Salka

OftenK, I think I can give you coconuts. I'm only a girl though, so I'm not sure about this whole online thing. Can I connect to anybody anywhere else in Europe? Or THE WORLD? Or what? Oh god jesus, I'm only 30,000 Bells away from paying my next mortgage off... I have billions of Cherries, but I'm going to wait until I can sell them in a foreign town. Also, I bought some Red Turnips today. Do you have to water them once a day?

Heh. Also, I just thought of how long, how many fucking weeks it took me to complete Gods when I was little, and the sense of elation and victory I felt when I finally did it! I'm as happy when I finish a good game, as I am when I'm finished reading a good book. I don't really see how you can sum up the value of something by the number of 'delayed rewards' you receive from it. Jesus, that makes us sound like trained mice. As far as I'm concerned, you get just as many 'delayed rewards' from games as you do from watching movies or reading books. Besides that video games are fucking fun, and that's my reward.

It's not realy fair to compare playing games with MAKING movies, now is it? If you're going to do that, then why not compare MAKING games with WATCHING movies? I'm sure the latter is far less productive.

I got myspace because everybody has myspace even Peter Molyneux and I'm under peer pressure and just wanted to fit in with my peers. I made myself out to be really beautiful and popular on it, and I was totally flirting with this hot guy who describing himself as being a body builder, but then I found out that 'body-builder' is MySpace code for 'fatty'. Also I studied. I had a summer holiday and then we had christmas followed by valentines day. I wrote a novel, and did some university interviews and played DS a LOT. And I think I just broke my toe.

i don't have any photo editing stuff on this pc so i erm used ms paint to cut off her head ok no ¬ also can these be smileys: i dont know what you would use them for though. my work here is done.

Animal Crossing is the only game that matters to me. However, I believe I once completed Project Rub, and liked it very much. Jesus, while the forums were down I competed Psychonauts and RE4 and... completed University and... now I have three teenaged children and a summer house in Spain... Also Guitar Hero.

I met a guy yesterday who kept putting Psychonauts on the best row in the store, but his manager kept putting it back. *sigh*

Are you male or female? I'll never give up, please tell me.

:tup: Best ever!

SOAP OPERAS?? no. Also what do you mean, that games should emulate soap operas/love stories/psychological thrillers? How is that the ultimate evolution of anything? I don't like the sound of your idea. It would bore me. It really sounds like you don't like games at all, and would just rather watch Neighbours or Friends or something. Are you female?

19-08-05 Yesterday, I killed and ate Spaff. Even as I write, I am picking my teeth with his delicate little bones. He was delicious. I do not usually feast on human flesh. Perhaps this has something to do with the disappearing staff members, and the vial of liquid I broke in the lab the other day? By the way, the passcode to the top secret underground console room has been changed to 1129. However, you can only access this after you find the Spafford Family Emblem in the eye of the Lion Statue in the lounge. Use this with the portrait of Great Great Grandfather Watson in the hallway on the second floor of the east wing, and you will get the Red Keycard. You will need to use this in order to access the keycode panel in the door. The door is behind the bookcase in the library. I grow increasingly hungry for flesh. MMMMmmmmm... PS could staff please stop coming in through the secret underground passage underneath the carpark? We know it is cool, but there are hell beasts and zombie dogs under there and we can't afford the medical bills. If you are caught taking this route to work again, you will be cooked and eaten.

It doesn't look that extreme. It looks more like a tumble dryer.

When Bush was voted in for the second time, I remember really hoping that something fucking terrible would happen so people could see him fuck up majorly. I guess this is it. And he's fucking up majorly. It's really awful, and very surreal.

Tim Schafer gave me permission to tell people that I worked on the Excellent Game Psychonauts, even though I didn't!

Obey.

Looks really shite though.

I killed Jokemaster today, but did not eat him. I am still content and full after Spaff. I dragged Jokemaster'd body into the cellar. He will stay fresh there.. I found Whitey down there. He was writing something into his journal. I couldn't see all of it, but I definitely saw the number '67' written down there. Next I will kill Lailoken. 8743.

Speaking of AGS, I wish it would allow 3D characters to be placed over 2D backgrounds.

I'm free now! I have a Gamecube and Resident Evil 0 and the RE1 remake to complete and I'm happy about it.

It's profoundly recontextualized my 'notion', Spaff. Profoundly. Also Kingzjester, you're talking bullshit. Yesterday, I actually TOLD somebody that by the end of this thread, you'd have said this.

Okay on this subject: I hadn't read about this, but I've just heard that apparently the premise for his game was to make it fun and simple so that people stop thinking about bad things in the world, blah blah blah. Surely that would mean the game is really just supposed to be fun, and nothing more? Meaning there is no underlying social or political commentary, except whatever people can make up in their own heads? In which case it's not political commentary at all, it's imaginary.

So you're saying that in a multiplayer game, just like in real life, opposing sides see each other as 'the bad guys'. WELL DONE THERE, KINGZJESTER. Why is it necessary for the American Army game to have to tell unintentially tell us this? Didn't we know that anyway? Does it make the game better? Does it 'enlighten' you in some way? Are you thinking about the unintentional political commentary whilst playing (Well, you probably would be)? What does this have to do with the gameplay? Does the underlying political commentary make it a better game? When you are PLAYING the game, and having fun, which is what games are about... did the social commentary make it better? The social commentary that's not actually there? Unless you're actively trying to find social commentary in there?

No, because he's saying things like this:

I don't see why there's nothing wrong with that. Why even bother? Why not just enjoy games for what they are, and not how many billion levels of meaning they might have underneath the surface? I honestly don't see the point in seeing things that aren't actually there. I find what he is saying extremely pretentious, whether he means it to be or not.

You are horrifically over-interpreting Katamari Damacy. I'm not going to prove Ron was joking. Who knows, maybe he's actually an idiot and wasn't joking at all. But he was. And you're being an idiot. I'm sorry but to read that much into Katamari Damacy... that's ridiculous. Yeah but it's Doom 3. You're not SUPPOSED to feel enlightened after playing it. That's a ridiculous example. If you want to be swept away emotionally by games, okay fair enough. But don't think that games such as Doom 3 are bad for not doing this: they're games, and games are essentially about playing and having fun. Why do games have to be like other media? I play games to have fun. If you want to play games to reflect on human life on the modern age, go for it I guess. If I want that, I'll watch a movie or read a book.