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AusGAF 10 - Node Country for Old Men
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Planet_JASE
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Lol! We were just worried as we didn't know who you were and we're not used to lurkers
reptilescorpio
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Welcome! Introduce yourself! We are a loving lot here I promise.
Also don't take your IRC/SteamChat experience to heart. Took me 5 or 6 times before I stopped feeling like they wanted to permaban my disgusting existence from chat
Regarding The Genius Season 1, click here for a solution.
FormallyMegadrive
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Rogue Legacy runs like ass on my laptop. God damn it, I would've though it would run okay.
reptilescorpio
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BananaArnie
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HAH
well you arnt a robot so you can totally come back
welcome aboard the ausgaf train
sorry we hurt your feelings, if it makes you feel better the paranoia that surrounded your lurking was kinda fun for a lot of us
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big ups danoss
Man, what a depressing thread
To me, probably the only game that ever had truly meaningful (as in 'would cascade throughout the entire game in unexpected and crazy ways' meaningful) story-related choices was probably Alpha Protocol. Pity about the gameplay.
To me, probably the only game that ever had truly meaningful (as in 'would cascade throughout the entire game in unexpected and crazy ways' meaningful) story-related choices was probably Alpha Protocol. Pity about the gameplay.
FormallyMegadrive
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Not sure what AAC is but RL would be a great handheld game
ausgaf chat is pretty cliquey and on top of that we're a bunch of over analyzing cynical wankers.
I appreciate the amount of amusement and paranoia you unintentionally bought to the channel the past week, because I thoroughly enjoyed our shitty little witch hunt where banana thought you were a data mining robot.
but also we're like 3 for 3 scaring off new people and I think that's kind of funny too.
Well done! PS. Don't choke like I did :/
I'm generally a "full-season-or-nothing" kinda dude, so thanks! I haven't kept up to date at all via this thread, but your interest has definitely piqued mine
Ruthless_Barbarian
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BF4 is a disgrace. I'm feeling bad for my 25 bucks. Campaign crashed on me literally after each level. On the 4th level it crashed while saving and corrupted my savegame. All progress gone. I'm not even going to touch it till these game breaking issues have been sorted out.
I've been laughing at the logs for a while. Hell, you even found my steam profile at one point!
edit: and you dox'd me!
Tbh I agree with the OP but with less hate. TWD does have a great story but the game itself is pretty bad. Finding out all the tough choices you made didn't really matter was a slap in the face.
So that EB Mad Monday thing is on. I'm still a cheap arse as nothing's cheap enough to get.
Though if you've still not got a Xbox 360 yet, you're doing pretty well with this for $258 / $297
https://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-999990-250GB-Xbox-360-Console--7-Games-Xbox-360
https://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-999989-250GB-Xbox-360-Console--10-Games--Preowned-Kinect-Xbox-360
or this for $428
https://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-800007-Premium-Wii-U--3-Games--Headset-Wii-U
Though if you've still not got a Xbox 360 yet, you're doing pretty well with this for $258 / $297
https://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-999990-250GB-Xbox-360-Console--7-Games-Xbox-360
https://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-999989-250GB-Xbox-360-Console--10-Games--Preowned-Kinect-Xbox-360
or this for $428
https://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-800007-Premium-Wii-U--3-Games--Headset-Wii-U
reptilescorpio
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I don't hate Telltale. I just don't like their kind.
I still feel like ToMI was a pile of horse shit. The writing was mostly shit. Most importantly though, the art and gameplay made me fucking cry. It was the Crystal Skull of the franchise for me. It raised my hopes and dashed them, over an increasingly long period of episodic time.
Any way.
Telltale can write now.
They can't design or test or build a game though.
Interactive fiction is their forte. The Walking Dead worked best when all you had on screen was the unique art style, emotive animation, top notch writing and fantastic voice work.
Once you added gameplay or user interaction it became a clunky shitshow. Minor changing of dialogue trees worked fine. That was okay.
WHAT SUCKS THOUGH?
The engine is shit. It loses your saves. It loses your settings. It loses your choices. It runs as if your PC/360/PS3 is a TI-83.
As soon as it loses your choices it loses you as a captive audience.
Lee is no longer your Lee that you have watched surviving the apocalypse. It just turns into a one way experience no different to a TV show or movie.
You had one thing to do right Telltale. And you couldn't do that. You couldn't even do that for Fables apparently.
Having 4 projects on the go? Yeah no chance things will improve. They will continue to be slightly iterative interactive fiction.
Gone Home is a great example of where the adventure genre can go. Tells the story in the best possible fashion for the effect the designer wants. Hits home really fucking well. Made by like 6 people compared to the 100+ at Telltale too. Fullbright had a plan and executed it perfectly. No need to use a template, no need to reuse an engine and processes.
Makes sense that Jake & Sean left. Must suck to make a ton of money for someone else's IP when all you can see on the horizon is more tie-in games.
But yeah. Alpha Protocol is still the benchmark. An insane amount of user customisation there. One of the best games of the generation for me, despite being rushed out the door half cooked.
Bulbagarden
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Sorry, I've had something come up on the 14th (relating to the contests my site is running for Christmas), I won't be able to attend.
I'm trying to get BF4 Limited Edition (only $48) and a Wired Controller ($36) but Paypal isn't working! I should probably take it as a sign that I don't particularly need either of those things...
and hey. it's my first post in this thread (literally made my account a week ago). Tasmanian here.
I'm trying to get BF4 Limited Edition (only $48) and a Wired Controller ($36) but Paypal isn't working! I should probably take it as a sign that I don't particularly need either of those things...
and hey. it's my first post in this thread (literally made my account a week ago). Tasmanian here.
1 week? You had to wait one week for approval? Fucking hell. Welcome. I suppose.
Nah, actually welcome.
My only real telltale complaint is that I have to wait longer for more fables.
I don't have any real issue with the gameplay style. I don't really take issue with there being a single destination with variable paths. I was still totally emotionally moved by the journey. Which is why it was my game of the year that year...though it was pretty close with Journey.
Its kind of interesting to look at it and heavy rain, another favourite of a year of mine. Its interesting how that, whilst sharing some similarities did have some pretty substantially different endings (mine being one where the serial killer got off scott free).
I still don't get at all the whole borderlands thing. Seems like a supreme waste of their time.
I don't have any real issue with the gameplay style. I don't really take issue with there being a single destination with variable paths. I was still totally emotionally moved by the journey. Which is why it was my game of the year that year...though it was pretty close with Journey.
Its kind of interesting to look at it and heavy rain, another favourite of a year of mine. Its interesting how that, whilst sharing some similarities did have some pretty substantially different endings (mine being one where the serial killer got off scott free).
I still don't get at all the whole borderlands thing. Seems like a supreme waste of their time.
The illusion of choice was enough for me.
Massive firms almost never have meaningful choices in their games, there was never any realistic way Telltale would manage. The overhead would've been apocalyptic.
The formula is efficient enough apparently that they can just crank out more though lol. But with Jake and Sean elsewhere, we'll see how it goes.
Rep is right though: fuck that engine. Janky, hitchy, save-losing piece of crap.
Haha yeah. I was pretty surprised myself... I made a Bigpond email on Thursday, signed up on Friday and got a confirmation email on Wednesday. I wasn't expecting to get approved for months.
Thanks.
I don't think it would be that hard to pull off though. Obsidian isn't really that big of a studio compared to Telltale and they did it as well as making a (admittedly mediocre) third person shooter to go along with it. Games like Fallout have been doing it years ago. I think Telltale are putting their resources in the wrong place though. I wish they had the balls to ditch the rudimentary adventure/puzzle sections and spend more time on better C&C. I remember them saying it was a lot of work for them to keep track of who Lee took with him in the last episode. I think all that work was wasted because it ultimately wasn't really an interesting decision with interesting consequences. Now I'm not saying they should make completely new environments or plot directions but giving characters a persistent opinion of the player behind a strong stats backbone would be a great start. I felt they could have gone further with Lee and allowed players to shape what kind of character he is from the choices he made.
Telltale are probably aware of the complaints about the lack of consequences and probably will attempt to address it in S2 and Fables hopefully. But now that we know they are working in at least four projects, I'm worried that they might spread themselves too thin and end up playing safe again.
Eh... Fallout has 'choice' but it certainly doesn't have 'meaningful choice'. If anyone ever felt an inch of emotion over a choice in Fallout I would be in disbelief.
That's not to say, of course, that I would be opposed to Telltale actually going somewhere with their choices systems, and like you, I share the worry that they're overstretched.
Jables Swan
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Pretty easy, but depends on the phone.
VGX was really lame, apart from Witcher 3 and No Man's Sky
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This one is good too
FormallyMegadrive
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I love Antonio but the meme couldn't be less funny.
Randy Pitchford
Your talking about Fallout 1 right? Not Fallout 3?
Um wat. New Vegas?!
Well, Fallout 2 has a more complex choice system than either, I think... but I still wouldn't say any of them have any real emotional resonance.
NV is the smartest of all choice systems in the Fallout games (Obsidian!), but by the end it's a near-complete clusterfuck of moments that sound great but are too big for the engine to actually handle.
reptilescorpio
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GOTY edition of New Vegas ran smooth on 360. Was really surprised.
Some incredibly powerful moments out in the wastelands of New Vegas for me.
Some incredibly powerful moments out in the wastelands of New Vegas for me.
That WiiU bundle is pretty damn tempting....no no no must keep saving for that Surface Pro 2...must...keep...saving...
You guys kept asking me to make new Indy Game Developer comics, so here's another one.
And you also kept asking for me to make new Presidog comics, so HERE YOU GO.
You guys kept asking me to make new Indy Game Developer comics, so here's another one.
And you also kept asking for me to make new Presidog comics, so HERE YOU GO.
I'm generally a "full-season-or-nothing" kinda dude, so thanks! I haven't kept up to date at all via this thread, but your interest has definitely piqued mine
Excellent! I'm sure you'll thoroughly enjoy it, as the rest of us have. I'd love to be in your position, watching it for the first time (again), but knowing that someone else is about to do exactly that is satisfying in itself.
Subs for Episode 1 of Season 2 are 2/3 complete with some more QC and captions to be done afterwards. It seems to be coming along nicely and knowing an 84min episode is almost upon us makes the wait even more worthwhile.
Jables Swan
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Team New Vegas reporting in.
toastyToast
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They were $68 on Big W. The Xbone games are still $68 actually, PS4 games got bumped back up to $88.
In general game prices have been pretty good lately. I've bought mostly locally this year
That stinks. I'm talking MP only, though. I did the first SP mission then jumped straight into Conquest. Really strange how DICE hasn't gotten a handle on the issues yet. It's been more than a month
Ruthless_Barbarian
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There is message in the game menu stating that new server coming soon, so I'll wait till they fix that. Don't want to play mp and end up with zero xp like many of my other mates who are playing online, both on consoles and pc.
dishwasherlove
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I imagine whoever employed you would have to legally keep some kind of record for a period of time.
They were dodgy as fuck, I only worked there for a few months. I don't think they took tax out of my pay so I actually need to pay the ATO money.
reptilescorpio
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Haha wow. A 19 year old father of a 4 year old bought a picture of an X1 off eBay for $750 even though it clearly stated it was a picture.
Paypal refunded his money and a retailer in the UK gave him a free X1 because apparently it was a Christmas present for his 4 year old lololololol
PS3 Move Starter Kit is $30 at DSE or $29 at Target from Thursday
The Typing of the Dead steamkey for $5.44 using GMG20-CV2W4-DSYBT
The DLC is $2.40 using GMG20-CV2W4-DSYBT code
Gamefly steamkey sale, use GFDDEC20 code
Deus Ex 3: The Prequel: Human Revolution: Directors Cut for $8
LA Noire & DLC for $6
TWD 400 Days DLC for $2
Bully Scholarship Edition for $3
Max Payne 3 for $3.20 MY DEAL OF THE DAY RIGHT HERE FOLKS
MP3 Season Pass for $3
GTA4, Ballad of Gay Tony & Lost and the Damned for $6
Metro Last Light for $10.87
Metro LL Season Pass is $4
The opus Ride to Hell Retribution is $4
Risen 2 GOTY edition is $6
Crysis 3 ORIGIN KEY for $12
They also have Saints Row 4 ($16)and the Season Pass ($3.20) but not sure if they work here.
Coz that's fucking stupid if you still have to.
Paypal refunded his money and a retailer in the UK gave him a free X1 because apparently it was a Christmas present for his 4 year old lololololol
PS3 Move Starter Kit is $30 at DSE or $29 at Target from Thursday
The Typing of the Dead steamkey for $5.44 using GMG20-CV2W4-DSYBT
The DLC is $2.40 using GMG20-CV2W4-DSYBT code
Gamefly steamkey sale, use GFDDEC20 code
Deus Ex 3: The Prequel: Human Revolution: Directors Cut for $8
LA Noire & DLC for $6
TWD 400 Days DLC for $2
Bully Scholarship Edition for $3
Max Payne 3 for $3.20 MY DEAL OF THE DAY RIGHT HERE FOLKS
MP3 Season Pass for $3
GTA4, Ballad of Gay Tony & Lost and the Damned for $6
Metro Last Light for $10.87
Metro LL Season Pass is $4
The opus Ride to Hell Retribution is $4
Risen 2 GOTY edition is $6
Crysis 3 ORIGIN KEY for $12
They also have Saints Row 4 ($16)and the Season Pass ($3.20) but not sure if they work here.
Yeah I haven't had to import much this year compared to the last few. Really good prices at launch and most of the time local prices will drop within the 2 weeks it takes games to come over from the UK anyway.
Do you still need to finish the SP campaign to unlock a bunch of the MP weapons?
Coz that's fucking stupid if you still have to.
Do the ATO know how much you were paid then? Since they seem to be the ones in the know about the whole thing. Take a shot at getting a payslip from the old employer, if they don't respond you can tell the ATO that you had no luck.
No. They just know that I need to lodge a return, as far as I'm aware.
Neverender
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I'm trying to get BF4 Limited Edition (only $48) and a Wired Controller ($36) but Paypal isn't working! I should probably take it as a sign that I don't particularly need either of those things...
and hey. it's my first post in this thread (literally made my account a week ago). Tasmanian here.
The wired controllers are $36 in store anyway, on sale for Christmas
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