Roderick

No, they were just... viruses. You know. Stuff. I dunno Odds are they were mainly for Windows, because Bill Gates just arouses that sort of behaviour in people. Also; I want to do a more bloggish site in the future, so you'll be able to comment on each and every episode and rant. But that must wait until I find enough peons to do the dirty work for me.

It actually makes sense. They did their take on platforming; I thinks it'd be quite exciting to see how they'll manage to incorporate their signature adventure feeling into an FPS. What's not to like about a storydriven FPS with visuals like that and an awesome story; and probably pretty interesting gameplay? Whatever comes up, I'm game. As far as I'm concerned, Double Fine has a carte blanche and I'll take anything that appears on my plate.

(First I have to buy an Xbox of course)

Hehehe. Excellent. Does anyone else feel a slight Full Throttleish thing going on there?

What a great gesture. I'd love HL2 and Episode 1, but I'm gonna buy Orange Box for Xbox myself But great stuff. Valve's doing good.

Pictures are online. Also a bit of a warning: this last week, August had been hacked and Bad People or possibly robots had changed the code a bit. If anyone visited (anyone? anyone?) the last seven days, odds are you have about 8 viruses and trojans on your computer. Yeah. Sorry 'bout that! Here's a good and free virus scanner: http://free.grisoft.com!

My music tastes are extremely lagging behind anything that's hip now, so my contributions are wholly not in tune with the currents of society. But what the heck. I'm listening non-stop to Chris Cornell's You Know My Name, and then sing it out loud when I lie in my bed trying to sleep but can't.

You've got all the Tactics Ogres, FF Tactics, Advance Wars, Fire Emblems and that sort of thing, that mixes roleplaying with strategy. Quite popular. I wouldn't count on C&C to be big there, though.

I'll find out as soon as I have a 360 and start playing Psychonauts on it. Up until then I've only played the PC version and Meat Circus was tough, but doable after knowing what to do and how. Hopefully the gamepad will ease those tricky jumps some more.

Hey, back then I was in my own gothicky phase; back when I started the school I just finished too. I just came back from the anime convention Abunai and it was absolutely awesome. I sold out almost my entire stock of Year One, finally, and there were even fans who wanted to buy the posters a friend of mine printed for free. There was so much love for August, especially considering that I had to fight really hard to get people to take interest in the book in previous years. This year, the thing basically sold itself. Is the convention mindset changing? Are people more open to outside-the-comfort-zone stuff? I sure hope so. By the way. I dressed up like a Team Rocket and I will post pictures. Prepare for trouble.

This is a must-buy regardless of what reviews say. Actually, I already read that it was awesome, so I'm lying through my teeth. Seriously, if I heard it was shit I wouldn't buy it.

Well, what can I say...? =)

Actually, I don't know either. There won't be any references to Moby Dick after this, it's pretty self-contained. What has been nice is to let the characters have some development or even completely different personalities. That might silently seep into the regular comic; perhaps. It'll be strange going back to a simple sarcastic Nuch after writing the delightfully vexed personage of Mr. Starnuch. So who knows where it'll go? Maybe things will have changed after all...

Maybe it'll sound like the one voice sample in Bayou Billy for the NES? =) Anyway, it's impressive if they can pull it off right. I don't know how much it will add, since handheld gaming has other expectations than fullblown TV consoling.

Sounds like fun! I hope to get my Xbox 360 at long last in a month or so, when I'm a bit more secure in my cash flow.

Well, Halo will polarise opinions, whether positive or negative, I guess.

Yesterday I actually played some Halo 3 so I can give a bit of more polished reaction to it. Nothing really about the core gameplay. It looks fun enough, though very standard and nothing we haven't seen before. What struck me however is how perfectly nice everything looks. Going from the very negative reactions about the visuals I had expected it to look like crap, but there're actually some really good things going on there. The textures are amazingly sharp up close and the poly count it nothing to scoff at. Why is everyone droning on about it? I certainly couldn't clearly see that it was that much uglier than, say a Gears of War of Bioshock, despite there obviously being differences in design quality.

Well, a godawful lot of Suske & Wiske, for one. Judging from my acquirings; also some Hellboy. But no Watchmen. No idea why; I think it's a fluke. Though there weren't many American graphic novels anyway, it was European strip for the most part, as is often the case.

This weekend the yearly Dutch comic convention at Houten is going on I can't buy Watchmen there

Also, in French, Master Chief is 100% culinary. Maître Chef. Awesome

@ Ben; I'm not arguing with you over semantics. I confess that I used the term 100% wrongly. I'm just explaining why this mistake is so common with Gears of War and that a case could be made for grouping it in with those games. Not with the term describing those games, but their gameplay.

I guess it's because in practice it feels so much like the direct approach of FPSses. There's a sense of immediacy that is often lacking in 3rd person shooters, where you can clearly feel some distance between you and the avatar you are controlling. So, I think it's not a fluke that everyone accidentally calls it an FPS. Regardless of how you call it however, I am keenly tempted to group it with FPS games because apart from the perspective, the game plays much the same. Only betteer, of course.

I haven't played Goldeneye, so I really can't say anything about it. But Halo, nice multiplayer notwithstanding, was really nothing special if you had already played the likes of Half-Life, Sin, No One Lives Forever and a bunch of others on the PC. I should also be very surprised if Halo 3 turned out to be even remotely better than something like Gears of War, which brought amazing, subtle nuances to the FPS genre on consoles that you can easily take for granted even now. I won't be surprised if Halo 3 would actually already feel a bit old-school because of current genre advances. Still, it's probably a decent shooter, though the hype is annoying and shallow.

I thought the NeoGAF forums were very high quality, but the questions asked so far are meh.

I had an analogue gaming weekend: invited a few friends over. Had a huge row over Catan which quickly dissipated into nothingness because we're all hugely competitive players. We made up during a monstrous game of Carcassonne (highly recommended!), which mashed together four of its expansions and the basic game, making for a huge gaming board eventually and hours of fun.