I'd love to see the same pictograms judged by someone who isn't a "designer". These images are made to please the fans of the games, not those with an overactive sense of the aesthetic.

I know lots of people would say the Sydney boomerang style ones were a lot cooler than the rather plain Chinese ones. Same goes for the Salt Lake City ones, which this guy seems to fail just because they had straight lines.

Designers, critics, specialists, etc. rarely seem to have the same tastes as the masses these things were made for.

>> ^Abel_Prisc:
I understand I am of the minority with this perspective, but I just couldn't be happier with how the PC version is.


dannym3141 is right. Almost all of your complaints can be easily avoided by filtering the server lists and keeping track of favorite servers. What terrible excuses for justifying the removal of dedicated servers.

And complaining about custom maps is just about the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Yes there are some godawful ones out there, but some of the best content in PC gaming are fan made. Modding games have been an integral part of PC gaming since before DOOM 1. Some of the best maps, and even games themselves come from the community. Just look at CS, DOTA, and all those great community TF2 maps that were later made official by Valve. You say you've been a PC gamer for a long time, but your attitude reveals that you are surprisingly ignorant of the PC gaming scene.

Hey Nomino,

One of your videos appears to have a problem, "This video has been removed by the user" http://www.videosift.com/video/Drunk-Belligerent-Chicks-Fight-Fans-Cops-NFL-Game

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by Sarzy.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Toddler-Leads-Philly-Fans-in-a-Game-of-How-big-is-the-Whale

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http://www.videosift.com/video/Toddler-Leads-Philly-Fans-in-a-Game-of-How-big-is-the-Whale

dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/Toddler-Leads-Philly-Fans-in-a-Game-of-How-big-is-the-Whale

>> ^Trancecoach:
Cute!
(According to YT, "We snuck out into the middle of Broad Street to snap a pic in front of City Hall and all the crowds. When Will raised his hands for the picture, cheers erupted. So he continued to repeat the gesture, getting wild response from the crowd on both sides of the street up and down the street… " Because the kid's name is Will, mom is probably asking "How big is Will?" NOT "How big is a whale?" You might want to change the title.)


Well that certainly makes more sense. Although it will always be how big is a whale in my heart.

This was a great game. Cinematic without sacrificing actual gameplay.
Contrary to previous posts, this game was not rotoscoped nor vector graphics, but used polygons for its visuals. (Different technique entirely).

The Amiga 500 version does have some differences. I recommend any big fans of this game tracking down the original and playing through it (runs better, great music).

Flashback WAS rotoscoped, and if I recall was (and maybe still is?) the best selling game ever, in some countries.

Also, Out of this World/Another World had a sequel, not made by the original developer but with his consent if I recall. It was only released on SegaCD and was titled "Heart of the Alien".

I played the SNES version originally too, and it was really nice to watch this again.

His most insightful and funniest video yet (at least to a casual fan of 2 game web comics). Unfortunately all of that win was immediately eradicated from memory after that Godawful "Drawn by Pain" ad. (At least it was ironic, given the preceding.)

Holy shit! Yie Ar Kung Fu? I must've dumped three hundred dollars worth of quarters into that machine when I was young. That game was awesome. I freakin' hated that chick with the fans. Anyone else a fan of that game?

Great video. A related personal anecdote: when I was a senior in high school, I read Philip Gourevitch's "..We Will Be Killed Tomorrow: Stories from Rwanda," a book on the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the aftermath (500,000 - 1.2 million people were killed in 3 months). This really got me interested in politics. Eventually, while helping my brother move out of his apartment, I saw that his girlfriend had a big collection of old TIME magazines. They covered the entire 1994 year. So I looked through them to read through the coverage of the Rwandan genocide and was amazed at how little there was. I then compared it to how much coverage was given to video games and found that video games were given more coverage than the genocide. Even though I was (and am) a huge fan of video games, I was disgusted by this gap. No doubt there are many reasons for this gap, but there is also no doubt that one of those reasons is market economics: demand for Rwandan news coverage by Americans was low, and thus supply was as well.

Ever since then, I've been convinced market rules of economics (supply and demand) are immoral when applied to things such as the media. Ideas, such as compassion, should not be bought and sold to people in the same ways a hamburger or a video game are. There needs to be a better way. My personal belief is that we need more democratic media in this country and in the entire world, something that gives the majority of the human race, no matter their economic status, a voice and way to be heard.

If you've agreed with me so far, I'm sure what I have to say next may change that. There needs to be a way to force people to listen, to a certain extent. In the same way that we require people to pay taxes and get a basic education, to learn history here in the USA, and we use the force of the law to do so, we need to be willing to require people to give time to those voices of the world. I think there needs to be mandatory education for our entire lives on such subjects like history and politics. It may be oppressive to have the government force people to learn about global current events, but it was also "oppressive" to force our children to learn about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. But we agreed that such a requirement was for the greater good. And so I'm saying that forced learning about subjects, even perhaps the religions and ideologies of our enemies, is also for the greater good. And I'm also not saying such government-influenced education would replace the market driven "education." It would be a competing alternative. And as capitalists say, competition is good.

I'm not much of a Penny Arcade fan, but the game looks like it has a lot of potential, especially since it's targeted at being more of an indie game, rather than some huge blockbuster-style game. Plus Ron Gilbert is involved, and he knows how to make fun games.

I am more of a Westwood Studios (now EA) fan for RTS games. I only liked Diablo and WoW from Blizzard.

These folks have more balls and class than most of the fans at the game......downvote for the title, perhaps you should try some paint-ball drive bys', or heckling, down to the Society for the Blind....


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