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Sunday Afternoon ShackReviews

by Alec Matias, Nov 21, 2004 10:00am PST
Related Topics – Atari, Capcom, Games: PC, Nintendo DS

I worked double-overtime to bring you this week's ShackReviews update. I mean, look at this friggin' list! So...many...games! I hope everyone has been extra nice this year if you're expecting Santa to bring you the two dozen games that's on your list. As always, if there's a game you want in the database, see if it's already there and if not, request it!

Featured ShackReviews: Hmm, this week, I didn't really play anything. I mean, what is there to play? Nothing good has come out in a long time. Okay, I'm lying. =( Despite there being two absolutely important console releases this week, I gravitated to the dark side and did what thousands (possibly millions) of you did as well: conquer Half-Life 2. It was a wholly satisfying experience but now I move on; I have new hardware to get my hands on! If you picked up a Nintendo DS, lemme hear about it!


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    By: thuperion x
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    DS: Games look better on it than the movies/screenshots for sure, but I seem to have a hard time finding the 'sweet spot' angle to get the best picture. Metroid is fun, Mario is ok, waiting for Ridge Racer. Fun little toy.

    Halo 2: If I had known you wouldn't be able to pick the gametype you want to play, I wouldn't of bought it. I usually only have 3 good people in my party/team, and we keep getting thrown Assault mode, which we absolutely loathe and can't win on. We stopped playing after the 5th Assault map in a row this afternoon.

    I'm not hearing any of the 'get a custom game' going yang, I want to play ranked games with random people, on random maps, but not on random game types. They should just break each mode into sub types such as Team Skirmish > CTF, or TS, or 1FCTF. I'm not a big fan of Crazy King either but at least I've won a couple of those. We're like 2-10-10 on assault, even with the matched players on our team at level 11...
    Nov 21, 2004 2:39pm PST
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    By: kbanas x
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    I just want to come in off the bench to say that I think too many people are using the exceptional tag these days. I mean, who am I, really, I've never even written a ShackReview, so I know I'm on no real footing to speak, but, then about it - an exceptional game should be just that.

    Look at how many games have come out this year. Look at how many of them are rated overwhelmingly *exceptional*. I can think of over ten, right off the top of my head. (But will, for the moment, uh, refrain from listing them.) If50%, 40%, 30%, even 10% of everything that publishers put out on the shelves is EXCEPTIONAL, then exceptional loses all its meaning - because exceptional things only have value in relation to the mass of things that aren't exceptional. When exceptional is common, exceptional becomes the standard - the expectation. If every game we're playing is so f'ing good, then we need to set a higher bar for our scores.

    So next time you go to rate a game, give it some thought! Lots of games are good - but don't be so flip to drop the E-bomb. Think about it in relation to the games that you've played. Try to think about it without the harsh spotlight of the hype surrounding its launch.

    Just my two cents.
    Nov 21, 2004 12:11pm PST

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