love that sentiment
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 30 September 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/10/04/if-you-stare-into-the-andean-abyss/
― Mordy, Friday, 5 October 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
good read
i still find it odd to see serious board games covered on video game sites, but this is has been more and more the case over the last few years - like game designers giving up completely on tech to focus completely on rules
― Nhex, Friday, 5 October 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
a nice human interest story on L.A. Noirehttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-09-night-and-the-city
― Nhex, Monday, 22 October 2012 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
i liked that!
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 22 October 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
molyneux's at it againhttp://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/10/ff-peter-molyneux/all/
― ledge, Monday, 22 October 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
the LA Noire piece is great, and makes me want to play the game more than anything else I've read on it.
― Chief Queef (stevie), Monday, 22 October 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
do ppl itt know this errant signal dude? his take on the 'violence' bit is interesting imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSBn77_h_6Q
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
not bad
― Nhex, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
I remember watching his wonderful piece about Doom. Need to pay more attention to this guy.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i am liking this guy
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 November 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
brainy gamer gets caught off guard by papo y yohttp://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2012/11/the-wreckage-and-the-way-out.html
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://kotaku.com/5955223/what-went-wrong-with-silicon-knights-x+men-destiny
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 18 November 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
i gave up like eleven paragraphs in. that was really badly written.
― Chuck_Norris_on_the_topic_of_obesity (stevie), Sunday, 18 November 2012 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
the bit where they quote a bunch of random forum posts for two paragraphs is o_O but it's generally interesting enough to be worth it
― abanana, Sunday, 18 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
not sure how to react to the papo y yo article, but i am interested
silicon knights downfall definitely interesting to me, just for their work on Eternal Darkness and Twin Snakes, but it sounds like their glory days are long gone
― Nhex, Sunday, 18 November 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
It's a seemingly unavoidable fact that not every game can be great, or good, or even average.
seemingly
― Z S, Monday, 19 November 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
paragraph 2:
So how does a game, one made by a celebrated studio and backed by one of the richest game publishers in the world, turn out to be a bad video game? This is a story about exactly that.
paragraph 7:
The following story excerpts extensive interviews with former Silicon Knights employees who describe their experiences at what they say was a disorganized, unfocused company that squandered ample time and resources before being forced to release a game it was far from proud of.
paragraph 12:
But X-Men: Destiny stands alone as the worst game that Silicon Knights has released since it was founded. How did a company that was once known for compelling, original, quality video games come to release a title best described as "mediocre," "mindless," "generic", and "an absolute mess"?
JUST FUCKING TELL ME
― Z S, Monday, 19 November 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
spoiler: poor leadership
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 November 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for linking the Errant Signal guy - enjoyed the violence one and the DOOM one equally. Nice takes, feels pretty on-the-money without ever trying to be the single definitive take or anything.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 19 November 2012 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, they've all been goodcan't say anything for the "game grumps" thing he recommended though
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 November 2012 06:28 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB2ty4Qhdlwi kinda hate bastion but the points he makes are all good. it's just no fun to play is all.
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
His Sonic the Hedgehog one is pretty quietly truth-bomby too I think.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 06:33 (eleven years ago) link
nice read on Bastion! admittedly by the end I was kind of trudging though the fights, the music and graphics got me through it. i also really appreciated the themes/ending as discussed well in the video (regardless of the heartbreak interpretation)
― Nhex, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the article in general, but "Kid finds a memento from a girl he knew. Always used to fancy her" to "This is about the breakup of a serious long term relationship" is nearly hilariously creepy.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Or he played braid.
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah!
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
this might not be worth reading, but i dug ithttp://gameological.com/2012/11/on-the-level-secret-of-mana/
― Nhex, Saturday, 24 November 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
CRPG and The Adventure Gamer are simultaneously playing through So You Want to Be a Hero
― Mordy, Saturday, 24 November 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/25/big_buck_hunter_meet_the_worlds_best_fake_marksmen/
― Mordy, Sunday, 25 November 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Eo9kJ.png
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
this is going to confuse the hell outta metacritichttp://www.oxm.co.uk/47898/reviews/family-guy-back-to-the-multiverse-review
― ばか ざっぴ (zappi), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
are there any other smart youtube channels like errant signal? or is he in a league of his own?
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
i certainly wish he wasn't; i could watch a dozen of those every day
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
tenuous, but http://gameological.com/2012/11/the-stuff-of-knightmare/
― stet, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
Where are those graphs from forks? Are they releases or sales? Presumably the former. Weird that that don't always sum to 100% either - I mean I can maybe believe that 10% of the games released in 2010 don't fit into any of those genres, but 20% of the games released in 1982 weren't on any platform? huh?
― JimD, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe other platforms not covered? 5200, Colecovision... just guessing, though.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
honestly, i found the graphs on a random tumblr; no sense of veracity or methodology.but GRAPHS! INFORMATION!
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Id love the data set, maybe make something a bit more legible
― Thwartstop (Will M.), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
holy crap that family guy review is amazing
― If you will not name your dog "Ping Pong" you are no longer my friend (jjjusten), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
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he did a collabo video with "HyperBitHero" on RE 5 that really just underlines how good he is and how unnatural the other guy is imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Xtbb669eg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 November 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
Interesting piece from Eurogamer on GTA San Andreas and the story behind Hot Coffee: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-30-who-spilled-hot-coffee
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 30 November 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
"Why would a 17-year-old be allowed to run around the city bearing weapons, a game in which you're free to shoot cops and beat up women but in which you're not allowed to make love to his girlfriend after dating her for a while?" - Patrick Wildenborg
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
i kinda forgot about sweet home... and that it's based on a kiyoshi kurosawa movie, one of the only one of his i haven't seen. gotta watch that. maybe my fave movie director!
― Thwartstop (Will M.), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
errantsignal has some good stuff. just watched the Deus Ex: Invisible War one which is pretty on point, though I will slightly defend that game as passably fun, more awful in comparison to the original
― Nhex, Saturday, 1 December 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
i like the holographic britney manque in dx:iw who appears in every level turns out to be an advanced form of AI surveillance equipment and ends up helping you in oblique oracular ways, and then after you become accustomed to thinking of her as v wise you meet the actual flesh-and-blood pop star she's a holograph of and she's a stereotypical Dumb Pop Star; that was kind of neat. but yeah, he's otm that every single room had a keypad, a vent and a guard. and the right answer was always the vent because it didn't use any consumables.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 1 December 2012 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i remember that - nice running subquest plot
― Nhex, Saturday, 1 December 2012 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/games-are-art-rock-band-and-its-history-prove-it/1
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
i know "games as art" is a dead horse, but i really think this is a well-written, researched, original article
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, interesting stuff. Mainly, though, it reminded me of how much fun I had playing Rock Band games, and then super-annoyed all over again at Activision for running the videogame/band idea into the ground with their torrent of shitty Guitar Hero titles.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:59 (eleven years ago) link