It's every bit as great as I was hoping... only have the demo so far, but I'll be sure to buy this one some time during the next month, no question. Yeah, it's $20 while it was $5 on XBLA, but oddly downloadable PC games are always more than downloadable console ones, while boxed PC games are cheaper... oh well. The game's more than great enough to be worth it.
-Star Fighter (3DO/PC/Saturn/PSX) -- When I first played the demo of the PC version in 1996, I thought this game was hard, but completely awesome. Playing it again today, my opinion hasn't changed... it's just not quite as hard as it was for me 12 years ago. The controls are weird and tough to get used to, though, for sure (instead of your fighter turning when you press left or right, left or right rotate the plane, so you make a slow, banked curve, unless you press right and up or right and down for a quicker turn, that might also spin you in an unexpected direction... you'll regularly crash into the ground and blow up in this game until you get used to it. :))... but...
*holds down fire with lasers equipped*
*The ground starts deforming and turning grey, the hills get blown apart and ripped down to the base ground later and buildings blow up in nice flashy chunks*
:D This game is worth trying, if just to fly around shooting at and/or crashing into stuff! :) (Oh, the PC version has the best graphics... find the demo and try it in DOSBox, it's a DOS game.)
-Mercenaries -- haven't played it, but I've heard you can blow up anything. Sounds great. :)
-Battletanx and Battletanx: Global Assault -- You can destroy any building in the stage. Reduce entire cities to rubble!
Red Faction and Red Faction 2 -- Geo-Mod... blow your way around doors, blow through walls and dirt... true terrain deformation in the way most FPSes don't have. A great experience.
So here's my question... what more games do this? Particularly the terrain deformation; I'm sure Red Faction and Star Fighter aren't the only two games ever that let you do things like that, right?
This article traces it back to fears of jews and immigrants... Hmm...
To be honest, I have no idea why people are terrified of some sort of evil banishment of Christmas. People celebrate it year after year. The worst is when people think that phrases like "Happy Holidays" somehow are threatening. The intellectual dishonesty is striking when they try to say that people are being PREVENTED from saying Merry Christmas, which is simply not the case.
It's also worth noting that the very same people who tend to fear Christmas are usually against marketplace regulation, until the stores they visit stop catering to their own whims, then suddenly they want them regulated to force them to say Merry Christmas and if there aren't two Santas for every Manora, there's evil afoot!
Really bad. I actually had to delete some it because I couldn't stand the thought of someone else reading it.
On the other hand, the fact that I know it's bad and, more importantly, can tell why it's bad does give me some additional hope for the stuff I'm writing at the moment.
I've been converted to the Dark Side and feels soooooo good. Haven't turned on the Wii in the months, only came back to the Xbox360 to play a few games that had their PC versions delayed [bleh], and my DS is under a pile of dust somewhere.
... More than double the combined total of the PS2, PSP, and PS3 all combined for the month. Over double the X360's total. The Wii outsold the PS2, PSP, PS3, and X360 all combined; the DS didn't do that, but it did sell nearly twice what the X360 did, or a lot more than PSP, PS2, or PS3. :)
The X360 did sell double what the PS3 did, though, so MS has something to be happy about too... and an X360 game was first on the sales charts. But Sony... yeah, Sony's in trouble. :)
But two million in November... it's a new record. That's never happened before. Sony's 2.7 million PS2s in December 2002 is evidently the record, but they had 1.3 million that November... the only question about December is, how many Wiis will Nintendo have? They'll obviously sell whatever that number is.
As for games, Nintendo obviously isn't doing well there, for hardcore gamers. Their focus has been so strongly on the casual... still, if I had a Wii this year, I'd definitely be wanting the Wii Wario Land game for sure, at least... but yeah, between Wii Music and Wii Fit, it's obvious what their focus is at the moment. But still, they do have SOME games for the base in development... but I definitely never would have guessed that success would actually lead Nintendo to arguably release fewer (first/second-party) games I care about on this platform than their last two "unsuccessful" ones. But if all of the stuff we're hearing coming up comes that might be different... Sin & Punishment 2, Pikmin 3, "new Mario and Zelda", etc.
Quote: BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
"Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work--including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking."
Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories--Japan and Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event."
German Chancellor Adolph Hiter said "Yes, we lost to the US; but we defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks." Herr Hitler has been criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn 'style points' to enhance Germany's rankings. Hitler protested "Our contest with Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional forces."
The French ranking has also come under scrutiny. The BCS commented " France had a single loss against Germany and following a preseason #1 ranking they only fell to #2."
Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and the Philippines.
United States head coach Harry S. Truman was criticized by many as having poor taste for scheduling a "politicking" interview during halftime of the German bombing raids over Great Britain.
In that interview, Truman stated, "Any way you look at it, there is going to be a really good military force that gets left out. But when you come right down to it, our head-to-head victory over the Germans has to be the deciding factor."
A US fan also made the point that "Germany is getting all the style points right now because of their sexy offense, which continues to obliterate weaker opponents and show off their might after the battle is already won. But what about defense?"
Not sure where it came from originally, but it still has me laughing for all the right reasons.
