Comments on Games: Put the Shovel Down

Dude, Sims.

viva pinata is like crack.

i downloaded the demo one night at maybe 3 am and after I got my little garden going it was all over. there was something so zen and peaceful about it.

i picked up the game the next day, and played the shit out of it for the next few weeks.

party animals is totally lame, though.

Dude, Bioshock.

Completely unrelated to anything above, of course. But still.

At what level do you get to knock the stuffing out of them with a baseball bat?

I just wonder when the market will finally collapse under the weight of another WWII FPS. Yeesh.

I'm ashamed to admit that you CAN lose at Viva Pinata, and I found out the hard way. I still don't understand why, but I lost. All my little animals looked OK to me, but the gardener appeared and scolded me for sucking ass.

Sam-- i think you are right: farming games are a reaction to (a) massive urbanization of humanity, and/or (b) companies running out of ideas for sci-fi/fantasty games, and/or (c) weird subconscious training for a younger generation that will have to farm again to feed itself.

I love harvest moon, the probably in my top 5 most fun to play games, seriously boring to watch someone else play though.

My 4 year old is the only one in my house that still plays VP. Yesterday I went to my computer and found a browser open with "pinyatail" in the address bar. She said she was trying to go to the pinata island site to find out what squazzils eat.

Puzzle Quest on XBLA FTW

fucking crack. Bejeweled * Dragon Warrior ^ satan.

The biggest shock in Mass Effect was finding out that at least one person in the future believes in the Christian God. When is the last time you saw that in any sci-fi universe?

i tried to play this in nyc with my son last fall and it was hard! he was totally bored and hated it. i concurred.

Viva Pinata is the only reason to get xBox360 if you're not a Sports/FPS nut.

That said, Sims rocks.

(oh, ok, Mass Effect isn't bad)

If Charles Mudede had written this post it would have been half as long, but would have included a picture of a woman with amazing tits. And they would have flamed him for it.

You can get Viva Pinata for the PC, by the way. ;) For those who haven't gone the 360 route.

Does it work on Linux, @15? Or a Mac?

This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: "HUGE SUCCESS!"

I find it hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Will, you should know you can run anything on Linux or Mac. From Cygwin to WAB to Win4lin on *nix platforms and WINE to boot camp to parallels to virtual pc on MAC OS X, the sky is the limit.

Considering the the XBox 360 is simply a PC , it would only make sense that crap (Pinata) is available on PC.

Thank bob you got canned so you have more time to write. Great observations. Bring on the LOST game!