holds the phone

Video games used to have better titles, dammit! The Electronic Arts comprise of "Immortals of Aveum" just doesn't go hard enough. Now, Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth; there's a name! From the weirdos at Coktel, who Giant Bomb fans know from Inca people, the PC point-and-click is about as 90s French absurdity as it gets.

While obviously crude and full of running around, this highly animated feature is so damn full of artsy backgrounds and trippy situations. It's hard to imagine that such a labor intensive world could be made today, let alone by a lesser studio. Click on a thing, see a cooky event, sometimes a character farts or makes an inappropriate comment; that's video games, baby! 🙏

The best way to play GTA4 these days is with DXVK and several mods to fix things which never worked in the PC version, or have broken since, and to make the graphics less bad. Is that the way I just played through the entire game? Haha, no! I set all this up and then played through it on the Xbox because I wanted to be on the couch.

The most interesting thing about playing GTA4 for me now is how particular it is to 2008. The phone's not a smartphone. It was the very last year before they got everywhere and started changing everything. You use the phone to make calls and hold numbers. You can dial 911 to bring cops. You end up with no missions to go to so you flip through your contacts and call people to see if they have work, or (I guess) want to hang out. That's not even a way people use a phone now. It must seem like such a weird random video game contrivance if you're a few years younger than me.

pulling out the big guns for phones shaped like a friend: the utterly bizarre n93i. really a glimpse into a totally different world