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AusGAF 9 - F*** Off, We're Full (Of People With Different Ethnic Backgrounds)
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I'm sure there have been a few, maybe I was mistaken. Maybe they were just games that weren't available in Australia.
bodyboarder
Member
Yeah I picked up blops1 for $3 I think.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
The best part about building a new PC is the moment after you've put it all together, have ironed out the kinks and have hit the power button, and seeing that beautiful BIOS prompt screen pop up.
Also, turns out modern PCs don't have IDE connectors anymore. Had to buy a docking station so I could still use my older HDDs. All my old music is on a 160GB IDE drive. Maybe it's for the best. The very oldest HDD I have is from like 2001 or something.
Finally, despite being perfectly aware of the technical reasons they are so, SSDs are still so much smaller than they have any right to be.
Also, turns out modern PCs don't have IDE connectors anymore. Had to buy a docking station so I could still use my older HDDs. All my old music is on a 160GB IDE drive. Maybe it's for the best. The very oldest HDD I have is from like 2001 or something.
Finally, despite being perfectly aware of the technical reasons they are so, SSDs are still so much smaller than they have any right to be.
reptilescorpio
Member
AssCreed3 spoiler
So here I am, hanging out with Sam Adam, having a beer while George W. Washington is up there talking shit about being made CIC, and out of nowhere, "Fuck youse cunts". FUCKING TEMPLAR CUNT LEE IS SITTING RIGHT BEHIND ME?!? How the fuck does that make sense? I mean sure, Connor might spill his beer by why the fuck wouldn't he be like *eagle jump* *blade come out of sleeve into Lee's cunty throat* *fin troubles in White man paradise*. Makes no sense.
ClivePwned
Member
The way i think whats wrong about ACIII is as if EA Looked at ACII and said "hey we need a game like that."
So they clone it superficially without understanding what made it fun.
See also: dantes inferno, army of two, moh 2010, etc.
Except that it was ubi montreal.
I still dont think i can face getting ACIV unless it uber cheap.
So they clone it superficially without understanding what made it fun.
See also: dantes inferno, army of two, moh 2010, etc.
Except that it was ubi montreal.
I still dont think i can face getting ACIV unless it uber cheap.
ok just watched this, pretty great, biker gang one was also pretty great
nothing will ever beat the eurotruck sim one tho
Jables Swan
Member
You are not alone.
Yep. I loved how I spent most of the game playing a tutorial.
Planet_JASE
Member
That's what she said!
FallbackPants
Member
I think you can check them out at JB Hifis. I've been to a couple recently and noticed they all suddenly had dedicated Surface sections, and their radio and online ads seem to be pushing Pros pretty hard. I didn't see if they had any pens, but I wasn't looking.
Pretty dour game of penalty ridden rugby last night, good result though. Nice and poetic that Halfpenny missed that shot to win.
reptilescorpio
Member
Nah, that's the issue. They fucked around too much with the stuff that did work in the formula and didn't fix the stuff that was irritating in previous games. No idea why they made the slight parkour change, no idea why the UI for several systems (like Brotherhood control) were fucked around with, no idea why they didn't run the game through QA. The hunting stuff was great, the ship combat missions were great, the 'tombs' were pretty fun, even the Homestead stuff is okay even though it obviously only got 30% of the resources it needed to make it a solid part of the game.
Also the fact that "optional" conditions can't be turned off in the UI is a fucking mindblowing decision that I would contend ruined the experience for a lot of players. Do you like being told you fucked up? Especially when a lot of the conditions require you to play the slice first to learn where everything is. Just make a toggle so people can play the game like AssCreed 2. It's not fucking hard. Instead everyone trys to meet a checklist rather than doing why the fucking story tells you to do or being a fucking Assassin and doing what the player thinks an Assassin should do. The optional conditions remove all of your freedom. It says, "GO DO THESE FUCKING THINGS OR ELSE YOU FAIL CUNT".
And I thought the Templars were the controlling ones :/
Also the fact that "optional" conditions can't be turned off in the UI is a fucking mindblowing decision that I would contend ruined the experience for a lot of players. Do you like being told you fucked up? Especially when a lot of the conditions require you to play the slice first to learn where everything is. Just make a toggle so people can play the game like AssCreed 2. It's not fucking hard. Instead everyone trys to meet a checklist rather than doing why the fucking story tells you to do or being a fucking Assassin and doing what the player thinks an Assassin should do. The optional conditions remove all of your freedom. It says, "GO DO THESE FUCKING THINGS OR ELSE YOU FAIL CUNT".
And I thought the Templars were the controlling ones :/
ClivePwned
Member
people don't lie whey they say
ACII and Brotherhood are really vastly better games than AC1 and ACIII
Oh good. I think I have both of those, I'll just play them instead, skip 1 (which just seemed to drag on).
I can't believe I haven't heard of or seen this before. It's The Fist of Jesus, a 15 minute short film where, well, I don't want to spoil it. I'll just say that you should definitely watch it, it's fantastic and very funny. Perfect Sunday viewing.
Warning: This may offend some of our more religious christian members. Also, there is considerable blood and gore, but it is so over-the-top that most should be fine with it.
Warning: This may offend some of our more religious christian members. Also, there is considerable blood and gore, but it is so over-the-top that most should be fine with it.
reptilescorpio
Member
Incredible. Should be in the first post for AusGAF X: The Dickhead PM Australia Had To Have.
Watching now. This'd better be good.
Far Cry 2.
Just experienced possibly the best single moment in my decades-long career in gaming.
For those that have played Far Cry 2, or listened to extensive podcast discussion of the game, you'll know that the open-world game is largely unscripted and employs an array of 'interferences' such as weapon jams, onsets of malaria, and enemy vehicles ramming you from directions unknown.
The world design is fairly simple, but with several procedural systems overlapping each other, every encounter plays out very differently. There are side-missions galore which are fairly simple in their objective, and you may think a goal is easy to achieve but you have to consider many factors such as distance to the objective, time of day, number of 'bottlenecks' along the way (such as enemy checkpoints) and the reliability and suitability of the equipment you take with you.
So, I chose a 'destroy the competing arms dealer target' mission from the gunshop, one of many in the game. The objective is always the same: travel to an area on the map where a convoy of vehicles is constantly moving around, and destroy the large truck. Simple.
This mission was a fair distance away along the edge of the map, and occured in the second act of the game after a whole new map is opened up to the player. The new map was largely unexplored and I took the opportunity to unlock as many safe houses and enemy checkpoints as possible along the way to the target area. The enemy convoy isn't stationary and often has to be 'chased down' or ambushed from a position ahead along it's route.
I was in the area of the target convoy got held up at a enemy camp for longer than expected, with several enemy assault trucks all deciding it would be a fantastic time to all converge on this one camp. Having eliminated the foot soldiers residing in the camp, and several of the assault trucks taken out with grenades, I had what I thought was one remaining assault truck to take out before I explored the camp for gear. I equipped my favourite ordnance weapon - the explosive bow and arrow right from the start of the game, and lined up the target through the scope, limiting my field of view.
Those who have played FC2 will know the explosive arrows follow an arc through the air and aren't too accurate at a distance.
The very moment I let the arrow fly, the enemy convoy came into view. The explosive arrow hit the truck dead-on, it exploded, and I cleared the objective.
I had NO IDEA the truck was anywhere near the camp! The area the convoys traverse is fairly large and it could have been ANYWHERE on the map but at that very moment, through sheer chance, it ended up right in my line of sight at the exact second I pulled the trigger. Far Cry 2 is a heavily procedural game, and the chances of something like that happening are incredibly remote yet alas, it happened.
There are plenty other moments like that throughout the game but that so far has been the most unexpected and rewarding.
Such a fantastic game.
Far Cry 2.
Just experienced possibly the best single moment in my decades-long career in gaming.
For those that have played Far Cry 2, or listened to extensive podcast discussion of the game, you'll know that the open-world game is largely unscripted and employs an array of 'interferences' such as weapon jams, onsets of malaria, and enemy vehicles ramming you from directions unknown.
The world design is fairly simple, but with several procedural systems overlapping each other, every encounter plays out very differently. There are side-missions galore which are fairly simple in their objective, and you may think a goal is easy to achieve but you have to consider many factors such as distance to the objective, time of day, number of 'bottlenecks' along the way (such as enemy checkpoints) and the reliability and suitability of the equipment you take with you.
So, I chose a 'destroy the competing arms dealer target' mission from the gunshop, one of many in the game. The objective is always the same: travel to an area on the map where a convoy of vehicles is constantly moving around, and destroy the large truck. Simple.
This mission was a fair distance away along the edge of the map, and occured in the second act of the game after a whole new map is opened up to the player. The new map was largely unexplored and I took the opportunity to unlock as many safe houses and enemy checkpoints as possible along the way to the target area. The enemy convoy isn't stationary and often has to be 'chased down' or ambushed from a position ahead along it's route.
I was in the area of the target convoy got held up at a enemy camp for longer than expected, with several enemy assault trucks all deciding it would be a fantastic time to all converge on this one camp. Having eliminated the foot soldiers residing in the camp, and several of the assault trucks taken out with grenades, I had what I thought was one remaining assault truck to take out before I explored the camp for gear. I equipped my favourite ordnance weapon - the explosive bow and arrow right from the start of the game, and lined up the target through the scope, limiting my field of view.
Those who have played FC2 will know the explosive arrows follow an arc through the air and aren't too accurate at a distance.
The very moment I let the arrow fly, the enemy convoy came into view. The explosive arrow hit the truck dead-on, it exploded, and I cleared the objective.
I had NO IDEA the truck was anywhere near the camp! The area the convoys traverse is fairly large and it could have been ANYWHERE on the map but at that very moment, through sheer chance, it ended up right in my line of sight at the exact second I pulled the trigger. Far Cry 2 is a heavily procedural game, and the chances of something like that happening are incredibly remote yet alas, it happened.
There are plenty other moments like that throughout the game but that so far has been the most unexpected and rewarding.
Such a fantastic game.
Far Cry 2.
May offend? May? Bahaha.
Oh man, that was fucking incredible. I don't know how I hadn't heard of it either. Amazing story.
The leper! (about the only spoiler I can mention that doesn't really give away any of the plot, you sneaky spoiler cheater folk)
It's pretty hard not to like. It's amazing.
I'm watching the comments roll in from a mate over IM as he's watching it. I'm in tears from laughing just thinking about it as I read them.
It's really, really well done. I posted it on my FB as "The true story of Jesus". Made sure I removed the thumbnail as well so as to not give anything away
Actual spoiler:
Holy shit, when he brought Judas back to life, but forgot to get him off the noose and he died again... fuuuuucking hell!
ClivePwned
Member
I guess there will be rioting as a result of this video. At least two cups of tea will be involved.
that is some world class gore, but I couldn't watch it as a result.
that is some world class gore, but I couldn't watch it as a result.
Clocked it on 360.
THQ sent me a review copy of RF: Armageddon way back when but I don't think I want to play that game.
reptilescorpio
Member
Yup. No gem in that shit sandwich sadly.
Two words: Shit sandwich.
It says shark, einstein.
Thanks everyone who recommended JB for my MS Surface Pro search. The local one had a demo unit proudly set up, with pen, and I was able to do some quick sketching. I didn't get to test the pressure sensitivity but really just needed to hold the pen and feel what it was like to draw on the screen. So looks like JB will be getting my cash even though its a bit more expensive there.
I've tried every art app for the iPad under the sun and have a few styluses as well, but I think I really need to move on as far as art productivity goes. As things stand even if im able to draw a comic completely on the ipad theres there's no way for me to actually upload it to the site, which is kinda annoying.
Oh yeah video games. Xcom on iPad continues to be fucking amazing. I've probably played it more than the PC version.
I've tried every art app for the iPad under the sun and have a few styluses as well, but I think I really need to move on as far as art productivity goes. As things stand even if im able to draw a comic completely on the ipad theres there's no way for me to actually upload it to the site, which is kinda annoying.
Oh yeah video games. Xcom on iPad continues to be fucking amazing. I've probably played it more than the PC version.
galaxy note 10.1
ClivePwned
Member
Did you contemplate the stylus/pen I suggested earlier?
Top work, you uncultured swine.
Thank you. Should've just left markot thinking that he was the only person able to read what's on that album cover, though.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Jables Swan
Member
Watch a Let's Play on youtube. IT was what I found most useful to work out what to do earl on...the rest is learnt by doing.
Jables Swan
Member
Isn't it just an incest sim?
It's not the Steam Summer Sale, but it's bloody close:
http://en.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/1hcslo/amazon_summer_sale_sunday_day_1_sale_starts_today/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000716161&tag=childsplaycha-20
http://en.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/1hcslo/amazon_summer_sale_sunday_day_1_sale_starts_today/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000716161&tag=childsplaycha-20
Understatement. That's fucking incredible.
reptilescorpio
Member
Is usually better than the steam sale as well.
Jables Swan
Member
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
That was amazing. Thanks.