Salka

Predictably, I loved the Grim Fandango installation process. It had Tim Schafer in it. It's the only install process I actually remember of any game.

I realized that right after I posted but IE wasn't going to let me go back and change it. I saw 'whales' and 'spiritual' up there somewhere, and just assumed... Toblix: I assume people don't like Myst for the same reason as people don't like 7th Guest. Both games were absolutely crap as regards gameplay, but they were still cool back then. If you played 7th Guest now, you wouldn't have that same feeling of jaw-dropping awe that you would have playing it back in... 1993? People forget how exciting that soundtrack was, and those real actors on those amazing 3D backgrounds, and how amazing the experience was back then. It's all primitive stuff now. On the other hand there are people that saw past the pretties and saw the lack of gameplay and just hated them because they were, essentially, crap.

Never mind. ¬ ¬ Where did you get it from, Often? URL?

I am delighted that you picked up on that, Screwtape.

In your defence, the Marshmallow is hot.

You wouldn't ever doubt my ability to kick your ass at stuff, would you? It's only my lack of an internet connection (I am pretty sure my dial up does not qualify) that prevents me from doing so, you know. Quite frankly, until recently (this being about two weeks ago) I would also have been surprised and miffed to be beaten by another girl at a game. Then, I met a girl who nearly made me question my sexuality, she's so damn gamey. We first met two weeks ago. What fun we had. We installed Farcry on to the PCs at work and took turns trying to unclog the mouse so that we could actually play it. We dug out old classic games from the back of the store and hid them so that they'd still be there in two decades, when we had enough money to buy them. We swore at Rogue Spear for needing three keyboards, five mouses and a joystick to play it. We set up an Xbox on a projection screen and pretended we were showing Halo to the customers. We lamented that David Bowie pulled out of his Oxygen date, and we giggled shrilly about how much Mike looks like Bill Gates which naturally led to the topic of Psychonauts. Then she introduced me to House of the Dead, and then proceeded to take the piss out of that Resident Evil version of Time Crisis, whatever it's called. So, yeah.

ICO, is that the dolphin game where you swim around as a Dolphin doing nothing in particular? That game is fucking awesome... as long as you play it when seriously, seriously doped up.

Man, that was just beautiful. I can't remember any particular game offhand, because I try to block them from my head... but there were a few games I used to play with enemy respawning, and the second you were off one section of the screen the enemy would reappear there. Hmmm, wasn't Fade to Black one of those games? Every time you left a room the enemy simply reappeared in the exact same location? On the other hand, dying was such damn fun in that game. It was the only reason I kept playing.

That Tim Schafer is an alcoholic? In other news: Hooves up! Ha ha ha...ahhh.

Jake: Donkey's Shin. Moos: I am afraid you are just jumping on the bandwagon with that whole Devil Worship thing.

Wow, you guys know pretty much nothing about Apples either. Okay, here's why I asked; because now I'm a PC salesperson, but I also have to sell Macs. And what worries me is that, while I know enough about PCs to sell them to people who know less than me... I know nothing about Apples, pretty much. And neither does anybody else where I work. One of the first questions they asked was whether I knew anything about Macs. I said something about art and graphics and software not being made for them a lot and Dave said, "Brilliant! You can be the official Mac salesperson then." So I was fiddling around with these machines, trying to figure them out enough to convincingly sell them. The first thing I noticed was the sexy design. They sure are pretty. The next thing I noticed was the sharpness of the graphics. It was friggin' beautiful. On the other hand, the OS seemed a little crap to use, although that's probably only because I'm not used to it. Still, all the pretty animated buttons seemed more than a little unecessary. I'm not allowed to actually install any software on to the computers there, yet. But I did notice a distinct lack of software available for the Mac in the software section, and I'm aware that's one of the weak points about a Mac. Anyway. Continue to speak your brain about Macs. I'm all ears.

Hang on hang on hang on. Lots of art is a first try or an accident. Some of the most crazy stuff is completely spontaneous.

I have found, over the years, that the people that claim to appreciate art the most are the people who understand it least of all. They have expensive, abstract paintings from snotty artists hanging in their designer living rooms, just above their stylish Elaine E. Curtis sofa, which cannot actually be sat on in case it damages the delicate designer fabric. These people are the very same ones that deny that video games could ever become a legitimate art form. I remember in school on year, we read this ridiculous poem in English. I can't remember the name of the author, but many Irish people consider him a genius. The poem goes something like this; The Snail Moves On the hovercraft of itself Slowly, Like butter on a hot frying pan, Oh Snail, Let us reach out to you, As you hover, Like a bee, An angry bee. I have to admit, that although I am writing this poem, I actually know pretty much dick About Snails. And I think the same guy, or maybe it was a different idiot, wrote something like this; The Hedgehog, Is just like Jesus, Except pricklier And slightly smaller, But the comparison I am drawing is this; The Hedgehog, much like Jesus Wears a crown of thorns! Get it!? Do you!? Do you see the clever comparison That I am drawing?! I am a genius. I know absolutely nothing about hedgehogs, by the way. But I do know a lot about Jesus. And although they really have nothing in common, I am going to continue to draw this abstract comparison, Because, like the emperors new clothes, You will have to pretend to understand it, Or risk ridicule At the hands of your fashionable peers. See, I don't consider that art. I consider that pretentious bullshit. Maybe some consider it art. But then, some consider the painting that I made three years ago as art. I dipped by baby sister's ass in a pot of red paint and made her sit on a canvas, and then repeated the process with black, green and orange paint until she started crying and trying to eat the paint. Yes, some people consider the painting I made with my sister's ass art. They say they think they can see an image in there. Yes. It is an ass imprint. What I am trying to say is that Video Games have been an art form pretty much for years, but nobody likes to admit it. They boast amazing art, skilful programming, clever design, intricate stories, and awesome scripts. Or at least, the good ones do. Like Grim Fandango, for instance. I don't think an Ass Painting is quite equal to Grim Fandango on terms of artistic ability and talent, but many people (non-gamers) would have you believe it.

But... why? Have people forgotten good old paint? And not MS paint or Corel Paint... I mean watercolour, cucumbers, oils, pencils, guashe, acrylics, photoshop!!! You know... the things we used to paint with! Before computers! We used Wacom pens with bristles.

DOES THIS LOOK 3D TO YOU, ROSS?!??? You are wrong! Not right! Wrong! Ahhh! I want to force salt water down your nose until you sick up, and then I want to make you look in that sick, and you will see Tim Schafer in that pool of vomit, and he will tell you that you're WRONG and that the action comics are not 3D, and then I want to make you eat the pool of vomit and then you're going to die and then I want to make everybody else on this entire thread run fifty miles and then I'll dig a big hole and put them in it and the only way they'll be able to get out is by digging down only since they're so stupid they won't know that they're actually digging themselves to Australia and since it's upside down, the second they dig themselves out they'll make a hole in the sky and fall hundreds and hundreds of miles to the dusty ground below and then fall in a big broken heap and then kangaroos will kick them in the face a couple times and they'll be forced to make guest appearances in Home and Away and if they don't admit that they're wrong and sorry and you made the first stupid comment I'll forge their signatures on a twenty year contract to star in Home and Away as Angie Russel's evil, evil, evil, ugly brothers and everybody will hate them and they'll hate themselves and they'll be better off dead.

All of you can fuck off. One day I will live in San Francisco and drink fine San Francisco wine and such things as this, while looking back on the day you fuckers made fun of me when I was trying to correct Shbaz and then I wrote an angry post after working 15 and a half hours just so that I had enough money to go to San Francisco and buy wine so that I could look back on the day I told you guys to fuck off. There. Happy now!?

All of you can feck orf. One day I will live in San Francisco and drink fine San Francisco wine and such things as this, while looking back on the day you fuckers made fun of me when I was trying to correct Shbaz and then I wrote an angry post after working 15 and a half hours just so that I had enough money to go to San Francisco and buy wine so that I could look back on the day I told you guys to feck orf.

What, the Action Comics? Or his drawings? The Action Comics are not 3D.... Moos: Raz is short for Razmig, as in Razmiv Mavlian the comic artist. Raz from Psychonauts is Razputin, though. It said in one of the newsposts about Razmig and Nathan. Geeze, weren't you listening? You know Tim is an actual person too, right?

I don't think the genre affects the sales that much. I mean, sure, one genre might be more popular than another. But how many people do you know that go out specifically to buy an FPS?

Hahaha.

http://www.doublefine.com/news.htm I'm gonna be so cool about this. Like ice.

So, like, exactly what I said, eh?!? The only problem I see with this though, is that... well, people prefer different genres. And having a mix of all different genres like that might create to wide an experience and actually be off-putting to the player.

Never played it. On the other hand, it sort of kind of reminded me of a very old game I used to play called Gotcha! Gotcha! involved a line, three different colours, and a moving pixel, if I recall correctly. Highly addictive stuff.

Oh, the Sinclair Spectrum! The speccy!!! But as far as I know (and remember that Ireland, which was actually considered by many a third world country until the mid 80's... or possibly late 80's even, and has a completed warped history regarding any kind of technology) the Sinclair Speccy was no competition for the SNES. When the SNES was released, to my knowledge the Speccy became pretty much obselete... Of course, this is what happened in Ireland. So it is pretty much irrelevant to anybody from a developed country...

Man, one day you guys are gonna be so sorry you didn't believe that I have a Mom.