mikemariano

I Will Not Complete This category's for you, Quitter's Club!

AMAZING

"You won't see that on Doogie Howser!"

Counterpoint:

Meanwhile, I get Billy Joel's "Captain Jack" stuck in my head whenever Captain Toad is mentioned. I wondered if I was the only one who thought this. SPOILER: I was.

Quick, put an umlaut over the u or something and make him an OC!

I showed my five-year-old niece this game (unwisely?). An hour after we stopped, she said, "Let's play the baby in the dungeon game again." Though she didn't like that the toothpicks cause Isaac's tears to turn bloody.

All I do is die to spiders.

All these games are worth taking a look at; thanks for mentioning them. I hated the enemy AI in Scurge so much—every enemy just runs directly at you as soon as you enter a room. It really ruined the game for me and it's a shame because the rest was really interesting. I also didn't really enjoy Moon very much, but it was a first person shooter with vehicles and a brief view of the Earth from the Moon, so that was nice.

I play in bed on my laptop but this game is so stressful! I really should stop.

"Ugh, as an old person I'm skipping through all this pop music discussion." *skip skip skip* SEAN: "—the new Dota II—" *skips until the podcast reads zero* EDIT: Old Grumbly Person Starts New Page

Seeing the return of the LucasFilm Games artwork style reminds me of a magazine ad I saw decades ago for Club Caribe, some dial-up game I never played but looked just like Maniac Mansion. ...turns out it was a LucasFilm Games project called Habitat that ended up released as Club Caribe for the Commodore 64 Q-Link service. It was an MMO before MMOs! Eurogamer did a retrospective two years ago, and now a museum in Oakland is working to bring Habitat back! This is really exciting. I want Club Caribe to be my Elder Scrolls Online and Thimbleweed Park to be my Skyrim.

I played a store display of one of the Pokemon games and was horrified by the walk speed. The movement was as janky as Dragon Warrior. And from what I can tell they haven't improved it! Is this true?

I have an immediately negative reaction when hearing the Boston (and surrounding area) accent, too; sorry Danielle! I typically only hear it used to employ breathtakingly horrible racism against black baseball players. You've made a valiant effort to change that! I wonder if it will catch on and it becomes a Twitch accent—other livestreamers will feel they need to read in-game text in an RI accent?

Cool, good to know. Thanks!

I wonder how much it annoyed Jake that the crosshair cursor didn't shimmer in the Kickstarter video.

Oh man! If they make a Dial-A-Pirate-esque code wheel I will be forced to back at an unaffordable level.

Exclusive Gone Home Poltergust 3000 mode only on the Wii U.

Ha, I just remembered that I thought, "Huh, I should probably buy a Steam controller when it comes out because The Binding of Isaac remake is going to be here in just over a year." Valve, you scamps! What controller can I use on a Mac?

That's crazy. I wonder what the Japanese reaction was to:

I have Zoolander quotes stuck in my head all day every day so, yes, I immediately thought of this line. But I got over it because it really is a perfect title.

Regarding the podcast discussion about the photo of Audrey and Laura on Ben's desk, I thought it was meant to keep Ben Horne in the running as a suspect and reflect more on him than on Audrey's contradictory story.

This thread was originally called "Fuck Breckon Unhonored" which made people think we didn't even have a Dishonored thread. It still isn't a good name.

Every reason you gave for quitting this game is correct, especially this. I have one character who has amassed 16 unused skill points, but I am afraid to use them. She's my surgeon and animal whisperer, so until I encounter an animal attack or sickly NPC, I will wait to use them.

Wait, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington from the end of Conduit 2 appear in the new Smash Bros?