Steve

I bought WoW just to review it, and quit before my free month ran out. Seeing hundreds of other people doing the exact same things I was doing and accomplishing absolutely nothing just made me feel really bad about my life. At least with a single-player game you don't actively feel like a tiny speck in a huge crowd of losers... you are THE loser!

I am a Tim Hater. He is game writing's Brent Dicrescenzo, after you up the pagecount by about twelve times. o btw

That poster is excellent. I wish you luck, sir. Let us know if you find it.

Hey, happy birthday! Did you blow out all the candles? Do they do that in the UK?

"I knew I had some geek brothers and sisters up in here!" Could Dave Chappelle be more awesome?

Solution: they should've tricked people into buying it by making commercials depicting a really standard Saving Private Ryan-like WW2 FPS, with the shaky-cam and dust explosions and all that, and then put "PSYCHONAUTS" in big letters at the end. If you buy your games based on a TV commercial you deserve to be tricked anyway.

This whole deal is depressing. What's going to happen to Double Fine?

Ha ha, why bother locking it? I believe this poster offers a valuable service, and deserves his fair use of these Idle Thumbs forums to hock his interwares. Seriously though, this is ridiculous. Let's use this thread to discuss what the hell is up with gold harvesting, and paying real money for fake money. I sincerely question the priorities of someone who would go through with the real money -> fake gold transaction. Can scoring easy game currency really be worth part of your paycheck? I mean, part that you aren't already spending on the monthly fee for the simple privilege of playing the game? But I generally don't "get" MMOs in the first place. It's like, I don't want to spend my time and mind dealing with this grind. What, I don't have a real life to worry about so I need the burden of managing the minutae of all the equipment and skills and whatnot of this character in some fantasy life? Just to fight bigger monsters? What a fucking drag. That might sound weird, considering that I do love games, all of which are based on playing out false interactions in false worlds. But in games, I'm mostly in it for the story, and for the satisfaction of beginning a game then completing it. That arc, that closure, is the draw for me, I think. MMO's don't offer me that. And when I have played MMO's, I can't imagine spending money to NOT play part of it.

*consults internet map* So, by actual Ireland did you mean "not Northern Ireland?" Sorry, I am dumb American!

Is there some artificial Ireland somewhere? What does this mean?

I'm not sure about the UK connection re: I76. But I am playing it for a Thumb assignment, so I'll look into that for the final piece.

What I'm saying is, it never got impossible for me. The game doesn't progress completely linearly. By the time I came upon a PK I could take them down with a little effort. Then I got my own and it was all good. So I mean sorry you hit a snag, I don't think that's the standard experience.

"Looks nice" as in "looks like it'll be fun," or "looks visually appealing?" Because I think it looks ugly as sin.

What? Silent Storm was awesome. I never ran into this crazy impossible stuff. Panzerkleins kick ass. You guys are crazy.

Man, that is really infuriating. How can people call themselves journalists? I only wish that Davison had said "This is a farce," on camera, thrown down his mic and walked off the set while tape was rolling. If it was sensational enough maybe they wouldn't have cut it from the final edit. Man. Bullshit.

I just heard about this a few minutes ago (when I woke up.) Glad everyone's okay. Scary shit, man.

So, just this morning I had this dream. I was exploring an old, abandoned, multi-story warehouse/residence with this other dude who reminded me of John Mayer or Kirk Cameron. We were kind of just scouting the place out and it was real run-down and old; lots of pooled water and cracked concrete, and too-small musty crawlspaces. However, certain parts seemed to have been freshly repainted, such as a big door that had been painted bright green, or the wall of a room that was bright orange. It reminded me of how different parts of the levels in multiplayer games like Counter-Strike are sometimes color-coded. So, I'm exploring part of the basement, and my Kirk Cameron dude friend suddenly comes sprinting past me down the hall, yelling "GO, RUN! DON'T STOP." So I break into a run, pacing him, and he looks over his shoulder and shouts, "HOLY SHIT, THERE ARE LIKE 30 PEOPLE IN THE GAME!" As we round a corner, I look back too, and see a group of four or five guys in hoodie sweatshirts with bandanas over their mouths chasing after us, wielding machetes and other deadly implements. Once around the corner, I keep running, but I notice my dude friend isn't next to me. Then from behind me I hear him yell, "THE MANHUNT'S OVER HERE, MOTHERFUCKERS!" He had ducked behind a support beam, and as the group of assailants was running past him, he grabbed one of them and stabbed him in the neck. However, this didn't stop the entire group, and I figured it also probably got him killed. Just as this crazy fucker with a red bandana over his mouth and a machete in each hand bore down on me, I forced myself to wake up, heart pounding. Anybody else had any good game-based dreams lately?!

Man, I bought a PC copy. 719 total? Is that worldwide? 719??

Yufster is just being coy. We DO all live in one big house. All of the Thumb staffers, even the American ones. We all share rent on a 6-bedroom, 2.5 bath split-level that's floating in the middle of the Atlantic. We're talking to G4TV about getting a reality tv show started.

From the original linked article: "Since returning to the US, he has made several unannounced appearances at Los Angeles comedy clubs, and this week played two little-publicized shows at the Punchline in San Francisco." TIME PARADOX

my god

That was just the silliest race/class combo I could think up for him. That being said, how can you not like Chappelle's Show?? Blasphemy!

Note to Cliffy B: what if you did make an FPS where the gun wasn't constantly hanging at the bottom of the screen?? OMG INNOVATION!!!!