Archive for December, 2009
I got a PS3 for Christmas (thanks, Sarge!) and one of the first games I purchased from PSN was Flower from thatgamecompany. I highly recommend it for anyone who appreciates games as art. It’s truly a beautiful game, and I enjoyed it for many of the same reasons I enjoyed Braid. The journey it takes [ READ MORE ]
I added the ability to rate blog posts, mostly because I made myself laugh playing with the custom text. Will be making an effort to not start sentences with simple future active verbs. Need a custom theme, I think. Now please vote: You’re welcome[ READ MORE ]
I liked Avatar more than I thought I would. I went into it expecting little: a saccharine, clichéd, fish-out-of-water-meets-then-feels-sorry-for-misunderstood-culture story wrapped in millions of dollars worth of artificial pixels. In that respect, the movie disappointed. The wife and I saw a compelling, character-driven story with almost flawless technical execution. The effects were brilliant. The blending [ READ MORE ]
Square Off is a great game from Gnomic Studios that I found on Xbox Live Indie Games. It’s got a solid game mechanic and great art direction. Well worth the 240 points ($3), and a good benchmark for what Xbox Live Indie Games should be. The Gnomic Studios team paid a lot of attention to [ READ MORE ]
Spoiler alert. My wife and I just finished Borderlands. That wasn’t the spoiler. We were disappointed with the… thing that happened… before we stopped playing. No, not the ending—there wasn’t one of those. Instead of an ending Gearbox elected to have us fight something large and get something small as a reward. Now I’m doing [ READ MORE ]
I wrote this back in June of this year. Since then, Shadow Complex arrived on the scene, and I’m considering treating it specially. Many games concern themselves with unlockables, I tend to be more interested in unreachables. Castlevania 2 was all about unreachables. I will never forget a sheer stone wall to the left of one [ READ MORE ]
I finally found time tonight to catch up on X-Play, though I had to jump past three episodes I haven’t had time to watch yet to get to their Best of 2009 Awards Show. I’m sad though, because I haven’t been able to play most of the games mentioned. Oh well. Gotta make a living. [ READ MORE ]
http://www.object01.com/ is back online. Windows and I had a fight, and Dasblog was worried that it was its fault. I told Dasblog that it wasn’t its fault that Windows and I had a fight, or that the computer it lived on was freezing randomly. But then I told it that it sort of was its [ READ MORE ]
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