The first three (technically two of them are the same thing) are predecessors to the electronic games discussed on these forums. Aside from being fun in their own right, they are also design tools used in prototyping these games. For shame! Allow me to show you the door...
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The first three (technically two of them are the same thing) are predecessors to the electronic games discussed on these forums. Aside from being fun in their own right, they are also design tools used in prototyping these games. For shame! Allow me to show you the door...
Banderdash
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Do you remember Ruffles crisps?
Oh, I know what they are... there just wasn't an option for not playing either of those things.
I supposed D&D because it was pretty much lifted to make KoTOR... so, that?
Custom by far. Hope you got the NTSC version to start, but set a custom screen size so that the top and bottom of the graphics touch the top and bottom of the screen and then stretch the left and right sides of the picture out a little bit more than they should be, but not so much that the characters start to look stretched.
dishwasherlove
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There is a case to be made for those chips from the 90s where you got the packet of extra flavouring and shook it through the pack being better than red rock deli. But that case would be wrong.
Jables Swan
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True Detective is now over. What a ride. I can't see how season 2 will live up to this.
bodyboarder
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I'm slightly regretting that I didn't give the show more of a chance.
No, before they at least had the justification of having 15+ as the highest rating so I could understand the things they refused to classify. The system is now worse.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Tactics Ogre is in the mail as we speak.
I can't find Crisis Core or Castlevania Chronicles in stock anywhere though, which makes me sadface.
I can't work out how to stretch the screen. Does that require an analog nub?
They have a wanted section and a for sale one, but they'd also be open to general "what should my first machine be?" threads
More. Probably play 3-4 games a day on it on average.
Get yourself lots of machines via vpforums.org, try out as many games as you can (or at least, ones you've heard of). They may not play much like the real thing, but they'd give you an idea if you like the flow/rules/sounds/lighting of the game. You might even wind up with a game from the 80s you'd like and have never considered (and subsequently pay a lot less).
Also, LotR and Simpsons will be quite expensive w/ Simpsons (assuming you mean the newer one) at least $5k and LotR even higher (I'd imagine).
codswallop
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If you read the guidelines, it's pretty easy to understand why things are refused classification. The system is no different to before, but now they allow slightly more 'vulgar' things to fit into the R18+ rating.
Ubisoft would've probably shied away from this line: "Implied sexual violence that is visually depicted, interactive, not justified by context or related to incentives or rewards is not permitted."
They had me at procedurally generated worlds and all that COLOUR.
Bears? I'm in.
Have they confirmed a second season? I am yet to start this show, but I'm keen.
How long is The Last of Us? I'm at the part where
you encounter a lot of people fighting and not much zombies
My missus played it and said there are
four seasons
Ruthless_Barbarian
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You're about 1/3rd done.
ClivePwned
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are you totally grossed out and depressed? then you're about done
Jables Swan
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I don't think they've officially confirmed but I've read that they'll do more seasons but with a new cast each season.
Speaking of pinball machines, the wife and I sunk a stupid amount of time into the new Wizard of Oz table we spotted at Time Zone Surfer's Paradise this weekend. Huge full colour LCD screen, an amazingly colourful table, and tons of flippers and areas to explore. It's also crushingly hard! But for some reason the wife just kept returning to it, determined to show it who's boss. That was ace.
We also played the new Batman arcade game which is basically Burnout Paradise with guns. Or Crash HQ 2 with Batman. I'm not sure which. I really liked it. I'm more interested in playing that than a new Arkham thingy.
There was a huge 8 player Daytona set up with hydraulic chairs and cameras which was fun to play but man the monitors looked like someone hooked up the Saturn version to a widescreen TV with composite cables, even I thought it looked too retro.
Funny how half the arcade is by Eugene Jarvis' company. Feels good
We won enough points for me to buy a pack of Mario figurines with Mario, Donkey Kong and Toad. Yay, more useless crap for me to hoard!
We also played the new Batman arcade game which is basically Burnout Paradise with guns. Or Crash HQ 2 with Batman. I'm not sure which. I really liked it. I'm more interested in playing that than a new Arkham thingy.
There was a huge 8 player Daytona set up with hydraulic chairs and cameras which was fun to play but man the monitors looked like someone hooked up the Saturn version to a widescreen TV with composite cables, even I thought it looked too retro.
Funny how half the arcade is by Eugene Jarvis' company. Feels good
We won enough points for me to buy a pack of Mario figurines with Mario, Donkey Kong and Toad. Yay, more useless crap for me to hoard!
Poimandres
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I thought it was confirmed, but I'm not sure if it's official official. The writer has been talking about his progress writing the second season. It's pretty remarkable that a single guy wrote the entirety of the first season, and he's doing it the same way for the second.
Great!
Yeah, I should be done
http://www.howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=9997
How Long To Beat lists 15 hours for main story and 22.5 hours for completionist.
bodyboarder
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They have a wanted section and a for sale one, but they'd also be open to general "what should my first machine be?" threads
More. Probably play 3-4 games a day on it on average.
Get yourself lots of machines via vpforums.org, try out as many games as you can (or at least, ones you've heard of). They may not play much like the real thing, but they'd give you an idea if you like the flow/rules/sounds/lighting of the game. You might even wind up with a game from the 80s you'd like and have never considered (and subsequently pay a lot less).
Also, LotR and Simpsons will be quite expensive w/ Simpsons (assuming you mean the newer one) at least $5k and LotR even higher (I'd imagine).
Nice idea on the vpforums. That's a decent anount of games, I'm nowhere near that keen. More of something pretty to put in the corner and play when people come round, but you never know it could become an addiction.
Yeah the Lotr is 8k (give or take) so way too much. Was looking at the 90s Simpsons one, but again that's not cheap anyways.
Speaking of pinball machines, the wife and I sunk a stupid amount of time into the new Wizard of Oz table we spotted at Time Zone Surfer's Paradise this weekend. Huge full colour LCD screen, an amazingly colourful table, and tons of flippers and areas to explore. It's also crushingly hard! But for some reason the wife just kept returning to it, determined to show it who's boss. That was ace.
We also played the new Batman arcade game which is basically Burnout Paradise with guns. Or Crash HQ 2 with Batman. I'm not sure which. I really liked it. I'm more interested in playing that than a new Arkham thingy.
There was a huge 8 player Daytona set up with hydraulic chairs and cameras which was fun to play but man the monitors looked like someone hooked up the Saturn version to a widescreen TV with composite cables, even I thought it looked too retro.
Funny how half the arcade is by Eugene Jarvis' company. Feels good
We won enough points for me to buy a pack of Mario figurines with Mario, Donkey Kong and Toad. Yay, more useless crap for me to hoard!
You mean Chase HQ? Loved that game as a kid.
reptilescorpio
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Titanfall on X1 for USD$60 posted from eBay US
Seems like it should get cheap quick while MS want to push the X1
Seems like it should get cheap quick while MS want to push the X1
roosters93
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Sounds stupid
I'd read it
I love Trenches but none of the six or so people who make / made that comic ever worked in game development, so I'm hoping I could bring *something* new to the concept.
Edit: Actually, that's not entirely true. Mike and Jerry obviously worked on their RPG series for a long time, but I'm mainly thinking about full time game development.
Edit: Actually, that's not entirely true. Mike and Jerry obviously worked on their RPG series for a long time, but I'm mainly thinking about full time game development.
codswallop
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Well, you could be the first to bring humour to the concept!
Would read
Poimandres
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Hmmm Super Mario 3D World and Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze for $59 from Target. Should I or shouldn't I?
Wow, that's a super handy site.
I'd read that.
toastyToast
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Do it
I'd recommend Donkey Kong for solo and 3D World if you plan on playing with other people. 3D World while good in single player takes a really long time to get going. I wasn't a big fan of most of the pre-post-game stuff.
ClivePwned
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Gaz, do it.
it could not be less funny than Trenches, so you wouldn't have to aim that high.
any other Ausgaffers venturing to GDC this year?
The Brittas Empire in comic form
it could not be less funny than Trenches, so you wouldn't have to aim that high.
aim higher plz
any other Ausgaffers venturing to GDC this year?
Bastard. Glad you enjoyed it though! /jelly
(pretty sure that's the only one on location in Australa, damnit)
Bastard. I think it's by the guys who did Hydro Thunder, so stands to reason that it's good. I'm just surprised that it's by Raw Thrills and isn't either Generic, Big Buck Hunter-related or a redemption machine.
Shame that also entails the BBH franchiseFunny how half the arcade is by Eugene Jarvis' company. Feels good
BTW You'd be wise to check out an interview with Eugene Jarvis on TOPcast (a pinball podcast from a number of years ago). Focuses mainly on his adventures in pinball (obviously) but covers plenty of other stuff, too. He did work on my High Speed Hey, maybe you could do a BtC on a "classic" pinball machine, or at least a generic one?
Sounds like you have a name for the comic already.
Lemme think about some "family-friendly"(ish) games for you to chuck on that people would enjoy and are cheapish... hmm.
Fish Tales (simple enough rules, fun voices/sounds, flapping fish on top of backbox)
Revenge from Mars/Star Wars: Episode One (newer "Pinball 2000" form factor with a smaller footprint, have video, easy enough to play... at least, SWEP1 is. RfM is supposed to be great as well, though)
World Cup Soccer (might be a little pricier than the others mentioned, but good family theme that plays nicely and nice, exciting voice work)
Terminator 2 (great game, made a lot so could pick up a bargain on this)
High Speed/The Getaway (High Speed 2) (escape from police, kinda blokey but easy enough gameplay concepts to grasp. Big red spinning light on backbox)
White Water (won't be *that* cheap, but might get lucky. Whitewater rafting theme, crazy fun but might be a little complicated for guests)
As far as prices go, around $2-3k would net you a Fish Tales, Getaway or High Speed (with HS being cheapest, but from the 80s), while the rest could be had from around $3k up to $4k depending on condition/seller. Obviously can get even higher depending on condition, but those are solid ballpark prices for reasonable nick games.
Rocky and Bullwinkle, Jurassic Park and Batman are all meant to be solid Data East machines (with JP being the pick of the bunch) which I believe all go for around $3-4k as well, with JP starting to increase in price recently (and is the better machine).
Hopefully that at least gives you a starting point for virtual tables to suss out
Bulbagarden
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Thought some of you might be interested to know that Kogan just sent out an email saying they're selling PS4's for $499. Looks like you might have a bit of a wait until they even ship them out, but I imagine that's the case with most stores right now.
A second season has not yet been confirmed. HBO is certainly interested, which is unsurprising given how popular the show is and the audience only continued to grow as the season progressed. They are waiting for Nic Pizzolatto to turn in scripts before giving season 2 the green light. That's a fair ask as it will be a new story, a new cast and a new setting.
I like the anthology format they've chosen and hope they're able to pull it off successfully, it's something I'd like to see more of, if done well. It's tiring to consistently see the model where popularity is found and the show is milked for all it's worth as a response, often overstaying its welcome. I've long been a fan of series where the story was planned from the very beginning and had been plotted and paced accordingly.
Comics, anime and live-action TV shows have done it successfully. TV mini-series are the only instances I can recall that have been enjoyable American Horror Story has tried this, but that show is best forgotten. True Detective looks to be an extension of the mini-series by fitting within a theme. It's a model with a bright future and plenty of potential, all that's needed are some daring and talented individuals to lead the way.
On True Detective, I've got something that I'm sure at least one person here will understand and enjoy.
New episode today too. Woo!
But that is the point. They increased the age, but the items remain mostly the same. Hence, worse than before. No change to what is allowed, but an increase of the age at which it is allowed. Increasing the age at which things were allowed is fine by me, but not changing the allowed things or the system to make it more objective are failures and make the system worse. Before everyone was treated like kids because there was no way legally to treat people as adults. Now adults are legally treated as kids were not long ago.
Re: Second season:A second season has not yet been confirmed. HBO is certainly interested, which is unsurprising given how popular the show is and the audience only continued to grow as the season progressed. They are waiting for Nic Pizzolatto to turn in scripts before giving season 2 the green light. That's a fair ask as it will be a new story, a new cast and a new setting.
I like the anthology format they've chosen and hope they're able to pull it off successfully, it's something I'd like to see more of, if done well. It's tiring to consistently see the model where popularity is found and the show is milked for all it's worth as a response, often overstaying its welcome. I've long been a fan of series where the story was planned from the very beginning and had been plotted and paced accordingly.
Comics, anime and live-action TV shows have done it successfully. TV mini-series are the only instances I can recall that have been enjoyable – American Horror Story has tried this, but that show is best forgotten. True Detective looks to be an extension of the mini-series by fitting within a theme. It's a model with a bright future and plenty of potential, all that's needed are some daring and talented individuals to lead the way.
On True Detective, I've got something that I'm sure at least one person here will understand and enjoy.
New episode today too. Woo!
Also, love the pic
Aarglefarg
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My co-workers and I expect to be out of a job at the end of the financial year because we expect to find out tomorrow that we didn't get funding.
I had been working there for five and a half years between work placement, volunteering while I had another job and then work for the dole, and just recently they applied for funding to employ me.
I had been working there for five and a half years between work placement, volunteering while I had another job and then work for the dole, and just recently they applied for funding to employ me.
My PS4 took a little under 2 weeks, from EB. Friend of mine had a 4 day wait. Luck of the draw.
Wow, thanks guys for the show of support, I'll revisit this concept once Super Blow The Cartridge is done and see what the next project I take on for this year will be. So maybe this one has some legs!
But shotsfired.com is already taken :/
Oh man, I had no idea that was the only Wizard of Oz table in Australia - I would have taken photos / video if I thought it would be of interest to people.
Clive, oh man yes that's a good point of reference
But shotsfired.com is already taken :/
Oh man, I had no idea that was the only Wizard of Oz table in Australia - I would have taken photos / video if I thought it would be of interest to people.
Clive, oh man yes that's a good point of reference
Only one *on location*. I believe there are a fair few more in people's collections, but I don't know exactly how many. Take photos next time you're in the area if you can, but don't stress if you don't. I'd prefer to hear impressions than see photos
reptilescorpio
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Target also has Infamous for $70 Death Jnr! Just need to go in and pre-order as it's currently $80 in-store and they knock $10 off for pre-ordering apparently.
Titanfall on X1 is $78 at Big W.
WHY DIDNT I BUY THAT $440 DSE DEAL >_<
Also lol. Was hoping it was ready to watch when I got home! Been a long time since the Cronenbergs!
Titanfall on X1 is $78 at Big W.
Depends if you loved the previous entries. If so and you want more, then think about buying them.
Extra $30-40 for shipping though
WHY DIDNT I BUY THAT $440 DSE DEAL >_<
Downton Abbey kinda does the mini-series thing too. Different time periods for different series. Kinda. :/Comics, anime and live-action TV shows have done it successfully. TV mini-series are the only instances I can recall that have been enjoyable American Horror Story has tried this, but that show is best forgotten.
On True Detective, I've got something that I'm sure at least one person here will understand and enjoy.
New episode today too. Woo!
Also lol. Was hoping it was ready to watch when I got home! Been a long time since the Cronenbergs!
Poimandres
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If I'm going to get one it would probably be Mario so I could play with my girlfriend... but then I'd need a pro controller, because she hates the Wiimote and doesn't find the Gamepad comfy. Anyone know where I can get one of those cheap? Too bad my Waverbird doesn't work with Wii U.
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