xhonzi

In other news: after a year of playing it off and on (about 35 hours total) I finally finished Mass Effect (1).  This game never grabbed me the way that it did most of my friends.  I enjoyed it, but it wasn't compelling me to play those 35 hours inside of a week like, say, Assassin's Creed II (hint, hint, C3PX) or something.  However, the ending was pretty good and it has me pretty pumped for the sequel.  I'm not sure that I'll actually get to start the sequel right away, but it's moved up the chain by a few positions.

It is odd- it isn't the first thing that I marginally enjoyed yet it somehow infused me with great excitement for the sequel.  The RDJr Sherlock Holmes comes to mind.  How does that work?  If I didn't like the first one any more than I did, what in the world makes me think that the sequel will be the bee's knees?

I liked Majora's mask.  I link it in my head to Metroid Prime 2: Echoes or maybe, even, to Mario 2 and Mario Sunshine.  With every hardware revolution, it seems that the game makers wanted to make the same game again, but better.

I loved Metroid Prime, but it was essentially a remake of Super Metroid, which was a remake of Metroid.  I really like Metroid, so I didn't mind so much... but Prime 2: Echoes was the first (perhaps exlcuding GBA) time that two Metroid games were released for the same platform and I felt like I was finally playing a sequel to Metroid instead of a reboot.

The Mario games haven't fared so well.  Mario 2 went a little astray and I don't know of anybody who really likes Sunshine...  but I think they came from that same paradigm.  Mario64 reinvented original Mario but in 3D and then they went somewhere really new for "the sequel" on Game Cube.

I never played much of the original Legend of Zelda (never had my own NES, and the time I spent on my cousins was mostly spent playing Metorid) and I gave the SNES version a go for an hour or two.  Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda game I played very much, let alone completed.  Even though I hadn't played the earlier Zelda games, I still saw OoT as essentially a remake of the Zelda story.  Majora's Mask felt really different to me in the sense that it was finally a new story and not just a retread.

Sometimes that new direction  works and sometimes it doesn't... but I'm always glad that they tried.

Gentlemen, please check your encrypters.  The last several posts have all been in clear text.

The site is up.  If you use a proxy.

Oops.  Probably shouldn't have said that.

Zardoz.

Zardoz.

Frink: Have you seen the Zardoz trailer?  The movie itself is pretty bad, but I expected more epic badness based on the trailer.

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lolz.

Where is that again?

Forget her pals, think of all of her husbands!

Can anyone read 2/4's post above?  My latest crypto key isn't doing anything with it...

CP3S said:

So, is that really your head?

Yep.  Please don't say to kill it with fire.

I may not have a face, but I do have feelings.

Rogue-theX said:

 

 ^ I actually did that for Halloween.  Twice!

Wow, this is turning out better than I'd thought.

Keep it up.

See what you can do with this!

First Place: I use your picture as my facebook profile pic.

Second Place: I use your picture as my OT.com profile pic.

Third Place - Ninety-Ninth Place: lolz.

One of us!  One of us!

Thanks for that.

Before that?

Meanwhile, back to Deadly Premonition....

Apparently I hold the #3 position IN THE WORLD for amount of time peering through windows in Deadly Premonition.  That's right, I'm the #3 peeping tom.

Also, I am ranked 9th overall IN THE WORLD on the Deadly Premonition leaderboards.

My mother is so proud.  I had to share it with all of you.

Warbler said:

xhonzi said:

I vote for Warbler's idea.

*is shocked* :0

 *speechless!*

All I can say is that his profile pic must have been taken some time ago.

And he's either lying about his age, or he's too senile to know the difference anymore.

I vote for Warbler's idea.

What is this I don't even...

Someone hasn't been paying attention.

He's not banned.  At least, not yet.

Sluggo:

YOU know him?

Of course I know him.  He's me.

He had a strong opinion and wasn't very tactful with it at times.  Which lead to a lot of mix ups.  Actually, it was the way that any thread he posted in went way off course that I had the biggest problem with.

I don't think he was ever a "troll".  A lof of us agreed with him on different topics.  A lot of us disagreed with him.  I think with time he got better at respecting other people's opinions whilst sharing his own.  But at around that point in time he bailed.

It's too bad.  He often had some unique, but worthwhile insight.

Maybe Frink or somebody will remember his last post or something, but I think he just sort of faded away.  Maybe he'll come back in 5 years like Stinky.

By your scale- 7.  Prior to looking at the explanation, I would have gone with 5.5 or 6.