Jake

No it was merely okay.

It looked and felt like a game thats been around for 13 years with facelifts gradually glommed on over that time. To be embarrassingly honest, in the back of my head this whole time I've been holding out hope that when the game finally shipped it would actually be fun/exciting to play and while I've never been actively anticipating it, it's been one of thouse things that I've nebulously thought I'll play by default should I ever own it. Ive thought that for a decade. Now that I've played 10 minutes of it... I don't know. All the stripper stuff and general gratuity which seemed balanced perfectly between the precipices of tongue-and-cheek and genuine-shit-80s-bullshit seems to have fallen off onto the genuine shit side, or I was expecting too much. Probably both. The 2001 E3 trailer blew my mind at the time. The military general saying "we believe they have the president" genuinely cracked me up, I thought the intercutting between shooting, motorcycle driving on the freeway, realtime buildings collapsing, speedboats, looking out at a panorama of the Vegas skyline, and general FPS content was one of the coolest things at the time, but that was ten years ago. Now it seems clunky, and with more lame peeing and tit jokes. Also I wasn't really into how character movement or weapon handling felt

Only after we were done and I could see and hear properly again did I realize that I said the phrase "Duke Nukem's penis." into a microphone in front of 200 people.

It was awesome. Thumbs "staff" at the show: Chris, Nick, Jake, Spaff, Steve, Vanaman, Doug (tabacco), and a ton of readers. I also met a few people who I've only ever known via IRC in the late 90s/early 00s.

Hahah if we had weeks to practice (and learn how to sing) maybe. We got a recording off the sound board and I'll be putting it up in the next day or so n Also someone from Telltale got an HD video of the whole thing, so that will terrify you at a later date.

Tumor and head on fire were very deliberate. Elevator Max is from 204. It's explained in a few forum threads on the TTG forums. The timestream got fucked up when Season One Sam & Max stole the time elevator from Season Two Sam & Max when the Mariachi's spaceship was exploding. That break is mended at the end of 305 when only one of each of them is left, due to unrelated horrible tragedies.

It's okay, we don't really talk about girls and sports The Silken Goku Don the Silken Goku. Enthusiastically pour over our collection of galactic maps, carefully curated battle decks, and lushly rendered hexagonal tiles, while we try to tell you about game development, girls, and sports. Games Discussed: Civilization V, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Jagged Alliance, Metal Gear Acid 2, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Achievement Unlocked 2, 2010 FIFA World Cup, Mass Effect 2

God we fail for not calling it that. Anyway I'm shutting up now!

We were thinking about doing an informal get together in our hotel bar but night / other info TBD. If we do something it will definitely be less organized than the (already disorganized) Thumbs PAX meet-ups of past. Follow the @idlethumbs twitter feed probably, in case anything informal happens.

People are expecting and/or reading a lot into this project!

Hey that's newly recorded dialog!

I thought that just did the backflip?

Like Big Bird wearing David Cage's face as a mask. That you extrapolated that out from my daily outfit, a silver painted vulcanized rubber bodysleeve, makes your grim future all the more real, though.

The huge cartooney "look at this from 10 feet away on your couch" console-port UI, the inability to move or chat while it's lagging between turns (an issue WA worked around), the removal of the ability to have a token special starting item [subset: the removal of cows!], the removal of small jump/backwards hop, the removal of number of living worms per team in the HUD, removal of girder positioning/scaling etc, all really blow. Fortunately it's still a 2D worms game and therefore really fun. I've only played a few rounds, and, even with what seem to be a lot of omissions and questionable creative choices, I have witnessed comedy roping disasters, accidental suicides, and plans gone awry which have made me laugh out loud alone in my apartment, so it's still got it. But mostly it makes me want to just reinstall Worms Armageddon. Side note: I really wish the game allowed jumping in to already-formed lobbies that are between rounds.

"Oh it's you."

We've talked about maybe setting up a game of Imperial 2030 at PAX but only in the vaguest terms.

... yes. Haha, I didn't think anyone would notice or get that. Day made!

True. They don't call me the worst for nothing.

I'm the asshole who dropped out of the Neptune's Pride game. I got so busy that I forgot about it. Sorry. Terrible, I know.

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Same here!

He definitely worked from home, as did Chris when he worked for Shack. Shacknews doesn't have an office I don't think. Well, now I guess they have the GameFly office but most people are still remote. (Alice O'Connor for instance is in the UK, or something.)

Will be renamed "Nick Breckon's Arkane Studios."

What is VDGMS?

Sup. Nasty/Good/Badass Though the above choices may seem limiting, we feel they'll be sufficient. Also discussed: space marines, branching narratives, childhood and the human condition. With special guest Sean Vanaman. Games Discussed: Limbo, Alien Swarm, Dead Space 2, Rayman: Origins, Moonbase Alpha, Transformice, The Adventures of WIlly Beamish, Alpha Protocol, Mass Effect, Dragon Age 2, Far Cry 2, Rock Band 3, The New York Times Crosswords