Here’s a spoiler-free video I made to poke a little fun at the whole Mass Effect 3 ending upset. You probably have to have some familiarity with Mass Effect to have any idea what I’m talking about up there.
I’m actually not done with the game yet, so please no real spoilers.
“If only they would remake Deus Ex!” the people said. The game-makers, eventually, listened.
And so we have Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It’s a decent enough game. If you like the original Deus Ex, then you’ll probably like this. If you didn’t, you probably won’t.
But here is the problem: It is just a remake of Deus Ex. That’s it. Rather than improve upon the original, Human Revolution rehashes it: same bad voiceover acting and accents, same basic level design, nearly the same muddled plot, filled with conspiracy theories, and same awkward ending. Continue reading
Adam attends the Call of Duty XP 2011 event in LA, but returns home from war a different person.
Posted in ps3, video, xbox 360
Tagged Apocalypse Now, Call of Duty, Call of Duty XP, Modern Warfare 3, Parody
Adam attended the Ubisoft Press Conference at E3 2011 and has survived to make jokes about it. Here are the highlights of the show.
Tagged Assassin's Creed, Driver 3, E3, Far Cry 3, Ghost Recon, Just Dance, Press Conference, Raving Rabbids, Rayman, Ubisoft, Video
"But Drake, I thought we already made an Uncharted movie. You know, Uncharted, the videogame."
Okay, so there shouldn’t be an Uncharted movie, you guys. Uncharted 2 ranks as one of my favorite games of all time, but that doesn’t mean I want to see it turned into a movie. There are quality games that could be separate yet equal experiences as movies. Halo comes to mind. A Bioshock movie could be done right. But the Uncharted games are already cinematic experiences. They’ve already hired real actors and had those real actors do the voices and the mo-cap. Uncharted is already a movie, it’s just a movie that you also happen to be playing through.
Nathan Drake, the protagonist of the Uncharted games, is already a fully-formed character. He already has a voice, he already has a look, and both of those are performed or inspired by an existing actor: Nolan North. So when the Uncharted fanboys like me are freaking out over the casting of Mark Wahlberg as Nathan Drake, it’s not because we’re just being stupid fanboys. This casting makes the Uncharted film worse than the Spider-Man reboot. It’s taking a character and world and story that we’ve just recently experienced and loved, gutting it, recasting it, and propping it up like a real-life scene of Weekend at Bernies. So when the fanboys were chanting Nathan Fillion for Nathan Drake, they were doing it because the character of Nathan Drake is already so heavily influenced by Fillion’s Malcolm Reynolds that he’s the only established film actor we can see filling those shoes. I mean, because Harrison Ford is too old. And the casting of Marky Mark isn’t flawed because Marky Mark is a bad actor, it’s flawed because it shows how little the moviemakers are paying attention to the source material. Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, ps3
Tagged David O. Russell, Mark Wahlberg, Movies, Nathan Drake, Uncharted
Remember when the little yellow circle thing ate the little pellets and went waka-waka? Those were good Pac-Man times, right? Remember a bunch of years later when they added a phat techno beat and a timer and made it look like Geometry Wars? Those were good Pac-Man CE times too. Well, in the tradition of those times, if you’re smart enough to drop the 800 MS points today, then you’re going to have some good Pac-Man CE DX times as well.
The original Pac-Man Championship Edition took what the world loved about Pac-Man and made it relevant again. They kept the gameplay we knew and loved and turned everything on its head by adding a timer. This made the game less about staying alive and more about moving as quickly as possible to get a higher score than all of your friends.
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX takes the divergent path of the original CE further down the pellet-popping warp hole. What emerges on the other side has more maps, more modes, and more visual-style choices, all with the most rewarding ghost-gobbling I’ve ever experienced. And yes, Pac-Man now has bombs. Continue reading
Hello. Welcome to part one in an ongoing series titled “What is this?” where my girlfriend comes into the room while I’m in the middle of playing a videogame, and I have to try and explain to her what I’m playing. Oh, here she comes now.
Girlfriend: Hey. What is this?
Adam: Oh. This is Bayonetta.
Girlfriend: What’s going on?
Adam: It’s complicated. I’m a witch or something, and I have to kill these scary looking angels.
Girlfriend: Why do you have to kill angels?
Adam: I don’t know, because they’re trying to kill me? And I like have to find out who I am or something, I guess. I don’t know. And there’s this black guy who’s a devil who I can buy guns from, but I have to give him broken vinyl records to unlock new guns. Continue reading
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