syntheticgerbil

Okay that's it, I'm going to put in my two weeks on the 9th with no job lined up but lots of new portfolio work to put up and a little bit of saved money. Too time consuming to work and try to get these personal projects and put a display together of myself. I hope I don't fall into a pit.

I just meant like a current PC at the time, with a soundcard and enough memory, would cost you in the thousands. Buying a lower end PC would help you fare much better compared to consoles. In my experience, I think this is what caused a lot of the other kids I knew growing up to not play games on the PC because either their parents didn't own one or if they did, their dad or someone wouldn't let them touch it because they didn't want their kids fucking up that new expensive piece of equipment they bought. If any of my friends were playing PC games I had played and enjoyed, it only seemed it was because I was forcing it on them. I think it was probably just different games, even with the configuration options. Maybe you didn't play as many Sierra games? I remember always having problems with those, even the 16 color ones (not so much the AGI ones though). Long load times, memory running out and the game crashing, or just sluggish. I also remember Coktel Vision and Dynamix games being ridiculously hard to get to run nice and smooth as well as the Kyrandia games giving me a lot of trouble. Really I think if you were playing a lot more of the LucasArts games as your primary adventure source, now that I think about it, the SCUMM system seemed ridiculously well optimized. I don't recall ever having problems with SCUMM games outside of when the The Dig came out, where my 486 was just too slow to play the movies without skipping. I borrowed Full Throttle from someone though around that same time and it ran just fine.

To be fair, if you were completely legit about it, getting a great gaming type PC in the 80s might run you thousands of dollars, and I'm pretty sure it took a while to get the things in the hundreds sometime in the mid 90s, although I could be wrong. However, as you said, you could sort of luck out into getting one, making pirated software not too far behind. I don't know, my dad never actually bought us any games unless he was picking them up from the bargain bin, causing a lot of games we actually owned to end up being pretty bad. He was big on those 1000 in 1 game packs when CDs were new and cool. I can't even look up half of that awful shit I played just to confirm some of those games existed. I always wished he had just pirated the terrible games and just saved up and bought the good ones. An NES was only $200 in comparison, but I understand the games still might run $70 and up. I think most people with one just rented. My uncle had given me his when I was not even in school yet, because I think he got a girlfriend that made him get rid of it. Then I just used to pester my parents to rent. But I have some old Sierra catalogs as well that seem to say that some Sierra games were selling at $90 for a while and remember an early Adventurer charging $70 for Secret of Monkey Island on CD. That's strange, I remember almost nothing but problems even before the 3D era for the games with lots of graphics or animation. If you had a 386 you had to push the turbo button hoping it might get the game to work as if you had owned a 486. Then you find out your computer doesn't have enough memory for some game and later you realize you can't run almost anything without a Pentium chip. A lot of those circumstances is what caused me to keep revisiting older games and being a primary PC user during my adolescent and teen years instead of even bothering to get the newest game, since I knew it wouldn't run. I also found GameTZ which meant I could just send what cash I gathered in an envelope to people and essentially purchase things on the internet without telling my parents. I'm surprised no one ever ripped me off.

I guess I'm more like you Squid, maybe always been sort of 50/50, even though there have been times in my life where I have focused more on one or the other. Since my dad was always a computer repairman, he was always finding parts for cheap or at job sites, just general things other job sites wouldn't end up using or didn't want. So he stayed kind of current for a while there until the late 90s when the company got bought out. Also that whole time, he and his coworkers regularly shared software, so basically my whole life I've had a lot of somewhat free PC exposure. Although these days I keep my PC mostly for doing artwork and downloadan, while a lot of games get played, mostly retro or emulated though. Consoles were all kind of lucked upon or gotten half a decade or more later when prices went down and my parents could afford to get me a console for Christmas. So I went NES, Genesis, Gameboy, up to saving up money for a Dreamcast on release date by mowing a bunch of lawns in the 7th grade. Getting a job the last two years of my high school life left me with all three consoles eventually of last generation, and since then I've been buying tons of useless (but fun!) junk that I had missed out on screwing around on Ebay or checking out flea markets.

Wow, I didn't even realize we had a thread for this game. I beat it last month and got every trophy, so I did all that shit, but I was very unimpressed. I agree with just about everything you have to say Sombre. Besides the ridiculously shallow and underdeveloped story line, ugly graphics (well mostly the characters), the bad voice cast, the monotony of almost all of the side missions, and the obnoxiousness of enemies constantly on your ass at every point in the game, I found all of the powers and rooftop stuff to be quite nice. Since I bought this because I loved the Sly Cooper series, it's really too bad Sucker Punch didn't make a good game out just the simple power mechanics, which were my favorite part. While I see people complaining around the internet about the difficultly of guys shooting at you almost nonstop when you're just trying to get your ass around the city and do your tasks, I was instead just constantly annoyed rather than feeling defeated since I could easily deal with them as powers handled very well I think. Not really an excuse, I just wish they were applied towards enemies in a more involving way (although a few parts did this).

I was too young to appreciate that show, but I remember being glued to the animated intro every single time.

I still found it erotic. That may be saying more about me than the movie itself though.

Facade thread's closed, so I'm putting these here. This guy does the best job. I don't even have to play the game. Attempt 1 start: QSIrXqnNRGI& Attempt 2 start: oMD7r17n_1Y& Attempt 3: xLU8T2UVJFQ& Genghis Khan version: cPx9zwH9IWc&

As long as there's no permanent life-destroying disease involved.

Haha, it was really just one dog we were trying to race and usually only one dog made it to the finish line while the rest went around sniffing stuff or wandering off. It was a strange and fun experience. But also in relation to this thread, reposted from Mojo, Remo interviews Ron Gilbert! http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/5894/ron_gilbert_on_the_synthesis_of_.php

They all do video out to a TV via component or A/V cables (at least 2000 series and up I can confirm), but a search shows that only the PSP Go has bluetooth capabilities so it should be the only one capable of using a PS3 controller. My regular one can do remote play with the PS3, but I've never seen any kind of option of using the controller available. Also I saw on another forum someone say that the video output cables are different for the regular PSP series as opposed to the Go.

Well that completely sucks. Any chance of returning the card at this point and just going with the PSPGo?

Thanks elmuerte, now I'm foaming at the mouth.

Haha, that's awesome. I really don't know much about the guy even though I'm kind of a geek for cyberpunk, so maybe I should check out some of his books and stories someday, even if it's incredibly narcissistic almost to want to.

I'm now officially jealous of everyone playing so far. I will try to cram in my lost time for not being able to play Deathspank last weekend to trying to finish it in full next weekend. I have this... situation... where I keep my video games away from me on certain times so I can focus on other more important stuff. Last weekend had a bunch of stuff come up, including racing wiener dogs. Let us slide? Goodness. I find it strange that you are so touchy towards any kind of general criticism and so hellbent on twisting anything we said into something we never did say to satisfy some kind of extreme urge for a forum argument or conflict. I don't exactly agree with Thunderpeel's skepticism, but I see exactly where he's coming from. I am into just hearing what Thunderpeel has to say from his perspective as someone who did not go out and buy a bunch of kid's games or Cavedog games (where he was only credited as producer or company owner, not game designer/director). It's a worthy discussion I say, and to me is more interesting than just nonstop praise, even though praise is great too. :\

I think that's pretty much what they said in the commentary. They sought out to twist it as much as possible. Too bad they didn't say what the point of doing that was or really explain further than that.

They might be a little off in saying that. I mean I've heard people say because they reuse the main Booty Island layout for the end, the original background is referencing the ending itself, when to me it just seemed more of a funny type thing to revamp an existing background than to create a new one, not exactly supporting the theme park theory indefinitely. Then there's Guybrush's parents referencing he ran away or was lost as well before the bone song. EDIT: After reading Noyb's post I realize you may be talking about the first two games completely leading up to the "Guybrush is a kid stuck in a carnival" theory rather than various carnival references in-game themselves leading up to the end of MI2.

I have no interest in ever touching Assassin's Creed 2, but Remo certainly makes it sound like a laugh riot to play. Awesome talk on this game! I guess Snooglebum is due for another remix then as well. Great news! And Chris' questions about the Snoopy game is exactly what they went through at CartoonBrew a month ago, except it's way more hilarious here.

How are the bosses so far, Defenestrated? Besides the dying and all, are they pretty creative looking and involve fun fights?

Only slightly soiled?! Sounds like a good deal. I will think about it.

I can't wait... sj8_7OFK0oc

AHHH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER! COME ON NOW LORNE! STOP PROMISING THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN! Or... is this it?

It sounds like the plot to an Electric Six song to me.

Yeah because we aren't, so it will be it, then. Stop whining. Also I won't be near my PS3 this weekend, so I will get this game next Friday. Oops.

Wow, I copied and pasted a wall of text in one of my forum tirades and suddenly I'm William Gibson. Strange.