Funny you should say that because the section where he blew the horn for a boat to arrive reminded me a lot of the section in Wrath content with the Pirate Bay in Howling Fjord (I still have a fondness for that little hub area just because it was so daft). But I agree the water effect is very similar, and so much…

The trade-off though was that without mods, you couldn't run it much higher than 640x480. By '99 a lot of games were at least 800x600 or 1024x768 if not going higher, so it was pretty noticeable even then (led to some blurry graphics, which was a shame). There were files released later by fans to allow for higher…

I see the Atari jaguar on that list at a relatively cheap price. I was sure in the UK it was about 400+ (my recollection was of it being more than 600 though). It'd be interesting to see the UK prices, or even averages for worldwide converted into dollars to see a more accurate set of figures.

I personally saw it as more of a joke about Hipsters. I don't speak Japanese, but from what I could tell, the girl with the fake nose and blonde wig was trying hard to be behind all manner of 'foreign' products solely because she thought it made her cooler than the other. When the product's revealed, she starts using…

Indeed. It's funny for people who love the show as the reveal of 'The Internet' was the most absurd pay-off after the preceding building to it.
It's not supposed to be the funniest thing ever, but a joke at the absurdity of Jen (and the other people she then reveals it to) that they take it to be true.
Not unlike in…

That's probably because he finally was able to make a series last longer than three! Father Ted, big Train, and pretty much everything else he's been behind had stopped at three series, or in UK talk, 18 episodes (meaning IT Crowd had a ''whopping'' 24 episodes, or an entire US season).

I hadn't paid much attention to the number, but the use of everything I mentioned really stuck me as a deliberate reference. Glad to see I'm not alone in seeing it.

Given that it's a Ford Focus WRC car, I'd assume it means either a back-to-basics Rally game, or a new DIRT instalment. The use of that background colour and the | (plus all lower case) though, suggest specifically Colin McRae 2.0, so perhaps this'll be CM 3.0, rather than one associated with a year.

I see nothing wrong with dropping the 'III' if only because it means we won't have quite the same level of anticipation we had with II, only to have them dashed again. I liked the second game, but I think they should have dropped the numerical component. It was much closer to being a spin-off than anything else. I do…

I admire him all the more for his off-handed comment about his own games when talking about a good idea, poor execution. I get why some people don't like him, but I've never been one of them.

I'm distracted by the guy's awesome Tee-shirt. I feel like it's coming up to the time for an insanity, acid-fuelled George Clinton game. Make it happen, people!

I was moved just from the darn nostalgia of that piece of music. I always choke when I hear it.

I have her! She comes with a skateboard that has a little goth heart with wings, and a lego skull on it, not unlike the design on her shirt.

In my case, it'd take rolling back the clock a few years to when not just I was still playing, but also the rest of my friends before we all quit. It was quite sad seeing friends migrate to other servers because of a lot of things that went down on our sever (Scarshield Legion), mostly because of RP, but also seeing…

I only ever got rid of Lego if the piece was broken beyond use, so still have a lot (not as many as some, but still a fair amount). I know what you mean about the girl's set though. I can't understand the use of different scaling for them, nor the Stepford approach (though this exists with so many girl's toys).
Interest…

The way I see the stupidly girly Lego set is as a gateway. There was already gender-neutral sets girls would likely love as much as boys (The Spongebob Squarepants sets, Toy Story, for example), but I suspect, as awful as the Heartlake sets appear, it was seen as a logical entry for girl's already used to the, by that…

Parents often seem very easily swayed to the 'easy buy' for their child, especially because of the way advertising seems to infer 'this toy is your your little princess, whilst this construction set, is for that little boy of yours.' It's like those really basic activity sets they sell. The boy's one involve tool…

I think a lot of that is because they probably did a few surveys that suggested there weren't enough girls paying with LEGO and felt the best way to get them into is was with the usual girly crap. The thing is though, LEGO is not the first toy a girl (or boy) is going to play with, so the best solution is for parents…

In my LEGO Universe playing, the bad guys were the ones that wore the worse outfits, or had otherwise broken in some way. Likewise the models I had made myself that I liked the lest went to the villains (often these would not match, colour-wise, and I found that offputting and therefore clearly evil). I would often…

One: The article's linked to the Daily Mail.