Jake

Um, did you notice that I said to "play it with a friend." You loudly disagreed with half of my sentence and ignored the other half which answered your question.

I said the same thing for a while, but play it on the Xbox with a friend. It's a great game deserving most of the respect it got. Halo 2 moreso.

My roomate and I didn't get along well the first year so my second year I lived in a single and I was the most miserable I've ever been my whole life. It was terrible.

That's pretty classic Schafer-opening-cutscene style isn't it? Grim and Full Throttle both open up by slapping you in right at the best moment for the story to get in gear as well. No time is wasted really. That's sort of the opposite of games like The Longest Journey, which have about 8 hours of playable introduction before you are actually in a position to care about whats going on...

Nick Jameson voices Dr. Loboto and Dr. Fred (and Max of Sam & Max Hit the Road fame), Tim mentioned that on DF Action News at one point I think. I heard the person who voiced Nurse Edna in DOTT also has a role opposite Dr. Loboto in Psychonauts, but I've got no clue what that's about detail-wise. edit - oops deadworm beat me to it, by a lot. how did I miss that post? well anyway yep.

You'd think that'd be While E Coyote if anyone... But, that said... hahahahahahaa!! I've not seen a "kids cartoon by committee" this bad since maybe Extreme Ghostbusters or something.

My friends invited me to WonderCon today in San Francisco, and I went (shut up, yes it was pretty lame.). Despite the lameness, the one standout bit was a half hour presentation by Robbie Stamp on the H2G2 film, answering some questions for fans (the crazy flyswatter/shovel things are apparently covering a large part of the surface of the Vogon homeworld, and are designed to smack you whenever you have an original though... apparently something Douglas Adams came up with on an airplane flight?), and finishing the presentation by showing a different, far better trailer for the film. Apparently it was the "Internet Trailer," which I guess means that while that one on Amazon will be headed to theaters, the Internet Trailer will be only on the Hitchhikers movie site, Apple.com etc, which is really a shame, since its the better of the two (though it might not appeal as much to the clowns of the world as the Amazon one does). The trailer we saw was essentially the Guide entry on "movie trailers," in which movie trailers were decently well dissected by the voice of the guide, of course using scenes from the H2G2 film as examples. Mentioning the "meet the main character" segment at the beginning of trailers followed by the "event that happens to him to make you care" bit, the trailer voice (which only appeared within the trailer for that segment), the ridiculous double speed montage of clips at the end of the trailer and the bold introduction of the films official logo, etc. Not mind-numbingly brilliant, but infinitely more fitting and enjoyable than the "are you having a crappy day and a friend is an alien?" trailer that's up on Amazon. I hope it appears online soon... (Unless it has already and I haven't seen it yet..) Also, if you want to see a nice high res version of the original Amazon.com/IMDB/Leaked trailer, you can view it in giant QuickTime format here.

Bill Tiller (background art director on Monkey Island 3, and making Vampyre Story) is doing some concept art or storyboarding or something for this game. He did some character design for Guild Wars too.

Saw this article on Game Girl Advance (care of the Thumb Finger!), and thought it was interesting: This is why your Game Magazine Sucks Etc. It's stuff that's been said many times (as the author admits), but it's put really nicely here. I haven't read a games magazine in any serious way for years (aside from ones picked up at airports when super desperate for something to read). I did pick up some issues of Polygon Magazine last year, a potential "good" Stateside gaming magazine, but even it I couldn't bear. Its writing was lifeless, and still dated even for a print mag. Maybe it would have improved, but instead of getting the chance, they went under after a handful of issues. I don't know if anyone else has thoughts on this but the whole thing sort of interests me. I'd love to work for a games magazine that was... not terrible.

You've been able to turn that off on Mac and PC for the last few versions. I hated that at first, but the fact that iTunes does a very good job of organizing your music made me not hate it anymore and now I just trust iTunes to do it for me.

Well, as far as sequels go, it was better than the first film.

You don't think they'll just be offered, standard service, as streaming downloads on future consoles? Like the Tivo updates or HL2 preload that slowly trickle over the net onto your consoles until Bam, demo is there? Citing coverdiscs as the reason magazines are holding on is missing the point, both because that is a pretty flimsy leg to stand on, and because that list was about the editorial and the presentation, not the frills that come and go.

He was enjoyable in Love Actually...

Really? Does AP style agree with that? Though I think AP style still dictates that you write things like Web-Site, so maybe it's not the best place to turn. How about that Hitchhikers trailer, eh?

You thought people would pass up a chance to argue needlessly about something trivial on the Internet?

How insightful. Or not. You're saying that every story ever told should only be told once, in one medium?

lol big shit!

Not even directed by Burton! Only co-written by Burton! :tup:

Well its hardly a movie...

The first film was re-titled to include the "Willy Wonka" name because the whole movie thing was really just a huge merchandising launch/tie-in for the Wonka candy license. They talk about it on the special features of the Willy Wonka DVD.

It looks more scary and stupid than good. I mean, it just looks wrong. And the one line Depp gives in the trailer is really poor. Maybe it's just out of place how it appears completely off tempo in the middle of the song? Bleh. But I'll see it if people I trust tell me its good.

The actual jump and attack gameplay is pretty standard mario/ratchet and whoever/etc style, but the point is that that stuff is laced with adventure style puzzle/dialoge/story with a really nicely designed visual aesthetic.

Well there is a free demo so you can try that out at least. I think their texas holdem characters are pretty forgettable, and the art direction is not top notch, but the character interaction and animation is nice, and their next title will be based on an existing franchise, and they have a new art director now (Graham Annable of Hickee/Grickle fame)... I suspect the art/design to be a lot tighter next time around when they start their first adventure title. I don't know if I'm going to buy Telltale Texas Hold'em, though I might just in the spirit of donating to the cause.

http://lokitorrent.com/ Woof. I've never downloaded a movie from that site but I have used it a couple times. I feel bad for the inevitable rape victims of whatever the MPAA does with the LokiTorrent logs. Also, it's pretty fucking nasty of the MPAA to completely uproot the site and put their own content there. I mean that's really bad. Blah. pwn3d by mp44.

The amazing Yufster, ladies and gentlemens.