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Originally Posted by badtrany

Well I changed my mind and got a Ps3 .....

Congrats BT. The PS3 rocks.

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Originally Posted by badtrany

.......dont be badder than me.

As if that's possible.

Hey all, first post on samesame

I have an xbox 360 and for the last 6 months have been loving Skyrim, Kingdoms of Amalur and Mass Effect 3 (among others)

Anyone on here playing Dragons Dogma? looking at it for my next buy.

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I played skyrim, Mainly just to kick the goats off the mountains lol

Hahaha Bobby, I still play Skyrim just to be a hunter! I hunt with Stealth!!!

Also Buggalugz, lol I roast a few chickens everynow and then! Skyrim never gets boring for me!

BadTranny, you bad gurl! No ones badder than you! You know that lol.

Also welcome to the forums Honeybadger, as you can tell by this thread we have a variety of threads out there, so yeah feel at home an feel welcome! Also hows Dragons Dogma, been looking at it for a while now.

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Also welcome to the forums Honeybadger, as you can tell by this thread we have a variety of threads out there, so yeah feel at home an feel welcome! Also hows Dragons Dogma, been looking at it for a while now.

Thanks Marko

Haven't got dragons dogma just yet, have it on order though. Was getting buyers remorse because I'm seeing mixed reviews, will let you know what I think when it comes.

Sounds good mate! Doesn't hurt to have a good ole trial of a game! Either way keep us posted! :]

Yeah also been looking at Dragon's Dogma... I played the demo on PS3 and the combat is kinda fun - especially the grabbing onto giant beasts and stabbing away at their head kinda action... but the demo was RIDICULOUSLY short, took me about 25 minutes to download and install and about 10 minutes to complete.

And yeah, unsure how I really feel about the lack of npc companions with any personality since they're all essentially golems.

Yup, me
i play league of legends and counter strike source

Lately I have been trying a rpg game called Dark Souls, and to say that it is a difficult game to play is a bloody understatement, it is relentless as I am pretty much getting killed almost every corner (when you do survive you actually feel rewarded), but of saying that it is a rather strangely addictive a rather good game when you get into it and give it a chance.

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Yeah also been looking at Dragon's Dogma... I played the demo on PS3 and the combat is kinda fun - especially the grabbing onto giant beasts and stabbing away at their head kinda action... but the demo was RIDICULOUSLY short, took me about 25 minutes to download and install and about 10 minutes to complete.

And yeah, unsure how I really feel about the lack of npc companions with any personality since they're all essentially golems.

Yeah I've had a couple of people tell me not to bother with the demo, for that exact reason. The idea with the npcs actually interests me a little considering one of them is also customisable, and having people be able to rent them seems cool, but lack of personality in npc companions isn't something I know how I feel about either.

moviefan84 - dark souls is a great game, but also one of the few games i've ever rage quit, (Super Street Fighter 4 being the most recent other)

Just bought Spec Ops: The Line - not my usual kind of game but was compelled to try it after that fascinating review on Good Game. So I'll report back when I'm done!

Grrrr I'm seriously thinking about getting a PS3.

Only having a computer means I only can play a few games (WoW, Diablo 3 etc) and many games I wanna play (Silent Hill, Resident Evil etc) are all available on PS3!

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Grrrr I'm seriously thinking about getting a PS3.

Only having a computer means I only can play a few games (WoW, Diablo 3 etc) and many games I wanna play (Silent Hill, Resident Evil etc) are all available on PS3!

Have you checked out Steam? They release a lot of games on pc that are also on consoles. Res Evil 5 is on there.

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moviefan84 - dark souls is a great game, but also one of the few games i've ever rage quit, (Super Street Fighter 4 being the most recent other)

Yeah, their have been many times in this game where I have been frustrated on how hard it is but it is a great game and addictive.

Gaming can sometimes be fatal.

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A TAIWAN teenager has collapsed and died at an internet cafe after playing Diablo 3, a popular online video game, for 40 consecutive hours, local media say.

The 18-year-old identified by only his surname, Chuang, booked a private room at the cafe in Tainan, southern Taiwan, around noon on July 13 and played for nearly two days without eating, the United Daily News broadsheet reported on Tuesday.

On the morning of July 15, an attendant entered the room and found Chuang resting on a table. After the attendant woke him, he stood, took a few steps and then collapsed, the report said.

He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a local hospital.
Police were investigating the cause of death and an autopsy was being carried out, the newspaper reported.
They speculated that long hours in a sedentary position created cardiovascular problems for Chuang, the report said.
Blizzard, the game maker that produces Diablo III, says it's important people play in moderation.

"While we recognise that it's ultimately up to each individual or their parent or guardian to determine playing habits, we feel that moderation is clearly important, and that a person's day-to-day life should take precedence over any form of entertainment," a spokesman said.

This is the second death in Taiwan from playing video games this year.
In February, a man in New Taipei was found dead, slumped in a chair facing a computer with his arms still reaching out for the keyboard after playing for 23 hours. The cause of death was reported as cardiac arrest.


Ref: http://www.news.com.au/technology/ga...-1226429628258

Hey Marko you checked out game beholder yet? Skyrim you say? Do you do that in a plane? Sounds hot

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Hey Marko you checked out game beholder yet? Skyrim you say? Do you do that in a plane? Sounds hot

Hahahaha actually I said that about the name Skyrim to my Houso when it first came out. A sex act carried out a mile or more high!

Not to do with Gaming, but still an interesting, if not amusing read, especially given "Obvious trolls are Obvious" these days. :]

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AFTER years of trying to win over hearts and minds in the field, the US State Department has a new tactic in the war on terror - trolling.

A Silicon Valley dot com veteran now working for the Government has launched a program called “Viral Peace” which aims to occupy online terror sites and shame, humiliate and annoy fundamentalists, Wired reports.

State Department senior technology adviser Shahed Amanullah told the magazine he wanted to use “logic, humour, satire, [and] religious arguments, not just to confront [extremists], but to undermine and demoralize them”.

Presumably this will involve infiltrating comment threads with lots of comments like "LAME" "You call yourselves a terrorist?", flame wars and pedobears.

Mr Amanullah said rather than trying to censor or take down these extremist websites, a better strategy would be to undermine the macho element so heavily promoted across them.

“Online extremists have an energy," he said. "They’ve got a vitality that frankly attracts some of these at-risk people.
“It appeals to macho, it appeals to people’s rebellious nature, it appeals to people who feel downtrodden.”

The aim of the program is to train trolls internationally and let them do the work in their own languages and cultures.
“I want to prove you can do small, inexpensive, high-impact projects that don’t just talk about the problem but solve the problem,” Mr Amanullah said. “And solve it the right way: not with the government’s heavy hand but by empowering local people to do what they already know to do but don’t know how.”

Leading jihad researcher Jarret Brachman agreed with this tactic, calling the people who post on the forums "massive narcissists who need constant ego boosts".

“If you can get rid of them, it’ll pay dividends,” Mr Brachman said.

Ref: http://www.news.com.au/technology/tr...-1226430052754

Hey guys,
There is a bunch of us Sydney gay gaymers...or gaymers as it would be that get together regularly. Join us

Website: sydneygaymers.net
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SydneyGaymers/

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Have you checked out Steam? They release a lot of games on pc that are also on consoles. Res Evil 5 is on there.

Unfortunately I'm on a Mac

Guess getting a P3 for gaming only sounds really good for me.

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Hey guys,
There is a bunch of us Sydney gay gaymers...or gaymers as it would be that get together regularly. Join us

Website: sydneygaymers.net
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SydneyGaymers/

so jelly!

we need this in brisbane

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Not to do with Gaming, but still an interesting, if not amusing read, especially given "Obvious trolls are Obvious" these days. :]

Anybody else feel like this could really backfire in a big way?

Happy to hear a certain Husky member has evolved to a console! :]

Also welcome Zoople.

my partner plays Dark Souls

It is very good.. apparently.

Bit Satanic for my liking...

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Police commissioner Andrew Scipione under fire for video game comments

NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione had "no idea what he was talking about" when he blamed a rise in teen knife crime to violent video games, according to a leading video game psychologist.

"In fact, in most countries youth violence has reached 40 year lows during the video game epoch," said Dr Christopher Ferguson, associate professor of psychology and communication at the University of Texas.

Mr Scipione told The Daily Telegraph that young people were being desensitised to violence by playing out deadly scenarios on their computer screens. He said teenagers were being rewarded for killing and raping people, stealing money from prostitutes and crashing cars.

"The thing that's concerning me is the prevalence of people who are at this stage not just prepared to carry a knife, but prepared to use it," Mr Scipione said.
"That has increased significantly."

Dr Ferguson told news.com.au that Mr Scipione's claims were "irresponsible" and "based on no good research data as an emotional reaction to a 'recent spate' of knifings that could simply be due to a random fluctuation in crime rates".


The video game expert said Mr Scipione ignored longer trends that showed no increases in youth violence.
A report by the Australian Institute of Criminology released in March showed crime rates had fallen across most major categories. It showed that car theft had dropped over 60 per cent over the past decade and homicides had dropped by 27 per cent between 1996 and 2010.

“Although many video games do allow players to explore a range of moral choices both good and bad, they do not typically set up rigid reward structures to reward antisocial behaviour,” Dr Ferguson said.
“Many games have considerable consequences for the moral choices players make.”
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Professor of Communication and Media at Bond University, Dr Jeffrey Brand, told news.com.au that Mr Scipione had ignored several major studies that found no conclusive proof that violent video games made people violent.
In 2010, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case from California law enforcers to place a ban on violent video games because of their alleged links to violent behaviour.

Hundreds of scientists from both sides of the debate presented evidence to support their claims before the court ruled it had insufficient evidence to rule that video games were the problem.

Former Australian Attorney General, Robert McClelland , released a report in the same year concluding research found no connection between video game violence and aggressive behaviour in youth.

UPDATE: A spokesperson for the minister for home affairs, justice and defence material, Jason Clare, affirmed that the government had reviewed the effect violent games had on violent behaviour, and that the results had been inconclusive.

However, the spokesperson reassured police commissioner Scipione that the government would continue to refuse classification and ban the sale of video games that contained extreme violence.

"The creation of an R18+ category for computer games will help protect children from material that may be harmful, while also making sure that adults are free to make their own decisions about the computer games they play, within the bounds of the law, " the spokesperson said.

"The R18+ category will bring the Australian classification system in line with comparable systems overseas."
A bill to introduce an R18+ classification passed through the Senate with bipartisan support in June, but according to Ron Curry, CEO of the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association, the success of the classification hinges on the states and territories following suit, along with classification guidelines that adequately reflect an adult rating.

The R18+ rating will bring classification categories for gaming in line with existing categories for films and television shows.

Professor Brand said video games were not helpful common denominators as "most people" in Australia played video games.

92 per cent of Australian households had at least one gaming device, according to a study which was commissioned by the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA).
"Does a criminal play computer games? Very likely," Professor Brand said.
"Does a non criminal play computer games? Very likely."

"It's asymptomatic. It doesn't vary.”

Professor Brand said it was not useful to focus on the "fringe element" and that to do so was extremely harmful because it diverted people's attention away from the true causes of violence, such as pre-existing mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction.

"If Commissioner Scipione is part of the one third of Australians that don't play video games it may be useful for him to get to know them before making those claims, because it might help the police in their work to better understand the medium or dismiss it as potential cause of violence," he said.

"Or if they believe it is harmful they can more tightly focus on that basis for concern."

Games editor of IGN Australia, Luke Reilly, said it was not helpful for the Police Commissioner to refer to games that in his words, rewarded players for “raping women”.

"No video game that rewarded players for raping women would ever pass through the Australian Classification Board in a million years, and no video game console manufacturer would allow such a game on their systems," Mr Reilly said.

"It’s an ignorant myth that these games exist on Australian store shelves. They do not. In 2006 this country banned a video game for promoting illegal graffiti.

"If Scipione truly believes he can jog down to JB and buy a video game full of rape he is grossly misled."
Mr Reilly said adult video games that feature vehicle theft and killing as part of their stories do not seem to be persuading more people to steal cars and kill each other.

“But we’re supposed to accept that they are to blame for an increase in knife crime?," Mr Reilly said. "It makes no sense. You can’t just apply this lazy reasoning to wherever it suits the figures."
Mr Reilly said the overwhelming majority of children who play video games do not commit any kinds of antisocial acts.

"The discussions we should be having should be about the quality of these kids’ home lives, the ones with parents who don’t care their 13-year-old child is out drunk in the city in the middle of the night," he said.

Top five most violent video games
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
Bloody, violent 16th century video game where gamers play assassins. Use a machete and blowpipes to destroy your enemies.

Saints Row
A game that makes a sport out of beating prostitutes with sex toys. Players spend the game killing people, blowing stuff up, swearing, selling and buying drugs and robbing people.

Gears of War
An incredibly violent and gory third-person shooter. Use deadly weapons to kill aliens. Use a chain saw to rip enemies in two.

Max Payne
Shoot drug gangs dead with a spray of bullets, take drugs to keep your health up. Shoot enemies with a grenade launcher from a helicopter. Violence is as common to this game as breathing.

Sniper Elite
The creators of the WWII third-person shooter researched what happens when a bullet enters a human body, along with Nazi propaganda to ensure the violence depicted was accurate. The "KillCam" allows gamers to follow the bullet from the gun through to its victims showing what happens when bones and skin are destroyed.


Ref:http://www.news.com.au/technology/ga...-1226443975410

...yeah cause there's nothing quite like running around slapping prostitutes in the face with dildos!

Seriously though, yeah I've played violent games most of my life, and it's never given me the urge to go out and butcher a bunch of people.

Oh and yeah sorry for the article being so long. It was updated recently.

Bought Darksider II today, super excited. Just started to play now

I have disposed of my consoles and embraced the wonder that is PC gaming.

I love FPS games can anyone suggest some good ones I love being a sniper something about stealth killing from a distance rocks my world.

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Originally Posted by moviefan84

Lately I have been trying a rpg game called Dark Souls, and to say that it is a difficult game to play is a bloody understatement, it is relentless as I am pretty much getting killed almost every corner (when you do survive you actually feel rewarded), but of saying that it is a rather strangely addictive a rather good game when you get into it and give it a chance.

Darksiders II

I have no idea of this satanic game but its apparently good.
My partner has been playing it and it has some great effects.

the chracter

++ can actually fly and ride a horse
++ has a gun
++ cool music

I watch it sometimes, because the tv cannot work when it is playing.