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TalkBack / Re: Brash Entertainment Shuts Down

« on: November 19, 2008, 05:39:10 AM »

It's probably just some name dropping from licensing some tech from Factor 5.

I am surprised they managed to pump out 4 games over one and a half years. They must have been shooting real low.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Mafia XXIX Dead thread, AHH SHUCKS

« on: October 30, 2008, 07:14:30 AM »

Mostly sleeping. Was sick during the weekend and didn't feel like doing anything other than eating, sleeping and coughing up my lungs. Got well enough to go to an expo. Forgot about Mafia till today.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Mafia XXIX Dead thread, AHH SHUCKS

« on: October 30, 2008, 03:20:57 AM »

LOL. I got caught up and didn't get back to NWR till now. Bloody didn't even get to vote.

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TalkBack / Re: Tom Clancy's EndWar Announced for DS

« on: October 30, 2008, 03:12:45 AM »

"Tango Down"

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Mafia XXIX: "It's the Great Pumpkin (Mafia), Charlie Brown" Rules/Sign-up

« on: October 25, 2008, 03:45:46 AM »

Not yet rated for Jet A1, so I gotta make do with avgas to see mafia burn. You gonna need more roles soon.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Mafia XXIX: "It's the Great Pumpkin (Mafia), Charlie Brown" Rules/Sign-up

« on: October 24, 2008, 08:00:08 AM »

In like Avgas in a plane.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Mafia Hall Of Fame.

« on: October 24, 2008, 07:54:07 AM »

Great thread and all, but the Pink and yellow text is almost unreadable. If you would like to do something about it, I would much appreciate it.

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TalkBack / Re: The Conduit Receives Talented Voice Actors

« on: October 17, 2008, 08:22:40 AM »

LOL, Hercules and Xena was made up the road from where I lived all. I watched it back then before switching to Xena. It was dumb fun show.

While I have no clue where voice actors come from, I don't think they come out of no where. Part of the problem in the US is that Voice actors don't get that much respect in comparison to their Japanese counter parts. But considering how good even an average VA is in Japan, I am not surprised. In the US there are just not that many good VA's hence we always get the same people, over and over again.

As a Kiwi, I wish Sorbo luck, but I am not expecting much.

I did think for 2 secs they got Morgan Freeman, but that was some sort of alternate reality moment.

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General Chat / Re: TOKYO MARKET CRASH! Nintendo may have to cut jobs.

« on: October 12, 2008, 07:29:14 AM »

Nintendo is well capitalized and obviously continues to have great positive cash flow so yeah, most of this I believe is panic selling, with everyone unloading their positions to increase their own liquidity, i.e investment firms etc.

China and India's accession just got that much easier.

Not really as their accession are tied to US trade. China is set to implode when the US finally stops spending money on junk. India will do much better though as they are no where as reliant on the US on their growth.

Can't wait finally for the death of the American car industry and the end of their truly rubbish cars.

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General Chat / Re: You guys, my childhood hurts.

« on: October 12, 2008, 07:11:03 AM »

At least Bulma looks mighty fine. HAWT! SNIP

Chow Young Fat looks naked without guns. Yes, he needs guns, lots of guns. One in each hand.

Please try and avoid overly sexist terminology.  Thanks.
~Pale

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Do you have any questions about Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World?

« on: October 12, 2008, 06:51:53 AM »

Will there be improved Union attacks that involve more than 2 characters and will the utility of unison attacks increase?

Had mid-battle party member substitution been considered and if so why not or maybe in a future title?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: September 23, 2008, 08:26:40 AM »

If you have ever lived in Japan outside of a hotel room space IS a premium. It is one of many issues that the 360 has. The failure rate would have been considered an insult.

For Sony, in Japan size might have been an issue, it really boils down to a general failure on their part in understanding any part of the market. Over priced, **** PR messages, lack of direction other than Blue-Ray. The same dangling of killer games that plagued the N64, but the 64 delivered, abet far too late.

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TalkBack / Re: Perrin Kaplan to Return to Gaming

« on: September 08, 2008, 11:20:12 AM »

Given the level of opponent she comes up against, I m not surprised she does get a little bored. Hence how playful she is with her interviews. Sure, your not really getting any information, but you can't help but be entertained by it all.

Of course she has fallen on her own sword with here region-free comment and such. But it isn't Bush level of stupid where you have comments like "You will work a second job to get a PS3" or "There is no reliability issues with the 360".

Now things from Nintendo are just as sterile as they are from Sony and MS.

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General Chat / Re: Superman Reboot

« on: September 02, 2008, 08:37:23 AM »

But a Zombie Superman would be EVIL.

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TalkBack / Re: Jagged Alliance Receiving a DS Port

« on: August 28, 2008, 10:11:57 AM »

Actually, I didn't mind that wildfire was difficult. I was just that it was a wall. I wouldn't mind seeing masses of troops been sent against my mercs, it's just that they send them at you in like the second encounter not near end game. Your way under equipped. Half the men are using Pistols or SMGs. Nothing better than level II kevlar and a steel helmet. No scopes, lasers or pods. Maybe one actual rifle, usually the M14 (A fine weapon but still).

JA2 Vanilla is just right for most people, but the end game just doesn't come off as epic. The game also doesn't quite spend enough time with both sides using pistols. They get tossed all the too quickly.

If they do enhance this, I hope they effectively give us a 3D version, but maybe that is for the Wii?

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TalkBack / Re: Jagged Alliance Receiving a DS Port

« on: August 28, 2008, 01:46:56 AM »

I wonder if it is going to be a straight port or are they going to include some additions that Wildfire had. Wildfire's difficulty makes me throw chucks even though I like alot of the new fetures.

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General Chat / Re: Why is nobody talking about the Olympics ?

« on: August 22, 2008, 10:33:24 PM »

Thats really ****ing strange. Why are they so obsessed?

Chinese people and their government have this huge inferiority complex. I read some article how they were completely distressed and worried when the japanese passed them in average height among the population for instance. The opening ceremony was for me further proof of this. It was awesome so I didn't really care anyway.


I watch the olympics for the sports that are meant to be seen, like synchronized swimming, or gimnastics, they do some pretty cool things, but thats about it, team and ball sports as well as athleticism events are just boring to watch.

Throw in the concept of "Face" and all that goes up to an entirely new level. Like the stupid Russian jokes like "In Russia you don't eat the food, the food eats you!", if a problem a looks alright from the outside, there IS no problem. That's why they have no qualms about faking chunks of the opening or handbags etc. The Olympics has been an epic ego project for China not unlike the weird dances Kim has in North Korea when the mood suits him. Smog, there is no smog.

Unfortunately it all very short sighted and in the information age, these constant cover ups keep blowing up in their faces.

As for watching it, well, I am usually too busy to watch much these days, alone watch sports I actually want to watch so to hell with it. Besides the scandals that hover around these Olympics are far more interesting than most of the games. I gives great insight as to how and what the hosting nation feels.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: I've been playing a lot of Gamecube lately

« on: August 14, 2008, 06:30:28 AM »

My GC has been through three countries and a region mod. It's also a Japanese Launch Cube to boot. It's a tank.

Personally, I wish my cube didn't have any color at all. A transparent one would be awesome.

Since I haven't gotten myself a wii yet, I am still going through a lot of classic games on the cube. I have a lot more games for it that I ever had for the N64.

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General Gaming / Re: Aussie Rock Band 1 pricing = screw plastic instruments make a real band

« on: July 30, 2008, 04:19:47 AM »

Hell it's stuff like that on a lower level that has stopped me from buying a Wii so far and invested more into my DS and older GC games. The Wii itself here in NZ is readily available, but I just don't want to deal with this on the local level. I will wait for an American Wii at a reasonable price.

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General Gaming / Re: Star Trek Online is official!

« on: July 30, 2008, 04:13:06 AM »

Enterprise was trash. DS9 has some of the best episodes (Section 13) and most hated characters in trek (Winn). Voyager while overall was pretty mundane, had some excellent episodes like the Doctor's moral breakdown. TNG has Picard and great Q episodes, but did come off a bit too clean. It also brought us First Contact, a great movie.

TOS has to be watched while taking in to consideration of the time it was made, like Adam West Batman. Technical issues aside seeing it was never made to be to be scrutinized as closely as neckbeards do these days with any show, it's pretty good. Da Daa Da Da Daaa Da Daa.

As for this game, it looks good graphically. As for game play, it's going to be very difficult to see how it would work. Is it going to b about away missions? or EVE clone? Messy half half of each? Ships are own individually, or are basically flying clan rooms? Beside all the technical problems how is it going to overcome the WOW factor?

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TalkBack / Re: Dead Rising Receiving a Wii Port

« on: July 18, 2008, 02:34:02 PM »

Thinking back to when I played this, the AI was thick and it wasn't only the zombies. The Zombies had a surprisingly small aggression radius and didn't move much outside of that. The survivors were legally blind with no peripheral vision and were very generous with friendly fire, especially if given a shotgun. At this point I doubt CPU power is going to hold back the Wii version of the game.

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TalkBack / Re: Wii MotionPlus Technology Provider Reveals the Guts Behind the Device

« on: July 18, 2008, 02:16:50 PM »

Now that the Wiimote can now do pitch roll and yaw combined with the accelerometers it can do exactly what we all though it should have done in the first place but couldn't do with the accelerometers alone.

The Keyword here is Dead Reckoning. The system knows the Wiimote shouldn't be more than 2 meters away from it's calibrated position (If it isn't, maybe someone should be using a strap) so all it's estimates as to where it is should effectively render the system 1:1 in relation as to where it thinks it is over short periods of time. Since it isn't traveling far and not going to be used at the North or South pole errors that appear in aircraft gyroscopes are going to be less evident. Anyone who has done a SADIE check will know what I am talking about. looked up the product in question Since it's a RATE gyro it doesn't care about drift, only how many degrees in the X/Y axis it passed through in the last 1/140th of a second. Also, my guess is that every time it gets a good look at the sensor bar it gets re-calibrated. It isn't a true gyro, but along with the other sensors, it is good enough for gaming.

As potentially painful as it has the potential to be, they need to integrate this into a Wiimote V2.0. They have the add-on to upgrade existing controllers. They do need to make this standard. Yes I am telling Nintendo to do what Sony did with PSX and re-standardize the controller. They can do this by releasing Wiisports 2 as a pack-in. Bigger better badder.

Here is the product in question http://www.invensense.com/products/idg_600.html It's quite clever and it's Nintendo Tough.

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General Chat / Re: Do I even need to buy a new DVD player?

« on: June 24, 2008, 11:23:36 PM »

Stick with the Mac.

The DVD software on it is superior to any DVD player out there. Since your screen sizes are about the same there would be no advantage to having another box around just for DVD. Also since your TV is so small, I am guessing hat it doesn't even sport stereo sound.

Assuming that your running 10.4.xx it has a great de-interlace functions and zoom and what not.

Also I don't know why you think it's weird to watch something on a monitor since it is the same thing....

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General Chat / Re: Not to be an open source tool....

« on: June 20, 2008, 07:22:43 AM »

I must be a real tool since I don't use any of the above browsers. I run a Mac and I use something called Camino. It is high speed low drag kind of browser. It isn't quite as fully featured as most other browsers out there, but runs fast, real fast. Even faster if you grab the optimized version for your processor. It has all the important things like spell check, ad/flash blocking, tab browsing.

Although it's handling of movies has something left to be desired.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Cockpit jokes here please

« on: June 03, 2008, 03:40:38 AM »

one more:

"The three worst things to hear in the cockpit:
The second officer says, "Oh ****!"
The first officer says, "I have an idea!"
The captain say, "Hey, watch this!"

I just wanted to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.

who is the second person that became a pilot?

hahha. That is a good one.

The captain say, "Hey, watch this!"

It's happens a little more often that you think.

Who is the second person out there?