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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17936 |  Knuckles (1252) Oct 19, 2007 - 10:52 am » Edited on Oct 19, 2007 - 10:53 am
| Yes that game rules, only problem I have it that
is a little easy despite some few frustrating parts.
And it can become little repetitive, like
feeding the bloody animals, would not have a
problem with it if you could skip the loading
screen. I probably spent 1/3 of time on it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17935 | Knuckles (1252) Oct 19, 2007 - 10:46 am » Edited on Oct 19, 2007 - 10:47 am
| In terms of fighting mechanics I prefer
Ninja Gaiden, but DMC comes close.
FYI, GoW is third and long way back is PoP.
Not to say PoP is bad (sands of time was great),
but I think the combat system was very weak. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17820 | Knuckles (1252) Oct 11, 2007 - 03:15 pm
| Funny Wiki Entry
Awards
In addition to numerous game awards, the company has been awarded with a number of business related awards:
* Canada's Top 100 Employers 2004,[6] 2005,[7] 2006[8] as featured in Maclean's magazine
* Alberta's Top 100 Employers 2005[9] as featured in the Calgary Herald[10] and Edmonton Journal[11]
* Profit 100 - Canada's Fastest Growing Companies 2005 (Rank 81)
Demise
Sapped of all creative control, Bioware ceased to exist in 2008.:
* Canada's worst 100 Employers 2008, as featured in overworked magazine
* Alberta's most despised 100 Employers 2008
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWare Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/39357/684 | Knuckles (1252) Oct 09, 2007 - 09:42 am
| 1 out of 3 ain't bad :)
Sound sample 93 is from NES version of Strider.
Well sound sample 90 is from a FPS, but
not quake 2 or game based on quake 2 engine.
Sound sample 92 is not from a PC game, but
from one of the last great games for a certain
discontinued console. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/39357/684 | Knuckles (1252) Oct 07, 2007 - 04:12 am
| | Yes it's 8 bit, from the NES version of a game that has been ported from the arcade to many systems. But the NES version is special, how special I think is little early to say. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/39357/684 | Knuckles (1252) Oct 06, 2007 - 04:55 am » Edited on Oct 06, 2007 - 04:59 am
| You are correct, it's Pitfall.
What are these quizzes for? Fun, show off your
knowledge of games, nothing really. I just post
some images and sounds each week, I took time of
this summer though but there are a total of 144
questions now (112 have been answered so far).
Even if you don't know the answers or the
questions have already been answered, I hope
the clips are fun. Maybe they are just fun
for nostalgic reasons. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17706 | Knuckles (1252) Oct 05, 2007 - 01:43 pm
| I think advertising matters more to than gameplay
when it comes to selling a game. Lets face it
people like to be told what to like and what is
fashionable. That's what advertisement campaign
set out to do, to make a product hip and cool.
How many people that bought Halo 3 tried it
before thought it? They can't have had a much
of a chance since they bought it immediately,
so they must have trusted someone else, right.
So even when people say they like it, can you
really trust that their opinion is not tainted
by the brainwashing, I mean advertisement campaign.
Maybe they think they like it, but if they
had played the game without ever having heard
of it before, they might not like it as much.
So is this game any good? I haven't tried it
but I might trick someone to give it to me as
a Christmas present. I'll wait until then to
make a judgment on it.
However, I though that the first game pretty
good but fell a part in the latter levels with
the repeated level design. The second game:
I did not like playing for the other side, so
I thought those levels where boring. I don't
even remember if I even finished it.
Over all I think the level design outdoors is
good but the indoors are bad. Maybe the game engine
has trouble with indoors similar to IDs' engines
problems in the past with outdoors.
The story is on par with most FPS games,
nothing to write home about, better than
Doom but worse than Unreal/Deus Ex.
I have never really played FPS games for
the story, it is nice to have but, you know :)
The graphics when the first Halo game came out
were great, well at least outdoors as indoors
design was so plain it didn't show anything off.
As Halo 2 came 3 years later,they weren't bad but
nothing spectacular either.
From the screenshots of Halo 3, I must say they
don't look like the same big step as Halo did
when it was released 2001. But one must see it
in action to make good judgment on it. Maybe
it's just that there are so many games today
with good graphics that they, games with good
graphics that is, don't stand out as they did
before.
I should note that graphics don't really matter
much to me as I only have a SDTV and play my
PC games at no more than 1024x768.
So to summarize, I liked Halo but Halo 2 not so much.
Actually FS review of Halo 2 is sums it up I think
Halo 3 might be good (close to Halo) or might be a bad
(close to Halo 2), I'll have to wait and see.
As for the the rivalry between Halo (console players)
and PC FPS gamers. I think it might be possible to sum it
up as rivalry between then ignorant and the arrogant.
As people who have not played both are ignorant of
what the other side has to offer. And arrogant, maybe
elitism is a better word, people who think there way
of playing is the only right way.
Link: http://www.firingsquad.com/games/halo_2_review/ Flag this | Edit this post |
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