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You mean Subversion. It looked really cool but apparently it just wasn't fun to play at all and that's why it was canceled. I guess Prison Architect was inspired by one of the missions in that game though. Really excited about Prison Manager though. I've liked everything else that Introversion has put out.

I'm kind of disappointed with the direction her games have gone. I really liked Digital: A Love Story but wasn't a fan of her game before Analogue. I guess I don't really have a good reason why, both Digital and her previous game were just as linear but the style she chose for Digital was just far more interesting to me.

It'll be interesting to see how well that game does. Theoretically the genre could find a new audience on iOS and Kindle devices but....I don't know. It would be cool if it does though and that the people with iPads or Kindles are more willing to try different things.

I think the lack of socks with dress shoes is very classy.

Yeah I'm cautiously optimistic about the game but I really hope that future games aren't like Jurassic Park. Also, what the fuck is wrong with Mario Sunshine?

So the Rock, Paper, Shotgun article makes it sound like you just walk forward through basically corridors while a narrator just throws story at you? It's not that limited is it? I'd like to have some kind of interaction in the game if it's going to be in a medium that is all about interaction.

I've been playing Risen a lot in the past two weeks and have been enjoying it, even though it feels pretty unpolished and has some wacky combat controls. I think I'm starting to get to the point where people have said the game starts to go downhill though. I'm inside some temple behind a waterfall, the design of the temple kind of sucks, and fighting lizard guys over and over is starting to get a little old. Plus I have that feeling that no new quests are going to come from the three main hubs so I'm just going to from temple to temple fighting these guys? Oh well, it's still a good game. I have the first two Gothic games from when I saw them really cheap and bought them but haven't really played them much. I'll probably play through them after this even though I remember the combat being worse in those games.

I played through Castlevania 4 last weekend. That game has aged so amazingly well. It's even better than most of the Castlevania games that came out after it. I don't think any game in the Castlevania series has had the controls nailed down as well as 4. 8 directional whipping makes the game so much easier to control and your character can move in the air after he's jumped, can crawl while crouched, and throwing items is attached to a different button instead of pressing up and attack. I guess it makes the game a little easier but the challenges in the game actually come from gameplay design instead of bullshit controls. Unfortunately it seems like every Castlevania game after 4 ignored this and went back to the 4 directional whipping and inferior controls. The graphics and sound/music are fantastic too. I mean, the graphics are old of course, but they still look really nice and have some style to them. And the music does a great job of setting up the atmosphere. What a brilliant game.

Haha, why? Does anyone even remember Stonekeep? There really isn't nostalgia to cash in on anyway since no one was a huge fan of the original anyway. It doesn't even have a unique universe to use since it all takes place in a generic dungeon anyway. Maybe it will have horrible FMV in it?

I'm about to start working on an XNA game with friends so I've been looking at a lot of games lately. Aside from those already mentioned, I think Platypus is kind of cool. It's a pretty basic 2D shooter like Gradius with remixed C64 music, but it's cool enough. But mobygames says it's also on the PSP and PC, so I think it's odd that it was released as an XNA game.

Yeah, I really enjoy how the game is basically a homage to every previous Mario game. It's mostly like Super Mario Bros 3 but it seems like they've managed to fit things in from almost every other Mario game too.

So......hopefully this doesn't fuck everything up.

I need to get Final Fantasy 9 because it sounds like I would enjoy it. Apparently it doesn't have all of the melodromatic bullshit and pretentiousness that I feel most of the other newer Final Fantasy games have. Unfortunately, it must not have done as well as the others because after 9 they went back to doing that stuff again. For some reason, I can't get into JRPGs when they try to go for a more serious tone because I feel like it's done so poorly most of the time. The last JRPG that I really enjoyed was Dragon Quest 8, probably because the tone of the game was just more fun and it felt like an old school rpg without it actually feeling dated.

Well Ripper has Christopher Walken acting terribly in it, so it's unintentionally amazing. I've never actually played Ripper, but I want to because of the whole "it's so bad it's good" thing which never happens with games because shitty games aren't fun. But since FMV games don't have much gameplay anyway, it doesn't matter. And it's ok Toblix, I liked Sanitarium a lot too.

I think at this point, all Final Fantasy fans find the story in each game to be amazing, no matter how terrible it may be. That's the only reason I can think of that explains why someone may like Final Fantasy 8.

Honestly, I don't really care too much that it doesn't have online play because I can't stand how they implemented it on their console. I really wish they had a system like X-Box Live instead of being scared that pedophiles are going to talk to kids or whatever. The option would be nice, but it probably is something that's much more fun to play with other people in person. I'm just glad that there's another Wii game that's out that I really want.

I listened to the podcast at work today and I'm pretty sure everyone though I was nuts because I kept giggling at the Jeff Goldblum and shitty wizard parts. I'm glad that the podcast isn't completely going away.

You should go back and play Diablo 1 and 2 then. Both are great and have aged really well. Plus despite Diablo 2 being 9 years old (?), it's still sold in stores but I think both games are on their online store anyway.

Oh yeah, I'm probably going to buy it too even though I have yet to play an online match (but will soon). I just don't like what it does to the community. I don't really see most people buying it but who knows, I don't even know how strong the online community is for Brutal Legend.

Ugh, I hate multiplayer DLC that isn't free. Not that I hate paying for DLC but multiplayer DLC that's sold always seems like a good way to split up the playerbase. That's what always seemed to happen to the Battlefield games anyway.

I guess I'm going to have to buy Red Faction the next time there's a crazy sale going on. I had absolutely no interest in the game until the Space Asshole video was posted. It looks like tons of fun to just mess around in.

That's still not as bad as The Laughing Gnome.

Yeah, 90s Bowie doesn't get enough credit. They could probably also throw in NIN since he toured with them during the Outside era and TV on the Radio since he sang backing vocals on one of their songs. The only thing bad about a RB: Bowie game is that none of the songs from Low would work that well gameplay wise and that's one of his best albums.

Swordplay is fantastic. Hopefully someone at Lucasarts plays it so they learn how to make a Star Wars game for the Wii. I just wish they had the motion plus controls built into the Wii controller in the first place. This is how the Wii should have been all along.

Hey now, Big Fish was a good movie and didn't feel like something by Tim Burton. But yeah, everything else by him is crap.