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Stabface. Orphan Maker. Blood Death. Doom Blood. etc.

I refuse to succumb to this year's Steam and/or GOG sale, unless they slap both Deathspanks into one delicious sausage package or discount Recettear or a billion other things. I still haven't finished anything from last year. Quite literally anything. ...Goddamn I want these games though ): Restraint is hard.

Use the Grim Launcher to install the game.

The idea of reading classic novels next to a fireplace sounds lovely. Good place to read Jane Austen novels, or Jules Verne or HG Wells, or any writer you consider pleasant.

Try and sell enough items to world-saving RPG heroes as they venture out to meet their destinies. It's not as easy as it sounds. You need to find a good price, as to make a good profit so you can pay off the loan sharks. Sell too low, you don't make enough money and get an amusing game-over screen. Set a price too high, and people will refuse to buy and walk out of the store. There's also a section where you hire an RPG hero to run around dungeons and collect things for you to sell. You sort of run around with him too. I haven't seen too much of that yet. I personally saw around 30 minutes of gameplay, maybe 15 of which were those loooong unnecessary tutorials and intros that JRPGS love. Eurogamer have done a better job of explaining the game than I have in my current state of oh-my-LORD-get-off-the-internet-and-go-study. Honestly, though, there is a demo on the Steam page, which I linked to in the first post. Try that.

Yeah. And when I said "period of time", I meant that you had to beat the clock. I thought original "period" could be misinterpreted as "era", as in "the Renaissance", "Middle Ages", etc.

Sign of maturity right here. You get :tup: out of a potential :tup:

I haven't played this game yet, because I'm saving it for a day where I yearn for a long adventure game, but here's a few stupid things: - I don't hate the game's cover art. This is a rarity. Although cover art's been sucking less lately (Borderlands had a decent one), it hasn't really gone places yet. This is a well-designed and expertly-painted cover. - The same art style that graces the cover is also the one that is in cutscenes. They're done in the graphic novel-style that PSP MGS games were presented in. You can see it a bit here (skip to around 00:39). - I think it's using an interface roughly-similar to old Sierra games. - I can't think of any other stupid things. I ought to get this and The Whispered World when my adventure-game craving decides to move back into my stomach again.

It reads like a brochure, but there's nothing bad about it.

Adventure Gamers isn't really into it. It's Evan "I like irony and zest and wit" Dickens reviewing, but the 2 stars don't hint at much quality.

A blog where I will hopefully post semi-intelligent things about every game I check-off my backlog. The two posts on there are kind of insane, but I wrote them to get myself motivated. We shall see.

I usually dislike giving personal advice o'er the in'ernet, but the one very useful realization I ever had about girls was that the best way to get their attention is to start paying attention to yourself. That's lame. But! But...it's true. Feel like you should do more exercise? Fuck it, go to the gym. You like painting? Think you should do more of it? Get started! Do you like to write, but feel you're not up to your own standards? Sharpen your pencil and get to it. My point is that you ought to do what you love to do. Working on yourself will make you a bit more attractive to any potential love-interests. It'll happen automatically. Just do it.

I love this. Two quotes stick-out: Big statement. (Hightlights mine, by the way.) The reviewer makes his case, then, with the opening paragraph: I like how casual he is about it. He lists it off like it was the muffin he scarfed down while he ran to the bus stop that morning. I like it almost as much as I like how no other reviewers mentioned this casual trip which in no way, shape or form is a means to make reviewers like Black Ops better. ArsTechnica goes off on a rant about it.

Fuck everything about this. I was hoping people would back off CoD after the IW fiasco, but no. I ought to have known, but I still find this annoying. Bobby wins, I guess. I still refuse to quit my boycott.

I've seen maybe a couple of dozen Simpsons episodes, but I think I ended-up loving everything I saw of Season 6. "Lisa's Rival" is my favorite so far, though "Lisa's Wedding" and "Bart's Girlfriend" come as close seconds.

OK. I know this thread is old but I need to make a vow. Here it is. Kromsy's gonna clear-out his backlog. I think I'm going to write-up Actual Thoughts into some sort of blog as I check games off of my list, instead of the stream-of-consciousness junk I spill on here when I'm feeling talkative. I'll see if I can be bothered.

OK, backlog just showed its face. Having a hard time choosing, but I'm going to go with Last Express. It's a "unique experience": always good for refreshing your pores. Then you can play the more standard-issue shit. PS: Not to be an ass*, but its "Penal Zone". Excellent game. Probably Telltale's best. *sorry

Famous != former.

I played the 20-minute Deathspank demo with my girlfriend. We both enjoyed it a lot.

So! I'm going to do a Kromsy Movie Year, where I see at least (and probably at most) one movie every week for all year. This week's movie was Life of Brian, which was silly, intelligent, weird, lame, funny - everything and nothing. Not THE GREATEST COMEDY OF ALL TIME AND SPACE that some people make it out to be, buttt it does have this exchange: There are some others on the same level . SO I recommend it, if a little cautiously.

All the guy does is say he shouldn't get prissy, and then proceeds to compare Sonic 4 to Sonic 1 and show how different they are. Maybe one or two criticisms are valid, but "It's not the same!" surely isn't. Nostalgia makes everything perfect. And people are complaining that the first zone is called Splash Hill, and not Green Hill. Ugh.

That's the thing: I don't think a lot of storytelling craft went into these movies. I like Empire Strikes Back and, though I haven't seen it in well over ten years, loved Last Crusade as a kid. Yet I have to disagree with anyone who says BttF or Star Wars did anything very memorable, original, or particularly well.

So the game's out. Has anyone played it? I really want to, but damn Sony and their ridiculous payment system. Most reviews have been gushing, but some of the hardcore whiners make me want to murder entire continents. Like he should grates. It seems this guy walked in, saw, declared himself unimpressed and walked-out. Didn't even try. Other people say Sega should revert back to good ol' sprites. Maybe he has valid points. Joystiq agrees with him. I'm just very annoyed by the "Impress me!" attitude that a lot of people are taking. I didn't know Sonic had such a purist set of loudmouths chasing after him. IGN are complaining that a 1200 MPs game is "too short". They never specify the amount of time, but they just say it's short. I'm going to play the odds here and say it takes a few hours, as they still frequently level that criticism at Telltale's games, which, for the money, aren't that short at all. But how do you guys feel about it? I remember loving Sonic 3 when I was 5 (it was one of my first games), and though I never got past Zone 2 I still would like a good Sonic game.

Am I the only one that thinks movies like Back to the Future, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones are vastly overrated, completely forgettable, liquid-thin time wasters? I know these movies aren't made to natch-up your IQ level, but they've never been memorable to me, either, except for how oddly popular they are.

That's Holmes. You can do that with Christie too, obviously, but most of the time the problem is entirely solvable. Holmes has adventures; it's the adventure that really counts.