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  • Manachild wrote on dankempster's wall
    Its alright man, i'm sure your generally pretty occupied with college and what not. Uncharted 2 is a fantastic game. There were a few frustrating moments for me but no game is perfect. What people say about that games visuals is 100% spot on. Its one gorgeous looking game. I've been pacing myself with the game beating it over a number of days. I'm currently up to the 2nd last ...
    2 weeks, 5 days ago
Oct. 14, 2009
  • Manachild replied to the topic European 250G w\ game bundles coming stateside? in the PlayStation 3 board.
    The 250gb PS3's came out in australia today actually. EB games are bundling Uncharted 2 and COD4 with it.
    3 weeks, 3 days ago
  • Manachild wrote on Pepsiman's wall
    yeah, south korea and japan.... i've decided that i will probably have to go on my own so thats scary i guess lol. I keep thinking about how awesome it would be to be in south korea on the day starcraft 2 is released with a video camera lol :)
    3 weeks, 3 days ago
  • Manachild wrote on Pepsiman's wall
    Sup... whats been happening? Guess what... i can afford to go overseas' in may.... hooray for me lol
    3 weeks, 3 days ago
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  • Manachild wrote on Pepsiman's wall
    For some reason to begin with i thought P3P was a typo for PSP and i thought "why is pepsiman suddenly excited for the psp"
    1 month, 1 week ago
Sept. 28, 2009
  • Manachild commented on Symphony's topic Aion Adventures - Appendix 1: Emotes!
    Symphony, thanks again for taking the time to write up some more stuff about Aion. i will be interested to know how you feel about the game once its been out for a while and if you feel it holds up or not.  Cause part of me wants to get a pc now (not just for this game mind, dragon age i feel will be better on pc and maybe ...
    1 month, 1 week ago
Sept. 27, 2009
  • Manachild commented on Symphony's topic Aion Adventures - Part 4: Ascension! (levels 6-10)
    I am very much enjoying these blogs you are putting together about aion and the screenshots that you are providing, it makes me want to try the game alot. But sadly i cannot. I use a mac, i could run bootcamp and give it a shot but this computer only has a 256mb Radeon HD2600pro so i'm not game enough to try.
    1 month, 1 week ago

Just got Killzone 2!
Added by Manachild on Feb. 25, 2009
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Hooray for me i guess lol
Related to: Killzone 2

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My Arcade stick arrived!
Added by Manachild on Feb. 2, 2009
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So as some people may remember, last week i was in a prediciment. I wasnt sure whether i should take the plunge or not and fork out for a real arcade pro.
Well i did and it arrived today!
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I havent had the chance to use it much yet, but i've played a bit of tekken dark ressurection with it, and its SWEEEET.
Related to: PlayStation 3, Street Fighter IV, Tekken: Dark Resurrection

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Am i being over indulgent?
Added by Manachild on Jan. 28, 2009
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Recently i won a TomTom XL Traffic In-car sat nav, and since i have no use for it, sold it for a good amount of money on ebay.
So with this extra money to burn and SFIV's release looming in the not so distant future, i started looking at arcade sticks.
I've been looking through play-asia and a crazy part of me wants to buy this one:



























I've been nerding out about it for months, wanting to get one, but haven't had the money to do so until now.
However, given the fact that this stick costs $129 USD for me to import to australia + postage, am i being too rash?
Keep in mind that EB games in australia are not offering the SFIV sticks or pads at all. So i feel i need (ok want... yeah yeah), something.
Does anyone have any opinion's on good alternative sticks along the lines of this one, or perhaps you have had experiences with this particular stick and can provide some insight.
I just didn't want to get something cheap like a EX2/3 or a FS3, i wanted to make a good investment on this.

Anyway i'll stop rambling.
Thoughts?
Related to: Street Fighter IV

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Fear 2 Demo Hands on and Performance Report..
Added by Manachild on Jan. 23, 2009
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So the fear 2 demo came out today in australia on both xbox live and the playstation store. The demo weighs in at about 689mb for the PS3 version and approximately 750 for the 360 version.
I played through both versions twice to see the difference in both performance and graphics.
The 360 version had better antialiasing and sharper textures, but it wasnt a huge huge difference to me unless i was standing still looking around, going out of my way to spot a difference.
The framerate however is where the 360 pulls out ahead however... 
Both versions of the game have the occasional momentary stutter (presumably whenever it creates an auto save for checkpoints), and both versions occasionally have slow downs, but the 360's were noticably less pronounced than the PS3 ones.
This was mostly apparent in the mech piloting section at the end of the demo, where the ps3 version was a tad choppy in parts. That all said tho, it is not at all game breaking for the ps3 version. Having played through Condemned 2 (monoliths previous game) on the ps3, and hearing about how bad the first fear game was on ps3, i can confidently say that Fear 2 is the best optimisation job monolith has done on ps3 so far.
Based on the demo If you have both systems i'd recommend getting the 360 version for the better frame rate and slightly better graphics. But if you only own a ps3, there is nothing gravely wrong with the performance at all. It was perfectly playable and the drop in framerate was no where near breaking to my enjoyment of the demo.

Related to: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

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Pepsiman 3 hours, 29 minutes ago
Pepsiman continues to love the sense of humor Atlus' localization team has in their work. Who else other than them would have Black Frost insult a boss by saying, “Hee-ho! It's a meatball! A talking meatball, ho!”
Symphony 13 hours, 48 minutes ago
Symphony is sleeping. Zzzz.
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dankempster thought Point Lookout was pretty cool, all told. Back to the Capital Wasteland to polish off some questing miscellany
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is playing games.
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