#XPLAI

[peachnemnem]

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[supersoftly]

While I'm sure a lot of people(mostly men) would be happy seeing booth babes make a comeback, wouldn't feminists kick up a stink about it? They'd definitely start accusing booth babes of being sleazy and "pandering to the male gaze".

They never stopped lol 🙄 Why women gotta dedicate a whole ass movement against fun I'll never understand

[posthumanwanderings]

X-Play: OutRun 2 review (2004)

[osamaman]

[they-have-the-same-va]

Adamantoise from World of Final Fantasy shares an actor with Man Who Proclaims That Kingdom Hearts II Has Screwed Us Again from the G-Phoria '06 campaign ads.

Portrayed by William Frederick Knight

(he also co-hosted the At the Bootys segment on Attack of the Show!)

[nintendumpster]

[saucebou]

Holy shit it’s Makoto’s death day!

It is his death day

I love it when fictional characters are dead.

[blazehedgehog]

Did you ever watch much XPlay? What did you think of it?

XPlay was (almost) always bad. It started out as a show called "Extended Play", which was a pretty normal game news/reviews show on TechTV.

It was still Adam Sessler, but this was before Morgan Webb -- his cohost here was Kate Botello. Again, things were pretty normal and average. When TechTV got bought and converted to G4, "Extended Play" was changed to become "XPlay" and over the course of a year or two, got retooled to be "funny."

This meant a lot of long, pointless, annoying comedy skits between the game coverage, and a lot of reviews often contained "jokes" as well.

I liked to catch the occasional episode of Extended Play, but XPlay quickly became totally unwatchable. And since it was the early 2000's, a lot of that humor was intentionally very smug and offensive. This was the peak "boys will be boys" era of, like, EGM dedicating pages to swimsuit centerfolds, the stink of endless men's cologne sampler ads, and Playboy featuring CG renders of a topless Bloodrayne. Things were dire.

It's easy to forget that, given how long ago that original run of XPlay was. Rose-tinted nostalgia sets in because it was basically one of the only TV shows dedicated to games and industry news at that time. But it was foul. When I stop and actually think about it in-depth, I have no fond memories of XPlay whatsoever, because I have no actual memories of XPlay at all. It became something I avoided whenever possible. The show was insufferable.

Hearing that Adam Sessler has been having a perpetual, ongoing meltdown for months is really depressing, too. I used to try and take the dude's side, because he seems completely fried by "toxic gamers" coming after him, but he's also like... not stopping? At some point you'd expect the guy to walk away, but lately it seems like every few weeks he's going on another rant about how he hates video games now and is glad he "left." Except he never actually leaves. He just quote-tweets the next guy in line and goes on another 25 tweet rant about how everyone else is the worst. He seems completely broken.

His latest meltdown is because somebody called out one of these XPlay "comedy skits" -- and all he would have to do is spare a moment of reason, say "it was a different time, and a lot of things have changed since then, including me." But it's just another platform for him to scream and vomit about gamers again while the audience pelts him with peanuts. The dude has given up in every way except the ones that actually matter.

Everybody --you, me, Adam Sessler-- just need to walk away. Clearly nobody is happy with this outcome.

[veryspecialfungus]

happy psychonauts day!

Oh my gosh it is!

I remember I first found out about Psychonauts by seeing the X-Play review on TV at my grandmother's house (god remember when) and being blown away by the visuals and running out to buy it two days later.

I still have my original PS2 copy. I hope one day to get it signed by Tim Schafer.

Anyway, happy anniversary, Psychonauts. I hope this isn't the end of the stories we get to have in that world, but, um, maybe not in the form of a game this time.

[unpopularshipbracket]

Sorry for submitting a BUNCH of ships from various machinimas. Just trying to increase my odds, and also I love machinimas

No worries, submit as much as you want! Although you ARE making me want to dig up Splinter Cell Co-Op Theater...

[julevanwilde]

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[tim-toolman-taylor]