Jake

Yeah I had an Atari 7800 ¬ Don't know where that lands me. Probably firmly in the land of

I don't think anyone was insulting the cube. I think it was recommended in a very epic extreme way in fact.

It's sort of a puzzle game (sort of). You have a certain amount of time to get your ball to a certain size, but you can only pick up objects that are significantly smaller than the existing mass of your ball, meaning you have to sort of pay attention to what you're doing otherwise you run out of time and your katamari is puny (which causes you to get made fun of, and also lose). It's not just a free-roaming "pick everything up" playground thing or something (well, it does become that once you get to the far later levels and your ball gets big enough to pick up skyscrapers and invading sea monsters)... Not incredibly challenging, but it's got really great hilarious and fluid/tactile gameplay with an awesome visual style and music (and it costs $20 new!)... Hard to resist.

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Old? Hasn't someone cited pong? I dropped in Moon Patrol ¬ These aren't exactly new games... lying bastard. That said, I've been gaming since way back in the early-mid '00s. My parents got me GTA:SA when I was a kid. "You know, before they censored it." A classic game, the first I really fell in love with.

It was probably Moon Patrol.

This movie will be shit because it wasn't made by artists who were free to cavort wildly in fields!!! it was made by THE MAN who hates art and churns out uncreative bullshit all the time. fuck commercialism@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if naming your site "GAMES ARE ART" help reach any of those ends though.

"Is he joking?"

Except that's fine. Though some forumites surely enjoy their Katamari and cavair parties, it isn't essential, despite evidence to the contrary. Check out the sequel though, it will probably be good. You probably intend to check it out though. Since you're you.

Befriend me! Not Chris, he is shit. edit: also I agree with both things Chris said. this thread brought a smile to my face and also a frown at the same time, and a furrowed brow probably.

My right thumb is currently sore and owned from screwing in an awkwardly placed piece of shelving at the new office at work. My left thumb is currently idle. Please report on the status of your thumbs.

Welcome to the site for Video game intellectuals.

Preordering exists because game retailers basically admit that they are shit and won't carry any copies of these games unless you specifically ask them to - basically what they're saying to you is "we don't like selling games," because they don't. They make next to no money on a new game sale, so the last thing they want is to have to stock their store with new games that aren't already sold, or to waste marketing money to try and convince someone that they want a game they didn't know they wanted. If they can admit to you "yeah you all know we don't carry new games, but you can make us carry it by paying $10 up front" they don't have to worry about that anymore. When you preorder, the store gets many things that it's kind of out of control. They get your money up front, which they immediately invest to try and make some extra cash off of, they get a guarantee that they will be able to keep one more new game in the back room instead of on the shelf, leaving space on the shelves for one more used game or strategy guide which nets them more money than a new title, and they get a guaranteed second visit to the store from you, where they can try to merciliessly upsell you on the aforementioned strategy guide, protection plan, used game club membership, magazine subscription, etc. Yet one more reason game stores are an utter failure if what you're interested in doing is coming in and finding, you know, a good game you haven't seen before I prefer the US box art by quite a lot to that version there.

Woohoo! Weehee! Mama mia!! Owwwowowow!

Maybe so! Video games!

Sorry, by "that good" I meant "it didnt look as nice as those screenshots do." I didn't mean "well it didn't look all that good really." I thought the game looked great, just not the same clarity and bold colors of those screens.

Yikes. In these situations, instead of trying to re-define yourself better so you'll get a little boost knowing these people will think better of you, why don't you instead try to educate them about the problems you see currently in games. "No no no, I'm still cool!!!" is not nearly as awesome as "well the industry is fucked up but here's why" ... or something like that... in my opinion. From a very real standpoint, yeah lots of gaming has "sold out" but going out of your way to try and bust out some sort of "whoa no way I'm still indie" cred makes me sad. That is an awesome thought, and will probably happen soon.

PS3 was out of control when it came out. Layers!!!* Oh man my head exploded a thousand times. That's all. * didn't care about the windows release part

thats not quite how it feels in practice, but if thats what does it for you, sure.

Not games apparently

Fixed.

Well, screenshots are screenshots. Though the game was really beautiful, it never looked that good in person at E3.

I cursed my luck again as I slid down the monkey's throat. Have my dreams of guzzling grog and plundering galleons been reduced to this. "Three small trials and you're a pirate like us." Fair enough. If only I could stomach the foul brew these scurvy seadogs swilled, the rest would be easy. How could I have known I'd meet a powerful and beautiful woman with a jealous suitor too stupid to realize he'd been dead for years? And how can I crawl through this great stone monkey to find a man who walks three inches above the ground and sets fire to his beard every morning?