So yea, I write blogs every now and then. Mostly they're rubbish. Ocassionally they're mildly OK. It's a bit of a lucky dip in here.

• 3May 09

  What's happening at Gamespot AU?

  For those reading....

  You may or may not have noticed my lack of GSAU activity in the last...so many months. In short, I've just been busy and a few other things since I stopped posting.

  I guess the main thing that substantially limited the amount of free time I could dispose of on GSAU forums was that during my Uni holidays (when I would traditionally become a lazy, do nothing, game-playing, forum posting, lazy, do nothing drain on the economy) I instead, a much to my disappointment, did rather well at a job interview and worked full time for about 4 months at my local DSE store. Surprisingly, I actually quite enjoyed it. Well, I enjoyed the constant flow of money which was more than enough for me since I live at home. I didn't enjoy some of the less informed questions that sometimes got asked though. Better not go any further than that since it seems nowadays anything you write on the world wide webs can be used against you unfortunately.

  And then Uni started again so that's kept me busy, but at least I have a bit more time off.

  Gaming wise I've just been playing through GTA4 again. Got KZ2 as well, but was pretty disappointed with it. It looks amazing, but the aiming is just horrible and laggy. I invested in a new laptop as well which is nice as it allows me to play some PC games again, which I've missed since my old PC became underpowered and thus redundant. It's also amazing when hooked up to my Full HD TV. So on that I bought Mass Effect, but am finding it a bit slow to start off with. I also got Empire: Total War which I'm really enjoying now that they've ironed out most of the bugs and glitches.

  So what's changed around here? Anything I should know before I consider posting more regularly again? Mutinies? Rebellions? More of those awesome competitions? You get the idea. Let me know!

  • Posted May 3, 2009 3:19 am PT
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• 30Oct 08

  Why are those in charge so often out of touch with us?

  It annoys me sometimes. This blog isn't meant to be a proper discussion of issues, I just feel like complaining and I'm tired.

  At least I read in the SMH that the internet filtering plan is likely to meet a lot of resistance in the Senate, meaning it might not be passed, or might be passed with a lot of changes. The Liberals seem to be saving the day in the Senate, so Labor needs the Greens support plus the Family First support (any bets whether they will support it...) and then the SA guy. The Greens seem to be leaning towards the Liberal POV.

  I also read that despite the AG's in Australia having discussions on R18+ ratings for games in Australia, one of them (again, any bets?) has blocked the discussions from being made public, effectively putting an end to it for now. Basically wilst he is in office, we aint gonna be getting that R18+ rating. So anyone in SA, I don't care how good the rest of his policies are, just don't vote for him.

  With regard to the internet filtering proposal, I urge anyone who reads this to write to their MP. You may not get anything other than a standard response that they send to anyone who writes to them about the issue, but at least you should get something. I was surprised, but I got a reply (right click, view picture if part of it is cut off - bonus points for anyone who can tell me how to create a thumbnail for future pictures):

  

  • Posted Oct 30, 2008 6:02 am PT
  • Category: Rant
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• 17Oct 08

  Resistance 2 Impressions

  Well thanks to Gamespot AU I have just been to the Resistance 2 Special Event in Sydney where Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price demoed Resistance 2 and talked about the games industry in general.

  After this, we had a chance to play two levels from Resistance 2. One of them was the first level, which I think is set immediately after Resistance: FOM (they show the cutscene that was at the end of FOM), and the other was in a wooded area.

  The game is very similar to before and feels very familiar. It played pretty well and there were some pretty suspenseful parts in the second level because there are new enemies which are invisible until they are a few metres in front of you, and if they hit you once you're dead.

  Overall I'd say it's a pretty good looking game, but nothing over and beyond the first Resistance, although that's not necessarily a bad thing. That said, it didn't really grab me as being REALLY awesome. It's still a potential game to get (for me, anyway), but there are still other games I'd be more interested in getting first (Bioshock PS3 and Fallout 3 if you were wondering).

  So thanks again to GSAU for giving me the pass to the event, it was really good (but you guys, except Ramsay, disappeared really soon after the end of the discussion part of the event!).

  • Posted Oct 17, 2008 4:42 am PT
  • Category: Games
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