Rodent - Writer Requests...

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 1:23 pm 0

Anything anyone is working on, send it to me via e-mail (new address - panel below). Also, if you want me to have a look at something to make sure the tone/direction is what we're after, don't be shy to send over any works in progress.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 1:37 pm 0

Hmm. If you're in need of a school, you know where Amy works, right? Or Little Dragon too for that matter. Failing that, I know a few Secondary School teachers in/around London too...

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 2:10 pm 0

Let us know when you're doing a space shooter one

I'm working on a definitive review of Final Fantasy X for you, but I've got to finish the bastard first and quite frankly I can't be bothered.

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 2:14 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:Let us know when you're doing a space shooter one

I'm working on a definitive review of Final Fantasy X for you, but I've got to finish the bastard first and quite frankly I can't be bothered.

I loved the one you put in the comments threadthe other day - honest, it's fucking perfect

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:05 pm 0

I'm a bit dried up at the minute.

Still, I'm thinking of a "Why I Love" piece, and I'd love to try and add something to the "C64 vs Spectrum" thing.

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:57 pm 0

koworld wrote:I'd love to see Gordo and Gravvvy do a bit on the C64

Oh, right koworld, give Gravy two extra consonants and leave me with nothing, won't you? Thanks a lot.

Tepic wrote:The Sentinel was 3D

And don't forget the equally speedy Driller, Total Eclipse, Dark Side and (my favourite) Castle Master -- all those great Freescape games. And wasn't one of the flight sims (Chuck Yaeger) 3D? And Revs. And Mercenary and Elite... sort of.

Too much time on my hands tonight.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:59 pm 0

gordon wrote:And don't forget the equally speedy Driller, Total Eclipse, Dark Side and (my favourite) Castle Master -- all those great Freescape games. And wasn't one of the flight sims (Chuck Yaeger) 3D? And Revs. And Mercenary and Elite... sort of.

Too much time on my hands tonight.

Driller had (has) an AMAZING theme tune. Talk about atmospheric! You didn't get that kind of immersion on the Speccy....

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:03 am 0

PaulEMoz wrote:Driller had (has) an AMAZING theme tune. Talk about atmospheric! You didn't get that kind of immersion on the Speccy....

"Fight, fight, fight, fight!"

Stick it to those goggle-eyed, girls' panties-wearing, rabbit-shagging, *bald* members of the Spectrum community, Paul.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:03 am 0

Okay so Matt Gray nicked bits of it from Hallowe'en but it's still a brilliant track

Freescape games are great... at 300% in Vice heh...

Space Rogue was a brilliant filled vector Elite-like game too.

Fil · Post by **Fil** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:04 am 0

Sentinal was the last game i played, IT MADE ME BLIND!!!

It is of course this blindness which has thus far prevented me from submitting to WOTR, that and i can't write.

would you accept a badly drawn picture of mario eating a snail?

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:26 am 0

gordon wrote:
PaulEMoz wrote:Driller had (has) an AMAZING theme tune. Talk about atmospheric! You didn't get that kind of immersion on the Speccy....
"Fight, fight, fight, fight!"

Stick it to those goggle-eyed, girls' panties-wearing, rabbit-shagging, *bald* members of the Spectrum community, Paul.

Gameplay is all. Bristly great BOLLOCKS to yer stupid SID chip. Some twiddly little sub-Stylophone 'tune' does not make a shite game immersive.

COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:34 am 0

Sickboy wrote:
gordon wrote:
PaulEMoz wrote:Driller had (has) an AMAZING theme tune. Talk about atmospheric! You didn't get that kind of immersion on the Speccy....
"Fight, fight, fight, fight!"

Stick it to those goggle-eyed, girls' panties-wearing, rabbit-shagging, *bald* members of the Spectrum community, Paul.
Gameplay is all. Bristly great BOLLOCKS to yer stupid SID chip. Some twiddly little sub-Stylophone 'tune' does not make a shite game immersive.

COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But someone palying a kazoo through a straw underwater doesn't help either.

And so proud are spectrum coders at getting *any* sort of sound out of it you usually can't turn their spastic ramblings off either.

And don't get me started on attribute clash.

Fil · Post by **Fil** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:41 am 0

So the final Speccy vs C64 showdown has arrived has it.

/me clutches his Spectrum 128K +2 and dons his cape

Lets rumble!

thalamus · Post by **thalamus** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:50 am 0

Well... sonically, the C64 beat the Spectrum hands down. And graphics-wise, anything the Spectrum could do, the C64 could, too.

So I guess it comes down to the quality of the games...

Oh, and the fact that the Spectrum was shit and all Speccy owners are ugly and smelly.

Case dismissed.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:58 am 0

Heh... my other argument is gonna be that all the semi-decent tunes on the Speccy were done by C64 composers (Martin Galway, Tim Follin)