Watch me now. Feel the groove.
June 6th, 2007 by xamountA minor (but oh, so welcome) update to the official GameTap Forums just went live: new activity in watched forums/threads is now emailed straight to your inbox. Say you really wanna keep up with a particular thread but know that you might not be up in the forums every last second to see if there’s something new. Just click the “Watch this Thread” link:
And BOOM: any replies will be sent your way. Want to make sure that any thread you start or reply to is automatically watched? That’s easy, too. Head to Your Watches and update it with the appropriate radio buttonry:
June 6th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
You owe me a beer or something.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Excellent! I was wondering why my watches weren’t being e-mailed to me. Thanks for implementing it.
The next feature I want for the forums: universal friends list. I want a nice page to see posts from the friends I have listed in the GameTap client.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Your use of the phrase “Feel the groove” has alerted me to the fact that there are, to my knowledge, zero rhythm/music games on GameTap. Granted, they aren’t common on either modern PC or classic consoles, but… wasn’t there a fairly popular one for Dreamcast?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
I heard the real reason that there aren’t any rhythm/music games on Gametap is because the other Turner Broadcasting divisions complained about “those Gametap people stomping on the DAMN FLOOR!”
June 7th, 2007 at 5:01 am
LuigiHann,
There was Bust A Groove for the PS1. Does that count as classic yet? (Also, I’d love to see that on GameTap some day…)
June 10th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
The one I was thinking of was Space Channel 5, for Dreamcast. But you’re right, there were a few PlayStation music games - Parappa comes to mind - but I don’t think they’d have a shot at coming to GameTap.
The Dreamcast also had Samba de Amigo, but I don’t know how that’d work on GameTap, since you wouldn’t have the famous maraca controllers.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Parappa was a first party Sony title, and you’re almost certainly right it’d never hit GameTap. Sony likely wants to pad their PS3 Store offerings with their first party PS1 games, not license them out. Bust A Groove (and the sequel, which was never released stateside) were Enix titles, from the pre-SquarEnix days. There might be some possibility there.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:48 am
I do love the classics.