Ben X

Any luck, Jake? I'm having the same issue...

Don't watch it! Resist! You must henceforth imbibe zero Brutal Legend stimulae until you're playing the game.

Because Groucho mentioned it here recently, and you subconsciously absorbed it? (The most recent time it was previously noticed that I remember was by Dan in the 'Ben There Dan That!' thread...)

Day Of The Tentacle, if I can include the little playable section in the middle of it (where the three are Brundified) - seems Tim Schafer's doing well! Another World, although I'm sure some people found it annoying.

Yaaaaay! Hope you enjoy it!

Ahhhh, it all makes sense now! Yo dawg, we put a Kanye in yo Kanye etc.

Yeah, but why?

See! El Muerte doesn't know! Don't facepalm me, Jean-Luc!

Brillo! Sorry to be lame, but who's the guy at the end and why?

I think the G1's pretty good, but I don't have anything to compare it to. There are a few little oddities in the UI - stuff that you want to do but seemingly can't, and some unintuitive methods, but it's pretty good overall. The touchscreen's good, and the music works well. Shame you can't do much with video at the moment - it's Youtube only so far. The battery life hasn't caused me any problems yet, but I'm quite careful not to overuse it if I'm not going to get to a charger in a while!

Awesomes, thanks guys!

That hapened to me with Shaun Of The Dead. Pegg and Wright described it as "Spaced with zombies", which it most definitely is not. But I went in there expecting that, and even though the film is better than that promised conceit, I still felt disappointed because it wasn't what I was expecting and geared up for. The trailer was also cut to make it seem a lot more flippant than it was. On second viewing, it was much much better. So, this preview problem feels very similar to the problem of film trailers making you think "yeah, that looks good but you just summarised all of acts 1 and 2, and showed me bits from act 3 so I can't be bothered to watch the thing now." Also: aren't gameplay videos getting too long? I swear we must have seen 50% of Unch2rted being played through by now...

Adventureland: boring.

Yeah, I didn't really enjoy those Bizarro books (still on-topic because they had Batman in!) at all, even Dorkin's stuff. The only good one I remember is Kyle Baker's "Superman's babysitter" bit - very funny, and (perhaps unknowingly) ripped off by The Incredibles much later.

Really don't bother. The sequels are just average rehashings of the first film.

Really? Worse than his Predator run? Shame, I really liked it. I thought it was a funny concept, very well executed and with an obviously Eltingville-level knowledge of all the continuities. Batman-wise: I just got a load out of the library. Hush was pretty cool, but the ending was lacklustre. The Man Who Laughs was okay. It's interesting to see the first Tim Burton movie feeding back into the comics. I've got The Long Halloween to re-read, plus Gotham By Gaslight and Black & White 2. I haven't been bowled over as I was with Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Killing Joke, or DK2 yet...

Oh, nice! Thanks, Mr C, I'll take a look at that!

Okay! Just as soon as I've listened to the whole archive of thumbcasts...

Ah hah! Yeah, it's "save link as", which tripped me up because in my mind that's completely different to "save target as", which is what I was looking for. Thanks for helping a clueless idiot!

Oh, you don't want to pay attention to them: they're cunts.

I guess that's why they call it sleepytown...

Evan Dorkin wrote a hilarious one-off poking fun at this, called "World's Funnest", with Batmite and Mr Mxypltzk (or whatevs) bouncing around various earths and universes getting horribly confused. The art is done by a multitude of star artists, such as Frank Miller, Alex Ross etc, taking a page or two at a time.

Are there any good video reviews that get across how it works with HL2 etc?

Congrats to Beatnik too! (Sellouts.)

I'll take that as a 'yes', and pre-emptively say "I'd push her."