At 11/26/09 12:00 PM, dogpup4 wrote: I've never drank it before, but on Wikipedia I found Vanilla Coke which got removed. I grew very sad that I never got to taste this wonderful sounding drink.

Vanilla Coke was god-awful. Anything that's not straight Coke or straight Pepsi is shit.
Except Cherry Coke. Cherry Coke was goooood.

It's okay; just one less six-year old clogging up the servers.

You sound like one of those people who read forty-page short stories, and then go bragging about how you 'finished a book' over the weekend.

As much as I agree with this new thread, does it mean that everytime we reach 260 pages, we're gonna make a new thread?
Seems a bit silly to me, or was it just because of the technical issues with updating?

At 11/25/09 11:52 AM, Jezuz wrote: Question to those that beat it: Did Desmond seem to have way cooler kill animations than Ezio with the hidden blade?

Yea, he did seem to. I hope Assassin's Creed 3 is just Desmond, now that he's all awesome.

Awesome. :)
Been raking in the GamerScore lately from Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2.
920 from AC2, and something like 600 from MW2.

Double post, but I just finished Assassin's Creed 2 for a bunch of GamerScore.
And shit, the end is weird. But damn, the last part with Desmond is fucking awesome.

At 11/25/09 05:54 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: So we can proceed as normal. (although i still approve of the idea of a new thread, the new gamertag isn't neccessary (though is still nice))

The gamertag could still be used to ensure that only certain people are on the leaderboard. And not just once-offers, if you know what I mean.

Dear me,
I'm writing this to you at the end of 2008. In the next year, you will have both the best and worst experience of your life. You will be able to accurately place the blame for almost every person's sadness on yourself, and you will hate yourself for it. You know in your head the right thing to do, so do it. And don't fuck up like I did.

Yours truly.

First off, Queensland, the sexy state, is the best state when it comes to video game development.
What subjects, you say? Probably Film, Television and New Media, or the equivalent. An IT subject, possibly. It all depends on your school, but games development doesn't really have subjects at school.

It'd also help if you narrowed down what kind of game development; design, programming, animation?

Just hit 18000 thanks to the lovely Assassin's Creed 2.
The Impenetrable Palazzo + 20G.

At 11/23/09 10:31 PM, sushi13 wrote: Anything you want from the list I made for Aci6?
What do you have?

Assassin's Creed 2, Modern Warfare 2, Saint's Row 2, Saint's Row, Halo 3: ODST, FIFA '07, Need for Speed: Undercover, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Red Faction: Guerilla, Assassin's Creed, Halo 3, Mirror's Edge, Fable II, Dynasty Warriors 6, Halo Wars, DiRT, Flatout: Ultimate Carnage, TimeShift, Mercenaries 2, Command and Conquer 3, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat.

At 11/23/09 08:57 PM, sushi13 wrote: So far the gamertag is doing well; got 11 people on the friend's list so far. It would be nice to get as many of the regs as possible on there before we start the new thread. That's 14 or 15 more of you.

Added it.
And yea, I'm keen for some trading. Why not?

At 11/23/09 09:16 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: Just out of curiosity but am I the only one who finds it difficult sometimes to get Ezio to kill two people at once with the hidden blades? He often chooses to just pick one of them instead of taking out the guy next to the guard to.

I get that a lot. But hell, poisining is so much more fun.

At 11/23/09 03:21 AM, LopezBoy wrote: Will Saints Row 3 take place in a location?

No, it takes place no-where.

At 11/22/09 04:51 PM, falz3333 wrote: actually australia has one of the highest crime rates in the world.

We have one of the highest suicide RATES, but the figures themselves are relatively small. Considering our population is only 22 million in total, there aren't really as many people that are fucking around as in the UK and the US. It's just our percentages are higher, due to a lower population.

At 11/22/09 09:20 PM, sushi13 wrote: Maybe soon you'll be right. The Aussie dollar is kicking arse at the moment. BTW as the only other Aussie 360 gamer I know of how do you feel about doing some game trading with me?

OI!

Venice is by far better than Florence, Tuscany and Forli. That said, Florence absolutely blew me away the first time I played the game. I'm loving just free-running along the sides of buildings adjacent to the canals, then just jumping straight in.

Going for viewpoints is far more fun this time, I find. I love them in the first game, but they all tended to became rather the same. Have to say, though, I was a bit disappointed when I finished the hidden area in the Santa Maria del Frari in Venice, the tomb that you have to preorder or whatever to get to. I was expecting heaps of florins, or a weapon or armor or something, but I only got about 3000 florins.

Anyway, the game itself is amazing.

At 11/22/09 03:57 PM, Makeshift wrote: I think I may inquire about getting my NG username changed to Goats.
maybe even add an E on the end.

Real original. Goatse makes me wanna punch a small Mexican child.

At 11/22/09 03:40 PM, Jackho wrote: Borderlands, anyone?

Fuck that shit.

At 11/22/09 08:09 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: Real advice for Australians: Buy as much of whatever you can/want from America while our currency is still epic enough to the USD :D

NINETY US cents, guiz!

At 11/22/09 11:22 AM, Makeshift wrote: What's a fortnight?

It's a night in a fort. It happens randomly, as I may have a fortnight tonight, or even three weeks from now.

At 11/22/09 03:08 AM, All-American-Badass wrote: My threads are underappreciated, in my opinion.

I LOVE your threads!

At 11/21/09 11:59 PM, sushi13 wrote: I propose that to remain part of the leaderboard and be included in the updates everybody should be required to make at least one post in this thread every fortnight.
Do you agree with this?

In this thread and at least be contributing somehow to the community, either in this forum or the others, like General or Flash or whatever. It wouldn't be too hard; just get someone to check everyone's posts. Or, if someone is going away, get them to either post it here as one of their last posts, or send a message to the individual either checking or running the board.

Maybe provide useful information to AUSTRALIANS.
There's absolutely no reason to travel to the US to buy games. The only good game we're missing out on is Left 4 Dead 2. And from what I've heard and read so far, it's really just L4D all over again, with a few detail upgrades.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't played either and really don't care to.

Fuck, Saint's Row 2 has achievements that are a bitch. The online is awful, so those aren't even worth getting.
I'm raking in MW2 and AC2 achievements, though.

Been raking in the GamerScore from Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2. 'Tis lovely.
Sushi, how many more people do we need to get opinions from so far? Because it seems like majority opinion all points one way.

At 11/20/09 06:03 PM, 56325 wrote: ok guys, i'm probably going to buy a game in a few days so I need advice:
MW2 or AS2?

Assassin's Creed 2. And by the way, it's AC2, not AS2.

At 11/20/09 04:41 PM, H-A-X-O-R-Z wrote: how is it? I've heard it's a huge improvement compared to the first game.

Double post, but I need to address this.

Simply put, it is awesome. It takes a while to become bad-arse assassin Ezio, but it's still incredibly good. And I don't even mind the Desmond parts this time around.

At 11/19/09 01:09 AM, sushi13 wrote: 1) How do you think we should deal with these users? Should we delete them from the leaderboard?

Delete them from the leaderboard. It's not far to have the competition between a few people ruined because some just don't care.

2) Some of you were discussing the fact that Jerich0 has been banned from Xbox Live for modding his console. Do you think he, and other modders if we discover any, should be allowed to stay on the leaderboard?

No. Anyone's who gotten GamerScore legitimately should be legitimated rewarded. Anyone who's attained it unlegitimately, should not be legitimately rewarded.

3) If I'm going to be manually obtaining people's gamerscores every week then I want to make it as quick a process as possible. An idea I had to make it quicker (and to bring a little more order to this whole thing) is to set up a couple of gamertags (with names like NGLeaderboard1 & NGLeaderboard2) and anybody who wants to be included in the leaderboard has to have one of these gamertags on their friend's list.

Yea, make 'em. It'll help restrict it to the people who really wanna be on the leaderboards, and not just those joining for shits and giggles.

4) Are you happy with the minimum requirement of 500 posts to join? Would you like to see it removed, lowered or maybe even increased?

Nah, keep it. It makes sure everyone's committed, at least a little bit. Or, if we remove that, maybe go by sign-up date AND post count? Because I can imagine a lot of people would go making shit posts in General just to up their count.

5) If some or all of these things were to happen, particularly number 3, do you think it would be a good idea to lock this thread and start a new one with the rules firmly set out in the first post?

That'd be a much easier way to start. Like someone said before, lock this thread and restart the new one as a club, of sorts.