Aaron, thanks a lot for your voice of reason. I'm happy that things are going well and I know we're more than thrilled with your keeping us abreast to your projects. I know I'd buy anything with your name on it. I'm sure we'll all buy, love, and tell others about your new work. I'll keep the faith, and I'll try to help other do that as well.
Thanks for stopping by,
~Keck
Oh, and happy 100 posts to me.
Thanks for stopping by,
~Keck
Oh, and happy 100 posts to me.
Aaron,
It's nice to see your post in amongst the hoopla that has stirred recently. I'm technically new to the community, and honestly don't have much to contribute in the way of intelligence, or anything of the sort. I'm not going to be creating any games anytime soon, or producing music for you to listen to, or even making a website ... quite frankly my ninth grade education just isn't up to snuff with the actual brain power it would take for such an endeavor. The only place where I have an inkling of ability, is writing, which I had to develop myself, after I dropped out of school. Being a truck driver, I probably would be the least refined, and least educated amongst you good people.
So, in retrospect, I can say that I'm partially responsible for some of the political nature of some of the conversations that have rissen. Sometimes when I get angry, I can spout a whole bunch of nonsense, that after the fact, can make me look like a real dunce. And for that I'm sorry ... I found myself to be a rather blatant A**hole to run into an already established community, and start raving about war, politics, and president bashing, when the board was set up for a community that is essentially the only life blood left to a series I grew up with and have loved with a deep passion.
So again, I apologize to you, and to the community for my actions.
I just love your character, I love your established world, and I want to get back to it. I can't wait to see what you've got cooked up with the new studio. Best of luck to you with it.
It's nice to see your post in amongst the hoopla that has stirred recently. I'm technically new to the community, and honestly don't have much to contribute in the way of intelligence, or anything of the sort. I'm not going to be creating any games anytime soon, or producing music for you to listen to, or even making a website ... quite frankly my ninth grade education just isn't up to snuff with the actual brain power it would take for such an endeavor. The only place where I have an inkling of ability, is writing, which I had to develop myself, after I dropped out of school. Being a truck driver, I probably would be the least refined, and least educated amongst you good people.
So, in retrospect, I can say that I'm partially responsible for some of the political nature of some of the conversations that have rissen. Sometimes when I get angry, I can spout a whole bunch of nonsense, that after the fact, can make me look like a real dunce. And for that I'm sorry ... I found myself to be a rather blatant A**hole to run into an already established community, and start raving about war, politics, and president bashing, when the board was set up for a community that is essentially the only life blood left to a series I grew up with and have loved with a deep passion.
So again, I apologize to you, and to the community for my actions.
I just love your character, I love your established world, and I want to get back to it. I can't wait to see what you've got cooked up with the new studio. Best of luck to you with it.
I'm not fat ... I'm festively plump.
Hello, Aaron. Great to see you had time to drop by. It's very kind of you to take the time to keep us up to date on how things are going for you.
I'll be interested to see what your new project is about (congratulations on finishing it). I wish you all the best success with it.
I think Overseer is great. It certainly had me engaged and that's the true test of any game. I've been on many communities where the 'dissecting' in the interests of debate get quite heated, which is fair enough since it raises topics people would never think of, but at the end of the day it's all entertainment, and if it's entertaining that's the final clincher. The general consensus I'd say is that Overseer is very entertaining so you did a great job.
I wish you all the best with further projects. And I think it's very admirable that you and CJ work to bring back a much loved game series after all those years of no financial/official (as in game companies) return for your efforts. I can't think of another games series (and the series' community) myself personally that has the benefit of this situation. Thanks! And just think... back when the Tex games were out and about and I was first enjoying them all those years ago I doubt even knew what the internet was, and here today the internet allows us to get in touch with the kind creator of those very games (OK I admit I'm rambling
)
I feel honoured somehow, especially as I'm not as active here as I'd like to be. By the way that's not meant as an insult to Aaron's memory 
(regardless of the fact of who would I be to critisize? I have a terrible memory!) but as a credit to his kind dedication to this community *quietly sneaks away and celebrates *
I'll be interested to see what your new project is about (congratulations on finishing it). I wish you all the best success with it.
I think Overseer is great. It certainly had me engaged and that's the true test of any game. I've been on many communities where the 'dissecting' in the interests of debate get quite heated, which is fair enough since it raises topics people would never think of, but at the end of the day it's all entertainment, and if it's entertaining that's the final clincher. The general consensus I'd say is that Overseer is very entertaining so you did a great job.
I wish you all the best with further projects. And I think it's very admirable that you and CJ work to bring back a much loved game series after all those years of no financial/official (as in game companies) return for your efforts. I can't think of another games series (and the series' community) myself personally that has the benefit of this situation. Thanks! And just think... back when the Tex games were out and about and I was first enjoying them all those years ago I doubt even knew what the internet was, and here today the internet allows us to get in touch with the kind creator of those very games (OK I admit I'm rambling
)I'm glad someone else admitted that firstAndy wrote:I guess I'm just happy AC even knows my name.
I feel honoured somehow, especially as I'm not as active here as I'd like to be. By the way that's not meant as an insult to Aaron's memory (regardless of the fact of who would I be to critisize? I have a terrible memory!) but as a credit to his kind dedication to this community *quietly sneaks away and celebrates *(Ruri_Ayanami from the old Tex Murphy ezboard).
"I don't believe in intuition, don't know why... just a feeling." - Tex Murphy
"I don't believe in intuition, don't know why... just a feeling." - Tex Murphy
Hey AC, thanks for keeping us up with whats going on. I can't wait for your new game to come out, and i know what I will go out and buy it. By the way, does anyone know what the title is? Anyway, thanks for your kind words for our community. I've been kindof sitting back and watching this happen and not know what to do about it.
I think that people have forgotten why we are all here, its for Tex! I think we need to have a date and time picked out. We all need to get inside a chat room, and play a Tex game. Any Tex game, and we periodicly check in with the room, talk about it, and have fun with it. I think we need something to jumpstart this community again. I've never been much for mass organization, so someone else would have to do it. But then again, thats my 2 cents.
Anyway, thanks for still talking to us AC. Good luck with your new game! Later.
I think that people have forgotten why we are all here, its for Tex! I think we need to have a date and time picked out. We all need to get inside a chat room, and play a Tex game. Any Tex game, and we periodicly check in with the room, talk about it, and have fun with it. I think we need something to jumpstart this community again. I've never been much for mass organization, so someone else would have to do it. But then again, thats my 2 cents.
Anyway, thanks for still talking to us AC. Good luck with your new game! Later.
"If at first you don't succeed,
redefine sucess."
- Sowden
www.nineteenthstar.cjb.net
www.sowden.cjb.net
redefine sucess."
- Sowden
www.nineteenthstar.cjb.net
www.sowden.cjb.net
AC, Thanks for keeping us update with your projects at your transferred from Microsoft to new job at Indie Built Inc. So is this new game a Sport, Strategy, RPG, Action, Action-Adventure, etc. genre title for PC/XBOX/PS2?
I wasn’t aware of this negative discussion on TM forum since I am too busy and try to visit this forum once in a while. I’ll just ignore whatever the negative discussion was since I read AC response on issues. I’ve choose ignored whatever the negative discussion was and I will go positive with talking about TM future, TM discussion, others etc. We all should continue keeping our faith in AC/CJ to bring back TM on our PC.
In the mean time, everybody should be positive here on TM message board and whatever the negative was I just read from AC response towards it, put that behind you guys, move forward with positive discussion, and without getting out of line with whatever the negative discussion was that could bring the whole board down with unhappy people and keeping people away from TM forum.
We don't want that to happen do we? We all should united as TM family and stay positive.
Take care,
Ryan
I wasn’t aware of this negative discussion on TM forum since I am too busy and try to visit this forum once in a while. I’ll just ignore whatever the negative discussion was since I read AC response on issues. I’ve choose ignored whatever the negative discussion was and I will go positive with talking about TM future, TM discussion, others etc. We all should continue keeping our faith in AC/CJ to bring back TM on our PC.
In the mean time, everybody should be positive here on TM message board and whatever the negative was I just read from AC response towards it, put that behind you guys, move forward with positive discussion, and without getting out of line with whatever the negative discussion was that could bring the whole board down with unhappy people and keeping people away from TM forum.
We don't want that to happen do we? We all should united as TM family and stay positive. Take care,
Ryan
I think I might give my few words on this matter as well.
First of all I've always enjoyed browsing through this community with all the interesting discussions and conversations about all things related to Tex and the world around him. I know I haven't been all that active myself, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the company of all you guys
But as I saw the posts that was raised about political issues and also the Katrina post, I honestly told myself not to start reading through those posts. Now I know the hurricane did some really nasty damage and it was all terrible, but for some reason I didn't quite find it appropriate for me to read (Now please don't think of me as an insensitive bastard because I DO care about all the lives that were lost and the damage caused by Katrina). Of course I understand your reasons for posting this as you wanted to make sure that fans of Tex from the area were safe and all that, but I just think it got all heated up all of a sudden, and that's where I threw in the towel.
The same happened with the whole political issue - I knew from the start that it was far from Tex-related and that's why I insisted on not reading the posts as I'm not even near capable of discussing politics with anyone. Politics isn't my area of interest and I'm not interested in flaming others for the way they do politics either. For me I'm just happy that we have the thing called civilization and that we can manage to get food on the table every day. How a president or primi minister decide to run a country isn't my concern and I take things as they come. As far as I'm concerned let people discuss what they want as long as it's in an appropriate forum.
This is the world of Tex Murphy and discussions/conversations ought to be centered around him and his New San Franciscan world with all our beloved characters and locations. Sowden actually has a point. It is a brilliant idea for us to start playing some of the games through and talk about it while playing. For example - I just started playing Under A Killing Moon and I'm close to ending Day 1. Let's start some talk about the games as they come along and remind ourselves of the genius and humourous things that only Tex can say.
Before I end I would like to say that it was really great to hear from you, Aaron. Thank you for the wake-up call - I think the board really needed it. I wish you all the best of luck in your future projects and I can't wait to see what kind of game you have in store for us. I'm also anxious to know more about the future of Tex. Thank you very much for keeping the hopes up for all of us.
All the best,
/// netroam
First of all I've always enjoyed browsing through this community with all the interesting discussions and conversations about all things related to Tex and the world around him. I know I haven't been all that active myself, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the company of all you guys
But as I saw the posts that was raised about political issues and also the Katrina post, I honestly told myself not to start reading through those posts. Now I know the hurricane did some really nasty damage and it was all terrible, but for some reason I didn't quite find it appropriate for me to read (Now please don't think of me as an insensitive bastard because I DO care about all the lives that were lost and the damage caused by Katrina). Of course I understand your reasons for posting this as you wanted to make sure that fans of Tex from the area were safe and all that, but I just think it got all heated up all of a sudden, and that's where I threw in the towel.
The same happened with the whole political issue - I knew from the start that it was far from Tex-related and that's why I insisted on not reading the posts as I'm not even near capable of discussing politics with anyone. Politics isn't my area of interest and I'm not interested in flaming others for the way they do politics either. For me I'm just happy that we have the thing called civilization and that we can manage to get food on the table every day. How a president or primi minister decide to run a country isn't my concern and I take things as they come. As far as I'm concerned let people discuss what they want as long as it's in an appropriate forum.
This is the world of Tex Murphy and discussions/conversations ought to be centered around him and his New San Franciscan world with all our beloved characters and locations. Sowden actually has a point. It is a brilliant idea for us to start playing some of the games through and talk about it while playing. For example - I just started playing Under A Killing Moon and I'm close to ending Day 1. Let's start some talk about the games as they come along and remind ourselves of the genius and humourous things that only Tex can say.
Before I end I would like to say that it was really great to hear from you, Aaron. Thank you for the wake-up call - I think the board really needed it. I wish you all the best of luck in your future projects and I can't wait to see what kind of game you have in store for us. I'm also anxious to know more about the future of Tex. Thank you very much for keeping the hopes up for all of us.
All the best,
/// netroam
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I think it's great that AC actually takes the time to mingle with the fans. You gotta repect a person who really loves what they do and appreciate the people who appreciate them (I think I got that right!?)
I'm also looking forward to your upcoming game, Tex-related or not. I've got PC and Playstation 2, so as long as it's available on one of those count me in!
Cheers,
Bren
I'm also looking forward to your upcoming game, Tex-related or not. I've got PC and Playstation 2, so as long as it's available on one of those count me in!
Cheers,
Bren
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Wow. This is amazing - now I have respect for AC not merely as someone brilliant at what he does for a living but also as a human being. I hope I'm around for long enough to gain the affection he obviously has for all of you.
With such attention from one of the games' most important creators, I wonder why this isn't called the Official Tex Murphy Message Board!
With such attention from one of the games' most important creators, I wonder why this isn't called the Official Tex Murphy Message Board!
