• 25Mar 09

  The DS this is NOT

  I've got a fun fact for you all.

  The DSi is not the DS.

  Nope, its a completely new console.

  I suppose its the same kind of thing as the Gameboy Color was for the original Gameboy.

  Funny thing is: since all they added was that 'i' to the end of the original name it creates quite a bit of confusion.

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  Specs for the DS and DS Lite:

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  CPUs: 1x67 MHz & 1x33 MHz

  RAM: 4 MB

  STORAGE: 256 kB

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  ...

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  Specs for the DSi

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  CPU: 1x133 MHz (x2 the fastest processor of DS)

  RAM: 16 MB (x4 that of the original DS)

  STORAGE: 256 MB + SD card (potentially 2GB or more with SD card alone)

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  So I guess it makes sense that it will have exclusives that you can't play on your DS and DS lite.

  Disclaimer: I appologize for anyone who already knew this. I only came to this realization after I read about it on Wikipedia... I was just so excited I just had to blog about it.

  • Posted Mar 25, 2009 9:44 pm PT
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• 16Mar 09

  Lens of Truth

  You know a concept I really like in games? The Lens of Truth.

  For those who never played Ocarina of Time or Major's Mask: The Lens of Truth was an artifact that let Link see "the truth"; that is, to see things that are not normally visible to the naked eye. It shows which walls, floors and objects are fake, and it allows the user to see things such as invisible ladders, platforms, enemies and ghosts.

  Its pretty epic.

  

  I like the idea of illusions in my games. It makes for a new aspect you could not explore in real life. I mean when was the last time you walked through a wall that wasn't there?

  

  What if you had vision to see through things that didn't exist. Or see them differently altogether?

  

  (There is no wall)

  

  Another picture just because

  

  Appart from merely the moving aspect of a game like using a lens of truth to find secret areas. What if you could find double meaning from everyday objects or signs like from the Movie: They Live.

  

  Would look like this:

  

  And just because this picture looks so cool:

  

  But if you think about it this concept isn't so much different from that of Secret areas in Super Mario Bros.

  

  • Posted Mar 16, 2009 1:44 pm PT
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• 8Mar 09

  I watched the Watchmen

  

  The movie was great.

  I read the graphic novel before I saw the movie and the movie stayed pretty true to the novel (which I liked). There were a couple minor changes and cuts to the story so that it wouldn't exceed the 2 and a half hour length. The movie overall was pretty compact like The Dark Knight. There wasn't a scene that seemed like it was drawn out.

  

  The acting was meh.

  What made the movie good was the special effects, camera angles and all those thought provoking ideas present in the original graphic novel.

  

  Also, there was an unnecessary amount of love scenes in the movie.

  For those who saw the movie:

  ***SPOILER***

  "Who watches the watchmen"...I was never sure if that was a pun, or if they were thinking the watchmen wasn't going to be popular.... I thought of Rorschach like a kind of psycho Jack Bauer and Ozymandias was a bad guy through and through. I liked the quote where they mentioned that Ozymandias was a pacifist and vegetarian. Rorschach replies: Hitler was a vegetarian. The giant squid alien thing was noticably missing from the end of the movie (instead Dr. Manhattan inadvertantly exploded on his way back to New York City).

  • Posted Mar 8, 2009 4:20 pm PT
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