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AusGAF 5/5 - Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy, a rental at best

Choc

Banned
Wondering if Serious Sam 3 might be our next AusGAF multiplayer fest. Apparently it gets good after it stops kidding around and pretending to be CoD.


jintor you being in the media and all might want to investigate this

SS: BFE was never rated in australia by the classification board
 

jambo

Member
Serious Sam 3 doesn't having an aussie rating icon on the Steam store...

giant-cane-toad.jpg


is this real? o.o

Looks real enough.
 

Yagharek

Member
Yeah. I really don't think hughes is a long term solution as an opener, either.

There was simply no reason to drop Katich at the time. Sure he's getting old, but he was in good form and a much safer pick to keep than was Hughes. Although Hughes would have been a known quantity if they hadnt kept dropping/picking him time after time. Instead they were still figuring out if he was worth persevering with.

There is no clear opener replacement(s) so by default Katich should be first pick and whomever is in best form after that should be next in line.

Of course that will never happen.
 

Jintor

Member
Serious Sam 3 doesn't having an aussie rating icon on the Steam store...

It's not in their classification database. I'm sending a query off to their publisher, whose website is mostly broken but at least their contact information is still up.

Thanks for the tip Choc.
 

giri

Member
There was simply no reason to drop Katich at the time. Sure he's getting old, but he was in good form and a much safer pick to keep than was Hughes. Although Hughes would have been a known quantity if they hadnt kept dropping/picking him time after time. Instead they were still figuring out if he was worth persevering with.

There is no clear opener replacement(s) so by default Katich should be first pick and whomever is in best form after that should be next in line.

Of course that will never happen.

Oh yeah, the selection yoyo hasn't helped. And i'm not saying there's anyone better at the moment to take his spot. I just don't think he'll be in the team for 10 years.

There's a couple promising very young openers at the moment, that with a solid year or 2 of shield could supplant hughes.

Problem is, in 2 years, you'll probably need to find a replacement for Watson too.
 

Jintor

Member
Dayum, Steam Skyrim mod integration could be game-changing (lololololol) for the mod scene, depending on implementation.
 

Shaneus

Member
The Bard's Tale is out on iOS today!

Coins! Cleavage! Cary Elwes!
That's the 360 one, innit? I seem to remember it being not bad. If it's a near-identical port, I might jump in. Would rather have some srsly oldschool Bard's with the original game, though.

I may have beaten one or two of your Marvel Pinball high scores last night.

Gauntlet. Thrown.
Fucking hell. Just had the best idea ever, realised it's never going to happen.

Gauntlet-themed pinball table. Physical would be preferred (duh) but I guess a virtual one would be cool, too. Imagine the voice samples, the artwork, the entire fucking theme... multiplayer could use each of the four characters. The drain sound when a ball goes between the flippers would have the same sound as when a character finds the exit and spins around (that whirly sound).

FUCK. I want this game.

BTW How are you guys comparing scores... friends on Gamecenter? Add me. I have no friends. Shaneus2k2.
All I want to know is how to rip my Wii games so that I can play them on my PC.
AFAIK you either need to have a modded Wii to dump games using the Wii's drive, or have a specific drive for your PC with modified firmware to rip games with.
 
That's the 360 one, innit? I seem to remember it being not bad. If it's a near-identical port, I might jump in. Would rather have some srsly oldschool Bard's with the original game, though.

It's a port of the PS2/XBOX/PC game which came out in about 2004/2005 from memory.

Great writing, really funny. And it has dance numbers.
 

jambo

Member
AFAIK you either need to have a modded Wii to dump games using the Wii's drive, or have a specific drive for your PC with modified firmware to rip games with.

Dangnabit! I was hoping I could use the homebrew stuff and some SD cards or USB sticks to get games off =[
 

Gazunta

Member
That's the 360 one, innit? I seem to remember it being not bad. If it's a near-identical port, I might jump in. Would rather have some srsly oldschool Bard's with the original game, though.


Fucking hell. Just had the best idea ever, realised it's never going to happen.

Gauntlet-themed pinball table. Physical would be preferred (duh) but I guess a virtual one would be cool, too. Imagine the voice samples, the artwork, the entire fucking theme... multiplayer could use each of the four characters. The drain sound when a ball goes between the flippers would have the same sound as when a character finds the exit and spins around (that whirly sound).

FUCK. I want this game.

BTW How are you guys comparing scores... friends on Gamecenter? Add me. I have no friends. Shaneus2k2.
I too would have liked the original. I just want some turn based RPG where you control a team of characters and go on dungeon raids and stuff. Really nothing like it on iOS as far as I know.

The Gauntlet table is a great idea and that's why it will never happen. Don't get me started about why.

We're playing Pinball FX 2 on Xbox 360. But add me on GameCenter anyway! My GameCenter tag is the same as my GAF username.
 

Ydahs

Member
Target on Bourke Street ain't breaking the street date for Mario Kart...

Anyone know the price of the game at Kmart? Only shop I can get to tomorrow so hopefully they're also selling it at $49.
 

jambo

Member
I'll have to buy one of these to rip my Wii games.

LG 8161B, LG 8162B, LG 8163B, LG 8164B, LG GH20NS15, Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203A, HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8161B.

How are the rest of GAF doing it? Are they all getting their Wiis modded? =\
 

Ydahs

Member
I'll have to buy one of these to rip my Wii games.

LG 8161B, LG 8162B, LG 8163B, LG 8164B, LG GH20NS15, Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203A, HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8161B.

How are the rest of GAF doing it? Are they all getting their Wiis modded? =\

My brother modded our Wii and ripped Xenoblade in under an hour. It's a really simple process to do and from what I understand, completely safe.
 

Rahk

Member
I'll have to buy one of these to rip my Wii games.

LG 8161B, LG 8162B, LG 8163B, LG 8164B, LG GH20NS15, Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203A, HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8161B.

How are the rest of GAF doing it? Are they all getting their Wiis modded? =\
Getting them modded?

You can do a simple software mod yourself in a short amount of time.
 

Shaneus

Member
It's a port of the PS2/XBOX/PC game which came out in about 2004/2005 from memory.

Great writing, really funny. And it has dance numbers.
Ah. I definitely remember playing it, I just don't remember much about it. Did it have a bit of a Defender of the Crown vibe, or am I thinking of a (possibly non-existent) update? Who knows. It's Friday and I'm hopped up on ibuprofen, dexamphetamine and hunger pains.
Edit: Jesus FUCK it's 1.3gb! No room for it with that AND IB2. Will wait for a sale, I think... especially if it's $6.50. Hard to justify it at that price with all the other crap I bought during Black Friday. Keen on your impressions, though.
Youuuuuu got it.
Thought so. I think there may be a way to use homebrew along with the game to dump it to an SD card or something, but I'm probably wrong. Wii stuff ain't my fortay.
I too would have liked the original. I just want some turn based RPG where you control a team of characters and go on dungeon raids and stuff. Really nothing like it on iOS as far as I know.
Yup. From memory, I think the early AD&D stuff (Pool of Radiance, Secret of the Silver Blades, Curse of the Azure Bonds etc.) was fairly similar, too. I never got into those ones specifically, but my brother had some gnarly maps drawn on gridpaper for those feckers.

The Gauntlet table is a great idea and that's why it will never happen. Don't get me started about why.
I know :( For some weird reason, I always kinda liked the original Gauntlet IP. Well, I kinda liked the Gauntlet Legends-era stuff, but there wasn't anything incredibly memorable about it (though it WAS a lot of fun). A pinball of the original could feature magic, food, ghosts, a ramp that needs to be hit when you need food, a multiball "Treasure Room", a backglass that looks like this (which, for some reason, just SCREAMS pinball), Death... damnit, I need to stop thinking about this RIGHT NOW. It's killing me.

We're playing Pinball FX 2 on Xbox 360. But add me on GameCenter anyway! My GameCenter tag is the same as my GAF username.
Ahhh. Will do! I would be tempted to get FX2 but my current console pinball love is Williams Pinball Arcade Classics or something like that. Waiting for the PAL release so I can get some sweet XBL scoreboard action happening, but ATM I only have it on PS3.

I'll have to buy one of these to rip my Wii games.

LG 8161B, LG 8162B, LG 8163B, LG 8164B, LG GH20NS15, Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203A, HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8161B.

How are the rest of GAF doing it? Are they all getting their Wiis modded? =\
Probably just downloading them. But you'd have a good chance of finding those drives on eBay. When I bought a J-tagged 360 and wanted to HDD load all my disc-based games, there was only one specific drive I could use and I managed to find one on eBay. Chances are there are people online who know about the above drives and sell them specifically with the intention that they'd be used for game ripping.
 

midonnay

Member
http://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/latest/a/-/newshome/12232974/fugitive-woman-posed-naked-with-10yo-girl/

Detectives say the Victorian couple on the run from police last month were both naked in photos with a ten-year-old girl.

The woman allegedly involved, Rebecca Michels, 25, has now been granted bail until her child pornography charges are heard.

Ms Michels and her fiance Craig Stanley, 28, were on the run for three weeks last month after police raided their Langwarrin home.



Today, police told the Magistrates' Court they found tens of thousands of child pornography images on computers at the couple's home.

Senior Detective Rosemary Ross told the court Ms Michels appears in 76 of them, and in a number of the photographs she was posing with a 10-year-old child.

Many also feature Stanley and the girl's parents, who have been charged by police, the court heard.

The girl is now in the care of the Department of Human Services.


Detectives still have to go through another 40,000 photos found on computers seized from the couple's home in a process likely to take months.

The images are so graphic and disturbing, police can only look at them for a couple of hours at a time.

uhh..... couple of hours? >_>
 

Yagharek

Member
I'm more shocked that they were granted bail given they were on the run for so long.

edit: hold on, Ydahs thinks Xenoblade is the best game he's ever played?!

Might have to get seriously stuck into it after Zelda.
 

legend166

Member
So I was sorta shocked to find out you can basically get straight on the dole straight out of uni if you don't get a job right away. Even if you're living at home.

I know someone who finished uni a week ago, lives at home and is already getting payments from the government.

What is this sorcery.
 

Cohsae

Member
So I was sorta shocked to find out you can basically get straight on the dole straight out of uni if you don't get a job right away. Even if you're living at home.

I know someone who finished uni a week ago, lives at home and is already getting payments from the government.

What is this sorcery.

Really? Because I finish uni and won't start my intern job until late January I think. I want some of that sweet sweet cash.
 

Jintor

Member
Oh so you can softmod them? I assumed it was a hardware chip.

Yeah dude, it's how I got le Xenoblades working

I just spent like $80 on overpriced unneccessary crap to get Dolphin working with a Wii controller! Fucking WiiMotionPlus, being way more expensive than I was expecting.

Probably just downloading them

Not that you'll find admitting on gaf!
 

Gazunta

Member
Is this available on iPad or is it using an emulator?

I downloaded iDOS, a PC emulator, in the few hours it was on the App Store before Apple pulled it (again). Awesome DOS-Box type utility and you can copy whatever game you want to it from your collection. It's the best way to play Stunt Car Racer that's for sure. :)
 

Rahk

Member
So I was sorta shocked to find out you can basically get straight on the dole straight out of uni if you don't get a job right away. Even if you're living at home.

I know someone who finished uni a week ago, lives at home and is already getting payments from the government.

What is this sorcery.

Well, you can get it while at uni too depending on age and living circumstances/parent's income.
 
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