Tulpa

On 10/25/2019 at 9:03 AM, Tulpa said:

I did manage to get all the Black Box games, but I have a system to remember them.

 

I tried again and I forgot my system.

44 minutes ago, Sumez said:

But is Candy Crush important? Or is it just commercially successful

People here seem to conflate those a lot. "Important" is more subjective

Commercially successful is important in and of itself, because it influences a lot of what comes next. 

36 minutes ago, docile tapeworm said:

Tetris is boring 

Said by scrubs that can't hang past level 10.  

28 minutes ago, RH said:

So far? Wii Sports if I'm trying to be 100% objective.

If we're talking about the grand landscape of vidya games in general, definitely. 

2 hours ago, cj_robot said:

Probably the best video game adaptation of a Robert Louis Stevenson novel ever. Probably.

I will say it's also better than most of the movie adaptations, which tend to miss the point of the story. 

11 hours ago, Estil said:

Dr Light never said he made those rules...what do you think he was a plagiarist?  But robots and/or AI...the thought that they could get free will and how it disastrous it would indeed be if even just one broke that first rule of robotics...even if just one went Maverick...

Well, it's a good thing corporations that develop AI are altruistic and not motivated by profit in any way, shape or...

We're boned. 

Despite AVGN's opinion on it, it's not THAT bad. It's not particularly good; the Jekyll stages get frustrating and a bit monotonous. But the concept is unique, and there really isn't anything like it. 

I prefer the Famicom version. It doesn't repeat the stages and has the fighting ladies in the windows. 

4 minutes ago, RH said:

It might not have made a game good for a review, but if you have a killer box art, there was a reasonable chance you'd sell more than a few copies of your game.

14 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

Keyser Söze ftw.

 

Off topic, but I briefly worked as a peon in a law firm in downtown LA years and years ago. One of the lawyers there was a guy by the name of Kayser Sume. I was like, "Oh, kind of like Keyser Sose." Then forgot about it. Never met the guy as he was always out of the office doing lawyer stuff. 

And then one of the juniors was like, "You know Christopher McQuarrie, the screenwriter for The Usual Suspects used to work here years ago. That dude, Kayser Sume? Yeah, that's where he got the name from, but Mr. Sume requested that he change the name a little." 

50 minutes ago, doner24 said:

Simon?

Heh, good one.

7 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

Games like this are more fun with two players or in small doses as a single player game.

I'm convinced some of those games were developed with short term playing sessions in mind and only have season/long modes because it was expected for sports games to simulate an actual sport's season.

2 hours ago, Link said:

Really doesn't hold up for me.

 

Same here. It was all the rage when it came out, but by the mid-to-late aughts (even before Spacey's issues came to light), most people I talked to about were like, "Oh, yeah, that movie. Why did we like it back then?"

It was a heck of a breakout for Thora Birch. Too bad her dad derailed her career.

Warcraft II: The Tides of Darkness (the non-expansion game) also had heroes. They just didn't have unique voices like Beyond the Dark Portal, instead used the generic unit ones.

16 hours ago, Gloves said:

Yeah that's totally my bad for thinking that logic would prevail.

TCH!

To be honest, I'd rather debate the merits of including sprite hacks in a homebrew discussion than listen to Dave rant about how caravan shooter development is akin to writing short stories.

2 hours ago, Sumez said:

Actually the other way around tbh. Python humor is pretty silly and even though it has aged well for how old it is, I can totally understand especially younger people not attaching well to the jokes.

But even if I didn't like the movie, it's so off the wall and shock full of unique iconic scenes that I'd have a hard time forgetting most of them. And I'm really bad at remembering anything I've seen.

Eh, some people remember different things. If the humor doesn't land with some people, I can see how they forget some of the things.

I like Holy Grail, but I stand by my overrated statement.

On top of that, the quotes from the movie get rather grating when it isn't one of the Pythons doing it. Yeah, you're not being funny just going "Ni!" all the time. Yeah, I'm talking to you. Yes, you. You know who you are.

Pretty much what happens when you suddenly have shareholders.

2 hours ago, glazball said:

I'd love to see a 4K release of The Wizard which I've been dying to watch lately.  I don't know if it's been 35 years, but it's definitely been a minute.

*queue Estil mentioning the Oscars snubbing The Wizard*

*queue me indicating The Wizard won best picture the previous year under a different name*

3 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Legend of Link and Deadpool are hacks, pretty sure they're ineligible. 

 

Far be it for me to step up in Code Monkey's defense ( ), but the two games he listed are on the page Seth linked, and I didn't see anything that said they weren't eligible. By Code Monkey Logictm they should qualify, no? 

35 minutes ago, TDIRunner said:

Never played any of the Warcraft games.  

They're cool for the story and the humor ("Why do you keep touching me?"), but they definitely show their age nowadays.

1 hour ago, Reed Rothchild said:

I'm the opposite.  Starctaft and WC3 are 9/10 for me, whereas going back to WC2 after the fact (and after a bunch of other RTS) was painful.

Oh, I fully agree that going back to an older, clunkier RTS would not be ideal (especially in 2024), but at the time, it was "Okay, this is cool and more refined, but I'm kind of over WarStarOrcCraft style games."

11 minutes ago, Mario_Friend1982 said:

I thought it was cash.

On 4/24/2024 at 9:11 PM, JamesRobot said:

Your local spot just gave you a hundred bucks store credit! 

Same here. Loved the first two Warcrafts and the expansion to II, but I think I was burnt out on RTS Blizzard games when III came out. I don't even remember actually buying it, so I think it was a friend's copy or something.

Frowned upon, but is it actually outlawed? 

17 minutes ago, fcgamer said:

It's likely a similar situation as short stories, short short stories, novels, and novellas. There will be different conventions in how tightly the game (or story) is crafted. With short short stories, every word matters, whereas in a novel, not so much. So different scale comes into play here with caravan shooters versus regular shooters. That's why although they are similar in some ways, just as short stories and novels are both similar in many ways, there are also differences to consider.

Recca is a caravan shooter that also has a long format shooter form. So you can absolutely scale it up as Gloves has said.