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Manachild

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My Arcade stick arrived!

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!
Here are some pics:


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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.
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Am i being over indulgent?

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:

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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?
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Fear 2 Demo Hands on and Performance Report..

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.

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You know your sharing in the madness when....

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    Foil1212: i posted that chat excerpt that you posted about "she doesnt like meat, excuse for not having to suck" to a friend on msn

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    and hes like

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    depending on how much she weights the use of ranch dressing can convince them

    <Wallace>    XD

    <Foil1212>    rofl...

    <Wallace>    i want to see a weight/ranch dressing table

    <Wallace>    for great knowledge

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    hahah

    <Foil1212>    YESSSS

    <Foil1212>    I would love to see a ranch dressing fetish porn site...

    <Foil1212>    wait, do I really?

    <Wallace>    im sure they exist

    <Wallace>    maybe not JUST ranch dressing

    <Foil1212>    google time!

    <Wallace>    :/

    <Wallace>    you go ahead

    <Foil1212>    >insert foodfetish site here that i've edited so that i dont get my ass kicked by mods< - Manachild

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    Ryan:

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    10:58

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    it proably would just be women covered in ranch dressing, pouring it over themselves and whatnot... so it has potential to be decently hot

    <Foil1212>    they put it over her back

    <Foil1212>    yeah, not that hot

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    "unlike creamed corn or gravy"

    <Foil1212>    you see someone pouring it on her back

    <Foil1212>    OW! Hot gravy?

    <Wallace>    D:

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    lol

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    thats pretty greasy

    <Foil1212>    there's only one gif at the bottom with tits

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    however if she turns down ranch i'm sure you could convince her if you used gravy

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    but that would mean her ass would be so big you have to walk around it

    <Foil1212>    everything else is just the back

    <Wallace>    lord i hope thats chocolate O.o

    <Foil1212>    it is

    <Wallace>    phew

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    FROM THE ASS

    <Wallace>    i was worried

    <Foil1212>    chocolate, ranch, and peanut butter

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    eww

    <Foil1212>    what did you think it was? feces on a food fetish blog?

    <Wallace>    no

    <Wallace>    i was just kidding :P

    <Wallace>    that peanut butter gif is uhhh

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    wallace wanted it to be scat

    <Wallace>    :/

    <Wallace>    oh no no no

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    this is all your fault foil

    <Wallace>    i'm not into teh scatpronz

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    at least thats what i'm saying

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    lol

    <Foil1212>    lol, I know

    <Foil1212>    my bad...

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    its stil lfunny tho

    <Foil1212>    :P

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    luckily were talkng about it here tho

    <Foil1212>    yeah, I rofl'd

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    people would freak out there

    |<--    Courage_Wolf has left irc.deltaanime.net (Ping timeout)

    <Foil1212>    not really, it's just TC and Matt really

    <Foil1212>    :/

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    lol

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    and maybe brukaoru

    <Foil1212>    they probably do this shit with each other! amirite TC?

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    its what happens in bshaf aftershow chats

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    every week

    <Foil1212>    yeah

    <Foil1212>    over skype webcam

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    i was on the bshaf last week, tc asked me to join in but i said no

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    since i'm such a prudant person

    <Foil1212>    FUCK GOING TO SLEEP

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    lol

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    all this weird porn talk has you wide awake

    <Foil1212>    my friend just knocked saying he was building an epic snow fort!

    <TC>    <%Foil1212> not really, it's just TC and Matt really

    <TC>    whats up?

    <TC>    lol

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    lol

    <Foil1212>    :P nothing

    <TC>    oh right the orgy

    <Manachild|Xfiles>    were talking about ranch dressing

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You know a mod is doing thier job right when...

Manachild>    HAMZ!
    <Foil1212>    !
    <Kamasama>    !!
    <Manachild>    hamz hates me
    * Manachild    cries
    <Hamz>    hola
    <Manachild>    heya :P
    <Hamz>    I hate you all equally
    <Manachild>    haha
    <Manachild>    that means your doing your job well
    <Hamz>    indeed
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SF4 Collectors Edition Price....

So, yeah we already know that in australia gaming is a bit more expensive, but this is rediculous by a huge margin, normallly full priced games for console here are between $89 and $119 Australian. Collectors Editions are generally $10-$20 more or $30 in the case of the GTAIV pack. The first CE that i ever saw down here that was purely purely rediculous was the MGS4 one which i paid $169 for, which had everything (more or less) that the US one had but it also included a figure of solid snake.

Now street fighter 4 is coming out soon, and guess what EB games wants for the CE for that game?

$199.... Yep.... $199.... for that much money i can import a Hori Real Arcade Pro 3, an arcade grade quality stick....  Fuck the CE.

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On the plus side, from what i've heard, europe and australia get both figures in each version. Apparently the US only gets RYU for ps3 version, and whoever that other character is for the 360 version.
Still... the price is rediculous.
To put things in perspective: $199 AUD is $136 US or $163 CAD.

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This Generation of Consoles is so messed up

This is the first blog post by me that wont be projected onto the main forums, mainly cause i know i'll get flamed if i do because i dont think this opinion is a very popular one.

I think this generation of consoles is messed up, why? because on 1 hand you have microsoft with thier software superiour console but abysmal quality hardware with a high failure rate. on the other hand you have the ps3, alot more reliable than the 360, but also more expensive and with a less impressive software library and online features.
The point i'm getting at here is that given my past history with the 360 and having my system die on me a number of times, i am convinced  that this generation of consoles is fucked up because i am being held hostage by microsoft, they know that i cant stay away because of thier impressive games library but i am at the mercy of thier horrid hardware and high failure rate. I know i cant make my ps3 as a complete alternative because A. the software library isnt as expansive and impressive to begin with, but there is also the fact that sony gives europe/australia the shaft when it comes to Playstation Store content. Yes Street Fighter HD Remix still isnt out yet on our store... those fuckers. And the most horrid thing is the fact that we will probably have to wait until febuary just to get it, thats what happened with puzzlefighter.
Retail games arent as much of a problem since the system is completely region free and i have imported games in the past like DIsgaea 3.
I just wish sony had of stepped up to the plate and cut the price of thier system, secured more exclusives and werent a marketting disaster.
I think the truth of the matter is, the xbox 360 has a deep design flaw that will prevent it from ever being completely fixed with console revisions and it will take until thier next console to hopefully make a more reliable system. on the other hand, at this point sony will never catch up this generation the end of 2008 was thier death rattle. That is all very disapointing cause the ps3 had a stretch this year where it was looking to really make some serious ground but it ended up falling flat again near the end.



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Let There Be Blood!!

This is a very small review of Let there be blood by Exodus.

Let there be blood is a re-recording of Exodus's 1985 thrash classic "bonded by blood". At the time of recording only 2 of the original members of exodus are in the band: Tom Hunting and Gary Holt.
The members of the current line up do well enough to re-perform these songs and they sound alot heavier than they did 23 years ago.
But at the end of the day it just sounds like a well recorded re-recording, the original fire from the original recording just isnt as present here. The album does however benifit from modern production values and from the apt guitar skills of Lee Altus (Heathen, Angel Witch). Rob Dukes, the bands vocalist since "shovel headed kill machine" is behind the mic once again. Although he is my least favourite Exodus vocalist i thought his performance on this album to be quite good and fitting.
Overall i thought the album was pretty good, but at this point in time there are much better metal albums out that i would rather listen to these days. The original bonded by blood is excellent and didnt really need a re-recording in my oppinion. But this is a great starting point in exodus for people who have never heard thier earlier material before.
3.5/5
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Stand Out Tracks:
Bonded By Blood
A Lesson in Violence
Piranha
Strike of the Beast
Deliver us to Evil

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Thanks to the random dude on youtube who had these up i guess....
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My Gaming Update Coming up to New Years

So i havent written a blog for a little while so i decided to talk about the games i've enjoyed lately, what i still need to play, and what my favourite game and gaming moment this year.

So a bit over a week ago i bought an xbox 360 and bought gears 2, banjo nuts and bolts, pgr4, and ninja gaiden 2. But its also given me the opportunity to go and get some games that i never got to play last time i had a 360 such as eternal sonata which i'm playing at the moment.

But all has not been perfect however. My Gears of War 2 disc will read error randomly from time to time, never in the same place, and the time it takes to do it varies. Sometimes i can go for up to 3 hours without ever seeing it. To begin with i freaked out and thought that maybe there was something wrong with my 360's disc drive but then i played about 4 hours of ninja gaiden 2, beat the first 5 or 6 missions in banjo and played a couple of hours of pgr4 without ever seeing said screen.
The disc for gears 2 itself is completely unmarked or scratched so i dont know whats going on there either..... 
The copy of eternal sonata that i bought today works fine aswell.

The other problem is that i borrowed fable 2 off of a friend of mine cause i was keen on playing through it and he was done with it. But i cant play it. Because it freezes every 5-20 minutes. I again freaked out thinking that something was wrong with my xbox, cause freezing like that that much can mean that the 3 red lights are about to come. But yet again... i went back to playing other games, no incident WHATSOEVER.... i really dont know whats going on here....

Out of curiosity i googled "Fable 2 Freezing" on google and found a 1up story from october which seemed to think that some other people had had this problem too and had fixed it from not downloading the co op patch or doing some other stuff like clearing cache. None of this helped me tho, and dude, that was back in october. Also i've not seen anyone here with said issue either...
On the plus side i'm enjoying eternal sonata alot, i've wanted to play this game for quite some time and it did come out on ps3 but i didnt feel like importing it since its not out here in australia yet. On the other hand even if it was.... ps3 eternal sonata is still full price, 360 eternal sonata i got for half price.... sounds like a winner. The art style is gorgeous in this game, absolutely beautiful... and the premise while i thought sounded retarded when i first heard about this game i feel is pretty neat when you get to playing the game. Its just a charming game so far and its a nice change of pace from the frantic action of say: Ninja gaiden 2 which i've played up to chapter 9 so far and have probably played the most out of any 360 game i have so far. That isnt to say i think its the best game i have, i just havent felt like playing banjo so much lately even tho its a great game so far.

Now onto GOTY stuff.....
GOTY stuff is interesting to talk about because i am more prone to choose a game that i had the most fun or entertainment value from over a game thats technically more perfect and has less flaws but i didnt sink my teeth into as much even tho i can appreciate it for its merits.
I think GOTY is its most interesting because of the discussion of what leads up to it rather than the actual act of saying what the GOTY is, cause it helps reflect on all the games that came out that year and you get to sit down and disect them all.

But without blathering on about it for a page i'd have to say that my favourite game this year was Metal Gear Solid 4. It also contains my favourite gaming moment this year. Which is the Metal Gear Vs Metal Gear boss fight. Metal Gear 4 was very much a game filled with epic and memorable moments for me but that boss fight and the microwave top it for me. Both were tense, and in the case of the boss fight, it was just plain fucking epic.

In 2009 there are plenty of games i'm looking forward to, Killzone 2, Infamous, Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain.... i am so stoked.

Well thats my scrappy abstract blog entry for today hah
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Bought alot of DLC

Alot of PSN games , map packs, costume stuff for SC4. DLC really speaks to my impulse buy mentality, i've spent quite a bit of money on it this year

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