Well now this is interesting. Squeenix basically had made a concious effort to dedicate themselves to the "business model" of remaking all their old games ad inifinitum. Once the ad nausia sets in though, I think this could backfire in a major way.
Sad though... I wish they never realized just how much someone is willing to pay for an extra dungeon. I mean Nintendo, for example, originally felt they could only sell " games we already made" by packing 4 enhanced versions into a single cart called Super Mario All-Stars. With the GBC and GBA, they reached a point where they realized they could sell the games with a lot of additional gameplay features as SEPERATE entities, no more collection packages. They died. Then AFTER GBC's Deluxe SMB, they actually had the gall to release the original and completely dull by comparison NES versions of the game, seperatly as well, no package.
Instead of doing remakes over and over again, I think they really need to take advantage of downloadable content. Release a final remake once more and then from that point on, whatever crazy feature or dungeon you want to toss in, make it a downloadable content pack. Or not, since for now at least people seem willing to pay for these games AGAIN.
On the night of 4/20, very much stoned with 3 friends, I saw Hot Fuzz. It was awesome. It blew me away. I was skeptical, because the trailer made it look dumb, and because the theatre only had about 7 other people in it, but I gave the Shaun of the Dead guys the benefit of the doubt for accurate trailers. Damn shame that the crowd was so thin. I tell you, it's probably the best movie released this year. Most of the shit they package as trailers is further evidence that Hollywood is going even further down the tubes and ought to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
Hot Fuzz is a breath of a fresh air, and a great blend of comedy, gore, and British silliness. I highly recommend it, especially if you loved Shaun of the Dead. The only possible gripe I can give is that it was long - about two hours. I was stoned and hungry for munchies, though, so perhaps my impatience was subjective. They showed a trademark of self-referential humor, a wonderful craft of set-ups and many pay-offs, and a few nods to Shaun of the Dead to boot. I plan to own this movie as soon as it's released on DVD, pending personal funds.
Go see this movie. Even if I were sober, I still would have loved it and laughed the entire time.
Okay, it has come to my attention that apparently my brain is broken. I say this with full confidence that the obvious insults will be unspoken :D.
You know those funny 3D images where you cross your eyes and see a 3D shape? Well apparently I see them in reverse from everyone else. The "background" for them actually sticks out from the page and all the shapes I see are indentions in it instead of coming out. Am I doing something wrong?
To "celebrate" Earth Day today Boomerang (Cartoon Network's classic-cartoons channel, if you forget) had a Captain Planet marathon... that cartoon is so awful that I even noticed how bad it was when I was a kid... yet somehow I watched parts of five episodes today... :(
Well here's another incident. Unfortunatly you know what sort of thing this is going to do. Two incidents back to back are going to send the media into a "are we in a CYCLONE OF VIOLENCE THAT WILL UNMAKE THE EARTH?" sort of hyperbole that makes the very word "hyperbole" an understatement.
Quote: * Avatar: The Last Airbender
* Breakdown
* Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
* Call of Duty 3
* Cars
* Crash Bandicoot 5: Wrath of Cortex
* Dai Senryaku VII: Modern Military Tactics
* FIFA Soccer 2007
* Full Spectrum Warrior
* Guilty Gear Isuka
* JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future
* MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf
* Mercenaries
* NASCAR 2006: Total Team Control
* NFL Fever 2004
* Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
* Panzer Dragoon ORTA
* Phantom Dust
* Reservoir Dogs
* Return To Castle Wolfenstein
* RugbyLeague 2
* Sonic Riders
* Soul Calibur 2
* Star Wars Republic Commando
* Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
* The King of Fighters Neowave
* The King of Fighters 2002 & 2003
* Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 07
* Tony Hawk's Underground
* Ultra Bust-A-Move
* Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict
* Xiaolin Showdown
Well Sony finally did the sensible thing and now PS1 games that are bought in their online store can actually be played on the PS3 (which could play PS1 games off the disk already, hence the weirdness of them not having added this option sooner).
I just recently updated to customized firmware version 3.3 myself (it having only just come out, delayed only by the hacker's PSP kerploding), and this update won't hit my PSP until this one's hacked too. The thing is, the next thing I want to see them stick on the PSP, if they can squeeze it in there (and if it's done via a web page with the hyperlink added as an option, much like the instruction manuel option they've added, they'd have the room) is a way to access the PS3 store on the PSP, so people without a PS3, like me, can actually buy and download those games directly. Mind you, I'm in no hurry since I can copy the games I own and there's yet to be any games on their store that interest me, but it's a logical step. Along with the store, the online system on the PS3 could be used on the PSP as well, so future PSP online games will share the same online network as the PS3 and so on, friends lists and everything right there.
At this point, aside from further improving the PS1 game emulator (adding the texture smoothing option to go with the fast loading option they finally put in the emulator comes to mind, also further compatibility), the playstation network features are all I need added to the PSP. Oh, I really don't expect them to ever fit "Home" into that flash firmware nor is that really something all that important to me when compaired to the friends list and access to the download store. I mean, I suppose if they felt like it they could actually let you download home as an application on the memory stick (taking up a big chunk of memory perhaps) from that online store of their's.
Anyway, it's the big thing Sony needs to add to the PSP next. I'd download it the very MOMENT they released it... and then wait for the patch program from the hacker supreme so I would have an even better version :D.
