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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
foxhack
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1:50p |
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chrisrawkneri
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12:02p |
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freakservo
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6:00a |
D'aaaah 2.0
So, after three games with Rayman in the title, the Rabbids strike off on their own title in "Rabbids Go Home". For starters, it's not a minigame collection, and on this front alone, it's an improvement. What Rabbids Go Home is, however, has more to do with Katamari Damacy than WarioWare. This time, Ansel's crazy bunny-creatures are aiming to reach the moon, and to do that, they're going around trying to collect as much random crap to make a junk-pile high enough to leave orbit. A cute premise to be sure, but what this means is that you'll be spending each level moving a pair of Rabbids around with a shopping cart as they attempt to collect everything they see. Which isn't a bad thing, but what can be annoying...for the perfectionists, anyway...is that it's also one of those games that checks off whether or not you've collected everything in a particular stage, and if you miss anything, there's no indication, once returning to the level, what exactly it is you've missed. This has been my only major complaint with Rabbids Go Home so far. I don't mind that each stage has the same premise (Collect as much shit as possible) or that the hub level is severely lacking in any practical use (You can collect junk in the hubs, but this serves little purpose since you can collect even more in the main levels themselves). Heck, I'll even admit that losing the minigames makes the Rabbids seem...well...not as random. Oh yeah, they're still funny as all get-out, and watching their antics as they pick up a new item or get a crazy idea regarding sanitation beds or jet-engines show just how delightfully dim-witted they remain to be. But in an attempt to create a coherent game, the Rabbids are also forced to be a little more consistent from the norm, and so watching them jet around with the same shopping cart the entire game seems....I dunno...boring by comparison? Say what you will about Rayman Raving Rabbids, when it was fresh, it was randomly hilarious. They could've also shown more originality with the transitional video sequence of the Rabbids running down the sewers on an old mattress, since you're forced to watch this clip and numerous variants of it every. Single. Time. But at least the game controls well, and getting a working tally on how much stuff you've collected does offer a sense of satisfaction, especially when you've collected enough to reach the next stage or bonus area. I also forgot to mention the Rabbid Channel, which you can opt to install separately from the game itself. In the game, you'll eventually get the option to paint, stamp, and mangle your Rabbid character into different designs and styles. You can then upload these styles to the Rabbid channel and, in turn, download other Rabbid styles and use them in your game. It's a lot like the Mii Channel, except for Rabbids, and is perhaps the first Wii channel that you can get from a game to have online connectivity. Bravaa, Ubisoft Montpelier. Let's see if it remains practical a year from now. But yeah, so far Rabbids Go Home has managed to hold my interest, especially when nothing much else has succeeded to as of late. Only time will tell if this remains to case. |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
ferricide
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2:26p |
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ferricide
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1:42p |
trying to get my head together
trying to get my head together is tough. really tough. can video games be our friends?, by tim rogers, is required reading. i don't know what i'm doing or why right now. surprised to find that tim wrote something to address that topic right when i needed it. [edit: brandon has told me not to be surprised, because it's based on part on conversations brandon and tim had in tokyo during TGS which were based, in part, on conversations brandon and i had in san francisco. logic.] |
ferricide
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12:14p |
hello crisis core soundtrack, you sound like music that i like
sometimes when i get depressed and bored and frustrated, all of which i am right now, i think i'm just going to give up on games except for FF. which is weird, because while i've been a fan of particular FF games, i've not been a rabid fan of the overall series, or anything. it just seems like nobody else is really doing a great job of doing what i want out of games anymore, so i'll take what i can get, however. this generation has been really disappointing for JRPGs so far. star ocean sucks, vesperia was a letdown, lost odyssey so far boring as shit (i should go back to it.) best game so far IMO? blue dragon. by far. am i missing anything? well, eternal sonata looked barfy. maybe it's worth another look. i guess magna carta is supposed to be fun (quoth ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zerochan, anyway) but i doubt it's going to reinvigorate me. last remnant and infinite undiscovery were just comically poor. i'm sure they had their moments, but, i can't imagine subjecting myself to either of them really. (edit: i [maybe] secretly just like FF7 cos it has the best battle music in the series.) Current Music: Theme of Crisis Core "Under the Apple Tree" |
chrisrawkneri
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12:00p |
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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 |
ferricide
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4:20p |
exile
self-imposed twitter and facebook exile tonight. i don't need that much flotsam. |
chrisrawkneri
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12:00p |
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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
fifthdream
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5:38p |
Ultra.
This is my Halloween costume for next year. Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: The Radio And a Fan. |
fifthdream
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5:14p |
The Samurai Kid.
I learned this morning that Toshiro Mifune was being considered (and even read) for the part of Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid". I love Pat Morita in the role, but god, i would have loved to see the awesome Miyagi-sensei Mifune would have been. Current Mood:  calmCurrent Music: The Radio And a Fan. |
chrisrawkneri
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12:02p |
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ferricide
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12:19a |
reiji
trying to figure out if i should start persona over so as to get reiji. i am not that far, but... meh. i don't feel like the backward motion appeals. i think i'll just go elly, which is my normal preference. my favorite character is nanjo anyway. |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
ferricide
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11:20p |
glasses.
 here's a pic of my new glasses. it's dramatic. for a less dramatic but better-lit picture, look here. after i picked up the glasses i bought a shirt at american eagle, had a burrito, and watched this is it, the michael jackson film. if it's the kind of thing that you are sure you want to see, it's worth seeing. it drags a bit toward the end -- no doubt like the bloated concert experience would have. it's sort of like a two hour DVD extra. but it's neither as macabre nor as marketing-driven as i feared, so that's something. oh, yeah -- maine. thanks. i was already in such a good mood. scare tactics ftw. the things people will do when they think their children are at risk -- so patently in the face of reality -- is depressing. one more reason to hate parents. i used to hate kids, but i realized that was misguided. |
freakservo
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7:35p |
That Blobby Feeling
A Boy And His Blob continues to hold my interest, with stage 2-2 beginning with a direct homage to the NES game's opening house and city-skyline. No vitamin shops though. Ah well. I played the demo to Rocketbirds: Revolution earlier today, and loved what I saw: A poultry-fied cross between Flashback: The Quest For Identity and Blackthorne, complete with those ever-so-popular 'animated cutscenes' that were so popular back then. Seriously, any game that touts '10 minutes of animation' as a bullet-point feature takes me way the hell back to the days of Working Designs Sega CD games. Man, I miss knowing how much game is actually game and not video. Okay, so I love digital cell animation, too. Very clean, very pixelly! But where was I? Oh yeah, Rocketbirds. The demo offers a nice taste at what the full game is about, and the full game itself can be unlocked for 10$. It's pretty slick for a flash-based game, and all the scene-loading and game-saving is done server-side...possibly to detract torrent-hoarders. Seriously, I felt kinda guilty having to download Ballance for the third time a couple of weeks ago. I love the game, but had never officially owned it. Seriously, you can find new copies for as cheap as 60 cents now, so there's NO reason not to get this game, what I still consider the best 3D marble videogame ever made! I finally got myself a for-reals copy, and the game works wonderfully in Vista, so I'll be damned if Windows 7 fucks it up at all. Just keep the video sync option off if you don't want any of that screen skippiness. When I'm not playing videogames lately, however, I'm home getting over a nasty bug, one that floored me all of Monday. I was a wreck, had hallucinations, nausea, headaches, diarrhea, the whole works. It was an adventure, and one that, as of this writing, has since been reduced to a minor cause of stomach discomfort. Just gotta keep chugging the kaopectate 'till I'm fine, but I fear my sister's come down with it too. =\ Also, not that I'm involved with either, my buddies have signed up for this year's NaNoMangO and NaNoWriMo challenges. Go take a look at their works and cheer 'em on! Fheh! I just completed two levels in Half-Minute Hero and forgot to save my progress! Great going, Freako! |
chrisrawkneri
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12:01p |
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fifthdream
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3:20a |
<.<
Hearing my last name said out loud three times, in reference to three different people, on tv - once in an anime - in just a few hours is a bit odd. I hardly ever hear my name anywhere, especially on tv. It may be years between times hearing it on tv. I've heard it 3 times since 10pm tonight. Weird. Current Mood: calmCurrent Music: TV And A Fan. |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
ferricide
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11:57p |
one dollar and forty-eight cents
right before i left for china, i did a meeting with sony's jack buser, who's in charge of home, and some of the other home guys. i wrote it up. i hadn't actually seen or been to home in months, of course, and i resolved to load it up again when i got the chance -- particularly as playing batman unlocks the batcave in home (!!) so why not. last friday i went to the virtual goods summit. virtual goods, of course, are nonexistent digital items you purchase for in-game/world use in online communities like home. one of my stories lead to some interesting comment debate. interesting because the guy who gave the talk sort of misinterpreted the objection to virtual goods. right now a lot of people can't understand why anyone would buy virtual goods. i have very little problem understanding it, in the sense that people buy frivolous things they'll only use for a brief period of time all the time in real life, so making them virtual doesn't change things all that much, if you ask me. in my travels, i'd kind of forgotten my desire to check out home again, but thank me for taking the meeting, sony hooked me up with a special "industry" T-shirt item in home, so i was remidned to load it to check that out. anyway, with all of this in mind, i loaded up home tonight. home is still boring. it's a bunch of teenagers socializing -- it's like virtual AOL. this is probably an overgeneralization, but even so, i don't see what need it'll serve in my life, so i doubt i'll be back soon. however, during my brief stay tonight, i visited the mall and i spent $1.48 on virtual items. i mean, who wants to walk in public without some non-free gear? so my avatar is all tricked out now:  the industry. weep. the hamster mask is necessary to cover up the fact that you can't make a non-british looking head. it's eerie. seriously, though, can you believe they sell zangief's legs separately? |
fifthdream
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6:31p |
Yummy. :D
Black candy corn. How Goth.  They're "blackberry cobbler"-flavored. And they're good. XD Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: TV And A Fan. |
chrisrawkneri
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12:00p |
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| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 |
ferricide
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6:31p |
glasses
everybody says japan is very expensive. this is generally true. however, there are some places japan is less expensive. today, i discovered that one place is glasses. when i was in japan in september for tokyo game show, i had a broken pair of glasses and thought about getting new ones while in japan. i decided not to principally because i would not be able to use my insurance on a glasses purchase in japan. boy, did i screw up. i went to zoff, a glasses chain with some cool frames, and browsed. i found a couple of pairs that i thought were pretty cool but walked out before really deciding. today at lenscrafters i ordered a pair of rather slick DKNY glasses. after my insurance slashed the bill by approximately 50%, i ended up spending $304.96. yes, after, and that does not count the exam. which i think was free, but i can't recall. but guess what: glasses places in japan don't charge for the exam since they just use the machine that reads your prescription off of your eyes, or your old glasses. lenscrafters also uses this machine, but first makes you do the ever-so-retro manual "number 1... or number 2...?" style exam first. the absolute most expensive pair of glasses at zoff, including the high index lenses i need for my prescription, is ¥18,900, or $211. in other words, fucked if i am ever buying glasses in the US again. i'm going to put my insurance benefit toward contact lenses and buy glasses in japan. jesus, fucking, christ. (btw, it's not like the DKNY frames were freakishly expensive. there were cheaper ones, but there were also markedly more expensive ones. lenscrafters has moved up in the world.) |
chrisrawkneri
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12:00p |
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| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
fifthdream
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7:23p |
ROCK!!!!
For your Halloween viewing pleasure: Sifl & Olly, "Hellfire". Rock. Current Mood:  bouncyCurrent Music: Sifl & Olly, "Hellfire". |
ferricide
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4:59p |
adults
as we were about to leave for the memorial, kate looked at us and said "when did we become adults?" and i replied, "this week." |
ferricide
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4:58p |
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