Ok, this is a few weeks old, and kind of stupid, but it illustrates a good point:
Earth Defense Force 2017 really is the manliest video game ever made. Seriously, all you do is walk around and shoot a few thousand bugs, lizards, robots, and weird flying things. Once in a while they throw in an epic boss battle. For example, in one you basically have to take down Godzilla single-handedly. Well, it’s not really Godzilla, but…just take a look.
If you have an Xbox 360, make sure to pick this up.
I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand I love the Guitar Hero games, and on the other, I’m apprehensive that focusing the game on one band will put a damper on things. One of the things I liked the most was how it provided a good mix of bands. It sounds like it won’t be all Aerosmith songs, but I think the lack of variety will hurt.
Well, not the whole controller. Just the D-pad. Seriously, the Xbox 360 has the worst D-pad of any controller I have ever used. The cheap, crappy Gamestop branded controllers have a better D-pad than this. Those Hong Kong made “200-in-1″ game systems have better D-pads that the 360 does.
Apparently I’m not alone in this. Topher Cantler over at Destructoid has written the most in depth article I’ve read on why the Xbox 360’s D-pad is the worst ever made.
I’ve posted before about how much I love Super Dodgeball for the NES. In addition to being one of the best multiplayer NES games, it also has one of the better, if less recognized, soundtracks of its generation. Kazuo Sawa’s work on the game is nothing short of amazing.
I hadn’t really thought about this before, but certain games must be really frustrating to colorblind gamers. For example, this screen shot from Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo that attempts to show what it looks like to a colorblind person by comparison:
It’s one of the examples used to show why this is a problem in Ben Kuchera’s article at ars technica.
Sure, the trailer for Resident Evil 5 is several months old, but it is still raising questions of race and its role in gaming. Here’s the trailer for those that havent seen it yet.
I think the best story anyone has done on this so far is this one over at MTV’s Multiplayer blog. It’s mainly an interview with N’Gai Croal who covers gaming for Newsweek. Also, I saw this post on one of Destructoid’s community blogs. Interesting to see more than one side of it.
I’m still kind of bummed about Computer Gaming World (fine, Games for Windows, whatever) being shut down, but The Computer Gaming World Museum at least serves as a good memorial to the magazine.
It has the cover of every issue, as well as complete .pdf scans of the issues from the first several years.
It’s kind of fun to see how far PC gaming (or really gaming in general) has come in the past two and a half decades.
Back when Bioshock came out, I was bummed because on PC it required a graphics card with Shader Model 3.0. Guess what my Radeon X800 GTO doesn’t have. Anyway, I heard there was actually a way around it and that someone was working on an unofficial patch to allow older graphics cards to handle the game. Well, there hasn’t been any progress in several months and it still had some problems with textures displaying properly.
By problems I mean this (via www.overclock.net):
I just ended up borrowing a 360 copy from one of my friends. I might still go back to it on PC once I upgrade to an Nvidia 9600 GT this summer. This kind of game just feels more at home on PC to me.
I read these when they were first published and stumbled onto them again the other day. The basic idea was that a couple of guys at GameSpy would take bad PS2 launch title, most of which were already really cheap at the time the articles went up, and basically just post what they were saying about the game as they played it. If someone tried this again today, but did video for it, I have a feeling it could really do well, assuming they found the right hosts.
Too bad it never really got off the ground. Check out the few entries that did make it out though. They were great!
There have been dozens of superhero and comic based games made over the years, and while some have been great like Spiderman 2 or the old X-men arcade game, many have been cheaply made, rushed out attempts to cash in on existing characters.
That’s why I’m glad to see that Seanbaby already did a write up of some of the worst over at 1up.
My only complaint is that he didn’t mention that abysmal Crow: City of Angles game for the PS1, Saturn and (I think) PC.
There’s really no excuse for that game being released.
