Zeusthecat

Absolutely, I haven't forgotten about that promise I made long ago to replay using the Wits path! After I get a bunch of these quick burn games cleared off my Steam backlog I'll jump back into that.

Yeah, I did go with your recommendation on my first playthrough and played the EGA version after watching a YouTube video with that prelude story. Is the voiced version the one that's available on Steam? That's the one I'm planning on starting tonight. Also, as with Monkey Island 1 and 2, I'm going to stream my playthroughs of Loom and The Dig since I can get through them at a decent pace now without getting stuck. Probably not for Last Crusade though. I think that would be too painful to watch with the constant saving and reloading that is bound to occur.

That's exactly where I stand on it. It's really nice that it's there and I think they nailed it about as good as they could have, but there is something about the pacing of the humor that just doesn't work as well when you are hearing them voiced and waiting for them to finish speaking the lines that you finished reading 5-10 seconds earlier (and I guess I could just turn subtitles off but I still don't think it would work as well as the original). The visuals and music though were pretty fantastic across the board for MI2:SE. Because I'm a purist though, I will probably only ever play the original version in the future if/when I feel like coming back to them. And thanks RubixsQube. I'll let you know if I end up having issues getting that.

No, I never did get a copy of that. Thanks for the reminder though. I'll try to find a pdf of that before I start my next playthrough.

Funny you should bring that up. I'll be replaying that one in the next week or two after I go back through Loom and The Dig and was just going back through ThunderPeel's guide to get a handle on how to get through the game without fighting any guards. The first time I went through, my enthusiasm for the game was dashed a little bit by how brutal and difficult those fights were. Realizing after the fact that you can actually get through the whole thing without fighting, I'm looking forward to a second playthrough and trying to get a decent amount of IQ points. And that game definitely has some pretty sweet art. If it weren't for all the fighting I ended up having to do on my first playthrough, this one would have ranked pretty high on my list of favorite LucasArts adventure games. On another note, I finished Monkey Island 2 Special Edition last night. Big improvement over the first Special Edition. I really liked a lot of the redone music in this version but I think I could generally do without the voice acting.

I just finished playing through Monkey Island 2 Special Edition and holy shit this is an amazing rendition of the song from Rum Roger's Cottage.

I think we would know by now if it caused severe medical issues and keeping it illegal just in case we discover one day that it is super harmful is kind of strange to me. What's even stranger about what you're saying is that since weed became illegal in the 1930s, we have discovered that it is actually much less harmful than what we were originally told which gives it the opposite trajectory of alcohol and tobacco. Some more studies are always useful but there is a hell of a lot of evidence that weed is far less harmful than a good number of things that are perfectly legal. And even if it is harmful, is that really a good reason for why it should be illegal? Eating a lot of high calorie processed food probably puts you at a higher risk for heart disease but I doubt anyone would support making the distribution and consumption of Doritos illegal. If the best reason you can come up with for why something should be illegal is that we might find out it is harmful eventually, then it should probably be legal.

Honestly, coffee fucks me up more than weed. Calling weed a drug is silly.

One of my coworkers randomly gave me 5 PS3 games that he didn't want anymore: all 3 Uncharted games, Heavy Rain, and God of War 3. Luckily they are all games I want to play but damn I have been working hard to avoid obtaining any more games. So I guess that's +5 on my backlog.

Speaking of exploration games, Minecraft is a pretty great weed game. Especially when paired with Tiesto. Nothing like venturing out to explore new areas with some nice beats going and then having it all come crashing down when a creeper murders you.

I really appreciate that it was brought up because it's just nice to hear someone flat out admit it rather than beat around the bush. I often find myself listening to a podcast and hearing stories that I'm almost certain came about because of some kind of illicit substance use but I'm always left wondering because that's just a thing you're not supposed to talk about publicly for various reasons. When that suspicion is confirmed it's kind of awesome because it adds a whole new slant to the story.

That 1000 island dressing one is pretty damn creative. If you want the grossest possible ingredient to add to anything, try a splash of feta cheese water.

For a second, I thought you were going to describe this as a Shirley Temple with green olive juice in it. Thank god dirty just means "with vodka" in this case because my mind created a really fucking gross trash juice concoction there.

I finished Secret of Monkey Island SE and moved on to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge SE last night. The Special Edition-ness of this one is quite an improvement over the first. The character models actually look decent this time! And I'm also liking the re-done music quite a bit as well. I wasn't sure how well that part would translate but I was happy to see that Woodtick still felt really Woodticky.

I've started ramping up on this a bit more lately and should be on semi-regularly. I'm playing on PS4 (PSN: xXZeusthecatXx) and will usually be on after 9 or 10PM Arizona time. I'm only level 23 right now though.

I finally got my Twitch stream running smoothly last night without any dropped frames and got through the last part of act 1, all of act 2, and the first half of act 3. I think I've seen enough now to definitively say that I don't like this version of the game nearly as much as the original. It is still decent but having all of the characters voiced has had an overall negative impact on how funny a lot of the dialog is to me. The storekeeper is still pretty solid at least. As far as the graphics go, some of the backgrounds are really gorgeous (especially the sword master's house area) but I am not too fond of how the characters turned out. I'll finish it up with the updated visuals and voice acting but if I ever end up going through it again, I'm definitely sticking with the classic graphics. As far as the puzzles go, I surprisingly got stuck for a few minutes on some of them because I had forgotten some of the specific details. Luckily those have only been minor speed bumps though and I'm managing to make it through at a pretty decent pace. Also, I finally got around to updating the first post in this thread with links to the start of each game that was played.

I'm gonna stream some Secret of Monkey Island for the next hour or two if anyone's interested. My channel's in my signature.

Speaking of that, I once played Super Mario Bros 3 while on mushrooms. It was a very appropriate game for that kind of experience and the bright and cheery colors gave me vast amounts of happiness. I think I ended up playing through all of World 1-4 just staring at the bottom of the screen scrolling by and only using my peripheral vision to navigate Mario through the level.

Do we have a thread dedicated to making posts about the first post on a new page? I realize this describes practically every thread but I want one where each post at the top of a new page is followed by 19 posts commenting on that post. I wonder how far up its own ass a thread like that could get?

That is awesome! I played Minecraft on PC a bit with my daughter when she was 3-4 and she loved watching it, but wasn't really capable of playing herself. She's turning 6 in a couple weeks though and has had quite a bit more exposure to various games so I should jump back on that. And hopefully your son always thinks you are the coolest. But cherish these moments regardless.

Yeah, I meant for this to go in the random thought thread but I picked the wrong thread with a parenthetical in the title. Thanks for the response though, sounds like I'd like it.

So is Dragonball Xenoverse any good? I keep seeing articles pop up about the character customization and how great it is but can't seem to find any decent reviews that actually talk about whether the rest of the game is any good. I've always secretly been hoping for a good Dragonball Z game and haven't really played anything since the first Budokai game since I hadn't heard anything favorable about anything that came out after that.

I have been very intentional about not purchasing any new games or downloading any of the free PS+ games until my backlog is cleared. The only game I've bought in the last 7-8 months is Destiny. As far as games that don't end or that don't have a clear end, my aim is to put in about 5-10 hours of playtime.

The poo jokes are always appreciated by me. I remember when I was 8 and we stopped at a gas station and went inside to get some drinks. My dad got me a root beer and, not knowing that root beer was not a subset of beer, I started talking about how excited I was to get back in the car so I could drink the delicious beer that my father had just purchased for me. Luckily, we were able to rush out of there before anyone approached us but my dad never was able to give me a satisfactory answer for why I couldn't just drop the "root" part of root beer.

Of the 19 games in my Steam backlog that I posted back in November, I've knocked a whopping 3 off of the list: Psychonauts, Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition, and Dishonored (with 2 full playthroughs on this one). Of the 16 remaining games, I decided to revisit some of the LucasArts ones next so I can rapidly knock a few more off my list and feel like I'm actually accomplishing something. I started Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition last night and I figure once I finish that (hopefully by the end of the week) I'll immediately jump to Monkey Island 2. Not sure where I'll go from there but I've heard a lot of good things about that Far Cry 2 game. I should probably get on that one soon.