Chris

I saw the Gizmondo at E3 and I still have no idea why everyone on Thumbs is so violently against it... This guy's post reads like something Spaff would write and still everyone verbally fucks him in the ass. If it's viral marketing it's by far the least offensive example of it I've ever seen on our forums.

Wow, that's kind of cool.

I was all about Dino Park Tycoon. Man, I played a lot of that game. Also Disney's Coaster, which came out around the same time. And SimCity (1) and Civilization (1), which I played for years and years.

Damn, you beat me to it.

The Choose Your Own Adventure books I read just told you to make a decision and turn to a page...

He's been doing documentary and short films for years, it almost certainly has nothing to do with Ubisoft. He's never really been a part of the "games industry", he's always been a guy with many interests who has just done whatever has struck him at a particular time. I really like that kind of guy; I don't think there are enough of them in modern society.

RC Plane Mission, my old nemesis... you made me stop playing San Andreas entirely.

I started playing Warhammer (not 40k) in about 1994 and played fairly consistently until about 2002. That was always my main game but I also played 40k, Necromunda, Blood Bowl, Space Hulk, Gothic (for a very short time), Epic 40k (also for a short time), and Gorkamorka (again, not for long). In the last couple years it's been really tough for me to play but I should really try to get a game going with some of my buddies.

It's the pathway to the Dark Side. You see, absolutely everything is a surefire pathway to the Dark Side apparently. Even, according to Episode III, being attached to the people you love leads to the Dark Side, because attachment leads to jealousy, which is envy, which is the stepbrother of hate and anger or some shit. And that's the Dark Side. Apparently Jedi are supposed to be entirely selfless but not actually care for anybody at all. Maybe they should just lock themselves in a box and instruct somebody to make monthly donations to randomly selected charities on their behalf, so there's no way they could know who they are helping (they don't want to get attached after all!).

"Luke... I am your father." "No!" Kids: "Well, duh."

Oh man, I hate Pitchfork so much, but I guess this is a pretty good feature.

I'd probably end up with about 1990-1998, which I guess is pretty much Walter's range too. In 1990 you have Monkey Island (duh), Super Mario Bros. 3, Prince of Persia, etc.; 1991 has Civilization (completely owned my life at the time, you have no idea), Monkey Island 2 (duh), Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (I feel like Zelda sort of reached new heights with this one), Out of this World/Another World (I wish I'd played this), Metroid II (the GameBoy one, solid like every single Metroid game until the forthcoming Metroid Pinball soils the legacy--fuck you, Nintendo arghg), Quest for Glory II (a big step up from I), Sonic the Hedgehog (woot), etc. Ok, time to stop, this is going to take forever. Actually, looking at that list, it seems more like a Silver Age to me. I guess this is pretty semantic, but the Golden Age seems like it would be about the six or so years before this era, when the medium was really turning into something particularly meaningful and diverse. 1990-1998 was not NEARLY as formative, it was more when the techniques and accomplishments of the previous years came into their own. I mean, honestly, any of the games I listed above, which are themselves part of the earlist couple years of that range, are still COMPLETELY playable today. I can't really see any exceptions in there. You can't really say the same for the predecessors of these games, but they were definitely more pioneering. I might be wrong, but that's kind of the difference I see between a Golden and a Silver age. Either way, they're both a fucking boatload better than whatever the fuck age we're in now. The Tin Age? The Carbon (Copy) Age?

What the fuck are you talking about?

StarCraft! Oh man, StarCraft... And if you say 1998+/- 1 year, it gets even better. I mean, one year isn't much of an "age".

Oh, 1998...

Well, one of them probably has. I think games have the potential to get much better but I think by the time the industry goes through another really strong period it will already have been way too commodified and turned into an Entertainment Industry (I mean, it already has) to really be considered a "Golden Age".

I have nothing against that sort of movie but it just seems very out of place in Star Wars.

I've played Half-Life (1) on three different computers in the span of two days using the same Steam account.

Saying "Children can enjoy it" is different than saying "It is a children's movie". There were lots of things I enjoyed as a child that I now wouldn't particularly enjoy. Star Wars is not one of them.

If that means I 'don't like the new Star Wars films', then sure.

Man, I really don't like the lightsaber battles in the prequels. I've always felt that the lightsaber battles in the original Star Wars films were metaphors more than they were ACTUAL battles of swordfighting skill. I mean, both Kenobi and Vader knew how the fight in Star Wars was going to turn out; the point wasn't to see who could hit their opponent more, the actual battle being fought was on totally another level. The same goes for Luke's fight against Vader on Cloud City. It's not to see if Luke is actually a better physical fighter, it's this crazy battle of attrition Vader is forcing down Luke's throat, wearing him down psychologically and causing Luke to practically snap. The same goes for the stuff with Vader, Luke, and the Emperor on the Death Star in Return of the Jedi. It's not about who's more physically "powerful". At least it never was for me. In the prequels there's sort of some of that by default I guess since most of the battles are between "good" and "evil" but for the most part it's just all about having crazy martial arts battles. Like I give a shit about that when I want to see fucking Star Wars, geez. I can go watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon if I want to see that kind of crap. To me the Jedi have been reduced to nothing more than parlor-trick magicians who are a little bit psychic and really fast with a sword. In Star Wars, everbody (well, everyone who believed in the Force) had enormous amounts of respect for Kenobi. The implication was that the Jedi are somehow far more powerful than could be convincingly demonstrated on film--and since their full power and influence was never really attempted to be demonstrated, it in fact remained convincing. One of my favorite scenes is when Vader tells Tarkin, "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed; the power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force". Man, I used to totally believe that. I'm not so fucking sure, now. Looks to me like all the Jedi are capable of is throwing droids around and getting shot in the back by fucking stormtroopers. And they were supposed to be WAY more powerful in the time of the prequels than in the time of the original films. They were supposed to be the grand marshals of this life-sustaining, grand force, something that transcends any kind of destructive power or fighting skill, but it looks like all they actually did is swing sabers around and levitate stuff sometimes. Seeing Yoda fight did nothing for me. I know everyone else creamed their pants but I thought it looked ridiculous. He looks way more goofy in the new films than he ever did, and he was a PUPPET before. I didn't need to see him jump six feet in the air to know he was extreme. Anyway I really don't enjoy the new Star Wars films at all.

Creepy!

Why would an organization not be allowed to have shared beliefs and still remain an organization?

All will have the capacity to be downloaded. Nintendo-developed titles (and, I presume, second-party titles) will be free. Third-party titles will be downloadable at the publisher's discretion; they might charge for them, they might include them as a bonus in new games, etc.

Oh man oh man. Oh man.