Recent content by boredpulmonologist

Without any translation, this tops all absurdist comedy ever created. What the hell is going on?

Irrational Games, Valve, or Square (and only if it wasn't on one of their main games). Irrational Games and Valve for the best first person experiences this decade (and the chance to work with Ken Levine or Erik Wolpaw). Square so I could help make JRPGs better than the current parade of...

It sounds like that journalist from "The Wire," Scott Templeton, except more unbelievable. Then again, it was a tabloid rag a half step above reporting on alien abductions so it's not that shocking of a revelation. It was our turn to get screwed and screwed we got.

This is going to end poorly. It's going to be like the Stanford prison experiment. Bogost starts out with the hope of exposing certain dark truths, but he's going to be sucked into the mentality of Zynga whispering "F*** the Users" in his sleep. Pretty soon masses of people everywhere are going...

I've never played Demon's Souls, but it always looked like it played a hell of a lot like a western rpg even though a japanese studio made it. Either way, there are more games out there. Knights of the Nightmare, Puzzle Quest, etc. But you're right, there should be more. Then again, you...

I almost envy you now. 12 hours on Tetris. I had to make a biannual flight from Hong Kong to New York until I just moved here and I always had to bring a box full of gameboy advance games just to cover the first half of the flight.

They're different. Lord of the Rings is generally better in terms of the world it makes and writing, but Harry Potter has far more human characters.

Your dedication to retro is admirable. You must either be a hipster, 50 years old, or an alien.

Everyone I know hates Fight Club which is my favorite movie. My problem isn't that I like movies people hate. It's that I love them more than everyone thinks I should.

Then again, you can't really argue that Final Fantasy VII is the same as Kingdom Hearts or The World Ends with You. JRPGs do constantly shift as well, it's just the core of Square Enix's work, the numbered Final Fantasies, have pretty much the same story line and a vast majority of the rest of...

I'd try the World Ends With You. It's challenging and will last you the ten hours. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is another good one. On a 12 hour flight? That's a hell of a lot of Tetris.

World of Goo is a World of Goo is a fantastic choice as well. My worry is that it doesn't really introduce the gamer to anything else as World of Goo is a unique game. I guess to get them interested in games.

True. The only reason I said it is really because it's the one game the more casual people I've played with are drawn to, but they weren't truly casual the way a sister would be. It's more the social aspect to it that was appealing. Whatever, Portal is a good choice. No problem. Hope you...

You're probably right. I was thinking portal too, but I don't know how representative Portal is of the whole shoot and kill things genre. I guess for the controls it's good. Half Life 2 might be the happy medium, but the creepy atmosphere might be off putting to some non-gamers. I guess it...

It's a great post, but I think people make fun of role-playing because of some genuine faults with current RPGs. Mostly that they are built around letting the player vicariously live out a shallow fantasy. While we do learn something about ourselves when we play role-playing games, the...