Web: All Your Base 2008
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Courtesy of Pwn or Die [via Gamepolitics.com], here’s a great riff on the All Your Base meme that floated around a few years ago.
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Borked: Half Woman, All Fail, Uniped Mini Games?
When you put an ad together for a set of new game servers in a distant continent that speaks a different language, it’s a good idea to not only:
- Proofread the text in the ad.
- Ensure that any graphics in the ad – which should be sexually stimulating – don’t suddenly take on a whole new meaning in light of any typos.
I found this ad for Wonderland Online at the I Can Has Cheezburger? website when doing a search, and will admit to being drawn into the ad by the seductive pose of the girl in the picture (I’m male – it’s genetic). Then I noticed the typo regarding the GRAND REOPENING of their new game servers. Seems that people in Europe are playing a version of the game involving uniped re-animated corpses that have to lean against ad borders so they don’t fall down, or you only get to play half a character. Of course, with Anime-inspired games, anything is possible. Anything.
First Impressions: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Yesterday I picked up my copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Wii. I was helping a friend move yesterday, so I had to put it aside until I finished that, and got home from work. As soon as I got home from work, the disc went into the Wii and I loaded it up.
I was thrown for a loop, because at the beginning you get to play Darth Vader first, as he hunts down a Jedi on Kashyyyk, but this gives you a chance to get used to the controls and some of the Force powers. Once you confront and defeat the Jedi (which takes a little bit of time as you’re still getting used to the controls), the main story breaks open and you get to to play Vader’s errand boy.
I’m only about 2 hours into the game right now, but I’ve already had a couple of “Oh Sh!t” moments, particularly in boss battles, which are incredibly cinematic. I’ve gotten used to the control scheme now and am able to manipulate the world around me quite well with my force powers, which are incredibly powerful if you chain them correctly. There’s something just quite awe-inspiring about slamming stormtroopers backwards through doorways and into the cold of space using your mind, and taking down AT-STs is child’s play when you’ve got a lightsaber in your hand. Kicking Rodian butt is also rather fun (and allows me some payback for Lucas changing it so that Han didn’t shoot first).
My major issue with the game is that the camera seems to be borked at times, and it’s easy to get caught behind scenery and not be able to move. Enemies also sometimes cluster around you, and you can easily be swarmed and unable to get moved, but other games such as Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time suffer from this as well. Controls at times can also be unresponsive particularly if you’ve just executed a sequence of attacks, but the game is reasonably forgiving. Taking a leaf from other games, if you die, you restart at the last quick save point, less some gained Force Points. This means you can take on boss battles and not get kicked to the curb too much, and you don’t feel the game is punishing you. It’s also easy to level up some of your Force powers early in the game, which means you can do even more impressive moves. My favorite so far has been doing a Force Dash by running forward to meet oncoming enemies and then performing a couple of Force Pushes in sequence, which throws them backwards, usually taking them out completely – it’s a great way to clear corridors and enclosed spaces of enemies. Heal units are also scattered well throughout areas, so you can always recharge before moving into a new area, giving you at least have a fighting chance if you stumble into a boss.
Overall, the game is awesome, and even although the Wii version has less depth in graphics than the 360 or PS3 version, the gameplay is intact. I’ll be playing more later today, just as soon as I manage to let my left arm heal, which is sore from moving an overly-heavy bed sofa yesterday.
How Geek Are You?
Contributors to the Something Awful website have been working on building a huge pixel art city called Goon City. Take a look at it and see how many references you can get. There’s a number of awesome pop culture references as well as a ton of geek references, including those you an see above: Stargate, Castle Grayskull, and X-Com. There are literally hundreds in this huge map, so it’s best to view the page fullscreen.
Play: A Slew of DS Games
Over the past week we’ve picked up a few more Nintendo DS games. My daughter had some birthday money to spend and she wanted some Pokemon games, so we obliged by taking her to the local second-hand game store, where she could get more bang for her buck. She picked up Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time.
I’ve been playing a lot of Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer, is a non-Pokemon version of the above games. We also picked up Star Wars: Lethal Alliance, Wario: Master of Disguise and Drawn to Life. Not too shabby for about $75 or so.
Battlefield Heroes: Death By Kiltie!
Now, THIS game I’m looking forward to. I’ve been following the development of Battlefield Heroes for some time, particularly because it’s going to be free (ad and micro-transaction supported) and it’s been getting a lot of good press from the GFW guys. The fact that I get to put my guy in a kilt and descend upon the enemy totting automatic weapons is just pure icing on the cake. Finally, a game that takes the concept of clans seriously!
Web Wednesday: Facebook Dungeons & Dragons Tiny Adventures
I’ve found myself addicted to playing the new Dungeons & Dragons Tiny Adventures that’s available on Facebook. I tend to leave it running in the background while I do other thins on the Interwebs, flipping back to its tab to check my current quest status. It’s absolutely nothing like sitting around a table with your friends, but it’s fun in a online Tunnels & Trolls-type way. You can help to buff your friends in their quests, but it’s really missing a multi-player component, even if that component is just multiple people going on the quest together and playing through turns. It’d also be improved if you could trade items with other players, because I end up selling a lot of stuff that I’ve got duplicates of. Still, it’s a lot of fun, and keeps me amused while sitting at work, at least, when the servers aren’t crashing because there’s too many people playing it.
Red Alert 3: Time Traveling Wishes
EA have announce that they’re going to stick with SECUROM for their games, including Red Alert 3 [via Kotaku]. This means that I’ll not be buying Red Alert 3 any time soon, and will hold off until I can go back in time, and rewrite the past to get rid of the copy protection system on the disc.
Either that, or I might end up considering getting an Xbox 360, and get the game on that platform, although I’ll feel as if I’m betraying my PC gaming legacy by doing so.
Happy Happy Jedi Batman
At the weekend, we traded in a bunch of DVD sets for in-store credit at VGMX, and pre-ordered both Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and LEGO Batman for the Wii. As I’m going to be off school for the next couple of weeks, and working a short schedule at work, I’m going to be able to get in a lot of gaming.
We’ve still got a little store credit left, and I’m wanting to apply that to Spore for the Wii, but seeing as the release date for that is way, way off, I might just apply it to a couple of other used Wii games. There is absolutely NO way that I’m going to get the PC version of Spore, for a couple of reasons:
- $59.99 per copy, and we’d need more than one copy as we have multiple computers here in the house.
- It uses SECUROM protection [Kotaku] on the disc, and I’m not putting that crap anywhere near my computers.
- Getting it on the Wii means that whoever’s not playing it can play the laptops.
Until then I’m sure I’ll have my hands full playing both these games. You never know, I might even finish a LEGO game before either Mrs Teh Bagder or the kids for once.
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Beta: Good Old Games (GOG.COM)
This morning I got my beta access key to the Good Old Games website. I’ve been looking forward to this as the games that they are planning to offer will be low priced PC games that are DRM-free and will run on XP & Vista (as you can see above). The initial catalogue is mostly Interplay and Codemasters games, and I already own most of the games available, but the sweet thing about the beta is that if you buy 1 game, you’ll get 1 free if you signed up for the early beta before Sept 8th (which I did).
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