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Re: Australian Gaming Bargains - 03/03/10 (2 years ago)
EB has had a sale on for the last week or two. I thought it was notable that Battlefield Bad Company 2 is $38. That's on Xbox, not sure of other platforms.
Re: Rumour: Far Cry 3 arriving in 2011? (2 years ago)
I loved it, probably for all the reasons casuals hated it. Got maybe months out of doing one mission per sitting, planning routes on the map, sneaking around or simply barelling through guards on the rare occasions I tired of simply killing them.
I don't see the problem with respawing guard stations in a game which is designed around giving the player creative ways to kill them.
Only thing I'd like to see in a sequel would be ultra-lights and hang gliders, being used more creatively in a planned way by the developer. And a more satisfying ending to the story maybe, you were denied choice at the last moment when it comes down to it.
I don't see the problem with respawing guard stations in a game which is designed around giving the player creative ways to kill them.
Only thing I'd like to see in a sequel would be ultra-lights and hang gliders, being used more creatively in a planned way by the developer. And a more satisfying ending to the story maybe, you were denied choice at the last moment when it comes down to it.
Re: Nintendo 3DS Australian launch details announced (2 years ago)
In 5 years inflation ain't turning $200 into $350!
The value of tech decreases, except in Nintendoland. The DS is STILL $200, so it's probably the only consumer electronics ever that was worth more at launch than 5 years later: paying $200 for that tech is a gross rip-off.
But it at least fools people into thinking a $350 handheld gamecube in 2011 is a great deal.
$299 would have made sense to me, and I think it will be that by Christmas.
The value of tech decreases, except in Nintendoland. The DS is STILL $200, so it's probably the only consumer electronics ever that was worth more at launch than 5 years later: paying $200 for that tech is a gross rip-off.
But it at least fools people into thinking a $350 handheld gamecube in 2011 is a great deal.
$299 would have made sense to me, and I think it will be that by Christmas.
Re: Nintendo 3DS Australian launch details announced (2 years ago)
I'm finding it to have the opposite of their intended effect. Instead of a gilded egg filled with stardust I'm seeing half a plastic sandwich filled with egg and methane.
Re: Nintendo 3DS Australian launch details announced (2 years ago)
They held an event... it's out in less than two months, and they don't even know what the launch games are?
Why not just send an email if all you've got is a price and date? Did they say what colour it will be? Seriously, they said nothing about the eshop?
What a nonevent!
Why not just send an email if all you've got is a price and date? Did they say what colour it will be? Seriously, they said nothing about the eshop?
What a nonevent!
Re: Australian Gaming Bargains - 30/12/10 (2 years ago)
If you got Rock Band 3 and think you'd like a pile of extra music for it relatively cheaply, you might find ACDC track pack at Kmart for $25 and Lego Rock Band for $14 at Game. You can use a code in the games to install the game's tracks ("Export") then useable in RB3. You have to pay 800 MS Points to do it with Lego Rock Band but ACDC allowed me to just do it without paying extra it seems.
ACDC trades in at EB for $8 (add 15% with Edge Plus), haven't asked about LRB yet.
ACDC trades in at EB for $8 (add 15% with Edge Plus), haven't asked about LRB yet.
Re: skitsout (2 years ago)
I've uploaded a third outing for Brian Schitt, mainly concerning the National Broadband Network and the proposed Internet Censor.
Orwell That Ends Well With Brian Schitt
Orwell That Ends Well With Brian Schitt
Re: Halo: Reach Legendary Edition is legendary indeed (2 years ago)
The REAL Legendary special edition is the limited edition console!
Not going to spend another $550 on it though, despite the awesome. Still got the red RE5 Elite that I bought for no good reason.
Not going to spend another $550 on it though, despite the awesome. Still got the red RE5 Elite that I bought for no good reason.
Re: skitsout (2 years ago)
If you're having trouble understanding the current hung parliament, here's a handy explanatory video:
Election Aftermath with Brian Schitt
Election Aftermath with Brian Schitt
Re: YouTube Revenue Sharing (2 years ago)
Well I won't hold my breath waiting for a call then!
Re: skitsout (2 years ago)
Been far too long since I made a new video, hoping to get productive again.
Here's something sweary about the 2010 Election.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTQS8L9WVkg
Here's something sweary about the 2010 Election.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTQS8L9WVkg
Re: YouTube Revenue Sharing (2 years ago)
I didn't know they did that. Hopefully heaps of people watch this election opinion piece, though YouTube might not want to advertise with all the foul language.
From The Desk of Brian Schitt
From The Desk of Brian Schitt
Re: Dragon Age Origins Awakening (2 years ago)
I played on 360 but I'd assume all versions allow you to subtitle-and-skip, with 360 I think you just tap the blue x button. Meant that sometimes I'd listen to the delivery but would usually skip it - mostly skipped it on the second playthrough, which still took something like 65 hours regardless (though this includes the DLC other than Awakening and Darkspawn Chronicles.)
I don't think anyone who tried playing Baiten Kaitos (spelling?) on Gamecube with the voices on could ever criticise the acting on any game afterwards, certainly the voicing on Dragon Age and Mass Effect ranged between adequate and excellent.
I don't think anyone who tried playing Baiten Kaitos (spelling?) on Gamecube with the voices on could ever criticise the acting on any game afterwards, certainly the voicing on Dragon Age and Mass Effect ranged between adequate and excellent.
Re: Dragon Age Origins Awakening (2 years ago)
(Here's a tip: don't write a long post on an iPhone.)
The companions serve though, and the plot with some new kinds of intelligent Darkspawn provides interest and the requisite moral choice or two. I'd say it's a good amount of content for the price but does not nearly add up to half the size of Origins. However, as said, Origins was horribly padded.
Score: $45 (out of a possible $50)
The companions serve though, and the plot with some new kinds of intelligent Darkspawn provides interest and the requisite moral choice or two. I'd say it's a good amount of content for the price but does not nearly add up to half the size of Origins. However, as said, Origins was horribly padded.
Score: $45 (out of a possible $50)
Dragon Age Origins Awakening (2 years ago)
Okay, so it's taken me what feels like 6 months to review the Dragon Age: Origins expansion, Awakening. Not because it's a long expansion, mind you, but because it's an expansion to a mind-numbingly LONG main game which I decided to re-play before starting Awakening. It took me months to complete Origins a second time. I finished it a few days ago then knocked over Awakenings in a few days.
For comparable brevity, Awakenings scores points with me. Actually, it could have been a bit longer or more fleshed out, but better a game that leaves you wanting more than the bloated, unwelcome-house-guest broodmother of Origins, spawning endless brown corridors of the same three enemies for sixty hours. Awakenings could have done with more interesting and expansive side quests for your companions, the ones on offer here are often as basic as having a cut-scene conversation when the game automatically triggers it.
The main quest is good though and takes part in discrete, well-designed areas that are far more interesting both to look at and play in than most locations from the main game. Your imported Origins character (or a new, origin-less Grey Warden) is put in charge of Vigil's Keep and the surroundng Arling of Amarathine - both the former home and territory of the treacherous Arl Howe.
You'll not only have to fight a new Darkspawn threat in this new area, but also deal with matters of State, renovating your base and outfitting an army. 6 new specialisations are added as well as The Runecrafting skill.
Anyone familiar with Bioware should know that their storytelling skills are dependable to excellent and Awakenings should satisfy. The gameplay, if you ever got a grip on Origins' poorly explained pause-order-kill-loot-repeat tunnel-cleansing style is here more of the same. New tiers of armour and weapons appear and there's enviable sets to be had.
The game reportedly has bugs galore, though, playing on 360, I only saw a few and they didn't break the game - well, until the end, where after the "what happened next" text boxes were finished the game replayed the death scene of the end boss over and over. I also missed out on one of the Companion side quests due to a bug. Worth noting is that, due to a terrible design flaw, if you want to use Runecrafting, then it's imperative you use the main character for it. I used a companion and - well, let's just say, TERRIBLE design there, good one Bioware.
The problems are few enough thankfully. On first playthrough I hated Origins' gameplay but finished it based on interest in the plot and characters. Awakening lacks the memorable companions of Origins but they don't SUCK - the apostate mage Anders sounds like Alaistair but is probably the pick of a beige bunch.
For comparable brevity, Awakenings scores points with me. Actually, it could have been a bit longer or more fleshed out, but better a game that leaves you wanting more than the bloated, unwelcome-house-guest broodmother of Origins, spawning endless brown corridors of the same three enemies for sixty hours. Awakenings could have done with more interesting and expansive side quests for your companions, the ones on offer here are often as basic as having a cut-scene conversation when the game automatically triggers it.
The main quest is good though and takes part in discrete, well-designed areas that are far more interesting both to look at and play in than most locations from the main game. Your imported Origins character (or a new, origin-less Grey Warden) is put in charge of Vigil's Keep and the surroundng Arling of Amarathine - both the former home and territory of the treacherous Arl Howe.
You'll not only have to fight a new Darkspawn threat in this new area, but also deal with matters of State, renovating your base and outfitting an army. 6 new specialisations are added as well as The Runecrafting skill.
Anyone familiar with Bioware should know that their storytelling skills are dependable to excellent and Awakenings should satisfy. The gameplay, if you ever got a grip on Origins' poorly explained pause-order-kill-loot-repeat tunnel-cleansing style is here more of the same. New tiers of armour and weapons appear and there's enviable sets to be had.
The game reportedly has bugs galore, though, playing on 360, I only saw a few and they didn't break the game - well, until the end, where after the "what happened next" text boxes were finished the game replayed the death scene of the end boss over and over. I also missed out on one of the Companion side quests due to a bug. Worth noting is that, due to a terrible design flaw, if you want to use Runecrafting, then it's imperative you use the main character for it. I used a companion and - well, let's just say, TERRIBLE design there, good one Bioware.
The problems are few enough thankfully. On first playthrough I hated Origins' gameplay but finished it based on interest in the plot and characters. Awakening lacks the memorable companions of Origins but they don't SUCK - the apostate mage Anders sounds like Alaistair but is probably the pick of a beige bunch.
Re: Australian Gaming Bargains - 20/05/10 (3 years ago)
I just saw this bargain at JB hi fi's website.
Re: Wii price drop (3 years ago)
How long overdue?
At least they didn't wait until Move / Natal release months, would have looked more like panic then.
At least they didn't wait until Move / Natal release months, would have looked more like panic then.
Re: Australian Gaming Bargains - 25/03/10 (3 years ago)
I went nuts buying things I didn't need, it's been months since I've had a good bargain-fest. Managed to get the last (only?) copy of Riddick at my JB, can play the Dark Athena half of it now.
I wish I'd a spare $200 though. Piles of bargains at my local Harvey Norman too, including GHWT band pack for $100 (and disc only for $10) among many other things.
I wish I'd a spare $200 though. Piles of bargains at my local Harvey Norman too, including GHWT band pack for $100 (and disc only for $10) among many other things.
Re: New SA Attorney-General announced (3 years ago)
Awesome. Now I'm just going to sit back and wait for good times and rainbows to erupt from his buttocks.
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Might try downloading Game Room again.
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Might try downloading Game Room again.
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Wow, I never could have predicted this. In the end, only he could defeat himself...
Oh well, (pops cork) cheers.
Oh well, (pops cork) cheers.
Re: Atkinson Rann Out Of Office (3 years ago)
Despite trolling the thread, DancesInUnderwear exposes the Risky Business of pushing through a special interest reform when the mainstream doesn't know or care. Making them know and care has been difficult. Atkinson and Rann can be left to wonder how much R18+ and Internet censorship contributed to their damage at the polls. It may only be a finger's width but if they lose the election by a handful of votes, every finger counts.
Re: Atkinson Rann Out Of Office (3 years ago)
Article on abcnews today puts Libs ahead of Labor 52 to 48 in poll by The Australian.
Re: Atkinson Rann Out Of Office (3 years ago)
Both sides have shifted to the right over the past twenty years. Hell, labor only won by producing a Howard clone.
Incidently, "liberal" should apply to the less right party, eg in the US the Democrats are "liberals", although I don't think the republicans were always the far right nutters they now appear to be.
Incidently, "liberal" should apply to the less right party, eg in the US the Democrats are "liberals", although I don't think the republicans were always the far right nutters they now appear to be.
Atkinson Rann Out Of Office (3 years ago)
Hopefully the thread title is as prophetic as it is puntacular.
In SA, the "I knew that woman but didn't impale" Rann-led Atkinson-infected Labor government is, according to a poll, trailing the Liberal opposition by the tiniest of margins.
The election is this weekend, and with it neck and neck like this AND THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN GAMING AT STAKE (and some who-cares South Australian issues probably) perhaps we can look forward to following the beginning of the end of Atkinson's train of error.
Of course, here's hoping his potential replacement isn't just some other wacko.
In SA, the "I knew that woman but didn't impale" Rann-led Atkinson-infected Labor government is, according to a poll, trailing the Liberal opposition by the tiniest of margins.
The election is this weekend, and with it neck and neck like this AND THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN GAMING AT STAKE (and some who-cares South Australian issues probably) perhaps we can look forward to following the beginning of the end of Atkinson's train of error.
Of course, here's hoping his potential replacement isn't just some other wacko.
Re: Help with an Xbox Live problem. (3 years ago)
That's quite bizarre. Not sure I understood correctly but these things stood out to me from your post:
You should not need to system link THEN sign into Live for any reason... you would simply both go online and form a party. I'm not even sure you CAN play over Live and system link at the same time, there's just no point.
I have plugged two Xboxes into the same modem-router and played on Live before, and also in system link via the router (in my current house I can connect to upstairs wirelessly for system link games through the modem router.)
I don't know what you mean by not being able to log in to the uni network without a browser, but then you say you can still use Live some other way? It does not make any sense that you can both go on Live via the uni network yet not party up or chat. UNLESS. Can you party up or chat with anyone else? The only thought which occurs to me is that there's some kind of restriction actually on the Uni internet, some kind of usage filter which prevents certain actions, such as chat.
If using the uni internet that way is against their rules then you may find it hard to actually question them directly about it.
Like I said though, I'm not sure I understood the detail of your setup.
You should not need to system link THEN sign into Live for any reason... you would simply both go online and form a party. I'm not even sure you CAN play over Live and system link at the same time, there's just no point.
I have plugged two Xboxes into the same modem-router and played on Live before, and also in system link via the router (in my current house I can connect to upstairs wirelessly for system link games through the modem router.)
I don't know what you mean by not being able to log in to the uni network without a browser, but then you say you can still use Live some other way? It does not make any sense that you can both go on Live via the uni network yet not party up or chat. UNLESS. Can you party up or chat with anyone else? The only thought which occurs to me is that there's some kind of restriction actually on the Uni internet, some kind of usage filter which prevents certain actions, such as chat.
If using the uni internet that way is against their rules then you may find it hard to actually question them directly about it.
Like I said though, I'm not sure I understood the detail of your setup.
Re: EveryonePlays: Atkinson - The Facts (3 years ago)
Sorry guys, I despise Atkinson but this article is bullshit. If you'd presented it just as a bunch of examples of him being a nutcase, arsehole and potentially crooked then that would be fine, but... well, most of this dirt file isn't even presented in a way that allows you to "agree or disagree" with Atkinson's "position". eg, Atkinson being accused of corruption - do you agree with his position? What's his position? That he isn't corrupt? Or that there wasn't sufficient evidence?
If you wanted to present a history of Atkinson then you should have dug up some of actual achievements as well. Or you could edit the preface and just make it an "honest" dirtfile on him.
But as it stands this is what I'd call shoddy journalism and ought to be on Media Watch.
If you wanted to present a history of Atkinson then you should have dug up some of actual achievements as well. Or you could edit the preface and just make it an "honest" dirtfile on him.
But as it stands this is what I'd call shoddy journalism and ought to be on Media Watch.
Re: DSi XL release date announced (3 years ago)
But how much is it? More than the already horribly over-priced DSi?
Re: Australian Gaming Bargains - 21/01/10 (3 years ago)
Kmarts have had Mirror's Edge on clearance for $20, and have seen Dead Space and Quantum of Solace for $30 there.
Re: skitsout (3 years ago)
Out-takes from Bogan Bargains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuS9ZSTwQFk
Hoping to make some proper new videos soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuS9ZSTwQFk
Hoping to make some proper new videos soon.
Re: Fallout 3 DLC Round-up (3 years ago)
One thing you didn't mention: Broken Steel has some irritating bugs. When I first bought it I started a whole new game from the start (wanting to take advantage of the raised level cap) but all the low-level monster had disappeared from the world - replaced with enclave soldiers who by rights should not have appeared until later.
That bug seems to have been patched now (I recently started again for Point Lookout) but the other annoying bug - that Three Dog makes post-endgame comments from the beginning of the game now, has not been fixed yet. I'm surprised it doesn't get written about more, maybe no one plays this anymore, but having Three Dog telling me how I saved the Wasteland before I've even met him in game breaks immersion in a big way.
That bug seems to have been patched now (I recently started again for Point Lookout) but the other annoying bug - that Three Dog makes post-endgame comments from the beginning of the game now, has not been fixed yet. I'm surprised it doesn't get written about more, maybe no one plays this anymore, but having Three Dog telling me how I saved the Wasteland before I've even met him in game breaks immersion in a big way.