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ApM · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject:

Oh, he's our shortstop.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

(I looked it up already.)

extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Dude on Youtube. who reviews videogames.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

What! Patrick that was terrible

extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Mighty Jill Off got onto my third favorite feminist blog
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Congrats, Dess! You hit the big time!
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Telltale making Strong Bad games next? Do people even still visit that website? Ok, I thought TRODGOR was funny five years ago, but who cares about it now. Pretty dissapointing.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:08 am Post subject:

SEGA Master System games are available on the wii Virtual Console in Australia. Only Wonderboy and Fantasy Zone but this should quickly expand to cover all the other games I already own.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Hey guys, so I'm sure you all know about FREE GAME OF THE DAY, but there is also GAME DU JOUR which doesn't offer free indie games daily, but discounted indie games daily. The selection is generally much better than most of the crap at free game of the day too, bookmark it today!

http://www.gamedujour.com/
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Speaking of Free Game of the Day, todays one looks pretty cool. A very pretty adventure game called EAST SIDE STORY.

http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/east-side-story/
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

are you a spam bot?
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

well gosh shaper, i try to post interesting links for all you guys but i guess i won't ever do it ever again >:(
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Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:23 am Post subject:

I have just been informed that CRUSADER KINGS is a brilliant game worthy of playing. I shall endeavor to do so.

Similarly.
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ApM · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject:

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Old Sony video about playtesters in the first playstation era

If you go to the 3 minute mark, you run the risk of being delighted.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

"It get's chicks"
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/us/25pinball.html?_r=1&ex=1366862400&en=1860884cf03a330c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Pinball sentimentality. Nice piece, though I wonder why this person was sent to go talk to him.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:24 pm Post subject:

Stalin vs. Martians.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

http://www.blizzard.com/store

Blizzard revamped their online store, which now allows for owners of Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Diablo 2, along with their expansion packs, to register their CD keys and be able to download the full versions from the site. The Diablo material isn't up yet to download, but you can still add it to your account. Once a game has been added, you can then download the full version for either Mac or Windows and then re-enter your key - the key is also available on the site so you don't have to keep digging for it - and you get a full version that doesn't need the CD in your drive. Two cool things: adding Starcraft gets you Brood War, since BW didn't have a key, and the keys are good for both Mac and Windows - if you bought a Windows version but own a Mac now, you can still download and play. The main bummers for me are that Warcraft 2 Battle.Net Edition and the original Diablo aren't supported. I still play both of those.

Adding the addition of the Warcraft 3 and Starcraft materials to what I own on Steam - id super pack and half-life 2 silver edition - I have around 60 games that are ready off-site for me to download and play, on any system I want and without the need for the disc. Handy!

Rumor is that Blizzard is working on a Steam-like program to replace the current website-based format.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Oh! Also, use either IE or the IE tab in Firefox when registering, otherwise your spam security password (whatever those are called - the jumbled up letters and numbers that are always hard to read) won't register and the screen will just keep refreshing.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Are you guys paying attention to the Mother 3 translation project? It's getting exciting! They are so close to finishing the main hacking I can taste it!

Lestrade · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject:

This isn't really news, but I implore you to visit this site and roll over the main navigation a few times (turn your sound on). Bonus points to anyone who can provide instructions on how to construct the whole song.

sediment · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject:

can't, it's missing tones. Sad

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Well, that's made my day. I'm ripping that off for when I redesign my website.

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

I can make it play the old J, E, L, L, O! jingle.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject:

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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

It will probably only last a while more but I so like how "Oh, he's our shortstop." was the first entry on this page.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I met Keiron Gillen at a comic convention I went to the other day.

Lestrade · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:18 am Post subject:

Hey peeps, I think we should all buy these skateboards and form an eighties-style skate gang! I propose the name Third Row from the Bottom.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah or just Third Row! That would be cool.

Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

Uncomfortably close to Saints' Row

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

This creates a sort of cognitive dissonance; it's neat to see, yet it's the exact opposite of funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY0dETv4zbg#
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject:

the new portrait of ruin. worst character design i've seen in a while.
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sediment · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

She seems vaguely... CotMish. Which means, maybe the next game will have a Juste-ish protagonist!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLf53Cu-4M

Video of all the recent/new Silent Hill: Homecoming footage cut into one video.

It looks like the SH4 combat system is back and a little revamped.

The first video is also a shameless aping of Jacob's Ladder Sad

Overall nothing is looking all that promising.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

The Iwata Asks for Link's Crossbow Training yields this fascinating nugget...

daphaknee · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:54 am Post subject:

who cares what the characters look like in pictures you cant tell the difference with those tiny sprites anywaym, they dont even have FACES

im excited about even MORE items that reduce my HP to 1!
god i looove those games and i dont care if im the only one

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dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject:

the focus in the japanese cover is on this big huge space: look how small the characters are compared to it! i bet there are a lot of places to run and jump! the american cover is focused on the characters. in the case of mario and wario, it actually shows them interacting. there's a suggestion that there's some form of rivalry going on between them.

i've barely played the ds version, but i think the japanese cover probably says more about super mario 64 as a game than the american.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I guess it emphasises competitiveness over the freedom to play and explore on your own terms, or something. I've always seen it as being representative of the dichotomy between an individualist and a collectivist culture, which is pretty much what Iwata is getting at in his quote. The box art for the west's Marble Madness vs. the east's Kororinpa is another good example.

I worked on those stupid toilet paper commercials with the creeoy bears shitting in the woods and they produce completely different commercials for al over the whole world! North America's commercials have to emphasise luxury. South America's are all about you'll always have enough paper, even if the whole family come for dinner and want to take a shit. The German commercials are all about how strong the paper is and how they can hold like 5 acorns even when they're wet. The Japanese one probably shows some bears in a tree office using an inferior brand, when the boss comes in to take a shit and he doesn't like it, and then someone swaps it for Charmin and crisis averted, they don't have to all commit seppuku.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

that's your best post ever. the smile on the bears' faces (North American version) as they finally release that last huge bear-turd and dab their anuses with the cushy charmin ass paper has never failed to induce a giggle on my part.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

For some reason, Australia got the cool version of kororinpa. We actually usually get the cooler versions of cover art!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I think that the spirit of the original US cover is very similar to the jp DS cover.

Also, there's a huge difference between the US and JP Cameltry DS:

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

You will be excited to learn that Mato and gang have finished all the major hacking for their Mother 3 translation patch and are now working on the second draft of the script!

http://mother3.fobby.net/faqs/project-to-do-list/

dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject:

aeon genesis just finished their new fan-translation of live-a-live, probably squaresoft's most interesting jrpg release.
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