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Someone posted these on another forum to be a jerk in terms of earlier 3D platform game art direction. I think I will copy that person: (God, I love Rayman 2.)

This floating guy from Super Mario Bros. 2 used to always creep me out, but it's a mask, not a statue. IT COULD BE CERAMIC OR STONE MADE THOUGH.

The screenshots sort of look like Earthworm Jim 3D, especially the backgrounds and terrain. Probably not a good thing... But I'm guessing that it will look a lot better in motion as it usually happens with 3D games.

This is a very good question. For a while I thought it had something to do with Scientology but now I just don't know... http://www.xenu.net/

Personally I would like it to mutate up to episode 100 and then have the plug pulled, but that's just me.

Actually, I think that was Nick.

Do you mean Jake?

This may be a stupid question, but do you practice yarate?

It would be nice to see it hit a million sometime, but that probably won't happen. If anything, this will hopefully send out a message to publishers to just attempt to take a bit more of a risk sometime with original IP.

Well, that was ominous.

Augh, this is still going on! I get so... so... angry! http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Iphone-iPod-Earthworm-Jim-Game,news-4923.html Nooo! Earthworms don't even inch!

Oh, you mean Jake?

This one is just... god damn. Anyways I still like these forums. I hope you new guys stick around even with no cast pods to comment on!

Yeah he does but it's one of the funniest late night interviews I've ever seen besides when Conan runs around with Jeff Goldblum.

That Jack Black interview was just amazing. More late night talk show stuff for this game? Still as weird as the first time.

Most likely he failed and is on self exile.

Most of the games I played on PC early in life involved my dad trading floppy disks with his friends at work and photocopying all the manuals for everyone just in case of copy protection. I guess you could say that made me a good video game consumer in the end.

Well, then it already beat Grim Fandango if so. Let's hope it beats Full Throttle!

Seeing as the games above it are usually expected to be top sellers, I think it's doing pretty damn good. I would have liked it to beat Uncharted 2 though.

Well I guess what I meant to say is if you are buying a brand new import single or record, money is going to the artist. New copies of Earthbound or Mother 3 are still available from some Japanese merchants, but everyone who wants to play it in English just downloads it instead.

What if it's an obscure B-side only released on a compilation disc of some sort or hidden on some rare 7" only available in some sort of country not your own? But yeah, while I do spend money on Japanese import CDs for extra tracks, I don't search for singles all over the world by some artists just to own an obscure song. And I am definitely not going to buy an obscure 7" to rip a song or remix so I can feel like I've done my part to pay for the music. So yeah, I own a lot of CDs, even many singles with a lot of exclusive tracks, but I also download a ton of more obscure songs and demos that RIAA record companies would sue me for if I they were to find out. I say if they don't want me to download an artists scattered songs among many releases, then they'll do me the favor of releasing a nice compilation disc of b-sides, remixes, and other rarities and I'll put down 10-15 bucks for a bunch of previously unreleased subpar tracks. Of course, that almost never happens for most bands or artists. Anyway, I guess I'm trying to say the music analogy doesn't *exactly* fit, because it's somewhat of a different circumstance that of course carries the same type of fines, but is a different kind of stealing sometimes. Yeah, if your friend doesn't want to buy a game because he perceives it as overpriced, then that's silly, he should just never play it at all. If someone released a game for even 300 pounds, it would be nicer if no one would give it the time a day than to do some kind of weird spite against the company by downloading it instead. More realistically I would think your friend should just calm down and give it some time to drop in price or see what kind of deals he can find online or in stores if he is not happy with the MSRP. Afterall if he loves Call of Duty so much, to me it would make sense that he should support the game makers somehow so that he can get more later on. But for an extreme instance, along the lines of the rare music analogy, I think it would be totally unrealistic for someone to go and buy new Japanese copies of Mother 3 for GBA so they can figure out how to to dump their cart on the PC, and then apply the English patch in order to keep it legal. I also really doubt most people are going to buy Japanese copies of Policenauts just to dump the ISO and apply the English patch as well. I would also never expect anyone to buy the FM Towns version of Loom or any Lucasarts game as well to play it within ScummVM. Undoubtedly some people have gone the legal route for both (as Steve Gaynor even mentioned in the podcast for Policenauts), but I would bet most people would not go through that much inconvenience to play a game they really want legally. So I guess all that jumbled mess of my words is to say, I can see how your friend sort of doesn't want to go through the inconvenience of a high price to play the game, but I think there are different levels of "pirating" I guess. There's also probably the fact that even applying English patches to import games breaks some sort of copyright law. Also I am a copyright breaking jerk as well, because while I legitimately buy all of my games(MUST HAVE BOX AND MANUAL!), I download roms for cellphone games that are readily available to purchase and instead play them with an emulator, because I have no interest in buying any game to play on my cellphone, which I think is a stupid platform (at least on the one I have), and cellphone games are usually crap and I just download mini versions of licensed games like Rayman, Prince of Persia, and Metal Gear Solid just out of collecting type OCD. I could really go on and on about more rules I've bent or violated, but I guess none are at all as blatant as downloading a brand new game instead of buying it because I don't agree with the price.

I'm with Nevsky on this one. It helps to have lesser known stuff, just for the sake of exposure and sort of makes a song maybe tons of people wouldn't hear fit more uniquely to the media it's licensed too. Gone Jackals fit well with Full Throttle, and maybe they aren't the best band on their own, but they really worked within the game. Kind of embarassing, but I'm guilty of having gone nuts when I was in high school and bought all three Gone Jackals CDs (not just Bone to Pick, which was in the LucasArts catalog for a while). I traded them in to a store at some point along the years.

Yes, I remember that post. PC versions are always buggier! Nick is not objective in his opinions because he chose to play a PC version and not a console version. My personal favorite was the poster there that made the comment that Jake, Chris, and Nick overly criticize games for the sake of making themselves seem more intelligent. It may have been around page 14-16. I don't remember now (it was all of yesterday ago!).

I thought the Sandman series was still going, but that Neil Gaiman's run and supervision on it ended years ago. I remember a few years back trying to figure out where I would stop, but I got really confused on what was "canon" and what was DC keeping a series going without the creator for the money.

I would like to read Sandman, but taking on collecting Neil Gaiman works seems like a huge chore, because it seems like he's always involved with tons of new things every year. My girlfriend has a couple of his novels and seems to really like them. But what I've read of him in comes with Dave McKean drawing was nice, Good Omens was a great book, as well as he seems to appear in many anthology comics I buy. So maybe someday... I'm also interested in seeing Sam Kieth's early artwork on the beginning issues of Sandman.