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I think I just creeped myself out.

Haha I was just saying that to my friend last night. It made me wonder if this was a troll Kickstarter for that very reason, because otherwise that is an incredibly unfortunate and ill thought out name.

You say that but there was a scene in the Toonces the Driving Cat VHS where a cop is eaten by ants after pulling a couple over. I swore it was real when I was young, I thought I could die any moment out there on the playground. I can't find any clip of this anywhere on the internet by the way, so that screencap is the next best thing, but I'm sure the SNL skit was way hokier.

Celebrate good times come on!

Poor ants. I should do that as well. There's a huge hill of fire ants under the double mailbox thingy my neighbor and I share and I guess I am annoyed by it but not annoyed enough to go buy ant killer. I step on it sometimes in spite, but it only seems to make them stronger.

I always felt like when people who used 4chan grew up some, they migrated to Reddit. I think what tipped me off was all the jailbait messageboards they gloated about early on.

I don't know about you but my fridge hates every thing my washing machine has to say. I wonder if people could possibly get into your wifi and make these new Amazon Dash Buttons start ordering a bunch of paper towels or soap without your permission. https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button

Are these fire ants?

Funny I don't remember writing that. Plus all any of this does is factor in what I think about what you think as a guy on a forum saying things to strangers. I'm not the gatekeeper of anything. I'm not expecting you or anyone here to to change your mind, but instead explaining my thought process.

This video of Nick Arcade was gone for years but I realize it returned in 2013. This whole show cracks me up so much. Is this the right thread for this?!

Do you have $150,000 worth of cards in that picture?

That too, in universe version of this requires that Buzz label people he knows or he may not remember their names.

I didn't tell anyone here to 100% every game. Just the ones that are their favorite or if they are perfect. I 100% and finish a lot of games but not everything. That's also different story and often I'm telling friends what they can skip because of my compulsion and NOT actually telling them to follow my footsteps. But my very favorite games, I do everything and always have. I didn't finish the time attack stuff in SotC, I may go back one day, but I've got other stuff to play. I do think it's only if you really think it's that amazing that you need to experience every portion of the game as it was designed. The Yoshi's Island and MGS3 are a good example of rewarding those who really love the game. Lots of people do MGS non lethal speed runs and many people finish. Yoshi's Island is pretty much about getting all that stuff, otherwise why would they show you a results screen and your progress to the secret levels. Those parts are well designed in both of those games. Yoshi's Island is basically a perfect example of how to do that correctly, because you are mostly getting a much more boring game if you just ignore a lot of the secrets and little puzzles along the way. Zeldas, especially Majora's Mask make good use of this sort of thing. If you love Yoshi's Island or Majora's Mask and you didn't get everything, considering those games consistantly take completion into account, I will not think you actually love that game as much as you may think. And I don't really run into this anyway, since usually when I meet someone who loves Majora's Mask or Yoshi's Island in particular, they pretty much did it all anyway and there's so much more to talk about it in particular. It comes down to if a designer is going to put in a bunch of stuff to 100% the game, it needs to be just as well designed as every other thing in the game. If it is not, they deserved to be criticized for it. Putting time attacks in a game with super janky controls and gravity issues isn't very good design, barring a bunch of the other junk I have issues with that isn't even beyond the main game. And yeah anyone who has played a game in and out whether through speed runs, hard mode, exploring the full world, getting all the crap, etc. I will take their opinion much more seriously over someone who casually floated from save point to save point until they finished the game at the most basic level. The people in the other category are the people that write guides to this stuff, who tend to discuss the games at length, make fan sites, and then tend to be the ones we always take their opinions of. You don't go to Gamefaqs to get a two paragraph text file if you need help or tips. Comparing any of this to films doesn't make sense. Commentary, extras, references, that is not part of a game. If you are really into a story game, I would hope you'd try to pick the whole story apart if you love it greatly, but games are so much more complicated than that. There's still design philosophy when it comes to putting layers on top of the basic game. A designer shouldn't just badly copy and paste a bunch of collectables and say it's fine because you don't have to get them. That kind of laziness should be taken into account. There's something that separates a good and bad time attack, hard mode, collectable, and overworld. The craftsmanship should be shown throughout and taken into account even if 90% of the players may not see it all. All of this layered stuff in Shadow of the Colossus is just fundamentally broken.

The world may never know.

I'm going to guess it was Ninja Theory who came up with the Ninja Theory based on every Ninja Theory Ninja Theory has worked on, and the Ninja Theory is the Ninja Theory who came up with the Ninja Theory based on every Ninja Theory Ninja Theory has worked on.

It's like the beginning of this:

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Why can't they stop making this? Why?

I like the idea of having artsy personal portraits in your home where your loved ones have half of their face cut off.

I bet my dog will eat that chapstack the same way it eats any other chapstick.

They announced that last year, although this pretty much confirms it is not actually a Heavenly Sword sequel like I was hoping. Seems incredibly generic for the studio, although they did make that Fightback iOS trash.

Haha, wow. I wonder if Fumito Ueda's work will be redone or if he is still contracting and with finish with Cerny? I don't really want it to be a Cerny game, I guess he's a good guy, he was design consultant on games I like but never really cared about his early Sega career. Knack looked so bad. Don't want it to be like Uncharted 4 and Amy Hennig, so hopefully Ueda is still there.

I think mainly had they just made a follow up game like PoP 2008 was set up to have, then it could have kept going. I wasn't a big fan of the open structure though in terms of traversing back and forth over and over and then collecting stuff along the way. But yeah Lu, the Prince in 2008 was just written to be "funny sarcastic" but it didn't really make sense why he'd approach every sentence like that. It was even more strange that Elika didn't really seem to have any response to his bad attitude. I thought Sands of Time's controls was almost directly inspired by Ico? It's mostly a refined version of those climbing schemes but instead of hitting with stick, you have a wider array of combat manuevers, wall runs, etc.

Did everyone hate the 2008 guy? He was kind of a sarcastic asshole, but I thought in general people liked that game. Forgotten Sands was really fun, but the story was nonsense and it seems like they finished half a game to get it out in time with the movie. That is the second generation prince though, and I don't know if anyone played it. Sucks, it could have been so much more.

Hey did you know removing content from your own game is censorship?! How can we fight this scourge of creative editing?!