Eidos 'life president' Ian Livingstone to be named 'development legend'

@Kiichi
I thought the same thing. I didn't look closely at the picture and instead read the story first. When I got to the end of the text, I was then asking "Okay, what's to point of the Al Bundy's picture?"

@SpiderKnives

To me he will always be the dude who wrote the best FF books.

@SpiderKnives

I had the first 50 books ... until my friend moved house and stole them all :(

Some of them were truly epic e.g. Creature of Havoc - although some errors in the book made it impossible to complete unless you cheated.

@SpiderKnives

Whenever I see his name, I always think of the Forest of Doom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forest_of_Doom)

Man o man, did I spend a ton of time readying/playing those books. I would always put my fingers in at the spot where there was some kind of decision to be made just so I can later backtrack to see what would have happened should I have done things differently. I remember having all my fingers marking the spots at one point and thinking "this is crazy". In a way, I guess he (and Steve Jackson) started the whole "replayability" feature for games with this. ;)

Mind you I'm sure there were games like that before my time as well.

@SpiderKnives zits were never a sign of manhood to me. Zits were a sign of stealing my manhood from me since I was trying to get laid at the time.

@Hirsbrunner

Gah, you beat me to it.
I was gonna say something clever about looking for the Lost island...

Oh, well. Time to go shock the hell out of Desmond.