Lago PARANOIA wrote:Why did they get rid of the Koopa Kids in favor of Bowser Jr.? Nobody likes him.
Probably for similar reasons they call Dr. Robotnik "Eggman". I don't understand the reason, but I'm sure there is one.
I am loving Super Mario Galaxy. My mum is playing it while I play along on the second remote thingy and she shoves the nunchuks at me when there is a boss. But the whole game is fucking brilliant, fun and cute.
I love all the references to the previous games. However, I just want a Tanuki suit where I teabag enemies to death and then fly away with my huge, inflatable testicles.
I managed to beat the game and return it to the rental place, so it's kind of short. So, I would recomend renting it and not buying it. (I can't comment on the XBOX live content as I don't have internet at my house, I will let others comment on that.)
However, I did enjoy the game a lot. I found the controls a little awkward atr first, but I got used to them relatively quickly. The humor and atmosphere is spot-on to what you wouldn expect from a Ghostbusters video game (Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis wrote the game, as well as the actors that played the ghostbusters lending voice talent for the game's cut scenes.) I feel that gameplay is kind of repetitive (Once you get the feel for the game, the act of zapping, wrangling, and trapping ghosts becomes second nature, but expect to do that A LOT until the very end of the game.)
Also, difficulty can leap unpredictably regardless of what difficulty level you play one. (The fact that you can change difficulty in mid-game if you get to a hard part is an interesting touch, and I confess I dropped it to easy on a couple parts. YMMV of course.)
However, it's worth a rental in my opinion.
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
I beat God of War. I thought about it, and decided to just buy God of War 2.
That encounter was entertaining. The clerk at the desk thought I was underage (I'm 22 but look, according to other people, like I'm 18 or even younger). She asked for several forms of ID (which I have. College ID, Driver's license, library card, a bus discount ID card, work ID, most of which have my birthdate on them) and she finally had to concede that, yes, I'm 22 and allowed to buy the game.
I didn't mind. I like it that she was doing her job. It let me know the system is functioning like the people at the top say it is. Well, the video game age restrictions are.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Maxus wrote:I beat God of War. I thought about it, and decided to just buy God of War 2.
That encounter was entertaining. The clerk at the desk thought I was underage (I'm 22 but look, according to other people, like I'm 18 or even younger). She asked for several forms of ID (which I have. College ID, Driver's license, library card, a bus discount ID card, work ID, most of which have my birthdate on them) and she finally had to concede that, yes, I'm 22 and allowed to buy the game.
I didn't mind. I like it that she was doing her job. It let me know the system is functioning like the people at the top say it is. Well, the video game age restrictions are.
Was she high? Or were you high for not minding? It's a fucking Driver's license. That's the only thing you should need, right? It's the ESRB not a disc with state secrets that you are buying. Well in retrospect, it might be about the same level of security on both fronts.
I think I've just seen the heights of due diligence. Yes, if you look under-age, she might not believe you with the first card. So she asks you for another card. But are you seriously going to make even two or three cards? ~_~.
But, Maxus -- Just grow facial hair -- it solves all problems without identification :-P
Last edited by Cynic on Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
You can seriously tell them you don't care, and hand them a credit card. Their credit card contract says they must accept it (if it's VISA or MasterCard) without ID. If they ask further, ask them if they're stupid or something.
My facial hair is scraggly enough that I generally stay in various states of cleanshaven as a public service.
And, ironically, unless I let it get really long by my standards, you can't see a good chunk of it because it's already going gray. Which, yes, that runs in the family. Just like thin beards do.
So if I quit shaving for a week or two, it's not only scraggly, it appears even more so because bits are so gray as to be invisible.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Crissa wrote:You can seriously tell them you don't care, and hand them a credit card. Their credit card contract says they must accept it (if it's VISA or MasterCard) without ID. If they ask further, ask them if they're stupid or something.
-Crissa
Even if it's age-restricted?
That would be an interesting loophole. (I enjoy knowing those. I like the look on people's faces when I tell them that by writing "See ID" on their card where their signature is, they're committing fraud because without a signature, it's not valid.)
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
I beat Shadow of the Colossus. The last colossus did make my jaw drop.
I also went on to beat fifteen of the sixteen in Time Attack (stuck on the last one for the moment).
Oh, and had an easy day of work yesterday. As in, didn't have to come into work at all because the power was out. So, yeah, I got an extra few hours to noodle around on the game.
Edit: I should clarify. Something had gone wrong with the electrical system in the building, leaving places around it fine (as far as I know). And having no effect whatsoever on my house, which is quite a ways away.
Last edited by Maxus on Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
It's just on normal! I'm surprised at it, myself. The hardest ones have been that flying one out in the desert, and the last one. #3 gave me some trouble, but I realized I was being too cautious.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Remember to eat the APPELZ and lizards and stuff, to improve your stamina. Because apparently, if you go through the game several times, remembering to eat those things, you can get enough stamina to climb to the top of the temple (as in, the very first one that you start every "level" in) where there is... something. I don't know, I was only borrowing it and didn't get that far.
If you DO find out, please do tell me what it is.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:Even if it's age-restricted?
That would be an interesting loophole. (I enjoy knowing those. I like the look on people's faces when I tell them that by writing "See ID" on their card where their signature is, they're committing fraud because without a signature, it's not valid.)
Legally, they cannot accept a credit card from someone under age. (The See-ID crowd is trumped by VISA changing the contract to mean they don't care what you write on the card. I don't write anything, as it's a contract of adhesion.)
Legally, there is no law in the US about sale of games to minors. Only a contract between the retailer and manufacturer.
Koumei wrote:Remember to eat the APPELZ and lizards and stuff, to improve your stamina. Because apparently, if you go through the game several times, remembering to eat those things, you can get enough stamina to climb to the top of the temple (as in, the very first one that you start every "level" in) where there is... something. I don't know, I was only borrowing it and didn't get that far.
If you DO find out, please do tell me what it is.
Apparently, it's a secret garden seen in the ending.
I've tried climbing it and almost made it to the top (Yep, that's me, lizardslayer).
Anyway, before I left for work, I beat the last Colossus and killed two of them. Thinking of starting Hard Mode...
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Shadow of the Colossus turns you loose in a huge open-world map. There's no other people. Just you and your horse.
Except they include some wildlife, and there is no repeated ANYTHING in the landscape. The central temple can be seen from most of the map, the mountains are huge, there's ponds. There's birds, lizards, and tortoises. You can go through an area several times and still see something new--like I had the camera at the right angle going over a bridge today and noticed a caprock waterfall (one of the broad flat ones like Niagra falls) down in the gorge below.
But it turns out it's not empty.
They also give you some things. There's little temples where you can save the game, and the majority of the temples have a lizard with a glowing white tail crawling around on them. If you kill the lizard, you can pick up and, presumably, eat the tail, gaining more stamina/strength (which determines how long you can hang onto a flailing colossus and the like). There's lizards elsewhere, but the temples are where most of them are.
There's also trees which have fruit hanging on them. You can use your bow to shoot the fruit down, then go pick up the fruit to get an extension to your lifebar.
The extension isn't much at a time, but there's groves of trees with eight or ten pieces of fruit hanging on them. You can go from having a lifebar just in the bottom right corner to having one stretch across the bottom of your TV screen if you get most of the trees.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
The people who make those games are truly artists.
I see so many people disparage the games for being uninteresting... And yet, those people seem to prefer a character who moves around without regard to the world around them.
You know how much I'd pay to have the Ico team animate my WoW character?
I've played some of X-2. It's amazingly goofy. I mean, I'd heard, but no one had told me about the Charlie's Angels-like poses. Or the 60's hippie intro screens.
In other news:
Shadow of the Colossus' Hard Mode is Hard.
Odin Sphere is epic
FF12 involves a lot of grinding
Water is still wet.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
FF12 requires a lot of grinding, but if you set your party right it will literally fight by itself. Just find a place with an infinite stream of monsters and go to sleep.
FF12 is bad, and you should feel bad for liking it.
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
It's okay on some points. But it's really a 'meh' game for me. I haven't connected the characters, the voice acting is oddly squawky, and grinding to pick up license points to get HP boosts or whatever means that I lose immersion fairly quickly. Also, the licenses, while nice and customizeable and stuff, don't give me a reason to care about any particular person's abilities. And they don't have a Bangaa as a party member (I like Bangaa from playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance).
I remember FF9 kept me going for about five hours at a time. This doesn't have the same holding power.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
The last game I liked was FFX-2. And I am aware saying so gets me crucified verbally, I don't care. The game was fun, I liked their version of the job system, the mission-based gameplay helped to disguise the fact that Spira is basically one long path (FFX: Worst. World Design. EVAH.)
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
Maxus wrote:I've played some of X-2. It's amazingly goofy. I mean, I'd heard, but no one had told me about the Charlie's Angels-like poses. Or the 60's hippie intro screens.
No-one told you that it was FF: Charlie's Angels? Wow.
Anyway, the only things I liked about FF12 were "Use the super gauge to unleash the dragon and do stupid-high combos." and the bunny-girl's arse.
What?
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
Depends on how nice the bunny-girl's ass is. I have never been overly fond of bunny-girls (too cliche), but a nice enough ass can make up for it.
Although one complaint about FFX-2: Yuna is Brother's cousin. I know it's okay in Japan to fuck your relatives, but on this side of the Pacific it's gross. That whole sub-plot made me feel very uncomfortable. However, the rest of the game was enjoyable.
Last edited by Count Arioch the 28th on Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
