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Microsoft: "Proudly continuing the rich comedy tradition set down by Bill Gates"

The "joke"... 🤦‍♂️ Does someone at XBox need a dictionary?

Has Psychonauts 3 been officially announced/released yet?

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Obviously, but still, they clearly thought about the first few moves... I mean, maybe they still did and PSC is actually related to the reveal?

Alas, not today...

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Definitely. And added to that is the fact that it's an Australian/New Zealand channel where they say "Naughts and Crosses" and it's really weird. If it was the USA channel then you'd not expect many people there to get it... But maybe the XBS marketing team is entirely based in the USA and nobody in ANZ thought to flag it 🤦‍♂️ It's cool though: It lets XBox know that there's appetite for more! EDIT: Damn it. Now I'm overthinking it... So this is how the game played out... a b c | | 1 - | - | - _____|_____|_____ | | 2 - | X | - _____|_____|_____ | | 3 - | - | - | | a b c | | 1 - | - | - _____|_____|_____ | | 2 - | X | - _____|_____|_____ | | 3 - | - | P | | P a b c | | 1 - | - | - _____|_____|_____ | | 2 - | X | - _____|_____|_____ | | 3 - | X | P | | a b c | | 1 - | S | - _____|_____|_____ | | 2 - | X | - _____|_____|_____ | | 3 - | X | P | | PS a b c | | 1 - | S | X _____|_____|_____ | | 2 - | X | - _____|_____|_____ | | 3 - | X | P | | a b c | | 1 - | S | X _____|_____|_____ | | 2 - | X | - _____|_____|_____ | | 3 C | X | P | | PSC... yeah, someone fucked it. a3 should have been Y. Maybe the graphic designer got lazy, or someone thought it looked better with Y in the middle on the left. Or it's actually spelling PSC... something.

Well one player is "O" (naughts) and the other is "X" (crosses). So that means in the graphic that the "naughts" spell out "Psycho"... so it's not much of a leap. In fact, I can't see what else they would mean. It's very confusing!

It's very confusing, because apparently in Aus and NZ they call it naughts and crosses (like we Brits do), so the social media manager over there must have been aware of the connection: Psycho... naughts.

Excellent point. I was jump between meetings when I wrote that and wasn't actually engaged. I took Huz's maths at face value, like a fool. But, some good news: for once something isn't as old as I thought! Usually you learn something like this and it makes you feel ancient. Other things to consider: This is the Australia/New Zealand account - no reason to believe they'd start a teaser campaign there In the USA it's "tic tac toe"... so why would they do a pun on "naughts and crosses"? It's clearly not Psychonautswhen you think about it... BUT! maybe this excitement will ignite something at XBS?

Ooh. I just had to check. XXX could easily be 30th anniversary... Psychonauts Remake?! ...but they probably wouldn't be teasing something two year's away

I didn't realise that about MetaCritic. Thanks for making me aware of it. However it's worth noting that movie reviews aren't usually done in % so even on MC they can be interpretations... MC also weights their reviews: So some reviewers get more influence than others. Sounds controversial, but I like that... (I kind of wish Rotten Tomatoes would make their "Top Critics" score more prominent and easier to reach for this reason: I do actually think that the NYT should get more weight compared to a 13 year old with a movie blog -- call me a snob if you wish!). Might need to start looking more at MC, because RT has started to become less reliable than it used to be IMO.

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Yes... but there's no such thing as an "objective measure of quality". Prevailing critical/viewer sentiment is literally the best metric we have (and honestly my tastes are usually pretty much aligned with RT -- a few exceptions, but on the whole it's a reliable metric). Oh wow. That's silly! The Indy boxset came with a ton of extras, but they left out the ones from CS? I was concerned there was something on the UHD transfers that was bad, though. At least it's not that

Absolutely. As Gins said, this is what I tried to allude to in my post... Laserschwert said... What's wrong with the current one? I don't have UHD/4K/HDR yet... but Indiana Jones would definitely be one of my first purchases when I do

Oops.

I think it’s fair to say that Maniac Mansion was pretty light on story. And characterisation. Zak added more of both. I haven’t played Loom in a long time, but it definitely put story at the forefront. Last Crusade’s adaptation changes the story structure to suit its puzzles, and misses lots of key narrative beats from the source material (Indy’s relationship with his dad, for example). As a story it’s pretty weak. The Monkey Island games have great stories to support their puzzle structures, but aren’t necessarily great stories by themselves. Although they have fantastic characters and strong story beats in between the puzzles. They work fantastically as games, but I wouldn’t want to read the novelisation or watch the film without some creative reworking. I think Fate treats its story even more secondarily than Monkey Island 1 and 2… it’s lots of stand alone locations and characters. Although maybe that’s how Indy movies are… but there’s nothing amazingly memorable about the secondary characters or story moments in the game. And aside from the beginning and ending there’s no really strong story beats. I think DOTT has great characters, a story that never loses sight of the main arc, and some great set pieces that would translate well into other mediums (eg. The beauty contest). For me, in terms of storytelling, I think it surpasses MI 1 and 2 — LucasArts’s pinnacle until this point. (Although I can’t remember Loom, to be fair.) Sam & Max is about as crazy and irreverent as any issue of it’s comic book. Full Throttle has a superbly strong story structure if you ask me. That and Grim Fandango could most easily be translated into other mediums. Hell, Duncan Jones already wrote a screenplay for Full Throttle. I don’t even know if he changed all that much. As I said before I think Tales had quite a strong story, too (the stuff with LeChuck still feels memorable after all these years)… although that would be picking up the key moments from all 5 episodes. That’s my take anyway. Just because an adventure game doesn’t have a strong standalone doesn’t mean it’s not a great adventure game. But it’s really fun when you have a really strong story AND it supports the puzzles, too. (You could argue that Full Throttle suffers with its puzzles because it puts them so clearly secondary to the story — indeed that’s why some LucasArts fans rag on it: it’s too short, etc., rather than appreciating that the story is generally really tight for a game with lots of great beats).

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You might be putting Rhonda in a difficult position with that post

Not a bad idea, and I agree that most LucasArts games don't have that great of a story... but there are some wonderful exceptions: Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle and arguably Secret of Monkey Island. (All Tim Schafer "joints", I note in hindsight.) Tales had a pretty good story, too. Fate of Atlantis, however, I felt is pretty ropey on actual story, as I noticed when replaying it recently. Would love to hear what story beats are so great from fans?