Johnny

The video speaks for itself. My own thoughts on the subject: they are very good at providing the service their name advertises, but pretty much AWFUL at everything else they do.

Our childhoods. I, too, have great memories of that terrible, terrible game.

I'm using the method of marking outline in the opening post. I will assume this list was made before the release of such titles as StarCraft 2 and Civilization V. Because those aren't exactly small potato. Evil Genius should be red. I'm not gonna start up photoshop again to fix it now. =P

A few greats have already been linked here. The moon theme, Batman, etc. Most megaman games had great music, that goes without mentioning. So I think I'm just gonna post something a little less well known... Because, I mean, you don't need me to tell you that Castlevania had pretty cool soundtracks, right? Terrible game, awesome music. Was also gonna list Rescue Rangers, but Hot Heart beat me to it, the bastard. =) Loved that game, some great co-op action.

I would disagree about the flying alarms; I dealt with them fairly easily.

I do a lot of weird shit, but the one that perplexes and annoys myself the most is how stubborn I can get about things. An example would be Facebook. I don't use it. My friends all still use msn and other "oldschool" methods of communication, so I don't really need it. On the other hand, a lot of them also use facebook, and I could be missing out on a lot of the conversation because I don't use it. I dislike Facebook completely irrationally. I have no reason for it. I'm not one of those guys who hate Facebook's (lack of) security features. I don't have any real complaints about it apart from the way some people I know uses it. But my brain has decided that Facebook = bad. I have valid reasons to decide to use, or not use Facebook, but none of them are the reasons that actually matter.

Additional heresy incoming: I really REALLY didn't like Wind Waker. I'm sorry, but no.

Super Smash Bros. Melee tied with StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty

Wait, people you guys know disliked SCOTT PILGRIM? You need to get new friends. I loved it. Everyone I know loved it. As for my entry into this... Almost none of my friends enjoyed Watchmen. I think they are insane.

Quite right. Switched back from Opera after some of it's more unusual design choices started to annoy me. Chrome just plain works. The person belows me prefers Mass Effect 1 to Mass Effect 2.

There was a line and he ate it.

One of out 6 players? No. Maybe one out of twenty. That's still pretty common, you usually find one in every CA game with more than 10 players.

Scott Pilgrim is, I think, also for ps3? Also I think Castle Crashers was recently ported there?

I'm not sure Prototype was as much hated as relegated to the "nobody even tried it" bin. I loved it, personally. Sure, it wasn't a great story, or had any great depth. BUT it let me jump off a building, glide across a block or so and crush 10 soldiers upon landing. 10/10

Didn't you hear? Challenge > Enjoyability. It's what all the cool kids do.

Currently listening to Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip debut album "Angles". I don't listen to a lot of hip-hop or rap, but everything Scroobius Pip does is, as far as I'm concerned, genius.

43 posts later... Maybe should introduce myself. So, yeah, hi. I'm not that great at introductions. I'm an overly opinionated supergeek from northern Sweden. I try to be pretty straightforward with people, which has at times lead me into trouble. I find it complicates things too much if I try to hide what I'm really thinking. Reminds me of guild politics *shudder* Befriend me and I will accept most strange personality quirks, but make me your enemy and I won't have any mercy. Unless you apologize of course. I'm way too quick to accept apologies. Did I mention that I often ramble on and on?

If I recall correctly they actually brought back 4 player split-screen in reach. Don't take my word for it though. I could be far off.

You forgot the "developer releases broken version on PC" and "developer ignores sales numbers and focuses only on piracy numbers" parts.

Skype is great when voice chatting with people who are too PC illiterate and/or stubborn to just install Mumble already. I have no idea why people even use Ventrilo when Mumble is such a superior alternative in every way possible.

Still disappointing battery life considering that's what the NGP is supposed to be at.

There are so many more, and which are the most influential is probably a question I would answer differently from moment to moment. I'm not very good at making definitive "lists" of things. Other games I want to include on here is Klonoa, Metroid 2, Metroid Prime, Quake III: Arena, Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner, Woprld of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Duke Nukem 3D, SSX Tricky, Beyond Good & Evil, Zelda: A link To The Past, Chrono Trigger, etc. Diablo II: I remember first time I played this at a friend's place. I made a Barbarian and got killed directly outside of the Rogue Encampment several times. I then restarted using a sorceress with my friend joining in on their other computer. We played for several hours straight and I was immediately struck by the dark graphics, score, the loot and the high speed of the game. The road to Act IV and striking down Diablo was amazing, and then came the expansion with Druids and Assasins. Diablo II was a stellar experience and even if some of it's elements have grown old and stale, I still hold it as the best of it's kind. StarCraft: While StarCraft wasn't the first e-sport I had encountered - I had played a lot of counter-strike before I even got interested in RTSes - it was surely the most engaging. Not to mention it's brilliant campaign, beautiful 2D sprites and wonderful music. Even with it's archaic pathfinding, controls and interface, StarCraft shone as the best RTS ever until the moment it's sequel was released. This still makes me laugh. Half-Life: Revolutionizing first-person shooter storytelling, Half-Life gripped me and many others with it's brilliant singleplayer which (almost) holds up to this day. And the mods! Oh the mods. The modern semi-realistic shooter genre owes so much to Counter-Strike. It's sad to see it in the state it is today. Half-Life 2: Building upon everything that it's predecessor did well, Half-Life 2 had some of the best characters ever and was set in one of the most detailed game worlds I've ever encountered. Not only is the oppression that people find themselves in immediately obvious without anyone actually telling us they are oppressed, the world itself shows signs of the Combine's influence. Super Smash Bros. Melee: It's filled with glitches and strange, hidden mechanics and it may not be the most balanced fighter, but beneath the surface of this party-fighter lies a competitive fighting accident in one of the fastest-paced fighters on the market. Super Smash Bros. Melee when played to tournament rules is the most mindgame-heavy game I've ever played. It is the definition of winning by tricking your opponent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZLf6AZXQc Heroes of Might and Magic III: Terrible balance? Check. Shallow strategy? Check. Amazing music and presentation wrapped into so many different factions, creatures and items that, no matter what, we did not notice or care about it's flaws? Check. Planescape: Torment: The engine is outdated. The graphics are rubbish. The combat is as stale as any Infinity Engine game. The world is amazing. The characters are deep and interesting. The conversations make Dragon Age and Mass Effect look like kid's stuff. The voice acting, music and art design together make this game absolutely engrossing even before you start digging into the story. Planescape: Torment is by far the best role-playing game I've ever played. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Morrowind had the most believable world of any game I played. NPC interaction was a joke, combat felt clunky and archaic, and the graphics aged very quickly. Nevertheless, the whole game managed to hammer one line of thought into my mind: You are just a pardoned prisoner, a newcomer to this strange, alien landscape. There be monsters, and you must be careful. It took me hours before I felt like I could handle going outside of the safe zones. And when I did, I was immediately informed that I really couldn't handle it. Then Oblivion came out and I lost pretty much all respect for Bethesda. Devil May Cry: DMC was the first time this kind of action game had truly worked great in 3D, and in my opinion it's the best in the series. Sure, it was stylish and flashy, but it also had a dark atmosphere completely missing from the later titles.

Hah! Even if I had any desire to get you a new picture of her, I don't really know her that well. Sister of a friend of a friend.

Castle Crashers is great fun. Also Scott Pilgrim. In my experience most of the great co-op fun is on PC though, and not local. <3 Sven Co-Op for Half-Life 1.

Haha. I was actually not completely aware that the photo was being taken, thought the girl handling the camera was still fiddling around with the options. I need to get a new picture of myself to post, if only so I won't have to hear that every time I do post it