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Oh man, Miffy, you're right! I feel like a loser now. I guess my settings had my birthday hidden, but not my age. I take all my vitriol back and will continue to wish all citizens a happy birthday. My apologies!

His head.... it's like putty!

BOO FUCKING HOO

I don't see any Beyond Good and Evil 2 on that list, so Ubi can get fucked.

I'm personally not giving it a chance. Every Sonic game has gotten increasingly worse after Adventure. I stopped at that awful Shadow game and reserved myself to only playing the classic Sonic games. I firmly believe the only reason Sonic was ever good was because of Hirokazu Yasuhara's design, who gets the least credit out of any of the original guys, mostly because of a few insulting comments Yuja Naka made about him publicly. Naka doesn't deserve any praise in my opinion beyond the programming side (Since he didn't actually design anything), and Naoto Ohshima, while the true creator of Sonic as a character (and many of the original bad guys), didn't direct a Sonic game outside of Sonic CD, which looked great but had a horrible mess of level design. None of this matters since none of the above people have been at Sega for years or decades even. And another thing that's a pet peeve of mine. 3D characters running around in 2D environments hasn't been cool since Gex and Pandemonium. Now it just looks lazy, like no one actually wants to do some classic animation for this, much like the old style of the 2D games.

Got harassed by an undercover cop who followed me to work today, nearly breaking the arm trying to get into my parking garage, who I guess was really mad I honked at him for almost wrecking into me since he can't take a left turn on a 3-lane left turn setup and stay within the dotted lines at the same time! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THE POLICE! Bunch of small dick motherfuckers with inferiority complexes. My record was clean so I guess he had to leave! Bullshit!

Yeah, what's up with the Leisure Suit Larry hate? There's worse Sierra games, like King's Quest or Phantasmagoria, for instance. And I really love the art style in 5 and 7, while 5-7 are all solid nonlinear adventure games with some funny parts, even though a lot was played out before and since. But I will say I enjoy Broken Sword 1 and will stand by that it's a good game even though I don't really like any Revolution adventures (despite playing almost all of them) and that Charles Cecil is a big dork who only seems to make games worse as he furthers his career. I will say the animation is not always that great. For whatever reason, a lot of the cut scenes seem to be animated by two different teams. Whatever team did (from what I recall) the intro, the ending, and the man getting hit by the corvette along with a few others, did a great job, while the other team did very stiff animations (going down the well, up the ladder, most of the in game stuff). You can tell because when you compare these cutscenes, they have a different line weight and the character designs look a little different between each. I was really sad, because none of the cutscenes in Broken Sword 2 appeared to have been done by the great team from the first game, and it lacked a lot of the extra polish that intially got me interested. The most that we got for 2 was a South American god disintegrating, and even that didn't look so hot. I have no idea how this all holds up with the Special Edition version of 1.

Oh wow, this video looks like Playstation Home with erratic button pressing directions surrounding your character. Everything is just ugly about this, but I think it's been said before in this thread.

Maybe I'll do a 2 hour podcast into sound recorder and upload a huge WAV file. It'll be really bad.

Maybe some guys from the forums should just start podcasting. I'm okay with that.

This makes me happy to hear. I wonder if he knows that the games he directs seem to all have a worldwide appeal?

Such a great movie! Thanks Kroms, I'll go ahead and add you when I get back to my PS3. Hopefully I'll be ready for this game in the next few months or sooner!

What's with the pornographic type images hidden inside? That just made me feel old and creepy.

QUESTION BOMBARDMENT GO!!! Where did you hear this? What countries are they doing this for? Any chance of NTSC versions coming out with the added stuff the European editions of both games had?

WHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOO WANTA SOOOOOOOOOOOOOME WAAAAAAAAANG?! Man, that game was terrible. I remember buying it from Target and having to go online in 6th grade and download some patch that didn't work in hopes that the blood would turn on. I tend to think the games that are the worst ever are the ones that manage to get some hype around them as some kind of masterpiece and fail to everyone except those delusional enough to justify their purchase or slog through the game. So while I could say BIG RIGS RACING SUCKS BALLS AND DICK, MAN!, I would somehow guess I would get way more enjoyment out of that game than the terrible experience I had playing Syberia. Benoit Sokal is a man who seems to have enough clout to convince a huge team to create the most boring, stagnant atmosphere starring one of the most transparent and underwritten token female adventure characters through one of the lamest and ill-conceived plots I've ever suffered through in an adventure game of that caliber. The puzzles were ridiculous too, as if they were designed by someone who hadn't paid one bit of attention to changing puzzle standards in adventure games since 1988. Phantasmagoria was close in badness, as are most Roberta Williams games, but there's something to be said for the cheesiness of that one in comparison. Syberia makes me feel angry at anyone who professes it was some kind of symbolic or "genre changing" game. Also I remember Bubsy games being really terrible as a child. Like it's what you would play if you somehow found it impossible to get your hands on a Mario or Sonic cartridge somehow. The levels made no sense and had the cheap platforming tactic of just putting a bunch of obstacles all over a level and having some kind of garbage to collect (Before collecting this garbage became a requirement in platformers!) that gave you points. I didn't play Bubsy 3D though, which I hear is one of the worst games ever. Not at all surprised.

God damn, that plastic wrap is making me want to barf.

Hrmm... I think recently I finished Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, and Prince of Persia on Game Boy Color. Uncharted was fun, if not boring a lot. The gunfights near the end were a lot more fun to duck and hide with a good variety of environments and layouts instead of the gunfights near the middle which were just running around Ruins #324 and using the same guns over and over. Jetski parts were complete crap. I didn't expect much from the story, so it was fun. Also, unlocking all of that gorgeous concept art was worth it for the trophies. I can't believe how much great art was produced for the game. Some of it makes me sad because as detailed as the game is, it doesn't look anywhere as good as the traditional art produced for the concept. I need to win on Hard and Crushing to unlock the rest of the art. Twin Snakes was my first foray into Metal Gear outside the NES versions, and I enjoyed it, if not overly wordy and having more cutscenes than actual game. I guess I'm not that upset coming from an adventure game background, since I'm used to tons of talking. The dialogue was no where as amateurishly written or full of meaningless verbal diarrhea as something like The Longest Journey. It also didn't contain the onslaught of nonstop words and dialogue like any Josh Mandel written adventure or Infocom made game, so it's refreshing in a way. Too bad I missed this game when it actually came out over a decade ago. I liked the cheesy added slo-mo action stuff, but I know a lot of people were unhappy with it. I enjoy all the little easter eggs within the game and going through lists of "things to try" on the internet. I have to get the rest of the dog tags, so I'm not exactly done. I've gotten both endings, and was overly satisfied with the Meryl one. The Otacan was goofy, but maybe not worth having me rewatch all the cutscenes with little differences. And Prince of Persia on Game Boy Color was apparently made by a team who didn't feel they had to complete the game themselves, as there is a show stopping bug right before you meet your reflection self for the first time. The screen glitches out and everything turns into garbage, with no way around it. Somehow I was able to get around this by doing a soft reset with A+B+select+start, with the game loading up again without color, and having to finish the level from the beginning that way. I can't imagine most people would do this, though.

I wish more of Jeunet's short films were on DVD (AND IN ENGLISH). They aren't as good as his movies, but a nice complete collection would save me a lot of headaches. He has a few music videos he's directed too. I have a Japanese DVD that has Bunker of the Last Gunshots, Foutasies, Le Manege, and another one (I'd have to check, I want to say it's Billy Brakko). But I was only able to see the silent ones (Bunker and Le Manege). The rest only had Japanese subtitles. I do have a downloaded version of Foutasies with English subtitles which was wrongfully left off of international versions of Amelie for whatever reason. But France put out a great DVD for Marc Caro called Made in Caro that collects most of his short films varying in quality from terrible and amatuerish to visionary and experimental. It has no subtitles, but pretty much no reading is required. It comes with a booklet that's half French/half English describing the multitude of shorts, which is odd since most French DVDs don't seem to cater to any language outside of France. I'm guessing I won't be able to see Micmacs until there's some kind of English version DVD or Blu-ray. I see it's already out on those formats in France, but I'm guess there will be no sign of English anywhere.

I'm not looking for a debate and I'm not interested in playing or purchasing Bayonetta anytime soon because of my huge backlog of games, but I'm interested in the quotes you found just out of curiosity. I'm searching around, but I can't seem to find anything. I'm really just interested in whether it's a bunch of justification he's putting for or maybe he's sort of a weird misogynist. Not to bash the guy for anyone who's a fan of his work, since I'm maybe interested in playing through some of his games some day and I don't know much about him.

I can't tell if this is a blooper or not, but it seems like there is nothing to say in it's place except "plucking" which sounds nothing like what he said. And the scene seems set up like he's bullying the weather man already, like behind the scenes, he really hates that fucking guy.

This is probably the complete wrong forum for this, but since Idlethumbs tends to be more international and I don't belong to any Hardcore Nerd gaming forums (guilty of lurking though), but does anyone here know of an easy way to play Mega Drive games on a Model 2 Genesis? I've been able to find so far that I can just purchase a Game Genie, but the problem is I can't find the boot codes for the particular game I'm wanting to play, which is the Megadrive version of Prince of Persia. Now I know there's a Genesis version, which I have, but I discovered it's missing 4 levels the Mega Drive version has, some animation, as well as all of the music entirely. It seems like the US Genesis port was rushed or something, as a apparently both the Megadrive and Genesis port were handled by the same company, but the UK and the rest of Europe got the good version. I've also just found simple converters on how to import lists, but none seem to to be available to purchase anywhere on the internets. The last resort is if anyone has a link to a good guide where I can make an NTSC to PAL switch modification to the system it may work. I can probably bug my Dad and get him to do something like that, as he has before and is good with circuit boards and soldering, but he needs a guide. The only problem is, I have the beast system with the SEGA CD add-on as well as the 32x attachment, and I don't really want to screw with it, just in case.

Oh man, do I love Delicatessen. Such a heartwarming film about cannibals.

It seems like Twin Snakes doesn't even give you the option of Japanese voices, so maybe possibly it's the preferred voice?

Yeah, I have mixed feelings, partially because of what Murdoc says. Lorne Lanning is known for making a lot of big promises that don't exactly come through. The Oddworld series was never completed as planned, and within the series, tons of planned game ideas were thrown out, while very few were made of these ideas. Don't get me wrong, the Oddworld games are some of my favorite games, and a lot of that had to do with keeping me with gaming in my teenage years when I was sick of adventure games and thinking of quitting. But what about Citizen Siege? There was a lot of talk and concept work done for that, and it seemed like it would have been an interesting movie to watch if not great. Then he started talking about going back to Oddworld games again, but now there is a new announcement with no mention to the past announcements? That said, I wouldn't mind signing up for this new experiment of his.

I prefer to play the game in original spoken voice the designers made the game in, but with english subtitles. I hardly ever have this option though. I also don't play a ton of Japanese games or JRPGs where this would show up more. If anything, even if it's a foreign game and the voices are bad in the original language, I probably wouldn't be able to tell much, and more often than not English dubs of games of another language are terrible, on the same par with anime dubs where it's usually just a couple of bumfuck guys around the office. I would have preferred the Rayman games after Rayman 2 give me a French only option with English subtitles, because the English voices are super lame. The "Raymanian" speak for Rayman 2 was a happy medium that I enjoy to pick even on later versions of the game where multiple languages were recorded for you choose from. For the record, I played Metal Gear Solid with the English voices on. While they were pretty cheesy, I guess the game was cheesy, so I didn't care too much. It was almost on par with the Cowboy Bebop dub, which I think most people hold as the dub of all dubs, currently. Was Metal Gear Solid recorded in Japanese first at all? Or am I mistaken? I seem to remember something going on where the English version is preferred by the designers.