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Pfft. That is far from complete.

Grim too, of course. That goes without saying! And before I get into trouble: I'm not comparing writing or the games themselves here.

Yeah, I mean, these retarded award thingies don't mean anything to me ( ), but to imply that Psychonauts didn't have the greatest voice acting in a game ever is rather silly. Escape from Monkey Island is the only thing I think that comes close.

Ever since I first read this ancient interview with Richard Horvitz I would have expected the Coach's "problem" to have been similar to what Edgar's is in the final game. Perhaps ideas were shifted from the Coach's mind to Edgar's, or Horvitz was simply mistaken. Interesting either way, I think. I think if you track down some of those interviews and coverage from the 2002-2003 area you'll find some interesting stuff.

None of the peasants were voiced by Fred. They were in fact all different actors.

You don't go into Boyd's mind to fix anything, really. You just set off the implant that Oleander put in his head early. Also I just wanted to say that I love Gloria's Theater. I've noticed that it seems to receive some negative responses but I thought the whole idea of having Gloria's troubled past acted out on a stage depending on her mood was brilliant, and the catwalks section was great platforming fun. And yes, the critic boss fight was great. Anyway, favorite mental level is too hard to choose, but for now I'm going to say Black Velvetopia, for many of the same reasons vimes stated. I think it emphasized the best part of all the game's mental worlds: learning about the character directly through the gameplay. There's a lot of story you can learn just by walkthing through the world, seeing the high school stuff in the sewers, etc.

Have you seen any beyond April?

The concept is still awesome. I just hope Nintendo won't be aiming to rape my wallet too much.

Fuck.

Off topic, the new Indy movie is more likely coming out in 2007 and not next year.

What do they mean by "other DVD content?"

Woah, that's pretty interesting.

Why do Milla's nightmares have to be the same as Boyd's?

I'm still a fan of the electric-y mental crane thing that was apparently the original levitation. EDIT: Or how about this (not so black velvet)topia? And indeed, the original thought bubble was weirdly awesome.

Yeah, agreed, but I'm talking about the differences that time didn't create, like the fact that the games have a totally different style and atmosphere, not that the interface was more streamlined. They go in two very different directions, perhaps even different genres (from a story, not gaming, standpoint).

Anyway, Full Throttle is not a Maniac Mansion game.

Indeed. And why I wish MM would have been a bigger series. Thanks to DOTT, any third game could be as insane and creative as ever, without having to follow much of a guideline.

I'm sure he'd came up with some idea of a sequel, I just didn't realize he actually had something concrete that Grossman and Schafer could go by that resulted in DOTT. The games are just so unbelievably different.

Yeah but I never connected the dots. I just kind of assumed it was all part of the obligatory "he created the first game" honoring.

Tim offers a couple of amusing tidbits too, such as when he praised Ballblaster, the name for the pirated version of Ballblazer, during his original Lucasfilm Games interview. I also didn't know that DOTT was based, however loosely, on a concept by Ron Gilbert.

This thing is actually good. Someone had better be recording it.

Wait a minute, wasn't he like, chief director of Wind Waker? How can he say this garbage? But hey, as said before, this is the guy behind Majora's Mask, which in my opinion had more personality than any other Zelda. I'll excuse him this retarded quote.

Ign Review: 8.7

Why that one hasn't been released on DVD yet is beyond me.