SoulChicken

Probably the first cocktail ever invented! Also pretty hardcore, absinthe and rye whisky. That's the kind of cocktail I'm talking about.

amazing

To me, it doesn't count unless they refer to the magick user as a wizard. Otherwise mages and shit get in and who gives a fuck if they are called mages. Mage. yawn. Wizard. Holy Shit!

"I'm implicitly dead!" - dead person

If you come I will host a cocktail party in my loft for thumbs. (I'm pretty close to where they hold it.) If the weather is spring-like, we can have it on the roof deck and grill it up like a motherfucker. You can hold me to this!

Lumines on the PSP is in my top 5 games of all time. I've played the game on other platforms and it just doesn't compare at all. plug in your headphones and check out for a week. Its also dirt cheap on Amazon, as is Lumines 2. Holy shit I love that game.

I like the name. I also saw a story on Shack or Joystiq yesterday that suggested it might not be Wii exclusive. I hope so, the art looks amazing. Apart from a few of the concept drawings which look really different from the others.

I jumped in on a pool in Something Awful and now have the game in my list as Unreleased but its mine and it only cost $33.75! I'm very new to using Steam for multiplayer and I only recently got Left 4 Dead. I joined the Idle Thumbs group. I have no idea how to see what people are playing, other than the list of users at the bottom of the group profile. Then I have to mouse over each one to see. I'd really like to play through some of the campaigns with cool people who will talk to me and play the game properly. I had fun the other night but firstly only ever got to play the climax of a couple of campaigns and secondly no one used voice chat. This meant that people stayed in the house at the end of blood harvest, despite one guy who seemed to know what he was doing saying "get to the barn!!" From what I've seen so far, I adore this game. I can't believe I didn't play it before now. If anyone wants to play some campaigns, I guarantee you will find my reactions to the stuff I am seeing for the first time hilarious. Steam ID : SoulChicken edit: great, I'm in NYC this weekend but I will join you the week after.

Do a podblast with Nick just reading that list out, call it the review of the year and be done with it. Maybe add Countdown to Tears, skepticism and pessimism and fear. I hate reviews of the year. I know what happened I was there!

Blah, video games solved the Healthcare debate years ago with Theme Hospital case closed.

Space Asshole - "The pseudo narrative dissonance will blow you away!" - IGN.com

Well lets not forget the context... this was covered on a podcast, a modern day radio show. I was listening on the way to work, I hadn't seen the trailer the day before. As Chris started to talk about it I thought "nah, come on it can't be that bad" because Chris sounded utterly dejected, as if this trailer had in one fell swoop made him go from looking forward to buying and playing the game, to most likely not touching it. Quite a turnaround for someone who liked to talk about Mass Effect and his problems with sniper rifles a lot. Personally I loved Mass Effect and nothing could sway my interest in this game. I thought that the trailer must have ended with a diss on Far Cry 2 or Pikmin 2 multiplayer or something. Boy was I wrong a minute later. Based solely on the audio of the trailer, I too was now totally disinterested in ME2. Which I thought was HILARIOUS. I guarantee none of the epicness of the change of tone that caused said hilarity had anything to do with those words being said by a woman/fembot. "Some are to remember. Some are for kills. You know, good ones. And some are for because, hey, fuck you." I hope she has a breaking the fourth wall voiceover in the game, that would be so awesome and original! It was so awesome and original in Fight Club, Domino, Lock Stock, Snatch, Crank, Crank 2. I can't take it its so edgy! I can't think of a better way to let me know that this character just DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU THINK!!!!

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Made by Hershey, this one is pretty widespread. Tastes rubbish though, nothing like the real thing. That broke my heart not long ago. In New York there are a few shops that import ALL of the English chocolate bars and sell them to expats like me for exhorbitant amounts of cash. I paid $12 for a small bottle of Ribena once. I had to turn tricks in order to afford milk chocolate hobnobs.

Yeah that got me, I thought "hmmm platformer, i'll plug in the suckbox controller." However, because of what the wizaaaaard does, its so much more fun with the mouse. Drawing boxes, floating them around... you can be so much more nimble. I felt clunky using the right stick. The game isnt packed with unforgiving platforming sections, so while I know I couldn't be playing Super Mario Galaxy with WASD, the challenge here isnt a test of dexterity. Its about how to find/make a path and the jumps aren't so hard. I play some of this game every day and I wouldn't have found it without Thumbs mentioning it week after week after week after week. Really, thank you, I would have overlooked it.

I played Half Life 2 and Episode 1, will tackle Episode 2 this weekend. HL2 was probably the best game I've ever played, thats over 24 years of gaming! The ridiculous thing is, I bought it on Steam the night it came out. It downloaded about 2am and I started playing. I got to Ravenholm and I was totally scared by it, stopped playing and hadn't gone back to it. Also I had memories of the first section being a bit tedious. As I replayed it it didn't feel like that at all, I loved it, then loved Ravenholm more... that carried through the entire game. A 5 year old game I would best describe as "refreshing" ha! I finished COD4:MW a couple of weeks ago, singleplayer. It was really short, only a bit longer than Episode 1. I just got so bored in the single player campaign, I was kind of glad it was over quickly. The respawning enemies just broke any immersion for me, as you quickly realised it was just shootout, then run forward until you are in the spot that triggers the next shootout or big choreographed event, while the dudes just keep coming. I did really enjoy the sniper mission, that was fun and the ride it took you on was so cool. I thought the firefights just weren't nearly as fun and dynamic as say, Halo 3. The narrative was throwaway, there just to string together big over the top event after another. I killed a lot of dudes and saved the world. It left me depressed that this is the biggest franchise out there at the moment, it felt soulless and not fun. Of course I make no mention of the multiplayer, which I think is the value you are getting out of your $60. Then I played Half Life 2 and it made me happy again. Finished Batman AA also. I enjoyed it, although I was tired of the 2 gameplay mechanics by the end, a little repetitive. It was such an impressive game for most of the time I was playing it but a few weeks later... it hasn't left that much of an impression funnily enough. Games I am playing around with now that are excellent - Trine (wizard), Left 4 Dead (I tried this out after finding Nick and Jake's enthusiasm for the game so interesting.) & Infamous.

First time I've ever wanted to buy a MadCatz product!

Oh man someone made my post for serious. video games.

I am furious. "Chris" Remo misrepresented the Bioware Mass Effect trailer in this podcast. He repeatedly misquoted the character Patient Zero as saying "Who is the badass biotic bitch now?" What she actually said was "Now who is the badass biotic, bitch?" COMMA bitch Way to shit on the subtle feminist subtext beardy. Do you have to suppose that a strong woman/cyborg character would have to have an underlying self loathing and flawed self esteem that she would refer to herself as a biotic bitch? She was clearly calling someone else bitch, who apparently used to be the badass biotic. A fine example of a confident powerful woman/cyborg that apparently threatens and terrifies Mr Remo. This on top of the disgust expressed at an image of a woman with babies coming out of her nipples (can you get more maternal than that??) last week. I weep in anticipation of that "editor at large"'s review of Bayonetta. Finally, the new episode of Monkey Island is badass Jake.

I really enjoyed this excellent (albeit very short) demo. I had lost interest in this game, because I had no idea what it was, with all the RTS talk and such. I still don't understand what's going on with that but now I am intrigued. The demo was funny throughout. The fighting was fun. Strange that I didn't have an indication of how much damage I was taking. Jack Black was actually really good because he wasn't just being Jack Black, if you know what I mean. Looking forward to finding out what exactly this game is!

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I may be in America but I may not be not English (I moved to New York 10 years ago because games were cheaper.)

There's a lot of British gamers here I notice. The Little Big Planet thread must be 100 pages long!

I really recommend holding off on Timequake until you've read more of his novels. It is so much more rewarding then. After Slaughterhouse Five, my favorite was Hocus Pocus. I was absolutely enamoured by this book, tremendously inventive and spooky. However I only got about a third of the way through it. This is because one day my girlfriend at the time saw it sitting on my coffee table. "Oh you're reading that. You know he used to be my boyfriend? This was before that got published." I totally couldn't read anymore of a book written by someone who had slept with my girlfriend! That plus one of the characters started to seem like she was quite like her when I thought about it... I should go back to it, it really was fascinating. I don't know how where it can go for 2/3 more of a massive book though.

I was 9 too! Played it on my BBC Micro, it was such a grown up game, I felt pretty pleased with myself when I was able to manually dock in the space stations. The graphics were amazing at the time, I got totally drawn in by the game. Those aliens that attacked you while you were in hyperspace were terrifying. I might need to play the game again, I can't really remember how the game developed. Was it just about getting cash? Could you buy anything with your money? edit: I discovered something called Google and just found out the answers for myself. Basically it was an open world game. That's amazing! http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap1/elite.html