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[Planet_JASE]

365 x 3 is only 1195.

I don't know how much socialising will get done, to be honest, but I don't plan on watching much TV.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it's closer to a couple of hundred thousand hours. Nice try, though. If you don't plan on socialising (good choice - people are yucky) you might be able to knock over a fair number of games in a year. Why not take the Wii and one handheld and if you find out that you're running out of games it will be easy to bring a handheld back on one of you trips to and from the site.

 

[Deeku]

Conundrum: should I bring my Wii to site with me if I am also bringing a 3DS and PSP? I have a backlog of Wii/GC/VC games, but it almost seems like too much video game stuff.

First trip will likely be my last opportunity to take it because of strict weight restrictions on flights on later trips (first trip is by bus). I'll be there for a year.

I only took my portables (vita/3ds) with me when I came to Hong Kong, and later had my dad bring my ps3 over when he was visiting. It's been a year now and I really haven't touched the ps3, save for a couple of recent releases. The idea that I would go through and clear my ps3 backlog totally did not happen. So yes, it was kind of overkill.

If you have a decent enough backlog of 3ds/ds/psp games, and access to new 3ds stuff if need be, then you should be fine I reckon. But it really depends on how much time you think you'll be just sitting around playing games. Then maybe divide that number by 2 lol.

 

[roosters93]

It's a 30 day plan so you aren't locked into anything. Come and go as you please.

Which makes it very easy to walk away from when a better deal comes up!

ahhhh
I'm in a similar thing (plan that is not really a plan) with LiveConnected (small optus reseller). I've been on their $11.99p/m plan since September 2012. They changed their plans over a year ago and I'm still on 12 buckaroos a month.

I think they'll probably charge me more one day. Apparently they've been bought so that could be the catalyst.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

I guess that would work pretty well since he says he already has too many video games ;p

Nah, Vita gets its Game of the System this week with Final Fantasy X-2 HD. Good times for it.

I should get through FFVII, VIII and IX on the PSP before I replay X.

How much interest do you have in playing said games?

They're Metroid Prime 2 & 3, the back half of Xenoblade and Galaxy 2. This may be my last opportunity to blaze through console games of any type.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it's closer to a couple of hundred thousand hours. Nice try, though. If you don't plan on socialising (good choice - people are yucky) you might be able to knock over a fair number of games in a year. Why not take the Wii and one handheld and if you find out that you're running out of games it will be easy to bring a handheld back on one of you trips to and from the site.

This is true, but the handhelds are so portable that I may as well take them by default.

I only took my portables (vita/3ds) with me when I came to Hong Kong, and later had my dad bring my ps3 over when he was visiting. It's been a year now and I really haven't touched the ps3, save for a couple of recent releases. The idea that I would go through and clear my ps3 backlog totally did not happen. So yes, it was kind of overkill.

If you have a decent enough backlog of 3ds/ds/psp games, and access to new 3ds stuff if need be, then you should be fine I reckon. But it really depends on how much time you think you'll be just sitting around playing games. Then maybe divide that number by 2 lol.

My thought was that I'll have an hour or two to waste per night that's not spent working, eating, sleeping, exercising or calling home. Honestly, the PSP and 3DS really ought to cover that pretty well.

It's just that as a husband and father, I will never again have time to play video games on a console, ever.

 

[reptilescorpio]

This is totally VKS right meow

 

[Lucian Cat]

Off to see QOTSA and NIN tonight!!

Enjoy! They did an amazing show here. Bring sunglasses

 

[Shaneus]

I guess that would work pretty well since he says he already has too many video games ;p

Nah, Vita gets its Game of the System this week with Final Fantasy X-2 HD. Good times for it.

Buy a Vita, ditch the 3DS and PSP games. They're all last-gen anyway.

 

[reptilescorpio]

They're Metroid Prime 2 & 3, the back half of Xenoblade and Galaxy 2. This may be my last opportunity to blaze through console games of any type.

Take it with you, beast through the games, sell it all to some game starved schmo on duty with you for mad profits bro.

It's just that as a husband and father, I will never again have time to play video games on a console, ever.

You just need to half arse everything! Then you will have tons of time for gaming!

TV can raise my son and be there to listen to my wife's feelings. That's how my parents did it so who am I to reinvent the wheel!

 

[ClivePwned]

A wii takes almost no room. If you have the games you want to play, and a tv to play it on, and the wii is only going to gather dust if you leave it behind, then you lose nothing by taking it.

You probably wont feel much like gaming the short time you are home.

 

[Planet_JASE]

This is true, but the handhelds are so portable that I may as well take them by default.

It's just that as a husband and father, I will never again have time to play video games on a console, ever.

So take them all, then, silly!. Even if the Wii doesn't get played while you're away it sounds like it definitely won't get played when you're at home so what's the use of having it there?

 

[Gazunta]

Mod the Wii so you can run C64 emulator on it.

Get a 2GB SD card from a Corn Flakes packet or whatever and put every C64 game ever made on it.

Play C64 games on your Wii.

SIMPLES.

Unrelated, but also worth mentioning while we're just so happening to talk about video games:

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Take it with you, beast through the games, sell it all to some game starved schmo on duty with you for mad profits bro.




You just need to half arse everything! Then you will have tons of time for gaming!

TV can raise my son and be there to listen to my wife's feelings. That's how my parents did it so who am I to reinvent the wheel!

But if they're using the TV, how am I supposed to video game?

A wii takes almost no room. If you have the games you want to play, and a tv to play it on, and the wii is only going to gather dust if you leave it behind, then you lose nothing by taking it.

You probably wont feel much like gaming the short time you are home.

Hmmm...

So take them all, then, silly!. Even if the Wii doesn't get played while you're away it sounds like it definitely won't get played when you're at home so what's the use of having it there?

It's not even hooked up...

Mod the Wii so you can run C64 emulator on it.

Get a 2GB SD card from a Corn Flakes packet or whatever and put every C64 game ever made on it.

Play C64 games on your Wii.

SIMPLES.

Unrelated, but also worth mentioning while we're just so happening to talk about video games:

I do like me some Snoopy to the Rescue.

 

[reptilescorpio]

But if they're using the TV, how am I supposed to video game?

Alright new plan.

Buy a $2000 gaming laptop.

Install Dolphin.

Play all the GCN/Wii games with improved visual clarity.

No TV required!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!





Also did you buy a Vita yet?








Do Wii games on the WiiU let you play off-TV on the gamepad?

 

[Box of Bunnies]

Do Wii games on the WiiU let you play off-TV on the gamepad?

You can have the video output to the Gamepad and it has a sensor built in so you don't need a sensor bar but you can still only control with Wii controllers, not the Gamepad itself.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Alright new plan.

Buy a $2000 gaming laptop.

Install Dolphin.

Play all the GCN/Wii games with improved visual clarity.

No TV required!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!





Also did you buy a Vita yet?








Do Wii games on the WiiU let you play off-TV on the gamepad?

I am tempted to get a Vita, but I'm waiting on either an exceptionally good deal or for memory prices to come down

Spoiler

HAHAHAHAHAHA

You can have the video output to the Gamepad and it has a sensor built in so you don't need a sensor bar but you can still only control with Wii controllers, not the Gamepad itself.

Yo dawg, I heard you like controllers...


Okay, you guys have convinced me. I'll bring the console along.

 

[Blastoise]

So it's true that Ground Zeroes is delayed till the 27th!

Is going digital (US PSN) the best way, or should I pay for express shipping from Amazon?

 

[hamchan]

So it's true that Ground Zeroes is delayed till the 27th!

Is going digital (US PSN) the best way, or should I pay for express shipping from Amazon?

Isn't shipping pretty expensive? I'd rather pay for it digitally. I don't think the game will be a very big download too if that's a worry.

 

[Blastoise]

Isn't shipping pretty expensive? I'd rather pay for it digitally. I don't think the game will be a very big download too if that's a worry.

Yeah it will be $62. So about $12 more than the local version. I kinda wan't the alternative cover. But then again buying it digitally will be $30 cheaper.

 

[mandiller]

If anyone is thinking about buying a cheap Vita, I've noticed a few Cash Converters stores sell them in perfect nick for about $189. Bargain for such a cool little handheld.

 

[reptilescorpio]

The Last of Us just clicked for me. Stopped trying to play it my way and played it like a survival game. So good.

Explanation of features and controls are insanely fucking terrible. Like incredibly bad.

Isn't shipping pretty expensive? I'd rather pay for it digitally. I don't think the game will be a very big download too if that's a worry.

Can import from UK for $42AUD. Should arrive about the same time as the AU copies lol


Also the PS3 version is about 2GB so I don't expect the PS4 version to be stupidly big. Maybe 10GB???

 

[Shaneus]

I wasn't so much talking about Telstra but online stores like Kogan. The full size Xperia Z1 launched at $750 or thereabouts. A month or two after launch, some places were selling it for around $600-650. Now you can get it new for around $550.

After the initial hype, all smartphones decrease in price and you can find them for quite cheap if you look around. For instance, the LG G2's sale price tanked to under $500 after only a few months. Its hard to say since the Xperia Z1 Compact can already be found for pretty cheap but its safe to say that the price will decrease after its fully launched in Europe and Asia.

The bluetooth headset (DR-BTN200) has a realistic market price of $100. Sony audio products are either shit (99% of stuff) or really bloody good (ES receivers and amps). I doubt its particularly good and you probably won't get a good price on eBay/Gumtree.

So to answer your question, go on holiday and then decide from there. It'll be in Telstra stores everywhere so you can give it a try and see if you actually like it since its actually a pretty chunky phone. The 4S' resale price should remain consistent while the Xperia Z1 Compact's sale price should drop.

Forgot to thank you for this... fantastic advice. Holding onto my 4S for another few months yet (at least, until iOS 7.whatever shits me to the point of buying an Android phone. It's not fucking far off at all).

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

I'm going to rent Ground Zeroes. Don't want to pay more than $5 for a 2 hour game, which will also 99% be included in the MGS5 retail version.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Now that I've unlocked shit in TLoU it's great. Really loving it.

Fucking painful first 3 hours though!

 

[Jintor]

The next civilisation game should licence all the cg from the new cosmos.

And have the civ pedia be narrated by Neil Tyson

 

[reptilescorpio]

The next civilisation game should licence all the cg from the new cosmos.

And have the civ pedia be narrated by Neil Tyson

NEW ALPHA CENTAURI

DO IT

MAKE IT HAPPEN RIGHT MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

 

[ClivePwned]

I watched two movies on the weekend that I enjoyed in different ways-
Anchorman 2- R rated cut-
When it's firing, its really firing. When it's misfiring (which is way more than I expected), it's still good, but feels like I'm watching a sequel to Wake Up Ron Burgundy. Either way, I enjoyed it. The stuff with James Marsters,

Spoiler

Winnebago scene, the chicken of the cave

and the

Spoiler

rehashed news anchor battle

and the denouement of

Spoiler

Greg Kinnear

were the highlights.

what didn't work were a lot of the Steve Carell/Kirsten Wiig bits- not all but most and the long detour the story takes

Spoiler

in the lighthouse- which was good, but felt like it didn't belong in the same movie as the rest of the stuff

The other film was About Time. I have a new favourite soppy movie. Absolutely loved it. It looks like a romcom, but only for the first half, the second half is more about the main guy and his dad.
I will literally watch any old shit with Rachel McAdams in it, but the dude in this is also really good. So much better than Richard Curtis' last film "The Boat that Rocked."

 

[reptilescorpio]

Yeah McAdams is always hot.

 

[roosters93]

Dude is Brendan Gleeson's son!

 

[hamchan]

Yeah McAdams is always hot.

Also

PS4 controller for $55 posted with BARREL@CFB9G coupon

Bought, though had to use code PINSTEIN instead.

Also I was going to buy Infamous Second Son, then I realised Sony gave me the first two games free with PS+ before and they'll probably do it again for this eventually. So instead I paid $60 for the collectors edition of FFX HD...

 

[dishwasherlove]

Looks like I'm getting my PS4 version of MGSGZ from the US store.

 

[Jables Swan]

I watched two movies on the weekend that I enjoyed in different ways-
Anchorman 2- R rated cut-
When it's firing, its really firing. When it's misfiring (which is way more than I expected), it's still good, but feels like I'm watching a sequel to Wake Up Ron Burgundy. Either way, I enjoyed it. The stuff with James Marsters,

Spoiler

Winnebago scene, the chicken of the cave

and the

Spoiler

rehashed news anchor battle

and the denouement of

Spoiler

Greg Kinnear

were the highlights.

what didn't work were a lot of the Steve Carell/Kirsten Wiig bits- not all but most and the long detour the story takes

Spoiler

in the lighthouse- which was good, but felt like it didn't belong in the same movie as the rest of the stuff

The other film was About Time. I have a new favourite soppy movie. Absolutely loved it. It looks like a romcom, but only for the first half, the second half is more about the main guy and his dad.
I will literally watch any old shit with Rachel McAdams in it, but the dude in this is also really good. So much better than Richard Curtis' last film "The Boat that Rocked."

Yeah About Time wasn't as bad as I expected. As you said, it isn't really a standard romcom.

Anchorman 2 doesn't interest me in the slightest. I don't think I could even re-watched the original these days.

Only 2 weeks until the Lego Movie though, I'm excited.

 

[Rahk]

For the people on Optus trying to play Titanfall:

The Age (one of Australia's biggest newspapers) has posted an interesting article in response to the Titanfall server issues here in Australia, arguing the 'drawbacks of online-only gaming are shown by Titanfall failure'. What are the chances that Respawn/EA/Microsoft respond now and take a more pro-active approach to fixing these problems? Whether they're responsible or not, I'd love to see them reach out to the Australian ISPs and work to a solution.

 

[Shaneus]

NEW ALPHA CENTAURI

DO IT

MAKE IT HAPPEN RIGHT MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Fuck you. Star Control.


Edit: Yo AusGAF, what's the best deal on PS+ right now? Like, RIGHT now.

 

[reptilescorpio]

AU PS+ am never on special

Hey someone wanted Midnight Club the other day didn't they? XBL Gold members can get it for $5 atm. Bully is also $5 for Gold members.

GOLD MEMBERS ONLY

NO SALES ALLOWED FOR MERE SILVER MORTALS

 

[HolyCheck]

Quuestion,

I have a flight going from Seoul to kuala lumpur to melbourne. There's a 9 hour layover in KL. Am I allowed to leave the airport? I didn't try yestterday... but it's come to my attention that for 2 of those 9 hours the Malaysian grand prix is on... 5 minutes taxi away from the airport....

And yeh...

 

[reptilescorpio]

No idea sorry Holy.

I can say that my Dad had a great time when he went last year (or the year before?). He would be there again this year if it wasn't for the cancer! Not sure if they got their tickets/hotels refunded or not.

But yeah he was really impressed with the setup there. Enjoyed it even more than the good ole days Adelaide Grand Prix.

 

[Shaneus]

AU PS+ am never on special

Hey someone wanted Midnight Club the other day didn't they? XBL Gold members can get it for $5 atm. Bully is also $5 for Gold members.

GOLD MEMBERS ONLY

NO SALES ALLOWED FOR MERE SILVER MORTALS

Crap on both counts. Is that the full version with all the DLC bundled in? It'd save me from having to use my disc copy to play. Actually, I suppose that seeing as I own the LA DLC, it wouldn't make any difference.

Is there a way I can get XBL gold for cheap using my converted Allards? I have about $30 worth. Or if anyone has a 1-month or so freebie I can use to get game cheapness, that'd be swell.

 

[codswallop]

There's a 9 hour layover in KL. Am I allowed to leave the airport? I didn't try yestterday...

There are some exceptions to this (e.g. in Singapore you can go on "tours" in a bus, etc)

You must go through customs and immigration, and have a valid visa, and then come back through them again. You may also need to check in again meaning you'll need to be there a couple of hours early. I'd speak to someone at the service desk from your airline (probably AirAsia since you're in KL?) and not take advice from someone on the internet.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

Quuestion,

I have a flight going from Seoul to kuala lumpur to melbourne. There's a 9 hour layover in KL. Am I allowed to leave the airport? I didn't try yestterday... but it's come to my attention that for 2 of those 9 hours the Malaysian grand prix is on... 5 minutes taxi away from the airport....

And yeh...

You could get a visa on arrival when you land in KL, you can leave your luggage at the airport and go out. You can also deposit your hand baggage for a small fee. I did this in Thailand a few years ago when I had a 15 hour layover.

 

[HolyCheck]

Thanks all.

Yeh my luggage will already be checked in, as it's a connecting flight, and I will already have my KL to MEL boarding pass.

Seems to be I meet the requirements to be able to visit KL.

I'll ring up the airlines this week and confirm things!

 

[Deeku]

So instead I paid $60 for the collectors edition of FFX HD...

I can't decide whether I want to get it for vita or ps3...or should I even bother since I probably won't even play it:/

 

[HolyCheck]

I can't decide whether I want to get it for vita or ps3...or should I even bother since I probably won't even play it:/

Any idea on any kpopings on in korea I should see?

You will find me something.

 

[Gazunta]

Playing games is old hat. Backing games on Kickstarter and watching your inbox flood with project status update emails for years is the new hotness.

Speaking of which. Julian Gollop has a Kickstarter for a remake of Chaos. You should back it.

JOSH MOULDS I NEED YOUR BLURB DUDE IM SENDING PAGES OFF TO THE PRINTER ANY MINUTE NOWWWWW

 

[Jintor]

i should really finish bravely default before buying ffx and x-2

 

[Deeku]

Any idea on any kpopings on in korea I should see?

You will find me something.

lol i don't really know anything about kpoping, or sk since i've never been

i'm guessing you should go eat kimchi and fall in love with an alien

 

[markot]

FFX is one of the worst games ive ever played.

Figures that you no taste non tasters would looooooooooove it.

 

[hamchan]

Helped my Dad upgrade into the smartphone world and buy a Moto G since I had a gift voucher to use too, all up $190.

Uh yeah, this phone seems freaking amazing for the price. Everything but the camera seems like it should be in a phone way more expensive than this.

 

[Box of Bunnies]

I can't decide whether I want to get it for vita or ps3...or should I even bother since I probably won't even play it:/

Obviously Vita for the portable goodness.

 

[Garrus Vakarian]

Does anyone know any good Aussie twitch streamers?

 

[Trevelyon]

Um, no digital pre-order (so, no pre-load) for Second Son on PSN? Game is listed out on the 26th on the store's game page (must be the digital release)

Fuck it, $69 DSE ver. it is then.