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Yeah, Midtown Madness was also cool.

They're all in the mail now. Just the thought of playing more Phoenix Wright* makes me forget that I'm drinking a constant stream of clotted blood and pus. Almost forget. *Apollo Justice or whatever.

Ooh, a Java API. That's brilliant!

How do you even make facebook apps?

I guess that works if there's already room for magical destiny rhetoric.

How does Morrowind deal?

So why am I not playing them?

Blood tastes like shit.

Yeah, they can be proper motherfuckers if you let them roam around in there unsupervised. The two I've had removed have both been growing slightly downwards toward the teeth in front of them, or rather their roots, all the while hidden beneath the surface. The first one had actually begun pushing against the other tooth's roots ever so slightly, making half my mouth feel numb. The local anaesthesia I got today is so awesome I can't feel my right ear!

Isn't this typical of games these days? Like Bioshock in its day, the designers boast about how everything is just real, that things you expect to be possible are possible, for example this and that, and then it turns out that this and that are the only things possible in the game. Hopefully this will be an awesome horror/action game with some fancy sticky weapons and cool lighting effects. Is there anything indicating that it'll be something special? I never heard about this game before watching this clip.

The reason I never got around to playing it was that I was still in the middle of God of War when I heard about it, and at that point I got both an Xbox360 and a Wii*, and so the PS2 got disconnected. I still cry tears of sorrow when I think about not getting to play these games. I got through Okami, which I'm glad I did, God of War was cool. MGS3 seemed awesome, but I was too late, didn't get it, didn't give it enough time. This experience tought me to get all the consoles and play the great games before the next generation comes along. I still have some hope of picking up MGS3 again, since I have special memories from playing (and fucking completing) MGS2, but I realise it probably won't happen. Anyway, God Hand seems awesome, but I've developed a low tolerance for difficult games over the years. I often stop playing a game completely the first time I fail at something. It's stupid and I hate it, but it's like I suddenly feel naive for trying again, or like I'm being tricked, somehow. Maybe it's some weird thing I transfer from reading books or watching movies, expecting the experience to be linear. The concept of failing and playing stuff over again annoys me on some level, and when experiencing it I get annoyed with the game developers, even though I realise there's often no way around it. It's like I'm slowly transforming into a grumpy grown-up that think games are silly, like the gamer in me died when I wasn't looking. When I was 11, I could spend hours trying to complete a single level in Lost Vikings or Lemmings. Now I have this wealth of amazing games that the 11 year old me dreamt of by night and filled hundreds of A4 sheets with highly detailed drawings of by day, and I give up in frustration after dying twice in half and hour playing Dead Rising. What the fuck? Anyway, God Hand. I'd love to play it. Maybe I'll get to it at some point. *It's not mine, but whatever edit: Oh, and great article. The Blow article was especially fascinating. The idea that games might still not have reached its "full potential" in a hundred years is new to me, but obviously, the gamers of 2108 will laugh at us and our primitive games. They'll watch stilted black and white footage of Half-Life 3 and wonder at how simple we were back now that we were entertained by this. How sad it is, in retrospect, that this represented something great for us. Hopefully we'll be eaten by space dinosaurs before we get the chance to laugh at Half-Life 3.

I think I just posted a seething review of The Experiment, and it's gone. Was it a glitch, or was the post removed? I mean, I even made sure to mention the positives!

Okay, so maybe it's just a session timeout issue then.

I guess my biggest problem with it is that my music generates horrible levels. If any of you Elektropop Teknohaus people can name some official Idle Songs I'd be grateful.

Fucking hell. I was sure I posted it, but, looking back it's sort of a blur. I remember hitting "Preview" -- I always do when I write longer posts -- but after that... I may have just opened some other page. Damn it, this always happens when I pour my heart and soul into a post. Lost like tears in rain or some shit.

Hey, I'd just like to know if it's all right to discuss The Experiment here. I had written a large post about this, and wondered if it had broken the rules or something? I'd start a new thread on it on the gaming forum, but I don't want it to be misinterpreted as an act of agression or something. It's a nice game, we should discuss it.

That's ridiculous! I think I've fairly balanced in my expressed views. Anyway, I've played the game some more, and I've started to like it some more, too. I still think the UI is ridiculous, but at least you get more used to it.

Ah, difficulty spikes, my favourite!

It's weird. I know they're great, and I enjoy playing them, and I recommend them to others, but I always have to force myself to play them because the sequel has been released. Doctor, what is wrong with me?

Yeah, but that's almost a clich... what the fuck?! I can't write this letter anymore: é. I had to copy it from the fucking character map! What's wrong with my computer?!

What in the fucking hell?

No. Fuck it.

No, I don't mean books that you can't actually read, but books that you can read, and that hold some clue, but that the "discovery trigger" fires right when you open it for the first time, never actually letting you discover the things for yourself. Come on, almost every game does this!

If I remember correctly, you should concentrate on getting the crossbow before taking out the beast.

So help me, I'm getting that last orb today, if it ends me outright.