Chris

Hitchhiker's Guide Forever!

Oh, well. So yeah, how about that Stranger?

That one's straight from our press release! Hey guys, why haven't we put the original press release up on the site somewhere just for posterity's sake?

According to the director of Shaun of the Dead (at its U.S. premiere which I attended), all great zombie movies are non-zombie zombie movies. In a good example of the genre, the true drive of the film comes from the interaction between the characters, and the zombies are simply a looming threat rather than the focus of the action. This is certainly true of Romero's Dawn of the Dead, which as far as I can tell is considered the hallmark of the zombie genre.

This movie was friggin great!

This might be a bit cynical, but he may be going back to the Raman series because it's sort of familiar territory for him. After trying (and commercially failing) to make a go of it with a risky new IP (BGE), it would be sort of comforting to head back to a well-known and long-running series almost guaranteed good sales.

WOOOOOOOOOO!

When (if ever) are they going to open it up to people who aren't invited (ie, me)?

It's another example of things like music piracy. It surely CAN be used for legitimate purposes, but the enormously vast majority of people use it for illegal purposes (my friends are constantly telling me they got a friend to "do this thing to their PS2 so they can play burned games!!! yeah!!!"), so it eventually is determined to be illegal overall. By the way, before anyone starts yelling at me, I'm not making a judgment call either way, but I am saying that this certainly doesn't surprise me.

Sorry, I didn't catch that.

Good God, it looks like ass

No, but I can't sympathise at the moment because I've probably been looking myself at least as long. I was very tempted to steal Tim's. It was out in the open and unprotected.

I already have.

Tim's office also has a small bookshelf filled with games he worked on, as well as his own personal copy of Surfin' the Highway. I know this, of course, because I was there.

That's pretty lame...

Well, as Douglas Adams himself said, "When it comes down to it, my principle is this - Arthur should be British. The rest of the cast should be decided purely on merit and not on nationality." So really, it shouldn't even be a point of issue. Frankly, I think he's an excellent choice, based purely on what I've heard about the guy, that is. And as someone else pointed out, Trillian has been described as looking somewhat Arabic but the actor playing her is white and nobody seems to care about that. I wonder why...

Yeah, he went to LucasArts pretty much right after graduating.

But clearly you could say that for any cast member. Why him?

Not to mention, he graduated in 89 (approximately), which is 15 years ago, and if he's 37 that means he finished school at age 22, the precise age you'd expect.

And why would you be?

Because calling something a "laser-printed reproduction" of something else is not nearly as catchy (nor alliterative) and it indicates the thing is extraordinarily accurate. A level that is a "carbon copy" of another level is clearly just a fairly close copy rather than a pixel-perfect doppelganger (ha ha).

I know what you mean. I still find it hard to get over that natural inclination, but in series of games that are not explicitly story-based (like Hitman), I've decided to stop caring.

Fair enough. I only asked because I've heard the second one was a huge improvement, and I suspect they're both available on the cheap these days.

I didn't suggest such a thing, I merely asked why.