I aim to misbehave

Mass time sink

Jack — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:13:04 +0000

Mass Effect 2. Good game that suffered toward the end due to predictable, repeating level design. Good, but not great. Mostly enjoyable. Don’t tell the four guys who played it four times through. There may be violence.

Short memory

Jack — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:35:36 +0000

Is it just me or have people already stopped talking about Metroid Other M?

Works cited: Everything that happened or was revealed at PAX.

Dead weight

Jack — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:15:53 +0000

Why must video game developers continue to bolt on useless multiplayer modes to their great single-player games? Are they that afraid of the vocal minority backlash? Are one player games really that bad?

Inner monologues

Jack — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:51:04 +0000

I wonder how many times Donkey Kong will take a break from busting baddies in Donkey Kong Country Returns to flashback to his childhood and talk about his daddy issues in hammy, poorly voice-acted cutscenes?

Samus, any thoughts on that?

Failure to launch

Jack — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:27:22 +0000

PlayStation Move: Good hardware, no games, don’t buy at launch. Kinect: Can’t understand you, you foreigners!

The motion gaming experience, it is tougher than Nintendo makes it look, huh?

Joke

Jack — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:31:35 +0000

O what a glorious day it will be when Microsoft announces that the $10 Xbox Live Gold price hike will result in fewer advertisements on the service!

Incredible value

Jack — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:36:50 +0000

More incredible value from Microsoft: Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the world’s first $65 directional pad.

It’s Brawl

Jack — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:11:40 +0000

Reader Jonath makes an astute observation: Which game has better cutscenes—Super Smash Bros. Brawl or Metroid Other M?

And remember, Smash Bros. Brawl really doesn’t any voice acting to speak of, pun intended.

Dawson’s Creek in space

Jack — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:16:35 +0000

G4′s Other M review is incredible. Really glad they had a woman review it as well, considering how insulting this version of Samus is to females–gamers or otherwise.

Watch for a bit, and tell me you don’t laugh when the Dawson’s Creek-like soundtrack kicks in.

Housecleaning

Jack — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:57:23 +0000

I think this is a first: I don’t particularly take this personal blog very seriously but even so, I marked an annoying, ill-informed little troll as spam today. I doubt I’ll ever do it again, but this shit was seriously getting worse than any religious fanatic I’ve ever encountered–and it was over a game!