Comments on: Vote Tom Francis In The Games Media Awards

By: Betty

Betty — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:44:01 +0000

Wow! Great to find a post konkicng my socks off!

By: Jason L

Jason L — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:13:33 +0000

BTW, it looks like our RPS is all grown up – ‘exclusive’ reviews of World of Goo? ‘Exclusive’ interviews with ACE Team? It’s exactly what I wanted, but no marketing guy is gnashing his teeth. Exclusive hands-on with L4D2 when every games journalist in the world is in the neighbourhood? That’s pretty impressive.

By: TooNu

TooNu — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:10:29 +0000

Hey, I have read and reread last years blog and this years blog is also looking damn awesome also. I did place my vote BUT you get my vote purely based on your love for Deus Ex :)

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:55:17 +0000

Well I shall indeed put my vote in for you Tom, and for Gamer and for the guys at RPS :D

Can’t wait for the new GalCiv2 diary :D

Best of luck in the awards.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:49:46 +0000

“As the largest of the neotropical frogs, the muscular
L. pentadactylus preys on other frog species and is largely
left alone by predators due to a toxic skin secretion.”

Story of my life.

I still haven’t really made a Pentadact creature. Spore itself sort of got in the way of my tinkering towards something I liked as an avatar: in the full game, you only have access to a handful of parts you’ve found, and only the best of those are really viable.

I remember as a kid trying to reconcile my love of frogs with my love of cool-monsters-that-look-awesome on a sketchpad – and failing. Spore ought to be the perfect tool for that, but making stuff in the Creature Creator feels a bit irrelevant knowing you can’t play as them at the Creature stage of the game.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:43:19 +0000

Pod, the Horncrested Bristlefrog is that creature. Per James 1.0, ‘Pentadact’ comes from frogs – Google says probably leptodactylus pentadactylus, whose fingers Linnaeus really, really fancies.

By: J-man

J-man — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:32:09 +0000

Man, that GalCiv diary was great! Perhaps I’ll do one like that in Mass Effect…

By: Pod

Pod — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:24:51 +0000

Pentadactyl*: It’s ok! MCV is no longer broke and I voted and /everything/.

*Make a spoke creature theme’d on this. I demand it.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:56:11 +0000

You don’t mean James? Which one is broke? I thought only James was broke. Slim Mode doesn’t seem to be helping my CPU overload problems.

Brit: It was something along the lines of repeatable achievements, like pushing the cart 20m in a round, taking out a Sentry that’s killed more than five of your team-mates, killing a Demoman who has Stickies on the cap. Special accomplishments that the player should be rewarded for every time he does them. You would need more of these than you do Achievements, because you could get the same one a few times, but it would mean you didn’t have to Uber a Scout or burn X Snipers if that isn’t how you like to play.

By: Mr. Brit

Mr. Brit — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:17:20 +0000

You and PCGamer have my vote.

Also when you did weapons for all the TF2 classes you mentioned a new way of earning them that you have yet to elaborate on. Are you likely to do that because I’d like too hear it.

By: Pod

Pod — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:04:48 +0000

The website is broke!
and I don’t mean James. Speaking of James: What about dates on the articles?

In other news, I didn’t know who you were at the time but I read the War Diary when it was first aided and rushed out* to buy GalCiv. Of course I’d already read things by you in PCG, etc etc blahblahblah.

*Ok, stayed home and bought it from Stardock, whatever.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:14:01 +0000

I just read the GalCiv article and ordered that aswell!
Damn you and your amazing articles making me buy stuff.

By: HoW Monty

HoW Monty — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:16:05 +0000

*Flops

By: HoW Monty

HoW Monty — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:15:31 +0000

“Nice work, any word if PC Gamer’s own Rachel Weber has been nominated for worst specialist games writer (print)? I’d vote for her.”

Seconded. She has a horrible turn of phrase: “Flps like a mackeral in the electirc chair.” Here that sound? that’s my sides splitting.

By: ImperialCreed

ImperialCreed — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:09:02 +0000

Will it be the GC book Edwards blabbed about on the forum?

*crosses fingers*

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:58:59 +0000

Thanks a lot, everyone. You are all lovely. Except Audiman, who is surprisingly harsh. But probably a decent, upstanding gentleman in his own harsh way.

There will be good news for anyone who liked the GalCiv diary next week.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:38:03 +0000

I just read the Gal. Civ article, OMG, I can’t believe that I haven’t read that before. Here, take you prize and ascend to God-hood with your space bunnies.

By: audiman

audiman — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:59:14 +0000

Nice work, any word if PC Gamer’s own Rachel Weber has been nominated for worst specialist games writer (print)? I’d vote for her.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:06:53 +0000

That article about EVE made me order it!

By: Iain "DDude" Dawson

Iain "DDude" Dawson — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:03:48 +0000

Congratulations. The Gal Civ diary was one of the best things ever on the internet, and you are clearly one of the best reviewers in PCG. You are able to be both informative and funny. Thank you for the Oblivion review especially. It really is good to be able to read the typrings of someone such as yourself. Best of luck for the win.

By: J-man

J-man — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:33:28 +0000

Just voted, gave you, Rock Paper Shotgun and PC Gamer my vote. Also, where’s John Walker in those awards? Huh? HUH?!

By: J-man

J-man — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:27:27 +0000

Tom Francis ftw!

By: Seniath

Seniath — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:34:15 +0000

I’ll be voting as soon as I can get at my email account (which should be tomorrow, assuming Virgin Media play fair and actually show up to sort my connection). Bloody work blocking Hotmail.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:52:13 +0000

Congratulations, you deserve to win.

By: Chris Livingston

Chris Livingston — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:27:14 +0000

Congrats, Tom! You’ve already won in my book.

However, if you don’t *actually* win I’ll never talk to you again. I only talk to winners.

By: ImperialCreed

ImperialCreed — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:04:32 +0000

Jive sucker!? That’s it…

Consider yourself +1 vote Tom. Best of luck. Tbh, you deserve to win for the GalCiv diary alone.

By: The_B

The_B — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:36:03 +0000

Congratulations on the nomination Tom. I too am about to send my nominations.

And Crime On The Streets of Bath also called. He said you guys are pussies.

By: Ludo

Ludo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:05:05 +0000

Congrats Penta, much deserved. I remember the GalCiv2 diary being one of the first things of yours I read and thought ‘this is awesome, I should really check who wrote it’, which in turn got be back into Gamer. One subscription later and the peices are still great!

And that picture of David Hasselhof is still genuinely disturbing.

By: John W

John W — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:42:33 +0000

I’d congratulate you, if I weren’t too busy being pompous about my own quarter of a piece of a nomination.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:29:59 +0000

Awesome, thanks! If I win, everyone gets a free flying walrus.

By: Octaeder

Octaeder — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:15:34 +0000

Congrats on the nomination – Just put my vote in.