Late Night Consoling

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i started eternal darkness not long ago and man did it freak me out when i checked the bathroom for the first time.. some one in the tub full of blood and that scream.. ahhh! i had been playing the game for a few a while, looking around, nothing happening and bam! outta nowhere that popped up..
also when i noticed that statue following me... shiver
interesting game though, so far.

I know not many of you guys care about DDR, but there was some minor interest.

Anyway, to help the online DDR community getting a totally objective opinion and review of the CobaltFlux pad, I started a little blog that goes over all my discussions and such with the CF staff. It's found at www.zillablog.com

So if anyone was considering the pad, like Hamfucker or Jack Mathews, should check this out.

MK for the Genesis = Fuck yeah! I remember watching my little brothers friends and his mom bought that game for him. He didn't know there was a blood code so I put it in for him and we were having fun arcade-style. His mom wasn't too thrilled when she got hom though, heh.

ABACABB ' D

we had done something bad, i think report cards were due or some such and our marks sucked ass, so my brother and i didn't dare go home (or were we kicked out? i can't remember)

anyway. we were strolling on a busy avenue on a mildy hot friday afternoon discussing videogames and MORTAL KOMBAT (hey, what else would a couple of junior highschool kids talk about when they are kicked out of the house). that's when he told me how cool it would be if MK would be ported to the PC. it's funny in retrospective because he's such a non-computer person, but had the idea of porting and software platforms down pat at that age.

anyway, in a total big-brother sorta way i laughed at him and told him that such realistic graphics would take another five years for computers to catch up... :) :) :) I don't know, but pc games seemed so primitive compared to arcades and even console games back then. hell, the average pc game today still feels relatively unpolished compared to the average console game (in certain ways).... but that's arguable and I'll just leave it at that ;)

my oh my did he give me the ha-ha look when we saw MK running on his friend's PC later that day. it was arcade perfect.

(... cept for that stack error ;)

#20, true, which is why I can still -- for example -- sit down and play Tenchu even though it looks like ass by today's standards.

But does the "gameplay over graphics" mantra mean that you shouldn't put any effort into making a game look appealing, or at least on par with the standard of the platform you're releasing on? Where is the line drawn? At what point is that just a crutch for laziness and/or lack of artistic talent? Clearly you're right, gameplay has been, and always will be, most important. But as platforms get more and more powerful, and as the market gets larger and more competitive, developers are going to find that they're shooting themselves in the foot if their visuals are sub-standard.

I'd like to announce that on this drunken saturday night, I am officially .. "looking to be acquired."

hey i just picked up resident evil movie (never saw it) and well....i though it was pretty ok, it seems to tie w/the original games and at the end it just made me wanna see the sequel (if there is any planned) man its been a while since i played any residen evil game (pretty much have most of them, w/out that gun survivor crap). On another note, i just got a ps2 and i saw omnimusha for 20bux and tekken tag, i wonder what other "cheap" good games are worth a look?

Anyone play Gun Metal yet? I heard it was out already.

Dude! Metal Slug on the GBA! I just jizzed my pants!!

That is SO damn cool. I LOVE the Metal Slug games... they're so great! They're really the PERFECT game for being ported to the GBA... you can just sit down and play them for a while, and enjoy the game... and if you have to quit, no big deal.

I hope they put in a password system, or save system though, just in case I want to come back to a game... because Metal Slug does take a while to play through... even with Infinite credits!

I thought Sonic first appeared on the Master System, yet this story states that it was Genesis. Can anyone confirm?

i got guilty gear X! oh man best fighting game in my fighting game library by far (then street fighter 3: double impact)

I remember getting Mortal Combat for the SNES. It was winter time... My buddy and I played it for 2 days straight - neither of us would quit after losing so it went on and on and on and on.... It had graphics, sound and gameplay.............

hey! dreamcast servers for almost all the online games are still up and running. q3, ut, the sports games, its all there not that anyone plays there hardly ;)

Has anyone heard anything about Nintendo removing the trademark "SHINE GET!" from Mario Sunshine?

That'd be a crying shame, folks.

picked up The Mark of Kri for ps2 today. Spent an hour on it so far.. first impression = EXCELLENT! the game has style, nice controls and great animation. Voice overs are a trip... definitely worth a rent.. Game is "ICO'ish... worth the $29 I paid for it at Best Buy......

Skies of Arcadia on the DC was really cool, I'll definitely be picking up the Gamecube version. Hmm, there were some VMU mini-games that let you unlock stuff on the DC, I wonder if they'll do anything with the GBA/GC hookup capabilities?

That Mortal Kombat "art" is hilarious. And UGH, those Hyperspace Delivery Boy shots look primative. Almost like something from the Sega Master System. Surely they can do something to make it look competitive with current GBA titles?

#3, too hard to give just one answer, too many games... Some titles off the top of my head: Castlevania 3, Tenchu, WipeoutXL, Mario Kart, FF7, Super Mario Bros., Castlevania SotN, Legend of Zelda (the first one)... muh.

Does salt kill metal slugs?

yo jason, has there been any word on being able to combine sonic and knuckles with 1,2, and 3 like the actual cart?

fuck them again for leaving out sonic cd :(

Hyperspace Delivery Boy!

Isn't this the game from Carmack's new company ?

Stan Winston working on a console game, interesting...

i was reading somewhere that in order to save your progress in steel battalion you must eject from your VT... (when you are about to die of course) if you dont, you loose the progress in a mission

seems like a neat spin on the whole save game thing

\m/ Tekki \m/