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Add ReplyQUOTE (Gekko @ Mar 31 2008, 08:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It would be awesome to play a base management game featuring characters from Yahtzee Takes On the World. Right? Riiiight?
To think that I'd live to see the day when I agree with Gekko...
Character Poll who should star in the next story?
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Posted 31 March 2008 - 09:39 AM
To think that I'd live to see the day when I agree with Gekko...
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Posted 31 March 2008 - 10:24 AM
QUOTE (Gekko @ Mar 31 2008, 10:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It would be awesome to play a base management game featuring characters from Yahtzee Takes On the World. Right? Riiiight?
Agreed. Awesome game idea. Kinda like Evil Genius, but with YTOTW and, you know, better...
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Posted 31 March 2008 - 03:05 PM
I read that Yahtzee can't deceide wich character should he do a story about, so here are 2 ideas:
- 1213: A story on Westbury (bespectacled man), from the time when he was a hacker, and when TessaLife corporation found him. Perhaps he could elaborate the 1213 world a little bit more.
- Odysseus Kent: I, too, would like another story featuring Odysseus, perhaps another treasure hunting adventure.
- 1213: A story on Westbury (bespectacled man), from the time when he was a hacker, and when TessaLife corporation found him. Perhaps he could elaborate the 1213 world a little bit more.
- Odysseus Kent: I, too, would like another story featuring Odysseus, perhaps another treasure hunting adventure.
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Posted 31 March 2008 - 03:36 PM
[joke]Older Trilby with some super powers, pimping all over the world.[/joke]
Older Trilby. I like to see one with a bit of gray hair.
I hope they include heavy satanic style chantings in the soundtrack. That would be "kickarse".
Older Trilby. I like to see one with a bit of gray hair.
I hope they include heavy satanic style chantings in the soundtrack. That would be "kickarse".
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Posted 31 March 2008 - 05:42 PM
Articulate Jim was an excellent book.
Actually, I think that if either of Yahtzee's novels were published in my area, I'd actually buy them.
I'd love to see what he would do with those kind of ideas now that he's matured a bit and become much better at humour, although I fear he may have lost the element of random fun he once had for some half-lazy can't-be-arsed attitude he seems to have adopted as of late.
If Yahtzee reads this . . . did you ever get that tattoo on your forehead?
Actually, I think that if either of Yahtzee's novels were published in my area, I'd actually buy them.
I'd love to see what he would do with those kind of ideas now that he's matured a bit and become much better at humour, although I fear he may have lost the element of random fun he once had for some half-lazy can't-be-arsed attitude he seems to have adopted as of late.
If Yahtzee reads this . . . did you ever get that tattoo on your forehead?
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Posted 31 March 2008 - 06:47 PM
I enjoyed Articulate Jim, and I don't regret the read, but I can kind of see why no publishers wanted it. It's funny, it's clever, but it's overlong, the plot doesn't really hold together, and I never really had an emotional stake in what happened, not because I didn't want to, but because the author himself, via metafictional humor, was always pulling me right out of the most intense moments or making fun of his own characters for trying to have feelings.
It was a world of jokes, not a world he really believed in, and while the witty voice of the lead and clever turns of phrase were clever enough to keep me reading, I would have passed on it as a publisher too and told the kid to come back when he could hold a real novel-length plot together and take his own fictional universe seriously.
It was a world of jokes, not a world he really believed in, and while the witty voice of the lead and clever turns of phrase were clever enough to keep me reading, I would have passed on it as a publisher too and told the kid to come back when he could hold a real novel-length plot together and take his own fictional universe seriously.
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Posted 01 April 2008 - 02:18 AM
QUOTE (FFreak3 @ Apr 1 2008, 08:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Articulate Jim was an excellent book.
Actually, I think that if either of Yahtzee's novels were published in my area, I'd actually buy them.
Actually, I think that if either of Yahtzee's novels were published in my area, I'd actually buy them.
I agree with both of those statements. You would actually buy them.
And I might too.
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Posted 01 April 2008 - 03:14 AM
I had the same feeling when reading Articulate Jim, but Fog Juice is a lot better structured in my opinion, even though he started out with the ninja-chase scene exposition to see where it went from there, he didn't have a clear idea what he was going to write about (it's obvious at some points).
Oh, and the ending was ominous.
Oh, and the ending was ominous.
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Posted 01 April 2008 - 07:44 AM
I definitely liked Fog Juice better. Maybe if I liked Red Dwarf more I would have liked Articulate Jim more, but the humor (in both) is way too crass at some points. It's not hard for me to see why AJ wasn't published, and I suppose Fog Juice wasn't published because Yahtzee didn't try.
In 10th grade or so, I printed Articulate Jim and did a book report on it for a class. At the end of the semester, they berated us for breaking the paper budget by printing too much.
In 10th grade or so, I printed Articulate Jim and did a book report on it for a class. At the end of the semester, they berated us for breaking the paper budget by printing too much.
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Posted 01 April 2008 - 09:09 AM
I would also like something completely new, but since that isn't an option I voted for both Young and Old Trilby.
Yahtzee told the testers for AoT that he wasn't planning on expanding it, so no worries about "reading the game".
Yahtzee told the testers for AoT that he wasn't planning on expanding it, so no worries about "reading the game".
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