Digital Nightfall on 13/2/2011 at 17:47
Suddenly I remembered that I have a website. Not sure how that happened... :weird:
Anyway, I <a href=http://www.ttlg.com>posted</a> thoughts and feelings about a handful of games that seem to be on TTLG's collective radar in some sense. The idea here is that for the next week, all of you can post your wildly differing opinions on these games and any other games you want to the forum, and next weekend I'll do another version of that news post with what the actual TTLGers think, rather than just me. I'm going to be messing around with TTLG.com's general layout too, mostly in the vein of simplifying things and saying goodbye to the daughter sites.
Post your quips here: (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134840)
Or in this thread. I'll find 'em either way.
(I'd also rather you kept things fairly brief, because I'd like to post as many comments from as many different people as possible.)
P.S. We've talked long and winded about a TTLG redux, with many compelling ideas thrown around, but at the end of the day the path of least resistance was always the one staring me in the face saying, "just do this, things don't have to be so complicated." The answer: Just start posting stuff.
ZylonBane on 13/2/2011 at 17:59
Every apostrophe in that posting renders in Firefox as the "unknown character" diamond.
Digital Nightfall on 13/2/2011 at 18:03
Is that better?
Koki on 13/2/2011 at 18:09
So... you want people to write some stuff about games that aren't released yet?
And then you'll post it on the front page?
I don't get it.
ZylonBane on 13/2/2011 at 18:12
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
Is that better?
That fixed it.
demagogue on 13/2/2011 at 19:15
Quote Posted by Koki
I don't get it.
It makes sense to showcase opinions about games because that's what TTLG is about at the end of the day.
I agree it's funny to showcase opinions about unreleased games, though. But on the other hand, those games are where the buzz is. And if your goal with the Front Page is to attract people and get them wanting to add their thoughts, then you want to bring up the games that "everybody's talking about". A game loses a lot of its buzz after it's been released hardly a month.
Not that that makes the opinions suddenly the most interesting and useful now, and I still see issues with them, but I at least see the logic of it.
driver on 13/2/2011 at 19:31
A minor thing, but you've put 'Dues' instead of 'Deus' in the opening paragraph.
june gloom on 13/2/2011 at 19:31
Okay, I'll bite. I got a couple I'm looking at the next couple months.
Duke Nukem Forever. I'm not sure what I can say that hasn't already been said. DNF's development time was ridiculous, as everyone knows and has made jokes about. But Duke Nukem 3D was one of those games that helped me retain my sanity during an extremely bad year when I was a teenager (Fallout 1 and Half-Life 1 being the others) and though I don't play it very often anymore, it still holds a place in my heart. In the late 90s and early 00s I watched the DNF development with keen interest; by 2003, though, it was clear nothing was forthcoming and I forgot about it.
Then 3D Realms shut down, and I was sad. But I'd long ago said goodbye to Duke Nukem Forever, so no big deal, right? But when Gearbox picked it up, I was more than a little excited. Now the game's actually, holy shit actually coming out. And now I'm desperately trying to figure out how I can afford both it and Deus Ex Human Revolution.
I doubt that Duke Nukem Forever'll be the same game as Duke 3D only in glorious Unreal 2 Engine on steroids, but in the end does that really matter? It's Duke Nukem freaking Forever! I think at this point I don't care what the game is like, I just want to own it, and play it, and be part of history in the making, the end of an era. Maybe, just maybe, we can then put the old days to rest for good.
Digital Nightfall on 13/2/2011 at 19:55
Nothing minor about it, driver. Thanks. If anyone else spots any blatant screwups, let me know.
demagogue covered the basics, but to be fair, a few of the games in my list have been released, (and one of them I am not very kind to.) There's no reason not to talk about old released games here. This is just a cross section of what's on TTLG's mind.
Cool dethtoll, thanks. :)
ZylonBane on 13/2/2011 at 21:05
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
Nothing minor about it, driver. Thanks. If anyone else spots any blatant screwups, let me know.
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