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Re: The day after I post this, Tim Roger does a full review, agrees with me. by Bananadine 09/12/2007, 3:38am PDT
Jerry Whorebach wrote:

In other news, Twat Central proves more resistant to Caltrops' particular brand of not-trolling than I hoped :(


"I didn’t understand how the more competent players were moving around, defending and attacking the way they did. I couldn’t so much fight as flop about like a fish, and was killed, torn apart and consumed as such."

"But this is a kind of player: this game has little to offer the player who cannot take enjoyment from simply learning the game, from the process of sorting the unintelligible into something that works. Most people aren’t."

I like this second bit because that is a huge part of what I enjoy in video games. But he really doesn't explain very well how this particular game can be so hard on a new player. It sounds like any other fighting game, except in that, for unspecified reasons, an "old hand" couldn't figure it out very quickly... which is a shaky foundation for a review of that length.

"Bear with me, here: this anecdote has something to do with a videogame. What my analogy is hamfistedly reaching for is that both I and this game are, to a point, inaccessible."

This part is totally Pitchfork. They are Pitchforking video games. :(
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Pac-Man C.E. - 185,920 on "Championship" by Jerry Whorebach 09/09/2007, 4:12pm PDT NEW
    The day after I post this, Tim Roger does a full review, agrees with me. by Jerry Whorebach 09/10/2007, 5:26pm PDT NEW
        Re: The day after I post this, Tim Roger does a full review, agrees with me. by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 09/10/2007, 6:06pm PDT NEW
        Re: The day after I post this, Tim Roger does a full review, agrees with me. by Bananadine 09/12/2007, 3:38am PDT NEW
            Re: The day after I post this, Tim Roger does a full review, agrees with me. by A burqa durk. 09/12/2007, 3:42am PDT NEW
            OMG PITCHFORK! by Zseni 09/12/2007, 5:00am PDT NEW
                And the difference between you and pitchfork is. NT by wait for it 09/12/2007, 5:32am PDT NEW
                    I max out around five paragraphs. NT by Zseni 09/12/2007, 5:37am PDT NEW
                        The similarity between you and pitchfork is: YOU SUCK. NT by troll 09/12/2007, 6:44am PDT NEW
                Re: OMG PITCHFORK! by Bananadine 09/12/2007, 7:17am PDT NEW
                Re: OMG PITCHFORK! by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/12/2007, 11:49am PDT NEW
                    It's understood on Caltrops that silence = agreement or gross indifference. by Fussbett 09/12/2007, 12:13pm PDT NEW
    How's it holding up Jerry? by bink 11/29/2008, 3:55am PST NEW
        The Hori is less than ideal for Pac-Man, still vastly superior to a pad. by Jerry Whorebach 11/29/2008, 5:03am PST NEW
            I'll do it! by bink 11/29/2008, 5:14am PST NEW
                You're probably thinking of Worm's Geometry Wars score. He's pretty good! NT by Pretty good... at Geometry Wars :( 11/29/2008, 7:10am PST NEW
                    I'm probably pretty good at Geometry Wars 2 also! I just need to buy it. NT by Worm 11/29/2008, 9:23am PST NEW
        238,780 (8406th) NT by Jerry Whorebach 12/10/2008, 9:49am PST NEW
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                    *Stops four ghosts in time as they approach* whoa NT by Jerry Whorebach*flies into the air* 12/10/2008, 10:48am PST NEW
                    Have you seen the 500k run on YouTube? by bink 12/12/2008, 1:58am PST NEW
                        I have now! by Jerry Whorebach 12/12/2008, 6:59am PST NEW
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