypal. Otherwise, Techie may let you give him cash on the night. I”m not sure.
It’ $35 per person. It’s cheaper if more people show
@highperformance I don’t remember the amount per person, I’ll check my paypal when I get home by if Scree verifies, then you can send it to sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com
Keeping with the Metal Gear theme of today, I’ve put a new post up on my game dev blog, in which I’ve discovered that all the little subtleties I’ve been aspiring to… they’ve all been done, and by a game that’s nearly twenty years old.
http://thetiesthatbindvn.tumblr.com/post/128065555146/nothing-new-here
(Contains some light spoilers for the midpoint of MGS1)
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
I enjoyed that, thanks.
Watched the Prince of Persia movie last night. It… It wasn’t terrible. I think I even enjoyed it. Goofy and silly for sure but was a fun watch and the two leads weren’t hard on the eyes.
Also rewatched The Watchmen for the second time. I enjoyed that a lot more than I remember enjoying it way back on release. Felt a lot more solid than Marvel films.
Also also watched the Spawn movie (yeah I was up until 4:30am watching Netflix) and definitely did not enjoy it as much as I remember. Was one of my favourite films of my teenage years and I have no idea why upon watching again. Ugly, poorly made film.
Also also also watched V for Vendetta again also first time since release. Still a solid film but damn there is so much wank fantasy for people to grab onto there. The internet has ruined that film for me it seems. They need to reshoot it with a different mask despite it making no sense any more.
I loved Watchmen. Never got the angst around it. Was stylish. Great sound track. Shot beautifully. Lots of love went into it. 🙂
I hated the Sex Scene. I mean, I never like sex scenes in things, at best they make me laugh at how weird and awkward they are, and at worst they make me sigh as I face-palm, but that one was pretty damn bad.
Much better as a movie than as a comic though, cutting out the stupid crappy pirate story was a godsend, and changing the ending from the utterly woeful ending of the books was easily the best decision of the film.
I… actually preferred the book ending. AND I like the pirate story.
Prince of Persia – One of the better game to movie adaptions out there. Like you said, fun movie it you take it for what it is…which is a rather silly concept. Also anything with Jake Gyllenhaal is usually a winner.
Watchmen – I don’t know it Netflix has the directors or theatrical cut, but man, the directors cut elevates that movie from good to great. There’s an additional 30mins of scenes that add more backstory to a bunch of characters – http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1860304
Spawn – Dat CGI, amirite?
V for Vendetta – Agreed. The internet has completely ruined this movie for me. It’s still solid, but Jesus.
Looking at that Netflix has the theatrical version.
Kept you waiting, huh?
In keeping with the theme of METAL GEAR week this is the Duel Shock Red and I wrote a couple of years back. Enjoy! Spoilers for MGS games 1-4.
I’d totally forgotten we’d done this on MGS, I thought we’d done it on Stealth in general 🙂
Yesssss! I forgot about this, but it was a great read at the time, and again now. HYYYYYYYYYPE
I have for a long time had very powerful sneezes. Just a few months ago I sneezed hard enough to bash.my head against a sink. But today, I think I sneezed hard enough to bruise a rib.
Sneeze-related injury pageget!
I often sneeze hard enough to see stars.
So Ghost Trick, I’ve been playing this for the better part of a week now… holy crap this game is phenomenal so far!
MISSILE! <3
@scree got me into this game. It’s soooooooooo good.
So many awesome twists in the story, I keep getting things partially right then fully surprised on the rest
You’ve both played the same copy
Game of the year, every year.
Oh… Gods…
Peter Dutton publicly claimed that Fairfax is conducting a jihad against the government and being helped by the ABC to being the government down.
These people are out of their goddamn minds.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/01/peter-dutton-fairfax-media-trying-to-bring-the-government-down
He’s forgotten the number one rule that would avoid adverse coverage in the media: Don’t be shit.
I don’t think he’s using the word “jihad” correctly. I didn’t realize Fairfax media were predominantly Islamic?
It’s an anglicisation of al-Fair faq, which is Arabic for “these fucking Libs amirite”
Isn’t the anglicisation of “jihad” a “crusade”? I understood both terms to mean the waging of holy wars? Given “jihad” ‘s use in modern times is pre-dominantly appropriated by terrorist organizations rationalizing their violence using term in the context that @#@$!@4@ moron did is completely unacceptable. He equalizes the news reporting of a government’s ineptitude to a religious mandate to wage war. This is how we get a police state.
Not so much, it’s closer to “struggle”- it’s to fight to maintain the religion, both in terms of external forces, and internal struggle against temptation. The fundamentalist interpretation is to do it by force and fight, but someone trying to be an observant muslim is engaging in jihad.
Or so I read.
Yeah I was taught it was originally a struggle. Either of the sword of I want to say book or similar. However in recent history it’s meaning has been altered obviously by certain groups.
Summary of the news : Immigration minister claims to be victim of holy war led by savagely fair media that reports things that happened.
“They’re running articles without checking with my office first!” he shrieked, his long, unkempt talons clawing at his leathery face to expose the demonic visage of satan himself.
“IT BUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRNNS”, he added.
I kind of love the Brisbanetimes article on it.
It’s always a massive source of disappointment to me that there isn’t some greater impact on the public consciousness when politicians have to eat their words. They never actually eat them, they just ignore them – they push the plate away and opt to go to bed without dinner.
Although, just to be fair…
That bolded’s a pretty shameful question verging on, “Have you stopped beating your wife?” territory, and poor journalism pretending to be hard-hitting. He might as well have just said, “I have a story in mind, and I could do with you saying yes or no, but it won’t actually affect what I’ve written, but hey, don’t be insulted by my asking for your token participation in my criticism of you.”
The response was pretty classy as far as ‘politicians giving non-answers’ goes.
I hate Dutton so much. I’ve voted other people ahead of him at every election in this electorate and somehow the people around me keep him in. :'(
Yeah he’s pretty despicable; but let’s not forget Chris Pyne; George Brandis and Joe Hockey. They all come with a special breed of “fuck the general public”.
Oh, for sure, but Dutton is my electorate so I take it all the more personally. 😛
You get Dutton. We have Abbott.
Oh how I would love him to lose this seat.
You just made me look up who the member in my new electorate is.
…dammit it’s Joe Hockey 😛
I’m so sorry.
Comparatively, I have Gai Brodtmann, who… seems to define inoffensive. I have literally no idea what her thoughts on anything are.
And mine is Richard Marles, I believe
Mine’s Jason Clare. He seems like a pretty cool guy I guess, but I only heard him talk relatively recently and he sounds like a badass. Great voice 😛
I’ve got Karen Andrews. After some googling around she appears to stand for whatever she’s told to stand for. Very much filler for the party.
@mrtaco Jason Clare used to be minister for defence materiel. Joke at my old work was that a coworker had a crush on him, which meant the time he visited our office was hilarious
I’m in one of the safest Liberal seats in the country (61%, two-party preferred – it’s been Liberal for as long as the Liberal party existed, Menzies represented the electorate for 32 years). 🙁 Josh Frydenberg’s basically right hand to the devil. :\
I was having lunch with a guy yesterday who lives in Hockey’s electorate. He despairs of ever being rid of the numpty. I haven’t really cared who my local member is since I lived in Summer Hill (Grayndler), which was fortunate to have Albo.
Andrew Wilkie here. I feel like we could do much worse.
Although Eric Abetz’s office is about 100m down the road from me, so…
Wilkie seems like he’s one of the only people in the entire government that doesn’t take stupid pills every morning before arriving at work.
Heh my electorate used to be home to the Deputy Prime Minister back in the day (71/72 & 75-83). He ruled my electorate for close to 30 years, which he took over from his father who held it for almost as long. Bloody Country Party pricks. Then his son came in the 90’s as National Party, and wreaked havoc until 20004.
Now it’s an ALP safe seat, for the moment.
Living by yourself for seven weeks teaches you a lot about yourself, everyday there’s a new lesson.
Spoilers for naughty language.
That moment you rush out on your lunch break to pick up MGSV then get a call to say the teacher for your afternoon class is sick! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghehehehehehehe
Well, my day has been made.
Can’t talk, install has finished.
Damn the map is huge!
My copy got delivered half an hour ago.
DAMN YOU PACKAGE TRACKING YOU’RE A POISONED CHALICE
I’ve got my copy here, but my PS4 is stranded at home! Not much better.
In other news, I got well and truly owned by Metal Gear Rex at lunchtime. I forgot that older games actually have difficulty spikes 🙂
When I replayed MGS Rex was the most trouble I had. Having to evade, stop, get a missile lock with cacky controls, fire, and bug out was tough.
You don’t have to get a lock! Real players just aim and fire. *promptly dies again*
Yeah, I did figure that out, but it was a wrestling with controls issue, not a skill issue.
I know, I was just ribbing.
Any of you Brizvegas TAYsters heading to Post Modern Jukebox this weekend? I have pinstripes. It shall be glorious.
I do love those guys, but nah, not going. @freezespreston is a fan, though!
This looks like something I like! and dammit, they’re playing the metro on thursday night. And wearing my HellBunny would be appropriate!
*starts plotting*
…I may have to investigate.
I was going to go, but then my Dad wanted me to visit up north for Father’s Day and to celebrate buying a new house (in exchange for selling the old family home – ow, my nostalgias).
Just hit Silver in 2v2 ranked Rocket League. When you’re only playing a couple of ranked matches every couple of nights, it takes a long time to get out of bronze 😛
What kind of score do you need to get out of bronze? I’m at around 400 in both 2v2 and 3v3. I’m guessing it’s 1000.
I think 500? I’m currently at
554604. The only reason I notice is because the icon changed 😛I don’t pay much attention to the ranked numbers mostly because of the way you check them (it’s not that it’s hard, it’s just less convenient than it should be). I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it does mean I don’t sweat the small changes to it, which is nice.
Snake is on my desk. mocking me. He doesn’t have to go to work.
Fucker.
Look at him. With his eye patch and pony tail. Hippie. Get a job.
I remember a brief time when I did not have a job and was a hippie and watched a daytime tv soap about a man who may or may not have had long hair with/without ponytail and an eyepatch. The connections… they are everywhere.
In case of emergency, break spoiler:
Dear sir or madam,Nef can’t work today because he has one of those embarrassing illness what goes on down in the pants area. Best not to ask questions about it.
Sincerely,
Doctorb Rize
The ‘b’ is for bargain!
I woke up this morning to find a Waluigi plush toy holding a katana on my dining table. How was your morning?
Man, there’s some weird arguments going on in the pre-order article.
Honestly? Pre-ordering is a straight up and down Price Skimming strategy, and pre-order incentives are just a way to get in front of that. I don’t buy the argument that stuff is deliberately cut out for pre-order material all the time (though Javik in ME3 was annoying) but it’s really a way to get people to pay $110 rather than $69 for something, and as long as people still do that it’ll keep happening (he says as his full-priced copy of MSGV awaits at home).
I’m staying clear of it as I’m worried my head will explode in anger and frustration that the bottom line message appears lost on a lot of people there.
It’s just kinda silly when the answer is obvious. Games are post-scarcity in this digital age, even on consoles.
Hey, bits and bytes are hard to come by in this economy! 😛
Something something NBN comment isn’t the gov awful blah blah blah
There are some games I wish I had preordered. I very much prefer physical copies and Dragon Ball Xenoverse disappeared after the first day. Until Dawn took a couple of days to get a copy and Bayoneted 2 took nearly a month.
Agreed. I’ve always kicked myself for not preordering the Ni No Kuni LE.
Woah, Bayonetta 2 took you that long to find? We were making jokes in Sydney because there was an entire wall of unsold copies stretching down an aisle in JB HiFi 😛
I dunno, I played through it again a while back and as important as finding a living Prothean sounds it’s clearly not part of the story. Nothing significant happens in it and the entire thing can be written off as non-cannon because even though everybody comments on it nobody really reacts to a Prothean walking around. It’s essentially just a way to show players something the main plot of the game wouldn’t allow. It’s not like Leviathan where it’s too important to be DLC. Honestly as interesting as Javik’s insight is I think ME3 is better without that DLC.
True, it just felt annoying that they tucked something like that in dlc
Witcher 3 non-spoiler stuff:
Holy shit, this game. I had a two month break due to issues with my computer, and this normally breaks my flow with a game…but not this one. Absolutely love it to the point where I am going to attempt to 100% it, or at least do everything I can in one run.
Also, I’ve decided to ignore armour stats and just go with what looks good, and god damn the level 1 Ursine Armour looks fantastic on Geralt. Great design, makes him look like a strong muscle-bound dude (
no…some homo) and no bulk to the torso armour (ie Griffin lvl 2) which I feel ruins his appearance.The mastercrafted Wolven armour looks very nice.
Only just starting to unlock upgrades for it so I’ll have to see how it ends up.
I was originally going Griffin to get my signs rockin’, but after a while the appearance started to annoy me…at least, the lvl 2 stuff did.
Yeah, I used Ursine for a while but as it upgraded through the tiers I stopped liking the look as much. Wolven looks rad.
I’ve decided that max-level Ursine is my head-canon. That’s just what Geralt wears.
I was totally rocking the level 1 Cat for a while, though.
Edit: This is one of the reasons that NG+ makes me so happy. When the expansions land I’ll get to play from scratch with Geralt wearing what he should’ve been wearing for the entire game.
Initial Cat set looked great but it immediately lost something on upgrade. Stopped looking like light armor.
I should probably finish that …
@trjn
I don’t know how these prices measure up to normal haunts, but there’s a free shipping coupon code for the moment, and the dude seems happy to price match.
BOARD GAMES: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/209473
Pity he’s got like ten things for sale.
Yeah, those prices are pretty terrible.
Okie dokes. Sorry, wasn’t sure!
…Never Have I Ever as a card game? 😐
Maybe using cards adds a random element instead of people using it to find out which of their mates’ girlfriends take it up the bum.
Getting asked to help for the day at a work conference… Should be a cushy day.
Being told at 9:30am you don’t need to provide any more support…. Yes!
Then told to hang around and enjoy the speakers and have a free meal… Fuck yeah!
How’s your day been?
Not as good as yours. 😛 Thanks for the fresh serve of jelly.
*gritted teeth*
It’s been fun. My 4 year old hasn’t annoyed me once today.
/sarcasm
I found out my left eye has the same degenerative condition as my right eye does, it’s gotten worse in the last 3 months and I have to delay moving to the states for a month to get surgery again next week. \o/
So… PAX AU then?
Outside chance but I think this will see me leaving mid October unless I need to delay again for further assessment.
Jeez… Feel like I’m gonna be sick…
Also, Archer is amazing. Just finished the first episode of Season 2, and it keeps getting better.
You’re approaching my favourite episode, which is S2E9
Lol the burning man/taken/magnum P.I parody?
No
The one where he finds out his cancer meds are fake and rampages against the Irish mobThat is the burning man/taken/magnum P.I. parody! That scene with the grenade is from burning man and the scene at the end where he asks the dude in the wheelchair is from magnum P.I.
http://gawker.com/5785731/archers-terms-of-enrampagement-is–philadelphia–meets-magnum-pi
Edit: Dammit not burning man – Man on Fire!
Ah right, that one then 🙂
My bad as well; I quoted the wrong movie for the grenade scene xD
Terms of Enrampagement? So good.
Survey Says?
Relax Lana it’s a smoke grenade.
Did you… watch Regis this morning?
Save it for the fast money round, paddy. 🙂
@transientmind Just for reference Until Dawn has nearly zero torture/gore porn elements. Very much spends more time worshiping 80’s horror/slasher movie tropes. Ignores modern gore films.
Hm. Thanks. My only exposure is that Kotaku article noting the censorship dealy in Japan, with a very Saw-like scene involving… well. A saw… in all its drawn-out, uh. Glory. Plus the cliff fall. And peoples’ descriptions about who they got killed.
Remember we’re talking about 2 minutes total if that of gory scenes in 10 hours.
And only if you screw up… so basically a better ratio than the Tomb Raider reboot?
Even then, it’s three seconds of screw up footage versus hours of exploring and finding clues.
http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=FIGURE-013552&rank=
OH COME ON
Did you get Kirby as well? 😛
Not yet, but I will.
Also did you know there’s a Nendoroid Marth in the works? 😛
I didn’t. But feel it’ll be easier to resist that one 😛
For me it’s must-have, where I have zero interest in Kirby or Mega Man as I’ve never played a single game from either’s franchises.
I think they were showing a Lucina and some character from the most recent FE as well. Goodsmile might as well have a direct line into my wallet nowadays.
Ha, that’s basically it. The only Fire Emblem I’ve played is whatever GBA one they threw in the Ambassador lot on 3DS, and even then I think I played all of 15mins or something. That said, I did buy the Cube one when a friend mentioned an eBay listing in a chat one, apparently for a decent price. Might end up playing it some day, who knows 😛
Though tbh I’m pretty sure the only Mega Man game I played was 2, when a friend gifted it to me on NES. Actually wait no that’s a lie, there were the first two games on GB too. The two collections on Cube are sitting there to be checked out at some point. Oh yeah and there was Zero Collection on DS… even though I think I only got to the end (but didn’t finish) the first one. Man I am bad at this.
I did pick up the Lucina figma though. And if Marth got a figma, I’d get that too. But especially Roy. He’s our boy.
You should play Awakening. It’s really excellent.
I missed the Lucina figma. 🙁
Dude… MM Link D::::
I’m pretty sure it was you who posted about pre-ordering the Nendoroid Toon Link a while back from amiami which somehow made me want, and buy it
ALL THE REGRETS!
Maybe. Probably.
NO REGRETS! *throws more money away*
@cubits @hoi_polloi
I just want to let you both know that there is big meet up happening on Pax’s Saturday night. As you’re both new, I wanted to let you know in case you’re interested.
Sweet, thanks for the heads up. Not sure of my availability, but I’ll keep it in mind.
TAKE THAT!
http://gematsu.com/2015/09/ace-attorney-6-announced-3ds
OBJECTION!
…what was AA5? Actually what was 4? I know T&T was 3, was Apollo Justice considered AA4?
I am very bad at AA. Took forever to finish the first one, haven’t even opened the second.
Yup, Apollo Justice is #4.
Dual Destinies, the digital-only one with Thena and Prosecutor Blackquill and Detective Fulbright (“In Justice We Trust!”), is #5.
HOLD IT!
What happened to that one set in like the Meiji era? Is that not AA6?
OBJECTION!
That’s actually part one of a spinoff series.
Welp, looks like I’m going to see Postmodern Jukebox now 😛
I’m jealous. Things haven’t alinged so I won’t be able to get out tonight. I’ll have to wait until next time.
I’m going to the Rock’n’Roll market at Sydney Uni on the 13th though, so I’ll get my vintage fix there. 🙂
Sorry, it’s my fault you can’t go. There seems to be some kind of rule that the universe must ensure that we can’t cross paths at all. If I’d stayed at home, you would’ve been able to make it!
Nah, it was an outside chance at best. Mum duties always come first weeknights.
Wait…. there’s no MGS5 at work. Why am I here?
*puzzled*
*hides in a cardboard box under the desk*
Oh man, you so should do that. and have it filmed.
!
I started my Steam download around 9pm last night, set my alarm for 3am and went to bed. But in my excitement I proceeded to wake up every two hours from then until I just decided to stay up around 2am and phone surf until the 20GB download completed.
I managed to sneak in around two and a half hours of MGSV before work yay! Feeling pretty crapola right about now though.
I snatched an interpreter late last night so I can interrogate Russians.
Also got me a puppy! Puppy!
I think my next mission is to grab an interpreter. Started tranquing animals, but ran out of Fultons. Need to go home! *fidgets*
It’s one of the first side ops.
Because I’m a very cautious player, this game is gonna take me aaaaaaaages to complete
I’m okay with getting busted and it going pear shaped once I’ve almost finished my objective, but if it goes sideways in the first 5 minutes, I restart. I’m also obsessed with Fultoning everyone.
I kidnapped a commander dude but he died while I was hoisting him out on my shoulders which necessitated a restart.
Loving this game, but dear gods I want better tranqs
I’ve also been collecting every single plant I come across, since Kaz mentioned it could be used to make stronger tranq rounds. Apparently Mother Base is also going to be making Absinthe, with actual wormwood for Diamond Dog’s downtime.
I hope one of the things I can assign dudes to do soonish is collect herbs because dear gods am I sick of collecting herbs in open world games. This year alone I’ve done it here, in Dragon Age, in The Witcher, and when I dipped back into New Vegas
So lets see, what have I been up to recently…
Played Interface Zero with @coldcamv and @Tech_Knight and my Brothers and a mate
Holy crap you guys… I need to start getting sneaky I thinks.
Then Last night I did Character Creation with @Popdart5 for pathfinder. So looking forward to it. now I’ve just got to finish my Character sheet.
Hey I certainly think we can make the Kessel run in less than 12 Driving rolls.
Also I enjoy I managed to piece my missing data together, the plot thickens! 😀
So much pop culture references that went over my Little Brothers Head. I feel like I have failed somehow as a brother :p
I hope I’m not annoying the guys with my “machine-trying-to-understand-humans comments” cuz I am doing that a lot more than I did previously 😛
I’m loving it personally. everyone is Roleplaying on their own level, so I think they get it 🙂
I glanced at the word “thickens” and thought it said chickens and then my stomach grumbled 🙁
I never heard of plot chickens before, doesn’t sound very good for you 😛
I still think the alpha code is password, failing that, admin
Kermit found a rebound girl.
http://www.people.com/article/muppets-kermit-frog-new-girlfriend-miss-piggy-break-up
Going off his new girl I’d say either he’s definitely not over Miss Piggy or he has a very specific fetish.
Don’t judge me.
My review of the prologue of MGSV: Holy shit, holy shit, omg, aww no, wait what, oh no! Oh hellllllllo there, nice view, oh wait, no wtf wtF WTFFFFFFF holy shit oh god, oh hellllllo there handsome, no no no, oh godddddd.
And all of a sudden I want to play MGSV
Winner: Best taints in a video game
Butts. Butts. Butts. Butts.
My first impressions… Flaming friggin whales and unicorns!
Ahab!
So that back pain that moved to my chest has today moved down into my kidneys. Was a very restless night. Just hoping they’re able to get some blood out of me today. I have other scans I need to go get done.
Oh gosh, dude, I hope you’re okay!
So do I. Kinda hoping that suggestion 2 of it being stones from my doctor is correct.
Take a screenshot of this post and revisit it after passing a kidney stone.
Yeah but tumour or skeletal or muscle damage seams worse. Atleast the kidney stone will be a relatively brief passing of immense pain.
Can’t they like blast it with sonic waves or something and make it easier? >.< God I hope I never get kidney stones.
RockeTAY League
Round 3 starts now!
This week’s matches are:
CARSENAL v CUNNING ARTIFICERS
HOTH SHOTS v STEEL CUT STROKES
WRECK-A-MENDED v GOALDUST
FINISHEDBLAGHMAN v GINGERCOOKIES
BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE v BATDIPPAS
If you haven’t finished your round 2 match, please try to get to that as soon as you can.
The full fixture is available in this comment.
@redartifice @tigerion @benny @fatshadylive @zetrox2k @shane @phoenix @cakesmith@coldcamv @markserrels @freezespreston @jacksonwryan @rize @finishedlast @blaghman @cookingmama @gingerchris86 @batguy @alexwalker
@benny @fatshadylive: @alexwalker is away for the next few weeks, and then I’m away for a few after that. Rather than waiting till October to play our game, it’s probably easiest to just sub @cookingmama in instead.
Unless somebody who’s actually good wants to sub in 😉 Then if somebody else wants to sub in for me, who has only scored 2 our of 31 goals across 6 matches, we’ll be set.
That’s correct! (Hi from Japan :D)
Although we do have a window of 1-2ish weeks when I get back; Batguy and I could probably fit in 5 or 6 matches in that time frame. We are pretty keen o_O. (When are you gone Batguy?)
17th September to 5th of October. From memory, you were back on the 23rd or similar, so we *won’t* overlap.
Pretty sure that with the format of the comp (trying to play roughly one game per week), we’re going to have to play a couple of the matches with subs to keep up. Maybe try to delay the last couple towards the end of the month.
EDIT: Although I guess @bdkiaf is the ultimate judge here. If he’s happy to see our games delayed and skew the whole comp, let’s do it. If he wants us to try and keep level, subs it is.
Yeah, I get back on the 16th but I’m flying out again the next day. We could do some games that evening if it helps?
We’ll try to get the 2 rounds around then in, definitely.
Done and done!
Fine by me. 😉
I’m happy to fill in if you need someone? I’m gittin’ good now against Rooke PC players 😛
http://www.gamesradar.com/youre-faster-and-more-dangerous-dark-souls-3-then-so-everything-else/
Not allowing us to rest on previous skills but changing it just slightly enough to make us think we can. Damn I love this series.
More faster, more better.
If the mid-weight characters are already faster, then I can’t wait to go with my usual light-weight.
So, a re-learning phase like Bloodborne when veterans feel like they’ve gotten really terrible.
@os42 and other Destiny folks…
Many nightfalls last night. 5 in fact. It’s hilarious, on one run we had 2 Celestial Nighthawk, and the boss lasted not very long… and I soloed the tank on one run while the other two were swapping weapons (apparently 3 gallys and several icebreakers does the job…). “Done!” “What the f….?” 🙂
Hard crota also which was funny as we got to the last stage with really only 2 experienced raiders and 3 less experienced… and realised nobody had ever done the sword. Oops. So rival-dc stepped up. It didn’t go tooooo badly but it was clearly going to take a while to get the timing right. Lesson: practice on normal Crota before going to hard. We bailed up neodarwinist, who jumped on. Yay! “I’m shit at the sword” Boo! “I’ll see if smeli can help.” Yay! Smeli comes in, says “reckon I can do it in one sword” WHAT? THIS I HAVE TO SEE…
And he would have if we’d been very slightly sharper with the rockets. One hit short on the first sword.
So I got my Word of Crota! YAY!
And theurbanpanther in the nightfall and only his second hard crota got: Truth. Word of Crota. Crux of Crota. Crota arms. And a couple of other good drops. *grumble* WHERE’S MY CRUX?
Sometimes I read the stuff yourself and @os42 are saying about Destiny and I think to myself “Am I even playing the same game”?
Eg. I do not know what a Word of Crota or a Crota Horcrux is? 😛
Word of Crota is a Void-element hand cannon that only drops when you kill Crota on hard mode. It’s ok, really only popular because it’s one of only two Void-element primaries in the game and is slightly easier to get than Atheon’s Epilogue (a void-element auto rifle) since the Crota’s End raid is substantially shorter and easier to finish. Technically Epilogue will drop on Vault of Glass Hard Mode, but it seems to be a lot rarer, plus auto rifles have been nerfed for so long that many hardcore players have forgotten they exist.
Crux of Crota is a super rare item drop (again, Hard Mode Crota kill only) that will transform your fully-levelled Eidolon Ally into an exotic arc-element auto rifle called the Necrochasm. It’s pretty underpowered and disappointing for what it was supposed to reflect at the time (i.e.: overcoming Destiny’s most difficult challenge at the time) but it’s still exciting to see the Crux drop.
In case you don’t know what an Eidolon Ally is, it’s a legendary auto rifle that is the evolved form of Husk of the Pit. Husk of the Pit is a random white auto rifle that drops from the Blades of Crota, special Hive Knights that used to roam the Cosmodrome and Moon before they were replaced by the various House of Wolves bounties. You can now only find Swords of Crota in the Fist of Crota mission, which is the first DLC mission from The Dark Below expansion.
I went to the extra effort of explaining Huck/Eidolon/Necrochasm because for several months the Husk and Crux were bugged, meaning it had a 0% drop rate. People were going mental killing Swords and Crota week after week and raging at bungie for the “randomness” equating to NIL drops, until Bungie actually looked at the code and said “whoops our bad”.
People who don’t play a lot or only picked up the game again recently may well have never seen the Husk or Crux drop ever for anyone, despite playing daily.
Edit: to clarify, Atheon’s Epilogue will drop on NORMAL VoG but seems to be very rare. Your chances seem to be better if you do Hard Mode since Hard Mode VoG gives you double chance at drops. I got mine on my first ever Hard Mode run.
Thanks mate. I have seen a couple of folks use what looked to be a Void hand gun, I’m not good enough to do Crota on hard so hopefully there’s another way it’ll drop 😛 I’ve never even completed a VoG Hard run. I have an Eidoldon Ally I think, I haven’t gone to the trouble of significantly upgrading it though.
I typically run either a Queens Right Hand AR, Red Death PR or a Last Word/FWC Scout Rifle who’s name escapes me.
I have friends who take Crota’s hard mode candy from him like he’s a baby. Let’s try and hook up this weekend. I’ll have most of Saturday to myself since my wife is going to a Hen’s Night.
I’ve had Atheon’s Epilogue for ages. Ascended it to 365. It’s hilarious in void burn Nightfalls, especially Omnigul where all the thralls are running towards… but generally it really is a bit spray and hope. Only autos I use regularly are Abyss Defiant ’cause it’s stable and buggers wizards, and Suros ’cause it packs a punch and the health perk is handy in Crota.
Some of the Wolves and Trials primary weapons can roll with Void too – I would love a void scout to complement Vision of Confluence and Fang of Ir-Yut which are staples. Vision is my most used primaryv
Crux I want because I’m a completist. Also Necrochasm is supposed to get a decent buff next week. Husk of the Pit is actually useful if running a new character for a short while. Less useful when already L34. 🙂
Anyway. 😀
I loved my 365 Epilogue in last week’s Nightfall. My wife, who badly covets it, watched me just melt the thrall waves in the first room and said “that looks extremely satisfying”.
I want a Necro too, I think that and Mythoclast are the last two exotic primaries I don’t have the Grimoire card for.
Yep, that’s where it’s fun. By the third run through I was appreciating short-controlled-bursts a bit more. 😀 Mind you, my Epitaph void sniper I’ve had for ages and ascended to 365 was also very useful – it has max range, is very stable and has the firefly perk so a well placed headshot can really upset a pack of dregs and vandals. In the Terrestrial Complex battle in Omnigul, the 4 snipers that can be so annoying were gone in 4 well-placed shots. 🙂
I was lucky enough to get the Mythoclast relatively early – I think I was carried through hard Vault (ie I’d died and watched…) and it’s been so so useful. The Overcharge bounty is trivially easy with it.
I don’t have Thorn or Invective (although both bounties are live on my Titan, I just need to actually play crucible a bit – Word Of Crota will help!), and I don’t have Queenbreaker’s Bow or Dreg’s promise. Getting there though.
Still love playing this game.
I got Thorn and Invective fairly early on, did my Thorn bounty with a blue fusion rifle and the void Supremacy I got from the original Queen’s Wrath event, none of this pansy void-primary nonsense!
Invective was pretty easy after that, you only need a +25 k/d spread.
Easy. 25k/d spread. Not in the same sentence… 😉 My best PvP k/d ratio so far is about .8. 🙁
….and so you need to come join us after Taken King drops. JOIN US. 😉 Yeah yeah “but i’ve got 3 characters on the xBone”… it won’t take long to smash you though the start and build you up, we’re pretty good at getting people through places that’ll give them good weapons, and we’ve got raiding parties very regularly.
Most of us really enjoy helping people through stuff.
I’m starting a new Warlock for Taken King so there’ll be lots of levelling going on.
Look into my eyes, look into my eyes *click* Sleep! When you wake, when you wake, you will forget your xBone…” *click* and AWAKE! 🙂
When are you going to redo your ‘lock? I’m looking to do the same sometime in the first week as soon as the triumphs emblem arrives.
As soon as the Northbot is activated I guess. If the patch installs and the story tweaks and UI tweaks are in place a few days before Taken King content unlocks, I’ll probably start then. Otherwise, pretty much straight away after the unlock. Which reminds me, must buff up some low level blue armours ready for New Warlock(TM). Should hoard some over the next few days. Then move all the lovely buffed armour into Vault, stick crappy white armour on him, and DELETE. *waves hands magically* *poof*
I’ll tee it up with you, be fun to do all the early stuff with another equally weak teammate. mypetfish might be in too, as he’s been holding off on starting his 3rd until Taken King.
Patch 2.0 will be in place on the morning of Wednesday the 9th, our time, in all likelihood, which will cover basically everything except the Taken King story stuff (which probably includes the third subclass quest).
Umm… I was mostly planning to utilise Bungie’s generous offer of boosting a character to 25 immediately after recreating, so it’d just be a matter of: put stuff in vault, delete, recreate, get to the tower, boost to 25, retrieve and re-equip my current (level 20) gear, then continue with story quests as a 25… and I assume that boost won’t arrive until TTK lands.
It would be cool to run through the story with you guys if the times line up, but I won’t intrude if you guys want to level normally… I could stick to the starting white gear, so I might not be excessively OP… :3
I wrote a long and detailed response that seems to have gone AWOL, so talk it over tonight if you’re on.
Congrats on your Word! Really should get round to trying to run sword on Hard Crota sometime this week, before 2.0… You’ll get a crux one day… and maybe Necrochasm will be less underwhelming by then. 😛 When I got it, I knew it would be terrible… but I wasn’t prepared for just how useless it is…
Also, seven days until new content! \o/
Yeah, some prison tonight for Etheric Light, maybe another hard Crota. Buff WoC then head into Crucible for the Thorn and Invective bounties. Could well finish my year one list IF I GET THE BLINKING BLEEPING CRUX.
Need to complete 9 more raids for that Grimoire score. I’m getting close, the difference between your score and mine is down to a few exotics, the raid one and sniper/shotgun kills.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
DRY LAND!
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
CC @popdart5 @tech_knight @blaghman
ALSO STREAMING
AND THE NEW QUEST OF FINDING A TRAIN STATION 😛
Just because I remember what Souls-a-mania was like:
METAL GEAR SOLID DISCUSSION
If you want to gush about how good metal gear is, do it as a reply to this comment, so we’re not clogging up all of the page
METAL. GEAR?
LIQUID!
My snake is solid.
It’s Very good.
Let’s say there was a hypothetical monster that exists in this world who hadn’t played metal gear games. Supposing they were interested in redeeming this epic character flaw and was wondering how to go about it.
What options would they have to play and what systems would need to have in possession in order to do so. And is it even worth it? If there were to play, what would be the recommended games, is it a ongoing story or are they stand alone. Any reason not to just jump into 5
MGS is available as a PSOne classic via PSN, so you got a few platform choices. MGS2/MGS3/MGS:PW are available in the MGS HD collection on console. (Note the Vita version of MGS HD doesn’t include MGS:PW HD) MGS4 is only available on PS3, but easy to find and cheap. So you could probably play them all on PS3. Then go MGSV:GZ and MGSV:TPP.
Release order is MGS, MGS2, MGS3, MGS4, MGS:PW, then GZ and TPP. You could dive straight into MGSV, but as a bare minimum, I’d recommend at least doing Peace Walker before MGSV GZ/TPP.
Dear mr Hypothetical monster
– Of them all, 3 and 5 are probably the most stand alone. 3 is really very good and can be played on PS2, PS3, Vita, or 3DS
– If you play Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, you could probably keep up, and wiki any backstory. The plot is continuing but often weeeeeeeird and you can enjoy the gameplay regardless, and the cassette tapes in V will bring you up to speed on backstory
– If you wished to run the entire series, best bet is to grab the Legacy collection on PS3, or digital download them all there.
– Of course it’s worth it. It’s a game series that has been groundbreaking in many ways and with each release has kept pushing the envelope- while you can level many criticisms against individual games (MGS2 tends to bear the brunt of them), it’s never stopped innovating.
– PS3 is the best console to play them all on. Original MGS and MGS4 are still locked to PlayStation (well technically there was a Gamecube remake of the original MGS but you’ll have to borrow a copy off @mrtaco)
But you can just grab GZ and TPP on PC and you’ll be reasonably up to snuff
Legacy collection. Ooooh. I shall dispatch myself to my local games emporium forthwith.
*cough* Yes. That would be a great question, if such a person existed. I’ll wait for the answer. Just to see what that might be, of course, not because I haven’t ever played an MGS game. Not at all, no.
If you have a PS2 that can play US imports, you can have my box set with 1-3 if you’d like.
From what I’ve played so far, MGSV is the most refined of all the gameplay ideas Metal Gears have introduced.
I’d just jump straight in to Ground Zeroes and the Phantom Pain and wiki the story if you really wanna know. It’s absolutely batshit insane at this point so you’re really not missing much.
If such a hypothetical monster existed, he or she might start by watching this video series: https://youtu.be/778Sr8ePnWc?list=PLqU3_cfWaeY2DT7imScZKA3_PZJHRfdzy&t=114
And recommending it to other hypothetical monsters.
I am not such a hypothetical monster! I played Metal Gear Solid on the PC in the 00s! And Metal Gear Solid 2 on the xbox! As a result, I am very savvy with the game world and its events and can only assume that not much of note happened in the various side-games that revolve around the two that I played.
Alternately, if you’re not a fan of dodgy editing and that guy’s WAY too enthusiastic (loud) voice and fairly horrible writing, or investing hours into a recap, you can try the much shorter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22qpIrBJJRY which features a woman who speaks in a much more reasonable volume, but is incredibly rushed. Because it’s a ten minute video instead of ten hours.
Sean’s adventures in literally (not quite literally) every mission he’s been on:
Hmm, okay, time to not kill people, and sneak around a lot. I’ve scouted lots of enemies, but…
Well, there’s two guys there, and one of them has garbage stats, so I guess I’ll just… *bang* okay, and I’ll interrogate the other guy, knock him out, and fulton him out of there. Perfect. *cut to ten minutes later*
Okay, I’ve killed half the base, and fultoned the other half, now I can just do the thin- *seventeen enemies spot me immediately* SON OF A FUCK. *hurriedly runs around finishing the objective while murdering everyone*
Phew, that was tough, better be more careful next mission.
That’s me playing any stealth game.
In terms of hard stealth games I’m decent at Splinter Cell, and I’m pretty good at soft-stealth games (Dishonored, Deus Ex), but I am apparently rubbish at Metal Gear.
Taggin’ @ynefel & @janexo for coverage.
Have any of you been able to get the iDroid voice to come out of the PS4 controller speaker?
It did it by default in GZ but TPP has it coming through the mix and it ends up drowning out all the other dialogue.
I’ve developed the iDroid v.2 that has “Speaker Functionality” but I dunno if that’s actually what that means…
🙁
It’s an option in the Game settings? menu I believe, not as part of a specific in-world development
Also, they’ve trumpeted it less this time but there’s a tie-in app that puts the idroid on your phone or tablet for quick reference. Handy for listening to the tapes
Sweet, I’ll see if I can track it down.
Thought it was strange.
Yeah, mine does. I found it in the options menu, from memory. Found it right about the beginning, when I was changing look inversion, etc.
Sweeeeeeet.
It sounds real weird through my speakers.
The speaker functionality is off by default, not sure why.
Weird, hey?
But I found how to turn it on, it’s in Controller in Options for anyone who cares.
@phoenix @bdkiaf @@coldcamv
When did we want to Rocket League? I’m good for anything except Thursday, Friday and Tuesday next week.
Saturday should be fine for me
I should be good for Saturday too.
Im uncertain if I can do saturday but ill gee t back to you guys before then and let you know what time saturday were you thinking?
I’ve not watched a game, is one able to spectate?
Yeah. You’ll need the server details and you just join the game as if you were playing, but select “spectate” in the team selection.
We usually try to post here, and on twitter when the games are about to start so you can jump in and watch
Just started MGSV last night. Was just reading wikipedia of old metal gear characters for fun. Spoilt the ending of of MGSV after reading a single sentence in one of the entries. F***….
MEDIA BLACKOUT! AND METAL GEAR WIKIA? YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN THAT!
http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/1/9211217/battle-chasers-nightwar-joe-madureira this looks all kinds of rad
That does look pretty rad. I loved what I read of Battlechasers back in the day, but there got to a point very early in the series where I couldn’t find any more, and I just gave up and forgot about it. Years later, I read a wiki about it and it turns out this is because there WASN’T any more.
Yeah, in that story he mentions that he stopped Battle Chasers because he’d moved into video games design. And now that everything with Vigil fell apart he’s decided to go back and finish the comics as well as produce that game.
I really love Joe Mad’s work. It’s got that big chunky american pulp comic look, but at the same time it has a Japanese aesthetic to it. You can see the inspirations he’s drawn from pretty clearly.
Kickstarter for the game opens in 5 days. Apparently will be able to get all the Battle Chasers comics – including the new stuff he’s doing – in print as part of it. Will be jumping at that.
As one of the few people who isn’t playing MGSV I am just gonna say that I am still enjoying splatoon immensely.
I still haven’t finished single player though =P
There’s clothing for finishing it though
I know. I’ve just been enjoying multiplayer too much
As one of the few people not playing MGSV or Splatoon, I, uhhh, yeah…
I got nothing.
Pokemon shuffle? Um…That’s all I really play atm. ._.
Rocket League! \o/
SPLATOOOOOON!
The stupid stores keep not giving me gear to buy. It’s annoying.
There are two types of people in this world, those that play MGSV and those that don’t :p
I plan to play the shit outta every game but MGSV and will pick it up in a year when I finish the legacy collection
What are you playing right now then?
Currently? Lemme get the list..Until Dawn, Watch dogs, Hacknet, Dead State, Mafia 2, DBXenoverse, Farcry 4 and then once their done I’ll consider starting the legacy collection
I wanna play until dawn but no ps4
Its scary in my mind, cathryn just laughs at it
Let’s see you play project Zero 5 then. =P
Lets not see me play Project Zero 5 how bout that 😛 legit I will scream like a girl and throw a controller
@ynefel – Someone proved our point on that MGS article like 2 posts below yours haha
#FucKonami
Surely they’re up for winning the next ‘worst company ever’ awards now, right? Someone has to take the mantle from EA at some point.
EA hasn’t ever deserved that.
From a gaming perspective, they’ve not been the worst game company for a long time.
But they make me use Origin which is like DRM and cancer had a baby and the baby put it’s peepee in my ear. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
Steam 4 lyfe #pcmasterrace
I know, I was being sarcastic. Jut pointing out how ridiculously easy it was for EA to earn the title. Simply because of ME3Gate. ME3Gate was the pinnacle of most overblown entitled gamer tripe I’ve ever seen.
I liked ME3’s ending. The director’s cut extras were nice, but the original was fine.
If I was going to bitch at EA for Bioware related shenanigans it would be because they blamed and basically shitcanned the Bioware heads for The Old Republic not killing World of Warcraft.
I loved ME3. Loved the ending. Loved the whole series. Kind of funny – I had no interest in playing the games whatsoever until the ME3 shitstorm surfaced. Then I had to play them through just to see what all the fuss was about. Glad I did. Just an amazing series, and sucked me in like nothing had for a long time.
I didn’t love the last minute of ME3, but that entire game was an ending anyways and a particularly good one at that.
Hadn’t gotten so attached to a set of characters in a video game for a very long time. Was weird how much I wanted the best for my FemShep. She and Liara were amazing together. Also Mordin and Garrus were just brilliant characters too. Other characters were great, but those four kept me going. Used to go down and just talk to Mordin on the Normandy – only character I ever did that with. He just had the best dialog.
Whenever I made even a little progress in the game I’d do a lap of the Normandy to see what everyone had to say. So immersed in that world. Can’t wait for Mass Effect Andromeda!
This so much. It had so many absolutely stunning moments, wrapping everything up with the characters really nicely. Thane’s part in 3 particularly stood out – I think he’s one of the best characters Bioware have ever written.
Yeah, ME3 was the ending and in that sense it was a brilliant ending. However the final 15 minutes can go fuck itself. It’s badly written, poorly planned and completely disconnected from the rest of the game. It tries to be deep and philosophical to compensate for the fact they made the Reapers so powerful the only way out was a giant magic space gun, but it’s blunt and stupid, which is amplified by Mass Effect’s colour coded dialogue system. Understanding the deeper lore behind everything that happens there causes it to make even less sense.
About one of the characters in ME3 that something happens to
If it’s one thing that really bugged me about ME2-3, I felt like I barely got to know Legion at all, he had really so little screen story time since you meet him near the end of ME2, and in ME3 there’s nothing you can do to stop him from sacrificing himself other than killing him, either way, he’s gone, and I always cried during that scene. You can’t even take him with you in your combat party during missions in ME3 which I hated a ton. Yeah you get to talk to him a bit in ME2, but almost 90% of the game is played without him usable in your party so you don’t hear commentary about situations from a Geth’s perspective. I did enjoy the VR mission where you got the see bits of the history, but I still feel like it was all just too short in the end.@tech_knight Which is really strange considering how important the questions regarding synthetic life are to the final part of the game. I feel like the basic idea for the ending would have worked a lot better if they used Legion expand on what the Geth were and lay the ground work for the ‘what is life’ questions back in ME2.
Also if Joker and EDI had of had a closer bond than just a fanfic style love story. As a romantic subplot it’s fine on it’s own and obviously a lot of players liked it but as a diving board for getting into the deeper stuff love is a bit too straight forward.
I very much like the nihilism in ME3’s ending. But people don’t like that. Look at I Am Legend. Had a very impactful ending with a huge emotional response then they showed it to some test audiences who said they would prefer a neater happy ending so we got a cop out instead.
People suck.
Love that movie. Don’t know many people who do for some reason.
I think it’s because Will Smith.
I thought it was a great film except for the end which was a bit Hollywood. Didn’t know they’d changed it last-minute but that’s interesting. I do know that it deviates quite significantly from the book it’s based off.
The ending was a little bit of an anticlimax but I never felt the incredible rage that so many seemed to. The journey to get there was worth it even if the ultimate destination was maybe a bit flat compared to expectations.
I suspect any ending would’ve disappointed to a degree. They almost sabotaged themselves by writing such amazing characters and story, because by the end of the third game, nothing would’ve been good enough to send our cast and characters off.
Yet I felt like I got everything I wanted from the characters, at least in my playthrough. I’d happily have spent more time with them, but it felt like their involvement with Shepard had run its natural course. And fuck, there were some great moments in there. Just simple things, like kicking back having some beers and shooting the breeze with Garrus for example.
EA have bastardized and overly commercialized too many of my childhood memories for me to ever forgive them =@
If your childhood memories are violable by a new game, I’d suggest they’re awful fragile
Oh hardly violable by a new game; they’re just violable when a franchise I loved as a kid gets turned into a commercial equation with clones/sequels getting spat out shortly after they get bought out by EA.
That said I’m sure some people approve of EA’s profit oriented game’s development process so to each their own.
Edit: Screw my childhood games; I hate them just for what they did to Dungeon Keeper and PvZ.
Nothing EA ever do will taint my memories of playing Need 4 Speed II on an old PC. Nothing EA will ever do will taint the enjoyment I derived from Theme Park.
I don’t slavishly worship stuff enough to worry about what they’re doing with an “IP.”
That said, I was in to Star Wars novels before the prequels came out so perhaps I was burnt early.
The Star Wars expanded universe novels did a pretty good job of burning you well before Disney could! Remember the atrocities wrought by Kevin J Anderson, and his stuff wasn’t even the worst of it.
@negativezero first one I was given was The Crystal Star. In retrospect, the only way it could go was up (and I was like 11 so didn’t care it was Star Wars)
The Crystal Star is definitely the lowest point. But there’s a whole sea of shit that sits not far above it as well.
I started with the Thrawn books in my early teens and read everything as it came out until I got knocked off course a fair way into the Vong invasion stuff, whatever that series was called, when one of the books simply never got released in Australia for some reason. Always annoyed me. Couldn’t find it in any book stores or anything. That was well before I was in a situation where I could order stuff online for myself too and I didn’t want to spend like $40 importing it via Amazon.
@negativezero I remember having trouble getting a hold of Traitor and Star by Star, which is a damn shame because Traitor is one of the best star wars novels ever written.
I lost track of the EU after the New Jedi Order. read about the first book of the dark nest trilogy then kinda stopped, no idea what the new stuff is like but I think my SF tastes have changed.
@redartifice: I had Star By Star in hardcover I think, I don’t know if it ever got a paperback. It along with Traitor were definitely the high points of NJO.
The three-part Force Heretic story was where I lost it with Star Wars EU. I read the first book but couldn’t find the second one anywhere. III was available easily and so were the subsequent novels, but that second part eluded me until I stopped caring.
@negativezero I remember them being really good, but I’m a Sean Williams fan, so…
Yeah both NFS and Theme Park were only meh games for me; I enjoyed the concept but never got sucked in. And it’s not about “slavishly worshiping IP’s”; almost all the games/developers who’s games I used to love went to shit once bought out by EA. That’s not to say the same doesn’t happen with other gaming companies but none have been so aggressively commercial in their pursuit of replicating and monetizing what should effectively be an art-form.
Their whole revenue making mandate is the acquisition of new IP’s/game companies who should turn their success into an equation for EA to squeeze a few more sequels out of. They’re in the industry for profit; not to create enjoyment for their fans (yes Activision and Ubisoft do similar things; however their tactics have never come at the cost of an IP/game company I love being bought out and ruined). Maybe it’s just me but I see EA and I see a gaming company that does more damage to the industry than good.
@redartifice: I always thought it was kind of ironic that the books by two Australian authors would be the ones that I couldn’t actually find all of in Australia.
@shane @tigerion @redartifice
So…. when we booking this man-date?
At this stage, tonight, friday, and Saturday are no good my end!
Ill just throw a day in the hat, feel free to counter-offer!
… hows Thursday 9:30pm?
Sunday 9:30pm has been working for us so far.
That said I’m free tomorrow so if that works for everybody I’ll be there
Alas, I’m microscoping tomorrow night. I can try for Sun, failing that Mon or Tues might be the best bet
Sorry I’m a bit difficult this week
Monday is Trivia night for me, so probably a 75% chance I won’t be available
@tigerion @redartifice @zetrox2k
Sounds like Sunday evening is the best option. (I can’t do Monday next week)
9:30pm-10:00pm is what works best for me. How does that sit with everyone else?
Should work. I’ll let you all know if I’m running late
Works for me, usual Tiglet cavet thrown in
Why the balls is Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky $44.95 on the PSN store for the PSP version????
The PSP has no gaems, so what we’re seeing is an incredibly rare specimen that people will want to collect, driving up prices.
I think because it wasn’t distributed by XSeed in Europe, it’s a Ghostlight release and they’ve basically stopped paying attention to it now that XSeed and Falcom are in bed together in a big way.
It’s $20 on Steam, and the Steam release is arguably the better version. IIRC the NA PSN has it for about $20 as well.
I’m really hopeful that SC is close. It has to be close. Surely.
damn, wanted to grab it for my Vita… this sucks hard…
Wait a bit. I’d be stunned if it doesn’t get a price drop when SC comes out.
Alright fine. I went ahead and picked up MGSV. ARE YOU PEOPLE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE DONE, WHAT YOU’VE MADE ME DO?
Picked it up for $69 so can confirm EB will price match Target which is good because $110 for a game is ridiculous.
Would it be worth playing through Ground Zeros first?
Eh probably not at this stage. Take 20mins and watch it on YouTube. Does the name Paz mean anything to you?
You mean spaz? I thought it was a typo
Yes, it’s only two extra hours of your time.
If you’ve got it there, you should at least just play the main mission. Sets the stage for TPP. Will only take you half an hour or so to do. Don’t have to worry about all the side ops if you’re just prepping for TPP.
Yeah, it’s really the prologue for the game, introduces the villain and sets up the backstory
Just play the main mission, don’t worry with the side ops
Ideally you’d play the main Ground Zeroes mission for the plot elements and probably do the side missions to get a feel for how it plays. It’s a good way to stretch your legs and get used to moving around the world and interacting with stuff. Like a training course. MGSV teaches you all that but it’s really nice to go in with the basics mastered.
I will say plotwise it’s not super important. It’s interesting if you’ve been following the series but it’s not a complicated/long scenario so the references to it are all either self explanatory or not important.
Yeah, I’d play it.
It’s MGSV’s Tanker, so it’s worth your time. Plus it gives you a way better tutorial on movement and the iDroid.
Not really a fan of Google’s new multi-coloured “G” logo… looks way too similar to the Opal logo, which has always been an uncomfortable reminder of how much I pay for public transport.
Been super sick, but still super busy for days upon days but when I’ve had a chance to relax I’ve been watching Rokka: Braves Of The Six Flowers. I don’t know why I like it, as nothing much happens in each episode, but I rushed through it like a fool and now I’m stuck waiting week to week for each new episode. I really like the hair of the main character. Maybe that’s why I love the show?
I watched the first episode. I thought the setting was cool. But why does she have rabbit ears. Didn’t watch any more of it.
There always has to be a catperson and a rabbitperson. 😛
I’m quite enjoying that too, though the pacing in it is kind of bad. It’s only running for 12 episodes and they’ve spent way too long on the current arc which seems to have had multiple episode that basically haven’t advanced things at all.
Also wish the setting was more than just an excuse for exotic imagery. Fantasy stuff based off a proper mesoamerican setting is incredibly rare. Sad that it’s seemingly not relevant to anything but aesthetics.
Assuming you’re current:
Who do you think the seventh is? My suspicion is that it’s Goldov. Guy has no real personality and he seems to be above reproach simply because people know who he is. He doesn’t seem to be particularly invested in anything that’s going on except being weirdly possessive toward Naschewhatzit. Also I feel like his initial plan had probably been to eliminate Flamie and take her place. She’s the easiest to throw suspicion toward, and the instant her saw her he immediately tried to kill her as well. Plus his boob tube annoys me. We know for sure it’s not Adlet. It’s very unlikely to be Flamie or Nachetanya. I think the last episode confirmed it’s not Hans (he could have killed Adlet and didn’t, despite there being no reason for him not to if he was the 7th) and so the only suspects left are Chamot, Maura and Goldov. Chamot seems far too straightforward to be capable of the level of planning and duplicity involved, so my suspicion falls on the remaining too. I’m actually wondering if it could be both of them that are fakes – they seem to know each other well and are in a position where they both are almost considered unassailable. Maura immediately fell into a leadership position which is pretty powerful as well. I suspect the real 6th will turn up later on and they’ll realize there’s not one but two fakes working together.I’m going through stages of suspecting people. Immediately thought Goldov. Not because he’s an enemy, but more because he’d fake it just to hang out with the princess. Chamot’s too dangerous to NOT have been legitimately chosen. I keep thinking it might be Maura, though. She did have the key, and she’s been acting a bit creepy and irrational for someone who’s supposed to be in a position of such great power. Then there’s the whole Nachetanya being weak inside the temple. Maybe it really is Adlet and he doesn’t know it. 😛 I just think they’re taking too long, and the last three episodes haven’t really moved anywhere.There’s also the fact that Nachetanya pointed out that Hans called her ‘princess’ then claimed he didn’t know who she was. She’s right in saying that does seem odd.There’s still an outside chance it’s Chamot too. After all, wasn’t there something wandering around the temple area that they were fighting, inside the pillars? The stuff she spits out seemed to have no problems doing that.
I agree they need to pick up the pace. It’s going to end on an unsatisfactory note anyway – they’re 9 eps in and it’s only running for 12. Maybe it’ll get a second cour next year. 🙁
Hope you feel better, Strangey.
Love how everyone else is commenting on strange’s entertainment choice and all you see is she’s been ill! Too much empathy DC! =P
I’m watching Himouto! Umaru-Chan. I regret nothing.
I’ve been surprised that I stuck with that show. I liked it initially but thought it’d burn itself out repeating the same jokes over and over. But somehow it hasn’t.
Ebina is secretly the best character. That whole gets-flustered-and-falls-into-a-hick-dialect thing.
I don’t know why I enjoy it so much. It’s just great.
This scene broke me:
https://youtu.be/oYnrSFRC4MI
Need to catch up with Gate as well. Did Girls Und Panzer a few weeks back too, I thoroughly enjoyed that.
Girls und Panzer was an awesome show. Way better than something with a daft premise like that had any right to be. One of those rare cases where they take a simple concept and play it completely straight, execute it extremely well and end up making something incredibly enjoyable.
Did you know it’s getting a movie? Because it’s getting a movie. Opens in November in Japan.
Oh, nice. Yeah it was a really dumb concept, but it was just a lot of fun. They didn’t overdo it at all. I was worried it was going to be just totally sexed up or overtly awkward. Will look into the movie!
Honestly I was really disappointed when the Kantai Collection anime turned out not to be as good as it. On paper, it had everything there to allow it to do exactly the same sort of show, but they fucked up and went ‘historically accurate’ instead – which, if you’d ever played the game, made it feel like you were watching gameplay highlights of the world’s most insane player.
Now that they’ve broken and split off from history, I hope they get a chance to revel in how silly the actual idea of battleship girls is. The curry episode was my favourite episode simply because it had a lot of in-jokes with the game while being just an enjoyable story. The ending of the first season sucked pretty badly which was unfortunate. Here’s hoping season 2 is at least better than average.
@popdart5: the curry episode was great. I still think the biggest mistake they made was centering everything around Blandy McFubukison though. She’s so boring, and they don’t really do any work to help improve that either. The one time they decide to throw it to the Akatsuki sisters as the leads, they produce the best episode. That’s because they all have some actual personalities – Ikazuchi is hyper, Inazuma is timid, Akatsuki wants to be an adult and Hibiki just deadpans and periodically says Хорошо.
The game still makes historical references, but it’s always in a context that it’s a sort of ‘what if’ scenario all the time. They’ve gone even deeper on the Abyssals-are-infected-Kanmusume too. E3’s boss was a Seaplane Tender princess. It’s also the only map where new Seaplane Tender Mizuho drops. And it’s really obvious that they’re the same character. Same for E7 – the boss is an Anti-Air Destroyer, and if you beat the map you get Teruzuki, who is an anti-air focused destroyer. They’re clearly the same character as well (the evil version is just Teruzuki with loose hair instead of in braids). That angle works so much better than what they did with the anime as well.
TBH the first season was so disappointing I’d be more excited about a new season if they just wiped the slate clean and started over.
Gate! I was surprised at how much I got into that show considering the premise is a little silly. Then again, the town siege episode was pretty great and I’m loving the world building that’s been happening with the last few episodes.
I’ll have to pick that up. I haven’t been following much new stuff this season.
Recommending, and partly comparing notes (with bonus @negativezero tag), I’ve been mildly enjoying Arslan Senki, which has been going places I didn’t entirely expect and pacing pretty well.
Shokugeki no Soma is predictably a weekly watch. I reckon you were right that it seemed to slow down a bit there, but it looks like it’s picking up again.
Gate is my surprise favourite for the season: it always feels like the episode is too short, I always want the next one immediately.
Akagami no Shirayukihime has been pretty inoffensively enjoyable. It’s like a low-key, moderately less-creepy World is Still Beautiful (which I loved to death, because the protagonist had such bigger balls than this one does – but femininity is good too, just different; she’s still got strength).
I was very skeptical about Gangsta which looked like it was trying too hard and relying on some pretty damn tired tropes, but it’s really started picking up for me now that the backstories are not only being fleshed out, but revealing more and being used more in how characters interact with each other. That’s been a pleasant surprise from a series I was expecting a lot less from.
The other thing I’ve watched recently was the entire series run of Devil Is A Part-Timer on Netflix. That turned out pretty well, I got hooked and cannonballed the whole thing.
My regular watch list at the moment is similar, just a bit bigger:
Already mentioned Rokka no Yuusha and Umaru.
– Fairy Tail is always a regular for me. Hundreds of episodes in and it continues to have had very little crap filler and generally be an entertaining watch. The issue it had earlier on in the current arc with poor pacing (too much recapping) seems to have lessened and the current arc is pretty good.
– Akagami no Shirayukihime is a passable fantasy shoujo series. There’s better out there – it doesn’t come close to Saiunkoku or Twelve Kingdoms – but it’s an enjoyable and inoffensive watch with solid characters and doesn’t fall into too some of the traps it could (i.e. it’s not a reverse harem show, main character doesn’t damsel herself repeatedly, etc)
– Shokugeki no Soma is probably the best thing running at the moment. Worst part is the way it’s structured, it constantly feels like the episodes end right when they’re about to peak.
– Gate has actually started to lose me. The last few episodes have been absolutely dull. Nothing interesting has happened at all since that town siege. They need to get back to fantasyland ASAP, what they’re doing now is something I can get in thousands of other shows. Still, when it’s firing right, it’s one of the best shows running.
– I’m on the fence on Gangsta. It’s not bad, but it’s also not amazing. It feels like it was cast from the same mould as Black Lagoon, aimed at an international audience and trying to be dark and edgy but not actually having anything to say. I think my biggest issue has been the lack of tension. You never feel like any situations they face are particularly dangerous to them.
– Durarara continues to be solid. I think this show actually does better when you can watch it in chunks though, because the shifting perspectives are fresh in your mind and it’s easier to see how things are weaving together. Week-by-week it doesn’t work as well. So I’m tempted to stop watching until this cour is over.
– Gakkou Gurashi / School Live is kind of a dark horse. It’s an interesting show, tonally. I mean, Zombie Apocalypse is very overdone now, but the aesthetic they’ve put over the top with the sort of everyday school life thing, plus the fact that there’s an unreliable perspective that we view the world through who
imagines a person who is dead is still aliveadds an interesting dimension to it all. It’s solid but not fantastic.– Charlotte shot up in my rankings the last few weeks. It seemed like a typical show of its ilk, but honestly knowing that it’s a Jun Maeda-written story should have tipped me of to the fact there was going to be some twists. And holy crap, there are twists. Suddenly took an abrupt left turn into the dark and I really wasn’t expecting it at all. Looking forward to the rest of it. Looks like this time around it was actually planned to be 13 episodes (unlike Angel Beats that was planned for 24 then had its second cour cancelled last minute).
– Overlord is probably my other pick for show of the season aside from Soma. It’s not really that amazing but there’s something about it that’s kind of refreshing. The trapped-in-an-MMO angle isn’t anything that new and other shows have done the MMO part better, but Overlord is great in that the main character’s a ridiculously overpowered supervillain. It’s great.
– Symphogear GX continues to be absolutely batshit insane. It’s a hard recommendation since you’d need to go back to the original stuff to get into it, but it fills the void that Nanoha used to periodically fill in until that franchise went right off the rails and went stupid. Basically Symphogear ramps straight up to 11 and never shows down, and I’m fine with that. It’s a mediocre show but I enjoy it immensely.
– Joukamachi no Dandelion seemed better earlier on. Not a fan of the way each episode feels like 2-3 short episodes tacked together rather than something bigger. It makes it hard to get into. On the other hand, the characters are good and the art’s solid. I guess it’s unoffensive. I don’t mind watching it but in six months I will have forgotten it.
– Chaos Dragon is bad, but it’s got enough of a hook into me that it’s not bad enough to drop. The timing that it releases ends up making it available right when I want an extra episode of something to watch, so I’ve ended up continuing with it. It’s got a ton of wasted potential but it’s ultimately very disappointing, especially when you look at the group of creatives involved with writing it. Wish the art was better.
– Non Non Biyori Repeat is easily one of my favourites, probably would rate it just below Overlord. Very different shows. It’s a pure, gentle slice of life anime with great characters and tone and is just incredibly pleasant to watch. It’s not the best at it (Aria will forever reign supreme as the best show like it) but it’s pretty damn good. May have peaked early though – so far nothing has made me laugh quite as much as Ren’s full-body Teru-teru bozu costume.
– Working!!! I think might have started to overstay its welcome. There’s been big developments in the overall situation and it’s still an enjoyable watch, but it’s starting to feel a bit stale. If anything it’s just gotten predictable. I still watch it regularly but I don’t know that I’d be up for a fourth season.
– Monster Musume is awful. I don’t know why I keep watching it. I nearly noped out when they introduced the *shudder* spider girl *shudder* but somehow I still find myself watching it. And it’s not even the worst thing I’m watching regularly…
– … because Sky Wizard Academy is. Fucking terrible. Bad art, bad animation, bad plot, bad characters. What the hell is wrong with me? In my defense, I think part of it is that the timing of new episode releases of this is just right, I end up with nothing else to watch when I want something to watch. I should get a book to read or something.
– Should probably not admit to watching Prisma Ilya. I’m a sucker for Type-Moon stuff though and it’s just the right type of irreverent lampooning of the Fate universe. Especially since the actual thing can get so damned dark. Tiding me over until we get the Heaven’s Feel route animated, at least. Or ideally another Carnival Phantasm series because that was amazing.
Chaos Dragon is VERY bad, but it feels like there are good people working on it who are hamstrung by the bad ones. Pacing is fuckawful. Let’s cram a half-series of development into one episode! So reminiscent of the X movie/series. Art is abominable, like they didn’t have the chops to pull off the ambitious, cinematic things the director was asking of them. And writing/characters/general plot? Uuuuuurgh.
The first couple eps of Working felt a little bit of a disappointment. I may end up in the same boat – I like these characters, but they’re not going anywhere.
Overlord I had never heard of and will probably have to pick up. I’ve also been grabbing God Eater, but haven’t actually watched a single ep yet. I’ve been meaning to watch Durarara… the first series. I keep failing.
God Eater is good but the release schedule’s been a bit ropey. The art’s odd as well – it’s shaded to look like it’s 3DCG but it isn’t.
Strongly recommend Overlord. I think you’ll enjoy it a lot.
And yeah, Chaos Dragon should be great. It’s got Urobuchi and Nasu collaborating. Last time that happened we got Fate/Zero. How is it so shit? And the character designs are atrocious with the exception of dopey dick’s Girlfriend he murdered in ep 1 and the girl with the flying monster thing attached. Those two are passable. But even the actual style of it is fugly.
“Mildly enjoying” made me giggle.
I’m back up to date with everything I’m currently watching, so next on my list is Overlord, and after that I might like to mildly enjoy Arslan Senki as well.
Soma is the best thing and I usually watch it with my breakfast on Saturday mornings. Except this week I’ve been watching everything on the huge loungeroom TV via the new Crunchyroll PS4 app so I’m trying to figure out if I should just watch it in the morning on my iPad as usual, or will I be able to wait until Monday morning when everyone’s gone so I can use the PS4?
I’m also enjoying Gate. It’s another of those “I don’t know why I like this, but I do” shows.
I’ve been watching the Death Note live action series too, and it’s really bad, but I can’t stop watching it. The acting is terrible, and I’ve already seen the anime and the live movies, but I still look forward to every new episode for some unknown reason. And I don’t even have the excuse of the main character having awesome hair this time! 😛
TayRedAline shot!
What’s something innocuous that creeps you out that really shouldn’t?
For me it’s crumpled up paper. I don’t know why but I find it repulsive. Also the yellow foam that you find in cheap mattresses and cushions. Touching it makes my skin crawl.
Chalk. Not chalkboards, but chalk itself. I hate handling it, I hate using it, I hate the feeling of it, and I hate the way it makes your hands feel
Man, fuck chalk. That texture. Urgh.
Yes this *shudders*
For me, I have the same kind of thing, but with cotton balls. That squeaky feeling you get…. ACK!
I don’t have too much of an issue with chalk, but I totally know where you’re coming from. *screeeeeeeech*
Holding a living creature in my hands. It’s one thing to not know how to hold one so it’s comfortable in your arms, but I’m always constantly worried I’m hurting it in some way up to the point where I just refuse to hold it.
SO MUCH THIS ^^^
I don’t even like holding babies but people insist and it’s awful. D:
I just won’t touch babies ever cuz they’re gross 😛
I would refute this and say they are adorable (which they are) but yeah they can be gross
Cotton balls. I can’t touch them. There’s something about the texture that just makes me shudder like nails down a chalkboard. Took me ages to pin it down, but it’s when you touch them, and the fibres move and rub together – it feels a certain way – I can’t describe it, but it’s awful.
Man, man. Sponges.
I cannot touch certain types of damn sponges without shivering. Even thinking about it now is making me shudder 😛
Argh.
Oops, that was meant to be a reply to Freeze. Works here anyway though 😛
Pretty sure it’s a similar thing to sponges. Some sort of weird texture/sensation issue.
As a kid I used to dread washing the family car because I had to touch that horrible sponge. Tried to wear gloves once to avoid it but it made the feeling worse 😛
I got goosebumps just reading this.
lol glad to know I’m not the only one with this issue! 😉 I can’t STAND cotton balls!!
The Liberal Party.
Wait… they shouldn’t be creeping you out? 😛
Normally they should just be a punchline.
Now they’re dangerously stupid.
That’s what’s terrifying.
Packing styrofoam. It’s less the feeling of it and more the sound that it makes when pulling it out of a box. Gives me shivers whenever I hear it.
Not me but my brother has a weird aversion to the piling that you get on some clothes. To the extent that if you start plucking them off jumper when he is around he will start dry retching.
Now that is weird… Heard about the others to an extent… but that’s an entirely new one to me.
Chalk. Fuck chalk. Fuck chalk back to whatever spawn of pure evil that created CHALK!
@shane See that Ace Attorney 6 got announced and is already confirmed for a localisation? Hooray!
…kinda sad that they haven’t said anything for The Great Ace Attorney yet though…
Unfortunately they have said something about The Great Ace Attorney.
It’s not being localized. At least that’s what Capcom France says. 🙁
Oh wow, no wonder I didn’t hear about that. The news only came out a few hours ago.
Well that’s unfortunate…
YES. ALL THE HYPE. Did you see the logo?
Purple, magatama-shaped…Maya return confirmed?????!!!! \o/Also re: GAA, apparently Capcom France are “taking feedback on board,” which is probably (but might not be) corporate-speak bullshit.
They hinted in AA5 about Maya coming back, so hopefully! It makes sense seeing as the new character that was revealed also wears a (slightly different looking) magatama.
Exciting!
Fingers crossed for Great Ace Attorney too, though I’m lowering my expectations. They should have a kickstarter for the localisation or something 😛
Europa Universalis IV is ten bucks at Direct 2 Drive
https://www.direct2drive.com/#!/promotion/252
I’m sure several people here (such as @highperformance) will second my suggestion to BUY IT PLAY IT LOVE IT BE CONSUMED BY IT WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S 4AM AND I HAVE TO WORK SOON
I would like to second this statement. Best $10 you will EVER spend.
Over 350+ hours game time has meant that I have not budged on my pile of shame. I have played at work, I have played during anniversaries… I have dreamt of this game.
I regret not one moment.
A couple of weeks ago I was talking about how Tecmo were running a sus-looking ‘voting’ campaign to decide the playable cast for the upcoming Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, by selling crappy PS4/PSV themes for each character on PSN. Their possible roster has swelled to 15 characters since DoAX2 but for some reason they want to keep it to 9 in the game.
Anyway, they’re going to announce the official lineup during TGS, but things have reached the halfway point this week and they put up some interrim numbers and the results are kind of interesting.
1. Marie Rose: 17.1%2. Honoka: 14.8%
3. Kasumi: 11.5%
4. Ayane: 9.2%
5. Kokoro: 8.3%
6. Nyotengu: 7.2%
7. Hitomi: 6.4%
8. Momiji: 4.9%
9. Lei Fang: 4.6%
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10. Helena: 4.2%
11. Tina: 3.9%
12. Mila: 3.0%
13. Rachel: 1.7%
14. Lisa: 1.7%
15. Christie: 1.7%
There’s obviously elements that aren’t that surprising. Kasumi is still popular and it was pretty much unfathomable that she’d get dropped, same for Ayane or Hitomi. I think the most interesting thing is how many of the newer characters have displaced older ones in popularity. Especially that #1 pick.
The top 9 there is basically the exact 9 I would pick if I were asked to construct the roster, incidentally.I wonder if the sudden popularity of that first character might have implications for DoA6, if and when they get around to developing that.
Huh, figured Helena and Tina would be in for sure since they’ve always been around.
I was pretty sure they’d get dropped. I used to play Helena in DoA a lot but they gimped her a bit in 4 and 5, plus developed her character into a bit of a bitch. I don’t know if anyone actually liked Tina much, she’s just always been around and they’ve never had much of a chance to do this sort of poll I guess? Always found her incredibly irritating, both in terms of personality and as a character you have to fight periodically.
I was expecting both Marie Rose and Honoka to make it in. Marie because, for lack of a better way to put it, she panders to a certain audience, and because as a general thing she’s a nice contrast with the others by actually having a different body type. And I expected Honoka because she’s popular and pretty cute. I didn’t expect any of the other new ones to make it. Thought maybe Mila had an outside chance. Didn’t rate Momiji or Nyotengu at all, the former because she’s kind of bland (nice voice though) and the latter because I assumed the devs would rig the votes so they don’t have to figure out how to work in a character that has enormous fucking wings.
No Christie OR Helena? That’s a surprise. I feel like you’d have one or the other, not lose both. I’d definitely take Helena over Lei Fang. I mean, if I cared at all about Dead or Alive Extreme Gift Exchange and Perving Simulator 2016.
But I haven’t played any DoA since DoA4 which I barely remember, so I don’t even know who Momiji, Honoka or Nyotengo are.
They’re new in DoA5 or DoA5 LE. DoA4’s only additions were Kokoro, Eliot and Lisa/La Mariposa. EDIT: DoAX2, aka Extreme Oh-My-God-Why-Did-You-Return-My-Gift-You-Bitch simulator 2006 used the entire female roster of DoA4 + Zack.
Momiji is a Ninja Gaiden crossover character. She was Hayabusa’s partner in that rad Ninja Gaiden game on the DS that no one played (the one where you held the system like a book) and is also I think in Ninja Gaiden 3 but not sure as I didn’t play much of that owing to it being a stinking turd. Honoka was added in Last Round, she’s basically a giggly schoolgirl type that plays really nicely – she’s got a bunch of moves that are copied from other characters which is quite interesting. Slightly OP. I really like her. Nyotengu is basically a rebalanced version of the Tengu character that was the boss in DoA3 and an unlockable in 4, but instead of being an old man with a mask and crow wings, she’s a girl and talks in that stereotypical drawn-out nasal drawl associated with high-class ladies in Japanese period dramas / anime.
Yeesh. AUD has dropped down to 69 cents. The gap between buying online and local is narrowing. I got a shirt on Monday listed as US$29 and ended up over AUD$40.
Gerry Harvey smiles
…before orgasming…
It’s recovered from earlier today however not by much; that said our currency is due for more easing. Economies across the globe are weakening and our government is doing little to make sure we don’t follow the likes of Canada or Brazil following the crash in commodities prices.
Ironically what our weakening currency means is our property is un-affordable for purchasers who have local currency but actually becomes more affordable if you have primarily foreign holdings! \o/ Australia is officially no longer priced for Australians =P
Really sucks when you’re going to move there and every dollar in your savings is worth less and less.
It’s at the point where I’m considering buying some of the things I’d been holding off on until after my move, because if I get them in Australia they’ll actually end up cheaper.
It’s gonna be great the other way though when you’re earning American dollars. 🙂
Yeah, except then I have to spend them in the US as well. Only the transition is fiddly really.
Good for manufacturers though.
The few Manufacturers left in the country, yeah. :\
They’re around, but I’ll tell you right now they’re not hiring and not upskilling staff.
Yep, was contemplating buying Stasis yesterday with the 20% launch discount, for US$19.99. Worked out doing it via Paypal would bring the price to over AU$30. Accounting for Paypal’s fees, it’s basically safe to just convert US to AU by adding 50%… yeesh.
@pupp3tmast3r Really?
The ongoing marrow-less assassins creed games with preorder speed pants?
The neverending shit Final Fantasy spin off games?
Whatever is going on with Konami?
Activision butchering Destiny then charging $70 for a bunch of new DLC
EA, I can point to like six things they’re doing or have done recently that are doing right by people who love their earlier games. We’re getting a new Mirror’s Edge! Dragon Age Inquisition! Women’s Soccer in Fifa! Giving pride of place to a yarn based platformer at at least two major games shows!
I’m not saying they’re saints- they’re a public corporation – but they’re in no way the worst in the gaming industry
It just became fashionable to hate them.
Really? Pretty broad based brush to paint people who hate EA with.
Counter-argument – Maybe it’s now fashionable to defend them mr. hipster!
We’re several years from Project Ten Dollar. I look at what they’re doing now and I just feel they’re delivering more of what I want in a less anti-consumer way than a) they used to and b) a lot of their rivals.
I always thought that Project Ten Dollar was a good idea, personally.
I think it made sense from a business perspective but was poorly sold.
I think I’d prefer it to stuff like “MB coins” to use an example chosen completely at random from this week.
I don’t know how they could have sold it better. But it never affected me since I always bought games new.
If hipster is not jumping on a hatewagon, sign me the fuck up.
EDIT: Incidentally, I’m not accusing you of wagon-hopping, just for a lot of people, I think the whole ‘Fuck EA’ thing became a mantra they repeated without thinking about it.
Lol i know bro; I just being a little cheeky with my reply =P
Just making sure you don’t think I’m being an arse! =D
Any other forum in any other site for sure but I know the peeps in TAY =]
No love for Mirror’s Edge or DA:I =P I’ve actually spent more time playing the multiplayer in the latter than the single player! 0 interest in sports games which I guess has always been EA’s staple revenue. With regards to Unravel…. I feel it’s more a corporate stunt to show the market they can jump on the indie band wagon (i.e. PR slush fund). Show me 5-6 indie games that would have eaten into their bottom line should they fail and I’ll start reworking my views on the company.
All the IP’s you’ve listed are IP’s owned by the companies butchering them (At least as far as I’m aware Ubisoft developed AC; Square developed FF; Activision/Bungie funded/created Destiny and I have no clue what Konami do anymore). EA have always bought other IP’s and then proceeded to butcher them; that’s what I have an issue with. Westwood Studios, Maxis, BioWare.
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t trust most of the other examples you’ve listed anymore either however out of the list the only ones I hate on principle are EA. If you created the IP that gave me hours of enjoyment and butchered it I can accept that; I’m not happy about it but I’ll accept it cos as I see it’s a nil karma action. However if you haven’t created anything that has ever given me enjoyment however then use your resources to butcher an IP that has. Well yeah. Blacklist. (more recently see SW:Battlefront no galaxy campaign, and to quote EA’s head of something corporate; people don’t want single player anymore, no one would play it so we won’t make it).
EA is the only company I actively put on a negative foundation, that is to say I treat any games using them as a publisher as an initial negative preview.
It is worth remembering that enjoyment of games is a subjective matter; I have definitely hated more games from EA than I have enjoyed in addition to they fact they have ruined games/IP’s I used to enjoy. This could be the complete opposite for someone else and to each their own.
Bioware was the last studio that EA acquired and they’ve done anything but butcher them – in fact, that studio’s output is largely what’s propping the company up.
It’s not fair to point at the fact they acquired basket-case companies like Bullfrog or Origin back in the day and then closed them down when everyone left. Peter Molyneux was asked about that in an interview a while back and he said basically that with most of those companies, they were big because they had managed to produce a few successful games by accident, and at least Bullfrog was not built on sound management practices or anything. So the big issue was that EA came in and actually tried to apply some kind of order to the chaos, get them to do things like consider budgets and sane working hours, and because those studios weren’t sustainable long-term anyway, they ended up foundering eventually. It would have happened whether EA owned them or not.
Westwood is a whole different thing. EA acquired the company and then within weeks of that, all the creative talent in the studio quit. There was hardly anyone left, so it’s no surprise EA shut it down.
Don’t get me wrong – EA are a big corporation and they’ve got a bad reputation because they have done some scummy things over the years. But they’re unfairly held up as ‘killing’ studios and that’s just not true.
True BioWare has done well under EA; I mean if their creators are still around under EA’s tutelage maybe they are a different company now……. waitaminute. BioWare games released prior to the takeover are of a completely different story-telling calibre when compared to what we get now. Once again everyone else might enjoy the gotta collect em all/fetch quest mmo-gameplay for DA:I but I would like to remind you games are subjective (see metacritic user scores for all DA and ME games; you will notice a downward trend per sequel).
Once again. Games are subjective. EA is a gaming company. You can’t be objectively right in support or lack thereof of the company as it would depend entirely on your enjoyment of the material they churn out. You like their practices and corporate philosophy then great; as for me I believe the only thing that their pioneer is new means by which to shake a consumer’s hand while emptying their wallet.
Edit: Also I don’t believe EA kill studios; plenty of studios have survived under their tutelage; I only subscribe to the notion that they kill IP’s.
Mass Effect 2 is generally regarded as being the best ME game, writing-wise. It was also developed while they were under EA – EA acquired them almost immediately after they released Mass Effect in 2007. Dragon Age Origins was also released after they were acquired by EA, though it’d been in development for years prior (which is why technology-wise it felt regressive compared to ME2). Probably being acquired forced them to pull their finger out and release the damned thing.
Additionally if DA:I and ME3 being ‘worse’ is because of anything, it’s because Bioware didn’t do as good a job. Nothing to do with EA. Bioware have put out middling-to-bad games before. Neverwinter Nights was a mediocre game with a great tooklit, and Sonic Chronicles was shit.
Bioware’s founders leaving was likely because they owned a majority stake in the company when it was acquired, had been working in the industry since 1995, and were likely given a stonking huge paycheck for the acquisition as a result. The fact is that both of them left to pursue non-gaming ventures. Which doesn’t mean EA forced them out or anything (if that had been the plan they wouldn’t have been there for five years after being acquired!) it means they decided they had had enough of video games and wanted to do something else. Both going at once is just a reflection of the fact they felt their era with the company was over and they always preferred to do everything together.
I’ve found EA to be pretty benign of late. They’re not heroes or anything and still have some pretty bad practices but nothing anyone else is doing as standard. They’re a far cry from leading the shit show charge as they were 5 years ago.
Exactly.
The only thing they’ve done/said of recent I can think of that’s really shitted me off is probably Battlefront not having singleplayer.
I’d bet cash money they’ve crunched the numbers very finely on that
I don’t know why that surprised people. It was always announced as being MP-only.
Battlefield and CoD are also widely accepts as primarily MP games but they still come with some form of single-player. Additionally previous iterations of SW:BF had galactic single player campaigns and co-op campaigns; they were the reason me and my friends would play that game years after it’s release.
I’m willing to take bets that EA will re-introduce the galactic campaign in a BF sequel or perhaps even as a DLC add-on and flaunt it as a new feature that fans have successfully clamored for. Why charge your fan base once when you can do it twice.
With the way stuff happens now, doing single player would likely have tied up a second studio. I’d rather think that that second studio is off working on a proper Star Wars single player game. But I never cared for Battlefront so I guess it doesn’t matter much to me.
Battlefront single player isn’t a story mode like your average Battlefield game gets. Galactic Conquest is more like playing against bots with a checkers level meta game. All the planets are placed on a map and you want to capturing/defend them by winning battles until one side is completely wiped out. It doesn’t sound that special but it really gave the game a sense of purpose.
EA move in cycles. They slash and burn until it becomes undeniable that the bad reputation it earns hurts their ability to sell games, then they clean themselves up. Unfortunately they slowly drift back over time.
The interesting thing is they manage to release good games the entire time. There’s the occasional Battlefield 4 situation, but it’s mostly just behind the scenes bastardry and Wile E. Coyote-like schemes for squeezing more money out of players.
Yeah, I’m still not on board with the ‘EA turning it around’ theory yet. A large number of their anti-consumer failures are still pretty damn fresh. And what they did Dungeon Keeper was pretty unsavoury to watch; like a necromancer raising the corpse of someone you regarded fondly, and committing heinous acts with its body.
Maxis and Sim City are still a sore point – for all the public protestation in the world, I still cannot buy the idea that there was not some publisher pressure on the studio to go with the Always Online catastrophe. Shutting Maxis down without a shot at redemption isn’t something I can blame them for, but it’s very sad that all that remains is the lucrative overpriced ‘content’ scam that is the Sims. A franchise I would love to get into if it weren’t for the price-gouging so exploitative that it’s only matched by Train Simulator for ridiculousness.
Well. Out of the franchises I care about, it’s one of the more exploitative. I looked at the Origin store and what the DLC for Battlefield costs and it almost makes me revise my order of placing for the Sims series.
For my money, dramatically-exaggerated public pouncing on them is the ONLY thing keeping that kind of exploitative impulse in check (if your idea of ‘in check’ is monetization strategies that make you say, “Wow, that’s a little chopped up and pricey.” But they can and will, if able, do so much worse), so I’m in favour of it.
Ugh… My eyeballs..
You have nobody to blame but yourself.
I can’t do anything about them until the next federal election.
Yes! Found some Philips headphones with mic at Target for $50, down from $150. Ready for RocketTAY!
The latest Humble Bundle is an awful lot of sneaky bastardry of the Sam Fisher variety for not much $ https://www.humblebundle.com/?logo&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0124c5cdc9-Humble_Tom_Clancy_Bundle&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-0124c5cdc9-93485365&mc_cid=0124c5cdc9&mc_eid=065aff3194
If I didnt already own all the games (not including siege) id be all over that because I love the Tom Clancy games
Yeah, I’ve got all of the splinter cell games bar Conviction otherwise id be on it too
Must nearly be time for the weekly triumphant return of @haggis
Ugh… night before an exam and I’m really not feeling this content.
I feel like I know the core stuff but linking it all together keeps slipping away.
Here’s to hoping a few solid hours of revision tomorrow morning will give me enough to get it over the line.
Good luck man!!
I heard there was a dude with a legal fetish in court the other day
He got off on a technicality #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeYou win.
*jurisprudence fetish
#ftfy #beingthatguy #mmmtechnicalities
I heard there was a dude with a grammar fetish in TAY the other day
He got off on a technicality
I don’t get it.
grammar fetish = “getting off” on a technicality =P
Bit of @shane style wordplay by our friendly neighbourhood reditifice!
I know. 😛
Dammit I had an inkling something just flew right past my head!
There’s this Spanish pro-hispanic group going around promoting racism against non-hispanics.
They call themselves the Que-Que-Que.
Good training tonight @gingerchris86. Sorry I had to dash at the end, but The Weekly was on 🙂
All good, we have some things to try now. I went to bed so early.
Ooh. CQC beta for Elite.
Picked a good time to go poking around again on what’s going on over there, that sounds right up my alley!
THIS IS AWESOME
CONDORS ARE COOL
Does sound cool although I fear that I will not be competitive at all due to my lack of skill dog fighting 😛
It’s basically what I’ve been training for. I’ve been doing nothing but flying and fighting with a Sidewinder. Pumped 😛
Aahh fair enough, being more of a trader/Explorer guess I’m looking more forward to 1.5, because MOAR SHIPS 😛
Really hoping to see the Panther Clipper in that update!
Tried out some of the new ships last night. Imperial Eagle is zippy I guess. And the Federal Assault Ship is surprisingly zippy. Gunship flies like a brick 😛 Also got to try out the Diamondback Explorer which I didn’t get a chance to try back in the last beta. It’s alright I guess. None of them are as fun as the DB Scout though.
Out exploring in the DB Explorer at the moment and Jesus Christ. Easily my favourite ship in the game so far, though not good for fighting 😛
Looking forward to trying some of the new toys soon 😀
Last team member for PAX hatched after 815 eggs.
Timid and missing full speed. Ah well.
It took me almost 4 boxes worth of rejects before I finally got my last team member. Had 5IV/4IV parents (with destiny knot) and it kept giving me 3IV children 😛 I don’t think I’ve ever had it take that long with those odds.
All good now though, just got to start training which doesn’t take too long.
Then challenge me and stomp my team!
Admire the bling while also laughing at my choice of something with a lofty 30 defence!
Maybe I will at some point! Going to give it a test in the Battle Maison first though just to double check the team isn’t a complete dud 😛
I think I made it about 15 rounds through on my test run before the hax maison just dialled up complete hard counter teams that I couldn’t answer.
Edit: but more importantly, the test produced a successful result for my team being fun. So yeah, I’ll have a lot of fun with my setup.
…My Timid shiny is 31/31/31/31/31/4.
That’s the 5th worst outcome out of the 187 possibilities.
My poor glass cannon doesn’t outspeed a charizard any more.
Haha, oh dear. That’s incredibly unfortunate…
Still though, shiny 😛
It *might* be able to tank a hit from a char Y given high special defence and item assistance, and it *might* be able to take out (or at least do good damage to) a char x. If it gets to move first.
But hey, shiny.
This last one was meant to be a ‘make the team a bit easier’ sort of adjustment – I’ve got 2 trolls, pick one, I’ve got the core 2, and I’ve got 2 glass cannons, pick one. That’s my full doubles team.
MGSV Adevntures:
– Rode D-Horse off a cliff in the middle of a sandstorm and died.
– Accidentally rode D-Horse over a sheep going flat stick, thought I’d killed it – was relieved to find it was just unconscious.
– Got myself a puppy!
– I have a sickness. I must Fulton all of the things. Anything that’s not nailed down. I may or may not be overcrowding and sending Mother Base broke on a regular basis due to Snake’s kleptomaniac disorder.
GOTY 2015
I actually stumbled across the puppy before I knew it was when I should be looking for him- saw him and thought “huh wonder if I can fulton that” and turns out I can
New title:
MGSV : ‘Huh. Wonder if I can Fulton that?’
As of last night, it’s officially Metal Gear Solid V: And Suddenly, A Bear
I feel you man, I did that fifth mission last night, it was a large barracks compound and parachuted every man and every gun placement i could find, upon reflection is feels a little crazy.
I sent Mother Base broke at one point because I wanted ALL THE MORTARS AND ALL THE MG EMPLACEMENTS.
I’m so happy I’ve finally upgraded my Fulton to cargo level, but I want to get it and my tranqs to a point where I can fulton a bear so bad
I managed to fulton a bear with the lvl1 tranq and fulton.
Just takes a little while/a lot of ammo for it to fall asleep.
Yeah, I got eaten first when I tried.
Might develop Stun Grenades and try that
Got most of the way to work before the kids pipe up in the back of the car asking what happened to dropping them at school.
Seems my memory really is shot. I feel really bad about that. Also I didn’t play MGSV last night as I forgot I even purchased it.
Are you sure you’re okay?
Why, what happened?
I’m not sure if you’re joking but I’m scared
Is there anything you can do for that? Mental exercises or anything? Do you know if it’s temporary?
I suggest @freezespreston train his children to pipe up earlier rather than hope he forgets :P.
Put one in the front seat perhaps so whenever he looks left, he’ll be reminded
Did the docs mention this might be a side-effect of recovering from the stroke? If not should you go back in for a follow-up?
You’re allowed to drive again?
I’d chat to the Doctors and see what they can suggest
*pulls out polaroid of a picture of the kids*
Scrawled along the bottom: don’t believe their lies
Seems you need to Fulton them to school, also my mind was abit like that yesterday drove to the completely wrong place 4 times I just couldn’t do anything right
Jumped into Diablo 3 for the first time since the launch days and played a few hours last night. It’s really depressing, considering my love for Diablo 2, that I can look back and realise I was completely unengaged and bored the entire time. This was definitely not helped by the facts that my stash now only has a couple of gems in it where it was previously full of good gear to pass between characters (filled a second time after losing most of it to an account hack) and more than twice as many gems, and the game locked up my computer, requiring a hard reset. I couldn’t even find the unthinking gameplay cathartic.
I don’t know if I’m going to bother to push myself to keep going. I guess the positive thing to take away from this experience is that I no longer feel like I should try and give it some more time, thus freeing me up for more Rocket League and Witcher 3 😛
What happened to your stash this time?
I have no idea. I just had a couple of gems and some crafting materials. Original thought was that they dumped it all into mats, but aside from that being a weird thing for Blizzard to do, it doesn’t look like nearly enough to cover what I had in there.
Wouldn’t be surprised if someone has been on my account again. The first time they managed to it was despite having the authenticator app set up…
So, Metal Gear Solid 2 is awesome. Incredibly slick production. Such a huge step-up from the first game in terms of visuals and animation (though the first is still very nice for its age), and the story is just as solid (#PAGESIX). I love it so much.
The HD remake for the Vita is also a very nice production. One little detail I discovered by accident, but totally love: in cutscenes, you can just touch the touchscreen and zoom in on anything you like (which suggests that the level of HD included is H’er than the screen can ordinarily support). What really impressed me, though, was that if there are other HUD elements in the cutscene (such as gas mask eyes or a GUI interface), they don’t zoom, which is just all kinds of cool to see! 😀
Wait until you play Snake Eater. You’re going to love the interaction in cutscenes.
I’ve played them all before! 😀
PS2 you clicked in the right stick and the scenes zoomed in.
Oh… did not know that.
I guess the PC version must have done it too! It’s been so long since I last played this game, it felt like a new feature 🙂
Same in V
Some aquatic mammals at the zoo escaped. It was otter chaos.
Where are average things made?
In the satisfactory.My driving instructor told me that I should wear a seatbelt because if I were to crash, the force could throw me out of the car.
I can’t believe that he thinks Star Wars is real.
If one more person asks me to do a summersault.
I swear I’m going to flip.
You know you are getting old when the fortune teller offers to read your face.
I was thinking about getting a brain transplant, but I changed my mind.
Did you know that cats can jump higher than a house?
This is because of their powerful hind legs and because houses can’t jump.
I bought a book called “101 fish jokes”. I hope i don’t laugh so hard that I bust my stitches or else I’m going to need a sturgeon.
What do you call a group of rabbits hoping backwards?
A receding hare line.How many apples grow on a tree?
All of them. ……….My girlfriend is sick of me pretending to be a detective. She told me we should split up. I told her it was a good idea, we can cover more ground that way…
I went fishing on the weekend and used licorice for bait.
I caught all sorts.
I’m going to use this one
I’m using ALL of them. Gradually. Throughout the day.
Watched a Chinese movie called Out of the Dark last night, after my wife informed me she found the “weird part of Netflix”, which is slightly less interesting to me than “the porny part of Stan”. Nonetheless, fun and bizarre movie. About halfway through I felt like the main character was oddly familiar but couldn’t put my finger on his identity. IMDB tells me it’s Stephen Chow, who I probably last saw in Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle, but both of those were a long time ago.
I think I need to go check how much of the Stephen Chow back catalogue is on Netflix.
If you really want the weird part of Netflix and like Stephen Chow look up God of Cooking.
Cakesmith attempts to watch 100 movies in 2015 that he has never seen before!
This is all going to be pretty rushed. Busy day at work.
The Good…
‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ was just excellent. Say what you will about Tom Cruise the person, but Tom Cruise the actor is just the best. I saw a couple of interviews with him about the film and he really just seemed like he was in the business to entertain people.‘Trainwreck’ was pretty enjoyable. I like Amy Schumer and Bill Hader and they work well off each other. In typical Judd Apatow fashion, it was about 20 minutes too long.
‘Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection “F”‘ was a nice bit of fan service. I’m not the biggest DBZ fan, but @alexpants assures me that it was good. As someone who knows the basic premise, it did exactly what it needed to for me, which was keep me entertained for an hour and a half.
‘Treasure Planet’ is the first Disney movie that I’ve never seen that I apparently should see. I have now seen the movie.
‘Z for Zachariah’, I’ve been following for a little while now. It’s a very slow movie about people surviving in a post apocalyptic world. There’s no big action scenes or anything and the entire cast consists of three people, who are all excellent, but I ended up really enjoying it. Margot Robbie is very quickly becoming one of my favourite actresses.
The Bad…
Let’s get this out of the way shall we: ‘Fantastic Four’. Ok, now it’s not the worst movie ever made as some people are claiming it to be, but it’s not good either, which is a shame because there are some really good ideas that are set up at the start of the movie. I could go on about it, but its biggest issue is tone. Spoilers from here, I guess: There are scenes of “fun science montages”, followed by scenes of people being burnt alive, followed by scenes of “fun science montages”, followed by scenes of Doom walking around exploding peoples heads. I don’t follow the F4 comics, so Doom didn’t bother me, but Jesus, that scene was dark. And I actually liked the darker stuff in it. You can tell that Josh Trank really wanted to make a David Lynch style “body horror” movie and the studio fought him on it. I really want to see the original version of this.‘Unity’ is a documentary I saw based on the strength of its trailer. Holy shit, what a mess. If you’d be a fan of an extremely heavy-handed heartstrings-pulling edit of YouTube clips and stock video set to a constantly, distractingly morphing celebrity voiceover, watch this movie. Rhetorical questions, pseudoscientific babble and self-righteous grand sweeping oversimplifications dominate the narrative of this. Not to say I disagreed with everything the filmmaker had to say, but the approach was so heavy handed that it pushed me away from the main message of the film, which really just boils down to “go vegan, treat all living beings equally, because we all have consciousness”. There was a nice little sequence about the history of human rights though, which is the only reason this movie scored higher than…
The Ugly…
‘Harbringer Down’. Holy shit you guys, this movie. This fucking movie. I love horror movies. I love bad horror movies, the ones filled with tropes. So when the guys who did the creature effects for the likes of the Alien franchise say they’re going to make a movie that is a love letter to the movies I grew up watching you bet I was on board. But the end result…holy fuck. What a mess. This movie raised just shy of $400,000 on Kickstarter, plus additional funding from various production companies, and I don’t know what they did with the money, but it wasn’t used on the movie. Considering this was made by an effects company, the effects are just terrible and it looks like it was shot on a 10 year old mobile phone camera. Congratulations, you’ve just dethroned Taken 3 as the worst movie I’ve seen this year.The Summary
Month:Best Movie: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Worst Movie: Harbringer Down
Year:
Best Movie: Mad Max: Fury Road/Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Worst Movie: Harbringer Down
Total Movies Watched:
Jan – 14
Feb – 8
Mar – 3
Apr – 9
May – 7
Jun – 9
Jul – 7
Aug – 9
Total – 66
Full list: http://letterboxd.com/asharples/films/diary/year/2015/
Feel free to give me suggestions on movies you think I should watch, I am keeping a list. Strangely enough, there’s a lot of “older” movies I should’ve seen but probably haven’t and as everyone found out about a month ago, Disney movies.
For the rest of the year? This is what is on my radar:
Currently playing:Amy
Mr. Holmes
The Man From UNCLE
The Gift
Southpaw
Ricki and the Flash
Upcoming:
Everest – Sept 17
Sicario – Sept 30
Pan – Sept 30
The Martian – Oct 1
Crimson Peak – Oct 15
Black Mass – Oct 15
Bridge of Spies – Oct 22
The Last Witch Hunter – Oct 29
Spectre – Nov 12
Hunger Games – Nov 19
In The Heart of the Sea – Dec 3
Krampus – Dec 3
The Force Awakens – Dec 17
The Good Dinosaur – Dec 26
Goosebumps – Dec 26
Macbeth – TBC
Steve Jobs – TBC
The Walk – TBC
Victor Frankenstein – TBC
Stupid spoiler tags. I give up!
Oh, I also watched ‘The Fountain’. It was weird and doesn’t really sit in either good or bad because it’s so…weird. Anyway, it’s on Netflix and was done by Darren Aonofsky, who directed ‘Noah’ and ‘Requiem for a Dream’. It’s weird even by his standards. The wikipedia summary does a better job of explaining it than I can:
The Fountain is a 2006 American drama film that blends elements of fantasy, history, spirituality, and science fiction. It is directed by Darren Aronofsky, and stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The film consists of three story lines, in which Jackman and Weisz play different sets of characters who may or may not be the same two people: a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his queen, and a space traveler in the future who hallucinates his lost love. The story lines—interwoven with use of match cuts and recurring visual motifs—reflect the themes of love and mortality.*bursts through ceiling*
YEAH DRAGON BALL
*unbursts through ceiling*
Tch, that was a nice bit of roofing
Sir Cliff Richard is believed to be on holiday, in Portugal.
He has been reported as swimming some way off the shore. At one point, bystanders said that he ran into difficulties, and appeared to be clinging to a small buoy.
For those who have played Until Dawn, how would you rate the scare factor of the game? I’m considering playing through it but I’m a coward when it comes to most horror games (generally don’t play) and I don’t want to stop part way through because of being a scaredy cat. The only reason I’m interested is because it sounds like a horror adventure game which I love the idea of such a game. Is it a game better off watched rather than played for someone like me?
It’s not really scary at all. It has a decent number of jump scares, but it doesn’t build tension. So if you can handle being jumped at every now and again, it’s fine.
Not really scary. It has some nice atmosphere, but I was never really scared. 🙂
There’s a few heart starters but not enough to make me setting up the cheap shots camera worth it. The footage is kind of disappointing.
So… Strike bowling has opened up near me and I’m thinking about having a karaoke B’day party there, early Dec, late Nov.
Would any Melbourne Taybies be interested?
Sure, I always enjoy bowling. Even more so if cake is involved!
I hate bowling. I’d rather the rest. =P
Oh, I totally misread the karaoke part and just went party at strike = bowling
but…but…there will still be cake right
Cake will still be happening
Sounds like an idea I’d be up for
Interesting quotes from Hockey and Abbott.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/03/mathias-cormann-plays-down-poor-economic-figures
Interesting tidbit about recessions/depressions. When you inform the general public the country is in a recession the following reaction usually exacerbates the problem making the economy deteriorate a lot faster.
Edit: Even more interesting; it seems the government increased spending at the start of the quarter and this increased level of spending (primarily on defence equipment) represents the 0.2% GDP growth. If not for their spending it would’ve been flat and we would be well and truly in recession territory. Convenient that a government that’s been all about cutting back spending increases their spending over a quarter where our economy has taken a massive hit.
Yep, it’s been confirmed that a defence spending increase made up the entirety of the 0.2% growth. But it’s not productive spending, so there won’t be a return on that spending in future quarters.
Makes you wonder what’s going to happen next quarter.
Would be the first time that defence spending was ever spent on schedule.
Fortunately next quarter has Christmas/Halloween/NYE. That said if spending is less than previous Q2’s definitely a sign for concern.
Freya and I are looking for accommodation at PAX. Anyone else not organised or has a spare room?
@janexo Jim Sterling has a great deconstruction of the Walking Simulator genre and why Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture wasn’t a very good one.
http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/08/the-jimquisition-walking-simulators/
Oh, thank you! The music and visuals in EGTTR are stunning, but I wanted a better level of interaction. There was one moment in that game that I really loved, and it wasn’t even anything video gamey – just an ordinary thing done extraordinarily well.
LUNCHTIME!!!!
I stayed up far too late last night, drinking wine and watching cycling and I’m paying for it now.
Think I want something terrible, oily and unhealthy.
Was thinking that I might go to Schnitz and get a parma burger, which made we think perhaps the Burger with the lot from a fish and chips shop could be a go.
Or I could go a pie if I could find a decent one, but I have those at home so maybe not. Although if I knew who stocked boscastle I would probably be all over that.
My general hangover fud is the old south melb market dimmies, but not that hungover, more tired and not feeling like them right now.
There there is always the chinese place or one of the noodles mobs. Actually I could go for the pork noodle place from the place that closed down, curse you sushi and bread.
Maybe it might be easier to list what you don’t feel like…
SaladActually, as a Melburnian, have you heard of or eaten at a place called Mrs Parmas? Apparently my brother had an interview there
Yeah and it i very good. Some very interesting combinations and you will be please to know they have a Parma floater.
Although it looks like they got rid of my favourite which was a turkey parma with brie and cranberry
Huh, nice. Apparently he’s got a job trial there sometime next week
Interesting, might be a reason for another visit. I haven’t been in ages
Well now I really want a burger…
So do I pants buddy, so do i
WIll you stop talking about food – I’m supposed to be taking myself to the gym soon!
Carb-load before you go. Eat all the burgers!
I had 24 nuggets for $10 no regrets
Freaking Sony. Only got this phone 6 months ago but that Z5 Premium looks real purdy.
I’m able to upgrade at the end of the year and I love my current Sony phone soooooo yeah I think that’s happening
My current phone contract ran out a month or so ago. Perfect timing for this new round of phones that are coming out!
Going to hold off for a little while and see what they all reveal by the end of the year.
This is why I like iPhone. I know that a new shitty version of my current phone will come out next year, to be replaced by an improved “S” version that actually works just in time for my contract to be renewed. I know exactly what I’m getting, only with a faster processor. By never entertaining the notion that my new phone will be cool or loaded with actually useful features, I can never be disappointed. \o/
I’ve been thinking of getting a new phone for a bit, and was on the verge of getting the Z4 as it was. Looks like my decision is basically made for me \o/
Picked up Batman: Arkham Origins on a whim during the humble sale, and I must say, I’m loving the crap out of it…
I know it wasn’t too well received but, maybe it’s because I wasn’t hype, or maybe that it’s been years since I played Arkham City, but my God I’m having fun!
Oi! Stop having fun. It’s forbidden.
I was the same! There was a 2-3 year gap between City and Origins for me, and I loved every minute of Origins. Thought it was brilliant. \o/
I’d be interested to know from people who thought it wasn’t so great what exactly is wrong with it? Narrative? Too samey?
Mind you I haven’t done that much of the story yet but Gotham is a damned pretty place to explore and all the mechanics feels tight
Apparently it was buggy as hell when it was released. Which is a shame. Also the world map is smaller than AC, despite being the entirety of Gotham.
People also complained about lag in combat, and the game missing counter prompts, but to them I say GET GUD.
It was buggy to the point where most people I know had their save file eaten and never bothered to finish it. It was serious enough that it inspired them to include save file backup system in Arkham Knight that lets you manually revert to old saves. Yet not serious enough that they finished the PC version before releasing it. =P
Wow fair enough, sounds pretty sucky! Glad I’m a bit behind in my gaming in that case because that way I don’t get my experience tainted by bad builds!
Yeah I played through the lot after finishing Knight and I loved Origins as much as I did the first time (which was quite a lot). I still think it’s the weakest game in the series but that’s like saying that gold isn’t as good as platinum, you’re still going to take gold if someone offers it to you…
Because Batman.
Impromptu question/survey time! Given the recent focus on our slowing economy in the news I was curious as to where people felt our economy was headed from personal experiences in the past 3-6 months financially.
Consumer sentiment is a key component of our economy and usually acts as a growing indicator of future weakness/strength within the economy.
Down the dunny.
I’m in SA. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
Well I fondly remember the days when we had parity with the USD and games were particularly cheap to buy on steam…
Ah, the days when you could walk into JB and not be amazed to find AAA games for $69 at launch… Days when you could buy a game on Steam and be confident that the price quoted was roughly what you’d be paying… *cries*
It was a time that shall be remembered in the future as the golden age and be the basis of all the old people’s nostalgic ravings about how things were better in their day…
Yeah, was great for consumers, shit for industry though.
True but then I’m not an industry although I do now own a table saw so I might just start a woodworking empire! If I can ever afford enough wood to make stuff that is.
Wouldn’t that depend on where the industry was based? i.e. Companies that report revenue in USD would’ve seen a boost in income since their products would’ve become more affordable however the local industry would have suffered a hit in revenue due to the increased sales price internationally.
It’s probably truer to say it was a mixed blessing for many things (higher purchasing power from AU dollar good) but the truth is if you were attempting to export stuff being above parity with the US dollar, still the de rigeur purchasing currency, it hurt a lot. Being at a lower exchange rates overcomes factors like higher wages and shipping costs when the purchasers are in economies like the US (AU’s #3 trading partner)
Last 3 months have been trending downwards pretty severely for myself and all the shops surrounding me. People aren’t spending any more.
Economy? Not as bad as everyone seems to think it is, at least these days. Sometimes it almost feels like you’re in business class.
I think to really be in business class you have to be constantly thinking about ways to centralise your industry and shed as many jobs as possible while maintaining the minimum legal level of quality of your products (but not having to worry about the competition because you destroyed them with buyouts and underhanded shit)
Secret: There’s no business anywhere that doesn’t worry about the competition except for the businesses that go bust because they weren’t worrying about the competition.
I work in finance and my wife in mining… So I see both sides of the coin at home.
My work just keeps on keeping on and my wifes… well, there’s been regular rounds of redundancies at various sites the company owns, they’re attempting to sell 2 of their properties (have been for at least 18 months now) and are close to mothballing another, their Canadian operations that looked oh so promising 3 years ago have essentially been put on hold with 95% Australian staff recalled or made redundant. But they’re still profitable and paying bonuses – so it’s not bad, just definitely not as good as it was.
So at home, we have me saying it’s alright to spend a few bucks on a nice dinner or some nice clothes every now and then and my wife saying that we need to save every penny (but also wants to renovate the bathroom, landscape the backyard, replace the window fixtures and maybe get a new roof on the house). I guess our “household” feel is that it’s been pretty ordinary the last 3 or 4 years but the feeling is that it’s likely to get a bit worse before it gets any better.
By finance do you mean loans/debt sun? Or just exposure to the finance industry in general? If its the former I think the industry has more potential growth; as our dollar devalues our property market starts to look a lot cheaper to overseas buyers.
It’s easy to forget that the collapse of the mining boom would have reduced disposable incomes across the country. Not to mention the impact it would have had on job security for people still within the industry further exacerbating the lack of disposable income. The depression of the dollar is also likely to hit low-middle income families harder who would’ve depended on its strength historically to obtain better bargains online. It’s an interesting mix of factors and it’s up to the government to improve our odds of recovery. I for one have been stockpiling cash for the past 2 months and placed a halt on all unnecessary spending and investing.
Thanks everyone @freezespreston @gooky @aliasalpha @redartifice @crazyguy1990 for your inputs.
Downward spiral.
I have to report that Stasis is a pretty damned cool game.
I enjoyed the beta when I played it a while ago and the full game is pretty much the same thing with more content. I was kind of hoping that a few mechanisms would have been improved to make things a bit more fluid and the voice acting could have been better but overall, it’s a great game with loads of really twisted goings on going on. I’ve just blown up some methane tanks and have saved with peg over my nose…
I just discovered that instead of buying the Disney Infinity 3.0 starter for $79 dollars at JB, you can instead buy the Disney Infinity 2.0 starter for $39, and then buy the pack that comes with the 3.0 starter seprepately for $34. Together this adds up to $73, saving you $6.
What am I doing with my life?
Saving $6.
You could just buy the Disney Infinity 3.0 starter at Target for $64. #HELPING
#MuchAppreciated #HaveAHighFiveOnTheHouse
Disney Infinity 2.0 is $20 at Target and Big W. Plus don’t you still require the 3.0 game disc?
I looked at Target, but all I could find was:
http://www.target.com.au/p/disney-infinity-2-starter-pack-ps4/56404500
The same problem with Big W:
http://www.bigw.com.au/product/disney-infinity-2-starter-pack-avengers/p/WCC100000000062596/
As for the disc, I’ve never played these games before, I’m just here for the Star Wars, so I honestly have no idea.
$20 in store only, unfortunately. Yes, I’m with you on the Star Wars, personally I’m hanging out for the Rise Against the Empire pack.
If I can get this specific arrangement, I can hopefully just buy that pack and pick up the original one when it’s a lot cheaper.
Sitting at work listening to Garbage, because they were a great band. Also, Shirley Manson. *flails*
They were indeed, I was having a bit of a clip marathon of them the other week myself
*Swoon*
Also you both need to replace the word “were” with “are”
True, not as big a fan of their later stuff – but you are correct.
Bleed Like Me was a bit too “90s edgy” and a few years too late to be relevant but I still liked Why Do You Love Me and Sex is Not the Enemy.
Not Your Kind of People took a while to grow on me but once it had its hooks in me I couldn’t stop listening. Only Happy When it Rains is still their best song, and Version 2.0 is still their best album.
Still my #1 Crush.
a THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
Got into this argument with a mate the other day, but: What series or trilogy “stuck the landing?” Which series IYHO had a satisfying conclusion?
Fringe. Lawdy that ended well. Amazing show that finished just perfectly.
The Wire has gotta be the only show ever to have a satisfying ending.
I was pretty happy with Breaking Bad
The Shield ended very well.
I know a lot of people hated the Breaking Bad finale, but that’d have to be my answer.
It just felt right.
That was going to be my answer.
I would have been happy with any of the last 3 eps being the finale finale.
Him dying cold and alone in a cabin would have been one of the most audacious things everScrubs.
And then they went and ruined it…
Also, Hannibal…
If it wasn’t for that last scene and if you ignore the fact that there’s still Silence of the Lambs in the Hannibal story line.What do you mean, the eight season of Scrubs are fantastic. Thankfully they stopped making them after season eight.
I never had a huge problem with Med School, it was alright it just wasn’t Scrubs. With time I think it could have gone somewhere. I will say as good as the final episode was the writers strike sort of screwed the lead up to it. A lot of good shows got derailed by that but at least Scrubs managed to come back strong.
Yeah, I feel like it would have done much better if they renamed it and branded it as “From the creators of Scrubs”
It was apparently the original plan.
That season 8 finale. So good.
Mass Effect.
Battlestar Galactica. A lot of people hated that ending, I wasn’t one of them! Also Six Feet Under was just flawless!
Hmm, I thought the last ep of Six Feet Under was very, very good. I didn’t think the couple before it helped that
Just. Flawless. *glares* 😛
Don’t glare with your tongue out! It’s rude!
Be polite and just glare =P
How else will he know I’m unhinged and he shouldn’t mess with me?
😀
Eyebrow twitch. Duh. Did we learn nothing from The Rock?! =P
This.
Supernatural (if you count season five as the end). They planned it out, they wrote it well and everything that came before it was better as a result. Of course season six and beyond just sort of flopped around aimlessly.
If Futurama had ended with The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings.
So I guess it didn’t stick the landing because of everything that came along way later, but, at that time…anyway. The final scene was perfect.
Parks and Rec finale was pretty amazing.
Star Trek Voyager. Shut up! It was awesome!
It would have been if there’d been one more episode showing what happened when they got home.
DS9 was better though…
Supernatural. That ending with Dean finally finding peace and a family… What? No, there was no season 6.
That reminds me I need to watch the season 9 finale and start watching season 10.
The Wheel of Time. That ending was near-perfect. I fully expected to be let down one last time, and I wasn’t.
It was pretty freaking amazing. The last scene on the horse of him riding away was pretty poignant… Just a pity it wasn’t Bella he was riding.
I think I blasted through the final book in a handful of sittings.
The fact that Bela actually popped up at multiple points in the ending was amazing though, even if it wasn’t her at the end.
As you know I watch a fair bit of anime, and anime isn’t really known for its awesome conclusions (they love open endings apparently) but there’s a few there that stick out for me.
– Full Moon o Sagashite. The ending had all the feels. For those that don’t know of it, it’s a show about a girl who wants to be a pop singer but has terminal throat cancer. A Shinigami arrives and uses magic to transform her into an older, healthy girl so she can fulfill her dreams, but in a year when she dies he’ll take her soul to the afterlife.
– Gunbuster pioneered the ‘gainax ending’ where everything is weird and trippy. But the ending of that is incredibly poignant if you understand what happened. The sequel, Diebuster, dovetails into the same ending quite brilliantly as well. Welcome Home.
– Death Note’s ending is pretty much perfect. It plays out honestly like a greek tragedy.
Light in his overwhelming hubris misjudges the situation and makes a single critical mistake, and everything unravels, revealing his true nature to the rest of the group. Then he finally gets what he deserves.– Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood has an incredibly satisfying conclusion. It answers everything, resolves everything and leaves nothing hanging, and the answer actually makes sense. So much better than the earlier series which went off the rails toward the end.
Death Note:
And how when he does get sprung he just loses his shit and tries to run away and ends up dead on the ground. He knew it was coming, Ryuk always told him it would, yet when faced with it he just couldn’t deal with it. He thought he’d be able to outsmart death. Just loved the inevitability of it all.Such an amazing show, so well executed. So many twists and turns, but enjoyable twists and turns – not just ‘uhhhhh wtf was that all about’ like so much other anime likes to do.
The Shield had the all-time greatest ending on TV ever.
Closely followed by Six Feet Under and M*A*S*H.
Also, the Farscape Peacekeeper War miniseries is unbelievable! Do we count show revival finales?
It’s not too often that a production team either gets to choose when a show ends, or get fair warning – that last half season of The Shield was amazing.
I think about the ending to The Shield constantly.
Me too. It’s just so perfect. Nothing else that exists today even compares with it.
It might never be toppled.
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Seinf…..? Oh. No, wait.
M*A*S*H
The final scene as the helicopter lifts of was a perfect ending
I was going to say MASH, and add Blackadder.
Oops, almost got too stuck into CQC. Wouldn’t have realised I was late if I hadn’t just got a message >.>
How was the massage?
“CQC… Close quarters combat, huh?”
Finally got around to watching Big Hero 6.
It would have to be the most stereotypical tropey hero movie that I’ve ever thoroughly enjoyed.
Also how awesome was the soundtrack when they get their gear =O
But that police station scene though! I laughed so hard and got the hiccups while watching that… Popcorn, softdrink and hiccups don’t mix well!
I loved low energy Baymax. Drunk robot companion FTW!
Hairy…BABY!
We jumped out a window!
Shhh!
(we jumped out a window!)
WIIIIINNNNGGGGGSSSSS
Today I finally got around to listening to Born in the Echoes – the latest Chemical Brothers album. It’s fantastic!
Someone may have already mentioned this, I ain’t checking though…
Unified Weapons Master looks ridiculous.
So there’s a new Star Wars novel coming out, the first of the replacement expanded universe that’s bridging the gap between original trilogy and new trilogy. I was pretty excited about this.
Then I read the excerpt posted online:
http://www.starwars.com/news/chaos-throttles-the-capital-in-star-wars-aftermath-special-excerpt
It reads awfully. Stilted, tons of single-line paragraphs, and present tense which absolutely shits me. So disappointing that that’s the quality of the first big piece of new Star Wars lore.
Ah man, I like Chuck Wendig’s blog, and was excited when he announced this book.
It’s a shame that his prose isn’t much better. I read the entire excerpt, and wasn’t too fussed by the style at first… but then got progressively more annoyed with it as it went on. The dialogue here is particularly terrible.
Ah well, time to bow out of this version of the EU before it really starts. Just saved myself a huge bunch of money there.
I’d probably have forgiven most of the issues if it had not been written in present tense. That makes it unreadable for me.
While I know that writing books for a license like Star Wars isn’t great money or anything, previously they’ve been able to leverage authors that at least are reasonable. Don’t know why they’d have thrown it over to someone that writes that poorly, especially when that’s going to be the first exposure to the replacement EU and a lot of people are still upset at the decision to ditch the old EU.
Hell, for a chance to write in the Star Wars universe, I’d do it for free! And I feel like I’m on the way to being a reasonable word-putting-together-guy, kind of!
Err… my point was that a smaller payday might not be as big a disincentive as you think. There are plenty of established people who’d give a testicle/ovary for the chance to write a bona fide Star Wars book.
Yep. And a lot of them would produce better prose too.
I wish I knew how they selected their writers. Chuck Wendig seems to have gotten his gig simply by tweeting that he wanted to write a Star Wars book. But when I did that, not even crickets showed up 😛
Yeah well while he might have been able to churn out a bad Star Wars book, only one of the two of you is now a smartey-man games developer.
Oh, and this: http://xkcd.com/1572/ (If no one has shared the link yet…)
It’ll be interesting to see what graphs can be made from the data.
Do you know about Pax meat?
I just did that survey, some of the correlations will be glorious!
When it asked me to name a movie star for some reason Glenn Close was the first one in my head and I have zero idea why the heck she would be immediately to mind. But answered that anyway.
Mine was Tom Hanks.
One of my 5 random words was ‘poo’
It didn’t ask for the first thing that popped into my head but I put them in anyway.
I copy-pasted words I didn’t know the meaning of from their list of words
Could be worse.
First thing to jump into my mind was Russel Crowe. I don’t know why.
Tom Cruise.
*High five*
I couldn’t actually think of five animals. I got three, and then the fourth word wasn’t an animal. And then all I could think of was that word. Could not think of a single thing else, let alone an animal.
I somehow ended up with Tortoise on my list
Tom Hardy was all I could think of.
The ‘things you can do reasonably well’ list was depressing, to me. I was only able to tick like… 4 boxes out of 18.
WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE THAT I CAN’T RIDE A UNICYCLE?!
(Also I was a little worried about the ‘what words do you know’ when I couldn’t get the first three, but after that it was all good.)
I wasn’t able to tick anything!
Welp, after another hour and a half of playing Rocket League (3v3 ranked) I got up to a skill level of just over 400 \o/
…and then got it back down to 350 /o\
Best game was one where we were down 2-0 not long into it, then we came back 2-2. Then it got as bad as to 5-2, before we managed to get it to 5-5 on the buzzer. Overtime lasted a good couple of minutes I think, but sadly we lost. It was funny how all the shit talking (from them) stopped when it got to overtime.
Conclusions? I am not one for defending.
We’re streaming Microscope right now!: https://t.co/Q9SPqEglqb
Fucking Ch*d.
Fucking Ch*d. Ruined everything TWICE.
Typical Ch*d thing to do.
Such a Ch*d
How did the design go? I’m guessing Ch*d is a god?
Chad was a bishop for one of the machine gods who committed an unforgivable heresy, uploading his conciousness to become the 13th machine god.
In retaliation, followers of the god Nehfleekenchil unleashed a nanovirus on the world that made the name “Ch*d” literally unspeakable.
Later, after being defeated for ages, chad was reactivated and ended the world.
So, it went well I think 🙂
OK Rocketleaguers. I’ve just spent the evening doing tutorials, and I’ve seen an improvement in my goals and defending. But I can’t for the life of me get the arial manoeuvre going. I’m sure it’s a timing thing, but can anyone offer some tips?
Not me. I avoid doing aerials because I don’t know how. Yes, I could try and practice and get better, but I’d probably just try… and fail. I keep my wheels on the ground mostly. Except when I’m flipping past the ball, or driving all over the walls.
I’m good at driving all over the walls!!
\o/
I read that as rocketburgers for some reason and suddenly got hungry.
No tips, sorry, but a solidarity post: I can’t get them working either. I’ve put more than 50 hours into Rocket League, and still can’t beat that rookie tutorial for aerial moves 😛
I find the trickiest bit is handling the transition from ground to air. If you can nail that you’re a good whack of the way there. When I’m in the air I tend to find feathering the boost works reasonably, but I’m honestly pretty rubbish.
I’ve not watched this yet, but Kronovi is the best Rocket League player at the moment, so I can only assume this tutorial is a good one.
Starter tip: don’t try to to a targeted shot in an aerial, just try and hit the ball. Learning timing and positioning to just connect with an airborne ball will give you the foundation you need to get better at aerials.
Advanced tip: Git gud.One thing lots of people don’t know/utilise: queue up for whatever games you’re going to play online, then immediately back out to the main menu and load up some training. You can run training stuff while searching for a game. 30 seconds here, a minute there, it all helps.
I didn’t know you could do that! Thanks. 🙂
No worries. It’s something that really isn’t mentioned by the game. I had someone point out to me that you can jump in the garage while searching for games, so I tried training out and it worked 😛
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-people-who-are-ruining-online-gaming/
#2 The Invincible Dipshit is pretty applicable to myself online.
Used to play Modern Warfare 2 at a mates place. It was on PS3. I was used to keyboard and mouse controls. I couldn’t get the hang of aiming. So I just ran around and stabbed everyone. Good times.
Informative pothead is the worst.
Oh man I’m so stoned. Hey guys I’m fucking wasted. brb, smoking a bong real quick. Hey guys I’m so fucking stoned right now. Oh man, so stoned.
Gamertag may include the following: ‘420’, ‘blaze’, ‘dank’ or ‘kush’.
Ha! Amazing. I think I’m closest to #2 as well.
Case in point: back in high school when Doom 2 was all the rage on the school network, I was the only one who refused to use a mouse. Pissed sooooo many people off when I managed to hold my own despite this disadvantage.
Also Dark Souls PvP. And Rocket League. Everything, really.
The Hardcore Kids description feels very applicable to me, as the narrator or whatever the term is.
#2 is quite like me, besides the succeeding part
Number 3 gives the best explanation I’ve yet seen about the pressure for silence from women in gaming. The Dickzkrieg.
One in ten seems a bit high, but impact can’t and shouldn’t be ignored. If someone takes a shit in your coffee, it doesn’t matter that they only broke off a tiny piece and that the vast majority – say 90% – of your mug’s contents AREN’T human waste. It could be fucking 99% and it does. Not. Matter. There is SHIT IN YOUR COFFEE.
(Edit: And that last paragraph is one of the best things I’ve read all week.)
Now have Scott Bradlee’s version of Bad Romance stuck in my head.
I do not foresee it leaving any time soon.
So it was a good show?
Pretty good, yeah. Wandering around looking for food beforehand, we noticed a whole lot of people who were looking all gussied up, figured they were heading to the same thing. And… yeah. They were. Started to feel majorly underdressed for 😛 The line was incredibly huge, I had no idea the place was even going to be able to hold that many people. Hadn’t been there before, and from the outside it didn’t seem like it was going to be that big. Managed to find a space to squeeze into at the front of the raised section behind the floor, so I could see over the heads of everyone standing down there. But good god where did all these gargantuan people come from?? My friend I was with, I think she said she’s something like 5’10 and is pretty used to being taller than everyone else, but there she she felt like a short person. And of course, the tallest dudes in the whole place ended up coming and standing right in front. Even up on my step, I was still having my view nearly blocked. And this one guy just left of us, I knew from the moment he appeared he was going to be one of “those guys”. And surely enough, he was. Yelling and whooping louder than anyone else in the room. Clapping with those thunderous claps that just pierce through everything. And dancing around constantly, needing about five times as much space as anyone else squeezed in there had available 😛 And his equally tall friend who kept trying to back up onto the step, but mate… you don’t need it. There’s a half a dozen 5′ tall girls standing there who can barely see anything from behind you as it is, they need it more than you. Go away.
Um, but yeah. Good show! Maybe a little bit lost on me since I probably recognised maybe all of three songs there because I don’t know anything, but hey I like me a live band like that 😛 And their tap dancer was amazing.
Also, in case you’re interested:
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Ooh, I will look into that.
I downloaded their albums on google play, and I figured it would sound great live. The Metro isn’t a bad venue, I’ve seen quite a lot of shows there, but you either have to push to the front of the floor or camp in front of a railing. It’s main attraction is being easier to get to than the Enmore.
Dog is determined to cuddle even though I have to be at work in two hours… It’s adorably annoying…
Mad Max is an OCD-gamer’s worst nightmare. The map is just packed with things to do. There’s decent variety, though, which is nice. I’m having fun!
My favourite activities are taking down convoys one vehicle at a time, and firing my grappling hook at scarecrows as I roar past at top speed. Don’t even slow down for them.Amateur/Pro-tip for vehicle combat:
The easiest way I’ve found is to use the grappling hook to rip off a car door, and then use it again to pull the driver out. There doesn’t seem to be any way to salvage a whole vehicle, though, so you still need to destroy it… :\Not this far in, but thank you, noted.
Depending on the car (I assume) you can just pull them out the front window. I nearly died of laughter when I did it for the first time.Yeah, it depends on angle of approach and type of vehicleYou recommend this game then?
It seems pretty cool. I don’t know what kind of staying power it’ll have, so ask me again in a week if I’m still enjoying it.
TBH, I primarily bought it for the Fury Road Blu Ray 😛
I bought Fury Road on iTunes the day it came out, and now we have it again on blu-ray in one of those effing tins, haha. Probably make a good father’s day gift. Now, to get a father.
Well first you get married, and because you love each other very much there is something about listening to birds and sitting on a bee or whatever, so then a babby comes and he becomes a father.
I said to GET a father, not MAKE a father! hhahahhaha
I think I can sum it up in one word. Adequate.
It lacks outstanding moments, and it has a lot of unnecessary cruft, but the core game is good.
I just can’t play it for very long knowing that doing so is cutting into my MGS time.
I might wait to pick this up and pick it up later for $30 like I did Sunset Overdrive 😛
I picked it up from a dodgy Russian site for about $40, so I’m happy with it at that price.
Yeah, this will serve you well as a budget purchase.
Can you please amend this to say,
Nope. I feel like that’s been overplayed. :p Anyway, the difference between mediocrity and adequacy is an important one.
WING FEST WING FEST WING FEST! Awwww yeah! Me and my fella and my best work buddies are going for wings tonight and I am so damn excited 😀
Started playing Mad Max last night – seems fun so far, but that accent? Woof, no thanks. Also started reading two new books, as I had to put down The Girl in the Spider’s Web (part of the Millennium series) because it is so boring so far, and I’m about 35% of the way through.
Oh good, I was tentatively considering Spider’s Web, but I’ll take someone else’s opinion as an excuse to chuck it from the endless list.
It’s just… Like, having read the other books you get to know Larsson’s style of writing well, and fair enough, this new guy’s isn’t the same. But it just feels like he’s undoing a lot of the character progress that was carefully created in the earlier books? Like, Mikael is all of a sudden doubting his arrangement with Erika and Greger, and Lisbeth suddenly thinks hacking is juvenile and that her apartment is no good. It’s little things that feel too much like a sudden departure rather than a gradual realisation.
I’ll finish it, but god, in every other book, something had at least happened by this point.
On that last point, you clearly haven’t read the most recent Obernewtyn Chronicles book. It’s like 2/3rds of the book through before anything happens. And then it ends on a fucking cliffhanger. *Shakes fist at Isobelle Carmody* Edit: On a Re-reading I realise you meant the other Millennium stuff. But pshhh, my anger stands.
In all seriousness, it’s a shame that this has happened, but I guess I can happily continue thinking of the books as a trilogy.
Millennium Quadrillion just doesn’t sound right.
@shane
So I just finished Ghost Trick last night… wow that ending, that really took me by surprise and that was probably the first ever antagonist I actually cried for.
I was surprised too! Never saw it coming. Brilliant.
I actually found it pretty cool that
So many lives were saved due to the determination of two pets wanting to save their human friends, but yeah Yomiel was just such a sad tale and it really hit home for me, cuz I’ve known that feeling he had first handNow Ace attorney!
Thank goodness there is a button to yell “Objection” cuz I read in the book you’re meant to use the mic, or else that would be very awkward on train rides where I suddenly yell OBJECTION with my earphones on!
Yeah, you don;t have to yell it. You should though =P
I’m dusting off my SNES tonight to play some Link to the past.
and I’m celebrating one week without softdrinks as well yay!
It can be a bit of a system shock at first but gets easier as it goes. Just remember, you may not feel like drinking water when you’re at the fridge but the reason you want a drink at all is because you’re thirsty. If you just force yourself to drink a glass of water you’ll stop being thirsty and thus you’ll stop wanting a soft drink.
And that’s how you game, ladies and gentlemen. With a SNES.
This song is about me! <3
And all of us if you think about it. It’s really deep that way.
I sure do identify with the shady older gentleman watching 14 year old children in his stationary car and rapping about frequently driving up to schoolbuses!
DC-rolled.
It’s been a while since I watched that clip. I forgot how unbelievably bad the song and the clip are. It’s amazing.
Buzzfeed wrote about Rebecca Black last month. Pretty good read!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/the-unbreakable-rebecca-black#.osK092J7Z
Well it’s official Australia’s greatest export after the mining industry is pioneering human right’s violations –
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-york-times-attacks-prime-minister-tony-abbott-over-stop-the-boats-policy-20150903-gjer14.html
Can’t decide whether or not it’s worth getting The Phantom Pain, even though I’m enjoying Ground Zeroes a lot.
YES IT IS OMG OF COURSE IT IS YES
So what you’re trying to say is….. yes?
I played about an hour last night, finished the prologue, and it’s fucking great. Presumably it only gets better from here too.
It’s way more open like Ground Zeroes once you get past that. It’s awesome. Sprinting around tranq’ing people, extracting goats with fulton, it’s amazing. I love how they just put all the pieces in play, give you an objective and let you do whatever you want in order to achieve it.
$69 at Target.
This isn’t for PC, I assume?
MGSV is on PC?
Huh. Did not know that.
Sorry, no, this is a console price!
My inner child is still vaguely offended/upset at the idea of Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy being played on Xbox or PC.
I played MGS on PC in 2000 – it’s how I got into the series. Also played MGS2 on PC, and was vaguely offended when the 3rd and 4th ones were console-exclusive 😛
Never even knew MGS was on PC. The PSX version was what made me betray my Nintendo dominated childhood and move to the dark side. That being said, my first playthrough of MGS2 was Substance on the Xbox.
Ewww. My friend got stuck in the PC version of MGS2 so I told him I’d do it for him, and it turned out that he was stuck because the mouse controls for sniping were just terrible. It took me like an hour because I literally couldn’t aim fast enough to keep up with the targets.
Using a mouse… there’s your problem! 😛
I had MGS2 for the PC and it was the CD-ROM version. SEVEN, SEVEN FUCKING CDS! that was a mission on its own to install.
Not being sure if TPP is worth it is kind of like not being sure if breathing is really your thing.
Ugh, but everyone‘s doing that. :\
It’s mechanically very similar to GZ as you’d expect, with some notable changes:
– So far, it’s less “single facility” based
– more tools at your disposal
– you can get better recon than you could in GZ because the environment is less flat
– there’s a dog. A DOG!
And that’s about as objective as I can be before becoming a gushing fanboy
So if you want GZ, but more so, doooooo ittttt
You also get a sweet Walkman.
I watched some MGSV gameplay yesterday, and realised I had GZ on my account, so I downloaded it. Over the course of about fifteen minutes (or so it seemed), I got through the intro cinematic, shot a dude, then swapped to Destiny as I got invited to three hard mode Crota runs.
My thoughts thus far: Snake looks pudgier than I recall from my last attempt at playing a MGS game (which, admittedly, was MGS2 from the HD collection, which I gave up on rather quickly cos insta-fail stealth isn’t my forte).
Sort of not really spoiler:
GZ Snake is not the same person as MGS2 Snake. GZ is a prequel starring Big Boss.See, now that’s just unnecessarily confusing. 😛
Big Boss was the playable character in MGS3 and Peace Walker, too, so this isn’t a new thing.Got home last night. Internet was down. Did all the usual things, no luck. Called Internode support and was on hold for over 2 hours. I could’ve sworn they used to have a “call back” option. In the end I gave up and sent through a support ticket.
Basically no chance that I’ll have Internet over the weekend, which means no Rocket League (sorry @bdkiaf, @phoenix, @coldcamv) for me until it’s fixed. If it’s going to take more than a week I might have to sub someone in to play for me.
Dammit chewie! I told you to fix the hyperdrive! =@
Seems a bit extreme, if you really don’t want to play co-op in Diablo 3 you can just say so. No need to sabotage your own internet connection.
I’d never buy one, but damn if that Star Wars droid toy isn’t cool
I’m sorely tempted. I know I’d never use it, but it’s so cute.
I still think the design looks stupid.
Yep something that I want in my life! That price tag though :-/
And yes I know there’s a cheaper version but it isn’t remote controlled
Partyin’, partyin’, YEAH!
Thanks, @dc.
I’m mostly sorry. Mostly.
I prescribe an instant dose of Mark Ronson. That’ll fix ya.
Wha….?
This guy! THIS GUY!
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Ily2 DC!
Welcome back! 😀
It’s good to be back. I’ve been a bit worried about posting since it’s been so long. Thanks Techie!
Who’s this guy? lol, welcome back man. I was thinking last week I hadn’t seen you post in a while!
So, i finished until dawn. That game was pretty good. It’s not scary even in the slightest. But it does have some moments of real drama.
I’m getting super tired of the Telltale games at this point so this is a welcome change.
Boom! New page get.
Would you recommend it?
Sure, but wait for it to go down in price. I made the game last over a week. But you can actually finish it in 2 sittings if you’re dedicated.
There’s no real gameplay to be had here, so you’re either into the concept of a interactive drama type game or you’re not. I had fun with it.
Sup
This guy!
That guy!
Alright, front row tickets for Welcome to Night Vale live show, acquired!
Oooooh jelly.
I don’t know what this is but front-row anything is usually awesome!
Tip for any Destiny players with an exotic bounty – apparently 2.0 will auto-complete exotic bounties as part of the update, as I guess they’re not compatible with the way exotic bounty questlines exist in year two. Non-exotic incomplete bounties will be discarded. Triumphs have been extended until two hours before the reset on the 15th (two hours before TTK content gets unlocked), so I guess you’ve got one more week to get Skolas, Hard Crota and Hard Atheon if you need to check any of them off your list. Level cap will remain 34 until the TTK content unlocks… and King’s Fall opens at 3am AEST on the 19th. \o/
New PvP modes will be available to play for everyone between 2.0’s launch on Tuesday and TTK’s launch the following week, and even as a PvE guy, I’m actually kinda interested to see how Mayhem plays – I mostly just want to see two gunslingers 1HKO each other with their supers :P. Plus, the weapon rebalancing comes into effect with 2.0.
Lastly, Wolves will no longer spawn on patrol, so if you want to fill out your grimoire and haven’t got some of them, you’ve got until Tuesday to get them – you won’t get another chance.
So all that time I spent slaving away to get Invective & Bad Juju and loads of pricks will just get the guns handed to them? Good thing they’ve made pretty much everything old even shittier to try and get you to use the new stuff
Yes… that’s what it sounds like. I guess Bungie are still trying to get players to come back for TTK – first having Xur sell Gjally, and now the hardest guns to acquire are getting handed out. Good thing Juju’s the only one with a Year 2 upgrade thus far, Invective will get affected by the shotgun range nerf, and Thorn’s getting its DoT nerfed in PvP.
And minor rant:
They haven’t “made the old guns shit” – they’ve added more progression, and content to suit that progression. My VoC and FB will do the same damage they currently do in any of the Year One content. The new weapons will likely do more damage, is all. Is a basic lightbulb less bright just because someone made you aware of halogen bulbs? Nothing’s changed but your perception.Well I’ve not played it in ages but I was under the impression that the old guns capped out at a damage of 300 where the new ones went to 350 or something like that. If I’ve misunderstood how that works then it’s obviously not an issue
The unit of measurement is changing, as is the damage calculation method (level dictates HP, light dictates attack/defense), but you’re not wrong. Current gear will translate to 170 Light, and new gear will steadily progress you to some undetermined cap that I presume will be increased over the next 12 months. The expansion content will gradually exceed that 170 Light, so yes, you will need new gear to deal the damage required to succeed in the new content, but there will be no obvious change to how much damage you deal in current content with current gear.
Saying “they’ve made pretty much everything old even shittier” isn’t correct, is all. It’s a case of “your current gear is unchanged, but it won’t be good enough to progress very far in the expansion content,” not “your current gear is now less effective in every respect than it was before.”
I still don’t see the issue with this – HoW’s loot grind was nonexistent, because I already had all the guns I wanted to use, I just needed the Etheric Light to bring them to their max damage. Once I’d got my old loadout upgraded, there was basically no gear for me to chase except a handful of new exotics, cos everything that dropped was objectively worse than my old gear. My standard loadout for Prison of Elders was purely vanilla gear upgraded with Etheric Light.
During House of Wolves, Destiny was a loot-centric game with no desirable loot. I want to find gear I’m excited about using again.
Haha I have three incomplete exotic bounties I was going to work on this weekend. Guess that frees up some time!
…oh who am I kidding I’ll probably do them anyway.
You can spend it trying to drag me through Skolas!
What’s that? There isn’t a team alive that could do that? Hahaha. *sobs*
Get Cracks n Aidan on the case. They’re goooood.
Man, Cracks and his hotshot team of cool people scare me. I felt so bad about all of my mistakes in the raids.
I died on the bridge bit in Crota when I had the sword, and it was just the worst.
It’s ok blaghsy you’ll always have a spot in our raid team!
YEEEESSSSSS!!!
I DON’T HAVE TO DO THE SHITTY PVP PORTION OF THORN!!!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I imagine that’s the general reaction from anyone who’s been stuck at that point, yes. The general reaction from everyone who’s got past that point is a little more disheartening. I don’t mind, tho – the Thorn bounty taught me to PvP. For one glorious evening, I had a 2.2 K/D.
Nevermind that I reverted to my old habits the following day, and am still utterly crap at PvP, so ultimately it taught me nothing. 😛Oh man, because I was a Hunter I couldn’t fall back on grenades or super for Void damage.
Plus I’ve been consistently at about 100 ever since I got the Thorn bounty because I am utter trash.
Well I managed to get it and I was always a bit shit at PvP as well as hating it. The thing I found that worked infinitely better than using the void fusion rifle was to just make a voidwalker warlock & do it with her (so to speak) since nearly every way of dealing damage was void based.
Wait, does that mean my Elder Cipher bounties will auto complete?
Yes. As to which weapon they’ll result in, tho… that’s a question that’s yet to be answered.
Update: Confirmed-ish (Bungie employee on reddit responding to concerns) – the completed bounty will require you to pick up the weapon from Variks, so you’ll still get to choose when you pick it up.
Sweet.
I got two at the same time on the same character when we defeated Skolas.
Lightspeed was piiiiiiiiiiiiiiissed.
Sorry… that sounds like a glitch, that I believe was fixed a while back in 1.2.0.3 or 1.2.0.4. You can only have one active Elder Cipher per character, so if you’ve got two and they both progress at the same rate, handing in one hands them both in, and you’ll just get the one weapon and lose the second bounty. Had this happen to me on my first Skolas run before they fixed the drop – needless to say, I was disappointed.
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.
There was the theory that this was a glitch but it happened a week ago so I was hoping it was just good fortune.
…I wonder if I scrapped my complete bullshit PVP bounties or not.
Not that it matters, all the rewards are getting nerfed right? Aaaaand I still don’t know if I’m going to buy Taken King next year.
Next year? Taken King is out on the 15th…
Next. Year. Only one more game purchase left for 2015 and it’s Fallout.
HEY. XCOM2. DONT BE THAT GUY! =P
I don’t have to! It’s only coming out in February now! 😀
That was probably the most inappropriately happy I’ve been for what some would consider ‘bad news’.
Wait what?? Where did they confirm Feb 2016 as the release date? I thought it was Nov 2015?
Edit: Nevermind saw the tweet 🙁 NOOOOOO XCOM *cries*
There, there. If it’s any consolation, it works out really well for me.
For ME, Marge! For ME!
Lots of Father’s Day gift guides in the papers telling me to buy dad an $800 smartphone or an Apple Watch or even a $400 shirt.
I only ever spend like $30 on his gift am I a bad son.
Nah, I think it’s just more that you’re generally a bad person, not specifically a bad son.
I’m okay with that.
< audiblesnortlaughdisguisedasacoughinaquietoffice >
Speaking as a dad, yes. Yes you are literally the worst.
I think it’s very a parent.
My dad might get a phone call…if I remember.
Someone should remind you
Well that’s what his dad’s there for!
My parents will probably call me. The one advantage of being born near the start of September.
My parents just got back from a three month overseas trip and immediately made plans to see my wife and kids… choosing a time that I’m not there (and surprising no one in the process).
I think I’ll be celebrating Father’s Day as a father, not as a son.
My parents left Canberra last night. My present to my father is that he doesn’t have to see me for five weeks.
Party at Blagh’s place!
Don’t be ridiculous. The amount of effort that would require from everyone involved would far outweigh the fun.
I buy my father, father in law and grandfather one ten dollar bottle of wine each for Father’s Day and all three of them would prefer that wine to any of those items you listed.
I’m going to go see my dad. He shall receive the gift of my presence.
Not blind enough to need Braille, too blind to actually notice the Braille plastered all over every sign in my work building until now.
did someone forget his glasses?
http://abc.net.au/news/2015-09-04/citizenship-laws-should-apply-retrospectively-tony-abbott-says/6749638
No, Tony.
Just, no.
He’ll never learn
I don’t think he could even if he wanted to
So can we send him back to England, then?
Yes, but only by boat
A tinny, preferably.
Does Russell Crowe still have Tugger?
Yeah, especially funny considering that just about how this country was founded, minus the refugee aspect.
https://brianpas.wordpress.com/tag/boat-people/
My ascendants on my father’s side migrated to Australia during WW2, funny how similar this actually is in comparison yet now we’re doing this.
So now the government wants to introduce legislation that can strip citizens of their citizenship? How long before it extends to news agencies carrying out a “jihad” against the government? I mean if we use the word jihad it counts as terrorism right? This government. They’re more like Nazi’s than ISIS.
Did anyone see that Todd Carney wants to become the next Prime Minister of Australia, but I think he is taking the piss.
Sorry
In and around the mouth.
Really Sorry
Ohhhh, now I feel bad for saying something negative on the new Australian writer’s first article.
Think I’ll just step back for the rest of the day.
It wasn’t negative. You pointed out something quite valid. Don’t feel bad. I’m sure she understands.
Yeah, I just feel like I’ve been impolite now. We need to encourage more good local writing and less crap US reposting.
I don’t think she was offended. I’m sure she doesn’t feel badly of you
I was considering posting something similar to yours, albeit with the warning that I like arguments arguendo. That the best cosplay is one that creatively captures something (the spirit of something, the eye of those around, the cultural Zeitgeist, etc.).
Decided against it though, since I’ve made the mistake of being a jerk to one new writer in my time at Kotaku, and that was enough.
Now it’s my turn to be the jerk! The mantle has been passed.
Honestly, that isn’t nearly as bad as the cringe inducing failure that was my attempt at a joke when Tracey first turned up. *Starts having Nam style flashbacks*
So you have a long way to go to get this jerk mantle.
Is that the cosplay one? I don’t think you did wrong, I had similar thoughts to you.
Just feels like I’ve been a bit harsh – we’ve got someone new joining the community and I haven’t helped that process.
Ah well. What’s done is done.
You are the blurst
I think the main issue with that article was purely the title, nothing wrong with the content itself. Had it been title differently the response would be different
I don’t think she meant it to, but it skated a bit too close to the cosplay elitism that makes people who are new to the hobby feel very nervous that their costume made with glue and cardboard isn’t good enough, or that they’re too fat/ugly/old to cosplay.
It’s this line that did it – it’s pretty judgemental:
And she really seems to have missed the point about why her simple cosplay was more popular than her elaborate one – it was novel, it was perfectly executed, and it was instantly recognisable.
Also, you could have the most perfect Batman cosplay in the world and no one will care when a tiny 3 year old batman poses in his costume from big w. You just can’t compete with kids.
Disclaimer: **I will shamelessly be posing with my son at PAX – he’s way cuter than I am**
Yeah that was pretty elitist and outside the tone of the article. But the main point was if it was title “A look behind the scenes of amazing cosplay” or “Some cosplay I really like” it would have been less, I don’t know confronting I guess is the wrong word but whatever it was that caused the reaction.
We were not sure if we were going to PAX this year or not but have tickets now so I might have to start looking at cosplay for Tiglet so I have somebody to pose with 😉
I wonder if I could pull off a Guybrush
Well, on the Saturday the boy and I are doing a pokemon themed cosplay.
Her second.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/08/this-is-the-australian-defence-forces-take-on-exoskeleton-technology/
OK, so I’m slightly less terrible then.
My order of actions-
read article
write comment
see this tweet:
https://twitter.com/Serrels/status/639620934618341376?s=09
feel like a jerk.
If it makes you feel like less of a jerk, she totally stole the job I applied for by being a better candidate.
God, She must be such a jerk. How dare she
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Metal Gear Solid V get!
\o/
What a thrill…
Eating feta cheese for lunch and split brine all over my desk, derp.
Lick it up.
While moaning.
Can do! But it will be more of a gargle than a moan.
Can’t it be both?
So After last night I think I should give some sort of a recount or review of last nights game of microscope.
First: The Premise.
A group of people Decide a sentence to explore and then build the world around this sentence.
So we decided on the sentence : The fall of civilisation as we know it.
We then decided on what was allowed in or out of the game. (for example, Religious Zealotry was in, however monotheism was out)
We then decided on the Beginning of the history and the end of the history.
We then each Created a period in time or an event in a current period.
now that the game was set up we then took a turn setting the focus of what to explore, then everyone would create an event, period or scene to explore what happened in the history.
It was a lovely experience and I had so much fun.
thanks to everyone who played.
I was thinking of writing a narrative from it and posting it here later tonight but no one would read it being weekend Tay.
Tag me in it whenever you do it and I’ll definitely read it
I would read it, repost for next Monday too.
do eet I’d read and you can copy paste it on monday
I’ll read it. I still don’t really understand what this game is, and want to learn more.
It’s a collaborative world building game where you take turns adding elements from a group-defined palette until you end up with a glorious mess of history that’s incredibly amusing.
You’d love it.
Essentially a collaborative world building game. Come up with an overarching theme and what elements must and must not be included. Then everyone takes turns writing in events and scenes into the time line to create a narrative of the story,building off what others have included. Not really a game and more of a fun creative thought exercise. Game got more and more fun the further in we got.
Plus it’s funny to blindside people. I think Chris almost fell off his chair when we stopped the name Ch*d from being able to be physically spoken.
That would be great! I want to know more about CHD
Definitely keen to give it a shot the next time you want to run one of those.
So, a long ass time ago, when MGS 4 came out, Kotaku had a contest that I entered… http://kotaku.com/5015285/metal-gear-solid-twin-staches
Long(er) hair!
Haha, my hair is way longer now! ;P In fact, I had it in a ponytail and my fiance said, “I’m looking at you, but I’m thinking of Snake.”
Did not take an an insult.
Oh, last I saw you it was shorter than mine. Has it really been that long?
No no, it was just pinned up! I had a fancy lady bandanna on. It’s what scared @DC so much ;D
Haha! On that day I met FOUR new TAYbies. It was terrifying experience for me. Also first meat in ages I didn’t drink. That was a poor choice on my behalf. And everyone knows the first ten meats are just the dress rehearsal. I plan to have a nice buzz going at Oktoberfest by the time you show up. 😛
Quake in fear before my faultless powers of observation. Sherlock wishes he were me.
Were you channelling Rosie? I can never seem to pull off a bandanana…
Outstanding!
Assuming there’s no sudden Australia tax appearence on Steam, I think I’m going to buy MGS V soon. Considering it’ll be my first MGS, should be interesting to see whether I get into the story, or get sick of it…but from the looks of it the game play will make me stick around for a while.
@blaghman /others, how’s the KBM support on the PC? OR are you using a controller?
$85.79 is what it’ll be in AUD.
Also, I’m using a 360 controller.
Yeah, but that’s not Australia tax, that’s just the conversion.
Play Ground Zeroes first, ya dope.
This.
Why?
Not trying to be dismissive. To me it looks like if I want the gameplay I can just get Phantom Pain, and if I need the story I’d rather youtube it than spend $30.
Depends what you want out of TPP really. GZ sets the stage for the story – I’d personally suggest Peace Walker as vital background for both GZ an TPP, but that’s a bigger call.
And MGS3 as vital background for Peace Walker, and MGS 2 as important background for MGS3, and MGS 1 and 4 to round off the loose ends of MGS2. *nod*
In all seriousness, replaying the entire series, I think, turned out to be a great decision. There are so many little bits, even in the first game, that feed so effortlessly into plotlines in the other games that I find it absolutely astounding that this whole saga wasn’t planned out in advance.
It’s all connected! *tin foil hat*
I just feel like Peace Walker is a little more directly relevant, I guess – Mother Base, the MSF, Cipher, ZEKE, are pivotal to events leading up to TPP.
It’s a way better tutorial than the opening of TPP.
You’ll have a much easier time using the iDroid and doing cool dude moves if you play it first.
Just do the GZ mission and don’t worry about the side ops. It’ll take, at most, 2 hours.
How important would you say it is to play both on same platform and carry the save over?
Because due to circumstances, I got Ground Zeroes free on PS+ on PS4, and then nVIDIA gave me a free copy of Phantom Pain on Stream.
Not very. Minor add ons at best (one alternate costume, couple mother base people who apparently turn up in other ways, maybe one weapon?)
Apparently it’s possible to download a save game from GZ that unlocks everything so I might just do that.
Would you like to try a copy of Ground Zeroes? I have a copy thanks to pre-ordering. Gives you a rough idea of how the game plays, and it has a neat little save upload thingy so if you do the side ops you get some extra (mostly worthless) stuff. If you don’t want it, this offer is open to @negativezero, or anybody, really.
KBM support is pretty good, though I’m typically very forgiving. Does take some time to get used to, and there’s a few bits that involve hand contortions (If you grab someone you have to hold down left click, then to interrogate them you hold down Q, at this point you can release left click to choose what option you want from a menu (or use the number keys, which is generally easier), and then when you release Q after doing things you’d better have left click held down again or you’ll release them), but I’m finding it very playable.
Hey, if it’s up for grabs I’ll happily take it. Main reason I was skipping it is due to price 😛
Also, you’re talking to someone who used KBM in all Assassin’s Creeds. I’ll always try it first, and only swap if it’s a handicap or outright impossible (like in Rocket League or DB Xenoverse)
Yeah I’ve been kinda interested in trying it but haven’t played since MGS3. Maybe on day when it’s on sale.
I’ve been doing the board game pun name thing on Twitter for a while. It’s fun to see accounts that I’ve never heard of try to refer to me by part of the name, thinking it’s my name.
Today was the pay off. Freya was tweeting at a winery we love (and just bought more wine from) and they replied with this:
Aww yeah, Buns of Glory. I’m a mature adult.
Funnier when you remember that Wings of Glory is a miniatures game.
I was going for Paths of Glory but six of one, half a dozen of t’other.
I don’t do politics because everything about it upsets me, but just read Tony Abbott on the drowned Syrian refugee boy just being proof they need to stop the boats. That guy is fucking scum, seriously. Shit honestly makes me ashamed to be Australian.
Yeah as if they shouldn’t try to escape their home that’s currently being torn apart by barbaric factions that only want them to either to be brainwashed or dead before them.
I became more ashamed to be Australian the moment that refugees became a political game to our party leaders, they’re fricken people, desperate to escape death or worse for them and their families!
Escaping war, genocide, poverty and general horror is fine – just escape it somewhere else.
That’s exactly the message we’ve been giving for the past year or so, and apparently the majority of Australians have been okay with this, hence why Liberals got voted in, it’s not like they sneaked this through either, it was literally on their dot point list showing on their election campaign ads with Tony Abbott
AUSTRALIAN BORDER FORCE! *cue rock music and action movie montage*
STOPPING THE IMMURGENTS AND FUJEES IN THEIR TRACKS! DEY TUK OR JERBS!
Well to be fair, back in the 90s I’d have voted for a candidate that offered to stop The Fugees. Their cover of Killing Me Softly was pretty aptly named because fuck that shit so much.
(Psst: This has actually been the Australian refugee agenda for more than a decade, and started way back with the ‘babies overboard scandal’)
More and more it’s becoming a core political issue, but it was always easy to tap into the undercurrent of racism in Australia.
I wasn’t able to vote for that long, so I must’ve been out of the loop in that regard, my bad. I just couldn’t remember the last time refugees was actually a key objective/topic to be mentioned as part of election campaigns is all.
I think you can go way further back with it than just Babies Overboard. It goes back to White Australia – just the particular group of people targeted has changed.
That’s right. This isn’t the first time that the boats have been a political issue, the nationality of the people on the boats has just changed. I remember as a kid in the 80s it was all about how the awful people on boats from vietnam and cambodia were all in gangs and bringing heroin with them. Never mind that the cambodians were fleeing the $*%king khmer rouge. Australian racism is predictable in it’s selfish small-mindedness.
Yep, very good point.
The way that refugees are used to score points with racists and assholes is one of the most disheartening things in Australian politics. It’s disgusting.
That and just how easy a card it is to play in modern Australia is equally upsetting.
Yeah, it’s not disgusting that they do it, it’s disgusting that it actually works.
Hey now, the average Australian is greatly discomfited by the fact that they can’t quite understand the accent of their cabbie/call-centre-operator/fast food server/doctor and obviously the only way to avoid that embarrassment is keep them out of the country in the first place!
It’s about POLITENESS. Because otherwise everyone gets embarrassed by having to ask people to repeat what they’ve said, or how to spell or pronounce their weird foreign names.
If that means some foreign people have to live in extreme danger and poverty instead of slipping in and actually becoming people we can see and thus possibly have to
care aboutacknowledge the existence of, then that’s a small price for us to pay.Statistics are easier to ignore than people, after all, and we’ve got a lot of ignoring to do.
I know what you mean. Yesterday I ended up having to place my lunch order under the name Scarlett because I was sick of repeating myself and just went with, bugger ti, that is close enough
We’ve boundless plains to share or so our anthem tells us.
Unless you’re poor or desperate. No room for leaners in our country!
Plains to share? Nah we’re just sharing with the indigenous people of this land, and by “sharing”, we mean “helping ourselves to”
Boundless plains to share*
* no darkies
I laughed at this. I now feel like a terrible human being
This is why the second verse needs to be in there and sung, not just verse one.
The thing that always gets me is when people start shrieking about refugees coming over meaning sharia law will take effect in this country. Do they realise that for that to happen they would have to form a political party with members standing in every seat and win the majority of votes in the majority of seats in both lower house and senate all in a country that is over 95% white?
My Mum is one of those people and it annoys the shit out of me. “OH THEY’LL JUST DO IT ANYWAY IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES”. So what? As long as they’re not actually breaking the law, why is that any different to, say, a large church community adhering to Christian laws and values?
And the nutjobs that are anti-halal annoy me too. I think the best thing ever was when that guy who ran the only petrol station in some town had all their petrol certified halal.
I hadn’t heard that one, that is fantastic
Apparently one of the regulators that handles halal certification did it to basically poke fun at the anti-halal movement. All petrol in Australia is halal.
He also certified sugar as halal which is equally amusing.
I’ll actually say that i have an issue with people enforcing their own “laws” in their own community, regardless of creed.
One of the core principles of a liberal democracy (and i mean liberal in the classical sense) is that the law applies equally to everyone. Having one group be under a different law is against that principle
True, but as long as they’re not actually breaking that law, I can’t see why you should be able to dictate what they can and can’t do simply because of different customs or values. And that goes to any people group.
Oh, sure, I support people holding their practices in the privacy, go nuts (as long as it’s by choice). Eat, pray, fuck between consenting adults, whatever.
I’ll admit I’m hypocritical here, because I think Aboriginal groups should have access to some community law stuff
So I’ve been shortisted for a job I applied for and they’re calling my referees now which if goes well should land me the gig by the end of the day. OMFG I’M TOO ANXIOUS TO BE SITTING STILL AT WORK :@
@redartifice HALP TAYREDALIN SHOT D=
What’s your favourite sub-species of the Colobus monkey?
I’m not racist! I like all 5 of them equally! =P
Time to break out the classic Uncle Freeze personality test question.
You’re out of home and suddenly have massive cramps and dash to the public toilets, it’s busy but you spy a single open cubicle, making it with milliseconds to spare and proceed to give the bowl the punishing of its life. You finally finish, beads of relief sweat running down your back as you sag back against the wall. You look over and a wave of horror washes over you, there’s no toilet paper.
What do you do? What do you do?
Call out to ask if anyone can do a solid (hur hur) and chuck us a roll of paper. On being greeted with silence, shrug, get up, flush, and waddle – pantsless – outside to go to the next stall. IF there happens to be a bystander who simply did not answer the question early and remained silent, stare at them quizzically, (yes: a pantsless man with shit on his ass, visibly questioning what the hell is wrong with them), before continuing on to the next stall to have toilet paper in it.It’s because of this very question that I always check the toilet paper case in public toilets no matter how badly I need to go =P
This has happened to me before. Nothing you can do. Accept your underpants are ruined for starters – just pull up your undies and pants, depart and locate the nearest toilet with paper. Walk as un-vigorously as possible. Do NOT sit down anywhere in the meantime. Enter toilet paper equipped lavatory, clean up, dispose of underpants and just go commando until you get home – which should be your next destination as a matter of priority. One for a shower, and two, for new undies.
If any of this happens sans undies in the first place – son, you done goofed the fuck up.
You probably want to be at home anyway, since explosive blow-the-door-off-the-toilet diarrhea is not usually a one-and-done situation. You’re very likely going to have to make a repeat visit.
I am a mum and I have a mum’s handbag.
There will be at least one pack of wipes or tissues or probably both.
Especially because it probably wasn’t me who needed the dash to the toilet.
The only time I’ve ever entered one of the workplace raffles, and I win the grand price for the laundry basket full of Father’s Day goodies.
I get to be a good son this weekend, huzzah.
Or, OR…you keep the best goodies in the basket for yourself.
~ the devil on your shoulder
So weird, the coworkers had the exact same idea.
It seems no-one understands how much I hate wrapping things. And this laundry basket is already wrapped!
Do you know what’s better than not wrapping things?
Unwrapping things!
I don’t friggen believe it. I’m finally done registering the last of my Club Nintendo codes, and then suddenly the soundtrack has disappeared. IT WAS THERE MOMENTS AGO.
I hate everything. Especially that I can’t even buy the Luigi diorama from the Euro store, even though I have enough stars for it.
I scored the diorama. 😀 Yeah, that sucks, the CD and the coin looked pretty cool but I only had 5000 coins to burn. Did you happen to get the Super Mario 3D World soundtrack a while back?
I got the second lot yes.
Also you and I are now sworn enemies. I have 7k+ points to burn, could even buy the Luigi on the Euro store if there were some way to. But no. Miss out on everything.
Iron Maidens new album came out today ‘The Book of Souls’ i’m really impressed by it. It’s the modern sound & lyrical style from them so I guess Brave New World and onward. Song that’s captured me most is ‘Tears of a Clown’ which is dedicated to RObin Williams, it’s a very moving song albeit sad especially with the opening line “All alone in a crowded room”.
Yes! 100% on Striker training.
Rookie Level. 😉Hi Kotaku Aus. Long time lurker but I finally got an account! Just bought the limited edition mgsv ps4 console with some of my 18th bday money! Its really the only thing motivating me to finish year 12. What do people talk about on here?
Hello! We talk about anything really. Games being played, work, life, weekend catchups (chat to @powalen about getting your handle onto the list of taytags)…
Expect increased chatter about PAX and Oktoberfest in the next few weeks 🙂
Neat! This is a silly question, but what do you mean taytags? Like unmoderated or something?
This list is taybies in each state. You might want to be on this list if you’re interested in meeting other taybies. http://www.taytags.com/
The MGSV console? That is one sweet 18th gift. Well done.
Thanks 🙂 I was saving up for a PS4 since June and then I saw the limited edition console – no time like the present! Though I won’t be able to touch it until I finish my exams ;-;
We talk about MGSV…that’s it! :p
Every time I try to play an online game in Rocket League, my ping is always 250-300 , even though I’m playing only in the Oceania region.
Any ideas why?
I watched FURY ROAD tonight (witness me)! Was my third time, and it still holds up.
Mrs Shane took a chance on my recommendation and watched it with me.
And then afterwards we had an in depth discussion about the themes and meanings and action sequences and why this film was so great.
<3
Just watched it.
So awesome!
Damn it, Crazyguy, why are you still awake?
Get to sleep.
You should listen to this guy, he has good advice
I dunno, man… he seems a bit crazy…
Anyone happen to have spare Club Nintendo (AU) codes? I’m 250 points short of something I wanted :/ (1-2 codes)
I have spares for some big games I could swapsies for (Link Between Worlds, Bravely Default, Fire Emblem), but it might be hard to trade for a unused code since I might have already registered it :'(
@greenius, check your Twitter DMs.
Thanks, you beautiful handsome devil.
@cakesmith @bdkiaf @coldcamv
We still on for tonight? #RockeTAY
My shift got swapped so I won’t be home until 8:30/10:30
I cant do tonight, I can do Monday thru to Wednesday
All good. I’m free Monday and Tuesday nights. How about you @cakesmith and @bdkiaf ?
My internet decided to off itself on Thursday and it’s still down. Waiting for a tech to check the line which should hopefully be early in the week but who knows with these things.
Happy to organise someone to sub in if you want to get the games done.
Happy Fathers TAY to all our gaming Daddies!!
Gaming daddies are the best daddies
See you all in the next TAY! 😀
Got up early this morning so decided to have a game of rocket league. Played doubles and kicked ass. We were scoring some awesome goals and winning by large margins. Yet there are a lot of days (a good portion) where I just suck, miss easy shots, suck at defence. Is it just me, or is this another day in the life of a typical rocket league player?
Very normal! I have stellar games and massive slumps in adjacent matches routinely.
Phew, good to know it’s not just me 🙂