ThunderPeel2001

I'm trying to figure out what you're making reference to...

And THEN you beat him up? Score! (Kidding. That's pretty awesome, Kroms. I hope you're actually able to be his friend.)

No doubt they didn't deserve it, either. Gits.

I don't know... but "Summer of Arcade" just sounds a bit jumped for something that actually should be known as just "Five new games!". Still, I don't know anything about these titles (other than I hate the crappy Marvel vs Capcom series, that Trials has been available on the PC for ages and only so so, and that the idea of a new TMNT arcade game is not all that exciting to me ). (Am I turning into Toblix?)

Maybe.

Too slow!

PART OF ME DOESN'T WANT TO KNOW... Remember? Now that part of me hates you!

I concur.

Yeah, but everyone knows you hate video games. (Also that puzzle is pretty logical... I've seen it used many times in old detective movies.)

Hmmm. So the whole "Summer of Arcade" thing is just actually five games...? July 22: Splosion Man - 800 Microsoft Points July 29: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 - 1200 Microsoft Points Aug 5: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-shelled - 1200 Microsoft Points August 12: Trials HD - 1200 Microsoft Points August 19: Shadow Complex - 1200 Microsoft Points I don't get it... What's so special about them?

Yeah, I think she's fine as an actress... and damned cute, too.

Here's some research materials I dug up for the team... _sarYH0z948

Yeah, check the credits, too.

Freaking awesome............... I wants it!!!

Bah... why are these "special editions" for non-PC only?

Actually, Bowie's 1966 b-side "London Boys" is pretty awesome CIL5KDeLOJ0

I'm back from LA! The ThunderPeel2001 shaped holes in your lives is about to get refilled... Lucky you! I had an awesome trip, saw friends I hadn't seen in years and really enjoyed their company. I do love LA. I also went to the Twin Peaks Festival in North Bend, Washington, which was a ton of fun, too. Now it's back to the grind...

Yeah, his confidence is becoming annoying, especially if he's just going to keep playing the same kind of characters...

Hehe. Cool to see so many Bowie fans. I've only recently got into him (but only the stuff on either side of the 80s). I totally agree that Scary Monsters is a good album, but just about everything else from the 80s I can leave I do like a lot of this 90's stuff (Jump They Say, Little Wonder, etc) and 2000's Heathen is supposed to be excellent. I just haven't found anything I can listen to 1981 to 1992(?).

As long as it's all pre 80's Bowie, I'm in

If you want to discuss philosophy, ethics and morality... this isn't the place. In today's news: The prosecution appears to have made them martyrs of sorts. Does anyone know what changed in Swedish law to allow a successful prosecution? As I understood it, it was not illegal to share .torrent files there because there was nothing breaching copyright within them. What changed?

OMG. They didn't do this, did they?!? Why has no-one mentioned it? It's a silly VISUAL gag ("Airplane" style). It doesn't even make sense if Guybrush says "Love"... Did they really do this??

Argh... I know I'm going to sound like an ungrateful whiney uber fanboi... and maybe that's what I am, but I don't like it. I hope I'm in a massive minority and I suspect that it's only because I know the original so well. But... 1. The new artwork looks a little shoddy in places (why couldn't they line up the cliff face, for example, so that, when Guybrush follows the original walk path, it looks semi-decent?!). There's weird white lines around things that haven't been cut-out properly. Some of the artwork literally looks unfinished. 2. There's irritating pauses between dialogue... for no good reason! This is just unbelievably bad. There MUST be a way to fix it. 3. Some of the line-readings are sometimes incredibly off. Even the excellent Dominic Armato and the fantastic Earl Boen seen to have been given some bad direction on occasions. But other characters suffer much worse... Estvan's "You could wait for the cook to notice you, but that could take all day. Just find a mug and sneak into the kitchen. That's what we all do." Nooo. 4. The characterizations, for the most part, seem terrible. Like they've tried to inject "more humour" at every available opportunity and failed miserably... Random characters speak with the most outrageous voices for no good reason. Cobb, the rat guy ("I thought it was rats"). No other MI game does this, why did they do it here? 5. The music seems to suffer from the same problem as above: "Let's try and make EVERYTHING funny!" Even LeChuck's theme is played for laughs... it's supposed to be somewhat menacing, not sad trombone. 6. The control system is ABOMINABLE. I have to press a key to get the verbs up? I have to press a key to get the inventory up? I have to press TWO KEYS simultaneously to get them both up? It's horrendous! It's beyond horrendous. New players will miss out on mouse wandering and experimentation... 7. My mouse clicks were not always responded to... Click, click, click, CLICK - ah it worked. 8. Finally, you all know this one: The new Guybrush isn't loveable. If anything, my overall complaint would be that they've tried to ram as much "comedy" into MI as they possibly could... But that ISN'T Monkey Island. LeChuck is supposed to be SCARY, not funny. The relationship between Guybrush and Elaine, while a little shallow, admittedly, is supposed to feel genuine. Dave Grossman said it best, except I can't find the quote. It was something like "Monkey Island is a balance between silly dialogue and serious storyline". It's NOT a camp game! And the control system... Oh man, it's terrible. TOMI's inventory system seems like a masterpiece in comparison. I just CANNOT believe that the people who made the SE are thinking to themselves "THIS is how I always imagined Monkey Island!"... it's like they've tried to think what the fans would want instead of trusting what THEY would want. Anyways, as I said at the beginning, I STRONGLY believe that most of my reaction comes from the fact that I know the game so incredibly well. A return to it will probably lessen my reaction But this was my first reaction... I'll probably change my mind next time I play it. Apologies to the devs. Glad to see I'm in a minority on this one. Fanboi mode: OFF

Really? Was it that bad?

Hmm... I've heard a lot of people saying that. Makes me wonder if that's the best thing about it...? (Mine's currently taking FOREVER to download.)