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| Monday, November 21, 2005 07:53 PM |
| Manimals Volume Two: The Gaming Post |
 by Fëanor |
- Dude took a cheap MP3 player and an old Nintendo controller and combined them to make a NES MP3 player. Awesome.
- I'm not so interested in the other stuff in this post (Silent Hill and Hoodwinked are almost certainly both going to suck; SH is based on a video game, after all, and the trailer for Hoodwinked - which I did not see in front of Harry Potter, btw, despite what they say in the post - is just stupid), but I am curious about Jack Black's Nacho Libre. Even though I tend to avoid most of his films, there's something about the man's manic style of comedy that attracts me, and the concept of him as a Catholic orphanage slop cook who moonlights as a wrestler sounds pretty damn funny. Plus, the picture on JoBlo is amusing.
- And while I'm posting links to things and then talking about only very specific parts of them, let me link to this Joystiq post about their favorite Xbox 360 launch title, and then not talk about the Xbox 360 at all. What struck me as interesting in this post is their tangential comment that "the most important element of all games" is human interaction. Um, not for me it's not. Don't get me wrong, I like playing games with other people; it's super fun. I just don't get to do it that often, for various reasons (like, my friends and I all have lives and stuff and don't get the chance to get together and play video games that often). Plus, multi-player online features frighten me. So most of my gaming ends up being a pretty solitary activity, often performed late at night when no else is awake, and thus what I look for in a game is a fun, entertaining, just-challenging-enough-to-keep-me-interested single player feature, and that's the most important element to me. So there, Joystiq.
- Speaking of which, with help from a gift card that I got for my birthday a while back from Vis Major, I picked up a few used games this weekend and tried them out. One was Mario Kart Double Dash, which is the super fun GameCube installment of the Mario racing game franchise. I'm enjoying that one plenty, and am looking forward to trying it out on multi-player, although I haven't had a chance to do so yet (see previous bullet point).
The other game I got is Viewtiful Joe, and this one I don't know about yet. I tried it once at Peccable's, and it looked pretty neat then, and plus I heard a lot of great press about it, so I figured, why not? Unfortunately, so far I find it pretty irritating. It's one of those games that requires you to figure out the perfect sequence of actions you need to perform to continue, and if you fail to perform those actions correctly, you are sent way back to the beginning of the section. I don't know about you, but I hate that kind of thing. In fact, that's probably my most hated game mechanic. Plus, you only get three lives, and then you have to start the whole game over again. There's a save feature you can use after you die, but I'm not sure how useful it is.
To be fair, however, I was playing the game on the higher of the two difficulty levels, and when I started over the first time I was already getting a lot better, so maybe I'll come to like this one eventually.
In other gaming news, I finally started playing the air pirate RPG Skies of Arcadia that I got for my birthday, and I think I like it. Oh, and I just beat Wario Ware. Good stuff.
- I've heard and/or posted links to most of these Mario Brothers music covers, except for these quite nice piano MP3s. Enjoy!
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