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Oh man, I totally read your piece back then because I had The Serrated Scalpel and loved it even though I think I could never complete the game because I couldn't get some event near the end to activate (according to a walkthrough). I remember that AG site design as well and now I also understand why you are calling it adventuregamer.com when it was changed to adventuregamers.com at one point for a reason I completely forgot. Also, this is my favorite podcast yet. It has everything I love, long talks about game design, the woes of loving single player immersive games, a general bad attitude, the ballsiest dialogue I've ever heard from someone who has had official contact with Jerry Bruckheimer (everyone else has to give him his dues and not speak ill), amazing stories about dads watching games, Nicolas Cage taking a dump (or more), and then a site history. Remo, is there somewhere I can read the new Jordan Mechner interview as well or was it a sort of private interview?

What's up with the UK lately? I guess this means the US will be following suit soon.

The existence of the band itself or that they are making some half assed "thank you" song?

Ah shit, you're right! How could you possibly buy two tickets to paradise without having the last name Money?

Have you guys heard of Eddie Money? He was pretty underground in the 80s and made a lot of obscure but wonderful music. Too bad he disappeared shortly after an extreme bout with drug overdosage and death. oIWSFjI3OdE

Maybe... maybe. I suppose I could at the least get a USB keyboard and stop typing with my controller. I usually play erratically though, but I'm mostly available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights for now until I get my living situation oriented.

I've never done one of these forum things. I'll bite. Am I being this smiley? There's a thumb in there, but it's certainly not up or really anywhere.

My boss made me start drawing on this thing earlier with a program called Sketchbook Pro and I was making this awesome fish and then the program crashed and erased my progress since my last save. I got fed up and went to lunch. Still haven't played any of them there vidya gaems. Also, am I supposed to be getting my fingerprints all over this screen? Everyone else in the office has been messing with it, but it seems like I'm the only one with fingers that drip with oil. I feel disgusting.

I had to open a few ports, assign a static IP to my PS3, and update the firmware on my router, and now the whole system appears to work much faster than ever before. I don't experience any lag on Uncharted 2 online either. Maybe this will help you out, Groucho: http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network/The-ULTIMATE-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-NAT/m-p/30803842 I used that guide but not everything went exactly as planned since I don't have a Linksys Router, but it seemed to have worked in the end either way. The weird thing is, I noticed a few characters are better for being sneaky since some don't grunt or yell when jumping around the playing field, possibly helping not to tip off the person you are trying to sneak up on. Playing Chloe is sure to make you not sneak up on anyone. Sneak attacks also work if someone is really busy shooting at someone else with a machine gun though. I just set my character to random though since I have no preference. If I were really serious I might pick the character who never talks and has the most drab dark clothing.

For once, I was sort of interested in a Dreamworks movie because of this. I liked a lot of the character designs and concept art I've seen so far as well as how some of it translated to 3D, but I probably won't ever bring myself to see it since I'll probably really dislike the story and acting.

That alien wasn't CGI until one or two scenes near the end (which still looked silly). It was mostly a bunch of terrible green screen with various puppets that weren't cut out well. You can see the reflective green all over the alien in nearly every scene in which it was superimposed. I really think that's the worst part of the movie. It's so distracting. I sort of wish someone would go back with some current video editing software and clean up every frame the Alien is on, but that would be extremely labor intensive I suppose.

I had to do a bunch of crap with my router in order to get this particular game to work right because my connection kept getting dropped in the middle of a game.

I'm scared to know how long some people have been lurking. Things could get really embarrassing very quickly 5-6 years ago.

I've finished the original Super Mario Bros. and the original hard ass Super Mario Bros. 2, but I didn't do it like a hardcore gamer since I was only able to through saves in Super Mario Deluxe on Game Boy Color and Super Mario All Stars. REAL GAMERS DON'T SAVE IN MARIO! Saves or not, those games were difficult, especially the latter.

Do you get to crawl inside a vagina in Evony Online?

Thunderpeel's right. I'm very sure Full Throttle sold a million, since Grim Fandango is regularly counted as only selling half a million copies, which was considered a bomb to LucasArts. I also couldn't find the recent interview where Schafer doled out the numbers on all of his games, but I bet Thrik or Kroms could dig it up. It was linked to from Mixnmojo.com, which has recently bombed. Tim Schafer is noted for saying Full Throttle sold very well for the explosion on the cover, though. Also I just finished this game a few days ago and I'm going to write a long post on it soon when I gather my thoughts. Maybe tomorrow. There's a lot a liked and there's a lot I didn't like. Overall, I had fun though. What sucks is I'm currently locked out of my game, preventing me from getting 100% completion, which is somewhat okay because I beat the last 15% completely of the game all in one night, so I don't have to suffer like those that made the mistake of quitting the game right before the last battle, only to find out they couldn't finish it and resolve the story. I just really need to gather a few more pieces of concept art. This is apparently a problem only with the PS3 version and happens only near the end of the game. When you quit and save after all that progress, continuing the game only results in the loading screen looping forever. Checking the Double Fine Action Forums, it seems the developers are aware of this problem, but it's been a month and a half and still no patch.

Is your Wii NTSC or PAL? If you have an NTSC Wii, I can get one either from Amazon.com or locally and then ship it to you. If it's a PAL copy you need, maybe one of the other UK or European Thumbs can help you out? You deserve it, I think.

I don't know how to help you Erkki outside of an Ebay site. International shipping on video games has all these restrictions on every internet site except that one. Also, I received A Boy in his Blob in the mail this week and I've played about 16 levels so far I think. This is great. I'm loving the music too. I don't even care if the games has been really easy so far, because this is the Boy and his Blob I had always wanted to play as a kid, not that mean ass NES game. I'm glad WayForward took the time to stop developing shitty CG movie licensed games and developed this.

That's why I like the third one a lot, but there's a few plot hole type problems with that one. Things were sort of patched up with the director's cut, but I prefer a few alternate scenes in the theatrical version. Anyway, I guess I can't talk about any of these films from a 12 year old viewpoint, since they were all seen in bits and pieces throughout the years (sometimes TV edit versions, yuck) before I sat down a few years and went through all 4. They all scared me though growing up.

Try this one, it's way more epic: C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball\pinball.mid EDIT: The C drive smiley is crying from how epic it is apparently.

I guess I did know that. Some people even seem to like it more than the first one. I also have a few issues of Commodore User magazine from 1988 for non video game reasons, and every game seems to have taken cues from Aliens. Even the video game versions of Alien 3, a movie in which they had no guns they could use, just seems like it was based off Aliens but with a different setting.

Ahahaha... steeds... EDIT: Whoops! Broke the thread.

Haha, I just went to this on my lunchbreak hoping I'd find something on my list that I needed to buy, but no dice. I suppose it's good if you are looking for iCarly on Wii for only $15. WHAT A STEAL!

Seriously? I think that's the worst Alien movie ever, maybe outside of Resurrection and the Vs. movies. Resurrection I have a softer spot for, but I just can stand the characters, the forced relations, and ham fisted dialogue in Cameron's movie. Everything looks so cheap and not scary as well. The director's cut is actually shorter by a few minutes from what I remember. It extends some scenes and adds a major one near the end, but it also trims a lot of scenes that sort of lagged at the same time, or so I hear (since I couldn't really distinguish the differences). Your first spoiler I think was just Ridley Scott not knowing how to properly cut to a real head from what I remember in the commentary. The second I also think was done really bad, as I remember

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