Ugh, I’ve been without power at my house since 4PM on Friday. We had some crazy storms come through on Friday afternoon and totally demolish something important that brings us our power. I’m not an electrician…all I know is ComEd says I won’t get power until maybe tomorrow.
How is this gaming related? It’s not…I’m just looking for pity. I haven’t been able to use my home PC, my 50” plasma, or my game systems all weekend. My wife and I have been trying to get by with our DS systems and the PSP all weekend. It’s rough…very rough. We did get a generator from my parents yesterday and supposedly, it’ll last for 9.5 hours on 1 gallon of gas. We used the generator last night to charge up the DS and PSP and to give us some light in the bedroom…oh…and to use a fan…because it’s hotter than hell in our house.
Oh…and the hot water tank is just about drained all the way…no more hot showers…fun!
Anyone else ever need to go an extreme amount of time without electric? How did you last?
Honestly, Nintendo stole the show today. Nintendo 3DS? Yes, please! Honestly, the DS is one of the best handhelds of all time. The 3DS will clearly be a success. I’m really not sure how Nintendo can screw this up…outside of pricing it way too high. From a game perspective, seems like tons of developers are on board to make games.
A new Donkey Kong Country that doesn’t look like that crap Donkey Kong Country 64? I’ll take two!
I’m still not sure on the GoldenEye 007 remake or whatever it is for Nintendo Wii. GoldenEye for N64 holds a special place in my heart…and I’m not so sure you can just remake something like that. But, I’m definitely keeping my eyes on it.
I wasn’t too keen on the demo of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I really hope it plays better than the demo went with the controls seeming very unresponsive. They blamed it on a wireless interference issue...but we’ll see. Overall, the graphics looked great. Hopefully they have some other good game play ideas up their sleeves.
Now, what I saw of the PlayStation Move today was very impressive. It looked extremely responsive with hardly any lag. I think Sony has it right with their controller…Xbox 360 Kinect just seems so plain now with no controls; just moving around and speaking. Again, we’ll see what software developers can do with each piece of hardware. I will say this; PlayStation Move does seem to be rather expensive if you want to outfit your PS3 with multiple controllers.
My wife is all crazy over all the Professor Layton news about the new game coming out in September and then the other new Professor Layton game in development for Nintendo 3DS.
That’s all I have for tonight…been one hell of a day and I’m sure tomorrow isn’t going to be any easier.
Okay, so another E3 is upon us and we’ve been bombarded with press releases, screenshots, trailers, and tons of other information. I figured that each day we would do a little recap on what we thought of what happened during the day. Let’s get rolling.
Today we started off with the Microsoft press briefing. I guess the main news out of this briefing was Xbox 360 Kinect is getting released on November 4th. What do I think of it? I’m honestly not 100% sold yet. The games they showed off looked very very family oriented and leaning towards kids. They did show off a trailer for a Star Wars “Kinect” game, which looked to be their big “hard core gamer” game. A couple other developers started to announce their own Kinect games, like SEGA’s Sonic Free Riders and EA’s SPORTS Active 2, which weren’t part of Microsoft’s press briefing. We’ll see what comes out later this week and in the future, but, again, I’m not sold. VideoKinect to do video conferencing really doesn’t grab me. And controlling the system with my voice…meh..not interested.
Something strangely absent from the Kinect announcing was the price. I think, and this is my opinion, that Microsoft wants to charge $149 for the Kinect, but they are unsure if they have the software titles to drive the hardware at that price and they might need to lower it to $99.
Microsoft also followed up the Kinect announcement with the announcement of a brand new “Slim” Xbox 360 which is coming out this week. Seriously…this week. Hey Sony…this is how you keep a system under wraps. Didn’t see a bunch of leaked production photos of this one until like the week before…and that was a couple box shots. Hardware looks good and if I needed another Xbox 360, I’d pick it up.
Ubisoft did a press event tonight hosted by Joel McHale. Honestly, it was very hard to watch…they really need to practice these things more in advance. Probably the best of out this press event was Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. They are also working on the Michael Jackson game, because not enough people have profited from his death yet.
Between me trying to win a couple games of StarCraft 2 this weekend, I’ve been working my way through 3D Dot Game Heroes on the PlayStation 3. Since I don’t have my review of the game finished yet, I definitely wanted to post my thoughts of the game.
If you loved the classic Zelda games on NES and SNES, I’m pretty confident when say you should like the game. It’s your classic Zelda game play, with a new story and a really cool looking graphical style. In fact, if anyone at Atlus is reading this, I would highly recommend making a bunch of games based on this “3D Dot” graphic system. I’d love to see what they could do with an RPG type game like the classic Final Fantasy games.
Plus, the game is only $39.99! That’s a steal, in my opinion. I should have my review up later this week, but for now, 3D Dot Game Heroes is a solid purchase and I recommend it.
Between me trying to win a couple games of StarCraft 2 this weekend, I’ve been working my way through