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“I was really there!” Game immersion at its best

Posted by Lynk Former on 5 September 2009 at 2:26 PM (GMT+10)

It’s been way too long since my last entry, but better late than never (and other suitable cliché’s) for this one.

It can be an extremely satisfying experience when you’re standing at the top of a tall Gothic styled building and looking down at a group of thugs below. You then jump straight down and into the middle of the thugs and before they can yell “It’s the Batman!!” you’ve already taken them out with some brutal melee moves that send them flying to the ground. You are the goddamn Batman and you love it. That’s the feeling I got while playing Batman: Arkham Asylum and it really does impress me how far this game goes to make you feel like the dark knight. There are many games that feature established characters like Batman, and sure, they do feature their trademark moves and gear, though few manage to make you feel like you really are that character and can pull off all of their moves just like how it’s done in their TV show or movie or whatever.

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Fiji: The island with no vidya

Posted by Lynk Former on 19 July 2009 at 12:36 PM (GMT+10)

I recently went on a trip back to the country I was born in, Fiji, for two weeks… which is why I haven’t been posting up any entries lately. But, now that I’m back I can post some stuff about my thoughts on Fiji. There is this blog entry as well as some stuff I will be posting in the forum as well.

Many, many years ago (in December it’ll actually be TWENTY years ago) I moved from Fiji to Australia. Before that time, I don’t remember playing any video games, at least that I can remember. I look back at those times and wonder, “what the hell did I have to do back then?” I think really hard about it and come to the conclusion that I really didn’t have much to do as a child in Fiji… it was pretty boring for me actually… I’m so glad that we moved to Australia when I was 5.

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Welcome to Ausfailia (IFHTC! Part 4)

Posted by Lynk Former on 27 June 2009 at 11:24 PM (GMT+10)

Here we are again for another edition of “I fucking hate this country”… it’s getting tiring having to write these entries up, I don’t particularly enjoy it, but whenever I hear about some of that asshattery this country gets up to, So where are we now?

Well right now I’m wondering if it will ever get to the stage where the Australian government succeeds in its efforts to close off the country to anything they may find objectionable that they end up blocking my access to my own web site… sounds crazy, I know, but then trying to filter the Internet is some crazy stuff to begin with.

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