http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ Aeropause is an exploration in gaming culture, trends, technologies and innovations. en Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:35:54 +0000 http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-3087 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:39:54 +0000 XCWarrior 3087@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>I got mine because I was being lazy and just posted the CD album I was listening to the most. Now I can&#39;t seem to change the damn thing, otherwise I would.</p> <p>Three Days Grace though does rock. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-3076 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:50:02 +0000 Joe Haygood 3076@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>If I get time in the next few days, I will post up all the superhero drawings he did for our old forum group on Gamespot. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-3072 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:44:42 +0000 Vikki Blake 3072@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>^ I noticed, but figured he did too. :p I assumed that it was drawn by the same guy, ZombieXIII, and then Haygood went on to boast about the custom drawing ...</p> <p>Jeanette has an impressive cleavage.</p> <p>I would so LOVE to be turned into a superhero. SuperVixx FTW! </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-3051 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:18:54 +0000 Joe Haygood 3051@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Ahh, that would be Jeanette from Vampire: Bloodlines. I am so use to using my other icon, that I forgot I had something different here. Let me see if I can get a larger shot for full effect.</p> <p><a href="http://img412.imageshack.us/i/jeanette2.jpg/"><img src="http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8053/jeanette2.jpg"></a></p> <p>I just softened and added some light to the image, as the original was a bit dark. As for the rest, well that is all Jeanette. The game is six years old and still looks rather good for Gen 1 Source engine graphics. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-3048 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:35:24 +0000 Jordan Snyder 3048@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Haha, how did none of us realize that before? I&#39;ve been wondering what&#39;s up with that pale chick. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-3045 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:13:42 +0000 Stephen Munn 3045@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Awesome. But Joe, your avatar here is not MCLazyShot. It&#39;s some pale woman. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2989 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:36:12 +0000 Jordan Snyder 2989@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Hellllll yes! </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2979 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:20:57 +0000 TheTony 2979@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Nice work, Jordan. MS Paint, meet your new lord and master. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2975 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:41:56 +0000 Jordan Snyder 2975@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>I just uploaded an Avatar after being on these forums for like a year. You have to read it closely to get the full effect, though. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2973 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:03:34 +0000 kaya122 2973@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Mine is Hei from my second favorite anime Darker than black. (my favorite being code geass). </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2972 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:41:18 +0000 Trogdor1452 2972@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Mine is of Trogdor, the dragon that Strong Bad invented as a response to one of his Strong Bad Emails. If you have no idea what I&#39;m talking about I highly suggest that you visit homestarrunner.com. Amazingness will follow. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2953 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:59:40 +0000 TheTony 2953@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <blockquote><p>And yes Fourhman, I do know that Longshot should only have four fingers, not five. Artist interpretation.</p> </blockquote> <p>Don&#39;t worry. Fourhman will never visit the forums to see that.</p> <p>Mine&#39;s a charicature of me that some cute little chippie did at the Japan Stuff (TM) room at VGXPO in Philly two years ago. I use it from time to time. I draw, too, so my avatar/profile image is likely to be something cartoony pretty often. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2936 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:14:40 +0000 Jordan Snyder 2936@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Mine is to show how mysterious I am... JK, I&#39;ve been too lazy to upload one. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2933 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:54:27 +0000 lundy3311 2933@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Mine is the symbol for The Swan Dharma station from LOST. I chose it to display my epic fanboyism for the show. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2927 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:01:45 +0000 Vikki Blake 2927@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>&lt;-- Heather from Silent Hill 3. I think the actual image is a publicity shot; never used within the game anyplace, although the shirt she&#39;s wearing is an unlockable costume. </p> <p>I did wonder where yours was from, Mr. H. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2923 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:53:42 +0000 Joe Haygood 2923@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>And yes Fourhman, I do know that Longshot should only have four fingers, not five. Artist interpretation. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2922 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:52:45 +0000 Joe Haygood 2922@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Easy, mine comes from a friend of mine, ZombieXIII. He is a very talented artist that is known for doing a lot of Halo comic strips. He was the guy that did the Halo Ring of Death comic I posted here a while back.</p> <p>Anyway, he drew me in the likeness of Longshot. Yeah, I am a Longshot fan. Here is the full drawing, just to get the idea of his talents. He did a series of these for the forum group we had at Gamespot many years ago, where all of us were turned into super heroes.</p> <p><a href="http://img202.imageshack.us/i/xmodslazyshot.jpg/"><img src="http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/3676/xmodslazyshot.jpg"></a> </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/where-did-you-get-your-avatar#post-2906 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:59:51 +0000 Stephen Munn 2906@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Let&#39;s use this thread to discuss where we got our avatar and why we chose it. We can post a new reply when/if we change our avatar.</p> <p>Mine is of Simon Belmont from the Japanese cover art for Castlevania Chronicles on PlayStation. It&#39;s artwork by Ayami Kojima, like most of the Castlevania art from the late 1990s and early 2000s. I think that particular piece is some of her best work. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/castlevania-collection-updates#post-2203 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:30:14 +0000 Stephen Munn 2203@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>Wow! Very impressive! I&#39;ve kept mine relatively under control by preventing myself from buying international games. Many other Cv collectors grab the Japanese games too, but if I did that, why stop there? Where&#39;s my German version of Castlevania Bloodlines? And the French one? It would never end. Still, I bend. I&#39;ve got the soundtracks, and almost none of those ever come out in the US. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/castlevania-collection-updates#post-2163 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:03:10 +0000 Vikki Blake 2163@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>NEEEEERD.</p> <p>Oh wait - I&#39;m one too: </p> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3349/3505268658_7fc3a6832e_o.jpg"></p> <p>Also have a ridiculously expensive hand-painted PH model which isn&#39;t included here, as well as several other posters which I couldn&#39;t fit in. </p> <p>(Full SH collection set: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vixx_xx/sets/72157616782747215" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/vixx_xx/sets/72157616782747215</a> ) </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/castlevania-collection-updates#post-2152 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:20:00 +0000 Stephen Munn 2152@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;ve got many pics of it here.</p> <p><a href="http://www.castlemaniablog.com/?p=1799" rel="nofollow">http://www.castlemaniablog.com/?p=1799</a></p> <p>Since then I&#39;ve added a couple of pieces. Some soundtrack CDs, and I believe another book. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/castlevania-collection-updates#post-2139 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:58:17 +0000 Vikki Blake 2139@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>I missed out on a Limited Edition Silent Hill 2 jacket a few months back. My top bid - $450, a price I thought perfectly fitting - was trollied. It went for over $500 in the end.</p> <p>So ... yeah. I feel your pain!</p> <p>Can we see a pic of your collection? I&#39;ll show you mine if you show me yours! </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/castlevania-collection-updates#post-2091 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:24:40 +0000 Stephen Munn 2091@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <p>While I post most items on the actual blog:</p> <p><a href="http://www.castlemaniablog.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.castlemaniablog.com</a></p> <p>I&#39;ll toss a small one here. I just lost my third auction for the port of Castlevania for Commodore 64. Breaking one of my collecting rules, I actually bid on a disk and manual only copy of the game, but sadly, it went for more than I&#39;d hoped. My bid of $102.50 was trounced by someone who got it for $105. Who knows what their high bid was.</p> <p>For some perspective, the previous copies have sold for $250 and $280, those were complete in box with all inserts. Considering that, I expected this one might go as high as $200, but I doubted that. If the high bidder on this hadn&#39;t bid, I would have had the game for less than $50, which is where it was before that final bid came in. </p> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/#post-86 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:16:43 +0000 Stephen Munn 86@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/archives/images/2008/07/castlevania-judgment-maria.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13436" title="castlevania-judgment-maria" src="http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/archives/images/2008/07/castlevania-judgment-maria.png" alt="" width="260" height="195" /></a>IGN's Mark Bozon claims IGN will be sitting down to chat with series mastermind Koji Igarashi at the E3 event this week to talk <em>Castlevania Judgment</em>. In advance of that, IGN sent a list of questions to be translated for the man. Due to some pretty strict limits on what he could say, there's not a whole lot in the interview worth mentioning, save for the confirmation that fighting in the game will not be face-to-face in a <em>SoulCalibur</em> sense, but rather open and free, more like <em>Power Stone</em>.<br /> <br /> I've hear of <em>Power Stone</em>, but I haven't played it. The idea here is that instead of being locked to your opponent, you're both roaming free in an area and you beat each other up. The appeal of this to me is that the fights will play out more like a <em>Castlevania</em> boss battle than a traditional fighter might. I'll ignore the wrenching in my gut, because it's entirely from the fact that I'm stuck in <em>Curse of Darkness</em> right now, unable to progress past either of the two bosses I can currently access.<br /> <br /> The other interesting thing in the interview is that Iga seems to think it's not generally known that players will be able to unlock <em>Shanoa</em>, protagonist of the upcoming DS game, <em>Order of Ecclesia</em>, by linking those two titles together. I'm not sure why IGN thought it was Maria being unlocked there, in fact. Nintendo Power broke that in the recent reveal of the game. Don't they read Nintendo Power?!<br /> <br /> Finally, there is mention that members of the <em>Dewy's Adventure</em> team at Konami are part of the Judgment team. <em>Dewy's Adventure</em> was one of the better looking games on Wii, though admittedly not boundary-shattering like <em>Super Mario Galaxy</em>. This explains a lot of the game's somewhat "glowy" current look to me.<br /> <br /> You can get some information about how the game controlled in IGN's hands-on, <a href="http://wii.ign.com/articles/888/888655p1.html">right here</a>. The game they played was reportedly very early, with lots of pre-alpha type issues. Let's hope they iron all those out for release this fall.<br /> <br /> Source: <a href="http://wii.ign.com/articles/888/888661p1.html">IGN</a> http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/#post-48 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:08:49 +0000 Joe Haygood 48@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <img class="alignleft" style="float: left; margin: 3px;" src="http://www.aeropause.com/archives/ourmic.jpg" alt="" width="152" height="190" />Welcome everyone to another fun-filled episode of the Aeropodcast.  This week we have everything from Paul mitigating marital damage from the purchase of a sleek new PSP to Joe dropping more obscure references, and Stephen bringing us the evil chord of Windows 3.1 and Zelda pirates.<br /> <br /> Game imports and region locking is our topic this week, including laying out for our listeners which systems keep you from playing games from other regions and which don't. We also had a winner for the "Select a DS Game for Joe to Play" contest, and that winner was Jeremy Tauzin.  The game that garnered the most votes is <em>Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney</em>.  Rounding out the show is a sprinkling of the big news for this week. <br /> <br /> Thanks as always to Stephen, for mixing this on the turntables of steel, and visit <a href="http://www.revolutionvoid.com">http://www.revolutionvoid.com</a> to get downloads of our podcast music.<br /> <br /> Download the podcast from <a href="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.aeropause.com/podcast/AeroPodcast38_20080629.mp3"><span style="color: #0e5f7d;">here</span></a> or subscribe to the podcast using one of the services below: Also <a href="http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Aeropause_3"><span style="color: #0e5f7d;">make</span></a> sure to review us on <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=261408563"><span style="color: #0e5f7d;">iTunes</span></a> and <a href="http://digg.com/podcasts/Aeropause_3" target="_blank">Digg</a> the podcast.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.aeropause.com/podcast/aeropodcastfeed.xml"><img src="http://www.aeropause.com/podcast/phpbutton.gif" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=261408563"><img src="http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/images/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif" alt="Aeropause - Aeropodcast - Aeropodcast" width="61" height="15" /></a> <a href="http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Aeropause_3"><img src="http://www.aeropause.com/podcast/100x20-digg-button.gif" alt="" /></a> <a href="zune://subscribe/?Aeropodcast=http://www.aeropause.com/podcast/aeropodcastfeed.xml"><img src="http://www.aeropause.com/podcast/zunelogo.jpg" alt="" /></a> <a onclick="window.open('http://www.podtrac.com/PodtracPlayer/podtracplayer.aspx?podcast=http://www.aeropause.com/podcast/aeropodcastfeed.xml', 'linkname', 'height=235, width=450, scrollbars=no')" href="javascript:void(0)"><img style="vertical-align: top; border-width: 0px;" src="http://www.podtrac.com/PodtracPlayer/playerbutton1.jpg" border="0" alt="Podtrac Player" width="147" height="48" /></a>