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General Chat / RE: Atari really need to get their act together..

« on: February 11, 2004, 03:31:28 AM »

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Atari Australia are just pissed the NES was better than the Atari 2600, and they seem to have long standing grudges or something

You could say that but that Atari is long dead. The current Atari is really just Infograms in disguise, they bought the name. Remember?  

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General Chat / RE: Hell has spawned a new heir to it's throne.

« on: February 08, 2004, 02:35:43 AM »

Which players choice? It certainly wasn't MY choice. Te sad thing is they determine these things of sales numbers. Enter the Matrix had a huge licence behind it and was initially quite fun, good pick up and play factor so it sold stupidly well.

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General Chat / RE: Atari really need to get their act together..

« on: February 08, 2004, 02:06:36 AM »

Well actually even in singpore the shop guy offered to sell me Boktai for $90 is politly turned him down. Then procedded to be ripped off witha  pirate copy of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. ($60) So frankly $80 doens't sound too terrible.

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General Chat / RE: I found the underground lair of all things NIN

« on: February 08, 2004, 01:36:40 AM »

That sounds absolutely fantastic. I hope when I get apst this final year of school 'The Guild' at UWA (this is presuming I make it to the university of Western Australia) have some kind of thing for Nintendo losers like myself. I just want to be able to play four swords  and have some proper Smash Bros competition.

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TalkBack / RE: Fire Emblem En Route to Australia

« on: February 04, 2004, 02:21:26 PM »

Yeah Nal have no idea what is going on. I was gonna buy this in Singapore but had already bought 4 other GBA games so I thought I ought to slow down.

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TalkBack / RE:Prince of Persia Sequel Planned

« on: February 04, 2004, 02:19:38 PM »

I think it's excellent, just cos a couple of wingers ddin't like it tough monkeys, everyone else did.

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General Chat / RE: Busselton Blues

« on: February 03, 2004, 11:44:16 PM »

oh yeah, P's. I gotta hurry up and get onto phase 2 of my L's so I can get my P's come April 21st.

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General Chat / RE: ADV + Gainax + WETA Visual Effects + $$$$ = Live Action Evangelion Film

« on: February 03, 2004, 11:42:38 PM »

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She is soooo gonna be bloody hot when she's a bit older.

She already is.

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General Chat / RE: Avatars

« on: February 03, 2004, 11:39:54 PM »

Put the address of a 60x 60 image into the bottom text field of your profile.

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General Chat / RE: Busselton Blues

« on: February 02, 2004, 10:07:39 PM »

Comon Dan, I'm convinced that there is infact a copy of F-Zero GX underneath the Scorpian King at Mann's Newsagent.
And Termin, Aussie Ben has the Monster Go Go Go game, not me. You'll have to sneak his house.

Hmm, looking at that DVD Craze thing it would appear that I managed to get ripped off on Prince of Persia in Singapore. Even with the current exchange rate it would've been cheaper to get it from there, and no wrestling with the freeloader to start the game (seriously the freeloader seems to hate that game.)

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TalkBack / RE: R and Vs. For Europe

« on: February 02, 2004, 10:02:16 PM »

I was very tempted to buy R: Racing Evolution when I was in Singapore, I probably should've just for Pac Man versus.

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General Chat / RE: official aussie avatar discussion

« on: February 02, 2004, 02:33:06 AM »

You rebel evilmanman.
ANyway I made myself an aussie approved one, I think I removed the last one.

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General Chat / RE: Offical cool stuff RABicle bought in Singapore thread.

« on: February 01, 2004, 07:55:52 PM »

There are four national languages, English, Malay/Indonesion, Tamil, Chinese (Manderine). Every shop person knows english, usually as you wlak down the street ou might here people's conversations change language seemingly at random. About the asian girls thingg and speaking Korean. During school hours all young Asian girls (some appear young but are not) present are most likely tourists from Korea or Japan. The Singapore girls come out after school and speak English.

Ikaruga is really good. Even my sister likes it, we were playing 2 player today and it's great. Pretty hard but strangly compelling.

As for Singlish, I hadn't heard of it but I did see a government ad in the subway station saying that "You didn't need to use long words to speak English well" or something. Government advertising (or propaganda if you like) is everywhere. I mean ads for the army are painted on the sides of buses. They have Conscription to, they reckon Japan will go on another rampage.

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TalkBack / RE: Latest DS Details

« on: February 01, 2004, 04:58:49 AM »

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Ugh! That, by far, is my most hated John Lennon song ever!

I believe it was through the pure crapness of that song that Bob Dylan got his start. We needed a better protest song.

Ok about the DS, I hope they think up a better name for it than simply DS. I mean Advance was a pretty bad add on to GameBoy, SP was worse even GameCube is questionable. Nintendo 64 had a crap sound to it too. How about the Nintendo Wasmatron? Much better.
Honestly I'm pretty much just wasting space with this post, I dont know what to think of the DS yet, it's far to confusing, I haven't made up my mind. Mabye E3 will help.

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TalkBack / RE: Kirby Rides to Europe

« on: February 01, 2004, 04:45:12 AM »

I saw it a lot while I was in Singapore, VERY tempted to buy it and a broadband adaptor. But then I read they suggested a 256kb up speed. So I bought other stuff instead.

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General Chat / Offical cool stuff RABicle bought in Singapore thread.

« on: February 01, 2004, 04:11:44 AM »

Well I decided to concentrate on stuff that you couldn't get in Australia. So a Freeloader, Ikaruga (japanese) One of the SNES shaped controllers, Harvest Moon (GBA), Zelda Special Collectors Edition (you know, the compilation) and Prince of Persia (cant wait till release) were all first up. I was thinking about a broadband adaptor but Money was running short after the Blue/Silver GBA SP (complete with complimentery pirated copy of Castlevania)
Tips for travellers to Singapore.
- Changi Airport is a ripoff.
- Dont go looking for young asian girls till after school is over, unless you speak Japanese or Korean. Asian girls are all slim and look young, they could be 28 years old
- Sim Lim Square, I believe that is Malay for 'Geek Heaven'
- Dont smuggle drugs into the country, penalty is death by hanging.
- Dont smuggle chewing gum into the country, penatly is $10,000 fine.
- Eat some good curry while your there.
- Visit a Chinese Temple.
- If your a Jehova, dont tell anybody about it.

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General Chat / RE: The Neverending Story

« on: January 24, 2004, 03:46:51 AM »

-no part in story-
Ok now Chris, didn't I predict that by about 4 posts monkeys would be involved?
Yeah I might post some other time, mabye tommorrow.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Ideas for the next Super Smash Bros.

« on: January 24, 2004, 02:40:00 AM »

I think if anything the moves should be simplified to make it more accesible. The problem with Smash Bros Melee was that for new players it was less accesable than the original. Adding more styles and moves wont nessisarily add depth either, most player wouldn't even use the full range of moves offered by their character. I'm a Jigglypuff person, I rarely use sing or use my shield.
Smash Bros isn't like your other 2d fighting games, memorising combos and thinking 2 or three steps ahead of your oppoent, it's thiking for the moment, doing the right move at the right time for that situation, and then be faced with another seemingly random situation to come out on top of.

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General Chat / RE: Official Avatar Discussion

« on: January 23, 2004, 09:34:29 PM »

Back to avatars, I was feeling nostalgic so I put back what I think was my original avatar. Might've had a pic of an iMac before this though. Anyway, welcome back Chester.

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General Chat / RE: ADV + Gainax + WETA Visual Effects + $$$$ = Live Action Evangelion Film

« on: January 23, 2004, 09:30:50 PM »

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Whats more, the art of 'Kate Rose' makes her look like a 50 year old whore instead of a perky, cute, redhead teenager.

She might look 50 in their drawing but remeber, this is live action so they will probably get a perky cute 19 year old with dyed red hair. Aslo at least the name Kate Rose is slightly more, German than Asuka. Mabye Kate Langley would've been better.

I am still silently hoping that this film will turn out to be allright, and I'll definatly go and see it. But if Daniel Radcliffe is Shinji we should abandon all hope. Shinji was annoying enough, we dont need an annoying actor to play him too. I think they could at least get Japanese or Asian people living in America as actors to play the roles. I mean it is set in Japan, unless Tokyo-3 was apparently built in a subterraian opening they happend to find under New York. Although... Emma Watson wouldn't be a bad Asuka IMO
Speaking of Potter and his ilk whatever happend to the third movie??  

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General Chat / RE: Answer the question above game

« on: January 23, 2004, 09:18:15 PM »

A: No they are crap
Q: What mp3 are you listening to right now?

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General Chat / RE: What if: Capcom and Silicon Knights co-developed a game?

« on: January 23, 2004, 09:06:49 PM »

Seriously i dont understand all the fuss over collaborations. Why cant anyone just go and make a good game ON THEIR OWN! Sure I know they will need funding from the publisher but I dont see why companies should have to 'work togethor' on a title. And just because they do doesn't always turn out for the better, the clashing of ideas can result in some games turning out to be real messy pieces of work.

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General Chat / RE: The Neverending Story

« on: January 23, 2004, 08:42:26 PM »

The discussion wasn't about video games however, it was about pants. But even as the guys tried to diversify, they couldn't help but have every subject they talk about somehow lead back to video games. They gave up and enthusiasictally shared their dreams of the next roud of consoles.
Across the bus Anna sighed. "listen to those losers!" said her friend Elaine.
"They're not losers, I think they're sweet" replied Anna.
"But they're soooooo boring. All they ever talk about is X stations and Playcubes"
"Well if that's so boring why did you tell me to listen to it?" Anna replied cheekily. Elaine was nice enough, but was sometimes too judgemental of people, and got cut easily. Elaine crossed her arms and sulked to herself looking out the window. This somehow gratified Anna.
The bus still had a long way to go before they reached school. It rolled to a stop to pick up some more students.

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo DS Interview

« on: January 21, 2004, 04:54:44 PM »

The 1 gigabit reference (or in more common terms, 128megabytes, appears to be talking about how large the game cartriges will be. For comparison reasons, Ocarina of Time was 32 megs.
Also about the clamshell design. If the screens are above and below each other as the nice lady says, they could put a hinge between them, dividing the machine in half, so then they could fold over onto one another, much like the current clamshell design. Which is good to protect both screens.

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TalkBack / RE: F-Zero GameCube Up for Bids

« on: January 19, 2004, 11:11:59 PM »

I thought it could've at least had wings and blades from F Zero ships sticking out but it's still reasonably slick nevertheless.