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mecka · Post by **mecka** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:07 am

I just finished bioshock as well...

bit of a letdown with the standard boss-battle (come on, its an old, stale mechanic) but like hardy said, sadness like finishing a good book.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:34 am

Lucky there is two endings hey

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:45 am

yeah, gotta replay it to get the good ending. Slaughtering everything probably wasn't in my best interest.

Post by **system** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:13 am

huge wrote:
system wrote:they had a trailer for bioshock in the cinema tonight.

serious marketing gwarn.
wow. how good was it looking on the big screen??

pretty damn slick.

Post by **huge** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:15 am

mecka wrote:yeah, gotta replay it to get the good ending. Slaughtering everything probably wasn't in my best interest.

lol yeah. i'll go through again saving the little sisters.

didnt manage to finish last night. was getting too late had to stop.

i just got a force feedback racing wheel off ebay for cheapo! here comes better driving in DiRT!

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:11 pm

I've been thinking about an xbox360 just cos bioshock looks so awesome.

agreed, wicked marketing.

then again, I prob should just spend money on.....something.....else.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:21 pm

Theres a heap more to the 360 than bioshock. Halo 3, mass effect.. Gta 4... Combine those with the recent price drop and there are plenty of reasons to get one.

Post by **system** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:30 pm

have to say that i play the wii more than my housemate's ps3. but that's probably more to do with all his games (except for virtua tennis) being first person shooters!

tiger woods is great, as is scarface (minus the radikeruss level of tony montana's swearing).

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:18 pm

I bought Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix from xbox live marketplace.
Is that the longest title ever?

It's teh rad.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:21 pm

Ken looks like a girl.

I'm sure the japanese had no role in naming that game.

how do you remix a game anyways? and how do you do it in Turbo HD? What is Turbo HD?

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:43 pm

Yer.. remix is a strange choice of words It's basically a High Def version of Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo.

Although they haven't made the animations of the characters HD so it looks a bit odd.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:33 pm

Mass Effect dated for Aus

woot.

saintberry · Post by **saintberry** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:33 pm

rad cant fucking wait for that game.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:57 pm

Band hacks Guitar Hero controller to make actual music

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:06 pm

"The limitations are limitless!" lol!

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:53 pm

Boring Games - from somethingawful.com

Post by **system** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:10 pm

^ this was my fave.

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:15 pm

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:17 pm

A League of our own - FIFA 08 to include the A-League.

Fans of the beautiful game will be able to play Australia's A-League competition after Electronic Arts announced yesterday it had added the local competition to FIFA 08.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:39 pm

Console Wars animated

lol

saintberry · Post by **saintberry** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:59 pm

Stray wrote:Console Wars animated

lol

haha fucking gold.

Xbox 360: "Like beating two quadruple amputees at swing-ball"

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:15 pm

My HD-DVD drive arrived today. Gonna take a trip tomorrow to pick up a movie or two - already watched King Kong.

The difference between standard DVDs and the HDDVDs is pretty astounding. Pity there isn't a massive range of movies out there yet.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:37 pm

mecka wrote:My HD-DVD drive arrived today. Gonna take a trip tomorrow to pick up a movie or two - already watched King Kong.

The difference between standard DVDs and the HDDVDs is pretty astounding. Pity there isn't a massive range of movies out there yet.

Only if you have a hd tv.. and a big one. Otherwise it's hard to tell the difference.

What tv do you have?

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:43 pm

I'm running it through my PC to my Dell 24", using PowerDVD to play the HD-DVDs.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:59 pm

The best Bioshock review i've seen yet

Same guy as the Console Wars thing done above.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/article ... unctuation

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:00 pm

not only that... the guy is based in Oz somewhere.

edit: and the Psychonauts review is easily the fucking funniest thing I've seen all week.

mizuhodai · Post by **mizuhodai** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:16 pm

mecka wrote:The best Bioshock review i've seen yet

Same guy as the Console Wars thing done above.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/article ... unctuation

ahhh dude thats fucking awesome!!! i couldnt listen to it all at once though, i had to do like 90 second intervals!!!

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:26 am

hahaha hillarious!
bioshock review was spot on

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:20 am

Call of Duty 4 Beta :: xbox360

signup

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:14 pm

13 minutes of Far Cry 2 footage

holy shit. Fire that spreads with wind direction? Fully destructible environments?

bring it!

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:36 pm

crazy AI
thats great how they chase you with cars etc.. totally unscripted

same o · Post by **same o** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:05 pm

mecka wrote:13 minutes of Far Cry 2 footage

holy shit. Fire that spreads with wind direction? Fully destructible environments?

bring it!

that is fucken coool

saintberry · Post by **saintberry** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:30 am

hahahah sony caught editing the Halo 3 wiki page...

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=42417

and FUCK it is ALREADY the fastest selling game of all time - just on presales.

sony is right: it doesn't look any better than halo 2, however the beta had the best/most innovative multiplayer engine i have seen in a game to date. will be tres rad.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:36 am

Has the Bioshock update screwed anyone else's game?
It removes the streaming so now it pauses every ten seconds.
poor effort.

Luckily if you hold down both triggers while the game is loading it clears the cache, which removes the update.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:08 pm

Stray wrote:Has the Bioshock update screwed anyone else's game?

No, i has it on PC

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:23 pm

Stray wrote:Has the Bioshock update screwed anyone else's game?
It removes the streaming so now it pauses every ten seconds.
poor effort.

Luckily if you hold down both triggers while the game is loading it clears the cache, which removes the update.

What is the update?

I clocked F.E.A.R. last night. Very disappointed with that game, did nt even come close to living up to the hype. Bog-standard FPS that was waaaay too short, and had a storyline that was hard to follow and made no sense at all.

saintberry · Post by **saintberry** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:21 pm

word. FEAR was crap.

and nah stray i got the update today. all is fine fo me.

Zerotonine · Post by **Zerotonine** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:29 pm

LOL...pretty accurate Bioshock review, but I'm glad it's selling well...about bloody time for Looking Glass/Irrational/2K Boston/2K Australia made a game that actually sells.

quick · Post by **quick** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:33 pm

sAme'0 wrote:
mecka wrote:13 minutes of Far Cry 2 footage

holy shit. Fire that spreads with wind direction? Fully destructible environments?

bring it!
that is fucken coool

fuck yeah... can't wait... massive open plan FPS FTW!!!

Dark Lord Piddle Bottom · Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:57 am

Just downloaded the quake wars demo OMG its wicked, sorry thats all i can write got to go back to my pc.

Dark Lord Piddle Bottom · Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:44 pm

ok its good but i think i'm having more fun flying round in warhawk! Though all the classes are kool but i never thought i'd say this but i might wait for the console version which should have a more simple control system.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:41 pm

Dark Lord Piddle Bottom wrote:Just downloaded the quake wars demo OMG its wicked, sorry thats all i can write got to go back to my pc.

Hopefully its better than the beta was. Admittedly coming into it from two years of playing Battlefield 2 probably didn't help - we were hoping for it to be the next big game for us to play.

Warhawk came out on PC as well?

Dark Lord Piddle Bottom · Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:06 pm

mecka wrote:Warhawk came out on PC as well?

Nope, just PS3.

Post by **system** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:38 pm

warhawk is pretty cool. the online wars are top notch.

dlpb, did you play in the sony match last week?

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:53 am

Microsoft pwnd by dirty thieving Aussie convict:

http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/819/819245p1.html

Halo 3 on Ebay (Sold at first bid via buy it now):

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HALO-3-the-real- ... dZViewItem

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:18 am

Guitar Hero III coming to PC

Dark Lord Piddle Bottom · Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:24 am

system wrote:warhawk is pretty cool. the online wars are top notch.

dlpb, did you play in the sony match last week?

No, didn't even know about it!

same o · Post by **same o** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:53 am

i got the three red lights of doom last night.. i shat myself cuz i bought it second hand..
but looks like it was just a loose av cable...
cuz now it working

Post by **huge** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:05 am

Buy the Orange Box now on Steam and save some cash plus you can play TF2 on monday!

Post by **huge** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:48 am

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24780.html