Scribbleauts is a weird game in which it didn’t turn out like I thought it would, but at the same time, it’s fun because there’s so much you can do. You type in anything, and it will appear in the game world in which you use to complete the objective (getting starites). Some things don’t turn out like I thought, and somethings become better than I would have thought. Chad told me the other day that he had God and Satan appear, at which point they fought. While frustrated on a level, instead of giving up, I played around. I drew God and Satan and had them battle. After defeating Satan, God followed me around and helped clear the way for the rest of the level. Stuff like this is cool. So cool, that I’ve found playing it with someone is a blast. Someone else coming up with stuff, or just laughing together really adds to the fun.

My only problem is with the controls. I lose missions half the time because of this. It’s a huge damper on the game unfortunately. I’ll go tap on an item and my character will run to that direction instead, usually killing himself. It would have helped using the d-pad for controls and dragging the screen for camera movement. …and the camera never stays put. If these things are fixed, a sequel would be perfect.

I still have a ways to go in the game, and I’d like to post solutions on here because they are so damn funny.

So I got Halo 3: ODST from GameFly on release day, which is really cool. Unfortunately that required me to have that as the only game on my GameQ. I know. The game is alright. I wanted to buy it to get the ODST controller, but otherwise I would have not. The single-player is short, and only some levels are even fun. But these ’some’ levels are actually a lot of fun. I’m a fan of the Halo universe, so I was interested in the story. It wasn’t a progression to what Bungie has given us so far, but it did give insight into what was happening on earth. I still want a game that plays like the Halo shorts we’ve seen. Maybe Halo: Reach will do this? Are we far revamping the gameplay to be a tad more tactical? The music is incredible and really drives emotion into the game. I think the open-world city is a great idea, but could have been executed better. Everything looked the same and didn’t really stand out as unique.

As for multi-player, I’m still not a fan of Firefight. What’s the point? Maybe I just get easily bored with just killing the same A.I. enemies spawning into the same map. Now, I had fun with the map that included vehicles, but even in the end I had no desire to go back. I think that this has to do with the fact that I’m mainly a single-player gamer. I do play a lot of multi-player, but I require that progression that comes with single-player campaigns. This is why I like CoD, Frontlines, Syphon Filter: OS…and, well, that’s about all. Objective based Halo games are fun, but just straight-up deathmatch gets boring. Halo: Reach could be the ultimate Halo game. Give me the progression and customization found in the recent CoD games, mixed with the large-scale battles of the (older) Battlefield series.

Joystiq posted their TGS hands-on with Sqeenix’s SHMUP remake, Thexter Neo, with generally positive things to say. I’m a huge fan of the genre, and love the ability to play them on a portable, but what I questions is why make a game likes this on the PSN PSP only? I guess they have the TV cable for the PSP right? Might as well do that… Check out the video here.

FarCry 2 is now $20 on Steam. I’m tempted to do this. I played it on the 360 but found it to play like a usual bad PC port. Ugly, low res, etc. From what I played though, it was a ton of fun. Very open-ended and really how single-player FPS’s need to evolve. There was one from a few years back (04-05?) called Boiling Point, which seemed similar, just not as gripping. A head of its time really. The developer, Deep Shadows out of Russia, continues to develop and I hope they get recognition someday.

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This means the Apple gaming machine is almost here, and Microsoft wants to take away anything that could give Apple steam. Activision will also be getting into hardware as well, and since EA has been eyeing the idea, this will bring it all together.

It makes sense.

I know this sounds like sarcasm, but this talk is seriously going on.

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Yeah. Apple has been secretly wanting to go this way, but the app store speaks for itself. EA has changed their ways, focusing on developing original IP, and Activision has been interested in getting in on hardware.

Man, there’s so many ways to make that console name sound odd in a sentence. You don’t even have to be thirteen and you’ll talk about your Wii, or your friend’s Wii, in naughty ways. I originally didn’t buy the Wii on release because there was nothing on it I wanted to play. I also wasn’t too into Nintendo’s direction. At one point Chad decided to move to S. Korea, and did a quick-sale on the Wii. Yeah, we’re family, but money is money. It was a good deal I couldn’t pass up, as knew Nintendo would release a first-party title that I would totally dig. Unfortunately, Zelda didn’t do it for me although Mario Galaxy was ok.

Since then, I’ve mainly bought light-gun games. I really enjoy these and if you distance yourself from the TV just right, the aiming is good. I will say good but not perfect. The way the IR works doesn’t allow for pin-point accuracy. Sega, being as awesome as they are, added a calibration setting that helps the accuracy a whole lot – and it works…but again, not perfect. I don’t know much about the motion-plus technology, you know, the third add-on for the Wiimote that allows very precise controls. I’m hoping that this device helps with the light-gun games of the future. And if it’s possible, it would be great if devs could make a patch for previous title to take advantage of the precise movements. Then again, I could be wrong and the motion-plus doesn’t do this.

I’ve been playing a lot of Ghost Squad which has quite a bit of replay value. My RE: Umbrella Chronicles disc is scratched to hell unfortunately (toothpaste didn’t work, but at least my Wii is minty fresh), but the biggest surprise here is Nerf! The Nerf game came with an excellent light-gun/Nerf gun hybrid, and the game itself is fun as hell in multiplayer. There are no real enemies or even a story here, but you run around (on-rails) shooting robots, blocks, and targets. It’s the challenges that keep it going, and I highly recommend it.

As for accessories, I bought a charging station back in the day that would only hold a charge for five minutes. Energizer seems to have the best available which are decently priced. The conductive charging is what I want. It allows for an attachment to be on their, as well as the wiimote skin. Otherwise, you’d have strip it down like a banana just to charge it. Seems like the Wii has a lot of set-up and tear-down if you ask me. Although, Nintendo or a 3rd party will have to come out with a new gun that fits with a skin and motion-plus…and nunchuck.

Nintendo Points. Apparently if you buy a points card you have to choose to either use it for the Wii or DSi. That is crap. I’s prefer them to be universal. Between the Zune and Live they are and I’m assuming as well as the PSN although I haven’t used it much. This is something I don’t hear about much but Nintendo needs to fix it!

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I must say this game is great! My brothers don’t think so. I’m not sure why because like I said this game is amazing! If your a fan of marvel….this is your game. If your a fan of punching….this is your game. IT revolves around the Civil War series Marvel introduced a couple years back.

The Govt wants superheroes to register their names. Some don’t like this and say it’s unconstitutional. Captain America leads the team of ‘I don’t think so’s and Iron man leads the team of ‘It’s the law’. So already you have 2 play throughs waiting for you.

Now I don’t want to go into a full on review, but I will list the things I like.

1.STORY!!!
2.alternate costumes (more for the geeks I guess)
3.trivia mini game
4.fusion powers
5.replay factor
6.sim room
7.Red Hulk

I could go on. If my brother or any of you that actually read this page want a real review I will give it. I just wanted to say that this game is amazing. I know the other BlueGamers don’t think so, but that is their loss.

GET IT!!

I was reading an interview on Joystiq yesterday that kind of just rubbed me the wrong way. I was hoping to get rubbed the right way, which I figured an interview on Modern Warfare 2 would do, but not exactly. The interview was done with Vince Zampella of Infinity Ward at the recent multiplayer event. This is what pissed me off:

What about something like the Zombie Mode that Treyarch did for World at War?

[Silence.]

It’s too bad our audio recorder doesn’t record the sound of eyes rolling.

That’s why I did it! [Laughs.]

So when someone is rolling their eyes, does that imply they disapprove of something? That’s fine if you don’t like something, but eye rolling is equivalent to being disrespectful. See every other year, Treyarch develops a Call of Duty game on their own. A lot of elitist gamers like to jump on the dislike-bandwagon and never play it. I myself actually enjoy the Treyarch games more than Infinity Ward’s, but I will never talk shit because it is IW themselves that created this engine/universe/gameplay-type. For instance, CoD4 introduced some amazing multiplayer elements and are borderline addictive. Treyarch took that and ran with it when developing World At War.

Anyway, World At War also included a new mode, called Nazi Zombies. This was a survival gametype in which you and three other players would survive waves of zombies while using earned money to buy different weapons. Over time, they released more maps and more improvements on the gametype, including weapon upgrades and character upgrades. This mode is fun! But was Zampella rolling his eyes at this? Why? I would think out of respect for another developer an answer would be something along the lines of this, “We have no plans to include the zombie game-type.” ….or something like that. He could have thrown in something about it being fun if he believed so. I don’t know.

Why the rolley eyes? I already have to deal with forum trolls doing that, but now game developers? Here’s what could be up: Jealous that another company has the property? Another company created a bad-ass multiplayer mode from the property? I mean, being under the gaming empire that is Activision, you realize you’re going to have to play by their rules. Is it just you think something sci-fi like that shouldn’t be in a game like this? Well fucking tell me! You really just make yourself look bad, even with all the great games you’ve developed under your belt. What? Am I taking this out of context? If so, let me know.

In the end, I can’t wait for Modern Warfare 2. It will be awesome and a lot of fun. But, from the sounds of it, MW2 won’t have a Zombie mode. I’m fine with that, but disappointed. I just hope the next Treyarch CoD title will expand on it like they have with the map packs; something that we haven’t been getting from IW.

Messing with my Wii over the weekend, I saw a great deal of old-school games on the Virtual Console that I love. I like the idea of having all of my favorite games stored in one place for easy access, especially Shmups. The VC has a ton of them. But my thought was, let’s say I buy a ton of games and the Wii store shuts down, or the next console requires you to buy them again? These are just thoughts. I’ve been using Steam for quite a while and feel confident with that system, but it is one platform that is constantly being updated through the years. Five years from now, I’m sure PC games will still be played on a PC using Windows, but what about the Wii?

I guess you can say the same goes for XBLA and PSN. I have faith in Microsoft and their distribution of games, but for some reason I’m scared of Nintendo. Sony gets props for having PSN titles played on both PS3 and PSP. Although Nintendo does allow games to be stored on an SD card which should be easily hackable if need be; the bigger kicker here would be the ability to play VC games on the DS as well.

But this goes into another issue – ROMs. If I own a game and it somehow becomes inaccessible to me, wouldn’t it be ok for me to have a ROM, or possibly even a pirated copy, backed up? Do the terms recognize that use? I think some terms indicate they have the ability to pull a game from use at anytime, much like EA’s original digital distribution service. And I know most require an internet connection for a game to be played, but does the Wii?

Maybe there are answers to most of these questions, but I’m just used to the years and years of collecting physical copies. I enjoy that. I welcome in digital distribution, and find it to work great on the PC, but I still question the consoles. Any thoughts on this?

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