I wish I had a Nexus tablet instead of my stupid iPad.
I wish my Nexus tablet had an app ecosystem that provided better tablet apps. I also wish that Comixology wouldn't keep reserving their "Retina Display"-quality comics to the iPad when the Nexus 10 display goes toe-to-toe with the new iPad screen. I wish I'd stop seeing web content designed for iPads that doesn't work on the Nexus 10 due to some arbitrary distinction in how the iPad and the Nexus 10 render web content.
And I wish that the interface on the Nexus 10 better acknowledged that it was a massive block in my hands and that porting over the phone interface with minimal changes is a bad idea, and I wish I didn't have to go through arcane hacks and modifications just to do the reasonable thing that they got right at the start and move the navigation buttons to one side rather than placing them at the center which NO HUMAN FINGER is equipped to reach with any level of comfort when your tablet is the size of the Nexus 10.
Heh. I thought it was a nexus, since you related it to that discussion, but then i realised it was a different shape and size, so I thought it may have been the 10 model, and I then googled a picture, and saw it matched so I took a gamble on it. :P
the word you are looking for is interactive movie.
That definition doesn't work for The Walking Dead. It's a casual adventure game with action elements. The adventure style puzzles and inventory are there, they're just not too challenging, making it a casual adventure.
An interactive movie would be something like Dragon's Lair. There's definitely moments requiring thought in The Walking Dead, rather than just reflexes.
I highly disagree. You need reflexes to run away from the zombies or you die.
What is this thought you are talking about? The 1-2 basic puzzles per episode which were even dropped after episode 3? The dialogue requires no thought. There is no failure. You will get to the end no matter what you choose. Just make a chimpanzee press any random number from 1 to 4.
I highly disagree. You need reflexes to run away from the zombies or you die.
What is this thought you are talking about? The 1-2 basic puzzles per episode which were even dropped after episode 3?
The dialogue requires no thought. There is no failure. You will get to the end no matter what you choose. Just make a chimpanzee press any random number from 1 to 4.
For the puzzles being basic: yeah, that's what a casual adventure is. They do require thought, just not as much as a standard adventure. Also, they weren't dropped after episode 3. There's quite a few puzzles in the school in episode 4 for instance. You can't get the items for the boat by just button mashing.
^- have only Superman and Batman been given the Fleischer-esque treatment in animation? Where's MY Fleischer-esque Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Silver Surfer, Guardians of the Galaxy, Flash, and more?
This also proves you're just my patsy, Coolsome. The setup to my punchline. My little wrestling-loving bitch.
Meeting Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer is one of the biggest regrets of my life. Instead of having real, intelligent conversations with them, I squealed like a fangirl and acted like a moron. Can't decide if I feel more like an asshole for that or the time I hurt Bill Tiller's feelings.
I live in a world where being a fan basically means I'm a joke. Having a conversation doesn't mean anything to me unless it has substance. Otherwise it's just a means to make a joke of it all.
Meeting someone doesn't matter unless I can be who I usually am, which is intelligent and funny and odd, and I wasn't any of that because they were people I admire, and for an introvert like me that means my brain shutting down and being replaced by ape functions. In contrast, when I met Hideo Kojima I was perfectly fine and acted great, because I didn't care about meeting Kojima at all and wanted to get the hell out of there.
Oh well.
De de de de de de
de de de dede
de de
Yet millions of eyes can see
Yet why am I so blind
Yet when the someone else is me
It's unkind
It's unkind
If it's any consolation, Ron Gilbert is slightly overrated. Though Schafer's pretty cool.
Bullshit. It's even worse because I had two good opportunities to really talk to Ron, and I gave them both up to pander to Tim. I was scared the second time because I thought I'd be the "creepy fan" by trying to have a conversation with the obviously unapproachable Ron Gilbert.
And I know Ron recognized me the second time and I actively ignored him. Ugh.
Bullshit. It's even worse because I had two good opportunities to really talk to Ron, and I gave them both up to pander to Tim. I was scared the second time because I thought I'd be the "creepy fan" by trying to have a conversation with the obviously unapproachable Ron Gilbert.
And I know Ron recognized me the second time and I actively ignored him. Ugh.
You could try talking to him online with the anomonity and the abilty to plan and proof read what you want to say would help you say what you couldn't in person.
You could try talking to him online with the anomonity and the abilty to plan and proof read what you want to say would help you say what you couldn't in person.
There's no guarantee of a response, and it can be hard to get in-depth online. I doubt Ron wants to respond to a book, which is what I would write.
Who would want to read a book made up of questions?
As for other celebrities, I’ve met (or have come very close to meeting) the following:
Harrison Ford
Jeff Ross
Bruce Campbell (me visiting L.A.)
Billy Gibbons (airplane)
Lemony Snicket (he went to the same middle school as me)
Clint Eastwood (leaving the set of “Hereafter”)
Sammy Hagar (The San Francisco Zoo)
Robin Williams (Union Square, pretty sure he lives in SF)
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg (walking in Golden Gate Park)
Huey Lewis (met him in Marin County)
James Rolfe, aka The Angry Video Game Nerd (he was looking at Vertigo locations)
Rob Schneider (he was born in SF)
I've met or spoken with:
Ron Gilbert
Tim Schafer and the Double Fine Team
The Telltale Guys
Hideo Kojima
Gary Whitta
Celebrities I've spoken with online:
Matt (Two Best Friends Play)
Benzaie (a celebrity?)
Film Brain (a celebrity?)
John Romero
Bill Tiller
And I have friends on the forum I've met or know personally:
GuruGuru214
Icedhope
Alcoremortis
Puzzlebox
And friends I've not met but know personally:
Monkey_05_06
Rather Dashing
Comrade Pants
AllenB
Celebrities I've pissed off personally by being an asshole, causing myself eternal shame:
Bill Tiller (Curse of Monkey Island, A Vampyre Story)
John Romero (DOOM)
Bill Nye
J.K. Rowling
extended time with John de Lancie (I was in a play that he directed)
Jackie Chan
George Lucas
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Johnny Depp
The Dalai Lama
Tamora Pierce
Christopher Paulini
Seth MacFarlane
Brian Jacques
Majus
Yeah, and George Clooney came to my school, but I missed him.
the word you are looking for is interactive movie.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the idea that an interactive movie is "not a game". If you played ludo with a bunch of friends, you'd go for quite a while without taking a turn, your interactivity is definitely very limited and STILL it's uncontestedly a game.
That's just some kind of defamatory re-naming. Which I do not condone, but understand to a degree - as it is meant to backseat drive Telltale in a direction I'd probably like better than the present endeavors.
That definition doesn't work for The Walking Dead. It's a casual adventure game with action elements. The adventure style puzzles and inventory are there, they're just not too challenging, making it a casual adventure.
An interactive movie would be something like Dragon's Lair. There's definitely moments requiring thought in The Walking Dead, rather than just reflexes.
I think it was even Dan who suggested calling BTTF an "easy adventure", which would be about the worst name for a "new genre" I could think of.
In German forums, I have repeatedly suggested to call TWD an adventure game without thinking twice about the matter. But then the fighting starts, because people would love to project their own personal definition of the genre to every gamer alive. Fact is: the adventure genre isn't really defined as such and we unfortunately don't catch a glimpse of where its boundaries might lie when people utter the meaningless phrase: "That's not an adventure anymore". Still, the only halfway worthwhile definition I have ever seen was not one of a "core concept" of the adventure genre, but instead mostly an enumeration of which gaming elements are absent!
We could go on for ages defining what an "adventure is", but we would only do it to classify certain games as not belonging because we have somehow once decided that we like adventure games so by definition, game concepts we do not like can not be adventure games.
To better Telltale's future games, that would not be constructive. In fact, it's pretty daft.
I'd rather have a meaningful discussion about where TWD failed in its concept of interactivity. And, without any judgement, I think there are quite some areas where even the designers' self-imposed interactivity ideas DID fail.
We could even make a thread that says "registration 2010 or earlier required" so only ye olde community participates. But we'd rather not put this in TWD forums, this kind of exclusivity isn't exactly welcoming.
I... I apparently talked to the guy who made FTL on Omegle once...
(That was a great conversation. Though I pretty much dominated it by blabbering on about Super Punchout, (I analysed that game earlier that day and wanted to share my findings))
And I did hang out on the Zombie Cow forum for a little while so I did talk to the Zomboid guys and Dan a little, (though Dan is a bit of a pretentious dick though tbh)
Kinda jealous of you guys.
(I was also jealous of the FTL guy because he had actually met those guys. (He also agreed that Dan was a bit of a dick! XD))
But I hope one day I could make something good enough to get recognition from my heroes.
Embarrassingly, I was in the front row at the concert and he tripped over my feet. o_O
I didn't mention that when I talked to him after the performance, and he didn't bring it up either, so either he didn't know it was me or he was very polite.
Embarrassingly, I was in the front row at the concert and he tripped over my feet. o_O
I didn't mention that when I talked to him after the performance, and he didn't bring it up either, so either he didn't know it was me or he was very polite.
Weird Al's an awesome guy. Even when he's mad, it's more tongue in cheek, "did Weird Al just rip into me? That's FANTASTIC!". I've met Dave Mustaine a few times. Good guy. He just went a little crazy with the whole finding God, supporting Bush, and then buying into the government conspiracy thing recently. Yeah. Like Jon Schaffer, I really wouldn't mind NOT talking to them again.
By the way, what I'm thinking right now... FUCK the users on Kotaku.
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I wish I had a Nexus tablet instead of my stupid iPad.
And I wish that the interface on the Nexus 10 better acknowledged that it was a massive block in my hands and that porting over the phone interface with minimal changes is a bad idea, and I wish I didn't have to go through arcane hacks and modifications just to do the reasonable thing that they got right at the start and move the navigation buttons to one side rather than placing them at the center which NO HUMAN FINGER is equipped to reach with any level of comfort when your tablet is the size of the Nexus 10.
Heh. I thought it was a nexus, since you related it to that discussion, but then i realised it was a different shape and size, so I thought it may have been the 10 model, and I then googled a picture, and saw it matched so I took a gamble on it. :P
I feel you, but I really can't complain considering I got it for free.
Me too!
http://youtu.be/d2FUA0JcJ90
the word you are looking for is interactive movie.
The definition you're using is strangely restrictive.
An interactive movie would be something like Dragon's Lair. There's definitely moments requiring thought in The Walking Dead, rather than just reflexes.
arrrrrrggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!
What is this thought you are talking about? The 1-2 basic puzzles per episode which were even dropped after episode 3? The dialogue requires no thought. There is no failure. You will get to the end no matter what you choose. Just make a chimpanzee press any random number from 1 to 4.
And he will write the entire works of Shakespeare.
Or post a wrestling picture.
This also proves you're just my patsy, Coolsome. The setup to my punchline. My little wrestling-loving bitch.
...I think I peed a little.
I live in a world where being a fan basically means I'm a joke. Having a conversation doesn't mean anything to me unless it has substance. Otherwise it's just a means to make a joke of it all.
Meeting someone doesn't matter unless I can be who I usually am, which is intelligent and funny and odd, and I wasn't any of that because they were people I admire, and for an introvert like me that means my brain shutting down and being replaced by ape functions. In contrast, when I met Hideo Kojima I was perfectly fine and acted great, because I didn't care about meeting Kojima at all and wanted to get the hell out of there.
Oh well.
De de de de de de
de de de dede
de de
Yet millions of eyes can see
Yet why am I so blind
Yet when the someone else is me
It's unkind
It's unkind
Bullshit. It's even worse because I had two good opportunities to really talk to Ron, and I gave them both up to pander to Tim. I was scared the second time because I thought I'd be the "creepy fan" by trying to have a conversation with the obviously unapproachable Ron Gilbert.
And I know Ron recognized me the second time and I actively ignored him. Ugh.
You could try talking to him online with the anomonity and the abilty to plan and proof read what you want to say would help you say what you couldn't in person.
There's no guarantee of a response, and it can be hard to get in-depth online. I doubt Ron wants to respond to a book, which is what I would write.
Who would want to read a book made up of questions?
As for other celebrities, I’ve met (or have come very close to meeting) the following:
Harrison Ford
Jeff Ross
Bruce Campbell (me visiting L.A.)
Billy Gibbons (airplane)
Lemony Snicket (he went to the same middle school as me)
Clint Eastwood (leaving the set of “Hereafter”)
Sammy Hagar (The San Francisco Zoo)
Robin Williams (Union Square, pretty sure he lives in SF)
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg (walking in Golden Gate Park)
Huey Lewis (met him in Marin County)
James Rolfe, aka The Angry Video Game Nerd (he was looking at Vertigo locations)
Rob Schneider (he was born in SF)
I've met or spoken with:
Ron Gilbert
Tim Schafer and the Double Fine Team
The Telltale Guys
Hideo Kojima
Gary Whitta
Celebrities I've spoken with online:
Matt (Two Best Friends Play)
Benzaie (a celebrity?)
Film Brain (a celebrity?)
John Romero
Bill Tiller
And I have friends on the forum I've met or know personally:
GuruGuru214
Icedhope
Alcoremortis
Puzzlebox
And friends I've not met but know personally:
Monkey_05_06
Rather Dashing
Comrade Pants
AllenB
Celebrities I've pissed off personally by being an asshole, causing myself eternal shame:
Bill Tiller (Curse of Monkey Island, A Vampyre Story)
John Romero (DOOM)
Bill Nye
J.K. Rowling
extended time with John de Lancie (I was in a play that he directed)
Jackie Chan
George Lucas
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Johnny Depp
The Dalai Lama
Tamora Pierce
Christopher Paulini
Seth MacFarlane
Brian Jacques
Majus
Yeah, and George Clooney came to my school, but I missed him.
I'm probably missing a few.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the idea that an interactive movie is "not a game". If you played ludo with a bunch of friends, you'd go for quite a while without taking a turn, your interactivity is definitely very limited and STILL it's uncontestedly a game.
That's just some kind of defamatory re-naming. Which I do not condone, but understand to a degree - as it is meant to backseat drive Telltale in a direction I'd probably like better than the present endeavors.
I think it was even Dan who suggested calling BTTF an "easy adventure", which would be about the worst name for a "new genre" I could think of.
In German forums, I have repeatedly suggested to call TWD an adventure game without thinking twice about the matter. But then the fighting starts, because people would love to project their own personal definition of the genre to every gamer alive. Fact is: the adventure genre isn't really defined as such and we unfortunately don't catch a glimpse of where its boundaries might lie when people utter the meaningless phrase: "That's not an adventure anymore". Still, the only halfway worthwhile definition I have ever seen was not one of a "core concept" of the adventure genre, but instead mostly an enumeration of which gaming elements are absent!
We could go on for ages defining what an "adventure is", but we would only do it to classify certain games as not belonging because we have somehow once decided that we like adventure games so by definition, game concepts we do not like can not be adventure games.
To better Telltale's future games, that would not be constructive. In fact, it's pretty daft.
I'd rather have a meaningful discussion about where TWD failed in its concept of interactivity. And, without any judgement, I think there are quite some areas where even the designers' self-imposed interactivity ideas DID fail.
We could even make a thread that says "registration 2010 or earlier required" so only ye olde community participates. But we'd rather not put this in TWD forums, this kind of exclusivity isn't exactly welcoming.
(That was a great conversation. Though I pretty much dominated it by blabbering on about Super Punchout, (I analysed that game earlier that day and wanted to share my findings))
And I did hang out on the Zombie Cow forum for a little while so I did talk to the Zomboid guys and Dan a little, (though Dan is a bit of a pretentious dick though tbh)
Kinda jealous of you guys.
(I was also jealous of the FTL guy because he had actually met those guys. (He also agreed that Dan was a bit of a dick! XD))
But I hope one day I could make something good enough to get recognition from my heroes.
Embarrassingly, I was in the front row at the concert and he tripped over my feet. o_O
I didn't mention that when I talked to him after the performance, and he didn't bring it up either, so either he didn't know it was me or he was very polite.
Weird Al's an awesome guy. Even when he's mad, it's more tongue in cheek, "did Weird Al just rip into me? That's FANTASTIC!". I've met Dave Mustaine a few times. Good guy. He just went a little crazy with the whole finding God, supporting Bush, and then buying into the government conspiracy thing recently. Yeah. Like Jon Schaffer, I really wouldn't mind NOT talking to them again.
By the way, what I'm thinking right now... FUCK the users on Kotaku.
Not the best panorama job, boy do I wish I was back here.