Recent content by Graffiti Writer

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    The unoffical Beer thread

    They're clever those CAMRA folk. They send a sober rep around the beer festivals to catch you when you're vulnerable. I've been a member about 15 times, but not once do I recall filling in the form. To be honest, they deserve the subscription fee just for being able to read my name and address...
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    175: Open-World Gaming

    Yeah, but in these circumstances they'd have a GPS phone and be able to find their way home with it :-D
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    162: Too Much Information

    And you don't get much help from a thesaurus when it comes to articles like this, either. I had to resort to Hustler, Parade and every other website on the internet to get my diction pumping on this one. The Escapist encourages such dedication from its writers, though.
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    162: Too Much Information

    I see what you're saying here, but it's not so much her boobs themselves but their juxtaposition in how our simple perception of games has shaped the industry. I think this line in the article best explains what I'm on about: "Lady Croft's baby feeders demonstrate the way in which a trivial...
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    147: Hey Baby, What's Your Sign?

    What I, and many other LSL fans, find so monumentally difficult to believe is why anyone would even begin to make a new Larry game without recruiting Al Lowe. He's the real reason those games were so great, and are so fondly remembered. He's a really genuine, funny guy - check out www.allowe.com...
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    Zero Punctuation: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

    Who's this Mario guy? And what about Bros? Is that the crap pop group it's talking about? I'd love to beat them up. Or do you have to unlock them? That'd suck, having to play through Wham and Culture Club and Fun Boy Three just to wail on Matt and Luke. Maybe I'll leave it for now, or wait...
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    Zero Punctuation: Console Rundown

    Dude, these totally rule! I'm loving it (oh yeah, give it to me, etc.). Glaring error though. The Spectrum was miles better than the C64, and I'll kill the friends and family of anyone who dares disagree. And what's a PlayStation 3? Keep it up, old sausage!
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    Three Unappreciated Demon Slayers

    Aye, that's a fair point. Commodore must have had balls of steel to push old Jack out the door like that. Actually, they probably had balls of steel that got ripped off and shoved down their throats by the Tram-man, but your point stands - he made Commodore big and clever all on his own.
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    Have Beer

    No no no no no! That won't do at all, Ian! That's so far south it'd give Yorkshire folk a nose bleed! Fletcher?s on the right track with Swap Castle (in fact, here's a picture of me in Prince Herbert's room at Doune Castle where The Holy Grail was filmed...
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    Have Beer

    Well, first off, I should apologise for not keeping up with the hot topics at The Escapist. If I'd been paying attention, this mystery could have been solved much sooner. I sent the beer (I'm Spanner, by the way - some other undeserving forumite had already snapped up the user name before I...
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    73: The Perception Engineers

    And at no extra cost :)
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    73: The Perception Engineers

    I can see what you're saying, Mumbels. I spend more time writing about old games than new ones, and most of those were made by a team consisting of a programmer, graphic artist and a musician. Testing was done by them and some of the best loved games we have ever (and will ever) know were made...
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    Atari Founder Slams Former Company, PS3

    Bushnell's opinion is considerably more informed than most anyone else's in the world when it comes to selling videogame consoles. He wouldn't be saying this if he wasn't seeing repeated mistakes he learnt lessons from 25 years ago. He's not talking about the differences in technology between...
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    58: Everywhere and Nowhere

    I think you've nailled exactly what it is I came to enjoy about Ubisoft in your last sentence. It is all about not knowing what'd going on behind the veil, and whether or not this is a deliberate aspect of company policy, I guess we'll never know (and if we did find out, the mystique would be...
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    58: Everywhere and Nowhere

    Thanks for all the feedback. In truth, I just had a really good time playing all those Ubisoft games. They genuinely annoyed the hell out of me by not answering any questions, and I genuinely love their games (which kind of makes the fact that they ignored me inconsequential). I guess it's nice...