The GHZ Forum

The problem isn't that the art direction is surreal, it's just that it's bad, and obviously ripping Sonic 1 off for all it's worth. I'd much rather have a new graphical interpretation than an artificial attempt to make the 1991 lightning strike again. Are you actually serious about this, or is this...

the pathetic attempt to impersonate the colourful atmospheres of the classic games Okay, hold it right there. What the fuck? So the more realistic environments suck because they're realistic, and the more surreal environments suck because they're trying to mimic the surreal environments of the orig...

I gather other people find this whimsical, but I find something innately offensive about this game, just as much as Shadow or Black Knight. Perhaps it's the generic alien characters or the jaw-droppingly obvious name or the pathetic attempt to impersonate the colourful atmospheres of the classic gam...

Only good can come of this delay. What are peoples' problems with delays anyway? It's only a couple of months extra waiting. You'll still have, like, 80 years to play it in.

At least it's been updated within the past 2 and a half years.

I don't get it



(Also, for what it's worth, I think GG! is exactly the kind of person who would ignore the naysaying of his peers (as well as all reason) and move to Japan on a whim, and of that I am in envy)

Why would we want to compare video games to the great works of literature in the first place? What is there to compare? Writing? To focus on writing alone is to miss the point of a multifaceted medium. How come nobody draws attention to Shakespeare's abysmal use of the camera? Oh that's right - beca...

Somehow I don't think over 6 million people were just "curious" about Mario & Sonic at the Special Olympics. I also seriously call into question your suggestion that only a "hardcore niche market" is going to pay money for anything with Sonic in it, or whatever you were trying to say in that senten...

This game is anything but a risky business decision. It's downloadable, meaning development time and costs are much lower. It's unoriginal, as practically everything is aesthetically and stylistically ripped from a previous game. It's episodic, meaning it's not even a full fucking game and they can...

While it's true that the "least common denominator" in this situation will almost certainly buy this game and enjoy it, it makes no sense to market or design to that demographic. The whole point is to expand outwards. Rather than give developers free reign to create their own project (like they did ...

They're begging for heaven and hell legendary Pokemon. Eugh.

who is popcorn?

I watched both Wall-E and How to Train Your Dragon over Easter. Wall-E felt like two movies clumsily tied together, presumably because they lost confidence in the first one's ability to sell (to be fair, they were probably right). And the best parts were definitely the ones where the humans weren't ...

As laughable as the idea of a lockdown on prerelease leaks in a community of 7000 members is, I think Tweaker has the right idea. If he was operating on a forum whose active users barely fell into double digits (like this one), it wouldn't be quite so absurd. I stopped frequenting forums (other than...

Act 2 (LOL): http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/955/25547673.mp4 Jesus. At first I thought it was a cool idea, nothing interesting has ever really been done with the point system (at least not in the 2D games), and I just wanted the player to get out of that damned corner. And then it dawned on me....

I hate the graphics with a passion. Thy physics clearly need work. The minecart I am more ambivalent towards. Every Sonic game has had its own level gimmicks that didn't really work (the barrel, anyone?). The clear betrayal here was the "momentum-based gameplay" claim. The homing attack/jump dash ki...

I'm tempted to watch Cars just because I'm apparently from otherworld and like all the Pixar films that got the worst reception. Am I the only person who didn't think Ratatouille was anything special? All I remember was nearly 2 hours of Tom and Jerry (really pretty Tom and Jerry, mind you) along wi...

I'm pretty forgiving about backwards compatibility. Technologically speaking, it's hard to do, and the GBA cartridge slot alone probably takes up a lot of space in the console. I'd much rather they worked on something else and just let me play the old games on their original hardware. Then again, I ...

Bugger.

I don't really like her redesign. I mean, I don't HATE it. It's just that I liked everything in her original design except the tacky knee springs, but the new one looks like she stepped out of the world's most boring iPod advert. The bright orange Aperture jumpsuit was the only spark of colour in th...

I don't know anything about this technology whatsoever. Is it anything like the kind of 3D you have to wear glasses for in the cinema? Because that shit is a constant source of irritation. I'd rather not watch a movie at all than do it in 3D.

The first game I played was Super Mario World. I mainly watched my dad play it though, I could never get past the first stage in Donut Land (?) with all the caped koopas. I erased his save file by accident, twice. The first game I owned was Sonic 2. For some reason, it clicked with me a lot more tha...

Going back a bit, I'm a bit pissed off that Professor Oak only gives you the starters once you've already beaten the game. What does he expect me to use a level 5 Bulbasaur for? (Answer: breed the fuck out of it and sell its babies on the GTS, but that's besides the point.) It would be nice if you c...

When I was going through FFXII, I could never quite tell if the game really was just a massive boring grindathon, or if I was just playing it wrong. I picked up SEGA and Sonic All-Stars and I'm making my way through it. It seems like fun, but you probably know that already. I love Kart racers, and t...

I got my foreskin circumcised when I hit puberty (because of a genetic condition that meant it wasn't growing as fast as the rest of my cock and was gonna get split in two). So I guess you can say I've had experience of both worlds, and I definitely preferred the original model.