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[senahorse]

I definitely don't disagree with the notion that you, yourself, are the ultimate arbiter of whether or not you really enjoy something, but other people's opinions are still something I take note of when looking for more stuff to look at. I would never have discovered Dwarf Fortress or Minecraft for instance on my own.

Well that's what ausgaf steam chat is for While I am not going to let it stop me from buying a game, nor, ensure that I do, I respect the opinion of people that (except Kritz

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joke...or is it

) chat there. Which I guess comes back to my original point, that I should expand on. When it comes to me choosing to buy or not buy a game, I am not going to let the opinion of other people sway my own, especially if I don't know them.

edit: I should also say, that I don't mean offence to yourself nor other people here (e.g. serrells, vook etc) that review games. 1) I haven't read your articles and 2)I am just an old jaded man yelling at clouds etc.

 

[markot]

Vook's list of games I don't give a fuck about this year include;

- Rage
- Modern Warfare 3
- Skyrim
- Gears of War 3
- Halo (again)
- Assassin's Creed Revelations

Come at me bro.

Those are on my list too!

Maybe Skyrim.... but probably not cause fool me once and all.

 

[jambo]

Vook's list of games I don't give a fuck about this year include;

- Rage
- Modern Warfare 3
- Skyrim
- Gears of War 3
- Halo (again)
- Assassin's Creed Revelations

Come at me bro.

Of course not, none of those are Nintendo games.

 

[elfinke]

I played a bit of the Heroes VI demo over the weekend, really enjoyed it. Certainly I enjoyed it more than 4 and 5. The UI is a mess at times, and the icons for hero abilities and skills are too dramatic, but spending awhile right clicking on everything I had it worked out. Aside from Gears 3, Vook's list is on point.

Don't know if I have time for 2 enormous timesinks though (FM2012 and Heroes VI)!?

 

[Fredescu]

Of course not, none of those are Nintendo games.

Halo almost is.

 

[VOOK]

Of course not, none of those are Nintendo games.

Battlefield 3, Uncharted 3, Batman aren't Nintendo games and they're on my list to buy.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

Vook's list of games I don't give a fuck about this year include;

- Rage
- Modern Warfare 3
- Skyrim
- Gears of War 3
- Halo (again)
- Assassin's Creed Revelations

Come at me bro.

Vook also does not play any games, so his lists are irrelevant.

 

[hamchan]

Games I think I will dislike/not live up to hype but will eventually play anyways:

-Skyward Sword
-Rage

...and that's it.

 

[VOOK]

Vook also does not play any games, so his lists are irrelevant.

I'm playing one right now.

 

[senahorse]

I'm playing one right now.

AusGAF?

 

[Yagharek]

Vook's list of games I don't give a fuck about this year include;

- Rage
- Modern Warfare 3
- Skyrim
- Gears of War 3
- Halo (again)
- Assassin's Creed Revelations

Come at me bro.

You forgot mass shit 3 and battlefield 3.

 

[hamchan]

Should just play Starcraft 2 all holidays and save money.

You forgot mass shit 3 and battlefield 3.

Mass Shit 3 ain't this year.

I'd also add Mario Kart 7 to my list.

 

[Yagharek]

I'm looking forward to some quality time with PES 2011. And Xenoblade.

 

[Rezbit]

Damn a lot of Skyrim hate. I will play the shit out of it. Come on AusGAF.

And now MASS ERECT HATE! WHAT IS THIS.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

I'm playing one right now.

Farmville is not a game.

 

[Yagharek]

Damn a lot of Skyrim hate. I will play the shit out of it. Come on AusGAF.

And now MASS ERECT HATE! WHAT IS THIS.

Its the good taste defence force!

 

[fappenmeister]

What has happened to us this page? Our collective IQ has dropped into single-digits.

Hurr xbax plasation 3 nantendoh

 

[Gazunta]

You guys realise AusGAF has been talking about video games for like 3 pages straight now, right?

Jintor, tell you what, if I ever have the good fortune to make it back to E3 and you're there I will introduce you to Brad

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and then ditch you while we jet off to a cool kids club party

 

[hamchan]

What has happened to us this page? Our collective IQ has dropped into single-digits.

Hurr xbax plasation 3 nantendoh

Fuking video games are ruining modern society.

 

[Yagharek]

Its blockbuster backlash. The industry thrives on hype, a lot of people are fed up with bland sequels from focus group hell.

Or at least I am.

I hate how insular and generic the games industry has become. Cheering on mediocrity, the press being satisfied with or ignoring complacency and incompetence, and publishers trying to abuse customers as much as possible.

I'm this close to going retro only. At least they can't patch in online passes to cartridges.

 

[FormallyMegadrive]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3483564/LastCigar_2011-10-03.zip (117mb)

This is a pre-beta build of my team's end-of-year game. It's.. dodgy but hey.

Controls:
- Arrow keys: Movement
- Z: Jump
- X: Shoot
- A/D: Cycles through weapons
- C: Taunt, but currently sets your position to origin (0,0,0)

Current bugs I know about:
- When you die and are moving, you keep moving until you reset or hit a wall.
- When you die and there's an enemy on top of the spawn, you die again over and over.
- When you PRESS Fire on the pistol and machine gun, it doesn't immediately fire. Shotgun is fine however.
- Everything at the moment currently has infinite ammo.
- There are more that I don't remember, please post!

Reposting.

 

[VOOK]

Farmville is not a game.

Either is any of that open ended, mindless shit that's polluting Facebook and the App Store.

Don't worry the hive mind will get bored and move onto the next existential piece of shit.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

The only non-handheld game I plan to play this year is Zelda Skyward Sword and I'm only playing that because it's like Zelda, man.

 

[Gazunta]

Vook I know what you mean, man.

I'm now starting the fourth year of Funny Webcomic - at the end of next week I'll be posting the 800th comic on the site - and the time I have for it is diminshing every year. It's a combination of increasing work commitments and the extra time I want to put into the comic nowadays to make something I could hopefully be proud of.

But every night as I stumble into bed at whatever time of the morning because I had to spend an extra hour redrawing a face or perfecting a fart joke i just wish I had more time to do other stuff too...and it's a real pain to realise your limits and commitments.

I'd love it if I had huge traffic and an audience large enough that would mean I could spend more time on doing my own creative work, but there's no easy shortcut to that besides keep doing it every day and building the road you want to walk on one brick at a time.

For what it's worth, I think you do real quality stuff, so don't beat yourself up about not being able to make more than you can.

 

[Rezbit]

Damn, I'll have to pull the Wii out when Skyward Sword is out. When is it out? Out.

 

[codswallop]

What's wrong with the occasional blockbuster

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all forced down your throat at the same time each year

? I like games that take risks too but we can't just play games created by a single guy wearing an ironic t-shirt.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

Am I the only one that isn't too keen on Batman AA? I've played it for a few hours now and it's just not doing anything for me, might be because I'm not really the biggest Batman fan in the first place?

The other option may be that I'm in one of those gaming slumps, nothing is really tickling my fancy (except for Dead Island co-op, that was the most fun I've had all year), I have too much to pick from as well.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Am I the only one that isn't too keen on Batman AA? I've played it for a few hours now and it's just not doing anything for me, might be because I'm not really the biggest Batman fan in the first place?

The other option may be that I'm in one of those gaming slumps, nothing is really tickling my fancy (except for Dead Island co-op, that was the most fun I've had all year), I have too much to pick from as well.

I was the same. It's a shame because I really wanted to like it.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

I want to remember nintendo as a fun part of my childhood, and that's it.

 

[Rahk]

Well that's what ausgaf steam chat is for While I am not going to let it stop me from buying a game, nor, ensure that I do, I respect the opinion of people that (except Kritz

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joke...or is it

) chat there. Which I guess comes back to my original point, that I should expand on. When it comes to me choosing to buy or not buy a game, I am not going to let the opinion of other people sway my own, especially if I don't know them.

edit: I should also say, that I don't mean offence to yourself nor other people here (e.g. serrells, vook etc) that review games. 1) I haven't read your articles and 2)I am just an old jaded man yelling at clouds etc.

Pretty much.

I haven't read a game review in years and I very rarely read GAF threads. I can make the call if I will like a game based on a short gameplay video and other nonsense like developer history. This has worked well for me so far. It helps if there's a bit of buzz about the game, but I don't go out of my way to read opinions.

For the smaller games that I might miss, Steam chat and this thread are quite reliable to clue me in. Steam store front page is also useful.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Router issues update.

ffffffffffff

Maybe my network adaptor is dying?

 

[Rahk]

Didn't you hear? The fruit got sued and had to give up trademark. I don't see why Apple would care though, it was like comparing reds and oranges.

I laughed.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

I want to remember nintendo as a fun part of my childhood, and that's it.

I don't get it.

 

[evlcookie]

Give batman aa another shot, it could be the slump as well. The game did nothing for me when I first attempted to play it, I just couldn't be fucked for some reason. I cane back maybe 6 months later and enjoyed the fuck out of it.

I'm not hyped for the next one but I think I will pick that up on day 1 just because I enjoyed the first so much.

 

[Yagharek]

I don't get it.

Mario doesn't text while driving because he is too kiddie. Right?

 

[elfinke]

Give batman aa another shot, it could be the slump as well. The game did nothing for me when I first attempted to play it, I just couldn't be fucked for some reason. I cane back maybe 6 months later and enjoyed the fuck out of it.

I'm not hyped for the next one but I think I will pick that up on day 1 just because I enjoyed the first so much.

Wow I thought I was the only one. I was still manager of a game selling place and got Batman for free, tried to get into it (more out of duty than desire - a fate many games succumbed to) and never succeeded. Came back months later when I was (

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between jobs

) on a backlog destroying run and thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[hirokazu]

Battlefield 3, Uncharted 3, Batman aren't Nintendo games and they're on my list to buy.

That is exactly what I have in my shopping list! (Add Skyward Sword, of course!)

 

[EatChildren]

I don't get it.

DeathJr has terrible taste in games (and maybe everything).

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

I don't get it.

That was supposed to troll the nintendo fanatics.

 

[Box of Bunnies]

DeathJr has terrible taste in games (and maybe everything).

He's already taken care of getting rid of the "maybe" in front of everything.

Pink Floyd is overrated.

 

[Kerrby]

Reposting.

Does it work on Macs?

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

DeathJr has terrible taste in games (and maybe everything).

So if I don't play mario and zelda I have a bad taste in games?

 

[EatChildren]

So if I don't play mario and zelda I have a bad taste in games?

And Bayonetta.

The bad taste trifecta.

 

[Salazar]

So if I don't play mario and zelda I have a bad taste in games?

What are your feelings on kpop ?

 

[Kerrby]

So if I don't play mario and zelda I have a bad taste in games?

I found your facebook... yeah you have shit taste .

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CSI is shit

 

[EatChildren]

What are your feelings on kpop ?

Or better yet, is Hyoyeon in the top 3?

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THE ANSWER IS YES

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

What are your feelings on kpop ?

You mean j-pop? Haven't really heard much of it, apart from what some friends gave me at uni. Oh and I don't like Yakuza either.

 

[Box of Bunnies]

You mean j-pop?

No. The K is for Korea.

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Not Best Korea, unfortunately.

 

[Salazar]

You mean j-pop?

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Very disappoint.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

Well honestly haven't heard any, maybe unknowingly...