• 27Jul 08

  comics as films and as games

  it has been exceptionally rare for video games to provide exceptional or decent VG counterparts to even the comics, let alone their film based counterparts. this has often led to lackluster VGs based on their film counterpart. it has on occasion been successful such as X-Men Legends, XML 2: Apocalypse and more recently Marvel Ultimate Alliance and its eventual successor. The Spiderman games were decent and entertaining until the swinging and button mashing got old though you might finish just the same. The Batman Begins for the most part stuck only to the film's plot developments and made some alterations or expansions to span a fuller level. As for the Superman Returns, had its moments but between zapping, freezing, blowing, and so on with asteroids at the start and hurriances at the end made it somewhat redundant. I don't discount the attempt or the gestures, but some are lousy.

  however you get used to if you really are in, and if not there are other games to make use of now.

  • Posted Jul 27, 2008 7:30 pm PT
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• 17Jul 08

  day 26

  a new record, 26 days without video games or computer games. anyway, i've plenty of time once i get back to get hooked and stuff all over again.
  • Posted Jul 17, 2008 7:45 am PT
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• 8Jul 08

  potential buys

  I recently bought some really new games and some new to me, but old to anyone else who has heard of them or played them. In effort to fill my splinter cell preference, I already own the four iterations on PS2, which arguably has varied from game to game. I have to say I was the most impressed with Chaos Theory, Pandora Tomorrow had its moments with those unique you can't be seen/you can't kill missions. I generally try to avoid killing except when necessary like if I am seen by someone, hence to shut them up.

  the difference between a corpse and a witness... - Sam Fisher, partial quote from the original Splinter Cell.

  I use to hate how slow Sam was in the first game if you tried to run, which hence was impossible sometimes because most of the terrain was not meant for running. It was a good lure if you didn't want to draw that much attention. It took too much effort sometimes to make KOs because hitting from the front only stuns the guy on the first blow, so it takes two maybe three, except if you get him from behind he drops like a stone. So quite often I learned to work better with the non-lethal rounds like airfoil, sticky shock, gas cams, gas grenades. A few times I resorted to using frags, but that was if you really had no other way to get by.

  the variations in the weather were a nice add, which kind of proved to be an annoyance in PT, well on the Jakarta levels anyway. Thunder storms, lightning, and of course bad guys with a dispostion for snipers and anti-personnel mines.

  I also recently replayed the first X-Men Legends, I actually finished it about two hours sooner than my last playthrough, which was quite awhile ago. When I get home from Ireland, I will go back and play XML 2 again if only for those classic laugh moments like one of the earlier cinematics of Wolverine giving the adamantium claw equivalent of the middle finger to Sabretooth. A larger group to pick from, which evidently made later playing Ultimate Alliance a breeze after two Legends games that took together less than 50 hours to complete of the course of several days.

  I found actually characterizing the buildup instead of autoleveling the AI controlled characters a better tactic, so that's why it took less time.

  I also finished LEGO Indiana Jones in about a week, I mean in its entriety. I just played straight through just to finish story mode then I went back to the true adventurer, the artifacts, the parcels, the extras, and the bonus levels. All in all, it was hilarious watching how they worked out many of the classic moments from the original adventures.

  And to think they are doing one for Batman, that should be interesting too.

  I like to vary up the games instead of being a genre slice, i like challenges, but i also like to have some humor in there less I become too dark like some of the anti-heroes like Max Payne, Gabe Logan, 47, and so on.

  Unique would say the least about games I am always keen to check out. Some of my classic favorites are having sequel come backs at some point, until then I have got new and old games to keep me busy when I find time to play them.

  • Posted Jul 8, 2008 2:47 am PT
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