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AusGAF 2.0 - Twice the price, a year late but still moving forward
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Stacking is great.
The rate of reward is a bit slow yet it manages to sneakily hide traditional adventure game puzzle logic behind a pretty snazzy open world presentation. It can suffer from the trial and error rub every object against the problem approach of adventure games, but if you play it properly by talking to dolls and looking for clues, then the I am smart! payoff is there and the charming presentation helps knock it out of the park.
The inclusion of hijinks and multiple solutions to puzzles builds in some extra replayability as does the collecting of all the unique dolls. It caters to my OCD must do everything approach to adventure games and I can see me sinking enough time into it to chase all the achievements.
The rate of reward is a bit slow yet it manages to sneakily hide traditional adventure game puzzle logic behind a pretty snazzy open world presentation. It can suffer from the trial and error rub every object against the problem approach of adventure games, but if you play it properly by talking to dolls and looking for clues, then the I am smart! payoff is there and the charming presentation helps knock it out of the park.
The inclusion of hijinks and multiple solutions to puzzles builds in some extra replayability as does the collecting of all the unique dolls. It caters to my OCD must do everything approach to adventure games and I can see me sinking enough time into it to chase all the achievements.
Lots of reasons, most of them boring. It largely hinges on the limited range of new stuff to be shown by Nintendo, who will no doubt be putting a big emphasis on 3DS, so very much a continuation of last year. Unless there are squeakings on a Wii replacement, Id rather have a holiday of a different kind, even though I could effectively get to E3 for free.
http://karboom.net/
Everyone go and register at KarBOOM. It's a cool multiplayer arcade isometric racing game. If you register now you can get a free premium upgrade! Only 500 upgrades are available!
AusGAF games night!
Everyone go and register at KarBOOM. It's a cool multiplayer arcade isometric racing game. If you register now you can get a free premium upgrade! Only 500 upgrades are available!
AusGAF games night!
BanShunsaku
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Sneaky fookin prawns!
Edit: Got my KarBOOM login & upgrade
Edit: Got my KarBOOM login & upgrade
FormallyMegadrive
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jambo said:
Registered. 350-odd premium upgrades left.
AnkhWeasel
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I was 355. This information is not remotely useful to anyone.
Good way to spread word of mouth, that.
Good way to spread word of mouth, that.
Game seem to really be pushing the Trade-ins. Interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkAHHyed_1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkAHHyed_1U
FormallyMegadrive
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hot chicks dont go to game
Choc said:
Hey Choc - it took me ages but I finally tracked down that Domino dude. He's doing a phd in the whole legality of mod chips/R4 carts thing - that's why he knew so much about the topic.
Just got off the phone with one of his Professors. Really interesting stuff. You're going to get the article you were asking for!
FormallyMegadrive
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I played a bit of the car game with friends at uni, offline. It was okay. No ending screen after battles is a bit annoying though, and a massive oversight.
WEEKEND, and not a moment too soon.
Like alot things created by the Babylonians, the seven-day week cycle is totally past its expiry date with modern culture. A nine day week broken up as follows would be better:
- 2 day weekend
- 3 working days
- 1 midweek 'catchup' day
- 3 more working days before the weekend
And so on.
As such, the usual five-day stretch is mitigated by having two much more manageable chunks of three days straight.
Culturally, the mid week day would be the day you catch your breath and maybe do all the chores and shit that normally chews into your weekend. For students, the midweek day is for studying, lightening the homework load on regular days. It'd also be a regular trading day and a lot of people would still work.
As such, by having the catchup day, you're actually having proper time off on the real weekend and not doing the lawns or washing the car or whatever.
That makes for 40.6 'neoweeks' per year - so about 10-11 weeks per season. Get rid of the gregorian calendar and have 8 'months' all up - two per season. Give 'em poetic names or something, like 'Berntober'.
From a productivity perspective, there would be more days off per year due to weekends and the midweek day off (121 days compared to the current 104), but that doesn't factor in the work done by people on the midweek catch-up day. Plus, I'd argue that people would generally be more productive. At present, a core part of the economy really only works 4 to 4.5 days instead of the 5 official 8-hour days on paper. For alot of people, the weekend starts at Friday lunch-time, and from the behaviour I see in a lot of high-ranking workers in the city, you might as well write Fridays off altogether. The three-day blocks would be more work-focussed and I'd like to think that employees would spend less time farting about on facebook as they have more time outside of the week to do real socialising.
The benefits:
- a more productive working week (no fatigue due to the midweek hump and lazy fridays)
- more time spent actually enjoying your days off
- weekends are real weekends and you're not running errands
AusGAF dies in the arse over the weekend, so I doubt I'll get any good feedback on this. Maybe when the floodgates open on Monday I'll bring it back up again.
Like alot things created by the Babylonians, the seven-day week cycle is totally past its expiry date with modern culture. A nine day week broken up as follows would be better:
- 2 day weekend
- 3 working days
- 1 midweek 'catchup' day
- 3 more working days before the weekend
And so on.
As such, the usual five-day stretch is mitigated by having two much more manageable chunks of three days straight.
Culturally, the mid week day would be the day you catch your breath and maybe do all the chores and shit that normally chews into your weekend. For students, the midweek day is for studying, lightening the homework load on regular days. It'd also be a regular trading day and a lot of people would still work.
As such, by having the catchup day, you're actually having proper time off on the real weekend and not doing the lawns or washing the car or whatever.
That makes for 40.6 'neoweeks' per year - so about 10-11 weeks per season. Get rid of the gregorian calendar and have 8 'months' all up - two per season. Give 'em poetic names or something, like 'Berntober'.
From a productivity perspective, there would be more days off per year due to weekends and the midweek day off (121 days compared to the current 104), but that doesn't factor in the work done by people on the midweek catch-up day. Plus, I'd argue that people would generally be more productive. At present, a core part of the economy really only works 4 to 4.5 days instead of the 5 official 8-hour days on paper. For alot of people, the weekend starts at Friday lunch-time, and from the behaviour I see in a lot of high-ranking workers in the city, you might as well write Fridays off altogether. The three-day blocks would be more work-focussed and I'd like to think that employees would spend less time farting about on facebook as they have more time outside of the week to do real socialising.
The benefits:
- a more productive working week (no fatigue due to the midweek hump and lazy fridays)
- more time spent actually enjoying your days off
- weekends are real weekends and you're not running errands
AusGAF dies in the arse over the weekend, so I doubt I'll get any good feedback on this. Maybe when the floodgates open on Monday I'll bring it back up again.
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