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AusGAF IV - A No Hope, Government - Double the price, region locked and now adults
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reptilescorpio
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wtf? My money is on assassination.Salazar said:
Really? Complete opposite from my experience. Rarely heard of any thievery up home, especially since no one locked their houses, transportation, livestock up often. Everyone I know in the cities have had at LEAST one thing stolen from them.Lafiel said:
If you aren't playing it on PC you really would be doing yourself a disservice.Omi said:
Ferris wheel was actually fine this time. The inital fire fight after leaving the hotel though was fucked. Horrible level design and horrible spawn rate means the best option is flee to the buses and use them as a focus point before Forrest Gumping it to the nearby open building.Doncamatic said:
The al-Asad takedown mission is another irritating one. If the Russians shot like they do in COD4 we would all be speaking Russian by now, allied AI is hopeless a lot of the time too, they walk straight past the enemy a lot of the time unless they are out in the open.
Assault on the launch facility though is really well done and I am enjoying it a lot. Reverted back to carrying the M4 and a sniper though which is very effective but not a lot of creative fun.
Two things that really draw the fun out of the game though:
Dogs - these fuckers are just irritating. Glad they got rid of them in the following instalments. Either you waste a few bullets tracking them or they come out of nowhere and you have a millisecond to melee them before you are dead. Just not fun.
Grenades - they just keep coming. The warning zone is much smaller than the newer games as well as the damage even on normal is immense. Some spots the enemies just keep throwing over and over too. Again they were toned down in MW2+3 which is great.
reptilescorpio
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COD4. Lack of checkpointing during underground run near the end of the game is horrible. Lots of tunnels where the ally AI will run past everything and let you get killed by enemies flanking you. Horrible system that relies on trial and error, hoping that you are lucky enough to get enemies to pop out at the right time so you don't get killed mid-reload or an ally will finally help you out.
Hate exams like that. They always make them 10x more complex since you have the benefit of knowing what you need to study going in. We never got 100% of the exam though, usually you would get 80% of the case study but also have no idea what questions they would ask. They would always ask complex questions.Jintor said:
codswallop
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Interesting that MW3 multiplayer has about half what the 360 has...Omi said:
codswallop
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Having finished MW3 yesterday (on 360, veteran) I can safely say that the checkpoints in that game are just as unevenly spaced out. There's one near the end wherereptilescorpio said:
you blow a hole in the floor and take out the guys holding the president hostage
Oops... DP. Soo... are there any mods out for Skyrim yet?
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/codswallop said:
reptilescorpio
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codswallop said:
That last fire fight was so god damn full on. Probably the only section in MW3 that I thought was too full on. I got through it fine on Normal though so you should expect it to be a bit frustrating on Veteran but they really do need to put checkpoints after story based moments like that. Poor Delta. 
reptilescorpio
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Big W apparently have the Skyrim guide for $38. Can't find anywhere to confirm it though. Or Border USA for $35 if you are happy to wait up to 4 weeks for postage.
reptilescorpio said:
In cases of piracy, its a digital download and the only loss is potential revenue to the publisher and retailer. It's not theft, and it's not "100% guaranteed loss of income" because we don't know if the pirate would have bought the game and no physical product is taken.
In the case where some dude walks into a shop and steals a CD key - that is categorically theft. The store either has one less product to sell once the key is used, or a customer unwittingly buys a product that cannot be used. And inevitably can't return the game to the retailer. So anyone who does that is a thieving piece of shit.
Also, anyone seen the xbox live prepaid cards with two levels of perforated tears and a peel sticker covering the code? CD keys for PC games need something like that to allow for returns or prevent cd key theft.
reptilescorpio
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That is exactly what I meant. Not only are they not paying the publisher but they are also causing grief to another consumer who is unlucky enough to buy the game, get home, and find out they cannot play it without running through a process to get their cd key back from the person who stole it from JB.RandomVince said:
I assume if COD Elite was working on PC you could look up the figures on your web browser. At least I hope they added that kind of functionality.Omi said:No web source? I don't own a 'modern' console
Could try tweeting and asking Major Nelson?
BananaArnie
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well im sad i was sleeping and missed out on first post of the page.
also coming up on 20k. who predicted it. good work.
might i suggest that we dont migrate till this one gets locked. pretty sure i can necrobump 3.0 still.
also coming up on 20k. who predicted it. good work.
might i suggest that we dont migrate till this one gets locked. pretty sure i can necrobump 3.0 still.
roosters93
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Did you see the snow white and the huntsman trailer? I found it pretty meh.BananaArnie said:
This ones for Choc/Jintor.
ABC is beating Channel 10 in the ratings again, pushing them into 4th spot as ABC takes 3rd spot.
Channel 7 has won every single week of the ratings for the year, that's crazy.
Hopefully Channel 10 gets a shake up and puts something decent on it's station.
ABC is beating Channel 10 in the ratings again, pushing them into 4th spot as ABC takes 3rd spot.
Channel 7 has won every single week of the ratings for the year, that's crazy.
Hopefully Channel 10 gets a shake up and puts something decent on it's station.
legend166 said:
Same here. Speculation wise, do you think it has more to do with which of the following themes:
a) Drunken violence/one off incident
b) Match fixing
c) Personal problems
My bet is on b, and not as him being a suspect, rather someone who unfortunately may have known too much.
reptilescorpio
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I agree, which sucks for the future of the sport.RandomVince said:
I would prefer to see them all start to put high quality programs on.RandomVince said:
roosters93
Member
midonnay said:
fuck
The quality of the content is not the problem with Australian TV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_advertisement
Not to mention shitty station watermarks getting larger more opaque and volume boosting ads which is done by reducing the volume of the actual show so they don't fall foul of the volume laws.
That's why I only watch Netflix, Hulu or torrents. Fuck Australian TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_advertisement
Not to mention shitty station watermarks getting larger more opaque and volume boosting ads which is done by reducing the volume of the actual show so they don't fall foul of the volume laws.
That's why I only watch Netflix, Hulu or torrents. Fuck Australian TV.
RandomVince said:
Huge disclaimer - this may or may not be true, but it comes from a pretty trustworthy source - he jumped off the top of the hotel building.
So if someone gets interviewed by police and then subsequently jumps off a building, something fishy is going on.
I feel bad speculating on what it could be, but if you know of his past you can guess what people will be talking about.
BananaArnie
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yeah thats how i knew whats her face was in it.roosters93 said:
why do people keep giving her and transformers guy work.
i dont know anyone who likes them.
shanshan310
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Fusebox said:
Yep, that'll do it. I basically watch no tv at all now, except if I switch on ABC NEWS24 or maybe one of the SBS channels for Japanese News (which has no ad interruptions)/ Rockwiz/ Iron chef.
The advertising on commercial TV is ridiculous.
reptilescorpio
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Da fuck? That really needs to be changed now that there are a hundred different psa companies hocking shit in advertising form.
They shoot for ratings unfortunately. The majority of the population are quite happy watching Celebrity The Apprentice or Home & Away. Maybe we need to hypnotise them into liking higher quality programming. Shaneus is correct, if Channel 9 are willing to scrape up the remains of Big Brother after it was tossed aside by the Australian public and ducked into pieces by 10 then I can't see them ignoring the shitty programming any time soon. Would be nice to actually use my TV for TV one day, aside from the odd bit of sport.RandomVince said:
shanshan310
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reptilescorpio said:
Does that include ads like "brandpower" ?
Planet_JASE
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Well, I've given up on UC3. I think I'm up to chapter 13 or something. The part that I've given up on is
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It's not particularly that part that has forced me to quit, more of a case of the final straw. For most of the game I've felt like I'm fighting the controls and whatever Drake ends up doing is more pot luck than what I intended. For example, in the part in the spoiler tag, I assume I'm meant to be dodging a fair bit. The 'dodge' button is the same as the 'cover' button. The location in full of cover. Huzzah, let's play the game of "Drake takes cover instead of dodging and dies." I'll just deftly jump out of your way, you stupid evil doer!! Oh, I ended up crouching in front of you, and you and you friends have just shot and granade me to death in 3 seconds. Fun.
The platforming, such as it is, is less fun than previous iterations, at least from what I remember. In an attempt to make the movement more realistic, they added more canned animations to the beginning and end animations. This means even a slight movement ends up in a extended animation and overshooting of where you intended to go. It leads to the feeling that the characters are on ice.
Sometimes the NPCs just won't get out of the fucking way in corridors. I've had to reload a save because of this.
Despite the game hand holding for most of the time, sometimes it tells you absolutely nothing and leave it up to you to figire out that you need to climb a mast to get out of the area. Sometimes you get 'hint' tips shoved down your throat in the most obvious situations, sometimes you get none. Sometime the characters endless explain what you need to do through dialogue. Usually this is in a situation where you need to find a particular angle in a room. I know what I'm doing, I'm trying to find it. When you don't know what you're doing, they let you go for 10mins before offering help.
I want to be able to break out of a fist fight quickly, so that I may avoid the gunfire of the 3 other people that have appeared. I don't want to be stuck in this animation. I don't.
I haven't enjoyed the story that much, either.
If the controls are frustrating, the character interplay hasn't been that great and the story hasn't grabbed me, why am I playing?
The answer is that I'm going back to Batman. A game that I felt I had complete and utter control it. A game that I was the motherfucking Batman.
I will come back to Uncharted later. Maybe. I've got a huge backlog of games; games that I won't feel frustrated in most of the time.
So far, this game scores a 6.
a fight on the deck/pit of a ship with a huge armoured mother fucker and a grenade launching prick up on a higher deck
It's not particularly that part that has forced me to quit, more of a case of the final straw. For most of the game I've felt like I'm fighting the controls and whatever Drake ends up doing is more pot luck than what I intended. For example, in the part in the spoiler tag, I assume I'm meant to be dodging a fair bit. The 'dodge' button is the same as the 'cover' button. The location in full of cover. Huzzah, let's play the game of "Drake takes cover instead of dodging and dies." I'll just deftly jump out of your way, you stupid evil doer!! Oh, I ended up crouching in front of you, and you and you friends have just shot and granade me to death in 3 seconds. Fun.
The platforming, such as it is, is less fun than previous iterations, at least from what I remember. In an attempt to make the movement more realistic, they added more canned animations to the beginning and end animations. This means even a slight movement ends up in a extended animation and overshooting of where you intended to go. It leads to the feeling that the characters are on ice.
Sometimes the NPCs just won't get out of the fucking way in corridors. I've had to reload a save because of this.
Despite the game hand holding for most of the time, sometimes it tells you absolutely nothing and leave it up to you to figire out that you need to climb a mast to get out of the area. Sometimes you get 'hint' tips shoved down your throat in the most obvious situations, sometimes you get none. Sometime the characters endless explain what you need to do through dialogue. Usually this is in a situation where you need to find a particular angle in a room. I know what I'm doing, I'm trying to find it. When you don't know what you're doing, they let you go for 10mins before offering help.
I want to be able to break out of a fist fight quickly, so that I may avoid the gunfire of the 3 other people that have appeared. I don't want to be stuck in this animation. I don't.
I haven't enjoyed the story that much, either.
If the controls are frustrating, the character interplay hasn't been that great and the story hasn't grabbed me, why am I playing?
The answer is that I'm going back to Batman. A game that I felt I had complete and utter control it. A game that I was the motherfucking Batman.
I will come back to Uncharted later. Maybe. I've got a huge backlog of games; games that I won't feel frustrated in most of the time.
So far, this game scores a 6.
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