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Re: Where is the Leonard Part 6 of gaming?

thenewguy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:55:25 -0000

Master Of Orion 3.
Period.
After the wonder of the first two and the wait for the third, it really was that bad.

Re: Zoo Review: Duel of the Planeswalkers

Roger Cosseboom — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:02:19 -0000

ok my geek secrets:

First of all : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0zxVkTH6A

Second : If you want to geek out old school this is a mtg mud that i've played on and off for eleven years.

telnet mud.egn.com.au port: 3333

-r.

Re: Zoo Review: Duel of the Planeswalkers

Matt (misguided) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:46:10 -0000

I read your Blog and I'm not a huge gamer. I enjoy Final Fantasy Tactics games which feels similar.

Re: Zoo Review: Duel of the Planeswalkers

Gangles — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:55:49 -0000

I've been hearing the siren call of this game lately too, I was really into MTG right around the end of elementary school (thankfully the shop I bought the cards from shut down, and I had to find better pastimes going into high school.) I might have to give it a shot, especially if the game won't let me waste my time by constantly tinkering with my deck.

Re: Bit Tripping And The Art Of SD Card Maintenance

fatclike — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:42:31 -0000

...just to give an update...
the simplicity and I did finally beat the game two player. However, the cost of winning is apparently staying up until 9 the next morning, wandering around the streets of philly around 4 in the morning while imagining white dots buzzing through the darkness of my mind every time I close my eyes. The effect is similar to staring into the sun until your eyes start to bleed.

I was fortunate enough to win the first level by myself the next day immediately after waking up. I guess my clarity of mind is best in the morning.

Re: Zoo Review: Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts

tracfone — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:04:40 -0000

huh crab meat?? haaha im so confused!

Re: Summons of the Ideal: Really?

tracfone — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:45:40 -0000

hehe, nope your not alone. france huh.....

Re: Where is the Leonard Part 6 of gaming?

thesimplicity — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:22:00 -0000

You bring up some good points! I've never heard of Zombieville, but that link makes me want to track it down just to experience it.

Actually, reading through that link has me thinking... if a game is released broken, is anyone really experiencing a bad game? Think about it in film terms... that'd be like the print catching fire during the title roll. Terrible situation, but does that make it a bad film? It's really interesting to think about how much of a game's experience relies on flawless technical transparency. If I installed a broken game on my system and couldn't play it, part of me would wonder what good elements I was missing rather than chalking it up as a loss.

Last Action Hero and Cliffhanger... well, they're based on movies. I think I've come to accept that any adaptation can't be judged on the same level as original IP, for precisely the reasons mentioned in that newsgroup post. Changes are going to be dictated by the studios and developers must be forced to adapt. How can anyone be expected to work like that? It's disgraceful.

There are a lot of very, very bad games out there, but I personally haven't experienced anything on the level of Leonard Part 6... something that completely breaks your heart and makes you distrust the medium.

Re: My Visit to Sega’s World Sports Grille

ashley — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:55:14 -0000

Okay I work here at the World Sports Grille. Let me tell you there food does suck! I prepare it. However it is not pre-packaged, we make the burgers,tex-mex, and pretty much everything in between from scratch. Even the BBQ. Bt i hate to say this, it sucks! There management sucks butt, and they're servers are never where their supposed to be! They always go out to smoke, and the kitchen cooks often will not wash their hands when going out to smoke. You're wondering if i do 2? Well i dnt smoke, i've told the managers various times, bt they like to think there smarter then every1 and don't bother to change there disgusting ways!

Re: Where is the Leonard Part 6 of gaming?

Jason Scott — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:52:19 -0000

I like a lot of your entries and subscribe to this excellent weblog; however I think this one's a tad weak. There have been, over time, multiple "Leonard Part 6" types of games, games that you can't believe ever saw the light of day.

Being a bit of a Psygnosis buff, I'll mention three:

Cliffhanger (1994)
Last Action Hero (1994)
Zombieville (1998)

Consider this quote from a newsgroup about the first two:

"Cliffhanger was indeed an absolute abomination. However, we all got to go
and see a preview of the film about two months before it was released here.
:) Last Action Hero was a big problem. The main platform for the game was on
the Mega-CD. The biggest problem was that the game was approved by Sony as a
beat 'em up, but Arnie was going through his "I want to be nice" phase, and
wouldn't let us have him being seen to incite violence. So we were left with
a beat 'em up where you could only hit people if they had hit you first.
Ridiculous. Consequently the game design kept getting changed to try to fit
in these stupid clauses that were coming from Sony every week. In the end, a
month or two before beta, we just shoved together the big mess that we had
into some semblemce of a game. The Amiga version was then converted from
that pile of crap, and even worse, the programmers were so crap (it was The
Dome, who strangely enough did a very good job with Bob's Bad Day) that the
Producer wouldn't give them proper bug reports because they would get too
depressed about it!"

As for the third, which a person who worked on the project alerted me to, it was released broken, that is, not actually functioning, and to a small european country for a few months, just to dump it out and claim it was "released". Info on it:

http://www.psygnosis.org/games/zombieville/

There have been, I am sure, dozens of these games that would fulfill your criteria - it's just that movies naturally blanket the planet with marketing and lodge those creations into the mass culture. Games not so much.

Re: Where is the Leonard Part 6 of gaming?

thesimplicity — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:17:09 -0000

Oooh... that's a good one. Daikatana had a major gaming celebrity behind it and we all expected greatness. The only problem is the game wasn't actually that terrible, just sort of mediocre after the massive ad campaign behind it and how hyped up it was by the gaming press. I mean, the setting was still interesting and it attempted a lot of cool ideas... it was just over ambitious and the tech wasn't advanced enough to handle it.

Re: Where is the Leonard Part 6 of gaming?

Lucas — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:35:47 -0000

Hmm. That is a challenge. What about "Daikatana"?

Re: Bit Tripping And The Art Of SD Card Maintenance

Joseph Carter Osborn — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:21:49 -0000

This >> "It was like waking from a dream and hearing the buzz of an alarm clock, realizing that what you just experienced, no matter how real it may have seemed, was nothing more than a product of your mind."

Basically the best possible description for that first Nether moment. Subsequent Nether moments are, "no, no, five more minutes, please!"

Re: My evening with Retro Game Challenge

eggwolio — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:41:39 -0000

This is sorta how my experience with Big Bang Mini went. I'd never heard of it, but the lenticular packaging was sure pretty. Something about it just grabbed me and I'm really enjoying it.

Re: Bit Tripping And The Art Of SD Card Maintenance

Ben — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:21:36 -0000

You haven't beaten the first level and you think the game's hard?
You really, REALLY ain't seen nothin yet. ;) Level 3 will kick your ass, it's still kicking mine. (although with 2 players we've managed to win)
(also the levels are 15 minutes long ;))

Re: Bit Tripping And The Art Of SD Card Maintenance

thesimplicity — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:18:22 -0000

First try?! That's amazing. With skill like that, you should take a road trip to LA and enter him in the 1990 Nintendo World Championship or something.

Re: Bit Tripping And The Art Of SD Card Maintenance

Gangles — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:11:24 -0000

I wasn't able to beat the first level either, then I showed the game to a friend and he beat it on the first try. Here's to being bad at video games!

Re: Bit Tripping And The Art Of SD Card Maintenance

thesimplicity — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:33:37 -0000

Wow, I totally botched that vimeo embed. Fixed now. Thanks for pointing that out.

I think that bit.trip Beat is one of the most enlightening games I've had the pleasure of playing. Thanks for making such an incredible title, I can't wait to see more entries in the series.

Re: Bit Tripping And The Art Of SD Card Maintenance

Alex Neuse — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:17:37 -0000

Thanks for the amazing write up. I'm glad that you're getting out of the game all the stuff I wanted people to. I have so much more to say about this, but you definitely are getting it.

There's a section in the middle that's all html and looks like it's trying to point to a vimeo movie but isn't working (I'm using Firefox).

You're right, though, there are two more levels. Stick with it, and I'm sure you'll reach enlightenment. :)

-Alex

Re: Obvious Exits

Atorvastatin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:33:21 -0000

Lipitor (atorvastatin) for High Cholesterol, Familial Heterozygous: I have been using this medicine for about 6 years. As a result my cholesterol level test comes out normal.

Re: My evening with Retro Game Challenge

AdamRobezzoli — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:56:55 -0000

"Study your difficulty curves" - Nice.

Re: Fay’s Final Puzzle and the comforts of unending death

atarax25mg — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:14:58 -0000

Atarax (hydroxyzine) for Nausea/Vomiting: Atarax is the best for relieving nausea, especially while taking pain killers. I have a broken tailbone and am taking Vicodin, which makes me so sick. I take 50 mg of Atarax and the nausea is gone within 20 minutes. It is GREAT. Also helps with anxiety and hives.

Re: Zoo Review: Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts

thesimplicity — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:06:54 -0000

Crab meat is delicious if you like seafood, but compared to the size of those claws there is just so little of it.

Re: Zoo Review: Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts

AdamRobezzoli — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:17:30 -0000

I don't know what kind of algorithm you are using, but from what you wrote in the review I was expecting the final score to be a male narwhal.

Re: Summons of the Ideal: Really?

thesimplicity — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:21:16 -0000

I've made that drive before. It fucking sucks.

Realism at it's finest.