tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post3150585794637630272..comments2024-03-28T03:13:15.831-04:00Comments on Remarkable: Boom Blox (Wii game review)Geoff Klockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-34851817004369069992008-06-14T20:46:00.000-04:002008-06-14T20:46:00.000-04:00Oh yeah and if you want to talk about more games w...Oh yeah and if you want to talk about more games with atmosphere, then there's absolutely nothing wrong with the Silent Hill series (with maybe an exception for the forth one, The Room, which had some slightly annoying level designs.)Christian O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00444025571307204096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-84879030463023963592008-06-14T20:31:00.000-04:002008-06-14T20:31:00.000-04:00Short list of recommendations from a nerd:Bioshock...Short list of recommendations from a nerd:<BR/><BR/>Bioshock. Objectivist First-Person Shooter set in a paleo-future. underwater city seen through the eyes of Fritz Lang.<BR/><BR/>"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city, as well." <BR/><BR/>http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/4-BioShock<BR/><BR/>Portal. A first-person puzzle game, focusing on using spatial-distortion to your advantage. If you want to talk about iconography, it's all very feminine. And really, really funny.<BR/><BR/>"The Enrichment Center promises to always provide a safe testing environment. In dangerous testing environments, the Enrichment Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it." <BR/><BR/>http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/10-The-Orange-Box<BR/><BR/><BR/>Psychonauts<BR/><BR/>Third-person adventure game about a young boy, Raz, who flees from the circus in order to join a summer camp for psychics (with varying objectives from psychiatric help to warfare etc.)Loads of fun gaming, good writing and quite a bit of genre subversion (aside from the "fleeing FROM the circus," the scrawny kid is the bully, the cheerleader is chronically depressed etc. The gameplay is intuitive, the landscape seriously impressive (ranging from the opressed mind of Sasha Nein to the Go-Go Dancer level of Milla Vodello to Gogolar! the Godzilla stage etc.)<BR/><BR/>http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2-Psychonauts<BR/><BR/><BR/>Basically I've mentioned a lot of games, that are not only fun to play, but also rather innovative in their own right, immensive, with a very strong and good design sense.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Other noticable things that have popped into my head: Resident Evil 4, God of War and Okami.Christian O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00444025571307204096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-6303456702036361952008-06-14T18:50:00.000-04:002008-06-14T18:50:00.000-04:00No More Heroes is the Kill Bill of video games. G...<I>No More Heroes</I> is the <I>Kill Bill</I> of video games. Get it.Patrick Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410343584813208100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-15749334219090624442008-06-14T06:45:00.000-04:002008-06-14T06:45:00.000-04:00"some kind of car race game where you get a boost ..."some kind of car race game where you get a boost if you don't hit anything"<BR/>One of the early Burnout games, I think; a series which has now become entirely ABOUT hitting things.<BR/><BR/>"Sniper Cell"<BR/>Splinter Cell<BR/><BR/>"meanwhile everyone else is raping hookers in Grand Theft Auto"<BR/>Ha ha ha! But I'm pretty sure you cannot rape prostitutes in GTA.<BR/><BR/>"although the AVClub complained that sharing them is hard: you can only share with friends to protect the kiddies from penis shaped towers"<BR/>Yeah, it always amazes me that people get on Nintendo's back for their supposedly overzealous protection measures. Surely protecting their very young audience IS more important than older players getting awesome downloadz?Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14740669500899738381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-63556415320842391222008-06-14T03:31:00.000-04:002008-06-14T03:31:00.000-04:00Jet Set Radio. Or maybe Jet Set Radio Future...I n...Jet Set Radio. Or maybe Jet Set Radio Future...I never played either one, but I've always dug the look of the games.Josh Hechingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09548677734587910038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-25573025755906859732008-06-14T03:19:00.000-04:002008-06-14T03:19:00.000-04:00Every comics reader should play City of Heroes at ...Every comics reader should play City of Heroes at some point. The ability to design and create your own superhero is a beautiful thing. The character creation process alone is worth the price of admission.<BR/><BR/>And I must differ with you that Marvel ultimate Alliance is NOT boring! I found it quite exciting to explore so many corners of the Marvel Universe.Streeboramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13246099190675220076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-84364146405290932022008-06-14T00:48:00.000-04:002008-06-14T00:48:00.000-04:00unless there is some generic, only-found-at-your-l...unless there is some generic, only-found-at-your-local-99cent store version of "that electric surgery board-game" that I am unaware of, I believe the name of the games is <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_%28game%29" REL="nofollow">Operation</A>. By Milton Bradley. And apparently "has been in production since 1965."<BR/><BR/>dork ;-) <BR/><BR/>oh and also, Afterburner was totally a 1980's airplane game by sega. Except it's two words: After Burner. I recall having a bit of a fondness for it whenever I found myself at the arcade. It had a cool, simulated real jet plane control sticky thing and everything. <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Burner_II" REL="nofollow">ooh, found it!</A>sara d. reisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18229743478023552805noreply@blogger.com