Umm... Japan can't have the moon. Didn't you see the news? There's a US flag on it and we own it fair and square... or spherical. Now, we only have to defend it!!
You go to the moon to fight the bad guys. The pig turns out to be the leader of the resistance. The bad guys turn out to be from a bad guy filled universe and you have to fight and defeat their boss, then get back to your planet. I don't remember exactly what the alien race was doing (but there's plenty of aliens in the game). I'd have to play it through again. I very much enjoyed this game. And the photojournalism is very interesting. In the begining of the game the heroine is trying to raise money for her orphanage and is offered a job taking pictures of all the different species on the planet, and a few on the moon.
If you like adventure games, this is for you. If you like exploring, this is for you. The cartoonish charecters are just part of an imaginary world, not ours. It is an adult themed gamed. Though there isn't blood spattering from every blow, and there isn't much foul language, it's still geared for mature audiences (you know, true matureaty, adults, not the 'mature' crowd who think being desensitized to violence, sex, and evil is cool).
From TFA you mentioned, "Soldiers who tried the pepperoni and barbecue-chicken pocket sandwiches have found them "acceptable"."
Ever survived off of MRE's for more than a week? They start to taste great. Survive off of indestructable sandwiches for a week and I'm sure they'll be the best thing on earth after a while.
The Castlevania series has some of the most immersive 2 and a half dimension environments. Aboslutely gorgeous. Play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night some time and you'll fall in love. Or try Dawn of Sorrow. The backgrounds are rendered in 3D and add a lot of depth to the game simply by being there.
But I think you're entirely correct. A high-res version of the 2D games that we love and enjoy (or any new game done right) would be utter bliss.
Wish I could tell you which Family Guy episode it was, but I think they were taking fan mail and doing TV shows with them. The family got super powers and took over the town. Mayor Adam West announces that he's going to roll in radioactive goo and later shows up in the doctor's office. The conversations looks like this:
Doc: I'm sorry, Mayor West, but you've got cancer.
I get that kind of crap too. I live in the middle of a metro area and I get almost no signal in my house. I had to buy a bluetooth headset just so I can leave my phone in an ideal position for signal. Pisses me off. Not like the phone companies care. Half the time when I dial it says 'connecting' for 15 seconds and then the bars dissappear and I get the main screen on my phone back like nothing happend. This has happened to me with three seperate phones, Two Motorolas and a SonyEricson. Also Verizon and Cingular as carriers. So you're not alone my signal-deprived comrade.
I agree. It's like a pendulum, though. It has to swing just as far the opposite way, and it'll never really stop.
When the church gets up in arms for getting monuments censored and laws passed against them and the 'free thinkers' are saying don't push it on us, it's the same thing both ways. You just have to look at the numbers. Some 70% of people say they're Catholic or Christian according to almost every survey I've seen. The only reason things are happening like this is that with the good change comes bad. That, and people can only hear the loudest whiner...
Many shops even discourage employees from advising parents about ESRB ratings. A buddy of mine worked for a Gamestop in Minnesota for a couple years. Parents would come in with 6-12 year old kids screaming "GTA! GTA!" And mom would pick it up and ask if it was okay for the kid to play. He'd say flat out, "No. This game shouldn't be played by anyone under 17." The manager would then walk over and try to convince her that it was just fine so he could keep his store numbers up, then dock my friend reward points or something.
Long story short, he doesn't work there any more (mostly because a married 27 year old guy with a couple college degrees under his belt really doesn't want to work in a corporate game shop his whole life). He'd get into arguements with the managers over and over in front of customers and list off why the game shouldn't be played by kids. I got to see this happen once. After my friend explained that hookers made your life total go up, the mom looked to see if her kid was in earshot, then leaned in to the manager and said something like, "Listen here ass hole. If I ever see you around a child I will call the police you sick F---." Grabbed her kid and left.
I agree, but at the same time, I don't always feel bad for women (or men) who don't mind selling their dignity. (obviously there are situational problems and the like, it's always case by case)
I'm a guy and I often play female charecters because they will usually be faster or more agile. And in most games, I prefer speed to strength. This goes for fighting games and RPGs. But, like I said, I just chose the fastest charecter I can get, so if that's a dude or a chick, well, so be it. For me it has little to do with the avatar. If I wanted to watch a hot chick destroy the legions of evil or good, I'd try to get my girlfriend to pick up a controller, or mouse/keyboard. That, so I'll watch one of the Resident Evils. They may suck, but Milla Jovovich makes up for it in "hot."
Yeah, the alternate costumes for RE4 are twice as revealing with the 'barely fits' leather outfit on the girl. Yaowza! But, I think I prefer the skirt.
Another of my favorite group games, although only two players, was Super Dodge Ball on the NES. Loads of fun. It was later ported to the GBA, SNES, and NEO-GEO but I never got a chance to play any of these. So perhaps this is my chance.
Back in the day, nothing was funnier than whipping the ball at a guy on the sidelines who wasn't looking!
Not much more to say. Monoblades, short-range lasers, granades up the wazoo, and some ship battles. I'd cancel WoW in a heartbeat if they did Buck right....now where did I put that Commador 128?
Thanks for the laugh... unless that wasn't sarcastic. Then I must call you, sir or madam, an ass. I've corrected myself. And I'm going to stick pins under my fingernails later for retribution. Good day!
Ever play a steaming pile of poo called "Evergrace" for the PS2? Driv3r? Games make me cry all the time to know I spent any amount of money on a game I expected to be great that ended up sucking beyond belief...
Other posters have made mention, but the standard measurements are so archaic it makes me want to cry. Feet? The size of the king's foot. Bushels? The size of the average basket a laborer could carry. Horse Power was created by a guy who wanted to know how much the average horse could carry over a distance with a time. Just so he could find out how efficient horses vs. humans were.
It's time to move on people. BTU's? Well, at least those make some sense by attempting to standardize some of our horrible standard, but I'd rather not hear of them.
Give me grams, litres, meters, calories, joules, and kelvin any day!
It's not a liquid measure. It's a volume measure. It's like the metric system. You know.
1 cc = 1mg = 1mL of H2O.
Space, mass, volume.
Except the US system is Weight, Volume, and Space (pounds, gallons, inches or feet squared).
It's a terrible system, and I wish the US would get with it, but they have been remarkably stubborn. The auto-makers haven't been making it easy either. Working on any car made in the last 20 years will require standard and metric tools... and it sucks.
Your post demands some clarification. I'm pretty sure you're talking about "Prince of Perisa: The Sands of Time" when you talk about an IP. Well, it's not the first. The first was on a Mac. It also made an appearnce on the SNES.
OTOH, it is sad that some incredible games (Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System) don't get the install base they deserve. Or perhaps the sequels they deserve. But I'm sure it has a lot to do with the fact that games aren't anywhere near as maketed as they have been in years gone by. Anybody remember how hyped FFVII was? It was on pop cans and all over the TV. VIII? IX? Nothing but a few magazine pages.
If pulishers aren't willing to tell everyone about their games, they shouldn't be suprised when nobody buys them. It seems like the few magazine ads and game interviews and previews is all any game really gets (unless it's from EA, then it might get a TV commercial or two).
After X Wing vs Tie Fighter, perhaps the best Star Wars game was Shadows of the Empire on the N64. There was a big variety to do in that game. Quite a few unlockables. It even had a more 'real life' difficulty setting. That being that when you get hit by a lazer, you're pretty well almost dead if not dead.
Maybe the next would be either of the KOTORs or Rogue Squadrons as each were very fun and engaging. It's just too bad that the Rogue Squadrons didn't include multiplayer modes.
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Love that game.
You go to the moon to fight the bad guys. The pig turns out to be the leader of the resistance. The bad guys turn out to be from a bad guy filled universe and you have to fight and defeat their boss, then get back to your planet. I don't remember exactly what the alien race was doing (but there's plenty of aliens in the game). I'd have to play it through again. I very much enjoyed this game. And the photojournalism is very interesting. In the begining of the game the heroine is trying to raise money for her orphanage and is offered a job taking pictures of all the different species on the planet, and a few on the moon.
If you like adventure games, this is for you. If you like exploring, this is for you. The cartoonish charecters are just part of an imaginary world, not ours. It is an adult themed gamed. Though there isn't blood spattering from every blow, and there isn't much foul language, it's still geared for mature audiences (you know, true matureaty, adults, not the 'mature' crowd who think being desensitized to violence, sex, and evil is cool).
For those who love Monty Python and Halo.
Ever survived off of MRE's for more than a week? They start to taste great. Survive off of indestructable sandwiches for a week and I'm sure they'll be the best thing on earth after a while.
Yeah, I know it was a typo.
But I think you're entirely correct. A high-res version of the 2D games that we love and enjoy (or any new game done right) would be utter bliss.
I feel your pain as well. Last December, my Grandfather's three year fight with two types of lung cancer, stomach cancer and three others ended.
Doc: I'm sorry, Mayor West, but you've got cancer.
West: Oh..., no superpowers? Speed? Strength?
Doc: No, just cancer.
I get that kind of crap too. I live in the middle of a metro area and I get almost no signal in my house. I had to buy a bluetooth headset just so I can leave my phone in an ideal position for signal. Pisses me off. Not like the phone companies care. Half the time when I dial it says 'connecting' for 15 seconds and then the bars dissappear and I get the main screen on my phone back like nothing happend. This has happened to me with three seperate phones, Two Motorolas and a SonyEricson. Also Verizon and Cingular as carriers. So you're not alone my signal-deprived comrade.
When the church gets up in arms for getting monuments censored and laws passed against them and the 'free thinkers' are saying don't push it on us, it's the same thing both ways. You just have to look at the numbers. Some 70% of people say they're Catholic or Christian according to almost every survey I've seen. The only reason things are happening like this is that with the good change comes bad. That, and people can only hear the loudest whiner...
Long story short, he doesn't work there any more (mostly because a married 27 year old guy with a couple college degrees under his belt really doesn't want to work in a corporate game shop his whole life). He'd get into arguements with the managers over and over in front of customers and list off why the game shouldn't be played by kids. I got to see this happen once. After my friend explained that hookers made your life total go up, the mom looked to see if her kid was in earshot, then leaned in to the manager and said something like, "Listen here ass hole. If I ever see you around a child I will call the police you sick F---." Grabbed her kid and left.
I agree, but at the same time, I don't always feel bad for women (or men) who don't mind selling their dignity. (obviously there are situational problems and the like, it's always case by case)
I'm a guy and I often play female charecters because they will usually be faster or more agile. And in most games, I prefer speed to strength. This goes for fighting games and RPGs. But, like I said, I just chose the fastest charecter I can get, so if that's a dude or a chick, well, so be it. For me it has little to do with the avatar. If I wanted to watch a hot chick destroy the legions of evil or good, I'd try to get my girlfriend to pick up a controller, or mouse/keyboard. That, so I'll watch one of the Resident Evils. They may suck, but Milla Jovovich makes up for it in "hot."
Yeah, the alternate costumes for RE4 are twice as revealing with the 'barely fits' leather outfit on the girl. Yaowza! But, I think I prefer the skirt.
Back in the day, nothing was funnier than whipping the ball at a guy on the sidelines who wasn't looking!
Not much more to say. Monoblades, short-range lasers, granades up the wazoo, and some ship battles. I'd cancel WoW in a heartbeat if they did Buck right. ...now where did I put that Commador 128?
All in good, non-violent, fun.
I, for one, plan on living forever... so far, so good.
Good lord... 36%. I've been at work too long. Hahaha...
What happened to the other 44%? Is that just the start and hi-score screens?
Ever play a steaming pile of poo called "Evergrace" for the PS2? Driv3r? Games make me cry all the time to know I spent any amount of money on a game I expected to be great that ended up sucking beyond belief...
It's time to move on people. BTU's? Well, at least those make some sense by attempting to standardize some of our horrible standard, but I'd rather not hear of them.
Give me grams, litres, meters, calories, joules, and kelvin any day!
1 cc = 1mg = 1mL of H2O.
Space, mass, volume.
Except the US system is Weight, Volume, and Space (pounds, gallons, inches or feet squared).
It's a terrible system, and I wish the US would get with it, but they have been remarkably stubborn. The auto-makers haven't been making it easy either. Working on any car made in the last 20 years will require standard and metric tools... and it sucks.
OTOH, it is sad that some incredible games (Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System) don't get the install base they deserve. Or perhaps the sequels they deserve. But I'm sure it has a lot to do with the fact that games aren't anywhere near as maketed as they have been in years gone by. Anybody remember how hyped FFVII was? It was on pop cans and all over the TV. VIII? IX? Nothing but a few magazine pages.
If pulishers aren't willing to tell everyone about their games, they shouldn't be suprised when nobody buys them. It seems like the few magazine ads and game interviews and previews is all any game really gets (unless it's from EA, then it might get a TV commercial or two).
Maybe the next would be either of the KOTORs or Rogue Squadrons as each were very fun and engaging. It's just too bad that the Rogue Squadrons didn't include multiplayer modes.