Comments on: Recent Games Roundup

by: Pentharian

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:14:44 +0000

I’ve been playing Galaxy all afternoon. It’s similar play to 64, although the stages are a little shorter in general. It seems to be a little on the short side (I’ve got about 30 out of what I’m guessing to be around 100-120 stars) but it’s fun enough I’ll probably just play through right again. I’m also guessing that beating it will unlock something interesting, like playing through as Wario or whatever.

by: Andrew Crystall

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:02:25 +0000

I was not at all impressed with SupCom, to the extent I’m not considering FA.

Quite apart from the gameplay issues, its sort of complex O.O lua is something a non-coder has trouble with (i.e. its’s not accessible to a scripter) and the system specs mean most of the people I’d otherwise have modded with couldn’t even run it. And it’s frankly not *that* visually impressive.

by: PekkaR

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:40:31 +0000

If it helps any, I had heard occasionally about Assassin’s Creed through Kotaku, Eurogamer, couple personal blogs and possibly Gamasutra or Escapist, and I think I had seen Jade Raymond’s name only in passing.

by: Eric

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:44:29 +0000

The $25 gift card with Mario Galaxy purchase at TRU is true, I did it yesterday, but you may have trouble finding a copy at their store now. The one I bought it at during my lunch hour yesterday said they only had 15 copies at that point, and didn’t know when they were getting more - but they may get restocked.

Sadly, I had lots to do last night and a new episode of House was on, so I still don’t know how good it is, but I’ll get to play it tonight.

by: Matt

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:38:29 +0000

Hrm, sadly for me I have Orange Box on the 360 not the PC.

by: Pentharian

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:06:12 +0000

Well, there is better fishing than with the bamboo rod later, if you’re only a bit in. The dungeon bosses are quite inventive and fun to fight, even if they follow the same Zelda formula of “You got the hookshot in this level…gee, maybe you should use it to beat the boss.”

OOT was better and there’s no denying it, but I found TP enjoyable after the second dungeon at least.

I’m getting Galaxy tonight, and actually, I just saw an ad that says you can get it at toys r us for 50 and they give you an 25$ gift card with it, so good deal on that.

As for the portal hack, all you have to do drop the map files from HL2 into the portal folder and then load the map from the console. Use the cheat to give yourself all the weapons, and bing, Portal HL2. The details are at http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal/.

I’m particularly excited because the community created portal maps are just getting better and better every day, so the shortness of the game isn’t so bad. Although you won’t have GLaDOS in the user maps.

by: Matt

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:37:25 +0000

I guess I haven’t played enough games on the Wii but I have this terrible terrible fear that deep down inside its the graphics that bother me. It’s not the lower poly models or anything (as I often quite like low-poly stuff) but I fear it’s the standard-def display. I’m so used to playing all my games on either the PC with a nice high resolution or the 360 in HD that….gah, I really hope I’m wrong about why I’m not enjoying the Wii!

I should probably get Excite Truck actually. Excitebike was one of my favorite games back when.

Twilight Princess has just failed to grab me so far. I found the fishing quite frustrating for some reason too. Metroid Prime I’ve only put in once but it didn’t grab me either.

I feel like such a loser not liking a Nintendo. I’ve owned every American Nintendo console (including handhelds) ever made.

by: Eric

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:32:10 +0000

Agree with Ron that Raving Rabbids was not all it was cracked up to be, but I’m surprised you haven’t enjoyed anything on the Wii. I thought Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime 3 were pretty excellent, and also really enjoyed Excite Truck, Super Paper Mario, SSX Blur, Godfather: Blackhand Edition… Zack and Wiki is a pretty great little puzzle adventure, and Smash Bros is right around the corner… yeah, I’m really happy with my Wii purchase. Will be picking up Mario Galaxy as soon as possible.

What is it about the games you’ve played on it that gets you down, Matt?

by: Ronald Watts

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:35:44 +0000

You didn’t like Twilight Princess? I got a Wii a few weeks ago pretty much for Twilight Princess and am enjoying it. Also got Ravin’ Rabbids.. that was disappointing.
Mario Galaxy looks interesting, let me know if it’s worth a buy.

by: Michael Buckbee

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:18:00 +0000

You mentioned wanting to see Portal gameplay in a FPS, it’s actually a quick hack to drop the portal gun into HL2 if you want to play around.