July 14th to 20th
If you're not into college football you might be better off watching all the E3 footage roll by than pulling out your wallet this week. Most notable is the more approachable Wii version of NCAA Football 09, possibly marking the beginning of an era of sports games everyone can play. Or a new level of waving your arms around and pressing the 'win' button.
Nothing for me this week, so I'll be downloading the Too Human demo on Xbox Live (it's out now) and submerging myself in E3 news. This may very well be the final E3 - cracked dessicated shell that it is. Like a drunk licking the floor to get the last dregs of his spilt whiskey, I suggest we all soak it in while we can.
On DVD this week we have The Bank Job, Penelope, Shutter and other stuff.
PC
1701 A.D. Gold Edition
Hunting Unlimited 2009
Space Chimps
PS2
NCAA Football 09
Space Chimps
PopCap Hits Vol. 2
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1
PS3
NCAA Football 09
Xbox 360
NCAA Football 09
Space Chimps
Wii
NCAA Football All-Play
Space Chimps
Rock Band track pack
We Love Golf!
DS
Mister Slime
Nancy Drew
Smart Girl's Magical Book Club
Space Chimps
Wordmaster
PSP
Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity
NCAA Football 09
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Yay! Evening Shade Season 1 on DVD comes out this week.
L337 is not a word. BA7F is a word.
Elysium, did you type the words "Space Chimps" five times, or was this a cut and paste affair? I wouldn't blame you for not wanting to type "Space Chimps" even once.
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That's fair, I suppose. It usually is Elysium doing The Week Ahead these days. *sniff*
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Those space chimps get around, but no space chimp love for Sony?
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It's so nice to be recognized for work I didn't even do. That may be the best kind of recognition.
And, color me surprised the game isn't called Space Chimpz.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Back to the pile, back to the pile.
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As far as I'm concerned 2006 was the last E3 dagnabbit.
"You just checked in to Hotel Califoni-getyourasskicked!" Steely Dan said to The Eagles
More importantly, does typing the words "Space Chimps" five times conjure up an ethereal apparition complete with a spacesuit and a prehensile tail?
I hate you soo much Phil Collins!
Pharacon wrote:
*Yawn*
Wait, what's this "Wordmaster" game? I demand answers!
The democratization of the web ... has installed an illusion of a digital first amendment that protects speech no matter how poorly spelled or stupid. - Elysium
Wordsmythe is my hero. - rabbit
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You muddied the waters by giving him "co-founder" status...
On topic, am I the only one who thinks football with the Mrs. involving mascots beating each other up sounds like it must at least be rented? Sparty is going down!
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This sounds like a flash game that Capitol One would make as an advertisement ploy around bowl season.
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If it's anything like the PS3 demo, then the mascot mode is no more accessable for a casual sports fan than the normal game (read: not at all). The Wii version shows promise but I haven't heard any hands on about the family play mode.
I hate you soo much Phil Collins!
Pharacon wrote:
Faux pas!
You guys don't help things any with your sigs, though. It's confusing. One of you is right, but the other one is first? It's like some kind of riddle.
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Better to be right than first.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Unless you are trying to stir up internet traffic.
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As someone who owns a Wii, and neither a 360 or PS3, that is the pertinent one to me, and I haven't seen a hands on yet either. Reports on the earlier Maddens and FIFAs were that "easy mode" was more accessible, if boring to a non-neophyte. The whole "All Play" initiative was to make it accessible with fewer plays, more prompting, etc.
"And the circle has been charged through the power of unphysics, which are physics so stupid they erase normal ones from your mind." -Wields-Rulebook-Heavily at rpg.net
Not always. Being right about the apocalypse isn't necessarily as good as being first into the apocalypse shelter.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
But if you are first into the shelter and then that prediction later turns out to be right then wouldn't you be first and right as opposed to being first but not right.
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Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner.....
*Legion* wrote:
Seriously, how can there be enough people interested in purchasing "B.L. Stryker: the Complete Second Season?" to earn back the production costs? Other than the original cast members, who is going to buy that?
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone
I am still playing Alone in the Dark and am still amazed by it
But what I am especially amazed by is how some sites have given it scores like 35% like IGN (though I think it's to cause a stirup)
I definitely hope you guys will discuss it in the next Conference Call.
Either I'm mad or there's something fishy in the game journalism industry.
The good news is we do.
The bad news is Rob's the only one who has played it.
(Though, his feelings on it are ... complicated)
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Does that mean he argues with himself? If so I'm very excited for this week's podcast.
I hate you soo much Phil Collins!
Pharacon wrote:
Translation: He complains about it?
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I can understand a lot of the complaints with the game and I think they all stem from one thing: the game looks like it plays like RE4 and a First Person Shooter
but it really doesn't. it plays like a Survival Horror game. You always have this feeling of helplessness and urgency whenever a creature shows up.
I guess you either understand and accept that you're meant to feel that way, or you blame the game for it.
Some games have broader appeal than others, and it seems like no game 'scratches the itch' for everyone. For my part, I think that Dark Cloud 2 was a great game, but the rest of the world was pretty indifferent. C'est la vie.
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LobsterMobster wrote:
Real world complicated? Or Denise Richards complicated?
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Poor Rob
Psychotic Foreign Teenage Chicks are so hot. - Legion
I find it ironic anytime a healthy vaccinated person bitches about science...on the internet. - MaverickDago
The game makes Rob feel kind of funny.
The democratization of the web ... has installed an illusion of a digital first amendment that protects speech no matter how poorly spelled or stupid. - Elysium
Wordsmythe is my hero. - rabbit
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It's really tricky to evaluate survival horror, because on the one hand, it's an established convention that you should never have quite enough bullets, but on the other hand, if a game is too hard it is a bad game. Dying and replaying the same scenes over and over again generally kills the horror part of survival horror, because you know what the monster looks like, you just can't get past him.
My only concern is whether or not the game has a bunch of Lovecraftian crap in it. That's all I need to get the old Alone in the Dark nostalgia buzz.
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