The place for my thoughts around games, and some more ...

• 5Jun 09

  LiGHT GUNS!

  Ok! so, there are alot of new cool games to every format (PS3, Xbox360, Wii, PSP, NDS, PC etc). Xbox360 and PS3 also getting their own motion controllers soon. But one thing I wonder is ... where the heck is the Lightgun games?

  I'm a fan of many types of games. I love Fighting games, FPS games, RPGs, Action games (in the DMC style), Simulators (like Gran Turismo, or various Flight and Mechasims). I Also like RTS, Turnbased tactics games, and games like The Sims, Sim City and more. I love almost every type of game, besides the "BAD" games. Games with awkward controlls, bad storytelling, or bad graphics (in comparison to its platform). Im Enough technical educated and interested to appreciate a game for what platform its on. I can still think games for 8-bit era to be beautiful, if its done for a 8-bit platform. I also love both 2D and 3D games, depending on the artistic aproach. I love games in general.

  But one segment that I've been missing is the old arcade classics of Light-gun games. WHEN are we gonna se proper games with a gun? on the PS2 there are some lightgun games I have and played alot. So now Im egerly waiting for the next-gen "lightgun" games. But they seem to bee ....blown into oblivion. (not the game, but the actuall place)

  I need some lightgun games! and I didnt see any one in the E3. Maybe there where some Lightgun games, but Gamespot didnt show them anyhow. Maybe there will be some "lightgun" games out later, in 2010 or so, when the PS3 and Xbox360 motion thingie will come out in the stores. But anyhow. I want one now.

  Is it only me? or do anyone else also love the feeling of an actuall light gun game!?

  Isnt it a total arcade experience to have a shoot out with a lightgun?

  what happened to the GunCon3?

  Give me some lightgun games ... please!

  • Posted Jun 5, 2009 3:03 pm PT
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• 3Feb 09

  Playstation3 BC On my mind!

  Whe should unite, gather together! For a PS3 BC!

  Whats PS3 BC then?

  Well, it depends on who you ask. It could mean:

  Before Crippled

  Before Cropped

  Before Crap

  Brain Crash

  Bad Choise

  or simply - "Backward Compatibility" ... with PS2 games that is.

  But its more then PS2 BC! It's also thouse small features like, Extra USB ports (used to be two extra in the back ... if I dont remember it wrong), or the Card Reader that swallowed Memory Stick, Compact Flash and Secure Dicital Cards, that was nice, but now its gone. Increadible odd. Wasnt it suposed to the "ultimate premium high quality multimedia machine"!?

  Some might think, "well, stop complaining and get a USB HUB! and Buy a PSTwo Slim, its small, and if you want to read cards, just get a USB Cardreader thingie!" well ... How premium, and ultimate does it feel, to have the TV-bench getting cluttered with alot of external add-ons and extra wires? Isnt it enough to have all the Gamepads, Wheels, Joysticks, Eyecam, Remote, Game-boxes, PSP etc standing alongside the black monolith (that looks premium in its own)?! Well, its doesnt. Sony whas in the right lane at the beginning, sleek, good looking and omnipotent. Look at others that have branded them selfe as premium companies. Apple, B&O, Bentley ... Sleek, clean ... and clutter free.

  Well thats just my own thoughts on the subject. If this was an ideal world, then Sony Playstation should have at least two lines, a cheaper simlper version, and a PSX Elite version (as they had in the beginning in Japan!). Well, everyone, thats still alive, or old enough, knows that this world is far from ideal.

  Sad but true.

  But anyhow ... I want PS3 BC.

  • Posted Feb 3, 2009 3:10 pm PT
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• 2Nov 08

  Crappy Gamespot MindControl

  I Got "Moderated" (as its so smooth is called in these modern days) for the first time ever, in yesterday. Cool.

  But on the other side, this just shows how bleeping-up US/UK internet censorship has become. Dont know what "word" its was that got stuck in the "moderation" filter. Probably one common word like the "S"-word. But whatever, it doesnt matter, it can be whatever word.

  Internet sites and some MMO games, seems so "sensitive" for bad language that its not uncommon to be missunderstod or incomprehensive when sending away a chewed out mess on the forums or chat-channels, just because its been "censored". when using rather common slang.

  

  Its rather funny actually. I'm from a country where I, and my fellow countrymen (and women), are so used whith freespeach, nothing is really considered bad language, if its not a childrensbook, that I (cant talk for all in my country) dont even think about self-censoring my thoughts and texts. This is one of thouse funny and weird contradictions that seem so typicall for US. Its OK to shot the head of a cop in a game, or se it in a movie, rape, torture etc, but "dont you dare wright that F word, or else ... ! and for christs sake dont show of any nudity!!!" ...

  

  The fun connection to this, is that the comment that was "moderated" and deleted ... was a comment I wrote under the Flavors of Fear video. Its obviously OK to see heads and limbs decapitated, body splatter to pools of goo, weird looking sexistic zombie-nurses (silent hill), right out murder, etc, but "oops" some-one said the "S" word. "Moderate him"?!

  Maybe thouse site-rules should be listed as one of the flavors?!

  So its been a reminder to me. That I Live in a true freespeach country, where you're actually free to tell your mind to others ... and that internet have become a chat-blog for juveniles, and their "overprotected moms".

  Take care folks.

  (and we'll see if this also going to be "moderated" ... nice word for "censored" ... for all you that lack experience!)

  • Posted Nov 2, 2008 4:33 pm PT
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