http://newsimg.ngfiles.com/21000/21399_E24.jpgaka a thread I will probably drunkenly bump every couple of months for no apparent reason
anyway this game is the A Report on the Banality of Evil of games in that (a) I will never ever ever finish it no matter how much energy I devote to the enterprise and (b) you hardly need to finish it in order to appreciate its depth. I've played it roughly once a month over the last 6ish months and get my ass kicked into oblivion without fail, but every time I've picked up the controller has been rewarding. I love this game so fkn much and I wish foax on this board would buy it while it's still $12 on Amazon.
― "I have seen bloodstains on the Pac Man joystick" (jamescobo), Sunday, 27 September 2009 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
picked this up for £1, yes £1, the other day but have yet to start it... there's a retrospective in this month's edge
― cozwn, Sunday, 27 September 2009 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
that is like 1.60 of your yankee fun money
― cozwn, Sunday, 27 September 2009 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqB5LUKh8A
― coz (webinar), Monday, 19 October 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, a classic
― Nhex, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.greenpeaness.org/pictures/godhandbabyz.jpg
― okamadablobisney (jamescobo), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
there a shockingly low amount of discussion of this wonderful game. playing it recently for the first time ever, i was inspired to get around to this eventually from that videogaiden review from waaaaay back when (dear lord, 2006)
on one hand, you could argue the thematic incoherence of this game is the product of incredible laziness, but on the other (god) hand you would say "this game is amazing i can't hear you"
― Nhex, Friday, 17 August 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
RPS: We were talking about the process you go through whenever you’re coming up with ideas, what sort of writing you do, what narrative techniques you end up using. There’s the song at the end of Portal. Where’d that come from?Erik Wolpaw: It was Kim and I. Kim actually started it, because she mentioned Jonathan Coulton. Like, man, it’d be cool to find some way to do something with him. Just like a lot of ideas, that sparked me to think, “Oh, man, God Hand had a song, and that was so great.” And then Kim and I started talking. We’re like, “Oh, we could put a song at the end of Portal!” If it hadn’t been for Kim finding Jonathan Coulton, there would have been no song.
Erik Wolpaw: It was Kim and I. Kim actually started it, because she mentioned Jonathan Coulton. Like, man, it’d be cool to find some way to do something with him. Just like a lot of ideas, that sparked me to think, “Oh, man, God Hand had a song, and that was so great.” And then Kim and I started talking. We’re like, “Oh, we could put a song at the end of Portal!” If it hadn’t been for Kim finding Jonathan Coulton, there would have been no song.
― Nhex, Sunday, 9 September 2012 07:42 (eleven years ago) link