Nachimir

Yea.

gdf, awesome isn't it? You can buy all the music from Magnatune. Jon Blow lists it here. I got my best time down to around 46:30 I also saw an amazing speedrun somewhere on youtube, where a guy does it in around 32 minutes and says "I'm not satisfied, I'm pretty sure I could do it faster than that"

Oooh, conflating Consolvania and IGN, bad move! I'm not sure if it was Spaff or Infovore, but this just turned up in the twitter feed we set up during X48: "This game will huff, and it will puff and then blow you away" - IGN.com Incidentally, the twitter feed now has 170 followers, and shows up in Twitter search ahead of the official igncom account

Yeah. It's like eating really shitty chocolate or something, you don't want more but you can't resist. The lack of canned laughter is a really big change compared to the old Red Dwarf, and I didn't notice until one of my housemates mentioned it. I didn't realise until recently that Dave is part owned by BBC Worldwide. Makes sense though, given that more or less everything they show is BBC reruns.

I don't mind it, but it's a really jarring contrast to the foot controls

Been staying away from this thread until I got it ¬¬ While beating up pedestrians, one of them screamed "WAGH! I'm still a virgin!" Foot controls are indeed a little awkward, but bearable I'm finding with the left shoulder button aligning the camera. Having the map only be a 90° aligned approximation of the GTA IV one is confusing me, I no longer know my way around it visually. I'd also swear this map is a bit smaller, it seems to take no time at all to get around it. I think there's a little bit of driver assist going on; it seems very easy to align a car perfectly on centre lines when driving into oncoming traffic, and just like in GTA IV cars land easily on their wheels. That the cartoony physics allow really silly car tumbles: Also, being a martial artist with the super quick moves: This game is really making me smile.

I wish I had video of this. In Half Life 2, there's a section where you and Alyx are having a conversation on a downward moving elevator. While Valve's character body language and eye contact are generally excellent, the point her eyes are scripted to look at only updated around once a second, so of course she'd make eye contact then her eyes would repeatedly roll up into her head then flick back down to point at the player camera. It looked like she was having a seizure. I think they patched it out, because on a second playthrough just before episode 1 it didn't happen.

Indeed.

Who are you calling a cunt?

Yes. That's why I usually do it after the warranty has expired.

"Dude. Dude... Dude!" - IGN.com Also Infovore, overheard at X48: Heh

If genre distinctions don't replace it anyway, I could certainly see a time when games technology plateaus and retro might die as a term for games anyway. I take your points on a lot of music, but what about stuff like this? It has really strong retro associations and isn't heard much in contemporary culture. I find it really strange how a load of contextual meaning can lead to quite arbitrary "retro" and "not retro" judgments

I love doing that kind of things to gadgets. Generally after they're out of warranty, unless I really, really want to mod it in some way.

I usually struggle with Lone Wolf. Ten feet from a checkpoint and Toblix... gave it to me in the ass and sped through it himself! ¬¬

Oh look at the time and I'm still in town. I'll be there, but late. Probably around 21:30 GMT.

I've always been really annoyed whenever some hippy comes at me with "everything happens for a reason", when what they actually mean is "everything happens for a reason that centres on my existence. Mine. The universe really cares about me even though it does move in mysterious ways. Me, me, me, me". They're two very different outlooks

I too shall pass on the anal rape, but should see you at 21:00.

Disclaimer: I too was paid to work on this, and I'm pleased with how it went, but my favorite bits were the arsing around. Like making an igndotcom twitter account with Spaff and Infovore, that as of last week placed higher in twitter's user search then their official one Doing really basic interviews with people in strange places was also good fun. We interviewed Ed from Microsoft by getting him to use a megaphone from a hundred metres or so away, Infovore in a lift, and Azka from Channel 4 on a moving beanbag We also arsed around with leftover balloons after everyone had gone. We couldn't fit them in the car or the van, didn't want to leave a mess, so I ended up giving them to a bunch of students we found in the car park.

Did you have all of the Keller family tapes? (They're pretty easy to find if you've explored a lot of the map then consult a walkthrough). If so, you may have to listen to them before it will let you open the door. 2 - 5 each have one digit of the combination, which I listened for and wrote down, but it let me open the door without having to tap it in.

Did anyone else track down the Keller tapes to get into the National Guard bunker and pick up the Experimental MIRV?

It can be used to refer to things from the era itself, not just later replicas or tributes made with those aesthetics.

Very interesting point about the word retro not being used for other media. It only came into it's modern usage in the last 50 years or so; I'm sure coming after the invention of books, radio, recorded music, and films has something to do with what it's used to describe. It's also an easily understood shorthand for older games. While most people understand genre distinctions for books and films, terms like arena shooter and sidescroller still might not make much sense to most people, and won't until they're a lot more popular. Retro is used widely for design and fashion, and to a lesser extent technology (rockets and computers being two good examples). Maybe some of its use in games comes from confusion over whether they're technology or media; retro is very much the kind of word that would be used to describe old hardware, so probably easily carried over to the games that ran on it.

It's a shame that page 4 is nothing more than misled propaganda ¬¬