Dvader said:

Leo, I am finally taking a look at your backloggery, I assume its finished now. I saw a message by someone with an avatar of a hot chick. Who is this???

http://backloggery.com/h8b1llg8ts

Ack my eyes!  That page, it burns!

Dvader said:

Finished Demon's Souls. Time to play it all over again!

I have been reading Bayonetta impressions at gaf, its overwhelmingly positive. It seems clear that this is the new DMC. Many say it surpasses DMC3 as the king of action games.

Are you going to buy or rent it?

Yodariquo said:

New logo concept (preliminary design):



This is the idea I'm leaning toward.

It reminds me of Resetti in Animal Crossing! Awesome!

aspro said:

Dvader said:

Finished Demon's Souls. Time to play it all over again!

I have been reading Bayonetta impressions at gaf, its overwhelmingly positive. It seems clear that this is the new DMC. Many say it surpasses DMC3 as the king of action games.

Are you going to buy or rent it?

BUY. I would never rent anything that awesome.

Dvader said:

Looking at Leo's backloggery:

NES - You beat Skate or Die but never played Skate or Die 2, aww man you missed out. Wrath of the Black Manta, I played that at my uncles a lot. You played nearly everything. You beat Top Gun, how did you land the plane? Where is Super Mario Bros. NES?

Genesis - Cover basically everything. Not much of a sports gamer I can tell.  Your ratings for the Sonic's suck by the way. You had a 32x but not Knuckles Chaotix, isnt that the only good game.

SNES - Never finished the DKC games huh, I dont blame you. You played basically everything.

3DO - Why? Plumbers don't wear ties, really?

Saturn - You never finished Panzer Saga? No Virtua Cop games, I loved those. I always wanted to play the Clockwork Knight games.

PS1 - Uhhhh, what happened here. Why are the RE games listed as unbeaten? FFVII? You have almost every game on that list but I am shocked at the ones that are unbeaten.

N64 - Oh god. I am hoping this list is incorrect.

DC - As always an impressive list. You are a fighting game freak. SA2, REC, Shenmue, Rayman 2, Skies all unbeaten. I havent finished Skies of Arcadia either but how do you not finish something like Shenmue.

PS2 - The trend continues, it gets sad as the years go on. You still play almost everything, I dont if there is anything I have played that you have not. But as time went on the unbeatend stacked up like mad. I just see someone that stopped caring about finishing a game, rather just moving from game to game. Finish MGS3 you heathen! How do you beat Blood Omen 2 and not something like DMC.

Xbox - Yikes almost all unfinished. Panzer Dragoon Orta you beat. No Shenmue 2,  guess you need to finish the first one first.

GC - WHAT DO YOU MEAN RE4 IS UNBEATEN?!?! AHHHHHHH! Why buy Zelda games anymore?

I looked over the rest, man. Well you are a playing machine, just not a finishing one. Early on I was in awe, as the years went on it was more shock.  Some franchises you stayed very loyal to most notibaly Castlevania and Street Fighter. You play almost every genre so I cant pin point your favorite, maybe fighting. You have lots of RPGs but you dont finish many of them. Action games seemed unfinished unless its Castlevania. Platformers dont seem like your thing, or at least 3D ones as you never finished Galaxy, dont have LBP. I dont see much of a pattern here.

Still an amazing list of games.

-Yeah. Ummm. First off, as Raven can tell you, adding games to the Backloggery can be a bit inconsistent at first... I definitely owned, played and beat Super Mario Bros, Virtua Cop and Virtua Cop 2. They WERE all on the list, I don't know what happened to 'em.

-Plumbers Don't Wear Ties? I heard there was a nude code and wanted to see the guy's wang. Sadly, this wasn't entirely true. Plus, I borrowed it.

-I have never beaten a single RE game. Why break the tradition now?  

-I tend to beat every other Final Fantasy game. FFVII goes unfinished to this day.

-If you recall, the N64 was my least favorite Nintendo system. OoT, MM and a bunch others... Left undone for eternity! The only N64 game I'll play again and again is Ogre Battle 64!

-Skies of Arcadia was beaten on GameCube!

-I'll never beat a Devil May Cry game. I like 'em, but not my cup of tea. I don't have the patience for the difficulty. (Which also explains why I gave away my copy of Demon's Souls Friday...   ) Probably going to avoid buying Bayonetta for that reason, too. As for Metal Gear Solid 3, couldn't get into it. Now that I have played 4, I can't go back.

-I don't know why I buy Zelda games anymore. I could have stopped with Link to the Past or the Oracle games and been satisfied.

-You're trying to find a pattern in MY behavior? Good Luck! I don't even know what's going to tickle my fancy next!

-It takes a special kind of game design, not often seen anymore to motivate me through an entire game. Don't know if it's game length and my lack of time. Don't know if it's poor level design or boring stories. Give me a game where I am in control of exploring, gaining new abilities to further that exploration, a solid fighting engine, or an intelligent loot or strategy game and I'll play THOSE to the end. FPS, Racing, 3rd person shooting = bleh. Platformers, 2D I love, 3D, I'll always try, but often find them to be boring fetch quests. I am still trying to play through Galaxy, but if you were to look at my Loggery, you would think I am a bigger Ratchet and Clank fan than Mario!

PS: Game with level editors never keep my interest long (LBP) and games that are never supposed to end (Animal Crossing), just dont do it for me either!

Yodariquo said:

The result of me playing around with logo concepts



Some better than others.

Far too retro IMO. Get away from pixel art and start using abstract shapes. Also from my studies on logo design you should stick to 2 colours, 3 max and try to include the name and try to keep a square/circular shape. Also there is the idea of colour significance, what emotions they bring out. Blue is linked with integrity BTW based on psychological studies.

Also less detail is better apparently, you should be able to see all it has to offer at a glance.

And you should think about a logo as a whole with the design of the site. So if you have a colour scheme going in your logo, apply it to the rest of the site too.

aspro said:

Alright, as you all know DMA Design was the company behind Lemmings and GTA. I was reading an old EGM last night (Nov 98 ) and here is what John Davison wrote about one of their games:

"There's something incredibly groovy about a game where you can say, "Hey wouldn't it be really cool if you could do this..." and then you try it... and you can! Jump in fire trucks, jeeps, cars, motorbikes, whatever.  The sheer scope and scale is unbeleivable and the integration of the different gameplay elemens -- shooting, driving, role-playing, etc. is seamless and transparent. An ambitious game that's well worth the long wait."

That game? Not Grand Theft Auto, but Body Harvest.  Pretty weird eh?

Not weird at all, I own that game and DMA went on to become the Rockstar we know and love. They did the GTA concept way back when on N64. It had a few bugs and was very early, it had some basic graphics but the gameplay was there.

Is there anybody out there?!