Jayel

I keep telling myself that whenever I play Gran Turismo games, but i just can't let go of the feeling that I'm having a neutered experience. I expect to blow out my tires and spin out of control, then have to make a pit stop when I trade paint at 100mph - not swivel for 10 sec and carry on as if nothing happened. edit: i probably should've chosen a better term than "trade paint" because it implies a really minor rub

I was under the impression that Forza2's driving model is more realistic than Gran Turismo's. I can't stand GT series personally. Lack of damage modeling in a racer sim is unforgivable in my opinion. I was really interested in iRacing as well (by Papyrus guys) but i heard that the car damage isn't that good. It's surprising because their Nascar games did it so well.

In my mind, there's "interactive fiction" and there's "sandbox." Am I being relevant at all to the original post? I only read the bold text.

I don't have much experience with Forza games (I tried the demo for Forza 2 and it failed to grab me)... I'm really looking forward to NFS Shift. I don't like NFS games, maybe except for Porsche Unleashed, but Shift is developed by the same people that made GTR games. It should be interesting. Sorry for shifting topic.

that works just as well, but it's not automatic... If I find interesting links at work and want to read them at home, I don't wanna have to send myself exported bookmarks.

I think my favourite feature in Opera is synced bookmarks. It's nice to have the same bookmarks on all my PCs. Firefox and/or Chrome may have the same functionality through add-ons (haven't looked).

I stopped playing Mech Warrior games after 2. I disapprove of the arcade-y direction the franchise has taken. Yes I'm a Mech Warrior snob.

whatever may have been the case, this style is contagious!

I can think of 2 games off the top of my head that had less than desirable gamepad support on PC: Prince of Persia (2008) and Braid. Prince of Persia supported generic gamepads, but all the quick-time events were colour-coded presumably to xbox controller buttons, so whenever those coloured circles popped up on screen it was confusionfest. Braid didn't support generic gamepads at all! In fact xbox360 controller for PC is the only game controller it supported. I think it was because Jon Blow didn't know how to create button icons for all the various controllers that had different layouts and labels. Pretty lame excuse to cut out gamepad support altogether, in my opinion.

My preference for PC gaming is more due to philosophical agreement with open platforms than taste in gaming.

I simply attribute any sort of attention to detail like that to Jake. Good job!

oh well. Not too thrilled with the quality of art myself, but the inevitable fan-made patches will no doubt clear up some of the sloppiness. (seems like they already managed to unpack all the data and run the game with modified assets) I would like to participate in improving the background and character art - mold the game to fit my childhood vision - but I fear it will never be carried through the end and end up with better chunk of my life wasted with nothing to show for. Or worse, end up with even worse art than the SE's. :|

Though the music in the game is great, I don't think it uses iMuse. At least not to the same extent that older LEC games use it.

Storing game saves in user dirs has its benefits: easy to backup, different user's saves are kept separate (if your pc is shared among family for eg), secure because you can prevent users from corrupting or modding programs (more of concern for PC-bang or internet cafe owners I guess). I thought it was a wonderful idea when MS started urging developers to do this, but quite disheartened to see them resistant to change and kept doing it the DOS way. I for one am glad that TellTale is doing it right, whether they wanted to do it this way or not.

Yay increasing the text speed (in classic mode) fixed this problem for me.

It seems like a huge bug to let past QA, so I assume it happens only on certain configurations. Or maybe it was intentional. edit: ah, seems like there's a workaround to this bug http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=919057

Oh yeah, i noticed all the hotspots for the buttons and dialog choices are 10~20 pixels off, so I have to click slightly below what I want to click for it to register. Terrible.

Voices I can do without - it's not like they were performed remarkably well anyway. I prefer the EGA version. It has beautiful, stylized line-art quality to the background art that I feel is missing from the VGA version.

Oh I forgot. Don't buy Loom from Steam. If you do, download other versions and play with ScummVM instead. PC CD version of Loom is fucking stupid and never should've existed. It's a mystery why LEC people decided to sell this version on Steam. Fuck.

It's simply amazing. I didn't realize it when I was played it as a kid, but it's a very mature game with unusual subject matter. The puzzles are great and the way you interact with the world is something I had never seen in other games before or since. And oh man, the music...!

I didn't mind the inventory UI at all. What I minded though is that "return to entrance" button on the lower left corner of the screen. I kept hitting it by mistake thinking it was inventory. After years of playing adventure games where inventory icon is at that exact spot, it became an automatic response for me.

It's totally a bargain these days. I used to love open-world games (particularly Mafia and Vice City), but after experiencing what it's like to have superpowers in Crackdown, I just can't get back to games like GTA where I have to go back to being wimpy weakly human. Oh yeah, don't forget to get the free DLCs too.

I was super interested in both InFAMOUS and PRototype because I heard they're sort of like Crackdown (it being my favourite xbox game ever), but after Crackdown 2's announcement, well not so much.

i can forgive the hair, but those droopy soulless eyes... blech.

Whoa, that looks interesting. Ditto on Arcanum vibe... Is it just me, or is steampunk thoroughly ignored outside RPG genre?