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Topic: The coolest shit ever (PS3 EyeToy/Eye of Judgement) |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 5:11 am Subject: The coolest shit ever (PS3 EyeToy/Eye of Judgement) |
Huh. There's a lot of really cool-sounding games being announced for the PS3 lately.
Since we're on the topic of card games, I'd like to point out [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangokushi_Tais ... |
Topic: Trans representation in videogames |
Perseus
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Views: 32217
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:19 pm Subject: Trans representation in videogames |
years ago someone emailed me about another mtf game developer, other than dani bunten, who is higher profile and amazing.
Higher profile than Dani Bunten? How curious! Are you able to say who it is, ... |
Topic: Warren Spector needs to create the next Metroid |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:56 pm Subject: Warren Spector needs to create the next Metroid |
That's a really good question. He was probably involved in the development of Deus Ex 2, tho he wasn't project lead or a designer on that one either. I'm guessing he was too bogged down with running ... |
Topic: Warren Spector needs to create the next Metroid |
Perseus
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Views: 10354
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:14 pm Subject: Warren Spector needs to create the next Metroid |
Warren Spector didn't work on Thief: Deadly Shadows, you know. This thread should be about Randy Smith.
Edit: if i've got my facts straight, spector didn't work on any of the thief titles. i think ... |
Topic: HOLD IT!! Issue #8 Now Available! |
Perseus
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Forum: Issues Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:23 am Subject: HOLD IT!! Issue #8 Now Available! |
That Secret of Mana piece is pretty wrenching, especially as I connect to SoM's specific form of co-op nostalgia (though my experience was a great one, with my best friend) and know how affecting that ... |
Topic: the very thorough crawl thread |
Perseus
Replies: 317
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:28 am Subject: the very thorough crawl thread |
Jumping on the Crawl bandwagon- the tile version really makes this so much less intimidating than all the other roguelikes out there! I still had to print out all the keyboard commands, though.
My ... |
Topic: Straight Through Ys |
Perseus
Replies: 58
Views: 81077
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:56 am Subject: Straight Through Ys |
Three weeks ago, I finally made my way up to the top floor of Darm Tower and faced off with Dark Fact. Ten deaths later, I concluded that he was completely impossible to kill as each hit from the unav ... |
Topic: Looking for (post)modern games. |
Perseus
Replies: 101
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:30 pm Subject: Looking for (post)modern games. |
If we accept that games are a postmodern medium, as Scratchmonkey argues (and I think I do agree with his argument), why then haven't we moved past the most basic, archetypal kinds of stories?
mayb ... |
Topic: Looking for (post)modern games. |
Perseus
Replies: 101
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:54 pm Subject: Looking for (post)modern games. |
Anyway, I think that one of the main points of postmodernist stuff is that it points out that it is only telling a story about one tiny subset of the population. Ie. That it is talking about white ric ... |
Topic: Looking for (post)modern games. |
Perseus
Replies: 101
Views: 68197
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:46 am Subject: Looking for (post)modern games. |
the best functional definition you're going to get is "describing any number of characteristics which came to be associated with culture and artworks dating after the end of the modern period", which ... |
Topic: Looking for (post)modern games. |
Perseus
Replies: 101
Views: 68197
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:05 pm Subject: Looking for (post)modern games. |
So uh... anybody care to define the term "postmodern"? I used to think I knew what it meant, but reading this thread has me completely confused. |
Topic: LET'S HAVE ANOTHER HEATED DEBATE |
Perseus
Replies: 50
Views: 39733
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:19 pm Subject: LET'S HAVE ANOTHER HEATED DEBATE |
Who's hotter, Vincent from FF7 or Balthier from FFXII?
The answer, obviously, is Basch. |
Topic: Straight Through Ys |
Perseus
Replies: 58
Views: 81077
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:15 am Subject: Straight Through Ys |
I've reached another road bump- Vagullion. This guy is pure evil. Dodging his bat form is bad enough, but I'm barely even scratching the guy, and I'm at level 9, armed with the silver sword! It's gonn ... |
Topic: Straight Through Ys |
Perseus
Replies: 58
Views: 81077
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:10 pm Subject: Straight Through Ys |
Ys I is really fun! I like how Adol is so bad-ass that he can make the enemies explode into bits just by running into them- even when he's not holding a sword! I haven't had this much fun hacking up s ... |
Topic: Straight Through Ys |
Perseus
Replies: 58
Views: 81077
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:04 pm Subject: Straight Through Ys |
I've just developed an interest in Ys- enough to want to play through the entire series- and am in the process of yarring a copy of I & II Complete. If I like the games enough, I'd like to actuall ... |
Topic: gp2x thread |
Perseus
Replies: 15
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:31 pm Subject: gp2x thread |
How's the SNES emulation on this thing? |
Topic: Must have DS games? |
Perseus
Replies: 102
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:25 am Subject: Must have DS games? |
So there's an 8-player Bomberman game for the DS, and nobody's mentioned it! Does it suck or something? |
Topic: being a smart ass about naming your character |
Perseus
Replies: 49
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:15 pm Subject: being a smart ass about naming your character |
So does anyone actually name RPG characters after themselves? I'm boring- I just keep the default names (except Link- he's always something else).
Also I had a friend who would name his character " ... |
Topic: Modern Japanese Pop Culture Scares Me |
Perseus
Replies: 33
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:56 am Subject: Modern Japanese Pop Culture Scares Me |
Mexican soaps are also in a class of their own.
As are Indian Hindi-language soaps, which take the general structure (and looniness) of US and Latin American soaps, add a healthy dose of Bollywood so ... |
Topic: being a smart ass about naming your character |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:55 pm Subject: being a smart ass about naming your character |
Great multiplayer naming ideas:
Choose a normal name, but mis-spell it to piss off anal-retentive opponents (like me):
Me and a couple friends once played a game of Counter-Strike against a man ... |
Topic: Twilight Princess kind of sucks |
Perseus
Replies: 364
Views: 248175
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:13 pm Subject: Twilight Princess kind of sucks |
This thread, along with the Wii game review thread, is slowly eroding my resistance towards buying a Wii now, before Super Mario Galaxy comes out....
On the other hand, I do have a Gamecube. Now if ... |
Topic: Twilight Princess kind of sucks |
Perseus
Replies: 364
Views: 248175
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:40 pm Subject: Twilight Princess kind of sucks |
Sounds like Twilight Princess is a back-loaded game in the same way that Wind Waker was front-loaded. Maybe they'll actually create a Zelda that's balanced next!
Is TP more inventive in how it uses ... |
Topic: Twilight Princess kind of sucks |
Perseus
Replies: 364
Views: 248175
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:50 pm Subject: Twilight Princess kind of sucks |
So kimkallstrom1 is Tim, the guy who runs that Independent Gaming blog, right? And you are trolling here why exactly? Don't you have a blog to run? |
Topic: Games that make you feel awesome |
Perseus
Replies: 63
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:52 pm Subject: Games that make you feel awesome |
This is one of the things that I love in the new Prince of Persia's, the moments when it seems impossible to go any further.. then you realise that if you do this jump here, then that jump there you w ... |
Topic: Twilight Princess kind of sucks |
Perseus
Replies: 364
Views: 248175
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:15 am Subject: Twilight Princess kind of sucks |
No, misleading title threads are so much better. |
Topic: Games that make you feel awesome |
Perseus
Replies: 63
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:07 am Subject: Games that make you feel awesome |
I just tried out Elevator Action Returns. It IS pretty bad-ass! It reminds me of Time Crisis in its over-the-topness. I liked playing as the dandy! EDIT: More games should let you play as dandies! Tha ... |
Topic: Games that make you feel awesome |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:24 am Subject: Games that make you feel awesome |
elevator action returns has a pretty high badass factor.
Moreso than the original?
Oh, definitely, and once you've figured out how to tackle it, so does the Metal Slug series.
Yeah, Metal Slu ... |
Topic: Games that make you feel awesome |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:42 am Subject: Games that make you feel awesome |
I've always thought of it simply as "badass factor", and it's present to some degree in most of the games I truly enjoy.
I'll second DMC3, Zone of the Enders, and Ninja Five-O/Ninja Cop (if it's to ... |
Topic: lonely games |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:06 am Subject: lonely games |
Shhh, don't give it away, Swimmy! |
Topic: Games that make you feel awesome |
Perseus
Replies: 63
Views: 54443
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:55 pm Subject: Games that make you feel awesome |
Tony Hawk: American Wasteland had some Parkour in it, but it wasn't executed too well.Sad to hear. I would think that if anyone, besides the PoP team, could pull off parkour well, it'd be Neversoft. S ... |
Topic: Games that make you feel awesome |
Perseus
Replies: 63
Views: 54443
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:09 am Subject: Games that make you feel awesome |
I'm looking for a game that can evoke a certain kind of feeling- the kind I get when I watch a really great martial arts fight (I'm thinking of the coolie, tailor and cook versus the axe gang fight in ... |
Topic: Modern Japanese Pop Culture Scares Me |
Perseus
Replies: 33
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:14 am Subject: Modern Japanese Pop Culture Scares Me |
TV basically seems to shows off the worst of any culture.
and yes, i'm talking about the lol japan game shows and stuff where everything is made of plastic including the people and shiny and cover ... |
Topic: help classify this allegorical fiction and recommend others |
Perseus
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:23 am Subject: help classify this allegorical fiction and recommend others |
Nice call on the Neverhood, dess (thanks for the text dump on your site too!)! Great, unique game, which also happens to be a biblical allegory. The game's creator, Doug TenNapel (his choice of spelli ... |
Topic: Modern Japanese Pop Culture Scares Me |
Perseus
Replies: 33
Views: 29495
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:09 am Subject: Modern Japanese Pop Culture Scares Me |
Guys I just watched Fox News (yes, that shit is broadcast all over the world! we don't get any other American news channels, oddly enough) and some MTV the other day...
Forget modern Japanese pop c ... |
Topic: Question About Human Evolution |
Perseus
Replies: 76
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:03 am Subject: Question About Human Evolution |
What would that answer be, in your opinion? As far as I can tell, at the very, very source, rights come from whoever has the might to enforce and the cleverness and charisma to impress them upon other ... |
Topic: Question About Human Evolution |
Perseus
Replies: 76
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:11 am Subject: Question About Human Evolution |
the singapore dollar is far more colorful than our own, but i presume there are laws against defacement and destruction of it - as well as counterfeiting?
Yeah, I think the laws against defacing mon ... |
Topic: Question About Human Evolution |
Perseus
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:38 am Subject: Question About Human Evolution |
You read Grant Morrison and/or Alan Moore, don't you? |
Topic: Picking up anything this month? (December Edition) |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:37 am Subject: Picking up anything this month? (December Edition) |
I still want to try KOTOR 2 since the Planescape go wrote the story.
What? I need some opinions now from people who hated the first game.
I second this notion. I somewhat liked KOTOR, despite it's ... |
Topic: Question About Human Evolution |
Perseus
Replies: 76
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:23 am Subject: Question About Human Evolution |
To take this idea further, I don't think it's so very far-fetched to postulate that the vast majority of humans who have survived through the ages are ones who have been more likely to try and make se ... |
Topic: Games you REGRET playing ? |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:03 pm Subject: Games you REGRET playing ? |
I don't regret playing any game, because playing a bad game, at the very least, helps me appreciate better ones, and is quite useful to a game designer in the same way that identifying bad art can be ... |
Topic: Question About Human Evolution |
Perseus
Replies: 76
Views: 66962
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:52 pm Subject: Question About Human Evolution |
The idea that religion will somehow fade away in the next few hundred years, battered under the onslaught of scientific rationalism, is foolishly optimistic. You're forgetting an important fact here- ... |
Topic: Question About Human Evolution |
Perseus
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 8:04 pm Subject: Question About Human Evolution |
Hoo boy. Sorry for calling you a fuck-face, Dracko! I was ah, pretty drunk when I posted that! No hard feelings, I hope. Well that's the last time I post about religion while drunk! Ha!
Oh, so the ... |
Topic: Question About Human Evolution |
Perseus
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:35 am Subject: Question About Human Evolution |
Islamo-Buddhism is pretty sweet.
You, sir, are a fuck-face. Just what the hell is islamo-buddhism? Speaking a muslim (not by choice, mind you, I'm an atheist, but if I admit that in real life they'll ... |
Topic: Help me with Killer 7, please |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:01 pm Subject: Help me with Killer 7, please |
Killer 7 is basically Snatcher.
Oh, I thought it's an on-rails FPS kinda thing?
And Snatcher is brilliant (barring the third act)! If Killer7's anything like it, what's with all the hate? Confound ... |
Topic: Mac v. Windows v. Linux? advice |
Perseus
Replies: 56
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:15 pm Subject: Mac v. Windows v. Linux? advice |
Do you need a notebook, Guardian? If so, then get a MacBook. I've been using an iBook for almost 4 years and I gotta say, this thing beats every Windows-based notebook I've ever seen for sheer lasting ... |
Topic: Beautiful Tools |
Perseus
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:56 am Subject: Beautiful Tools |
Scrivener looks wonderful! It's a big step up from the multi-tab text editor I'm using anyway. Are there similar writer's tools for the PC? |
Topic: Now gaze upon the greatest comic ever created, mortals |
Perseus
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Views: 29675
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:56 pm Subject: Now gaze upon the greatest comic ever created, mortals |
So that's why they never went back to the moon... |
Topic: SOTC - is dull .... |
Perseus
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:22 pm Subject: SOTC - is dull .... |
Beyond Good and Evil is worth playing if only for the amazing first ten minutes.
QFT. The rest of the game is a big letdown after that. I think I might be the only person who was vaguely offended b ... |
Topic: The Internet is really blowing my tiny mind tonight |
Perseus
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:10 pm Subject: The Internet is really blowing my tiny mind tonight |
That's what I was wondering, too. Here's the I would like to send my condolences out to Catherine Altman, Robert Altman's wife, as well as all of his immediate family, close friends, co-workers, and a ... |
Topic: Great action scenes in anime! |
Perseus
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:04 am Subject: Great action scenes in anime! |
All of Cagliostro is wonderful (for a movie made in 1979, it's hardly dated at all!), but two action scenes stood out for me: the opening car chase scene, in particular the bit where Lupin drives his ... |
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