2007 awards: Best Behind Mojo

[Gabez]

 

As always, leave comments and suggestions for further polls!

 

You can see all the 'Behind Mojo' posts at this address.

[Metallus]

For reference:

• In the news this week #1
• A lost chapter of WONKY?
• In the news this week #2
• A new comic
• On game announcements
• Pray do not disturbeth
• Ssh, it's a secret!
• A slight drinking problem
• Warning: Extremely Angry Person about to let loose some vitriol. Please stand back...

 

Please review them all before making your decision!

[Udvarnoky]

Please, it's not even close. In the news this week #2 wins for the Ron Gilbert comic.

[The Tingler]

I'd say A New Comic for I remember that well.

 

And I can't believe you put my last rant in there. Don't call too much attention to it or John Walker will notice and beat me up!

[Huz]

Nothing quite beats the Christmas SCUMM Bar comic. But this year's Jim Ward comic is a serious contender!

[elTee]

Heh I voted for the wrong one. I wanted to vote for the 'Perhaps I can pay with my IMAGINATION' one, so when it's all over add a vote to that and subtract one from the one about me having a beer with that painting of Ginsberg.

[Gabez]

Okay -- I changed it.

[neon_git]

All of them made me smile (Well, except for Chris going off on one, that scared me a bit actually) and I found it hard to choose. I went for On Game Announcements in the end because nobody else had voted for it, and that made me sad

[The Tingler]

Scared me too. Still, it's the first actual 'Rant' Behind Mojo's had in a while, considering the column is labelled 'Rants, Etc'.

[neon_git]

Yeah sorry, that came out wrong. I wasn't saying there's anything wrong with having a rant in a behind mojo post, I just meant it didn't make me laugh. And given the choice between something that makes me laugh and things that don't, I tend to choose the things that make me laugh.

 

Didn't mean to single you out as having made a **** post, that's really not what I meant to do.

[The Tingler]

Right, you're in my next rant!

[Gabez]

Hee, I love the rants! We need more of those.

 

I think it made some good points, too. I wouldn't mind seeing those reviews -- I lost track of how mainstream games journalism was taking Sam & Max.

 

I would imagine that Will Porter gave it good coverage in PC Zone?

[The Tingler]

Actually, it was mostly Jon 'Log' Blyth who handled Sam & Max. In general he likes them, but score-wise I think he's holding them back a bit because of their episodic status.

 

Here's Mr. Walker's Episode 6 review. There are others, but they're all labelled 'PC Gamer' rather than any actual name. Unfortunately/fortunately the recent two that prompted my rant aren't up yet as they're in the current issue.

 

I would first like to point out that he makes use of his 'alliteration rather than comedy' comment in several of these reviews. Can anyone think of any times that Sam & Max used alliteration to a tiresome degree? Or at all?

 

He occasionally makes an acceptable point, but does anyone think Situation: Comedy isn't funny? Or that Bosco's accents are racist?[

[Gabez]

Those reviews do make me angry...!

 

It seems that he just didn't like the style of humour in the Sam & Max games (probably because he's had a lobotomy).

 

Ah well -- just goes to show that you shouldn't always believe what you read in the papers!

[The Tingler]

He is fully titled to his opinion and I am fully capable of seeing that not everyone will like the style of humour in Sam & Max - I just wish he could accept that other people might actually find them funny and didn't take such a delight in tearing them down.