@Stephen Totilo: There is a seperate leaderboard for every single level. You broke into the top 10,000 for the tutorial. I know the game is terrible but you shouldn't insult its sales without researching the facts.
@fanofthefett: Sounds to me like you completely missed his point. Don't let that stop you from abusing him though.
250 KP - Square Enix announces a Final Fantasy VII remake for PS3/360/Wii/DS/PSP (10000:1)
250 KP - Square Enix gives Final Fantasy XIII a more clear release date for the West than "2010." (5:1)
@SuperZombieMonkey: He... didn't use any big words.
@Svenn: Thank you! Mine was also in the spam folder, now I've got two keys since FilePlanet just gave me one.
@BPMΣ: Yeah, this one was pretty straightforward. The only one I had trouble with is the first question, I can think of a few answers that fit the question perfectly.
@AproposOfEverything: Why can't we have a good story and compelling gameplay? Then you wouldn't have to read a book again.
Never played the game but I love this one. Take my vote, TAKE ALL OF IT!
Half of the games I'm getting won't be out in Australia for another week or two, I'll mention them anyway. Resistance 2, Gears 2, Naruto, DBZ: Infinite World, Valkyria Chronicles. EndWar and Legendary are a possibility but I don't want to go spending too much, I'm saving up for a new car.
I have severe anger issues. Surprisingly, I've rarely broken any of my hardware during one of my fits, or I just don't remember. Either way, here is a couple I do remember.
I used to rent a lot of games in the PS1 days, one particular game (title MIA) would refuse to load no matter how many times I tried. I got fed up with it and threw it at the curtains, the disc shattered into multiple pieces. I was quite baffled that such a light throw against soft material could cause so much damage to a disc. Maybe it was fate, maybe I was destined to destroy that abomination. My mother didn't see it the same way, I guess I wouldn't either if I had to pay the rental store $100 AUD.
I had many tantrums when I used to play Battlefield 2: Modern Combat on the PS2. Since EA doesn't host any Australian servers, the best ping I could get was about 240 from the US servers. That led to many nights of frustration, especially when you know you should have killed someone in a certain situation but you end up dying instead. I couldn't count the amount of times I threw my Dual Shock 2 across the room, luckily the controller was never damaged (sturdy bastard).
Gears of War 1 is the real kicker, I absolutely detest server-side netcode. It goes against my very way of living. I like clients, clients are my friends. Servers though? They should all burn in hell. It wasn't so much the host advantage that bothered me, it's just the amount of times you die in the most unexplainable way. Before I played Gears, my positive feedback was hanging at around 95%, these days it hangs at around 40-45%. I should really turn off my microphone.
I was getting off track with the last paragraph. I did throw my 360 controller a couple times, but my headset generally got the most abuse. It lasted me 2 years, until the other day when I threw it against the wall five times within the space of an hour. The wires snapped off the circuit board, an easy fix but I just went out and bought myself a wireless headset instead ($70 AUD).
I just remembered another one but it's hardly related to gaming. My father and I got into a religious debate (I'm atheist) during easter when he expects me to go to church. After awhile, I grabbed my wireless headphones for my PC and threw it through 2 rooms, down the hallway and into the wall. The bugger still worked fine, although it lost most of its outer plating.
One of my mates would have a plethora of stories to share, he's broken a good 4 or 5 Xbox 360 controllers alone. If he wasn't in the army doing bush training at the moment, I'd get him to come on here and share.
@DARTH_TIGRIS:
Libo's 360.
Purchased on 03/29/2006.
RRoD occured on 06/19/2007.
Refurbished unit arrived on 08/10/2007 (Microsoft got my console back to me within a week, the delay was my own laziness).
Warranty expires on .
Libo is calm and collected.
@Katorok: You can, it just means you're running the risk of getting banned from Live.
I'm looking forward to Gears of War 2, I'm just worried that the game will use server-side netcode again. I value my life and I do not want to have a heart attack at a young age, thanks to some random coder that thought it'd be a good idea to not use client-side netcode.
@NevadaBabcia: Who cares? If I had known this a week ago, it wouldn't make a lick of difference. As long as they post important pieces on time (which they do), then it doesn't matter.
@Thanatos: Yes I do, fine sir. I have the link in my posting history from when I told Ashcraft about it, so here you go.
In recent memory, $150 AUD for Eye of Judgement. I believe I paid just as much for the FFVIII Limited Edition box.
@VeganTnT: Negative, but it looks awesome either way.
@CandiRainbow: Same, I don't see why anyone would want them to stop working on this one.
Although it's not very high on my favourite genre list, I'll have to go with FPS'. I can pick up any game and become competitive within the week. I hate to be an egomaniac, but this also applies to just about every genre out there that I've played. I like to think that I was born to play games.
@defuniak: Exactly, it is also a good backup just incase your primary console does die. Everyone I know has at least one pro and one arcade console, some of them have more than that. I'm going to go ahead and assume that the majority of the arcade sales are from pro gamers.
