Salka

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  1. Posted

    You should. I love hearing different accents. Which is funny because, since I am a waitress, I hear a lot of tourists. I force them to speak.

    Once, this New Zealandic couple (I just read an article about Serbia, and everybody's name ended in 'ic', and now it's stuck in my head) came in and ordered breakfast and lager.

    "What part of America are you from?" they asked.

    "I'm not. Wow! You're Australian!" I said, my eyes lighting up because I like other accents very much.

    "No, we're New Zealandic," said the woman, although possibly she didn't use quite that combination of wording and non-words. "People often get our accent mixed up."

    "Like mine," I agreed. "So do you guys watch Home and Away?"

    "Oh sure. You guys are so far behind us, you know. So, what part of America did you say you were from?"

    "I'm not. God, you know the way I thought you were from Australia? People think I'm from America all the time. It really starts to piss you off after a while, doesn't it? Did I piss you off, much? God, sometimes I just want to--" And I made stabbing motions with my order pad. In retrospect, it might have made more sense to do that with the pen, instead.

    "Jesus Christ," said the woman.

    Then, she spoiled the next years worth of episodes of Home and Away for me.

  2. Posted

    Excellent. My username is Yufster. Is that my phone number, too? Because that sounds kind of lame. "Here, let me give you my phone number. Y-U-F-S-T-E-R. Yeah. Call me."

    Should it be called a Phone Letter?

  3. Posted

    There are too many games these days with titles like that.

    Good and Evil. Beyond Good and Evil. Dark and Light. Black and White. Etc.

    Bleh! Agreed! I was confused with G&E and Beyond G&E at first, and then I kept thinking people were talking about G&E when they were talking about B&W...

    But remember that Ron Gilbert's came first!

  4. Posted

    Okay, so this thread is a big compilation of all of the retro games you can think of. Because sometimes I will see the name of a game I'd played and enjoyed and forgotten about, and yeah. You know.

    Only post the names of games you liked! Okay, I'll start.

    PC

    Warcraft, Commander Keen I - VI, Battle Bugs, Micro Machines, Quarantine, 7th Guest, Monkey Island I - III, Rise of the Triad, Doom I - II, Heretic, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Sam n Max, Theme Park, Syndicate, Alone in the Dark I - II, Jazz Jackrabbit, Duke Nukem, Wordsearch, Quake, Descent, Flashback, Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, Grim Fandango, Zool, Paws of Fury, Lemmings, Prince of Persia, Pizza Tycoon, The Horde, Framed! Ironman, Comanche Maximum Overkill!!!, F16

    SPECTRUM

    ALL the Dizzy games, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy

    I know I will remember more. I'll try to compile a huge, pointless list of Retro Games that people enjoyed, along with their publisher/developer and year of release and platform or whatever. And maybe upload it for easy reference. Or whatever. See how it goes.

    All platforms welcome.

    Start... NOW!

    No, wait.

    Under this line.

    NOW!!!

  6. Posted

    Marek's new avatar is awesome!!! 10/10!!!! Ha ha haaaaaaa!!!

    This has got me thinking of avatars, appropriately enough. Perhaps I should change mine? People are beginning to suspect I may be gay. Or maybe I just like the flag, eh? Did you ever think of that???

    Ha ha ha, stupid Pikachu!!!

    Stevan, what is your Avatar from? And Treppy, yours too.

  7. Posted

    Do you think I'd be able to legally park in Disabled spaces in car parks, on account of having Dial Up?

    I'd love to have played you guys in a lot of things, but my connection speed does not permit.

    I'm going to go and check whether broadband is available in my area yet.

    In other news; something that does irritate me, though, is when people use graphic styles just for the sake of using graphic styles. I mean, I think in Zelda it was a careful choice they made that, in my opinion, benefited the game. Again, in XIII, it was perfect for the comic book style. In Futurama, however badly done it is, it is of course supposed to simulate the style of the TV shows.

    But, I can't think of any examples off the top of my head because I only remember games that are excellent... sometimes I'll pick up a game and think, 'why the heck is this cell shaded?'. It's not done to particularly benefit the game, it's just done because Cell Shading can be done, and it's new and cool at the moment. It's not just cell shading, either. It's done with a lot of styles, but I just noticed it particularly strongly with Cell Shading because when done wrong, it does tend to look crap (But then again, so does 3D).

    (I wanna kick Chris's awesome obstacle ass....)

    What's an awesome obstacle ass?

  9. Posted

    If I recall correctly, most people were excited about it. Sure, there were the requisite hardcore fundamentalists, but I remember most of the Zelda fans I knew looking forward to Zelda 64, as it was called while in development.

    I was joking. My sense of humour (?) is dodgy today on account of being at work.

    But.. there actually really were people that didn't want it to go from Sprites to 3D?

    Ha ha ha. That's crazy!

  10. Posted

    [quote name=Intrepid Homoludens

    EDIT: That was fun. I forgot how tricky the second level of the demo was. Got killed, will try again later. Hey, if anyone here is interested, let's do some multiplayer XIII! Just d/l the multiplayer demo and we can meet up for some cel shaded mess!

    You have no idea how much I want to do this right now, especially as I have been deprived of playing XIII at all. Except, on my connection which I believe I have mentioned before... it would take approximately three days and cost me about E30...

    But I agree, the graphics in XIII stunned me. It's a brilliant example of cell shading used right.

    Does anybody remember early 3D? Remember Alone in the Dark? Stiff, blocky characters, odd 'special effects'... even the prerendered backgrounds were not to the standard of today.

    Give Cell Shading a chance. It's early days for it yet.

    And man, I hate to bring Zelda back up in this conversation but... if this is the fuss they made about the transition from 3D to Cel Shaded graphics, I hate to think what Zelda fans made of the transition from sprites to 3D...

  11. Posted

    'errrr 2001 - A Space Odyssey' what? You say it like it proves a point...

    I would prefer an original soundtrack in a game or a movie, regardless of what game or movie it is.

    That's my opinion.

    This isn't a good thing to admit right after I admit not liking loom, but... I hate 2001 - A Space Odyssey, anyway.

  13. Posted

    It's too similar to be a coincede-- oh, this is gross. A moth just crapped on my monitor. Geee-ross.

    Anyway. It's a looks a little too like the Bullfrog logo to me. Hmmm.

    They seem pretty mediocre...

    Although I will be keeping an eye out for Journey to the Centre of the Earth, or whatever that title is. Anybody played it?

    Bullfrog was awesome. I was so sad to see them go. They seemed to get it right time after time. Now I'm panging to play Theme Park or Syndicate again. Only my Theme Park diskettes stopped working years ago :(

  17. Posted

    Actually it's more along the lines of Aliens vs. Predator 2 suspense + Silent Hill creepiness + Half-Life cutscene style narrative.

    Oh... that's good too... I suppose... :( I did so love Parasite Eve...

    That's too bad. If you're really curious, why not download the teaser trailer overnight and view it tomorrow? Can't hurt.

    Good question. I think I will.

  18. Posted

    http://www.sherlockholmesgame.com/

    I loved the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (even though I can't remember it too well as I was just a wee one), but I was never fond of the Sherlock Holmes adventures that were released after it... bland, unexciting and not particularly innovative either.

    Despite the awful, awful website which reminds me off my old house in London... I investigated.

    Adventure fans will be delighted, maybe, to hear it's point and click. It has 3D rendered graphics and the original orchestral score by Nicolo Paganini and Felix Mendelssohn. Unfortunately, the graphics don't look particularly special.

    Frogwares have released two adventure games previously, neither of which I have heard of, and have two (including Sherlock Holmes) under development at the moment.

    Anyway, Adventure Fans might be glad to hear this... I'd rather Frogwares work on something more innovative and exciting, but hey...

    (Does the Frogwares logo remind anybody else of the Bullfrog logo?)

  21. Posted

    The concept of the world was quite unique in games, and borrowing music from classical composers doesn't make the soundtrack bad, it in fact makes it good if you like those composers.

    I don't agree... I think that when an entire soundtrack is taken from another source, that's overdoing it. I'd rather hear an original soundtrack than recycled classical music. And though I loved the original pieces used... not in MIDI format I didn't. I like Moonlight Sonata, but not every time my cel phone rings. (Note to self: change ringtone)

    Also, I found the world similar to the fairytale world of the Kings Quest games (and probably some other games that I haven't thought of yet), so it didn't seem particularly unique to me.

  22. Posted

    Well, I guess I didn't play an awful lot of it. But I heard a lot of people praising it for having a wonderful original storyline and a fantastic soundtrack, and I never really understood that because I could see a lot of the story borrowed from various fairytales and legends and the music borrowed from classical composers. So the praise seemed a little undeserved, if anything. Although it did have a great, original interface which I appreciated.

    It also had a very LotR-style feeling to it, sometimes, and I was never crazy about LotR.

    But like I said, I never played far in to it. If anybody thinks I would enjoy it and they can prove me wrong, sure, I'll dig it out.

  24. Posted

    I hated Loom... It was an interesting concept, but I didn't enjoy the game at all. And everybody said it had great music... But only in the same way as my game could have great music if I used goddamn Tchaikovsky.

    On the other hand, I never played Loom when it was new, and it's always hard to play and enjoy games you've never played before, that are 15 years old...