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by Recap » 21 Jan 2009 14:52
Jaleco did lots of neat things, and hopefully won't die out as the result of this transition, but I'm guessing it'll exist more as a back catalog now. Games like Suchie Pai, Choplifter, P-47, Irritating Stick, and even Punky Skunk shouldn't get brushed to the side.
by icycalm » 23 Jan 2009 22:39
Aderack wrote:As clumsy as it is in places, it's still pretty much the reference model for psychology-based narrative modeling.
by icycalm » 26 Jan 2009 02:07
The point is that people are repeatedly and tediously saying the same thing OVER AND OVER AND OVER and ruining other threads. This thread OBVIOUSLY isn't designed to stimulate great debate but perhaps when someone tediously makes a post about how UTTERLY SHIT the games on the Wii are they can be pointed to this thread and even if they don't post in it they can think "YES, this point has been made a million times before, I am comforted by knowing that others feel the same" and then harmony will increase because we won't need 10 pages of a thread dedicated to people saying "Shit!" "amazing!" "Shit!" "We all play on ours!" and "This is genuinely the worst thing to happen to games ever, the success means that decent games will be pushed out of production by people wanting to make million selling games about being fluffy cats and playing with balls of wool. 'THE REMOTE IS THE CAT'S PAW, YOU JUST MOVE IT BACK AND FORTH AND THE WOOL MOVES. IT'S JUST LIKE BEING A CAT!'"
"That cat game isn't all that, but we had a good few nights with it, isn't it hardcore enough for you?"
"It's fucking shit"
by icycalm » 31 Jan 2009 05:24
by icycalm » 31 Jan 2009 22:57
by icycalm » 31 Jan 2009 23:48
by Recap » 01 Feb 2009 13:45
by icycalm » 01 Feb 2009 14:07
Christian Nutt wrote:hrm. this guy vs. leigh is self-evidently fail. no attention required or deserved.
In the meantime, anyone who actually matters in the games biz will persist in not caring he exists.
Schopenhauer wrote:But there is another way; and when a man of eminent merit appears, the first effect he produces is often only to pique all his rivals, just as the peacock’s tail offended the birds. This reduces them to a deep silence; and their silence is so unanimous that it savors of preconcertion. Their tongues are all paralyzed. It is the silentium livoris described by Seneca. This malicious silence, which is technically known as ignoring, may for a long time interfere with the growth of reputation; if, as happens in the higher walks of learning, where a man’s immediate audience is wholly composed of rival workers and professed students, who then form the channel of his fame, the greater public is obliged to use its suffrage without being able to examine the matter for itself.
Back in the InsertCredit days, it was debated whether Icy was real, or some persona adopted for shock value/trolling/low entertainment/whatever. In the end, it didn't really matter, because the results were the same.
by Recap » 01 Feb 2009 14:23
icycalm wrote:Which mag is that?
by Worm » 03 Feb 2009 18:45
A single tear for the Goomba Holocaust.We are still sickened to the stomach by the memory of hurling hundreds of living bodies through the air with a gravity gun in Half Life 2. But even Mario and Pikmin are highly objectionable in this respect.
by icycalm » 06 Feb 2009 11:25
Hack Designer Pentagram
These five elemental game characters are guaranteed to get a giggle from game designers, as they are prolific families in the gaming landscape, tend to sound silly in pitch meetings, and just look lazy. The popularity of each rises and falls like the tide, though the universally appeal of the monkey seems to know no wane.
Zombie
Ninja
Monkey
Pirate
Robot/Cyborg
Very close on the list are Aliens, but these tend to be mixed with one of the above. The exception would be an Alien Pirate. This is an unacceptable configuration. In the case that such nomenclature exists, ”Space” is often substituted for ”Alien,” thus distancing players from the awkward and undesirable configuration. See Metroid and its ”Space Pirates”.
Other runners-up: Vampires and Nazis.
Post-Structuralist Commentary
It should be noted that not only do the above exist as hack design elements but also as wide ranging internet memes. Noting the traditional breakdown of Ninja vs. Pirate 1) and Robot vs. Monkey, some observations can be made. The rampant surfacing and juxtaposition of these memes can be interpreted as a postmodern way of dealing with eternal questions of space, time, and death. The Ninja is an ancient, mythological, and deadly figure from an eastern culture, whereas Pirates are western in origin. As global culture starts to emerge, their struggle can be seen as a response to globalism and an attempt to resolve questions raised by different cultures existing in the same virtual (and sometimes literal) space.
Similarly, the opposition of robots and monkeys can be seen as a loose response to increasing scientific understanding of humanity over a timeline. Specifically, the monkey represents a state of nature in terms of pre-civilization; in other words, our past. Robots, particularly of the cyborg variety, represent our future. Both call to mind the image of dwindling and questionable “humanity”, no matter which way you look in time.
What of Zombies? They are a response to the question of death and afterlife. If we decide to include Aliens in the pentagram, they could be seen as a response to spiritual questions, i.e., “is there a God?”
by icycalm » 09 Feb 2009 11:32
by icycalm » 13 Feb 2009 00:35
I wrote:The classic response of the uneducated. I am sure you would have also chastised a mathematician for trolling the Pythagorean theorem instead of "talking about his own ideas". Plagiarism is not my business, Gillen. I leave that for the journalists.
by icycalm » 13 Feb 2009 11:58
