toblix

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  1. Flashback Origins

    I'm excited to hear more actual details about the project, but fear it'll just be a meticulous recreation in a modern 3D engine, with almost no changes except for the obligatory concessions to modern gamer sensibilities (like a sweet VR tutorial section!)
  2. Video Game Championship Wrestling

    This makes it sound like a underground club or society that communicates using codes and secret signals.
  3. Life

    Medical tip: don't be such a fucking pussy. Wikipedia suggests this, also:
  4. Super Mario 3D Land

    I had really lost much of my interest in anything Mario after burning out on the "New" Super Mario games, but after Giant Bomb recommended 3D Land, I gave it a go, and it's terrific! The bite-size levels make it easy to pick up for a short session, and keeps things varied, and the 3D adds some nice touches in places (though I didn't get the «HOLY FUCKING SHIT» feeling some people talked about.) The purple anti-mario that follows you on some of the special levels I could do without, but the small level sizes makes even annoying stuff okay, since you know you won't have to struggle with them for that long. I've consistently gotten 3 coins on each level as I play, which I expected would become frustrating, but again, the small level sizes makes restarting and playing them multiple times not that big of a hassle.
  5. I've already completed the game once, and never knew this. This is an outrage!
  6. I'm sure this sounds like a swell idea to tired old politicians who don't know anything, or care, about video games, and aren't too concerned with principles in general. Also, there's probably lots of money lobbying for this thing, since it gets a lot of big companies off the hook, in a way. Here's how I imagine most politicians look like when they're making decisions on post-1950s technology:
  7. Are there hidden horse codes now? Where did you find these weird controls you're all taking about?
  8. GDC 2013

    So what are you doing here at richeuropeankings.com?
  9. Uncharted 3: the Uncharteningest

    I'm assuming they're working on Uncharted 4 for PS4.
  10. Oh I love Mr. Show. It's one of those shows I always make sure to mention, and I'm like hey you gotta see Mr. Show, and they're like okay and then never do.
  11. The ship: fruitcake steam cruise.

    The only ship game I have on Steam is Bully: Scholarship Edition. I would be up for some Shipping on a Friday.
  12. Movie/TV recommendations

    That snowball scene was uncomfortable. Was it supposed to reference something? It felt very much like a horrible massacre scene, only with snowballs.
  13. Cyberpunk video games

    The old Amiga game Dreamweb is a pretty sweet, dark and gritty little cyberpunk adventure.
  14. Space

    Wasn't there an Amiga crime mystery game that took place on a small, cramped space station? SPACE MURDER or something? Aha!
  15. 2013

    Yeah, video related apps are the one obvious exception to what I said – obviously you'd much rather watch video on your TV rather than on your tablet or phone. I wish they'd gone more in that specific direction, rather than making a this whole generic "app" framework thing, but I guess there are too many marketing people involved («we gotta have apps!») and anyway, with little or no standard for a "video service," it would be hard to take any other route.
  16. COLOSSUS 2: DESTROYED. I had forgotten how great traversing these things are, with the stumbling and jumping and grabbing on to shit. I stopped by two save ruins on my way there, and one of them had a white-tail. I spent more time trying to hit that with a weapon than I did killing the colossus, as it kept running around on the ruin, escaping my bow-aim and sword-reach. Fucking lizards.
  17. 2013

    I've yet to see a "smart" TV that isn't just a slow, unusable mess of bullshit "apps" that in no way compete with what more and more people have on their tablet right in their laps.
  18. Ghost Trick DS

    Mmm, dadadaaaa!
  19. Ghost Trick DS

    The FBI can't touch me! I'm non-touchable.
  20. Things That Improve Your Life

    Just be sure that they're flushable, so you're not slowly clogging the sewers of Amsterdam with compressed butt towels.
  21. Ghost Trick DS

    My my biggest regret is not having been born in Japan, so that I could play Gyakuten Kenji 2, and I have hired two hitmen, separately, to identify and liquidate every person responsible for that game not getting an English translation and then kill the other hitman.
  22. Ghost Trick DS

    Finished this (iOS) the other day, and man oh man whatta fantastic game! It has everything – ghost tricks, submarines, ridiculously convoluted puzzles, fantastic characters and environments and an unexpected ending. I don't where I heard about this game, but I'm super happy I did – the singing chef will stay with me forever/until my death.
  23. Life

    What? I thought hospital beds were sweet ... they're so expensive – how can they not be ultra-comfortable?