World's Worst Man

It's an old Capcom quiz game with a Dungeons and Dragons theme. You move around a game board and fight monsters by answering trivia. It has some gimmicks like items that let you choose the topic (normally random) or remove two of the four possible answers you can select for each question, and some other stuff. It's kind of neat.

Gotta have Quiz and Dragons in there. Just gotta have it.

You can have Raycroft to be your 3rd stringer. We'll take a bag of pucks or best offer in return.

You should be writing RAW. Seriously.

Wow. That really makes it unfair for the short hitters. The top 20 or 30 in driving distance on the tour can reach that with a 3W, for everyone else it's going to be a driver. Nice. Good luck holding that green hitting a driver into it.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/ongoingfeature...6738&page=0 This is all gold.

Stop mocking me I am so going to strangle you in Manhunt 2. I am also fining you 10 Schrute bucks.

I'll just add this because I'm a geek for this philosophical kind of stuff - People have different standards, and I don't think they should form opinions based on what others might think. Even if I was to write a review of the game, I would come to the conclusion based on my own standards. All you can ask of someone in that position is to accurately depict what the game is bringing to the table. You can't tell them to like it or dislike it. So I would say it's simplistic and limited, which makes it accessible for casual gamers, but it's not for someone who prefers more in-depth games. And me, being the latter, does not think much of the game. If the critique of the game actually has content (ie. it details how the game plays) people are allowed to come to their own conclusions based on what they want out of video gaming. Someone's 9/10 game is someone else's 6/10, even if they're both seeing the same things. That's the way it goes.

I rented Chrono Trigger back in the mid-90's and liked it. I played it years later via emulator and the awful PS1 port and while it was still generally enjoyable (well, not the PS1 port with its terrible load times), the battle/character systems stuck out like a sore thumb. If you're gonna do the emulation thing, it's worth it to invest in a nice gamepad. You can generally get a quality dual-analog, 8 button for between $20-40. The one I have cost me $30 and it has the 2 analog sticks w/buttons on each, d-pad, 6 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons and 2 program button than be used as regular buttons in games.

Because old RPGs generally had that problem, and I was mentioning that as a reason why old RPGs typically aren't any good. It was an additional comment that I tacked on the end that kind of tied into what I had said a few lines earlier. Actually, the post in question made no mention of Chrono Trigger.

Are you saying that because the game is successful, I should think it's a good game? Just want to be clear on what you mean by bringing its success/appeal up, because while I would agree that it's been a success, I don't know what that has to do with the quality of the game. Success = quality is essentially an argumentum ad numerum fallacy. It's rather presumptuous think that I've "mastered" the game only because I don't play it the "right way". I certainly don't use any of the shortcuts that can be used to make perfect game movements every time. I just happen to have excellent hand-eye coordination and athletic ability. And the difficulty of a game isn't necessarily tied to it's depth either. Wii Sports vs. Full Sports Games - If game A has better gameplay than game B, I'll say game A is the better game. And the type of game really doesn't matter either, because it's quite possible for arcade-style games to have better gameplay than a simulation game, and vice versa. But whether one game appeals to a different audience means nothing to me. It would be depressing to go along with the crowd just for the sake of going along with the crowd. I can play the game and think for myself on whether the game is good or not.

It does get to be pretty pricey when you buy a remote and a nunchuk. It ends up being $10 more than a PS3 or Xbox 360 controller.

I thought boxing was pretty awful as far as the control goes. I'm not sure if golf was unresponsive as much as it just wasn't very detailed in its tracking. Baseball controls pretty well, it's just too lacking in variety. Tennis probably has the deepest controls of any of the games, but the AI is crummy and there are easy exploits when playing against another person. And bowling is probably the most well-rounded of the games, but is still lacking many features that would give it some decent replay value. Bowling could easily be made into a good game without switching the core gameplay mechanics. Tennis would need to have player movement added, but the core gameplay is fine otherwise.

Sony is run by Catholics, and we all know what Catholics think of Protestants. Bunch of reformist jerks, that's what.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/11/todays-s...with-crackdown/ Funny and kind of ironic.

Exactly. Given that it was the final episode and that people expected something to happen, just the way the final scene was setup would give people some reason to believe something was going to happen. The execution of the lead up to the end was brilliant really, even if the final ending may have been unsatisfying.

Wii Sports - Life and Death~! The fact that you think Wii Sports isn't simplistic shows me that your definition of simplistic is grossly different from mine, which means there's no point in even arguing over it. The specific things you mentioned are incredibly easy to do and don't require any real skill on my part. Maybe it's different for other people, but quite frankly, it makes no difference to me. There are games that are tough for children, but easy for adults, does that mean I should concede that those games are actually difficult? In any case, once some full sports games come out, there will be a point of comparison for Wii Sports, and I really don't doubt that its gameplay will clearly be exposed in the face of sports games that aren't essentially just tech demos.

#1 I never said it was my complaint. #2 Did you even read my post? I never said Chrono Trigger had that problem.

See, now that is how you do satire - when you make it so far-fetched and parodic that it's obvious what it is, rather than being vague and ambiguous about it.

They did a good job of keeping Tony's fate in doubt throughout the whole episode. First you had the question of whether the NY guys were going to whack him. I was also getting the vibe that Paulie could possibly do something too. Too bad you don't end up knowing what his fate actually is. The ending was much like what they do in Japanese cinema, that is, not actually giving any closure and letting the audience interpret it themselves. I can see how that would piss people off. Personally I'm divided. On one hand, any dramatic ending almost seems cliche. On the other hand, an ending like that might be ok for a movie, but to end a seven season TV show? I don't know if that was the wisest decision they could have made. But ultimately, it probably doesn't matter to Chase. The show is over, so the audience being pissed isn't a big deal anymore. Oh, and this ending is still preferable to Rome's ending. I'll take a "non-ending" over an ending where the main protagonist of the show gets completely misrepresented and the big blow-off is totally botched. But I digress.

Prince Fielder is just awesome.

SG, we should start a campaign to get Harvey's to bring back their buffalo chicken toasted sandwich. What they did was an absolute travesty and mustn't stand.

Could be a bad disc, I'd try using the replacement. If you don't want to use swap magic or a mod chip, you only have so many options. If you have a fat PS2, you can run games off an HD, which would require purchasing a retail HD loader disc. Some games don't work off the HD though. You can get a slide card for use with the standard PS2 DVD tray, but that method isn't reliable and it's possible to ruin the tray.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/a%27d%27d%27-comp...utes-267582.php - Pretty neat, even if the screens fly by fairly quickly. KoCII - I would try the big torrent index sites. Blackcat Games is the only private games site I know of, but I'm not sure if they'd have it. You can also keep an eye on the ps2 newsgroup if you're into that scene.

Are you joking? I am like Castile while you are like the Moop[r]s, so I really don't see how you can think yourself better than me.