Ongoing games:
noodles Final Fantasy 2 (iPhone)
noodles Deadly Creatures (WII)
belajjal Bayonetta (360)
ricochet Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
Latest additions:
VVVVVV (PC)
Need for Speed: Shift (PS3)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (PC)
Mass Effect (PC)
Recently completed:
ricochet VVVVVV (PC)
ricochet Super Bomberman (SNES)
ricochet God of War Collection (PS3)
ricochet Megaman X (SNES)
noodles Ghostbusters (PS3)
Latests comments:
noodles
Wow, it's really been this long since the site launched? And it's really been this long for the new design to go up?
I blame commercialism, since it's keeping me too busy.
Now, since this little mistake I made launched the redesign too early I guess I'll have to finish the programming as well. Oy vey.
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Vacation roundup
by belajjal on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 08:24 - Comments: 0
Only 2 weeks of vacation this summer. Sucks! But I managed to nail the "best" (read hottest) weeks of the summer so far but the problem is that I'm not at all comfortable with 30+ degrees Celsius in the shadow.
First few days was spent in a constant drunk state (I still managed to finish Luigi's Mansion) in my home town and then we went to the west coast for a few days. While my wife was sunbathing and sipping on a drink I sat in the shadow playing games on my laptop. I finished Zelda 2 (see review below) in one go before going out for beer in the evening. We went back home and I was assigned to play Metal Gear Solid next. The goal is to play MGS4 but I wanted to refresh my memory of the series first and I hadn't played the GameCube remake. I started playing but real life events stopped me from continuing.
A few days went by with BBQs and beers before we took the train to visit my mom for a few days. Weather was still hot as hell so I stayed away from the sun most of the time. This gave me an opportunity to play some more games. After a routine playthrough of Killer Instinct I needed a more solid challenge and found Donkey Kong Country that I hadn't played since the 90's.
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
by noodles on Saturday, April 11th, 2009 at 05:08 - Comments: 0
I'll agree with my opponent: Best. Boss-fight. Ever.
I don't believe Hideo Kojima deserves all the praise he's getting, but there's no denying that this his creation of the Metal Gear games, and the series that really got him boosted, Metal Gear Solid, is a great piece of work. With no pun intended, the games in the Solid-series really are "solid" titles. They're great games, they're epic games, with epic stories.
In the third installment, originally named "Snake Eater", we travel back in time to the 1960's. The cold war is sending chills and arctic winds across the globe, the space race is in full effect, and nuclear bombs are the threat d'jour. You take control of the infamous "Snake" and you're set for a mission to save the world from a conflict of devastating proportions. Since the story is so complex and elaborate, I'll spare you from further mention of it.
This game differs from the previous titles, mainly because the set camera is replaced with one that's both more free and more constricting. You're playing in a more over-the-shoulder, third-person type of view, à la Tomb Raider, and the like. It let's you rotate around yourself, so you can see behind you, but your coverage of the entire area is gone.
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Metal Gear Solid 2
by noodles on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 17:54 - Comments: 0
So I wasn't ENTIRELY wrong about the extra X-chromosome, Raiden is not that far away from a chick.
First things first: See the face-buttons on the Playstation controller? See how they're placed? Triangle at the top, circle to the right, X at the bottom, and square on the left. The X, the one at the bottom, is the one that's most used, and most conveniently placed. This is why it's used to confirm, in menues and such. I don't care how well praised you are in the gaming community, if it's a western release, even if it's originally an eastern title, there is no justification for moving standard buttons around just because you feel like it.
I really tried to figure out why they left it so that Circle is "confirm", and X is "back", but I wouldn't be able to do it to save my PS3.
Leave the configuration alone!
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is the title of the sequel to the "tactical espionage action" for the Playstation. It, in turn, is a sequel to the Metal Gear games for the MSX - most people will still see it as a NES-title though, since the ports are the ones that gave the game international recognition - one of the first games that gave players the option of shooting or sneaking their way to the finish.
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My God, Snake Too?
by noodles on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 19:15 - Comments: 0
So the next game for me is apparently Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
From what I've heard, it's a game of bait-n-switch. The whole game sells on the fact that once again we step into the shoes of Solid Snake, but instead we're putting on the stealth-suit of someone with an extra leg on their chromosome.
Nonetheless, I expect this game to be as much of an interactive movie that the first game in the Solid-series was; cinematic camera-work and everything. I'm guessing I'll be treated to a sneak 'em-up with half-blind and half-deaf enemies that don't see past the distance they can spit, and a box or two for me to hide in.
The thing I'm most curious about is game-time. My guess: about 12 hours worth of effective play, including a little scenic-route here and there.