Chris

There were a number of screenshots posted when we (Gamasutra) broke the story, it wasn't al concept art. I'm sure they were early but a direction was clear.

2D Boy can't rage against it, or they'll be vilified by the righteous, entitled PC gaming community. Castorp has no such responsibilities, he can simply speak to how astonishingly shitty and disgraceful a situation it is.

Why are people even comparing it to Dead Rising? Literally the only similarity I can think of is that they both have zombies, and they're not even similar zombies. It's a completely different game in just about every respect games can be different. EDIT: I keep not noticing the last page of posts.

Soul Calibur is Namco

Ordered it, will arrive on Thursday. Hooray!

That seems like a bit of an exaggeration. I literally cannot imagine it ever taking an hour to get to a save point, that's just insane. You could do a full perimeter of the entire map many times over in an hour.

I'm loving it a lot. The personal aspect of the game is fairly sterile, but the actual world and environment is incredibly vibrant and lovingly created. There's a ton of attention to detail, but it's not in the way we usually use that phrase--it's not lots of little textural details, or little scripted events, or what have you, it's attention to systemic detail in the subtle and realistic depiction of an African savanna, things like how the sun affects all the different types of terrain at all times of the day, the way a rainstorm breaks out, and so on. It's relentlessly gorgeous in that respect, but I've noticed a lot of people call it bland or boring, probably because it's so reserved.

For the record, I think toblix is justified in his frustration as well and the situation is super dumb, but there's also definitely nothing anybody here can do about it. It would be worth continuing to pester Valve about it if possible.

It's set in Baltimore. It ran for five seasons and ended this year. I still haven't seen the last season, although I will when it hits DVD, but I have seen the first four and it's pretty incredible. EDIT: Oh whoops, I didn't see that there was a new page since this was posted.

I'm never expecting a day you don't post about this

Interesting link, thanks.

As Jake says, no not really. Obama won the popular vote by a considerable margin so it wouldn't have made any difference. Coastal areas and major cities are much more densely populated than the plains.

Obama isn't the governor of California, he's not going to do anything about a Californian proposition. Also it's fucking disgraceful that prop 8 passed. Governor Schwarzenegger is also against prop 8, but I don't know if he can actually do anything about it either. If it were a law passed through the legislature, he could veto it, but this was a ballot measure. By the way it's preposterous that a constitutional amendment was on the ballot, what the fuck is that about? God I'm so pissed. As a state, it's red for sure, doesn't do much switching on the whole. But of course, it has pockets of blue. Every state has a lot of both; with the exception of extremely small regions like Washington D.C. (overwhelmingly Democratic) you're very rarely going to see a state that isn't politically diverse.

I don't think any of us actually denigrated your question--that certainly wasn't my intention. We lightly ribbed it for being pretty long, but we definitely put a fair amount of time into actually responding.

No, other Games for Windows Live games do it as well, there just aren't tons of them. The program is gaining more support; Dawn of War II will be a good addition.

Remo

I don't know if everyone can agree on the correct course of action for you specifically, but it's a great game that I recommend generally. If you can go for either platform, I would recommend PC.

Plus, with only a very few number of simultaneous music channels to work with, a lot of old video game music also by default kept the melody far more prominent than just about any mainstream modern music I can think of. Also, individual tracks tended to be quite short and loop continuously.

We're recording the next episode tonight (doing it a day early this week because Nick has a hot date with the games industry) and our reader mail inbox seems to be emptier than it has been for the last few weeks. So send us questions! questions@idlethumbs.net We will read them on the show and it will be totally awesome. Video games.

This one forwards to that one!

That's got to be my favorite Metal Gear moment for sure, by a long shot.

Good call, I loved that soundtrack.

People probably won't buy $25,000 worth of Xbox 360s because they see this news story.

That's probably the right order, for spoiler-related reasons. I highly recommend both though. I'm playing through them sort of simultaneously--maybe an hour or so of each in a given night, or a few hours of one of them. There are some common thematic threads (perhaps amplified in my mind due to my constant back-and-forth between them) but the execution is quite different. Somehow they work well to complement each other, or give me a break from one or the other when I need it.

Rez was released the same year as Halo!