First-person shooters and action games.

I love quick-load/-save.

Huzzah! Another Pixar movie!

I'm very interested to see where the plot goes. I mean, there's a lot you can do with a cranky old guy in a flying house.

Well, the giant spaceship that you're on (well, I guess "in" fits) in PREY is alive. It's pretty awesome. Check out the demo at least, it's like the first hour of the game and is pretty cool.

Guajira by Los Pinguos

[The ending song from Myst IV]

I know the game was terrible, but from what I've heard of it Sonic 06 had a wonderful soundtrack. Lots of good, orchestral stuff, and it's totally worth a listen - not the theme song, though, which is utter dreck as always. Perfect Cherry Blossom also would go on my list, I loved the music in it. Others include:

n2o  (The Crystal Method )
Wip3out
Katamari Damacy
Riviera: The Promised Land
The ending song from Myst IV
Probably a few others, too.

YES. SOMEBODY FINALLY MENTIONED A MYST GAME.

Seriously, the Riven, Exile, and Revelation soundtracks are amazing. Especially the intro songs for the latter two. 

Windows started sucking when it did away with support for DOS games, everyone agree with me.

Yes. Let's go play THE HORDE and X-COM.

HELL YES.

zapperoni

Non-linear gaming to me just sounds like a buzz word made by pr people that makes a game sound better.  How many games advertise that they have linear gameplay as a selling point?

I agree on your point here.

And now I have a huge urge to make a linear game just so I can advertise this feature.

These are genres?

Japanese assrock
A reenactment of a Star Wars space battle with Tie Fighters and R2D2
Metal Gear erotic fanfic
Crazy good funk
"Sounds like Castlevania"
Epic 80s Training Montage
Jewish hymns turned into metal

Oh yeah, definitely. You're telling me you don't solidly listen to... "Metal Gear erotic fanfic"? ...yeah okay nevermind, I can't work with this kind of material. I quit.

Happy Superepicawesomlyradicalwintertimefestivals everyone!

["...suitably epic..."]

In what critics have called "...suitably epic..." (Rolling Stoned), "...heartbreaking, deep and emotional..." (Old York Timer) and "...so profound it will [tear] your heart out and make you re-evaluate humanity." (I dunno. Some crazy dude.)

2008
Directed by Billions of People.

Basically this year had a lot of stuff for me:
-Filled the last page of my diary after 11 1/2 years.
-Learned my sleeping pattern is crap
-Finished a small adventure game
-Fell in love again, lost love again, got over love again.
-Gained and lost a friend in two months. Lost a friend. Strengthened friendships.
-Hosted two parties, one of which was awesome.
-Started playing DnD more seriously.
-Vastly improved my drawing and painting skills, mainly through my new tablet.
-Discovered the indie music scene.
-Discovered the demo scene.
-Joined these wonderful forums, promptly disappeared for a month and a half, then resurfaced.
-Discovered Mystery Science Theater 3000 and The Spoony Experiment, not to mention That Guy With the Glasses.
-Watched a bunch of anime and read a bunch of manga.
-Worked on my novel, then put it aside until it was the right time to write it. Also worked on a few short stories, never finished them.
-Played around with a few programming languages.
-Wrote down a crap load of game ideas.
-Enjoyed a lot of media.

 

 

I read somewheres Advent Rising was mediocre?

Depends. Xbox version was honestly crap, but the PC version was pretty tolerable. I beat it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's an odd game though because I couldn't objectively give it more than 7.5/10. At times it's seriously 9/10 while at others it can be a bit buggy or annoyingly repetitive, giving it a 6/10.

I bought it for 2 dollars, first-hand, on PC. So I thought it was a good deal. Basically if you can get it for 20 dollars I'd go ahead. The storyline is great and the gameplay really solid.

Oh, and did I mention there's a level where you run out of a spaceship as it's getting torn apart? Yeah, it's epic.

This looks pretty awesome. Like, Advent Rising on Awesome kind of awesome.

And Advent Rising was indeed awesome.

Sounds fun indeed.

I'd offer a suggestion but I'm cool with Lyle in Cube Sector.

The term "get a livejournal" exists for a reason.

I guess I need to stay in more but I've never heard that.

Of course, now I have the even bigger problem of what to have as a homepage.

Well, currently I have a blog, DeviantArt account, and YouTube page, and I've connected those all with my blog as the home page, since it's the most encompassing and follows basically everything I do. That being said, your plan is to have a blog for mostly everything and a journal for everything, which makes it more confusing.

Google has some sort of webpage thing. You could do a quick homepage from there with some short links and descriptions maybe.

Or, you could have the blog as your homepage and have a link for "More In-Depth Posts" or something akin to that which links to your journal.

Hugs to everybody who (like me) has disappeared for a month due to no apparent reason.

Oh yeah, and those exams... hugs to you too.

We definitely need more of this kind of game. Spot on. 

You put up quite a challenge to the rest of us.

...well I TAKE that challenge head on with my crappy programmer art!

... Oh god that's a beautiful painting of a river. With the trees and all... ah!