@resvrgam: *hoists a glass* Hear, hear. I always feel such a kinship with the rare soul who crops up familiar with and fond of the adventure games of the 80s/90s. The return of her and of Talin to the current sphere of PC gaming would make my day...but, with the rare exceptions of this Jensen person (whose story…

I'm impressed. That looks like something I'd genuinely enjoy carting around and whipping out in spare moments, especially on the way home, tired and in all likelihood frustrated. Free-platform ass-kickage = soothed nerves.

Well jeez! Don't scare me like that. I choked on my spaghetti pre-ellipsis. I haven't seen X-play in ages, and I'm not in the country so I can't access it on TV, but some of my fondest memories are of scarfing pasta (spaghetti again, hence heightened memory?) in front of X-play with my boyfriend. Even now my pasta…

Ditto on Spore. How many relatives did I flap my mouth to about that? I think I must have waxed poetic even to the postman about the fabled game I'd been lucky enough to preorder a day before preorders ended. And here it sits on my shiny new computer, graphics specs partly selected with Spore in mind, largely…

Well, crap. I have so much less incentive to be finicky about going through the weekend posts now and to make sure I don't miss anything there. Take care!

Hm, as has been said, corollaries can't always be successfully drawn from the cutscene-only trailers, and I'm wondering...well...for FF12 we had a whole lot of footage of Ashe, as I recall. Ashe looking emo, Ashe kicking ass. And yet our main character ended up being that chickenhawk baiter whose name escapes me at…

In typical fashion I missed the initial coverage of this so went back, cruised the info and screenshots and...drooled. Especially now, looking out my shatterwired window onto the bleak December concrete of the next building over, a chilled-out game like this just calls to me. I think one could achieve the same kind…

@svetlana: On second thought, having finally got the video to load, I find this creepy.

Hellooo Beijing. I am so going next semester's break.

I will buy this for the search function alone. I don't have the time to slog through whole novels for that one quote that is applicable to the paper I'm writing in reference to something else. And PDFs take up valuable gaming space on my computer.

@delRock: [Different moments in history aren't genres. Genres are, say, free platformer, FPS, MMO, etc.] But who's exonerating "other fun [historical] video games"? I'm not saying they're not fun. Winning, in the face of adversity, against the computer/console/other players, is fun. But when your adversity is…

So if they're politically incorrect enough to theme it after the company, I wonder if they'll go so far as to have you making big bucks in the slave trade? Cutting the Atlantic off the map doesn't erase the money they made off slaves there. And that's setting aside all the other crap they pulled. Everywhere.

@V1L3: That, I do believe sir, is a win.

Nice title...I cracked up. All major life moments should be bracketed within MMO terms. Congratulations, incidentally.

@stupid_mcgee: I don't know more about it than rumor, and I don't particularly want to, but I must say, I'm amused.

@Crackman: There was a dog, but the only other stuffed animal I had was a Red Panda. And it looked ridiculously NOT like a dog, and I ran out of room for speech bubbles, so. No dog, alas. (Also he would've crushed the trees.)

Oh for heaven's sake. They could have at least hired a girl or to to inform on the creation of the ladies' version. Or even just asked their wives.

I don't think the issue here is so much "I wish I had the money for a Lexus but I don't, so grr" as it is that the implication is that you're in a better place now than you were then. You live in a very large house with a girl who is taking pictures of you in front of a car which she bought you. There are better…

I actually caught the inside jokes-within-asides-layered-with-internet-hoodo-slightly-sprinkled-with-general-game-geekery.

@svetlana: ...I see I missed the close of my own parenthetical. Point is, I know WOTLK has more than its fair share of liches, emotional that-guy-you-liked-is-so-dead cutscenes, etc., but it is also packed with amusing little asides, references to old games or movies or pseudo-real-life shenanigans, and that's…