Posts by Lace Sabatons

I think the first game I played was probably the original Super Mario Bros on NES. But yeah, that shit's ancient history, I really couldn't tell you for certain what the first game I played was.

Mario's broken faces were pretty neat looking. It's kinda weird that they put minecraft trees in the background for no reason though.

I've played a lot of Civ 5 lately. But even after installing all the expansions, I've found the diplomacy frustratingly shallow.

Last night I decided to give Crusader Kings II another try, since that game has much deeper diplomacy. I think I'm starting to get the hang of the game. But despite its interesting depth, the game lacks a lot of polish that is a tad bit frustrating to deal with.

I'm also playing Max Payne 2 now and again, when I find the time.

Man, that somber opening melody is such a strange choice for a game series that had always opened with big bombastic, adventurous themes.

Hey, I can do that!

He's way, way, way better than me. But I can totally do that.

I've got a buddy who is an alum of digipen, that's a pretty great place to get into video games by all accounts. Though these days he actually spends most of his time on web design and back-end inventory management nonsense.

What aspect of game design do you think you want to pursue? I'm not really well educated on the process. Programming obviously allows you to be the most self sufficient game designer possible, but it's hardly the only route into the field these days.

Any long-term career plans? Companies you want to found or work for, games you want to make?

(Sorry to harass you with questions!)

Nice! What college are you attending? And, if I may ask, how old are you?

Food service has always intimidated me, and I've managed to avoid working in a restaurant so far in my life. Sorry you've gotta deal with sexist bullshit, but at least you don't hate your job I suppose.

Are you working on getting a better job, or are you pretty happy where you are?

At some point, we became grown ups. Now, instead of complaining about our parents, we've got jobs to complain about.

I'm currently looking for a paycheck job, so I find myself thinking about this subject a lot. Normally I prefer not to think about or talk about work when I'm not at work. But what the hell, right?

What do you do, and how much does it fucking suck?

The only Pokemon game I ever played was one of the Gen I games, and I only played it for about an hour. But I'll always remember that Bulbasaur was my starter, and everybody seems to think I'm very wrong for choosing it.

The terminology I've always used is that the whole shebang is the forum, and the individual sections are the sub forums, and any sections within those sections are sub-sub forums or something. Not that it matters. =P

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Whats wrong with a subforum for every game?

Well there's already a subforum for every console, why does it really need to be divided up further? It's a Zelda forum, and you have an SENS subforum. Obviously that's where LttP threads should be posted. Why have a separate LttP subforum within the SNES forum? And all of the specific game subforums are pretty dead. They have 1, maybe 2 threads in them. All of them, I think, an attempted discussion starter posted by Kaynil. So they're not being utilized right now. When a new person visits a forum for the first time and they see a section with 1 post, made by the admin, that hasn't been updated in months, they're going to assume the message boards are dead or dying. Which, in turn, will make them less likely to sign up an account.

The boards currently have fewer than ten active posters. Hopefully that number will go up, but until it does there are more subforums than there are active members. Personally, I find it kind of frustrating to find threads to participate in, because I have to dig through so many sub forums.

Anybody play many Steam games? I'm not often one for multiplayer, but I have a fairly large collection of games and we might have some games in common we could play sometime.

I'm "LS The Less Than Great." on there.

This is the first Lovecraft story I've read. He gets better than this, right?

I'm sure this was a little more intimidating before 1000 other people told similar stories about bringing the dead back to life and having them be altered and monstrous creatures. The wax head guy was a nice touch, but I kept expecting something surprising to happen and it never really did. (Aside from the sudden shift into military life halfway through, perhaps).

Also, it's the most repetitive fix-em-up I've ever read.

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To be honest, I have to agree with you, but then again that's mostly my fault for adding in the Pokémon boards. Hopefully in the mean time we'll find ways to shorten sections or make them more accessible to people's liking.

I wouldn't say that. Bigger issues would be the fact that general discussion has 3 sub forums, and that each console has subforums for specific zelda games.

If you're not already familiar with the movie, then I should give you fair warning: it's pornography.

I mean, it's a brilliant film with a fairly historically accurate portrayal. But the historical Caligula was an insane bastard, well known for his sexual depravity. For almost the entire length of the film, there are naked bodies on screen. There are multiple sex scenes which actually show penises going into vaginas and mouths. All of it serves the greater purpose of the film (well, almost all of it), but you should know it's there before you sit down to watch it with your friends or something. =P

I haven't played it at all. I only watched my girlfriend play up through the first dungeon. She really really hated the controls, but I can't really speak from personal experience on that point.

What I can say is that the visual style of the game was ugly, like they were trying to do Wind Waker without cell shading. There were WAYYYY too many cutscenes that interrupted the action. (Which has been a problem since Wind Waker, so that's nothing new), and Zelda, as a character, was just an anime cliche. She's the protagonist's childhood best friend. They both have grown to like each other romantically, but they're not sure how to express their affection for one another. It's a tired cliche, and they didn't even spice it up with any interesting take on the characters or their relationships.

I can't pass judgement on the game, I haven't played the game. But what I've seen makes me feel like I never, ever want to play the game.

OHHHH, it's a walkthrough. I thought it was a speedrun.

The actual steps to completing the game are really simple. I'm not surprised it takes less than 5 minutes to explain it.

Hah! I actually laughed out loud when you got home to find you didn't have an SNES.

But wait...did Mexico have a gold cart LttP? I didn't know such a thing existed.

I actually do have access to the console and game. I own 3 NES, all of which I replaced the 42 pin connectors on. I've also got a copy of AoL, although I don't recall how well it works.

I'd be fine giving the game a serious chance, though I don't really give myself a lot of time for video games these days, and I've never really thought AoL was very fun to play. So I'd need a reason to set aside time to play it.

As for writing a walkthrough, it's kind of a long story. Basically, I was a huge fan of all the numerous Zelda fan sites that were all over the place in the early 2000s. I very much wanted to participate. So at one point I saw a website called "Zelda Cubed" that was hiring a walkthrough writer. I took the job, and was tasked with writing walkthroughs for all the zelda games. I decided to do AoL first, because I thought it was an underrepresented game in the Zelda community. But since I'd never played it, I went to GameFAQs and found someone else's walkthrough to serve as a guide for my own.

After doing some actual professional writing work, I've learned that this kind of thing is pretty normal and expected of working writers. But at the time, I thought what I was doing was pretty shady. The document I ended up writing was 100% my own work, filled with a lot of dumb jokes, unnecessary parenthetical statements, and poor phrasing. I just had no way of ensuring that my walkthrough was correct, since I was relying on the work of someone else who had actually played the game. (At least I assume they did). Truth be told, I really don't like doing that sort of thing. I've so far avoided it in my writing career, but I also don't make a living wage as a writer, so maybe I've got too much pride. =P

As an addendum to the story, I was actually the only active staff member of Zelda Cubed, aside from the webmaster himself. Eventually, he set up a forum for his website. I wasn't allowed on forums, but I decided to join anyway, and he made me a moderator of the forum.

That forum was actually a sub-forum of another forum, called "The Sacred Realm." And that's how I ended up on TSR in the first place.