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Which of you posted this comment on ebgames: "GAME CONCEPT GONE WRONG "This was the ultmiate hype machine game for xbox when it was first announced in spring 2002. Microsoft was all over this game like its the savior of xbox, but nooooooo halo 2 ended up being the savior. anyway I have no high hope for this game now that Majesco publishes it." I pity the foo' who did. ... somebody should post the real story, the one where Microsoft is unable to sell a game that doesn't have big guns and is not Live-enabled.

The only time I was on an RP server (yesterday) there was no RPing at all. Everyone was running (something my 24-hour-wow-playing buddy said you couldn't do) and people were talking about this magical heretic device called "the server".

Grim Fandango is pretty short.

I really hope that the game is up to gameplay standards... as in, it's long enough and has enough things to do. Tim & Co. are pretty famous of making relatively short games.

Check out this gamespot news article, it's got some good quotes from gaming people: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/01/19/news_6116249.html I like this quote, Grumpy Gamered for um.... the interesting bits that I like: "the little attention the industry has gotten seems to make many think that it's actually a mainstream phenomenon. It's still largely boys making games for boys. There is a paucity of diversity in game titles and themes." He forgot to add the word horny before boys, but that's ok.

Jake, call Double Fine and show them your design... maybe they'll use it. Even though Majesco probably has the final word.

But the Powerpuff Girls are sooooo cute!

It looks like Jake made that boxart... or someone from Idle Thumbs did. IT'S A FAKE!!!!1

Yeah, I was going to point that out. He actually started as a shadow of Trapezoid's Animutation, but Trap told me that he's a better animator than him now days.

Forget about Schafer... I'm insterested in the Halo backstory. Go on

It's the fastest-selling PC game ever in North America. Oh right, North America is the only place that exists in the world. I forgot.

Anyone playing the game? I got a ten-day pass from one of my core-gaming buddies who bought the "GhettoBoy™ Boxset" version of the game, and I've been trying to make the most out of the pass as much as I can. It's fun! Also, I feel like my life is being sucked away, but I have no class for now, but I have projects and shit to do. Hmm.

This is the first MMORPG I ever play. Well, in 3D that is, so it's quite a great experience for me. I wouldn't be able to compare it to UO or EverQuest, though. The only thing I dislike is that for every server you need a character, so every time you switch servers you have to start all over, and for every class it's pretty much the same process and quests except for different stories and settings (how clever). I've mostly played as horde, though, so maybe alliance is compleltely different. My friends also chose the busiest server ever, so it was just cramping up for the first days, but now it seems to work fine. Right now I'm level 7 1/2, so I'm still very young.

John Carmack is a total Airhead. From the quotes I've read at the thumbs and other places, I hope that they were purposely posted to support my point, because basically he thinks games are totally superficial things that you can just make up any shit (doom 3) and nobody (nobody = nerds) would care. The again, he IS a total dork. Anyone's got any comments on John Carmacks game design philosophies? Here's teh quotes: "The quintessential game that has influenced a lot of my game design is Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. It's a really simple game: Go fast and be really cool. You don't need 20 little gadgets and gizmos." "Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." "I'm losing control of my faculties. Mmm." If anyone wants to post more Carmack Quotes, feel free... but maybe the Thumbs masters would frown upon that... because then more Carmack quotes on the main page would not be any suprise!

Some people are stupid and stupidity is the real reason for all of this, not Halo 2. However, I don't see any posts on Vidja Game news sites, so I doubt it's real.

I hated that grim fandango came in this cardboard case, while escape from monkey island has the best-designed case, which opens outwards and all. Now, The Longest Journey US was kind of cheap in that the cds came in those white envelopes... I recently got a copy of Riven: Het Vervolg Op Myst (Riven from Holland), and since it's Euro, then it comes in a DVD case. Riven is 5 CDs, though, so they managed to somehow stick 3 in one plastic thing where you usually stick one dvd, and then two CDs in those white envelopes. WTF!

I think it's the market.... remember that they're trying ot make video games = (yes, A PERFECT EQUALS ) Hollywood, ergo games come in movie cases. I like it, though... PC Games come in software Boxes, well... special software boxes because now days they're really small boxes, while other software has their big boxes in order to compensate for something else. Somebody needs to rethink the way software comes to the consumer... like Segways will make someone rethink cities!11

It looks beautiful... even the women in the game are attractive, like that guys daughter and stuff... It has the same exact same feeling as the original game, though, but not as much as halo 2 does to halo... man, I played the first level and was like "ok... halo with two guns.. I guess that's why it's halo 2." and I turned it off. Maybe I 'm just biased toward the graphical goodness and box-throwing madness of HL2... the loading times seem to suck, though.

You think it will it make it on time? It's like the cheesy sitcom where the character walks in too late trying to do a gag that was done like 2 minutes earlier by another character with laugh track and all. In other words, DNFE will walk into the set and say "eh? eh?!" and maybe no one will even care. Oh, and for those who know the whole Fark photoshop thing, a classic:

Since the first time I played Monkey was a pirated copy, when my friend and I ran into that "joke" we thought we were missing a floppy!

* Presentation * Graphics * Sound * Gameplay * Lasting Appeal With this rating system put into movies, Star Wars: Episode I, or The Day After Tomorrow, or anything endorsed by Fox really would get a perfect 10. What's with the phallic reference in that thermometer?!

How can your favorite game be HL2 if it isn't out yet? The videos seriously reminds me of DOTT meets Grim Fandango, specially now that I noticed (from reading replies to this post) that some of the voices are in fact played by people like Nick Jameson. I thought the trailer was awesome because it was so trailer-like with the suspenseful music, random plot things, and trailer voice-like guy! plus, it was the first time I saw updated footage of the game. I do agree that there was not enough gameplay clips in the trailer, but the gameplay videos do compensate for it.... and they remind of Zelda (L-targeting, getting a badge, other nifty things) meets Mario (Jumping around platforms and stuff) meets Grim Fandango (you can actually talk to people LEC adventure-like and Raz turns his head to look at interesting things... like Manuel Calavera, and the whole style... definitely made by the grim team).

Was that insider video from TechTV? I hate how techtv is so hyped up about everything and yet they get all their research wrong. D'oh! Just look at this: http://www.g4techtv.com/html/filterater.asp?filtercategory_key=58&filtercategory_entry_key=1352 ESCAPE FROM MONKEY ISLAND and TIM SCHAFER? noo...

What, you guys didn't win an XBOX like I did? I will buy pyschonauts on XBOX. The xbox controller is wonderful, and I'm sure it will play very well with it. (I'm counting that one Psychonauts tester, Chris Remo, to make sure that this is so!) Computers are for bitching on the internet about not having a video game console and not for playing games, anyway.