Comments on: Male Pattern Dorkness

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:50:20 +0000

Latent object hysteria killed the Dreamcast, I think. But there’s also the cross-cutting issue of brand loyalty forcing blinders to favored manufacturer’s flaws.

By: psu

psu — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:24:25 +0000

Dammit I was going to put in that angle and I forgot.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:20:18 +0000

There’s a corollary to the Oppression of the Masses, which is basically that there’s an inverse relationship between popularity and perceived technical goodness. So a product that no one knows about can make the cut, but once it becomes popular, it sucks.

The same thing happens with bands.

By: psu

psu — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:12:48 +0000

Mass Effect wasn’t great. IMHO.

By: peterb

peterb — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:51:59 +0000

@jkp1187 - I claim that the recent Telltale series Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People may be the best adventure game since the Infocom era. I certainly enjoyed it more than Grim Fandango.

By: jkp1187

jkp1187 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:37:28 +0000

One possible exception to the above: Mass Effect. Which I need to sit down and play if I ever get free time again.

By: jkp1187

jkp1187 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:36:53 +0000

Never played KOTOR, but I played BG, Icewind Dale, and BG2, and I have to almost agree with you about Bioware.

Those two BG Bioware games were so close to being phenomenal…and yet…and yet…they fell short. They had actual elements of true role-playing and problem solving, but fell short because in between those elements was a boring dungeon slugfest. And then the inevitable save/reload/save/reload final battle was annoying.

Still, they were good enough to make me remember them fondly and make me start them again (esp. BG2) periodically.

(Icewind Dale was a failure in my mind, just because it was little more than a linear slugfest.)

But I haven’t seen a really REALLY good adventure game since Grim Fandango. Or maybe Star Trek 25th Anniversary Edition. (And before that, Infocom.)

By: benf

benf — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:06:40 +0000

You would have had a good time dork watching at WWDC

By: logtar

logtar — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:29:48 +0000

Congratulations, you just became a bloggin dork