Salacious Snake

It's already been mentioned, but Wipeout HD (and the Fury expansion) is the best. It also works with 3D, though I don't know how well.

And if you have any love for stuff like Mad Dog McCree, the Wavy Tube Man Chronicles DLC for the Gunstringer is also worthwhile!

Bionic Commando Rearmed and Mass Effect were on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows. Both are games I'd highly recommend. The best thing in Rearmed is the competitive multiplayer mode. Don't touch the floor! So good. It would make a good Idle Thumbs stream.

Yeah, I was going to post Space Giraffe, but it came out for Windows later. Still, there was something special about being there at release for the 360 with the leaderboards heating up, and it's the only game for which I've gone out of my way to attain all the achievements. I love everything about the original Dead Rising. Seeing stuff about the thirdish one has made me want to go back and replay it. I would consider the Dance Central series essential. It's the one thing I miss about having a large enough space for Kinect. It's unbelievably fun, and it smartly accounts for the limitations of Kinect. It's fun to practice songs on your own, challenging yourself to nail the trickier moves on the higher difficulty levels*, but as a party game it's just off the fucking chain. (*and by "nail" I mean figure out what the Kinect is looking for and do it, not necessarily perform a dance move in a way that looks coordinated.) I think the first game (of the modern series) was on the original Xbox, not the 360. A rad game for sure.

I like that E3 video. It seems like something that should have been available on tape via mail offer, or perhaps free with a pizza.

Up to a point, but it'll wear thin eventually. There's no real economic simulation or anything like that. It has that theme park feel where it seems like all the ships in the sea are simply there for you to have fun fighting. It's no Pirates! or Sea Dogs. Man, I love Sea Dogs. Also, while my video shows things breaking (because of that extra ship caught in a boarding action), they've generally done an outstanding job of applying Assassin's Creed style climbing and "freerunning" to dynamic geometry. It must have been tricky. It works surprisingly well when you climb the rigging and leap back and forth between the spars of two ships that are bobbing around.

I "shared" a "video." I'm enjoying the game a lot, though I've mostly been attacking ships and forts and sea creatures. I so don't care about the primary missions, but the game is surprisingly good about getting out of your way.

Argh, I should have gone to PRACTICE. Damn my lazy hide. Game Center events always sound rad when I hear people recount them after the fact. But for some reason, I so rarely get up the gumption to attend.

I dig it so far. One thing I really like is that they weren't overly conservative with the stereoscopic depth. Having a (mostly) fixed perspective means you can get away with more, and it looks really cool. Like some of you, I have mixed feelings about revisiting a classic in this way... Link to the Past is the best Zelda, and this will have to be really fucking excellent to rise above feeling like a cheap cash-in of nostalgia. Settings thoughts of that nature aside, I'm having fun so far, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.

My enthusiasm for the TV features deflated very quickly when it became apparent that it's done using an IR blaster. That and the fact that I don't have any kind of TV service either. But still, conceptually it did look cool at the initial unveiling, as it would solve the problem of every cable box having the worst interface ever.

Haven't had a lot of time to mess around on the PS4, but I'm having fun so far. The one thing that's sucking a butt is that the audio keeps freaking out and getting super choppy. It's something to do with how it handles the multichannel bitstream output methods over the optical connection. I can clear it up by flipping the setting around, but it just keeps happening unless I set it to Linear PCM (which is just a stereo mixdown if you're on optical). It happens the most with NBA 2K14, but not exclusively. I wonder if my unit is defective, or if it's a software bug. There are others with the same issue around the internet at least. It's annoying!

Remote play works a lot better than I anticipated. I've been playing FIFA 14 at work while the PS4 sits at home, and it's decently playable. It was useless on the PS3, even when connected locally.

On the topic of intense but simple competitive local multiplayer games, I strongly recommend 0space. It's from Beau Blythe, creator of the upcoming Samurai Gun, and collaborator on Hyper Light Drifter. It's a zero gravity dueling thing for up to 4 players. I recorded a video of it once: (The forum keeps eating the video) http://teknopants.com/games/0space/

What the fuck

I just found out that a laundromat around the corner from my girlfriend's place has Medieval Madness, Twilight Zone, Addams Family and Arabian Nights among others. Holy shit, right?

My copy of Oger Designer's edition arrived today. It is truly gargantuan.

I'm glad they're updating it. It always struck me as a game into which it would make sense to plug new weird random things.

The preferred way is You, Biquitous.

Since you can download the multiplayer and singleplayer portions of, say, Killzone separately, I wonder if they can also be deleted selectively. I'll probably play through the campaign only once (if that), so it would be nice to be able to delete it but keep the multiplayer client around for online teabagging.

I feel a sense of vindication after hearing Jake talk about the pronunciation of Ubisoft. When Ubi was ascending as a big, mainstream publisher, they actually put a video out explaining that it was Ubi as in Ubiquitous. For a time, the games media largely got on board and said it the intended way, but since then, I think most people have drifted back to the soft U, or Oobisoft pronunciation. I've always stuck to my guns, but I was starting to feel weird about it, like I was being pedantic, or maybe just wrong. Like I had imagined that video, or maybe Ubisoft had changed their tune about it since then. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Rockstar Table Tennis is an excellent game! Classic Game Room recently made a video about it: I'm sure I saw or heard some major appreciation of it somewhere else just recently too. I suppose it's been coming up because of GTA V. I imagine I only picked it up because there were so few games available for the 360 at the time, but it's a kickass game. It's tense and fast and about as strategic as these things get. I'd say it's at least as good as any given flavor of Virtua Tennis.

It's not nostalgia when you're still listening to these bands because they're actually good. I don't put on a Negativland record to remind myself of the Soviet era, I do it because their music is still interesting. Even the most poppy pop-cultural stuff transcends that status. I mean, Michael Jackson was legitimately great, and I still love his music. I guess I can't entirely mentally divorce it from the whole zeitgeist of the Thriller/Bad era that I grew up in, but that's not why I still listen, at least I don't think it is. It's nostalgia when you still dig something that's probably shitty just because it makes you feel like you're back in high school, listening to the shitty music you listened to back then.

It sounds like you know the answer already, JonCole. The reasonable thing to do is wait! I sympathize with the urge to forge ahead anyway, because that's what I'm doing in spite of all sense.

I've ended up with an airlock door that could be neither demolished nor opened, which led to a bunch of people queuing up outside of it and asphyxiating. The particularly funny part was that there was no obvious reason for the pathfinding to take them to that door in the first place, as it was way out of the way. At least it's kind of a relief sometimes when the herd is thinned out!

I'm pretty into it. It's certainly a lot more fun than the original incarnation. I played a ton of FFXI when it was new, and it was rad (and in some ways horrible). I haven't put a ton of time in yet, because I've been busy. I'll probably jump in deeper when the PS4 version comes out. If you're on Excalibur, I'm Vichyssoise Glacee.