Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
3/30/09
The 8 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Amateur Music Videos -- powered by Cracked.com
This is fucking hilarious.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
3/29/09
http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/
Oh my god. I used to hate this game, but now I can't stop playing it.
Oh my god. I used to hate this game, but now I can't stop playing it.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Review: Audiosurf (PC)
Indie games, at least in my mind, have a pretty bad reputation for being weird just for the sake of being weird. In the pas year or so, however, there has been a large influx of Indie games that have been really, really good. Which category does Audiosurf fall in to? Read more to find out.
Audiosurf is a very unique music/rhythm game, that some have described as F-Zero meets Guitar Hero. You choose from one of 14 ships that all play radically different, choose a song, and then speed down a track, collecting colored blocks. Whenever you get 3 or more blocks of the same color touching, you get points.
The 14 ships each represent a different game mode, and they are all extremely unique. Every ship has one or two special abilities, which are used by clicking the left or right mouse buttons. Some ships can jump over unwanted blocks, while others can push blocks into different columns, making it easier to sort out your colors for maximum points. One mode even has two ships, one of which you control with the mouse, and the other you control with the keyboard.
One of the best things about Audiosurf is the songs. You can play any song you have on your PC, provided that it's the right filetype. This is where I ran into a few problems. You see, I prefer not to get sued by the RIAA, so I buy all my music from iTunes. For some reason, only some of the songs I had bought are compatible with the game, while some are not. I don't know why, as they all came from the same place, and I assume they all have the same DRM. However, I haven't had any problems running songs I had ripped from CDs or anything like that.
Once you find a song that's compatible, that's when the fun starts. As I mentioned, you speed down a track that has been specifically designed for the song you're playing. A slow song will have a pretty straight, uphill track, whereas a fast, energetic song will have lots of curves and will mostly be a fast downhill track. The graphics are pretty simple, but the atmosphere is great. It usually nails the feel of the song perfectly.
Audiosurf surprised me in that it's actually a really unique game, and one that doesn't get as old as I thought it would. Since you can use any song ever created and every song that will ever be created, just like a game like LittleBIGPlanet, you can play forever and theoretically never run out of things to do. 4 out of 5.
Audiosurf is a very unique music/rhythm game, that some have described as F-Zero meets Guitar Hero. You choose from one of 14 ships that all play radically different, choose a song, and then speed down a track, collecting colored blocks. Whenever you get 3 or more blocks of the same color touching, you get points.
The 14 ships each represent a different game mode, and they are all extremely unique. Every ship has one or two special abilities, which are used by clicking the left or right mouse buttons. Some ships can jump over unwanted blocks, while others can push blocks into different columns, making it easier to sort out your colors for maximum points. One mode even has two ships, one of which you control with the mouse, and the other you control with the keyboard.
One of the best things about Audiosurf is the songs. You can play any song you have on your PC, provided that it's the right filetype. This is where I ran into a few problems. You see, I prefer not to get sued by the RIAA, so I buy all my music from iTunes. For some reason, only some of the songs I had bought are compatible with the game, while some are not. I don't know why, as they all came from the same place, and I assume they all have the same DRM. However, I haven't had any problems running songs I had ripped from CDs or anything like that.
Once you find a song that's compatible, that's when the fun starts. As I mentioned, you speed down a track that has been specifically designed for the song you're playing. A slow song will have a pretty straight, uphill track, whereas a fast, energetic song will have lots of curves and will mostly be a fast downhill track. The graphics are pretty simple, but the atmosphere is great. It usually nails the feel of the song perfectly.
Audiosurf surprised me in that it's actually a really unique game, and one that doesn't get as old as I thought it would. Since you can use any song ever created and every song that will ever be created, just like a game like LittleBIGPlanet, you can play forever and theoretically never run out of things to do. 4 out of 5.
Friday, March 27, 2009
I fucking hate Wiis
Oh man, I'm really pissed right now. I just woke up a little while ago, and apparently while I was asleep, my mom went out and bought a Wii. That may not sound bad, but just let me finish. See, I already own a Wii. Well, I paid for half of it, and my brother paid for the other half, and since I have a PC, 360, and PS3, I just let him keep the Wii with him most of the time. We got our Wii after sitting in line for 7 hours on Launch Day, and my mom has played it before and everything. She's never even seemed interested in it until recently.
See, about a month ago, my sister had a friend over for a sleepover, and her friend's mom and my mom were good friends about two years ago when we still lived in Kentucky. When they came over, the friend's mom (we'll call her Jennifer) started talking about how much she liked her new Wii and how Wii Fit and (gasp) My Fitness Instructor helped her lose all of 3 pounds. The thing is, Jennifer (and everybody besides myself, really) knows nothing about games, and so I was saying how it doesn't help much of anything, etc.
Well, ever since then, my mom has talked about getting a Wii, even though I kept telling her that it doesn't help, the novelty wears off all to quickly, and basically trying to talk her out of getting a Wii, because it's a huge waste of $250, and even when Mason brings our Wii over here, she never touches it.
I thought she had just forgotten about it all, and moved on, but apparently not. See, though, this isn't even the worst part. Next to the Wii box was the box for something even worse entirely: a DDR game. I just about shot myself right then. Not only had she gotten a Wii despite my warnings, she had also bought a DDR game. This pisses me off even more, because we had the Mario version of DDR for the Gamecube a few years ago, she played it once, said she didn't like it and moved on.
Maybe I'm just being an asshole, I don't know. It just pisses me off that she would go out and waste $300+ for something that I have been trying to tell her not to get. You know, she doesn't often respect my opinion on things (in her defense, though, I'm usually wrong), but it really makes me mad that she doesn't listen to me about the ONE THING that I really know about. Agh.
See, about a month ago, my sister had a friend over for a sleepover, and her friend's mom and my mom were good friends about two years ago when we still lived in Kentucky. When they came over, the friend's mom (we'll call her Jennifer) started talking about how much she liked her new Wii and how Wii Fit and (gasp) My Fitness Instructor helped her lose all of 3 pounds. The thing is, Jennifer (and everybody besides myself, really) knows nothing about games, and so I was saying how it doesn't help much of anything, etc.
Well, ever since then, my mom has talked about getting a Wii, even though I kept telling her that it doesn't help, the novelty wears off all to quickly, and basically trying to talk her out of getting a Wii, because it's a huge waste of $250, and even when Mason brings our Wii over here, she never touches it.
I thought she had just forgotten about it all, and moved on, but apparently not. See, though, this isn't even the worst part. Next to the Wii box was the box for something even worse entirely: a DDR game. I just about shot myself right then. Not only had she gotten a Wii despite my warnings, she had also bought a DDR game. This pisses me off even more, because we had the Mario version of DDR for the Gamecube a few years ago, she played it once, said she didn't like it and moved on.
Maybe I'm just being an asshole, I don't know. It just pisses me off that she would go out and waste $300+ for something that I have been trying to tell her not to get. You know, she doesn't often respect my opinion on things (in her defense, though, I'm usually wrong), but it really makes me mad that she doesn't listen to me about the ONE THING that I really know about. Agh.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED
I just changed the entire look of my blog. Maybe I did it because I'm tired as hell right now, I don't know. Either way, it's changed. I think I kinda like it. The format is way different than it used to be, and I still used a template, but I did change the colors. I think it looks okay. Just one problem. My posts are now super-wide, so it makes my already short posts look super-short. Oh well.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
3/25/09
http://kotaku.com/5183937/see-nintendo-demonstrate-rock-n-roll-climber
Come on, Nintendo. Really? Really? I have really lost faith in Nintendo lately, and this is a prime example as to why.
Come on, Nintendo. Really? Really? I have really lost faith in Nintendo lately, and this is a prime example as to why.
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