Recent content by InsoFox

Guys. Monkey Island 2. Jeez. Not only is it full of great themes, it's massive, sprawling, makes ambitious use of the iMUSE system. And the updated versions on the remake are pretty damned great, too.

I went with Self-Destruct, but it wasn't an easy choice. Like the original, there were no choices I liked 100%. I'm inclined towards the future Sarif envisioned and from my conversations with him in the game and my bits of spying I did I was always convinced that he was pretty sincere in his...

Hahah. I thought maybe a FEW people wouldn't get the joke, but jesus. Surely the whole bit about having friends with friends who have gone to jail because of DRM was a bit of a giveaway? Anyway, I believe 3 things about DRM, 1 - You never buy a game, you only buy a license to play it and...

It's a ridiculous notion really. It's big words and nothing else, and here's why: 1) Not all songs have parts for voice, bass, guitar and mic. Even if you just restrict it to the instruments that are present (which sort of detracts from the whole point of the game) there are plenty of bits of...

You can't argue with someone who doesn't seem to like fun ¬¬

I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me or not, doomspoon. But what I was saying was not that the training had no impact. It clearly has impact, but I just wanted to mention that there are a lot of more complex issues involve than the way the targets look which will affect the statistics cited...

This all feeds into the 'too many variables at work' thing. I don't doubt that the change in targets had some impact on effectiveness but I do doubt that was the sole factor - they surely must have made many other changes to military training too. And I do doubt that we can *simply* translate...

It's also funny how there doesn't seem to be much discussion of how good this science is. With even a cursory glance I can see at least a few points that I'd have serious questions about.

Nicely handled. I think it would be naive not to recognise that what people spend a long time doing affects how their mind works. I do have to wonder whether because the targets in military training have become more realistic, this means that games are having the same effect. After all, the...

Actually, that was a perfectly fine use of the word Irony. Sarcasm is actually a simple form of irony, though most of the time when people talk about irony they are referring to something more subtle (like saying it's ironic that Alanis Morrisette would sing a song called Ironic about irony when...

Well, then I have to say you missed out, UKslim. Sure, the controls weren't the best - they refined them a bit for the otherwise-mediocre Monkey Island 4, but once you get used to them it's really not an issue, and you get rewarded with what many people - not just me - consider to be the finest...

Silly, if he'd released it during a week when Indy IV wasn't coming out, he might have got 40 movie theaters!

Hah. Good points on a great but flawed game. I'm a little surprised that he didn't lay into the ultra-annoying fail a mission and being sent all the way back to where the briefing ends instead of where the mission actually begins. This necessitates an often long and tedious drive during which...

I work for the BBC, and at the moment there's a massive discussion on its internal forums about why it isn't doing more about games in general. Not that this actually means anything, but it just highlights the fact that the Beeb just doesn't seem to have a plan as far as games go at the moment...

Uh... yes. Right on. I'd be watching films all the time if it weren't for those pesky actors. It's because of them that I force myself to put up with playing games, instead. I'm going to back away slowly, now.