Patrick R

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  1. Posted

    After the last two Humble Bundles, the total number of games I own on Steam is 111. Of those, I count 26 that I've played for any substantial period of time (say, thirty minutes). That's about a 1 to 3 ratio of games I own on Steam that I've actually really "played" in any meaningful way.

     

    I keep thinking I will get around to playing them, but I also keep getting more games whenever they go on sale. Am I a video game hoarder? Do you have this problem too?

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    Last year, you Kickstarted Double Fine Adventure, shattering records and bringing video games to the Kickstarter spotlight! Now known as Broken Age, that game is in full production and is already a beautiful and unique experience—but the Broken Age team only represents a third of our multi-game studio.

    Double Fine’s goal is for all our teams to remain independent and responsible directly to their players. Kickstarting MASSIVE CHALICE allows us to maintain a pure creative vision, put out updates on our own schedule, respond to feedback without roadblocks, and release it all DRM-free.

     

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding all this, but does this mean that the goal is for Kickstarters to just be the way Double Fine operates from now on? That all projects would ideally be Kickstarted, and not funded through more traditional means? I didn't really follow the original Double Fine Kickstarter, was this part of the mission statement from the beginning? Or am I just misinterpretting all of this?

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    The way a weird line like "princes kneel before you" (which exists not because the Spin Doctors are great lyricists, but because they pretty clearly wrote the vocal melody of that song before they wrote the words, which is why it's preceded by the essentially placeholder lyrics "One, Two") caused Chris' imagination to spin out of control reminds me of one of my favorite phenomenons of watching old comedies, which is when then-relevant pop culture references are lost to time and what ends up remaining is a weird non-sequitur. My favorite example is this scene from Animal Crackers:

     

     

    When I first saw this and had no idea who Eugene O'Neil was, I thought the movie just spun off the rails into total surreal lunacy (even more than a Marx Brothers movie normally does).

     

    Also, I loved the Gunpoint demo (and it had a really funny demo specific ending worth checking out), but I was a little shocked at how similar it was to Trilby: The Art of Theft. It's much better than Trilby in almost every way, but the deja vu I felt was really strong.

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    My favorite game of all time is probably Deus Ex. I went through the game a dozen times, devouring the insane amount of hidden and optional content it has. Then I got the Shifter mod and went through it a couple more times. I love the kitchen sink conspiracy milieu, I love all the easter eggs, I love how perfect the level design is. It's totally my ideal blend of action gameplay and RPG elements. Also, three endings, no "good" or "bad" endings.

     

    But the game I've probably sunk the most hours in is Team Fortress 2. 324 hours total according to Steam. Mostly support classes, though I'm pretty damn aggressive for an Engie.

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    How many tries did it take you to beat the final boss? I tried maybe 70 times (gotta love instant respawn!) before I decided that maybe seeing the ending of a story I didn't care about wasn't worth it.

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    The series finale for this was genuinely funny. The Fake Geek Girl episode was shit. The rest I can take or leave, but I've listened to JJGO for a long time so I'm a pretty big Jordan Morris fan.

  14. Posted

    Seven episodes in and I'm not sure I even want to finish S4. Making it a non-ensemble show really wrecked it for me. There's so much I don't like about the new season. Not horrible, still pretty funny, but the magic is pretty definitively gone for me.

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    Oh, and this may be super obvious, but part of the joy of playing games like Frequency and Amplitude was to mess around and see what songs sounded like missing tracks. Dynamic music as a gameplay mechanic. I would spend hours remixing some horrible Freezepop song, and I definitely think that lead me to taking up electronica production the same way games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have lead people to learn actual instruments.

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    Done and done. Unfortunately they were out of stock by the time I actually decided, so it'll take a while to get here, but I still got the sale price. I didn't even use up the full credit!

     

    (For anyone interested, it's twenty bucks. Normally the set costs eighty)

    So worth it. The making of Alien 3 is worth 20 bucks alone. Great set.

  19. Posted

    I think the movie Chris was trying to reference* was Robin & Marian, where Sean Connery plays an aging Robin Hood opposite Robert Shaw's aging Sheriff of Nottingham. Fucking amazing movie if you ever get the chance to see it, probably Richard Lester's best.

     

    And according to his Wikipedia, the last thing J Allard did was a "private sale outdoor and active lifestyle network" called The Clymb? Weird.

     

    *I have no idea if Chris was trying to reference this, but I never miss an opportunity to recommend it because it is so so good.

  22. Posted

    This is tickling the part of my brain that remembers obsessively reading Encyclopedia Brown books. But I warn you, if none of these mysteries involve a stolen tooth collection, I will be very disappointed.

  23. Posted

    You'd think my role-playing was primarily inspired by my given name, but it actually fit well anyway because I am crap at strategy games and would just be flailing around anyway. I figured I might as well give some narrative reason for my ineptitude. 

     

    And, to be fair, you guys should have snuffed out Roll Fizzlebeef when you had the chance. Now look at 'em.