Grrr! Double Fine's website is restricted!

[netmonkey]

I got a reply:

Ed, For a brief moment in time I believed you. How could you lie to me!? Our brief friendship is over, sadly. Nonetheless, I promise to continue working on Psychonauts until it runs on your Xbox 360. I just hope I can finish it before you expire.

Sincerely,

Alan Stuart

Emulation Ninja, Psychonauts Fan

Xbox 360 Team

THEY HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR. Wonderful.

[brkl]

Shh! Don't tell anyone, he might get fired!

[Moosferatu]

This just in: Psychonauts has ugly character design.

[Nappi]

Agreed. They don't even look realistic.

[miffy495]

As my request was not so much in the joke department, the response I got was more:

Thanks Peter. Your words are very encouraging. We are working on Psychonauts, I promise.

Sincerely,

Alan Stuart

Emulation Ninja

Xbox 360 Team

I feel kinda bad for this guy, if he's the one who has to go through every damn email that gets sent along to them.

[Redwall]

I thought the "Ninja" title was a joke, but it's in his humorless e-mails too? Eccentric.

[Aussie Ben]

Ben,

I love Grabbed too! It is a sleeper hit.

We are working on Psychonauts, I promise. Hang in there.

Sincerely,

Alan Stuart

Emulation Ninja

Xbox 360 Team

It's official: The Xbox 360 emulation team is AWESOME. (Don't tell me he was lying about either comment, it will shatter the illusion.)

[miffy495]

Is that a reference to Grabbed By the Ghoulies? I saw it used and cheap recently, and was quite tempted. Rare's recent work hasn't really impressed me though. Any good?

[Aussie Ben]

Well, I'm a bit of a Rare nut, so I'm probably biased, but I liked it. (In contrast, I didn't like the remake of Conker, but I liked the original. Go figure.) Not good playing it for hours on end, but nice in short bursts. It actually reminds me of old beat-em-ups like Double Dragon and Streets of Rage, believe it or not. Also, the final boss is a loony man who runs around in his pyjamas and fighter plane goggles, whilie whacking you with a staff and shrieking "TALLY-HO!". And there's a Scottish groundskeeper who says plenty of suggestive sayings like "Pet my piglet", "Peel my potatoes", "Pinch my plums", and so on.

In short: Not the Best Game Ever, but hilarious for $5-$20 (depending on your country of origin - it's $20 here, which is insanely cheap). And you'll like Mr. Ribs.

But Rare's best work after 'the takeover', in my opinion, is Sabre Wulf. Seriously, it's brilliant.

[jp-30]

Regarding the office blocking of doublefine's site etc, tried using Google translator to translate from english to english?

It can sometimes act as a proxy server and beat office site blacklists;

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.doublefine.com

[elmuerte]

or use coralcache: http://www.doublefine.com.nyud.net:8090/news.htm

[adfegg]

or use coralcache: http://www.doublefine.com.nyud.net:8090/news.htm

Er...Where eas that link supposed to go?

[elmuerte]

the doublefine website ofcourse, that's how coralcache works

[noparse]http://<hostname>.nyud.net:8090/<the rest>[/noparse]

[MrHoatzin]

What if that port is blocked?

[elmuerte]

then it obviouly doesn't work