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cool video, I like the 70s vibe

Does that youtube video work for anyone?

I never liked the boot, or the statue. For me the SMW cape is the best, that's because once you master it you can complete almost all levels with no low ceiling by simply flying over it.

Don't you have an A/V Receiver? That's how I route all my HDMI stuff to my TV.

Indeed... even the name of the characters is adult themed. "Ratchet & Clank"... what else could that be but a reference to granny porn

I don't get it

Not counting Mario Allstars? Why was there no reader mail in the episode? Didn't anybody mail to questions at idlethumbs dot com slash wizard?

Shall we attempt another serious challenge this Saturday? Usual time?

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What is the halloween of video games?

I've been played a bunch of Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior. I don't recall these games to be this difficult 15 years ago. Now I'm even struggling on normal difficulty. Often running around searching for health. Maybe it's because I'm getting old, or maybe it's because all modern games are baby games.

just like real life

Who's the ghost?

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 A 10 euro free to play game. You earn hardly anything from completing quests. You rarely find new equipment (if ever?). You can buy gold for real money, and that's pretty much the only proper way to get enough gold to attempt to get better gear. Yes, attempt. Because to get better gear from a smith you roll a die to see if you succeed in buying. I got this game as part of the huge Paradox Bundle. I wouldn't waste money on it.

CD-Roms mostly added video and voice.

I'm ok with this ending. It's much better than Dexter's ending. But I think I would have liked the ending much better if

City Watch TV series would be awesome.

That's because you played it after it was fixed

For me "meat circus" was failing to clear the flooding of the meat circus 1000 times because I wasn't able to perform the whole segment perfectly. It's hitting the wall, hard. I don't agree games have gotten longer. Sure, speed running might get you to complete a lot of games within 10 hours. And there's still games that take a shit load of hours to complete. Daggerfall takes a long time to complete. Stonekeep really takes more than 10 hours to finish. Duke Nukem 3D, first time, in 10 hours, really difficult. Little Big Adventure? I know the game by heart and it takes me 6+ hours to speedrun. A lot of old games are closer to 20 hours than 10 when you play it for the firs time. And with the difficulty with those games it takes even more time to complete.

You're wrong on some points Tan. Random spawning hawk in Shadow Warrior?! Is this the new one? Today I finally finished the original Shadow Warrior (it was rather short, only 2 episodes?) I tried hard to find all the secrets...but I bare got close to 60%, seriously where are they? Shadow Warrior does have quite a bunch of instant death elements (usually falling to your death because you failed a jump). But the main difficulty is in the fact that the enemies damage you a lot, and you don't regenerate. (and no checkpoints). Ok, so pointing out where Tan is wrong. First of, Megaman is really a one off in explaining the gameplay. It does it almost perfectly, hardly any other game from the same erra comes close. The big difference between old games and newer games is that old games presented pretty much all the gameplay within the first few scenes. Modern games often introduce new gameplay elements right before boss battles. Little time for training. Zelda and Final Fantasy have always been shit like this. Old FPS games mostly had level creation, hardly level design. I think level design didn't start until Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. At that point people started working out flows through the levels. Very abstract levels, and once the flow was good they started dressing up the levels. A lot of polish went into making great movement flows through the world. The same amount of polish evolved into single player worlds. With the results, boring ass levels where everything is significant. There's no searching or exploring anymore in the modern games. As for length of games. Games didn't get longer. Some games are long, maybe 20 hours. Most linear FPS games barely touch 10 hours. But this is often the correct length. The perfect length of a game is just before you had enough of it, so you're left with wanting for more. But if you polish enough the game becomes bland. I haven't played Deamon Souls, but what I've heard from it, it doesn't shy away from punishing people from making mistakes. How does it let you continue? There's no wall? I've hit meat circuses quite often. In fact, I have a meat circus in Max Payne 3, I haven't returned yet to try to get past the airport baggage thingy. Talking about unfair instant kills. No time to learn, not, just die and try again and again and again. There are way way too many quick fail situations in games and not having an idea what to do to get past it.

Just to emphasize: Make sure you download GTA4 episodes before tomorrow. On Steam this is a separate download!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sxpLiQgdTI0

that's amazing

So we're not going to attempt any episodes again?

HL3 will live in the touch screen of the controller.