I am Still Alive!

That is all…for now. <.<

An epic video about a game that honestly should be made. Fighting game depicting most of the most famous characters from all the classic developers of the 8-bit era including Capcom, Nintendo, Namco,Taito,Sunsoft,Hudson and of course Konami.

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“MegaMan”-Fan Film from Eddie Lebron on Vimeo.

It’s been ages since I saw the first trailer from this movie, honestly it didn’t look all that bad. Still there is no way to make the Megaman suit look cool in Real life. That helmet just makes me laugh.

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On May 7th the Megaman fan film will land!

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The game may be dead but there is still stuff popping up surrounding it.

I find it pretty neat that they had vehicles in it.

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So…hi.

What an amazing four months it’s been.

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

That’s but a fraction of what this site has missed out on while I was too lazy to update it!

Well no more, now it’s time to make up for lost time.
Let me start of by telling you a little bit about a relatively unknown* game called Starcraft II.

*I lie, it’s like one of the most famous of all time

I got into the beta for it a little while ago and it’s looking very promising. The graphics look pretty good and there have been some major changes to units, strategies and tactics even though they aren’t that evident from the surface.

All the races retain their basic units from the first game, like the scvs,probes and drones. Terran have their standard issue marines as basic attack units, zerg have their zerglings and protoss have the zealots. After that there have been some big changes to units you can produce.

See here for the changes in units and abilities

I must admit that I haven’t played the game that much and I’ve only gone against the computer because I’m still trying to learn all the new tactics and how to use the new units.

There are still some balance issues and the beta I’m playing now can still change a lot because of some units being dropped/replaced. I’ve also had some crash issues but overall the game works surprisingly well for a beta including the replay option.

Will it become as successful as Starcraft 1 was? Well, I think so. It has received Blizzards usual attention for quality in build and style so it simply can’t fail. I don’t know about it replacing Starcraft 1 completely because you know, people are nostalgic in nature and while Starcraft II is familiar on the surface, some major changes in how people play the game are necessary.

The soundtrack is okay, but I miss the music from the first game though. Terran music could be a little more upbeat. Zerg is the usual mix of annoying sound effects and sort off music and Protoss remains similar to how it was in the first game.

For now it’s time to sign off and perhaps play a match or two!

Oh and soon, my thoughts on God of War III!

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The site has been successfully restored.

woo!

Again..

I don’t know why the hell this site can’t stay out of trouble. >_<

Google has marked my site as having malware, which it did. Damn dirty hackers..

I am working on repairing the damage, I hope I can keep it safe this time around.

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“The game contains first-person perspective, close-up depictions of human characters being subjected to various types of violence, including explicit decapitation and dismemberment as well as locational damage such as stabbing through the chest, mouth, throat, or eyes,” the board report stated.

“Characters can be stabbed with a Predator’s wrist blade or an Alien’s tail in depictions reminiscent of impalement. The Predator collects ‘trophies’ by explicitly ripping off human heads, their spinal columns dangling from severed necks. Heads can be twisted completely around in order to break a character’s neck. Eyes can be stabbed through or gouged, leaving empty, bloodied eye sockets.

“It is noted that a player is able to combine manoeuvres together in quick succession, which further increases impact; for example, a Predator can stab a character through both eyes with its wrist blade and rip off their head, with spinal column still attached. Extensive post-mortem damage, including decapitation and dismemberment, is also possible.”

You can not but feel bad for all the avid 18+ gamers down below who can’t make a trip to the nearest game store to pick up a copy of their favorite M-rated because some politician thinks that an 18+ rating on games will turn people into mindless murderers and corrupt the children.

SEGA stated that they are going to look into all options available to them including an appeal.

Their other option would be to create a censored version for the Australian market much like Valve did with Left 4 Dead 2 however it is considered likely that Sega AU will not opted to do this because Sega’s European arm decided not to release in Germany rather then subject the game to “significant cuts that would harm the gameplay experience” to get them past the German sensor.

Which is a good thing considering that this is probably what the politician want the censored game to be like.

I wish the best of luck to Aussies on their search for the best import option!

Aliens vs. Predator Cinematic Trailer (HD)

Source: Eurogamer

Hello!

Thought I‘d start this review series of mine where I Intend to review everything I own.
Where else to start but with the very first game I ever owned Super Mario Bros.

First the object of the game as pictured by my crappy phone camera.

So just your typical save princess from dragon scenario, only people are bricks and flowers scattered throughout….wait.

..Moving on.

At this point there isn‘t really anything that hasn‘t been said a million times before about this game. So doing a review for it is pointless besides I could sum it up in two words.

Kick ass!

I‘m rather going to talk about my experience with the game back when I first played it.

Summer 1988 my parents decided to buy a NES for me. They didn‘t have any special reason for doing so, they just decided to be nice to me (<3 my parents). I had already taken my steps into the gaming world before then. I don‘t think I was more then 3 years old when I first played a game on my mom‘s Sinclair Spectrum. At the local electronics store at the time they always had a NES running the demo for Super Mario Bros and every time I went by the store I ended up watching the demo loop over and over again and be very fascinated with all the pretty colors.

So you can just imagine how excited I was when my dad brought home the NES.

It‘s a 1987 model and it still works (though I‘ve had to make some repairs to the contacts) It came shipped with the NES, one controller, the zapper and of course a Super Mario Bros/Duck hunt cartridge.
I can‘t say I remember my first ever time playing Super Mario bros but I‘m sure it went something like this.

This game frustrated me so much back then that I went all Angry Videogame Nerd because of it, and I‘m sure I‘m not the only one who‘s done that. I have evidence of me snapping on my NES as can be seen on the picture below.

While I could breeze through this game these days with little effort when you were 4 years old, playing games was hard and so I must have seen that game over screen hundreds of times before I eventually managed to beat the game, though mostly with help from my mom, she might actually have played it more than me and I‘d just watch her struggle just as much with it.

When I finally managed to reach the first castle and beat it, and like so many gamers I was pissed that after all that hard work and frustration that that stupid Mushroom had to tell me that the princess was in another castle.

This is what I would have liked had happened. *evil laughter*

Rinse and repeat 7 more times and finally defeat Bowser was really frustrating and took forever but it was still satisfying to finally well lets face it, get the p*ssy.

So yeah while a lot of my memories about this game are just frustration and dying a lot it was still the first step that cemented my love of games and gaming until this day much like Super Mario Bros cemented that video games were here to stay.

I can say one thing about Super Mario Bros. It has aged surprisingly well, it doesn‘t just have nostalgia going for it, it‘s still a solid platformer in its own right being of course vastly outperformed by Super Mario Bros 3 which is understandable and normal. If I ever have kids I‘d much rather let them play these older NES games first then anything else. Because after all, what do graphics matter to kids? 8-bit games are a positive influence as far as I‘m concerned, they are simple yet unforgiving and since they require patience to beat they teach children to overcome difficulties instead of just doing things the easy way and most of all they are just a lot of fun.

If there is one thing I miss about growing up are the jumps gaming took each generation and being blown away which just doesn‘t happen anymore. Graphics aren‘t going to improve much more at this point and I don‘t think I‘d like them too either and there are some innovations in works like the motion controllers, I grew up with a controller in my hand and so I‘ll prefer that any day over jumping all around in front a camera.

Enough rambling lets get down to ratings.

Nostalgia factor – 10

Everyone owned and loved this game. It‘s nostalgia factor is beyond the scale but 10 is as high as I can give it.

Game play – 8

The basis for virtually every 2D platform game made after the crash, as such it‘s just a tad simplistic to get a 10.

Sound – 9

Even non gamers can hum the level 1-1 theme from start to finish from memory, the music is classic and the sound effects are 8-bit sweetness.

Vitality – 7

It‘s not a very long game even if you take into account the harder second quest after you finish the game the first time(without resetting the console)

Final Verdict – 8.5

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Just a little something I made earlier today.

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This game looks pretty great and I’m interested to see how the interaction between EVE and this game will be like since according to what I’ve heard is that what happens in this game has effect on what happens in EVE and possibly viceversa.

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Hour long video with Tim Schafer and Erik Robson from Double Fine and some Gamespot staff guys talking about and playing Brutal Legend..

Awesome!

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