Saturday, January 30, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Trials HD - Its lack of multi player is perplexing
I finally got around to buying the excellent Xbox Live Arcade game, Trials HD. For those of you who have not played it, the game involves trying to ride a motorcycle across insanely deadly ramps and obstacles without falling to a grizzly death. Although the visuals are 3D, the gameplay is strictly 2D, so all you have to worry about is accelerate, brake and leaning backwards and forwards, making this one game that's completely trivial to play but challenging to master. The game is a riot especially with friends (and a few beers on hand). All the more reason why I don't understand why there was no multi player mode of any kind put into the game. Even if full on split screen or XBL multi player was outside of the budget of the game, it would have been trivial to implement a "hotseat" (take it in turns to beat your friends time) type of mode. Anyone who has played the excellent Trackmania hotseat mode will know what I mean. In spite of this oversight, I'd still highly recommend the game to anyone.Trials HD is (to my mind anyway) a remake/re-imagining of the old 8 bit classics, Kickstart and Kickstart 2. It's great to see an old game concept bought back to life with new console technology, but with the core gameplay mechanics left in tact. I don't think Kickstart/Trials would have worked in full on 3D, lining up the jumps and ramps would just have been too frustrating.
I can think of a few other 8/16bit classics that should be given a fantastic new remake, but I'll save that for another blog post.
Weekly auto blog post (weekly)
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Monday, January 18, 2010
New look for 2010
So I've given the old blog a bit of a facelift for 2010, so my loyal readers (all two of them lol) hope you like the new look better.
You may have noticed I closed one of my websites, lets-play-ds.com is no more. I felt that trying to cover the entire world of Nintendo DS was simply too much for one person. I am considering another videogame related website but it will be on a more narrow focus. I did enjoy reviewing games for the site but I guess my standards are too high, I like to spend at least a day playing them :)
I kept a copy of the site and I'm considering doing more reviews on here, just because I like writing reviews, but of course it is all time permitting. Top-Windows-Tutorials.com is still taking big chunks of my time but it's really starting to roll now, soon I will be on minimum wage!
You may have noticed I closed one of my websites, lets-play-ds.com is no more. I felt that trying to cover the entire world of Nintendo DS was simply too much for one person. I am considering another videogame related website but it will be on a more narrow focus. I did enjoy reviewing games for the site but I guess my standards are too high, I like to spend at least a day playing them :)
I kept a copy of the site and I'm considering doing more reviews on here, just because I like writing reviews, but of course it is all time permitting. Top-Windows-Tutorials.com is still taking big chunks of my time but it's really starting to roll now, soon I will be on minimum wage!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Weekly auto blog post (weekly)
Nice little point and click adventure - Get it on Impulse :)
RKO: The Def Guide to C64 MP3 remakes. I bet you can't do this on a SID.
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
Weekly auto blog post (weekly)
GDC: Why OnLive Can't Possibly Work Article - Page 2 | PC | Eurogamer
- Latency. I can only see one way to make this work and guarantee the necessary quality of service, and that's to adopt an IPTV-style model
- ut even in this scenario, practically, I still can't see it happening
Amazing console collection (thanks @corrosive6809)
GAF's Wii Homebrew Tutorial: Welcome to GAF's Wii Homebrew Tutorial
Edge Magazine - Video Games, Game News, and Gaming Jobs | Edge Online
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