Also, the xbox is great. That’s what my surprise life-ruining baby turned out to be. Check me out on live I’m the same name as somewhere around here. I am pretty bad at games.
Not that I ever stopped tagging; I just figured I should say it into the darkness.
Mass Effect is one of those games that changes the way you think about games and what they should do for you and what you should do with them. That’s where I’ve been. I didn’t know I had been waiting for the damn thing my whole life. This shit changes what your mind lets qualify as epic.
(and basically every single thing to suck about knights…gone)
Nintendo America didn’t release Super Mario Bros. 2 in the United States because they didn’t think people would buy a game that looked just like the original, and they thought it was too hard (which it is, unless compared to the second half of the first game). Eventually it came along as the Lost Levels in Mario All-Stars, but was it ever really much more than just a damned sequel? Instead, this acid trip got made into a Mario game:
If you look at other Nintendo Entertainment System series, you see that sequels became a commonplace way to get more games out, and in many cases just make some cash for garbage. But those sequels generally had a few things in common.
They sold.
They looked very, very similar to their predecessors: Mega Man, Double Dragon, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Metroid, Dragon Warrior, Adventure Island, etc.
They were almost never an entirely different Japanese game in disguise with very few changes.
They always warranted unneeded items on lists, or even unneeded lists.
Mario’s a weirdo all because they decided to make his first sequel another goddamn game in disguise.
One of the few major exceptions to this rule, which also follows the “logic” behind the Mario Bro decision, is Zelda. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, looked very little like its predecessor, but maintained Zelda continuity traditions that continue today. Zelda II was, however, insanely difficult.
Zelda stories are like a comic book over the years. The stories come from different places and do different things. Link is a bunch of different dudes. Mario’s just one guy. It seems now that he hasn’t changed at all since Super Mario Bros. 3. Instead, the game engines that drew him did. He’s a brutally minimal example of technological evolution, as are the worlds he lands in. Mario is video games.
Enchanted is so stupid that it had to have been written by the small children slaving away in a behind-the-scenes writer’s sweatshop inside the it’s a small world ride.
Millions of people saw it today. Trillions of brains cells melted.
Please leave your change in the cup.
The problem with the Nintendo Wii is that there are so few decent games that the prices will stay stubbornly high indefinitely, even for used copies.
I lost my mind yesterday and made videos of myself playing Guitar Hero 3 to prove I have the most virility of all human beings in the land and slightly beyond:
I finished hard in about six hours straight though, failing only on Raining Blood, thus sacrificing my shit to SLAYER
Also it’s awesome, but I really explain it in the emovideo if you care about that kind of game, including some problems (I forgot to mention the almost unnoticeable ads), none of which really involved SLAYER
HATE THE NEW LOADING SCREEN AND THE LEAD SINGER HATE HATE HATE
Otherwise new art is good and all that mess. Some of the character exaggerations are for the best, and others aren’t. There’s surprises and disappointments (oh, my Judy, what did you do with your clothes!), and a hell of a lot of new crap to break your hands playing SLAYER
I cannot wait to stick all five fingers way up deep all gross into expert.
I was testing Semagic when applied to WordPress. Didn’t work. I will miss my Livejournal icons. Maybe I’ll work something out.
The Internet is so much fun tonight. Maybe I’ll stop capitalizing internet. It’s not novel and who gives a shit anyway.
Time to shoot aliens because the Tabula Rasa beta is over soon. I’ve been having a hell of a time with it, but the slowdown after level 10 is really starting to drag on me. I’m too used to how easy warcraft was. This is like Halo, but twisted with Auto Assault…without the cars. I’d link all this shit up but I don’t care.
