Saturday, January 9, 2010

New years [chat]olutions

And so we enter the year 2010. Only two years left till the world ends.

Plan accordingly.

Posted by _J_ at 11:59 PM

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Mike Lewis said...

as completely retarted as it is, I think i am going to blog more. I feel out of practice and i have a paid writing project this month.

also, Ragnarök

January 3, 2010 at 5:37 PM
_J_ said...

My New Year's Resolution is to write at least one rant a week.

It will help keep me sane.

January 3, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Andrew said...

odd. I had a conversation about Ragnarök yesterday.

January 3, 2010 at 8:17 PM
Unknown said...

Is that anything like Rosklide?

January 4, 2010 at 12:33 AM
Mike Lewis said...

i would guess that Rosklide is a like Ragnarok, but not Ragnarok itself.

January 4, 2010 at 9:46 AM
Mike Lewis said...

A first step to fulfilling my resolution.

Some thoughts on FOX's up coming Quiz Show "Out Little Genius"

January 4, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Roscoe said...

Will Technoviking be there?

January 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM
Mike Lewis said...

no. but Technoviking will rape you in your dreams.

January 5, 2010 at 4:44 PM
MA17 said...

My furnace went out sometime while I was gone last week. The heat is back on now and man, sometimes I forget how thoroughly we have kicked mother nature's mundane ass. Cold in the winter? Please, bitch.

January 6, 2010 at 1:19 AM
MA17 said...

So, on the surface, all shoot em ups are basically the same game. Flying thing moves around and shoots things down.

Of course, there are plenty of ways to differentiate one series from another. You can make the flier a space ship or a WWII airplane or a little girl or whatever and focus on dodging bullets or mowing down enemies or navigating the environments. The weapons the flier uses can set one game apart from another as can the way the flier powers them up.

It's not really fair to start up a new shmup, see a space ship scrolling right shooting down aliens and say "oh, this is just Gradius" so long as the other particulars are different enough to make it interesting.

It is fair, however, to start up Darksiders and say "oh, this is just God of War". It is like 99% the same thing right down to the floating circle icon letting you know it's time to stop beating on a guy to perform a finishing move.

I hope it takes some time to explain how it is different soon, because man, it starts by essentially asking you to eject the disc and just play God of War for an hour.

January 6, 2010 at 1:36 AM
MA17 said...

Also, the main character is War.

As in the Horseman. Legally distinct from the God of, mind you.

January 6, 2010 at 1:40 AM
MA17 said...

Darksiders differentiates itself by also being Zelda. Bomb and boomerang Zelda, even. The particulars of the tools are bit different, which keeps it interesting.

God of War and Zelda is a good combo. I'm enjoying it. Maybe post on main page when finished.

January 6, 2010 at 5:52 AM
_J_ said...

"So, on the surface, all shoot em ups are basically the same game."

Is this not true of every genre? I thought the problem with Dragon Age, for example, was that it was every other fantasy game, ever.

January 6, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Roscoe said...

-J-, dammnit, you can't use a man's facts against him. I thought we were better than this.

Okay.. I thought everyone ELSE was better than this. I'm pretty much scum, ands I knows its so well.

January 6, 2010 at 6:41 PM
_J_ said...

"you can't use a man's facts against him"

But...but...but!!!!

January 6, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Roscoe said...

Around here, we prefer to twist what someone says way out of context and tar them with that, not summarize and distill what they said into truth.

Makes for more pointin' arguments.

January 7, 2010 at 3:17 PM
MA17 said...

Well yeah, genre = predictable elements to some extent. Just picked shmups as an example.

Also yeah, I got bored with Dragon Age because of all the hours and hours of contempt-breeding familiarity. That's more a problem with the setting, for me, than with the game itself. I hated Nostalgia for being Now That's What I Call an RPG 2009.

I'm still enjoying Darksiders. The fact that it is God of War is made interesting by the fact that it is also Zelda and vice versa. You do some God of War stuff and rip some guys in half and then do a puzzle where you throw a boomerang into a torch to light a bomb that opens up the next room. I really like how that works out. It's a good contrast. If they made God of War + Ninja Gaiden, it would probably not be worth the trouble since the two games are already pretty similar.

Also, I haven't encountered ANY quick time events yet. You trigger finishing moves with the circle button when prompted but that's about as close as the game has come. Yay.

January 7, 2010 at 7:10 PM

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