loonyboi

See, I disagree. I'm a nerd. And a geek. And I'm proud of both. The days when I cared what other people think of me are long past. These days I proudly proclaim my nerdiness to anyone within earshot. Why should I care? Geek pride, people. Geek pride.

I consider myself a Thumb Waddling Interactive Technologist. Or a Neo Interactive Nonconforming New Yorker. And of course I'm a New Era Reality Deity.

I stand corrected, WINE doesn't support non-x86. It would need some kind of CPU emulator in order to run it. But seeing as how CELL is powerful enough to run Your Digital Life, it should be powerful enough to do that, right? Right? Probably not.

Vote with your wallet. Buy innovative games that interest you. If you can't find anything these days, you're either already down on all games, everywhere from the start, or you're not looking hard enough. Buy a DS. Plenty there: Electroplankton, Nintendogs, Brain Age, Kirby Canvas Curse, etc. Admitedly not my cup of tea for the most part, but plenty of innovation there if you're into that sort of thing. Later this year, buy a Wii. Should be lots there. Or don't. Buy a PS2. Lots of innovation there. Guitar Hero, Shadow of the Colossus, ICO. Or skip straight to PC, and stick with quirky independent PC games like Darwinia or Rag Doll Kung Fu. This is a big, huge industry with new games released on a weekly basis. If you love games, you'll find them. If you don't...why even bother?

Since the hard drive comes pre-installed with Linux, all of those, including running old PC games (thanks to WINE and DOSBox) are possible. Probable? No. Practical? No. But theoretically possible. Digital Cameras and 7 in 1 Media Drives will likely be supported from day 1. 7 in 1 media drives are already supported (this is so if you buy the cheapo version you can still add SD/CF/Memory Stick support). As was already pointed out, Sony's not saying you can throw out your PC and use your PS3 as a desktop (although you can if you really want to). All they're saying is that they're not scared of Microsoft's PC initiative. I don't see any reason why anyone would *want* to run Linux on their PS3, but according to Sony, it's going to be preinstalled. That opens up the world, more or less.

Just pick up the big giant collection. I had all the individual issues, but sold them when I got rid of 99% of my comic collection (I did however hang on to my complete run of Taboo, which is where From Hell started...I'll never part with those).

TLoG isn't Watchmen or V quality, but it IS great stuff. My favorite book by Moore will always be From Hell, I think. It's just such a crowning achievement for the medium. But that's followed closely by V and Watchmen.

The watchmen movie is back on hold again, so you can relax for now. I enjoyed V, but it could have been better. Much better. Also the scene at the end made me cringe.

They may not have the rights to some of the best games. They definitely don't have the rights to Sam & Max.

I don't know, I hate MMOs in general, but I'm genuinely interested in Warhammer Online. Partially because I paint 40k figures, so I always see the fantasy stuff (even if I'm not necessarily into that side of things), but also because I think some of the things they're talking about sound fun to me. But it'll probably wind up like every other MMO. I'll try it, I'll get bored after an hour and I'll move on. My favorite part of the video is when he talks about how there are no male or female Orks, "because they're grown from mushrooms from outer space!"

I'm so confused. I've never watched GameLife, so I have no idea what you people are talking about. As far as I can tell, there are some kinda cool (if slightly twisted) photos of this moderately attractive person who also appears on some video podcast that reviews games. I can't tell if I should actually want to watch GameLife or not. Is it a trainwreck, or something I should intentionally want to sit through? Or to put it in easier to digest format: or Or maybe just

Yes. You can completely uninstall HL2 and keep CS:S, DoD, HL2: Deathmatch, etc. Just install what you need at any time.

I finished it last night...dear lord what a mess that game was. Hopefully Dreamfall's much, much better. Otherwise I'm going to be really depressed until the next Broken Sword comes out.

...because it has TWO SCREENS!!!!!!!111!!!! Hahahahahahaha. Lol. I r00lz. Double suckage. (No, I don't really talk/write like that. This is a joke)

I played it some more over the weekend, and holy crap, this game sucks ass. I mean, I'm going to finish it (I think I'm at the end now), but it's just awful. Someone needs to tell David Cage that he needs to either make a movie or make a better game. Don't make a bad movie-like game. There are enough lousy action movies out there without creating a game that wants really badly to be a lousy action movie. And the plot! My god, this is ludicrous! The leaps in logic here are astounding. And then there's his treatment of New York city...I'm very touchy about the city I love, but man, this is just terrible. I mean, Atari has an office here. You would think someone would have changed some of the baffling flaws in its depiction of new york. Some of the gems: - None of the streets, apartments or parks has any resemblance to anything in NYC in the last hundred years. This is the least significant, because plenty of games/movies set here but made/filmed elsewhere have this problem. I'm fine with that. - "American University"? How much effort does it take to look up NYC on Wikipedia and get the name of a real institution in the city? Not to mention the fact that we have the Museum of Natural History here, which would have made a lot more sense. - "Police University"? Another baffling localization screwup. I wonder if you can get an acredited degree from P.U.? - The bathrooms are all european. All of them. I don't think I've ever seen a bathroom in this country with the flush button on the wall. Pull chains, yes, but they're very rare. And there are lots more. Taxis don't look like NY taxis, subways don't either, there's an above-the-ground subway line conveniently running right past the police station (in fairness, Spider-Man 2 did this as well) and so on. If you're going to set a game in an existing city, do at least some research. You'd never see this kind of laziness in a Broken Sword game, that's for sure.

Barely, I think. Probably two hours, maybe three at most.

Wow, that looks great. The review isn't positive though...hopefully they'll work out the kinks on it. A 4 gig hard drive and scumvm would rock.

I'm playing Indigo Prophecy now (well not now, but it's the game I'm currently playing through when I'm not working or posting on forums), and I'm enjoying it, but I feel like I'm not doing a whole lot, just watching. Sid Meier defines gaming as "a series of interesting choices", and I guess that's what Indigo Prophecy is...but it's an adventure game that doesn't seem to have any puzzles whatsoever, and I feel like all I'm doing is triggering cutscene after cutscene instead of actually playing the game.

I get the reference, but dude, that's an awful, awful name. Granted, it's better than DarkBloodDeathVengeance or something, or ElvesWithSwords, but only marginally. And no, I have not played UT2007. QuakeWars, BF2142 or Huxley. I barely made it out of our booth this year. I'm relying on what journalists told me about each game. My point about Huxley wasn't that the gameplay's bad, it's just that it doesn't seem to offer much more than those other games (if anything) and it requires a monthly subscription to play.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here. MoCap is like any other technology -- when used properly, it's great. When misused it's not. Lots of games (i'd even go so far as to say most, these days) use mocap for lots more than just cut-scenes. But it all depends on the animators. I don't think anyone who saw Bioshock at E3 is going to complain about the quality of the mocapped animations. That's assuming they even knew those animations *were* mocapped, for that matter.

Okay, I have to call you on this one. Why on earth are people looking forward to Huxley? They've managed to get a lot of PR for it, but why?? Aside from having you know, the worst name ever, I look at this game and I see an Unreal Engine 3 PlanetSide. Everyone seems to gush over the graphics, but when it comes to the gameplay, it sounds really, kinda lame. I can't understand why anyone would want to play this game instead of UT2007, BF2142 or QuakeWars or any of the other games with superior gameplay and no monthly fees.

Yikes that's complicated. I have ScummVM running on my PSP and it's great. So far i've only played Monkey1, but it runs perfectly (or at least, it does now that a newer version fixes the crash-when-swordfighting bug).

The problem with photorealism is that the small things can completely ruin the illusion. You can have the most realistic model in the world,but if the eyes are off, it looks like a zombie. That's why Half-Life 2 is so good. Rather than get perfectly realistic skin and bones, they concentrated on the illusion of life coming from the way the eyes move. Personally, I think photorealism is grossly overrated. Give me stylized over realistic any day. I think people will be pleasantly surprised by the look of the characters in the Darkness. They're "real" in that they look like actual people, but they're not superrealistic looking zombies, they're crafted to resemble the characters the actors were portraying when they were vo-capped.

Not the existing M&M series, but my understanding is that it ties into HOMMV (OMG OUT NEXT WEEK). I saw Dark Messiah very, very briefly at E3, and it looked pretty good.

Seriously. Those eyes...they follow you!