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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Resident Evil
by noodles on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 14:52 - Comments: 0
Audio; it's more important than you think.
The Resident Evil franchise, know by the more story-based-appropriate title in Japan: "Biohazard", has gone on for over 10 years. The high sales-numbers are not from the launch-weekend, but from different versions that are slowly seeping off the shelves across all the years. While the latest numeral iteration came out this year for the current-gen consoles, I took a trip down video-game-history-lane and in an attempt to explore my recently discovered discomfort with horror-games experienced the Nintendo GameCube-remake of the Sony PlayStation title Resident Evil; on my Wii.
Being one of the original titles from the "survival-horror" genre, I'm guessing that anticipation played a big part of my comfortless relation to the game. I do, however believe that the updated visuals and audio of the remake may have helped my (way too easy) immersion.
You get to play one of two characters, Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield. What character you pick only affects the game slightly, or so I've heard, so I went with the guy for no other reason than him being a guy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not unfamiliar with playing female characters.
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tags: wii resident evil horror playstation gamecube jill valentine chris redfield survival
Final Fantasy
by noodles on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 02:45 - Comments: 0
I don't think random encounters have ever been so boring.
In 1987 a company called Square was on the brink of bankruptcy. Director Hironobu Sakaguchi was given a shot at creating a game and decided to tell a story over doing action. The game was release on the Famicom, or Nintendo Entertainment System, and was name Final Fantasy as a joke about it likely being the final game he created, and that it was going to be a fantasy-game. About 15 years later, and a bunch of repackages, re-releases, re-makes and the franchise has become a world-wide phenomenon and recognized product of quality, Final Fantasy and the sequel Final Fantasy II was release for the Sony Playstation in a bundled called Final Fantasy: Origins. With updated graphics and audio it looks like a SNES-title, but I assure you, it's a NES game still. But just to make things clear on an overzealous level:
I played Final Fantasy I from the Final Fantasy: Origins-bundle on my Sony Playstation 3.
The story revolves around your party of four that get to be known as the Light Warriors in a world populated by humans, elves, dwarfs and dragons. Pretty soon you're on a quest to revive the elemental crystals of water, fire, earth and wind.
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