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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 21, 2003, 03:28:39 AM »

*in his best Spanish accent*
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, I'm gonna take this thread in a new direction. I was chatting with a mate at work today, who was the victim of a cruel prank. He got too drunk and passed out, and his 'friends' shaved the front of his hair, so he had to shave it all off.
Which brings me to my point - what's the worst/best prank you've ever heard/witnessed/performed?

The first one I'll tell you about was the one a group of us did to a friend. This guy, who i now loathe with a passion, was a sissy boy. He nearly always went out with a silk shirt on, so we bagged the hell out of him. One night we were at a friends place, getting drunk for no apparent reason, and he was there.
He had too much medicine one night and passed out, and we drew on him. Not obviously like on his face (well we did anyway) but in other hidden places. We wrote "I Like Men" on his forehead, "I'm a raging homosexual" on his back, "I shave my legs" on his leg and something else, I forget.
It was hilarious when he woke up in the morning and asked us what happened. We managed to keep a straight face, until he got up to go to the toilet and saw himself in the mirror.
And he left, thinking it was only on his face. That was the best part.

So come on, anyone top that.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 19, 2003, 09:55:02 PM »

Huzzah to you all. I've been in the wilderness called reality for the last few days, doing this 'social' thing - I think its a dance or something.

I was posting my rant about the Eye-toy on Friday and iSketching with Mario (which I won too *does victory dance*) but IE reset itself mid-post and I couldn't even save two words of it! HULK SMASH!!!!

Using my powers of deduction, I reckon the thing will sell decently, enough to warrant more mini-games being made for it.
I was watching it in action at EB, with some punk kids mucking around with it. The one thing that really gets me is how dodgy the collision detection is. In the ninja game, the kids were working together, and ninjas still got through them waving their arms like idiots. It's a shame.

And the games are too simple. Sure, it's a party thing, but why not have a little thing called 'plot'? The games look like they were whipped up by a six-year old!
I had more to rant about, but I don't care. I'm not going to protest the buying of lame games by having a hunger strike, because I'll probably starve to death from it.

Infernal: It's a shame that people will see things like predators lurking in chat rooms, and then assume that everyone on the Internet is a weirdo. There's always more than one side to a story, and unfortunately people don't care for the big picture. I stopped going to chat rooms, and doing anonymous chat with ICQ years ago, because it was really pointless. But now I probably spend more time on the Internet, but doing more useful stuff like posting in this thread

Mario: Sucks to be you. I was still asleep then. Football wasn't on until late afternoon, so I slept in.
And I'm actually in a similar situation to Infernal, but not as explosive. My new computer is isolated from the Internet, so I'm looking at a second line/cable, but I don't have the money!

[nitsujdark]

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 15, 2003, 10:12:08 PM »

Mario: Hmm, looks like the next six months or so will be great for Nintendo games! Woot!

Nitsujdark:

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Originally posted by: nitsujdark
Golden Sun 2 is awesome too, it shouldn't scare you though.

I dunno. This is PIAC we're talking about!

And I'd rather wait for Jedi Knight 3 over KOTOR, partly because it's not only on XBAWX.
So they finally gave Fable a 'release date' eh? I wonder how long the delays will be?

Here's my Simpsons Quote for the Day:
"Aaah! Cobras!"
Whoever can guess who said it gets nothing!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 14, 2003, 05:36:30 PM »

Nitsu:
If you want more of that non-linear, fantasy gaming, check it out. Another reason why there's not enough hours in a day!

The question is not where Termin8 is, but where is oohhboy's sister?
Apart from that, i dunno.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 14, 2003, 04:45:34 AM »

Infernal:
Hmm, SH3 babies?
*insert the worst mental picture ever*

As for Heather, I'd understand that!

And really fat dude. Why not just combat them with the Subway diet?
"Oh no! I'm outta footlongs! Help!"

I saw the Bruce Lee special tonight on SBS in between Hitler. I had no idea about him apart from the fact he was a martial arts guy. It was very cool. That's why I've updated my sig for the first time in however long it's been. And I might update my avatar! Meh.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 13, 2003, 07:08:21 PM »

Hooray for AiAi finally playing Metroid Prime.
I still believe the fight with Ridley is the best in the game.
Frustration and amazement get!

Nitsu, that game sounds a bit like what you can get up to in Morrowind!?!

Burnout 2 is getting all my time at the moment. Custom Cars ahoy!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 11, 2003, 12:02:16 AM »

PIAC: Good to hear about Pikmin. STALKing Pikmin eh? *ba-boom*

I had a look at EB just to see what second hand games they had left. Unless you want Turok: Evolution, it's probably better that you went to the CONverters.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 10, 2003, 02:34:04 AM »

*explodes*

*reforms*

OMG that is teh suck.

Here's three letters that also describe it:

S   H   *   T

[Evanescence]

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General Chat / What is your favorite song?

« on: July 09, 2003, 11:43:05 PM »

Right now, I'll give a few of them:

Evanescence - My Immortal (awesome staring song)
Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last
Grinspoon - Lost Control
Grinspoon - More Than You Are
Less Than Jake - All My Best Friends are Metalheads (Best LTJ song)
Less Than Jake - Al's War (*insert air guitar here*)
Ben Harper - When It's Good
Powderfinger - On My Mind (Aussie Rock at its best!!)
Goldfinger - Spokesman (US pop-punk is pretty good)
Papa Roach - Last Resort (ah, the classic depressed song)
Bodyjar - One in a Million (Best. Aussie Punk. Ever.)
Jimmy Eat World - A Praise Chorus.

That's the recent stuff. There's too much old-school music for me to start.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 09, 2003, 11:19:25 PM »

Mario:

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Oh yeah, and PIAC, i got banned from that IRC chat room (#ga) for saying, "I prefer the Gamecube over the PS2".

*Fanboy alarms ring*
OMG he's giving an opinion. Take him out before he says too much.

Infernal:

ACME STEALING HAND eh?
*gets out ACME UN-STEALING HAND*

How you like them apples?

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 09, 2003, 03:22:21 AM »

SUPER MEGA HAPPY FUN AMAZING HUZZAH!

I got my hands on the uber-rare Burnout 2 for GC yesterday! The local EB got a copy out of nowhere and I dropped by in my lunchbreak to complain about the lack of good Cube games...

"OMG 100 COPIES OF HARRY POTTER AND UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. IT'S ALL MINE MWAHAHAHAHA!"

Anyway, it was just sitting there. So I took it.
And ran. And returned to pay for it and actually get the game, since the cases don't play well in the Cube.

"Why won't my Halo play in my Cube?"
"Umm, the discs can't fit"
"Discs? What discs?"

So I'm very happy at the moment.

PIAC: Queenslanders? Meh. Don't know. Don't care. I'll give a review later. The music in Burnout 2 is a lot better than the first one, so I haven't felt the urge to crank some music.

And as for Dick Smiths, I'm not surprised.
"HERE'S YOUR SUNIK MEGA ERECTION!"

AiAi: Dude, just get MSN6. It has avatars. Mario's is a nice one. Mmm, cleavage.
*starts cleaning gun*

Internal Monkey: heh, that's teh funnies.

Termin8: I never got attached to SMS. Too much of the same. Run along beach. Spray enemy. Collect coin. Repeat.
Ooh, but then there's the once in a while boss battle. When I beat him the first time, I thought "Aww c**p, why's he there?" And that's when I took SMS back.
And the camera just plain sucked. The reason the WW camera isn't in there is because WW came after SMS. Just thought I'd point that out.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 07, 2003, 12:17:45 AM »

Huzzah. I got the Powderfinger CD - Vulture Street today. Very catchy stuff.
I'll give a more indepth review tomorrow, but it two thumbs up at the moment.

On My Mind has number one written all over it.

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General Chat / The GP32

« on: July 05, 2003, 07:51:51 PM »

Ah, the old 'piracy' debate. I thought I might add my two cents.

1. I cannot see why this thing is still around. It's a portable PC. The fact that they market it as a 'game system' but don't mention how to play games on it in the description means its probably going under the radar.

2. This thing is not that great. It is an emulator at heart. Therefore it requires more processing power to mimic the system and run the game. And even then it still has slowdown at times. Just because of the specs, doesn't make it great. The GBA is a great system when its compared to the past generation of games.

3. I am against piracy of games. Sure, they cost much more than music, but there's a reason behind that. The developers put in much more effort into making games today then twenty years ago, so the costs have to be recovered elsewhere. If the games cost too much, get a job. If that still doesn't help, manage your habit better.
As for past consoles, I'm undecided to whether its wrong or right.

But overall, I give this thing a bupbow.

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General Chat / HAPPY BIRTHDAY INFERNAL MONKEY :D

« on: July 05, 2003, 07:29:03 PM »

PIAC: What is it with you guys and causing me pain?
I still need vengeance on AiAi, but you've made the list
And Termin8's "having a moment" with oohhboy's sister.


What? Oh, that's right.
Happy Birthday to the most Infernal Monkey around!
Huzzah!

EDIT: I just realised my birthday's coming up too!
And I'll be 19 too. Damn.
*orders two wheelchairs for Infernal and Shifty*

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 05, 2003, 07:15:50 PM »

Happy Birthday Get Infernal. Yazzuh!

And Control Freaks was a meh.
Nitsu - they rate everything out of five. I must admit the Hulk graphics are pretty catch *cough cel-shading cough*.
And the Brit Awards sucked. GTA:VC for Game of Games? Garbage. How about rehash of rehashes?

And sorry for missing the MSN session, which I planned. D'Oh. Sleep too good to pass up.

That Street-talk bit was done in Rundle Mall, Adelaide (yes, people apart from me live in Adelaide ). I was kinda peeved because I'm usually up there when I'm not at Uni, but I haven't been into Uni for the last month or so, so I could have had my mug on the tv!

*goes back to practising saying "Control Freaks"*

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 04, 2003, 06:09:19 PM »

That's funny. The only thread near us at the moment is the Video Games Name Game thread, and that was started up by Mario. Yazzuh!

And yeah, it's all about teh madness and insanity.
We have to have another crazy MSN session guys. Around Control Freaks maybe?

I liek teh pie!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 03, 2003, 06:31:36 AM »

Whoa, check out the Gamefaqs Character Battle. Ganondort and Tidus are neck and neck!

And it's good to see some lesser known characters like Magus from Chrono Trigger and Issac from Golden Sun.
But Sam Fisher? He's like a person. What's up with that?

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General Chat / ~The Longest Thread Ever~

« on: July 02, 2003, 04:02:33 AM »

Sorry, my Aussie pride overcame me.

Shifty out.

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General Chat / The G5 fiasco

« on: July 02, 2003, 03:59:15 AM »

Well NVIDIA was caught cheating in the 3DMark tests a while, again.
Supposedly their drivers detected the output of the frame-rates, and inflated them. Here's an interesting link about what NVIDIA and ATI have done in the past.
http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2003q2/3dmurk03/index.x?pg=1

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General Chat / ~The Longest Thread Ever~

« on: July 02, 2003, 03:39:43 AM »

AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!
OI! OI! OI!

Yeah, just join us over at the Aussie Thread. Uber-Mega-Super-Happy-Fun Get!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 02, 2003, 03:29:11 AM »

Wait around for a few months. The weather is bad here.
Around Christmas time is the best. You've probably had a White Christmas, but an Aussie Christmas is waaaaaaaaaaay better!

Beach. Babes. Barbeque. Beer. 'Nuff said.

And as for the regions, it is to do with the TV. Sure, most can accept NTSC signals, but I'd say the majority of the population will still only have PAL. Heck, my new video card only accepts PAL input.
Maybe when the whole world moves to digital television that one universal standard appears?!?!?!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: July 01, 2003, 03:26:33 AM »

I think its more sad that NoAus has admitted to screwing up this time around, and has done nothing else! Sure, they plug the first party games well, and they sell pretty well down here.
But they should do more to support third party games in PAL territories, because there just isn't enough publishing done. Sure, the market for Gamecube is small here, but with a bit of advertising and word of mouth, they'd get more sales. Guaranteed.
Example: Resident Evil 2 & 3. Apart from a couple of print ads, I haven't heard boo from these games. Classics re-released. Shame they're expensive ports, but why not plug them? Too afraid to shake the kiddy image?

But in terms of achieving a profit, they have to spend money to make money.

EDIT: And Termin8, here's what they should be releasing GC2 with:

Mario 128 (if it's as revolutionary as Mario 64 was, this'll be a smash)
Metroid Prime 2 (make it so polished you can see yourself instead of Samus in the visor!)
Too Human (the eternally delayed game)
Pokemon RPG (don't tell me someone isn't making it)
Zelda Game (not WW sequel, something more like Spaceworld demo - WW wasn't evil enough. Jellies? Aurgh!)

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: June 29, 2003, 07:53:19 PM »

I'm not surprised, and not happy at the same time.

NOT SURPRISED + NOT HAPPY = HULK SMASH * INFINITY!

That'll learn me for not pre-ordering Burnout 2 and SoA:L. Bah.
And Wario Ware is awesomely awesome! Addiction get!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: June 27, 2003, 06:40:34 PM »

HANGOVER GET! Nuff said. Uni is over! So what else is left but to celebrate? And we did, into the wee hours of the morning.

I was playing Wario Ware in EB yesterday. That game is awesome. I was playing a mini-game where you had to dress Wario with the falling clothes, with less than five seconds to do it. The further you get, the faster the clothes fall. Very simple and very addictive.

*runs out to get dose of Wario Ware*
*realises he made it up*
*patents idea*
*makes money*
*gets Wario Ware*

Hmm, sounds like a plan.

And Termin8, the new bits are cool. Are the sections up, because I can't seem to get to the reviews. And i'm going to get into reviewing my games for you too.

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General Chat / You've Seen the Movie, Don't Play the Game

« on: June 26, 2003, 04:38:07 AM »

It's quite interesting how, despite the movie and video game industry being in competition, no-one has had a movie-to-game or game-to-movie conversion that has been successful.

I point out:
Super Mario Bros -  the Movie
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within
Tomb Raider

There have been so many movie to game conversions that have sucked, that i won't even attempt to compile a list.
Someone else can if they feel like it.