Dangerloves

@djjoejoe said:

I grew up mostly listening to showtunes composers like Arthur Schwartz, Cole Porter, Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein (AKA Rogers & Hammerstein), Leonard Bernstein, Nacio Herb Brown etc. When I found my own music it was from guys who were in bands turned composers, Danny Elfman Mark Mothersbaugh, Mike Patton, Joey Santiago, Elmer Bernstein (Animal House), Wendy/Walter Carlos (Tron)

I suggest checking out avant-garde metal band; Fantômas' The Director's Cut. An entire album of film score covers.

A cover of Jerry Goldsmith's The Omen theme.

Mike Patton also did a cover of Deep Deep Down by Italian composer Ennio Morricone theme for Danger: Diabolik (1968)

Patton's score Crank was also pretty good. If you like grindcore and unconventional music in general it should appeal to you.

Of the newer point and clicks Wadjet Eye have put out a decent chunk of throwbacks akin to the Sierra and LucasArts, which most people have already recommended. I really like the Blackwell Series.

Pendulo studios makes 3D point and click games without them becoming homogenised 3rd person games.

Botanicula is probably my favourite non verbal pnc all of time. Amanita also made Machinarium, another decent non verbal pnc.

The Revolution Software is currently working on a new Broken Sword game, so its a good time to get acquainted with George Stobbart (who looks alot like Drew), Nico Collard and the first two Broken Swords games. Later games became 3rd person adventure games. But the new one will be a return to point and click.

You're lucky you've missed out on the FMV PNC games of the 90s. Those were rough.

@djjoejoe:

Graphics don't bother me, as long as there's a stable frame rate (which it did).

What I do care about is and always will be; FOV options, remappable controls, toggle options etc. This stuff is standard on better PC ports. Playing a game how I want to play it is why I'm a PC gamer. I shouldn't have to play Twister with my fingers or do finger yoga with a mouse/keyboard just to do simple things. Starbreeze has said that EA wouldn't allow time or money for them to patch the PC version, understandable, cos I don't think it sold well to begin with, and was banned in my country anyway.

Darkness 2 was a much better game, doing pretty much the same style of game as Syndicate. But with all those control options ready to go. I didn't have to go and tweak files like I did with Syndicate.

Probably not. I didn't buy a PS3 till late 2011 and was really disappointed with the overall experience. (So far), none of the games that I specifically bought as reasons to own a PS3, performed or felt as great as their predecessors on the PS2. Using this thing feels like a chore. Horrible lengthy waits for installs, updates, load times, convoluted UI system etc. I just don't have the time, I haven't even put a 100 hrs total doing anything with it. Gone are the days of plug and play.

If people are actually buying iphones so they can show them off as an accessory to status, then thats really fuckin' sad. But you do whatcha want right?

I do, but at the same time I have always been jokingly and subversively believed we're too far gone anyway. We'll never reach the utopian Star Trek, that we'll most likely reach a dystopian 2000 AD, most if not all resources are pretty much at their last legs, mindless consumerism for what is essentially the same thing with a different packaging, everything is just owned by one company anyway, governments becoming nothing but play things for the wealthy with their own agendas, war all the time over fickle feuds, and a whole bunch of things that most people consider crazy talk because it doesn't affected them directly, or they're so far embedded in either camp that they don't see a different perspective. I felt like that at age 14. I'm almost 30 and nothing has changed, its only become more and more of a reality. Which is kinda worrying. But whatever right? iphones

@jimbo: Heh. Nice one.

That's an unbelievably odd figure. Do we even have enough resources to make that many consoles? I guess they expect the same people buying multiple units, as each console will suffer hardware failures within a year.

But in seriousness, if the price is right, I would expect people buying these things as a new gadget replacement for their existing TV Tuner/BluRay/Multimedia... hub. And don't say people don't buy dumb shit, cause idiots fucking buy new iphones like there's no tomorrow all the time. That's fuckin' sad

I felt the same way in 2004 when Half-Life 2 came out. Same shit different...

If you're not adverse to free to play or always online, I recommend Grim Dawn. The F2P isn't even offensive.