For all the wooters out there...

[Furiously]

Sandwich! STAT!

[Oban]

Just in case, her name is Jade Raymond:

http://www.g4tv.com/electricplayground/features/51427/Jade_Raymond_QA.html

[Strazos]

Yeah, I'd hit that.

[Signe]

She's a Pixies fan!

[Furiously]

Top five movies?
Hero, Evil Dead 2, The Magnificent Seven, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Professional.

She's a man!!!!

[Yegolev]

I can see a woman liking Hero, but the rest are right out.  Lies!

[HaemishM]

She is certainly to the top end of the Hitability Scale.

[SimuKaren]

My bad. Try here.

Stephanie Shaver: I can't disclose numbers. I can say the game is still being actively worked on, and that my job at the company is officially Lead Designer of the game, so my mortgage payment is dependent on us doing Hero's Journey.

Anyway hope Karen can confirm it.

Confirmed. She is lead designer, and a spectacular gourmet cook, too.

G4: If you were stuck on a desert island with only one video game, which would it be?
Jade: Am I on this island alone or with other people? If I'm alone I would want to have Tetris. Seems like a great way to go insane to me. If I'm with people then I'd like to have the Settlers of Catan, the best board game ever!

Be still my beating heart...

[Triforcer]

Video games and board games are interchangeable?  SCHILD WAS RIGHT.   

[Lantyssa]

Top five movies?
Hero, Evil Dead 2, The Magnificent Seven, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Professional.

She's a man!!!!

Bruce Campbell, Harrison Ford, and a very young (and cute at the time) Natalie Portman.  What's not to like?

[Furiously]

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[schild]

Gonna be honest. I think she's lying. She name dropped obscure games that even the most elitist gamer wouldn't actually list.

Top 5 video games of all time?
My recent favorite is Resident Evil 4. Other all time favorites are Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Intelligent Cube, Tekken 3, Incredible Crisis, PaRappa the Rappa and Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

RE4? Ok, still with you.
Sands of Time? THIS IS YOUR FAVORITE ACTION TITLE? WHAT?
Intelligent Qube? Wait. What? That's just a goddamned lie! Yea, great, rarest north american PS1 release. It ranks with Suikoden 2. And sure, it's a good game. Maybe even a great game. Top 5, after listing a survival horror and combat action title? LIAR.

Then it goes downhill.

Tekken 3? ...Tekken Tag maybe?
Parappa? You're reaching.
Ocarina of Time? OK. Now you're like some dicky games journalist who just doesn't want to list Link to the Past because everyone else does. Grow some.

Also, this interview was done in 2005. Alias had already turned to shit.

And the top 5 bands? She was naming top 5 albums. I hope. Killers had only recently dropped Hot Fuss on America. The Shins had 2 albums out, one was shitty. And then, wait, what? Dre, Vega, and Bowie? Is that code for "I don't listen to music but here's what I saw on some programmers iPods."

Yea, I'm being critical. And yea, she's super hot. There's no one on this board that wouldn't wreck a gamer like that, including the women. But don't take us for fools.

Edit: Also, she listed Tetris as something she'd bring if she was stuck on an island. I don't even play it and I'd bring The Sims. Spore if it was out. THINK ABOUT IT.

Anyway, yea, her taste is either questionable or a bunch of lies. I hope it's the latter. Cuz any chick that plays Intelligent Qube gets points.

Name your top three favoriate websites?

F14.CO.NZ is my favoriate website. I can't count to 3.

[stray]

I'm pretty sure she mentioned Sands of Time because that's basically the development team she's working with. 

Anyways, here's another cute producer (don't think she has programming experience like Jade though)

[schild]

Jade coulda gone with Pandora Tomorrow or Chaos Theory and I would've believed her. But Sands of Time? Yea, it's a great game. But really? Comeon.

[Lantyssa]

You took the words right out of my mouth.

That is what the quote function is for, yes. :-D

[Triforcer]

I disagree with what you said (in the G.Bob mandick sense) in regards to Ocarina of Time.  It may not be a 100% ironclad pick in everyone's top 5, but I've never seen anyone else go "LOL" when someone DID have it there.  I'd put it at 4 or 5 on my own list.  

[stray]

Nothing post '94 Nintendo would make a top 5 list for me. Or even top 50 (not trying to be sarcastic).

Admittedly, I always thought Sega did cooler things in it's heyday (so it's not like I was a huge Nintendo fan to begin with), but after the SNES, my interests in gaming changed.

[Johny Cee]

Nothing post '94 Nintendo would make a top 5 list for me. Or even top 50 (not trying to be sarcastic).

Admittedly, I always thought Sega did cooler things in it's heyday (so it's not like I was a huge Nintendo fan to begin with), but after the SNES, my interests in gaming changed.

You got old! 

I used to like resource-strategy games, even played some fairly competively on Kali, and FPSes.  Not to mention the platformers I loved growing up.  Then the reflexes went to hell.

Soooo much of an all-time favorite games list is what platforms you played.  For multiplayer,  my fave FPS is still 1994 Marathon.  Myth is a close second,  and it's still pretty much the only real time tactical game ever put out (though the Total War series does tactical pretty well).

There was no greater high then taking a group of units in Myth nearly identical to other players,  sucking them into a ball in your center,  then enveloping and decimating your opponent.  No learn heuristics as to build order and building placement,  or cheesy build and zerg rush.

[stray]

I still dabbled with all platforms back then, but yeah, the age thing was probably a big factor in why I moved away from Nintendo.

And as you mentioned, even the Mac had some truly memorable games (gasp!). I liked Marathon and Myth as well.

As far as other things go, the mid 90's in general was fantastic. That was the period of Quake, Resident Evil, Chrono Trigger, WC3, X-Com, Wipeout, Myst, SC2K, LucasArts stuff like Monkey Island and Full Throttle and the XvT series, Fallout, Blade Runner, 2D and 3D fighting games galore, . Among other things.

[Strazos]

Never quite grasped the hate of OoT. I love the game.

But I agree, definitely not a top 5 or so.

[Furiously]

You took the words right out of my mouth.

That is what the quote function is for, yes. :-D

I think that's what Meatloaf is for.

[stray]

Never quite grasped the hate of OoT. I love the game.

But I agree, definitely not a top 5 or so.

Not hate. More like overall, general meh-ness with Nintendo after the SNES. Even the Nintendo games I did like in the N64 age (Pilot Wings, MK, Wave Race, or Starfox, for example) were still outclassed by things elsewhere (well, MK wasn't I guess).

RPG wise though, Nintendo has always been outclassed (NES/SNES/N64, doesn't matter). None of that stuff deserves a top spot on a list when there were other games on their own systems that were better (read: Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and Ogre Battle if that counts).

[EDIT] Hell, they're outclassed in the side scrolling department too (except genuine platformers like Mario). People aren't nostalgic enough about the Contras, Gunstars, Castlevanias, Mega Mans, and Striders of the world, but Metroid almost always makes the top of side scrolling lists. It's silly.

[schild]

I liked Wipeout more than F-Zero and I liked Twisted Metal more than Mario Kart. That's purely coincidence though, there's nothing wrong with Mario Kart of F-Zero.

[Rasix]

RPG wise though, Nintendo has always been outclassed (NES/SNES/N64, doesn't matter). None of that stuff deserves a top spot on a list when there were other games on their own systems that were better (read: Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and Ogre Battle if that counts).

I'm trying to make sense of this and am just drawing blanks (it's late, forgive me).  Are you making a distinction between games Nintendo developed versus games on their systems from third party developers?

Edit: Liked OoT until the water dungeon.  Beat that one and then quit in disgust hours later. 

[Falconeer]

Never quite grasped the hate of OoT. I love the game.

But I agree, definitely not a top 5 or so.

Hate? If I remember correctly, Gamerankings lists it as on of the first 3 videogames ever (actually since the late 90s) just based on the simple average between website reviews. I'd link it but the site is under mainteinance.

[schild]

RPG wise though, Nintendo has always been outclassed (NES/SNES/N64, doesn't matter). None of that stuff deserves a top spot on a list when there were other games on their own systems that were better (read: Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and Ogre Battle if that counts).

I'm trying to make sense of this and am just drawing blanks (it's late, forgive me).  Are you making a distinction between games Nintendo developed versus games on their systems from third party developers?

He sure is. And he's right. Squaresoft, Enix, etc all put out better RPGs than Nintendo ever did. Hell, the best Nintendo RPG came from Squaresoft.

Only 2 genres was Nintendo not outclassed on... on the SNES: Racing and Platformers. HOWEVER, there were an absolute shitload of great platformers on the system. But above all, they had SMW and F-Zero/MK (pick your poison).

[schild]

Never quite grasped the hate of OoT. I love the game.

But I agree, definitely not a top 5 or so.

Hate? If I remember correctly, Gamerankings lists it as on of the first 3 videogames ever (actually since the late 90s) just based on the simple average between website reviews. I'd link it but the site is under mainteinance.

Doesn't account for obsolescence, therefore useless. Game scores are fluid. Even GI knows that, that's why they re-review shit.

[Llava]

Did you guys just go from talking about how hot a chick is to criticizing her Top 5 video game choices?

I mean, I know we're nerdy here but...

[Rasix]

RPG wise though, Nintendo has always been outclassed (NES/SNES/N64, doesn't matter). None of that stuff deserves a top spot on a list when there were other games on their own systems that were better (read: Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and Ogre Battle if that counts).

I'm trying to make sense of this and am just drawing blanks (it's late, forgive me).  Are you making a distinction between games Nintendo developed versus games on their systems from third party developers?

He sure is. And he's right. Squaresoft, Enix, etc all put out better RPGs than Nintendo ever did. Hell, the best Nintendo RPG came from Squaresoft.

Ohh, I just didn't think why anyone would point out something so blindingly obvious.  I mean seriously.. FF3... common.

[schild]

Actually.

In one post I went from saying I'd wreck her to criticizing her top 5 games.

On both counts, I was factually correct in everything I said.

[schild]

Ohh, I just didn't think why anyone would point out something so blindingly obvious.  I mean seriously.. FF3... common.

The Wii is obviously a Gamecube with a magic wand. 3.5Million people haven't noticed yet.

[Ironwood]

I dunno.  I make a fuckload of money.

Dunno. She is pretty fucking hot.

Plus you're married and old :P

Way to ruin a mans dreams.  Why don't you just come over here and piss in my coffee.

 

[Rasix]

Ohh, I just didn't think why anyone would point out something so blindingly obvious.  I mean seriously.. FF3... common.

The Wii is obviously a Gamecube with a magic wand. 3.5Million people haven't noticed yet.

People like magic wands.  That Potter kid is quite popular.

[Falconeer]

Hate? If I remember correctly, Gamerankings lists it as on of the first 3 videogames ever (actually since the late 90s) just based on the simple average between website reviews. I'd link it but the site is under mainteinance.

Doesn't account for obsolescence, therefore useless. Game scores are fluid. Even GI knows that, that's why they re-review shit.

There's a difference between what you are saying and "hate". That was my point.

[Azazel]

RPG wise though, Nintendo has always been outclassed (NES/SNES/N64, doesn't matter). None of that stuff deserves a top spot on a list when there were other games on their own systems that were better (read: Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and Ogre Battle if that counts).

That's the thing about opinions, though. Also, different people may not have player certain classics. It depends when you start playing the genre/platform and so forth. I've never Pllayed Thief/2 or Deus Ex, for example.

I liked Wipeout more than F-Zero and I liked Twisted Metal more than Mario Kart. That's purely coincidence though, there's nothing wrong with Mario Kart of F-Zero.

I'll take the SNES Mario Kart and Twisted Metal 2 over any other racing or combat games from that era. Including F-Zero or any of the many Wipeouts.