You also have to appreciate that most of the really impressive things people make are either done collaboratively, or by people with a ridiculous amount of time to waste. If it was something just anyone could do by themselves, it wouldn't be that impressive in the first place.

MESS has the best support for early Macs out of any emulator I have seen. You should try it. There are several Intellivision emulators out there [www.zophar.net] and MESS does it too. For the CD-i there are both cdiemu and MESS, though admittedly both are far from perfect. Out of the systems you mentioned, only the…

Byuu deserves so much credit for what he has done with bsnes. I don't think other game console emulator for any other system even comes close to the accuracy bsnes is capable of. Most emulators out there can barely play any games at all without numerous game specific hacks being applied behind the scenes. Bsnes does…

I think the whole animation thing might be a non-issue. You could just render animated objects using traditional polygon based techniques. It might be tricky to render them into a scene which uses point cloud data, but not impossible. The only problem is, you would still need a powerful 3D graphics card to render…

Virtua Fighter at EVO? Not too likely. After Sega threatened to sue EVO for selling DVDs with footage of VF4, the relationship between the two organizations has been strained at best. The EVO crowd also doesn't tend to like 3D fighters very much, and they rarely get good turnouts. Virtua Fighter 5 only lasted one…

Noah was pretty amazing, but he was just one of the things that made this year's EVO amazing. This really was the year of upsets and miracles. People who no one ever thought would lose, lost by wide margins. People who were completely off the radar took spots in the top 3. A Dead or Alive player took the number one…

I'm sure veteran Street Fighter players were somewhat surprised by Fuudo's win, but as a VF player I would have been more surprised if he didn't win. Fuudo is a force to be reckoned with, regardless of the game. He was won countless major VF tournaments, and is widely considered to be one of Japan's best players.…

A good game perhaps, but apparently not a well programmed one. I tried the demo and the game crashed as soon as it got to the first playable part. Seems to be a controller issue, as I was able to fix the problem by disabling my gamepad. But you know, lately devs are getting way too lazy with the non-360 pad support. I…

I mostly agree with you, but I do hope you appreciate the irony of defending free speech and telling people not to criticize the speech of others in the same sentence.

I'm not disagreeing with you by any stretch of the imagination. I love Japanese and I'd even like to live in Japan some day. But do you really expect everyone who wants to play import games to be willing to take something like that on? If you learned Japanese to the point of being fluent, you should know all too well…

I've heard people make comments similar to this in the past, but speaking as a student of the Japanese language, I have to tell you that is incredibly unrealistic. Getting your Japanese on the level it needs to be to play most text heavy Japanese video games is something that would take years to accomplish. No one in…

Man you guys think this is bad? You should have seen all the stuff the Virtua Fighter community did to try and get a new version of VF released on consoles. There have been newer versions available in Japanese arcade for years, but Sega has been consistently refusing to give us a home release, or even an arcade…

Oh really?

I disagree. Braid was the greatest Mario ripoff.

Well, I guess this explains why I felt like the Final Fantasy soundtracks started to get mediocre after Final Fantasy IX. Very interesting indeed. Take that everyone who keeps complaining about the lack of voice acting in Zelda games.

Yea, but like I said, the only people who have heard of XCOM are the people who played the first games, and it just doesn't seem like this game is generating a lot of interest with that audience.

Could someone please tell me what the point of reviving an old franchise is when you insist on doing it in a way that alienates everyone who liked the original franchise in the first place? Wouldn't have made more sense to just create a new franchise where people could shoot up aliens? Or were they just too lazy for…

No, it was surprisingly simple. You just call up the number and they'll hook you right up. They'll even get you switched over from consumer class if you are already subscribed to that. Comcast's Business class service typically has way better customer service than the equivalent consumer service in a given service…

I'm a Comcast subscriber as well, and when I first heard about the data cap policy years ago, I immediately took action. I switched my internet subscription over from their consumer class service to business class, which does not have any data caps. It costs about the same as the consumer service, and gets you some…

What about games based on comic books? That should count, right? The Sam and Max games alone justify games based on comic books. I'm sure it could work for regular books too, as long as the actual gameplay lends itself to the format.