Redwall

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  1. Posted

    I read Spook Country when it came out. Not as good as Pattern Recognition IMO (which I thought was Gibson's best since Neuromancer) but still good. :tup:

  2. Posted

    I still play HL1 every once in a while and don't mind the graphics...

    What is Valve's stance on this mod, btw?

    They asked/made them drop the "Source" from the name (so as not to confuse and because it's a Valve trademark IIRC), making it just "Black Mesa", but other than that I think they've been supportive.

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    I had the Process Explorer problem with the demo (downloaded through Steam) which pissed me off enough because it wasn't running and hadn't run since long before I downloaded the demo (apparently once it's been run once you have to restart before SecuROM will let you play any game). Just having to restart once pissed me off (especially because it told me it was due to a "running process"), but the rest of this, especially the two activations, is total shit.

    I'm kind of wishing I had a 360 now. :(

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    I realize you're joking, but does anyone else find this whole discussion terribly disturbing?

    In my state sex offenders (which includes paedophiles, rapists, etc.) have to register their locations with the state (which then publishes their names and addresses to the public), can't live within so and so distance of schools and public areas, etc. It's gotten a lot of (justified) shit because in my state an 30-something married man with a couple of kids, who when he was 18 had sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend whose parents found out and pressed charges, is permanently labeled a sex offender and put on this list and subjected to these regulations and such (and yes, there are several well-publicized cases of this happening, it's not just hypothetical).

    (And Yusfter, this cross-posting... I don't even know which thread to reply to... and then somebody made about the same point on AGS... argh.)

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    history-turned-adventurer

    I guess GameSpot could use a proofreader.

    I didn't play LSW but this doesn't strike me as working quite as well. Star Wars is a really exaggerated, extreme series in the first place, which lends itself to Lego-ification, but Indiana Jones is more grounded (not to say realistic, but stylized in a different way that Lego wouldn't seem to be as suited for). But who knows? As I said I haven't even played the games.

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    It'll be interesting to see how Gears of War does fare with the PC crowd as a whole when the extended edition is released for it later on this year, who 'culturally' have very different tastes. :tup:

    I expect it'll do about as well as Halo PC did. (Which is to say, not very.)

  21. Posted

    You think it's bad watching from outside? Think of what it feels like to be watching it happen all around you. It's become almost surreal in how Bush & co. have become more and more blatantly ridiculous with their claims and yet still nothing ever happens to them. I thought with an opposition Congress we might get something done, but we're so tied up in partisanship that the Republicans will block anything that might damage the President... (when it seems to me their best chance of winning the '08 election at this point is to distance themselves from him, not continue to be his lapdog, but whatever).

  22. Posted

    Grim Fandango had a great story, but controlling Manny was like trying to steer a dump truck. Also, you couldn't even combine objects together. Seriously, what.

    As a story? :tup:

    As a game? :tdown:

    I agree with you. When people ask me what I think the "best game ever" is (which, yes, is a very stupid thing to ask), I make a rather odd and probably pointless distinction where I say Grim Fandango is the best in terms of a work of entertainment/art in general, but Deus Ex is the best in terms of being a game, because I think it utilized interactivity to the greatest effect of any game I've played and really embodies in my mind what a game can do, even though the art was uninspired and the writing was bland and so on and so forth.

  23. Posted

    I wrote this short little bit on another forum a while back, might as well post it here:

    A beautifully broken game -- the fact that it crashes randomly and its interface is sluggish and unresponsive seems appropriate for a game that concerns a society of scavengers whose tools are all old, misappropriated, and falling apart. The inexplicable monsters (a humanoid with tentacles for a mouth that can turn invisible?), the random or nonexistent exposition (you've just gained a new Encyclopedia entry on controllers for no reason whatsoever!), and the splintered, piecemeal nature of the playing area contribute to this feeling as well. Its tone is spot on, and the fact that everything else misses the mark somehow makes it better.

    Since then as I've played it more my opinion has changed somewhat, but I'm not willing to go to the effort of typing it out at the moment, so that'll do for now.

  24. Posted

    ten years back, I was a huge card game nut and spent thousands of Euros

    ...there weren't any Euros ten years ago, were there? :mock:

    But at the same time, it takes me right back to the unimaginable excitement of buying a booster and the possibility of finding rare cards within!

    It's like gambling...

  25. Posted

    Blair still believes he did the right thing. There's at least something admirable in the way he's stuck to his guns and resolutely defended his actions.

    "This man believes the same thing on Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened on Tuesday. Events can change, but this man's beliefs never will." ?