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Saturday, February 24, 2007
Broke Blues

Oh yea finally a fucking good sonic game. I been waiting for this for a while ever since Sonic heroes sucked so much ass. Unfortunately I'm super duper broke and won't be able to buy or rent this game and I know for sure this site ain't making no money but the funds will come soon cause I want a new DS Lite to play that damn FF3 already it's drivng me nuts.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Back!

Sorry Guys haven't been on in a while I promise to update the site regularly on a daily basis or else I will give up my gamer status.

Friday, August 11, 2006
A game SO fun it should be outlawed.


Ok there a couple things i like, Zombie Movie are one of them. Zombie movies are just stupid, mindless, killing/surviving movies. And the're just plain fun to watch with all that gore.

Now there have been Zombie games in the past. Resident Evil, Zombie Rampage.....Resident Evil...yeah so Resident Evil dominates the Zombie genre for the most part. But most the zombie games out there focus more on being scary. Enter "Dead Rising". This game is all about the typical Zombie Infestiation senario. Theres a huge mall and the people who arn't yet are all hiding and you're one of them right? WRONG! this game throws a few really good plot twists to the typical O-M-G-ZOMBIES-ARE-COMING!!! type story. For starters your charcter is a freelance photographer/journalist he comes to the Mall on purpose in an attempt to get the greatest story and win some awards. You have to make some choices on what to do in the game, like do you save the injured man or do you let the poor man die and take a kick-ass pic of it and make your point sky-rocket.

Now if you remember, the game was boasting about how almost everything you can get your hands on is a weapon. It's totally true, there are SOOOOO many weapons to kill the Zed's with. And it's not like some of the weapons are clones of the other weapons, like 80% are totally origional weapons like the shovel and the sledgehammer have both a normal large radius swing, but if you use the 2nd attack for the shovel it stabs the ground and the other attack for the hammer is a head-crusher swing (which creates a grand amount of blood *woohoo*). For the first 45 min-hour of the game you will be choosing silly weapons to kill with (like CD's and Giant Stuffed Bears) because of how much fun it is. But after that the game gets gritty, this game is a very hard game mainly because of how many Zombies there are. It looks like you can have up to 800 (0_0) Zombies on screen and the have all of them gang-beat you to a bloody pulp. There is also a massive cast of Insane Bosses, like a Chainsaw juggling phycho clown, or the Crazy Market Owner who has a bunch of knifes and other sharp objects on a cart and he rams you with it. Its a weird kind of scary.

Actually lets go farther into the weird scary. This game trys to mess with your head, from the insane charcters who are metally ill, too the reason that the Zombies are there to begin with. The great thing about Dead Rising is it gives you a very livly storyline, you will always be keep in the dark about whats going on until it hits you like the whore it is. This gives the game depth instead of a run-around-kill-everything gameplay style. Another thing that adds depth is that your weapons will break through repeated use. Some will break fast (like the skateboard) others will serve you well for a long time (like the Hand Barbell, which i recommend getting) so not only do you have the choice of choosing from a bunch of weapons, it starts to get manditory that you pick up what weapons you have at your disposal. I hade to face a guy with a Sniper Rifle, i on the other hand had no long-range weapons. So i ran to the Hockey Store that was right next to me and picked up a Hocky Stick and a buncha Pucks and i kicked the crap outta the guy.


All and all, if you have an Xbox 360, It should be a crime not to have this game. It is the greatest game i have played on the 360 yet.

Friday, August 04, 2006
The Ultimate Plumber!


Everyone knows him, obviously, Mario! Lately I've been really into some of the games in the Mario series. Not the sports ones though, I'm not fond of them...

Anyway, I'll tell you about some of my favorite games in the Mario series. First:

Super Mario Brothers 3: For the original NES, this is the game that first got me into the series. Sidescrolling through tons of huge levels to reach the final stage, where you beat Bowser and save Peach. Standard, and I'm sure everyone already knows all about it already, so I'll finish with this one by saying it's the one that got me into the series.

Super Mario 64: Woah! This is what's called a revolutionary game! It's meaning is literal here! No more sidescrolling little stages, no more little world map where you walk around on dots. Now it's huge 3D stages with 6 missions in each, and instead of a world map, you explore Peach's Castle and jump into magic paintings that Bowser trapped the Power Stars, that you need to recover, in. It's sooo fun in 3D too, and there are tons of different things added. Instead of having mushrooms make you big so you can take one hit to turn tiny before you die, you have a health meter, with eight blocks on it. Different things can take down different amounts of your health. Mushrooms are used for extra lives. The greatest addition though, is that you can get new hats that power up Mario so he can do different things. One turns him invisible, one turns him metal, and one lets him fly!

And there are, like most of the games in the series, tons of secrets. There are 120 stars to collect, and to get them you have to find every little secret in the castle, and complete every mission in each world. Luckily, to beat the game, you only need 70, but there's a big secret to unlock once you get all 120.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars: This is the game that got me into all the other RPG games I play today. It's a classic turn-based battle system for the Super Nintendo involving Mario, Peach and Bowser. But this time it's not Bowser kidnapping Peach, a new force has arrived, and Mario and Bowser are forced to team up, along with some other allies, to regain Mushroom Kingdom. The battles aren't boring either. Instead of a simple: you attack, enemy attack, you attack, enemy attack, now you get to block enemy attacks by timing your defense, and increase the power of your attack by doing things like timing a button press or spinning the directional pad. There are also lots of other Mario RPGs to try: Paper Mario, Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door, Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, and Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. They all involve the button presses in battle so you don't get bored, and each is a bit different in the way they execute it. They're all really cool.

Super Mario 64 DS: Yahoo! A remake of my absolute favorite Mario game! And they made it even better than the original! To implement the 3D with no joystick, they used the touch screen to imitate one. It takes a bit of getting used to, but the added bonuses into the game, like how there's more characters than just Mario (Yoshi, Luigi and Wario), and the number of available stars is bumped up to 150, making it VERY worth it.

New Super Mario Brothers: Basically it brings back the old Mario style, sidescrolling, jumping craziness. Nothing really new about it besides some new items which weren't in the old ones, but they also took out most of the items from the old ones, so... bleh. It's a disappointment to the Nintendo DS's capabilities, but still pretty neat how it brings up the old Mario style that we thought was long lost.

Okay... my endless rant is finally over. And... hooray for the ultimate plumber!... I wish he'd actually use a wrench in one of his games... as a weapon... XD

Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Terrible Tuesday: E3 Cancelled

Lend me your ears fellow gamers, for I bring urgent and sad news from the kingdom of gaming. As many of you know there is a great gathering of gamers once every year. Where every Nerd, Geek, Hacker, and Gamer could join in the holy rhapsody of new games and systems. This was dubbed E3, the holy grail of gaming get togethers. Every Gamer has had the dream to go to an E3 when they came of age. Sadly this dream could be shattered. Shattered like all the windows on Jack Thompson's house.

E3 '07 has been cancelled. And if that wasn't bad enough, E3 '06 COULD BE THE LAST E3...EVER!!!

Don't believe me? here is a website giving a bit more detail into the horror that has grasped us.

Joystiq: E3 Cancelled

I would dive deeper into the madness that has gripped us by the balls and may never let go, but I am much too depressed now to have any further comments.

Posted by Jay

Sunday, July 30, 2006
Puzzling Pirates:

I played a game called "Puzzle Pirates" today. It's a MMOG(massively multiplayer online game) and as the title points its a puzzle game. Just like tetris. This, in my opinion, is one of the worst MMOG's out there. It sucked, I don't know if it's just because I suck at puzzle games, but I hated it. In this game, you can befriend people, and buy swords, houses, etc. But the way you fight with swords is odd, you fight using tetris gameplay to attack... I absolutely hated it, I do not like puzzle games, and I never well. I can't say much more about the game, because after about 1 hour of gameplay, I quit and uninstalled it from my computer. I recommend you download this game, only if you enjoy puzzle games.

Posted by Luke

Saturday, July 29, 2006
Tales of...Tales:
The Tales series... In my opinion, the absolute best series of RPGs ever, with the usual few exceptions of course. Some are just awful, and some are just... godlike.

You're probably wondering now, "What the hell is the Tales series?" Well, it's a series of RPG games that all have similar styles of gameplay, but each of them are different in some ways to keep it interesting. You'll be able to tell if you've found a Tales title, because they all start with the same phrase "Tales of" and end with some sort of mystical-sounding suffix like "Destiny", "Eternia", "Rebirth", etc.

The reason these games shine above so many others, is the gameplay. The battle system in particular. Each one is a bit different, but most involve a 2D battlefield in which your characters fight in a Super Smash Brothers type battle, except with more RPG elements like HP and TP.

The storyline of them all is no simple matter either. Most go very in-depth into each character's background and events that unfold during the game. The characters all have some different, fitting, cool personalities that fit the story well, and should keep you hooked to find out what happens in the end. Even if it doesn't, the battle system is addictive enough to keep you playing until the end.

Before I start my endless rant about the series, I think I'll leave off with a suggestion. For anyone who knows how to work a Playstation emulator, but hasn't played Tales of Destiny II... play it. Now. And for anyone who owns a GameCube, but hasn't played Tales of Symphonia... play it. Now.

Posted by Schimmel