Such a great game. A sequel would probably be a train wreck, but another game set in the same universe would be wonderful. I would love to see Glotis in a cameo.
I haven't had any stability problems at all running it on either my netbook or my desktop. I'm actually surprised at how well it runs on my Aspire One with 1 GB Ram.
I'll probably go back to XP, though, only because the 3rd-party Ext2 driver doesn't work properly under Vista. It does work, but you have to re-assign the drive letters after every boot. Can't blame Microsoft, but its enough of a pain I'm about ready to wipe and reinstall.
Agreed. The Grim Fandango storyline doesn't really leave anywhere to go with a sequel, but I'd love another game in that universe. I don't know who came up with combining Film Noir and the Mexican "Land of the Dead" mythology, but they are a genius. It's a bizarre enough story and setting that it's hard to imagine a game studio today being brave enough to run with it.
I agree. Curse of Monkey Island is my favorite in the series. Love the voice acting, (especially the songs) and the cartoon-style graphics seem much more appropriate to the game than the 3D in Escape. The jokes are well-written and made great use of comic timing.
I'm just finishing up season 1 of TellTale Games' Sam and Max, and I must say, it give me great hope for their Monkey Island revival.
Geez, I hope none of my co-workers heard my sudden burst of laughter when I read this. I really don't want to have to explain why I'm laughing at the thought of MS-Bob as a pre-op tranny.
While nits are being picked, Doom II was a DOS game. I thought that Myst was as well, but according to Wikipedia, it was originally made for the Mac, then ported to Windows.
I don't know Kasparov's motivations for playing Deep Blue at all, honestly......IBM had nothing to gain by beating Kasparov again, and their stocks had already started going up when the news got out that they had beaten the grandmaster...
Even if they were having sex with their associates, that still is a figurative screwing. If they really are literally screwing their associates, I just have one question:
"They cannot be used for complex calculation problems", Huh? are you calculating an interstellar jump? They are plenty powerful enough for any normal (non gaming) activity.
Hey, he's almost got the Kessel Run down to 11 parsecs! Let's see you do that with a netbook!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hated Serenity - not so much the movie itself, but what it did to the whole series. Firefly had the groundwork laid for what could have been 4 or more seasons of loosely-connected episodes that gradually explain more and more of what's going on in the background.
Instead the show is canceled, and we get a movie that vomits up half-baked answers for some questions, completely ignores others, gives ninja skills to a young girl for no good reason, then kills off a third of the cast.
Like I said earlier, I've enjoyed the show, but it requires a pretty hefty suspension of disbelief - that the technology exists, that whoever developed the technology managed to arrange the capital and connections to set up the company, that the government isn't even sure the Dollhouse exists but wealthy clients are able to get in touch.
As for the why, I'm reminded of what Charlie Sheen said about prostitutes: "I don't pay them for sex, I pay them to go away afterward." I admit the midwife doesn't make much sense, but imagine the father is a wanted crime-lord, or a prominent politician watching his mistress give birth. He wasn't paying for the best midwife money can buy, he was paying for a safe birth for his child, and complete secrecy afterward. Only those running the Dollhouse know about it, and they want to avoid exposure just as badly, if not more so.
I do agree that it was a bit odd that they only went for a made-to-order safe-cracker.
I have to admit that Dollhouse is actually starting to grow on me. Sure, it's no Firefly, and I'll admit that it requires quite a bit of suspension of disbelief, but over all I've enjoyed it.
I've stuck with T:SCC mostly out of stubbornness, but the last episode shows signs that things may be improving.
**Spoiler Alert** You aren't going to have to put up with John's annoying chubby girlfriend anymore.
Hopefully Fox will pay attention to how their shows are doing on Hulu. It's pretty nice to be able to watch them at my convenience, and I don't even mind the occasional ad.
I've seen a user do all their file management from the File|Open box in Word Perfect. She was really confused and mad that she couldn't open a PDF file that way. It wasn't even the standard, "Why can't I edit this file?", she just wanted to view it and opened everything from Word Perfect.
Running a Norton product for protection is like using a sandpaper condom. It doesn't provide real protection, and it's more painful than almost anything you could have caught anyway.
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Such a great game. A sequel would probably be a train wreck, but another game set in the same universe would be wonderful. I would love to see Glotis in a cameo.
Yeah, It's bad enough that we're going to ram a huge rocket into her south pole.
I haven't had any stability problems at all running it on either my netbook or my desktop. I'm actually surprised at how well it runs on my Aspire One with 1 GB Ram.
I'll probably go back to XP, though, only because the 3rd-party Ext2 driver doesn't work properly under Vista. It does work, but you have to re-assign the drive letters after every boot. Can't blame Microsoft, but its enough of a pain I'm about ready to wipe and reinstall.
Practically as soon as she was old enough to talk, I had my daughter singing the "Monkey In My Pocket" song.
Agreed. The Grim Fandango storyline doesn't really leave anywhere to go with a sequel, but I'd love another game in that universe. I don't know who came up with combining Film Noir and the Mexican "Land of the Dead" mythology, but they are a genius. It's a bizarre enough story and setting that it's hard to imagine a game studio today being brave enough to run with it.
I agree. Curse of Monkey Island is my favorite in the series. Love the voice acting, (especially the songs) and the cartoon-style graphics seem much more appropriate to the game than the 3D in Escape. The jokes are well-written and made great use of comic timing.
I'm just finishing up season 1 of TellTale Games' Sam and Max, and I must say, it give me great hope for their Monkey Island revival.
Ethanol is a horribly inefficient biofuel. I don't know why it's pushed so hard.
Simple explanation: farm lobbyists and the fact that Iowa is the first step in the presidential primary races. (Yes, I know Iowa is a caucus state.)
I would love to see biomass conversion work. Imagine planting switchgrass in the ditches and medians of the interstate highway system.
Whoosh!
The Grandparent poster was pointing out that the great-grandparent poster either mis-typed or doesn't know the difference between capitol and capital
Geez, I hope none of my co-workers heard my sudden burst of laughter when I read this. I really don't want to have to explain why I'm laughing at the thought of MS-Bob as a pre-op tranny.
No wonder Doom 3 was so frackin' dark.
Top Men.
It is broad daylight. You are likely to be attacked by flying penises.
They should make goldenrod the official state color all vehicles to match the governor's Hummer. Oh, wait a minute. He gave up the Hummer to go green.
I haven't heard, is he still commuting from his home in Malibu to the office in Sacramento in a private jet?
While nits are being picked, Doom II was a DOS game. I thought that Myst was as well, but according to Wikipedia, it was originally made for the Mac, then ported to Windows.
You might want to give Opera a try. They've got a native linux version that is very stable and fast.
Kasparov bought IBM stock, then threw the match.
Even if they were having sex with their associates, that still is a figurative screwing. If they really are literally screwing their associates, I just have one question:
Flathead, Phillips, or Torx?
If it is, he's also a zombie.
"They cannot be used for complex calculation problems", Huh? are you calculating an interstellar jump? They are plenty powerful enough for any normal (non gaming) activity.
Hey, he's almost got the Kessel Run down to 11 parsecs! Let's see you do that with a netbook!
You were serving web pages from Win 3.1? Seriously?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hated Serenity - not so much the movie itself, but what it did to the whole series. Firefly had the groundwork laid for what could have been 4 or more seasons of loosely-connected episodes that gradually explain more and more of what's going on in the background.
Instead the show is canceled, and we get a movie that vomits up half-baked answers for some questions, completely ignores others, gives ninja skills to a young girl for no good reason, then kills off a third of the cast.
Like I said earlier, I've enjoyed the show, but it requires a pretty hefty suspension of disbelief - that the technology exists, that whoever developed the technology managed to arrange the capital and connections to set up the company, that the government isn't even sure the Dollhouse exists but wealthy clients are able to get in touch.
As for the why, I'm reminded of what Charlie Sheen said about prostitutes: "I don't pay them for sex, I pay them to go away afterward." I admit the midwife doesn't make much sense, but imagine the father is a wanted crime-lord, or a prominent politician watching his mistress give birth. He wasn't paying for the best midwife money can buy, he was paying for a safe birth for his child, and complete secrecy afterward. Only those running the Dollhouse know about it, and they want to avoid exposure just as badly, if not more so.
I do agree that it was a bit odd that they only went for a made-to-order safe-cracker.
I have to admit that Dollhouse is actually starting to grow on me. Sure, it's no Firefly, and I'll admit that it requires quite a bit of suspension of disbelief, but over all I've enjoyed it.
I've stuck with T:SCC mostly out of stubbornness, but the last episode shows signs that things may be improving.
**Spoiler Alert** You aren't going to have to put up with John's annoying chubby girlfriend anymore.
Hopefully Fox will pay attention to how their shows are doing on Hulu. It's pretty nice to be able to watch them at my convenience, and I don't even mind the occasional ad.
I've seen a user do all their file management from the File|Open box in Word Perfect. She was really confused and mad that she couldn't open a PDF file that way. It wasn't even the standard, "Why can't I edit this file?", she just wanted to view it and opened everything from Word Perfect.
Running a Norton product for protection is like using a sandpaper condom. It doesn't provide real protection, and it's more painful than almost anything you could have caught anyway.