Expect a lot of Tinker Bell related PM's.

I'm almost afraid to go there to see if I could have gotten the BG 4 in 1 box for six bucks.

XTREME SKATEBOARDING! Awesome!

I love going to the Gamestop in the mall, because buying PC games there is like renting porn in a video store. It's all the way in the back, it's dimly lit, and when you wander back there, people give you those disdainful looks.

I'd say Spellforce 2 is worth 6 bones. It's similar to Dungeon Siege, with a little bit better skill system, and some super lightweight RTS stuff thrown in for good measure. Fun enough for a one-player playthrough. Be sure to play a spellcaster as your primary if you do pick it up.

Laughing like? Or laughing because he is one? Hmmm... quite a conundrum.

I find that the tale of Psychonauts is much like that of Kevin Smith's "Colossal Flop" Mallrats. Initially the game met with mediocre reaction from the general public. It was not a pre-ordained hit like Assasin's Creed. But eventually, the game found its audience. Through Gametap and Steam, and word of mouth from the faithful, the game got to people who could appreciate it.

Psychonauts is a game in rare company. Normally when I recommend a game to friends, there is trepidation on my part in doing so(if they had not already heard about X, they were probably not interested). But everyone I have recommended Psychonauts to has loved it.

And, just like Mallrats, Psychonauts was not properly marketed to find its audience. There is this disease in all media. The disease of the mass market. To paraphrase, A famous Quote on the "reasonable man:" he crosses the street at the intersection and at the light, obeys every manufacturer's warning, never exceeds the speed limit. In short, he does not exist.

And in an era of the internet, people in games, movies, TV, magazines, REFUSE to acknowledge that there is an audience for just about everything, and a sizable audience for most things. Marketing got ahold of Psychonauts and pawned it off as a kid's action adventure. Much like Advent Rising, it was sent to die because the audience for the game was never really told about it.

If someone tells me Tim Shaefer, quirky humor, adventure. I mess my pants and fork over my first born child. No one really gave the opportunity of that to me. I found out much later about its brilliance.

It is also an illustration on how the industry puts so much emphasis, for no damn reason, on week 1 sales. It a game, based on this ridiculous calculus, is not deigned to sell a million copies in its first month, then the price is slashed, it goes to the bargain bin, and is forgotten. Long Tail sales are not thought of in gaming, these days. I am glad that games like STALKER, Company of Heroes, and Crysis are challenging this view on gaming success.

Other than the whole corrupted save file issue with the PS2 version. I was lucky that I was already I got that error while I was playing the game and that I was close to the end in any case. Still had to stay up until 2 or 3 in the morning to beat it, though. Stupid Meat Circus. Fortunately, I have the PC version now as well (ironically thanks to Big Lots).

ken u pik mi up a fonics kwest??

I fail to see the relevance. But then, I'm oblivious to things outside Oregon, for the most part. I'm not a well-traveled man.

I looked at Boog's location and read it as, "Norman, OK?" Like someone was asking where he lived, and he didn't want to say, and they kept bugging him and he wouldn't tell them but they were really persistent and finally he gave up and admitted that he lives inside a man named Norman, "okay? You happy now? Geez..."

Where we have basements. The lab's gotta go somewhere.