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Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet...

Derek Yu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:27:00 +0000

...the face of independent gaming. :(

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by NO!

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:47:25 +0000

…a better friend than Teeth ever was. :(

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Teeth

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:14:52 +0000

Independent games review site. Google is your friend!

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Mark.P0rter

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:41:15 +0000

I am sorry but what exactly IS “game tunnel”?

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Citrus

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:55:50 +0000

I’ve noticed that generally, only people who do pixel art themselves really appreciate it. Anyone else think this is true? Or I’m mistaken?

Anyway, if I’m right, I have an idea: Put more pixel-art oriented user-customisable-content in games. Like the Mario Kart DS decal editor. Things like that… then the gamers of the world will eventually see and love the pixel like we do.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Hunty

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:55:15 +0000

“I will say, I must confess, yet I have to be honest.” is TOTALLY going to be the refrain of my next emo song.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by aargh

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:11:13 +0000

what the hell :(

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by failrate

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:39:59 +0000

Review review: William Usher’s review was bland and uninspired. He seemed to contradict himself: first praising, then decrying the graphics. Additionally, his syntax could be better. He repeatedly uses comma splices. I give this review a 3.099 out of a possible 10.598 points.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by NO!

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:19:01 +0000

Sorry, I meant I’M shit. I keep confusing myself with Cave Story, cause I hate it almost as much as I hate my own emotions.

cries in a corner

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by NO!

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:06:06 +0000

cave story IS shit. graphics are pretty though.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Lega

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:14:09 +0000

Cave Story is beautiful, simply put. Endearing, charming, polished, cute… and so much more. I truly believe Cave Story is one of the best looking games out there.

And then to see it get such a review? A truly sad state of affairs…

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Derek

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:16:12 +0000

Style is something that’s noticeably absent from so many games, and in the mainstream industry the excuse is that “wow, we have all this technology to make things photorealistic, let’s do that!” (It’s a dumb excuse, of course - you can have a stylistically very interesting game that also makes use of the same technology.)

It annoys me that Usher took Cave Story’s distinct (and well-executed) style to be a negative point, while Scarpelli thought that just being “3D” and not horribly broken is enough of a virtue to warrant a plus rating.

Of course, to each their own opinion. But why would you have someone who doesn’t like sushi review a sushi restaurant? And then you have a guy who reviews a hamburger joint and he gives it a thumbs up just because he didn’t throw up after the meal…

I don’t hate Game Tunnel, and I think they provide a service to a certain type of gamer. I just hate to think that this is how independent gaming is represented to the rest of the world.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by abadox

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:09:51 +0000

the problem isn’t that he doesn’t like the graphics in Cave Story, It’s that he actually doesn’t understand them.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Lorne Whiting

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:05:25 +0000

“…Despite having dated graphics…”

Motherfucker! Son of a bitch goddamn, this is terrible.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Tim W.

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:12:18 +0000

editors are there to sort out the writers, i s’pose.

Derek kicks my ass all the time. :)

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by BMcC

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:44:03 +0000

Hah hah, Clint, you stud.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Clint

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:58:56 +0000

Hey baby, wanna choke on MY corn flakes?

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Wolverine

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:56:43 +0000

I choked on my corn flakes this morning reading this…

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Rakszens

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:49:31 +0000

You took it all wrong - its a LESSON: 3d - good, 2d - bad XD. I felt like reading some polish videogame magazine…

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Teeth

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:04:05 +0000

Although I agree with the sentiment here, it’s unfair to criticise Game Tunnel as a site because of this - clearly it is the guy who reviewed Cave Story who is retarded.

Comparing reviews of two different games written by two different people is fruitless.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by The Arsecast Host

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:26:08 +0000

YOU MORONS! 3D IS BETTER THAN 2D BECAUSE 3 IS MORE THAN 2!

Jeeze you guys are all idiots. Of course Teenage Lawnmower is better! MATHS HAS PROVED IT!

;)

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by negative zero

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:13:01 +0000

the article does put cave story under some bad light, all cos he can’t appreciate the artistic flair behind the game’s stylistic approach.

sure, there’s nothing wrong with not liking the graphics, but it’s concerning to see that there are many people who would rather play a 3d commercial game over a freeware 2d one.

sounds like a NO! to me. heh, wat a biatch.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by karolos

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:57:18 +0000

erhhhhhh, he he he, He can’t see the main caractere… What is his point anyway? Cave Story is one on the fun game I have played this year, most of the lot of AAA commercial games. The graphics are very good. May be he is one of the doctor’ s seed, yes, he want to destroy all us ;-P

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Khris

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:15:33 +0000

I always enjoyed reading through these, a commercial critique of Cave Story by the Pixelation community: http://www.pixel-arts.org/pixelation/index.php?topic=1394.0

Anyways, what’s so bad about caring about graphics in a video game?

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by alevice

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:03:46 +0000

what the fuck are smb1 goombas?

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd Like You to Meet..." by Jimmy

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:33:11 +0000

I can’t wait for technology to reach the point where everyone can get bland, ‘realistic’ graphics with relative ease. Then maybe people’ll get over this absurd tendency to be completely absorbed in details like anti-aliasing, clipping, polygon counts, etc, and actually look at the overall aesthetic in the context of what the game is trying to accomplish. Ha ha. … a man can dream, though. A man can dream.