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#1 Spann

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 11:11 AM

http://www.escapistm...ion-Psychonauts

Go watch, then discuss. Jah?

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 12:13 PM

Brilliant. As usual. Couldn't agree more. Psychonauts was one of the best games I've played in the past decade.

Also, I must admit that I'm jealous of Yahtzee's ability to make humor out of a positive review. That's really friggin' hard to do.

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 12:20 PM

anybody know how to download these off of the site (videoegg)

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 12:23 PM

Just copy them out of your cache files or "Temporary Internet Files" if you're using IE.

It won't play in a conventional media player. You'll need a player that can play FLV files such as Riva's FLV player.

#5 Spann

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 12:40 PM

Did anybody else do the pen thing?

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 12:56 PM

Pyschonauts is one of the best games of all time. Yahtzee is funny. There's not much else to discuss so I'll simply post that I bought the game and feel all smug about it.

And the controller-snapping, reduce-a-grown-man-to-crying hard bits was at least only at the end of the game, which is better than most every other game ever made.

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 01:27 PM

It's also nice to see that someone else shares a want for more games like Monkey Island.

Hell, even the Broken Sword games have gone downhill, and I never thought that would've happened.

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 01:45 PM

As I didn't have a pen available, I did it with my nose. It hurt. I must buy the game then.

Anyway, a very enjoyable video.

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 02:25 PM

Funnily enough, Edge magazine had a big feature on Psychonauts a in this month's issue.

Where did Bond go?

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 02:54 PM

Hey Yahtz, I did that thing with the pen, but I actually had bought Psychonauts ages ago. In all fairness, I didn't squeeze too hard.
Anyway, nice review.

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 04:00 PM

I did the pen thing. I was either doing it wrong or Yahtzee is a frail old biddy because it didn't hurt at all, either way I hate him more for it being a waste of time rather than crippling myself. Though it was funny.

Yay for the comment on WoW.

I probably won't play Psychonauts for the forseeable future because it looks scarily weird despite clever and I'm not really in the mood for platformers these days.

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 07:16 PM

I did the pen thing with a nice comfy round biro - didn't hurt. Maybe one of the pointy Bic ones would. Oh well.

Gonna purchase Psychonauts and see if Yahtz is right, he better be or I'll insert a pen up his arse. Well ok, I won't, but I'll be mad.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cobnat @ Oct 14 2007, 09:43 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=174818"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-family:Microsoft Sans Serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><span style="color:#FF0000">Lets all have sex with robots until our groins are sore and bloody!</span></span></span></div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legion @ Aug 10 2007, 11:03 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=169306"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="color:#483D8B"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">So why the unholy flying purple donkeypunching fuck will it not work on yours? Just what kind of machine are you running there? Your toaster?</span></span></span></div>

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 08:40 PM

QUOTE (CJ Marren @ Aug 22 2007, 07:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I did the pen thing with a nice comfy round biro - didn't hurt. Maybe one of the pointy Bic ones would. Oh well.

I did the pen thing with a toothbrush. It didn't hurt. Why? Because I didn't manage to do it properly and the toothbrush fell out of my hand and onto the floor -- It's scary to think that the crap on the floor will contaminate my toothbrush and possibly have a greater long term effect on my health than simply wedging your fingers together does. Hell, I might even die. Do you think I could sue him if I did?

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Yhatzee goes does well with Stuart Cambell and fans. Well, except one guy, who used to work with hmi [it seems] and now hates his guts. But what does he know? It's not like he met him or anything!

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:19 PM

I was a Yahtzee fan before he became popular.

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Posted 22 August 2007 - 10:56 PM

Havnt actually visited the forums in awhile as to be honest: Yahtzees humor had rather run dry for me. The new trilbys notes and 6 days a sacrifice are still excellent games with an extremely involving storyline so no critiscism there but I rather felt that the humor side of the site had died quite a bit as Ben had grown older.

Obviously I was wrong, the new videos prove that you still have the ability to make me laugh out loud and for that well done.

Thanks for years of mirth

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