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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 30, 2003, 08:14:01 PM »

I saw Cam today for a brief moment - he had the GBA SP - curse him!

I wouldn't be surprised if Cam mentions Zelda in the next few days, as it is only 8 days to go!
Man, Zelda WW got 98 in Nintendo Gamer this month! Along with 91 for SoA! (not bad for a DC port)

Stuff it, i'm going to EB. I'll report back with news on SoA if it's in. Partly because its eight days too early for Zelda.
I found this wicked WW comic at Force Monkeys. This is the link:
http://www.gamespy.com/comics/forcemonkeys/comics/04-08-03/

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 30, 2003, 02:55:23 AM »

Sorry, but I'm not really a Sonic fan. I found the Activision Anthology (i think that's right) at EB on saturday - old school style!
I grew up on those games, like Pitfall and Frogger.

If I had a PS2 I'd get that after Zelda. I'll probably get SoA because I sold off GS1 after I finished it, before I heard of the linkup with the sequel

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 29, 2003, 11:33:45 PM »

I tell you, between Zelda: WW, Skies of Arcadia and Golden Sun: The Lost Age, and the fact I have no free time, this would be a great month for RPG fans. Curse the fact I have no money!

Zelda's a given, but which other one should I get?

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 28, 2003, 03:21:05 AM »

I tried the 60Hz mode on my old tv, and the game was in black and white and quite hard to see.

Maybe that's how you can tell the game will play on your tv?

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 27, 2003, 08:47:03 PM »

I'm not sure about that "only" 60Hz thing. Sure, it shows it on the box, and my knowledge of non-English ain't good, but it just seems stupid that they'd do that.

What does "nur" mean in German? Only. Alright, I've been proven wrong. Now that definitely is stupid, but think of it as an uber-OoT and Master Quest. Mmm, smooth!

Termin8: Your TV should be fine. There's no sure way to check unless you bootup a game that you have that has a 60Hz mode (eg Smash Bros or Burnout are two that I have). I think you hold down B during startup, and you get a screen that asks you if you want 60Hz mode on. If you lose colour, then it can't handle it. 60Hz has a better refresh rate (more images each second) and so the picture is smoother.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 26, 2003, 11:54:00 PM »

Yay, that's a killer story Infernal. Any story involving Canada, Twister, Peach and magic shoes gets my thumbs up.

Just got the new Frenzal Rhomb album. Man that is some funny stuff! Hippie Song, Ball Chef and White World are the best ones, but they're all good.

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Nintendo Gaming / Metroid Prime 2

« on: April 26, 2003, 04:34:16 AM »

Of course MP2 will improve on the original - I don't think they'd let the Metroid franchise get screwed around like that.
E3 is looking very sweet all round.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 26, 2003, 04:16:46 AM »

Yeah, I've tried to ignore as much details as possible, so hopefully I can be as surprised as I was in OoT.
Man, that had some nice twists in the plot. And Metroid Prime, that had a great storyline through the scanning.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 26, 2003, 04:07:02 AM »

A gaming chick is indeed a rare one. Now a Nintendo gaming chick - good luck is definitely in order.

As for the tap-dancing fish, I'm down with that idea Infernal!

Me, I prefer the partying chick. I'm losing touch with the Cube because I'm too busy being social/drunk. I think any chick I'm interested in will have to outdrink me, or drag my sorry self home or to a designated passout point. Both, and I'll have to hold on to her.
There is this one chick from Uni who is really hot, and really flirty with me, and she's a party animal, but I ended up dragging her around town on a pub crawl because she was messed up (while I wasted valuable drinking time) so I'm still looking for that perfect chick! Or maybe I'm just too lazy.

And the Zelda two-disc set looks delicious. And I've pre-ordered too! Yay! Did the US people have to put a deposit down, because I heard it was bought outright at some places? I've got $10 down on WW, and two free games too!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 24, 2003, 03:31:49 PM »

Heh, creator of GTA3. Yeah, there's always someone to blame for all the world's problems. I blame them.

As for women, all of them are f@#ked. Doesn't mean you give up on them. It just means that it's hell. Always.

Mmm, Golden Sun 2 looks very tempting at the moment. I wish I still had the first one (sold it to some kid for $25 - I'm laughing!) so that I could find out this whole link thing, but I'll live.

But I'm broke. So that's that.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 23, 2003, 11:49:04 PM »

Meh, what's new. At least Pokemon is beating GTA: VC.

Joey, you're friend sounds like someone I never want to be. I try to finish every game i buy, unless I really cannot stand the game, which is rare. The last game I didn't finish is Nightfire on GC, but that may change.

I'm up to the final final boss in Metroid Prime. Not the first part, but the really annoying part after that. I should get back to it, but I don't want to finish it. The boss before that was awesome. Not frustrating, but really challenging and a classic battle.

Bah, holidays are over soon. And I still haven't got into ED. I'll hang my head in shame.

[Mario:]

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 15, 2003, 04:06:10 PM »

Mario: Sir, I challenge you to a duel. I prefer pistols at dawn, or SSB:M when I can't be bothered getting up that early. I prefer Link, but occasionally use the fuzzy yellow rat when I want to annoy. Taunt? Hell yeah!

Infernal: I remember the 133T tag! That was cool. I'd play as that except I started with the tag SHFT so meh. There's others like SHIG and N00B, but we like to personalise. One of my friends called himself COON, so now we just call him Coon, even when we're at SSB:M.
And the meaningless MSN conversations are cool. I wish I wrote down some of the stuff that I've said recently. WTF is definitely applicable! Things like "Selley's No More *insert word*" and "I Can't Believe it's not *insert word*" are my favourite meaningless statements!

Ai Ai: Monkey suit. That just the icing on any gaming night. How about getting multiple suits and having "Monkey Olympics." I've been inspired by the Simpsons last week. Now all I need is a few suits! Or just some monkeys.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 14, 2003, 10:57:23 PM »

Well I just had a "I Can't Believe it's not a Gamecube night!" last night.
From about 10 until 4.30am when i crashed, we played Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros and Burnout. Considering my friends haven't played much of these games, it was much owning for me.
Highlight of the night: 3 vs 1 Team Match in the Fountain Level of Smash Bros. Me versus three mates. It came down to sudden death. My element. I was Pikachu (the only time in the night that I was the yellow furball). Three people around me.
Thunderbolt. There goes Kirby.
Thunder Jolt. Bye Roy.
Side Kick. Seeya Samus.
Blink and you'd miss it. It was over that quick. And I won. And i ran to avoid a beating

I look forward to the next one. I can't believe we played those games for so long. Eh, who cares? Back to Metroid.


**********SPOILER*****************



Just beated the Omega Pirate. Man I hate his guts. Took me a good six tries because he kept on backhanding me. Damn big ugly guy. And is it just me or is the Phazon Suit totally cool. And now I have to backtrack for abot 6 of the 12 Chozo artifacts. Bah! And I'm loving every moment.





************END SPOILER****************

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 13, 2003, 02:15:15 PM »

Damn you guys. That would be sweet to have a Cube night. Pity I'm in Adelaide. Bah.

Hang on a sec. Let me do the maths...

House to self + people over + Metroid Prime = chance to rub their noses in it!

Yay! And lots of pizza too!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 11, 2003, 09:17:14 PM »

Hey PIAC, that's a cool Nintendo room.

Is that an axe i see below the TV? What the...?
And go NOFX! Go hard!

I'm hardly ever in my room at the moment. Apart from sleeping(if i make it home ) And playing Prime.
That reminds me...*runs back to Metroid*

My room is quite devoid of Nintendo stuff. Apart from the Cube. I'm looking at getting a computer for my own use, but I don't really have room for it. Heh, I'll just make some room.

Have you seen the Samus cardboard cutouts around? I'm gonna try and claim one from work. The guys in EB said Nintendo wanted them back so I don't really like my odds, but I'll try anyway.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 10, 2003, 05:53:38 PM »

Hooray! Nintendo is on top again, thanks to those little monsters.
Who said Pokemon was dead? They obviously forgot to tell everyone!

And I'm on holidays now! Hooray!

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General Chat / IMPORTANT FOR ANY MATRIX FAN

« on: April 09, 2003, 10:30:07 PM »

Hopefully they'll bundle the Animatrix with the three Matrix movies when they all make it to DVD. That would be sweet - the definitive Matrix collection. Mmmm.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 09, 2003, 10:23:33 PM »

Be the mule PIAC!

Ah, only one more day! Then it's two weeks off, partying, recovering and sleeping in, hopefully in that order. And of course I can't forget Samus.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 09, 2003, 04:12:36 AM »

PIAC, five tries? Man, I hate to brag but I got it first time. Piece of cake.

I loved the Space Pirate fortress. That was the best part of the game so far.
And I am getting seriously annoyed by the Chozo ghosts who keep appearing. Three at once is very very annoying!

I've gone 24 hours without playing Metroid. Aurgh!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 06, 2003, 10:45:33 PM »

Yeah, DOAXBV is just a game sold on sex appeal. One of my mates was given it by his girlfriend following a fight. That would be the only way I'd accept it.

As for Harvey Norman, they sell whatever is thrown at them, especially when they deal with Microsoft or Sony. I guess I'm lucky because I have two places nearby (I work at a Big W, just near EB) so I can get games with discount, or pricematch with EB.

As for that WW Zelda and Ganondorf rumour, I haven't heard it elsewhere. I don't believe it. I think it would have surfaced by now in Japan if it were true.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 05, 2003, 04:29:50 PM »

Yeah, the Metroid ad was good. "In the darkness, only one thing lives: evil." I love that quote. I saw it twice in the Simpsons Hour on Friday night while 'studying.'

Haven't got that far into Metroid Prime - just got the Super Missiles power-up. I remember somewhere they mentioned the ragdoll physics of the Space Pirates when they are shot were realistic, and those flying pirates are damn realistic, especially when they crash and die. Awesome stuff.

Holidays! Five more days. But I have exams in between so Metroid will have to wait. My little bro is playing it for me, getting into Metroid. He has no idea about half of it, but he's still loving it.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: April 02, 2003, 10:43:08 PM »

Termin8: I'm from Adelaide. Yeah, I've heard all the jokes about it, but it ain't that bad. Pity I'm the only Cubist around here. The guys at my local EB know me on a first-name basis. All my mates have XBOXs or PS2s, so I hear a fair bit about Halo and that.

I got Metroid today. And I've played it for 3 hours straight. I didn't really get that far, but I don't mind. I have to keep telling myself to stop wandering through the levels and move along. It's that jaw-dropping good. I can't wait to show it off to my mates. Just to rub it in more.

Forget Halo. I've played both, and Metroid looks way better. Sure the controls are different, but its the only way to play a Metroid game.

As before, I don't have ICQ, but I'm on MSN from time to time. Have a look back through this thread for my e-mail.  

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: March 31, 2003, 09:53:43 PM »

Man, you go away for a weekend and this happens! Wow. This is a good start for NOAus getting back in Australia.

Termin8, brilliant article. I wish I had come along. Apart from the 800km or so to drive to Sydney, I would have dropped everything. And the free stuff!!

Mario, well done on picking up Prime. I played the demo today and I have to say, "Wow, this game is absolutely amazing!" And now I am getting it on Thursday, when it comes out. The controls are definitely unusual, but I was getting the hang of it by the end of the 7 min demo.

And I have pre-ordered Zelda: WW too, because of the bonus disk offer. I have no self-control.

Yay, the holidays are coming up! Lots of time playing Metroid and getting back into Eternal Darkness!

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: March 24, 2003, 10:25:35 PM »

Monkey, the drink you invented sounds like a killer sugar fix. I'll have to try it sometime.
Hmm, I'll have to start looking around for interesting mixed drinks with alcohol. And not those lolly drinks. Those are pathetic. Give me something which you can do yourself, and deliberately give yourself something too strong.
Any recommended ones, just e-mail it to me at zhifty_shifty@yahoo.com.au. Cheers.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: March 23, 2003, 05:36:11 PM »

Yeah, I'd do the cowboy thing for $100.

I saw an ad for the Game Boy SP at a bustop. It has a cockroach playing the SP, with the backlight on too. Pretty sweet!

And Metroid. Another silent Nintendo release coming up. But it's not out for a couple of weeks yet, I think.